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In order to change our "oil addiction" we must use the bicycle and the train. Creating a "bicycle infrastructure" could be as simple as giving the right traffic lane to "slow vehicles," ie. NEVs (neighborhood electric vehicles), scooters under 50 cc and bicycles. Of course, cars could still use the right lane when none is present but limited to 20-25 mph.
I think our "oil addiction" is a wonderful thing. It gives me the freedom to go where I want and whenever I want. Cars are good. Fast cars are even better.
Oh, and next time you are down here in Texas during the Summer, I would love to see you commute to work on a bicycle.
Settle the place with your people, seek independence and then quickly annexation. It works every time.
Spaniards rebelled against Spain for independence in 1810. The rebellion that started in 1810 finally ended around 1821, with the establishment of a new constitution in 1824.
1] Santa Anna abolished the constitution in 1835 moving Mexico from a federal republic to a centralized unitary State --- that might be legitimate grounds for rebellion -- ya think?
2] Texas was not the only Mexican State to declare independence. The Republic of Yucatan also declared its independence for the exact same reason Texas did.
3] Five other Mexican States also declared independence (Mexico was established as a federal republic).
4] In total, seven Mexican States declared independence.
5] Since there were 24 States, the 7 States represent ~30% of all Mexican States.
The facts clearly paint a different picture (so I can see why you'd gloss over facts).
I think our "oil addiction" is a wonderful thing. It gives me the freedom to go where I want and whenever I want. Cars are good. Fast cars are even better.
Oh, and next time you are down here in Texas during the Summer, I would love to see you commute to work on a bicycle.
I recently saw the amazing video of a guy who bought an exotic scooter from India to go around among the dinosaurs in Texas. And the guy even seems to be having fun! Maybe he's crazy!
Spaniards rebelled against Spain for independence in 1810. The rebellion that started in 1810 finally ended around 1821, with the establishment of a new constitution in 1824.
1] Santa Anna abolished the constitution in 1835 moving Mexico from a federal republic to a centralized unitary State --- that might be legitimate grounds for rebellion -- ya think?
2] Texas was not the only Mexican State to declare independence. The Republic of Yucatan also declared its independence for the exact same reason Texas did.
3] Five other Mexican States also declared independence (Mexico was established as a federal republic).
4] In total, seven Mexican States declared independence.
5] Since there were 24 States, the 7 States represent ~30% of all Mexican States.
The facts clearly paint a different picture (so I can see why you'd gloss over facts).
Talk to Guatemala; they also kicked Mexico out about 1830 but Mexico doesn't seem to want Guatemala back.
I don't really care what Mexico thinks; even IF they were 100 percent right over Texas in 1836, which they weren't, they LOST, they need to get over it. Many countries lost land; it is what it is.
We already know what the Mexican view on the situation is: butthurt.
Face it: The best thing to happen to the American southwest and the people living there (including the Spanish and Mexicans who subsequently became American and whose descendants have been Americans for generations) was for the Americans to seize the land from the Mexicans and make something out of it....a place where Mexicans FLEE TO in order to find a better life because the Mexican government apparently can't organize a mariachi parade, let alone a functioning country.
If it never happened, the territory would still be Mexico and illegal border crossings into the US would be happening a lot further north than they are now.
But, that's all in the past. It would not be appropriate for the US to do the same thing now that was done back then, because we don't accept that sort of behavior between nation states after all the wars of the 1900s that kind of settled the issue.
Why do we consider the borders set so long ago to be sacred? If some Ukrainians want to be governed by RUSSIA let them, as they apparently have in the Crimea, choose that. If other Ukrainians want to join them why not? That is their concern, NOT OURS!
We should not be giving our military support to the European Union in their economic invasion of Eastern Europe. They are just trying to do with Euros and loan sharking what Hitler, at the behest of his bankers, tried to do in 1940 with the Wehrmacht. We do not need to support the same bankers this time. This is their fight and should remain an economic one.
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