unitqm's Blog

I stand corrected. .002% of the population gives two farts about the governors Mansion. I am not much of a history buff myself. Maybe that is why I don't think that the rebuild is high on my list of priorities.

I totally agree with Mspulin. Sorry Unitqm but you're flat out wrong on this one. While you may not care, history is important to our culture and civilization.

One correction though...

"Sam Houston himself lived there, so it ought to be preserved based on that alone."

Actually...no. The first resident of the Mansion was Texas' fifth governor, Elisha Pease. (as in Pease Park)

This is too rich! The ONE time I actually agree with Mike and I have to correct his Texas history.


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I guess it is the word mansion that gets to me. Mathman brought up a real good point. I remember how I felt when I found out about Treaty Oak. That feeling of "Oh what a world we live in." I remember feeling betrayed and uneasy. But when I find out about some rich guy who's car gets towed I get all giddy inside. I guess that is why I get so upset that we are going to spend so much money on a mansion. Maybe we should get a rundown house on the east side to preserve that part of our history. We could fill it with all kinds of artifacts and historically relevant stuff like needles and crack pipes. I feel like Governor's Mansions are no longer relivent. They only preserve one side of history. The well off, well to do, and buttheads like Rick Perry. Which is why I say we have enough museums. Lets work on fixing the present not preserving our history... Isn't that what the Bob Bullock Museum is for anyway?

Kind of funny everyone wanted Saddam Hussein because he was stealing his peoples money and building mansions all over his country but when the same thing happens here they have concerts and other fund raisers to rebuild those same kind of mansions for those same kind of politicians.

Odd there are no more stories on all the kids that were jerked away from their parents only because someone called CPS with a lie about them also.

Seems that was also the going rate when Saddam was in power and is still happening in communist China of which is rewarded for that by being giving the Olympics.

What will they reward the politicians with in our country for committing crimes against the same people they work for in this country I wonder?

Oh that is right, they will just raise taxes and say it is for the children as they pocket the money themselves.

You have a bat mathman???? Wow hold onto that because soon you will need a license to carry a bat along with a 10 day waiting period before you can purchase one.

It may even become illegal to own a bat unless you’re a registered professional baseball player the way the communist in control of our government are headed now days.

If Sam Houston were still alive he would have burned it down himself to keep it out of the hands of the communist living in it today I’m sure.

Maybe it was one of Sam Houston’s relatives that burned it down no telling but more than likely it was just some drugged out liberal street bum of which are common on every street corner in Austin.

The government always rewrites history now day as a way to favor their own political agendas and then they use the rewrites in the government run public school systems to teach our children a history that never existed.

A good example would be what would really happen if Sam Houston Davy crocket and a whole slew of other real Americans were still alive today and they found a bunch of illegal aliens residing in Austin.

Americans would be coming from every state in the US to eradicate that problem unlike today where the public school systems and the American government are using trillions of our hard-earned tax dollars to give the illegal aliens a free ride and using propaganda to teach young Americans that is somehow a good thing.

In short, they are punishing future generations beyond our wildest dreams by doing that.

Along with using propaganda to help foreign countries maintain control of an oil cartel that will cost future generations about $20 a gallon for gas in the very near future by not lifting a drilling ban that has been in place for the last 27 years.

People see right thru politicians that claim drilling now will do no good at all when they just look at how stopping drilling 27 years ago is what really caused gas to be $4 a gallon today.

History never changes at all unless our children are taught a history that never existed to begin with and believe everything they hear without question.

Only people can make history, Not buildings or inanimate objects.

finally someone agrees with me... thank you LizzT