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Texas - 2022

With a $10,000 peg A Texan has no need to beg Inside Burger Kings A money bell rings When anyone "murders" an egg* *Unlike civilised people, Texans count their chickens before the eggs hatch, so they do not under- stand why the Supreme Court won't declare an egg to be a, "Live Birth"!

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Lindsay Laurie

Date: 1/6/2022 4:49:00 PM

Crikey Rico ... I thought this might have been a joke as millions of eggs are laid each day without a rooster within a bulls roar. How can these eggs be fertile to fit the law - confusing Rico - Lindsay

Rico Leffanta
Date: 1/7/2022 10:27:00 AM

Texas overflows with Christians who believe in immaculate conceptions, yet all find time to stick their nose into their neighbour's private affairs and report it, which is exactly how Hitler returned to power . . . . .

Valsa George

Date: 1/4/2022 8:08:00 PM

The message is clearly conveyed through this powerful limerick, Rico. I can only honor people who stay for pro-life.

Ilene Bauer

Date: 1/4/2022 2:28:00 PM

nicely done, rico! it still blows my mind that they got that past the supremes (who are no longer deserving of that name!)...

Rico Leffanta
Date: 1/5/2022 10:13:00 AM

It appears none of the Justices nor their staff could read [25 TAC §181.1(18) . . . , (See Awtry response below)

Tom Cunningham

Date: 1/4/2022 1:34:00 PM

I get confused with US laws, seems each state. Has its own set of rules independent of any other state. Tom

Rico Leffanta
Date: 1/5/2022 10:12:00 AM

Like Scotland, IOM, Northern Ireland, Wales, but all State s share the same currency. Read up on the Mann Act before visiting the USA! Aloha!

Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 1/4/2022 12:53:00 PM

Everything that breathes has life, four legs or two , what to do, I don't go to Swiss Chalet anymore, because of how they treat their chickens, lol, be aware of how we treat our animals, one day they might treat us the same, :(

P.S. Awtry

Date: 1/4/2022 12:11:00 PM

I don't understand. Probably because I live in Texas. I guess you're talking about a heartbeat being proof of life? Oh, well right over my head :) -- I think when chicken eggs have heartbeats they're chicks?

P.S. Awtry
Date: 1/5/2022 11:29:00 AM

well, to an uncivilized Texan that doesn't sound like an egg

Rico Leffanta
Date: 1/5/2022 10:10:00 AM

The Texas Administrative Code (TAC) defines a “live birth” as the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached; each product of such a birth is considered live born [25 TAC §181.1(18)].

Eve Roper

Date: 1/4/2022 11:13:00 AM

I wish I did get $1000 worth. That is one thing I don't keep up with what NEWS tells me.