Texas – what the hell is wrong with you!?
I’m going to be honest with you, it is going to be very difficult for me to be calm about this. First, we had the Rep. Barton apologizing to BP for the Obama “shakedown”. Even his own party rolled their eyes and popped their Tums. I was up in arms over this and even got into a pretty heated discussion on Facebook about the concept of Obama being able to force BP to pay into an Escrow account -God forbid they be held accountable. I know, you’re thinking, “whoa, not a Facebook disagreement!”
But now that I’ve seen these two talking asshats that are also from Texas, I was drawn back to the good ol’ blog to get this word out – these people we’re about to see and discuss were actually elected. Elected to represent people. Real people. Holy shit, no wonder Texas is in so much trouble.
This, ladies and gentlemen is a Representative from the Great Republic of Texas, from the Houston area. She had the balls to go on CNN to propagate half truths and nothings. “Do you have proof ?” -”That is information we’re still gathering” – from unnamed former FBI personnel. So, why is an elected official spouting off this kind of scare tactics before they have the facts at all? Does she not know that she sounds like a freaking loon????
Then, she gets all freaked out at Anderson and tries to change the subject on him about the dangers of someone packing a suitcase of doom and driving it over the border. Well, um, ok but is that the same thing as an anchor baby? (By the way, throughout the entire interview, she’s a little confused as to what the term “anchor baby” actually is. She tries and tries to make it into what she thinks it should be, but keeps getting corrected.
Hmm speaking of getting all nutso berserko at Anderson Cooper:
This gentlemen is from the Great Republic of Texas, representing Longview and Tyler area. I have to really hope that voters in that area couldn’t make it to the polls or didn’t know who was actually running or…. gosh ANYTHING. I’m pretty sure I’ll have to do a few more blogs about this guy, because the people he represents NEED TO KNOW how he is using the floor of Congress.
How is that? To spread fact-less (read: lies), unsubstantiated rumors about national security and ‘terror babies’. Even when the FBI officials have called the idea “absurd”, he is still sticking by his story.
Come on Tyler and surrounding areas. Seriously?
Another take on the Circle of Life?
All that can really be said is AWWWWWWWW. Oh yeah, and don’t try this at home.
I looked this up on Snopes and verified that Barbara Walters didn’t get taken.
Jessica Alba may not be all there
In a recent interview for ELLE magazine and subsequently published on every celebrity gossip web site, half hour gossip show and Huffington Post, Jessice Alba declared childbirth “not that bad”. She said its really just like having really bad cramps.
Well Ms. Alba , I’ve given birth and it was pretty painful. Bad cramps are what we get when watching you pretend your way through Fantastic Four (really, who thought blond hair, blue eyes and fish lips would look good on her?)
Ok, anyway, my point was – don’t listen to her. She claimed she worked out so hard after having her baby to get in shape for a liquor ad campaign that she cried. Oh boo hoo. I cry damn near every day at the gym and I damn sure don’t have a liquor company paying me to be in photos with their product. Sorry, I’m digressing again…so she claims she worked her butt literally to tears, and the creatives still airbrushed 20% of her body away.
Just a few nips and tucks: shoulder definition, boobs pushed up, lips plumper, arms defined, waste thinner, smoother front on her shorts, thinner legs...
Plus, there was the whole Sweden nuetrality thing.
What have we learned: Jessica Alba seems like she might not be all there. My opinion: child birth hurts more than bad cramps, workouts are supposed to be gruelling (no pain, no gain or something like that), I need to get a liquor company to pay for me to be in their photos, and no matter how hard we workout someone will find a way to airbrush us better.
Does Kanye West hate Midwestern white farmers?
Remember the HUGE fundraising event that was carried by all of the major networks after Hurrican Katrina? Remember all the big name celebrities who gave their time and energy to raise money for those affected? Remember Kanye West’s infamous deduction the George Bush hates black people because his government didn’t have the response to the catastrophe that Mr. West would have expected?
No, this is not Wizard of Oz
Where was Kanye and his elite club of superstars last year when the entire eastern border of Iowa was nearly washed away? In fact, where was the telethon on ANY channel? Where was the DC finger pointing when these midwestern farming families had to swim down their driveway to get to safety? Were there busses driving those folks from Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, Burlington and Weaver to St. Louis, Chicago or Minneapolis?
Last summer, damages were estimated at over $1Billion, but have we heard anything about it since? Remember Anderson Cooper doing a broadcast from New Orleans once a week until the government got its act together? From what I remember, CNN and all the other national news elements pulled out as soon as the flood water level had “leveled” off. No more immediate threat to its reporters? Move on! Nobody is interested in middle America’s problems.
Well you should be.
Please do not read this as me saying you should think about Iowa and NOT New Orleans, but I don’t think it should be the other way around. Yes Katrina was awful…devastating even. But so was the flood in Iowa last year.
But the questions need to be asked:
- Where are the FEMA trailers?
- Where are the debit cards for them to spend at the strip clubs and gun shops like they did in New Orleans?
- Where the specialty brew beers whose proceeds go to relief efforts?
- Why does FEMA have a whole section set up for Katrina News on their web site, which scrolls and scrolls with information and for the Iowa flood, they have a few news releases telling Iowans they had until Aug 12 to sign up for relief and links to other news?
- The biggest news release? “Iowa Flood Relief More than $2Million.”
- Federal allocations in response to hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma now total over $88 billion.
- W hat!?
Whats the Matter? Not enough crime associated with the Iowa Flood?
Not enough homes eradicated?
Not enough damage to the crops?
Not enough damage to agriculture?
Not enough people exposed to toxic water?
Not even swift water crashing through the area?
I lived in Iowa for ten years. I was not there for last year’s flood, but I lived there in 1993 and help sandbag down at the Mississippi River as well as other rivers in the area. The thing that everyone needs to realize is that farming truly is many families’ livelihood. When crops are wiped out from raging flood waters, when cows and pigs drown on water that quickly creeps up on them, its not a funny photo to be passed around – it is less food and shelter that family can pay for that month.
It saddens me that the people of this region have not been treated with the same ongoing services that are still being given to those in New Orleans. Please, again, I am not saying that New Orleans residents do not deserve aid (but don’t get me started on rebuidling in known flood zones) – my point is that there are people in the Midwest who lost EVERYTHING as well.
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