The meanest drought in modern Texas history looks different out here, away from the cities.There are no emerald swaths of St. Augustine lawns, no blooming shrubs, no misters cooling bar patrons as the sun goes down on another cloudless, 105-degree day.
The disconnect between what rural Texans are experiencing and sheltered urbanites are seeing has never seemed greater.Out here, the brutality of the drought is measured not in annoying water restrictions or water pipes bursting in the dessicated ground — all now commonplace in Texas cities and towns — but threatened livelihoods, and the waning of life itself.
So tell me again Governor Perry what are your thoughts about global warming?
"There are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects."
No serious candidate for President should have so little respect for science, and so little ability to see the evidence that surround him in his very own state.
