[Nita Nupress]

Another e-mail I just received from a fellow 5^th-generation family member:

 

This may seem slightly like bragging, but you can talk the talk if you can walk the walk!

Time to Secede!
Republic of Texas


#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: 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 centers for Cancer research, the best burn centers, and the top trauma units in the world along with 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 of 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.

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 of Texas

 

[Dales]

Nice Bum there.

[Deek]

Bump for my home town of Cisco, TX! Thanks Bum...we don't get much attention since ol' Conrad Hilton closed his hotel.

[daybreakcoming]

I was at the San Jacinto Monument last week on a field trip where children were taught the history and I felt the Texas Independence spirit alive and well in that sacred field.

I've been all over the country and Bum was right about the state flag - you don't see others fly like the Texas flag.

[cspackler]

Nolan Ryan, Bum Phillips and Earl Campbell. My top three Texans anyway.

[Liberty Valance]

Thank you for posting this. We try not to brag about Texas but as time goes on it gets harder not to. The history of this state and the great people in it make me proud and ever so grateful to live here. I do miss seeing Bum on the sidelines with his flat-top and a line around his head where his cowboy hat has left a permanent impression.

Best regards from Kerrville Texas,
Liberty

[Pippin]

And when y'all do this can I immigrate to Texas?

[Feckless]

The U.S. flag was the only one I saw in Desert Storm more often than the Texas flag. I flew one on the radio antenna of my GMC and it might have kept me from getting lit up a time or two by friendly fire. Just lucky there's not too many Sooner or Coonass A10 jockeys :->

[weegee]

(Houston) Texas PING.

[Nita Nupress]

<< Another e-mail I just received from a fellow 5th-generation family member: >>

Oops. Make that a "fellow 5th-generation Texan family member." But you probably knew that already.

[N8VTXNinWV]

Ping.... from a "Cowtown Gal!"

[Nita Nupress]

For a Conservative, Life is Sweet in Sugar Land, Tex. (Free Republic mentioned)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124475/posts

[A Texan]

God did truly bless Texas. There is no finer state, and no finer people.

[Texagirl4W]

Thought you might enjoy this. Happy Monday.

[Dog Gone]

Great Texas read!

[flying Elvis]

It was written by Bob Wheeler, not Bum Phillips.

[msdrby]

ping

[centexan]

Where else can you fly the Alamo flag for 13 days during the anniversary of the siege and have your neighbors know what it means? (Well, except for one silly Yankee who wondered why I was flying a Mexican flag in my front yard)

[B.O. Plenty]

Yea....right on.....It's Time to Part Company....I wanted Texas to be it

Look at my profile....it has not changed since I joined FR. I was not born in Texas, but I have lived here since nineteen ought and fifty eight....so that makes me a Texan...I didn't "come" to Texas from somewhere else, I came home where I ought to have been born. My children and grandchildren are all native Texans...born in Austin and Dallas.....

I actually have said the same things about Texas that Bum said...specifically about people of other countries knowing exactly where Texas is....everyone in the World knows where TEXAS is....no doubts or ignorance of geography.

[mtbopfuyn]

Anywhere you go in the world, the people inevitably be friendly when they hear you're from TEXAS. It's God's Country! I'm lookin' out right now at the river lined with big ol' pecan trees and fields of wildflowers, with birds singing, the ocassional bellow of a cow, and a green lizard crawling a post.

A decendant of Austin's and DeWitt's colonies, Gonzales, Bexar, and San Jacinto.

[NTegraT]

"It starts with The Window at Big Bend, which in and of itself is proof of God. It goes to Lake Sam Rayburn where my Granddad taught me more about life than fishin, and enough about fishin to last a lifetime. I can talk about Tyler, and Longview, and Odessa and Cisco, and Abilene and Poteet and every place in between. Every little part of Texas feels special. Every person who ever flew over the Lone Star thinks of Bandera or Victoria or Manor or wherever they call "home" as the best little part of the best state. "

I'm proud to say that not only do I know where these places are but I've been to each one of them.