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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:03PM Shadsy said

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I don't think anyone can take anything Perry does seriously anymore now that he's put secession on the table.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:06PM (Unverified) said

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I stopped taking him seriously when I learned that he was from Texas.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:07PM (Unverified) said

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So if it happened, would that make buying games from Texas the equivalent of importing?
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:21PM (Unverified) said

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I say let em go.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 6:47PM shibathedog said

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Hell no don't let them go, That would be a huge sign of weakness for the US. Other states might then decide to do it until the whole country falls apart as well.

what we should do is let them sit there until they can't take it any longer and try to do it by force, then turn texas into a crater, a barren wasteland uninhabitable by human beings due to radiation. This would be pretty tough to pass through and might solve part of the immigration problem as well. Lets see any other states try this crap after that goes down.

PLEASE don't take this comment seriously.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 7:13PM LaughingTarget said

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Or, stop trying to treat the United States as a single nation and start treating it like states that, ya know, united together and not like convenient administrative districts. Maybe trying to tell 320 million people to live and do the same thing is stupid and it's a good idea to have 50 different states, each with a different environment, so people can pick a place to live that suits their needs and wants. If it wasn't for chumps along the two coasts trying to tell the middle how to live their lives, we wouldn't have these problems. Massachusetts can have its social security and universal health care and Texas can do what it wants. Even better, when one of them fails, it doesn't infect everyone else.
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 12:19AM (Unverified) said

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Didn't a civil war happen last time that was tried? "Among other factors of course."
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 3:36AM (Unverified) said

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It's obvious whats going on here, the governor is racist and can't stand the fact that obama is president...
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 9:14AM oscarmike said

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@LaughingTarget

Exactly. If MA would stop trying to raise taxes or creating new taxes, I wouldn't be making plans to move to FL.
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 3:23PM (Unverified) said

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Folks, got this new ointment. It says "apply liberally." So basically what I did was avoid the problem areas and call everyone a racist.
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 4:33PM BigD145 said

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"If it wasn't for chumps along the two coasts trying to tell the middle how to live their lives"

Sorry, but this is total BS. The coasts rake in most of the tax dollars and the middle states get the largest payouts from those tax dollars. They can shut up or they can pay for their own infrastructure like roads and bridges and schools and emergency relief when the Mississippi floods or that tornado rolls through.

http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:19PM (Unverified) said

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He didn't put "secession on the table" he approved a bill declaring sovereignty, something many other states have done.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:37PM (Unverified) said

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which is pointless .

do something useful . is the shoreline where hurricane Ike hit fixed 100%? I didn't think so.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:23PM nzero said

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Who the hell takes Texans seriously any ways I mean everyone knows their shit compared to Californians. Its cause were the shit lol
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:27PM (Unverified) said

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wow, you should seriously work on your grammar and spelling skills before you try to make a case that you're better than anyone else.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:36PM User Formerly Known as Dave said

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Yes, we do know our shit compared to Californians. Thank you.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:37PM Marius said

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Yeah and thats why California's economy is blooming. Oh wait
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:39PM (Unverified) said

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Cali has the highest douchebag - normal person ratio.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:48PM (Unverified) said

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Epic Californian fail. Delicious.

East Coast FTW.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:56PM (Unverified) said

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East Coast all the way!
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:57PM Deuce said

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America would be great if it weren't for all the Americans everywhere.
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 12:21AM xFenixKnightx said

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Don't Mess With Texas! kthxbai!
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 12:45PM (Unverified) said

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Wow N-Zero, you've shamed us Californians...
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 4:54PM (Unverified) said

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Wow... this is disappointing. Not the Texas bill, but the comments.

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. (Alcott)
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:00PM nzero said

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jajajajajajajajaja wow thats a a lot of replies for one not so serious comment lol. You guys just mad cause my governor can terminate you guys jajajaja
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:14PM (Unverified) said

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Not that I approve of the death penalty, but you ought to see how many people Rick Perry's sent to the grave via lethal injection before talking about who's going to terminate who.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:17PM rowd149 said

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YAY DEATH PENALTY.


...Wait, wut?
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 6:49PM burgerbat said

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Matt, that's a pretty hilarious retort. I have an image of Governor Perry with a syringe putting criminals to sleep.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 8:09PM User Formerly Known as Dave said

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Hey, I love video games, too--but you really need to pick up a book, kid.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:12PM nzero said

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@MariusElijah (Only on PlayStation 3)

You clearly don't know anything about economics if your citing California's economy. Sure California's economy might not be fairing well but so is the rest of the United States. Also just to inform you California is one of the top economies in the World, if it was its' own country than California would be marked tenth worldwide but that number might be different now since that was in 2007 but Texas doesn't even come close to that lol. I think Texas was marked at 15 still good but not as good as California lol
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:16PM (Unverified) said

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Yeah, and the Titanic was one of the top ships in the world, but it still sunk. If your state's on the verge of bankruptcy, STFU.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:17PM Marius said

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yeah that was 2007, our state isn't going bankrupt like yours
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:41PM (Unverified) said

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As long as you guys can manage to legalize weed, more power to ya.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 7:30PM LaughingTarget said

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California used to be called the 5th largest economy in the world. It's slipped to the 10th. The key advantage of this is California's population, based on a per-capita calculation, California is somewhere in the middle of the pack of US states. It may produce a lot, but only because it's a big state, not because there's something special about doing business in California. Cali used to have a good business environment, but through major tax increases to cover all the social services the state wants to offer, it is no longer considered a business friendly environment and is losing businesses. California has gone from a tax donor state (a state that pays more Federal taxes than recieves in benefits) to a tax recipient state over this timeframe as well as has a 10.1% unemployment rate.

Texas, on the other hand, has had an economy that has grown faster than California's and during this economic "crisis", seems to be weathering quite well. Texas is still a tax donor state and has a low unemployment rate of 6.7%.

Of course Texas is angry. States like California, which burden themselves and by proxy, the nation, with stupid laws, regulations, taxes and "services", are making it hard for Texas to function. Since TX isn't getting hammered like everyone else, they'll be bound to foot a greater and greater percentage of the budget, which predominantly goes to states that are not called Texas but are called New York or California.

California was a great place, 30 years ago. Today it's a huge mess and a prime example of what not to do on a national level but what America is going to do anyway.
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 4:35PM BigD145 said

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California still has one of the largest International shipping ports and some of the biggest fishing fleets. It's impact on the nation is huge.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:17PM (Unverified) said

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I love it, people come in here thinking they're better than Texans yet they themselves post barbaric comments. Oh the irony...
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Posted: Apr 26th 2009 12:42AM (Unverified) said

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There seems to always be a lot of pointless competition. Hell, where taught in school to hate the other rival schools and everyone in them simply because they where zoned for that school.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:50PM nzero said

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@MariusElijah (Only on PlayStation 3) & Matt_M

Dude you are so ignorant you argue with no facts ok here is the deal. The reason I listed 2007 for California's position because it was the last time the CIA did a listing of its position of it globally if California was its onwn nation. I got that from here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California

The most current position I could find of California which is not supported by any govt. agency but from the private sector was from here

http://www.theglobalguru.com/article.php?id=171&offer=GURU003

California's economy is still larger than Texas. Texas' economy is basically half of that of California which means Texas GDP usually is half of what California's is. If you don't know what GDP is its basically the Gross Domestic Product of that economy. Now GDP doesn't measure the economic strength of a market as well as GSP (GRP) which determines the actuial gross of that market. Now let me just get it through your head. Sure the economic market of California may be weak but it still stronger than Texas now that doesn't mean Texas economy is weak it just means that California's is better ok.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:59PM (Unverified) said

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You know there's a reply function, right?
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 7:28PM Marius said

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I think you have a case of swine flu get that check. Your state is in DEBT get that through your head
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 7:33PM Toradora said

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Hello 11.2% unemployment rate as of March 09,

How is Nancy Pelosi doing?

Love,
6.7% unemployment rate as of March 09.

PS. Keep your California refugees out of Austin / SA / DFW / Houston.

PPS. Earthquakes, can you has them?

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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 5:56PM Zertoss said

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Wow, you mention Texas in an article and suddenly the comments read like fanboy wars, complete with stupidity beyond belief.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 6:04PM wshwe said

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Perry is just another Republican space cadet.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 6:10PM nzero said

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@Mark C yeah I know theirs a reply function just the people I want to reply to don't have it enabled lol o and Zertoss yeah this shit got carried away I mean I just posted something stupid so someone else can post something stupid and we could all have a bid laugh but I guess some people took it a bit to seriously but it is my fault all this started jajajajajajaja sorry lol
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 6:15PM Zertoss said

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"the people I want to reply to don't have it enabled lol"

...

You click the reply button under the first post, in this case, YOUR post. So to reply to this comment, you click the reply button right there under the post you made that this comment is in response to.

Simple, no?
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 6:32PM nzero said

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OMG!!!!! I have been wondering how it worked lol jajajajaja that means I have alot of replies that I have made that have been sent to the wrong person lol. Thx Zertoss though super help
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 6:50PM burgerbat said

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You are an idiot. Good day sir.
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 7:28PM (Unverified) said

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Here is a Governor that is actually promoting and even SUPPORTING the game industry and most of the posts here are actually attacking him!

Contrast this Texas Gov to those attempts to tax or regulate content in the games from Rep. Robert Billiot in Louisiana,to the Seirra Club in New Mexico, to Steve Samuelson in Pennsylvania, to Hillary Clinton's taxing campaign, to those Bureaucrats in the UK that want to turn games into eco-edu-tainment... I'd think you people would be happy...


Did I miss something?



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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 7:48PM (Unverified) said

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well said
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Posted: Apr 25th 2009 7:58PM (Unverified) said

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No.

90% of America has just lost their fucking minds, and seem to think Bush is still in the White House.

That's about it....
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