Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
I’ve extolled the virtues of the Lone Star state in previous posts. Forget it – I was delusional.
We are doing quite well in having prospective citizens (and those who really don’t care so much about such legalities) cross our borders without inciting a further exodus from the Golden State.
Visitors are welcome as long as they remember to go back home.
Man the barricades!
Is it okay to move back if your family used to live there? In my case, it’s been awhile… say 110 years or so, and the farmland is now built up area in downtown San Antonio, more or less… prolly not gonna get that back. Sigh.
I was thinking about down around Uvalde, Brackettville, that area maybe.
Just checkin’…
Tim:
OK – as a recent immigrant myself perhaps I was too reactionary. Visa applications will be accepted – yours will likely be approved.
Best
PS – we need more Civil War historians anyway
If only we could get the environmentalists to move to Texas… and take a few of our (totally) worthless legislators with them.
A few environmentalists in Texas would be a good thing–oh wait, isn’t that what you meant?
I know, I know, they have those big “Don’t Mess with Texas” signs, what else needs to be said.
No one would notice if the legislators from California left–its not like they do anything.
On a serious note I heard a talk from a VP at the Dallas FED a couple months back. Seems Texas is weathering the current economic crisis somewhat better than most in no small part because, post oil-boom bust in the ’80s, Texas imposed a number of bank regulations that, among other effects, limited some of the more creative mortgage lending. This had the effect of moderating housing price rises in the 90s and first half of this decade but has had the corresponding cushioning of the fall in prices lately. What goes up not so high has less distance to fall, etc.
He shared a statistic that, at the peak, someone at the median income in LA at the peak could only afford something 4 percent of the homes available on the market.
He also allowed as how the other FED regions as well as HQ were consulting the Dallas FED experts as to the regs employed so as to create a model for the rest of US States.
Maybe we can export something good.
Laurie:
Texas leads the clean energy revolution as the largest wind energy state. Could use a little more clean coal technology but then who couldn’t. As for natural gas – I’m sure some of those shivering up north can appreciate we keep drilling for it.
As for legislators – I’m afraid we don’t need to import do nothings – seems to be endemic to the breed.
Laurie … Old T6Flyer is right. We really don’t need any more legislators. We have a bumper crop. Thing is, we usually keep our legislators fairly well disciplined because we only let them meet every other year. Maybe that keeps the chicanery down to a bearable level.
But Texas has some great recommendations as a livable place. We have no state taxes. We love our climate and geographical variations, from mountains to hills to deserts to coastal plains, our big skies and great sailing and fishing. Lots of elbow room for free spirits. Great hunting, and one can own guns for protection without selling one’s soul to government busybodies. In fact, that’s the greatest freedom we have — freedom from busybodies. Not all the time, but pretty much.
Marianne
Sounds like you’re running to get a U-Haul to move the family stuff.
Heard about fire ants?
I have a standing invitation from a native; will that get me across the border?
If folks need a “green” card to move north, what color do I need to move south? Being a northwest native, I’m drawn to the “hill country”. Is that a good choice? I should hastily add that I’m eager to remain productive as long as I’m able, not ready to even think about hanging it up yet!
Hill country is beautiful. When I was a kid, my family would vacation every summer in Bandera, the cowboy capital of the world. It’s a bit small (<1000 people) for my taste. I liked New Braunfels. I live in Houston.
Florida. Flor-i-da. Florida. Beaches. No taxes. Must carry law. No alimony (in most cases). Pretty decent political environment. Beaches. Miles and miles of beaches. Home of Naval Aviation (you remember that, don’t you?)
Florida.
And Byron, some of the best beaches in the world for just walking and holding hands with that special loved one.
I’m fairly productive, but, I’m not leaving anytime soon. Roots too deep currently for an exodus. But, I do hear good things about Texas, got a brother down in Dallas that says it’s a real nice place. But I hear the surf ain’t much, so, guess we still have that going for us here on the left coast (that is until they find a way to tax the waves). I’m stuck. Bad government, crazy liberals, and tree huggers galore. Maybe this is purgatory.
Byron,
Don’t forget about Palmetto spiders as big as your hands, palmetto scrub, sand fleas and snow birds.
On the bright side, last time I was there there was San Juan Liquors, and JAX Liquors and the ABC stores, plus those new drive up liquor stores. Neptune beach and Atlantic Beach were just a few miles up the road, and you could also head down to St Augustine for the day.
Food was good, women were nice, and every day on the way to work I’d pass some Caddy or Lincoln in a ditch with the first responders carrying out some blue hair. Heh.. used to see them drive by me and be thankful for the Orange County phone book. It was big enough they could use it as a booster seat to see over the steering wheel..
But yeah…. the San Juan was a happening place… good times, good times… Young, immortal, golden wings, single, and a pocket full of bills and a bike. Life was good.
Xairboss ,
Yeah, or ANY of your special loved ones… a girl in every port, yeah?
My Grama was born in El Paso. Hopefully that will be enough to allow my visa application to be approved when the time comes. As long as I don’t have to LIVE in El Paso…
It’s not like Kalifornia has banned fleeing from the state….yet.
Personally, I avoid even venturing INTO Kalifornia for any but the most urgent reasons, and then get out again as quickly as possible.
The refugees are welcome, but leave their $illy-A$$ ideas back where they fled from.
Now we just need to get Lex out of what may become KZ Kalifonia.
I divorced the PRK in May 2000 and thank my lucky stars. It sure ain’t what it used to be.
The funny thing is that here in Washington people harp on how Kalifornians are screwed up, and yet I see them walking almost in lockstep with the PRK’s out of control growth and liberalism. Let’s hope they don’t get stupid on taxation.
California legislator do too do something. Mostly, it’s spending OPM. They’re addicted to it.
Say, my daddy was a natural-born Texican. The Depression and WW2 dropped him in California.
Does this mean I might have a Right of Return?
The hill country sounds very nice.
Pretty please?
OK – me thinks a special VISA class should be created for LEX readers. If the new Texas Entrance Exam result includes a correct answer to the question “Who is Neptunus Lex?” you’re in. We’ll further screen out undesirables with the “live fire” tests….
Couple of years back I saw the best bumper sticker out in Boulder, Co. “Go back to California and take a Texan with you”.
Just got this email.
Texas job interview. A man is seeking to join an East Texas Sheriff’s dept is being interviewed.
The Deputy doing the interview says, “Your qualifications are great but there is an attitude suitability test you must pass before you can be hired”.
Then sliding a service revolver across the desk, he says, “Take this pistol and go shoot six illegal aliens, six meth dealers, six muslim extremists and a rabbit”.
“Why the rabbit”?
“Great attitude, when can you start”?.
Sadly in some parts around here you could take a 12 Gauge, fire in just about any direction, and get all the above at one time – save the rabbit. Of course some of the victims might count in two or more categories and I’m not sure if that is cheating or not.
Of course to be legal you would have to fire outside in the parking lot. You can buy the ammo in Walmart just not discharge it until you get outside.
I have no problems with Californians moving to Texas, as long as they keep in mind the reasons they’re leaving the state and realize that those reasons were self-imposed on themselves.
Also, I think there should be a 10 year moratorium on any participation in the political process–voting, campaigning, contributing, volunteering. This would hopefully ensure that prior political conditioning was purged from their systems. This is only somewhat tongue in cheek.
As for bringing/sending their legislators…no thanks, we have a hard enough time trying to keep Austin under control.
Military veterans, on the other hand, are excused from any of the above restrictions.
So does that mean you will soon be taking up residence in the Great State of Texas, Lex? Has the Kat come around yet?
But what’s this about Texas weathering the current economic crisis somewhat better due to the imposition of a number of bank regulations? Gee, who would’ve thunk it?
Last Californicator exodus tool place in 92-94 in a realestate collapse/recession of that era. The effects of that movement can be seen in the decline of Oregon, Washington and Colorado…
Not again..perhaps they will go offshore?
Lex- of course you are exempt.
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