Perry, the most probable new addition to the GOP rat race, has organized days, even weeks of prayer in an effort to bring drought relief to his state.
Rick must have been praying to the wrong god.
A huge tropical depression formed (and scattered lovely clouds and drops on my vacation in Hispanola) and headed to Brownsville, TX, promising many inches of rain for that parched land.
Some parts of Texas need more tha 12 inches to begin to recover from what weather people have labelled an Extreme Drought. Extreme is even worse than Severe.
so what happened? Did Perry's prayer efforts pan out? Did god hear his prayers and answer them in the form of HOH molecules forming and landing in Texan dry dust?
No. It was like magic. As soon as this huge tropical depression, carrying incredible amounts of water, hit the coast, it simply disappeared. Poof. Just like Clinton's budget surplus after W was elected.
Not one drop reached areas away from the coastline. (although the depression seemed to reform over Mexico, and appeared to bring needed water south of the border).
This begs several questions:
Does god hate Texas? Other than Austin, this is quite understandable.
Does god belong to a different sect or cult, and refused to hear Perry's prayer?
Was Perry insufficiently pentinent?
Did he use the wrong words? Kneel incorrectly? Fail to show proper belief in god?
Or could it be that god simply does not exist?
In unrelated breaking news, the Texas school board tasked with determining which texts and supplements just voted to keep evolution teaching intact, and refused to accept creationist supplemental texts for the upcoming school year.
Who wudda thunk it?
As bad as the news is from the White House ("Trust us. The deal's not THAT bad" - the new Obama motto for 2012) it was fascinating to watch the radar show the total evaporation of the huge storm. Just as it hit the coast.