Rick Perry Apparently Changes His Mind on Secession, Asks Feds for Swine Flu Help
By Susie Madrak Monday Apr 27, 2009 5:00pmAfter calling for secession, now he's asking for federal help for his state? Rick Perry reminds me of a little kid who says he's running away from home - and asks Mom to pack him a lunch. Where's your pride, Rick?
SAN ANTONIO – Gov. Rick Perry has asked for 37,430 courses of anti-viral medicine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of the swine flu outbreak.
And a high school near San Antonio has been ordered closed this week because a third student from the school may have the disease. Two cases have been confirmed.
"As a precautionary measure, I have requested that medication be on hand in Texas to help curb the spread of swine flu by helping those with both confirmed and suspected cases of this swine flu virus, as well as health care providers who may have come in contact with these patients," Perry said in a prepared statement.
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Oh,so now being part of a union of states has the advantage of the resources of a Federal Government to combat a possible epidemic. Jeez Rick, thanks for waking up in the 21st century.
Fuckin' Confederate dumbfucks. They never could understand what the real meaning of "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" was all about. Had the south won and the Union split, the country at the time would have been easy pickings for colonial Britain (they were already sucking up to the Confederacy) and an emerging militaristic Germany in the 19th century could have made territorial gains in our hemisphere.
Hey pard
Ain't that kinda
Socialistic?
Them teabaggers look as though they fancy LOTS of pork products.
I'm sure that if you were in the same position, you would let it all pass through to the interior of the U.S. ???? I'd call it concientious intervention.
You were not the first troll in this thread...thank you for playing and your consolation prize of 5 cases of Pampers will be delivered to you in a few days. Try to hold it in if you can!
hater, how's your temperature this evening??
Aaaaawwww.....
Ok, hater. But you are what you are....
Can't see your comments. But, I'm certain that it is something endearing....
You are seeing exactly what she's typing. OTOH, all L sees in your comments is what she's typing back atchya. ;D
Get a grip.
All man here....penis and everything.
That other thread...oh, never mind. Sorry. I'm so confused. I took 2 1/2 weeks off to clear my head and now nothin's takin' right!
Dawn of the gay agenda.
We're everywhere.
It get's the trolls are red faced and feet stamping. And also more proof that trolls are totally clueless.
I'm a firm believer that the First Amendment is there for entertainment purposes.
It makes for less stressful reading, but I've since found some entertainment value in using it as you may have noticed.
How do ever expect some corporate criminal to hire you with that kind of attitude??? If you're even looking....
hahahahahahahaha clown don't you have some nutsacks to go lick?
But he could check the hog farms to see if any pigs have the swine flu.It must be coming from pigs somewhere
Col. Rhett Perry is coming to Tara.
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So that means somewhere there are some pigs with the swine flu. It might be a good idea to find those pigs
Some key facts about pigs swine flu and how it is transmitted
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/key_facts.htm
Of course there are pigs with swine flu. Perhaps the name should be a clue. In fact, probably most pigs have swine flu.
This may be a shock to you, but pigs are the natural host animal for swine flu. Just like birds are the natural host for avian flu. Horses are the natural host for equine flu (yes, there is such a thing).
All animals naturally host some sort of virus. And any virus may make the jump between species.
Meet reality.
I heard on the BBC. Swine not only can host swine flu, but they can also get avian flu.
Thus, evolution can work its nasty natural selection inside of pigs.
They said that it would be possible for swine and avian flu to swap genes and evolve.
If I recall correctly, they can also catch human flu.
Isn't that nice?
I think I'm going to become a vegetarian.
exactly right my friend
runs when it hits.
;)
TAMU. TamiFlu is what the Rev. Bakker got.
Someone in the cabinet is probably trying to find a way to get Tamiflu down to Mexico, as well as the border states.
Where Perry shows his brilliance is in making the request at all. As if there aren't crates of the vaccine being shipped down there anyway. But by making the request publicly, after the last few weeks of all of his separatist squealings, he shows himself as the hypocrite he is.
Hmmm... just enough to innoculate the texas Republican party elites and their families. Everybody else can just fend for themselves.
many of them don't believe in evolution, they have to protect those defective genes at any cost.
It's understandable that SWINE flu would be upsetting to Perry.
is also in the closet. He's becoming almost as much of an embarrassment to Texas as Monkeypants.
Because, of course, being gay is ridiculously embarrassing. Seriously - bust him for his hypocrisy, but let's leave the ignorance to the other side.
Unless you are new to Texas....Mister Perry is a total closet case. We've all known that here for some time.
By the way, gay here, so no slamming.
You name is "Liberalicious". I don't think you had to clue anyone in you're gay:)
I resemble that remark!
I'm so disappointed. And I'm gay, too. But I misread your name as "Labialicious". I'm male, but I've been a lesbian all my life. Us lesbians have it so much better than gays. :)
Mon, 04/27/2009 - 18:58 — Liberalicious
By the way, gay here, so no slamming.
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How about moshing?
I know, how about being a Texas Ambassador???
Yeah, that'll work.....
He'll be banning pigs next. If this blows up, the Republican party will be dead for good.
you would know he would never ban pigs, just innoculate their teenage daughters to prove he's a real Mercken.
with that secession spew politician's lie to peoples faces all the time to keep their base happy.
...to think before he speaks! Talk is cheap, yes -- but just because you might not really mean what you say doesn't mean that other people have no right to expect you to put your money where your mouth is, or to lose respect for you when you fail to deliver. Besides, aren't neoconservatives like Perry always pontificating about how important it is to take personal responsibility? If so, then perhaps he should start showing some himself by retracting his statements. An ethical and intelligent man knows better than to say things which he knows he doesn't mean merely in order to benefit himself (which is unfortunately one of the reasons why there are so few people of true honesty and integrity in politics) -- and also knows that when his mouth writes a check which he can't cash, he should be man enough to admit that he was wrong. Lots of politicians break promises, of course -- but that's not an excuse for verbal incontinence.
Das swinehundt!
That would be like Hitler asking to borrow money from a Jewish money lender on his way to the showers.
Could you imagine what Nazi baseball would be like every time they send an underperforming player to the showers?
OMG!! -- I can't believe you SAID that! >snicker<
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Lou would have been the MVP if he had not invented the disease known as the Heimlich Manuever. He played in the SS.
Dear Governor Secession,
To hell with you and every half-witted, family-tree-is-a-stump jackass that voted for you.
After all the brainless bullshit you and the rest of those wastes of DNA have pulled, the rest of us shouldn't give any of you a goddamned dime.
Go ahead. Secede.
Make MY goddamn day.
Sincerely,
Every one else who has a functioning brain.
While I frown on people saying, "Go ahead and Secede", I had these thoughts. At least if they did, it would give y'awl the excuse to come in and arrest the lot of them, put 'em in jail, and leave the state to the rest of the decent people (yes, some of us still live here), and we can turn the state back into it's wonderful bluebonnet blue.
The home of Blue Bonnet margarine and Blue Bell Ice cream.
many other delicious and fattening items!
;)
Thank you :-D
somebody shoulda told that uppity bacteria how things work!!
too bad Texas can't recede right away because they need welfare socialized vaccinations.
this seriously makes me lol..... hello Governor Perry! welcome to the home of Mean Ol' Mister Reality!
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having said that, I really hope this whole flu thing is just an overhyped no big deal and that Texas's citizens are ok. its a shame they're so close to the infected zone. nobody deserves to die by drowning in phlegm. my heart goes out to the infected and my best wishes go out to the people working on a cure and/or stopping propagation.
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I couldn't have said it any better.
The Governor of Texas is one bad haircut away from Blagojevichian levels of gubernatorial gooberness.
Doesn't Perry's country have their own CDC. I don't think my country should be giving the Country of Texas anti-viral medication that was meant for Americans. Go to your own federal government Perry and quit begging America's federal government for help.
Maybe Perry asked the government of Mexico for federal help . . . or meant to . . .
Does this mean that Texans are no longer seditiously announcing their plans to leave the union?
Does it mean that we no longer can sell their state to Mexico to cure our national debt?
What DOES it mean?
It means Perry shaved his balls for nothing.
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You're just trying to get me all hot and bothered.
If he wasn't a bat-shit crazy closet case rethug...I might do him.
But ashamedly, I'd rather do Todd Palin....I know ewww....I can't believe I admitted that.
Levi. :)
Todd has it going on, but, still.... eeewww.
what have you been snorting? Todd Palin is all kinds of neandethal icky (and I like hairy men). We don't really have any hot Dem men, though, do we?
It's like when seperatists in Quebec wants to leave Canada- but always expects the Canadian government to dig them out when a big snow hits....
If Texans want to leave the US- Then leave, and fend for yourselves- or stay, but you can't have it both ways..
get me out of this place.......
I'd pack Austin up, but it won't fit in my suitcase.
If Texas does re-assert it's independance... then you'all better start planning a BERLIN-STYLE AIRLIFT PROGRAM to provide Austinites continued access to things like books, and newspapers, and Wisconsin brats, and Hollywood movies, and New York Theater, and Chicago pizza, and Philly cheese stakes, and Harley Davidson motorcycle parts, and German beer, and California wine, and Toyota hybrid technology.
Anybody who is a real Austinite knows if hasn't been worth a damn since it grew too big for liberalicious's suitcase.
There is a front-page article in the paper here in Austin today that offers a run-down on his internal pre-primary battle with Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Here is something profoundly ironic: The Texas state Republican primary is an OPEN PRIMARY. The Austin American-Statesman (newspaper) suggests that there will probably be a lot of registered Democrats crashing the Republican primary to throw the governor's race into Hutchison's lap... knocking the arch-conservative Perry out of the race before the general... AND opening up another Republican seat in the Senate for grabs!
He shore is PURDY tho, ain't he?
The best thing Democrats could do is help our secessionist Aggie Yell Leader get renominated.
Who do I want as MY Governor? A raving secessionist hypa-crit who's in the back pocket of the anti-science bible-thumpers... or a relatively moderate ex-Senator who has at least half-a-brain? I doubt that we will see a Democratic governor for many years... so ya gotta go for the lesser of two Republican evils.
All that really matters here is who the Lt Gov is anyway.
Where's zombie Ann Richards when you need her?
Her final reward is a place in the universe where she doesn't have to deal with George W. Bush any more.
LAUGHING MY ASS OFF!!
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Please send a check for 17 millionn and we will see if we can help your consevatives stay alive No money No honey perry gal
Or 38,000.How did he come up with that number I wonder
Ol' Rick likes to pull lots of things out of his ass.
And back in and back out...back in and back out...back in and back out...
Who will pay for this federal aid? TAX DOLLARS???
Sounds like socialism!
; )
will probably get a social disease.
you're assuming alot, Liberalicious.
Now let me see, one of Rick's heroes is none other than has been rocker Ted Nugent who boasted in no fewer than 4 publications to urinating and defecating in his jockeys to avoid serving his country during Vietnam.......any questions??
;)
is a lame ass musician and a cretin. Republicans have the crappiest celebrities. Perry probably wants to do Nugent, what with his long wavy hair and his penchant for going shirtless.
As many of you know, Governor Rick "Burnin Down the House" Perry is a "first", like President Obama. He is our first Aggie Governor.
At Texas A&M he held the important post of Yell Leader.
He has every right to be concerned about the impact of swine flu. He proposed spending millions in state funds for a vaccine center at A&M without legislative approval. And Texas A&M was once home to the famous Hog Farm, of the A&M College of Agriculture. Of couse it was moved to make way for the Bush I. Presidential Library.
have a lot in common - they are both 'fake' Texans, really bad governors, and they were both Cheerleaders! I'll bet someone must have a photo of one of them in a little pleated skirt.....
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/...
from a flu bearing swine when it comes to Texas.
Kay Bailey Hutchinson was a cheerleader at what the Aggies call TU.
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College does not have cheerleaders. Perry went to A&M. He was a Yell Leader.
Men don't cheer. They yell. And holler. In hollers.
we know you? (wild bore... #;}
So, you've just proved the point - everyone running Texas has had a background in cheering, yelling and jumping up and down on the sidelines while others did the work and the suffering.
Perry for a life of public service
just like any other problem, which can be solved by either bullets or prayer.
You've got to warn me before you say stuff like that. I'm eating cereal here :-D
There is a bunch of hawaiians that want to go back to repression of women and bowing to the ground when the King or queen walks by and the sacrificing of the poor hawaiian men and the killing off of hawaiians that dont agree with the monarchy BUT the want USA bucks and protection
short skirts and die their hair blonde and sniker at sex jokes and they want to sacrifice the poor men and and they want USA bucks and protection
LOL!
The administrations official response will simply read "HAH HAH HAH!"
How much longer is it going to take the administration to order the GOP pigs into quarantine?
I'd bet even money that the number listed in the article:
37,430 courses of anti-viral medicine
is EXACTLY the number of registered members of the "Lone Star Republicans Party" who advocate for secession. Any takers on THAT bet?
-Laz
It is the enrollment at Texas A&M. Perry doesn't do well with anyone who went to schools that admitted women before that meddlesome federal government let women into Aggieland. You know what their menstralating did to morale in the foxholes? Darned near ruint the Corp of Cadets, from which the Aggies picked their Yell Leaders like Governor Rick.
I think it was in a blog roundup, but there was a link to a story that has only been reported in the Mexican state of vera cruz where the outbreak started about how it most likely came from a Smithfield farms subsidiary hog farm. I'm too tired to look it up and link it, but anyone interested can do the homework. It was posted on this site today.
no the swine food did not come from eating pork. and hey texas is hard to live here with all the up front whining we get here....
:D
Some of my vegetarian friends are trying to spread that myth.
Influenza is killed off when the meat is processed. Too much heat.
However, it could spread from hogs to someone who is handling hogs. It's one of the pitfalls of animal husbandry and domestication. Influenza from hogs and chickens (or other domesticated fowl like ducks and geese), chickenpox, cowpox, smallpox...And as we push further into the wild we're running into things like Ebola and HIV.
I guess noone did their homework. I didn't say anybody ate contaminated pork and I am not a veg. I ate me a whole package of breakfast sausage yesterday morning. The hypothesis was that it spread from a shit lagoon that is infested with flies. I also forgot to mention that the hogfarm was in Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Lots of things could spread from one of those lagoons (including a really disgusting spread) but it's not likely that the swine flu did. Unless someone is swimming in it, and then they've got bigger problems.
The flu probably was spread by direct contact between living pigs and the people that work at the plant. Wouldn't be the first time, won't be the last. Most people don't seem to know that there are, quite regularly, isolated cases of swine flu (and other flu viruses picked up from domestic animals). They don't spread because the virus doesn't mutate to an airborne form to be spread easily in the human population. This one did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwgumWHRQh0
JEsus Christ. I didn't say I was an expert on disease outbreaks. I was referencing an article that explained where the flu may have started. Sorry I tried to add what I thought was interesting information. I don't even know what you are so uppity about. Did you read it?
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-25-swine... I don't what I'm doing, but hopefully this works
perry is pathetic. we don't want government on our backs unless it's on our terms. like they're the only state in the union. fema for fires,homeland security/military for the borders,food stamps,anti-viral medicine.
Don't believe that Governor Perry has asked for anything regarding help with fires, homeland security/military at the borders (except National Guard, which he can install), food stamps (we can manage) except for anti-viral vaccine, which helps you.....
google fema and recent fires, check out texas for the most people on food stamps(USDA Food and Nutrition Service), federal border patrol....
how would that help us? I don't ever go behind the Texas Curtain.
Parse it how you want, but asking for help from the feds for anything is asking for help which we all participated in creating. Your boy looks very hypocritical when he speaks of secession out of one side of his mouth and asks for vaccine from the other.
Surely, the residents of Texas, rich and poor, would prefer to die rather than take medicine from Chairman Mao-bama. How could Perry not know that?
different when they need it. That's they way it works when you are incredibly full of shit, hypocritical and create your own reality.
Anti-Big Government when it's not THEIR Big Government?
None of these tea-baggers and secessionists said a word when Bush was spending like a drunken sailor at a lady-man brothel, or the Republican Congress was attaining new all-time highs in pork barrel spending.
In other words, it's purely political rhetoric. And it's worked for years to convince working class people to vote against their own interests. Why stop now?
The CITIZENS of Texas, even the moronic ones who actually think secession makes sense in whatever illogical fantasy world they have concocted in their brains, should thank whatever god they worship that their governor is simply a hypocrite who simply seeks to manipulate the easily fooled rather than an actual idiot who believes his own bile.
Our Governor is simply a simpleton who believes his own bile is God's creation.
Will the Republicans quit stalling and now confirm Kathleen Sebelius, please.
this is perry,s way to show texas,s righty,s to vote for him not kay baily hutchinson he,s got a race for the gov here
"Just say no."
...who came crawling back! Hahahaha!
Gov. Perry in Big Pharma's pocket,
He has consistently shown a callous disregard for the public. I wouldn't be surprised if the request for federal aid was meant to trigger massive sales of Tamiflu (Rumsfeld's company).
Remember his attempt to force children to take the potentially deadly (although the numbers of dead and disabled are small) gardisil (for HPV) just after a huge donation from its manufacturer.
His past history exposes his real priorities. I'm just sayin.
Peace,
JK
im so sick of the wingnuts
let them all die a horrible and painful death
people in that state...we gotta liberate Austin at least!
In Austin we have high schools named after heroes of the Alamo like
Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, and William B. Travis (although the later two have student populations more representative of the Alamo victors as opposed to heroes.) We will just draw a line in the sand and fight the infidels to the death. hoping the rest of our liberal friends fleeing the stap will catch Perry's army asleep after a loing afternoon of watching NASCAR.
although I'm guessing Perry would be at a spa getting a MANicure and a FACIAL. He's way too prissy to watch NASCAR, unless it's the backs of the drivers as they walk to their cars.
Well, what have the Romans ever done for us, anyway?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaE3EaQte78&fe...
Is that allowed by a public official in Texas? Or does he have to issue an "equal time statement" that prayer is the preferred preventative?
I guess all those Universities and football teams and space centers don't mean DICK.
Wassamatter, Rick? A big swinging DICK like you isn't afraid of catching a cold are you? The first sign of a sniffle and you're running to the Federal Govt. C'mon, Cowboy UP...be a man.
You Texas haters do not understand Obama is being set up by our clever Governor. Perry has diverted millions from the state's Enterprise Fund to build a vaccine center at his alma mater, Texas A&M.
When Obama fails to cough up a few thousand TAMU flu vaccines for TAMU and Texas, Perry will justify both secession and his unapproved diversion of funds. Then we will deny you Yankees any of our life saving Aggie vaccine, which will have the side effect of giving you PTTF, Perpetually Twitching Trigger Finger.
And do not insult our famous football teams and their affiliated subsidiaries, the universities. NASA was just a development scam for oil compaies, including EXXON.
he'd better make sure he stocks up on food stamps.
No worries...we'll honor them.
We have plenty of food for ourselves here between Cattle, farming and fishing. I think it would be interesting to look at the, who feeds who stats. Besides if we ran short I guess we could always trade oil for it.
please secede. Hey Mexico, you want Texas back? It's yours....
I am here too but just don’t know how to respond. This swine flu thing is scary and being in one of the effected states especially giving the fact that our border is wide open to Mexico. It is common here to come into contact with Mexican citizens on a daily basis, co-workers, shopping, the schools a lot of which go back and forth from Mexico often. It’s close to home. I worry about my kids, grandkids and my mother who has copd. I don’t think it’s a joke. I love the United States and don’t think secession will ever come into play even if it does I would guess that while still a part of the union Texas has just as much right to ask for funding as any other state. I sincerely hope none of you guys get sick.
The United States has never denied aid to a foreign entity in need. ;o)
I don't think anyone here is belittling the problem of the flu. The problem is your silly governor and his diarrhea of the mouth (may be related to the flu). Perhaps you thoughtful citizens could contact his office and ask him to stop campaigning for a second and act like a leader.
Lastly, I live in Las Vegas and we get lots of traffic from Mexico as well. I'm also a nurse and work in a hospital that treats many visitors who fall ill while here. I'm very concerned. The only thing that is a joke here is Gov. Perry.
Typical, all bluster and swagger until the shit hits the fan...what a joke.
plain ( now that we know how to drill underwater) for the pleasure of knowing your home in Florida will soon be best viewed through glass bottom boats.
Old Texas cry "let the Yankee's freeze in the dark." New Texas cry
"Drown Teh bicoastal Gay Agenda in a sea of Christian Carbon."
that all Texans are like that, I meant to imply that about conservatives.
were not like what, my friend? We are indeed all like that.
Our state motto is "Friendship" which we took from the Caddo word "Tejas." (Of course we darn near took everything from the Caddo, but them that survived are getting some of it back in their casinos in Louisiana.)
Precisely what do you have against bluster and swagger?
I know some Texans personally...well...ok you're right, lol!
Well bluster and swagger on a personal level can be annoying.
Bluster and swagger on the presidential level has been proven to be disastrous...and annoying.
gets their natural gas and oil stocks from Canada. New Yankee cry, 'Hey Mexico, Texas is yours, come and get it!' Texas would last about 1 month, even with all the other states citizens that would 'imigrate' there.
...since Texas has not as yet gone through with their threats to secede, providing them with federal aid as a precautionary measure in case of an epidemic is probably something of a necessary evil. If Texas were not located where it is on the continent and were instead like Alaska or Hawaii -- located on an island archipelago or separated from us by another nation -- that might be a different story since this would significantly lower the threat that the virus might spread to the rest of the country. If such a state were discovered to be under a newly-emergent threat from a potentially lethal and communicable virus after threatening to secede, I don't think that it would be altogether unreasonable or unjust for the government to say to that state "go right ahead and secede."
In my opinion, if Perry is going to be given federal aid, it damn well ought to be on the condition that Perry puts a sock in all of his secessionist rhetoric. It's not nice to bite the hand that feeds you, after all! Frankly, however, I think that what Perry has done -- expecting food from the hand which he's already bitten -- is even worse. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised -- there must be something in the water down in Texas which makes neoconservative Republican politicians do this, since George W. Bush acted the same way while he was in the White House towards the European nations which refused to join the so-called "Coalition of the Willing" in Iraq. When the war first started, Bush ridiculed them and insisted that he'd reject any contract for projects in Iraq which originated in one of those countries -- yet several years later, when it turned out that the war wasn't going as well as he had hoped, he tried to make nice with them and ask them for help. The question one has to ask is...what was it that motivated him to do that? Desperation, stupidity, arrogance...or some combination thereof?
...but this should take care of it!
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