September 3 2005

Well gang, we all know what the news is this week, and we all know what kind of news it is too.
It’s a level of tragedy that stretches the boundaries of the mind and heart. And it also gives you a good look at the heart of Texas. It’s a big one.
All in all, when the cow patties make contact with the air circulation equipment, you could do worse than have a Texan for a neighbor.
Texans response to the Katrina disaster has been exemplary.
As well meaning as most of us are, however, a little bit of judgement has to be exercised.
For instance; a couple of our club members upon watching a few hours of TV news showing thousands of evacuees waiting in sun-baked lines and stranded on the side of equally sun-baked highways and then the parking lot of the Astro Dome, were over come with compassion.
Sitting there with cold beers in their hands, they felt a little guilty too.
In no time flat, they came up with a plan, and were shortly afterwrd headed toward the Astro Dome with eight kegs of beer iced down in the bed of a pick-uptruck, and a generous supply of barbeque.
Now if they had thought about it a little, they probably would have anticipated that the police at the Astro Dome weren’t going to see this as a good time for a parking lot tail gate party.
One of the boys was more than crestfallen. Especially when during the unloading of the pick-up he suffered a hernia.
He really shouldn’t have tried to remove the kegs with the tubs still filled with ice.
Another thing to be remembered, is the fact that helping out our neighbors to the east doesn’t mean that we can forget our regular campaigns to help out friends and neighbors.
Like the kick-off party for the annual Montrose Beer and Gun Club benefit that is to be held at Rudyard’s British Pub on the Sunday September 11th, starting at 6:00 PM.
We have to handle as much as we can by ourselves gang. We all noticed that nothing really happened at the government level in this Katrina tragedy, until the Mayor of New Orleans started using the vernacular of the barracks in his pleas for assistance.
Which makes you think of the old joke: "Hello, I’m from the government and I’m here to help you."
Sure.