Texas Senator Jon Cornyn returned to Texas, after leading bipartisan talks on a weak gun control bill, only to discover that his fellow Republicans were furious at him for participating in any deal
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Cornyn was back in Texas Friday without a final bipartisan gun bill and set to address a state GOP party whose members are furious with him for working with Democrats on reforms they say will violate their “God given rights.”
Cornyn left D.C. on Thursday evening, telling reporters that “it’s fish or cut bait at this point” on the legislation after he and other negotiators spent days ironing out details behind the scenes. But they were unable to reach a final agreement as they ran up against a self-imposed deadline to get the bill written this week.
“Indecision and delay jeopardize the likelihood of a bill because you can’t write what is undecided and without a bill there is nothing to vote on,” Cornyn tweeted. “We are still talking and the clock is ticking…”
Meanwhile, committee members hashing out the Texas GOP platform at its biennialconvention in Houston advanced a resolutionThursday night rejecting the gun deal in its current form and rebuking 10 Republicans who have publicly supported it.
“All gun control is a violation of the Second Amendment,” the resolution says.
When it came Senator Cornyn’s turn to speak at the state GOP convention, he was booed repeatedly, amid shouts of “no gun control.”
Clearly, the Texas GOP wants no limits whatever on the right of any individual to buy a gun of any kind, any size, any caliber, no matter whether they are deranged or have a criminal background or are terrorists.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
A party in total rot is a terrible thing in a two-party system.
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It is particularly harmful when the rotten party is funded by so many rotten billionaires that can pay to make laws represent their decaying point of view. The only thing worse than a bad man with a gun is a bunch of rotten billionaires pushing their right wing agenda on the rest of the people. I wonder how many people have died in states that refused to expand Medicaid.
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Yes, exactly.
And their total rot is being normalized by the so-called liberal media and soon it will be too late for that rot to completely destroy our democracy.
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We don’t live in a democracy… indeed, such a “people’s governance” is nowhere to be found on H̲earth!…
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https://plutocratsandplutocracy.blogspot.com/2011/01/american-plutocratic-revolution.html
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You have no First, Secon or any Amendment rights on this site as it is a private concern and the owner/operator can make whatever, for the most part, rules that she likes.
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John, Duane is correct that Diane can legally choose to allow or disallow content on her site. That’s what makes it HER site and not my site or yours. Diane detests censorship and allows free-ranging discussion, but she has boundaries that she asks people not to transgress–for example, that they be reasonably civil to one another and that they not espouse hate or intentional disinformation,
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Though they may believe otherwise,any blog author who uses a host site like WordPress actually does NOt own the site.
Blog authors are able to set the rules for what they fashion to be “their” site only because they are allowed by the actual owners (WordPress) to do so.
If WordPress decided tomorrow to shut this blog down, it is within their rights to do so.
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Having the Copyright to what an author posts on a blog is not the same as ” setting rules” for the site
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Not incidentally, a blog host like WordPress can also control what a blog author is allowed to post on the site and I know of at least one case where that very thing happened and WordPress demanded that the blog author remove specific material.
Rather than comply, the author removed ALL of his previous posts (for several years!)
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I am also aware of a recent case where a prominent blog author who had been blogging on Blogger for years was effectively censored by Google. Rather than comply with the demands, the author shut down the blog completely.
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Incidentally, there is actually a good reason for giving a blog hosting site control over their site because in certain circumstances, they might be held legally liable for what a blog author posts (copyright infringing or libelous material for example)
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Excuse me Flerp, I’ll just be a moment!… I’ve got a ridiculous sidebar below to attend to!
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This is not an INTRAnet… this is the INTERnet!… in which EVERY website, site owner and webizen is B̲O̲U̲N̲D̲ to the PARAMOUNT AUTHORITY of National Constitutions (and, not just the U.S. Constitution… see, Romans, Chapter 3, vs. 1-2) and the PARAMOUNT AUTHORITY of the Articles of the UDHR!… the signatories to which, are available for anyone to witness! And ANYONE who acts to interfere with GOD’S aforenoted PARAMOUNT AUTHORITY, will have theis̲’ toosh handed to theis̲ on a proverbial platter! And GOD could care less about your DUMBTOOSH view of, and on, the matter! Capisce?
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Although “Sir” Tim Berners-Lee isn’t yet savvy re Human ICT Rights (an amalgam of Human Digital Rights and Human Analog[l] Rights… both, a subset of Human Rights!), he will soon have to throw his already soaked towel in the ring… and begin a formal exploration of the most important aspect of ICT– and not just the Internet (the Internet, being but one component of ICT)! Simply put, Kamala Harris’ White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse announced last Thursday, will be a gateway to a much larger discussion re Human ICT Rights… and will lead to an update on the global attempts that/ which have made been thus far on their enumeration!
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At the dawn of the last century, when the blind walked into a restaurant with a “seeing-eye dog (in order for such to move independently and efficiently throughout an establishment)”, many restaurant owners demanded that “disabled diners (and, their ‘dining aids’!)” dine elsewhere… proffering sundry rationales for their treatment of such blind persons (e.g., that the presence of a dog posed a health hazard, posed an unnecessary burden on a restaurant’s staff– e.g., staff may be forced to tend to disabled people!– and directly and/ or indirectly conscripted a restaurant’s staff into becoming “health care workers” for the blind and/ or for the “pet aids” to the blind!… but, etc.!)! And, God forbid that one was female, of colour, poor or a combination!
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Nevertheless!… and as a consequence of the countless legal fights that ensued (wherein many Human Rights issues were explored and aired!)!… restaurant owners were eventually forced to allow such “disabled diners (and their ‘dining aids’!)” into their respective establishments (and, regardless of their amassed pap– IN THE GUISE OF “SOUND RESTAURANT POLICIES”!)! And the compelling argument that won the day, was that these establishments weren’t PRIVATE HOMES!… but rather, PUBLIC PLACES that allowed ANYONE to dine (though, PERMITTED AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SUNDRY PERSONS!)… and so, as such were PUBLIC PLACES– and patrons had Rights– Restaurant owners were obliged to acknowledge those Rights, and end their arbitrary discriminatory practices!
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If a website has opened its “cyber doors” to the public (like a restaurateur has opened one’s restaurant to the public), then website owners (like restaurateurs!) are compelled to follow the same Constitutionally stipulated Human Rights that all restaurateurs are obliged to follow! And so and thus, just because a patron’s expressed CONTENT within a site may “APPEAR” to pose a “psychological threat (barring, of course, substantive threats!)” to other webizens or to site owners (and by abstraction and analogy, to other restaurant patrons and/ or restaurateurs), doesn’t translate to– shouldn’t translate to!– an inherent RIGHT of “cyber restaurateurs (or ‘cyber patrons’)” to remove another cyber patron’s “cyber content dog (‘PERCEIVED AS PSYCHOLOG[ICLY] THREATENING’!)”, because a cyber restaurateur (or cyber patron), “FEELS” that it’s appropriate to do so!
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To close…
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I HAVE EVERY “CONSTITUTIONALLY AND UDHR PROTECTED RIGHT” THAT GOD HAS GRANTED!… AND NO WEBSITE, WEBSITE OWNER OR DELUDED PATRON OF A WEBSITE, CAN RENDER GOD’S TRUTH NULL AND VOID!… AND ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO, WILL BE MET– IN KIND!– BY GOD’S APPOINTED SERVANTS! FURTHER, THIS WEBSITE IS A PUBLIC SPACE… AND TO THE EXTENT THAT IT HAS OPENED IT’S̲ “PUBLIC CYBER DOORS” TO “PUBLIC COMMENTARY” ON “PUBLIC STORIES”! AND THE ONLY REASONABLE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE REMOVAL OF A WEBSITE PATRON, IS BECAUSE SUCH HAS VIOLATED GOD’S PARAMOUNT COMMAND TO LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL ONE’S MIGHT, AND TO LOVE ONE’S BROTHERS AND SISTERS AS ONE LOVES ONE’S SELF! CAPISCE?
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John: your reference to seeing eye dogs triggers a personal response. My distant cousin, Morris Frank, went to Europe in 1927 or 1929 to be trained with Buddy, the first American help dog. He subsequently became an advocate for help dogs, and established the seeing eye dog institute in Morristown, NJ
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Sorry, FLERP!–think my reply to you accidentally ended up all the way down.
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John, this site makes use of one of many possible WordPress templates, each of which has its own features and limitations. The characteristics of the site are not freely chosen from among all design possibilities for internet boards.
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It’s apparent to me that traditional conservatives have lost control of the Republican Party.
The MAGA Traitor’s Fascists are now the loudest faction in the GOP, and Traitor Trump, with the same willing enablers that support the BIG LIE, orchestrated this attempt at a hostile take over that isn’t over yet.
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Its probably just as (if not more) likely that traditional conservatives have just lost their minds.
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Their minds were already largely lost. Many were just quiet in public about their actual beliefs–their racism, their sexism, their xenophobia, their homophobia, their militarism, their authoritarianism, etc. Consider the tape that was released last year of Nixon and Reagan talking. Both thorough-going racists, but they kept a lid on it, barely, in public. They maintained plausible deniability. Trump just brought a lot of these people out. He made it OK for them to be in public the disgusting people they were in private, among themselves, in their country club locker rooms.
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Bob is correct. Preference Falsification, one professor calls it.
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Bob Shepherd
Stewart Stevens would agree with you . “It Was All A Lie ” going back to Goldwater. Some of us knew that all along.
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Lloyd, this reminds me yet again (& keep forgetting) that the most apt name for MAGA should be magats (as in maggots).
&, like the others (it45, etc.), doesn’t deserve capitalization.
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Moscow’s Asset Governing America (MAGA)
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Lloyd, this reminds me yet again (& keep forgetting) that the most apt name for MAGA should be magats (as in maggots).
&, like the others (it45, etc.), doesn’t deserve capitalization.
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They are obviously confused by all that clear guidance SCOTUS handed down.
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lol
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I like your magats words, Bob!
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If Texas just broke away and became Texanistan like they have been pining to do since day one of statehood, it would make everyone happy, not least of all, a majority of the American public (if not of the other states.)
I mean, who in his or her right mind wouldn’t wish them Happy Trails?
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Texas was once its own country, and some Texans would be happy to see it happen again. I have never seen more state flags than I have seen when I visit Texas. Car dealerships seem to vie for which one can fly the largest Texas flag. Texans consider themselves independent thinkers. In Diane’s case she has the brains, heart conscience for her independence to be a good thing. Unfortunately most Texans are not so blessed. Lots are drinking the right wing poison like others in the South.
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cx: brains, heart and conscience
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Trigger Warning !!!
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That’s clearly bephotoshopped *
*Before photo shop
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Like Mr. Ed sliding into home after a hit against Sandy Koufax.
(couldn’t resist the pop culture memory)
Relevant to all the above – –
The Democrats would be screaming Trigger’s stretch to the sky and Mr. Ed’s slide into home was animal abuse
The Republicans would be screaming it really happened
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You are telling me the Mr. Ed-pisodes were not real??
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What you talkin ’bout , Wilbur?
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I presume another child of the ’50s?
… when the ONLY national headline I recall ever scaring me were the words – Cuban Missiles & War.
Today the headlines 10 years see are staggering – and literally in their own back yards and schools and streets.
Say all you want, Guilty Old Party, but you reached down the throat of our country and stolen the INNOCENCE OF CHILDHOOD (and you can take that two ways, at least)
Scoff at it Texas – but go to a school with a blaring “This Is A Lockdown” and look at the faces of 5 year olds!
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Haaaa!!!
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How could anyone have been surprised by this development?
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To claim that owning a semiautomatic rifle is a “God given right” is the most blasphemous statement this person of faith has ever heard uttered.
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God also gave us the right to end civilization and perhaps the human species with nuclear weapons.
Clearly, not all rights are to be taken advantage of.
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The only rifles I have ever shot were semi-automatics. Now I have shot a single shot 20 ga shotgun which I bought as my son’s first gun.
Single shot so that he would learn to properly aim and shoot to kill with one shot.
By the way, which god is being blasphemied?
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I can’t speak for Rick Johnson or anyone else. For me, there’s just one G-d–the One who commanded, “Thou shalt not murder.”
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I ain’t shot no one. . . ever!
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Not only is it a God-given right to own a firearm, it is apparently a God-given right to make sure that every person, no matter how perverse his view of life may be, can and does own a firearm of any type, right up to a nuclear warhead.
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If I could make one request to my Sky-Daddy, praise his noodly appendages, it would be to have me die by having a nuclear weapon explode a half a mile directly over my head. Walking along one moment, then poof, in a fraction of a second I’m a billion bits of nothingness!
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This would be fairly unpleasant for a lot of people in your vicinity, Duane.
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Collateral damage, that’s all!
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I have always hoped that I will not go quietly in my sleep, have a piano fall on my head or whatever. I hope to be present for this experience of dying, to be able to watch it unfold.
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Bob, If you have watched someone die slowly and painfully, you might want to rethink that desire. I do not care to go through the experience. You are definitely NOT there for much of it. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, what would be the reason to want to die in agony?
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Good question, speduktr. Yes, I have had that experience, and at a fairly early age. I watched my grandfather, whom I loved above all others at the time, die of pancreatic cancer and was present at his death. People’s presence or absence for their own deaths is on a spectrum. Given choice in that matter, which for the most part I do not have, I would choose consciousness of what’s happening to me. Why? Because I’m interested. This is a great mystery, and little is known of it, and I want to be present for the experience. My curiosity about it is enormous–large enough to outweigh many other considerations, including any clearly temporally limited pain I might experience.
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In a reply below but repeating it here:
Dear Texas and all the silent Guilty Old NRA Sponsored Party:
Go to a school with a blaring “This Is A Lockdown” and look at the faces of 5 year olds!
Look into a victim’s parents’ eyes – and say with your hand on a Bible – “I have done everything I can to prevent this here and across the country” (and BLAMING the VICTIMS, hardening schools, arming teachers, and muttering “thoughts and prayers” don’t count)
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Well said!
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We live in an insane world.
An entire political party in the United States insists upon doing nothing substantive to stop little children from being murdered in school.
A guy who carried out several simultaneous, seditious schemes to steal the last presidential election–ones that everyone knows about is not only walking around free but seriously being considered for another run for the presidency.
Google is arguing with one of its former engineers about whether one of its AIs is sentient.
81 percent of Americans still believe in an invisible being whom they talk to.
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They are maniacs. I was hoping TEXANS would show up in drives to boo him. I’m surprised the Groveling Old/Odious (for the younger ones) weren’t cheering him for
😤ing off & leaving the negotiations/outcome in the lurch.
When is he up for re-election?
Whenever it is, VOTE HIM OUT!! (That’s the battle cry of the Orange Day(s) & March for Our Lives movements.) & it’s the ONLY thing that will make a difference.
I know I’m preaching to the choir, here, so everyone please tell everyone to vote as if your lives depend on it.
Because they do.
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Well-stated, FLERP!
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Name the “party of rot”:
💰Grubbing Old/Odious Putzes
G-d*-hating Offal Purveyors
Gelatinous Ornery Pricks
*Apologies to Senor Swacker; Sky-Daddy
starts w/an “s.”
Or, to be brief, “the party of NOT.”
-NOT going to honorably serve The People.
–NOT going to craft/pass good laws that help & protect their constituents.
–NOT going to cross their unscrupulous patrons.
–NOT going to pass up dark 💰
–NOT going to work across the aisle.
–NOT going to “play nice” w/for others.
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Russia RepubliQans want to ban books that expand minds while advocating for the proliferation of war weapons that shred little bodies. Amazing to see how quickly this monstrous, fascist, white supremacist hate cult supplanted the so-called “Party of Lincoln”.
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This is an amusing aspect of Christian tribal mythology–the notion of God as father scold: I told you guys to pick up your socks! LMAO. Not found in all religions, of course, but REALLY prominent in this one.
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Mr. Mayor, I try to be careful about what sites I go to on the web. A quick search indicated to me that GenMirror is some sort of web proxy service that allows people to search blocked sites anonymously. Is this so? If so, it’s not something I would want to have anything to do with or something that should be casually suggested to people. Also, I am curious as to why you keep commenting about this Shroud of Turin business. The shroud dates from the late 13th-early 14th century. The herringbone twill weaving pattern of the cloth did not even exist 2,000 years ago.
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I don’t think John Mayor is contributing to this blog. He exists to distract.
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On a different note, here, a pledge to teach the truth despite the current spate of restrictive laws:
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/pledge-to-teach-truth
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From today’s Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson, which for me has become as required daily reading as Diane’s blog:
And, as if in confirmation, delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party today approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”; requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization; treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9; getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve; rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment; returning Christianity to schools and government; ending all gun safety measures; abolishing the Department of Education; arming teachers; requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment; dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage; withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-18-2022?utm_source=email
So, like, not good.
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&, like, not surprising in the least.
Please do us a favor & secede from the union, TX gop. Attach yourselves to Mexico & then you can forget about “the wall.”
Of course, Mexico might want to build a wall to keep YOU out. (So little teddy doesn’t get to flee to Cancun during the next emergency.)
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In many civilized nations, that wouldn’t be a political agenda. It would be needed documentation to set up a visit with a psychiatrist.
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Its funny that having a vote on reasserting itself as an independent nation was listed last because if Texas seceded, they could easily accomplish all the other goals.
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Or simply not have to worry about them (in the case of Federal income tax, number of Supreme Court justices, etc)
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