They're a lot different from what I'm used to.
Posted on 04/17/2009 6:47:42 AM PDT by bestintxas
BWHAAAAAAA!!!
Funny stuff, thanks.
I really needed some wry humor this day. ;^)
They should have to go back to New Orleans!
You said — If we are trying to get back into the majority anytime soon this talk of secession is not helping at all. It makes us look like the sorest of losers and no better than libs who “threatened” to leave the country for Canada if Bush does not end the Iraq war (of course none of them left.)
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It is kind of crazy... all that happens is a lot of people get sidetracked on issues that will never go anywhere — with them thinking, all the while, that they’re “doing something”.
I can think of another crazy issue that has a dedicated following and they “think” they are “doing something”... It’s the small segment of Freepers who think that they are going to get a court case that kicks Obama out of the Office of President of the United States because of him not being qualified, per the Constitution, for the Office of President of the United States.
Now, I might have a definite “question” there, that hasn’t been answered, but I know a *definite* and *positive* way this is going to be solved and it’s not the way of the courts, which have repeatedly failed to gain any traction at all.
The method that will work is for states to pass legislation requiring documentation or the candidate can’t get on the ballot. Since I’m in Oklahoma, too..., I know of the bill going through the legislature in Oklahoma regarding that. They’re getting that ready to pass so that Obama will be required to show documentation.
There are losing ways to get something done, and then there are successful ways to get something done. At least Oklahoma has picked a winning way to get something done.
Apparently there are *some Texans* who would like to pick a “losing way” to get something done (i.e., “secession”).... :-)
Oh.., I don’t know about that, I’m in both states, as it is now... :-)
75% of Texans believe we should stay in MEXICO
I think that any state or the combined states succeed much better in unity than they do in division...
And I think that the founding fathers created this “union” to stay together. Furthermore, Lincoln thought so much of the “union” that he fought the bloodiest war of our entire country’s history to “preserve the union”...
So, I’m with preserving the union...
“Visit my brother in law in Corpus Christi. He’s as liberal as they come.”
As Rush used to say, we need to keep a few libs like Ted Kennedy around just to remind us why we don’t want to go there.
Not snowcapped year round, but definitely rugged.
http://www.stateparks.com/guadalupe_mountains_photography.html
I wanna go someone place *more* free than MD, not *less*....:))
I think it’s significant too.
More than a few Texan don’t think much of Lincoln or his darker predisessor.
“In When in the Course of Human Events, he argues that the war had nothing to do with slavery or union. Rather, it was entirely about tariffs, which the South hated. The tariff not only drove up the price of the manufactured goods that agrarian Southerners bought, it invited other countries to enact their own levies on Southern cotton. In this telling, Lincoln, and the North, wanted more than anything to raise tariffs, both to support a public works agenda and to protect Northern goods from competition with imports.”
http://www.reason.com/news/show/28132.html
Situation sound familiar?
25% is a HUGE number considering talk of secession is relatively new, and the last time states discussed secession led to a bloody war.
By 2010 that number will probably hit the mid-40s.
Yep, quite childish. I don't recall any blue state politicians talking secession or sovereignty under Bush. Now that the party is over and the bill is on the table look who's heading for the door.
Most conservatives have been and are oblivious.. even NOW..
Conservatives are mostly cowards.. and Bushbots..
Thats HOW the left has taken over academia, the media and Washington D.C... Voter fraud has been massive for decades.. Conservatives whine but DO NOTHING..
They're a lot different from what I'm used to.
I'll check back with you in about four years, the bottom of a federal boot gets old.
It’s only natural that many did not think very well of Lincoln, considering that he fought a war... and ended up winning the war... :-)
It’s my opinion that each of the “states” of the 13 original states with our founding fathers could have each gone their own way, since they were sovereign states in their own right, anyway. But, the founding fathers put together a union and one that they intended would stay together.
And then Lincoln fought the war to “preserve the union” and no war has been bloodier (of all the wars we’ve had) than this one to preserve the union.
So, I would say that the *formation* of the union and then the “preservation* of the union — all argues against “secession”...
“...no way would I ever vote to betray my country...”
Your country has already betrayed you. If the people now running the country have their way and out carry the traditional Communist solution you will be either dead or possibly “re-educated”. Get it?
Is your loyalty to the Federal Government or to the American Nation?
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