Finally, someone with a functional frontal lobe. Thank you, Captain, thank you.
And the high number of executions is *partly * due to the fact that we have more people than most states, and thereby more criminals.
The schools you are refering to are the Texas public schools. Most people send their kids to private schools. There are a few state programs that help people afford to send their kids to good schools, which takes some cash from the public schools. I went to St. Michael’s Academy. College prep school. Grandad set up his will so that his cash had to be used for the education of his kids, grandkids, and (soon) great grandkids.
Anyway, Austin does indeed have many good qualities, but they draw some weirdos too. Mostly because it’s the most liberal part of the state.
And add Eisenhower and LBJ to the list of famous Texans.
Friggin keyboard tried to put a “p” in “famous.”
Actually I think they trust a man’s ability to master his first language to form their opinions.
And exactly which public record displays one’s IQ? I’m crossing my fingers in the hope that it’s your voter registration, because I’m quite convinced yours would have been rejected if an IQ test is required there.
Water freezes anywhere on planet Earth, and throughout the rest of the universe, as far as I know. I think you meant where water freezes outdoors . Of course, you can’t have meant that either. Think about it. Water evaporates. You’re made of water.
When I was in elementary school, we studied the history of Georgia. I would imagine that at some point all schools teach their state’s history. Texas has a unique history, but all other states are equally unique in their own ways.
I was glad to see Ringo’s remark, which restored my faith in Texans.
Thank god the general doesn’t actually speak for the rest of us. A quick check of his public profile yielded the following tibbits of information.
Though The General dismisses college students when he describes Austin, he is in fact a college student. Hypocritical, much?
Even with all of his talk of how wonderful Dubya is, The General is a kid. He’s 19. He was not old enough to vote in the last election, or any before that. Again, he’s 19. Not even 20 years old. And barely 19 at that. Somehow, 19 years on this planet have given him the right to tell every Texan how they do think, or how they should think.
He proudly spouts about how much the Bushes did for our state, but he attended a private school? Guess we can all agree that their education programs stunk. (Though, in my personal experience, they beat Californias and Floridas into the dirt)
I really have to wonder about a person who posts their IQ in their public profile. Compensating for anything? Thank god mine is higher, since that is the sole way in which we judge a person.
Speaking of IQ’s, while I was unable to locate public record of the presidents, I did find a page relating SAT scores and IQ’s. This shows the presidents to be a 125. Lower than The Generals even. Scary thought. http://www.sq.4mg.com/Presidents.htm
I was dissing UT, not college kids in general. I’m at TTU.
And seeing as your site lists Bush alongside the greats, and places him in the “Presidents with high SQ, Ambition, and Integrity” catagory, I see no reason to complain.
Besides, when you consider that our last president dropped out of the Rhodes Scholar program (simply stopped going), we’re far better off than we were.
I attended private school because my grandad set up his will so that all his money went towards the education of his grandkids. There’s a mountain of cash, and my parents can only spent it on tuition. What do you expect, they’re gonna leave it and send me to a public school? My high school and my college isn’t costing them a cent.
Final point to this particular point-dexter, I fail to see the connection between voting and intellegence/perception. Perhaps you have found one. Explain.
PS. I post my IQ because I am proud of my intellegence. False modesty is for actors and celebrities, and I am neither.
also PS. Are any of you even aware that the weapons were found in Iraq? I realize that the mainstream media buried it, but people should know this before they talk politics.
Yet another PS. I apologize for getting irritated when I am confronted with the same points repeatedly. But I will not hesitate to call you a dumbass if you don’t see my responses to the last person who said exactly what you’re saying.
And can you people please stick to the topic? I’m sure that at least one of you forgot; it’s state myths.
Well The General, you’ve highlighted another myth: That if the sole extent of an individual’s political experience is as a competent Governor of Texas, he or she is necessarily qualified for higher national office.
Every student of Texas government learns that Governor of Texas does not really have much juice (BTW, I believe most college students in Texas state universities are required a semester of Texas government if they want to earn a bachelor’s degree). As Governor of Texas, George W. Bush did fine. So did Ann Richards before him. Comparatively speaking, not difficult because not much is required.
We’ve been a) fortunate to have it so good, or b)lucky it hasn’t been worse with GWB as president, depending on your perspective. Somebody may get meaningful executive experience as governor of some of the other states, but what voters should realize is that regardless of whether he/she is a democrat or republican, your prospective only-been-Governor-of-Texas presidential candidate is a Texas-sized unknown, because he or she did not get a whole lot of experience as Governor. This is not to speak ill of Texas government or politics, as there have been some great statesmen that’ve worked in Austin. Just perhaps the limitations of the Governor’s role WRT the Texas Constitution.
FWIW New York didn’t have a section on the History of New York specifically, at least not when I went to school there back in the Late Middle Ages. Of course stuff was mixed in along the line: Revolutionary War battles, the Erie Canal, Immigration to New York City (Ellis Island) and so on.
I really appreciate this thread, my wife and I are considering travelling to Texas to visit some of her relatives and I have never spent any time there. This discussion is - lluminating - in more ways than one.
General, darlin’…since you’ve lived in Texas since you were 7, I’m sure that by now you have heard the sayin’, “You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.”
What is the purpose of this thread? Is it really to dispell myths about Texas? From what I see, you are the embodiment of every ill-mannered Texan I’ve met (which have actually been few and far between). Insulting everyone here surely won’t draw them to you.
I don’t mind that you have state pride. I do, too! I love Texas, and I love my home state of Georgia as well. (Mr. Blue Sky, my hometown is near Savannah!) I’ll try to forget that you’ve dissed most of your southern neighbors over the course of this thread.
In my opinion, for all of its faults and idiosyncrasies, the South is a place like no other place on Earth, full of charm and traditions.
For the record, the Dukes of Hazard (that is the correct spelling, btw) was not set in “the South”, it was set in Georgia. (And yes, I took Georgia History in the 7th grade as well, so it’s not just a Texas thing.)
True Southerners (and cowboys for that matter) are not braggarts, and I’m afraid that is what you appear to be in this thread, General.
I truly believe that a lot of Southerners still have a “chip on their shoulders” relating to the secession. Not necessarily because of the things that the Confederates stood for at that time, but the way that things were handled, and the way the South was seen at the time, and in some places, the way we are still seen.
I am of the opinion that most Southern states have a great deal of pride, more so than our northern counterparts.
This is one of your silliest statements. I’ve met cowboys from Oklahoma, Nebraska, Georgia, Texas, Washington, Montana and Wyoming. If you truly knew something about being a cowboy, you’d know that being a cowboy is a way of life, and doesn’t have a damn thing to do with where you were born. (And having horses ‘don’t’ make you a cowboy, son.)
As you can see by the many protests here, most people in Texas, and in the South in general do not agree with people who think like The General. I hope you enjoy your stay in Texas, and if it’s near Houston, maybe we can have a Houdope in your honor!
Ok that explains everything. I figured you for an aggie at first, but even they have standards to uphold.
By the way I also want to city hall and found George W. Bushes IQ (city hall has that kind of data) and your wrong it said ummmm 104. With these kind of research skills I should have gone to Tech.
Being a native Texan, I have always taken a certain pride in being from this state. As a travel nurse, I have visited other states where regional pride seemed to be lacking and people seemed generally apathetic of their state’s history.
I guess I always enjoyed the fact that our state used to be its own nation…we are allowed to hang our flag level with the US flag…and we can even split into 4 other states if we ever so desire, a legal fact that remains in our states constitution. I always thought that was pretty cool…although why would we ever want to do that?
While I do not live there anymore, Texas will always be a part of me and I always tell people they should visit even if they’d rather not due to the bragodocia of my fellow Texans. I have enjoyed the other states I have visited as well, but I miss the manners and hospitality of back home…never seen it equalled anywhere else.
My patients usually guess by the way I talk I am from Texas…they don’t even ask if I from the South, they automatically ask how long I have been out of Texas…lol. Some people assume all Texans are going to be in their face bragging about Texas, but I generally let good manners and kindness speak for themselves.
The cockiness of the OP notwithstanding, this was an interesting thread.
Jump to conclusions much? I don’t need to seek out the opinions of Bush’s ‘political enemies’ to know that a person who talks like a moron, acts like a moron and makes moronic decisions … is a frickin’ moron.
City Hall? Yeah, right. Another poster has already called your ass out on this one, dude.
This ass-gas, however, knows the difference. Do you want to know what my I.Q. is? Oh, and if I make an error or if I state something that reveals that I am ignorant about something, I have the cohones to admit it, and I don’t make up lame excuses such as “my keyboard made me do it.” [inset crying emoticon here]
Yet in an earlier post, you said that Texas was “completely self-sufficient.” How is it that a state can be completely self-sufficient – yet import stuff too? Dictionary, meet The General, The General, meet Dictionary.
Never made such a remark, wise ass or otherwise. Please clarify.
Yeah, just like every other state in the U.S. can. Any U.S. state flag can be displayed at the same level as the U.S. flag when they are flown on adjacent flagpoles. Cite #1Cite #2
Yeah, just like every other state in the U.S. can. (See Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.)
Thanks for giving us two more great examples of erroneous and inflated Texas “we’re different from you” bravado, Grey4791. :rolleyes: This is becoming very tiresome …
(Also, see this Snopes entry for more, shall we say, less biased information on Texas history.)
I figured you for an aggie at first, but even they have standards to uphold.