What has Texas given us? Good and bad.

[coloradodem2005]

I'll start off:


Texas has given us:

Good: Stevie Ray Vaughan; one of the greatest blues guitarists ever!!! Also, the greatest blues Revivalist ever!!!!!!!!!!!

Bad: A certan warmongering individual.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. OK

Good: Tex Mex food

bad: Tom De Lay

[Leados]

2. Actually, Bush* is from New Haven Connecticut.

Well, he was born there, but grew up in Tejas and all that jazz.

[Blue_Tires]

3. bad:

those bleeping godless crack-smoking dal-ASS cowboys

good:

Barry White
George Foreman

[coloradodem2005]

9. It's dal-ASS Cow Pies

[SmileyBoy]

4. Um, Connecticut gave us that warmongering prick.

He's part of the neo-con fringe of the New England elite. He was born in Connecticut. Grew up there. Wen't to frikkin Yale, not Texas A&M.

That idiot adopted Texas as some sort of fake "natural home" for him, like he thinks he's a cowboy, or something. It never worked on me.

So I'll end by saying:

Good - Molly Ivins
Bad - Phil Gramm

[SiobhanClancy]

5. Ok...

Good: Willie Nelson
Bad: Busiest execution chamber in the country

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

6. Good: the Dixie Chicks

Bad: their music

[Sting]

7. hmmm...

Good: nothing
Bad: those people who are currently in power in this country...

[VelmaD]

8. Me!

You'll have to decide for yourselves whether that's good or bad. ;-)

[JackSwift]

10. On balance, I'd like to give Texas back to Mexico

or let it be an independent country.

[INTELBYTES]

24. On balance...

...right about now, we wouldn't mind being our own soveriegn nation!

[JackSwift]

28. Please start a movement!

.

[cosmicdot]

11. Jim Hightower - good

Bad - home to a lot of corrupt corporations -

of course, many 'moved' there when things got real friendly (prolly during some Gov. Bush's administration)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. more

Good: Bill Moyers
Bad: ENRON!

[sasquatch]

13. Bad:Stevie Ray Vaughn Good:Willie Nelson

White boys can't play the blues. Jimi Hendrix is the best blues, rock, metal or anything guitar god #1. Fuck Vaughn, Fuck Eddie Van Halan, Fuck Clapton they're a bunch of soulless punks. Hendrix played with not only his soul but his dick as well.

[name not needed]

14. good: dallas cowboys cheerleaders

bad: chimpy and the carpet bomb bunch.

[Norbert]

15. Janis Joplin

[Zomby Woof]

16. Tejas Balance Sheet

Good:

Albert Collins
SRV
ZZ Top
Johnny Winter
Willie Nelson
Bob Wills
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Lyle Lovett
T-Bone Walker
Buddy Holly
Joe Ely
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Butch Hancock
Townes Van Zandt
BBQ
Tex-Mex cuisine
Molly Ivins
Jim Hightower
Bill Moyers


Bad:

All of their sports teams, from pro to college
Baptists
Cheerleaders
Halliburton
Enron
Tom DeLay

[HuckleB]

17. Good: Willie, Waylon, The Flatlanders, Molly Ivins, Earl Campbell, ...

Last year's San Antonio Spurs (ended the boring reign of the Lakers), Norah Jones, Sissy Spacek, Carol Burnett, Janis Joplin, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Lance Armstrong, Ernie Banks, Ornette Coleman, Danny Elfman, Lightnin Hopkins, Terrence Mallick, Flaco Jiminez, Larry McMurtry, Gene Roddenberry, Tommy Tune

Bad: K. Rove, Joan Crawford, ZZ Top, Lee Harvey Oswald, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Gary Busey, Sam Donaldson, Morgan Fairchild, Phyllis George, Don Henley, Barbara Mandrell, Oliver North, Aaron Spelling, Patrick Swayze

[sasquatch]

18. Earl Campbell was tough

Lee Harvey Oswald is a patsy so I think you can take him off that list.

[HuckleB]

20. Regardless of patsy status...

Oswald makes the list.

[sasquatch]

26. I disagree but it's your list

So do what you want.

[Norbert]

19. A. J. Foyt - Good

If you could put up with his personality (actually I find that kind of amusing) you find this guy could really drive a race car. He is perhaps the best race car driver ever IMO.

[greatauntoftriplets]

21. A a couple of very good friends.

One who was born and raised there, the other who has roots there but never lived in Texas.

[VOX]

22. My dad -- good!

Born in Hubbard (hometown of baseball great Tris Speaker), raised in El Paso.

Carol Burnett was born in San Antonio.

[Bossy Monkey]

23. Good: Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Nanci Griffith

Bad: The oil yoyos who gave us the Bush dynasty, with Tom Hicks and ClearChannel thrown in for bad measure.

[absyntheNsugar]

29. Lyle Lovett was hilarious

In the Player! That flyswatter scene had me rolling.

[MrScorpio]

25. Tex Mex dishes: GOOD a home base for the BFEE: REAL BAD

It can't get any simpler than that

[absyntheNsugar]

27. well

Good: Molly Ivins, Jim Hightower and Ann Richards

Bad: DubyaMonkey, Kennedy's Assasination and an evil ex

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

30. Good -- a place to keep millions of morons out of the NE USA

bad -- Houston

[GinaMaria]

31. Good: GOP is Evil

Bad: what everyone else has said

[GOPisEvil]

32. Aw, thanks!

Although, in the interest of full disclosure, I am about as Texan as Bush* is. I wasn't born here, but have spent the majority of my life here.

:loveya: