SubscribeJust as an aside, I know the people the rest of the country tends to hear about are the gun totin' racists and dipshits and stuff, but Texas is secretly awesome. It's full of enclaves of genuine weirdos, liberal rednecks, the ruggedest of rugged individuals. Like a plant of the desert, anyone who is a freak in Texas has to be a badass in order to survive in such a harsh climate, so if you have the courage and patience, you will find yourself partying with the strangest people you will ever know.Yeah, I'm sure. Next time you're partying with one of this plethora of genuine weirdo liberal redneck ruggedest of the rugged badass freaks, please let them know that the rest of the country would appreciate it if they voted.
However, due to the way representative government works, and due to some sleazy gerrymandering by the Republicans, the shithole towns have all the political voice, the state always goes redThe presidential election cannot be gerrymandered. McCain won Texas by a large margin. As did Bush before him, twice. And Dole before him.
Bush could become the first new President of the texas Republic since 1846.Hope he knows kung fu. He'll have to go through Chuck Norris.
I'm sure there are folks here in my home state of Wisconsin who are looking at Gov Perry and thinking "My I wish he were our governor and considering seceding.Are any of them your governor?
Let me give you a hint, republicans. You need to cast out the lunatic fringe from your partyAnd be left with whom?
Okay, fine, Flunkie. We're all ignorant hicks.Interesting. I didn't say anything about anybody being hicks, nor about anybody being ignorant, let alone about some entire group of people being ignorant hicks.
By the way, the defining characteristic of an ignorant hick is that he has incorrect, slogan-informed opinions about entire groups of people outside of his own social sphere. Just throwin' that out there, hyuck-hyuck.
Yeah, and you did that in order to refute my and louche mustachio's assertion that a lot of people in Texas are liberals.Oh, please. Of course there are lots of people of any particular sort in Texas. There are lots of people in Texas.
Considered therefore as transactions under the Constitution, the ordinance of secession, adopted by the convention and ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null. They were utterly without operation in law.In Texas v. White (1869) the Supreme Court said states can't secede.
Didn't Texas already try seceding once?
Also, the Treaty of Annexation, not the Constitution of the State of Texas, is what gives Texas the incontrovertible right of secessionYou're correct that the Constitution of the State of Texas does not give Texas a right to secede.
Actually, Sherman was quite clear both in his memoirs and in his letters during the Civil War that his destruction was intended to serve his main goal, which was crushing the will of the Southern people to continue fighting.People, including Sherman, have to be judged in context.And the context is that Sherman destroyed things just to destroy them, not to serve some greater strategic purpose. You can't even say that about Dresden or Tokyo.
OK. There's also this thing called a "false equivalence", and I'm glad to hear that your post was the former and not the latter.Are any of those Vermont secessionists the governor of Vermont?There's this thing called a "joke."
And if so, did they win election to that office by a margin of almost twenty percent?
And I know that the South wasn't exactly pro-Native Ameican, having grown up in an area near where the Trail of Tears began for the Choctaw, so I don't get the relevance of all this anyway.
In early December, 303 Sioux prisoners were convicted of murder and rape by military tribunals and sentenced to death. Some trials lasted less than 5 minutes, and the proceedings neither were explained to the defendants, nor were the Sioux represented in court. President Abraham Lincoln personally reviewed the trial records, and he attempted to distinguish between those who had engaged in warfare against the United States versus those who had committed the crimes of rape and murder against civilians.
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Lincoln commuted the death sentences of 264 prisoners and allowed the execution of 39 others. One of the 39 condemned prisoners was granted a reprieve. The 38 remaining prisoners were executed by hanging [simultaneously, on a giant scaffold] on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota, in what remains the largest mass execution in American history.
Think of them as nineteenth-century C.H.U.D.s.
Uh, why would southerners be particularly concerned with the settlement of the Dakotas in the first place?
Interesting info about the Choctaw, meanwhile, but one of the wiki sources is a dead link and another sounds like a trivia book, the others I don't have access to.
What's interesting about that is that it shows again that the North fought the war with one hand, more or less.
It seems instructive that few states were willing to secede until shots were already being fired in South Carolina.
`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument,"' Alice objected.
`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that's all.'
House members virtually wiped out Gov. Rick Perry's office budget Friday in order to help veterans and the mentally ill.Some Republicans disagree with that assessment, and I'm sure much of the money will be restored to the governor's budget eventually. Still, I loved seeing this. Texas truly has the best legislature money can buy.
With little debate, the House on a voice vote approved erasing 96 percent of the nearly $24 million that budget writers had recommended for Perry's office operation over the next two years.
Some Democrats cast the House's move as a rebuke of the governor's recent comments about Texas seceding from the Union.
"That's the headline: 'Two days after governor says we ought to secede, House zeroes out the governor's budget,'" said Appropriations Committee vice chairman Richard Raymond, D-Laredo.
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