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water_watcher
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 8:00:19 AM (updated 5/14/2011 8:00:52 AM)
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Texas has asked the Obama administration for help in fighting the wild fires and FEMA assistance, but no help has been sent. FEMA response ... they were assign to assist "mexico" with their wild fires.
Texas Govenor has asked the Obama administration how much Mexico has paid in to the FEMA fund, because he knows how much Texas has paid in.
Obama could not be reached for comment because he way too busy campaigning for 2012 ... that is what he does best. Talk but no action.
Could the lack of help from the Obama administration be because Texas has been so outspoken about Obamacare.
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MAJ USA RET
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 8:09:51 AM (updated 5/14/2011 8:11:08 AM)
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If Obama is re-elected, a second attempt at secession is justified. We just have to assume that a) states have no rights and b) moneys collected from the states do not necessarily derive any benefit to such states.
FEMA (like the two DOEs) is a hole into which we taxpayers pour money… daycare for adults.
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Talullahhound
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 8:53:51 AM
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I'm missing something... How come when it suits, everything is "state's rights"; but when the feds don't help, they scream bloody murder? Can't have it both ways.
And given what is known about FEMA's efforts, why anyone would want them involved is beyond me.
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MAJ USA RET
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 9:14:50 AM
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If you pay into a fund… it is reasonable that you should benefit from that fund. Texans help pay for FEMA.
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MrHodja
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 9:27:20 AM (updated 5/14/2011 9:30:23 AM)
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Maybe the feds should help...but not interfere. Texas is reaping the consequences of raw knuckled Chicago politics...remember the fact that Texas, home of the Johnson Space Flight Center, didn't get a shuttle but LA and NCY did? Pretty obvious to me. And Obama and Perry were both in Austin...Perry asked to have a short meeting with him...Obama said "if you want to meet, come to El Paso". What kind of crapola is that?
The point is that once elected the President is supposed to be the President for all 50 states, not just the ones that voted for him. He!!, I'd even vote for Trump over the Knucklehead in Chief.
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Barneget
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Drudge reports this morning....
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5/14/2011 9:39:10 AM
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that the ATF is responsible for starting a West Texas wildfire by detonating explosives during a burn ban, with explosions igniting grass and the resulting fire quickly getting out of control. Abolish the ATF as alcohol, tobacco, and firearms are convenience store items. If you ever see a HD with an anti ATF message on the vanity plate, give me a wave, 5 fingers if you agree, 1 if you don't.
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MAJ USA RET
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 9:42:57 AM
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States have three choices, and two are constitutionally acceptable:
· Secession - tried once and failed
· Constitutional Convention – never been tried
· Supreme Court – lengthy, and now tainted by politics.
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Talullahhound
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 4:39:31 PM
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I don't know about all of that. I do know a lot of cities wanted a shuttle and didn't get one because there weren't enough to go around. And maybe the fact that they do have the Space Center was a reason that they didn't get one. Maryland has the Goddard Space Center and they didn't get one either.
And Obama is the President -- he outranks Perry by a mile - and it was Perry that wanted the meeting, not Obama... hence Perry goes where Obama can meet with him. The man has a schedule, and a lot of people want some of his time. When you want to meet with your boss, does he set the time and location or do you, when it's you asking for the meeting?
I guess you haven't heard the addage about when you take someone's money you give them the right to "interfere", i.e. give you advice and direction. If States don't want federal interference, then they need to develop their own resources for disasters, such as wildfires that are a recurring problem in that state.
And I'm wondering what y'all think that FEMA brings to the table that is so important. Didn't we see enough of their incompetence during Katrina?
Since when is it that you can bad mouth someone and refuse to support them and still expect them to help you? Some of the governors engage their mouths before thinking things through. At the end of the day, it's all political. Always been that way, always will be that way.
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water_watcher
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 4:54:25 PM
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Hound ... I am not sure FEMA is worth keeping ... it is probably one of the many federal departments that can go. But the states pay in to the fund and the wild fires are out of control and created extensive destruction. I see this as Obama's Katrina ... why is ignoring the situation when he is sending money and help to Mexico related to their wild fires?
He is in Texas campagining and making fun of the governor about boarder control saying maybe he wants the feds to build a moat so no one can get it. Boarder control is a serious problem and he is joking about it and never mentions the fires.
It is sick.
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Talullahhound
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 8:58:43 PM
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Well, at least he came to Alabama and saw the damage; although we now know his heart and his head was probably in Pakistan.
While I agree that immigration is a serious issue, I actually thought that the remark about the moats was pretty clever. What would you have him say about the wild fires?
And why not bad mouth the governor? He's bad mouthed Obama.... An Eye for an eye and all that, I'm thinking.
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MrHodja
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 9:17:55 PM
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Uh, then explain why Kennedy in Florida gets one. Your logic doesn't compute.
Strange that schedules can be changed for those whose support is important, but not for those who probably won't support in the next election.
And Perry IS the Governor of one of the biggest states in the Union. But maybe not for long...as Maj says, secession is an option. Texas won't drive Texas to do that, the Federal Government and Obama in particular could.
And if the pres is only going to be pres for his supporters, then that just hardens my resolve to work to kick his worthless ashak out of the office.
Too bad Huck decided not to run.
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Talullahhound
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Fed's will not help Texas with wild fires
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5/14/2011 9:51:23 PM
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Wouldn't matter if Huck did run. He didn't have a chance.
Just saying that when you want a meeting with someone of a higher rank than you, then you must meet on their schedule, not yours.
I've never liked Texas much, so if they decide to leave, so be it. I hope California goes too.
Actually, I've been running the Talullah hound (the real one) around to vets this week, and I've been so focused on that I haven't given much thought to Obama or Texas. I'm only vaguely aware of the levee crisis and the lake clean up.
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Talullahhound
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Florida
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5/14/2011 9:53:32 PM
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gets one because possession is 9/10th of the law.
Alabama didn't get one, and we have a huge space industry here.
I just can't feel sorry for Texas. I think Rhode Island should have gotten one. They are the smallest state.
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MrHodja
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5/14/2011 9:57:22 PM
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I hope it isn't serious with TH I. One of our pound pups (not one of the ones you met) is exhibiting classic signs of dysplasia and I'm afraid we'll have to further enrich our vet to find some relief for her. Just when we were about to get our account below a grand....
Give the real Tallulah Hound a stroke or two for us.
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She seems a bit better. She had been a bit lethargic. She had two blood panels that suggested that she might be very sick. So I took her to Carriage Hills, and her blood tests were normal. So now we are in "wait and see" mode. I've spent about $1000 in the past two weeks, so I feel your pain about the vet bills.
Hope your pup is feeling better soon.
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MrHodja
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Florida
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5/15/2011 9:26:41 AM
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Well, there aren't 50 of them so someone is going to feel left out.
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MrHodja
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Talu
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5/16/2011 6:37:46 PM
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Our inside cat, who ventures outside on occasion, until today staying away from the outside dogs, got careless this afternoon and is now in kitty intensive care. Looks like she may pull through, but on the way to the vet I though we'd lost her. I think to the dogs she was a toy, but massive jaws on a 80 lb Heinz 57 can do serious damage to a nine pound cat, even if "just playing". Thankfully it appears the back is not broken and so far there is no internal bleeding to speak of.
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That's too bad. I hope the cat pulls through. I gather that the vet must think it can pull through, hence the intensive care? That always worries me about living at the lake. There are no emergency vets out here.
I hope you pull through when you get the bill. I've gone through periods where I spent so much at the vet, I swore that he added a wing in our name. I know I paid for several European ski vacations.
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MrHodja
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Oh no
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5/16/2011 11:43:49 PM
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Roger on all counts.
Latest is the cat's signs are good; spending the night at the animal emergency hospital just in case, but latest word is she is doing OK. Will pick her up between 7 and 7:30 in the AM.
Big dogs were not trying to kill her; if they were, I'd be digging right now. She was just a toy to them, but they play like big dogs do and dang near sent me to the shovel. Will certainly send me closer to the poor house once the vet bills come in.
Thanks for the sentiment. At times like this politics seem so insignificant....
PS: The cat's name is Stormy. After Hurricane Opal some friends went to check on their beach house which was ruined. Heard some noise from the next door (ruined) house, broke into the soffit, and found this days-old kitten, the only survivor of the brood. They brought it back to Montgomery but the lady was allergic to cats so they brought it to our house so we could find it a good home. Opal was 1995? Thus the name Stormy...we are still looking for a good home for her....:>)
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Once they get the proverbial foot in the door, it seems like they never leave. Maybe you should have called her "Lucky"... LOL
Glad she is okay. Great news.
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