Floods to the Left of Me, Strong Winds to my right...

[rubato]

Been drinking again have we?

You see?

You had forgotten it. You're lucky you have me around to bring the facts to light for you.


yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

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Ok, I'll explain it to you v e r y s l o w l y. Bill Flores and other Texas Republicans tried to block aid for Hurricane Sandy relief and then turned around and demanded the same sort of Federal aid for their own state.

Ok, I'll explain it to you v e r y s l o w l y.

1) An explosion is not the same thing as am adverse weather event.

2) your obsessive returning all topics to your monomania on Republicans is a clear sign of your suffering Aspergers.

It's ok, we know it takes longer for you Aspergers boy.

[Lord Jim]

Been drinking again have we?

You see?

You had forgotten it. You're lucky you have me around to bring the facts to light for you.


yrs,
rubato

Oh yeah, you're my pipeline to reality...

[oldr_n_wsr]

OTIS MY MAN!!!!!

[Guinevere]

The general snottiness doesn't take away from the fact that rubato is correct, and Cruz is a fucking hypocrite:

[MajGenl.Meade]

I thought that too obvious to really need further illustration

[Gob]

It wasn't whether he was right or wrong, just his Aspergerish monomania about bringing "Republicans Bad!Ugh!!" into every fucking thread no matter what the topic.

[wesw]

yeah, how would you like it if every democrat was judged by Hillary or al Sharpton....

oh damn, I just did the same thing.....

must re think life...

[Gob]

More rain is expected in the southern US as recovery efforts for missing people continue across Texas and Oklahoma.


A dam in southwest Texas was topped with water on Wednesday morning, but officials said it will not break.

The death toll from deadly storms in the two states has risen to 21.

Forecasters have said more heavy rains are expected over the next few days, hitting the area with up to three more inches of rain.

This May has been the wettest month on record for Texas.

After a near dam break on Wednesday, rain-swollen rivers, creeks and lakes are now posing a threat to Texas and Oklahoma residents.

On Thursday, residents living in Wharton, a town southwest of Houston, were told to evacuate their homes due to a predicted rise of the Colorado River.

[Guinevere]

It wasn't whether he was right or wrong, just his Aspergerish monomania about bringing "Republicans Bad!Ugh!!" into every fucking thread no matter what the topic.

And, apparently, the Pavlovian response that generates from both you and Jim. God forbid you let the rest of us actually make up our own minds what to think about his posts, without your very special guidance.

[Long Run]

What little I know of Ted Cruz, I don't like much, but this simplistic comparison is for simpletons -- it's appealing on the surface, but there are good reasons why a principled person could take his positions (not saying he is principled).

Cruz argued that the Hurricane Sandy aid package was bloated with unrelated spending items.

"Two-thirds of this spending is not remotely 'emergency'; the Congressional Budget Office estimates that only 30 percent of the authorized funds would be spent in the next 20 months, and over a billion dollars will be spent as late as 2021," Cruz told the Houston Chronicle at the time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... od-victims

If that is the case -- that very little of the funding for Sandy relief was going to true emergency aid -- then voting against the bill because it is a bad bill does not make him a hypocrite for later voting for good disaster relief bills, even ones that benefit his state. I would think his entire record of voting on disaster relief bills would need to be examined to see if he is being hypocritical in supporting this particular aid for Texas. But that might take some research and thinking, two things in short supply in today's media, and hardly profitable when a media source can get people hyperventilating by putting up a typical sensational story.

[Guinevere]

Oh please!

What's missing (and underscores the hypocrisy) is two-fold: first, any understanding of the disaster relief process and timelines. Yep, it can take months and months to clean up and rebuild. Second, looking at the Texas relief bill or bills with a similar mode of analysis and critique as was the Sandy relief.

Instead, it's gimme gimme gimme.

[oldr_n_wsr]

If the relief effort/money is/goes anything like the Sandy relief, it will take more than a few years to first get the money and rebuild.
Sandy relief was, and continues to be a large clusterf^%k.

The latest in a long line of screwups is the rewriting of field engineers reports so claims could be lowered or denied.
Good luck Texas.

[wesw]

longrun, I don t like cruz much either, and tend to think the worst of his positions. thank you for providing me a bit of deeper understanding and allowing me to see a view which I had not previously considered....

olders comment puts a point on it.