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88 comments on Reflections on "The Prize"

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step back on December 2, 2006 - 4:45am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Whatever happened to the good old days when "the prize" was killing off all the Indians and taking their gold in the name of God and country?

Them dumb Iraqi's don't know how to play the game of Texas Cowboys and Indians the right way. Don't they know that invading white man always wins? It's time to get up on our high horse, declare victory and go home Tonto. Hio Silver.
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oilmanbob on December 2, 2006 - 9:09am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
   George W. Bush was born in Conneticut, spent a couple of early years in Midland, attended prep school in New York, and college at Yale and plans to retire in Paraguay. He always treated Texas like a colonialist. Don't blame us for the fact that he is a good mimic of accents.
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Prodigal Son on December 2, 2006 - 6:38pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
He also got elected governor. The state went for him in both presidential elections, no?

So, yes, I feel it is appropriate to blame 'Texas'.

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Seadragon on December 2, 2006 - 8:44pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The state deserves every bit of scorn heaped upon it.
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tom deplume on December 4, 2006 - 1:21pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
What Texas lacks in quality it makes up for in quantity.
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Robert Rapier on December 2, 2006 - 1:43pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That reminds me of a joke told by Jon Stewart:

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
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Oil CEO on December 3, 2006 - 5:42am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
That's very unlike you. Whaddya want a Kramer rap-sheet? Jesus! We were grooming you for President. Let us know if we shouldn't waste our time anymore. Can you say 'Allen?'

That's not a joke. Stewart wasn't kidding.

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DIYer on December 2, 2006 - 3:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
What's all this "we" stuff, Kimo Sabe?
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