Oh My, I've been roundly assailed by a snowflake/snowbird ... what ever shall I do

Guess to save time aaand keestrokes I'll just slice n dice my way through the below:


"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)"

This must be the cry me a river segment so I'll iet it slide other than to mention all my other friends in Fla. were the ones who mentioned the sweeping up tree branches, so I'll accredit this to the "I need to add more drama here so people will feel sorry for me." Hi Ho.



"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."

Yep, the travelling over land part is why it went quickly from a 5 to a 1/heavy tropical storm. The difference here is to reach DFW it would hafta travel completely over land for the 260 miles you mentioned, which is why DFW will never experience the full force of a hurricane.


"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."

Mmmmmk, gonna hafta beg to differ here dude. I LOVE the Texas coast, the Atlantic coast and even the Florida coast, been to all 3, but again, as much as I've enjoyed bein there I have always remembered the news I've seen and read over the years of the horrors that can befall those who choose to live there. To me, the potential for disaster far supersedes the great feelings I've experienced there. If you feel it's chicken shit to choose a more practical place to reside, where disaster and life threatening drama due to naturally occurring periodic weather phenomenon will never play a part in my personal life, well Ok. If you choose to make that choice so be it, it's a free country and you're well past 21 so do what ever you choose.

But, and here's the part you won't be interested in hearing ... DO NOT expect me to have sympathy for you when that seemingly idiotic choice rears up and smites you right 'tween the eyes! Nor should you expect me to wanna slide any of my tax dollars your way to help support the poor choices and the aftermath of those choices that will periodically be visited upon you and the rest of the folks there.


"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"

Heard that, having tried several different times in life to embrace the theistic view, just never worked for me. For some reason theists seem to wanna lump me in with agnostics simply because my thoughts are always tempered with the concept I could be proven wrong, if there's ever a truly scientific case made for the existence of a "god" (<-- ever noticed how god and dog are the reverse of each other?). I find this unsettling as I view agnostics as limp wristed fence sitters, too damned wishy washy to get off the fence and take a real stand for their thoughts, but ... I digress


"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."

Oh, kinda like I thought, empathy and kind thoughts from others wasn't really your goal as your concept of "help" was only financially based. So empathy, prayers and all the positive energy that encompassed just wasn't good enough, huh?

You problee already know this, but if not, let me fill in the blanks. I didn't link to your gofundme page either. Not because of a lack of empathy for you and your sons plight, but quite simply because I don't EVER do that, not for any one, nor any cause. If you wanna feel personally slighted by that, get over yourself, it ain't nothin personal, just my own private policy.


"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."

Lately? Fuck no man, I've been self centered all my life, know it well and have never tried to deny it, nor ever apologized for it either.

However, having found in business it's best to keep my thoughts on theology to myself, few people are privy to my lack of a belief in their varied deities, just seems to work best that way. Funnily enough though, my unknowing friends and customers alike seem to view me as principled and moral, appreciate my sense of empathy and caring for my fellow humans and sometimes even seek my counsel. Of course these are people who do actually KNOW me Q man.



"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."


Hmm, some truth to that I 'spose since there's a particular like mindedness I share w/lotsa believers. Most are conservative politically as well as socially, deeply patriotic and have respect for the overarching rule of American constitutional jurisprudence, so yeah, I'll cop to that, though personally I prefer Obozo as our former leaders moniker . I mean really man, with those ears and that uncanny resemblance to Alfred E Newman, just hang a big red nose on that always upturned shnozz of his, a lil spikey red hair and voila .... OBOZO!

About here is where you and I reach that place Thoreau mentioned in the woods where 2 roads diverged and we're obviously on differing paths.

It seems you think any and everyone who wants to come into our country should just be let free to do so, Whether they have anything of value to offer our society, whether they even truly want to BE a part of our society, whether they come from places in the world where the refrains of "DEATH TO AMERICA!" are heard so often it scarcely even causes the raising of an inquisitive brow once uttered, you seem to think we should just take 'em all in.

See Q man, that attitude is just not Ok by me, nor will it ever be. In my view you seem willing to cheapen and undermine every facet of our immigration laws, our society and even what it means to BE an American. You and those like you who think having real national borders, beneficial and reasonable immigration policies based on more than just a want to be here are unreasonable constraints, yeah dude, we're just flat out NEVER gonna agree on that shit.



"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."


As one who dudn believe in a god, just as surely I don't have a messiah. I will admit snakes scare the shit out on me, that and hot psychotic women, 'course that's a love hate thing too so .... Oh and lest I forget, Go fuck yourself.

RAVE ON BABY