Posted on 10/21/2012 12:24:02 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
On Sunday The HoustonChronicle,which in 2008 broke a 44 year tradition of backing Republicans and endorsed Barack Obama, endorsed Mitt Romneyfor President in 2012:
>>>Like so many others,we were captivated by the Illinois senator's soaring rhetoric and energized by his promise to move American politics beyond partisan gridlock and into an era of hope and change.
It hasn't happened. Four years later,PresidentObama's deeds have failed to match his words,much less his specific vows to cut the national debt by half and bring the nation's unemployment rate to 6 percent. As Texans,it is a particular vexation that this president's attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on contempt,particularly in decisions relating to the NASA budget and the energy sector. The hurtful symbol of this attitude of insensitivity to Texans' feelings was the administration's choice to deny Space City's bid to become home to one of the retired space shuttles.
.......In our 2008 endorsement we cautioned the president against demonizing the energy sector-good advice that he has never heeded (see KeystoneXLPipeline). By contrast,Gov.Romney has listed energy atop his five-point plan to rejuvenate the economy.....
The other launch pad ignored by PresidentObama is the literal one-NASA,and specifically the JohnsonSpaceCenter.
It has been an insult to the memory of American heroes like Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride to allow manned spaceflight to languish in the country that put men on the moon. The notion of paying $50 million a seat to Russia for commercial taxi service to the International Space Station is galling.
Obama has failed to articulate a bold vision of his own for the agency. That failure forsakes a legacy of scientific achievement that has showered benefits on the nation. This approach to NASA has abandoned the American imperative of lighting out for the territory and exploring new worlds. NASA's legacy must be reclaimed....
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Houston is flat maybe that’s why it’s considered ugly. But we have magnificent oaks and huge pine trees , more before last years drought but we still have plenty. We have beautiful neighborhoods and tacky ones, old and new. It has been a long time since I have been to LA so I guess I shouldn’t comment. People always talk about Houston’s long hot humid summers (yes) but never mention our cool (sometimes)dry fall, winters and early springs. Oh well, we really don’t need anymore transplants, so let them think what they will.
No kidding. How stupid do you have to be to believe the Punk from Kenya. He had ZERO history of doing anything his “Soaring Retoric” promised. What idiots!
He talked to his grandchildren a lot about the “old Texians”.
“Just got back from a business trip to Houston. No offense, Houstonites, but what an armpit! It has all the traffic of Los Angeles with none of the attractiveness.”
Count me as offended. Also, it is properly Houstonian.
>>Count me as offended. Also, it is properly Houstonian.<<
I am sorry on many levels.
Out of two of them at least: Wayne (and Richard Boone, I think) used it in The Alamo and later on in True Grit, Wayne addressing Glen Campbell's character. Unless it was an ad-lib by Wayne, the term will have been used in the original novel, too. I'm sure it was heard from time to time in the 19th century.
There was a movie called The Texican in 1966 (Audie Murphy, Broderick Crawford).
Urban Dictionary:
A Texican is person of european decent in Texas. [Originally, an English-speaking colonist, = "Texian".] A Tejano is a person of hispanic decent in Texas.
But modern Tejanos also use the word "Texican" about themselves as well. So you can call them "Mexicans", "chicanos", "Texicans", and "Tejanos".
What I want to know is what all these true-blue Texafarians are going to do about those New Mexico fellers, Raul Grijalva and them no doubt, sending over Zozobra to burn up Big Tex?
Good, I'm glad to see somebody is trying to do the right thing. Give that man a bigger office. More staff cars. More lawywers and paralegals. He works.
Now pretty soon we'll have to decide whether Greg A. will be the next Goobernor, or if he'd do more good as Lite Governor, or maybe U.S. Senator replacing John Cornyn, who could be worse but cannot brag that he has sued Barky's ass off 24 times!!
That is a pretty powerful brag.
Hell, we took in their trash form Katrina, and raised our declining crime rate 25%.. They are still here collecting subsidies and buying flat screen TV’s for their subsidized vacant homes that good people lost to OBSama’s unrecovery..
I do bet that is horrid...it was humid enough in September.
No offense, Houstonites, but what an armpit!”
Don’t blame the true Texans. Did you notice all the out-of-state license plates? And they have a gay Democrat mayor to boot who has Quanelle X as her mouthpiece. Add Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee and the fact that Houston is a very large sanctuary city into this mix and it is truly a mess.
One of the reason for all the traffic coming into the city in the morning and leaving in the afternoon is because so many of us moved to the suburbs to get away from all of this.
Yeah, how embarassing to have backed a non-citizen, muslim, half white and half black, communist leaning "organizer" and arrogant as mussolini way back when.
Too little too late, jackasses.
FMCDH(BITS)
Hmmmm! 8^D Well! Let's put it this way .....
Imagine a Texas person with a big purse and a big gun and a big, big car or pickemup truck: dualies, gooseneck trailer hitch, running boards, side pipes, pass-thru back window with a pair of halogen work lamps on the roof, cargo-net tailgate and bedcover, front bumper-bar with winch, six KC Daylighter HID drivers on the pusher bar and roof bar, V-10 with blower -- you know, just a little old West Texas truck for weekends (the kind the Ohio cops want to slap "APPORTIONED" license plates on); and imagine further that this person straps out at about 6' 5" and 255, bench-presses 400 on a slow day, wears Noconas and Western-cut shirts and (he or she, now!) wears big big big big BIG hair, like Molly Ivins and Cybil Shepherd and Jackie O. stacked on top of Loretta Lynn and Ann Richards and Trish Yearwood and Bonnie Raitt and the entire Judd fambly.
Like that. Only we won't be talking about the guns.
Nope, can’t imagine it!
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