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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Reality Has A Well-Documented Anti-Conservative Bias

"Now, therefore, I, Rick Perry, Governor of Texas, under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Statutes of the State of Texas, do hereby proclaim the three-day period from Friday, April 22, 2011 to Sunday, April 24, 2011, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas." Perhaps he was counting on the prayers to make up for the planned 20% cut in funding to the Texas Forest Service.

And how well did that work? Here's some recent footage from Bastrop State Park, not far from the state capital.

Either god is a mean bastard who really hates Texas and its governor and the 500 or so families who have lost their homes, or else Texas is a hot dry place to begin with that has suffered from the combined effects of the cyclical weather pattern La Nina and overall climate change.

The people who founded this country but barriers in place to separate government from religion, because they realized that governments suck at metaphysics and religions suck at managing a world controlled by predictable natural laws that can be studied and learned. It's too bad many of our modern leaders lack their wisdom.

3 comments:

Tami Parker said...

Is this the point where I sigh gustily in disgust at our political system? Because it really feels like I need to sigh.

Awlbiste said...

Maybe designated days for rainmaking would have been better. I'll come up with a couple rain dances and dance in your general direction.

Hydra said...

I will not talk politics because they should all put on big people panties and grow up.

I was just reading about the Texas fires and how Texas peeps still have not officially requested help from the California peeps... HELLO WHAT?? How bad does it have yet to get before you get to the actual asking instead of the passive aggressive inquiries and feasibility.

I am going to go be sick now.