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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Wolf14 on April 28, 2004, 06:20:12 PM
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This was circulated around work and I thought maybe yall would get a laugh from it........
Texas has given all those complainers plenty of time to get used to
the results. After seeing the whiners along the inauguration route,
the folks from Texas have decided that we might just take matters into our
own hands.
Here is our solution:
#1: Let John Kerry become President of the United States (all 49
states).
#2: George W. Bush becomes the President of the Republic of Texas.
So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?
NASA in Houston, Texas (we will control the space industry).
We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.
Defense Industry (we have over 65% of it). The term "Don't mess with
Texas," will take on a whole new meaning.
Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need
for the next 300 years. Yankee states? Sorry about that.
Natural Gas - Again we have all we need and it's too bad about those
northern states. John Kerry will figure a way to keep them warm....
Computer Industry - we currently lead the nation in producing computer
chips and communications: Small places like Texas Instruments, Dell
Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD,
Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Semiconductor, Dallas Semiconductor,
Delphi, Nortel, Alcatel, Etc,Etc. The list goes on and on.
Health Centers - We have the largest research centers for Cancer
research,the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world
and other large health planning centers.
We have enough colleges to keep us going: U.T., Texas A&M, Texas Tech,
Rice, SMU, University of Houston, Baylor, UNT, Texas Women's
University, etc. Ivy grows better in the south anyway.
We have a ready supply of workers (just open the border when we need
some more).
We have control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc.
In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and
the Texas Air National Guard. We don't have an army but since
everybody
down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an
army in 24 hours if we need it. If the situation really gets bad, we
can always call Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over
a
couple Texas Rangers.
We are totally self sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs and vegetable
produce and everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they
taste good.
Don't need any food.
This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of
Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and
don't have.
Now to the rest of the United States under President Kerry: Since you
won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President
Kerry will be able to drive around in his 9 mile per gallon SUV. The
rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.
You won't have any TV as the space center in Houston will cut off your
communications. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes but
since Mr. Kerry has predicted global warming, you will not need the
gas.
Signed, The People in Texas
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:D
:rofl
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They would probably spend all their money on wars.
:D
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:rofl :rofl :rofl
Im In
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Let John Kerry become President of the United States (all 49
Bet it would only take one resolution at the UN and they would be in like stink on ####.
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You guys are on to something there Wolf, I'm with ya!
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#2: George W. Bush becomes the President of the Republic of Texas.
Sorry, you must be BORN in Texas to be eligible to hold the highest office in the land. Transplanted Yankees are strictly forbidden!
From whitehouse.gov:
President Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut
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Well, how 'bout Woody Harrelson then? ;)
Better yet, Willie Nelson.
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RGR that.
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Originally posted by rpm371
Yankees are strictly forbidden!
Good point... If Arnold can't be President of the US, can Bush Jr. be President of Texas?
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I thought Willie was from Missouri?
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Ann Richards is still around!:aok
(http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/governors/modern/richards-p01.jpg)
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"we might just take matters into our own hands."
If current efforts to give Texas back to Mexico fail I'll be behind your pseudo-self determination efforts 100%!
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I work with a guy who swears some day he's gonna get the "call"
I ask him about it and he said one day Texas will call all of her residents back to the great state to defend her from her enemy's and successfully succeed from the Union. He's not all that crazy But I got a kick out of it
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If Texas could do it I would move there in a heartbeat.
lazs
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Cool, Texas, a catchment basin for rednecks. :aok
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Originally posted by lazs2
If Texas could do it I would move there in a heartbeat.
lazs
You really need to go ahead and move on over heah brother Lazs :).
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so duedel... you know a lot about rednecks? got a lot of ther in your neck of the woods?
mark... I am sure you are right.. seems like nevada is still pretty free too tho as is most of Arizona and NM.
lazs
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Good, they will borrow money from the remaining states and put themselves in major debt, then we can make millions off the interest. Go Texas!
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Intel does not make any chips in Texas... and they never will.
MiniD
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How about Colorado and Texas join together, we could just annex a small portion of Oklahoma and hell all of New Mexico and be connected. THe benefits to having Colorado wouuld be infinite.
- Great fly fishing
- Great Skiing
- Control NORAD
- Awesome big game hunting
- Many very nice Military bases
- Bodhi lives in Colorado
- Great beers from New Belgium Brewery (Fat Tire)
New Mexico provides us with other great military bases and Area 51, we can finally find out if the alien crap is true or not!
;)
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Originally posted by Mini D
Intel does not make any chips in Texas... and they never will.
MiniD
They sure do in Colorado SPrings....
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Dumbarse texans...
:p
DoctorYo
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At least we can count and vote correctly DYo (correctly, in the context of we can pick the person we mean to pick from the list...it does not mean the person we are voting for is correct, by any stretch of the imagination). :D
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My impression of Texans comes from John Wayne films, J.R. Ewing, and "Cheaters". :p
Their battle cry wouldn't be "Remember The Alamo!". It would be "What the $%&*^ is going on here?! Get that $%&*#@ camera out of my face, you #$#@*& !"
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The voting debacle in 2000 was direct result of a cabal and not democracy. It reminded me of south american election/3rd world etc.. Very similair to what were going to experience this election if Diebold has its way.. (ridicule me all you want with tin hat comments human nature is human nature, when power is on the line humans show their true colors; and sometimes things get ugly like what happend with hanging chad)
Hanging chad etc.. was smokescreen for the power play that happened at the supreme court. By the time the dumbocrats realised they were being hoodwinked (stall tactics by Harris) it was too late to challenge. (smart play on the Bushco. credit where credit was due no denial on their sound tactics)
Hanging chad was a display of total and beligerent incompetence that it had to be engineered, theres some dumb mofo's out there but 90% of the chad checkers were either clueless, not educated or both..
doesn't matter if you Republican, Democrat, green, liberal whatever.. Democracy took a big blow that day.. My biggest problem was how servicemans votes were lost etc...these people risk there life and then screw them out of their vote while they are on the other side of the world wtf... Felon list manipulation and other foolishness (polls refusing votes) that was going on was another strike.. Nixon style politics doesn't work in todays day and age of the internet and information.
Its just to easy to fact check stuff now at least people in the know... if your reading this your at least semi in the know.
The people of Florida can vote just fine, its the keymasters who should be ridculed and belittled. They were catalyst for the hanging chad fiasco.
I do give you a A+ for effort though Skuzzy.
Trust me you dont want hanging chad in your state. Its a mockery of Democracy...
2 cents
DoctorYO
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Originally posted by lazs2
If Texas could do it I would move there in a heartbeat.
lazs
ditto
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Originally posted by rpm371
Sorry, you must be BORN in Texas to be eligible to hold the highest office in the land. Transplanted Yankees are strictly forbidden!
The only other President of the Republic of Texas was Sam Houston, born in Virginia on March 2, 1793
He wern't no Yankee but he wern't no native born Texican either.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Texican
lol, I just get the image of Don King using that word with some of the others he has used.
"That incrediboulious texican has won my unifyingious vote"
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
The only other President of the Republic of Texas was Sam Houston, born in Virginia on March 2, 1793
He wern't no Yankee but he wern't no native born Texican either.
You need to brush up on Texas History:
David Burnet (Ad Interim Government) (March 1836-October 1836)
Sam Houston (1st Administration)(October 1836-December 1838)
Mirabeau Lamar (December 1838-December 1841)
Sam Houston (2nd Administration)(December 1841-December 1844)
Anson Jones (December 1844-February 1846)
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My apologies... only 5 years of the just less than 10 years of the Republic's independance was led by Houston, but that doesn't mean he was born in Texas.
I don't think you should count before the victory at San Jacinto, and even if you do, Burnet was born in New Jersey.
Just as an aside, Lamar was born in Georgia, and Anson Jones was born in Massachusetts.
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Originally posted by rpm371
Ann Richards is still around!:aok
(http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/governors/modern/richards-p01.jpg)
Dude, her tongue is pierced!
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That woman is scary....
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Originally posted by Bodhi
They sure do in Colorado SPrings....
No processors in Colorado Springs, just flash and support chips. And not very many of them in the grand scheme of things.
MiniD
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California is in the best position to go it alone.
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Ah well,..Motorola will be thrilled.
Uh,..doesn't California depend on power from outside the state?
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Calif depends on all the other states to keep from falling into the ocean.:(
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Uh,..doesn't California depend on power from outside the state?
Don't be fooled, their agriculture and hitech economy is pretty good. They are the movie capital of the world, and they are well educated. They would own major ports connecting to the east. California has alot going for it.
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Dunt take offense Sixp. I was asking more of a question than anything else. Texas is self-sufficient in power, which is a basic requirement for most countries.
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Dunt take offense Sixp. I was asking more of a question than anything else. Texas is self-sufficient in power, which is a basic requirement for most countries.
No offense here, i'm on right coast, just an observation. If they budget correctly, they could do the same. I envy them more than anything, not their political climate, but everything else.
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Originally posted by Sixpence
California is in the best position to go it alone.
They have been for years anyway. I say...Let it FLOAT OFF THE Continent and GO AWAY. That would relieve the Butt of the nation...
Then Florida fall off and that would relieve the Pee Pee of the nation....
Texas could be it's own Country..(Which those of us that were lucky enuff to be born in "GODS COUNTRY" feel it is anyway).
Separate from Canada and ALL would be right. Loose ohhhh...lets see...R.I. & Mass. and ohhh what a wonderful world it would be. :lol :lol :rofl :rofl :lol :lol :rofl :rofl
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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Texas is self-sufficient in power, which is a basic requirement for most countries.
Serious question because I don't know: Is the US?
btw....
Originally posted by Skuzzy
At least we can count and vote correctly DYo (correctly, in the context of we can pick the person we mean to pick from the list...it does not mean the person we are voting for is correct, by any stretch of the imagination).
I KNEW it! Skuzzy is one of them pinko Librahl scum sucking tree hugging bastiges!
BAN HIM!
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Originally posted by Bodhi
How about Colorado and Texas join together, we could just annex a small portion of Oklahoma and hell all of New Mexico and be connected.
snip
Actually the original Republic of Texas included part of Colorado and most of New Mexico.
Check it out (http://arms2armor.com/maps/1845tex.htm)
culero (ya'll are welcome in ;) )
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If I'm not mistaken, I think Mexico has already taken control of New Mexico. It's going to be a fight for Texans to take it back. If I'm not too old, on that day, I'll come and help.
In any event, 'Good Luck'.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
My apologies... only 5 years of the just less than 10 years of the Republic's independance was led by Houston, but that doesn't mean he was born in Texas.
I don't think you should count before the victory at San Jacinto, and even if you do, Burnet was born in New Jersey.
Just as an aside, Lamar was born in Georgia, and Anson Jones was born in Massachusetts.
We've had a Constitutional Convention since then.:p
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Well from what I understand Intel in AZ makes lots of chips.
If Texas secedes, I sure hope the annex AZ. Plenty of migrant workers here. Lots of guns and ammo for a militia, and a big hole in the ground in northern AZ to throw all the unwanted people/stuff in.
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Originally posted by Mini D
No processors in Colorado Springs, just flash and support chips. And not very many of them in the grand scheme of things.
MiniD
I guess the newspaper ad saying the plant expansion so they coul build processors was a lie then...
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Originally posted by culero
Actually the original Republic of Texas included part of Colorado and most of New Mexico.
Check it out (http://arms2armor.com/maps/1845tex.htm)
culero (ya'll are welcome in ;) )
Well then, lets start drawing up the succesion papers now!
:D
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Yeah man gotta have Colorado!
otherwise where would all the Texans break there legs skiing LOL.
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Originally posted by rpm371
Ann Richards is still around!:aok
(http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/governors/modern/richards-p01.jpg)
That scooter is on display at DPS HQ along with a couple of other old police bikes, I go check them out everytime I'm there.
I bet you could rally the RoT guys, seems they've been planning this for years....
RoT (http://www.republic-of-texas.net/index2.shtml)
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Originally posted by RedTop
They have been for years anyway. I say...Let it FLOAT OFF THE Continent and GO AWAY. That would relieve the Butt of the nation...
Then Florida fall off and that would relieve the Pee Pee of the nation....
Texas could be it's own Country..(Which those of us that were lucky enuff to be born in "GODS COUNTRY" feel it is anyway).
Separate from Canada and ALL would be right. Loose ohhhh...lets see...R.I. & Mass. and ohhh what a wonderful world it would be. :lol :lol :rofl :rofl :lol :lol :rofl :rofl
I always thought that florida was the front legs and Texas was the pee pee. If we annexed Mexico it would be a great big pee pee. kind of like my own.
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Originally posted by strk
I always thought that florida was the front legs and Texas was the pee pee. If we annexed Mexico it would be a great big pee pee. kind of like my own.
Whats this "We" stuff...Ya have a mouse in your pocket? PLEASE GOD don't tell me you live in Texas.:eek:
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Originally posted by lazs2
If Texas could do it I would move there in a heartbeat.
lazs
As best as I recall, Texas reserved some rights when it joined the union. I don't think seceding was one of them (might be,) but they have right to break Texas into 7 (think that's right) states.
Since this was before the civil war, I have no idea if those rights still exist. Anyone know?
curly
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Originally posted by AKcurly
As best as I recall, Texas reserved some rights when it joined the union. I don't think seceding was one of them (might be,) but they have right to break Texas into 7 (think that's right) states.
Since this was before the civil war, I have no idea if those rights still exist. Anyone know?
curly
There was some talk of that a few years ago.
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Just The Facts (http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/texas_annexation) we can become 5 states.
Congress approved the annexation on 28 February, 1845. On 29 December, 1845, Texas ceased being an independent nation and now has representation as a state as defined by the U.S. Constitution. Both the Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas and The Ordinance of Annexation contains this language providing the basis for forming up to four additional states from the present Texas:
New States of convenient size not exceeding four in number, in addition to
said State of Texas and having sufficient population, may, hereafter by the
consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall
be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution;
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Originally posted by Otto
If I'm not mistaken, I think Mexico has already taken control of New Mexico. It's going to be a fight for Texans to take it back. If I'm not too old, on that day, I'll come and help.
In any event, 'Good Luck'.
After living in arizona for 6 years I relocated to Texas (sherman). My biggest surprise about the state was when I met a mexican there that talked with a REAL thick suthern drawl. Most hispanics that I knew in arizon spoke both languages and had a bit of an accent. It was a real surpise to me after living in arizona that this guy didnt even know spanish.
Truth be told most Texans (hispanic or otherwise) are VERY proud to be called Texans. That's more than I can say for any other state that I've lived in.
Secondly Intel my not make chips in texas but If you think a puter or calculator or any other appliance that uses an IC can get by on just intel (even though most ICs are manufactured over seas) you are sadly mistaken.
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If chips are all you are worried about, ever hear of Texas Instruments?
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"I have no idea if those rights still exist. Anyone know?"
Individual states rights ceased to exist in April of 1865.
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Originally posted by RedTop
Whats this "We" stuff...Ya have a mouse in your pocket? PLEASE GOD don't tell me you live in Texas.:eek:
You took the "we" to mean Texas? I took it to mean the US (translation - Texas and the 49 other states).
And no Im southern but not Texan. I have never been to Texas but I want to get there some day as I have heard some really good things.
Now lets focus on my pee pee joke - that was damn funny!
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Originally posted by Westy
"I have no idea if those rights still exist. Anyone know?"
Individual states rights ceased to exist in April of 1865.
I heard something about this too although not sure that it is still true but that Texas could divide itself into 4 states, and I think California could also iirc
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Now this is funny... You all hate California nanny politics (and rightly so) but....
some of you will still vote to Kalifforicate your own states and federal government by voting for democrats.. And then you will wonder why you are standing outside of your own home wearing an helmet to smoke and hoping a gang of "undocumented immigarants" don't beat your defenseless bellybutton to a pulp.
lazs
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Man I wish Canada had a Texas. All we got is Saskatchewan....
Cheers
Jeebuz
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I wonder if New Mexico and Oklahoma are going to complain about the annexation? Ohh, and I came up with a new name already:
Texarado
Long live the republic!!!