Living in Dallas and all, I am required to think Houston is a total craphole but even I didn't think it was THIS bad. I guess I've missed all the stories about suicide bombers in Houston killing scores of people on a regular basis:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3235606
"You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody'd go to Houston, because all this reporting coming out of the local press in Houston is violence, murders, robberies, deaths on the highways," DeLay said.
"And if you took that as the image of what is a great city that has an incredible quality of life and an incredible economy, it's amazing to me. Go to Iraq. And see what's actually happening there.
"Everybody that comes from Iraq is amazed at the difference of what they see on the ground and what they see on the television set."
Tell you what Tom, why don't you take a little tour outside the Green Zone without a platoon of bodyguards and then tell me how wonderfully things are going in Iraq. I hear Ramadi is nice this time of year.