Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Look. Texas was once part of Mexico, maybe we should just give it back.

Mexican Texas (click here) is the name given by Texas history scholars to Texas during the period between 1821 and 1836, when Texas was an integral part of Mexico. The period began with Mexico's victory over Spain in its war of independence in 1821. For the first several years of its existence, Mexican Texas operated very similarly to Spanish Texas. The 1824 Constitution of Mexico joined Texas with Coahuila to form the state of Coahuila y Tejas. The same year, Mexico enacted the General Colonization Law, which enabled all heads of household, regardless of race or immigrant status, to claim land in Mexico....

 They should stop complaning and be happy. NASA is going private, so no one  needs the Johnson Space Center anyway? Mexico can have the Saddam statute, too. Come to think of it they can have "W", too. Is he still dealing in the Cayman Islands? Throw in Oklahoma and I betcha we'll have a deal. They can change "Big Tex" name to "Big Tex Mex."

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Posted:  Updated: 11/13/2012 6:54 pm EST
A petition for Texas secession (click here) has qualified to receive a White House response.
As of Tuesday evening, the petition -- which asks for the peaceful withdrawal of the state of Texas from the union -- had racked up more than 81,000 signatures. (Only 25,000 are needed to elicit an official response from the Obama administration.)
According to Politico, the leader of the Texas secession movement said the president's reelection last week was a “catalyzing moment for his organization’s efforts to quit the United States."
“I am completely aware that Election Day was a catalyzing moment, but I do not believe that the underpinnings of this are solely about Barack Obama,” Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement told the political news website. “This cake has been baking for a long time -- it’s the Obama administration that put the candles on the cake and lit it for us.”...
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