Considering what a piss-poor President he is I wouldn’t be bragging too much.

Actually I consider Lyndon Johnson, “the president of all the people” to have been one of our better presidents - certainly in his domestic role. He has a well deserved legacy as helping millions of rural, poor, and middle class Americans; moving civil rights forward, and yes… even signing a tax cut.

Or are you referring George Walker Bush who was born in New Haven, Connecticut?

And (at least these days) “Don’t mess with Texas” isn’t typically used as some testosterone induced chant. It’s principally used by the highway department to try and deter BUBBA from littering.

Trying to get back to the topic… does anyone think 60 seconds of reflection is going to help those who think it’s okay to toss garbage out their windows? Who care so little for either (a) the environment and/or (b) God’s creation?

As to the forced recitation and “moment of silence”: I think it’s both unhelpful and unconstitutional (- not that many people seem to invoke the constitution in anything but an À la carte form). But even so I’m not strongly opposed to school administrators telling my kids to “sit still, be quiet, and reflect for 60 seconds”.

There are really more important issues that need to be fixed. Like how to get people to turn off their TVs long enough to care about (and do) anything meaningful with their lives.

- Cedar (in Austin TX Y’all)

DON’T LIKE TEXAS GET THE HELL OUT Take i 20 i 30 or i 35 Just get out stupid people and if you think you can come down here and kick some butt bring it on bubba, all talk no action another fool!!!!

Friend of mine once told me that all you needed to know about how the rest of the country saw Texans was distilled into a graffito on a stall door he saw one holiday.

Here I sit, buns a flexin’
Giving birth to another Texan.

A whole state full of people who think John Wayne was the ultimate Texan, none of whom realize that John’s real name was Marion or that he was actually from Iowa....

Politics would have been a lot neater if we’d just let the Mexicans take over the country and keep Texas for themselves along with Southern Cal.

Why don’t you just give Texas its independance? It would help stop illegal immigration into the USA.

Texans don’t want to be independent. If they were independent they’d have to blame things on themselves instead of homosexuals, liberals, and people from California.

Besides, an independent Texas would quickly depopulate itself through exercising the death penalty and the tariffs on goods inflating the prices at Wal-Mart.

for all you liberal, complaining “I unfortunately moved to Texas” pathetic pieces of shit, get this straight. America was founded on the right to freedom of choice, you can choose to not use the minute of silence for prayer, you can choose to pray to buddha, and you can choose to get the hell out of our state. The state wouldn’t be like this if we didn’t want it like this, YOU CHOSE who to elect to their positions, YOU put them in the power to represent what you desire to have done, Sounds like a whole lot of bitching from a buncha yanks who moved south with big dreams of changing our culture. You wouldn’t go to Italy and try to change their culture, you wouldn’t go to Mexico and try to change their culture Don’t come to Texas and try to change ours. Like CMC said earlier, our flags are everywhere, we love texas, I was born texan and will be till I die. I wouldn’t move to Massachusetts and try to change you bunch of liberal pains in the ass. Don’t move here and try to change our culture because you think that since you have the right to free speech you have the right to change thousands of people’s devotion to their state. If your kid doesn’t want to say the pledge, no big deal. if your kid doesn’t want to pray for a minute good for them at least they are thinking for themselves. But for those that do want to pray, and for those that do want to recite the pledge they should have the right to, just like you have the right to keep quiet for that one minute. You want absolute freedom you bunch of whiney hippies how much more freedom do you want than the freedom to do something or not do something? SO DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS you bunch of liberal, self righteous, overzealous sons of bitches, go back to your welfare checks, and your complaints about something you’ve never experienced “state pride.” thats right TISH it’s “another love it or leave it” kinda guy, notice how you said “another” the states full of us and we like it that way. oh yeah almost forgot...texas could kick florida’s ass hands down. Everything’s bigger in Texas
Dueces

Texas.  Like Yorkshire, but without the good bits. WTF is the oft repeated “Don’t mess with Texas” meant to convey. Sounds like a threat of violence to me.

Also mook, there were only 53 executions by death penalty last ear, last time i checked a lot more than 53 babies were being born annually you are criticizing us for being stereotypically rednecks that don’t have a sense of responsibility for what goes on in our state, and blame everything on the “homosexuals, liberals, and people from california” however you yourself are stereotyping with this mere schpill about us stereotyping.
Dueces

Everything’s bigger in Texas

Including the asses.

Deuce makes for a stunning example of all that is wrong with Texas.