Only in Texas

Is he trying to see if he can blow the snakes in half?
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And coyotes are certainly going to stand around waiting for Perry to put that little red dot on their forehead, aren’t they…

Of course, let’s not mention that if he does hit that coyote, the flying fragments will likely kill the puppy too.
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But what the hell, he’ll get that coyote, won’t he?

I betcha that coyote popped…

So Perry’s showing us how big a gun he has? So Second Amendment-y of him.

“Perry for President” does have a sort of ring to it, no?

…of the Austin Gun Club, maybe.

Are you sure that was his gun?

I don’t know foghorn, Perry has the most stable of all State Governments right now. They are not teetering on bankruptcy like California, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey are right now.
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Texas is enjoying a recovery from the Recession unlike any other State. That is also without all of the bailout and stimulus dollars the liberal / blue States gobbled up to boot.
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I think the Republican Party would be very smart to get Perry some national attention over the next year or so. Let him start doing more Republican national meetings. I do know he represents what the TEA Party folk would vote for as a President.

Oops. Sorry, Rusty:
http://www.window.state.tx.us/recovery/

Texas is doing a lot that is right — certainly compared to California, New York, and Illinois. (too soon to tell how Governor Christie will do in New Jersey)
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I don’t know of Governor Perry has actually done anything, the state already had low taxes and a fairly light regulatory burden before he was governor. But at least he has done no harm, which should be the first principle of any politician. He compares very favorably against our current president, who does harm to the country every single day.

One wacko governor from Texas is enough.

What’s your definition of “harm”?

Perry carries a gun because he has a fear of snakes? A gun with a laser sight? Loaded with hollow points?

Perry is an utter embarrassment. It makes complete sense that he is the governor of Texas. Looking forward to him becoming the president of the State as soon as it seccedes.

My definition of “harm” is pretty broad. Obama was doing damage to investor and consumer confidence even before he was elected! And ever since then, he’s been giving us reason to doubt his competence; that’s not good for the country’s economic situation or its global standing.
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He still has his fan club in the media, here and in Europe. But the people who count have seen his blunders, one after another. Even if they praise him in public, in their hearts they know he’s in way over his head.

You should all look at and read this article. There is even a graph, State by State as to all the budget cuts that have been made and compare Red States with Blue State cuts to basic services.
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California cuts across the board. 5 of 5 areas cut.
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New York cuts 3 out of 5 categories. Same for New Jersey, Rhode Island 5 of 5, Washington State 5 of 5, and Illinois 4 of 5 areas cut.
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Now the predominantly Red States like Texas, 1 of 5 cuts, Alaska None, South Dakota 1 of 5, Montana None, Nebraska 2 of 5, New Hampshire 2 of 5, North Dakota None.
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http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=1214
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Liberal progressive States are simply on the verge of bankruptcy. Even with huge amounts of stimulus dollars they may have to declare bankruptcy in the next year or so. How will Obama explain this to everyone?
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Harrisburg Pennsylvania is already considering bankruptcy as the 6th largest city in the US. Why is that?

Your definition is pretty broad. After all, you’re now giving Obama god-like powers, I guess:
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“Obama was doing damage to investor and consumer confidence even before he was elected!”

Obviously that jogging isn’t doing much good. He can’t outrun snakes.
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I say give the police the power to pull over and question any coyote they see… then put the National Guard on the edge of the woods.
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Me conservative. Me brave.

We now know Perry’s attitude towards coyotes, but what about road runners?

I heard he got a big campaign contribution from ACME.

Obama was doing damage to investor and consumer confidence even before he was elected!

Another fine example of idiocy and hyperbole. By your “logic”, W is still harming the country even after he has left the office. Utter genius!

“When told about the Perry coyote-killing incident, Dick Cheney replied, ‘Perry’s a small-timer…He definitely could have gone bigger, do something impressive like shooting one of his friends in the face. That’s what a pro like me would have done.’

Cheney then proceeded to rip the heart from a baby seal and devour it.”

Yeah, Texas is one heckuva state.
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Proportion of Children 18 and Under Without Health Insurance:
Texas 21%
United States 7%
(Highest in the country)
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Teen Birth Rate, Girls 15-19:
Texas 63.1
United States 41.9
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Income Inequality Between the Rich and the Poor:
Texas is ranked 2nd wrorst
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Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Scores:
Texas is 47th
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Percentage of Population over 25 with a High School Diploma:
Texas is 50th
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Percentage of Eligible Voters that Vote:
Texas is 44th

Because of course when John McCain said “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” he was right. It was only the prospect that Obama might get elected that brought the economy to it’s knees.
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Nice revisionism there.

This is the same crowd who blame Bill Clinton for 9/11.
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It’s always someone else’s fault with the Party of Personal Responsibility™.

As opposed to Obama crushing a hundred ants with his foot putting out his Newport cigarette? OMG how could Obambi do that to those poor ants?

The really scary thing is that Perry does not distinguish between coyotes and the children in the Texas Schools. Paddle all of the equally. They are just varmints anyway. ……

http://thefiresidepost.com/2010/04/19/the-paddle-using-fear-and-force-in-public-schools/

It is completely normal for humans to react to whatever they expect to happen in the future. If you expect next winter will be cold, you will prepare for that eventuality. If you expect to live until age 65, you plan for retirement.
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If you expected Barack Obama to be elected — and after about September 15 2008 that was a pretty good bet — then it was entirely normal for people to prepare for an Obama administration.
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When the Republicans won control of the House and Senate in 1994, the stock market surged and Treasury bond yields fell rapidly over the next month or two. This is because those election results came as a complete surprise, so investors were not prepared for the good news.
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At the end of 2010, estate taxes will jump from zero or near-zero for almost everyone, and will take a huge chunk out of inheritances. Anyone with a sizeable estate, who is getting up in years, who is not considering how to deal with this change in tax law, is simply not paying attention. It would be absurd not to respond to what you think may or will happen in the future.

Read this:
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Why Texas is doing so much better economically than the rest of the nation.
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Once a separate nation, Texas has recently been behaving more like an independent economic republic than a regular state. While it hasn’t been immune to the problems plaguing the nation, the Texas housing market, employment rate, and overall economic growth are relatively strong. Chalk some of this up to accidents of geology and geography. But Texan prosperity also reflects the conscious efforts of a once-parochial place to embrace globalization.

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And you say it’s government policy that is the reason why the Texas economy is better than most states? Well, you might be right, but it’s not the kind of conservative policy you might expect. It’s because of regulation:

The Texas housing market also has fared better than many. The mortgage delinquency rate (the portion of borrowers three months behind on payments) is 5.78 percent, compared with 8.78 nationwide, according to First American CoreLogic. That’s partly because relaxed zoning codes and abundant land kept both price appreciation and speculation down. “House prices didn’t experience a bubble in the same way as the rest of the nation,” said Anil Kumar, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. But it’s also because of two attributes not commonly associated with the Longhorn State: financial restraint and comparatively strong regulation. Unlike many of its neighbors, Texas has state laws that prohibited consumers from using home-equity lines of credit to increase borrowing to more than 80 percent of the value of their homes. The upshot: Dallas housing prices have fallen only 7 percent from their 2007 peak, according to the Case-Shiller index.

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Charts of budget cuts and economic growth mean nothing if you don’t understand why a certain state is performing better than average. Rather than assigning a reason that fits with your narrative, perhaps do a bit of research to avoid drawing spurious conclusions.

FreeDumbLog with the humor FAIL! Maybe that’s funny over at Redstate, so why don’t you try it there….oh wait, nevermind; YOU CAN’T.
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Well, I guess we all know how loony a right-winger has to be to be declared persona non grata by his fellow right-winger, eh Rusty?

“He’d also seen coyotes in the undeveloped area.’
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We humans just lay jogging trails in undeveloped areas and then shoot the wildlife so we can enjoy our morning run in peace. If the coyotes come into areas we have developed right next to their habit we shoot them to. We can’t jog in areas that we have already developed. This is to be celebrated.

m0mentom0ri: every one of the statistics you chose to post is related to the large immigrant population of Texas.
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About ten years ago, I taught in a high school in south Texas for a year. Out of approximately 140-150 students in my classes, I had one with an Anglo surname.
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I had dozens who were just waiting until they could quit school legally and go to work — and dozens more who rarely showed up for class even though they were too young to quit school. I would say that a majority did not see a reason to graduate from high school.
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I also had many pregnant girls in my classes — some were married, some were not.
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I do not know what percentage of eligible voters actually turned out for elections. As I recall the area was strongly Democratic, whoever the Democrats nominated got elected, so there was little reason to get excited about elections.
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I enjoyed my experience in that high school and in South Texas. I can say with complete confidence that there is nothing that could have been done in Austin that would have made much difference to the families of my students. If the legislature had voted for a much larger welfare safety net, it would have only encouraged more illegal immigration.
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I am pretty sure that many of my students crossed the border each morning to catch a school bus on the north side. I also suspect that many people who showed up at the hospital emergency rooms actually lived on the other side of the Rio Grande.

“And coyotes are certainly going to stand around waiting for Perry to put that little red dot on their forehead, aren’t they.”

Well apparently this one was as dumb as you.

pistol envy!

(quote)The really scary thing is that Perry does not distinguish between coyotes and the children in the Texas Schools. Paddle all of the equally. They are just varmints anyway. …… (end of quote)
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Rick Perry’s name did not appear anywhere on the page of that linked article. And anyway, he was not the governor when the author of that article witnessed her schoolmate being paddled.

Let’s see how you like coyotes tipping over your garbage cans and spreading trash all over.
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Let’s see how you react when your pets are killed if you don’t keep them locked indoors.
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“It’s always someone else’s fault with the Party of Personal Responsibility™.”

Isn’t that the liberals motto?

Your on crack, its because mean business men won’t give you 75K/yr to sit around

You can’t read, its because mean conservatives won’t spend 30k per student instead of 23k for them to be uneducated

He make 1 million and has two houses because the greedy rich won’t pay 90% of their income for fairness.

Terrorists fly planes into WTC because we aren’t nice to them.

I’m glad you pointed out the necessity of having sound Governmental regulations which are fiscally responsible and meet the Real Estate standards for the past 100 years prior to when the Democrats in the Democratically controlled House of Representatives changed the laws to demand bankers loan money to anyone without any credit restrictions or requirements.
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Thank you so much nathan7777 for pointing this fact out.
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I am sure with most fiscally conservative Republicans you would elicit much agreement on a fiscally responsible nation with regulations so that greed cannot take over responsible lending practices. That what Goldman Sachs did with their derivitive market, betting on the “short” knowing full well that the loans they packaged would fail. Goldman simply played the market and the Federal regulations which were relaxed by both a Republican Adminstration and a Democratically controlled House and Senate.
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I also believe this is at the heart of the current debate in the Senate. The Democrats do not want to take on Freddie Mac and Fannie Maie and place regulations on how that company, Government owned by the way, does business. Democrats are after the private compaines to put pressure and regulations on them to stop their greedy money profiteering, which should be stopped and the Republicans agree. But, what also should be equally addressed which the Democrats do not want to put in the Financial Reform Bill is Freddie and Fannie regulations as well. People will see through yet another smoke and mirror show by the Democrats in the Senate just like their saw through the health care reform bill which the vast majority of Americans rejected. It is just a matter of time before the truth is told by the Media, and the Media is no longer a mea culpa with the Liberals on Capital Hill.
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And while speaking of Freddie and Fannie, why hasn’t the Media also investigated Freddie and Fannie’s involement in the proposed carbon credit swaps being devised for the new cap and trade, environmental bill? Why would a Real Estate lender be involved with Cap and Trade carbon credits? Why isn’t there more media transparency on how Obama is using Freddie and Fannie to fund Al Gore and the rest of the Environmentalist’s agenda for trading of cap and trade credits on the proposed new commodities trading company being devised by the Tides Foundation through the “Joyce Foundation”?
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Hopefully the lame stream media will dig into these schemes and uncover the corruption which is what this Administration is all about it seems.

“Because of course when John McCain said “the fundamentals of our economy are strong” he was right.”

Or could it be Obama campaigned on US havng the worst economy ever then when in office say we underestimated how bad it was.

freeinpa, looking down and seeing, uh, nothing…
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Huh? Wha? How did I…
Gravity, noticing freeinpa’s offensive behavior, interrupts freeinpa’s “thought process” with a very hearty yank
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa aa aaa …
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a aa a …
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zzzzzzzz….
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poof!

Obivously all responsibility lies with the coyote.

You must crack yourself up. Yell for mom get your meds

How can he be “feared of snakes”? Won’t the TPers be upset? After all, one of their beloved icons is the Gadsen Flag and “don’t tread on me”! And, remember Gov. Good Hair’s threat to secede. He should revere snakes.
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Also, New Rusty and Freeper, Texas governors have very little actual power. That’s why Bush was considered successful. He was good at denying death penalty appeals.

Are you serious? You really think the reason why Republicans are opposing this bill is because there aren’t any new regulations on Fannie and Freddie?
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What are you smoking?
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I suppose it’s just a conincidence then that the Republicans have been meeting with Wall Street lobbyists asking for their campaign contributions in return for opposing financial reform. Yeah. Just a coincidence.
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And as for your ridiculous conspiracy theories, if anyone is set to profit from trading carbon credits, it’s Goldman. But that’s fine. Let them profit. People can trade as much carbon credits as they want as long the profits incentivize a reduction in carbon emmissions, the entire point of cap and trade.
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And you can quit with the childish “lame stream” media. Do you just repeat anything Palin says? Last time I checked, Fox News was very much main stream, and they are anything but liberal.

Hollow points and laser sights to deal with snakes!!?? That would be comic if it wasn’t scary.

Hollow points are used for accuracy and they mushroom on impact destroying much of the surrounding tissue.

A non-hollow point bullet would pass clear through the snake and it could live and strike. In fact, you can cut a snake in half lengthwise and both sections could live for hours.

I put a big ol’ saguaro cactus with long, looong and very pointy spines down there for you to land on, too!

Nathan: why are the Democrats opposed to controls on Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac? Aren’t $400 billion in losses enough?
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Why have Wall Street firms given campaign contributions mainly to Democrats, by a very wide margin, for many election cycles dating back to the early 1990s? At what point does the evidence become so overwhelming that even you have to admit that the Dems do whatever Wall Street wants?
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You make a number of assumptions about me, regarding Sarah Palin and FNC, which are unfounded. Stick to what you know — no, that’s not right, stick to what is true, since so much of what you “know” isn’t true.

I think they should just call in the animal grinders.
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That way, Micky Dee gets more patties, and the problem of that bothersome wildlife is solved too.
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Personally, I prefer a shotgun to solve all my problems. It works every time. Whatever caused the problem, for some reason, stops being whatever it was that was causing the problem when you blast it with both barrels.

Can anyone post a link to just what Rusty said to get kicked off RedState?
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I would really like to know. I saw RedStates’ post on the subject, but not the actual hate mail.

Looks like we just found someone who has experience at a bit of wanton animal cruelty. I’ve heard the concern voiced that people who do this fit the profile of people most likely to become serial killers.

First off, I wasn’t talking to you, unless this is your other alias.
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Second of all, are you seriously accusing the Democrats of doing whatever wall street wants? The very same Democrats that are now pushing for a financial reform package that Wall Street is against? The very same Democrats that want to regulate derivatives against the wishes of Wall Street? The very same Democrats that want to end the bailouts that Wall Street used to increase their profits? The very same?
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Thirdly, this is all I have to say about the notion that Fannie and Freddie caused the crisis:

A large part of America’s political spectrum believes, as an article of faith, that do-gooding politicians caused the crisis – that the Community Reinvestment Act forced banks to lend to minority groups, and that Fannie/Freddie were responsible for the bubble.
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I won’t spend much time on this, since it’s easy to refute. The CRA was around for almost 30 years before the problems in subprime began to develop; anyway, most subprime lenders weren’t even covered by the act. And the worst of the housing bubble developed at a time when Fannie and Freddie, under pressure over accounting scandals, were actually withdrawing from the market.
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Nonetheless, it’s important to know that a lot of people believe that Barney Frank did it – and nothing will convince them otherwise.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/six-doctrines-in-search-of-a-policy-regime/

“Just one shot from a laser-sighted pistol”?

That’s like boasting about your GPS-aided map reading skills.

Now if he used iron sights, I’d be a little more impressed.

Krugman did some good work about 30 years ago. Since then, not so much.

Thank you for putting that thought in my head, decon.
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I definitely had fun with it…

Did you read it? Care to refute it? Thought so.

Now the predominantly Red States like Texas, 1 of 5 cuts, Alaska None, South Dakota 1 of 5, Montana None, Nebraska 2 of 5, New Hampshire 2 of 5, North Dakota None.
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That is correct Rusty in TX we are 47th in education and something like 49 th in Health care, so we can’t cut anymore.

“Looks like we just found someone who has experience at a bit of wanton animal cruelty.”
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But clearly, none at all with firearms and munitions. Hollow points that are used for target accuracy are completely different than ones designed to “mushroom” on impact. And no snake is going to attack anyone after being hit with a .380,hollow-point or otherwise.
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Anyway, anyone who can’t manage to stay clear of coyotes and snakes while jogging (with his puppy!) isn’t bright enough to be carrying a loaded firearm.

nathan7777 @ 5.14,
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I was there and part of the moneycenter banking system.
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The branch loan officers were pressured by management who was pressured by the government to make illadvised loans.
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Feelgood 30 years later really does not feel so good.
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We knew the loans would not perform, but were blackmailed into granting them in order to get approval to establish branches in rubble-strewn neighorhoods.
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This was NOT Frank’s Bank and Storm Door Company either…it was THE largest NYC moneycenter bank.
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keep spouting your BS….were you there…do you KNOW or are you just a bunch of nonsense?

apr @ 7.1
that would be the Gadsden Flag….that I believe you are referring to.
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you know if this applies to you…
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taunting and ridiculing the person you are calling “rusty” really does not forward what I thought the concept of this forum is.
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seems like every time he posts, the pack of coyotes ( how appropriate ) come out barking and snarling.
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doesn’t seem like a good way to encourage free thinking individuals.
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I’ll admit that he sometimes craps on your playground…but deal with it.
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you do not own this blog, anymore than he/she does.
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you remind me of the jerks in high school that talked and cut-up during class thus distracting the rest of us from our studies…. yes the pranks and jokes were funny, but at what price.
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if you are here to provoke thought and sway other’s thinking, you will never do it by being jerks.

Governor Perry, we have coyotes here too. They’ve been right up to the house. Man up you sissy b!tch. You don’t need hollow point shells.

In the comments section at Redstate, Rusty called one of the Redstate bloggers, “a progressive republican”. (Decon had posted a link earlier to this.. too lazy to look for it. Rusty isnt worth my time anymore)
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Rusty then got banned and sent a mail demanding an apology from Redstate and demanded that the ban be removed.
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For all his trouble,Rusty’s apology demand email got published and Rusty then became the butt of jokes for all the right wing tea baggers on the site.
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Talk about tail wagging the dog !!

Also, I noticed that Rusty’s twitter account name is inPA.
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So I have a sneaking suspicion that freeper and Rusty could be the same person. Not sure though..
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But, again, I don’t really care. Both of them are hilarious (unintended) and I would like both of them to continue posting comments here.

It’s possilbe maverick29. An odd thought, and maybe worth it to consider.
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They have such different styles. Freeinpa is definitely the more durable of the two, as, right after the election, Rusty had a fling with the Sleeping White Giant and posted more than a few blatantly racist diatribes here.
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Freeinpa, on the other hand, can take it, he’s more like the Eveready Bunny, he doesn’t go in some of the directions Rusty does, but he does skirt the waters of ignorance much more often.
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Rusty doesn’t dogwhistle often, and is more intellectual than freeper. On the other hand, freeinpa is the most prolific dogwhistler on these blogs.

One, racial hatred is not legitimate political discourse.
Two, anyone who practices Southern Strategy, and I happen to see it is likely to get cornered and called out.
Three, propagandizing is not legitimate political discourse.
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I reserve the right to do what I need to do when the need arises.
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And if this wasn’t meant for me, my02cents, it should be.
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Keep it sane*, keep away from Southern Strategy, and outright racism, or the protuberances of such, and you’ll have no problems with me.
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Otherwise…
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*I include this, because you and some of your komerades have debounded the envelope here, I’ve had to bring out the sarcasm. I reserve the right to be sarcastic, too.

beep, beep. Here comes Governor Perry. Actually, he needed a laser gun because Wiley Coyote was intellectually superior to him.
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We had foxes and coyotes visit our cranberry bog. They were never threatening. The only threatening creatures were the farmers with guns at ready that would chase them and the occasional bear trampling cranberry vines. Then I hid in the house.
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The bears came down when bee hives were put out for pollination causing our fellow farmers to become more frenzied than bees left behind when the hives were removed.
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We had a mangey dog that would disrespectfully walk on the vines. He disappeared. The local storekeeper said he saw a tourist put him in a car and take him away. Likely he met a different fate. Maybe he ran into Rick Perry.

to all,

OBVIOUSLY a lot of posters on this site know NOTHING about TX, about hazards “in the rural areas of the USA” and/or about predators.

coyotes, coy-dogs (coyote-domestic canine crosses) & feral dogs are POTENTIALLY dangerous, especially when they run in packs.

fyi, when out “running” in the hills west of Austin, TX (as she does every day, rain or shine – “Noe” is quite the athlete & a “dedicated trails runner”.), my 37YO daughter carries a 9×18 Makarov pistol in a “buttpack” & has HAD to fire it (into the ground) to scare away coyotes/stray dogs, TWICE in the last couple of years.

in my case, i HAD to shoot a stray dog on our family farm that had “treed me”, about 10 years ago. = it later turned out that the dog was RABID.
(MOST aggressive coyotes & wolves, seen in the daylight, are RABID! – healthy coyotes/wolves are SHY & do NOT attack adult humans, though they MAY be POTENTIALLY hazardous to small children & pets.)

NOTE: feral dogs, in packs, ARE hazardous to both people & pets.- even your much-loved “Buffy”, “Lassie” or cute little “Tiffany” MAY be “a quite different dog”, when running in a pack!
(that’s ONE good reason to NOT let your dogs stray away from you home!)

if you are “city-born & city-bred” you don’t know enough to HAVE an knowledgeable opinion & posting some of the ERRANT NONSENSE, that i’ve read here, simply makes you look FOOLISH, filled with PREJUDICE/hate & generally STUPID.

sorry, but that’s TRUE! ====> as the old saying goes, “Tis far better to keep silent & appear to be a fool, than to speak & remove all doubt.”

yours, TN46