"Kiss My Big Blue Butt" blog responds to calls for secession in Texas:

[Are_grits_groceries]

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As you've heard a bunch of very pathetic people went to Austin this weekend to try to get Rick Perry to secede Texas from America.
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I guess they forgot who won the last civil war in America. Hint: it wasn't Texas. I'm just wondering whose blood he talking about. It better not be mine because as a fifth generation Texian who loves her state in spite of the Bushes and Phil Gramm, I ain't cuttin' and runnin' and having to have a passport to go to New Orleans.

Boys, you lost the election for President of the Unites States and you're fixing to lose Texas in the next election. Cowboy up and take like an old bull in a blue norther. We put up with 8 years of you trying to destroy America, but you can't even put up with 8 months of us trying to fix it. What the hell kind of chicken are you?

But where they really got my goat was by claiming that my personal Texas hero - Sam Houston - favored secession.
No.
Wrong.
Go to the back of the class.
Sam was willing to give up his office rather than secede from the Union.
Sam would not have put up with this crapola. Sam would have ridden his horse into the crowd, drunk, and still whipped all of you. He was a better man drunk than these dudes are sober.
http://www.kissmybigbluebutt.com/

Heh!

[Javaman]

1. There was that fool Keyes back in the late 90's that tried this garbage

he got thrown in prison for tax evasion.

I fully expect the same results for these new secessionist nuts.

[TexasProgresive]

2. You just gotta love Susan

Every Texas child has to take Texas history and should know that Sam was against succession. But then 2 of the people that Susan mentioned- Bushes and Gramm are carpetbaggers and not Texan at all.

[Gothmog]

3. Susan is a great lady

I also love Susan

[Initech]

4. Bring it on! We all know how well secession worked the first time!

Hint: the north won!! :popcorn:

[Gregorian]

5. I never thought I'd say this, but LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.

She said exactly what I've been trying to say- We took 8 years of them killing the country, and they can't even take 8 months of us trying to fix it.

Right on.


Something else has been on my mind. Let's say these asshats move to where their values are upheld. Well, those places are the very ones that dropped the towers on that fateful day. I wonder how they'd like living in Saudi Arabia. With all due respect to the Saudis, I should add. :)

[lapfog_1]

6. A modest proposal...

They want to secede... let them. In fact, let the South win the civil war after all.

They can create a new country, The Confederate States of America, and they can have all the land south of 37 degrees north and east of 103 degrees west. Basically a new Mason-Dixon line.

They would get the majority of the following states : Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina. We'd get the rest.

We set up an exchange where (with no tax consequences) anyone living in those states that wants to move to the United States of America can exchange their property with one of similar value in the North with a wing nut that wants to move to the Confederacy. All military assets are to be removed before the new nation is formed, and all nukes are removed (would anyone trust them with nukes?). The new nation has to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and agree to inspections.

A wall will be built to prevent illegal immigrants from wing nut Confederacy from infiltrating the North.

I know that there are liberals that live down there that don't want to move... and I'm sorry. But unless we do this peacefully, there will be a second civil war, only one with no borders between the waring parties, what we will see is more and more Dr. Tillers and people shooting up churches with "Libruls" in them. And attempts made to assassinate our President, and all the rest of it. It's coming, hell, some of it is already here. And it's not going away unless we, the majority, give these assholes power. And I, for one, do not want to do that anymore. We have seen that movie twice now, once with Reagan, and then the sequel with W. and it wasn't good. So this is the only way I can come up with to let both sides "win". Our Senate and Congress and President will be firmly in the hands of moderates and progressives. Health Care reform, campaign finance reform, and corporate reform will be possible without the obstruction of the wing nuts from the South and the repukes they keep electing. They will get to live their Utopian Ayn Rand dream, with a real nation to experiment with. We will have to build a very strong wall, as it is likely that the Confederacy will devolve into Somalia or worse. But hey, if that's what they want, let 'em have it.

Also, as long as we are giving up land, we should let Alaska go it's own way too, but only if they take the kooks and wing nuts from Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Arizona with them. Same deal. The Canadians will hate us for it, because they will have put a lot more troops along the border with Alaska to contain the new threat to their security... but again, I really don't see anyway around it.

I'll miss Florida... and I know that a *lot* of southern DUers will not like this plan. But it's this or let them win or we have a nasty little Suni / Shia war and ethnic cleansing here, something I really don't want to see.

I wish this was all in good fun... but it's not. The 9-12/birther/10th'ers/deathers have made it plain that they intend to escalate this until it turns hot... and they are busy trying to subvert all of our institutions like the police and military to their beliefs, starting with the primary belief that Barack Obama is not the legitimate President of the United States. And that's how civil wars start.

[gordianot]

7. The last time this was tried it did not work out very well, no reason to think it will now.

Be assured the Glen Beck types will not be on the front lines, nor will the phony Texas Ranger Hollywood Karate Killer with his many cells that are supposed to surround us. The most they will muster are a few delusional mental cases who will commit some horrid act in a public place. Stupidity and mental illness are increasingly a part of our political rhetoric and is being accepted by media and some so called mainstream politicians. The American educational system has obviously failed many of those who talk in terms of armed conflict, succession, and an armed Revolution.

I will stand my ground with the Union.

[justabob]

8. LOL, well said!

Thanks for posting that.