Posted on 08/14/2006 12:03:17 PM PDT by My2Cents
We know what we got. And the Houston GOP was too afraid to step forward and demand Bill White answer for his "feel good" policy. He ran unopposed in his final mayoral race (except for some fringe candidates).
I am a Westsider too. Kirkwood & Briarforest area. We have apartments turning into Section 8 housing. Just frikin' lovely!
BS, they are spotting the drug running gang bangers floating BACK AND FORTH between Houston and New Orleans. They're "ours" now.
If "federal assistance" were truly to be blamed, end it now. The criminals are ruining it for everyone and do not need another DIME of assistance.
Very good point. If a government fails to protect its citizens and punish the bad guys, it has failed, and has lost its legitimacy.
There's a problem here that's WAY bigger than a hurricane. It's a group of people knowingly living on the edge of disaster confident that when the compost hits the air conditioner the nation will bail them out.
And there's a nation, and especially a political party, encouraging that belief.
And, yes, there are the less capable and less culpable who are caught up in this. But as far as I'm concerned, anyone who lives below not only sea level but below the level of one of the world's largest rivers and doesn't have flood insurance has a pretty weak claim. It's been a decades long "Hold my beer and watch this!" and when the predictable, indeed the inevitable, happened, they want us to feel a moral duty to let them live that way again.
Houston is adding red light cameras (active on September 1st), increased speeding ticket volume, increased DWI patrols, etc. etc.
Doesn't do a thing to help my friends who were carjacked or my friend who was shot in a drive by last month.
The HPD is another tax revenue source for the city budget. Not much else.
"I was at the Astrodome on opening day and got to see the great Mickey Mantle hit the first homerun in the dome."
I don't remember if it was opening day or not, but I remember the guy with the jet pack flying around inside the Astrodome.
Now you know why us folks in the northeast support "snob zoning." Keeps prices very high, but keeps the scumbags out.
But Chuck Rosenthal will still prosecute YOU for having a gun LEGALLY in your car. He has said he does not agree with the state legislature.
And more of the violent crime is happening on the "streets" (whether it is at a parking lot, gas station, car wash, or midblock downtown).
I lost all respect for Houston when you guys elected "Out of Town Brown" a man who was all but run out of New York by the citizenry, as Mayor.
Same here. I grew up in Alvin. Moved to Tulsa in '97 and have no desire to go back.
Katrina Victims should be rephrased to Leftist Politics Victims.
Wasn't my fault. The racist newspaper railed against Orlando Sanchez (Republican and Cuban immigrant).
Then after Brown was safe, they assailed him as incompetent.
Anywhere but Houston, huh? Gee, Alvin...ever meet Nolan Ryan?
Never again....live and learn.
The Chronicle is an evil, evil bird cage liner. I say this as one who was interviewed by said rag twice (in the business section).
In other news, the to do list for a Muslim is;
Kill all heretical Muslims.
Kill everyone who isn't Muslim that you can't tax and enslave.
Heh heh...yeah, I might have to move back...but I don't have any desire to! I really love Oklahoma.
Yes, I met Nolan Ryan...a few times. When I was a kid, he gave me a signed baseball card, from when he played with the Angels. He signed it when he came to visit us at school. I don't remember what happened to it, I probably just left it on the desk. Hmph...it was just Mr. Ryan!
Oh, that wasn't my district's doing. The Dread Pirate Mayor was elected by the same knuckleheads who vote for Sheila Jackass Leech - a district which, I might add, has something like a 22% high school graduation rate and a 73% teenage pregnancy rate, but a 98% voter turnout rate. So I guess it all balances out.
(My area is responsible for John Culberson.)
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