Texas will honour American sniper by celebrating 'Chris Kyle Day'
Source: The Guardian
Greg Abbott, the new Republican governor of Texas, announced the creation of Chris Kyle Day in a speech at a veterans event in Austin on Friday. According to a statement from the governor’s office, Abbott said his decision had been taken “in honour of a Texas son, a Navy Seal and an American hero – a man who defended his brothers and sisters in arms on and off the battlefield”.
Kyle, who was shot dead at a Texas gun range in February 2013, has become a divisive figure. Public statements suggested he relished his job, and in his book of the same name as the film, co-written with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice, he portrayed the Iraqis and Islamic insurgents he killed as “savages”.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/31/texas-celebrate-chris-kyle-day-american-sniper
News from the confederate territory of Texas. This is what happens when you stuff the school boards with people who think dinosaurs were used as farm animals by early man.
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.. and apply for statehood.
when you're getting gunned down in the street. the battle has been joined. Pick your battles? MLK was murdered because he finally started telling it like it was/is about america and the hypocrisy it pursues. Don't even try to bring one of my heroes into this argument who was nonviolent, preached nonviolence and was still gunned down by the pigs that hold the real power in america. You speak for the majority of the population? Not in my neighborhood. The majority you're pointing to, voted republican, that majority? Of course they counsel, "take your time, freedom will be yours one of these days, you'll get all your rights and be able to vote again also. That majority? Well that majority I fought against 50 years ago and I'm still fighting.............
Damn right I won't agree because you'll always be able to vote without restriction, drive without notice and on and on. That is as long as voting is used in this country to pick 'leaders'. I think that pretense is heading to the trash bin of history sooner than we ALL think.
Oh… O..K.. I'll just go jump off this fucking cliff with the rest of these zombies, okay? 
I stopped going there in the 1990s when I retired from truck driving. I used to go across that state close to twice a week some years. Hauled produce for most of that career so I saw a lot of the Rio Grande Valley area and everything on the way. They do have some pretty country in the middle but it wasn't as nice as in the northern states.
Texas messed with me enough back then.
I also used to run the width of the state, all 1,000+ miles of it... ugh! I would try to do it at night, fortunately when I had to do that I had a rig that went so fast I actually could do it in one night (50hr runs from LA to NYC!!). Geeze, I hope the statute of limitations is in play on that one! So in reality, I did mess with Texas and got away with it!
I guess that is a rhetorical question, cause that was your profession. When we lived in San Antonio and traveled to the Grand Canyon (1997), I thought, "You'd have to have talk radio all the way to survive THIS journey.
Glad you survived that stuff to have messed back with them!
much like driving across Nebraska is to do it at night so you can't actually see how boring it is. One of my buds back then had a great saying about NE, KS and TX...
"Never drive across (any of those states) unless you either go at night or have enough drugs to get you to the other side."
I wasn't into the drugs thing but the night driving part is what I found to be useful.
I did have a great sound system and lots of other drivers to talk to. Mostly I had to slow down to pass them (when you can get 80,000 lbs. rolling at triple-digit speeds you spend a lot of time in the left lane). Got lots of comments about my rig as I passed. And the radio was "turned up" meaning I could actually converse with others as far away as sixty miles in all directions to find out where the HPs were... 60 miles goes by in a snap when going that fast. I did slow down when in cities and towns but there's so much wide open space out there that it was pretty good running for most of the journey.
Nowadays I like being in one place, I can go potty whenever I want and wash my face and hands whenever I want... I'm too old to be a road warrior anymore. Back in the day I was having a good time being someplace different every day, though. I rarely had to look for a job too... I had a good reputation so I was sought after for many years which gave me a lot of freedom as well. I took a 1200 mile (one way) drive last November in my own vehicle and discovered that I don't have the stamina to do that anymore. Just as well, I feel safer in my high elevation mountain hide-away now. Not very many people and lots of wild animals and plants.
You may be "too old" for it now, but you had way more stamina than the majority of us on the road.
May you continue to enjoy the high elevation mountains with more of the intelligent life-forms on planet earth! 
I sure moved a lot of food and other stuff, that's for sure. I know I drove well over 1.5 million miles in all those years. I quit counting at 1,5 million but drove for another three years after that. There's not a city in the contiguous 48 states that I can get lost in, probably why I live in the wilderness now... well that and the solitude and never ending sky without man made lights.
The article didn't say.
