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  • Remember the Alamo

    03/06/2005 4:44:27 AM PST · by Rightly Biased · 79 replies · 2,003+ views
    War of Independence ^ | 1997-2004 | Wallace L. McKeehan,
    3 March 1836: Travis' Report and Appeal for Aid for the Alamo. On the night of 3 Mar, Travis sent out the last message from the besieged Alamo with courier John W. Smith. He penetrated enemy lines with the message from Travis to the Texas Independence Convention at Washington-on-the-Brazos which describes the situation at the Alamo in detail: In the present confusion of the political authorities of the country, and in the absence of the commander in chief, I beg leave to communicate to you the situation of this garrison. You have doubtless already seen my official report of the...
  • A true Texan knows his Texas history(Test)

    03/02/2005 4:40:06 PM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 100 replies · 2,268+ views
    Victoria Advocate ^ | March 2, 2005 | Jim Bishop
    "March 2, 1836 dawned, frigid and gray; cutting winds blew through glassless windows. Texians - as they styled themselves - huddled close, pulled blankets tight, and gave birth to a dream." -- Dr. Stephen L. Hardin, professor of history, The Victoria College That dream of which Dr. Hardin recently spoke so eloquently was that of a free Texas, a shining Republic answering to no one but its own elected representatives, and formed from the ground up by the blood, sweat and tears of a rough-hewn bunch of frontiersmen who would die willingly to stake claim to the Texas clay beneath...
  • Texans Hispanic Heritage Day

    09/30/2004 1:32:40 PM PDT · by TexasCajun · 19 replies · 370+ views
    Houston Texans Website ^ | 09-30-2004 | unknown
    Sunday, October 3, 2004 Houston Texans vs. Oakland Raiders 12:00 Noon Kickoff, Reliant Stadium The goal of the Houston Texans Hispanic Heritage Day presented by MOTOROLA, is to create a special and diverse event that celebrates the importance of Hispanic heritage and increases awareness to our Hispanic Raving Fans. Mango Punch performed during last year's Hispanic Heritage celebration. This year will mark our third annual Texans Hispanic Heritage Day and in the past this event has served as a historic moment for the Houston Texans, our city and a model for professional sports. As part of Hispanic Heritage Day, the...
  • Texans for Truth to offer 50k reward for proof Bush completed service

    09/10/2004 9:26:16 PM PDT · by Jeff Blogworthy · 107 replies · 2,882+ views
    MSNBC news (TV) | MSNBC news (TV)
    MSNBC is reporting that "Texan’s for Truth" is going to be offering a $50,000 reward for "irrefutable proof" that President Bush completed his National Guard service obligations.
  • TV writer (and Kerry fundraiser) gives $100G to Texans for Truth (anti-Bush group)

    09/09/2004 5:44:16 PM PDT · by QQQQQ · 31 replies · 1,827+ views
    MLive ^ | Sept. 9, 2004 | SHARON THEIMER
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A television writer and fund-raiser for John Kerry is the first six-figure donor to a new group that is criticizing President Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War. Daniel O'Keefe, a writer/producer whose work includes such sitcoms as "The Drew Carey Show" and "Seinfeld," donated $100,000 this week to Texans for Truth, an Austin-based group that plans to run anti-Bush television ads starting Monday. The group spent about $100,000 on its first ad buy, an anti-Bush commercial that starts Monday in the presidential battleground states Arizona, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon and Pennsylvania. In addition to his Texans...
  • Mystery still surrounds East Texans' arsenal

    01/24/2004 2:01:40 PM PST · by Libloather · 16 replies · 226+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 1/24/04 | LISA FALKENBERG
    Mystery still surrounds E. Texans' arsenal By LISA FALKENBERG Associated Press Jan. 24, 2004, 10:39AM NOONDAY -- William Krar and Judith Bruey built an arsenal in three rented storage units in this rural East Texas town and federal authorities still don't know why. A federal raid in April 2003 found nearly half a million rounds of ammunition, more than 60 pipe bombs, machine guns, silencers and remote-controlled bombs disguised as briefcases. Pamphlets on how to make chemical weapons and anti-Semitic, anti-black and anti-government books were also discovered. Beside containers of hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids, agents found more than 800...
  • TEXAS BEACHES BELONG TO ALL TEXANS

    09/04/2003 12:09:01 PM PDT · by tx4guns · 87 replies · 658+ views
    www.e-thepeople.org ^ | 9/04/03 | John Beatty
    Do you enjoy fishing, surfing, beachcombing, sunbathing, or just long walks on the beach at sunrise or sunset? Are you aware that the beaches of Texas belong to the citizens of Texas? Did you know that there is an ongoing battle, to take away YOUR right to access YOUR property? The "Texas Open Beaches Act" guarantees, the citizens of our great state, open and unrestricted access to all Texas beaches,from "mean low tide" to the "vegetation line." The current fight is over the last 3.2 miles of open beach, at San Luis Pass. By the way, that is the only,...
  • Pol: Funds misused on Texans (Chicken Run Update)

    08/02/2003 6:25:29 AM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies · 200+ views
    Albuquerque Tribune Online ^ | 8/01/03 | Shea Andersen
    Pol: Funds misused on Texans By Shea Andersen Tribune Reporter New Mexico Republicans say they've had it with the Texas Democrats who are staying in Albuquerque, and not just because of political disagreements. Rep. Dan Foley, a Roswell Republican, wants the Legislative Finance Committee to investigate whether or not using State Police to guard the 11 wayward Texas Democrats is a misuse of state funds. He has asked the committee to subpoena Secretary of Public Safety John Denko to get answers. "I want to know how much, and who authorized this," Foley said at a press conference Thursday at the...
  • Supreme Court: Texans Too Stupid To Rule State

    06/27/2003 12:36:43 PM PDT · by socal_parrot · 43 replies · 276+ views
    Scrappleface.com ^ | 06/26/03 | Scott Ott
    (2003-06-26) -- In a little noticed addendum to today's Lawrence and Garner v. Texas decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the citizens of Texas are not intelligent enough to rule their own state. Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy noted, "Representative government is a good notion as far as it goes. But the citizens of Texas clearly lack the mental ability to elect representatives and make laws properly. We'll be keeping eye on them to protect them from themselves." Justice Kennedy also wrote that "citizens of many other states probably lack the intellectual capacity to rule themselves as...
  • Wounded Texans Tell Their Stories

    04/20/2003 6:53:52 AM PDT · by buffyt · 2 replies · 374+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | April 19, 2003, 10:34PM | By ANDY NETZEL
    WASHINGTON -- As the war in Iraq played out last week, Army Spc. Kevin Osgood lay in a hospital half a world away, nursing leg wounds from an Iraqi ambush. For Osgood, who grew up 100 miles west of Houston in Dime Box, the war ended April 1 when he took two bullets through his left calf and another in his right knee. Down the hall at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, another soldier, whose roots reach Texas and deep into U.S. military history, was recovering from a gunshot wound to the face. At nearby National Naval Medical Center, two...
  • The return of a longstanding feud(Cowboys-Oilers, er, Texans)

    09/08/2002 12:05:10 PM PDT · by Diddle E. Squat · 43 replies · 434+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 9/7/02 | fran blinebury
    You've seen them. Maybe down the street. Maybe across the breakfast table behind the newspaper. Maybe hogging the remote control for your new high-definition TV. You know them. You might work with one. You might live next door to one. You might even sleep with one. Cowboys fans. Like humidity, traffic and fire ants, they're a fact of life around here. Truth is, like cell phones, Dr. Phil and those incredibly annoying commercials for "Clarinex," you can't get away from them. Can't live with 'em. Can't spray something on 'em. They show up in the places you think would be...