ALASKA, pissing off Texas since 1959! (scorpions, tornadoes, allergies)

[Ellis Bell]

what else can we find to get stupid over?

[blueflames50]

Originally Posted by actonbell

what else can we find to get stupid over?

the fact that Massachusetts is a Commonwealth and not a state!???

[wynch]

I just baught my daughter that Tee, it is great and she gets lots of comments on it. Lots of chuckles too. Its worth the price. Oh, we are Alaskans.

[Ellis Bell]

Originally Posted by blueflames50

the fact that Massachusetts is a Commonwealth and not a state!???

lol Now hold up, you may just have something there, cause that's just not right.

[richelles]

Originally Posted by tigre79

The United States is the "Union" (as in, union of states). That's why every year the President gives a "State of the Union" address. Texas was a Confederate State during the Civil War, at which time they were not part of the Union, having seceded from it. Once the war was over the Confederate States were (forcibly) brought back into the Union. Sheesh, indeed.

I think the Civil War was fought on the belief the Confederate States didn't have the right to secede from the Union. Under that scenario since the Northern States won that war wouldn't it be logical to say if the action wasn't possible then they were never separated from the Union? I can't recall there was ever a 'bringing the States back into the Union" but there was a requirement they take an oath of allegiance before certain things could occur. I can't exactly remember what conditions were imposed before they were allowed to form new governments following the capitulation.

[blueflames50]

Originally Posted by actonbell

lol Now hold up, you may just have something there, cause that's just not right.

I stand corrected only 4 states are Commonwealths.....

Massachusetts, like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky, is called a "Commonwealth". Commonwealths are states, but the reverse is not true. Legally, Massachusetts is a commonwealth because the term is contained in the Constitution. In the era leading to 1780, when the state Constitution was ratified, a popular term for a whole body of people constituting a nation or state was the word "Commonwealth." This term was the preferred usage of some political writers. There also may have been some anti-monarchic sentiment in using the word "Commonwealth." The name, which in the eighteenth century was used to mean "republic"......lots more on website
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[Ellis Bell]

^Much of our states history may define us even today.

However, as for as the t-shirt I was like now what? As the statement does not make sense to me. Born in Houston and raised in East Texas, the only thing I think of when I think of Alaska is, it's cold there. Much too cold for my blood.

Response to previous posters:

And Alaska isn't as hot as hell most of the year (maybe Texas is hell???).

You can always put more clothes on to get warmer, but you can't take enough off to get cool when you're in a furnace.

There is shade to cool one off, unlike hell, but not enough heat to keep one alive, in the freezing temps of some areas.

Besides, too many clothes is binding to my body, less is more.

We lived in Colorado Springs for a time. When I announced to our landlord we would be returning to Texas, he asked, why would anyone want to live in a state that it rains allot? I answered, if our car breaks down on the side of the road (it does happen even with the newest of vehicles) walking home in the rain, one only gets wet. Walking home in freezing temps, one turns into a human Popsicle.

I am really surprised there aren't a lot more pissed off Texans in this thread. They are sensitive people, and way too proud of something they did not accomplish.

What did Texas set out to accomplished that they did not succeed doing? What would that possibly have to do with the people of Alaska?

My father came to Texas in the late 40's from North Dakota. He loved Texas and studied in his spare time Texas history. The more he read, the more he came to love Texas. So---I do not understand.

When I studied the history of Texas government in college, I came to appreciate the state a bit more. I tried hard to see, just what it was, that my father saw and came to love. I did not see 'proud and sensitive' yet a pride in hard work, labor intensive, with a set of values derived from such.

I know a guy that says everything's big in Big Texas. He doesn't live there anymore.

That person did not see the raccoons I saw that inhabited the Colorado Springs area or the deer. Wow.

I took on a newspaper route that took me to the backside of a housing facility for the elderly. They were small apartments built in a circle. One morning I drove up to leave a paper on a doorstep, to see in front of me the unit's trash dumpster. I'm on the backside of the apartments and it is still dark out at that time, just before daybreak.

At that dumpster was a group of raccoons, that one was on its hind feet with its forefeet and head inside the dumpster from the side hole. At first I thought it was a bear cub. Not until it raised from its morning breakfast and looked at me, did I know it to be a raccoon.

No, not everything is Big in Texas. However, one must leave Texas to know that statement to be true.

[tigre79]

Originally Posted by richelles

I think the Civil War was fought on the belief the Confederate States didn't have the right to secede from the Union.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

[shoe01]

I visited Alaska in 2002. I thought it was nice-looking and the people were friendly. I really liked the glaciers.

I just prefer Texas (the western part) because of its many sunny and clear days and for other reasons.

[car957]

I love Alaska. Our goal as Texans was never to pi** you off. Conversely, what have you done for the great state of Alaska?

You seem to be kind of hateful. That attitude is nothing I ever experienced in Alaska and I know you wouldn't experience it in Austin. I think your a transplant who is just outright hateful. If so, push you CAPLOC button so I know your an idiot.