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Old 11-19-2010, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Just watch TV shows like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, Chelsea Handley and New York shows like Jon Stewart, David Letterman and Stephen Colbert. Jokes about how crude and ignorant Texas is regular fare. Face it, Texas is a Republican state personified with hicks for governors and Bible-belt idiots running the legislator. What progressive thing has ever come out of Texas? Nothing!
So do you think TV shows are the official word on everything? Perhaps that is part of your problem. You think Hollywood actually knows something important.
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Old 11-19-2010, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Sacramento
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Y'all realize how far away you've gone from the original posting in this thread???
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Old 11-19-2010, 08:06 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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Don't bother. The majority of these "over the top" posters are just young kids...eh I mean adults who are just parroting what they were taught growing up or naive enough to think they actually know anything about life. You're wasting your time arguing with someone who is still a student.

Not saying there aren't right or left extremists who are old, just saying that the majority of the ones who are always making "over the top", nonsensical statements tend to be kids (young adults) still drawing an allowance....quite literally.

I think I figured out how to solve world hunger at that age. I was really close to figuring out this whole world peace thing before something strange happened to me... I got older and realized I didn't know half of what I thought I knew.
Well, if we were enlightened enough to eat our young they wouldn't be blathering hatred and no one would go hungry!

As to the matter at hand, having been stationed in Texas twice I obviously chose not to live there in retirement, no state income tax notwithstanding, and I can joke about it with the best of them. But hate it? Why? It doesn't affect me and living there is an individual choice and decision.

I've no doubt Texas is attracting some CA industries, just as Washington state, Washington, D.C./Virginia, Tennessee, Colorado, Nevada and other states are. Many make them far more attractive for businesses to operate than CA does and CA has only itself to blame if even just one major industry folds its tent and goes elsewhere -- something the Legislature seems oblivious to.

When I worked in California's political/legislative arena I can't tell you how many bills I opposed because they were overly prescriptive and costly to private industry, and that was just in the health and human services sector. It was far worse in manufacturing and other venues. The same went for regulations.

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Old 11-19-2010, 09:04 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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Sure it is growing. But the population is growing from babies being born there and through immigration. The net flow of domestic population is NEGATIVE, and has been for at least twenty years. The Census data shows it.

https://secure.recenter.tamu.edu/data/pop/pops/st06.asp
But that has not stopped the economy from booming in the last 20 years.

California has the highest % of foreign born residents, approximately 10 Million, more than NY and TX combined, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Francisco are 3 of the Top 5 Large Metros as far as % of residents who are foreign born-Miami being 1st and NY being 5th.

Foreign Born residents and their US-Born Children account for appox. 60% of LA and 50% of the Bay Area.

Its as if all the people who left actually did us a favor by leaving so we could accomodate their replacements.
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Old 11-19-2010, 09:54 AM
 
Location: Pasadena
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So do you think TV shows are the official word on everything? Perhaps that is part of your problem. You think Hollywood actually knows something important.
It is very foolish to underestimate the influence television and the Internet play in shaping opinions. To think that Hollywood doesn't play a big role in changing and solidifying thinking is as backwards as Texas is in general. People my age never read newspapers and get the "news" on the Comedy Channel, HBO and the Web. There are no shows broadcast from Texas to present the conservative mindset; Fox News is the only voice that comes close and it is centered in New York. Texas is portrayed mostly negative whether it is accurate or not.
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Old 11-19-2010, 10:15 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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There are no shows broadcast from Texas to present the conservative mindset
Oh yeah?

John Hagee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joel Osteen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

et al...
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Old 11-19-2010, 10:38 AM
 
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hmm interesting, TALK ABOUT A NANNY STATE!

http://static.texastribune.org/media...Y_PLATFORM.pdf

Texas GOP to ban homosexuality and poronography
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Old 11-19-2010, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Los Altos Hills, CA
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hmm interesting, TALK ABOUT A NANNY STATE!

http://static.texastribune.org/media...Y_PLATFORM.pdf

Texas GOP to ban homosexuality and poronography
Yes, people can be so selective in their outrage. LOL
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Old 11-19-2010, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Holy crap, two mentions of God in the first few seconds of reading that. I'm finished.
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Old 11-19-2010, 10:51 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Come on man, why the over the top rhetoric?.....
Because he's still a student. Most of the over-the-top folks here are still in their teens and barely of drinking age. Let em age a bit... Maturity can only come with age and real life experience.
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