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struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 03:11 PM Apr 2016

I'd like to apologize for Texas

Last edited Mon Apr 4, 2016, 04:57 PM - Edit history (1)

BY STEVE RUSSELL ON 4/4/16 AT 9:25 AM

... Texas is the home of Representative Joe Barton, famous for apologizing to BP because of the “shakedown” when President Obama’s administration wanted the transnational corporation to establish a fund for victims of the Macando oil spill. Only a socialist would think corporations have to clean up after their errors.

Texas is the home of Representative Louis Gohmert, who nominated fellow lunatic Allen West for House speaker after West had been defeated for re-election. Gohmert is known for asserting that oil pipelines are aphrodisiacs for caribou. He famously went off on a CNN reporter who had the gall to ask for evidence of Gohmert’s assertion that terrorists are coming into the U.S. pregnant so they can give birth to little terrorists with U.S. passports.

Texas is the state where the governor called out the State Guard to protect the citizens from Operation Jade Helm 15, a plot to overthrow state governments using weapons caches from defunct Walmarts. Of the Jade Helm threat, Gohmert opined, “patriotic Americans have reason to be concerned” ...


http://www.newsweek.com/sincerely-apologize-texas-443366

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I'd like to apologize for Texas (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2016 OP
It would help if you spell "for" right. :) nt 7wo7rees Apr 2016 #1
I went to school in Texas struggle4progress Apr 2016 #3
Oh, okay then. Consider me confused and 7wo7rees Apr 2016 #4
Those homonyms 'for', 'fir', 'fur' always confuse me too struggle4progress Apr 2016 #5
It is tough living in Texas at times Gothmog Apr 2016 #2
But TX also had Molly Ivins and BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #6

7wo7rees

(5,128 posts)
4. Oh, okay then. Consider me confused and
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 04:34 PM
Apr 2016

befuddled. So you still can not correct it? All righty then. You go.

Guess you meant "fot".

BlueMTexpat

(15,370 posts)
6. But TX also had Molly Ivins and
Mon Apr 4, 2016, 05:40 PM
Apr 2016

Ann Richards. You still have the wonderful Helen of Margaret and Helen. http://margaretandhelen.com/

I think it's just the GOPers who are the problem, especially the males.

Full disclosure: my maternal grandmother was born in TX.

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