Oh, Lord.

I’ve been reading some of the blogs from folks in Texas (do you have any idea how many bloggers are from Texas?! A lot!) and they are filled with accounts of the state after Hurricane Ike. Oh, Lord! I am so sorry for you folks.

I was reading The Homesteading Housewife’s account of her area, which was hit hard by the hurricane.

Our house…. we were very lucky!, it IS still standing & in one piece. But… a tornado blew a path right down the side of it. This lifted our bedroom up off of the foundation blocks and moved it over by about 4 inches. So we can’t open any doors and there is a very obvious slope downward (kinda like the bedroom is fixing to fall off of the main house.

…80% of the pipes under the house have been blown off of the house or came off when it shifted.

But the biggest problem right now is ice and gas.
We have enough gas to last us several more days for the generator (that we use to run the freezers a few hours a day) and have enough ice to make it through today.
Ice…. we will need ice!!

My heart just wrings with sorrow by reading this stuff. And then she goes on to talk about how her livestock was eaten, and that looters threaten the homeowners.

As a New Yorker, I guess I’m pretty spoiled. We live in relative comfort, weather-wise. We had some really bad flooding two years ago, but that was a “100-year” storm. I just don’t know how you Texans and Floridians and Californians and Oklahomaians and Lousianaians (sp? Oklahomites? Louisianaites?) do it. I don’t think I could do it. I just don’t think I could live in those places, with the threats of major earthquakes, hurricanes, and tornadoes every season. I am so spoiled. We get blizzards, but they are nothing, really. All we have to do is stay home when a blizzard hits, whereas a tornado or a hurricane could carry everything away!

I’ve said before that we in New York State don’t have any natural disasters, except for the politicians. That’s the reason why so many people have fled New York State– the politicians are crooked, corrupt, and greedy. Our beautiful state is overrun by high taxes and burdensome regulation. We’ve lost 25% of our population in 3 decades. New York State is bleeding population. I marvel that New Yorkers would rather risk hurricanes in North Carolina and Texas than have to live a life of abject poverty while funding the poiliticians’ pockets. I guess I can’t blame them.

But you know what? You guys could all come back! You could all come back with your families and help us change New York State! You see, we here in Upstate are ruled by the politicians who get their support from New York City. But if Upstate population suddenly increased with freddom-loving folks from Texas and Louisiana and North Carolina– our state could change!

New York State is soooo beautiful. We have four seasons, we have great weather, and we have great neighbors! Come to New York! No hurricanes, no earthquakes, no tornado storms! It’s just politicians. We could change that!

I don’t usually talk politics here on this blog. It’s too stressful. There just aren’t any good statesmen anymore (except Ron Paul! :D). If I think about politics too much, I’ll explode. I have my blood pressure to think about. And what a mess that would make all over the walls, tsk tsk.

Anyway, I saw the latest headline on Drudge Report and just HAD to chuckle. HILLARY CLINTON TO APPEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME ON FOX NEWS. HILLARY TO APPEAR IN BILL O’REILLY SHOW.

Big whoop. But it shows how desperate the lady is. Hillary is my senator (I’m in New York) and I do not like to think about it. She is a loser, and the only thing she has going for her is her nasty butchy attitude and her famous (but loser) husband. Plus, her whole governing philosophy is traitorous. :-p Can you tell I have no respect for the lady?

Still, my husband thinks she’ll win the presidency. When asked why, he says, “Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton.” As if it’s destiny. The money lenders and the Federal Reserve Bank have it all planned.

Well, my blood pressure is starting to rise so I’ll end here. But I’ll leave you with the thought I have about the whole president election thing: it is WAAAY over-hyped. Why isn’t more attention given to who we elect for Congress, for they control things that directly affect us, like taxes, laws, and etc?