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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 09:13 PM Original message |
America Needs Texas |
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trueblue2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. no we don't. i'm not crazy about Texas |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 09:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. And probably Texas is not too crazy about you. |
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trueblue2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:30 PM Response to Reply #4 |
15. there are NO nuts in my state |
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Hangingon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
35. Too embarrassed to reveal your state? |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 10:30 AM Response to Reply #15 |
36. Oh THAT'S rich! |
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idiotgardener (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 11:09 AM Response to Reply #15 |
40. Bad grammar. |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
34. I hear this all the time..... |
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angel823 (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 10:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
37. well said |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. Is he starting that crap up again? Maybe it never went away? n/t |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. Why do we need them? |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 09:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. It is illegal for 'any' state to secede from the union. The only thing Texas can do legally is .... |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:48 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. I believe that it's just not legal, rather than being illegal |
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DeadEyeDyck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I have been advocating that for years. |
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MannyGoldstein (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:49 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Sounds similar to increasing state's rights. nt |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 08:52 AM Response to Reply #12 |
25. That's an argument for federalism with a strong states rights bent |
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DeadEyeDyck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:36 PM Response to Reply #25 |
44. I guess so but I was putting it on an individual level, |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
6. America needs Taxes, Texas not so much. n/t |
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Glimmer of Hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
7. Austin for sure. |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 10:38 AM Response to Reply #7 |
39. Austin has its problems, too, thanks to people moving there |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
9. I would sort of find it interesting if the empire broke into smaller nations |
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AlanCranston (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. uh oh is this another bash Texas thread |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 12:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
21. no. it's not a bash Texas thread |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 08:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
26. You do realize Texas isn't producing that much oil |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:14 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. good. then that 4 billion in subsidies to the oil industry can go elsewhere |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:17 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Ok, and you can fill your car up with snide condescension instead of gasoline |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:25 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. what - facts bother you so much that you call them snide? |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #33 |
41. You presented Texas as an unneccesary state that merely drills for oil |
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RainDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. LOL. read closelier |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. No, you did compare Texas to Saudi Arabia |
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Redford (96 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 10:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. I Love Texas |
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idiotgardener (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
13. Sorry your thread is being used as yet another place |
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tim_whatley_dentist (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. re |
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Fleshdancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:32 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Thanks! And welcome to DU |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:09 AM Response to Reply #14 |
28. Non-Texans who think America would be better off without Texas are as dumb as Texans who think Texas |
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WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:19 AM Response to Reply #14 |
32. And yet many here seem to think it's a desert with oil wells and nothing more |
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ohnoyoudidnt (250 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
17. What about Alaska? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-02-11 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
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Codeine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
22. Why? |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
23. America doesn't need any one state at all. If any of the 50 were allowed to leave |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 07:55 AM Response to Original message |
24. Excuse me, I'm in Austin. Thank you very much. |
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seabeyond (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:08 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. excuse me? i may not be in austin, but i dont consider myself a halfwit. |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
29. America Needs both Dollars and Taxes |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
38. This can be read a couple of different ways.......... |
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kjackson227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-03-11 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
42. Well, here we go with the flamebait "hate Texas" thread... |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. Goodhair Perry is no longer even in the bottom ten of governors |
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RegieRocker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-05-11 02:27 PM Response to Original message |
46. We don't need Tex Ass |
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