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Secession talk just getting started (Texas)
Houston Chronicle ^ | June 29, 2009 | PEGGY FIKAC

Posted on 06/29/2009 4:28:40 AM PDT by cbkaty

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To: Non-Sequitur
Ah but what if they stay and try to take over?

You can't be serious! They will all die painful deaths, but at least they won't be tortured. That wouldn't be the Texas way. Texans are decent people, just DON'T MESS WITH THEM!!
81 posted on 06/29/2009 7:02:32 AM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: Lee'sGhost; Non-Sequitur
Not sure how Texas gets the blame nonsensical keeps sputtering about. None of the presidents he whines about spent one penny without the approval of Congress.

Look, I am not ready to leave the U. S. of A., but with the current trash going on in DC, secession is looking better than staying. Just look at the gore bull climate change bill that just passed the house. Texas will get to shoulder a lot of the new taxes. Screw DC.

82 posted on 06/29/2009 7:03:38 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
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To: Non-Sequitur
But don't think that you can just walk away from the mess y'all did more than your share to create in the first place and leave it for the rest of us.

When you use the term "Ya'll" remember that sounds all inclusive... I did not create one bit of the mess and I will not be held responsible.....

I suspect that should secession actually become a reality (a dream for now) other states will follow....quickly.

There shall be no cap and trade in the Republic of Texas.....no nationalized healthcare either...because we will have all the hospitals and physicians that you Amerikans will utilize.... Oil, gas, aerospace, nuclear energy,and medical care.....the future of the Republic of Texas.

83 posted on 06/29/2009 7:03:52 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: Lee'sGhost
Not sure how Texas gets the blame nonsensical keeps sputtering about. None of the presidents he whines about spent one penny without the approval of Congress.

The interesting thing is that for 11 of those 17 years of Texas presidents, the Texan in the White House also had control of both houses of Congress. So don't try and pretend that all that spending wasn't done with the full support and approval of the man in the White House. And don't go blaiming Congress when the President was fully capable of vetoing any spending Congress authorized.

84 posted on 06/29/2009 7:04:30 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: cbkaty
If it were to happen, Texas had better be prepared for a massive influx of shrugging Alas types. It's only been the first few months of obama and I'm way past tired of being scared of my government and worried about the future of the Constitution and the Republic.
85 posted on 06/29/2009 7:05:27 AM PDT by GBA
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To: HotLead61
Ah but what if they stay and try to take over?

By what means.....slinging their purses at us?

86 posted on 06/29/2009 7:05:32 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: cbkaty

Count me in. I don’t have far to drive.


87 posted on 06/29/2009 7:05:41 AM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: cbkaty

It is my understanding that “y’all” is singular,
“all y’all” is plural...


88 posted on 06/29/2009 7:06:27 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: nanetteclaret
The details don’t matter because the most important thing is the mindset of freedom and independence, as Texas Fossil so succinctly stated.

Ah but the devil is in the details.

Instead of trying to dissuade us, why don’t you come on down and join us?

Thanks but I think I'm going to stick around and try and take the whole country back.

89 posted on 06/29/2009 7:06:39 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
So don't try and pretend that all that spending wasn't done with the full support and approval of the man in the White House. And don't go blaiming Congress when the President was fully capable of vetoing any spending Congress authorized.

You do realize we are talking secession? You make a great case for it.....

90 posted on 06/29/2009 7:07:54 AM PDT by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: cbkaty

Once Texas goes, the rest of the South and lower Midwest would eventually follow. As far as a Constitution, I believe there is a pretty good one in a case in a museum in D. C. that gets trampled on daily by the liberals in this country in the name of progress. Add a few items like term limits....


91 posted on 06/29/2009 7:08:17 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Arrowhead1952

While nonsensical whines about BS points the main issue remains...you have to be stupid or a liberal to NOT see secession as a viable option worth considering if things continue down the road zerObama is taking us.


92 posted on 06/29/2009 7:08:23 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: cbkaty

I think you meant to reply to “nonsensical”.


93 posted on 06/29/2009 7:10:40 AM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: cbkaty
You do realize we are talking secession? You make a great case for it.....

And speaking for myself alone I won't do anything to stop you. But don't expect to screw the rest of us while you're leaving.

94 posted on 06/29/2009 7:11:03 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur

What’ll you do to stop the “screwing”?


95 posted on 06/29/2009 7:11:57 AM PDT by HotLead61 (Death as a Free Man is much preferred to "life" as a slave)
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To: Non-Sequitur
The Bush's weren't Texans. They were Ivy League carpetbaggers that came down here to make a mint in the oil business. I see no difference in them from Olympia Snowe, Arlene Specter, etc..... Most Texans I know are far more to the right than any of our candidates put worth in the past couple of decades. Some of the most conservative-minded people in Washington are Texas members of the House of Representatives.
96 posted on 06/29/2009 7:14:38 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector
The Bush's weren't Texans. They were Ivy League carpetbaggers that came down here to make a mint in the oil business.

Ah but as a Texan posted earlier in this thread, Texas is not where you were born, but is a State of mind and heart. I'm sure that if you asked them, both Bush's would say that in their heart and mind they're Texans.

Sorry, you don't get to blame them on someone else.

97 posted on 06/29/2009 7:18:28 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
We're talking about the bill that Texas presidents have run up to date.

Show me a list of the constitutionally mandated expenditures of the general government THEN we'll talk.

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We're talking about the bill that Texas presidents have run up to date.

No, YOU'RE talking about Texas presidents because YOU are the only one who thinks where a President is from is somehow relevant. It is merer ANOTHER of the straw-man arguments you are famous for.

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And a $900 billion debt load should take care of that.

Constitutional authority, please.

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Nor is it a club to beat the rest of us with on your way out the door.

ROFLMAO!

Texas won't NEED a club. If you think you're owed something, send us a bill. I'm sure we can come to an agreement.

A right to some kind of remuneration in no way, shape or form can interfere with the right of a State to take action if the federal government acts against the best interests of the State.

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"If the States look with apathy on this silent descent of their government into the gulf [of consolidation] which is to swallow all, we have only to weep over the human character formed uncontrollable but by a rod of iron, and the blasphemers of man as incapable of self-government become his true historians."
--Thomas Jefferson to Charles Hammond, 1821.

98 posted on 06/29/2009 7:19:05 AM PDT by MamaTexan (I am NOT an administrative, corporate, collective, legal, political or public entity or ~person~)
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To: cbkaty

I’m for it;
the current president is as much of a horse’s ass as the last one who sparked secession talk.


99 posted on 06/29/2009 7:20:31 AM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: HotLead61
What’ll you do to stop the “screwing”?

Work hard to elect a conservative president and conservative congressmen and senators. Gotta find some first.

100 posted on 06/29/2009 7:21:31 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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