Perry's talk of unity hits a sour note (Ted Nugent alert)

[maxrandb]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4478848.html

"AUSTIN — At his inauguration, after being sworn into office by the first black chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court — a man he appointed — Gov. Rick Perry spoke wistfully of a tolerant Texas, where "no one is invalidated because of their heritage, but valued because of their humanity."

If you ask critics, the spirit of unity didn't last through the governor's $75-a-ticket inaugural ball, held later Tuesday night at the Austin Convention Center.

Rocking the house as the night's final act was singer Ted Nugent, a friend of Perry's known as the "Motor City Madman." Nugent appeared onstage wearing a cut-off T-shirt emblazoned with the sure-to-draw-headlines Confederate flag and shouting some unflattering remarks about non-English speakers, according to people who were in attendance. His props were machine guns."

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Looks like we have another "Uniter" from Texas. I'm not sure how you defend the display of the Confederate Battle Flag as part of Texas Heritage. Were they even involved in the Civil War?

Anyway, I can't believe I used to listen to this "one-riff", "one-hit" wonder. Hide your underage girls and drugs...Ted's in the house.

What an ass-pickle!

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Makes me curious why The Nuge continues to live in Michigan

Seems like the only people he relates to are antebellum southern racists.

[cosmik debris]

3. He lives in Waco Texas now. n/t

[sniffa]

2. texas most certainLy was invoLved

and was a member of the CSA.

the mississippi river campaign was to bisect the CSA and cut it off the eastern haLf off from the beef and other suppLies coming mainLy from texas.

[maxrandb]

5. Thanks! I'm not much of a Civil War buff

but you don't hear much about Texas. Didn't think they were a slave state.

Let me guess Ted's playlist:
- Cat Scratch Fever
- Wango Tango
- Stranglehold

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

[Bridget Burke]

6. Texas was a slave state....

But slavery was technically illegal under Spain or Mexico. So we don't have the long "heritage" of slavery that some states do.

[sniffa]

7. don't be fooLed

when mexico banned sLavery, they initiaLLy exempted texas (they couLd stiLL have sLaves).

it was mexico's eventuaL banning of sLavery in the texas territory that provoked their decLaration of indepedence, and remembering the aLamo, yadda yadda.

so, sLaves were there since americans were weLcomed to Live in the territory.

[Bridget Burke]

10. Yes, but slavery didn't have a very long history here.

Texas was the last frontier of slavery in the United States. In fewer than fifty years, from 1821 to 1865, the "Peculiar Institution," as Southerners called it, spread over the eastern two-fifths of the state.

www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/yps1.html

Some slaves were allowed in as "indentured"--just a legal loophole. And slavery was never as secure here as in the older slave states--where the institution had been established for centuries. Travis, who died at the Alamo, helped "round up" escaped slaves. And Fannin, who died at Goliad, sold slaves.

Sam Houston was governor when Texas seceded. He refused to swear allgiance to the Confederacy & was tossed out of office. He said that Jefferson Davis was "as ambitious as Lucifer, cold as a snake, and what he touches will not prosper."

I've lived in Texas most of my life & had two years of Texas History in school. Since then, I've been filling in the stuff that was left out--quite a bit, of course.

[Phredicles]

9. Plus Texas is where many slaves were not told they'd been freed until

two years after the Civil War ended; apparently their former owners plum forgot to mention it to 'em.:eyes: I believe that's what Juneteenth commemorates.

[sniffa]

11. i was gonna say, that's juneteenth.

[peekaloo]

4. Ah, lookee at the "tolerant" Gubner and his value of humanity.

brings a tear to me eye. :sarcasm:

The same guy who thinks gays have no place in Texas.

[AspenRose]

8. What else would you expect from a former yell-leader from Texas A&M?

(I know; I went there!)

[maxrandb]

13. What is a Yell-Leader?

Never heard the term before.

Wingnuts flock to Nugent 'cause they think he gives them a "cool" factor. "See, we're not all a bunch of pasty faced, stiff shirt mouth breathing idiots wait for our fat psychopathic wives to trash us within inches of our lives...we like Ted Nugent."

Nugent hasn't been "hip" since I was doing "whippets" in my dad's garage. I wouldn't even put him in my top 100 guitarist of all time.

[roamer65]

12. Boy, I am glad we dumped Nugent off on Texas.

He really wasn't very welcome here in Michigan anymore. He's a useless, draft-dodging piece of human waste.

Looks like Waco has a new whacko to replace David Koresh.

[Az]

14. Tell me about it

Its a relief not to have to see his stupid billboards or hear him on the radio. Good grief. I am sorry Texas... but not that sorry.

[Ahpook]

15. Ted Nugent is such a fucking asshole

It seems he couldn't speak his stupid mind back when he was trying to make a name for himself in the 60's, he would have been pissed on. Of course now he has a free run.

He is such an ironic son of a bitch. This dumb bastard is like every other hateful person in this country. They talk all over the place. .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3J-XYnZHfU

He is a disgrace to the instrument, perfectly.

[judaspriestess]

16. "no one is invalidated because of their heritage, but valued because of their humanity."

Fuck you, I am a fifth generation TEXAN, long before your worthless redneck ass showed up. Ted Nugent, yeah thats a real winner.:puke: