Comments on: The Lies of Texas Are Upon You http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/ Less Confusion Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:59:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: MR http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-925 MR Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:44:07 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-925 Let me add ... Your tirade is proof that neither the extremist politics and slurs of the Far Left or those of the Far Right really solves anything. But those are the people who yell the loudest. I'm disgusted with both sides. Calm down, quit polarizing and get with the real work that needs to be done. Richard Posey Grapevine, Texas Let me add …

Your tirade is proof that neither the extremist politics and slurs of the Far Left or those of the Far Right really solves anything. But those are the people who yell the loudest. I’m disgusted with both sides.

Calm down, quit polarizing and get with the real work that needs to be done.

Richard Posey
Grapevine, Texas

]]> By: Richard Posey http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-834 Richard Posey Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:00:05 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-834 OH, GEEZE ... I'm NOT DONE! What's the difference between your form of bigotry and theirs? It comes in all colors, so to speak, doesn't it? OK, my turn to calm down. Thanks for running the comments. You get * some * credit for that. RP OH, GEEZE … I’m NOT DONE!

What’s the difference between your form of bigotry and theirs? It comes in all colors, so to speak, doesn’t it?

OK, my turn to calm down.

Thanks for running the comments. You get * some * credit for that.

RP

]]> By: Rosa S http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-832 Rosa S Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:25:08 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-832 As a transplanted Texan, I find it deeply saddening and appalling that several school districts have chosen not to show the speech. However, I also find it sad and appalling that you chose to single out Texas when districts all across America decided to not air it or make it optional. Not every single Texan is a backwards thinking, Bible thumping, right wing lunatic--Austin boasts of one of the most forward thinking populaces in the nation. But I'd also like to add that there are, peppered throughout the Lone Star State, rational people of a sound mind who also find some of our more right minded brethren's actions abhorrent. Texas really is a great place to live. I grew up in Vidor, Texas--supposedly the armpit of civilization and capital of backwards and racists thinking. However, when I moved to Normal, Illinois I discovered that my educational background was far better than the forward thinkers here, and that I had deeper respect for the people and things around me than the progressive majority in this area and a higher level of understanding for personal civil liberties. Texas has some really good school districts and some really shitty ones. But so does every state. Texas has some real nut jobs, and I reiterate, so does every state. Both sides of the spectrum, the far left and far right, are just pathetic. What is the sense in always being at each others' throats? What does it accomplish. Scootch on over and join me here in the middle--things make much more sense here! As a transplanted Texan, I find it deeply saddening and appalling that several school districts have chosen not to show the speech. However, I also find it sad and appalling that you chose to single out Texas when districts all across America decided to not air it or make it optional.

Not every single Texan is a backwards thinking, Bible thumping, right wing lunatic–Austin boasts of one of the most forward thinking populaces in the nation. But I’d also like to add that there are, peppered throughout the Lone Star State, rational people of a sound mind who also find some of our more right minded brethren’s actions abhorrent.

Texas really is a great place to live. I grew up in Vidor, Texas–supposedly the armpit of civilization and capital of backwards and racists thinking. However, when I moved to Normal, Illinois I discovered that my educational background was far better than the forward thinkers here, and that I had deeper respect for the people and things around me than the progressive majority in this area and a higher level of understanding for personal civil liberties.

Texas has some really good school districts and some really shitty ones. But so does every state.

Texas has some real nut jobs, and I reiterate, so does every state.

Both sides of the spectrum, the far left and far right, are just pathetic. What is the sense in always being at each others’ throats? What does it accomplish.

Scootch on over and join me here in the middle–things make much more sense here!

]]> By: Richard Posey http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-830 Richard Posey Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:15:00 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-830 Let me add ... Your tirade is proof that neither the extremist politics and slurs of the Far Left or those of the Far Right really solves anything. But those are the people who yell the loudest. I'm disgusted with both sides. Calm down, quit polarizing and get with the real work that needs to be done. Richard Posey Grapevine, Texas Let me add …

Your tirade is proof that neither the extremist politics and slurs of the Far Left or those of the Far Right really solves anything. But those are the people who yell the loudest. I’m disgusted with both sides.

Calm down, quit polarizing and get with the real work that needs to be done.

Richard Posey
Grapevine, Texas

]]> By: RP http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-829 RP Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:06:56 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-829 You paint with a pretty broad brush. Yep, you hit it right on with a lot of people in this state ... why don't you pick on THEM, instead. Leave the rest of us out of it. Thank you very much for your slur. You paint with a pretty broad brush. Yep, you hit it right on with a lot of people in this state … why don’t you pick on THEM, instead. Leave the rest of us out of it.

Thank you very much for your slur.

]]> By: Native Texan http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-827 Native Texan Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:14:06 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-827 What a bunch of Liberal drivel.... What a bunch of Liberal drivel….

]]> By: bob migs http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-826 bob migs Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:09:01 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-826 Let us remember that Obamas speech ORIGINALLY provided teacher's notes for before and after the speech as well as a written assignment for the students to complete. Since you are an intelligent man can you define indoctrination for me? As far as Texas or any one else saying no to the President's speech due to their ignorance speaks volumes sir about yours. Respectfully Bob Let us remember that Obamas speech ORIGINALLY provided teacher’s notes for before and after the speech as well as a written assignment for the students to complete. Since you are an intelligent man can you define indoctrination for me?

As far as Texas or any one else saying no to the President’s speech due to their ignorance speaks volumes sir about yours.

Respectfully
Bob

]]> By: David Smith http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-825 David Smith Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:29:55 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-825 Thanks for telling it like it is, Jim. Perhaps the best choice is for us non-Texans to organize and support the secession. We'd like you to move back to the U.S. first, of course. Keep up the effort. Thanks for telling it like it is, Jim.

Perhaps the best choice is for us non-Texans to organize and support the secession. We’d like you to move back to the U.S. first, of course.

Keep up the effort.

]]> By: Melanie M. http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-824 Melanie M. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:30:51 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-824 At the moment, I too live in Texas. (Although I am hoping to get out of the state before my children are old enough to go to the schools here) It has been very upsetting to me these last few days as I constantly hear the news reports stating how schools are opting out of showing Obama's speech to the children of our country. It is a very sad state of affairs that our President cannot give a non-partisan speech extolling the virtues of a good education and staying in school. God forbid we teach those values to our children. Maybe we all need to take a step back and see why Texas has some of the lowest scores in the country, highest teen pregnancy rates and over all lack of tolerance to our fellow human beings on this earth. At the moment, I too live in Texas. (Although I am hoping to get out of the state before my children are old enough to go to the schools here) It has been very upsetting to me these last few days as I constantly hear the news reports stating how schools are opting out of showing Obama’s speech to the children of our country. It is a very sad state of affairs that our President cannot give a non-partisan speech extolling the virtues of a good education and staying in school. God forbid we teach those values to our children. Maybe we all need to take a step back and see why Texas has some of the lowest scores in the country, highest teen pregnancy rates and over all lack of tolerance to our fellow human beings on this earth.

]]> By: PoppaJohn http://www.moorethink.com/2009/09/04/the-lies-of-texas-are-upon-you/comment-page-1/#comment-822 PoppaJohn Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:52:58 +0000 http://www.moorethink.com/?p=498#comment-822 When I was an elementary school student in Southeast Texas in the mid-1930s, the assembly bell would ring and we'd gather in the auditorium. The principal would introduce a visiting preacher who was leading a revival at the town's biggest church. (Hint: it wasn't Catholic, Lutheran or Methodist, and in those days the Pentecostals were meeting in tents.) I remember one of these blokes was leading us in song when he yelled "Stop! You have to sound louder so Jesus can hear you!" How close are we those "good old days?" When I was an elementary school student in Southeast Texas in the mid-1930s, the assembly bell would ring and we’d gather in the auditorium. The principal would introduce a visiting preacher who was leading a revival at the town’s biggest church. (Hint: it wasn’t Catholic, Lutheran or Methodist, and in those days the Pentecostals were meeting in tents.) I remember one of these blokes was leading us in song when he yelled “Stop! You have to sound louder so Jesus can hear you!”
How close are we those “good old days?”

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