NBC has a 3 1/2-hour commercial for the Army

[Oeditpus Rex]

The U.S. Army All-America Bowl, a high-school football game in San Antonio.

I'm just catching the last couple of minutes. Both teams (east and west) are wearing uniforms with "U.S. Army" in large letters, and they're getting lots of face time with sideline interviews and stuff. There are huge "An Army of One" banners in the end zones.

This is high-school football, gang. I wonder how much the DOD — that is, we — paid for it.

I think I'm gonna throw up.

[GOPisEvil]

1. It's a good opportunity for the players, BUT...

...it is one long commercial for the US Army.

It's played in my quasi-ancestral home, so I tuned in occasionally.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. I dunno about 'opportunity'

Yeah, they get to be on teevee and get showcased and all that, but I wonder if they realize they're all shills. Or if they care.

[GOPisEvil]

5. No, they're there for their own self-interest.

[GalleryGod]

2. What IS it with Tex-assssss !?

Ya' know there was that time, when it was a SEPARATE country...:think:

Oh, well...in a perfect world:spray:

[GOPisEvil]

4. Please, please don't refer to my home that way.

San Antonio was chosen for this NATIONAL game because there is a large military presence there, and it's centrally located with a large tourism industry. This is not NOT!!!! a Texas thing.

This is my home, and I'm an AMERICAN.

Sorry for the rant, but dammit, I'm sick of people taking potshots at my home. I don't want these assholes in charge, and I'm working for change.

[texanwitch]

6. Standing right beside you.

:applause:


:kick:


Texas is full of good Democrats, a lot of us are working hard to make a change here.

Bush was the first republican governor in the State of Texas.

I am proud of being a Texan.

[Jamastiene]

7. Was he really the first Repub governor?

I didn't know that.

[GOPisEvil]

8. Um, thanks, but Bush was not the first Republican Governor of Texas.

Bill Clements was the first Republican Governor since Reconstruction. He served '79-'83 and '87-'91.

[texanwitch]

9. Clements was like a lot of democrats who were really republicans.

They start out as a Democrat, get elected and then become Republicans.

Texas was a really heavy duty Democrat State.

[GOPisEvil]

10. True, Texas used to be almost 100% Democratic.

I just wanted to make sure the record was straight though. :)

[Flying Dream Blues]

11. Me, too. We voted 48% against Bush, right???

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. There are a lot of generalizations and assumptions

about Texas because most of what we hear and believe comes from Dallas or Houston, or redneck meccas like Lufkin. The thing is, Texas is so goddam BIG that any generalization about its people is just foolish. There's just way too much geography and resulting diversity to say "Texas is like..."

It's the same with Kollyforniya; pretty much everything people rip on about it comes out of the Bay Area or SoCal. But if you've spent any time here, you know that life along the coast is much different than in the Valley.

Suffice to say, quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes, "No generalization is worth a damn — including this one."

[texanwitch]

13. Sorry to be so long in getting back, neighbors came over to visit.

I forgot about old Bill, he was a sorry ass. I wasn't living in Texas for awhile back then, I was in the military and the working out of state.

I have been doing some checking aand this is the list of Texas Governors, notice how many are Democrats.



Governors of Texas
# Name Took Office Left Office Party Texas County Named After
1 James Pinckney Henderson 19 February 1846 21 December 1847 Democrat Henderson County
2 George T. Wood 21 December 1847 21 December 1849 Democrat Wood County
3 Peter Hansborough Bell 21 December 1849 23 November 1853 Democrat Bell County
4 J. W. Henderson 23 November 1853 21 December 1853 Democrat
5 Elisha M. Pease 21 December 1853 21 December 1857 Unionist
6 Hardin R. Runnels 21 December 1857 21 December 1859 Democrat
7 Sam Houston 21 December 1859 16 March 1861 Democrat Houston County
8 Edward Clark 16 March 1861 7 November 1861 Democrat
9 Francis R. Lubbock 7 November 1861 5 November 1863 Democrat Lubbock County(partially)
10 Pendleton Murrah 5 November 1863 June 1865 Democrat
10 Fletcher Stockdale June 1865 19 June 1865 Democrat
11 Andrew J. Hamilton 19 June 1865 9 August 1866 Democrat
12 James W. Throckmorton 9 August 1866 8 August 1867 Democrat
13 Elisha M. Pease 8 August 1867 30 September 1869 Republican
14 Edmund J. Davis 8 January 1870 15 January 1874 Republican
15 Richard Coke 15 January 1874 1 December 1876 Democrat Coke County
16 Richard B. Hubbard 1 December 1876 21 January 1879 Democrat
17 Oran M. Roberts 21 January 1879 16 January 1883 Democrat Roberts County (partially)
18 John Ireland 16 January 1883 18 January 1887 Democrat
19 Lawrence Sullivan Ross 18 January 1887 20 January 1891 Democrat
20 James Stephen Hogg 20 January 1891 15 January 1895 Democrat Jim Hogg County
21 Charles A. Culberson 15 January 1895 17 January 1899 Democrat
22 Joseph D. Sayers 17 January 1899 20 January 1903 Democrat
23 S.W.T. Lanham 20 January 1903 15 January 1907 Democrat
24 Thomas Mitchell Campbell 15 January 1907 17 January 1911 Democrat
25 Oscar Branch Colquitt 17 January 1911 19 January 1915 Democrat
26 James E. Ferguson 19 January 1915 25 August 1917 Democrat
27 William Pettus Hobby Sr. 25 August 1917 18 January 1921 Democrat
28 Pat Morris Neff 18 January 1921 20 January 1925 Democrat
29 Miriam A. Ferguson 20 January 1925 17 January 1927 Democrat
30 Dan Moody 17 January 1927 20 January 1931 Democrat
31 Ross S. Sterling 20 January 1931 17 January 1933 Democrat
32 Miriam A. Ferguson 17 January 1933 15 January 1935 Democrat
33 James V. Allred 15 January 1935 17 January 1939 Democrat
34 W. Lee O'Daniel 17 January 1939 4 August 1941 Democrat
35 Coke R. Stevenson 4 August 1941 21 January 1947 Democrat
36 Beauford H. Jester 21 January 1947 11 July 1949 Democrat
37 Allan Shivers 11 July 1949 15 January 1957 Democrat
38 Price Daniel 15 January 1957 15 January 1963 Democrat
39 John B. Connally Jr. 15 January 1963 21 January 1969 Democrat
40 Preston Smith 21 January 1969 16 January 1973 Democrat
41 Dolph Briscoe 16 January 1973 16 January 1979 Democrat
42 William P. Clements 16 January 1979 18 January 1983 Republican
43 Mark White 18 January 1983 20 January 1987 Democrat
44 William P. Clements 20 January 1987 15 January 1991 Republican
45 Ann Richards 15 January 1991 17 January 1995 Democrat
46 George W. Bush 17 January 1995 21 December 2000 Republican
47 J. Richard Perry 21 December 2000 present Republican


I do wonder how many were really Republicans hiding as Democrats.