Oh goody, what's that crazy old Ron Paul yammering on about this time? Someone told him there's a hurricane-a-comin' and he just rolled his eyes thinking about how FEMA is going to come in and just plain old ruin everybody's fun. Back in Ron Paul's day (the turn of the century), there was no dumb "Federal Emergency Management." Everyone just grabbed their guns and their petticoats and ran for their lives!

After a lunch speech today, Ron Paul slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, and said that no national response to Hurricane Irene is necessary.

"We should be like 1900; we should be like 1940, 1950, 1960," Paul said. "I live on the Gulf Coast; we deal with hurricanes all the time. Galveston is in my district.

"There's no magic about FEMA. They're a great contribution to deficit financing and quite frankly they don't have a penny in the bank. We should be coordinated but coordinated voluntarily with the states," Paul told NBC News. "A state can decide. We don't need somebody in Washington."

Galveston in 1900 sure was a paradise. Things are not what they used to be! [NBC]