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Will Texas secede? Petition reaches 25,000 signatures, triggering White House review
The Daily Caller ^ | 11/12/12 | David Martosko

Posted on 11/12/2012 3:13:58 PM PST by Nachum

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To: Gasshog

Nice job! Did you do that one yourself? It certainly is how he sees his skinny self.


81 posted on 11/12/2012 6:46:55 PM PST by CodeToad (Padme: "So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.")
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To: hopespringseternal
There is an awful lot of this country whose wealth is being sucked into the blue socialistic cesspools that are a few large cities plus wetback territory. Either we peacefully figure out a way to cut off the cash drain or people from the red part will figure out some way to reduce the drain from the blue part.

I have no doubt that Texans could, if unhindered by outside forces, drastically deplete the negative impacts within their borders.

82 posted on 11/12/2012 6:54:27 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: CodeToad

You are too dumb to know what I was saying.

But anyone who would call the black thug a king for any reason is not anyone I see eye-to-eye with anyway.

Keep calling him king and your own propaganda will be real to you and obviously it has.

To me a thug is a thug and NOTHING but a thug!


83 posted on 11/12/2012 7:03:00 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: CodeToad
No, I cant take credit but there is a wealth of images out there of King Obie Won Can No-Bodie Touch Me. you just hit the nail on the head, FRiend. The guy is Teflon. "King" suits him better than "President" but I dont say it with respect or admiration, rather sarcasm - as he deserves neither and is the lowest of the low.
84 posted on 11/12/2012 7:07:46 PM PST by Gasshog
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To: DallasSun
Appropriate screenname. You have your head where the sun that shines on REAL Texas (the part outside Dallas, Austin and Houston) never shines...
85 posted on 11/12/2012 7:19:08 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: Patriotoftexas
Texas only gets back about 20 % of the federal taxes paid by Texans. So we could have the same level of services and keep 80 cents of ever dollar we have been giving uncle sam.

Secession?? Sure, but only if you pay the "Secession Tax".


86 posted on 11/12/2012 7:24:48 PM PST by Gasshog
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To: DallasSun

“You have a right to your opinion. I never meant otherwise. But the state of Texas is not going to secede. Ever. We have heard this before. Every few years.”

In an earlier posting, you said you had been around politics since 1972. That’s about the same time I started noticing things, as well.

Let me ask you a question:

In 1972, if I had told you that in twenty years the mighty Soviet Union would crumble and cease to exist as a nation, and if had told you that it would split into a “Commonwealth of Independent States”, what would you have told me in return?

C’mon, be honest with your reply...


87 posted on 11/12/2012 7:50:39 PM PST by Road Glide
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To: Road Glide

The “mighty Soviet Union” got that way by conquering a group of extant countries. It didn’t start as a large, amorphous territory that then organized a la the USA. Its dissolution amounted to allowing those countries to become extant once more.


88 posted on 11/12/2012 7:54:22 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Nachum

Molon labe.


89 posted on 11/12/2012 9:00:36 PM PST by RightCenter
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To: DallasSun

I was just poking at you for insulting others that had a clearer vision of present reality.


90 posted on 11/13/2012 7:07:34 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DallasSun

I’m from there I bet I heard of it...

Heck I’ve prolly been there...


91 posted on 11/13/2012 7:15:44 AM PST by Rightly Biased (Avenge me Girls AVENEGE ME!!!! ( I don't have any son's))
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To: Nachum

Looks like you’ll be in business for another four years, Nachum. Did you ever build that server you wanted?


92 posted on 11/13/2012 7:23:52 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
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To: DallasDeb

That’s a myth. Texas reserved the right to divide itself into five separate states. It did not reserve the right to leave the Union. IMHO, dividing into five states would weaken our influence. Furthermore, can you imagine any part of Texas opting to leave the Great State of Texas?

However, our rights come from God not the federal government. So, should Texas claim the right to leave the Union, the precedent was set with the Declaration of Independence.


93 posted on 11/13/2012 7:38:05 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
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To: DallasSun

Just playing devil’s advocate ... what makes you think we’d give up our military bases and assets? If (unlikely) we were to secede, any federal assets within the physical borders of the Great State of Texas become, by default, the sole property of Texas.


94 posted on 11/13/2012 7:41:08 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
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To: BuckeyeTexan

North Texas, South Texas, West Texas, East Texas; who’s leaving Texas?


95 posted on 11/13/2012 10:53:07 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: BuckeyeTexan
Looks like you’ll be in business for another four years, Nachum. Did you ever build that server you wanted?

Ha.

Just attacked by malware again. I am reformatting as I type. Some nasty ransom malware out of eastern Europe. I am so disgusted with pc's right now. I am seriously thinking of getting a Mac. Nothing huge, just a Mac desktop and see if that keeps the bugs off me.

96 posted on 11/13/2012 11:24:20 AM PST by Nachum (The List was hacked- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Let those states that wish to leave secede from the United States
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/228/644/059/let-those-states-that-wish-to-leave-seceed-from-the-united-states/


97 posted on 11/13/2012 3:50:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Road Glide

“In 1972, if I had told you that in twenty years the mighty Soviet Union would crumble and cease to exist as a nation, and if had told you that it would split into a “Commonwealth of Independent States”, what would you have told me in return?”

Exactly. Or Yugoslavia, or Czechoslovakia (at least that was a peaceful breakup and a good blueprint) or the Sudan (well maybe we might have seen that one coming).


98 posted on 11/14/2012 7:00:48 AM PST by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“The “mighty Soviet Union” got that way by conquering a group of extant countries.”

And the USA didn’t?! Tell that to the American Indians, or Mexico, or the Hawaiian royal family. And what we didn’t conquer we bought (Louisiana Purchase, Alaska, Florida). So there’s more similarity to the USSR than is apparent at first glance.


99 posted on 11/14/2012 7:03:43 AM PST by teflon9 (Political campaigns should follow Johnny Mercer's advice--Accentuate the positive.)
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To: Nachum

Switch over to Linux. Ubuntu 12.10 or Fedora 17. Either look, and handle, fantastic!


100 posted on 11/14/2012 7:25:23 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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