"It's starting to be that people ought to be getting on with their lives," Bemiss said. "If people make this last any longer, they don't want nothin' in life."
And he strategized from the beginning to keep his family of 20 together? Sounds like a potential Lubbock family-values, bootstraps Republican to me.....
"This is the kind of community we have here," said state Rep. Carl Isett, R-Lubbock. "This is the way it has always been here." It is the kind of community the evacuees have never seen: overwhelmingly white and proud of its ability to raise up its oil roughnecks and their families into the solid, taxpaying middle class.
Isett is right. It's just the way it is on the Llano Estacado. Let's offer to let Natalie Maines call herself a New Orleans native in exchange for Bemiss.
"Let's offer to let Natalie Maines call herself a New Orleans native in exchange for Bemiss."
Hasn't New Orleans suffered enough? I might be willing to inflict Natalie "The Ditz" Maines on Kim Jong Il or Fidel...
I too was shocked not to find the usual derogatory comments about Lubbock that one often reads in the Austin-American Daily Worker.
Ok that did it - I'm crying......... the part about never being around white people who looked him in the eye did me in.