Posted On: Thursday - September 7th 2017 6:51PM MST
In Topics:   Music  Americans  Liberty/Libertarianism
Peak Stupidity may start taking pride in being absolutely untimely in any of our "current events" articles. We may as well, because it seems like articles on current topics seem to get put behind just the general "look at this stupid shit" or "this is how stupid this is" articles. Per Joseph Heller's "Catch 22", perhaps the best thing to do is to take pride in being untimely. Even people who don't watch an hour of TV per week have heard about the flooding in SE Texas from Hurricane Harvey. This was meant to be written about 1 week back. Whatever...
This post is in no way a disparaging post about Texans, Houstonians in particular, I guess, or anything about this latest natural disaster. It's just a libertarian/federalism thing, I guess, but one time in my life (without using a time machine to go back oh, 6 decades) I'd like to hear the US President, or hell, any Feral government official say "Good luck down there, but it's not our business. We are neither your Daddy or your Mama, so take care of your own problems. We wish you the best."
Hey, this sounds as harsh as something out of an
That's Stevie Ray Vaughan and his band Double Trouble playing "Cold Shot" from the album "Texas Flood" released in 1983. It's an old blues song.
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UPDATE: Ron Paul just chimed in on this. (Well, I just saw it on Unz.com, anyway.)
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