Lamond Remembers Texas

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Fri May 30, 2014, 05:53 PM
Star Member MrScorpio (59,779 posts)

When I was in Texas thirty years ago, people there rightly called it "God's Country"

Back then, it wasn't hard to see why. The state never did become my cup of tea, but it wasn't from any lack of effort. I had good times and bad times both. I experienced the state's natural beauty, in spite of the heat and the fire ants.

Although I never wanted to go back, there were some things and people I missed about it. But leaving there I thought, in a lot of ways, they've got a good thing going in Texas.

Today, from my remote view, I've become appalled at what Texas has become. Years of drought, oil and gas exploration and regressive GOP poiltics have taken a heavy toll on that state. God's Country is fast becoming a godforsaken wasteland. Pollution, decay, despair and more hold sway.

Texans seem more intent on turning to divine intervention to solve these problems than collective human action. I don't know why that's the case. Of course, I'm not there, I could be wrong.

Hopefully, the election of Wendy Davis will put some much needed spark back into the Lone Star State and folks will follow her lead.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025026901
Now Lamond lives in the land of milk and honey, Detroit.

Enough said.

Response to MrScorpio (Original post)
Fri May 30, 2014, 05:55 PM
Star Member ananda (13,902 posts)
1. Davis is only 12 or 13 points behind Abbott.

Why he's getting any votes is beyond me.

Abbott is no relation to nadin.

Fri May 30, 2014, 09:57 PM
Stallion (119 posts)
10. 30 Years Ago Texas Had Some Sensible Democrats Running the Show

Lloyd Bentsen, Ann Richards, Mark White and before that LBJ who created the Great Society. no Republican held state wide office in Texas for 100 years before the mid 1970s

And those sensible democrats turned Texas into a solid Republican state.

[BlondeMoment]

"Hopefully, the election of Wendy Davis will put some much needed spark back into the Lone Star State and folks will follow her lead."

Hold your breath, sucker.

Edit Hopefully, Babykiller Barbie will do a Dan Morales & never. be heard from. again.

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Dude has a head like a pineapple.

[HawkHogan]

Fri May 30, 2014, 09:57 PM
Stallion (119 posts)
10. 30 Years Ago Texas Had Some Sensible Democrats Running the Show

Lloyd Bentsen, Ann Richards, Mark White and before that LBJ who created the Great Society. no Republican held state wide office in Texas for 100 years before the mid 1970s
And those sensible democrats turned Texas into a solid Republican state.

All the good ole days.. when Texas Democrats did everything in their power to prevent blacks from voting. 

Learn your history Dummies.  If you did, you wouldn't make yourself look so foolish when you brag about the Texas Democrat party and its racist history.

[diesel driver]

All the good ole days.. when Texas Democrats did everything in their power to prevent blacks from voting. 

Learn your history Dummies.  If you did, you wouldn't make yourself look so foolish when you brag about the Texas Democrat party and its racist history.

Like THAT would ever happen...   

History, like so many other things, is as foreign to DUmmies as reality.