“Thinkin’ about tomorrow…”
We’re still working out a few “Kinks” and are about 67% done with construction. What do you think? Cody did most of the work, well…all of it. I was just the guy that said, “Wow, that looks great, but how about if we did this? Or what if we had this feature? Would it be possible to…” We’re really working very well together and are proud to be involved in shaping the future of Texas. This is bigger than the two of us. This is really about you guys, the people of Texas. We are just trying to make it easier for everyone to organize, take action, and stay informed.
Texas Today will strive to be a respectful and quality independent news source covering local and statewide issues facing Texas from the perspective of independent Texans. We will encourage every Texan to pick a few issues that interest them, maybe a couple on the statewide level and a couple on the local level, and educate themselves on those topics. We will provide a journal space for everyone to post write-ups or rants, and commenting will be allowed. We hope the posts will be well thought out, researched, and contain cited sources. We will encourage resourcefulness and creativity like using YouTube for short interviews or documentaries on your topics and using podcast capabilities to broadcast phone interviews. We will also educate our readers and writers on how to use these features; how to research online and utilize great tools and other websites to make your journal entries more interesting; and to show the power of a few sincere phone calls or emails. The title of the most recent journal posts will be posted in the side bar on the main page, and the posts will also be categorized. On the home page we will feature our regular writers and the best journal entries. We will strive to provide quality investigative journalism that goes beyond the headlines and reports all sides of local and statewide stories. We will encourage debate and discussions about the issues facing Texas statewide and perhaps more important, locally. Texas Today will hope to provide a meeting ground for Texans who want change. We will attempt to provide you a means of organizing with other independent thinkers and activists in your area to actually get things accomplished. We will work hard to get independent thinkers elected on the local and statewide levels. We will strive to hold all elected officials accountable for their actions, and we will attempt to praise those that earn it.
We do not believe politicians are inherently bad. We feel to affiliate strictly to party lines is not a way to move forward.
So welcome aboard. We’re in the construction and recruitment phases right now which are running concurrently with the planning phase. We’re always open to suggestions and ideas, just contact us or comment.
looks visually appealing. nice job, guys. looking forward to talking when i’m back in town. congratulations on the start of something great.
This looks great! I am looking forward to seeing more and participating in being a part of the future of Texas! Educating the public and communication in a speedy manor are key today and this site will help with both, BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will spread the word here in Huntsville!
Very nice. I look forward to how this site moves forward.
Wow looks great, I look forward to reading and posting in the future.
Good Luck Rob!
I hope “the Sam” will be as good!
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It’s looking really nice! Keep up the good work, guys!
Rob replied to my “howdy” and invited me to write. I’m thinking we have the beginnings of a very good thing. After my 39 years of active political involvement, I feel that some of what I have to share is worth reading so, here goes.
We can have a platform/agenda but before we can begin to have an impact, we must have mutually agreeable groundrules. The first I would like to propose is a strict adherence to the principal of no negative campaigning. No, this does not mean that we can not discuss the demerits of others’ ideas or comments but it does mean that we do not point and shake fingers at the activities or values of our opponents.
Why? Because that only increases their power and actually diminishes us in the process. Kinky set the bar very high in his recent campaign. He gave us a place to begin. We owe it to him to attempt to shine light rather than increase the darkness.
I love Texas! I want the best for our great state and I hope that we can show others the way to improve not only Texas but the U.S. and, more importantly, the biosphere because the destruction is approaching the tipping point.
Enough for today. I hope we can have an open discussion and establish groundrules which will enable us to constantly move forward and make the fewest possible backsteps in the process.
I am glad for the new website. Indeed, this independence movement should never die–but only grow. I did NOT know that Sam Houston lived a unfocused life of alcohol in a rough environment before becoming President. John Major had a similiar background before becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain. Whoever reads this blog NEEDS to have Kinky to read ALL his blogs. And, the person reading this blog needs to NOT let up in bugging Kinky to run again in 4 years–until he signs the paperwork to run. Bug Kinky (in a good way) to run until he has made up his mind to do that! (I am serious)!
Kinky announced his candidacy from the Alamo. In 4 years, Kinky needs to announce his candidacy from SAN JACINTO (where Texas won her independence). Not only will this be truth and history repeated again–but strongly poetic in justice for all. Kinky, you may be down, but you are NOT out!! You will rise up like the Eagle and run like the Horses (Paraphrasing a verse somewhere in the Old Testament).
Kinky and Co., winners get up after being knocked down. The visionaries got up after the Alamo defeat, and unanymously WON in SAN JACINTO!! Get the fire back in you, man, and make that fire 1000 times HOTTER!! The pain and moaning is over–TODAY is the day of victory for us and let us go right now in the planning to GRAB it in 2010!!
“This is our finest hour”!! (paraphrasing Winston Churchill’s words of encouragement to Britain after she got brutally attacked by the Nazis). Confronting illegal immigration and the evil or the dead politicians who try (as they might) to ruin this State, this is Texas’s finest hour. With this website and the Texas people, let’s Go For It!! CHARGE!!!!
Texas needs to remember the Alamo a second time!! Let us get Kinky to announce a second run for governor–this time in SAN JACINTO!! And, may this new website be right behind him all the way!!
Go to the Sean Hannity website, www.hannity.com and read the long article “Losing the Enlightenment”. Let this article only impassion us and the independence movement in Texas to be stronger–for it does end in a positive note. When political parties become too powerful in a bad way or too complacent—as it did in ancient times—and we do nothing to correct the situation–history can repeat itself this way. But, as we grow stronger and as we learn new ways to confront and address the mediocrity of the 66 percent who did not vote and to clean out the hidden ilk of many long time politicians head on, we learn new ways to kick the nonvoters’ rear ends (in love) to the polls–and they grow stronger–and see themselves as beautiful people like they have never seen themselves.
Let us group together to get a law passed in Texas that will allow for internet voting and that will also shorten the time deadline for voter registration–from 30 days to 3 days.
I read the article “Losing the Enlightenment” and thought it was very good. If you want to “think about tomorrow” I encourage you to also read Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Warrior. If you don’t want to buy it borrow it from the library like I did. It’s good reading and well worth the time.