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Messing with Texas (What liberals don't like about Texas is their inability to transform it)
National Review ^ | 07/27/2012 | Windsor Mann

Posted on 07/27/2012 9:13:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 07/27/2012 9:13:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Who’s kidding who?

Texas is crawling with illegal aliens.


2 posted on 07/27/2012 9:21:31 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: SeekAndFind

I have to admit that inspiring such fear and loathing in effete eastern snobs is one of the attractions of Texas.


3 posted on 07/27/2012 9:29:15 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: dragnet2

Comparing the success of Texas to the incompetence of California sure disturbs many leftists, as this article points out.


4 posted on 07/27/2012 9:29:58 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As a native Texan, Gail Collins can go to H#ll - or go back to NY (same thing)
The rest of the country should be damn glad Texans still hold the pioneer spirit and will fight for liberty instead of rolling over like a wimp.

Take Texas out of the US economy — US falls in a New York minute.


5 posted on 07/27/2012 9:31:09 AM PDT by patriotsoul
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To: SeekAndFind

“.....Texas is “frequently somewhat lunatic,”.....

Yeah, that’s us. Still crazy after all these years. We like it that way. If’n you don’t, well there are 56 other states you can choose from.


6 posted on 07/27/2012 9:32:20 AM PDT by Donkey Odious (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: patriotsoul

I had to chuckle - as I read her list of the eeeeevils of Texas, I was saying to myself, “Yup. Yup. Ahhh, yup. So what’s the problem?”

Ain’t nothin’ like a drive in the Hill Country or the taste of a peach on the courthouse square in Hondo.


7 posted on 07/27/2012 9:38:14 AM PDT by jagusafr
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To: SeekAndFind

She should go hang out in Austin. She would feel right at home.


8 posted on 07/27/2012 9:48:17 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

Actually, Texas is turning pink as more and more Liberals move there.


9 posted on 07/27/2012 9:49:45 AM PDT by pabianice
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TEXAS! It’s more than a state. It’s a state of mind!


10 posted on 07/27/2012 9:58:19 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Texas has been my home all my life..I went away for a few years but not to settle in another state or country..I lived in both but I can tell you when it was time to come home i was ready..It wasn’t because i hated the other places I lived I rather enjoyed them..New culture the people were so kind but I have never ever felt at home like I do here..You see we don’t nottolerate liars and criminals..Oh we have thoes here too but they are all democrats or criminals that vote democrat..We are a God loving state..and intend to keep it that way..

If you don’t ike us you don’t have to visit here or live here..As a matter a fact we would even help you pack and send you on your way..Stay in your sewer infested holes and don’t try to change us..Thanks and remember “Don’t Mess With Texas”


11 posted on 07/27/2012 9:59:27 AM PDT by PLD
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To: SeekAndFind

As someone native to the dark and fascist Peoples Republik of Neu Jersey, who got to Texas as soon as he could (11 1/2 years ago), all I can say to those that don’t like how Texas governs itself is, “phuk y’all!”

I am glad that I finally have representation, unlike in Jersey.

I’m glad that I don’t run the risk of being in jail for at least 200 years simply for owning some metal boxes that house springs that some idiots in state government have deemed to be “too big” (firearms magazines of greater than 15 rounds, for those of you unfamiliar with the NJ ban).

I’m glad that as long as I’m a law-abiding ciitzen who’s taken a qualification test that I can carry a firearm for self-protection and protection of my family (and, yes, even into movie houses - they DARE not post such signs here, or they’ll be out of business).

I’m glad that there’s no state income tax.

I’m glad that we have 70, 75 and 80 MPH speed limits - that the cops don’t enforce, since they have the common sense to only bother people that are a danger to others.

I’m glad that we can frack for oil, because its providing tens of thousands of jobs, and billions in tax revenue to the state.

I’m glad that my state has a law against eminent domain takings for private purposes which are masquerading as being “in the public interest.”

I’m glad that most people here are church-going (even though I’m Jewish), because it means that we are by and large a more moral and decent place, and that people here are FAR more friendly than in the lieberal cesspools of the northeast, Shitcago and the Left(ist) coast.

I’m glad that most people here are conservative, because it means that we are by and large a more moral and decent place (this and the previous item are closely correlated).

I’m glad that we drive the lieberals crazy - it means that we must be doing a whole lot of things just the right way.

Once again, phuk y’all.


12 posted on 07/27/2012 10:00:05 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (Bibi to Odumbo: Its not going to happen.)
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Texas has been my home all my life..I went away for a few years but not to settle in another state or country..I lived in both but I can tell you when it was time to come home i was ready..It wasn't because i hated the other places I lived I rather enjoyed them..New culture the people were so kind but I have never ever felt at home like I do here..You see we don't not tolerate liars and criminals..Oh we have those here too but they are all democrats or criminals that vote democrat..We are a God loving state..and intend to keep it that way..

If you don't like us you don't have to visit here or live here..As a matter a fact we would even help you pack and send you on your way..Stay in your sewer infested holes and don't try to change us..Thanks and remember “Don't Mess With Texas”

13 posted on 07/27/2012 10:01:58 AM PDT by PLD
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To: dragnet2

100% correct. Demographics will do the libs’ work for them within a generation or two. I don’t understand why people refuse to see that Texas is in the process of being californicated.


14 posted on 07/27/2012 10:05:38 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: SeekAndFind
Liberals eat, dream and preach diversity and sensitivity.

The only things they can't stand are people who don't think like them, don't act like them and don't vote like them.


15 posted on 07/27/2012 10:13:11 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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To: Trod Upon

There is no question that immigration is killing America, but Texas and California are both big border states with a history of immigration and illegals.

California is a failure because it’s people were never truly conservative, they were always mushy moderates and not very religious, Texans are deeply conservative, and very much deep, even Evangelical Christian.

Texans are much more capable and willing to solve problems than Californians are, (or were).


16 posted on 07/27/2012 10:26:40 AM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors,,, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: dragnet2
Who’s kidding who?

Texas is crawling with illegal aliens.

Indeed demographics are transforming TX.

17 posted on 07/27/2012 10:30:53 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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“To be sure, Texas politicians can be unhinged at times. In 2003, Representative Debbie Riddle of Houston asked, “Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education, free medical care, free whatever? It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell.” Such talk is not only uncivil and theologically unsound but also factually inaccurate. The idea of free education, after all, came from Leningrad, not Moscow.”

I love that line, this is what makes me laugh at New Yorkers when they make statements like this.

Yes This repressive idea that everything must be provided at Tax-payer experience came from Russia.


18 posted on 07/27/2012 10:41:45 AM PDT by Monorprise
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To: pabianice

You are very correct...Dallas is now more liberal than Austin


19 posted on 07/27/2012 10:50:41 AM PDT by call meVeronica
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To: Trod Upon
I am a Native Texan and I live in Austin. I have lived in other places in the country but always couldn't wait to get home. Just this morning I noticed in my neighborhood that at least 30% or more cars are from another state and I should add another country as there were 2 from Mexico. California, Minnesota, Oregon, Michigan, Louisiana just to name a few. We have so many Arabs that the public school is hiring or thinking about hiring Arab teachers and we are so full of Mexicans that they pretty much run the Austin School district. Forgive me for feeling so hopeless but I think it won't be long before even Texas is lost. Pains me but reality hurts.
20 posted on 07/27/2012 10:52:11 AM PDT by NativeTxn
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