Please note that Texas is the only state with a legal right to secede from the Union . (Reference the Texas-American Annexation Treaty of 1848.)

We Texans love y’all, but we’ll probably have to take action since B. Hussein Obama won the election.

We’ll miss you too.

Here is what can happen:

#1: Barack Hussein Obama becomes President of the United States ; Texas immediately secedes from the Union .

#2: George W. Bush will become the President of the of Texas .

So what does Texas have to do to survive as a Republic?

1. NASA is just south of Houston , Texas . We will control the space industry.

2. We refine over 85% of the gasoline in the United States .

3. Defense Industry–we have over 65% of it. The term” Don’t mess with Texas ,” will take on a whole new meaning.

4. Oil - we can supply all the oil that the Republic of Texas will need for the next 300 years. Yankee states? Sorry about that.

5. Natural Gas - again we have all we need and it’s too bad about those Northern States. John Kerry will have to figure out a way to keep them warm….

6. Computer Industry - we currently lead the nation introducing computer chips and communications–small companies like Texas Instruments, Dell Computer, EDS, Raytheon, National Semiconductor, Motorola, Intel, AMD, Atmel, Applied Materials, Ball Miconductor, Dallas Semiconductor, Delphi , Nortel, Alcatel, etc, etc. The list goes on and on.

7. Medical Care - We have the largest research centers for cancer research, the best burn centers and the top trauma units in the world, as well as other large health centers. Dallas and Houston have some of the best hospitals in the United States .

8. We have enough colleges to keep us going: University of Texas , Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Rice, SMU, University of Houston , Baylor, UNT ( University of North Texas ), Texas Women’s University, etc. Ivy grows better in the South anyway.

9. We have a ready supply of workers. We could just open the border when we need some more.

10. We have essential control of the paper industry, plastics, insurance, etc.

11. In case of a foreign invasion, we have the Texas National Guard and the Texas Air National Guard. We don’t have an Army, but since everybody down here has at least six rifles and a pile of ammo, we can raise an Army in 24 hours if we need one, “Country Boys know how to Survive”. If the situation really gets bad, we can always call the Department of Public Safety and ask them to send over Chuck Norris and a couple of Texas Rangers.

12. We are totally self-sufficient in beef, poultry, hogs, and several types of grain, fruit and vegetables, and let’s not forget seafood from the Gulf. Also, everybody down here knows how to cook them so that they taste good. Don’t need any food.

This just names a few of the items that will keep the Republic of Texas in good shape. There isn’t a thing out there that we need and don’t have.

Now to the rest of the United States under President Obama:

Since you won’t have the refineries to get gas for your cars, only President Obama will be able to drive around in his big 9 mpg SUV. The rest of the United States will have to walk or ride bikes.

You won’t have any TV as the Space Center in Houston will cut off satellite communications.

You won’t have any natural gas to heat your homes, but since Mr. Obama and Al Gore have predicted global warming, you will not need the gas as long as you survive the 2000 years it will take to get enough heat from Global Warming.

Signed, The People of Texas

P.S. This is not a threatening letter - just a note to give you something to think about!

SLEEP WELL TONIGHT THE EYES OF TEXAS ARE UPON YOU!!

The whole storyline centers around the protagonist Chad Vader who is the younger brother of Darth Vader.  Chad works as a manager at the Empire Supermarket.  It’s hilarious to see how Chad interacts with customers and his employees.

Chad Vader #1

Chad Vader #2 The Date

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Chad Vader #4

Chad Vader #5

Chad Vader #6 New Job

Chad Vader #7 The Plan

Chad Vader #8 Chad vs Clint

Let’s eat some yellow snow!

Here are the top ten interesting facts that I found on the ISS…

1. The Space Station is the largest manned object ever sent into space, encompassing 43,000 cubic feet of living and working space - the equivalent of two Boeing 747’s.
2. Assembling the Space Station will require 45 launches - 36 from the United States and nine from Russia - and 1,705 hours of space walks, which is double the number of hours U.S. astronauts have walked in space since the beginning of the space program.
3. When fully constructed, the Space Station will be visible to more than 90 percent of the world’s population.
4. Humans need a little less sleep in space because our bodies do very little work in a microgravity environment. It takes no effort at all to raise your arm, hold your head up, or move large objects.
5. The Space Station consists of 70 separate major components and hundreds of minor ones, all of which will be assembled for the first time in space.
6. Astronauts aboard the Space Station will spend more time working on experiments than anything else. Many projects require teamwork, so astronauts frequently work in pairs.
7. The Space Station circles the Earth every 90 minutes.
8. The human body tends to lose muscle and bone mass rapidly in space. To fight this loss, at least two hours of strenuous exercise is built into every astronaut’s daily schedule on the Space Station.
9. The construction of the Space Station is a collaboration of 100,000 people, hundreds of companies, and sixteen nations spread over four continents, among them the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
10. The Space Station is the most expensive single object ever built. The United States’ participation has been estimated at $96 billion - a figure that nearly equals the combined cost of all of the Apollo missions to the moon.

Shirt.woot is the same principle as the regular Woot website expect they sell t-shirts designed by a different artist each day.  I haven’t bought a shirt yet, not because I don’t like the choices…  I just haven’t pulled the trigger yet, I’m waiting for one that jumps out at me.

I was curious about how this huge rock got its name so I looked it up on Wikipedia. Wiki says that there is evidence that humans have been wandering around the Enchanted Rock as far back as 11,000 years. That number is surreal to me, I can’t even imagine that far back; I wonder how much that area has changed since then?

If you take away the concrete parking lots the whole area looked like those old westerns I used to watch as a kid. I kept expecting a good old-fashioned cowboy and Indian shot-off behind the boulders. It looked like the perfect place to send some smoke signals. The whole experience was amazing, being able to get away from the city and almost step back in town.

Wikipedia goes on to describe some of the folklore of local Native American tribes describing magical and spiritual powers to the rock (hence the name ‘Enchanted Rock’). While attempting to hide from Anglo settlers in the area, the Natives would hide on the top two tiers of the rock and, since they were unable to be seen from the ground below, they believed the rock made them invisible. The first European to visit the area was probably Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1536. The Tonkawa, who inhabited the area in the 16th century, believed that ghost fires flickered at the top of the dome. In particular they heard unexplained creaking and groaning, which geologists attribute to the rock’s night-time contraction after being heated by the sun during the day. The name “Enchanted Rock” derives from Spanish and Anglo-Texan interpretations of such legends and related folklore. (quoted from Wikipedia.com)

Let me present to you the new Sony Ericsson W902.

Whenever I meet someone new they always ask me the same questions:
1. What do I do at NASA and 2. Would I ever want to be astronaut/go into space. I just combine those questions together because I think they are essentially the same thing. I will answer the first question when I have more time and you can check out my portfolio for a more formal answer. So this brings me to my second question, would I ever want to go to space? From all my experience working here he answer is simple. I most definitely would not want to fly in space. Don’t get me wrong it would be awesome to experience living on the moon and mars for a few days, maybe a few weeks but I would miss everybody I knew back home on earth. Not to mention you would barely have any leisure time. You would constantly be checking and rechecking all the equipment making sure everything is working correctly (life support, guidance, propulsion). The food would always be room temperature because there is no refrigerator and no microwave. It is super noisy with all the computers and machines running and above all you have a water shortage. Now I think that if I had to I could get over drinking my own pee to survive. But now I ask you… would you be able to drink someone else’s pee? They say that you can taste of smell anything but I’m sure it’s still hard to swallow knowing where this water came from.

I remember when I was at A&M I saw students from India all over the engineering buildings. If you own a Dell computer and you have to call customer support, there is like a 99% chance that there will be an Indian on the other end trying to help you fix your computer. This is just another example of how the rest of the world is catching up or even passing the US as a powerhouse.

Anyways… I was curious what the hell this probe was going to do on the moon. I did a little bit of research and basically for the next two years, Chandrayaan 1 will map a three-dimensional atlas of the Moon and also check for the presence of water-ice with the help of instruments built by India and other countries including the US, Britain and Germany.

I can’t image China being very happy about India beating them to the moon, because I know China had their eyes set on the moon a long time ago. I’m curious to see how China will respond with a probe/rover of their own.

Hopefully as other nations such as China and India set their sights on the moon Americans will kick NASA’s ass into getting us back on the moon again.

Nike always has some of the best commercials, I’m going to see if I can find some more of my favs.

This video is not only bad ass because of the CG with the season changes,  but I love how they use the Last of the Mohicans theme song.  These commercials are two of my favorites from this year.

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This commercial is an oldie but a goodie…  man I wish this was a real ride

From what I have read online, the new series is going to take place between episodes III and IV or “the dark times” when the empire really starts to take power. The show sounds like it will be a mix of Lost and Heroes with the episodes being told through the eyes of different the characters and then everything eventually comes together. I hope that Boba Fett and the other bounty hunters have more of a role in this series.

I just read on imdb.com that George said the show will be an HBO series and he described it as a combination of “Deadwood and The Sopranos in space.” Luckily I liked both of those shows because of the action and the twists, so I think this series will be fun to watch and I’ll be looking forward to the show starting soon.

I’ve been keeping up with the Clone Wars animated series pretty regularly. It’s a nice break to go back to basics and watch thirty minutes of cartoons for a week. I like the animation and the dialogue can be cheesy but I recommend checking out the series if you are a star wars fan.

Here are a few of the sites I like to occasionally checkout for anything Star Wars related.
Wookieepedia
theforce.net

So this got me wondering what other countries had a space program that I wasn’t aware of… I knew the major international partners like Russia (RKA), the European Space Agency (ESA), Canada (CSA) and who can forget the Taikonauts from Japan (JAXA). The newest ones that I knew were coming into their own have been China (CNSA) and India (ISRO) because they have been in the news lately. I did a little bit of research and discovered that Bangladesh had a space program. To see the complete list check it out here.