[treawittelf]

Doc, they won't believe it until we're gone. It's really kind of funny.

[vTLWqa1l]

WHOA!! Plot thickens!!

Wait, aren't you one of those NWO conspiracy kooks? What do you think of your newfound savior's being a Bilderberger?

[RerRoktoido]

It's a thing among the Texas citizens as a whole. Lee didn't want to secede, but he did.
Many didn't but they did. This time, should it come to pass, no ties to others.

[Qnnoshxj]

To be honest, if Texas secedes, I think the only thing I'd really miss is Rice University and maybe Texas-style chili. Of course, Rice University is nothing compared to Chicago, and the recipe for Texas-style chili can easily be obtained.

As far as the rights being overturned, didn't that happen largely over the past eight years?

[7HlBQS8j]

It's not idiocy. I mean, I feel the same way if Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nebraska, the Dakotas, and the like, if they seceded. Heck, if Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, or Massachusetts left, I'd feel the same. I'd miss, respectively:

1. Maybe bragging rights for the land area and the Native Arctic Peoples.
2. Uh... potatoes?
3. Uh...
4. Um...
5. Er...
6. My godparents, who are in Tucson. I suppose I'd have to pull out the passport, but secession doesn't mean your internet would be depeered.
7. The Mexican/American fusion food.
8. Corn, I guess?
9. Maybe Mt. Rushmore, but I've never been all that interested in it.
10. Er...
11. Lobsters, maybe?
12. Huh... I guess Yale...
13. Mmm..
14. Harvard and MIT, I suppose. But academic institutions still have a tendency to work with each other.

Most of the states in the Union I don't really have strong feelings for. If they don't want to stay, they don't have to. Most of the stuff they have, I'm sure they can be obtained elsewhere. I hate to break it to you, Sloww, that while I may make fun of Texas, I'm really kinda non-commital on the state. I think it's nifty you have more counties than Georgia, and that you have the right to break up into four states, and you've got an interesting history. But, meh... if you feel that strongly about leaving, I'm not really all that interested in having you stay.

Besides, Texas is far too hot and humid for my tastes.

I'm not attached to that number 50. I'm attached to the principles and ideals of the United States, and if you guys aren't, well, I ain't stopping ya. Good luck trying to fashion a workable country quickly, though, when the benefits of scale from being part of a larger nation go away.

On the other hand, if you guys left, I wouldn't have to be reminded of the blight that is Houston.

You're welcome to try to change my mind about Texas. I encourage you to, to make me actually care if you actually do secede, rather than just have this blustering talk?

[hieklyintinee]

Don't even try to throw Houston in my face. They're not my doing.

Fair enough. Well, it could be worse. Houston could be, say, Detroit, Gary, Cleveland, or Washington, D.C.

[NikkitaZ]

But seriously, Sloww. Why should I care if Texas leaves?

[PebydataFeents]

Governor Rick Perry suggested Texans might get 'so fed up' they want to leave the union :yawn:

-Arrian

[gastabegree]

Why the hell would we bother?

-Arrian

[ergyuu]

Texas: Our very own Quebec

[Bgfbukpf]

Whoa, be fair.

Texan cuisine is more compelling than the Quebecois'.

Also, losing Texas wouldn't cleave our country in two.

[Angelinaaiiiiiiiii]

But seriously, Sloww. Why should I care if Texas leaves?

Seriously, I don't care if you care. Ditto for the rest.

[sniskelsowwef]

Maybe that Russian intelligence analyst was right about the US breaking up in the next couple of years.

[vNGiDaFX]

[carreraboyracer]

It's all a bunch of political pandering. The Republicans have proposed no coherent solutions to our problems, all they can do is criticize the Democrats' plans. So Republicans are hopping on the bandwagon with these stupid "tea parties" to rail against government spending...despite the fact that the Republicans doubled the national debt and led the country from a $200bn surplus to deficit spending of $500bn.

This all boils down to

1.) Republican politicians needing some kind of political platform/message to help them get reelected
2.) Republicans sore about losing the presidential election
3.) Nut jobs ("Get yer kids out of college, they're being brainwashed! Burn the books!") and bigots ("Obama's a Muslim! He's black! He's the Antichrist! Socialism!")

[MontyP@thon]

I just call it like it is.

[Xxmlqevq]

I just call it like it is.

Then you need a different prescription, because your vision is flawwed.

[iroxmxinau]

Whoa, be fair.

Texan cuisine is more compelling than the Quebecois'.

Also, losing Texas wouldn't cleave our country in two.

If the other states you mentioned also left, do you really think Kansas and Oklahoma would stick around?

[Sxscdergh]

Governor Rick Perry is facing stiff competition in the next election. Apparently he believes talking treason will help his chances.

It'd be interesting seeing him trying to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. "...one nation [mumble, mumble], with liberty..."

BTW: I'm still waiting to hear one "right" the federal government is trampling on.

[chelviweeme]

Governor Rick Perry is facing stiff competition in the next election. Apparently he believes talking treason will help his chances.

And if it does, what does that say about the Texas GOP.