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User	Blue Monk | 2007-07-09 |
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Message	Texas- God’s Country (Perhaps because He couldn’t get anyone else to take it.) Actually I love the place and visit when I can.

User	BusterLILblock | 2007-07-08 |
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Message	u stupid people i will kill u all

User	H_K | 2007-07-07 |
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Message	and the criminals, and the flooding, and the heat, and the illegal aliens, and...

User	DaGrimReaperess | 2007-07-07 |
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Message	hey texas rulz. except for the emos and bush.

User	H_K | 2007-07-03 |
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Message	especially the bull feces...

User	GiveMeTheGun | 2007-07-03 |
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Message	Hoshiiiiiiiit. Bring it on. Texas fkin owns, k?! Why dont mess with Texas? Because errythanggs bigger here, bby ;)

User	UnderINK | 2007-07-03 |
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Message	Eh, pretentious bullshit. I’ll mess with Texas. Let’s go, bitches. -Fists- Hehe.

User	BusterLILblock | 2007-07-02 |
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Message	i live there

User	BusterLILblock | 2007-07-02 |
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Message	you just cant sorry

User	joeyalphabet | 2007-06-28 |
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Message	my older brother is supposed to move to texas later this year. his skin is dark (our family is hispanic). and he sometimes can’t control his temper. i’m worried, really worried.

User	Blue Monk | 2007-06-26 |
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Message	"If Texas has it figured out, why is that one out of every 5 new prisoners added nationally during the 1990s were added in Texas?" Texas has figured out that incarceration is a very big business that can be brought into even the most backwards areas to provide employment and cash flow. It is now often that prisons are run as "for profit" corporations rather than being run by State or local governments. Texas and other States often "house" criminals from other States for a fee. This was recently brought to light when some convicts from Missouri being held in Texas "got out of line" and had the dogs turned loose on them. For enlightenment do a web search on these: prisons as big business dogs used in prisons A record of the private ownerships involved with the running of corporate owned prisons could prove to be very enlightening around election time.

User	H_K | 2007-06-21 |
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Message	Hey Ron, You should check out the link besodemuerte posted- it’s explains very clearly that what the slogan refers to- regardless of your beliefs. Thought you’d want to know. Thank you B, for finding the history of the slogan!! I’m glad you think Texas has it together, Ron. But I found some disturbing information at http://www.cjcj.org/pubs/texas/texaspr.html (which is the website for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice): In 2000, Texas earned the distinction of having the largest prison population in the country (163,190), surpassing the prison population of California (163,067), which has 13 million more citizens than Texas. The Lone Star State has more than 700,000 of its citizens under criminal justice control. If Texas were a country, it would have the highest incarceration rate in the world, easily surpassing the United States and Russia, the next two finishers, and seven times that of the next biggest prison system in China. Despite adding more than 100,000 prisoners this decade, Texas’ crime rate has declined more slowly than other large states. Between 1995 and 1998 the percentage drop in the overall number of index crimes in Texas was half the percentage drop in the number of index crimes nationally, and the lowest of the five largest states.The Texas crime rate also experienced a slightly lower percentage decline than the national average, and was the lowest among the five largest states. There are 89,400 people being incarcerated in Texas for non-violent crimes. Standing alone amongst the states, Texas’ non-violent prison population represents the second largest incarcerated population in the country (after California), and is larger than the entire prisoner population (violent, and nonviolent) of the United Kingdom-a country of 60 million people, or New York, the nation’s third largest state. Now, if tougher laws on crime are working, why isn’t the rate declining? If Texas has it figured out, why is that one out of every 5 new prisoners added nationally during the 1990s were added in Texas? If the tougher laws are working so well, why is it that one out of 20 adult Texans are under criminal justice control? Just curious here...

User	Ronswords | 2007-06-21 |
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Message	I believe the slogan refers more towards people who may want to come to Texas to commit a crime Texas has some vert strenulous laws for crime which I believe every state should and its more of a warning to a potential criminal if you disobey the law in Texas you are going to pay the price It works to as Texas is a very big state and they have nowhere near the amount of crime commited per person as does say New York or California God Bless Ron

User	rouge wave | 2007-06-20 |
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Message	No, I need two, because I’ll be holding one and have it shot out of my hand all dramatic and stuff. Then everybody will think that there’s no chance I’d survive, but, what do you know, I’ll pull the other one out just in time - but I’d do it so fast that nobody would see me reach for the gun and re-holster it. I’d be known as the Ghost Gunner, move so fast you won’t know what hit ya... punk.

User	besodemuerte | 2007-06-20 |
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Message	http://www.dontmesswithtexas.org/history.php

User	Blue Monk | 2007-06-20 |
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Message	Clint (and real men) only need one, preferably a BIG ONE. But whatever turns you on.

User	rouge wave | 2007-06-20 |
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Message	Really? That whole saying has to do with a litter law? I thought they were challenging the rest of the US to some duel or something... man. Now I’m not so upset about it, and I guess I don’t have to wear my six shooters around the house anymore. Nah. I’ll still wear them. They make me feel like Clint Eastwood.

User	Blue Monk | 2007-06-20 |
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Message	That slogan has some teeth to it, mainly if you litter and get caught, you will pay.