Texas spawned the Bush Family, but I won't hold it against all of the rest of the residents. Hope y'all make it through okay.

I've become so blase about this whole hurricane season that I've actually felt a little left out. Last year, the hurricanes were old hat by November. Mother Nature is probably now going to strike me down. Rita has that otherworldly "eh, whatever" feeling to me. Strange. Media overkill, I think, with Katrina. It was like that here last year. They overstimulate the public with images, pleas, and tears to the point that I end up feeling desensitized. Happened with the tsunami and The War On Terror, too. I end up feeling bad or concerned for awhile and then irritated when all of my senses are bombarded by reports of the "horrors" and "devastation". It's too much sometimes.

Hey, Clavus? Don't mess with Florida!
/throws an orange and a seagull, missing dreadfully ;)

Isn't the Bush family from Connecticut?

I was just going to say that. People from Lon Guyland were legendary in their obnoxiousness at my college. I lost track of the number of times one was invited to return there, since it was so *ing great.

Okay, spawned the political career of the Bush family. :D

You are correct, sir. Connecticut spawned Prescott Bush (who was grandaddy Bush, King George I's daddy, and served side by side with Kennedy).

And it wasn't until King George (papa) Bush lost against Lloyd Bentson that Bush moved his politics to Texas.

An interesting point of debate is that although Prescott and JFK served together, when you do a search of both nothing comes up. Which is weird because while political opposites they were close friends from what I have read.

Theres no problem in showing pride in your state and your friends....yea, I was a little more worried abut the people in Lousiana than Texas, because I just came back from working over there....don't hear any of the rest of you owning up to that..

We went to support the workers who are taking care of business...the the roofers, chainsaw crews, food distribustion, police, fire, rescue, and national guard. We cooked and fed 900 in a 3 day period, otherwise they had to fix their own meals ..my heart went out to these people...they were from all over the U.S.A. and they worked as a team in extreme heat and hunidity. ...men and women-- those girls watch over this old man like they were my daughters...I love them all....

The devistation was enormous...the stench was terrible...it really farked up the taste of our fajitas at times....

when we were ready to leave we got thanks from all the way up to the mayor and head of FEMA food distribution......

why do we in TEXAS hold our heads up just a little higher-----

we earned that privilage..

PS___we are going back in two weeks...VG

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I suspect Clavus' apathy has as much to do with media hyperbole than his negative experiences with Texas. There's something galling about grimmly serious reporters in full wetsuits standing in bucolic sunny Texas streets.

you do realize that bush 41 and 43 are both YALE alums, bush 41 spent most of his time away from the White House in Kennybunkport, ME, and that just because someone owns land in Texas and spends a bit of time on a ranch here does not make them a Texan, right? :p


As for the Don't Mess With Texas campaign, I'd like everyone to know that it is an

INTERNAL ANTI-LITTERING CAMPAIGN

That's it. It's not a fucking "attitude" thing with our state. It's a state-sponsored, indefinitely running campaign to remind people who live or travel here not to fucking litter.



As for pride in our state, it's one of the most endearing things about this state. Too often these days, people in general lose sight of their history, of their origins and their legends. Texas is a big state of big people. But some of the largest people in our history, including Davy Crockett didn't come from our state yet are still revered by our people. Texas history is a small version of American history, where a bunch of stubborn, strong-willed, and disobedient people fought off a much larger army and nation to eke out an existence that was neither easy nor guaranteed.

The bit about the flag flying at the same height being legal is just an urban legend, as there are NO laws concerning ANY flags being flown, but simply published "suggestions" and guidelines of general use. Additionally, Texas forfeitted any right it had to secede by losing the Civil War, as did any other state. At the point we rejoined the Union, we forfeitted any reasonable means short of a test of arms of seceding from the United States of America.