On Jun 9, 2005, at 7:51 PM, James Calamon wrote:

Envy is a sin.....I have to go to Jersey from time to time and I wear one of my Texas ties (any one ever seen another state flag on a tie that wasn't in a novelty shop?) and some poor sucker makes a comment about the tie and Texas, from there it is down hill. It is absolutely pitiful how poorly a boy from Jersey cannot find anything to tout about the wonderful "Garden State". But that aside, I have traveled more than most have even ever thought of and I always return to home here in the great state (the only state that was a county before being a state and the only state flag that can fly at the same height as the US flag, by constructional amendment) TEXAS.!!!
 
I yield the podium.
 

Q: What would Montana be without all rivers, lakes, and mountains?

A: Texas