Texas seceding from the union

[johneeb]

If Texas secedes from the union will Mr. Gahorn have to move to Oklahoma or will we have to find another Maintenance Coordinator?

[4583C]

John
Remember this is The INTERNATIONAL Cessna 170 Association!
Governor Goodhair is merely kissing up to his ultra conservative base as he will probably be facing Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in the next governor's race Just political posturing as usual

[W.J.Langholz]

WHO WOULD TAKE HIM.....................poor George


W.

[AR Dave]

California! They'll take anybody!

[blueldr]

Have you ever been to California? We have what are known as "Agricultural Inspection Stations" at the border crossings from other states. Their principal purpose is to restrict the possible entry of agricultural pests, which I'm led to understand includes "Arkies" and the mediteranean fruit fly.

[AR Dave]

Are you sure California can still afford to operate those Agricultural Inspections Stations?
Heard things havn't exactly been a tea-party, since the bills came due!

[GAHorn]

I'd heard that our leading idiot had made a public statement to the effect that Texas had some sort of "right" to secede....

You'd THINK that the Governor GoodHair would have better sense than to demonstrate his ignorance as an elected official ...to propagate the OLD WIVES TALE that TExas has the "right" to secede or to spit itself into up to Five additional states.

(In fact, it was the ANNEXATION act of the U.S. Congress that included the verbage that provided CONGRESS the power to split Texas up ...NOT a "right" belonging to Texas. Further, Congress ALREADY HAD that power, and still does have that power to divide up ANY state.... as long as that state's legislature agrees.
Also,... The "right" to secede was NEVER authorized to Texas or any other state. You'd think that Governor GoodHair would know that, as if the Civil War hadn't already settled that matter! He's an idiot.)

As for the matter of secession, ... I rather hope he WOULD secede and take all his cronies with him and move to Cuba where his hairdo would fit his personality and his imagination.

[jrenwick]

"Gov. Perry Backs Resolution Affirming Texas’ Sovereignty Under 10th Amendment"
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12227/
They all look so serious! Political posturing. Ain't it great!!!!

[blueldr]

AR Dave,
You're asolutely right. The "Bug Station" just west of Truckee, CA, has not been manned for the last few years because, I'm told, of budget constraints.
This past year they built a NEW facility just east of Truckee that looks like it cost well over a million bucks. I have no idea if it is manned or not. The appearance alone is enough to discourage any med flies, and maybe even Arkies.

[cessna170bdriver]

The Vegetable Confiscation Station on I-40 just west of Needles was still in operation as of our trip home from Branson last summer.

I don't think California has a good handle on where its money is going, or where it comes from. I flew down to Kernville with a buddy to go fishing today, and he was telling me that some outfit with a name like the Society for California Biodiversity (or somesuch) has been successful in preventing California rivers from being restocked with rainbow trout because they are diluting the gene pool of the "native" fish. Even though is now illegal to restock the rivers, and the hatcheries are shut down, they are still manned and not a single layoff has occurred. Also, fishing licenses (which fund the fisheries) are still being sold. There is supposedly a move on boycott buying fishing licenses.

Miles

[HA]

I think it's funny, this movement by state legislatures to declare their "rights" vs. the federal gov't lately. maybe it's a right in some feverish imaginative interpretations of the constitution etc but the reason the US is what we are is the ability to stick together, how is Yugoslavia doing nowadays since it's spit up into about 10 countries the size of my in-laws farm as a for instance. and look at how Quebec holds the rest of Canada hostage while being despised for it.

the ND House passed a similar "right of the state" resolution a couple weeks ago, which seemed particulary suicidal in light of all the federal $$ flowing in along with the flowing waters here currently - Nat. Guard help, FEMA, Corps of Engineers, you name it. talk about cutting your nose off to spite your face.

there is a right way and a wrong way to go about changing the current state-federal relationship and I think they have the wrong idea at this time. although since these things would be unenforceable perhaps it's just a way to raise a ruckus and get the dialogue moving. sure looks stoopid on the face of it though, I'd pick a different way to do it and not lose face myself.

[GAHorn]

This recent "outcry" against the federal gov't by "states rights" advocates would be a lot more convincing if they'd decry the use of federal dollars. I don't mean federal-spending. I mean federal "dollars". Let those kooks come up with their own state-currency and try to run an economy with that stuff and see how long they last without "federal assistance". Talk about a recession! (not secession)

The annexation of Texas was a foregone conclusion, despite the antics of misfits like Crockett, Bowie, and Travis (all of whom had abandoned their families and country and fled to Texas to escape responsibilities. Crockett was an ineffective loudmouth and a virtual outcast in congress, Bowie was wanted for land-deed forgery and slavery-violations in Arkansas, and Travis abandoned his wife and child in New Orleans and ran away with a slave. It was more than "heroism" that led them to hole-up in that suicidal act in Bexar (the Alamo).... their lives were already ruined and they had very little else to look forward to.) The "Republic of Texas" was a vast unsettled area of only about 40 thousand subsistence-farmers who had no monetary system, no banks, no economy, no school system, no roads except of mud and even those created by animals and indians, other than the two dirt roads created by Mexico/Spain, no bridges ...no industry even... other than cotton which they used in a "barter" system ...and even then they ran a huge trade-deficit with the United States. (In fact, even then they relied on U.S. dollars. Texas had a $5M national debt that was even calculated in U.S. dollars because it had no real currency of it's own. It's lands in NM, OK, CO, and WY were traded to pay-off that debt, and those ARE the other 4-states that were eventually created by the annexation of Texas, so any Texas talk of further dividing itself is nothing more than Texan rodomontade. They had a Comanche-problem with no standing army, a neighboring Mexico problem with no ratified peace-treaty, and they were standing in the way (from the Gulf to Wyoming) of a huge jugernaut headed West known as ......The United States.

"There is no North, no South, no East, nor West. There is only this one great undivided nation, the United States of America." - Sam Watkins, author and former confederate soldier

[AR Dave]

AR Dave,
The appearance alone is enough to discourage any mediteranean fruit flies, and maybe even Arkies.

I seriously doubt California has any mediteranean fruit flies or Arkies trying to get into that state! However, I would not be suprised to learn that those stations are manned, with camera's, in order to catch residents from trying to buy gasoline in other states. I heard that's the reason you're tax on a gal of gas is going from .60 to .70 cents.

[blueldr]

Beats the hell out of me, Dave. I'm mostly riding a Vespa Motor Scooter that gets about 70 MPG. Beats the hell out of my Ford Explorer at 18 MPG. I'm also saving about 10 minutes on the 40 mile trip home from the airport by lane splitting at the stop signals and getting the jump on the cars when the light changes. My Vespa GT 200L will do about 75 MPH, but it's more comfortable at about 60 to 65. There seems to be damn few automobiles that will out excellerate it from a standing start.
When you're getting 70 MPG, you're not so concerned about the fuel price, It takes about 2.5 Gallons to fill it up. Premium fuel is running about $2.60 per gallon here now. The Vespa Gran Turismo Liquid Colled, 200cc, OHC engine, seems to prefer premium fuel. To be perfectly honest, the damn thing will go like a striped assed ape!
All you guys that have been on safari in Africa and have hunted apes know that the ones with a striped ass are the fastest of all.

[pojawis]

"There is no North, no South, no East, nor West. There is only this one great undivided nation, the United States of America." - Sam Watkins, author and former confederate soldier

Unless I misunderstand (and I frequently do), this reminds me of the cosmopolite of whom O. Henry wrote...