Happy Dominion Day!

[notyoueither]

Actually, I think canada is very beautiful.
If canadians are held to example by the people here at site, then I will never have respect for canada.
Their snooty, above all others attitude is what I hate the most.
This is the first I have posted anything negative about canada.
How many canadians can say the same to Texas or the USA?
You are internet imbassadors to your country.
Is this what canadians are all like?

Your avatar gives me an urge to club my monitor.

[flipside]

1982! Can you believe that? Practically yesterday. We told those British popinjays to take a hike over 200 years before those lazy Canucks got around to it.

eh?

Texas was Spanish and Mexican before getting their indepence , failing at it and begging to join the U.S in 1845 wasn't it?

[Docfeelgood]

How about a funny one?

Sell it to America
An American is having his (coffee, croissants, bread, butter and jam) when a Canadian man, chewing gum, sits down next to him.
The American ignores the Canadian who, nevertheless, starts a conversation.
Canadian: "You American folk eat the whole bread?"
American (in a bad mood): "Of course."
Canadian: (after blowing a huge bubble)"We don't. In Canada, we only eat what's inside. The crusts we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to America." The Canadian has a smirk on his face.
The American listens in silence.
The Canadian persists: "Do you eat jelly with the bread??"
American: "Of Course."
Canadian: (cracking his gum between his teeth and chuckling)."We don't. In Canada we eat fresh fruit for breakfast, then we put all the peels, seeds,and left overs in containers, recycle them, transform them into jam and sell the jam to America."
The American then asks: "Do you have sex in Canada?"
Canadian: "Why of course we do", the Canadian says with a big smirk.
American: "And what do you do with the condoms once you've used them?"
Canadian: "We throw them away, of course."
American: "We don't. In America, we put them in a container,recycle them, melt them down into chewing gum and sell them to Canada."

[Docfeelgood]

eh?

Texas was Spanish and Mexican before getting their indepence , failing at it and begging to join the U.S in 1845 wasn't it?

(Please note that Texas is the only state with a legal right
to secede from the Union . (Reference the Texas-American
Annexation Treaty of 1848.)


We Texans love y'all, but we'll probably have to
take action since Barack Obama won the election. We'll
miss you too.

Here is what can happen:

Barack Hussein Obama became President of the United
States, and Texas can secede from the Union .


So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?

1. NASA is just south of Houston , Texas . We will control
the space industry.

2. We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States .

3. Defense Industry--we have over 65% of it.

The term "Don't mess with Texas ," will take
on a whole new meaning.

4. Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of
Texas will need for the next 300 years. What will the other
states do? Gee, we don't know. Why not ask Obama?

5. Natural Gas - again we have all we need and it' s too
bad about those Northern States. John Kerry and Al Gore
will have to figure out a way to keep them warm....

6. Computer Industry - we lead the nation in producing
computer chips and communications equipment -small companies like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Miconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Norte l, Alcatel, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.

7. Medical Care - We have the research centers for cancer
research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in
the world, as well as other large health centers. The
Houston Medical Center alone employs over 65,000 people.

8. We have enough colleges to keep us getting smarter:
University of Texas , Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Texas
Christian, Rice, SMU, University of Dallas , University of
Houston , Baylor, UNT ( University of North Texas ), Texas
Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the South anyway.

9. We have an intelligent and energetic work force, and it
isn't restricted by a bunch of unions. Here in Texas ,
it's a Right to Work State and, therefore, it's
every man and woman for themselves. We just go out and get the job done. And if we don't like the way one company
operates, we get a job somewhere else.

10. We have essential control of the paper, plastics, and
insurance industries, etc.

11. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas
National Guard, the Texas Air National Guard, and several
military bases. We don't have an Army, but since
everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of
ammo, we can raise an Army in 24 hours if we need one. If
the situation really gets bad, we can always call the
Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over the
Texas Rangers..

12. We are totally self-sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs,
and several types of grain, fruit and vegetables, and
let's not forget seafood from the Gulf.


13. Three of the ten largest cities in the United States ,
and twenty-three of the 100 largest cities in the United
States , are located in Texas. And Texas also has more
land than California, New York , New Jersey , Connecticut ,
Delaware , Hawaii , Massachusetts , Maryland , Rhode Island
and Vermont combined.

1 4. Trade: Three of the ten largest ports in the United
States are located in Texas .

15. We also manufacture cars down here, but we don't
need to. You see, nothing rusts in Texas , so our vehicles
stay beautiful and run well for decades.

This just names a few of the items that will keep the
Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing
out there that we need and don't have..

Now to the rest of the United States under President Obama:

Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your
cars, only President Obama will be able to drive around in
his big 9 mpg SUV. The rest of the United States will have
to walk or ride bikes.

You won't have any TV as the Space Center in Houston
will cut off satellite communic ations.

You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes, but
since Mr. Obama has predicted global warming, you will not
need the gas as long as you survive the 2000 years it will
take to get enough heat from Global Warming.

So, in other words, go screw yourselves.
Oh, that's right. You already have!

Signed, The People of Texas
P.S. This is not a threatening letter - just a note to give
you something to think about!

SLEEP WELL TONIGHT... THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU!!
One Nation Under God

''Life's tough......it's even tougher if
you're stupid.'' -- John Wayne
God Bless & Keep You !

[Dinner]

(Please note that Texas is the only state with a legal right
to secede from the Union . (Reference the Texas-American
Annexation Treaty of 1848.)

No it is not. That's just an old wives' tale that Texans tell each other and your governor got laughed at and proven wrong when he recently made this claim during one of those stupid tea party whining sessions.

[Asher]

No it is not. That's just an old wives' tale that Texans tell each other and your governor got laughed at and proven wrong when he recently made this claim during one of those stupid tea party whining sessions.

I didn't use to think Texans were stupid, just that they didn't know anything about the world outside of Texas.

Now I find out they know nothing about Texas as well.

There's no other excuses...

[Ben Kenobi]

No it is not. That's just an old wives' tale that Texans tell each other and your governor got laughed at and proven wrong when he recently made this claim during one of those stupid tea party whining sessions.

And you came up with that one yourself? Brilliant.

[Asher]

It happens to be true.

[Docfeelgood]

Neither the Texas Constitution, nor the Constitution of the united States, explicitly or implicitly disallows the secession of Texas (or any other "free and independent State") from the United States. Joining the "Union" was ever and always voluntary, rendering voluntary withdrawal an equally lawful and viable option (regardless of what any self-appointed academic, media, or government "experts"—including Abraham Lincoln himself—may have ever said).

Both the original (1836) and the current (1876) Texas Constitutions also state that "All political power is inherent in the people ... they have at all times the inalienable right to alter their government in such manner as they might think proper."

[SlowwHand]

See?

[Asher]

There's a reason he didn't cite which website that came from. It's from a looney site.

Here's a real one:

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/04/17/texas-secession-perry-one-third-of-texans-are-wrong-texas-cant-secede.html

As if their current governor and his predecessor have not done enough damage to Texans' reputation for Constitutional acuity, nearly 1 in 3 Texas voters think that their state has the legal right to secede from the Union, according to a new Rasmussen Poll.

Umm, no.

On the bright side (such as it is), only 1 in 5 Texas voters would actually like to break off from the Union. Fully three quarters of Texas voters are content to remain part of these United States. Gee, thanks.

This discussion was sparked by Texas Gov. Rick Perry's assertion that Texas has the unique right to secede from the U.S. of A. (Side question: Why the quiescence of the hyper-patriotic right? Why are they not demanding that Perry love this country or leave it—and reminding him he can't take his state with him?)

It is of course an old urban legend that since Texas entered the Union as a sovereign Republic, it has reserved the right to reclaim its old status. Horse-hockey.

Two points to consider. First, there's this brief history of the Lone Star State's 1845 entry into the Union, emphasis added:

When all attempts to arrive at a formal annexation treaty failed, the United States Congress passed—after much debate and only a simple majority—a Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas to the United States. Under these terms, Texas would keep both its public lands and its public debt, it would have the power to divide into four additional states "of convenient size" in the future if it so desired, and it would deliver all military, postal, and customs facilities and authority to the United States government. (Neither this joint resolution or the ordinance passed by the Republic of Texas ' Annexation Convention gave Texas the right to secede.)

That paragraph comes from what I can only assume to be an authoritative source on the matter: the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. (Tip of my cowboy hat to an old college pal—from Texas—who posted the link on Facebook.)

Second point: We fought a war over this. Lots of Americans died. The secessionists lost—including the ones in Texas. Secession is no more legal now than it was then.

And while talking about secession undoubtedly plays well among the 3 in 10 Texas voters ill-informed enough to think it's a serious political statement, it also makes the rest of the country (and likely the rest of the state) roll our eyes in bewilderment at the Lone Star Clown.

[Docfeelgood]

it is a secret only us Texans know about

[Docfeelgood]

Canadian Senators Behaving Badly

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=979_1246589750

lol!!!!

[Ben Kenobi]

So as far as I can see, your source is an argument from silence, arguing that because secession wasn't explicitly spelled out that secession was prohibited?

As for the argument in 1865, Texas has a unique status, along with the other 13, and Hawaii having been an independent entity prior to the union of the states. Texas alone, along with Hawaii has the status of being independent all together, wrt to foreign affairs.

Their treaty does not rule out secession, and what's more, confirms that the deal between the 13, is not the same as with Texas. Ruling out that the 13 have no right to secede, does nothing for Texas.

[Asher]

You're a complete idiot. Complete.