Eggs Laid by Tigers

There was a football game in Heaven,
In Gud’s own backyard,
WWithJesus playing quarterback
and Moses splaying guard.
The angels in the background
Let out a might yell
when Jesus scored a touchdown
Against them boys from Hell.
Stay with God
Sty with God
Stay with God stay with God stay with God!

(Cheerleaders)
Yay Gold , Yay, Chartreuse,
Common Yahweh
We’s with Youse!

October 17, 2012
Cheerleaders Gain Ally in Free Speech Fight
By MANNY FERNANDEZ
AUSTIN, Tex. — Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday lent his support to a group of East Texas cheerleaders who are fighting in court to keep using banners with Bible verses at public school football games.
Last month, school district officials in Kountze, Tex., a town of 2,100 northeast of Houston, prohibited the cheerleaders from displaying the banners at the beginning of games. Fifteen middle school and high school cheerleaders and their parents sued the district, asserting that the ban violated their free speech rights. A state judge then issued a temporary restraining order against enforcing the ban, allowing the cheerleaders to continue using the banners at games.
Mr. Perry was joined at the Capitol here on Wednesday by the attorney general, Greg Abbott, who said the district’s action against the students was improper. He argued that the banners were protected by a state law that requires school districts to treat student expression of religious views in the same manner as secular views. That law, signed by Mr. Perry in 2007, is called the Religious Viewpoint Antidiscrimination Act.
“We’re a nation that’s built on the concept of free expression of ideas,” Mr. Perry said. “We’re also a culture built upon the concept that the original law is God’s law, outlined in the Ten Commandments. If you think about it, the Kountze cheerleaders simply wanted to call a little attention to their faith and to their Lord.”
The governor and attorney general — seated before pictures of a banner reading, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” — made their remarks the day before the two sides were scheduled to appear in court in Kountze. An extension of the restraining order expires Thursday, and the judge who issued it will consider whether to grant a temporary injunction against the ban, which would most likely permit students to use the signs for the rest of the football season. The Lions’ next home game is Friday night.
The support expressed by Mr. Perry and Mr. Abbott illustrated the degree to which the small-town case has become a statewide cause. The cheerleaders’ legal battle against the district has attracted widespread news media attention, stirred conservative Christians to action and inspired rallies, T-shirts and a 48,000-member Facebook page.
The superintendent, Kevin Weldon, said that the lawyers he had consulted advised him to prohibit the signs. The advice was based on a Supreme Court ruling in 2000 in another Texas case, Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe, which established that prayers led by students at high school football games were unconstitutional. Mr. Abbott’s office said that ruling did not apply in the cheerleaders’ case, and it intervened in the lawsuit, in part, to defend the constitutionality of the 2007 state antidiscrimination law.
A lawyer for Mr. Weldon, Thomas P. Brandt, said the superintendent would allow the students to use the banners if the judge said the signs were lawful. “To the extent that politicians want to take positions, they have the right to do that,” Mr. Brandt said. “Whether that’s helpful to resolving the situation, reasonable minds could differ.”
When asked if he and reporters would be here talking about the issue if the phrases were from the Koran or Confucius, Mr. Perry replied: “I don’t know whether you’d be here, I would be. The point is, as I said in my remarks, this is about all religion.”

Prob'ly take lotta court work to put this fire out; and it'll died down on its own,if ignored.

"They also who only stand and wait":

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Beautiful, beautiful Texas

Where the beautiful bluebonnets grow,

The land of our forefathers

Who died at the Alamo.

You may live on the plains or the mountains

Or down where the seabreezes blow.

But you'll still be in beautiful Texas

The most beautiful place that I know"

A dear friend and vigorous Texan recently sent the the words to this song, which we used to sing in school, without a thought what "forefathers" might mean.

But I wonder, Whose forefathers? Mine were somewhere in South Carolina or Mississippi. I suppose others were in Arkansas. Many of my classmates no doubt thought of their forefathers as coming from Mexico, since most of my classmates recently were from Mexico; and the Alamo would have a very different meaning for them, if any thought of the meaning of the words. I wonder if any did.

I wonder if the song is still sung. Perhaps time or political correctness has eroded its popularity.

"forefather": a member of one's family or people.

P.s., while looking up Texas militias, I ran across this wonderful pic of the courthouse in Denton:

It reminds me of the courthouse in Gonzales,

on the road from Austin to Raymondville just before a tin shack that sat on the side on the road. That tin shack had the best barbecue ever known to mankind. It still lies on my tongue, 60 years later.

I would ride that road and eat that barbecue again, under a sun that is young once only. I tear a little.

Silly old man.

Texas Governor Rik Perry doesn't know his Texas history. He says that Texas reserved the right to secede from the Union when it joined. Wrong! Texas reserved the right to divide into five States, thereby giving it's various citizens 10 Senators instead of just two, making sure that the Senate becomes even less representative than it now is; and would have done so even when I was young, except that no one could agree on which of the new states would get

Since we are now killing folks in Yemen, some of whom my s intend to kill us and others who are not us, I although it a good idea to find out what Yemen looks like, mainly though tourist lenses, but also soon god pics from the Nw York Times. Here goes.

Now, here's a bit of news, seldom seen, that those of us with left-leaning views can take delight in:

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