I just had to post this! I might just run for office!! :o)

Please note that Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union (please refer to the Texas- American Annexation Treaty of 1848). We Texans love y'all, but we'll have to take action if Kerry wins president over Bush.

We'll miss you too. Texas has given all those complainers plenty of time to get used to the results. After seeing the whiners along the campaign route, the folks from Texas are considering taking matters into our own hands.

Here is our solution:
1. Let John Kerry become President of the United States. (all 49 states.)
2. George W. Bush becomes the President of the republic of Texas. So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic? A. NASA is just south of Houston, Texas. (we will control the space industry.) B. We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States.
3. Defense Industry. (we have over 65% of it) The term "Don't mess with Texas," will take on a whole new meaning.
4. Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. Yankee states? Sorry about that.
5. Natural Gas - Again we have all we need and it's too bad about those northern states. John Kerry will figure a way to keep them warm....
6. Computer Industry - we currently lead the nation in producing computer chips and communications: Small places like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Semiconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Delphi, Nortel, Alcatel, Etc, Etc. The list goes on and on.
7. Health Centers - We have the largest research centers for Cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world and other large health planning centers.
8. We have enough colleges to keep us going: UT., Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, SMU, University of Houston, Baylor, UNT, Texas Women's University, etc. Ivy grows better in the south anyway
9. We have a ready supply of workers. (just open the border when we need some more)
10. We have control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc.
11. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don't have an army but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an army in 24 hours if we need it. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over a couple Texas Rangers.
12. We are totally self sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs and several types of grain, fruit and vegetables and lets not forget seafood from the gulf. And everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don't need any food.

This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn't a thing out there that we need and don't have.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Kerry:Since you won't have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Kerry will be able to drive around in his 9 mile per gallon SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes. You won't have any TV as the space center in Houston will cut off your communications. You won't have any natural gas to heat your homes but since Mr. Kerry has predicted global warming, you will not need the gas.

Signed,The People in Texas

"Four poker Nuggets"

Nugget 1

Time for another brief post! Saturday night I decided to enter into the midnight $2 buyin limit holdem tournament. I grew my stack steadily until we were down to the final table. I was the chip lead by a reasonable sum. I had a couple of river beats so my stack shrank. We were down to 3 players I had about 2800, player A had 5700, and player B had 1000. What do you think happens?

You guessed it my computer locked up. I quickly went to the XP Pro machine and tried logging in. No luck! I rebooted that machine and quickly rebooted the ME machine. In the course of about 10 minutes I was back in the game. Ouch! Down to 500 chips! Long and short of it is that I finished 3rd for a $7.82 victory. I was cursing!!


Nugget 2

On Friday night I entered a tournament on Paradise Poker. Free roll and there were 4000 players with the top 200 winning a seat in the big tournament. I do not remember the specifics but I had two river beats that zapped away most of my chips. I got pocket tens and went allin short stacked. One caller with KQ. Yep he got a Q on the flop. I finished 208! Arrgghhhh!

Nugget 3

Party Poker is a great institution! They must like me because they deposited $50 into my account. I had taken out all my money about 6 months ago. Well I played a couple of times but never read the fine print regarding the $50 deposit. On Friday night around 10:30 PM I read the small print while playing with a great friend NovsNasties. The fine print stated I had to have completed 500 raked hands by 7/29. Well it was 7/30. The account page seemed to indicate that I had some time. I immediately began playing two tables. I ended up playing until 3:00 AM and over 400 hands of poker. For 5 hours of play I had broken even, then in the last 30 minutes I was playing Omaha 8 and 7-stud H/L. I managed to quickly drop $25 (see nugget 4). That was a lot of poker!

Nugget 4

Man I love 7 stud H/L, but I got hammered. Three times I was dealt 4 suited cards in the first four cards. Each time no one had anything powerful on the board I had to hang on the flush draw. Not a single one hit. Final stud hand of the night I am dealt KKK. I am betting like a wildman! One player stayed until the river. On the river he filled his 7 high straight and I did not get my boat. How frustrating! Did I play these hands appropriately? I think so and I would probably do it again. Any thoughts would be welcome because I hate losing my free money!

Enough for now! Only my Dad reads this blog! I think! Tomorrow I plan on continuing the vacation adventure.

PLAY ON!