Texas has required number of signatures 25,000

[donner]

Ok, fair enough. I've often wondered it myself and I served there.

i also was referring to the motivations of the politicians, not the solders on the ground.

 

[farmerbyron]

who is to say the US wouldn't just invade this new nation and take the crude? We did it to Iraq to avoid $20 gas, so why not texas? Unless Texas violently left the union, what actual military equipment would it retain? I don't know for sure, but i suspect a fair amount of the National Guard is still federally funded or leased in terms of military equipment.

First thought is, "It is Texas. You know Alamo and all."

Second thought, "It was a Texan that pulled the trigger on Iraq."

 

[RETOKSQUID]

I can see about 25k people being audited by the IRS, possible VA cases being reviewed along with, SSI & Disability reviews as a reward for signing.

 

[sanjuro893]

Our petition doesn't even say anything. Just quotes a few lines from the declaration of independence. (Maybe I cant see the full text on this phone or something) I think this is more of a protest thing than anything else, but when the whitehouse reads it, does anybody actually think it'll make them stop and rethink any of their policies? My money is on "no".

 

[tran]

You know those still run on gas, right?

Not for long! LOL...

 

[murphy j]

i also was referring to the motivations of the politicians, not the solders on the ground.

I didn't take any other way

 

[flatwins]

WOLVERINES!!

 

[sanjuro893]

Made NBC news:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...us-reaches-threshold-for-white-house-response

 

[quicksilverbullet]

I would post my real feelings, but I don't need the government up my butt anymore than it already is. Instead, I'll just post...ok.

 

[freeranger]

As for the largest outside supplier of oil to the US, we need not looking across large ponds, but across our northern and southern borders.

http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html

Of course with pipeline capacity to the US limited the Canadians are looking to sell oil & natural gas to China.