The States We’re In: newyorker.com

The States We’re In: newyorker.com

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calling the man- in on this-- ENOUGH! I can play this game....better!

Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428, Austin, Texas 78711
Phone: (512) 463-2000
Fax: (512) 463-1849

To:Rick Perry and Staff:

     I received this as an email, and I wanted you to see it.  It is signed " The People of TEXAS".

I would like assistance in finding out if any of this is true, and who would be portraying your state in this way. It has become an a matter of my patriotic duty to find out why anyone would want to break up the USA for any reason.

 

    If this is true I would like you to come forward and say it is so, otherwise, this kind of public political threats should be squashed and put to rest. Everyone supports the commander in chief, and when and if we are in a need for national security, I would never want my children to think that your state would not answer the call of duty.   

 

Sincerely,

 

Elizabeth Masloff

2284 Saturn Skyway

Redding CA 96002

 

 

cc:A copy of this letter may be posted to my blog.

From: Barbara Beehner-Anderson <honeybcb@charter.net>
To: Undisclosed-Recipient@yahoo.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 8:42:30 PM
Subject:

 

 

 

This is for those of you with ties to Texas!

              
In case things get a little tough during the next few months, Texans have a plan...
       
        
        Maybe you don't know it, but Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union . (Reference the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of 1848.)
       
        We Texans love y'all Americans, but we'll probably have to take action since Barack Obama won the election and is now the President of the U.S.A.   We'll miss y'all though.
              
       
           Here is what can happen:

       
        1. Barack Hussein Obama, after becoming the President of the United States , begins to try and create a socialist country, and then Texas   announces that it is going to secede from the Union .
       
       
        2.  George W. Bush becomes the President of the Republic of Texas . You might not think that he talks too pretty, but we haven't had another terrorist attack and the economy was fine until the effects of the Democrats lowering the qualifications for home loans came to roost.

So what does TEXAS have to do to survive as a Republic?


        1. NASA Space Control is located just south of Houston , Texas , so we will control
the space industry.
       

        2. We already refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.
       

        3. Defense Industry ~ we have over 65% of it.  The term "Don't mess with Texas ," will take on a whole new meaning.
       

        4. Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years.  What will the other states do?  Gee, we don't know, but you can ask
Obama.
       

        5. Natural Gas - again, we have all we need and it's too bad about those Northern States.  John Kerry and Al Gore will just have to figure out a way to keep them
warm....
       

        6. Computer Industry - we lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications equipment - small companies like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer,
EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied
Materials, Ball Misconduct, Dallas Semiconductor, Nortel, Alcatel, etc.

        The list goes on.
             
        7. Medical Care - We have the research centers for cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world, as well  as other large health centers. The Houston Medical Center alone employees over 65,000 people.
       
        8. We have enough colleges to keep educating and making smarter citizens: University of Texas , Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Texas Christian, Rice, SMU, University of Dallas , University of Houston , Baylor, UNT ( University of North Texas ), Texas Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the South anyway.

        9. We have an intelligent and energetic work force and it isn't restricted by a bunch of unions.  Here in Texas , we are a  "Right to Work" State and, therefore,
it's every man and woman for themselves. We just go out and get the job done. And if we don't like the way one company operates, we get a job somewhere else.
       
        10.  We have essential control of the paper, plastics, and insurance industries, etc.
       
         11. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard, the Texas Air National Guard, and several military bases.   We don't have an Army, but since
everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an Army in 24  hours if we need one.

 
        If the situation really gets bad, we can always call the Department  of Public Safety and ask them to send over the Texas Rangers.
       

        12. We are totally self-sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs, and several types of grain, fruit, and vegetables; and let's not forget seafood from the Gulf.  Also, everybody
down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. We don't need any food.
       

        13. Three of the ten largest cities in the United States and twenty-three of the 100 largest cities in the United States are located in Texas .  And Texas also has more land than California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Vermont combined.
       
        14. Trade: Three of the ten largest port s in the United States are located in Texas
       
        15. We also manufacture cars and trucks down here. 
       
        This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have.  Now to the rest of you folks in the United States under President Obama:
       
        1. Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Obama will be able to drive around in his big 9 mpg SUV. The rest of the people  of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.

          
        2. You won't have any TV as the Space Center in Houston will cut off satellite communications.
       
        3. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes, but since Mr. Obama has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas as long as you survive the 2000 years it will take to get enough heat from Global Warming.    
       
        In other words, the rest of y'all in the USA are screwed!
              
Signed,
       
        The People of Texas
       
        P.S. This is not a threatening letter - just a note to give you something to think about!   Sleep well tonight 'cause "The Eyes of Texas are on YOU"!!
 
       
        ''Life's tough ... it's even tougher if you're stupid.''       -- John Wayne

coffee coffee coffee the most perfect drug...

How many times have you done the same thing day after day after day, and just not wanted to get up and do it all again, but then you drank the magic potion, of coffee and decided that it was all worth it?  Can you hear my music, its either love potion number nine... or its Veronica by Elvis Costello, or its just the Coffee House channel on Serius Sat Radio...   I know some of you, don't drink coffee, and that is great, you can drink something else, tea, water those things are great too, and very similar to coffee, except, well for the color and the smell and the feeling of caffeine rushing through your veins and then to your brain giving you the feeling that you could probably bike the empire state building!  Now you know I have had my coffee today, because I can talk on any good day, but give me a cup of coffee and I am motivational speaker!  I am a Happy CAMPER, I am halarious-- and I can clean house all day, and write and work and do art, and sell you stuff-- oh how the day is good--, almost as good as carrot juice, but that is another story-- today I have to blog about my friend, and love-- COFFEE, that I dont even mind -- if other people love it, its the love we share.....     To be sure-- I am a coffee snob, I admit it, I don't just fiend for coffee and settle for instant Sanka with the freeze dried milk and sweeteners...not for me!  I don't even like--the majority of coffee houses, including the successful Starbucks.  I grew up in Berkeley, and we have PEETS coffee!  Peet taught the Starbucks guy, what coffee was, and how to do it! but he's strayed since.  When I moved from Berkeley to Marin, it was like coffee heaven, you might not think that three or four different types of coffee houses could exist ron the same street, but they do.  Loyal customers will continue to shop where they like the best its about--atmosphere and taste. I remember a great place in Mill Valley and in San Anselmo, called the Coffee Roaster's, it was a beautifully build store, with JUST COFFEE BEANS, no food what so ever! NONE!  They just sold every kind of bean imaginable--for prices that reflected the quality and the time it took to get it there. Carbon footprints were no object!  You just bought a cup of coffee or beans thats it, if you were hungry-- go somewhere else!  BUT, They had this quaint outside patio hidden just out back , with chairs and tables and it looked like a cobble stone road anywhere in paradise, and people sat silently and drank coffee and literally did not have any outside disruptions.  It was so relaxing, no loud music, no distracting displays, no gaudy wall murals depicting how great they were, just ivy and trees.  Nothing was more intriguing to me than this, how does this work, a quiet coffee house....   You cant find that coffee here in Redding, your lucky to have good coffee at all!  I search for it on days like today, because, well, I get so tired of the same old dishes, laundry and dirt, I cant do it one more day! without a little help from my friend-- coffee.   Thankfully, I am a Lutheran, and unabashed coffee lover and people lover too!  You might know that Lutheran World Relief, was the funding to create awareness of coffee growing and selling, and between--pubic awareness, and human rights advocates-- they-made it a crime to use children as young as six- as coffee pickers, or  "slave children" as farm workers.  Thank to this group of concerned people, awareness has almost stopped a world market, of exploiting children for pennies a day on big bucks coffee.  Out of this came, "FAIR TRADE COFFEE" and it means that, people will be paid a fair wage, work a fair amount of hours, and not one underage child will be used.  In many places such as Columbia, children are the only hope of drug addicted parents, and the beans are not just for-- coffee drinks, they are breakfast lunch and dinner.  Literally roasted on a BBQ daily, and then ground and eaten, from stolen the beans pocketed by the farm-workers on their shift.  They have no food, they eat coffee beans.  Not unlike the cocaine leaves they chew...AHEM, yea!  This is a real drug folks, and it begins to dawn on you when you don't have it.  Can you imagine if they outlawed it?  There would be no revolution, we'd all be home with a headache, and too dull to get up!  Entire companies would go out of business, and I am guessing the New York alone would have to make a world time change to get up after California....dont ask..   That's enough ruin any coffee buzz...which makes me worry?  Is coffee such a powerful drug that one day, science will outlaw it?  Its a commodity, traded on the open market, the biggest in the world, and its multi- million dollar pull makes it fodder for drug lords all over the place.  Will it eventually go onto the list of the bad drugs because of the people it supports?  Not likely as long as the good American business people keep their hands in every ones pockets,...basically, we help them make this product and we have some input in the way they grow the most popular beans,  Shade grown, means less water, organic means no pesticides, fair trade, these are terms you must agree too, or our little brown potion will be outlaw juice.   LOVE potion number 1 : COFFEE! KEEP IT LEGAL, stay informed,  SOON I am opening my own  coffee house, please come on in and enjoy!  Please search and find your favorite coffee and enjoy the day!   Yes I am going to open my own coffee house, with real good coffee!~  the PEETS way, and with a lot of perky extras!!   Donations excepted, stock on sale today-- send payment to: Pandawishes, c/o Liz  Masloff  2284 Saturn Skyway Redding CA 96002     LOVE YOU   LIZ         Thank You From Panda Publishing http://artislifeupgraded.blogspot.com/