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This is stolen from another forum, but I agree with all of it.

God Bless TEXAS! This is a must read for all Texans, used-to-be Texans, adopted Texans or wanna-be Texans:

Just Texas
Pep, Texas 79353
Smiley, Texas 78159
Paradise, Texas 76073
Rainbow, Texas 76077
Sweet Home, Texas 77987
Comfort, Texas 78013
Friendship, Texas 76530

Love the sun?
Sun City, Texas 78628
Sunrise, Texas 76661
Sunset, Texas 76270
Sundown, Texas 79372
Sunray, Texas 79086
Sunny Side, Texas 77423

Want something to eat?
Bacon, Texas 76301
Noodle, Texas 79536
Oatmeal, Texas 78605
Turkey, Texas 79261
Trout, Texas 75789
Sugar Land, Texas 77479
Salty, Texas 76567
Rice, Texas 75155
Pearland, Texas 77581
Orange, Texas 77630
And top it off with:
Sweetwater, Texas 79556

Why travel to other cities? Texas has them all!
Detroit, Texas 75436
Cleveland, Texas 75436
Colorado City, Texas 79512
Denver City, Texas 79323
Klondike, Texas 75448
Pittsburg, Texas 75686
Newark, Texas 76071
Nevada, Texas 75173
Memphis, Texas 79245
Miami, Texas 79059
Omaha, Texas 75579
Boston, Texas 75570
Santa Fe, Texas 77517
Tennessee Colony, Texas 75861
Reno, Texas 75462
Pasadena, Texas 77506
Columbus, Texas 78934

Feel like traveling outside the country?
Athens, Texas 75751
Canadian, Texas 79014
China, Texas 77613
Dublin, Texas 76446
Egypt, Texas 77436
Ireland, Texas 76538
Italy, Texas 76538
Turkey, Texas 79261
London, Texas 76854
New London, Texas 75682
Paris, Texas 75460
Palestine, Texas 75801

No need to travel to Washington DC
Whitehouse, Texas 75791

We even have a city named after our planet!
Earth, Texas 79031

We have a city named after our state:
Texas City, Texas 77590

Exhausted?
Energy, Texas 76452

Cold?
Blanket, Texas 76432
Winters, Texas 79567

Like to read about History?
Santa Anna, Texas 76878
Goliad, Texas 77963
Alamo, Texas 78516
Gun Barrel City, Texas 75156
Robert Lee, Texas 76945

Need Office Supplies?
Staples, Texas 78670

Want to go into outer space?
Venus, Texas 76084
Mars, Texas 79062

You guessed it. It's on the state line.
Texline, Texas 79087

For the kids...
Kermit, Texas 79745
Elmo, Texas 75118
Nemo, Texas 76070
Tarzan, Texas 79783
Winnie, Texas 77665
Sylvester, Texas 79560

Other city names in Texas, to make you smile......
Frognot, Texas 75424
Bigfoot, Texas 78005
Hogeye, Texas 75423
Cactus, Texas 79013
Notrees, Texas 79759
Best, Texas 76932
Veribest, Texas 76886
Kickapoo, Texas 75763
Dime Box, Texas 77853
Old Dime Box, Texas 77853
Telephone, Texas 75488
Telegraph, Texas 76883
Whiteface, Texas 79379
Twitty, Texas 79079

The Anti-Al Gore City
Kilgore, Texas 75662

And our favorites...
Cut and Shoot, Texas 77303
Gun Barrel City, Texas 75147
Ding Dong, Texas
West, Texas (it's in Central Texas)
and, of course,
Muleshoe, Texas 79347

Here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about folks from Texas

If someone in a Lowe's store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you may live in Texas;
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Texas;
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Texas;
If 'Vacation' means going anywhere south of Dallas for the weekend, you may live in Texas;
If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Texas;
If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Texas;
If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you may live in Texas;
If you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Texas;
If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph --you're going 80 and everybody's passing you, you may live in Texas;
If you find 60 degrees 'a little chilly,' you may live in Texas;
If you actually understand these jokes, and share them with all your Texas friends, you definitely live in Texas.

Here are some little known, very interesting facts about Texas:

1. Beaumont to El Paso: 742miles
2. Beaumont to Chicago : 770 miles
3. El Paso is closer to California than to Dallas
4. World's first rodeo was in Pecos, July 4, 1883.
5. The Flagship Hotel in Galveston is the only hotel in North America built over water. Destroyed by Hurricane Ike - 2008!
6. The Heisman Trophy was named after John William Heisman who was the first full-time coach at Rice University in Houston.
7. Brazoria County has more species of birds than any other area in North America.
8. Aransas Wildlife Refuge is the winter home of North America 's only remaining flock of whooping cranes.
9. Jalapeno jelly originated in Lake Jackson in 1978.
10. The worst natural disaster in US history was in 1900, caused by a hurricane in which over 8,000 lives were lost on Galveston Island.
11. The first word spoken from the moon, July 20, 1969, was "Houston," but the Space Center was actually in Clear Lake City at the time.
12. King Ranch in South Texas is larger than Rhode Island.
13. Tropical Storm Claudette brought a US rainfall record of 43" in 24 hours in and around Alvin in July of 1979.
14. Texas is the only state to enter the US by TREATY, (known as the Constitution of 1845 by the Republic of Texas to enter the Union) instead of by annexation. This allows the Texas Flag to fly at the same height as the US Flag, and Texas may choose to divide into 5 states.
15. A Live Oak tree near Fulton is estimated to be 1500 years old.
16. Caddo Lake is the only natural lake in the state.
17. Dr Pepper was invented in Waco in 1885. There is no period in Dr Pepper.
18. Texas has had six capital cities: Washington-on-the Brazos, Harrisburg, Galveston, Velasco, West Columbia, and Austin.
19. The Capitol Dome in Austin is the only dome in the US which is taller than the Capitol Building in Washington, DC (by 7 feet).
20. The San Jacinto Monument is the tallest free standing monument in the world and it is taller than the Washington Monument
21. The name 'Texas ' comes from the Hasini Indian word 'tejas' meaning friends. Tejas is not Spanish for Texas.
22. The State Mascot is the Armadillo. An interesting bit of trivia about the armadillo is they always have four babies. They have one egg, which splits into four, and they either have four males or four females.
23. The first domed stadium in the US was the Astrodome in Houston.

Cowboy's Ten Commandments posted on the wall at Cross Trails Church in Farlie, Texas:
(1) Just one God.
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa.
(3) No telling tales or gossipin'.
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meeting.
(5) Put nothin' before God.
(6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal.
(7) No killin'.
( Watch yer mouth.
(9) Don't take what ain't yers.
(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff.

Y'all git all that?

Lord, keep Your arm around my shoulder
and Your hand over my mouth.

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of this old disease.

The disease Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced "Gonna re-elect 'em") is a brain debilitating disease that is most prevalent on the east and west coast of the United States, but also exists in pockets throughout the country.

While it's possible for humans to live with Gonorrhea Lectim, over time the disease has a severe negative impact on their quality of life. Scientist studying the great infection of 2020 now believe the disease to be responsible for the country's current economic woes and warn that failure to reduce its prevalence by November 2022 could well destroy life as we know it.

Gonorrhea Lectim is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior involving putting one's cranium up their rectum. However, even severe cases of Gonorrhea Lectim are easily cured with the drug Votemout (pronounced "Vote-em-out."), which requires no prescription.

Texas Democrats upset over Trump supporters driving on I35.

https://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/news-news-mobile/2-smpd-officers-added-biden-bus-lawsuit-911-transcripts-show-police-dismissed-calls


Saturday, October 30, 2021
Two San Marcos Police Department officers were added to a lawsuit stemming from a Biden campaign bus incident that occurred a year ago.

SMPD Assistant Chief of Operations Brandon Winkenwerder and Cpl. Matthew Daenzer were added to the amended lawsuit, which was filed late Friday. City of San Marcos Director of Public Safety Chase Stapp and the City of San Marcos were previously listed as defendants in the lawsuit brought forward by former State Sen. Wendy Davis, a Biden campaign volunteer, campaign staffer and a bus driver, who claim that Stapp and the San Marcos Police Department failed to provide them protection as the Biden-Harris bus drove through San Marcos on Interstate 35.

The City of San Marcos did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding the addition of Winkenwerder and Daenzer to the amended lawsuit.

In the amended file, transcribed 911 audio and additional documents also shows communications between SMPD, the New Braunfels Police Department and Biden campaign staff during the incident.

On Oct. 30, 2020, the Biden-Harris campaign was scheduled to make a stop in San Marcos for an event at Texas State University. The bus traveled from San Antonio up I-35, and was surrounded and followed by supporters of former President Donald Trump who formed a self-labeled “Trump Train,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit claims that the plaintiffs were “targets of a conspiracy to ambush the Biden-Harris Campaign bus on I-35.”

“For at least 90 minutes, including during the entirety of the stretch of I-35 inside the San Marcos city lines, the Trump Train pursued and terrorized the plaintiffs,” the lawsuit says. “Plaintiffs tried to get help. They repeatedly called 911. They requested police escorts. San Marcos refused to help.”

The lawsuit claims the defendants violated the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 by failing to “take reasonable steps to protect Plaintiffs from an unlawful civil rights conspiracy and/or refused to send a police escort to aid the bus, despite being asked to provide one.”

The planned event at Texas State was a part of the several stops scheduled by the Biden campaign in the state during the final days of the 2020 presidential election.

The lawsuit claims that Stapp was notified of the upcoming event on Oct. 29, 2020. Additionally, the complaint states that then-Interim Chief of Police Bob Klett emailed all SMPD police commanders, including Stapp and Winkenwerder, on the same day, notifying them of the planned campaign stop. The lawsuit also claims that “neither Defendant Stapp, Defendant Winkenwerder nor the SMPD made preparations to respond to any safety issues involving the Bus Tour, nor did they alert the Hays County Sheriff’s Office of the event the next day in San Marcos.”

On Oct. 30, 2020, as the bus began to travel north on Interstate 35, it was surrounded by the “Trump Train,” after leaving San Antonio. The lawsuit says in New Braunfels, a Biden Campaign staff member called 911 and the New Braunfels Police Department sent vehicles to I-35. The complaint also states that the “Trump Train” picked up speed and “curbed its harassment of the bus passengers and escorting vehicles” when NBPD officers arrived.

At approximately 3:15 p.m., a Biden supporter called Stapp explaining the situation, the lawsuit says, adding that Stapp assured the supporter that SMPD would assist the bus. Stapp, however, did not order an escort and “forwarded the information” to Winkenwerder by email, who only asked that officers “close patrol” the area near the university, the lawsuit alleges.

At approximately 3:19 p.m., NBPD 911 dispatch called SMPD dispatch, attempting to arrange a handoff of New Braunfels’ escort to San Marcos. In a conversation between an SMPD dispatcher and Daezner, she said she was “annoyed at New Braunfels for doing this to us.”

“They have their officers escorting the Biden bus, essentially, and the Trump Train is cutting in between vehicles and driving — being aggressive and slowing them down to like 20 or 30 miles per hour. And they want you guys to respond,” the dispatcher said in transcribed audio records.

Daenzer said they were not going to escort the bus. “We will close patrol that, but we’re not going to escort a bus,” he told the dispatcher.

The dispatcher said a Biden campaign staffer who called 911 and was transferred to SMPD from NBPD was “really worked up over” the “Trump Train.” Daenzer later suggested to the dispatcher that they should “drive defensively.”

“Or leave the train. There’s an idea,” the dispatcher said.

The dispatcher later told the campaign staffer that SMPD would not be escorting the bus. “If you feel like you’re being threatened or your life is threatened, definitely call us back.” The staffer responded by asking if the dispatcher was serious, later stating that, “They’ve cut in on me multiple times. They’ve threatened my life on multiple occasions with vehicular collision. I would like an escort immediately.”

The dispatcher reiterated that SMPD would not provide an escort. “(SMPD officers) are going to be in the area to monitor any traffic infractions, but they are not there to escort. This is from our chief,” the dispatcher said, referring to Winkenwerder as the “chief,” according to the amended complaint.

The campaign bus entered San Marcos city limits around 3:26 p.m. The complaint claims the situation escalated on I-35 in San Marcos between 3:26-3:30 p.m. The plaintiffs ultimately chose to cancel the event at Texas State.

The amended lawsuit alleges that without a police escort through San Marcos, “the Trump Train became emboldened.”

Viral videos show the campaign bus driving through San Marcos, which ultimately culminated in a collision between an SUV following the bus and a black truck that was a part of a group of Trump supporters on northbound Interstate 35 near Exit 210.

As the campaign bus arrived in Kyle, plaintiffs were able to relay their concerns to the Kyle Police Department, which said officers would assist them. “Shortly thereafter, a police escort arrived in Kyle, granting the bus a short reprieve,” the lawsuit said.

The bus’s 77-mile trip from the AT&T Center in San Antonio to the AFL-CIO in Austin took 2.5 hours, the lawsuit said.

Following the incident, the complaint alleges that SMPD officers “poked fun at the attack,” providing documentation of text message exchanges. In one, an unidentified officer referred to those on the bus as a derogatory slang term for someone mentally disabled.

The day after the incident, Stapp messaged several officers regarding the incident, saying, “from what I can gather, the Biden bus never even exited I-35 thanks to the Trump train.”

Officers, however, later labeled the incident as a “debacle,” realizing what occurred in San Marcos could “lead to political and legal consequences,” the lawsuit claims. Additionally, in emails officers braced themselves for a “political firestorm,”  the lawsuit alleges.

Following last year’s incident, a City of San Marcos spokesperson told the Daily Record on Nov. 2, “due to the excessive amount of traffic they were not able to catch up to the bus before it exited our jurisdiction.”

In a report written on Nov. 4, Daenzer wrote, “Due to staffing issues, lack of time to plan, and lack of knowledge of the route, we were unable to provide an escort.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/san_francisco_allows_government_employees_to_use_cityowned_gyms_while_private_gyms_must_stay_closed.html

"For months, the city of San Francisco health order has prevented local gyms from opening its doors, but some city-owned gyms have been back open for months and are allowing city employees to use them, crushing private gym owners."

There is a plus to this:

“What the city has unwillingly done is created this great case study that says that working out indoors is actually safe,” said Karraker. “So at this point, we’re just demanding that they allow us to have the same workout privileges for the citizens of San Francisco that the employees of San Francisco have.” 

I was watching a Sunday show this morning with F Chuck Todd interviewing Pence.

F Chuck was hammering on increasing testing. I did not understand why.

Until now....... Cases have to be decreasing to get Phase 1. Then they have to continue decreasing for 2 weeks to get to Phase 2. Then decrease for 2 more weeks to get to Phase 3.

The more we test, the more cases we will have and the longer we will be closed.

https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/shit-falls-from-the-sky-in-kansas-drunk-crop-duster-plane-pilot-spreads-4-tons-of-manure-over-city/

“Everyone was freaking out, complaining about shit falling from the skies, fearing a biological attack from Islamic terrorists or the Democrats.”