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Today is San Jacinto Day!
April 21, 2017, 08:58 PM
JALLENToday is San Jacinto Day!
That place has had so much history.
I assume you took the photo.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown April 21, 2017, 10:08 PM
jhe888No, Justice Wise posted it on his Facebook page. I wanted to go today, but had work obligations I could not avoid.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. April 21, 2017, 10:22 PM
Doc H.The Tennesseans approve - well done Texas.....
"And gentlemen in England now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's Day" April 21, 2017, 10:36 PM
JALLENquote:
Originally posted by Doc H.:
The Tennesseans approve - well done Texas.....
"They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee." - Tex Ritter
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown April 22, 2017, 02:17 AM
wishfull thinkerquote:
Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Q: What did Davy Crockett say to Jim Bowie when they got up in the morning and looked out over Santa Ana's army?
A: What the fuck? I didn't know we were pouring concrete today.
OK, that took me a whole bunch of minutes and now I can't stop giggling.
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April 22, 2017, 04:42 PM
cincinnatijimI was blessed with getting to attend various Texas elementary schools when Dad wasn't working in other states. I thought their text books were first class and certainly inspired patriotism in the young students. I don't recall the elementary text books in Kentucky, New Mexico, and Wyoming having near the patriotic impact of the Texas books.
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"Louis was furious with the sharks. He thought they had an understanding: The men would stay out of the sharks' turf - the water - and the sharks would stay off theirs - the raft...If the sharks were going to try to eat him, he was going to try to eat them." From Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
April 22, 2017, 05:13 PM
arfmelI thank the citizens of Cincinnati for their donation of the twin six pounder cannons-I think there would be an interesting story behind that.
April 22, 2017, 05:34 PM
BGULLquote:
Originally posted by arfmel:
I thank the citizens of Cincinnati for their donation of the twin six pounder cannons-I think there would be an interesting story behind that.
There is, the Twin Sisters!
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qvt01
Bill Gullette
April 22, 2017, 06:44 PM
flashguyquote:
Originally posted by wishfull thinker:
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Q: What did Davy Crockett say to Jim Bowie when they got up in the morning and looked out over Santa Ana's army?
A: What the fuck? I didn't know we were pouring concrete today.
OK, that took me a whole bunch of minutes and now I can't stop giggling.
Yeah--I just caught on, too.
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth April 22, 2017, 06:48 PM
arfmelquote:
Originally posted by BGULL:
quote:
Originally posted by arfmel:
I thank the citizens of Cincinnati for their donation of the twin six pounder cannons-I think there would be an interesting story behind that.
There is, the Twin Sisters!
https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qvt01
Thank you!