Some Tex-ass Statistics

The land of Rick Perry, Tom Delay, Ted Nugent, and Chuck Norris - that would be Tex-ass, folks - has suddenly decided that secession would not be a good idea at present. What will swine flu and all, Perry has already asked for aid and vaccine from the CDC, and rightly so.

But I was wondering how all those years under Republican rule has worked out for the lone star state and I found some interesting stats over at Juan's Rants. Here's what he writes:

My home state has so much to show for all of these years of republican control. Who would have ever thought that they could make Mississippi a step up?

1) 49th in teacher pay
2) 1st in the percentage of people over 25 without a high school diploma
3) 41st in high school graduation rate
4) 46th in SAT scores
5) 1st in percentage of uninsured children
6) 1st in percentage of population uninsured
7) 1st in percentage of non-elderly uninsured
8) 3rd in percentage of people living below the poverty level
9) 49th in average Women Infant and Children benefit payments
10) 1st in teenage birth rate
11) 50th in average credit scores for loan applicants
12) 1st in air pollution emissions
13) 1st in volume of volatile organic compounds released into the air
14) 1st in amount of toxic chemicals released into water
15) 1st in amount of recognized cancer-causing carcinogens released into air
16) 1st in amount of carbon dioxide emissions
17) 50th in homeowners' insurance affordability
18) 50th in percentage of voting age population that votes
19) 1st in annual number of executions
20) 1st in number of retarded presidents sent to DC

But, you gotta hand it to Tex-ass. It takes real genius to f**k up a state that big, that much. My guess is that #'s 3 and 18 make up the 50% of Republicans who want to secede. Not too bright and not voters. Makes perfect sense to me.

Jeez, the stoopid...it burns.

Pay Juan a visit. His stuff is pretty funny and on the mark. And where he gets some of those images, well, lets just say don't go drinking anything near your keyboard when you visit.

More later.
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