Obama tells Texas to bugger off.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[mistermack]

Could you ask him to forward a copy to Scotland?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm just glad we got amused over the border before they closed it.

[Tyrannical]

except for a contingency left to guard the US Texas border

If only they could have guarded the US Mexican border........

[Audley Strange]

Could you ask him to forward a copy to Scotland?

We don't want to secede from the United States and he is not our president so none of that applies. His words are of less relevance and value to the Scottish Independence debate, to me, than yours MM, so why don't you write us up a letter?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

except for a contingency left to guard the US Texas border

If only they could have guarded the US Mexican border........

That's where it will be after the Mexican Army takes back the last they lost in 1848.

[amused]

I'm just glad we got amused over the border before they closed it.

Yeah, I was happy to remove all traces of Texas from my car and driver's license. I'm looking forward to getting my permanent DC plates with the slogan "Taxation Without Representation" on them.

I'm actually used to that anyway. Here's a map of my gerrymandered congressional district, designed by the Republican state legislature to intentionally disenfranchise Austin voters by combining just enough of the liberal parts of Austin with large enough parts of conservatives outside of Austin so we never had any influence. Our US representative refused to even meet with us.

[Warren Dew]

That's nothing. But then, you haven't been doing it as long as we have.

[Warren Dew]

I'm pretty sure Texas would be thrilled with that. I'd probably move there.

[Tero]

Actually, the US will send social security anywhere, maybe not North Korea though.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm pretty sure Texas would be thrilled with that. I'd probably move there.

Buh-bye.

[Warren Dew]

I'm pretty sure Texas would be thrilled with that. I'd probably move there.

Buh-bye.

I take it you got fooled into thinking that's a real letter.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm pretty sure Texas would be thrilled with that. I'd probably move there.

Buh-bye.

I take it you got fooled into thinking that's a real letter.

Yeah, right.

[Jesus_of_Nazareth]

Actually no reason (economically) why Texas could not be independent. Whether better off depends only on how the locals define "better".

To be honest I am amazed that secession is not a bigger thing in the US (or at the very least a demand for a new Settlement (a New Republic? - or a Confederation?! ) - not for any anti Obama / Republican reasons - it's just that the US system itself is clearly broken (politically and economically) and can't be fixed (patched up and limping along bleeding slowly to death does not (IMO) count as "fixed" ).

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Actually no reason (economically) why Texas could not be independent. Whether better off depends only on how the locals define "better".

To be honest I am amazed that secession is not a bigger thing in the US (or at the very least a demand for a new Settlement (a New Republic? - or a Confederation?!) - not for any anti Obama / Republican reasons - it's just that the US system itself is clearly broken (politically and economically) and can't be fixed (patched up and limping along bleeding slowly to death does not (IMO) count as "fixed".

I'd like to see Texas independent. Mexico would be bordering Oklahoma in not time.