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

Tacos For One & All (except the drone-shooting-down Texicans)! Are you ready for some serious Saturday Breakfast, still All-Fresh? Bring out the Drones! The NewTexas Happy Taco Stands, in conjunction with the NewTexas Incendiary Corporation, has approximately 1 trillion of the fastest, lightest drones you have ever seen. This fleet is specially designed to deliver tacos to every man, woman, child, whatever, in Texas, all 2,498,417,000,000 of you.

For your dining pleasure, today's special breakfast will Saturday Baloney & Egg Breakfast Tacos [COVID-19 Week CXVI Edition]! This is a traditional Southern thing the Head Chef is kicking up a notch. This is so good, the Big Tex Happy Taco Stands serve it all day! The Big Tex Abuelas and Abuelitas have been up all night slicing triple-thick slabs of The World's most famous mystery meat - baloney, or bologna for the cultured. This is not just any ol' baloney, we got the good stuff, genuine Texas-born and bred Grade A Prime Angus beef! And, to add that notch the Head Chef wanted, the baloney is infused with garlic and accented with jalapeño! The slabs are flash-grilled just long enough to get grill marks on there, a hint of smoke, and a tasty burnt bit or two. The Abuelas are then called back into service due to their superior knife skills and they expertly cube up the baloney and throw it into the ginormous black cast-iron skillet with diced onions and diced tomatoes. Egg after egg, after egg, is cracked right into the mix and less-than-gently scrambled in. This all happens very fast. It is just that easy. A heaping spoonful is slapped into a hot, fresh flour tortilla, also made by our very own Abuelas on the premises multiple times daily. This one is delicious. Remember, a whole egg in every taco!®

Today's Special Salsa is once again, not salsa at all but is - Ketchup - yep, the standard good ol' red stuff, but not "standard" this time; it is the good stuff, Whataburger® Spicy Ketchup! For the taco purists, a cup of Pico de Gallo is also included. The tacos are hermetically sealed in a Stay-Warm® pouch that is wrapped in the same ol' aluminum foil we are all so familiar with for our breakfast taco. The Juice Bar will not be possible this week. But, for your beverage needs, a packet of Sanka, Tang and a Lipton Tea bag will be included with every delivery as well as salt and pepper and a napkin. Yes, it is different, but it works and you do not even have to leave your residence. Woo! And, watch out for the drones! Start your day off the right way; munch out and go back to sleep. You know you want to!®

Stay Safe Texas. Stay Well.

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

The Texas Weekly Chat Session will be Saturday (TODAY) at High Noon Texas Time (CDT) ***Saturday***. And, if you can't be there right at Noon, that is Ok, Texas Chat usually runs 3, 4, or 5 hours with some Chats running as high as 7 or 8 hours.

The Texas Chat Site is here: http://texasregion.net/blab70/login.php

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, debate, talk about the weather, stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff, and more. 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, VirtualTexans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome.

We have added a new feature to Texas Chat, Texas Movie Chat! Chat with Texans while watching a movie. Fun stuff! So far we have watched Halloween, Shootout at the OK Corral, and Red, and recently a couple of new Star Trek series episodes. Want to watch something together?

Texas Chat, 898 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 17¾ years! Check it out! Good stuff!

Hey, what can I say. We can't even build great cars... We bought our Anti-aircraft from one of your Contractors after all and the the boys running them stay so high that they can't get the targeting systems lined out. That's their RIGHT! Maybe if you'd send some technicians with that "new order" we got to get them "on target" with this new automated A.I. targeting system they've invented we wouldn't have this problem...

Okay, I know I know, we didn't exactly aquire them from your "official people" per se but the black market is a very real and glorious backdoor, ain't it? Was that Brib... I mean "Donation" we sent in .999 pure Rhodium to General John K. Hackers political team not enough?? Now don't tell me you're oblivious to your "BM situation".
Gotta be honest, we don't really need your delicious sounding "Tacos" anyway. They're "burritos" here in our territory, one of the few laws when it comes to "breakfast" or anything in these parts... This is of course a home to the finest Texican-Mex in the general vicinity and that's saying a lot in this strange "Pizza Land" we have going on -probably all the damn marijuana. I've always been an Irish Whiskey man myself in my older age (Taco Bell's "Mexican Pizza" definitely ain't got shee-it on our Tex-Mex pizzas *spits*)...or whatever it is y'all are serving up, with what I know is the finest ketchup known to french frydom. More on that Ketchup later...

Anyway, what was I saying -- Oh "Free Tacos"... Pfffh. How about you do like we do and give out free crates of M82 hand grenades to all the Texicansians living along the border who were getting kidnapped and sold into human trafficking, or those fine folks being slightly "mauled" by frothing packs of alleged "genetically engineered" animals (we TOTALLY had nothing to do with we're certain). It was horrible around here! You know how fast a Chupacabra can eat a "Burrito" compared to a hand grenade. You'd be surprised! They eat both pretty d*mn quick with wildly variable results. Especially how horrifying it was before we started our "Hand Grenade 4 Every Child in the 5th Grade DEFENSE Initiative!!" As a result collegiate Baseball recruitments for outfielders and pitchers in our country is at an all time HIGH and oddly enough, only 80% are suspected of HGH and steroid use which a few of the "squares" in other nations are very hip to. PLUS maimings from "unexploded or poorly thrown ordinance among delinquents" has gone WAAAAY down. (We think that last problem basically sorted itself).
Clearly we have plenty to eat and never enough armaments, just look at the Rattlesnakedog issue here in Texicans. We almost extinguished it using up these grenades (but our poor new national "animal" the Rattlesnakedog and grenade supply is waning)...

Anywho, if you could trade us about 40,000 pounds of that What-a-Burger regular ketchup and 50,000 pounds of the spicy ketchup and a few "Rayco M-20 Vulcan AA Gun" techs we may have a "parley" on the Drone issue so to speak. Because some of these boys running them were raised by the same dad's who are building our cars and they aren't completely mechanical idiotic but they are lacking some needed knowledge with that low HP between the ears they got...
As a trade bonus we'd be able to divulge the new "syrum" we've patented for our latest biological *ahem* "experimental viral program" before it all goes to market (on our dime I might add) for the entire region from the top down to "stay safe" with us from any potential "accidently released buggies". I mean, thinking of it like "a shopping cart getting away from a guy in the grocery parking lot and dinging up the finish on your brand new car" is how minor of an issue it is -- such a minor inconvenience, isn't it? PLUS, you'll get a great jump on the market and I'm sure some good "patented production benefits" exclusive to your nation to "help the greater good" especially compared to that guy "General Hackers" deal with us and his bid for office.
**TRANSMISSION BUFFERING**
"Sorry, just a minute..."
...
{{..."What?! You're, telling me the message is being transmitted everywhere!!!? Gaaawtd*mmit!! This was supposed to be over a secured line, Dean James you idiot!!!".}}
My Nephew, is a moron!!!!
Well, since you all know now. You'll NOT a one have to worry about our particular brand of "WMD Toxic Avenger Soup" the free press I'm so proud of recently called it. It's their right after all, we've nothing to really hide. If you have the knowledge to produce it, contain it and so long as you don't hurt another with it --- that's your right here in Texicans. To help everyone rest easier at night I'm sure our top scientific team who consists of some of the best in the world "kindly proselytized monetarily" from incredibly reliable sources, tell me "it's in the bag" over here.

Well my fellow Texans, Folks, Locals and "Kin",
This is Uncle Tedd, signing off.

Well, I just got off the line with General Hacker (don't think he was too happy about being mentioned and no doubt I will likely have to endure another "accidental attempt on my families dogs life" or worse) oh well, I hate that dog anyway (a part rattlesnakedog/poodle psycho mutt if there ever was one, constantly digging up bodies at the local cemetery) my wife loves that Chupacabra looking Hines 57 Freak... Anyway, the Gen. says there's supposed to be an Infrared Identification acknowledgement sensor on these new A.I. AA Guns that's also built into all Regional Drones (nice to know, we didn't seem to need them in ours -- not sure what that A.I. knows but it's a great deal more than some of our military)... It supposedly "recognizes all the drones used in our region as 'friendlies' with this censor"... I knew the A.I. controlling these weapons were smarter than these jokers who are manning and maintaining the things and likely not near as stoned... Kids these days. Pfffh.

Anyway, the deals still on and I've got plenty of Rhodium sitting at a local AFB to fly down to you friend... My Officers in charge of these units ( some of whom also happen to be top ranking members in my motorcycle club, maybe not anymore) assure me they are getting right on it. The A.A./Drone debacle should be fixed momentarily for any future times you wish to send out your delicious foodstuffs, they're not unwelcome. Especially the ketchup which we can't get outside of the black market due to the fact What-a-Burger is scared to death to open up any locations in our country thus far... Maybe we can solve that issue with a few more police on the beat later on. Until then...

I have to apologize for the destroyed drones and I hope the cargo plane shipment containing an entire pallet of Rhodium bars helps smooth over the past incompetence. My personal accountant assured me it numbered in the realm of almost a billion Confederate Rhodium Dollars.

Oh, one more thing... Not to sound too "tuff talking" as I have you just have to understand our society. We're a little ruff around the edges but I'm sure you understand straightforward, brash, no nonsense politics. The "Hand Grenade Sundays" idea I've been having. Maybe it should really be a thing... I'm thinking of implementing it in my country to get that grenade supply up to reliable standards for the citizenry.
Just a thought.

As always, this is your humble fellow Texan,
Uncle Tedd A.R. Nuygent

As expected; San Diego Comic-Con has come out with more Trek news.

“An episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 will welcome Newsome and Quaid's animated characters from Lower Decks aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. We don't know which episode just yet, but we know it will feature both live-action and animation, and it will be directed by Trek veteran Jonathan Frakes (Commander William Riker). The actors will make their appearances in live action...”

ATTENTION TEXANS!!!

I want to work on another Newsletter, likely released in Early Fall. Therefore, I'm asking for submissions from you. It can be tourist attractions in your region, political happenings, unusual traditions/festivals... etc.

It's a pretty broad category, so feel free to get creative.

@Trecdom2: Sounds good Trec. Count me in and wait for my contribution!

I do have questions:

1) Do we TG you our submission or post it on the Texas RMB?

2) Is it possible for me to submit 2 items, for example a folk song and a recipe from my nation or do I just get to submit 1 thing?

3) What if anyone wants to submit a graphical contribution, for example a comic about their nation or a postcard from their nation? Can they do that?

~Tessa

Talitha macer wrote:

@Trecdom2: Sounds good Trec. Count me in and wait for my contribution!

I do have questions:

1) Do we TG you our submission or post it on the Texas RMB?

2) Is it possible for me to submit 2 items, for example a folk song and a recipe from my nation or do I just get to submit 1 thing?

3) What if anyone wants to submit a graphical contribution, for example a comic about their nation or a postcard from their nation? Can they do that?

~Tessa

A TG would be the better option as stuff on the message board will likely scroll off before I compile the newsletter. If you have multiple submissions, go ahead and send them. I don't guarantee they'll all get in but I will try my best. I think postcards from the region would be a nice addition.

I'm sure all of you are aware there was shooting in an Indiana Mall a week ago yesterday. This morning MsNBC had a group of talking heads lamenting the fact the man was carrying a gun under Indiana's Constitutional Carry law. One of the talking heads wanted that hero arrested for having his gun in a no guns zone.

For the love of [insert deity of choice here], people. I honestly think they would prefer the 20-30 body count to this man stopping the attack in the first 15 seconds.

On a side note, eight out ten on target at 40 yards with a handgun? Nice shootin'... We should make him an honorary Texan.

Issues Test Bed wrote:

I'm sure all of you are aware there was shooting in an Indiana Mall a week ago yesterday. This morning MsNBC had a group of talking heads lamenting the fact the man was carrying a gun under Indiana's Constitutional Carry law. One of the talking heads wanted that hero arrested for having his gun in a no guns zone.

For the love of [insert deity of choice here], people. I honestly think they would prefer the 20-30 body count to this man stopping the attack in the first 15 seconds.

On a side note, eight out ten on target at 40 yards with a handgun? Nice shootin'... We should make him an honorary Texan.

To think I saw one MSM company cover it with no bias (was pretty shocked and doubt that lasted, think it was CBS or something, probably ran it at 3AM). That generally doesn't fit most the narratives , however, and they definitely would of preferred if the nutjob had just mowed down about 100 in light of of the armed hero... He definitely gets free citizenship down here for his valiant efforts along with Rittenhouse and any others who come along.

Life lessons

I see a young lady headed for the courthouse doors: Ultra-goth look with about five pounds of metal chains and hardware woven into her clothes and mounted on her body.

Lady, I hope you got here real early because you are going to spend the next hour and a half getting through security.

The Indiana incident raises an interesting question ethically and legally. Can/should you get in trouble for breaking the law while stopping a bigger crime?

Rest in peace, Tony Dow. We lost Wally. :(

Trecdom2 wrote:

The Indiana incident raises an interesting question ethically and legally. Can/should you get in trouble for breaking the law while stopping a bigger crime?

Morally and ethically, no. If someone breaks a couple of minor laws in the course of saving a couple dozen lives, no one, especially the hero, should be sweating the small stuff. Frankly, with the possible exception of some Soros backed leftist clowns, no prosecutor who wants to keep their job is going to try it. Even if a matter like this were brought to trial, there is no way anyone is going to get 12 jurors to convict on something like that.

However, to demonstrate the immeasurable depths of ignorance routinely spewed by the gun grabbing collectivists on the Left, in Indiana a mall is not a codified no gun zone like a school, courthouse, or airport terminal. The sign does not carry the force of law. The only thing that could happen to that man for carrying in that mall was someone from the mall asking him to leave their property. Only if he refused to leave the mall after being asked to leave could any charges be brought, and then only trespassing.

The fact that moron was lamenting the lack of charges is beyond the realm of stupid. Frankly, as others have suggested, I think that clown was pissed off because Dicken not only shot and killed an active shooter, but at the same he shot and critically wounded the arguments against concealed carry.

Well, there's a reason folks like him and Rittenhouse would never be convicted in a million years under American law and constitutional rights. For one, you'd have to start questioning the rights of the private security and police officials rights to defend these screwball political figures who supposedly "hate guns". Secondly you'd have to completely rewrite about a hundred laws about gun ownership, self-defense, law and government enforcement officials rights and purposes and that's just not going to happen until you completely outlaw everything and every object we use today in self defense and law enforcement. They've done it in countries like Britain, Australia, etc. To very strenuous degrees. For it to fly in America? You'd have to go to war first with the 150 MILLION gun owners. There's not been a single military war game scenario where that works out for any nation on this planet so they ALL just stay in their place. Thank you Second Amendment. Still, they could amend and eradicate that and any other law and about 30 million of us would NEVER comply. They've done the math, they know they are in a lose lose lose situation. Trust me.

Like when the Rittenhouse verdict came down. Was anyone really surprised? I knew what it would be. It would fly in the face of thousands of self-defense rulings and courts don't do that, ever if once. Not on something like that and especially with such a clear cut and evidence heavy case in his favor. Even the prosecution was helping them. It was another laughable farce of a trial that never should of even been considered for "prosecution". We knew the outcome.

Trecdom2 wrote:

The Indiana incident raises an interesting question ethically and legally. Can/should you get in trouble for breaking the law while stopping a bigger crime?

Well, it works for the movies. How many plotlines these last few decades in the "Thriller, Political intrigue, spy, rogue cop who doesn't play by the rules" realm relies on them totally working "outside the law" and or "being framed of some nonsense, clearing their name to save millions".
A lot! Of course, this ain't the movies...

Having actually worn uniforms, working in government and local law enforcement over the years past I can tell you that crap never happens in real life, ever... BUT, for anyone to really care about some "super public place that's private property" aka "Mall issue" like this when the guys a genuine hero is ASININE. Mostly because their "rules or laws" are ASININE because the real criminal didn't care and is already breaking about twenty different laws in the commission of their mass murder spree. This malls also about to get super sued by the victims for having such stupid rules and not enough armed security. You can bet that's coming.

Honestly, this guy will NEVER see the inside of a jail cell or pay a dime for his defense. He'll make out like the hero he is and be highly rewarded for it. As he should. Too many good people still exist in this country for the few hundred thousand morons who don't have experience or wisdom about any of this to actually use their brains to see the reality of it all or even open their filthy sewers about it to go against rational logic. Like the fact it takes a good guy with a gun to stop an evil lunatic who doesn't care about anyone or anything but a high body count.

Like I mentioned in my other posts about this, it's just not even something to sweat for this young man. I hope his family, friends, local elite law enforcement guys whose called and congratulated him (because they do that when someone bad gets taken out, trust me, I've been there and they have been there too. They know how much that means to a young man to have him realize "it's okay buddy, you smoked that piece of sh*t and he deserved it, you're a hero" guarantee he's hearing those near exact words daily) and his lawyers are letting him know he did a GREAT JOB and he has absolutely nothing to fear!
Regardless of the mindless, anti-gun, anti self defense, anti-American, brainwashed, propaganda blind "chest thumpers", gross national MSM deviants, and all the other hug-a-thug loons who love the MURDERING of innocence, children, the elderly, families, morality, goodness, and their own culture for WHATEVER the reason, in most instances. They are trying to rattle this man's proverbial cage. He's getting great support! Bet even ole Trump calls him.

However, those fools have lost, they know they've lost, they keep losing and they're going to continue to lose. As long as states have sovereignty and local officials/jurists stand up for their hero citizens like him. Things like this, while tragic, make me proud to still live in America and be a part of it's freedom no matter how miniscule our rights seem to become and pressed on many sides. We win in the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qikp08PPBf0

Some western music for your midweek.

Bonjour

Trecdom2 wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qikp08PPBf0

Some western music for your midweek.

Woah... Someone knocked up the pretty blonde fiddle player!

Been watching them for a while.

Issues Test Bed wrote:

Woah... Someone knocked up the pretty blonde fiddle player!

Been watching them for a while.

I think she's married to the banjo player.

Bernard Cribbins, best known to Doctor Who fans as Donna Nobles Grandad and The Doctor's friend, Wilfred Mott, has died at the age of 93.

Trecdom2 wrote:

Bernard Cribbins, best known to Doctor Who fans as Donna Nobles Grandad and The Doctor's friend, Wilfred Mott, has died at the age of 93.

:(

All these people leaving the planet lately... You think they know something we don't?

Issues Test Bed wrote:

:(

All these people leaving the planet lately... You think they know something we don't?

Well I can make a call to Agent J & Agent K they can tell us why everyone is jumping ship maybe the Arquillians have a battleship in this sector.

Francs wrote:

Bonjour

Yes, I'd like two orders of French Onion Soup, please... Extra Gruyere. And an extra bagette on the side.
For the main I'd like Poulet En Vessie, s'il vous plaît.
🙂🙏
And howdy... Sorry, was just really wanting some good French food. I got my fix from a local texican brasserie last night. Still gotta make my own French Onion Soup. Swear no one around here can make that stuff right but me. Anyway, bonne journée!

Polish Academy of Sciences Biologist Wojciech Solarz declared that cats are an invasive species.

Seriously? If Solarz wants to find a really invasive species, I recommend he look in the mirror. In the meantime, I think we should return the Eastern Europe rat population back to 1850's levels as that was around the time Europe started making widespread use of cats for pest control.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/cats-classified-invasive-alien-species-polish-scientific-institute

Issues Test Bed wrote:

Polish Academy of Sciences Biologist Wojciech Solarz declared that cats are an invasive species.

Seriously? If Solarz wants to find a really invasive species, I recommend he look in the mirror. In the meantime, I think we should return the Eastern Europe rat population back to 1850's levels as that was around the time Europe started making widespread use of cats for pest control.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/cats-classified-invasive-alien-species-polish-scientific-institute

Na, Ukraine is suffering from an invasive species right now. They need to call pest control.