Angel of the apocalypse (Bush: Texas, guns, bibles, beef, born-agains, war, death)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | March 8 2003 | Paul Sheehan

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Texas is the only sovereign nation to have joined the Union

News to Hawaiians.

When it joined the Union, Hawaii was no longer a sovereign nation.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

News to Eisenhower. He sent the first 'advisor' to Vietnam in response to the 'dangerous and threatening situation in Southeast Asia'. (quotes form Wall Street Journal, Nov. 1957)

.... BTW .... Eisenhower was also born in Texas!

[Sloth]

He was later administered a lethal injection, the method of execution in Texas since 1972, when electrocution was declared a "cruel and unusual punishment" by the US Supreme Court.

Not quite right.

[Still Thinking]

Got it. Sorry I missed your distinction.

[dead]

No problem.

I just found something on the internet that says 597 "advisors" were in Vietnam when Eisenhower left office.

Many of them were mechanics who were fixing the bombers we gave the South.

[CindyDawg]

FRENCH fries in Crawford? I don't think so. Can't even find them in STX anymore. What-a-Burger was the last hold out but they have their act together too, now. :')

[GunsareOK]

Let 'em have some good eats--let's stop paying these shyster lawyers $200 an hour for endless appeals.

My choice for a few days worth of last meals would be steamed and iced jumbo shrimp, crab cakes, lobster tails, prime rib and T-bone steak well done, creamed spinach, asparagus, fresh bread and real butter, all washed down with cans of Mountain Dew chilled to just above freezing. For desert, brownies with chocolate icing washed down with a chocolate milkshake made with Edy's chocolate ice cream, half-and-half, and Hershey's chocolate syrup. These guys on death row need to refine their taste in food--but then again, I don't like wine at all (not that you'd get it in jail.)

[facedown]

Texas and the other states which comprise the top 10 in terms of executions are all among those with the highest proportion of evangelical or born-again Christians,...

A gratuitous swipe.

[dead]

Why select one sentence?

The whole article is a gratuitous swipe.

[facedown]

The whole article is a gratuitous swipe.

Fair enough but that particular t*rd just stuck out from the sea of cr*p.

This one popped out as well:

The process of emptying Death Row is implacable in Texas.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Check them out for yourself, Final Meal Requests.

the Coffee Station (chicken fried steak, chicken fried chicken, fried hot dogs, fried jalapenos, french fries and burgers)

What the heck is a fried hot dog?

[CyberCowboy777]

When it joined the Union, Hawaii was no longer a sovereign nation.

The Congress of the Confederate States of America admitted Texas as a member of the Confederacy March 2, 1861. Would that not dissolve the sovereign status before the acceptance into the Union?

[CyberCowboy777]

Excuse my ignorance...

Texas was a sovereign nation the first time is achieved US Statehood.

[rawbob]

Some history for non-Texans--

The Republic of Texas "merged" with the United States in 1845 in the form of a written contract, or treaty, between two sovereign nations. Some of the provisions of that contract (presumably still in effect)

[1] Texas gave up a substantial amount of real estate; including its claim to what is now the entire eastern half of New Mexico, and a strip of Colorado going all the way to the Wyoming border;
[2] Texas retained title to its public lands; that's why (unlike most western states) there is very little public (Federal) land in Texas;
[3] Texas reserves the exclusive right to subdivide itself into five separate states (probably not very enforceable these days). Ten senators from Texas ?!

[CyberCowboy777]

Did Texas regain sovereign status after the War or go from a CSA state to a Union State?

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[rawbob]

CSA state to Union state.

[Centurion2000]

If their choice of meal was up to me, I'd give 'em sh#$ sandwiches to eat while viewing autopsy photos of their victims.

No, I'm all for the last meal and it's tradition. It is the ONLY thing we should do to show that while our vengeance is furious in Texas, we are civilized about it.

[tarawa]

ping

[JFC]

Thank God I live in Texas.

Thank God that George W. Bush is from Texas

Proud of both.