I'm going to write a damned book entitled....

[rateyes]

"Houston, We Have a Problem!"

Here's why. Any ideas for research would be appreciated!

HOUSTON--Home of George H.W. Bush/Dubya's Daddy (Kennebunkport is a 2nd home).
HOUSTON--Home of Tom DeLay
HOUSTON--Home of Enron's Ken Lay (Allowed to rip off all Californians and his own employees by *).
HOUSTON--Home of Paul Pressler, Ed Young, John Bisagno--Architects of the Southern Baptist Takeover by RW Fundamentalist Baptists who include Falwell, Robertson, Dobson, and others who have been tearing down the wall between church and state for decades---and, have their fingers in the public till through "faith-based inititiatives."
JUST OUTSIDE HOUSTON--The place where Cheney shot his hunting buddy and had a lot of meetings with Big-time donors.

I want to write a book that links all this shit together....I think there is a conspiracy here that is bigger than we could have ever realized.

Any ideas? Anyone I've left out from HOUSTON?

[Richard Steele]

1. Maybe ask this in the Texas forum?

It's the LOCALS that have all the best gossip, you know!

[rateyes]

5. Good idea. Thanks.

[JanMichael]

2. How about: Houston you ARE the problem

?

[sweetheart]

3. LOL!!!

.

[Sydnie]

19. That was my first thought too.

GMTA!

[NJCher]

4. I LOVE this!

Very clever. Go for it!!




Cher

[PDittie]

6. I resent this.

Poppy is getting ready to go live in Kennebunkport for the summer. He's no more a Houstonian than you are.

Tom DeLay is from Sugar Land. Twenty miles away. Not even in the same county.

The Armstrong Ranch is sixty miles from Corpus Christi, which is 217 miles from Houston. Here's a map. (Can you find Houston on it?) You might actually be mistaken for a Texan -- by a non-Texan -- if you think the Armstrong Ranch is "just outside Houston", but nobody exaggerates that much and is taken seriously.

You got a lotta research to do. And my suggestion is that you try a hit piece on some place you actually have, you know, been to. Or know something about.

And the rest of you Texas haters can likewise suck it. We'll keep on doing the hard work of turning the Lone Star blue. And you can thank us later.

I usually just ignore crap like this here, but sometimes it's just too obnoxious to forgive...

[crispini]

10. Nice post.

:thumbsup: I know we traditionally don't get along (Dallas / Houston) :evilgrin: but I must say that Houston has some truly fine DU'ers and a lotta good Dems down there! :hi:

[PDittie]

11. Did you see the DMN on the immigration protest today?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/041006dnmetrallymain.805fdfb.html

Awesome. Hope we can match that tomorrow.

[crispini]

13. Yep, it was HUGE.

Didn't go -- I was just not feeling up to the big crowds -- but there in spirit! :woohoo:

[CrazyForKucinich]

20. Yeah...you guys are so great in Dallas

when you make laws to make it illegal to feed the poor/homeless.

Sick.

This nation would be better off without Texas.

[PDittie]

23. Off.

[rateyes]

14. My apologies about the Armstrong Ranch....

miscalculation. It's been 20 years since I LIVED in Texas (Fort Worth--Where I was a DELEGATE to the Democratic Convention)--and in a little East Texas town between Corsicana and Palestine. GHW does have a place in Houston, and lives there a lot--(if not MOST of the time). Perhaps I will change the title....but, a LOT of the problems we are seeing today (especially in the break down of the wall between church and state, which will be the focus of the book) comes from the Houston/Gulf Coast AREA. (You know, Houston is BIGGER than the DFW Metroplex--so, really being 20 miles away from Houston is pretty much "being in Houston." DFW airport isn't in either Dallas or Fort Worth....but, people flying there usually say, "I'm flying to Dallas." The Dallas Cowboys play in IRVING--but, you sure can see the Dallas Skyline. And BTW, I have, you know BEEN THERE--to Houston.

As far as doing the hard work turning the Lone Star State Blue---I hope you pull it off, cause it's going to take hard work. When I lived in Texas working for the Democrats, TEXAS WAS BLUE! Had Lloyd Bentsen in the Senate, Mark White in the Governor's Mansion---Followed by Ann Richards---Jim Wright was Speaker of the House....

Now, you all give us Kay Bailey Hutchinson, John Cornyn (another one involved in Abramoff scandal), Dubya, DeLay, Cheney (He really is a Texan, you know--just claims Wyoming so he could be on the ticket with Dubya) and that other POS that you have for governor now, Rick Perry.

Now, I don't hate Texas (have a brother doing his PhD at UT Austin--nice city)---San Antonio is perhaps my favorite city to visit in the whole U.S.A.---I like Cow Town (Fort Worth--enjoyed the Stockyards lots when I lived there--have travelled all over the state, including Houston) and I'm sorry I offended you.

But, again, Texas Dems have a LOT of "cleaning house" to take care of---as we do here in Georgia.

[PDittie]

24. Neither me nor anyone else

Now, you all give us Kay Bailey Hutchinson, John Cornyn (another one involved in Abramoff scandal), Dubya, DeLay, Cheney (He really is a Texan, you know--just claims Wyoming so he could be on the ticket with Dubya) and that other POS that you have for governor now, Rick Perry.

No one on this board -- with the exception of a few trolls -- gave YOU any of those nasty fuckwads.

Apology accepted. But Texas isn't going anywhere, and the rest of the retards posting who'd like to see that happen are just losers. And stupid.

[rateyes]

25. Texas...not the Dems....

gave us those fuckwads. I'm asking the Dems in Texas to get rid of those jerks. I don't want to see Texas go anywhere but "Blue." I'm not knocking Houston....I'm simply realizing that a helluva lot of problems this country is facing comes from that part of the world.....hell, they all could have cooked it up in a backroom in Atlanta.....regardless of WHERE, it's WHO and WHAT that counts.....being from the same area just made it easier on them. Anyone who thinks that there's not some kind of illegal, evil connection between the Politicians of that part of TX and the Fundamentalist P.O.S.'s that work there isn't paying attention.

BTW, when I lived in TX, it seemed to me that the native Texans had a lot more contempt in their hearts for non-Texans than vice-versa. A "yankee" (not a term of endearment to native Texans) was anyone who lived north of the Red River---and, the attitude was "There's Texas and then there's the rest of the world."

I used to piss off a lot of natives by reminding them that my home state of Tennessee was the state who sent the most VOLUNTEERS (that's how we got our nickname--good old Davy Crockett died at the Alamo) to Texas to steal the land from Mexico. :sarcasm:

Again, I love Texas---but, I loathe the fact that we have lost that great state to the Repukes.

[Little Star]

21. Try living in MA

Massachusetts is also a tough state to live in. The Repugs are relentless with their hate for Massachusetts and the Kennedys. They also smear us for Dukakis and now Kerry also. I do feel for you Texans but you have to admit Texas did spawn some pretty bad Repugs, worse than any other state IMHO. Just hang in there, we do.

[DanCa]

7. I just flashed on Superman 2

"So this is the planet Houston," General Zod.

[PDittie]

9. Right.

And we got nuked for nothing in Independence Day.

Terms of Endearment filmed all over town. Urban Cowboy, too.

Next? :argh:

[rateyes]

15. Hey DanCa....

good to see you again.

[jusb]

8. Barbara Jordan

Mickey Leland
Mayors Bill White, Lee Brown and Bob Lanier
Chris Bell

[rateyes]

16. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

And, BTW, what happened?

[jusb]

12. And, along with Chris Bell...

Two of the guys who helped bring down Tom Delay:
Nick Lampson and Ronnie Earle

Actually from Beaumont and Austin,respectively- which by your estimation would be "just outside Houston".

[rateyes]

17. Good for them....

too bad the Dems down there didn't take care of him at the ballot box before Lampson and Earle did.

Considering the SHEER SIZE of the State of Texas, compared to, say Georgia,---along with the sheer size of Houston (Bigger than Dallas, Fort Worth, and all points in between)--I would categorize Beaumont as being "just outside Houston" (not measuring from the center of town to center of town)-------as far as those two cities stretch out----pretty damned close.

No, wouldn't put Austin as being "close to Houston." So, pardon me for mixing up Houston and Corpus Christi, both cities on the Gulf Coast.

I didn't say there weren't good folk in Houston and surrounding areas. But, considering that all those folk I mentioned are part of the "Council for National Policy" and all seem to have ties to that part of the country---and, how they have been working diligently to undermine the separation of church and state---it seems there's a "there there."

[LondonReign2]

18. You are forgetting HALIBURTON

Headquartered in Houston.

[rateyes]

22. How in the HELL....

did I forget that one? Thanks.

[Texaroo]

26. You may want to consider..

..a thread that doesn't insult Texans if you are asking for help. You forget that Barbara Jordan was from Houston, and many other progressive icons as well. Dallas (we call it, "The City Without a Soul") is far more conservative than Houston to this day.

I appreciate the effort, but GHWB, to us long-time residents, is just another Yankee carpetbagger. Tom DeLay is from Sugarland (home of Imperial Sugar, which may account for his attitude).

To say that Cheney shot a lawyer right outside of Houston is the equivalent of saying Charleston, South Carolina, is right outside New York City.

[rateyes]

27. I wasn't trying to insult Texans....

hell, I used to be one! Got married when I lived in Texas. Love Texas. Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, headquartered in Houston. I worked in the Democratic Party in Texas for quite a while, and I know Texas politics. I'm insulting the damned criminal Repigs who live in Houston/Gulf Coast Region of Texas who are assaulting the constitution's first amendment.

Geeesh..not much has changed since I left Fort Worth....still overly sensitive it seems....where did I insult Texas?