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Darth Kermit wrote:

Happy 4th y'all!
God Bless Texas!

I wish I was in DC right now I could have seen M2 Bradleys, M1 Abrams, B2 Spirit, Blue Angles, Marine One, & Airforce One but I have to work dammit

Any virtual Texans feel the Earthquake in S. Cal?

Fort verden wrote:

Enya’s song “Only Time” became famous as a result of being featured in the Jean-Claude Van Damme Epic Split Stunt Advertisement for Volvo Trucks. So here is the complete story about that:
Volvo Trucks: Jean-Claude Van Damme Epic Split Stunt - The Complete Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn1F-lzoP08

I beat them to it using "only time" as background on a piece showing rescuers going through the remains of the World Trade Center.

NewTexas Trading Card bought for 18.53.

Big Tex my Buddy, I am now the proud owner of your card. This makes me immensely happy and I feel like I am on top of the world. Nyah ha ha ha! :)

<<The Eternal Emperor, Verner Von Richthofen executes a Victory Dance>>

Issues Test Bed wrote:

I beat them to it using "only time" as background on a piece showing rescuers going through the remains of the World Trade Center.

Oh God Buddy! Nightmare fuel imagery.

Trecdom2 wrote:

Somewhat random question. Had anyone used a paid resume writing service?

No, Trec Buddy. I have never used a paid resume writing service. I wrote my own resume because I did not trust someone else to write my resume for me. You can have your family and friends go over your resume after you write it yourself and provide advice and suggest modifications to it. However, you should not trust someone else to write your resume for you. Whether you nail a job interview or not depends on how good your resume is. Therefore, by getting someone else to write your resume for you, you are putting your future in their hands and that is a bad idea.

Your buddy,
Verner Von Richthofen
The Eternal Emperor

Gig em Aggies wrote:

you still got that video link? because that's eerily similar to a video I saw many years ago that was the first time I heard Only Time.

I just looked and it appears the network took most of the Sept. 11th content down. Most of the networks pulled those really intense packages and tributes after President Trump blocked the visas and immigration of Muslims coming from Nations hosting, or at best ignoring terrorists operating from their soil.

Guess they didn't want to remind anyone what happens when we fail to check out the people coming in across our international borders. God forbid those righteous bastards heading up all those network news operations, who all know what's best for the rest of us, leave any evidence the President might have a valid point.

The one I edited together showed firefighters and rescue personnel picking through the debris, removing the remains of firefighters and police officers, and subsequent funeral processions, unloading of flag draped coffins, bagpipers, grieving family and friends. To my knowledge my piece is the only one that used "Only Time."

Perhaps someday I'll dig through the tapes sitting on the shelf and see if I still have it.

Elven king thranduil wrote:

Oh God Buddy! Nightmare fuel imagery.

Yes. Even to this day.

Boozylvania wrote:

Bye y'all. I can't take anymore of the blatant liberal bias in the way these issues are structured. Get enough of this crap in real life.

That is why there is a "dismiss the issue" button.

But don't leave. Ignore the issues and hang around for the conversation.

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

Yippee, it is Saturday Breakfast Time! Today is Fourth Of July Grilled Breakfast! It is a little late but close enough, so we are honoring the Fourth of July, we will be grilling breakfast today. We will start off with freshly-grilled, Texas-sized, cured, hickory-smoked Ham Steaks! Oh Boy, these babies are good and thick, super juicy and expertly grilled with beautiful cross-hatch grill marks. Top those bad boys off with skillet fried eggs right off the grill, or, have them scrambled. If you don't want to top your ham steak with eggs, top it off with great grilled pineapple slices caramelized to perfection. Just for fun, try some Grilled Texas Toast French Toast - fat slices of genuine Texas Toast soaked in a tasty cinnamon-vanilla egg bath and grilled to order. If ham is not your deal, there will be sumptuous sage country sausage patties on the grill right next to the super-thick slab bacon and sweet crispy apple slices. For the adventurous, we will be serving up plenty of BBQ'd back bacon to honor Canada Day, which, by the way, was also last week. Smoked Sausages are smoking and ready to be wrapped in tortillas for Texas-style Pigs in a Blanket. Orange Juice, Tomato Juice, and Lone Star Beer will all be on tap for your beverage pleasure. It doesn't get much better than this! 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 Shout Outs *****

@ Fort verden - Get well soon, Buddy! Texas cannot do without our Iron Man for long. Leia, little help, please!

@ Grays Harbor - Did everyone see the News, Texas' own World Assembly Curmudgeon Extraordinaire, GH has succumbed and has become a member of the General Secretariat of the World Assembly policing Proposals for all our protection.

@ Boozylvania - We agree with Issues Test Bed, but we can one-up his Dismiss Button, just do not click on the Issues link at all. We have gone five or even seven hundred days before without clicking that sucker.

@ Trecdom2 - Like others, we have never used a resume service either. We found the trick is volume. Try to send 10 a day. And, think outside the box. Apply for something you might not think you are qualified for or think you can do. You may be pleasantly surprised. And, go for ancillary industries. For example, we know you are a teacher, you do not have to have first-graders in front of you, you could be a corporate trainer. That is just a couple of thoughts on job searching from someone who has only had 3 jobs in the last 35 years. So, your results may vary.

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Please register with your nation name. 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. It is Texans, EuroTexans, WannabeTexans, ex-Texans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome. Texas Chat, 746 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 14¾ years! Check it out! Good stuff!

We hope Fort verden gets better soon.

Boozylvania wrote:

Bye y'all. I can't take anymore of the blatant liberal bias in the way these issues are structured. Get enough of this crap in real life.

I go to a university in England. You get so used to the constant liberal cr*p after a while that you become adept at tuning it out.

Gig em Aggies wrote:

I hope your not going to uni in London that place kind of sounds like its San Francisco from all the crap that go's on there.

Indeed. It’s basically the knife-crime capital of Europe at the moment. And the media get more outraged about President Trump pointing it out. Apparently London is now more dangerous than New York (which is, in fairness, at least in part because New York is much safer than thirty years ago - thank you Rudy Giuliani).

I go to the University of Cambridge. I love it, on the whole, but it can be pretty tough to be a conservative traditionalist Christian there sometimes - mainly because of the lecturers rather than my fellow students.

Welcome back Queen falcona stark! Nice spread! And lots of corn, glorious corn! Yumm! Thank you very much!

Regarding the maximum of 25 Factbooks, we think that was overcome by Dispatches. Try this: page=create_dispatch

NewTexas wrote:

Welcome back Queen falcona stark! Nice spread! And lots of corn, glorious corn! Yumm! Thank you very much!

Regarding the maximum of 25 Factbooks, we think that was overcome by Dispatches. Try this: page=create_dispatch

Thank you very much Big Tex! <3