to show their unhappiness with the present state of the USA. Their leader Larry Scott Kilgore has stated on his website, "Secession! All other issues can be dealt with later.”
Mainstream media has been enthralled by the talk of leaving the States, even though the signatories amount to .006% of the voting populace of the Lone Star State.
By law any petition over 25,000 signatures require a response from the White House.
Disgruntled voters in Alabama, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana and Oklahoma have joined the trickle of madmen seeking independence from the mightiest nation on Earth.
The last secession didn't work out so good for the South.
The 20th Maine stopped General Hood's Texan dead in their tracks at Gettysburg.
The Texas petition reads:
Given that the state of Texas maintains a balanced budget and isa simple man.

On Black Friday millions of Americans hit the shopping malls to purchase electronics and toys marked down for the kick-off of the Xmas shopping season. The term 'black Friday started with Philadelphia retailers describing the four-week period as one that turned the red on their books into black.
The BBC estimated that nearly half America will join the consumer frenzy this weekend.
I refrained from the frenzy and on Black Friday purchased two cans of beer from Ralph's Meats on Lafayette Street in Fort Greene.
They went down so good that I'm thinking of drinking some more today.
Happy Holidays.
ps the bronze Ballantine beer cans are from Jasper Johns.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Back in the summer of 1985 I resided at a small hotel on the grounds of Osbourne House, Victoria's