all the beer manufacturers in America are German

even the big Mexican companies are German families

Corona

Negro Modela

Carte Blanca

all German

and beer!!

good beer

not like this nasty American stuff with no barly and too much rice

hahahaha I worked with many Zeiss engineers and they told me Bavaria IS the Texas of Germany

yeah it would have to have 2/3 of the state legislature and then a referendum of the people. so it wouldnt be easy

but it was a condition of protection for Texas to enter the US

hmmmmmm REPUBLIC OF TEXAS

that has a ring to it

actually it does have the right under the state and federal constitution of splitting itself into five new states if they decide to

that would be 10 new Senators and fifty or sixty new Representatives and five new Governors. big voting block if needed

thats considered the "nuclear option"

Yes, the wise fool is also used in the Tarot.

uhhhhhh

it was

hmmmmmmm...

I wonder if tobacco will grow in West Texas

Yeah, well...when ( here in Michigan ) the tobacco tax has gone up somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500% over the last few years, yet the alcohol tax hasn't budged in 40 years ( the governor says increasing the alcohol tax would be detrimental to " Joe Average " ) I can't really hold it against the tobacco companies when they try to make a buck. Especially considering the breweries and distillers aren't being affected by unbalanced taxes.

In the Tarot, the fool does not represent cowardness at all. On the contrary, the fool is bold and reckless.

Clueless would be a better word.

Awww..i wish i knew, guess we need to just be aware at all times, keep looking, keep learning, keep meditating on it, keep our hearts and minds open.

it's not so much the corporations finding a way around it as much as the people demanding a product at a reasonable price without gouging from their own government

yes, it's coming...

I think the state of the world would be exactly the same as now even if we did not invent writing.

I take a couple of examples from nature to illustrate my point.

Birds did not invent writing. Yet they form complex social ties in couplehood. They did not invent writing, yet their state of consciousness is the same as at present. Their mental/emotional development was not retarded by their not knowing writing -- they are just as much modern birds as if they had invented writing.

Humans have skyscrapers and airplanes and mp3 players, but they would have them if we had never invented writing. Just like the birds and the chipanzees as individuals and as societies or social relatives have progressed to their BEST culminating at the present, man would have progressed to his best as well. And since our best is how we are at present, and since we would have progressed to our best even without writing, I state that the present state of the human's world would be exactly the same as now even if humans never invented writing.

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The "mundanity" of writing: The recordings of bills of lade were made to ensure that the transporter (ship captain, caravan leaders) and his men did not steal. Merchandising in Levante had progressed to a very complex state (without writing -- as was my point earlier) and one part of the complexity was that traders did not move their own goods, but hired men to move them. At the receiving end the contractual trade partner could verify the shipped goods, and receipt them. The bill of lade was at first made with little clay statuettes, like cows, sheep, bales of wheat, etc.; and these were baked to harden; then these were placed in a clay shell and that baked, too. So the receiving trader had to break the outer shell to see what was sent, as per the invoice.

Good enough: it was tiresome and time consuming to make litte sheep and stuff out of clay, so the tradesmen developed a symbolic way of depicting the goods.

And the rest is history. (Written history.)