for you libs....

[Reddawn]

the ultra-right wing secretary here sent out this gem.....prepare for your head to explode

 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:
   
    1: Barack Hussein Obama becomes President of the United States , and Texas immediately secedes from the Union .
   
    2: George W. Bush will become the President of the Republic of Texas .You might not think that he talks too pretty, but we haven't had another terrorist attack, and the economy was fine until the effects of the Democrats lowering the qualifications for home loans came to roost.
   
    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, Nortel, 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 employees 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 women 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. Also, everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food.
   
    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.
   
    14. 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 communications.
   
    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

[thrun]

Ah, I saw a good one about four years ago where 'dem libs were talking about succession.  It was about as intelligent as this one.

 I don't see why everyone is in such a big hurry, if the economy colapses we'll get a civil war soon enough. 

[Redbear8]

I really miss living in Texas. I need to move back.

[Reddawn]

I went to Texas once for a Vikings pre-season game in Dallas. It was 400 degrees for real. Inside the stadium it was 135. Christ when the game was over I was drenched with sweat. It was so hot I swear I thought the pavement was melting.

[Jim Tressel]

Texas is definitely pretty high up on my list of all-time places to hate.  It's nested somewhere around New Orleans, M*ch*g*n, Mississippi, and Phoenix.

[Jim Tressel]

    8. We have enough colleges to keep us getting smarter:

I beg to differ.  So does the rest of the country.  Even people in Kentucky make Texas jokes.  Matthew McConaughey is a limp-dick faggot.

And Texas also has more land than California , New York , New Jersey, Connecticut , Delaware , Hawaii , Massachusetts , Maryland , Rhode Island and Vermont combined.

False.  They're about 10,855 square miles short.  Besides, everything after New York is just filler anyway.  That's like going to a store and buying a million paper clips then going around telling everyone that you're so smart cause you bought a million things for $25.  No, you're not smart, you're just an asshole who now has to figure out what to do with a million paper clips.  I have an idea: choke yourself with them.  Texas is unimaginably wretched. 

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

Wrong again, Corky.  FOUR of the ten largest ports are located in Texas.  Fuck, Texans can't even properly boast about their own state anymore.  There is nothing good in Texas.  Except Draco.  Draco's cool.  Texas is like a sweltering black hole of backwards fucking thinking.  Horrible.

[Snackcakes]

I heart JT

[Redbear8]

I'd like to point out, that I seriously doubt a Texan wrote that. It was written by someone wanting to make Texans look like douches...Or Ohioans as we say in Texas.

[Unnormal]

LOL if Texas secedes I'm so moving there. Granted they would not be my idea of the perfect free society but they would be closer than the rest of this country.

[Snackcakes]

rando you are from alabama, stop pretending

[thrun]

LOL if Texas secedes I'm so moving there. Granted they would not be my idea of the perfect free society but they would be closer than the rest of this country.

Texas has sodomy laws on the books up until 2003.  I hardly call that a fee state.  If I can't rail my girlfriend in the ass while huffing amyl nitrate I don't want to live.

[thrun]

And since this is bound to turn in to a socialism flame war anyways.

[Hottihealer]

 please
that is one of the stupidest things iv ever read.


O and me likes me some Texas. great state with some of the most liberal laws
iv ever seen.

[ch0wdah]

Yes, because the nation's aerospace industry is all in Houston.  Nothing was ever designed in Huntsville, Alabama.  The Rocket City.  Or tested at Stennis in Mississippi.  Or actually launched from Florida or Califrornia.  OK, obligatory space program rant.  Pretty silly.  How did things go the last time Texas tried secession?

[Hottihealer]

hehe yea my wife quit 2 years ago after 20 at J.P.L. "jet propulsion laboratory" in Pasadena Calif.  she last worked on the spritzer project
and the Mars missions before that.  that is just one of the many things incorrect about that statement. If they became a sovereign nation
there would be no space program there. all state budgets need Government funding. Not being part of the U.S. would mean no tax dollars .
thus no support. they would lose all the support of the military. the powers that be controll the oil, not Texas. the intire thing is a joke.

there was talk a few years ago about California breaking away......... yea wright, we are dead broke and take in more tax money from
real estate and business then most.  the average cost of highway construction is about $1,000.000 per mile. i believe the dependence is
built in to keep the states in-line.   N.A.F.T.A. would just ban any product from Texas being imported into the U.S. and c-ya Texas.

Bla Bla Bla could go on for ever.



J.P.L. is a strange setup. it is owned by Caltech. "California Institute Of Technology". but try to get on site and you will see that it is all
government. N.A.S.A. pays for everything and what the government says goes.