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Title: On politics Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 29, 2012, 10:36:57 am Seriously, how many of y'all are like me and are more patriotic towards TEXAS than America?
I guess it's not right, but I am always annoyed when I see the American flag above Lone Star when on different poles. I didn't serve in the military for a multitude of reasons but not the least of which was the fact that you can't serve in and for your own state. I ain't leaving the place I love to fight for the freedoms of people I don't like in some third world god forsaken hell hole like new York Florida or California!!! How bout it y'all!?!? Who's the proudest Texan? Anybody out there got the "Remember the Alamo" tattooed on your butt? How bout the Astros logo tatted to your neck? Title: Re: On politics Post by: RL on March 29, 2012, 10:45:39 am How is a baseball team tattoo indicative of pride in the state of Texas? Don't they have a city as a part of their name. Teams can and do move to other states.
I found your comment about the military offensive. My son is in the Army. 2 tours in Iraq. Headed to A'ghan next year. He proudly serves his country. He does NOT choose where he serves. He follows orders. Maybe you were trying to be humorous ... but I didn't read it that way. BTW, would not serving in the Texas Nat'l Guard, under the direction of the Texas Governor, be a way to serve your own state? Title: Re: On politics Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 29, 2012, 10:54:51 am I'm playing and having fun, you seem to enjoy being offended to which I say, "blow it out of your butt"
This is intended to be a fun thread, you ruined my fun on my Obama picture and I'm quickly growing tired of you. Title: Re: On politics Post by: J5 on March 29, 2012, 11:07:05 am Get em T-Bob!
Title: Re: On politics Post by: RyanTBH on March 29, 2012, 11:20:29 am Hook 'em!!! LOL! ;D Do you think that the current economy and government are the reason you are so patriotic towards Texas? For me personally it is both. Texas is home, and home is where the heart is!
Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 11:23:18 am RL, i served in the texas army national guard. where on the uniform does it say tx other than the unit patch? the branch tag says US ARMY, not TX ARMY. I feel that everybody ought to serve a minimum of 3yrs in the armed services unless medical conditions prevent it, but this is a country of freedoms, freedom to choose not to join the armed services. i spent 2 tours in iraq, 1 tour in bosnia, 1 tour on the tx mexico border for border security. I have not seen where the tx governor ask for the tx guard to be called upon except when the shuttle colombia went down or a natural disaster such as hurricane katrina, but the shuttle was a joint op with state and federal agencies. the boder security was ordered by the federal government.
T-Bob, you had your reasons not to join. i have no disrespect or look down on you for not doing it, as long as you dont think you are better than a soldier, which i know you dont do. i feel the same way about tx and wish tx would drop all ties with the united states if this country is gonna continue to go down the crapper. why should the feds drag our state down with them. i do see RL's point of view as to what does a sports tat have to do with tx pride, it just means you have pride for that paticular sports team. what about the houston oilers? they are now the texans or something like that. i dont follow sports so i cant give you their names. the tx flag should fly equally as high as the american flag, since we won our independence and joined the union later, not bought from another country to expand to lands of the U.S. but on the note, the original 13 colonies/states should be allowed to fly higher than the us flag since they laid the foundation for independence. if we had a worth while governor, we need to susceed from the united states and be our own country, which we can support ourselves with access to international shipping via international water national pipleines and intrastate/interstate highways, where we can levee import export taxes and toll usage for our roads and have a surrounding states recipricating statute of commerce. Title: Re: On politics Post by: RyanTBH on March 29, 2012, 11:28:12 am RL, i served in the texas army national guard. where on the uniform does it say tx other than the unit patch? the branch tag says US ARMY, not TX ARMY. I feel that everybody ought to serve a minimum of 3yrs in the armed services unless medical conditions prevent it, but this is a country of freedoms, freedom to choose not to join the armed services. i spent 2 tours in iraq, 1 tour in bosnia, 1 tour on the tx mexico border for border security. I have not seen where the tx governor ask for the tx guard to be called upon except when the shuttle colombia went down or a natural disaster such as hurricane katrina, but the shuttle was a joint op with state and federal agencies. the boder security was ordered by the federal government. You haven't thought about this at all have you Charles...? LOL! ;)T-Bob, you had your reasons not to join. i have no disrespect or look down on you for not doing it, as long as you dont think you are better than a soldier, which i know you dont do. i feel the same way about tx and wish tx would drop all ties with the united states if this country is gonna continue to go down the crapper. why should the feds drag our state down with them. i do see RL's point of view as to what does a sports tat have to do with tx pride, it just means you have pride for that paticular sports team. what about the houston oilers? they are now the texans or something like that. i dont follow sports so i cant give you their names. the tx flag should fly equally as high as the american flag, since we won our independence and joined the union later, not bought from another country to expand to lands of the U.S. but on the note, the original 13 colonies/states should be allowed to fly higher than the us flag since they laid the foundation for independence. if we had a worth while governor, we need to susceed from the united states and be our own country, which we can support ourselves with access to international shipping via international water national pipleines and intrastate/interstate highways, where we can levee import export taxes and toll usage for our roads and have a surrounding states recipricating statute of commerce. Title: Re: On politics Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 29, 2012, 11:30:25 am Naw money got nothin to do with it. Just Texas Proud! I've been working all over America recently and I started telling my boss the pay scale begins to trend upwards at the borders of the lone star state. The only trip ive had out of Texas that I really enjoyed was in deeeep south Louisiana, and that's just because they fed us like kings.
Oh and the houstonians should get the humor and irony behind the Astros tat. ;) I worked with an illegal once who had Houston's skyline tatted on his neck and the Astros star on his face like Tyson and a full sleeve the said " HOUSTONE" I told him he spelled it wrong we both laughed and he's still a friend to this day. Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 11:35:31 am You haven't thought about this at all have you Charles...? LOL! ;)
[/quote] HUHHHH ??? are you asking me as a joke or saying that my thoughts are out in left field? im not disrespecting you, just dont understand your question Title: Re: On politics Post by: Reuben on March 29, 2012, 11:58:39 am You haven't thought about this at all have you Charles...? LOL! ;) HUHHHH ??? are you asking me as a joke or saying that my thoughts are out in left field? im not disrespecting you, just dont understand your question [/quote] I think he is sayin that you have already been thinking on this subject prior to the posted thread... :) Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 12:00:18 pm i think so too reuben but i wasnt sure. and yes iv thought about it for many yrs and listened to it from my dad for many yrs.
Title: Re: On politics Post by: Reuben on March 29, 2012, 12:09:22 pm Naw money got nothin to do with it. Just Texas Proud! I've been working all over America recently and I started telling my boss the pay scale begins to trend upwards at the borders of the lone star state. The only trip ive had out of Texas that I really enjoyed was in deeeep south Louisiana, and that's just because they fed us like kings. Oh and the houstonians should get the humor and irony behind the Astros tat. ;) I worked with an illegal once who had Houston's skyline tatted on his neck and the Astros star on his face like Tyson and a full sleeve the said " HOUSTONE" I told him he spelled it wrong we both laughed and he's still a friend to this day. T-Bob, "HOUSTONE" was the slang or cool way to say Houston. As a kid some of us used that language..."Vamos pa Houstone ese"...mostly tex mex... I was watching a documentary on television and no one knew where the name of the gang came from which was "TANGO"...Tango used to be the slang word for town (tex mex slang in my youngster days)...but the general hispanic population would say pueblo for town...all that language is about gone and forgotten except for the older folks like me...I know the language but don't use it unless I am kidding around with the youngsters at work... Title: Re: On politics Post by: mutlycrewhogdogs on March 29, 2012, 01:26:17 pm RL, i served in the texas army national guard. where on the uniform does it say tx other than the unit patch? the branch tag says US ARMY, not TX ARMY. I feel that everybody ought to serve a minimum of 3yrs in the armed services unless medical conditions prevent it, but this is a country of freedoms, freedom to choose not to join the armed services. i spent 2 tours in iraq, 1 tour in bosnia, 1 tour on the tx mexico border for border security. I have not seen where the tx governor ask for the tx guard to be called upon except when the shuttle colombia went down or a natural disaster such as hurricane katrina, but the shuttle was a joint op with state and federal agencies. the boder security was ordered by the federal government. X2 I agree 100% T-Bob, you had your reasons not to join. i have no disrespect or look down on you for not doing it, as long as you dont think you are better than a soldier, which i know you dont do. i feel the same way about tx and wish tx would drop all ties with the united states if this country is gonna continue to go down the crapper. why should the feds drag our state down with them. i do see RL's point of view as to what does a sports tat have to do with tx pride, it just means you have pride for that paticular sports team. what about the houston oilers? they are now the texans or something like that. i dont follow sports so i cant give you their names. the tx flag should fly equally as high as the american flag, since we won our independence and joined the union later, not bought from another country to expand to lands of the U.S. but on the note, the original 13 colonies/states should be allowed to fly higher than the us flag since they laid the foundation for independence. if we had a worth while governor, we need to susceed from the united states and be our own country, which we can support ourselves with access to international shipping via international water national pipleines and intrastate/interstate highways, where we can levee import export taxes and toll usage for our roads and have a surrounding states recipricating statute of commerce. Title: Re: On politics Post by: mutlycrewhogdogs on March 29, 2012, 01:27:50 pm I'm 24 years old an have thought for quiet sometime that we, we being Texas, should depart from the US an e our own people!!!!!
Title: Re: On politics Post by: RyanTBH on March 29, 2012, 01:29:43 pm You haven't thought about this at all have you Charles...? LOL! ;) HUHHHH ??? are you asking me as a joke or saying that my thoughts are out in left field? im not disrespecting you, just dont understand your question [/quote] I'm just yanking your chain Charles. You definitely broke that down though... ;) Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 01:57:29 pm ryan in order for folks to actually see how it may work if texans agree to drop the u.s. like a bad habit. there of course are still things that would need to be hashed out and make go of a few yrs of a rough patch, but in the end, tx will be a better place. then we can our own immigration laws and enforce them with out bully big brother breathing down our neck.
Title: Re: On politics Post by: mutlycrewhogdogs on March 29, 2012, 02:09:23 pm Charles I'm with you 100% I'd like to see someone with these views try an make it happen some way somehow someone can get where they new to get in order to try an put these visions in motion!! I for one would be 100% behind whoever that should be!!
Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 02:27:42 pm it would first boil down to getting the right governor in office, next it would take massive support and voting for the seccession from the rest of the country. this issue has been pondered for many times for many yrs. in order to get wide spread support, promisses would have to be made to ge full support and then renig on them promisses, pissing a lot of the supporters off and possibly freight train wrecking the individual and lone state.immigration would be a factor, not to mention what would be on every tx citizen, economics. im not a politician, im a foot soldier, i have ideas, but dont know how to get them out there for the right and like minded people to act on them. getting enough people to make a change and difference is like trying to get the american people to disolve our current federal government and reinstitute a nre elected gov.
how many here would support such a dramatic change? we are all affraid change in this magnitude, but sometimes it is whats need to make a better life for our up and coming generations. we all say we want something better and more for our children, then why is it we still allow for crooks to stay in office, for our country to go down in flames, for people to stay divided and not ban together unless your involved in a specific clique with money and power already and dont realy care for the actual working class. Title: Re: On politics Post by: mutlycrewhogdogs on March 29, 2012, 02:49:57 pm Charles the things you are saying in these post seem to make perfect sense to me personally. Lets start a post just to see how many of our hunting community would back this. That is if you would like too.
Title: Re: On politics Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 29, 2012, 03:05:45 pm Yeah by all means, start yalls own post you bunch of thread jackers :laugh:
Here I am trying to have some fun and y'all gotta go getting all serious. Folks show some Texas pride, who's got a tatoo dedicated to the lone star state? You know Texas is easily recognizable, you can't tat Colorado or new Mexico or AZ ON YOU, it's just square, and a tattoo of Florida just looks obscene ;D I'm a hellbent 100% TEXAN till I die ;) Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 03:11:54 pm Charles the things you are saying in these post seem to make perfect sense to me personally. Lets start a post just to see how many of our hunting community would back this. That is if you would like too. uhhh, does a wild bear crap in the woods? ;Dgood luck on getting it going though, not just from this forum, but you classified the hunting community. remember the posts tlking about bird doggers and untill recently, chicken fighters standing together and fighting for their rights, deer hunters banning together for their rights, NRA for our gun rights, but yet we cant as hog doggers ban together with these other groups to put a STOP to PETA HSUS and so on to keep them from taking our rights away for our dogs. i am with you, and hope the topic goes good. I remember reading a poem in a friends house that said, Do not walk behind me, because i may not lead. Dont walk in front of me, because I may not follow, but yet walk beside me as a friend If we could get this kind of thinking going, then there wouldnt be ME, ME, ME, I,I,I,I ways of thinking. Title: Re: On politics Post by: Circle C on March 29, 2012, 03:12:36 pm A mere 1.88million will let everyone know how much Texas pride you really have.
(http://s3.amazonaws.com/loa.images/inv/151983/151983-0907250944413900-l.jpg) http://www.landsoftexas.com/land-for-sale/100-acres-in-Comal-County-Texas/id/151983 Title: Re: On politics Post by: RL on March 29, 2012, 03:14:23 pm Folks show some Texas pride, who's got a tatoo dedicated to the lone star state? You know Texas is easily recognizable, you can't tat Colorado or new Mexico or AZ ON YOU, it's just square, and a tattoo of Florida just looks obscene ;D I'm a hellbent 100% TEXAN till I die ;) While you and I may disagree on many topics ... on this we agree. But a tat ... hmmm no. I do wear the outline of Texas with the flag design when I run marathons in other states/countries. And yes, you are right, they readily recognize it and cheer it on. Title: Re: On politics Post by: RL on March 29, 2012, 03:16:33 pm Wow CircleC. That is impressive. Would never have imagined.
Title: Re: On politics Post by: RyanTBH on March 29, 2012, 03:18:53 pm Yeah by all means, start yalls own post you bunch of thread jackers :laugh: LOL! I'm with you T-Bob... 100% Texan till the day I die. I don't have a tat of texas yet, but I'm coming up with that. I don't want to just get the shape of the state though. I want something more original, but still unique to Texas! Here I am trying to have some fun and y'all gotta go getting all serious. Folks show some Texas pride, who's got a tatoo dedicated to the lone star state? You know Texas is easily recognizable, you can't tat Colorado or new Mexico or AZ ON YOU, it's just square, and a tattoo of Florida just looks obscene ;D I'm a hellbent 100% TEXAN till I die ;) and Charles, I like the idea, but when you really break it down it doesn't look good. Think about all of the federal aid that Texas has got just in the past few years with the storms hitting the Gulf, Floods, and wild fires. Not to mention there are federal officers on the border. So yes, it sounds good, but how feasable is it really? and that house is ridiculous!!! :o Title: Re: On politics Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 29, 2012, 03:37:47 pm A mere 1.88million will let everyone know how much Texas pride you really have. (http://s3.amazonaws.com/loa.images/inv/151983/151983-0907250944413900-l.jpg) http://www.landsoftexas.com/land-for-sale/100-acres-in-Comal-County-Texas/id/151983 Thank you Chris!! That's what I'm talking about! Texas bravado you can see from space !! I'll bet you that dude has bikini girls riding longhorns thru fields of bluebonnets, an Alamo shaped indoor pool with San jacinto monument dancing pole in the middle of a buddy holly themed swim up bar. He probably rolls up to the ol casa everyday in a tricked out 89 el Dorado convert able with horns on the grill. I know I would Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 03:43:38 pm T-Bob, feel free to post on the other topic of a free texas, thats if you are a true texan ;D
Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 03:47:07 pm well i got a tat of a bull skull with the tx flag draped over the horns in graywash, and got an eagle with a tx pennant, got a 40s bomber nose art pin up girl holdn the tx flag in 1 hand with a pistol in the other sittin atop of a bomb.
Title: Re: On politics Post by: Circle C on March 29, 2012, 03:54:32 pm A mere 1.88million will let everyone know how much Texas pride you really have. (http://s3.amazonaws.com/loa.images/inv/151983/151983-0907250944413900-l.jpg) http://www.landsoftexas.com/land-for-sale/100-acres-in-Comal-County-Texas/id/151983 Thank you Chris!! That's what I'm talking about! Texas bravado you can see from space !! I'll bet you that dude has bikini girls riding longhorns thru fields of bluebonnets, an Alamo shaped indoor pool with San jacinto monument dancing pole in the middle of a buddy holly themed swim up bar. He probably rolls up to the ol casa everyday in a tricked out 89 el Dorado convert able with horns on the grill. I know I would I'm told the pool is shaped like a boot, and the hot tub is a spur rowel. Title: Re: On politics Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 29, 2012, 04:13:24 pm Even better! Probably also has a team of former Kilgore Rangerettes serving raw oysters and fresh gulf shrimp at his parties
Title: Re: On politics Post by: dub on March 29, 2012, 04:22:39 pm T-Bob likes to stir the pot. Charles is crazy not stupid just crazy. Texas is great. Those are all facts.
So RL don't get up in arms when T-Bob stirs the pot. Nobody should ask if Charles put much thought into anything. He may be crazy but he thinks. I agree with many things Charles says even though most of it is crazy. Guess I understand crazy. Even if I don't agree I can see where he comes from. I think that Texas is the greatest place on Earth. We have T-Bob and Charles if they were at the Alamo there would have been no need for San Jacinto. Title: Re: On politics Post by: charles on March 29, 2012, 04:25:17 pm well thank you dub. uhh, nope. there wouldnt have been need for san jacinto. punji pits sure woulda done a number on them mexicans before they would got with in artillery range.
Title: Re: On politics Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 29, 2012, 04:53:31 pm (http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac192/t-bobparker/99986ed9.jpg)
Title: Re: On politics Post by: RyanTBH on March 29, 2012, 04:57:01 pm (http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac192/t-bobparker/99986ed9.jpg) Thats one of the coolest things I've ever seen!!!! ;D |