Don't Mess with Texas

Back in the early 1800s, when Texas was a backwater Mexican state, they opened the territory up to Americans for settling.  Pretty much the only requirment in those early days was that they promised to convert to Catholicism.  This opened the floodgates.  Masses of people left their homes throughout the south, abandoned the debt they owed and all of their obligations and left for Texas.  When they left for Texas, they would paint three letters on the homes they abandoned - GTT - Gone to Texas.  It was a sign to everybody - especially their creditors - they had left the country. 

I use to live in Texas and I can say first hand, it really is like another country.  Some people who've never been or lived there, don't understand it.  Some think it comes across as arrogant.  But I love it.  It's a lingering attitude from a time when, most states had an independent spirit.

Well, there's a House Concurrent Resolution going through the Texas legislature right now - HCR 50 - that reaffirms the 10th Amendment to the constitution.  Here's the video from Gov. Rick Perry's speech: 



Also, here's the 10th Amendment to the Constitution:  "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."

And FYI, the fact you've read this now means Homeland Security and the "Janet Reno of the Obama administration," Secretary Janet Nepalitano considers you a right-wing extremist.