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Remember the Alamo? It's Under Siege Again -- This Time From Within
Wall Street Journal ^
| 8-20-09
| BEN CASSELMAN
Posted on 08/20/2009 12:47:13 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax
T.... director David Stewart, who resigned in May after seven years on the job. "It's a real trip to work for 6,700 women," Mr. Stewart said. Ya think?? I'd have gone out in the parking lot and opened a vein.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:11:37 PM PDT
by
tx_eggman
(Clinton was our first black President ... Obama is our first French President.)
To: dmz
OK, we now officially know:
B-Chanz is a guy.
dmz is a gal.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:12:42 PM PDT
by
Brookhaven
(http://theconservativehand.blogspot.com/)
To: oh8eleven
You can tell from the website that there is not much to see inside the place. A drive-by w/pictures was sufficiant for us.
To: oh8eleven
While I can appreciate what happened at the Alamo historically, I was less than impressed on my visit there last year.I'm a Texan, and I have been a couple of times. I'm always impressed because its...The Alamo.
Well, mainly just the chapel. I suppose it might be more impressive if all the stuff inside was removed, and the gun platforms with some non-firing cannon were re-installed, to give a feel of what it was like in 1836. The gift shop could be in a separate building.
Also, I recommend going to see the IMAX film Alamo: the Price of Freedom and then walking over to see the Alamo itself. Also, it might be more impressive to visit John Wayne's set in Brackettville, where you can see a full-scale version of the fort.
To: Sudetenland
I’ve seen the same territorial bragging rights in women’s car clubs and in roller derby leagues. It isn’t uncommon to see them drum out the founders.
But in this instance, there is only one Alamo (they can’t leave to go establish a new organization).
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:19:38 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Barry Falsewitness is proud of his "healthy skepticism" of organized religion. He's a deceiver.)
To: Sudetenland
I’m grateful for these organizations. Time was that San Antonio thought about tearing it down.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:21:12 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Barry Falsewitness is proud of his "healthy skepticism" of organized religion. He's a deceiver.)
To: bgill
Sad thing is, the guy they decided on swore he wasn’t a slave and wasn’t black.Gee. If he'd been a slave and black, he'd be the only fellow I've ever heard of who'd be eligible for reparations.
Still alive today?
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:23:35 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(American)
To: bgill; Revolting cat!
>>I was less than impressed on my visit there last year. That's because there's no longer any land around it.
Is there a plaque in the alley across from the Alamo?
IS there even still an alley across from the Alamo?
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:23:43 PM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Barry Falsewitness is proud of his "healthy skepticism" of organized religion. He's a deceiver.)
To: Brookhaven; B-Chan
LOL.
Wrongo, Brookhaven. Don’t know about b-chan, though.
I had some freepmail exchange with b-chan a few months ago and I seem to remember she being a her.
I do remember clearly that he/she took me school for questioning his/her tagline. I still have the welt (and deservedly so for being snarky without an ounce of knowledge on the topic).
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:24:56 PM PDT
by
dmz
To: B-Chan
No doubt when I read that it was being run by 7000 big haired, blue haired, Texas women I blanched at the thought.
Train wreck about to happen.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:24:58 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
To: kingattax
I wonder which group Abuela Castillo belongs to?
The old timers I’ll bet
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:25:16 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
To: B-Chan
This is what happens when theres no men around.
If it wasn't for the Ladies, the Alamo and Mount Vernon (George Washington's estate in Virginia) would have ceased to exist a long, long time ago.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:25:18 PM PDT
by
khnyny
("Giving government money and power is like giving car keys and whiskey to a teenage boy")
To: dmz
Men gave us the Alamo and men gave us Texas.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:26:23 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: a fool in paradise
Oh I'm greatful, just glad I ain't involved and genetically prohibited from being so.
I just enjoy watching..../breaking out the popcorn
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:28:07 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Without God there is no freedom, for what rights man can give, he can take away.)
To: Ole Okie
No. There was some hoopla back when he was alive, not today.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:28:17 PM PDT
by
bgill
(The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
To: ansel12
I gather that tongue in cheek comments on a Texas/Alamo thread are entirely unwelcome.
All of those men you speak of were born to women. That ought to count for something, eh?
And if men gave us the Alamo and Texas, then why in God’s name are all those men allowing a bunch of women to run the damn place in the first place?
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:29:31 PM PDT
by
dmz
To: dmz
I still don’t get your point, what is it?
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:33:17 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: kingattax
The DRT is doing a fine job. Bowman is off the reservation and should be launched out of the organization.
The Alamo is not physically impressive as it was a small fortified church out in the middle of nowhere, but the story is compelling and is truly memorable. Texans, especially men, talk in hushed tones when going through the ruins and it is rare to see one with the their cowboy hat on their head.
When the SHTF, the Alamo is, for Texans, “The Gathering Place” and will always remain so.
Remember the Alamo.
To: rightly_dividing
You can tell from the website that there is not much to see inside the place.
Picture taking wasn't even allowed inside even thought there really wasn't much to take pictures of.
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:52:14 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: kingattax; Fiddlstix; Squantos; Clinger; GeronL; Billie; Slyfox; San Jacinto; SpookBrat; ...
** Remember the Alamo!! **
- - - -
To my Texas list:
Ping! Ping! Ping!
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posted on
08/20/2009 1:55:37 PM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(2008: The year the Media died. --Sean Hannity, regarding Barack HUSSEIN ObaMao's treatment ...)
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