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"Save Texas. It's the last." Words of warning.
Vanity | 01/10/2013 | houndofthebaskervilles

Posted on 01/10/2013 6:56:51 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles

Not long ago I was telling a customer that the product she was testing was from Oregon. The lady, who was probably in her early 70's, shivered when I mentioned Oregon and said she used to live there. I asked her if Oregon was too cold for her. She said, "No I ran away from Oregon to live in Texas." So I said, "Well good. I was reading a news article just this morning about how Texas is thriving with a budget surplus and low unemployment. She replied, "Oh I know, I've lived here for a while now. I ran away from Oregon because there are too many crazies there." (I suspected by crazies she meant leftists but was being circumspect since she did not know me.)

She went on to say she used to live in New York but left to get away from the crazies. She went to Oregon which was fine till the crazies from California started moving there too. "I love Texas," she said. "Save Texas it's the last." I said,"I know just what you mean and I agree with you." And she said again, "I love Texas. Save Texas. It's the last."

I had noticed from the beginning of our exchange that she had a foreign accent. So before she left I asked her where she was from originally. "I am from Russia, she said. "Save Texas. It's the last."


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KEYWORDS: liberty; obama; socialism; texas; vanity
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To: cripplecreek
Running away isn’t the answer. Better to lance the infected areas.

Speaking of Lancers, don't we have a couple of squadrons of them parked at Dyess AFB?

They'd be damn good at cauterizing the proud flesh of the gangrenous parts of the country. Or you could administer the "hands-off" naturopathic remedy my great-greatx-uncle got during the Civil War: Stand back and let the maggots do their thing until either the patient recovers or it's all over.

121 posted on 01/11/2013 6:59:45 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: SueRae; ExSoldier
The family stories from his time in Russia I could recount would fry your hair.

History books in school don’t go far enough. Speaking with people under former rule most certainly does.

That's what's needed, desperately, today! Kids need to hear these stories and realize what is happening...and, that it can happen, again.

From reading comments of other posters, the sharing of your stories would be well timed and most appreciated.

122 posted on 01/11/2013 7:07:54 AM PST by Jane Long (Philippians 2:11)
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To: lentulusgracchus
I keep trying to convince urban liberals that there's only one way to protect themselves from the "flyover country violence" that infects their utopian cities.

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123 posted on 01/11/2013 7:13:42 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Windflier
I guess that leaves me out of being invited to the big scrum.
124 posted on 01/11/2013 7:22:46 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Good suggestions-—I’d vote for ‘em!


125 posted on 01/11/2013 7:39:30 AM PST by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

“...Now if the California people will keep their kooky ideas to themselves we can all get along.....”

They won’t, and you can’t.

They don’t understand “Live and let Live”. A simple, non-complicated principle that escapes comprehension to the liberal brain.

You’ll have to put a boot in their collective ass and send them back.


126 posted on 01/11/2013 7:41:33 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles

Straus-Dewhurst is fully establishment. Cruz is the odd man out in TX.


127 posted on 01/11/2013 7:49:03 AM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: 3catsanadog
"Don't Californicate Colorado!"

They did, they have, and they will continue to do so. It's now a reliably liberal bastion, really no different from MN.

128 posted on 01/11/2013 8:21:14 AM PST by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: lentulusgracchus
very conspicuously DO NOT invite the six "Boston States"

It would be nice if it were that easy. Unfortunately, we'll probably have to 'party' with those very states before it's all said and done.

130 posted on 01/11/2013 8:59:33 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: cripplecreek
Running away isn’t the answer.

As if we had another place to run to. I'm not willing to abandon my country, so Texas is where I'll make my final stand.

131 posted on 01/11/2013 9:14:11 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I guess that leaves me out of being invited to the big scrum.

Nonsense. We Texans fully expect our Okie cousins to join us when we snip the umbilical cord to DC.

132 posted on 01/11/2013 9:22:38 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: cripplecreek

“One thing I can obviously show you is how to face reality because you aren’t even willing to do that.”

Your knocking Texas from the state of Michigan is easy to fix - you stay in Michigan and I’ll stay in Texas - there, fixed it. People who come here are looking for the good life in Texas, not to change it. Conservatives from California come here but I doubt many liberals come here due to their hatred of the state.


133 posted on 01/11/2013 9:52:34 AM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: erod
“...the crazies from CA and other states moving there does worry me though.”

California has a Republican Party and there are conservatives there and they are coming here. Don't worry about stories you hear of liberals coming here. They hate this state. They can't change the fact that Texas is a right to work state so unions can't take it over. They can't change our constitution and take out the part that says every Texas budget must be balanced - we cannot go into the red.

They can't take away our jobs and can't take away the new oil/gas fields that provide gobs of jobs and mega money the state will have due to those fields/jobs/people purchasing goods. We have no state income tax and they can't change that.

134 posted on 01/11/2013 10:01:51 AM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: Windflier

Maybe I’ll learn me some Texas Speak so I can fill out the application real good.


135 posted on 01/11/2013 10:20:52 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Maybe I’ll learn me some Texas Speak so I can fill out the application real good.

You sure you're an Okie? All true Okies speak fluent Texan.

136 posted on 01/11/2013 10:56:03 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Marcella

Thanks for the reply. You have a valid point some people fleeing states like CA can be conservatives. Hell I’m a hardcore conservative in one of the nation’s bluest cities! I will tell you this - I love Texas, I know it’s not my home yet, but one day it will be, and I intend on bringing people there that will be an conservative asset to her.


137 posted on 01/11/2013 3:30:14 PM PST by erod (I'm a Chicagoan till Chicago ends...)
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To: erod
My husband was in Walmart over a year ago, and he struck up a conversation with a male Walmart employee. The man said he left Detroit, practically gave his house away there, and came to Texas to find work. Said he walked in Walmart and got a job as asst. manager and would work there until he found a job more in his line of work (don't know what that was). The man was educated and seemed to be a fine person. He was thankful he could come here and immediately get a job. He said the people in Texas were very nice to him. I'm sure Texas will be his home from now on.
138 posted on 01/11/2013 3:45:20 PM PST by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: basil

You sound very much like my dearly departed and his “from the beginning of time” family, lol. And, I do understand. I have chastised my parents repeatedly for not containing their lust for one lousy year and birthing me here. Oh well, one can’t change the past.

I do see a deal in the making for the wild plum jelly..I ain’t too proud to beg.:)


139 posted on 01/11/2013 8:05:38 PM PST by berdie
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To: ExSoldier
Talk about goosebumps of that kind, I GREW UP that way. My father was born into a Czarist family in Moscow in 1907 and he lived through the Russian Revolution, leaving for New York via ship before the country fell. He passed in 1980. I was an NRA member before I was even born. The family stories from his time in Russia I could recount would fry your hair.

Would you please write them for us? Here or better yet start a new thread and ping me please?

140 posted on 01/16/2013 4:53:20 AM PST by The Bat Lady (Because BO won- Exercise, Repent, Floss then brush, learn barter skills.)
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