Friday July 19 2013
Regarding our post earlier today on New York's attitude towards Texas, one student admits to being from New York but never really thought about allegiance to one state or the other. Clearly she is not ready for the realization that nirvana has indeed arrived for her. She has fled the land of brownouts, blackouts, snowstorms, garbage strikes, and the poster city of the Northeast, Hoboken, New Jersey. A recent mass arrest in Hoboken of 42 criminal suspects included two rabbis no less. We all know that Dr. Zhivago was filmed at Chicago's O Hare airport, and in April no less, and that Detroit, MI just went bankrupt.
For those experiencing the relief and enlightenment that comes from their first encounter with chili, tex-mex fajitas, green polo enchiladas, Pace Picante Sauce, chicken fried steak, catfish in all forms, blackened or fried, gumbo, black-eyed peas on new years, Texas Gulf Red Snapper, Shrimp and blue crab, a well done Santa Gertrudis steak off the grill (Santa Gertrudis was developed at the King Ranch by the way) not to mention the life long look of escape and enrapture on refugees from Michigan and other foreign countries, for those we usually say
Well you weren't from here but showed good sense by gettin' here as fast as you could.
Texas is a blue bonnet carpeted experience that includes hundreds of miles of coastline, Lake Amistad, the Chisos Mountain Basin in Big Bend to the Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle. Texas also boasts perhaps the best law enforcement agency in the world, The Texas Rangers.
Texas is the only state that joined the USA as a nation, a mistake we will surely not make given a second chance.
Of Texas were indeed still an independent naion it would rank 12th in the world with a larger economy than Russia.
Bum Phillips explains the concept of what it means to be Texan. Here is a sample
Anyone who ever hung a map of Texas on their wall or flew a Lone Star flag on their porch
knows what I mean. My Dad's buddy Bill has an old saying. He says that some people were
forged of a hotter fire. Well, that's what it is to be Texan. To be forged of a hotter
fire. To know that part of Colorado was Texas. That part of New Mexico was Texas. That
part of Oklahoma was Texas.
Texan Gary P. Nunn wrote What I Like about Texas
Get in the spirit of things along with the other 928,723 who have listened to Gary sing about it on
You Tube, great photos as well!
yrics to What I Like About Texas :
I tell you it's the wide open spaces!
It's everything between the Sabine and the Rio Grande.
It's the Llano Estacado,
It's the Brazos and the Colorado;
Spirit of the people down here who share this land!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the sons of the mothers of the bunkhouse band!
You ask me what I like about Texas
It's the big timber round Nacadoches
It's driving El Camino Real into San Antone
It's the Riverwalk and Mi Tierra
Jamm'n out with bongo Joe
It's stories of the Menger Hotel and the Alamo!
(You remember the Alamo!)
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the sons of the mother love'n bunkhouse band!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the sons of the mother love'n bunkhouse band!
Well, you ask me what I like about Texas
It's Blue Bonnet and Indian paint brushes
Swimming in the sacred waters of Barton Springs
It's body surfing at Freo
It's Saturday night in Del Rio!
It's crossing over the border for some cultural exchange!
It's another burrito, it's a cold Lone Star in my hand!
It's a quarter for the jukebox, boys,
Play the sons of the mother love'n bunkhouse band!
Well, you ask me what I like about Texas
Well, I could tell you, but we'd be here all night long
Professor Elam 
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