Posted on 11/09/2017 4:08:56 PM PST by bgill
Austin Mayor Steve Adler announced he will not participate in this year’s Veterans Day Parade, held Saturday on Congress Avenue, because some groups signed up to march will be carrying the Confederate flag. “Veterans Day should only be about honoring United States Military Veterans,” Adler said in a statement Thursday morning. “Symbols of racism, Civil War secession, and white supremacy should not be forgotten or erased, but they need to be remembered and studied in museums and classrooms not cheered and applauded in parades.”
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“There are still a lot more men who need killing than there are horses that need stealing.”
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You got that right bro. Sounds like something Rooster Cogburn would say.
Austin mayor is a moron.
Not surprised.
The SFB syndrome is epidemic in Austin!
He won’t be missed.
It’s just something I’ve been hearing all my life.
I have a vague sense of a connection with an early Texas Ranger.
>>By US law Confederate veterans are US veterans. The Austin Mayor is ignorant of US law and customs.<<
I was about to post that information which I am sure most people do not know. Of course all Confederate veterans are now deceased.
>>Wherever you move it, scumbags will try to follow.<<
Which confirms that there are many more horses asses in this country than there are horses.
TX is turning blue under our own eyes..
“Which confirms that there are many more horses asses in this country than there are horses.”
My grandmother used to say that, and she was born before the automobile.
And here I always thought Veterans Day was all about AMERICAN VETERANS.
Who cares if this little commie stays home!!!!
We’re right here....when will Colorado get it’s act together...get your own house in order!!!
There are more horses asses than there are horses!!!
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Austin TX always a bastion of poofs located in a man’s state
“We’re right here....when will Colorado get it’s act together...get your own house in order!!!”
The vicissitudes of life have brought me to Colorado, but I am a Texan by birth.
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