tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post2400476757816000736..comments2023-07-23T09:38:18.865-05:00Comments on True Blue Texan: Bush isn't from TexasStacy Hackenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17402317390064027370noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-56561160656278665252009-04-19T12:27:00.000-05:002009-04-19T12:27:00.000-05:00Great post and comments. You cannot blame astate f...Great post and comments. You cannot blame astate for the people who live in it or we would have cut Alasksa loose last year based on Sarah Palin or blamed all Alaskans for her looniness rather than her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-16119834924754129372009-04-19T06:41:00.000-05:002009-04-19T06:41:00.000-05:00Personally, I love Texas. Sure, I have moments whe...Personally, I love Texas. Sure, I have moments when some Texas moron gets me worked up, but my mother's side of the family is nothing but Texas born and bred, so half of my inner workings are Texas wired. I love how Texas does everything big, whether it's necessary or not, and that includes it's craziness. It wouldn't be right if the few nutty Texans didn't stand out as louder, more brash and kookier than the nuts in other states. Plus, Texas has Kinky Friedman! He's awesome!ZIRGARhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05292312948672927804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-36091974230135939352009-04-18T11:25:00.000-05:002009-04-18T11:25:00.000-05:00@Pseudo- Yes, indeed Stevie Ray Vaughn is one of o...@Pseudo- Yes, indeed Stevie Ray Vaughn is one of ours. Austin even has a lovely statue of him at the river downtown.<br /><br />I tried to limit the number of country and country influenced artists on the list because their are soooo many of them.<br /><br />@njb- Dude, I miss her, too. She would've gone nuts with this mess.<br /><br />@Aliceson- Well, yes, there's Mr Farley. But there's <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Wisconsin" REL="nofollow">more</A> than you think. I for one would be proud to claim Spencer Tracy or Gene Wilder or Tony Shalhoub and what geek doesn't thank you for Gary Gygax?<br /><br />@Monica- Amen. Let's hope it dies down. At least until the next noob starts everyone off again.<br /><br />@Diane- Gotta love Mudflats. She hits the nail on the head with that one. I guess I love her blog so much because she feels like a kindred Blue spirit stuck in a Red state and surrounded by blowhard politicians completely out of touch with reality.<br /><br />@Skye- It only seems like a novel idea because so few people do it.<br /><br />To all- Thanks for your support!Stacy Hackenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17402317390064027370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-42445694932201613012009-04-18T09:14:00.000-05:002009-04-18T09:14:00.000-05:00I've never been to Texas and too thought for a lon...I've never been to Texas and too thought for a long time that most texans were crazy repubs. Thanks for straightening that out!<br /><br />I would love to claim Matthew McConaughey, our most famous Wisconsin natives were Kato Kaelin(sp?) and Chris Farley.Alicesonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04810703771030465176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-32149685261816709262009-04-18T08:35:00.000-05:002009-04-18T08:35:00.000-05:00Every party has some bad apples (how about that fo...Every party has some bad apples (how about that for a mixed metaphor?).<br /><br />Those of us leaning to the left cannot forget that we have a fringe also. And a lot of morons in public office as well.<br /><br />Maybe this will remind folks not to judge a person by the letter of their party but the content of their character. Geez, what an idea.skyewriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16460978897138052927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-91621279214478057292009-04-17T23:53:00.000-05:002009-04-17T23:53:00.000-05:00A good reminder that good things (and people) come...A good reminder that good things (and people) come from Texas too...not just craziness. Chris Matthews said today on Hardball that 31% of Texans want to secede. Okay, that's crazy. But that also means that 69% (more than two-thirds) do NOT want to secede.<br /><br />I love the description that the woman who writes the great themudflats.net blog wrote after seeing the teabag party in Anchorage:<br /><br />"Patriotic/anti-Government rally that’s really mad at debt brought about by Bush, therefore thinks Obama is communist"<br /><br />Pretty good summary if you ask me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-82924884532979566162009-04-17T23:48:00.000-05:002009-04-17T23:48:00.000-05:00Great post. It drives me nuts that the people like...Great post. It drives me nuts that the people like "Good Hair" make us all look bad...<br /><br />At times like this, I really miss Molly.njbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233983800368815485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-1071545736468835152009-04-17T23:20:00.000-05:002009-04-17T23:20:00.000-05:00Thanks for this. My dad's family is from Texas an...Thanks for this. My dad's family is from Texas and althoughI have never been, I know it is in my roots and I probably have many second and thrid cousins running around over there that I don't know.<br /><br />Stevie Ray Vahn is from Texas, yes?Pseudohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10430783970802030846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-35310178241547103182009-04-17T23:18:00.000-05:002009-04-17T23:18:00.000-05:00Hey TB Texan,
I definitely feel you as a proud Hou...Hey TB Texan,<br />I definitely feel you as a proud Houstonian sick and tired of the Texas bashing.Monica Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09702533200851174728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-1944438888015059592009-04-17T22:53:00.000-05:002009-04-17T22:53:00.000-05:00It's some of the commenters of DailyKOS that have ...It's some of the commenters of DailyKOS that have me most angry. This post is one of the better ones and the commenters are the best group I've seen yet on a diary about this topic on the Kos. <br /><br />Glad to know that the vitriol is ding down a bit over there.Stacy Hackenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17402317390064027370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3174937543032358515.post-65449222917934853152009-04-17T21:58:00.000-05:002009-04-17T21:58:00.000-05:00I found this post at Daily Kos:
"Successionists ca...I found this post at Daily Kos:<br />"Successionists can shampoo my loins" by droogie6655321<br />http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/17/91648/3160/858/721222<br /><br />It starts out as a rant, but the writer works through the initial reaction and writes something quite relevant to your discussion here.skyewriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16460978897138052927noreply@blogger.com