I Like Texas........ - Page 28

#**406** 01-23-2005, 11:27 PM

Awesome!! I saw them last time they were here together!!! Crazy times..........

AznSAE · #**407** 02-13-2005, 06:37 PM

On Being from Texas.....

When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, "Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?"

They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.

Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It's Texas.

Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is.

What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You'll get it maybe after a second, but who else would? Even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you?

In every man, woman and child on this little rock the Good Lord put us on, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride in a pickup. There is some bit of Texas in everyone.

Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas.

Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing
thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom.

We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and David Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas.

Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto.

Texas is Juneteenth and Texas Independence Day.

Texas is huge forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest.

Texas is breathtaking mountains in Big Bend.

Texas is shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas.

Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork.

Texas is Mexican food like nowhere in the world, even Mexico.

Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards and the Bass Hall.

Texas is larger-than-life legends like Willie Nelson and Buddy Holly, Earl Campbell and Nolan Ryan, Denton Cooley and Michael DeBakey, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, and George W. Bush.

Texas is great companies like Dell Computer and Compaq.

Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops.

Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lakes and rivers, mountains and
prairies, and modern cities.

By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its
flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, or
California, or Maine, and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17. You fly the Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet.

Do you know why? Because we place being a Texan as high as being an American here.

Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the
capitol building in Washington, D.C. We included these things in as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part right there.

tinydancer · #**408** 02-13-2005, 07:22 PM

Great post!! Yep, I'm a Texan!

TxAPhi · #**409** 02-13-2005, 07:26 PM

My friends and I had a Texas Style New Year Celebration this year.

Here was the invitation:

Texans tamed the wild frontier, pulled oil from the ground, and put a man on the moon. Texas is a state of mind that is expansive and independent-minded enough for many natives to consider Texas a country in itself. No other state enjoys great food as much as Texas, tells stories as big as Texas, or throws a party like we do. Texans, native or transplanted alike, know how to ring in the New Year with our own grand Texas flavor. And yes, we mean flavor in the most literal sense: Texas is the Barbecue Capital of the World and what better way to polish off some brisket than with a special Texas-flavored Watermelon Martini?

What we’re getting at is that we’ll be hosting a Texas-style celebration complete with a cowboy cookout, TEXAS size drinks, lone star music, dancing, games, and an exciting countdown to midnight. Dress "Texas Formal" and wear something shiny! Big hair, big jewels, be “austin-tatious”! Show your Texas pride! And use your Texas charms… Whether you saddle up for the party among the boots and bovine or you opt for a sophisticated old-school soiree, keep it unique, imaginative, and close to home. Bring Dates, Significant Others, and Friends.

If you want to ante up to Miss Kitty’s Poker Showdown, learn Texas Hold ‘Em before the party: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/texas-holdem.html We’ll party to Texas Music by Pat Green, David Allan Coe, Hank Williams, Jr., Roy Orbison, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, David Allan Coe, Loretta Lynn, Jack Ingram, ZZ Top, Destiny’s Child, Jessica Simpson, and many more…..

Texas Style Food – BBQ, jalapeno poppers, tacos, fajitas, queso, salsa, pralines, Margaritas, Texas Martinis, Lone Star Beer, Champagne, Pecan Pie, Nachos, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, Watermelon, Potato Salad, Guacamole, Tamales, and Chocolate covered strawberries, Watermelon Martinis

AlphaSigOU · #**410** 02-13-2005, 08:03 PM

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Originally posted by TxAPhi
Texas Style Food – BBQ, jalapeno poppers, tacos, fajitas, queso, salsa, pralines, Margaritas, Texas Martinis, Lone Star Beer, Champagne, Pecan Pie, Nachos, Baked Beans, Cole Slaw, Watermelon, Potato Salad, Guacamole, Tamales, and Chocolate covered strawberries, Watermelon Martinis

Lone Star? Ecchhhh... how's about Shiner or Ziegenbock?

<-- Naturalized Texican... Noo Yawk City by way of South Florida.

lonestaradpi · #**411** 02-13-2005, 11:38 PM

Have any of y'all been to The Bob Bullock Museum in Austin? My DH has been dying to go but we just hadn't ever taken the time to go up there just to go there. We went last weekend and it was great! Of course we had to join the museum membership. It was great! The Star Theater is really cool, also, worth the extra $ to get in! The entire place made me damn proud to be a Texan! Gotta get there if you haven't yet!

Oh yeah, I put in my order for my Fiesta tickets last week. I've got a sorority sister who is very well connected in all things Fiesta, will be getting us tickets for NIOSA, river parade, and Battle of Flowers. Then she mentions to me the pre/after parties that are taking place. Woo hoo! Love being connected!

TxAPhi · #**412** 02-15-2005, 01:11 AM

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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Lone Star? Ecchhhh... how's about Shiner or Ziegenbock?

we didn't actually serve Lonestar as I agree it's not the best -- but we included it in the invitation to fit with the spirit of Texas them --- we actually served one of the others you mentioned

TxAPhi · #**413** 02-15-2005, 01:16 AM

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Originally posted by lonestaradpi
Have any of y'all been to The Bob Bullock Museum in Austin? My DH has been dying to go but we just hadn't ever taken the time to go up there just to go there. We went last weekend and it was great! Of course we had to join the museum membership. It was great! The Star Theater is really cool, also, worth the extra $ to get in! The entire place made me damn proud to be a Texan! Gotta get there if you haven't yet!

I took my mom there for mother's day. We started at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and had lunch there, then went to the Bob Bullock Museum and saw an IMAX show and viewed the exhibits. Then on to La Madeleine for an early dinner. She still talks about it

Great article that ran in the Statesman before Valentine's day about things to love in Austin - http://www.austin360.com/xl/content/..._02-10-05.html

SATX*APhi · #**414** 03-02-2005, 03:52 PM

On March 2, 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico and became the Republic of Texas.

Life was never the same again.

For ten years, from 1836 to 1846, Texas existed precariously as a seperate and unique nation. In Texas, March 2 is an official state holiday - Texas Independence Day. Each year, there are numerous parades, festivals and even a complete historical reenactment of the event.

"I am besieged... I have sustained a continual bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours... The enemy has demanded a surrender... I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender nor retreat..."
William Barret Travis, The Alamo, February 24, 1836

"Independence is declared; it must be maintained."
Sam Houston, Washington, March 2, 1836

"Fellow-Citizens of Texas: The enemy are upon us. A strong force surrounds the walls of the Alamo, and threaten that garrison with the sword... Now is the day, and now is the hour, when Texas expects every man to do his duty. Let us show ourselves worthy to be free and we shall be free."
Henry Smith, Washington March 2, 1836

The Texas Declaration of Independence

The Unanimous Declaration of Independence made by the Delegates of the People of Texas in General Convention at the Town of Washington on the 2nd day of March 1836.

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.

When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.

When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.

When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.

Nations, as well as individuals, are amenable for their acts to the public opinion of mankind. A statement of a part of our grievances is therefore submitted to an impartial world, in justification of the hazardous but unavoidable step now taken, of severing our political connection with the Mexican people, and assuming an independent attitude among the nations of the earth.

The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.

In this expectation they have been cruelly disappointed, inasmuch as the Mexican nation has acquiesced in the late changes made in the government by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative, either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.

It has sacrificed our welfare to the state of Coahuila, by which our interests have been continually depressed through a jealous and partial course of legislation, carried on at a far distant seat of government, by a hostile majority, in an unknown tongue, and this too, notwithstanding we have petitioned in the humblest terms for the establishment of a separate state government, and have, in accordance with the provisions of the national constitution, presented to the general Congress a republican constitution, which was, without just cause, contemptuously rejected.

It incarcerated in a dungeon, for a long time, one of our citizens, for no other cause but a zealous endeavor to procure the acceptance of our constitution, and the establishment of a state government.

It has failed and refused to secure, on a firm basis, the right of trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty, and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty, and property of the citizen.

It has failed to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources, (the public domain,) and although it is an axiom in political science, that unless a people are educated and enlightened, it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty, or the capacity for self government.

It has suffered the military commandants, stationed among us, to exercise arbitrary acts of oppression and tyrrany, thus trampling upon the most sacred rights of the citizens, and rendering the military superior to the civil power.

It has dissolved, by force of arms, the state Congress of Coahuila and Texas, and obliged our representatives to fly for their lives from the seat of government, thus depriving us of the fundamental political right of representation.

It has demanded the surrender of a number of our citizens, and ordered military detachments to seize and carry them into the Interior for trial, in contempt of the civil authorities, and in defiance of the laws and the constitution.

It has made piratical attacks upon our commerce, by commissioning foreign desperadoes, and authorizing them to seize our vessels, and convey the property of our citizens to far distant ports for confiscation.

It denies us the right of worshipping the Almighty according to the dictates of our own conscience, by the support of a national religion, calculated to promote the temporal interest of its human functionaries, rather than the glory of the true and living God.

It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.

It has invaded our country both by sea and by land, with intent to lay waste our territory, and drive us from our homes; and has now a large mercenary army advancing, to carry on against us a war of extermination.

It has, through its emissaries, incited the merciless savage, with the tomahawk and scalping knife, to massacre the inhabitants of our defenseless frontiers.

It hath been, during the whole time of our connection with it, the contemptible sport and victim of successive military revolutions, and hath continually exhibited every characteristic of a weak, corrupt, and tyrranical government.

These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior.

We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfor of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.

The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.

We, therefore, the delegates with plenary powers of the people of Texas, in solemn convention assembled, appealing to a candid world for the necessities of our condition, do hereby resolve and declare, that our political connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic, and are fully invested with all the rights and attributes which properly belong to independent nations; and, conscious of the rectitude of our intentions, we fearlessly and confidently commit the issue to the decision of the Supreme arbiter of the destinies of nations.

Richard Ellis, President
of the Convention and Delegate from Red River

Charles B. Stewart
Tho. Barnett

James Collinsworth
Edwin Waller
Asa Brigham

Geo. C. Childress
Bailey Hardeman
Rob. Potter
Thomas Jefferson Rusk
Chas. S. Taylor
John S. Roberts
Robert Hamilton
Collin McKinney
Albert H. Latimer
James Power
Sam Houston
David Thomas
Edwd. Conrad
Martin Parmer
Edwin O. Legrand
Stephen W. Blount
Jms. Gaines
Wm. Clark, Jr.
Sydney O. Pennington
Wm. Carrol Crawford
Jno. Turner

John S. D. Byrom
Francis Ruis
J. Antonio Navarro
Jesse B. Badgett
Wm D. Lacy
William Menifee
Jn. Fisher
Matthew Caldwell
William Motley
Lorenzo de Zavala
Stephen H. Everett
George W. Smyth
Elijah Stapp
Claiborne West
Wm. B. Scates
M. B. Menard
A. B. Hardin
J. W. Burton
Thos. J. Gazley
R. M. Coleman
Sterling C. Robertson

Benj. Briggs Goodrich
G. W. Barnett
James G. Swisher
Jesse Grimes
S. Rhoads Fisher
John W. Moore
John W. Bower
Saml. A. Maverick (from Bejar)
Sam P. Carson
A. Briscoe
J. B. Woods
H. S. Kimble, Secretary

tinydancer · #**415** 03-02-2005, 05:34 PM

Proud to be a Texan!

lifesaver · #**416** 03-02-2005, 06:10 PM

I was gonna post about this, but havent had a chance till now.

HAPPY TEXAN INDEPENDENCE DAY EVERYONE!!!

SATX*APhi · #**417** 03-02-2005, 07:06 PM

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Originally posted by lifesaver
I was gonna post about this, but havent had a chance till now.

I thought you would be the first. I gave you over half a day to beat me to it! LOL

I hope that you are doing well! I'll be in your neck of the woods in a couple of weeks. I'll be in touch.

lifesaver · #**418** 03-02-2005, 07:12 PM

Dosent seem like a Texas Independence Day without Kitso whining about how much he misses Texas. lol

Exquisite5 · #**419** 03-02-2005, 07:26 PM

Happy Texas Independence Day to all of my fellow Texans!

Gig'em Ags to my fellow Aggies!

FYI: If you live in DC/MD/VA and you go to the Austin Cafe in Bethesda and show your TX driver's license today you get a free meal! WHOOP!

AznSAE · #**420** 03-02-2005, 07:47 PM

I pledge alliegence to thee, Texas, one and indivisible.