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California Vs Texas : What they think and How we respond.
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California vs Texas
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CALIFORNIA:
- I can wear sandals all year long
- I go to the Beach - not “down to the shore”
-Our chicks are WAYYYY hotter than yours. Well…Miami can hang.
- I say “like” and “for sure” and “right on” and “dude” and “totally” and “peace out” and “chill” and “tight” and “bro” and I say them often
- I know what real cheese & avocados taste like
-Everyone smokes weed and its no big deal
-We’ll roll up 40 deep when something goes down.
-I live next door to Mexicans, but we call them American’s!
-All the porn you watch is made here, cause we’re better and thats how it is
- I don’t get snowdays off because theres only snow in Mammoth, Tahoe, Shasta, and Big Bear
- I know 65 mph really means 100
- When someone cuts me off, they get the horn and the finger and high speed chase cuz we dont fuck around on the road
- The drinking age is 21 but everyone starts at 14 (legally 18 if you live close enough to the border)
- My governor can kick your governors ass
- I can go out at midnight
-You judge people based on what area code they live in, and when asked where you’re from, you give your area code
- I might get looked at funny by locals when I’m on vacation in their state, but when they find out I’m from California I turn into a Greek GOD
- We don’t stop at stop signs… we do a “california roll”
No cop no stop baby!- I can get fresh and REAL Mexican food 24 hours a day
- All the TV shows you “other” states watch get filmed here
- We’re the Golden State. Not the Cheese State. Not the Garden State…..GOLDEN!!!
- We have In-N-Out (Arizona and Vegas are lucky we share that with them)
- I have the most representation in the House of Representatives, which means MY opinion means more than yours, which means I’m better than you [geez.... hahaha]
- The best athletes come from here
TEXAS:
Ahem… So.. Um.. yeah… I read this, and thought I would reply…
Hey… California listen up… Texas is where its at!
- I too can wear sandals all year long… plus I can put on boots to stomp your toes and I won’t even stick out.
- You may be able to go to the “beach” instead of the “shore”… but can you go to the drive thru “Beer Barn?” What now surfer boy?
- You’re chicks aren’t way hotter than ours… they are almost equal… and thats only due to silicone, saline, botox, lasers and hair dye… We have the real ones and they can beat yours up.
- We’re taught to say “Yes Sir” and “Yes Ma’am” and respect our elders because of it. We also say “Howdy” and “fixin” and “Yall” are pretty much recognized right away anywhere in the world We’re famous
- You may know what real cheese and avocados taste like… but I know what 100% Grade A Angus Beef tastes like. Who wants avocados and cheese when you can have steak and potatoes?
- Haha… who do you think grows the weed and sells it to me and everyone else cheaper than yours?
- Why roll 40 deep when something goes down if 5 Texan boys can get the job done…
- I live next door to americans, but we call them mexicans
- About your Porn…. 3 words… “Debbie Does Dallas”… You can brag about it now, but we started it
- Why would you brag about not getting snow days off?
- We’re smart enought to know 65mph means 65, but our speed limit is 70.
- - When someone cuts me off, they get run over by my big ass truck, then I give them the finger and tell them to go back to california.
- The drinking age is 21, but if you aren’t chasin the beer by 1 yr old… you’re behind.
- Yeah, Well my former governor became the President of the United States… yours isn’t even eligible.
- You can go out at midnight? Thats nice, I haven’t even come home by then.
- Ok… you said,”You judge people based on what area code they live in, and when asked where you’re from, you give your area code” and as hard as I try I have no idea what you’re talking about… I think you’re watching too much tv.
- Yeah, you’ll definitely get looked at funny when you come to visit but we have another name for you pretty boys, and its not greek, its french.
- Of course you don’t stop at stop signs… none of you can drive.
- You can pick up Real mexican food 24 hours a day huh… well I can swing by home depot and pick up 24 Real mexicans anytime of day. Can you say catering?
- All the tv shows get filmed there… but where does your favorite poker game come from? Texas Hold’em anyone?
- You can keep your golden state… We’re the Lone Star State…the one and only!!
- Do I have to remind you about the drive thru Beer Barn again? Does In-N-Out serve alcohol? (Oh and did I mention Dr. Pepper was created in Texas?)
- You guys have the best athletes huh?… Eight words… Lance Armstrong and The University of Texas Longhorns
-Every thing bigger in TEXAS. Every thing.
Though I could mention MICHAEL JOHNSON - Olympic Sprinter, World record holder in 200m and 400m, 5 Olympic Gold medals, 9 time World Champion (born Dallas, Tx)
Oh and remind me again who won the Rose Bowl between USC and Texas????? I believe it was the Longhorns on a perfect season. Vince Young.
- Football is a religion, not a sport or extra curricular activity.
- In Texas, football means football, not soccer.
- 90% of football “movies” you guys are making are about Texas Football.
-Varsity Blues, filmed in Georgetown, Tx - Friday Night Lights, filmed in Odessa, Tx - Necessary Roughness, filmed in San Marcos, Texas
- Texas is the only state that can still separate to become its own country. The only way California’s gonna accomplish that is if another earthquake comes along and you guys sink into the ocean. Can you say Atlantis…. hahaha
And as the Great Sam Houston once said “Texas could survive without the United States, but the United States could not survive without Texas“
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Obama says he and Bush are 'united' to fix economy
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President-elect Barack Obama on Monday called the financial crisis one of “historic proportions” and said that he and the Bush administration are “united” in their efforts to get the economy back on track.
As Obama unveiled his economic team, he said there isn’t “a minute to waste” when it comes to rebuilding the economy.
“My commitment is to do what is required. President Bush has indicated that he has the same approach, the same attitude,” Obama said at a news conference in Chicago, Illinois.
Obama’s remarks came just hours after the federal government announced a massive rescue package for Citigroup — which President Bush said he’d spoken about with Obama before it was announced.
Obama said Monday that he has asked his newly formed economic team to develop recommendations for his economic plan, which he outlined Saturday, and to consult with Congress, the current administration and the Federal Reserve on immediate economic developments over the next two months.
In selecting his economic team, Obama said he sought leaders who share his fundamental belief that “we cannot have a thriving Wall Street without a thriving Main Street.”
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CARIBBEAN: Region Sees Sympathetic Ally in Obama
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Nov 5 (IPS) - They sat glued to their television sets as the new president-elect of the United States. Barack Obama, during his acceptance speech in the early hours of Wednesday, made reference to those listening “in far off places” around the world.
As they danced, honked car horns and used their mobile phones to communicate with friends and relatives not only in the United States, but throughout the region, Caribbean nationals acted as though Obama had won the presidency of the entire English-speaking Caribbean and not the United States.
“If he (Obama) continues in the inspirational vein of the election campaign, it could mean a change in the world, especially in how the U.S. relates to the rest of the world,” said Chris Zacca, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ).
The respected Caribbean journalist Rickey Singh suggested that the U.S. has undergone a “cultural and political metamorphosis, undoubtedly and ironically partly influenced by eight years of the ideology and governance politics of George W Bush“.
“Let therefore, all Caribbean citizens, not just those of the diaspora in the USA who will have voted for him, join president elect Obama in scoring one for a resounding triumph over racial bigotry,” Singh wrote.
Caribbean leaders have unashamedly expressed open support for the first ever African American to be elected to the White House, and in St. Kitts-Nevis, where Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas is due to face a general election soon, the ruling party staged a “dream is real” outdoor rally that allowed thousands of citizens to view the U.S. election results in a festive atmosphere.
“The St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party was built on the exact same principles as Barack Obama’s campaign to empower the working-class and the downtrodden,” the party said in an advertisement, urging citizens to “celebrate the long-fought dreams of men like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,” a reference to the iconic U.S. civil rights leader.
Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson, who has extended an invitation to Obama to visit his Caribbean island to recuperate from the arduous election campaign, said he was “thrilled” at the result.
“This is a dream come true for millions of Americans — and especially African Americans — who were anxious to see their country redeemed from an unflattering image emanating from a number of factors, including its civil rights history,” said Thompson, who was the only regional leader present at Obama’s presidential nomination earlier this year.
The president of Guyana, which in recent months has had a public squabble with Washington over efforts to eradicate the illegal drug trade, said the victory of the Democratic Party’s candidate over Republican John McCain was “well earned and historic”.
“We in Guyana are very excited about the prospect of change in the United States…and we look forward to working with him in the future,” President Bharrat Jagdeo told the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper.
“I don’t think any president of the United States of America will have the kind of empathy that he will have with people from different countries and poor people because he understands it firsthand, and that is why I think he will understand the difficulties that small, developing countries face,” he had earlier told reporters.
The 47-year-old Democratic senator from Illinois, who will take the oath of office on Jan. 20 next year as the 44th president of the United States, sealed his victory on Tuesday, winning 349 electoral college votes against 163 for McCain.
As the new commander in chief, Obama moves into the Oval Office as leader of a country that is almost certainly in recession, and fighting two long wars, one in Iraq, the other in Afghanistan.
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If You Want George W. Bush to go to Prison...You Better Vote for Obama
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We have heard the arguments. We have heard the agendas. Now, the country goes to vote. Will the winner be successful in turning the nation around for the better? Probably not. It will take more than two terms to fix this mess. However, there is something at stake, and that is George Walker Bush paying for his crimes.
Here is the short list: An invasion of Iraq that has not achieved its original purpose (Weapons of Mass Destruction…remember?) Enron, Halliburton truckers being paid exponentially more than the soldiers protecting them along their routes, invasion of privacy via the Patriot Act, waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay, the current economic crisis brought on by companies he allowed to run amok, the Hurricane Katrina relief disaster, a third world energy grid (no one ever thinks of that one) and last but certainly not least, the events of September 11th, 2001. There is a big difference between making inspirational speeches after an attack and doing your real job, which is to prevent the attack in the first place.
Should there be an investigation of Bush? Definitely. Do the American people want it? Of course. Remember, the Michael Moore film “Fahrenheit 9/11” raked in millions for his non-official investigation of the president.
Also, the government spent $60 million to prove Bill Clinton has an affair. Surely, Bush Jr. has to be worth a few pennies.
Now, should the country finally respect the American people and the soldiers who are dying for no good reason in Iraq, after an investigation would come the trial. “Guilty”, and the case better not take weeks either.
Here is where the choice for president comes in, and it is critical. If McCain wins, Bush wins. As soon as the guilty verdict comes down, McCain will pardon Bush, and all of it was for nothing. George will walk, and he will be as the legendary “Die Hard” villain Hans Gruber said, “…sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent.”
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Why Barack Obama Is Winning
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General David Petraeus deployed overwhelming force when he briefed Barack Obama and two other Senators in Baghdad last July. He knew Obama favored a 16-month timetable for the withdrawal of most U.S. troops from Iraq, and he wanted to make the strongest possible case against it. And so, after he had presented an array of maps and charts and PowerPoint slides describing the current situation on the ground in great detail, Petraeus closed with a vigorous plea for “maximum flexibility” going forward.
Obama had a choice at that moment. He could thank Petraeus for the briefing and promise to take his views “under advisement.” Or he could tell Petraeus what he really thought, a potentially contentious course of action — especially with a general not used to being confronted. Obama chose to speak his mind. “You know, if I were in your shoes, I would be making the exact same argument,” he began. “Your job is to succeed in Iraq on as favorable terms as we can get. But my job as a potential Commander in Chief is to view your counsel and interests through the prism of our overall national security.” Obama talked about the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, the financial costs of the occupation of Iraq, the stress it was putting on the military.
A “spirited” conversation ensued, one person who was in the room told me. “It wasn’t a perfunctory recitation of talking points. They were arguing their respective positions, in a respectful way.” The other two Senators — Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed — told Petraeus they agreed with Obama. According to both Obama and Petraeus, the meeting — which lasted twice as long as the usual congressional briefing — ended agreeably. Petraeus said he understood that Obama’s perspective was, necessarily, going to be more strategic. Obama said that the timetable obviously would have to be flexible. But the Senator from Illinois had laid down his marker: if elected President, he would be in charge. Unlike George W. Bush, who had given Petraeus complete authority over the war — an unprecedented abdication of presidential responsibility (and unlike John McCain, whose hero worship of Petraeus bordered on the unseemly) — Obama would insist on a rigorous chain of command.
Barack Obama has prospered in this presidential campaign because of the steadiness of his temperament and the judicious quality of his decision-making. They are his best-known qualities. The most important decision he has made — the selection of a running mate — was done carefully, with an exhaustive attention to detail and contemplation of all the possible angles. Two months later, as John McCain’s peremptory selection of Governor Sarah Palin has come to seem a liability, it could be argued that Obama’s quiet selection of Joe Biden defined the public’s choice in the general-election campaign. But not every decision can be made so carefully. There are a thousand instinctive, instantaneous decisions that a presidential candidate has to make in the course of a campaign — like whether to speak his mind to a General Petraeus — and this has been a more difficult journey for Obama, since he’s far more comfortable when he’s able to think things through. “He has learned to trust his gut,” an Obama adviser told me. “He wasn’t so confident in his instincts last year. It’s been the biggest change I’ve seen in him.”
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McCain Knows He Put Country At Risk With Palin Pick
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Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for George W. Bush’s reelection campaign eviscerated John McCain on Tuesday for his choice of Sarah Palin as vice president.
Dowd proclaimed that, in his heart of hearts, McCain knew he put the country at risk with his VP choice and that he would “have to live” with that fact for the rest of his career.
“They didn’t let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP,” Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. “When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race… as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was not credible.”
Saying that Palin was a “net negative” on the ticket, he went on: “[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with… He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that.”
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Obama gaining in 5 battleground states, polls say
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Polls in five key battleground states in the race for the White House released Tuesday suggest that Sen. Barack Obama is making major gains.
The CNN/Time magazine/Opinion Research Corp. polls of likely voters in Indiana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin reflect a significant nationwide shift toward the Democratic presidential nominee.Obama has made significant strides in New Hampshire, the state credited with reviving Sen. John McCain’s Republican primary campaign in both 2000 and 2008.
Fifty-three percent of New Hampshire’s likely voters are backing Obama, while 45 percent are supporting McCain. Obama held a lead of 5 percentage points in the last CNN New Hampshire poll, taken in early September.
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Texas Watch: Hurricane Ike was a chance for Bush to show softer side
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WASHINGTON – One lesson the Bush administration learned the hard way after Hurricane Katrina is that when disaster strikes, the public expects a personal touch – a show of empathy, engagement and oversight.
That made President Bush’s visit to Houston and Galveston last week predictable but also a bit odd, in that Mr. Bush didn’t carve out any time to meet with evacuees, or folks who’d lost homes or businesses in Hurricane Ike. His three-hour visit included official briefings and an aerial tour of Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston.
“When you’re president of a 300 million-person country, I guess there’s a lot of things you could be doing,” said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who accompanied Mr. Bush to Texas.
He said the president faced a balancing act. Even without any encounters with storm victims, the senator said on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base, “it sends a loud message that he would come.”
FEMA administrator Dave Paulison said the president has a nice touch that helps people overcome shock and anger.
“He is very good in doing those things. I’ve seen him do it a lot of times – hug people, talk to them, encourage them,” said Mr. Paulison.
The consoler in chief did hold hands with Galveston’s mayor as they walked to his helicopter from her emergency operations center. That was about it for the emoting, though the trip had other goals.
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Paulson Says Several Countries May Adopt Bank Rescue Plans
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he’s confident several countries will take steps comparable to the $700 billion plan he proposed to buy bad mortgage-related securities to address the global financial crisis.
“We are talking very aggressively with other countries around the world and encouraging them to do similar things, and I believe a number of them will,” Paulson said on ABC News‘ “This Week” program.
Paulson yesterday asked Congress for unfettered authority to buy devalued mortgage-related securities from investment firms in an effort to keep the financial system from coming to a standstill. The proposal would prevent courts from reviewing the Treasury’s actions while raising the nation’s debt ceiling.
German Finance Ministry spokesman Stefan Olbermann said members of the Group of Seven industrial nations are in “ongoing talks about the situation on financial markets worldwide.” Finance ministers from the G-7 countries meet in Washington on Oct. 10.
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