fireclown: I have to admit that this is a particularly stunning example of this.

Right.

Rick Perry, governor of a state that might as well be the U.S.A.'s own little China when it comes to dumping pollutants into the atmosphere and current front-runner in the GOP presidential bid, when faced with a monumentally destructive weather event, decided the best thing he could do was pray the dry away and, when that didn't work, the guy who had previously made secessionist claims and bemoaned federal spending finally, months later, bothered to ask for federal aid.

But there's no relevant politics here. Nope. None at all.

When you stick your head in the sand like that, do you bend at the knees or the waist?

Kit Fister: Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Conservative standpoints are generally mockable. Sorry, praying for rain and denouncing evolution are stupid things to do.

Skarekrough: Can't you just pray the drought away you do teh ghey?

He's tried both. Didn't work for him. We still got a drought, and he's still gayer than Michael Jackson buggering an altar boy in the Castro.

fireclown: EyeballKid: Can you build a weather-controlling device with minimum wage labor? Oh well, back to praying.

no. But you could use Mexican scientists.



/hint - they make cocaine in there

Kit Fister: Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Yeah, reality does frequently stand in opposition to conservative views. Oh wait, you meant Fark. Yeah, I've never seen a conservative here. Ever.

/if God wants to chime in on how the conservatives are right on this issue he knows he could really put this issue to bed with a 5 minute press conference.

HotWingConspiracy: Maybe shoot at the sky? Guns solve everything.

Has been tried:

fireclown: EyeballKid: Can you build a weather-controlling device with minimum wage labor? Oh well, back to praying.

no. But you could use Mexican scientists.

What good would that do? They would just line people up to piss on you lawn!

Of course he would. Then he'd get Cheney's secret weather machine that was used to punish NOLA. Right now Obama's using it to punish Texas. When Perry's elected, the northeast is clearly farked unless they vote for him.

Jake Havechek: "The ACLU has got to take a lot of blame for this. And I know I'll hear from them for this, but throwing God...successfully with the help of the federal court system...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen."

or maybe it's Allah and he's pissed that we're killing so many Muslims and treating them like shiat here when they want to build a mosque?

or maybe it's Gaea and she's pissed at all the CO2 we've been pumping into the air?

or maybe it's just one of the symptoms of global warming?

Kar98: Skarekrough: Can't you just pray the drought away you do teh ghey?

He's tried both. Didn't work for him. We still got a drought, and he's still gayer than Michael Jackson buggering an altar boy in the Castro.

Ahhh, no Texas hate thread would be complete without KAR98... but when he sticks to the ridiculousness of Perry and his bible thumping cult following. I find it very difficult to disagree with him.

Kit Fister: wyltoknow: fatandolder: Overfiend: What does politics have to do with drought?

This is fark. The idea is to bash, religion, Texas, Perry, republicans, or all of these. It does not matter take you pick.

Actually, as many people in this thread have stated (you would see if you bothered to read it before putting on your butthurt pants), the theme behind this bashing is to thoroughly mock Perry for his recent public exploits of encouraging his constituents to "pray the drought away". But, hey, don't let context get in the way of your pouting. Sniff sniff, why is Fark always so mean to Republicans? :(

Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Dave

There is quite a bit of Democrat hate and snark in here. There are also liberals who espouse carefully considered opinions eloquently. There is quite a bit of Republican hate and snark in here. There are also conservatives who espouse considered opinions eloquently. Both parties have their total wingnut mouthbreather party hacks who know better than anyone else. Fark seems to attract them.

special20: Kit Fister: wyltoknow: fatandolder: Overfiend: What does politics have to do with drought?

This is fark. The idea is to bash, religion, Texas, Perry, republicans, or all of these. It does not matter take you pick.

Actually, as many people in this thread have stated (you would see if you bothered to read it before putting on your butthurt pants), the theme behind this bashing is to thoroughly mock Perry for his recent public exploits of encouraging his constituents to "pray the drought away". But, hey, don't let context get in the way of your pouting. Sniff sniff, why is Fark always so mean to Republicans? :(

Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Dave

Anytime someone is trying to foist right-wing ideological zealotry on me, I mock them.

And, what of the people that don't agree with the ultra-left either, and don't want a strong left wing lean?

GORDON: Overfiend: What does politics have to do with drought?

Plenty. Politics could have planned for reservoirs. Or for upgraded water mains that have been in place since the state was founded. Or for better waste water reclamation. Politics could have limited sprawl. Politics could have enforced less pollution. Or promoted more diverse industries.
All of these are things I've seen spittle-frothed opposition here in Texas.

Hobodeluxe: or maybe it's just one of the symptoms of global warming?

Or maybe it's just weather. There have been droughts happening for hundreds of years.

HotWingConspiracy: Kit Fister: Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Conservative standpoints are generally mockable. Sorry, praying for rain and denouncing evolution are stupid things to do.

Wouldn't be a problem if the "conservatives" today would actual support true conservative policies like they used to back in the 1960s. The facist, big government controlling your life crap needs to go. Too bad it was the Constitution Party look-alike Tea Party that got support in the GOP recently. Should have been the Libertarians like me who support civil liberties and true fiscal conservatism.

Kit Fister: special20: Kit Fister: wyltoknow: fatandolder: Overfiend: What does politics have to do with drought?

This is fark. The idea is to bash, religion, Texas, Perry, republicans, or all of these. It does not matter take you pick.

Actually, as many people in this thread have stated (you would see if you bothered to read it before putting on your butthurt pants), the theme behind this bashing is to thoroughly mock Perry for his recent public exploits of encouraging his constituents to "pray the drought away". But, hey, don't let context get in the way of your pouting. Sniff sniff, why is Fark always so mean to Republicans? :(

Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Dave

Anytime someone is trying to foist right-wing ideological zealotry on me, I mock them.

And, what of the people that don't agree with the ultra-left either, and don't want a strong left wing lean?

not believing that praying will solve a drought isn't exactly left wing. much less ultra left wing.
and if you don't like opposing points of view you can go somewhere that censors that stuff out so you can have your confirmation bias stroked.

HotWingConspiracy: Kit Fister: Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Conservative standpoints are generally mockable. Sorry, praying for rain and denouncing evolution are stupid things to do.

Those aren't conservative viewpoints, they're fundie viewpoints. The groups overlap somewhat, but not near completely. Don't lump people like me (generally conservative, occasionally left-leaning, mainstream Christian) in with those people.

/prayer isn't stupid unless it's the only thing you do to correct the problem

Funny how bed wetter lib types grow a monster set of balls when it comes to mocking Christians, but they shrink back to their original pea-like size when Mohammed is involved.

Kit Fister: And, what of the people that don't agree with the ultra-left either, and don't want a strong left wing lean?

See, you say stupid things like that and then you wonder why you get called stupid. There is no "strong left wing" or "ultra-left" in this country so who cares? Your question is pointless.

/ in before you say something even stupider like claiming that Nancy Pelosi or Obama are extremely liberal

scottydoesntknow: HotWingConspiracy: Kit Fister: Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Conservative standpoints are generally mockable. Sorry, praying for rain and denouncing evolution are stupid things to do.

I think the problem that a lot of Texas Farkers have is the fact that we HATE Perry and want him gone, but everyone else wants the whole state to burn on the comments of one retard who should never have been handed power. Do you see how it kinda sucks that we're almost literally burning up, and yet y'all are doing fire dances around your computers?

Every thread about Texas suffering is a massive circle jerk about how retarded Perry/republicans are.

Well sadly, he's the top dog representing the state. I do feel bad for the shmoes just hoping not to dehydrate like yourself, but in a political context bashing Perry and his vision of Texas is legit.

DingleberryMoose:

There is quite a bit of Democrat hate and snark in here. There are also liberals who espouse carefully considered opinions eloquently. There is quite a bit of Republican hate and snark in here. There are also conservatives who espouse considered opinions eloquently. Both parties have their total wingnut mouthbreather party hacks who know better than anyone else. Fark seems to attract them.

QFT

swaxhog: Hobodeluxe: or maybe it's just one of the symptoms of global warming?

Or maybe it's just weather. There have been droughts happening for hundreds of years.

much longer than that. millions of years. but there are trends. and we are in a warming one. that's exacerbated by the millions of tons of greenhouse gases we pump into the thin layer of atmosphere that covers this rock.

DingleberryMoose: HotWingConspiracy: Kit Fister: Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Conservative standpoints are generally mockable. Sorry, praying for rain and denouncing evolution are stupid things to do.

Those aren't conservative viewpoints, they're fundie viewpoints. The groups overlap somewhat, but not near completely. Don't lump people like me (generally conservative, occasionally left-leaning, mainstream Christian) in with those people.

/prayer isn't stupid unless it's the only thing you do to correct the problem

Agreed, 100%

DingleberryMoose: Those aren't conservative viewpoints, they're fundie viewpoints. The groups overlap somewhat, but not near completely. Don't lump people like me (generally conservative, occasionally left-leaning, mainstream Christian) in with those people.

I'm sorry man, but they've hijacked your ideology. You stand shoulder to shoulder with those people in the voting booth.

Because some ate hot dogs at Perry's day of prayer and fasting... Heathens!

ballchain: fireclown: EyeballKid: Can you build a weather-controlling device with minimum wage labor? Oh well, back to praying.

no. But you could use Mexican scientists.

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/hint - they make cocaine in there

But then they could lose their licenses to practice Mexican Medicine:

Texas is a desert? You don't say! I'd never have guessed. It's always pictured as so green and lush in all the historical documents covering it's history.

Splinshints: Kit Fister: And, what of the people that don't agree with the ultra-left either, and don't want a strong left wing lean?

See, you say stupid things like that and then you wonder why you get called stupid. There is no "strong left wing" or "ultra-left" in this country so who cares? Your question is pointless.

/ in before you say something even stupider like claiming that Nancy Pelosi or Obama are extremely liberal

I guess that depends on your point of view. If you're fairly leftist in general, then no, they're not. if you tend more towards the right, then they are. So, no, it's not a stupid question, it's a question that is quite seriously asked because not all of us agree with Obama (although I can respect some of his points), or like Pelosi (but I, well, no, I really don't respect anything that she has done).

I truly think we are witnessing the desertification of Austin. My yard is literally just packed earth at this point. I'm just trying to make sure the trees don't die.

tufty: Funny how bed wetter lib types grow a monster set of balls when it comes to mocking Christians, but they shrink back to their original pea-like size when Mohammed is involved.

Not me. I mock all sky wizards. I just find it funny how one is more accepted than the others. that somehow one is believable while all the others simply cannot exist. and my statement was meant to mock that hypocrisy. that somehow the creator of the universe would give a shiat about your politics. who you slept,what you ate or what name you called them. I find it all laughable.

scottydoesntknow: HotWingConspiracy: Kit Fister: Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Conservative standpoints are generally mockable. Sorry, praying for rain and denouncing evolution are stupid things to do.

I think the problem that a lot of Texas Farkers have is the fact that we HATE Perry and want him gone, but everyone else wants the whole state to burn on the comments of one retard who should never have been handed power. Do you see how it kinda sucks that we're almost literally burning up, and yet y'all are doing fire dances around your computers?

Every thread about Texas suffering is a massive circle jerk about how retarded Perry/republicans are.

Yeah, this here is my viewpoint on it. Perry is a shiatstain on Texas' name, I've never said anything otherwise.

Kit Fister:

And, what of the people that don't agree with the ultra-left either, and don't want a strong left wing lean?

While you started out with what was sort of a good point, you're not getting a lot of traction from the implication that disbelieving that one can pray for rain is an "ultra-left" viewpoint. Maybe you want to back up and try again.

Kit Fister: DingleberryMoose: HotWingConspiracy: Kit Fister: Because it has a very real and definite liberal bias, and any time someone comes from a conservative standpoint, they're mocked?

Conservative standpoints are generally mockable. Sorry, praying for rain and denouncing evolution are stupid things to do.

Those aren't conservative viewpoints, they're fundie viewpoints. The groups overlap somewhat, but not near completely. Don't lump people like me (generally conservative, occasionally left-leaning, mainstream Christian) in with those people.

/prayer isn't stupid unless it's the only thing you do to correct the problem

Agreed, 100%

You've agreed with me twice. Make an immediate appointment with your mental health practicioner of choice. You're off your meds or they need to be adjusted.

/jk

maybe texas needs to build their own haarp machine

BunkoSquad: Maybe Rick Perry would have gotten better results if he'd sprayed to Allah more Aqua Net.


/FTFY

We're obviously not bootstrappy enough, or we'd have avoided this drought. Because that's how it works. There's no such thing as bad luck or circumstances beyond your control.

HotWingConspiracy: DingleberryMoose: Those aren't conservative viewpoints, they're fundie viewpoints. The groups overlap somewhat, but not near completely. Don't lump people like me (generally conservative, occasionally left-leaning, mainstream Christian) in with those people.

I'm sorry man, but they've hijacked your ideology. You stand shoulder to shoulder with those people in the voting booth.

True, but when one is voting for a common interest, does it matter? Or should we vote for candidates that don't match our viewpoints just to spite the wingnuts, despite the fact that the ideology of those folks is pretty opposed to what we believe in?

HotWingConspiracy: DingleberryMoose: Those aren't conservative viewpoints, they're fundie viewpoints. The groups overlap somewhat, but not near completely. Don't lump people like me (generally conservative, occasionally left-leaning, mainstream Christian) in with those people.

I'm sorry man, but they've hijacked your ideology. You stand shoulder to shoulder with those people in the voting booth.

We've got rednecks, you've got hippies. It's more fun to mock rednecks, I understand that. Hippies are fun and they'll share the weed.

The problem with both parties, although it's more severe in the GOP, is the rise of the idealogue who hasn't a damn bit of common sense.

Babboonrash: Ahhh, no Texas hate thread would be complete without KAR98

May it be noted that I came to Texas with the highest expectations. Rugged individualism! Guns! Open country! Almost free of government! Bootstraps! Well, what I found was a god-forsaken wasteland, infested with blue-nosed, un-educated, bible-thumping, priggish, uptight, preachy farking baptists who always have their nose in their neighbors' business, who are utterly consumed with FEAR of every damn thing there is. I've never met such scaredy bunch of yokels anywhere. Pray harder, or somebody might have gay sex, or a beer! Or set us up the bomb! Oh jeeeeebus save us, I think I saw a furriner in the gun store! fark'em and their entire state, possibly with the exceptions of Austin and Galveston, but there's beaches and bars elsewhere I guess, and thank FSM, I'll be done here by the end of the year.
My first impression of the state was downtown Marshall, Texas, and it reminded me of the town of Pripyat. I should have taken the hint and turned around right away, but no, I tried to make a go of it. Turns out if you didn't go to the same high schools and don't go to the same "churches", and don't speak with the same drawlsquawkwhine, and don't drive a farking pickup truck, you're shiat to them. So, again, fark'em.

Kit Fister: HotWingConspiracy: DingleberryMoose: Those aren't conservative viewpoints, they're fundie viewpoints. The groups overlap somewhat, but not near completely. Don't lump people like me (generally conservative, occasionally left-leaning, mainstream Christian) in with those people.

I'm sorry man, but they've hijacked your ideology. You stand shoulder to shoulder with those people in the voting booth.

True, but when one is voting for a common interest, does it matter? Or should we vote for candidates that don't match our viewpoints just to spite the wingnuts, despite the fact that the ideology of those folks is pretty opposed to what we believe in?

People like you just need to organize better for primaries. The kooks turn out in droves and set the tone.

El_Swino: Kit Fister:

And, what of the people that don't agree with the ultra-left either, and don't want a strong left wing lean?

While you started out with what was sort of a good point, you're not getting a lot of traction from the implication that disbelieving that one can pray for rain is an "ultra-left" viewpoint. Maybe you want to back up and try again.

But, I wasn't attempting to make that point. I was making the point that if you lean farther to the left, you're not as apt to be mocked as if you are a right-leaning individual.

Kit Fister: El_Swino: Kit Fister:

And, what of the people that don't agree with the ultra-left either, and don't want a strong left wing lean?

While you started out with what was sort of a good point, you're not getting a lot of traction from the implication that disbelieving that one can pray for rain is an "ultra-left" viewpoint. Maybe you want to back up and try again.

But, I wasn't attempting to make that point. I was making the point that if you lean farther to the left, you're not as apt to be mocked as if you are a right-leaning individual.

That's because left-leaners aren't stupid like the right-leaners. Reality has a liberal bias.

In all seriousness, one shouldn't pray for rain. If God wants it dry then who the hell are you to say otherwise? Damn fools, looks to me like God is imposing a water fast to tell them to straighten up. In my opinion the residents of dried out towns should turn on the spigots and say, "Hallelujah, praise Jesus!"

Kit Fister: HotWingConspiracy: DingleberryMoose: Those aren't conservative viewpoints, they're fundie viewpoints. The groups overlap somewhat, but not near completely. Don't lump people like me (generally conservative, occasionally left-leaning, mainstream Christian) in with those people.

I'm sorry man, but they've hijacked your ideology. You stand shoulder to shoulder with those people in the voting booth.

True, but when one is voting for a common interest, does it matter? Or should we vote for candidates that don't match our viewpoints just to spite the wingnuts, despite the fact that the ideology of those folks is pretty opposed to what we believe in?

Look at my father in law who truly believes all taxation is theft, but is also an atheist. He consistently votes for incredibly crazy fundamentalist Christians every time. It's pathological. How people who believe in what Christ supposedly said can be opposed to the social helping of the poor, prisoners and the ill boggles my mind.

He (my FIL) explains that he doesn't agree with all that but he votes for them for other reasons. Well, if you vote exclusively Republican (which he does), that is a tacit agreement with the planks of the party platform. You can't say "oh, I voted fascist but I support civil rights, I just want to make the trains run on time." If the majority of the party believes something and you vote for them in every single election, whether you admit it or not, you are endorsing everything they stand for.

Every time Texas asks for federal aid, they should just send Rick Perry another copy of "Atlas Shrugged".