Texans and Texas posted 9/1/2009 7:47:19 PM | 1 kudo what's this?     report abuse

dharmaseeker

Well, what can I say? A Texas gubernatorial candidate and south end of a north bound Jackalope named Larry Kilgore pointed to the American flag atop our beloved state capitol and said, "I hate that flag. I hate the United States government." He was talking to a crowd of screwballs gathered in the name of session and in hateful protest of our national leadership.

Kilgore is a traitor to Texas and the U.S.. He may just as well have spit on the men and women, our parents and grandparents, some of our spouses and children, who have served and died for that flag. The flag our government gave my dad is proudly displayed in my living room beside his picture in uniform when he served in the big war. I'd love to have a picture of Mr. Kilgore wearing a gob of tar and some Pilgrim's Pride chicken feathers to hang nearby.

Please, ladies and gentlemen, do NOT think this man represents Texas. He is a fool's fool and an insult to cowboy boots and stetson hats.

'Fact is, there are lots of folks in Texas that are not pleased with what's going on in D.C. Include me in that list even though the right wingers don't much care for my views either. But disagreeing is not even close to the same thing as the asinine remarks and hate speech made by Mr. Kilgore and echoed by a handful of Alex Jones fans and assorted radicals who wouldn't know freedom if it bit them. It should.

I have made my personal displeasure about the even known to the president of the only legitimate organization represented at that mob scene, Mr. Daniel Miller of the Texas Nationalist Movement. Mr. Miller wrote back promptly and denied news reports that the TNM organized the so-called rally and said TNM did not endorse any of the speakers. Of course Mr. Miller should not have been there at all but who wants to miss the chance to make a speech, even if it is to a bunch of nutcases?

This thing isn't about right wing politics, folks, it's about what a Texan is. Kilgore ain't it. We Texans disagree down here sometimes. Sometimes we get down right pissed at each other. But Texas is a magnificent place and Texans, as a rule, are good people. Even though there are those who might want to string me up for my anti-right-wing views I can still walk through town and swap "howdies" with the locals and expect mostly friendly faces along the streets.

I am in a rural part of Texas. In the cities people sometimes forget to be nice. Even there, though, snobs are not nearly as widespread as they are up east in a few places I've been. We ain't perfect but we ain't idiots either, so please don't think the few Fox-fed empty headed men and women on the news who desecrate boot-cut jeans and know the lingo are true Texans.

I don't want you folks unfortunate enough not to hail from the Lone Star State to be confused. We're a little wild, rough around the edges, sometimes off the wall. We're never understood by "foreigners" who live past the Red, the Sabine or the Rio Grande. But we ain't nuckin' futs like them idiots on the news.

That's about if for now. Just so you know!

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