Posted on 10/14/2005 3:43:58 PM PDT by phatoldphart
When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?"
They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be.. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?
In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some little bit of Texas in everyone.
Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.
Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.
Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.
Texas is "Juneteenth" and Texas Independence Day.
Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.
Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend.
Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country.
Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas.
Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.
Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.
Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico.
Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Astrodome.
Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, Rick Husband, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, Lyndon B.Johnson.
Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE, Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter.
Texas is NASA.
Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.
Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer.
Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio River Parade in San Antonio. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities.
If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it.
NO ONE DOES ANYTHING BIGGER OR BETTER THAN IT'S DONE IN TEXAS.
By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state.
Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there.
Texas even has its own power grid!!
If you are a REAL TEXAN you won't even need to be told to pass this on!"
Chris Rea - "Texas"
Warm winds blowing
Heating blue sky
And a road that goes forever
Been thinking ’bout it lately
Been watching some tv
Been looking all around me
At what has come to be
Been talking to my neighbour
And he agrees with me
It’s all gone crazy
Well my wife returns from taking
My little girl to school
She’s got beads of perspiration
As she tries to keep her cool
She says that mess it don’t get no better
There’s gonna come a day
Someone’s gonna get killed out there
And I turn to her and say "Texas"
She says what?
I said "Texas"
She says what?
They’ve got big long road out there
Warm winds blowing
Heating blue sky
And a road that goes forever
I’m going to Texas
We got to get out of here
We got to get out of here
Well I got a little brother
Several meters high
Yea his built just like a quarterback
And he swears he’ll testify
He says he’s been to Texas
And that’s the only place to be
Big stakes, big girls, no trouble there
That’s the place for me
I’m going to Texas
I’m going to Texas
Watch me walking
Watch me walking
I hope to hell you have some of that acreage. Nowhere else but Giddings! was my favorite T-shirt back then. That is G-d's country pure and simple. Lake Travis, Lake Summerville, San Antonio, Austin, The Chicken Ranch, good grief what a glorious place. I even spent a few nights in Lukenbach.
Checkout posts 78,91,99
over 30000 at $100 a failed ride
§ 3100.055. DISPLAY ON FLAGPOLE OR FLAGSTAFF WITH FLAG
OF UNITED STATES. (a) If it is necessary for the state flag and
the flag of the United States to be displayed on the same flagpole
or flagstaff, the United States flag should be above the state flag.
(b) If the state flag and the flag of the United States are
displayed on flagpoles or flagstaffs at the same location:
(1) the flags should be displayed on flagpoles or
flagstaffs of the same height;
(2) the flags should be of approximately equal size;
(3) the flag of the United States should be, from the
perspective of an observer, to the left of the state flag;
(4) the flag of the United States should be hoisted
before the state flag is hoisted; and
(5) the state flag should be lowered before the flag of
the United States is lowered... : ) <<< me
"Lukenbach" is German for "drink beer and chill out". Did you know that?
And, "Henry Cisneros" is Spanish for "Bill Clinton."
I did find this, though:
(i) No flag or pennant other than the United States flag should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the state flag's right, that is, the observer's left. When the state and United States flags are displayed at the same time, they should be flown on flagpoles of the same height, and the flags should be of approximately equal size.
Here is the link:
OH, but thanks for your opinion.
Well, that just it isn't it? The constitutional requirements are two; one, that Congress consent, two, that the state legislature consent. And that's just the point, Congress has already consented in the admission treaty that Texas can split up into no more than five states. All that is left is for the state legislature to decide if they want to. That makes it a unique situation. Any other state needs to convince Congress of its desires. Texas already has that.
That's cause you were in DALLAS which should be avoided at all costs...
Also, the San Jacinto monument is taller than the Washington Monument.
Man oh man, glad you kept a movin. Don't need your kind round here.
I didn't know I'm hispanic!
As a fellow Texan, may I say that Bum Phillips is to ignorant to write anything comparable to this.
I almost ate at the Big Texan on my way through your state in July. Unfortunately, it was getting late, and there was a line. I think I'm gonna have to visit that place the next time I'm in Amarillo.
Now if I ever had to move away from Texas, I pray to the Lord it would be Montana.
Those differing Census surname spellings were usually the result of drunken census takers; or so I've heard.
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