# Even the stupid is bigger in Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 29, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285 "2015-01-29T23:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/21 "2015-01-30T02:47:16Z")
Yeah, because some politicians in Texas are stupid. Unlike all the other politicians in all the other states, right? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/22 "2015-01-30T02:47:52Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > When you call someone stupid, you might want to check your own comments for factual errors. From the linked article. > [@](#): > > I did leave **an Israeli flag** on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and **publicly announce allegiance to America** and our laws. What’s the factual error \*\*Little Nemo \*\*made? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/23 "2015-01-30T02:48:30Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > Yeah, because some politicians in Texas are stupid. Unlike all the other politicians in all the other states, right? Well, there’s Kansas, so you guys aren’t the only ones. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/24 "2015-01-30T02:50:21Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > From the linked article. > > What’s the factual error \*\*Little Nemo \*\*made? **Nemo** : “foreign flag on her desk and asked people to pledge to it” “it” refers to the foreign flag, not “America”. Read is not that hard, is it? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/25 "2015-01-30T03:03:46Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > **Nemo** : “foreign flag on her desk and asked people to pledge to it” > > “it” refers to the foreign flag, not “America”. Read is not that hard, is it? OK, I missed that detail. Still don’t think it ranks as equal to what the Texas dumbfuck did. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/26 "2015-01-30T03:08:54Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > But moving to a new country and refusing to assimilate was the fundamental principle on which Texas was founded. She’s an idiot, plain and simple. Texas is most certainly a sort of fusion state in more ways that most people realize- we have all sorts of immigrants here, and most of them take a few generations to assimilate. In the meantime, we have stuff like the [San Antonio Zeitung](https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ees07), and[La Prensa](http://www.laprensasa.com/) in San Antonio or [Hospodar](http://hospodar-czech.blogspot.com/)out of West, or [Our Texas](http://www.ourtx.com/), [Voice of Asia](http://voiceofasiaonline.com/) and the [Vietnam Post](http://www.thevietnampost.com/)from Houston. This woman is from what amounts to a big dumb hick town in Central Texas and doesn’t know her ass from a hole in the ground, and ought to shut the fuck up- she doesn’t speak for the rest of us from Texas at all. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/27 "2015-01-30T03:15:47Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > OK, I missed that detail. Still don’t think it ranks as equal to what the Texas dumbfuck did. Neither do I, which is why I didn’t say it was. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/28 "2015-01-30T03:40:34Z")
She sent staffers out to get things to display in her office, make her Muslim guests feel more “at home”. Found a Palestine flag, but turned out to be the wrong Palestine. Went to local mosques to see if they could buy a nice framed portrait of Mohammed, like the ones of Jesus with the shiny auburn hair. Didn’t go well. Probably lucky it was something as relatively innocuous as an Israeli flag. ---
**Author:** ![BOOM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@BOOM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BOOM)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/29 "2015-01-30T03:44:25Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Found a Palestine flag, but turned out to be the wrong Palestine. Okay, I have to ask … how many Palestine’s are there? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/30 "2015-01-30T03:55:07Z")
> [@BOOM](#): > > Okay, I have to ask … how many Palestine’s are there? Well, there’s the one up north of Crockett, but I don’t think they have their own flag. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/31 "2015-01-30T04:06:49Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Well, there’s the one up north of Crockett, but I don’t think they have their own flag. Not sure about their own flag, but Palestine got a bit of bad press when they flew the Stars and Bars a couple years ago during Confederate History Month. Yeah, there are plenty of Texas sized asshats around. ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/32 "2015-01-30T04:15:44Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > She sent staffers out to get things to display in her office, make her Muslim guests feel more “at home”. Found a Palestine flag, but turned out to be the wrong Palestine. Went to local mosques to see if they could buy a nice framed portrait of Mohammed, like the ones of Jesus with the shiny auburn hair. Didn’t go well. > > Probably lucky it was something as relatively innocuous as an Israeli flag. This made me laugh. She could have framed a recent magazine cover from a certain French magazine. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/33 "2015-01-30T04:38:20Z")
Don’t see why they couldn’t just use that nice portrait of Jesus you see all over, looks like he’s in a hair commerical, flowing auburn locks your sister would kill for. And just say it was a portrait of Mohammed! That kind of thoughtfulness just naturally wins folks over! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/34 "2015-01-30T04:42:43Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Don’t see why they couldn’t just use that nice portrait of Jesus you see all over, looks like he’s in a hair commerical, flowing auburn locks your sister would kill for. And just say it was a portrait of Mohammed! That kind of thoughtfulness just naturally wins folks over! Blashemer! Jesus was [blonde!](http://spiritualhealingsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Blonde-Jesus.jpg) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/35 "2015-01-30T10:00:54Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Blashemer! Jesus was [blonde!](http://spiritualhealingsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Blonde-Jesus.jpg) > 😃 Agreed. Not to extend the hijack, but for some reason I can’t fathom my own personal Jesus looks exactly like [this guy](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E0q1_84qLx0/UZ6vbTiG-cI/AAAAAAAACKA/okypdhi686Y/s400/zaphod+beeblebrox.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/36 "2015-01-30T16:36:59Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > my own personal Jesus looks exactly like [this guy](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E0q1_84qLx0/UZ6vbTiG-cI/AAAAAAAACKA/okypdhi686Y/s400/zaphod+beeblebrox.jpg). I find your ideas compelling, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/37 "2015-01-30T18:36:35Z")
> [@bump](#): > > … This woman is from what amounts to a big dumb hick town in Central Texas … Where? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/38 "2015-01-30T18:42:40Z")
Thank you, Texas. -Florida > [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Agreed. Not to extend the hijack, but for some reason I can’t fathom my own personal Jesus looks exactly like [this guy](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-E0q1_84qLx0/UZ6vbTiG-cI/AAAAAAAACKA/okypdhi686Y/s400/zaphod+beeblebrox.jpg). I thought _Personal_ Jesus looked like [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/DaveGahanbyNOA-HASSIN.JPG). ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/39 "2015-01-30T18:45:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Blashemer! Jesus was [blonde!](http://spiritualhealingsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Blonde-Jesus.jpg) > 😃 Yes, he was…[and still is](http://nothingiswrittenfilm.blogspot.com/2013/12/remembering-peter-otoole-part-ii-and.html). ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/40 "2015-01-30T18:46:14Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I’m shocked that the have something called “Texas Muslim Capitol Day”. Not sure what it means, but it sounds, dare I say it… rather progressive! That’s the name of the event organized by CAIR. It is not something officially recognized by the State. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285.md?page=3)