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**** New WA Resolution Notification *****

There is currently a new Security Council Resolution at vote. When expressing your opinion, please note which Resolution it is for. And remember Texans, your individual vote does count!

The new Resolution is called:
"Repeal "Liberate Congress of Armed Proletarian States"
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.

Category: Repeal Resolution: SC#180 Proposed by: Proletaire

Description: WA Security Council Resolution #180: Liberate Congress of Armed Proletarian States shall be struck out"...

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Ok, this is an Insta-Repeal™ for the 89% stupid nations who voted for this last week. That was just dumb and we are proud that Texans did not fall for it. We are truly an enlightened bunch. Texans were unanimously against it by a vote of 0 for and 4 against. We were against it as a nation because we knew it would do nothing. Let's get rid of this POS legislation. As a reminder, the issue here is the REPEAL of the existing law. A vote AGAINST this Resolution means you are in favor of the existing law and do not want it repealed. A vote FOR this Resolution means you want the law off the books. NewTexas will go on record as FOR on this Resolution. This is only the opinion of NewTexas. We look forward to other Texans' opinions and comments on this Resolution. If good arguments to the contrary are made, we will reconsider our position.

If you would like to take part in shaping the world you live in, please vote. Voting is a right and a privilege, please consider using it. And, if you are not a member of the World Assembly, we strongly encourage you to join.

All WA Member nations please vote. Please make your opinions known in Texas by 11:00pm Monday and in the World Assembly voting booth by 11:00pm Texas Time on Tuesday the 30th. Current voting in The World is running - Votes FOR: 3184 Votes AGAINST: 487

Big Tex

PS: Remember, be sure to vote at the World Assembly too!

NewTexas wrote:

***** Texas Saturday Breakfast *****

Wooo! It is Saturday breakfast time again! And it is one of our favorites - ToastFest! For your fine dining pleasure, today will be toast, toast, toast and more toast! Oh Yeah! For the ultimate toast experience, we will start right off with traditional white bread, soft and spongy right out of the plastic bag! This is the stuff toast dreams are made of. These pillows of bready goodness are toasted until golden brown on one side, slathered in farm-fresh, Genuine Texas Angus butter, fresh-churned daily and lightly toasted on the other side just until the butter bubbles and browns giving it a nutty deliciosity that is unmatched in any other breakfast treat. For the health conscious, we have brown whole wheat bread. For the gonzo health nuts, we have Seventeen Grain Nut Loaf with all kinds of healthy grassy things ground up made into a bread of sorts that can be toasted. Of course there will be thick slab Texas Toast either toasted in the oven or grilled on the flat top. We also have super-yummy cinnamon toast and cinnamon-raisin bread toast. For the funky-inclined, we have rye bread toast, pumpernickel toast, rosemary bread toast, Challah bread toast and English Toasting Bread toast. That English Toasting Bread is really good stuff and comes highly-recommended for the true toast connoisseur. The chefs just keep popping out so many various breads, if you don't see something you like, just ask. Onto the toast toppings! Woo, we are swooning now. If you thought that was a lot of toast, there are almost more topping for toast, glorious toast. Nature's Finest Food! We will just start listing them - plain ol' Buttered Toast (salted or no), Flavored Butter Toast, Peanut Butter Toast, Peanut Butter and Jelly Toast, Nutella Toast, Honey Toast, Cheese Toast, Applesauce on Toast, Peanut Butter and Banana Toast and Peanut Butter and Apple Toast. Jellies and other condiments include the ubiquitous grape, strawberry preserves, banana compote, orange marmalade, blueberry preserves, blackberry jam, guava, persimmon and pomegranate preserves. Not into sweet toppings for your toast? We have cream gravy, with or without the chipped beef. The offerings are mind boggling for this wonderful breakfast food that is awesome any time of the day! No Juice Bar today. Start your day off the right way; munch out and go back to sleep. Of course, The Never Ending Urn of Coffee is full and ready to help you wash it all down. Texas coffee doesn't get much better. Enjoy Texas! You know you want to!®

***** Texas Chat Reminder *****

The Texas Weekly Chat Session will be Saturday (TODAY) at High Noon Texas Time (CDT) ***Saturday*** in the Chat Forum on the offsite forum. We have an all new Chat Site this year that is much better than the old one. It is here if you want to go straight there: http://texasregion.net/blab70/login.php This is a great opportunity for nations old and new to Texas to find out what is going on! We chat, we debate, we talk about the weather, we talk about stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff and more stuff. But, it is never stuffy. Usually, it is about meeting your fellow Texans and talking about the latest and most interesting stuff in NationStates at the moment. But then again, sometimes NationStates does not even come up. It is wide-open chatting with peeps from around The World both IRL and NS. Texas Chat, 545 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 10¾ years! Check it out! Good stuff!

Ooh, Toast!

Triskullion wrote:

Welp, let's just all go to iHop to have a Toastfest?

No, you go to the Texas Chat, then introduce yourself, then get up for 5 Minutes to make some toast, and then come back to your computer and eat it while chatting on the computer :P

Triskullion wrote:

Hi, my name is Ass, and I have just made a toast by myself, next to my computer, all by myself...

You have to get on the forums when It's time (1 EST) Saturday and chat. That's when the weekly chat is.

Aquafireland wrote:

I don't really go against people with gay ideologies, but I'm not really a fan of it either.

50 states :/

Being Gay is not an ideology, any more than Heterosexuality is an ideology. There doesn't appear to be a single "showtune gene," but the environment in the uterus as the fetus is developing may have something to do with it. Boys with older brothers have a disproportionately more likely chance of being Gay than firstborn boys. Whether it is genetic, environmental, or anything else, one is either born GLBTQ or becomes that way very shortly after birth, long before there's any possibility of choice.

Some of you know that there used to be a profound prejudice against left-handed people. During the Middle Ages, it was assumed that anything that came from the left side was under the influence of the devil, so lefties faced puishment (even imprisonment, up to and including capital punishment), ostracization, and even well into the mid-twentieth century, lefties were taught either to write with their right hand or to use a totally unnatural style so that their writing would appear to be from a right-handed person. My own mother, when I was a baby starting to learn to feed myself, noted that if she put the spoon in the middle of my tray, I would pick it up with my left hand and teach myself to eat like a leftie. So she made a habit of it to put the spoon on my right side, so I would pick it up with my right hand. So these days I do some things predominantly with my right hand, like writing, while more recently-acquired skills, like bowling, I tend to do better with my left hand. Forks and knives confuse me--I'll have to stop and think about which hand is conventionally used for which utensil. Finally, we realized that being left-handed is a variation on a theme, that in any given human population over time, roughly 3/4 will be right-handed and about 1/4 will be left-handed or ambidextrous. It's all good. We are now at that point with sexual minorities--most people no longer assume sexual minorities are evil or defective, we're just a variation on a theme. I and most other gay folks don't want special rights, etc.; we just want to be treated the same as anyone else, including the right to marry the partner of our choosing, working at those jobs for which we have an aptitude, be able to live where we want and can afford, be able to hold hands in public and other casual PDAs without people staring at us, being able to have contracts the same as anyone else, not to have to live in fear that our parents and friends will disown us if our 'secret' were ever to be known, or face the fear of being fired from a job simply for being gay, when such has nothing to do with our job, and all the rest.

As the Founder of Gay, I get a lot of hate mail, mainly from children who are simply aping what their parents have said, and from Christian and Islamic fundamentalists. As is the case with ethnic and religious minorities, you need not care for us nor have much to do with us, and that's fine. People change at different paces and we respect that. Some head cases, though, will turn their hatred and fear into violence, like the bigoted white man who murdered 9 people in a Black Baptist Church, here in my home state of South Carolina. Gay people (and straight people who are assumed to be gay) are routinely gay-bashed and murdered. Unfortunately, that doesn't usually make the seven o'clock news, or if it does, that it was a hate crime is usually obscured. Change can be a little frightening for some people, but in this case, the Undiscovered Country is a better, fairer place. The fact that I can now get married in any of the fifty states and have that marriage recognized by the federal government and all 49 of the other states has no impact on you or your straight marriage. Gay marriage is over 10 years old in MA and despite the dire predictions from those who proclaimed the end of the world or the end of civilization as we know it, nothing in particular has changed, just a long-oppressed minority is finally "getting a piece of the pie." (Fifty points if you're old enough to recognize that pop quote!)

And Godzillas tokyo, I really find it hilarious that people seem to believe that homosexual marriage will jeopardize their heterosexual one. It's not like the Supreme Court is making heterosexuality illegal. I honestly feel like outlawing stupidity would solve almost all the world's problems. Of course, that would mean the politicians would pass laws that criminalize being politicians...

Godzillas tokyo wrote:

Being Gay is not an ideology, any more than Heterosexuality is an ideology. There doesn't appear to be a single "showtune gene," but the environment in the uterus as the fetus is developing may have something to do with it. Boys with older brothers have a disproportionately more likely chance of being Gay than firstborn boys. Whether it is genetic, environmental, or anything else, one is either born GLBTQ or becomes that way very shortly after birth, long before there's any possibility of choice.

Some of you know that there used to be a profound prejudice against left-handed people. During the Middle Ages, it was assumed that anything that came from the left side was under the influence of the devil, so lefties faced puishment (even imprisonment, up to and including capital punishment), ostracization, and even well into the mid-twentieth century, lefties were taught either to write with their right hand or to use a totally unnatural style so that their writing would appear to be from a right-handed person. My own mother, when I was a baby starting to learn to feed myself, noted that if she put the spoon in the middle of my tray, I would pick it up with my left hand and teach myself to eat like a leftie. So she made a habit of it to put the spoon on my right side, so I would pick it up with my right hand. So these days I do some things predominantly with my right hand, like writing, while more recently-acquired skills, like bowling, I tend to do better with my left hand. Forks and knives confuse me--I'll have to stop and think about which hand is conventionally used for which utensil. Finally, we realized that being left-handed is a variation on a theme, that in any given human population over time, roughly 3/4 will be right-handed and about 1/4 will be left-handed or ambidextrous. It's all good. We are now at that point with sexual minorities--most people no longer assume sexual minorities are evil or defective, we're just a variation on a theme. I and most other gay folks don't want special rights, etc.; we just want to be treated the same as anyone else, including the right to marry the partner of our choosing, working at those jobs for which we have an aptitude, be able to live where we want and can afford, be able to hold hands in public and other casual PDAs without people staring at us, being able to have contracts the same as anyone else, not to have to live in fear that our parents and friends will disown us if our 'secret' were ever to be known, or face the fear of being fired from a job simply for being gay, when such has nothing to do with our job, and all the rest.

As the Founder of Gay, I get a lot of hate mail, mainly from children who are simply aping what their parents have said, and from Christian and Islamic fundamentalists. As is the case with ethnic and religious minorities, you need not care for us nor have much to do with us, and that's fine. People change at different paces and we respect that. Some head cases, though, will turn their hatred and fear into violence, like the bigoted white man who murdered 9 people in a Black Baptist Church, here in my home state of South Carolina. Gay people (and straight people who are assumed to be gay) are routinely gay-bashed and murdered. Unfortunately, that doesn't usually make the seven o'clock news, or if it does, that it was a hate crime is usually obscured. Change can be a little frightening for some people, but in this case, the Undiscovered Country is a better, fairer place. The fact that I can now get married in any of the fifty states and have that marriage recognized by the federal government and all 49 of the other states has no impact on you or your straight marriage. Gay marriage is over 10 years old in MA and despite the dire predictions from those who proclaimed the end of the world or the end of civilization as we know it, nothing in particular has changed, just a long-oppressed minority is finally "getting a piece of the pie." (Fifty points if you're old enough to recognize that pop quote!)

I can see that you clearly express strong feelings towards this issue.

Anyways, everyone has their own feelings and opinions towards homosexuality. I am currently living in the Middle East, so I am surrounded by people that portray this in a negative light. Inevitably, their opinions have seemed to 'rub off' on me.

I just hope you didn't take it too seriously. :)

Aquafireland wrote:

I can see that you clearly express strong feelings towards this issue.

Anyways, everyone has their own feelings and opinions towards homosexuality. I am currently living in the Middle East, so I am surrounded by people that portray this in a negative light. Inevitably, their opinions have seemed to 'rub off' on me.

I just hope you didn't take it too seriously. :)

I will take that as an apology and accept it. Just because an opinion is common in a given region doesn't make it right. For all I know, expressing a positive opinion about LGBTQ people may be illegal where you live, as it is in Russia. :(

Godzillas tokyo wrote:

Just because an opinion is common in a given region doesn't make it right

That could be said about most if not all things, some of them I would agree with you on and some I would disagree. As for the marriage thing, I have no real opinion right now, ask me again in 20 years.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016

How the f*** did this get 34,000 Signatures?

Timbergrove wrote:

"Death Star" is such a loaded term. Come on people, we're just talking about building a simple space station here. Sure, it may lead to other uses, but that's just scientific progress.

Come on we don't need to build a Death Star just put an ABL "airborne laser" system and a couple Kinetic rod from God systems on the ISS then whamo you get the Death Star . 😋