Ooh I'm shakin' in my birkenstocks.

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"Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and behold I guard it until it is ablaze."
Gospel of Thomas

Look limpnode, my original post said "respect and/or fear". One thing's for sure, I'm not afraid of wimpy ducks.

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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ---P. J. O'Rourke

If that's the reason, you should be more afraid of Wyoming. We're not even in the top half of "gun owners" based on per capita.

Gun Ownership by State (washingtonpost.com)

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

Them toting guns isn't going to make me fear them. And it certainly isn't going to make me respect them.

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"Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and behold I guard it until it is ablaze."
Gospel of Thomas

You specifically responded to the question "Why should we fear the Texans" with that answer.

Perhaps if you'd actually bother reading what you write?

Naaaaaa......

You should be, pretty boy! I could give you a nasty little scratch with this thing, lol.

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

Is Perry running on a seccession platform?

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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
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I don't think he'll go that far, he just mentions it every now and then to get his cheerleaders fired up. We love our state, but most of us not enough to get shot.

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

Well, I wanted to start a thread about Texas Politics, guess I got hijacked. The comments are interesting and funny. I actually live in a suburb, rather diverse I might add, and I can't remember the last time I saw someone carrying a firearm. I do own a shotgun (in spite of false reports liberals do hunt) and a rifle my father brought back from WW2.

The talk about seccession is just BS, Perry trying to fire up his base. I know Cari lives here, but the point was to discuss the next governor. I guess that's boring. I will say that Texas may in fact turn blue. It will be an interesting political season in Texas in 2010.

There's just not too much going on right now, I think when KBH leaves her Senate seat to spend all her time campaigning, that's when it'll really start. It kinda depends what happens with Medina. If she can make a strong showing, KBH will definitely be the nominee.

I'm not sure KBH has it in the bag if she gets the nod, I think it's still too early, but we won't have to wait much longer.

Sorry to hijack your thread.

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Democrats are sexy. Who ever heard of a nice piece of elephant?

Whenever someone says "I'm not book smart, but I'm street smart", all I hear is "I'm not real smart, but I'm imaginary smart".

Poor choice of words on my behalf. Your comments are interesting and entertaining. What do you think of the Dems? I think it'll be Bill White, a much stronger canidate the Bell was. I could be wrong, but I think the Reps are gonna cut each other to pieces. KBH is at least nominally pro choice, which could be her doom in the primary, but would help her in the general. In the general I think KBH would be close to unbeatable, but Bill White against Perry could turn the state blue. We shall see.

I think it would be very interesting if y'all elected a Democrat governor. It would certainly shake some perceptions!

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"Jesus said: I have cast fire upon the world, and behold I guard it until it is ablaze."
Gospel of Thomas

Why didn't these so called Texans rise up and stop people from abusing eminent domain laws when the Texas Rangers new stadium was being built? Sounds like Texans are a bunch of loud mouth cowards who are only capable of shooting children.

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Is our children learning? -George W. Bush

"I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it's easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?"—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006

"[T]he illiteracy level of our children are appalling."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 23, 2004

Texas monthly magazine is also predicting a nasty race between the two.

Perry lost a lot of fans with his pushing of the Mexico-Canada trans corridor which would reselt in the largest land grab in Texas' history. (After he promised to protect us from eminent domain) Think Texans like their guns and rights? Talk to them about taking their land.
Perry and Bush came out of the same mold, neither are conservatives (IMO) The republican party in Texas is at risk, Kay BH wants to try to dust off the Reagan "big tent" (according to her).
Texas' elected republican "leaders" seem to have absolutely no interest in party building. Once again (IMO) Perry is more interested in the smoke filled room deals, KBH? I haven't her followed her show close enough to make a guesstimate.

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Any chance the dems pick up some seats in the legislature this time around? Or has the gerrymandering of the last few years taken care of that forever?

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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Justice Louis D Brandeis