And millions of others would disagree. There.
If your point was simply that those laws are stupid, I would agree. However, as I mentioned in my post, your facts aren't accurate.
You can thumb your nose at the U.S., Texas or any other state for all of me -- no insult intended, but I don't know you and have no reason to value your opinion one way or the other. I'm sure you've got your reason to hold it.
I've always rather liked Canada, except for the cold. A pity the more temperate area of BC is so expensive.
Although, one note: I mentioned in my previous post I write erotica. I also know several Canadian writers. Apparently, you guys passed some laws banning the sale of BDSM themed literature...? C'mon, get a grip, you're cutting into my sales here!
I write erotica and live in Dallas. Either the information you received was dated or incorrect, or there are somehow a dozen or so stores which are operating in Dallas and Dallas County and are violating laws. For example, there's an Adult Superstore which is on the grounds of an old supermarket, and there's enough stuff there alone to cramp your mind. It's not secret, either - they have a big sign up that you can see along the freeway and billboards, too. Same for a couple of the other adult stores, like New Fine Arts. I'm told there's still a peep show run somewhere, but I don't know where.
So, there are vibrators in Dallas, Virginia. 
And they look like the real thing, except a lot bigger.
Now, IIRC, I DO think there are some weird laws which have been applied to the women who run the funky home sales parties of adult products, but I haven't paid much attention to them.
What cracks me up about the Dallas area, anyway, is the number of gentlemen's clubs there are. It IS a conservative and very Bible-belty area -- but I also lived in southern Ohio for a time, and the big controversy there was the topless joints. Here? Meh. Really surprised me.
Re: the weapons, all I can say is, if you think Texas is bad, try Utah. At least Texas requires 16 hours to qualify to carry a concealed weapon. Utah? 8. Now, that's scary.
But you are right about one thing: Texas, with the exception of the Austin area, is prudish and hypocritical beyond belief. They're very vocal about their religion, more so than any other place I've lived, but amusingly less stringent about actually practicing what they preach.
Although they're not alone in having stupid laws on the books. If you're interested, there's several books which are collections of stupid laws throughout the U.S. I'll bet Canada's probably got a few, too, eh?
But I hear tell of someone's mother so ugly she made a freight train jump the tracks and take a dirt road.
Trains have the supreme right of way over all else. Ever tried stopping one?
During the court battles, there were protest marches where topless women walked down major streets holding signs to protest the law as being descriminatory. Once the law was passed, no one walks around topless, except for Gay Pride parade.
whatever happens, happens.
Just wish the people on this planet at least would get it together, it would go a long way for our collective long term survival.
Sadly I do not see it happening.
Merry Christmas
Talk about eyes wide open, well said and I WHOLLY agree.
To think that, with the billions of solar systems out there, our tiny planet, also being FAR from the oldest, would have the most intelligent life on it is simply arrogance at work.
I was watching a Nat Geo the other day about history that predates the Aztec's and how they (practically cavemen) were making monuments and buildings that we cannot duplicate with the same accuracy, with all of our modern tools, today.
Of course with no scientific proof they are all pretty dumbfounded and left to consider the fact that SOMEONE must have taught them such skills, especially the level of astronomy knowledge they appeared to have. Never SAID it was ancient alien visitors but due to cave drawings and monuments that were built, it's certainly one somewhat plausible explanation.
Oh well, probably won't know in my lifetime, so I'll just soldier on and keep smiling.
Creation, yea I kinda forgot that, sifting thru the posts, but what is creation vs aliens, are we the aliens or are we the creation?
Ok, so the universe was created by whatever force that made this place, and given that there are billions of galaxies with billions of stars each, there must be billions of planets with life.
I would think that the life runs the entire spectrum from one celled to Dino-like, to Flintstones, to us and way above us.
Some may even be capable of interstellar travel and I can see their star charts, showing earth as a place to avoid,(yes there is this planet in the Orion arm loaded with people that like to kill each other over differences of opinion, do not interfere with them) unless food gets scarce, then we become a food source. To our advantage perhaps we are not first on the list of food stores.
No, we are not the only ones here, not the smartest, and not the dumbest, we are what we are.
I just hope we can point at ourselves and say we need to be better, and then actually get better, we need to stop our silly bickering and work together so we do not become food.
Only then can we go out into space and plunder other planets, take their goods and achieve our rightful place of dominance over the universe.
Oops, that is the same thing we have here, oh well.
Final thought;
Eat or Be Eaten
Texas, just another oddity
In Texas a store can sell and an upstanding American can buy an M60 sub machine gun.
Of course, these aren't as easily acquired as a plain old shotgun or rifle, or handgun which pretty much anyone, that isn't on death row already, can acquire.
In Texas it is justified that the state can execute a prisoner whom, a group of questionably educated peers,believes has taken the life of another.
I think the whole world knows that guns stores are a mainstream for most US states, and in some, such as Texas, they are everywhere. I was stunned at the number of weapons I saw in Texas, gun dealers may trump MacDonalds locations in Texas, if they get together Macdonalds could hand out handguns as Happy Meal toys.
However, it is illegal to sell vibrators, female pleasure devices.
You can OWN up to 5 (In Dallas they are not allowed to be 'realistic'), but if you own 6 you would be charged with intent to sell. So what choice do women have other than to buy a machine gun and sit on it with the trigger tied off to automatic fire?
On another note, can you take anywhere seriously that allows machine guns and concealed weapons but doesn't allow you to carry wire cutters (Austin)?
It is illegal to dust any part of a "public" building with a feather duster in Clarendon. Of course you are allowed to dust with feathers at home, just don't be bringing out any potentially harmful feather dusters near a public building.
So Texas is quite prudish in the sense that you can't wear provocative/lewd clothing in ElPaso, you can't have a ***** that looks like a ***** in Dallas but the state has no problem with machine guns because if they THINK you used it to kill someone, they'll execute you! LOL.
It's almost as insane as the prudish Amish naming a city Intercourse in PA.
We suggest we are protecting the planet while we pullute it.
We suggest we are protecting a species while we kill it.
The funniest part is that many people don't believe in the possibility of alien life, as if we are the most intelligent form of life in the immense void we call outer space. With billions, trillions or more planets in the uiniverse, WE are the most intelligent form of life that could possibly exist.
God help us..oh, I suppose that's another crazy, human notion, isn't it? Couldn't be alien life in the universe because a guy created it all himself one week.
Gotta love mankind, if we didn't nothing else would.