North Texas is bracing for a monster icy blast like that Deep Freeze we had five years ago. WFAA in Dallas reports:
Last time, all the state agencies assured us that everything would be fine. Instead, there were massive power failures statewide, and hundreds of people died from exposure. The Governor put all the blame on solar panels and wind turbines. Seriously. Now the same agencies and the same governor are saying once again that all will be well - we've got it covered - don't worry, be happy.
M.P. and I are stocking up on groceries, candles, and brandy, and crossing all our fingers.
P. S. -- That craven skunk Ted Cruz has already jetted off to California - a sure sign that we're gonna get walloped.
Bonus: M.P. just got back from Kroger and Winco, and he said it was just like what you see in this video. Even the produce shelves were completely empty - I'm thinking, what the hell? Produce? Is this a vegetarian emergency?
I have no words for this unspeakable horror, only tears. And rage at the unspeakable politicians who allow these massacres to go on and on, and do nothing about it.
FYI: Contrary to what President Biden and Senator Chris Murphy have said today, these mass shootings do not happen "only in America." They have been happening all over the world in the last quarter-century, even in totalitarian states like Russia. But other countries have done something about it. Here are a couple of Wikipedia articles for further reading and reflection:
Mass shooting (with links to articles on individual countries)
Please forgive my lapse into intemperate language, fellas, but I feel it is my journalistic duty to report plainly to you about thus stinking scumbag who, though he has a seat in Congress, does not represent me or my fellow Texans in any moral sense.
Your Head Trucker well recalls that during the presidential campaign of 2016, Texas Senator Ted Cruz - after Trump had insulted Cruz's wife and accused Cruz's father of conspiring to assassinate John F. Kennedy - was the very last big Republican politician to oppose Trump. Cruz swore and be damned that he would never, ever support Trump, and held out all the way to October, I think. And then, just a few weeks before Election Day - inexplicably - Cruz suddenly went crawling on his hands and knees to kiss Trump's ass. He even recorded some videos or robocalls for him, I believe.
And all this long time, obedient sub boy Cruz has kept his nose right there, supporting everything Trump said or did, and never a breath of criticism. And on Wednesday, minutes before Trump's mob attacked Congress, Cruz was on the floor of the House, front and center, leading the legislative attack on the electoral vote, the legitimate will of the People, as Cruz's dungeonmaster bid him do.
All that was bad enough. But yesterday, Cruz had the brazen gall to go on television and tell the Big Fucking Lie that he has "disagreed with the President's rhetoric and language for the last four years." Proving beyond all doubt that even after his filthy coup attempt failed miserably, Trump still has Cruz's balls in his back pocket.
CNN's Erin Burnett gives all the evidence, past and present, that anyone could need to condemn Cruz as the desperate, conniving monumental liar that he is:
No admission of wrongdoing, no remorse, only a glaring untruth. Lying bootlicker Cruz has enabled a would-be dictator at every step of the way, tried to overthrow the election, perverted his oath to support the Constitution, and made himself a laughingstock. He should leave D. C. as soon as Trump does, and in like shame.
Update, 8 a.m.--I'm not the only Texan who's steamed. The Houston Post castigates Cruz, calls on him to resign:
"U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz lied to Americans about widespread voter fraud that never existed," the Editorial Board writes. "He should resign and deliver Texans from the shame of calling him our senator." https://t.co/WzHyZ8xolH
Update, 1/10/21, 12:15 a.m.--On Friday, President-Elect Joe Biden went there: he called out Cruz (and his partner in crime Hawley) by name as being partners in the Big Lie, which he compared to Goebbel's propaganda in Nazi Germany.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
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Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?
It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.
If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.
