Perhaps its natural that a large place breeds oversize idiots but Texas truly has produced some winners.

Like Billie Sol Estes..............

There is no doubt that Billie Sol was a genius of the economic scam. From an early age he had the ability to parlay nothing into small fortunes using truths blended into a background of smoke and mirrors. He reached the pinnacle of success when he scammed the Feds for non-existent fertilizer tanks filled with non-existent anhydrous ammonia. He once said that when you get deeply in debt to someone, you lose a creditor and gain a partner. But deep down Billie had that streak of idiocy running through him and it came out in strange ways.

In 1956 he supported Adlai Stevenson for President and went to a banker to finance his personal campaign idea. Billie wanted to buy thousands of parakeets and train them to say "I like Adlai" in unison as they flew over major cities. The banker tried to explain this was an impossible task on several levels but Billie Sol would hear none of it. Angered, he left the bank, loudly accusing the banker of being anti-Stevenson.

I think its something in the air......or maybe the water.........


Spaw