# Republican Lawmakers in Texas are Murderers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 6, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408 "2011-09-06T17:23:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2011, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/41 "2011-09-06T23:37:16Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > I think it’s silly when anyone claims that God is wreaking havoc on the countryside because of the Democrats/Republicans who are in charge. Obviously God works in mysterious ways, and is using the dart board method to plot which disasters He wants to spring on us as a huge cosmic joke. > > And just for the sake of full disclosure here, I’m actually a flaming, bible thumping theist who fervently believes God has a large cosmic dart board, but doesn’t use it since He already knows ahead of time which natural disasters He is going to perpetrate (being omniscient and omnipotent and all). > > Ok, not really… > > -XT huh…so, Einstein was right, God does not play dice with the universe, instead he plays darts with the universe. (I always thought he was a Boggle man…) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/42 "2011-09-07T00:19:36Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > what would that imply _ **omni** _potent means? Is God the ultimate lady’s man? No, it means he prefers getting it on with erstwhile science mags. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/43 "2011-09-07T02:01:35Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > 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. The last time we had a national disaster, Rick held his hand out and asked for aid. Mind you, he had previously left fed money on the table for education, because it had strings that he didn’t like. We apparently can’t afford to pay our teachers, or fix our school system, but by God we’ve got a budget surplus! And Rick WILL ask for aid, as long as there’s no strings attached! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/44 "2011-09-07T06:36:34Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Not to derail my own thread… but if _ **im** _potent means you can’t have sex/get it up/have kids/etc… what would that imply _ **omni** _potent means? Is God the ultimate lady’s man? Hell no. Only time he did it, he was so premature that Mary didn’t even know what happened. Guess that comes \ when you hold it 13 billion years. ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/45 "2011-09-07T06:42:27Z")
Ron Paul believes that governments should not intervene with disaster relief. We’ll see how he feels if his house burns down. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/46 "2011-09-07T06:51:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Underground oil creates a magnetic harmonic convergence that lowers cognitive ability and general sanity. Sure, Alaska is wierd, Texas is downright crazy, but Saudi Arabia… So, uh, whats with the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway, then? Do they stay half-sane b/c the oil is undersea, not underground? What’s the sideways falloff distance for that magnetic harmonic convergence? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/47 "2011-09-07T06:59:14Z")
I get the humor here but I’ve got to say that Texas and Texans revere murderers, provided they are politically connected, their skin color is the right shade and their victims probably deserved to die anyway. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/48 "2011-09-07T12:23:46Z")
> [@JoelUpchurch](#): > > How many months without rain do you think you can go before you have drought conditions? No kidding. We ranch. For every cow that is shipped elsewhere and tree that dies it matters not if the drought lasts another 6 months after the fact. The conditions taking them to that were already the death knell for them. You commented on your linked June and July data being able to provide “long term drought trend in Texas” analysis, that if it (drought) exists “it’s hard to find it in the actual data.” I said you’re looking at a tiny window that doesn’t come near telling the whole story. Maybe I’m misunderstanding you but you appear to draw conclusions from and then dismiss the validity of your link in two successive posts. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/49 "2011-09-07T13:36:05Z")
[QUOTE=Icarus] huh…so, Einstein was right, God does not play dice with the universe, instead he plays darts with the universe. (I always thought he was a Boggle man…) [/QUOTE] At least the old guy is finally out of his Magic 8 Ball phase. Look what happened to the freaking dinosaurs!! :eek: -XT ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/50 "2011-09-07T13:41:08Z")
> [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](#): > > Ron Paul believes that governments should not intervene with disaster relief. We’ll see how he feels if his house burns down. He would probably blame it on the US not being on the gold standard, or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/51 "2011-09-07T16:31:16Z")
> [@](#): > > According to KVUE-TV, the state of Texas, under Gov. Rick Perry, cut state funding for the volunteer fire departments that protect most of the state from wildfires. Firefighters have actually been dipping into their own pockets to fight fires. > > Volunteer departments that were already facing financial strain had their funding cut from $30 million to $7 million. There are 879 volunteer fire departments in Texas; 114 are paid fire departments, while 187 departments are a combination of volunteer and paid. > > **At a press conference Monday, Perry promised to seek federal disaster relief and said that FEMA would be in the state by Wednesday**. (Emphasis added with loathing and revulsion.) > **[Rick Perry | Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/tag/rick-perry/)** ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/52 "2011-09-07T16:43:52Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > God is obviously not happy with Texas… > Disastrous Texas Wildfire Now Worst in State’s History > > Read more: [http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/06/disastrous-texas-wildfire-now-worst-in-states-history/#ixzz1XC4zkQLv](http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/06/disastrous-texas-wildfire-now-worst-in-states-history/) > > Why won’t Republicans wake up and start governing the way God wants them to, … First one must show the existence of a god of any kind. Then one must show that that god has a desire for people to act in a certain way and not a desire to simply sit back and watch the monkey show. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/53 "2011-09-07T18:51:16Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > No kidding. We ranch. For every cow that is shipped elsewhere and tree that dies it matters not if the drought lasts another 6 months after the fact. The conditions taking them to that were already the death knell for them. > > You commented on your linked June and July data being able to provide “long term drought trend in Texas” analysis, that if it (drought) exists “it’s hard to find it in the actual data.” I said you’re looking at a tiny window that doesn’t come near telling the whole story. > > Maybe I’m misunderstanding you but you appear to draw conclusions from and then dismiss the validity of your link in two successive posts. What a lot of people don’t understand is that if ranchers sell off a cow, they’re not just selling HER off, but also her milk and any calves that she would have borne for as long as she was producing well. And it takes years to rebuild herds. No, I don’t ranch…but I do read, and I’ve known a few people who deal in livestock. It’s gonna take us a while before Texas can recover, and some farms and ranches are going to go under, permanently. My husband was able to buy a farm out in West Texas for a hunting range, and the reason he was able to do this was because it’s marginal farmland. The family that had been trying to farm it finally had to call it quits after a previous drought had pretty much bankrupted them. They were glad to take my husband’s money and move into town to try to start over. It’s a good thing that we aren’t trying to produce anything on that farm other than deer and other game, because even in the best years, it’s hard to grow anything there. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/54 "2011-09-07T19:50:53Z")
Its no country for old men, is it? ---
**Author:** ![JoelUpchurch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@JoelUpchurch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoelUpchurch)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408/55 "2011-09-07T20:11:56Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > No kidding. We ranch. For every cow that is shipped elsewhere and tree that dies it matters not if the drought lasts another 6 months after the fact. The conditions taking them to that were already the death knell for them. > > You commented on your linked June and July data being able to provide “long term drought trend in Texas” analysis, that if it (drought) exists “it’s hard to find it in the actual data.” I said you’re looking at a tiny window that doesn’t come near telling the whole story. > > Maybe I’m misunderstanding you but you appear to draw conclusions from and then dismiss the validity of your link in two successive posts. I don’t understand what you are saying. Are you saying that two months without rain is enough to induce drought conditions or it isn’t? If you have issues with what Dr. Spencer is saying, then you should address you questions to him. He is a professional meteorologist and access to sources of information I don’t. I do agree that talking Texas droughts is inconsistent, but the people who blamed Texas droughts on AGW are the one’s that started it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republican-lawmakers-in-texas-are-murderers/595408.md?page=2)