Re: Tax hike

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What delusion? Shades of 1855, it sounds like a threat, a plan, a solution to all our problems.

If Obama had any guts he'd provocate their cracker asses into shooting first.

Then he calls in the tanks and strafing planes, get an unconditional surrender, declare all Texas Anglos traitors and show mercy by merely disenfranchising them all (me too, I'll sacrifice my vote) instead of hanging them and then Texas gets a 100% Latino and Black and Vietnamese state gov't for a generation, including 100% Dem electoral college, and American becomes coast-to-coast rainbow ponies.

Worked for the tall guy.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:15 AM
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You're a planner. I like that. Want to get in on the ground floor of my loose cigarette empire?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:19 AM
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1: Were you worried that someone might seem crazier than you?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:22 AM
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Worked for the tall guy.

This is not how I recall the details of Lew Alcindor's conversion to Islam.


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:26 AM
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provocate


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:26 AM
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Or, now that I think about it, the road to and from the Civil War. But I know much less about that than about the golden years of UCLA basketball.


Posted by: Von Wafer | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:27 AM
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provocationize?


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:30 AM
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The seamless transition from UCLA dominating college basketball with Lew Alcindor to dominating with Bill Walton was one of the great triumphs of racial integration in the U.S.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:33 AM
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What an idiot. If Obama wanted to crush Lubbock, he wouldn't need UN tanks. He could just eliminate their cotton subsidies.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:43 AM
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The best way for Texas to be prepared to defend itself against Obama is to increase spending on health care so that its troops will be healthier when the feds come. Increasing Medicaid spending will leverage federal dollars so the feds can be tricked into spending on their own downfall.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 8:56 AM
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"I need to raise your taxes so I can defend you from the UN invasion" - a tricky dilemma for any teapartier.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:06 AM
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Bob, you're meant to nuke them first.


Posted by: Alex | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:11 AM
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We'd better increase funding for science education so we can build a nuclear shield.


Posted by: Opinionated Texas Judge | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:13 AM
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What y'all Yankee liberals think Texas future looks like?

1) Majority-minority, the blacks and latinos and asian-americans and LGBTs and atheists just vastly outnumber the bible-thumping racist misogynist Galtians.

2) BTRMG's say:"Fair is fair. Cornyn and Perry and all will just take our orders from inner-city San Antone and Houston and Oak Lawn. We respect the system and will try to protect our rights in the arena of public reason. We trust the good intentions of our new majorities."

Just like the 2nd half of the 19th. It'll work out fine.

Y'all think I'm crazy. I have breathed crazy down here for thirty years. 1 & 2 are not gonna happen in this Texas and this United States. You best take the OP seriously, cause Judge Peabrain is not delusional and not joking. He is committed and making a fucking plan.


Posted by: bob mcmanus | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:17 AM
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A bit like the memorable Clash of Hysterias in Britain last year, where they were bringing in full-body MMR scanners, which can see through clothes, at airports because TERRORISTS, but children would have to go through the scanners, and this sparked outrage because PAEDOPHILES.

I think the anti-terrorists lost that one, actually.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:19 AM
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14.1 reminds that I often see a truck in the parking garage with a "Where Is John Galt?" bumper sticker. I'm trying to imagine an Atlas Shrugged/Waldo mashup.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:21 AM
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14: bob, every Texan in the US armed forces has been happily obeying the orders of a black man for the last four years, with the exception of one guy, and he was a Muslim.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:21 AM
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cause Judge Peabrain is not delusional and not joking

Because all of the people seriously preparing to start a civil war against a vastly more powerful state announce their plans on the local news.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:23 AM
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Judge Peabrain may not be joking, but he's 100% delusional if he thinks a US president would have to call on other United Nations member states to provide troops to quell a rebellion by a county sheriff's department.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:32 AM
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Wolverines!

(In the Red Dawn sense only.)


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:35 AM
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19: You don't seem to understand that there are thousands and thousands of United Nations troops in the U.S. at this very moment, just waiting for the order to take away our guns and enforce blacks-only laws.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:37 AM
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Presumably, our troops would refuse to obey the orders of the usurper.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:38 AM
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The non-amused part of me (which elections tend to bring out) notes what will surely be the incredibly vast difference in the media/political establishment response to this compared to what it owuld have been if a similar thing was said by an elected official on television in say, 2004*. We'd still be hearing about it.

*To begin with, it would not have been.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:40 AM
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The price of freedom is eternal vigalence .17 mils.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:42 AM
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The non-amused part of me (which elections tend to bring out) notes what will surely be the incredibly vast difference in the media/political establishment response to this compared to what it owuld have been if a similar thing was said by an elected Democratic official on television in say, 2004*.

Seriously.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:43 AM
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Or what if a black politician warned about riots and civil war if Obama loses?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:46 AM
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Has anyone from the national media contacted this guy to ask him some follow up questions? I want to see him pressed on this issue, if only because it will make Texas Republicans look even worse.


Posted by: rob helpy-chalk | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 9:49 AM
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Go for it. The fame is yours for the taking. bit.ly/TXhHwa


Posted by: Mentioner | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:01 AM
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If Obama wanted to crush Lubbock, he wouldn't need UN tanks. He could just eliminate their cotton subsidies.

Now why didn't Lincoln think of that?


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:18 AM
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This is one reason judges shouldn't be elected.

Has anyone from the national media contacted this guy to ask him some follow up questions?

I checked memeorandum, and this is being discussed on every liberal-learning blog you can imagine. A couple I'm not familiar with. Anyway, there are follow-up remarks from Judge Head (heh) here, in which he walks back his remarks ... somewhat.

"Does that mean that I think the U.N. is going to come rolling into Lubbock? No, that probably is not going to happen," Head said.
"I cannot divorce my theology and my philosophy from my office," Head said. "I am pro-life, I'm pro-gun rights and if you're gonna vote for me and if you're not for gun rights, then you probably don't want me in office."

Posted by: parsimon | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:25 AM
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Texas also screws with common English word usage. "Judge" means "county commissioner."


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:28 AM
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Not always, but in this case.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:29 AM
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Yeah, it sounds like Lubbock County has a really weird governmental structure, or at least system of terminology for offices.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:35 AM
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If we toss in "forcibly depopulate the great plains and nonurban Midwest (including in TX) to establish the strategic bison reserve" I'm down with the plan in 1. Let's get the crazy started. I do want to add 100 foot high monuments of Kareem and other Laker greats throughout the landscape of the new white slavery Texas, though -- I hope that's not a deal breaker.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:37 AM
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If we toss in "forcibly depopulate the great plains and nonurban Midwest (including in TX) to establish the strategic bison reserve" I'm down with the plan in 1. Let's get the crazy started. I do want to add 100 foot high monuments of Kareem and other Laker greats throughout the landscape of the new white slavery Texas, though -- I hope that's not a deal breaker.

Wasn't the "dude you have no Quran" guy from Lubbock? They should put that guy in charge


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:40 AM
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Yeah, it sounds like Lubbock County has a really weird governmental structure, or at least system of terminology for offices.

All Texas counties.

(True judges are elected in Texas too, though. And the county judge may do some judicial work - I'm not sure if it's administrative in practice or what.)


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:41 AM
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36: Huh, I did not know that.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:43 AM
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35: What's the compensation rate to land owners?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:45 AM
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38: Some community college vouchers and a kick in the ass.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:48 AM
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Up to $1,000,000 in inverse proportion to income. Free Crossfit for 2 years, all the bison you can eat, and a subscription to NBA LeaguePass. This will be paid for by confiscating the Koch brothers interests and the details will be worked out by my planning technocrats.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:53 AM
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In that case, I'm going to pirate videos and music.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:57 AM
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29: Even Lincoln didn't want to be stranded in Lubbock.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:57 AM
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Don't pirate videos. You'll go into the feed pool. How do you think we're going to raise the pigs for the bacon with no corn?


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:59 AM
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Hey!


Posted by: Stranded in Lubbock | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 10:59 AM
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44 to 42, of course.


Posted by: Stranded in Lubbock | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 11:00 AM
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I love the way the black helicopter crowd are so obsessed with UN peacekeepers invading the US. Have they not seen UN peacekeeping missions in action? Not exactly an effective military force.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:04 PM
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Though, having said that, I'm not thinking like a conspiracy theorist. The reason all those UN peacekeeping missions have been so ineffective is of course to lull Americans into a false sense of security so when the really elite peacekeepers invade America we won't be expecting it.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:06 PM
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Speaking of false senses of security, somebody just stole a baby (three days old) from the hospital across the street.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:14 PM
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If the baby had the right to carry a gun, you wouldn't have had that problem.


Posted by: Robert Halford | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:18 PM
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48: Ugh. (I think we went through this before, but Baby O was lo-jacked in the hospital.)


Posted by: oudemia | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:21 PM
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50: our kids too.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:23 PM
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Our kid, born in that same hospital, also had lo-jack.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:23 PM
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Plus, we wrote our names on his thighs with a Sharpie.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:27 PM
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Jane was also lo-jacked.


Posted by: redfoxtailshrub | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:29 PM
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Removing our baby's lo-jack was surprisingly informal, though. I guess once the doctor has written the discharge orders, it's entirely your problem? And they didn't re-lo-jack him when he came back a day later for a night under the bili lights.


Posted by: Nathan Williams | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:31 PM
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Removing our baby's lo-jack was surprisingly informal, though.

They just put ours through the demagnetizer by the register in the gift shop.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:35 PM
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I made sure nobody grabbed my babies by obsesssively video taping almost every single moment at the hospital.

Yep. I was that guy.


Posted by: will | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:36 PM
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And they didn't re-lo-jack him when he came back a day later for a night under the bili lights.

Well, no one wants a bilibaby.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:40 PM
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Speaking of false senses of security, somebody just stole a baby (three days old) from the hospital across the street.

Could be worse, as I'm sure you know.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 12:58 PM
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I was completely cleared by that investigation.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 1:08 PM
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Anyway, the police found the baby in today's case.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 3:31 PM
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Oh good.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 08-23-12 3:37 PM
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Right, better than finding it in yesterday's cellophane.

(Another ad with a baby that raises goosebumps.)


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 08-24-12 4:24 AM
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Have they not seen UN peacekeeping missions in action? Not exactly an effective military force.

They're pretty good, actually. Most of them over the last 20 years were successful in achieving their missions, which is more than can be said for, say, the US armed forces. The ones you hear about are the ones which have gone wrong, because war = news.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08-24-12 4:38 AM
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