Federal shutdown doesn’t affect the Alamo

The Friendswood Journal ^ | October 4, 2013

[Cincinatus' Wife]

......“This is a good example of why things that matter most to Texans — like the Alamo — remain Texan, just like the Christmas Mountains out in West Texas,” said Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, referring to a misguided attempted federal land grab that drew attention back in 2008.

“Texas isn't going to let government get in the way of honoring our heroes, whether it's at the Alamo or at the VLB,” Patterson said.

The shrine to Texas heroes of long ago remains open. And so do the Texas Veterans Land Board’s eight Texas State Veterans Homes, which take care of our living heroes, said Patterson, chairman of the Texas Veterans Land Board.

“The shutdown is not stopping us from caring for our heroes,” Patterson said. “We do not anticipate any problems with us receiving Veterans Administration payments for nursing home care, but the VLB has more than enough funds in our veterans programs to cover the costs should federal funding cease and until this shutdown is resolved.”

.....Texas has always taken care of her veterans. In 1836, the Texas General Land Office was formed, in part, to make sure veterans of the Texas Revolution were given land rights they were promised in exchange for their role in liberating Texas. In 1946, the VLB was created to provide the same for Texan veterans of a different war who helped liberate the world.

Today, the VLB serves more than 1.7 million Texas veterans of all ages. The VLB’s eight Texas State Veterans Homes serve more than a thousand veterans and their families needing long-term, high-quality care.....

[Old Sarge]

and with the DemocRATS' Justice Department supported voter fraud, we may never get another President that isn't an Obama clone

Listen to Bender, he has it right.

The Left has demonstrated not only the will, but the ability, to manipulate the national elections via Chicago-style Alinsky fraud.

We will not see a conservative candidate rise to that level again in our lifetime.

[Vaquero]

then we must ban together to prevent this.....or fight it.

[stevie_d_64]

He’s running for Lt. Gov...

I went to the debate they had in Houston last week, with Todd Staples, Dewhurst, and Dan Patrick...

Those are the only other folks I know putting in for that job...I think they had another one in Tyler, Texas this last Saturday...

They are making the rounds and they are ALL making pretty good points, without a lot of BS being thrown around that isn’t called for...All of them have been working together for years, so to me, iit is hard to really find diferences other than personal preferences between any of them...

Trying to “out-conservative” another conservative (whatever the level of that conservatism is) is hard to do, and get away with...It almost looks like you hae toliberalize your positions to separate yourself from the pack...And even then, it take a keen eye and ear to pick them out when they do that...

My preference (in order) so far, and I know some will vehemently dissagree, but thats ok, Texas will survive...

#1 Jerry Patterson
#2 Todd Staples
#3 Dan Patrick
#4 David Dewhurst

Just my opinion...FYI...

[stevie_d_64]

I bleive the Feds learned a lesson recently when they tried to close up Mt. Vernon back east...That facility is run a lot like The Alamo is in Texas...

I imagine that if the Feds tried to shut down the access to the Alamo, they might very well have a serious problem on their hands...

Not only native Texans would be riled up by that attempt, but I have a very good feeling that some patriotic Tejanos would be in our ranks a well, and very welcome at that!!!

I blieve it is a line in the sand that the Feds know all too well they had beter not cross in this state, or many other places as well...

The eggshells cannot hold them up very well outside the Beltway...

Things are rapidly coming to a head, and in about ten days, we are going to see who we can count on when that bubble bursts...

[Cyber Liberty]

There are more of them than there are of us now, Bender. Last November I became literally sick to my stomach when I saw that we’ve officially crossed the demographic line where the takers can outvote the makers.

The observation (made by more than one observer)is true: When a majority of voters in a “democracy” realizes it can vote itself largess out of the treasury, it’s doomed.

“Democracy” is when three wolves and a sheep vote on what’s for dinner.

[X-spurt]

No different than in 1836.
Except I do believe even the citizens of San Antonio will be eager to resist the communists. Who the hell cares what goes on in Austin, they’ll all run screaming to safe Blue ground.

[SevenofNine]

I bet Obama going get his butt rung in 2014 mid term election I hope so

[Bender2]

“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’

‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

Gadzooks! Could Bob... put it any plainer?

[Cyber Liberty]

It’s not a sure thing at all. Read Bender’s post #28.

[Vaquero]

‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”

Robert A. Heinlein

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

Robert A. Heinlein

[Old Sarge]

[SevenofNine]

That pretty bad if we putting Dr House in this thread ROFL

[Bender2]

From http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/Heinlein.html

One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

An armed society is a polite society.
-Beyond This Horizon

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith—it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
-Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other “sins” are invented nonsense.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.

Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
-Professor Bernardo de la Paz, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
-still searchin’

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you’ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you’ll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

Learning isn’t a means to an end; it’s an end in and of itself.
-still searchin’

…brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
-that also sounds like Lazarus

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love

“Love” is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land

First, what is it you want us to pay taxes for? Tell me what I get and perhaps I’ll buy it.
-Manuel O’Kelly, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
-Lazarus Long, Time Enough for Love

Gadzooks, Bob ever nail its... each and every time!

And all this... was said just before my breakfast Bloody Mary--

[Cincinatus' Wife]

[TangoLimaSierra]

It’s the site of a Mexican victory. They wouldn’t want to close that anyway.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Depends on what you mean by victory. The defenders died. The reason they were fighting triumphed.

The final score is the only one that matters.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[donmeaker]

Freedom is what happens when the sheep are well armed.

[Cyber Liberty]

The founders’ being well armed is why we don’t have a Democracy, we have a Republic.

[morphing libertarian]

Park rangers to keep people out: essential

Park rangers to keep the park open: non-essential