As I often do while preforming mundane tasks, while I was just out in my still partially flooded yard (it wasn't as widely covered but while Harvey was dealing his blow elsewhere, Florida had a tropical wave and its own flooding going on which Irma and all subsequent rains have only piled on to) doing the last of the "sweepin up the free branches and shit" (I guess that's suppossed to be tree branches though a lot of them sure broke free), I was pondering distances from coasts and where it's safe from the menace of hurricanes while taking into account the most recent storms and guess what? I checked google earth and Dallas ain't as far away as it needs to be to be really safe from these things. The center of Irma traveled over land, which generally weakens hurricanes, for about 600 miles and was around 200 miles from the other zip code I "slip(ped) away to" where there was still damage and days long power outages. That other zip code is also about 190 miles from it's own coast while Dallas is about 260 miles inland.

The problem here isn't people who are stupid enough to live near the coast or those who "feel complete" there but but are too chickenshit to stay (though the distances involved now show they're not as safe as they imagine they are where they are), the problem seems to be people who feel superior in thier beliefs and lack empathy and understanding for others. I gave up religion long ago, I'm more of an atheist leaning agnostic, and some of the most decent, caring, honest people I know are atheists - when my son nearly died in a motorcycle accident the first folks to offer real help were atheists while some Christians could only offer prayers and not even share the link to the gofundme page I started which would have cost them absolutely nothing but still could have helped. That said, MrKim has lately become the sort of self centered, little caring, hateful atheist that the theists love to point to when asking where can people derive their morals from if they don't believe in God. And the thing I find hilarious about it is that his bedfellows are now the self centered, little caring, hateful evangelicals who when anyone disagrees with them start raving about "libocrats" or "libtards", "Ovomit" or "Obummer", or "Killary", juvenile babblings that are the product of whiners who are the actual people who are so afraid they believe they can make the entire US a "safe space" with walls and immigration bans. They've forgotten that freedom is often not safe and E Pluribus Unum. They're the first ones who would be in line to join up if Trump could somehow create his own Gestapo to rid the conutry of dissenters like me who are not neccessarily liberals but are independents able to view some liberal ideas outside of the box of conservatism. Kim, emboldened by your own messiah now in the White House you like to talk tough like people expect Texans to be, like many Texans are including some of my family members who are, by the way, living just a few miles north of Houston and gave me quite the anxious time during Harvey, but you're just a frightened little shit that wants to hide behind walls or miles inland while trying to impress people with nothing more than a vocabulary that's better than most. Fuck off. Rant over.