I do not give a happy damn about Rick Perry and his shite in the face of the tragic consequences the people of Texas will suffer. As much as I would like to smack him up side the head with a harsh message like no aid, it is not only counterproductive, but harsh and inhumane.

The problem now in the ENTIRE country is that people don't see each other as individuals. They only see monolithic groups that are easily denounced. Until everydamnbody begins to see each other again as people and not ideologies, this country will continue to fracture and grow apart. The whole argument sounds like a childish game of "They started it."

Stamp "FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" on everything, but get it there NOW. Why do you think Katrina was much more of a mess than it had to be? Mississippi got more aid, and they got it faster. It was the damn political game. The Governor of LA and the Mayor of NoLa were Democrats, and the city was regarded as a 'hellhole of anti-whatever' beliefs by W and all those jackasses around him.

Eric Cantor is playing the political game with aid too. Do you really want to be a part of this game?

It isn't a damn game. People and every bit of land and nature are caught in this firestorm just as surely as the NE was caught in the flooding. One area could be seen as blue and liberal and the other as conservative and red. They are HUMAN BEINGS and deserve every bit of help they can get in both areas.

For gawd's sake, when other countries have disasters do we parse their politics and hold back? As I recall, we are the first in if we can be. And you want to do less for other Americans??????????????????????????????????????????

If Auburn fans can go to the aid of Alabama fans when the tornadoes hit Tuscaloosa, then ANYTHING is conceivable. That is not a joke.

Shylock was a momser, but he had it right in 'The Merchant of Venice.'. His trial was a mockery of justice and those who judged him were no better.
Shakespeare puts one of his most eloquent speeches into the mouth of this "villain":

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
—Act III, scene I
http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/a...

Send the damn aid or it will justify every heartless act some of those people have committed. Two wrongs........


My damn hair is on fire, and I have to go get some damn water to put the damn mess out. And I was hard pressed not to use a lot of other words besides damn.

grits