Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 10, 2013

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    frodo1008  over 11 years ago

    Would Texas Aggie bills then look just like Civil War Confederate Bills, and eventually be worth just as much?

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    patiodragon  over 11 years ago

    Sounds like the “Aggies” have as much backing as the USD. “Don’t worry, we’ll never default… we’ll just print more of them!”

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    cdward  over 11 years ago

    The one time I drove through a portion of Texas – in the middle of the desert – I got stopped and asked to see my passport.

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    magicwalnut  over 11 years ago

    It’s happening again! Anyone aware of bit coins?

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    sbchamp  over 11 years ago

    Surprised they’re not all out buildin’ the fence!Whoa! Got Meskins fer dat!

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    caligula  over 11 years ago

    “Aggie’s” = Ag, as sin they’re pure silver bullion. Now, are you sure you really wanted that in US Dollars, pure paper pulp with one strip of plastic and alittle ink to decorate it?

    Or do you want to be paid in “Austin’s” (Au) or better known as the larger Republic of Texas Gold based coins . . . either or, they still spend better than the pulp paper the US Federal Reserve is pumping out by the bale.

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    Lorenzo Browncoat  over 11 years ago

    Do Aggies still have the stereotype of being dumb? NO, pardon me, I mean DUMB!

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    Jack Straw  over 11 years ago

    I’d have thought their basic unit of currency would be the Landry, and the smaller unit would be the yard.

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    Q4horse  over 11 years ago

    Texas has huge quantities of Oil and Natural gas. Once free of the US national debt they would have more wealth than Saudi Arabia.

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    mistercatworks  over 11 years ago

    Texas has been “cruising” on the benefits of the last round of government subsidies, which, thanks to the fervor of Perry and his fellow conservatives, are drying up. The job boom in Texas was primarily in government jobs. Remember the Alamo? Texas lost.

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    Radical-Knight  over 11 years ago

    Remember The Alamo is what was heard at San Jacinto… one guess what happened there.

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    Saturday's Child  over 11 years ago

    Texas is worthless. Why should the currency be any different? LOL

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    Rush Strong Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Thanks, Susan, you beat me to it. That was my dad’s favorite rallying cry . . .

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    ArtisticArtemis  over 11 years ago

    What do you call all lawyers at the bottom of the ocean?

    Social progress!

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    alviebird  over 11 years ago

    I don’t believe I used “they’re” for “their”. I started to type “They are….”, but then I changed what I was going to say.

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    StarDuck  over 11 years ago

    I can just hear the Aggie fight song or it is the “Yogi Bear cartoon” song? You know, it’s where the park rangers gather at the football stadium.

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    Alabama Al  over 11 years ago

    From a legal standpoint, for Texas to secede from the Federal Union, the secessionist will have to accommodate the U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding secession: Texas v. White (1869).`Briefly, Texas (or any other state) has no right to unilaterally secede. The only legitimate way a state can leave the Union is by expressed permission of the other states (presumably through a constitutional amendment.)`Texas v. White did leave open the case of secession occurring through (in the Court’s words) “successful rebellion.” However, I’m not sure if that’s a path the secessionist of Texas would want to take. After all, the last such attempt ended rather badly. Also, if President Obama actually is as tyrannical as some of the Texas conservatives thinks him to be, what makes them think he wouldn’t call forth the full power of Federal forces to quash such an undertaking?

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    Newshound41  over 11 years ago

    @Jack Straw100 Horned Frogs = 1 Aggie

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    FriscoLou  over 11 years ago

    Now Snowden will have a place he can call home in a year, you know Duke has his fingers in it.

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    georgelcsmith  over 11 years ago

    Texas sends more to Washington, DC than it receives back, so the Federal Government owes Texas, and not the other way around. As far as the electrical grid is concerned, except for an area around El Paso, the Texas electric power grid is independent of the grid for the other states.

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    georgelcsmith  over 11 years ago

    Your information is out of date. If Texas were a country, it would rank in the top ten of oil-producing countries.

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    lizilu  over 11 years ago

    You all Yankees and Cal-ies is too smart for us Texuns! When can I catch the next bus out of Austin to Detroit?!!

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    Typesbad  over 11 years ago

    I’m an Aggie from Texas. Does that mean I’ll have to return when there is the inevitable trade imbalance? Cause I really don’t want to go.

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