Tag: Texas
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Don’t mess with Texas. They’re perfectly capable of messing things up for themselves.
I’ve noticed that Republicans, who seem to live primarily in southern latitudes, are happy to dish out criticism of us “libtards”, you know, those of us in blue states. They don’t get much bluer than where I live in Massachusetts. Yes, here the property taxes are high. Our $559,000 house was recently reassessed and our…
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We will all be paying for Harvey (or the cost of laissez-fare)
Did government fail the people of Houston? Or did Texans get the second-class government they voted for? Or was Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey truly a “no one could have predicted” event, beyond reasonable mitigation by government? “Don’t mess with Texas” I hear from my Texan friends and it is something they are passionate about. They like…
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Texans needs an intervention, not an invasion
“Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” “A Republic, if you can keep it.” Response by Dr. Benjamin Franklin to an onlooker after the close of the 1787 constitutional convention In case you missed the news, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered the Texas State Guard to monitor the activities of the…
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The good life on the 30th floor
Someone must have mistaken me for someone important. I am thirty floors up, living in this enormous hotel suite (which I calculate must at least be a thousand square feet) looking down on the breadth of San Antonio, Texas. To be specific, I am in the Marriott Rivercenter hotel. Perhaps my Marriott Silver Elite status…
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The shadows of racism
If you had to pick one word almost guaranteed to raise people’s dander here in the United States, I would pick “reparations”. Almost everyone acknowledges that bad and misguided policies in our past caused the oppression, enslavement, relocation if not deaths of millions of Native and African Americans. However, almost every white person today feels…
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