Whenever I hear people “complaining” about Texas, it usually just makes me want to move there. Oklahoma, too.
Yeah, I remember that too. Minute they pimp-rolled off the bus and their platform soles hit the pavement, it was all “where all the free money at, jive turkey!” I just stood there in disbelief while they fluffed their enormous hair with their Black Power Fist afro picks. It was like a scene from a bad movie.
You misspelled “best movie ever.”
Please point out the light hearted part of your OP. I really can’t see why you think Texas is so special about its (mis)treatment of the poor and the uninsured.
And I’ll remove my giant stick when you remove yours.
We love Texas (especially San Antonio). The economy is good, the people are friendly, and the weather is great. I’ll take hot over snow any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
You do paint a vivid picture. 
In a follow-up we learn Ms. Grimmer’s children remained very critical and comatose, dying a few days later.
I blame liberal gun haters. If Ms. Grimmer had been able to buy a real Texas gun, she’d have been able to put the children out of their misery.
On this I have to disagree. I have family and friends in Texas and I always like visiting there but I couldn’t live with Texas weather. It’s nice when I go there in the middle of the winter and it’s pleasantly warm - but most of the year, I find it ungodly hot. I’d rather live in New York where we have four seasons.
My understanding is that it wasn’t that New Orleanians are inherently more criminally inclined than Houstonians. It’s more like both cities had an established criminal class and things were relatively quiet - the criminals knew their place, had filled the niches in their city’s criminal economy, and generally followed the unofficial rules of their city’s criminal system.
But the Katrina evacuation dumped a large part of New Orleans’ criminals (along with a majority of non-criminals) into Houston’s established crime system. Which essentially mean Houston had two overlapping criminal societies competing against each other. So there was a big spike in crime and violence as the New Orleans immigrant criminals and the Houston native criminals “worked out” a new equilibrium.
You would have seen the same phenomena if a hurricane had forced a mass evacuation of Houstonians to New Orleans. Only in that case, it would have been Louisianians complaining about how those Texans had brought all the crime with them to New Orleans.
Let’s not forget about Shrub’s Texas Death Panels (see section 166.046 (e)).
I grew up in Oregon and moved to Houston a few years ago and have love it ever since. Texas and especially Houston is a fantastic diverse state full of cultures from around the globe. It’s an amazing place and I’m lucky to live here. Of course, I am white and middle class 
This has not been my experience.
I’ve always been of the opinion that if you get arrested for a PI, it’s because you’re a loud mouth asshole who couldn’t stay muted for the five to ten minutes you had to talk to the police.
i lived in dallas for 11 months, didn’t like it, and i got TFO! 
Of course they’re giant sticks. Everything’s bigger in Texas.
Are there NO native Texans who aren’t enamored of the state? Because I’ve never been a fan and if I could afford to, I’d move somewhere else in a heartbeat.
< dons bulletproof vest >
Doesn’t Chuck Norris live in Texas?
That pretty much says it all.
Go back and read it for comprehension, Muffin. No death panels to be found therein, except in the sweaty little brains of liberals who think it is so cutesy-poo to refer to George Bush as Shrub.
<holds door open>
Here, I won’t let it hit you in the ass as you leave.
Gee, Clothy, I never realized that you were a lawyer skilled in reading and drafting legislation and trained in health-care law.
Stupid Texas Song, by the Austin Lounge Lizards.
You’ll start understand Texas when you understand that most Texans will agree with every word of that song, and not care. You may try to diss us with it, but we’ll be singing it louder than y’all.