Why won’t Republicans wake up and start governing the way God wants them to, by providing for those in need, taxing people more equitably, and not gerry-mandering the congressional districts to death???
I am pitting the Republican lawmakers who have angered God so much that he has resorted to not only an historic drought, but also an historic wild-fire season.
Also, one of these wildfires caused a minor inconvenience for me and my friends this weekend by shutting down State Highway 71, which forced us to take a 40 minute detour, but that IS not at all why I am upset with them, no sir!
I guess I missed the part of Sunday school where they taught that God said governments had to do those things. I only learned about the part where individuals were supposed to take care of people in need, not force other people to do so.
Also, the drought and wildfires are not independent variables. The former generally includes the latter as a matter of course. Just sayin’.
God is trying your patience with the 40 minute detour. Say 3 Hail Marys and 2 Our Fathers.
I see the opposite conclusion. Clearly Texas hasn’t cut government enough! The wildfires are obviously meant to be a wake-up call to the Democrats in Austin. Also, they’re a message to voters that Rick Perry is too liberal! Bachmann '12!!!
Very much so, yes. And don’t forget the once in a lifetime heat wave. It’s going to be the warmest year on record for the entire state.
Mixed blessings (thank you God or Og or the FSM or whoever) for the cold front that moved in. It felt nearly chilly outside this morning in 60 degree weather. Of course, it also means no chance of any rain for at least a week, if not much longer. The whole damned state has gotten barely more rain than a desert in the last year.
I’m not feeling any pity for the 40 minute detour either. I’m guessing somebody did a weekender out to Austin.
I’m reserving my pity for the hundreds of people who now have a burned out husk for a home and likely no chance for several days to survey the damage.
With as many dead or dying live oak trees in Houston’s inner loop, it’s a tinderbox waiting to go up. It’ll be fortunate if we can avoid more wildfires in East Texas.
I do get the tongue-in-cheek reference to Rick Perry praying for rain and several of his lackeys in Austin who vociferously agreed and encouraged local communities to do the same. But linking it to the misfortune of thousands of people displaced by wildfires is crass, at best.
The biggest irony to me is that Perry is a global warming denier. How arid and scorched does his state have to get before he acknowledges that it’s getting a little warm?
Over 1000 homes and hundreds of square miles burned up so far and it ain’t over yet. 5 Billion in drought losses for ranchers and farmers. 66 million trees expected to die in the next two years just in the greater Houston area alone.
I think a lot of those folks accept that things are heating up. They just don’t buy that it’s caused by humans. They view any attempts to get us off the fossil fuels train as a leftist conspiracy to force people to conserve.
You’d think that if there one thing conservatives and liberals could agree on, it would be the value in cutting our dependence on a commodity we buy mostly from people who hate us.
I firmly accept the scientific evidence of AGW, but this makes no sense.
One anomalous year is no basis for judgment. Even if the worst case warming models are correct, 2011 would be an anomalously warm year in Texas.
Dump on Rick Perry all you want (I do it near weekly) for not getting science. But don’t blame him for avoiding the trap of using 1 outlier data point to determine a trend. That’s the same thing deniers do in reverse.
I obviously didn’t want any pity. I feel truly terrible for the people who have lost everything in this blaze. I live just outside the 610 loop and I see a fair amount of dead and dry trees where I go, so your concern is entirely scary and justified.
I hadn’t considered this possibility. You make some very good points. I might write in Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck just to be on the safe side.
I will never lose faith in the Almighty, no matter how many slight inconveniences he throws me!
What I want to know is whether Rick will refuse Federal Aid unless other things are cut first - or if that policy just goes for the East Coast. I’m not sure if he did advocate this, but I haven’t heard him line up with Christie about it either.
See, this is why people think your God, if He exists, is a total fucking asshole.
So, God is pissed with the LAWMAKERS in Texas, so He’s gonna burn up a load of other people who have nothing to do with it, to prove a point, but not explain that point, leaving it totally open to interpretation and the people He meant to warn walking free and able to ignore that it had anything to do with them?
Seriously? Your God is a passive-aggressive fuckhead. Why the fuck would you want to worship That?
