Texas - have you seen this one?

email | 10/14 | anonymous

[servantboy777]

Oh for cryin out loud!

[decal]

Chris Rea - "Texas"

Warm winds blowing
Heating blue sky
And a road that goes forever

Been thinking ’bout it lately
Been watching some tv
Been looking all around me
At what has come to be
Been talking to my neighbour
And he agrees with me
It’s all gone crazy

Well my wife returns from taking
My little girl to school
She’s got beads of perspiration
As she tries to keep her cool
She says that mess it don’t get no better
There’s gonna come a day
Someone’s gonna get killed out there
And I turn to her and say "Texas"
She says what?
I said "Texas"
She says what?
They’ve got big long road out there

Warm winds blowing
Heating blue sky
And a road that goes forever
I’m going to Texas

We got to get out of here
We got to get out of here

Well I got a little brother
Several meters high
Yea his built just like a quarterback
And he swears he’ll testify
He says he’s been to Texas
And that’s the only place to be
Big stakes, big girls, no trouble there
That’s the place for me

I’m going to Texas
I’m going to Texas
Watch me walking
Watch me walking

[groanup]

I hope to hell you have some of that acreage. Nowhere else but Giddings! was my favorite T-shirt back then. That is G-d's country pure and simple. Lake Travis, Lake Summerville, San Antonio, Austin, The Chicken Ranch, good grief what a glorious place. I even spent a few nights in Lukenbach.

[phatoldphart]

Checkout posts 78,91,99

over 30000 at $100 a failed ride

[stopsign]

§ 3100.055. DISPLAY ON FLAGPOLE OR FLAGSTAFF WITH FLAG
OF UNITED STATES. (a) If it is necessary for the state flag and
the flag of the United States to be displayed on the same flagpole
or flagstaff, the United States flag should be above the state flag.
(b) If the state flag and the flag of the United States are
displayed on flagpoles or flagstaffs at the same location:
(1) the flags should be displayed on flagpoles or
flagstaffs of the same height;
(2) the flags should be of approximately equal size;
(3) the flag of the United States should be, from the
perspective of an observer, to the left of the state flag;
(4) the flag of the United States should be hoisted
before the state flag is hoisted; and
(5) the state flag should be lowered before the flag of
the United States is lowered... : ) <<< me

[hispanarepublicana]

"Lukenbach" is German for "drink beer and chill out". Did you know that?
And, "Henry Cisneros" is Spanish for "Bill Clinton."

[basil]

I haven't been able to find the provision that was written when Texas became part of the union, which states that the two flags will fly at the same height--(I'm still looking).

I did find this, though:

(i) No flag or pennant other than the United States flag should be placed above or, if on the same level, to the state flag's right, that is, the observer's left. When the state and United States flags are displayed at the same time, they should be flown on flagpoles of the same height, and the flags should be of approximately equal size.

Here is the link:

Lone Star

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

We have our share of problems, but I've been in every state in the Union save Hawaii and I still like this one best. No other state has people who are as proud of where they're from as we are, why is that?

OH, but thanks for your opinion.

[FreedomCalls]

Well true if'n Texas can meet the Constitutional requirements for doing so....

Well, that just it isn't it? The constitutional requirements are two; one, that Congress consent, two, that the state legislature consent. And that's just the point, Congress has already consented in the admission treaty that Texas can split up into no more than five states. All that is left is for the state legislature to decide if they want to. That makes it a unique situation. Any other state needs to convince Congress of its desires. Texas already has that.

[phatoldphart]

That's cause you were in DALLAS which should be avoided at all costs...

[hispanarepublicana]

Also, the San Jacinto monument is taller than the Washington Monument.

[servantboy777]

Man oh man, glad you kept a movin. Don't need your kind round here.

[Ditter]

My ancestors had a Spanish Land Grant in east Texas. If you look at the land grant map their name was Issack. My ggggrandfather was Elijah Issack (sometimes spelled Issac) A son of Elijah, (not my ancestor) had a land grant on the Brazos River near Richmond. All of my ancestors were in Texas early but this branch was the first. I love Texas!

[phatoldphart]

I didn't know I'm hispanic!

[no dems]

As a fellow Texan, may I say that Bum Phillips is to ignorant to write anything comparable to this.

[Texas2step]

A Maryland flag hangs in the Alamo

As does flags from several other states and countries. Hanging with the flag is a banner with a number. The number represents the number of men from that state or country who died defending the Alamo. The flag with the highest number is Tennessee's with 33, I believe. For Davy Crocket and his volunteers.

[Fiddlstix]

Yep. Love nopalitos. We have them with eggs for breakfast....
Great food......
(I'm also fond of pollo con calavasa)
(Danged yankees don't know "real" food. They think tacos or tamales are all there is. lol)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I almost ate at the Big Texan on my way through your state in July. Unfortunately, it was getting late, and there was a line. I think I'm gonna have to visit that place the next time I'm in Amarillo.

[servantboy777]

Now if I ever had to move away from Texas, I pray to the Lord it would be Montana.

[hispanarepublicana]

Those differing Census surname spellings were usually the result of drunken census takers; or so I've heard.