You weren't the only once hence why I felt obligated to chime in to see what I was missing. ;)

A petition at I believe whitehouse.gov has been petitioning for Texas' succession from the Union. The petition has crossed the 25,000 signatures within 30 days threshold with by policy means an official review and response from the White House. As over two days ago, the petition has reached over 35,000 signatures. And a few other states have started up their own but haven't reached 25,000 signatures yet.

Growing up in Texas, honestly not surprised about this. Still in a state with over 25,000,000, it's not that hard to get less than one percent who think the state should succeed. I've heard that crap talked about for over a decade.

*EDIT* Seems as though I missed the joke.

succession vs. secession

There are over 90k on that petition. And apparently 20-something other states with similar petitions.

There's also a petition on there to create a law that says if anyone signs a petition to secede from the United States, they must leave the country.

And another from Austin, Texas asking to secede from Texas and remain a part of the United States if Texas secedes.

I don't believe anyone will be succeeding in seceding.

Indeed. It's been a big hit on the news here lately...you know in the state you abandoned. :p

Secession is the same as Alec Baldwin's (empty) promise to leave the country if Bush was elected.

And would those who mock this really miss Texas if they were to secede.

I thought they were all going to move to Canada if Obama won. I guess they found out that Canada has gun laws, legalized gay marriage, and universal health care.

A tell tale sign should have been when Romney lost by a landslide in Michigan, by a double landslide in Massachusetts, and got less of the Mormon vote than Bush.

Can he drop Rush Limbaugh off in Costa Rica?

The trogladytes in Texas should read what they signed that allowed Texas back into the Union after the Civil War.

After the Republican presidential candidates debate, everybody now knows why they called Bush the smart one.

Keep it civil.

Steve/Steven, I sometimes wonder whether you post things just to see if you'll get a reaction out of people....if so, you've got one here...

Be civil

You can't swing a dead cat in here without hitting a moderator.

No, but you can swing one and find a week or so away from the board if you don't keep things civil.

I don't know if his history is available to the new moderators / administrators, but iirc, it wouldn't be the first time he received a week's suspension.

I have full administrative access to the board. Moderators have less access, but not by much. All eight moderators have moderating privileges on the 4 main boards and I'll be expanding that to include this General/Off Topic board, as well once I get around to it.

However, far as I'm concerned, everyone started with a clean slate once we came on board. Those who can't behave (history tends to repeat itself) will quickly move through the progression of discipline -- by the time they hit the "In Time Out" phase, they've already been warned, probably more than once.

bob, if you want to go public, I thought you did poor job of moderating. You let too many slide by. You issued too many free passes so to speak.

It really amazes me that some only want to play the blame game. Excuse me for standing up for myself. I might not be an angel, but I'm not a hypocrite either.

BTW-I did chat with Mick a few times before he passed. He agreed with me on a few points.

It is what it is. All I wanted to do was play by the same set of rules. I'll just leave it at that.

Thank you