Posted on 09/12/2004 3:09:07 PM PDT by Mark
Nope- Canoga Bl and Winnetka Av are N/S- same as 405. Ok 101 or 118 fwy- I'll buy that.
Ya'all must be sippen!
You hafta use a straw so they can't spot the can.
O.K. I lived at 20542 Leadwell and I had to get off the 405 somewhere; maybe I had 3 1/2 beers.
101 then Canoga ????
OK, I know the area. Either Victory Bl or Sherman Way would do.. or a taxi so some real 'consumin' can go on.
You take the Slawson cutoff...
(Note to self -- get classic Carson skit DVD)
Got news for ya, buddy. San Antonio is hot and DRY. Houston is the humid one.
Humid? The word fails to even begin to describe the climatological status of Texas. "Moist" would be a better word. "Oozy" would be more accurate. On an average summer afternoon with not a cloud in the sky, Texas has more water floating around in the air than in the Rio Grande. It would rain a lot more often in Texas if the raindrops could just get through all that humidity.
What a feckin' dumbass. Yeah, Texas is the largest state with only one climate.
"Step away from the computer, dear. It's time for your medicine. Make sure that you turn off your oxygen before you take your pills."
"It seems to me though that the immigrants to Texas, even the illegals, do a lot better job of becoming Americans, than those that choose to go to California."
That's because our immigrants want to be TEXANS, and to do that, they know they have to become Americans. Problem is, NOBODY wants to be a Californian. ;)
Actually, Texas was the last state of the confederacy still standing on its own at the end of the war, largely because Texas defended her borders against virtually all yankee invasion attempts. They laid down their arms simply because it wasn't practical to continue the war anymore with all the other southern states and the confederate government having fallen. Considering how badly yankeeland got whupped a year earlier on two different tries to enter Texas, y'all should be thanking us.
My guess is it's something culturally unique about Texas. Practically as long as there's been a settled Texas, there've been both hispanics and whites here. The relationship hasn't always been perfect or flawless, but the two have always managed to coexist.
But..but..but..it could have been worse! I could have turned into a fairy dancing in all of that fog. Gasp! I might even have turned out to be one of those liberal things.
What kind of medicine should I be taking that would conteract years of dancing behind the mosquito fogger truck? There were at least a good dozen children in the neighbourhood who danced with me. Guess what! We're all conservatives!
Unfortunately for this theory, exactly the same is true for CA, where things don't seem to be working as well.
Don't get me wrong - Texas was a frontier too but Texas had several good sized established cities like San Antonio, which was already 120 years old when the texas revolution happened. Also, many of the Mexicans who were here sided with the anglos in the revolution against Santa Ana. Texas' equivalent of a congressman in the Mexican government just prior to the revolution was a hispanic who sided with them. The Republic's first vice president was also mexican.
You are right though - for whatever reason there is nowhere near the animosity here as in California. Another part of it could be that, at least in a formal legal sense, Mexicans in Texas were not historically designated into a class or group of their own like Blacks and Whites and there typically wasn't segregation between the two. The Mexican population here was more or less designated "White" in state records on account of a common European-Western culture. Also more often than not, mexican and anglo kids also attended the same schools together (and they didn't have all that ESL crap either). I know this because it applied to my grandmother who went to public schools here in the 1920's - her maiden name was Chavez but she grew up attending the exact same schools as kids of English decent and speaking English as her first and only language. Also practically everybody of Mexican decent who was born up until about 30-35 years ago STILL has white on their Texas drivers licenses, and I suspect some even more recent than that.
My uneducated guess is that the Mexicans in California think the Cali's are wierd and don't want to integrate with them. I wouldn't either.
Well, I am presently in CA, and I agree there are a rather large number of odd people here. I saw a very nice Lexus the other day with 29 anti-Bush stickers on it.
(It was parked, so it went over and counted.)
Wish I could be there on Nov. 3 as the moron tries feverishly and futilely to scrape them all off, trying to salvage some re-sale value.
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