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Perry fires up anti-tax crowd (Gov says Texas can leave union if it wants to)
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Posted on 04/15/2009 3:19:47 PM PDT by Crazieman

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax "tea party" Wednesday with his stance against the federal government and for states' rights as some in his U.S. flag-waving audience shouted, "Secede!"


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KEYWORDS: bho44; bhotyranny; congress; cw2; cwii; cwiiping; democrats; obama; obamatruthfile; perry; rickperry; secede; secession; statesrights; taxday; taxes; teaparties; teaparty; texas
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To: YellowRoseofTx
Texas is big enough to have any kind of weather you want, just depends on the area you live in.

Actually, if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes. It'll change.

41 posted on 04/15/2009 3:59:05 PM PDT by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: euram

Todd Palin can run the alaskan secession movement and Sarah-cuda the presidency of Alaska.


42 posted on 04/15/2009 4:01:33 PM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Crazieman

I will move back to Texas if the secede... yes I will!

LLS


43 posted on 04/15/2009 4:03:05 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: McLynnan

Infested with Mexicans....
And rattlesnakes, fire ants, tornadoes, rednecks......you don’t want to move here

If you are not infested with entitlement minded lazy liberals and actually stand for something, oh yes I do. I have huge bugs, alligators, nasty snakes AND my state voted blue for the first time ever. I am a redneck, we all got fire ants in the south now, and FL has the most tornadoes of any state (little known fact) just not the big ones like tornado alley gets, and we are LOADED with illegals here. At least you got TEXANS in TEXAS!!


44 posted on 04/15/2009 4:03:39 PM PDT by wombtotomb
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To: wombtotomb

LOL, go west young man. We will welcome you.


45 posted on 04/15/2009 4:11:09 PM PDT by McLynnan
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Let’s roll. It’s time.

Yep. Lets do it.

46 posted on 04/15/2009 4:12:03 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Aria

“I don’t love their weather but I’d think of moving.”

Yep. My aunt lives in Texas and she does mention how HOT it is down there from time to time. I wonder if that’s pretty much consistent all over the state. (It gets hot enough here in Tennessee for me. One year, it was as hot in August here as it was in Texas - just about.)


47 posted on 04/15/2009 4:13:46 PM PDT by Twinkie (HITLER WAS A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.)
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To: Jedidah
There’s too muck in Slick Rick’s record to believe him now. He’s just an Aggie Yell Leader running scared of a tu Cheerleader.

I'm an Aggie and I agree. He's running to the right of where he's governed because his opponent shows RINO tendencies. He figured having better hair wasn't enough.

I really doubt we'd secede, but I love talking about it. I may even change my tagline to, "If at first you don't secede, try, try again."

While my company chokes on the franchise tax, imagine a Republic of Texas with no personal income tax?

Hey, how about this? Imagine a law where you lose your Texas citizenship if you play college football out of state, er, country?

48 posted on 04/15/2009 4:14:51 PM PDT by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: LibLieSlayer; Crazieman

>I will move back to Texas if they secede...

I’m right there with you LLS - and you can take that to the bank.


49 posted on 04/15/2009 4:14:52 PM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: bill1952

Right on!

LLS


50 posted on 04/15/2009 4:20:01 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: Twinkie
Yep. My aunt lives in Texas and she does mention how HOT it is down there from time to time. I wonder if that’s pretty much consistent all over the state. (It gets hot enough here in Tennessee for me. One year, it was as hot in August here as it was in Texas - just about.)

Actually, we've got a solution to the heat. It's called AIR CONDITIONING!

I know, I know, President HopeyChangey doesn't like it and wants to control our thermostats. Well, Texas is the headquarters of Lennox International (Lennox, Armstrong, Ducane, Air-Flo...located in Richardson), Trane's residential operations (Trane, American Standard...Tyler), and Goodman (Goodman, Amana...Houston). Goodman's actually become the nation's best selling brand.

51 posted on 04/15/2009 4:22:28 PM PDT by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: Entrepreneur
Actually, if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes. It'll change.

One of the most said saying here.

52 posted on 04/15/2009 4:24:37 PM PDT by YellowRoseofTx (Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
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To: Crazieman
Er, no disrespect to Gov. Perry or the Lone Star state but wasn't this tried before somewhere around this month in 1861? (IT HAD DIRE RESULTS FOR MY PARTICULAR COMMONWEALTH)
53 posted on 04/15/2009 4:26:04 PM PDT by meandog (There are bad no dogs, only bad owners--the only good bad owner is one mauled by a good bad dog!)
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To: Sen Jack S. Fogbound

Funny you should mention that.....

I heard Chuck Norris on Glenn Beck’s radio show several weeks ago, and he (Chuck) half-jokingly mentioned that he was thinking of running for President of Texas!


54 posted on 04/15/2009 4:26:33 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The fence between Mexico and the United States is a shovel-ready project)
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To: Entrepreneur
"If at first you don't secede, try, try again."

How about "If at first you don't secede, elect a different governor."

55 posted on 04/15/2009 4:27:11 PM PDT by Stegall Tx (Democrats: raising your taxes; cheating on theirs.)
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To: Crazieman

Just damn!


56 posted on 04/15/2009 4:28:54 PM PDT by saganite (What would Sully do?)
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To: Texas Fossil
There are places in Texas where property is very cheap. Most of them are in the boonies, in fly-over country.

Wherebouts ? I like wide open and empty, but not too hot. I'd miss snow, too.

57 posted on 04/15/2009 4:29:38 PM PDT by Red Boots
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To: Crazieman

My forebears fought and died for the Confederate States of America and I am a native born Texan, currently a resident of Montana. If Texas does secede from the Union, I will pack my bags.


58 posted on 04/15/2009 4:31:55 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there and done that!)
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To: ncpatriot

They said that about Sam Houston with regards to Mexico, too.

Thing is, Texas has a strange way of bringing out successes in otherwise total failures. He was a failure at life, a drunkard, had no success with women, and both his early and late life were total disasters. But for one brief shining moment, he was the right man in the right place at the right time to kick Santa Ana’s ass.

Much of Texas history is dotted with men who were failures elsewhere who came here and became great successes.


59 posted on 04/15/2009 4:32:35 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Red Boots

We have lots of room up in the panhandle.

As for too hot, that’s why God gave us air conditioning and nuclear reactors.


60 posted on 04/15/2009 4:33:17 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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