The video link is to Chris Rhea, "Going to Texas." I feel like walking there myself. Instead, given the man I am, I'll be blogging from Laos sometime this winter. Not yet for Texas. Home is a long way off for now. Miles to go....
I don't get it. How do you drive from East Germany to Texas? Is this some kind of subtle slight against Massachusetts? I wonder what kind of cars they drive in Laos....
Well, you get on your steel guitar and slide, way out of Germany, and super-slide past the coast, and on to Texas.
Laos, being a Communist country, doesn't have cars for the likes of us. We have to ride water buffalo or take a chicken bus. That would be why the Communists call themselves The Party. They whoop it up, and everyone else, well, too bad for them. They can go green for all they matter.
Texas is booming. They get all the smart people who used to live in Taxachusetts. California, too. Taxed to poverty and want. That's why you can see them walking.
We could well see half the nation or more walking to Texas soon. It'll be like the Dirty Thirties, instead of my step-mm leaving Oklahoma, everyone will be walking to Texas, huge long lines of pilgrims going to the land of Stephen Austin. I can see it now, men weeping for joy as they pass into the state, getting down on their knees to thank God they've arrived safe with their families and can start a new life in Texas.
One might think that everyone's going to Texas, but that's not so. Some, and I think most, will stop and stare, and they'll say, "Hey, I ain't going to Texas. I have my home, and I want to stay right here, as good a state as Texas itself. Here's my place, and I won't let it die. I die here instead." We'll see Borahs and Haineses and Stocktons and men of determination who will stay and make their homes home again. Builders like Austin.
It takes time, and I hope to live to see it arise, our home, to its glory. Our destiny is manifest, and we are blessed by it. What a miracle is America. And every day more and more are people coming to understand what we have and what we stand to lose if we don't fight for its security and our future.
Sarah Palin, Texas, our Stars and Stripes: I see the same thing. Ordinary men and women, our land, our nation. My home town and the mountains; and me, east of Eden, even unto the land of Nod.
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The video link is to Chris Rhea, "Going to Texas." I feel like walking there myself. Instead, given the man I am, I'll be blogging from Laos sometime this winter. Not yet for Texas. Home is a long way off for now. Miles to go....
I don't get it. How do you drive from East Germany to Texas? Is this some kind of subtle slight against Massachusetts? I wonder what kind of cars they drive in Laos....
Well, you get on your steel guitar and slide, way out of Germany, and super-slide past the coast, and on to Texas.
Laos, being a Communist country, doesn't have cars for the likes of us. We have to ride water buffalo or take a chicken bus. That would be why the Communists call themselves The Party. They whoop it up, and everyone else, well, too bad for them. They can go green for all they matter.
Texas is booming. They get all the smart people who used to live in Taxachusetts. California, too. Taxed to poverty and want. That's why you can see them walking.
We could well see half the nation or more walking to Texas soon. It'll be like the Dirty Thirties, instead of my step-mm leaving Oklahoma, everyone will be walking to Texas, huge long lines of pilgrims going to the land of Stephen Austin. I can see it now, men weeping for joy as they pass into the state, getting down on their knees to thank God they've arrived safe with their families and can start a new life in Texas.
One might think that everyone's going to Texas, but that's not so. Some, and I think most, will stop and stare, and they'll say, "Hey, I ain't going to Texas. I have my home, and I want to stay right here, as good a state as Texas itself. Here's my place, and I won't let it die. I die here instead." We'll see Borahs and Haineses and Stocktons and men of determination who will stay and make their homes home again. Builders like Austin.
It takes time, and I hope to live to see it arise, our home, to its glory. Our destiny is manifest, and we are blessed by it. What a miracle is America. And every day more and more are people coming to understand what we have and what we stand to lose if we don't fight for its security and our future.
Sarah Palin, Texas, our Stars and Stripes: I see the same thing. Ordinary men and women, our land, our nation. My home town and the mountains; and me, east of Eden, even unto the land of Nod.
And to think that, for most people, the land of Nod is Idaho!
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