Yes, State governments know best, especially in Texas.

In the years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Texas has received at least $1.7 billion in federal Homeland Security grants, and spent much of the money to strengthen law-enforcement communications and border security.

But a Fort Worth Star-Telegram examination of thousands of purchases also found a a $21 fish tank in Seguin, a $24,000 latrine on wheels in Fort Worth, and a real pork project-a hog catcher in Liberty County.

If you read the whole article, you’ll find that local police departments went all James Bond and sheriff’s departments mainly went ninja.  Our sheriff’s department bought an enormous mobile home, like Rick Perry’s campaign vehicle, and we ain’t seen it since.

Houston SWAT got an “eye ball camera,” at a cost of $4,800, records show. The camera is designed to be thrown into an area. It then uprights itself and gives a 360-degree view with listening capabilities. The city also has a probe that allows it to see through walls.

Fort Worth got clock radios, hats, neckties, glasses, key fobs and a thermometer with hidden cameras, as well as drinking cups, dry erasers and a tape measure with listening devices.

Meanwhile, the Congressional Research Service has reported that likely terrorist targets, the nation’s half-million miles of oil and gas pipelines, have been left vulnerable.

You cannot give a Bubba a hunk of money and not expect him to buy a motor home, a fast car and a thermometer with a camera inside.   You know, I really already know more than I want to about a thermometer with a camera inside.

Yeah, Republicans, give the money to the states because , dammit, they need that Dukes of Hazard Go Ninja crapola.