After receiving numerous FReepmails asking why someone from Texas cared so much about what was going on during the recall of California Gov. Gray Davis, I decided to use this profile page to explain this seeming contradiction so I don't have to type the whole story over and over again in response to said FReepmails. (But, now that I think about it, 2 requests really isn't all that many). But I digress.

Although I did live in Corpus Christi, TX for a couple of years as a youngster, I am now a Californian and have been since 1987. I took the name Texas Eagle as a humorous (at least I thought it was humorous) jab at something that then-Vice-Perpetrator Albert S. "Weird" Algore, Jr. said in response to a constituent's letter back in the day when ex-Vice-Perpetrator Algore was known as sitting Vice-Perpetrator Algore.

It goes something like this:

But, first, one quick Texas joke: Why did the chicken cross the road? ....To prove to the armadillo that it could be done.

Okay, on with the story.

One day, while quietly emptying paper bags full of campaign contributions out onto his redwood desk, one of Weird Algore's staffers came in with the calculator he had asked for. After showing The Creator Of The Internet how to turn the calculator on, the staffer informed him that he received a letter from two Texas "seasoned citizens"(aka Bluehairs) who were concerned about a report they had heard that, in an effort to cut costs, Amtrak would no longer have trains stop at their local station. The route ran from San Antonio to Amarillo (where the seasoned citizens lived) to St. Louis (where one of the seasoned citizen's planned and wanted children lived) to Detroit (where the other child lived)(who may or may not have been planned and/or wanted). But I digress.

The citizens aksed the Vice-Perp if he could do something to prevent this from happening as this was the only way they were able to travel to see their kids. (They probably couldn't afford to drive a car or fly an airplane because they spent all their money on slot machines and dog food). The name Amtrak gave to this particular route was The Texas Eagle.

This is where my deranged sense of humor factors in. In his response, Weird Algore said he shared their concern for endangered animals and promised that he would do everything he could to protect the Texas Eagle from extinction.

Needless to say, I got a huge kick out of this and I took the name Texas Eagle as a way to needle any RATS (this was before they were RATS) who might dare to take me on in this forum or on another forum I visited at the time known as The FOX News Sunday Bulletin Board (R.I.P).

Back then it was possible to change nicknames at will but somewhere along the line that was changed and I have been Texas Eagle since.

Well, if you are still awake after reading this boring story I applaud you and if I can be of any further assistance I'd be highly surprised.

Take care and God bless,
Texas Eagle

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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Now for the best reply to a post I've ever received:

I am no scientist. I am a Christian. I acknowledge that evolutionary theory may have some merit. I have my questions about evolution, but given my lack of scientific background, I am probably not competent to even formulate those questions properly for those who would give them serious consideration.

I also recognize that what I believe, I believe by faith, not fact. That's what makes it faith. My religious belief is not science, not likely provable by science, but perhaps disprovable by science (but my faith says that it won't be disproven-- that's why I believe what I believe).

I believe in the Bible as the inspired word of God, but I cannot say that every word was intended to be interpreted literally. I believe there is room for symbolism in much of scripture.

I believe God is all powerful, and created the universe for His own reasons, most of which are beyond my (and because I am a fairly intelligent guy, relative to others) and most others' understanding. I believe God is all knowing and all good and loving, although I confess I cannot understand everything about Him.

If God is all powerful, and if among God's purposes was for us to discover and love Him by faith, rather than by His demand or by making Himself obvious to us, then He may have made the world just as it is-- ambiguous and problematic as to its origins, purposes and destiny.

God may have (but need not have, and in fact may not have) created the world in 6 days, or less if He were so inclined. I believe that however God created the world, the day after He finished, it looked older than it was-- perhaps millions or billions of years older, by human reckoning. Alternatively, He may have started the universe by a Big Bang and "cultivated" it to its current state, but my faith suggests not.

I acknowledge the shortcomings that many may see if my belief system, but I suggest that every belief system, even those purportedly based in science, contain shortcomings large enough to allow a total destruction of their validity.

Where does this statement of belief get me (us)? Perhaps nowhere, but hopefully a little further toward a mutual tolerance of others' beliefs (and by tolerance I mean true tolerance, not like that of the left, but an attitude that allows others to have their beliefs without ridicule, while not requiring anyone to adhere one's own beliefs).

Have a great week...

205 posted on 08/29/2005 6:16:45 AM PDT by NCLaw441