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  • WILLisms

    As Glenn Reynolds would say, “indeed.”

  • tdmoeller

    When you wish upon a ‘Lone Star’…
    Doesn’t matter who you are…

    Jes don’t be one o’ them Rev’newrs or one of them Kaliforny flakes!

  • JustLeaveMeAlone

    and keep Kay Bailey Hutchinson out of the Gov’s mansion!

    http://www.rickperry.org/

    And if you’ll be in Houston this Friday evening, come on out to a Tea Party!

    http://houstontps.org/

  • William_L

    .. Perry tends to talk more like a conservative the closer an election gets..

    I hadn’t watched the video (yet), but I might suspect it’s more of the same..

    A coupe of reasons.. First, he has constantly ignored the illegal alien problem we have down here. Talked tough on it before the election, afterward, nothing.

    2nd, requiring ALL schoolgirls to get the HPV immunization.. nuff said.

    3rd, huge business tax which increased substantially small business’ taxes, without decreasing homeowner’s tax at all.

    When you compare him to California or Michigan, yeah, he’s conservative.. And for the most part he’s been reliable. But he can often be more talk, and no act.

    Along with KBH (RINO) and Debra Medina, I suspect he’s trying to get out in front asap to try to appeal to the base way before the primaries.

    btw: I have no vested interest, but relatively unknown Debra Medina’s working to get out there as well: http://www.medinafortexas.com/

    Cheers!

  • rmullins

    but since I am I’ll just have to ask for those that can to get videos and pictures. I really admire being in an area that mostly thinks along the same way I do.

  • izoneguy

    because I live in Texas.

  • izoneguy

    First, he has constantly ignored the illegal alien problem we have down here. Talked tough on it before the election, afterward, nothing.

    Border security is a federal issue. As long as Texas is still in the union it will always be a Federal issue. Washington has failed Texas and the rest of the border states on this issue. At least Texas does not give the barn away like California does,

    2nd, requiring ALL schoolgirls to get the HPV immunization.. nuff said.
    Did not happen:

    Texas governor backs down on HPV vaccine bill

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18575675/

    3rd, huge business tax which increased substantially small business? taxes, without decreasing homeowner?s tax at all.

    What are you talking about?
    Gov. Perry Signs Legislation to Cut Taxes for Texas Small Business Owners
    http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12565/

    At least Texas has no state income tax.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    Texas sucks big ones, we have NO jobs, NO houses to buy. We only have Rednecks, Mexicans, and the Bushes. DO NOT COME HERE!

    I mean it, DO NOT COME! Especially if you are from California.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    that’s about it.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    but that is a long drive downtown. Plus I hate crowds.

  • rmullins

    Besides, HPV Vaccine is so 2006. Merck really worked hard to convince him to back it, even with inconclusive proof.

    BTW, Perry has mobilized Texas National guard troops to the Border. That shoots down the myth of not protecting the border

    To the prior poster, is Ms Medina getting the support of more reliable republican counties, like Wilson or Guadelupe?

  • rmullins

    and that’s a long drive from downtown. It’s not a long drive for me, since I live in Spring. I have never seen so many roads that don’t connect until I moved to Spring.

  • izoneguy

    kyle8 is right – Texas is a vast hell hole full of ugly women, gun toting rednecks and we ride our horses to work. Work – we slop the pigs and skin the chickens all day. Mexicants – we have millions of em…..
    Why you have to learn how to speak Mexican down here in this hell hole. Houses? What are those? We just roll out our knap sack at night. We don’t sleep much because it is 110 degrees all the time.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    That’s downtown near Minutemaid park

  • tdmoeller

    Wez igrnt cowpokes an messkin slop slingers. ower edukashun be a mite bit defishunt an wee awl is a wishin we was a livin in that New yoRk or that thar cauliformian golden staat.

    Sho nuf. doon be a commin hear Texicans rool only the sagebrush an mesquite. ain’t gots no selph esteams at awl.

    Texas tOm heh.

  • DONTREADONME

    Seriously, I want to see you do inner city speak now.

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Coincidentally I was just today looking at Texas, wondering where I’d want to go if I moved there.

    Weather is key for me, along with of course the kind of people around. I don’t want to be surrounded by flakes, since I’m used to being in a *sane* part of California, heh.

    So I was looking at the panhandle. The weather looks somewhat similar to I am. Except one weird thing: out there they get all the rain in the summer, not the winter. Just the opposite of what I’m used to.

    Also that whole ‘temperatures below freezing’ thing in the winters sounds strange and science fictiony.

  • blooch

    Is that a Texas portmanteau?

  • pilgrim

    Midland in West Texas is a conservative area you would be more comfortable in with respect to ‘temperatures below freezing’. The coldest it gets there is only a couple of degrees below freezing for a couple of months.

  • nilram

    3rd, huge business tax which increased substantially small business? taxes, without decreasing homeowner?s tax at all.

    What are you talking about?
    Gov. Perry Signs Legislation to Cut Taxes for Texas Small Business Owners
    http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12565/

    He’s talking about te franchise tax that was heavily modified (by Perry) in 2006. These modifications made the tax apply to small businesses where it didn’t before. In fact, this is the tax that Perry cut in the article you quoted.

    And if I recall correctly “closing loopholes in the business tax” was a priority for Perry in 2006. He called several special sessions to get it passed.

  • rmullins

    I have family in West Texas(Abiline and Sweetwater). Nice area to live in and Conservative to Boot.

  • rmullins

    then yes.

  • rmullins

    Were running out of water and the lawn is going brown. It won’t be long until we’re all dead. Oh poor us, We’re DOOMED.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    move to the area just north and west of Houston. True it is a little wetter than California (except right now we are in a drought). But it hardly ever freezes. The people are great. The food is fantastic. We have all the major sports teams here, we have great colleges and arts and museums and such.

    You can get a lot of nice land, still pretty cheap in between Katy Texas and College Station, or the town of Brenham. Nice rural values, but not far from the big city.

  • tdmoeller

    We of the Phi Beta Kappa crowd in dear old Texas do not do inner city “speak.” But if my meager efforts to cause alarm to the rather insular sensibilities of the Yankee carpetbaggers and the smaller political divisions of the Left Coast do not engender a risible effect…

    So solly, Challie… heh.

    Texas Tom

    (Former DPD, fighting Austin commies since 2000)

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    I’m still trying to save my hedges.

  • DONTREADONME

    but heh, I guess the inner city ebonics or spanglish is not quite something you can do, but you sure do have your redneck down perfect. I just wish redneck would have kept the carpetbaggers out of Virginia.

  • MathMom

    I’ve lived in Texas three times, and this time I might become a Naturalized Texan. I was never so proud as when Houstonians took in the refugees from Hurricane Katrina, and we referred to them as “our new neighbors”. And though we got pasted by Hurricane Ike last year, within hours neighbors with chainsaws cleared the roads in our subdivision, began to cut people out of their houses if they’d been hit by too many trees, and for us, came with tarps to cover our roof. We don’t wait for FEMA down here.

    Folks here is frien’ly, y’all.

    One warning – a friend who lived in the Panhandle said that every house has a small hole in the front door. When asked what it was for, he said it is a crowbar hole. Every day, you stick a crowbar handle through that little hole. If the crowbar bends, it’s too windy to go outside. :)

  • Jonbontx

    on keeping wife’s flowers alive.

  • Jonbontx

    reader blogs?

  • Jonbontx

    north of Brookshire for those of us who don’t want to drive downtown. Information is at www.KatyTea.com.

  • azaeroprof

    but if you’re looking for a good conservative area with great weather (15-20 deg cooler than Phoenix, 15 degrees warmer than Flagstaff, with 4 seasons), great scenery, not too big but not too small, 100 miles from a big city (Phoenix), 100 miles from the most majestic locale in the continental 48 (Grand Canyon), a day’s drive from the beaches of SoCal, and lots of houses for sale MUCH cheaper than a few years ago, you just can’t beat Prescott, Arizona. Oh, and home of the World’s Oldest Rodeo and the site where Barry Goldwater kicked off the ’64 campaign. The only downside is there’s not a lot of industry here, but since you’re a computer consultant you probably generate most of your business online anyway, so does it really matter where you live from a work perspective?

  • GreyCloak

    She’s feisty, and Governor Good Hair is campaigning for his life against her.

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    only thing good is the sports page, and I rarely have time

  • rmullins

    BTW, there was a time when the San Antonio Express-News was the Conservative paper, but that was before 1993. Liberalism is getting to more common in the Newspapers here in Texas. Also, I thought I would never have to read Rick Casey drivel since he left the Express-News, but I manged to more to the same place he did.

  • liandro

    yesterday in the BIAP area…i was cross-leveled to a unit from TX, and she was here in Iraq to visit the troops. I asked her a couple questions about the energy bill, government intrusion in the markets, etc. She was interesting, but her aides sure knew what they were talking about. I guess that’s probably true of most Senators.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com LJ “Beaglescout” Miller

    While I think it’s clear that Nicolle Wallace had something to do with all the trash talking about Palin that came out of highly placed insiders in the McCain campaign, it is now becoming even more clear that Steve Schmidt and Wallace’s husband Mark Wallace were really at the heart of it. Read Mark Hemingway’s piece over at The Corner.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com LJ “Beaglescout” Miller

    They still open carry their Peacemakers strapped to the thigh, open the door for wimmen, call wimmen “darlin” and “little lady,” drink their whiskey straight, shoot trespassers and burglars, volunteer to patrol the border, and beat up hippies and medical-marijuana-smokers on sight. That might keep the Kalifornians out.

  • Doc Holliday

    of course Austin is nearby and kind of weird, but has some nice things too. The best city is San Antonio.

  • Doc Holliday

    an interesting place. Arizona and New Mexico need a few more conservatives to offset immigration from the South and West.

  • JustLeaveMeAlone

    and pro choice, to boot.

  • JustLeaveMeAlone

    is hang up on their incessant telemarketers.

  • IJB

    …But she is ‘weak sauce’,

    We can do better than KBH.