What Do You Think of Texas?

Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 9 months ago to News
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the future of divisiveness needs to change, does it not?
What Do You Think? -- j
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In previous summers, there were a few more options. Retiring in place is looking better all the time.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I hear you JB.

    If your thinking on it is similar to mine, the entire list of options contracts year by year.
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  • Posted by Technocracy 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    In re your first question. I would not oppose that fantasy, although fantasy is all it is. Humanity is too fractious to have a one world government along those lines.
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  • Posted by Lucky 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I should have included in my previous post-
    One Nation, one People, one Führer!

    For those who prefer to argue other than by poetry, MM's post has an interesting idea- one world government, so does not deserve a downvote.
    The idea needs discussing, we are heading that way. My view is it is bad and must be stopped.
    Competing is an obvious measure to ensure performance and integrity. I am ok with coordination and cooperation but not merging. A better example for one world government would be Switzerland, the 'exception that proves the rule'.

    Rhetorical technique- to ask if there is an objection to 'that'. The 'that' is framed to be unobjectionable, but it cannot exist. Power always expands, the justifications follow.
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  • Posted by Casebier 8 years, 9 months ago
    I think there is little hope to change divisiveness. If one millionth of one percent of our population is mentally unbalanced and angry enough to commit mass murder, whether it's innocent law enforcement or innocent people attending church or innocent children in school, it all gets the same wall to wall coverage in electronic media and brought into every household as if it happened in their neighborhood. Sick people have always been with us, and as long as we're free, always will be. But now their actions are magnified with $millions in media coverage and analysis, all searching for every act's national or global meaning. And from those spotlights come actors from every facet of the political spectrum who live to draw to themselves followers and paying supporters. Whether that's Black Lives Matter complaining of Black injustice or the Tea Party complaining of tax injustice, or Jesse Jackson or Rush Limbaugh, or Barack Obama or Ted Cruz, their opposing rhetoric divides us and these horrific incidents only serve to feed the beast that they dine on.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Abstinence does not cause pregnancies. "Abstinence only" sex education does, by keeping teens from finding out about, and getting, birth control.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Legalities? With the looters in the Dark Center and the Empire State? imo, legal only matters if you have a bigger gun than they do. Then they try to use the banksters to $%^& you. What matters to me is whether they want to force me work for them as a slave. I conclude that they do and I do not consent. I secede. Secession is like revolution. Its legal when it is successful.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    True I was on a tanker ship that called regularly and can steer the Texas Chicken with the best of them. Ok that's one reason. Any others? Highest murder rate in the nation too.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I will argue that Houston's usefulness is as the epicenter of the petroleum refining and petrochemicals industries.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I lived in a golf course community on the SW side of Houston for 3 months in 1976 and loved it, after having lived over in Beaumont for 9 years. Beaumont is a great place for an oil person like me, but a beautiful mountain it is not. We were at 25 feet above sea level, and my most vivid memory was canoeing down the street in 1973.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey how come I didn't get a down vote? Texas has a lot of good things. Selena, A whole city size population of great musicians and singers, and armadillo recipies.

    I read somewhere a foreign visitor asked the difference between Texas Barbecue and Southern barbecue.

    We of course answered: 'One is good and the other is burnt. Kind of like the difference in your part of the world between Cafe Turkos and Cafe Greco.'

    'But there is no difference between Turkish and Greek Coffee!'

    'Exactly one is good the other is from Texas.'

    One of the best I ever was a Burnt Ends Barbecue. It came from right ont he border with Louisiana.


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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I wouldn't choose Houston based on having been there. There is nothing about Houston that is useful and that's the ground truth.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Just consider the source. If it starts with Guardian it has a high probability of being made up. Same with NY Times and Washington Post. They hire reporters and propagandists not journalists.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well then let's discuss legalities and legalities. When the Lone Star Republic joined the union the agree ment was they could union application secede or divide into multiple states. They no longere have that right.

    First the seceded and were the only one of the Civil War States that had the right to do so.

    But then they joined the CSA and participated in a war against the USA. Of all those states they were brought into the union as a defeated foreign aggressor and then given standard Statehood. So the notion of secede at will is a dream long over since 1865.

    However...like any State they can ask to become multiple States. certainly qualify in terms of population, land area, and economic ability. Other areas are Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the panhandle of Florida and the State of Jefferson. Southern from Northern California with real northern meaning above Sacramento and San Francisco. This revives the State of Jefferson Plan with Southern Oregon south of the Willamette Valley.

    Would they want to do that? Who knows that's their business.

    That is perfectly legal or was under the Constitution. Who knows with this batch and their endless wars. We may end up welcoming Baja/Sonora into the USSA but then I would move again.
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  • Posted by blackswan 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If abstinence was the cause of out-of-control births, the population explosion would have taken place centuries ago. What has actually caused the out-of-control birthrate is the incentives that have been put in place to reward such behavior. Put your logic cap on when you're posting, please.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 9 months ago
    I like the idea that Texans seem to be more independent and actually do have a desire to seceed from the US (which I think would be a good idea).

    However, secession would be met with Obama sending in the army to stop the process, just as in the civil war years ago. The economy would have to collapse much more before the federal government wouldnt be able to really stop states from leaving the union.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, I defintely have an objection to that, Mike. The only rational possibility of having government that stays subservient to the people is to have competition. Competing governments are the hope for progress. Given human nature, a single world government will be a disaster. No one can be trusted with that power.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 9 months ago
    I think it is very unfortunate this event reinvigorated the gun control campaign rather than deinvigorating the ridiculous BLM campaign.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 9 months ago
    BLM is a paid for unit of the nations undoing...no amount of truth or history is gona change that right now...Maybe, just maybe, we might do some good if Everyone knew that all this chaos is what the mindless parasites in DC and the worlds kakistocracies want...they are just pushing our buttons continually...think maybe it might stop or at least some of it, if it was know that their behavior was engineered on purpose.
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    Posted by $ MikeMarotta 8 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you do not have one government, then you have "competing governments" i.e., a state of perpetual civil war. A single, global government, along the lines of the United States but improved, would be one of limited powers, dependent on the powers granted to it by the people it rules, but, again, always limited by the recognition of inalienable, natural rights.

    Do you have an objection to that?
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 9 months ago
    I like some things about Texas; its willingness to uphold capitalism, its right-to-work, right-to-carry, and stand-your-ground laws, its good roads, and that Houston has no zoning.

    I don't like its over-use of the death penalty, its Border Patrol checkpoints, its ongoing punitive fines for those who've had traffic tickets years ago, its abortion restrictions, or its "abstinence only" sex education (which causes higher teen pregnancy rates).

    In sum, the negatives slightly outweigh the positives if I were to move there. But if unemployment here gets much worse I'd consider it.
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