The extreme urgency of the environmental mandate that all of human civilization is facing suggests the great need for a new series of comic book and television cartoon super-heroes.
I am referring to fictional superheroes for children, very inspirational superheroes who will each courageously:
---combat the global warming effect;
---contribute mightily toward global reforestation of this entire planet.
---help to save endangered species.
---clean up each of the polluted rivers and lakes throughout the world.
---promote, and participate in, recycling of items such as plastic products, glass products, aluminum products, and paper products.
---promote world peace, including through friendships that those superheroes forge with a wide variety of animals and botanical plants around the world.
---help to put a stop to injurious forms of noise pollution that victimize human beings.
I'm also hopeful that some creative and idealistic PhD candidate or Master's Degree candidate at some university in the United States will soon pursue a dissertation or research project examining and profiling any of the previous environmental-protection-minded comic-book figures or cartoon heroes of the last 100-year period.
Those comic-book figures might be viewed as helpful forerunners to the ultra-benevolent and world-saving environmental-protection crusaders of comic books and cartoons of the 21st Century. And it makes sense for research projects to explore those great comic book heroes of the past who "paved the way" for the globe-saving comic-book superheroes of the 21st Century.
Eventually, a new museum and accompanying archives library will be established that's exclusively devoted to exploring the role of environmental-protection crusaders in modern American fiction, including in fictional works that were primarily written for children.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
More Advice for Children, and Advice for Adult Persons Under Age 30 As Well: A Strategy for Helping to Reduce Conflicts With Your Mother or Father
My advice to you if you're living with your mother or father inside the same home is that you yourself can help to reduce the number of conflicts you have with your Mother or Father. You can do that by offering specific words of sincere and honest appreciation for your mother or father----including through the questions that you pose to your mother or father.
When I reflect on my own life, I am reminded of many specific constructive comments and constructive questions that I wish I had verbalized to my Mother or Father inside our family home.
Had I verbalized a lot more of those kinds of very constructive comments and questions to my Mother and Father, this would have enhanced their own self-confidence as my biological parents. And that, in turn, might have enhanced their own ability to feel consistently good about myself, and to consistently enjoy each of their conversations with myself, as a biological son of theirs.
IF YOU STRIVE TO SEE THE BEST IN EACH OF YOUR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS LIVING WITH YOU INSIDE YOUR FAMILY HOME AT THE TIME, THEY WILL BE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO SEE THE BEST IN YOU AS WELL.
DEVELOPING A GOOD AND CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONAL RAPPORT ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS WITH YOUR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS LIVING WITH YOU INSIDE YOUR FAMILY HOME, ALSO GIVES YOU A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO HONE YOUR OWN SKILLS AT CONVERSATION. THOSE ENHANCED CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS, IN TURN, WILL PERVASIVELY BENEFIT YOU AND BOOST YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE IN ALL ASPECTS OF YOUR OWN PERSONAL LIFE AND CAREER-RELATED LIFE AND RELIGIOUS LIFE.
EXAMPLES OF QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THAT I WISH I MYSELF HAD MADE TO EACH OF MY BIOLOGICAL PARENTS DURING MY CHILDHOOD OR TEENAGE YEARS, OR, IN SOME CASES, DURING MY 20s, INCLUDE:
TO MY MOTHER:
(1) Mother, I find it very impressive that you earned a Master's Degree in Botany at the University of Iowa in Iowa City during a time period when the number of women attending graduate school in Iowa was only minimal. Did any of your professors comment to you at the time on how very pleased they were to see a female graduate student in Botany such as yourself?
(2) Mother, I sure admire your willingness to speak publicly and be interviewed on television in Austin on behalf of the Austin League of Women Voters. Do you enjoy giving interviews to local television anchorpersons? Do you recall the question from a KTBC television news anchorperson here in Austin that you most appreciated being posed to yourself?
(3) Mother, you have identified as one of your leading civic causes helping to encourage as many Travis County residents as possible to register to vote. What do you believe might explain why many Travis County residents currently do not register to vote?
(4) Mother, I appreciate your very candid observations to me during your leisuretime about the many farmers in Louisiana who you say are particularly outspoken about not wanting to pay their federal income taxes to the U.S. Government. Which types of comments do you make on the telephone to those angry Louisiana farmers in order to persuade them to pay their income taxes in full to your federal agency employer here in Austin, the Internal Revenue Service?
(5) Mother, I am saddened by all the cigarette smoke that your coworkers at the Internal Revenue Service subject you to during working hours for yourself at that U.S. Government-owned facility in Austin. As you know, I can smell the cigarette smoke on your pantsuit whenever you enter our family's home here in Westlake Hills, Texas. It seems very unfair to you, Mother, for you to be subjected to all that cigarette smoke, even though you yourself are a lifelong non-smoker. Have you considered asking your supervisor at the I.R.S. in Austin for a smoke-free work environment, or is that an option at present?
(6) Mother, I sure do appreciate your devotion to regularly attending meetings of the Eanes Independent School District Board of Trustees in Westlake Hills, Texas. It's obvious that you would like to see Eanes Elementary School offer the finest possible education for your children as well as for all other children attending Eanes Elementary.
(7) Mother, I often sense that you appear to be at your happiest when you are wearing a swimsuit and relaxing in the evening on our family home's backyard patio. During your own youth in rural Iowa near Iowa City, no one one ever taught you how to swim. Do you think that you particularly enjoy wearing a swimsuit during your leisuretime because it enables you to imagine yourself as a swimmer, despite the fact that no one in the Iowa of your youth ever taught you how to swim.
(8)Mother, I am always impressed by the fact that you never shriek or panic when you encounter an insect or a rat inside our family home or in our family home's backyard. Do you believe that your own great composure in that way derives from your having been raised on a farm during your childhood?
(9) Mother, I always admire the tactful and gracious manner in which you conclude your phone conversations with personal friends of yours. When you comment to your friend, "Well, I won't keep you," you never give the impression that you are trying to end the conversation too abruptly.
(9a) Mother, I feel especially proud of you whenever I hear you answer the telephone inside our family's home here in Westlake Hills, Texas. You very consistently greet nearly every caller with the greatest of enthusiasm and delight and hospitality and patience in your tone of voice and demeanor. Do you remember, Mother, which relative or friend of yours in the Iowa City area of Iowa taught you your outstanding phone manners? Was that your mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, was that your older sister, Helen Mae, whom you felt especially close to, was it a favorite aunt or great-aunt of yours, or was it someone else from your own childhood in Iowa.
(10) Mother, would you like me to invite you to have a follow-up lunch with myself and Debbie Mann, a very nice "Daily Texan" female coworker of mine from our student newspaper's sports reporting department on the UT-Austin campus? I am asking you this question, Mother, because Debbie Mann told me recently inside our "Daily Texan" newsroom on the UT campus that Debbie thought you are the nicest lady whom Debbie has ever met. As you may recall, Mother, Debbie Mann told me she met you for the first time when you worked as a temporary sales clerk during the Holiday season in the book department at Scarbrough's department store along Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, Texas, and Debbie was a customer of yours.
(10a) Mother, I will always cherish your good-humored story about a female customer of yours in the book section of Scarbrough's department store in downtown Austin. That female customer of yours had purchased from you Jacqueline Susann's book "Every Night, Josephine!" in the hope that it would be romantically titillating for that female customer. The same Austin-area woman brought that book back to you at Scarbrough's with disgust, and she demanded either a refund or exchange for another book. That customer of yours told you at that time that when she had bought "Every Night, Josephine!" from your Scarbrough's book section, she had no idea the book was referring to the author's platonic love for her female pet dog "Josephine."
(11) Mother, I appreciate your letting me know about Cynthia Stanley, the very nice female Hispanic classmate of mine from Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas, who habitually asks you about me whenever she is your store clerk at the Safeway supermarket where she works near Lake Austin Boulevard. It feels good to sense from you that Cynthia is among the classmates of mine from Austin High School who have favorable impresions about me.
(12) Mother, I sure do admire the way you always dutifully hand back pennies to the Safeway supermarket store clerk here along South Lamar Boulevard in Austin whenever she hands you too much change. There must be a lot of mothers who aren't as honest and concientious as you are in that way.
(13)Mother, I sure do admire the fact that you never swear or curse or ever verbalize any profane or obscene language at any time. As you know, the "Oh, Phooey" you occasionally mutter, such as when you have difficulty with a knot that occurs while you are knitting, is very mild and very polite, and never offends anyone.
(14) Mother, I'm very impressed by the many leisuretime skills you have mastered, including doing crossword puzzles and knitting. Do you remember who taught you how to knit? Was that your German-American mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, during your childhood days in Iowa?
(15) Mother, you have commented to me that you wish that your German-American mother in Iowa, Helen Siegling Gardner, had smiled more often. Do you sometimes sense that your own devotion to smiling at others, including through your friendly and warm style on the telephone, partly reflects a conscious decision you made to be very different from your mother in that way?
(15a) Do you recall any other ways in which you made a conscious decision to yourself lead a life in which you are yourself very different from your biological mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, whose own ancestry was 100 percent German.
(16) Mother, I find it remarkable how rarely you ever complain about any person whom you encounter outside of our family home. What do you think accounts for your remarkably genial style in that way?
(16a) Mother, I find it remarkable that you never get significantly annoyed or angered by the bad driving habits you identify in other motorists here in Austin. When you are driving me somewhere in Austin in your Buick Regal automobile, you gently scold the other motorist who irked you by commenting to yourself in my presence, "Come on, Mister," or "Come on, Lady." And you remain composed and patient and good-humored throughout, despite the poor driving skills exhibited in that context by the motorist to whom you are referring.
(17) Mother, I enjoy the Swedish meatballs that you prepare for dinner so much that I would like to ask you if you would teach me how to prepare a Swedish meatballs dinner inside our family's kitchen.
(18) Mother, I hope you won't mind my saying that I myself believe the lumps in the homemade gravies you prepare from scratch for our family dinners should not be grounds for concern. Father, as you know, habitually teases you about lumps in the gravies you prepare for our family's dinners. But I actually rather enjoy those lumps, they add texture to your gravies, I feel. The gravy you prepare for our family dinners is delicious, Mother.
(19) Mother, I sure do admire your willingness to serve as the individual in charge of selecting speakers for your church here in Austin. Which of those speakers has impressed you the most? Was that speaker the abortion-rights private attorney Sarah Weddington of Austin or was that speaker possibly the Austin-based atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair? Dr. O'Hair, as you may recall, Mother, gave a recent thought-provoking speech at your chosen church here in Austin in which she complained of having been hounded out of Baltimore and of then having been hounded out of Hawaii by individuals whom she said were harassing and persecuting and stalking her.
(20)Mother, I feel that it's very special that you and Father have that annual tradition of celebrating your wedding anniversary together each year by the two of you dining together alone at La Louisianne French-style restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. Which entree at La Louisianne restaurant in San Antonio do you enjoy the most?
(21) Mother, you have commented to me several times that you have no patience with telemarketing calls you receive in your family home from fund-raisers for the Republican Party. Have you considered writing to the Republican Party here in Austin and asking them to please not make any more telephone calls to you?
(22) Mother, you have indicated to me several times that you felt much closer to your beloved father, Russell Gardner, than you did to your mother, Helen Gardner. Do you remember the occasion when you felt the proudest of your father, or when you were the most aware of yourself feeling a great love for your father?
(23) Mother, do you remember any political positions your father took that you particularly admired? Did you admire your father for his staunch opposition to any consumption of beer or alcohol?
(23a) Mother, as you know your father, a staunch United Methodist Church member, sometimes complained to you during your childhood about his own cited political and religious incompatibility with some or several of the Catholic farmers residing in your rural area near Iowa City. Did you find that you yourself got along well with several or all of the Catholic children who lived near you and your family in Iowa?
(24)Mother, as you may recall your farmer father raised two or more geese that he used as 24-hour-a-day watchdogs on your childhood farm near Iowa City, Iowa. Do you remember what your own relationship with your family's geese was like? Did you enjoy the sounds that those "watchdog" birds made each day? Did you feel safer from knowing that your father's geese would protect you, if any intruder attempted to trespass your father's farm?
(25) Mother, I would like to thank you for politely forbidding me from ever again visiting the home of the senior-citizen married couple along Brady Lane near our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas. You helpfully pointed out that you do not personally know that married couple, and you don't want me to ever again accept any more of the free candy being offered to me on her own volition by the elderly woman in that apparently nice married couple---this despite the fact that the candy jar owned by that married woman appeard to be pretty.
(26) Mother, I would like to thank you for emphasizing to me that you did not approve of the habitual greeting of "Honey" (or was it "Sugar"?) directed at myself by the female store clerk at Handy Andy supermarket along South Lamar Boulevard in south Austin. You pointed out that the female store clerk in question was not someone whom you yourself were acquainted with outside of Handy Andy supermarket, and that it was improper, in your view, for that female store clerk to speak to me in such a cloyingly intimate manner, you pointed out. You also emphasized to me that in your own role as a native of the northern state of Iowa, you are NOT accustomed to, nor are you fond of, this irksome southern practice you cite of adult persons addressing male youths as "Honey," you helpfully pointed out.
(27) Mother, it seems to me that you are at your happiest whenever you and our family are on a camping trip. You seem to particularly delight in sitting near the campfire and enjoying a cup of freshly made hot coffee. I find it very refreshing that you are not bothered by the absence of modern amenities at our campground.
Do you think your background as an Iowa farmgirl who spent a lot of your childhood outdoors on the farm helps you whenever our family goes on a camping trip?
(28)Mother, I sure do appreciate the way you point out various U.S. senators and U.S. Congressmen who particularly impress you as being very admirable. It's obvious you are very proud to be a constituent of Congressman Jake Pickle of the Austin area. And it's also nice to sense that you have particularly admired Senator Hatfield of Oregon, Senator Humphrey of Minnesota, and Senator Yarborough of Texas. Your lack of cynicism toward our nation's political system is a good influence on me.
(29) Mother, it is nice to hear you say that Congressman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas is particularly good at presiding over federal income tax legislation matters. His position as Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee gives him many opportunities for promoting equity and fairness in our nation's tax system, doesn't it?
(30) Mother, thank you for repeatedly advising me that I can accomplish whatever I set my mind to do. One of my current goals is to myself earn $20,000 or more in total personal employment-derived gross income, for the very first year of my entire adult life so far. I appreciate your reminding me of the value of developing specific goals for myself.
(31) Mother, thank you for telling me that you recently ran into Mrs. Hiraizumi at the local supermarket, and that Mrs. Hiraizumi commented to you on how much taller I am these days, from what she has observed. I appreciate your again reminding me about Mrs. Hiraizumi's friendly style and kind interest in myself as a human being.
(32) Mother, I sure do admire your ability to get along with virtually anyone. It makes sense, too, when one of your favorite sayings, as you know, is that "It takes all types to make up a world." As for your more recent comment to me that you yourself would not want to share a cup of coffee and conversation with Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair of Austin, I also appreciate your indicating to me that you do not regard that atheist leader as being polite enough or personable enough or cheerful enough for your tastes.
(33) Mother, I sure do admire your ability to identify virtually any tree or botanical plant you see using the Latin name or scientific name for that tree or plant. Do you remember who taught you Latin during your childhood? Did that knowledge of Latin help you a lot in your study of Botany at The University of Iowa?
(34) Mother, I'm very proud to note that you are an active current member of the University of Iowa Alumni Asssociation. It's obvious you are very happy with the public university in Iowa City where you attended graduate school. What do you particularly like about the University of Iowa?
(35) Mother, I admired the oral statement you made in my presence today to your former major professor in Botany at the University of Iowa, Professor Martin, that you yourself feel optimistic that nuclear war can be prevented in the future. Professor Martin, as you will recall, stated to you today very emphatically that he feels very sure that nuclear war in the future is inevitable. I'm reminded, Mother, that I would like to know which influential persons from your childhood helped to inspire in you your strong and lifelong sense of optimism about the future of human civilization.
(36) Mother, thank you for introducing me today in Austin to a favorite friend of yours who is an ardent supporter of world government. I believe that your friend, Mary Esther Hill of Austin, is the first person I've ever met who supports having one governmental system governing everyone in the entire world.
(37) Mother, I have sometimes debated which of the cookies you make from scratch are my favorites. I realize that your chocolate chip cookies are, of course, delicious; but I increasingly sense that the oatmeal raisin cookies you make from sratch are possibly better for my medical health in the long run. In the meantime, thank you for not feeling offended by my childish habit of removing raisins from the oatmeal raisin cookies you baked in our family home here in Westlake Hills. It seems that my childish tastebuds are not yet fully appreciative of raisins.
(38) Mother, I am thrilled to sense that you particularly enjoy watching the television series featuring Angela Lansbury as a favorite actress of yours. It seems that her television series, "Murder, She Wrote," particlarly appeals to you. Mother, would you mind if I were to write to Angela Lansburgy care of her agent, and ask Angela Lansbury if she would be willing to write a friendly message to you on a photograph of herself? Incidentally, Mother, did you know that Angela Lansbury was not actually born in Maine, even though her television series shows her very pleased to reside in Maine. Angela Lansbury was actually born in England, one of your own two European nations of ancestry.
(39) Mother, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to accompany you to this 1968 campaign speech by Vice President Hubert Humphrey here inside Palmer Auditorium in Austin. I found it very inspirational to observe and listen to Vice President Humphrey today.
(40) Mother, I want to thank you for sharing with me that very touching story about how your mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, insisted on lending you the only scarf she had during a visit of yours to her and Russell Gardner's farmhouse near Iowa City, Iowa. You emphasize that your mother could not bear the thought of your walking outdoors on that very cold winter day without your wearing a scarf around your neck. Your anecdote about your mother is particularly moving because you also mention to me that you forgot to return that scarf to your mother after you traveled back to your home in another U.S. state.
Do you think, Mother, that you subconsiously wanted to keep that scarf from your mother as a year-round reminder to yourself of why your own mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, was very kind and helpful to you in many ways?
(41) Mother, it's obvious from the tunnel cakes and bunt cakes you prepare and bake one day of each week for coffeebreak at your Internal Revenue Service federal agency workplace in Austin, that you want to be generous with and nice to your coworkers. Of the various types of tunnel cakes or bunt cakes you have baked so far for your coworkers at the IRS, which bunt cake or tunnel cake has been the most popular, would you say?
(42) Mother, I loved that story you shared with me about the can opener you won from Heinz ketchup company after you entered a contest in which you were invited to write an essay stating what you like the most about Heinz-brand ketchup. You emphasized to me that this was the only major contest you can recall having won. It must make you feel very good about Heinz ketchup, whenever you purchase that brand of ketchup in the supermarket, to sense that the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Heinz ketchup company has generously rewarded you for your essay-writing skills.
(43) Mother, I find it particularly impressive that you have never verbalized any fear of any of the wild animals you have encountered during camping trips that you and Father made together. It seems that not even the grizzly bears at Yellowstone National Park frightened you when they approached your campsite in search of food.
(44) Mother, I admire your many statements to me inside our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas, that as an I.R.S. federal-income tax examiner io Austin, you strongly believe that all Americans should pay their fair share of their income taxes, and that income-tax cheating by many Americans is unconscionable and deplorable conduct.
(45) Mother, thank you for your repeated observations to me inside our family home that I look particularly good in Navy Blue-colored shirts. I appreciate your interest in my being fashionable and attractive whenever I interact in person with other Central Texans.
(46) Mother, thank you for your very candid comment to me in the kitchen of our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas, that if you had not married Father, you would have probably married an Iowa farmer instead. Your comment reminds me that each person in the United States enjoys the legal and human right to choose for himself or herself who he or she is willing to develop a romantic relationship with.
(47) Mother, I would like to thank you for your candid comment to me that you do not share my enjoyment of the "Dennis the Menace" television series. Your observation that the fictional character Dennis does not offer a realistic portrayal of what American male youths are like, has been thought-provoking for me.
(48) Mother, I agree with you that your personal friend Mrs. McKay, who is in charge of ordering special-order book requests for the University Coop department store across the street from The University of Texas at Austin campus, is herself a very capable woman. That job that Mrs. McKay has must be very, very demanding and difficult.
(49) Mother, I thought it was very nice of you to drive Sarah Weddington, the abortion-rights activist and female attorney, to your chosen church for a guest-speaker or "Forum" speech that Mrs. Weddington gave there that Sunday. Having been a passenger in your car that day, I was impressed by the vote of confidence in Mrs. Weddington that you conveyed that day.
(50) Mother, I find it remarkable that you never visited any U.S. state that you found unpleasant, with one total exception. That one total exception, as you will recall, was the U.S. state of North Dakota, a Midwestern state you traveled through by passenger train in the mid-20th Century during a period in which you found North Dakota to be severely lacking in trees. What would the the point of visiting a U.S. state where trees are scarce to the point of non-existent, you helpfully indicated to me in writing based on your mid-20th Century recollections of North Dakota.
(51) Mother, thank you for your thoughtful observation to me that you are skeptical toward the tendency by many Christian parents and Christian religious groups to ask their children to simply memorize the stanza, "Jesus is the Lord I know, because the Bible tells me so." You emphasized to me that you regard that as a mindless approach to religious instruction, when you would like to see children being encouraged to ask questions and develop their reasoning skills, you helpfully pointed out.
(52) Mother, thank you for agreeing to my request that you please schedule a parent-teacher meeting with my third-grade teacher, Mrs. Knobler, in order to discuss with Mrs. Knobler why she had informally accused me of plagiarism in front of all of the other students in my third-grade class one schoolday at Eanes Elementary School of Eanes Independent School District in Westlake Hills, Texas. As you will recall, Mrs. Knobler cited an opening verse to a third-grade poem that I had written for her, an opening verse that stated, "Oh, how I love thy daffodils," as an indication that I had allegedly lifted that poem from a published work of poetry, my third-grade teacher angrily asserted in front of myself and all of my classmates on that rather traumatic schoolday for myself.
(53) Mother, I find it fascinating to note that whenever our family dines in a restaurant, you invariably ask your waitress for bleu-cheese dressing on your own dinner salad. You are the only member of our family who always asks for bleu-chese dressing in restaurants. Was this a tradition you developed during your childhood on your family farm near Iowa City, Iowa? Was your farmer father, Russell Gardner, or your German-American mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, very keen on bleu-cheese dressing?
TO FATHER:
--Father, I'm very impressed by the great honor that the nation of New Caledonia has bestowed on you. You richly deserved the honor of having a botanical plant on New Caledonia named after you, since you yourself had been the individual who as a botanical researcher discovered that plant on New Caledonia for the first time ever. Father, would it be possible for you to obtain a poster-size photograph of that New Caledonian botanical plant that's named after you, so that you could then frame that photograph and put it on permanent display on the wall inside our family home's living room or dining room?
--Father, your recollections about what it was like to grow up in Utah during the Great Depression are quite vivid. The Mormons of Utah regarded Utah as being the Garden Spot of the entire universe, you've pointed out, and you yourself were raised in a Mormon family in Utah.
--Father, I will always cherish the stories you've told me about a particularly nice adult female next-door neighbor of yours in your childhood hometown of Murray, Utah. You recalled that that Swedish-American woman was a kindly immigrant from Sweden, and she was a very gracious hostess inside her Utah home in Murray who always kept a coffee pot full of fresh coffee she'd brewed for any visitor, you recalled.
--Father, I would like to thank you for reminding me of a favorite candy that you and your sister, Evalyn, used to enjoy quite abit during your childhood together in Murray, Utah. You called it either "Depression Candy" or "Depression Fudge," one of the two, and it consisted of Wheaties cereal coated with melted chocolate.
--Father, I'm intrigued by your recollection about the manner in which you and your sister, Evalyn, habitually teased a female neighbor of yours named Marguerite during the Great Depression of the 1930s in Murray, Utah. As you have vividly recalled, you and your sister would habitually chant together at that neighborhood girl, "Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet, They Stink So Bad We Can Hardly Eat Our Cherries!" Did you or your sister end up becoming a personal friend of Marguerite? Also, did you ever meet Marguerite's parents, and if so, did they indicate to you that they were unable to provide Marguerite with a bath at least once per day.
--Father, I was particularly impressed by your recollection about the great pride you felt from yourself being ranked the number one or top-rated student among among all University of Utah chemistry students during the time period when you attended college at the University of Utah. Do you remember how you celebrated the occasion after learning for the first time that you had earned that high honor in Salt Lake City, Utah?
---Father, I find it fascinating to hear you repeatedly mention to me that the three nationalities of people who have impressed you the most from your travels around the world as a botanical researcher are the Scottish, the Australians, and the Indians of Asian India. All three of those nationalities are particularly noted for their personal warmth and friendliness, you have repeatedly emphasized to me. You also have pointed out to me that the friendlienss of the Asian Indians is doubly remarkable in view of the severity of the bleak living conditions and widespread evidence of poverty amid which so many of the Asian Indians dwell.
---Father, I appreciate your candid comment to me in 1968 that Governor Rockefeller of New York State is the one Republican candidate for President whom you are willing to yourself vote for. You point out that Governor Nelson Rockefeller is so rich that he would be incorruptible, since no one could possibly bribe an elective official as financially very, very wealthy as Governor Rockefeller already is.
---Father, I would like to thank you for that very memorable story about the female waitress inside a restaurant where you dined during your days as an officer in the United States Army. That veteran waitress, you said, observed how you were eating your food in a sloppy manner at your dining table inside her restaurant, and she took pity on you. She did that by teaching you proper table manners during your visit as a customer of hers. Your waitress was so successful at teaching you proper table manners and etiquette that ever since that day, you have always excelled at table manners, you point out.
---Father, thank you for pointing out to me that Aba Eban, an Ambassador for Israel, is a very eloquent spokesman for the nation of Israel. Your sharing that observation to me one morning as I watched a "Today" television show interview featuring Aba Eban as the invited guest, was quite impressive.
--Father, thank you for repeatedly commenting to me that you find the chemist Linus Pauling's support for greater consumption of Vitamin C as a cold-prevention strategy to be very compelling. I will make a point of drinking orange juice with my breakfast this morning.
----Father, I find it fascinating to hear you say that your research work on the prairie grasses of Nebraska is what many people most remember as your leading contribution to the field of botanical science.
---Father, thank you for informing me that during this period in which you are a professor of Botany at The University of Texas at Austin, the Botany Department at UT-Austin is tied for first place in the nation in that category with the Botany Department at The University of California at Davis. Do you find it at all awkward to be sharing first place with that California university, or is a first place tie good enough, do you think?
---Father, thank you for repeatedly calling my attention to "The New Yorker" magazine during our family dinnertable conversations inside our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas. You refer to "The New Yorker" magazine with such admiration and appreciation of the articles in that magazine, including a recent series of articles on "Corn" that delighted you, that I wonder if possibly our entire family could visit New York City, New York, in order to ask for a guided tour of "The New Yorker" magazine's office building.
---Father, thank you for dubbing me "Cornhusker" as a nickname for myself during my childhood in Westlake Hills, Texas. It's nice to sense that you identify me as being very Nebraskan, since I was born in Nebraska, even though I myself have never husked corn so far in my childhood. Your calling my attention to the University of Nebraska fight song's verses about the male students at that university being the "squarest" in the entire nation, is also very inspirational to me, since I of course take pride in being honest and conscientious and law-abiding.
--Father, thank you for your colorful stories you've offered me about the very eccentric University of Texas at Austin French professor who habitually holds conversations with himself and talks aloud to himself in two or three different foreign languages as he walks around the campus of UT-Austin. I have to wonder whether that male professor who talks to himself outdoors on the UT-Austin campus is at risk of colliding with another pedestrian on that State of Texas-owned campus, since it must be rather distracting for your French professor colleague to be talking with himself on a non-stop basis as he walks around the UT-Austin campus.
--Father, I am particularly impressed by your hobby of collecting paperweights from each of the nations of the world that you visit in your career as a botanical researcher. It's obvious from the intriguing assortment of paperweights you keep on the desk of your faculty office on the third floor of the Biology Building of The University of Texas at Austin, that you seek to promote world peace.
---Father, thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity to help germinate eucalyptus seeds in petri dishes inside the laboratory section of your faculty office at UT-Austin. It's very impressive that you have yourself obtained these various eucalyptus seeds from a wide variety of locations in Australia, a favorite foreign country of yours.
---Father, thank you for your helpful verbal observation today during our family's dining-out experience here today inside Corky's seafood restaurant in Rockport, Texas, that our waitress this evening, a heavyset older woman who carries and balances numerous large platters of seafood with the greatest of adroitness and dexterity, is your idea of what a first-rate waitress is like. It seems that our waitress this evening never drops her plates of food, no matter how many platters of seafood she is carrying to her customers' dining tables at the same time! She must have tremendous physical strength to be able to balance all of those plates of seafood at the same time!
---Father, I would like to thank you for very kindly and generously driving me to the "Viking Bakery" in Austin and giving me the opportunity to select a baked good for myself as a reward for my having diligently attended kindergarten class with Mrs. Watson that day. As you know, Father, I was particularly fond of the black-and-white pinwheel cookies being offered for sale inside Viking Bakery. And I also thrilled to the wonderfully delicious Swedish pumpernickel bread that you frequently purchased for our family inside that Scandinavian-style bakery. Your introducing me to Scandinavia in that way later played a major role in my own subsequent decision during my youth to purchase a beautfiul all-wooden pencil holder from Sweden inside an antique shop you drove our family to in Luling, Texas. Your introducing me to Scandinavia in such a delicious way also helped inspired me to post a decal of the flag of Sweden near my desk in my bedroom of our family home in Westlake Hills. With your help, Father, a strong sense of the sheer sweetness of Sweden had been impressed upon me at an early age.
---Father, I would like to thank you for your showing respect toward my repeated advice during my junior-high years that our entire family move from Westlake Hills, Texas, to a home in or near the Tarrytown section of west Austin. It meant a lot to me that you and Mother were willing to accompany me on a visit to a house being offered for sale that I'd learned about from checking the classified section of the paper on my own initiative---a house situated near Enfield Road in west Austin. You pointed out during our visit to that house that construction of a new expressway was being planned near that area, and for that reason it would not make sense for our family to move into a section of town where many of the houses might at some future date be slated for demolition.
When I reflect on my own life, I am reminded of many specific constructive comments and constructive questions that I wish I had verbalized to my Mother or Father inside our family home.
Had I verbalized a lot more of those kinds of very constructive comments and questions to my Mother and Father, this would have enhanced their own self-confidence as my biological parents. And that, in turn, might have enhanced their own ability to feel consistently good about myself, and to consistently enjoy each of their conversations with myself, as a biological son of theirs.
IF YOU STRIVE TO SEE THE BEST IN EACH OF YOUR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS LIVING WITH YOU INSIDE YOUR FAMILY HOME AT THE TIME, THEY WILL BE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO SEE THE BEST IN YOU AS WELL.
DEVELOPING A GOOD AND CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONAL RAPPORT ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS WITH YOUR BIOLOGICAL PARENTS LIVING WITH YOU INSIDE YOUR FAMILY HOME, ALSO GIVES YOU A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO HONE YOUR OWN SKILLS AT CONVERSATION. THOSE ENHANCED CONVERSATIONAL SKILLS, IN TURN, WILL PERVASIVELY BENEFIT YOU AND BOOST YOUR SELF-CONFIDENCE IN ALL ASPECTS OF YOUR OWN PERSONAL LIFE AND CAREER-RELATED LIFE AND RELIGIOUS LIFE.
EXAMPLES OF QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THAT I WISH I MYSELF HAD MADE TO EACH OF MY BIOLOGICAL PARENTS DURING MY CHILDHOOD OR TEENAGE YEARS, OR, IN SOME CASES, DURING MY 20s, INCLUDE:
TO MY MOTHER:
(1) Mother, I find it very impressive that you earned a Master's Degree in Botany at the University of Iowa in Iowa City during a time period when the number of women attending graduate school in Iowa was only minimal. Did any of your professors comment to you at the time on how very pleased they were to see a female graduate student in Botany such as yourself?
(2) Mother, I sure admire your willingness to speak publicly and be interviewed on television in Austin on behalf of the Austin League of Women Voters. Do you enjoy giving interviews to local television anchorpersons? Do you recall the question from a KTBC television news anchorperson here in Austin that you most appreciated being posed to yourself?
(3) Mother, you have identified as one of your leading civic causes helping to encourage as many Travis County residents as possible to register to vote. What do you believe might explain why many Travis County residents currently do not register to vote?
(4) Mother, I appreciate your very candid observations to me during your leisuretime about the many farmers in Louisiana who you say are particularly outspoken about not wanting to pay their federal income taxes to the U.S. Government. Which types of comments do you make on the telephone to those angry Louisiana farmers in order to persuade them to pay their income taxes in full to your federal agency employer here in Austin, the Internal Revenue Service?
(5) Mother, I am saddened by all the cigarette smoke that your coworkers at the Internal Revenue Service subject you to during working hours for yourself at that U.S. Government-owned facility in Austin. As you know, I can smell the cigarette smoke on your pantsuit whenever you enter our family's home here in Westlake Hills, Texas. It seems very unfair to you, Mother, for you to be subjected to all that cigarette smoke, even though you yourself are a lifelong non-smoker. Have you considered asking your supervisor at the I.R.S. in Austin for a smoke-free work environment, or is that an option at present?
(6) Mother, I sure do appreciate your devotion to regularly attending meetings of the Eanes Independent School District Board of Trustees in Westlake Hills, Texas. It's obvious that you would like to see Eanes Elementary School offer the finest possible education for your children as well as for all other children attending Eanes Elementary.
(7) Mother, I often sense that you appear to be at your happiest when you are wearing a swimsuit and relaxing in the evening on our family home's backyard patio. During your own youth in rural Iowa near Iowa City, no one one ever taught you how to swim. Do you think that you particularly enjoy wearing a swimsuit during your leisuretime because it enables you to imagine yourself as a swimmer, despite the fact that no one in the Iowa of your youth ever taught you how to swim.
(8)Mother, I am always impressed by the fact that you never shriek or panic when you encounter an insect or a rat inside our family home or in our family home's backyard. Do you believe that your own great composure in that way derives from your having been raised on a farm during your childhood?
(9) Mother, I always admire the tactful and gracious manner in which you conclude your phone conversations with personal friends of yours. When you comment to your friend, "Well, I won't keep you," you never give the impression that you are trying to end the conversation too abruptly.
(9a) Mother, I feel especially proud of you whenever I hear you answer the telephone inside our family's home here in Westlake Hills, Texas. You very consistently greet nearly every caller with the greatest of enthusiasm and delight and hospitality and patience in your tone of voice and demeanor. Do you remember, Mother, which relative or friend of yours in the Iowa City area of Iowa taught you your outstanding phone manners? Was that your mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, was that your older sister, Helen Mae, whom you felt especially close to, was it a favorite aunt or great-aunt of yours, or was it someone else from your own childhood in Iowa.
(10) Mother, would you like me to invite you to have a follow-up lunch with myself and Debbie Mann, a very nice "Daily Texan" female coworker of mine from our student newspaper's sports reporting department on the UT-Austin campus? I am asking you this question, Mother, because Debbie Mann told me recently inside our "Daily Texan" newsroom on the UT campus that Debbie thought you are the nicest lady whom Debbie has ever met. As you may recall, Mother, Debbie Mann told me she met you for the first time when you worked as a temporary sales clerk during the Holiday season in the book department at Scarbrough's department store along Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, Texas, and Debbie was a customer of yours.
(10a) Mother, I will always cherish your good-humored story about a female customer of yours in the book section of Scarbrough's department store in downtown Austin. That female customer of yours had purchased from you Jacqueline Susann's book "Every Night, Josephine!" in the hope that it would be romantically titillating for that female customer. The same Austin-area woman brought that book back to you at Scarbrough's with disgust, and she demanded either a refund or exchange for another book. That customer of yours told you at that time that when she had bought "Every Night, Josephine!" from your Scarbrough's book section, she had no idea the book was referring to the author's platonic love for her female pet dog "Josephine."
(11) Mother, I appreciate your letting me know about Cynthia Stanley, the very nice female Hispanic classmate of mine from Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas, who habitually asks you about me whenever she is your store clerk at the Safeway supermarket where she works near Lake Austin Boulevard. It feels good to sense from you that Cynthia is among the classmates of mine from Austin High School who have favorable impresions about me.
(12) Mother, I sure do admire the way you always dutifully hand back pennies to the Safeway supermarket store clerk here along South Lamar Boulevard in Austin whenever she hands you too much change. There must be a lot of mothers who aren't as honest and concientious as you are in that way.
(13)Mother, I sure do admire the fact that you never swear or curse or ever verbalize any profane or obscene language at any time. As you know, the "Oh, Phooey" you occasionally mutter, such as when you have difficulty with a knot that occurs while you are knitting, is very mild and very polite, and never offends anyone.
(14) Mother, I'm very impressed by the many leisuretime skills you have mastered, including doing crossword puzzles and knitting. Do you remember who taught you how to knit? Was that your German-American mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, during your childhood days in Iowa?
(15) Mother, you have commented to me that you wish that your German-American mother in Iowa, Helen Siegling Gardner, had smiled more often. Do you sometimes sense that your own devotion to smiling at others, including through your friendly and warm style on the telephone, partly reflects a conscious decision you made to be very different from your mother in that way?
(15a) Do you recall any other ways in which you made a conscious decision to yourself lead a life in which you are yourself very different from your biological mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, whose own ancestry was 100 percent German.
(16) Mother, I find it remarkable how rarely you ever complain about any person whom you encounter outside of our family home. What do you think accounts for your remarkably genial style in that way?
(16a) Mother, I find it remarkable that you never get significantly annoyed or angered by the bad driving habits you identify in other motorists here in Austin. When you are driving me somewhere in Austin in your Buick Regal automobile, you gently scold the other motorist who irked you by commenting to yourself in my presence, "Come on, Mister," or "Come on, Lady." And you remain composed and patient and good-humored throughout, despite the poor driving skills exhibited in that context by the motorist to whom you are referring.
(17) Mother, I enjoy the Swedish meatballs that you prepare for dinner so much that I would like to ask you if you would teach me how to prepare a Swedish meatballs dinner inside our family's kitchen.
(18) Mother, I hope you won't mind my saying that I myself believe the lumps in the homemade gravies you prepare from scratch for our family dinners should not be grounds for concern. Father, as you know, habitually teases you about lumps in the gravies you prepare for our family's dinners. But I actually rather enjoy those lumps, they add texture to your gravies, I feel. The gravy you prepare for our family dinners is delicious, Mother.
(19) Mother, I sure do admire your willingness to serve as the individual in charge of selecting speakers for your church here in Austin. Which of those speakers has impressed you the most? Was that speaker the abortion-rights private attorney Sarah Weddington of Austin or was that speaker possibly the Austin-based atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair? Dr. O'Hair, as you may recall, Mother, gave a recent thought-provoking speech at your chosen church here in Austin in which she complained of having been hounded out of Baltimore and of then having been hounded out of Hawaii by individuals whom she said were harassing and persecuting and stalking her.
(20)Mother, I feel that it's very special that you and Father have that annual tradition of celebrating your wedding anniversary together each year by the two of you dining together alone at La Louisianne French-style restaurant in San Antonio, Texas. Which entree at La Louisianne restaurant in San Antonio do you enjoy the most?
(21) Mother, you have commented to me several times that you have no patience with telemarketing calls you receive in your family home from fund-raisers for the Republican Party. Have you considered writing to the Republican Party here in Austin and asking them to please not make any more telephone calls to you?
(22) Mother, you have indicated to me several times that you felt much closer to your beloved father, Russell Gardner, than you did to your mother, Helen Gardner. Do you remember the occasion when you felt the proudest of your father, or when you were the most aware of yourself feeling a great love for your father?
(23) Mother, do you remember any political positions your father took that you particularly admired? Did you admire your father for his staunch opposition to any consumption of beer or alcohol?
(23a) Mother, as you know your father, a staunch United Methodist Church member, sometimes complained to you during your childhood about his own cited political and religious incompatibility with some or several of the Catholic farmers residing in your rural area near Iowa City. Did you find that you yourself got along well with several or all of the Catholic children who lived near you and your family in Iowa?
(24)Mother, as you may recall your farmer father raised two or more geese that he used as 24-hour-a-day watchdogs on your childhood farm near Iowa City, Iowa. Do you remember what your own relationship with your family's geese was like? Did you enjoy the sounds that those "watchdog" birds made each day? Did you feel safer from knowing that your father's geese would protect you, if any intruder attempted to trespass your father's farm?
(25) Mother, I would like to thank you for politely forbidding me from ever again visiting the home of the senior-citizen married couple along Brady Lane near our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas. You helpfully pointed out that you do not personally know that married couple, and you don't want me to ever again accept any more of the free candy being offered to me on her own volition by the elderly woman in that apparently nice married couple---this despite the fact that the candy jar owned by that married woman appeard to be pretty.
(26) Mother, I would like to thank you for emphasizing to me that you did not approve of the habitual greeting of "Honey" (or was it "Sugar"?) directed at myself by the female store clerk at Handy Andy supermarket along South Lamar Boulevard in south Austin. You pointed out that the female store clerk in question was not someone whom you yourself were acquainted with outside of Handy Andy supermarket, and that it was improper, in your view, for that female store clerk to speak to me in such a cloyingly intimate manner, you pointed out. You also emphasized to me that in your own role as a native of the northern state of Iowa, you are NOT accustomed to, nor are you fond of, this irksome southern practice you cite of adult persons addressing male youths as "Honey," you helpfully pointed out.
(27) Mother, it seems to me that you are at your happiest whenever you and our family are on a camping trip. You seem to particularly delight in sitting near the campfire and enjoying a cup of freshly made hot coffee. I find it very refreshing that you are not bothered by the absence of modern amenities at our campground.
Do you think your background as an Iowa farmgirl who spent a lot of your childhood outdoors on the farm helps you whenever our family goes on a camping trip?
(28)Mother, I sure do appreciate the way you point out various U.S. senators and U.S. Congressmen who particularly impress you as being very admirable. It's obvious you are very proud to be a constituent of Congressman Jake Pickle of the Austin area. And it's also nice to sense that you have particularly admired Senator Hatfield of Oregon, Senator Humphrey of Minnesota, and Senator Yarborough of Texas. Your lack of cynicism toward our nation's political system is a good influence on me.
(29) Mother, it is nice to hear you say that Congressman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas is particularly good at presiding over federal income tax legislation matters. His position as Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee gives him many opportunities for promoting equity and fairness in our nation's tax system, doesn't it?
(30) Mother, thank you for repeatedly advising me that I can accomplish whatever I set my mind to do. One of my current goals is to myself earn $20,000 or more in total personal employment-derived gross income, for the very first year of my entire adult life so far. I appreciate your reminding me of the value of developing specific goals for myself.
(31) Mother, thank you for telling me that you recently ran into Mrs. Hiraizumi at the local supermarket, and that Mrs. Hiraizumi commented to you on how much taller I am these days, from what she has observed. I appreciate your again reminding me about Mrs. Hiraizumi's friendly style and kind interest in myself as a human being.
(32) Mother, I sure do admire your ability to get along with virtually anyone. It makes sense, too, when one of your favorite sayings, as you know, is that "It takes all types to make up a world." As for your more recent comment to me that you yourself would not want to share a cup of coffee and conversation with Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair of Austin, I also appreciate your indicating to me that you do not regard that atheist leader as being polite enough or personable enough or cheerful enough for your tastes.
(33) Mother, I sure do admire your ability to identify virtually any tree or botanical plant you see using the Latin name or scientific name for that tree or plant. Do you remember who taught you Latin during your childhood? Did that knowledge of Latin help you a lot in your study of Botany at The University of Iowa?
(34) Mother, I'm very proud to note that you are an active current member of the University of Iowa Alumni Asssociation. It's obvious you are very happy with the public university in Iowa City where you attended graduate school. What do you particularly like about the University of Iowa?
(35) Mother, I admired the oral statement you made in my presence today to your former major professor in Botany at the University of Iowa, Professor Martin, that you yourself feel optimistic that nuclear war can be prevented in the future. Professor Martin, as you will recall, stated to you today very emphatically that he feels very sure that nuclear war in the future is inevitable. I'm reminded, Mother, that I would like to know which influential persons from your childhood helped to inspire in you your strong and lifelong sense of optimism about the future of human civilization.
(36) Mother, thank you for introducing me today in Austin to a favorite friend of yours who is an ardent supporter of world government. I believe that your friend, Mary Esther Hill of Austin, is the first person I've ever met who supports having one governmental system governing everyone in the entire world.
(37) Mother, I have sometimes debated which of the cookies you make from scratch are my favorites. I realize that your chocolate chip cookies are, of course, delicious; but I increasingly sense that the oatmeal raisin cookies you make from sratch are possibly better for my medical health in the long run. In the meantime, thank you for not feeling offended by my childish habit of removing raisins from the oatmeal raisin cookies you baked in our family home here in Westlake Hills. It seems that my childish tastebuds are not yet fully appreciative of raisins.
(38) Mother, I am thrilled to sense that you particularly enjoy watching the television series featuring Angela Lansbury as a favorite actress of yours. It seems that her television series, "Murder, She Wrote," particlarly appeals to you. Mother, would you mind if I were to write to Angela Lansburgy care of her agent, and ask Angela Lansbury if she would be willing to write a friendly message to you on a photograph of herself? Incidentally, Mother, did you know that Angela Lansbury was not actually born in Maine, even though her television series shows her very pleased to reside in Maine. Angela Lansbury was actually born in England, one of your own two European nations of ancestry.
(39) Mother, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to accompany you to this 1968 campaign speech by Vice President Hubert Humphrey here inside Palmer Auditorium in Austin. I found it very inspirational to observe and listen to Vice President Humphrey today.
(40) Mother, I want to thank you for sharing with me that very touching story about how your mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, insisted on lending you the only scarf she had during a visit of yours to her and Russell Gardner's farmhouse near Iowa City, Iowa. You emphasize that your mother could not bear the thought of your walking outdoors on that very cold winter day without your wearing a scarf around your neck. Your anecdote about your mother is particularly moving because you also mention to me that you forgot to return that scarf to your mother after you traveled back to your home in another U.S. state.
Do you think, Mother, that you subconsiously wanted to keep that scarf from your mother as a year-round reminder to yourself of why your own mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, was very kind and helpful to you in many ways?
(41) Mother, it's obvious from the tunnel cakes and bunt cakes you prepare and bake one day of each week for coffeebreak at your Internal Revenue Service federal agency workplace in Austin, that you want to be generous with and nice to your coworkers. Of the various types of tunnel cakes or bunt cakes you have baked so far for your coworkers at the IRS, which bunt cake or tunnel cake has been the most popular, would you say?
(42) Mother, I loved that story you shared with me about the can opener you won from Heinz ketchup company after you entered a contest in which you were invited to write an essay stating what you like the most about Heinz-brand ketchup. You emphasized to me that this was the only major contest you can recall having won. It must make you feel very good about Heinz ketchup, whenever you purchase that brand of ketchup in the supermarket, to sense that the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Heinz ketchup company has generously rewarded you for your essay-writing skills.
(43) Mother, I find it particularly impressive that you have never verbalized any fear of any of the wild animals you have encountered during camping trips that you and Father made together. It seems that not even the grizzly bears at Yellowstone National Park frightened you when they approached your campsite in search of food.
(44) Mother, I admire your many statements to me inside our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas, that as an I.R.S. federal-income tax examiner io Austin, you strongly believe that all Americans should pay their fair share of their income taxes, and that income-tax cheating by many Americans is unconscionable and deplorable conduct.
(45) Mother, thank you for your repeated observations to me inside our family home that I look particularly good in Navy Blue-colored shirts. I appreciate your interest in my being fashionable and attractive whenever I interact in person with other Central Texans.
(46) Mother, thank you for your very candid comment to me in the kitchen of our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas, that if you had not married Father, you would have probably married an Iowa farmer instead. Your comment reminds me that each person in the United States enjoys the legal and human right to choose for himself or herself who he or she is willing to develop a romantic relationship with.
(47) Mother, I would like to thank you for your candid comment to me that you do not share my enjoyment of the "Dennis the Menace" television series. Your observation that the fictional character Dennis does not offer a realistic portrayal of what American male youths are like, has been thought-provoking for me.
(48) Mother, I agree with you that your personal friend Mrs. McKay, who is in charge of ordering special-order book requests for the University Coop department store across the street from The University of Texas at Austin campus, is herself a very capable woman. That job that Mrs. McKay has must be very, very demanding and difficult.
(49) Mother, I thought it was very nice of you to drive Sarah Weddington, the abortion-rights activist and female attorney, to your chosen church for a guest-speaker or "Forum" speech that Mrs. Weddington gave there that Sunday. Having been a passenger in your car that day, I was impressed by the vote of confidence in Mrs. Weddington that you conveyed that day.
(50) Mother, I find it remarkable that you never visited any U.S. state that you found unpleasant, with one total exception. That one total exception, as you will recall, was the U.S. state of North Dakota, a Midwestern state you traveled through by passenger train in the mid-20th Century during a period in which you found North Dakota to be severely lacking in trees. What would the the point of visiting a U.S. state where trees are scarce to the point of non-existent, you helpfully indicated to me in writing based on your mid-20th Century recollections of North Dakota.
(51) Mother, thank you for your thoughtful observation to me that you are skeptical toward the tendency by many Christian parents and Christian religious groups to ask their children to simply memorize the stanza, "Jesus is the Lord I know, because the Bible tells me so." You emphasized to me that you regard that as a mindless approach to religious instruction, when you would like to see children being encouraged to ask questions and develop their reasoning skills, you helpfully pointed out.
(52) Mother, thank you for agreeing to my request that you please schedule a parent-teacher meeting with my third-grade teacher, Mrs. Knobler, in order to discuss with Mrs. Knobler why she had informally accused me of plagiarism in front of all of the other students in my third-grade class one schoolday at Eanes Elementary School of Eanes Independent School District in Westlake Hills, Texas. As you will recall, Mrs. Knobler cited an opening verse to a third-grade poem that I had written for her, an opening verse that stated, "Oh, how I love thy daffodils," as an indication that I had allegedly lifted that poem from a published work of poetry, my third-grade teacher angrily asserted in front of myself and all of my classmates on that rather traumatic schoolday for myself.
(53) Mother, I find it fascinating to note that whenever our family dines in a restaurant, you invariably ask your waitress for bleu-cheese dressing on your own dinner salad. You are the only member of our family who always asks for bleu-chese dressing in restaurants. Was this a tradition you developed during your childhood on your family farm near Iowa City, Iowa? Was your farmer father, Russell Gardner, or your German-American mother, Helen Siegling Gardner, very keen on bleu-cheese dressing?
TO FATHER:
--Father, I'm very impressed by the great honor that the nation of New Caledonia has bestowed on you. You richly deserved the honor of having a botanical plant on New Caledonia named after you, since you yourself had been the individual who as a botanical researcher discovered that plant on New Caledonia for the first time ever. Father, would it be possible for you to obtain a poster-size photograph of that New Caledonian botanical plant that's named after you, so that you could then frame that photograph and put it on permanent display on the wall inside our family home's living room or dining room?
--Father, your recollections about what it was like to grow up in Utah during the Great Depression are quite vivid. The Mormons of Utah regarded Utah as being the Garden Spot of the entire universe, you've pointed out, and you yourself were raised in a Mormon family in Utah.
--Father, I will always cherish the stories you've told me about a particularly nice adult female next-door neighbor of yours in your childhood hometown of Murray, Utah. You recalled that that Swedish-American woman was a kindly immigrant from Sweden, and she was a very gracious hostess inside her Utah home in Murray who always kept a coffee pot full of fresh coffee she'd brewed for any visitor, you recalled.
--Father, I would like to thank you for reminding me of a favorite candy that you and your sister, Evalyn, used to enjoy quite abit during your childhood together in Murray, Utah. You called it either "Depression Candy" or "Depression Fudge," one of the two, and it consisted of Wheaties cereal coated with melted chocolate.
--Father, I'm intrigued by your recollection about the manner in which you and your sister, Evalyn, habitually teased a female neighbor of yours named Marguerite during the Great Depression of the 1930s in Murray, Utah. As you have vividly recalled, you and your sister would habitually chant together at that neighborhood girl, "Marguerite, Go Wash Your Feet, They Stink So Bad We Can Hardly Eat Our Cherries!" Did you or your sister end up becoming a personal friend of Marguerite? Also, did you ever meet Marguerite's parents, and if so, did they indicate to you that they were unable to provide Marguerite with a bath at least once per day.
--Father, I was particularly impressed by your recollection about the great pride you felt from yourself being ranked the number one or top-rated student among among all University of Utah chemistry students during the time period when you attended college at the University of Utah. Do you remember how you celebrated the occasion after learning for the first time that you had earned that high honor in Salt Lake City, Utah?
---Father, I find it fascinating to hear you repeatedly mention to me that the three nationalities of people who have impressed you the most from your travels around the world as a botanical researcher are the Scottish, the Australians, and the Indians of Asian India. All three of those nationalities are particularly noted for their personal warmth and friendliness, you have repeatedly emphasized to me. You also have pointed out to me that the friendlienss of the Asian Indians is doubly remarkable in view of the severity of the bleak living conditions and widespread evidence of poverty amid which so many of the Asian Indians dwell.
---Father, I appreciate your candid comment to me in 1968 that Governor Rockefeller of New York State is the one Republican candidate for President whom you are willing to yourself vote for. You point out that Governor Nelson Rockefeller is so rich that he would be incorruptible, since no one could possibly bribe an elective official as financially very, very wealthy as Governor Rockefeller already is.
---Father, I would like to thank you for that very memorable story about the female waitress inside a restaurant where you dined during your days as an officer in the United States Army. That veteran waitress, you said, observed how you were eating your food in a sloppy manner at your dining table inside her restaurant, and she took pity on you. She did that by teaching you proper table manners during your visit as a customer of hers. Your waitress was so successful at teaching you proper table manners and etiquette that ever since that day, you have always excelled at table manners, you point out.
---Father, thank you for pointing out to me that Aba Eban, an Ambassador for Israel, is a very eloquent spokesman for the nation of Israel. Your sharing that observation to me one morning as I watched a "Today" television show interview featuring Aba Eban as the invited guest, was quite impressive.
--Father, thank you for repeatedly commenting to me that you find the chemist Linus Pauling's support for greater consumption of Vitamin C as a cold-prevention strategy to be very compelling. I will make a point of drinking orange juice with my breakfast this morning.
----Father, I find it fascinating to hear you say that your research work on the prairie grasses of Nebraska is what many people most remember as your leading contribution to the field of botanical science.
---Father, thank you for informing me that during this period in which you are a professor of Botany at The University of Texas at Austin, the Botany Department at UT-Austin is tied for first place in the nation in that category with the Botany Department at The University of California at Davis. Do you find it at all awkward to be sharing first place with that California university, or is a first place tie good enough, do you think?
---Father, thank you for repeatedly calling my attention to "The New Yorker" magazine during our family dinnertable conversations inside our family home in Westlake Hills, Texas. You refer to "The New Yorker" magazine with such admiration and appreciation of the articles in that magazine, including a recent series of articles on "Corn" that delighted you, that I wonder if possibly our entire family could visit New York City, New York, in order to ask for a guided tour of "The New Yorker" magazine's office building.
---Father, thank you for dubbing me "Cornhusker" as a nickname for myself during my childhood in Westlake Hills, Texas. It's nice to sense that you identify me as being very Nebraskan, since I was born in Nebraska, even though I myself have never husked corn so far in my childhood. Your calling my attention to the University of Nebraska fight song's verses about the male students at that university being the "squarest" in the entire nation, is also very inspirational to me, since I of course take pride in being honest and conscientious and law-abiding.
--Father, thank you for your colorful stories you've offered me about the very eccentric University of Texas at Austin French professor who habitually holds conversations with himself and talks aloud to himself in two or three different foreign languages as he walks around the campus of UT-Austin. I have to wonder whether that male professor who talks to himself outdoors on the UT-Austin campus is at risk of colliding with another pedestrian on that State of Texas-owned campus, since it must be rather distracting for your French professor colleague to be talking with himself on a non-stop basis as he walks around the UT-Austin campus.
--Father, I am particularly impressed by your hobby of collecting paperweights from each of the nations of the world that you visit in your career as a botanical researcher. It's obvious from the intriguing assortment of paperweights you keep on the desk of your faculty office on the third floor of the Biology Building of The University of Texas at Austin, that you seek to promote world peace.
---Father, thank you for giving me this wonderful opportunity to help germinate eucalyptus seeds in petri dishes inside the laboratory section of your faculty office at UT-Austin. It's very impressive that you have yourself obtained these various eucalyptus seeds from a wide variety of locations in Australia, a favorite foreign country of yours.
---Father, thank you for your helpful verbal observation today during our family's dining-out experience here today inside Corky's seafood restaurant in Rockport, Texas, that our waitress this evening, a heavyset older woman who carries and balances numerous large platters of seafood with the greatest of adroitness and dexterity, is your idea of what a first-rate waitress is like. It seems that our waitress this evening never drops her plates of food, no matter how many platters of seafood she is carrying to her customers' dining tables at the same time! She must have tremendous physical strength to be able to balance all of those plates of seafood at the same time!
---Father, I would like to thank you for very kindly and generously driving me to the "Viking Bakery" in Austin and giving me the opportunity to select a baked good for myself as a reward for my having diligently attended kindergarten class with Mrs. Watson that day. As you know, Father, I was particularly fond of the black-and-white pinwheel cookies being offered for sale inside Viking Bakery. And I also thrilled to the wonderfully delicious Swedish pumpernickel bread that you frequently purchased for our family inside that Scandinavian-style bakery. Your introducing me to Scandinavia in that way later played a major role in my own subsequent decision during my youth to purchase a beautfiul all-wooden pencil holder from Sweden inside an antique shop you drove our family to in Luling, Texas. Your introducing me to Scandinavia in such a delicious way also helped inspired me to post a decal of the flag of Sweden near my desk in my bedroom of our family home in Westlake Hills. With your help, Father, a strong sense of the sheer sweetness of Sweden had been impressed upon me at an early age.
---Father, I would like to thank you for your showing respect toward my repeated advice during my junior-high years that our entire family move from Westlake Hills, Texas, to a home in or near the Tarrytown section of west Austin. It meant a lot to me that you and Mother were willing to accompany me on a visit to a house being offered for sale that I'd learned about from checking the classified section of the paper on my own initiative---a house situated near Enfield Road in west Austin. You pointed out during our visit to that house that construction of a new expressway was being planned near that area, and for that reason it would not make sense for our family to move into a section of town where many of the houses might at some future date be slated for demolition.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
QUESTIONS THE TEXAN NEWS MEDIA SHOULD BE ASKING, BUT AREN'T
Any observer of the news media in Texas inevitably finds himself asking why the news media in this second most heavily populous state in the entire United States, consistently fail to pose the following questions through their news coverage and selection of editorials to publish:
--WHY IS IT THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAS FAILED TO APPROVE ANY LAW PROHIBITING THE USE OF NOISE POLLUTION AS A POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS WEAPON, OR AS A MEANS OF ALLEGEDLY "BRAINWASHING," ANY TEXAN RESIDENT BEING SUBJECTED TO THOSE UNWANTED COMMUNICATIONS (THE NOISE POLLUTION) AGAINST HIS WISHES.
---WHY HASN'T THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE APPROVED A NEW STATE LAW MAKING THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STATE AGENCY LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR UPHOLDING AND PROTECTING THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF TEXAN RESIDENTS WHO COMPLAIN IN WRITING TO THAT STATE AGENCY THAT THEY WERE VICTIMIZED BY UNWANTED AND INJURIOUS NOISE POLLUTION THAT WAS INFLICTED ON THEM IN TEXAS.
--WHY IS IT THAT NO MEDIA COMPANY OF WHICH I'M AWARE HAS PUBLISHED A RECENT EDITORIAL PRAISING THE PUBLIC OFFICIAL IN TEXAS WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED THE MOST TOWARD PROTECTING THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF ANY AND ALL LAW-ABIDING TEXANS.
--WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS COMPLAINED VEHEMENTLY ABOUT ANY CURRENT OR RECENT CASES IN TEXAS IN WHICH ANY RESIDENT OF TEXAS AGAINST HIS WISHES HAS BEEN DENIED FULL AND IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO FULLY RELIABLE AND FULLY HONEST NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICES ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE IN TEXAS.
--WHY IS IT THAT NO MEDIA COMPANY IN TEXAS OF WHICH I'M AWARE HAS PUBLISHED A RECENT EDITORIAL PRAISING THE PUBLIC OFFICIAL OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY IN TEXAS WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED THE MOST IN RECENT YEARS TOWARD PROTECTING THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION RIGHTS OF ANY AND ALL LAW-ABIDING TEXANS.
--WHO ARE THE LAW-ABIDING AND HONEST CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE ANTI-DRUG COMMUNITY IN TEXAS, AND WHICH STATE OF TEXAS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE MOST TOWARD PROMOTING THEIR NOBLE CAUSE?
--WHO ARE THE LAW-ABIDING AND HONEST CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE ANTI-ALCOHOL COMMUNITY IN TEXAS, AND WHICH STATE OF TEXAS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE CONTRIBUTED
THE MOST TOWRAD THEIR NOBLE ANTI-ALCOHOL CAUSE?
--IS THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS, AND ARE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS, DOING ENOUGH TO FULLY PROTECT AND UPHOLD THE FULL RANGE OF LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF CLEAN-TALKING, NON-PROFANE, AND LAW-ABIDING AND CIVIL TEXANS?
---TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY OR THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY ALLEGEDLY BRIBED ANY CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE OR ANY OTHER STATE OF TEXAS OFFICIALS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, AND THEREBY UNDERMINED THE LEVEL OF INTEGRITY OF STATE GOVERNMENT IN TEXAS.
--How common is it in 21st Century Texas for an adult Texan resident to purchase tobacco products, such as a pack of cigarettes, and then commit the unconscionable crime of giving that pack of cigarettes to a Texan young person under age 18.
--WHY IS IT THAT MOST TEXANS OF TODAY KNOW VIRTUALLY NOTHING ABOUT THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE STATE AGENCY THAT'S HEADQUARTERED IN AUSTIN? WHY IS IT THAT MOST TEXANS OF TODAY HAVE HAD NO DIRECT CONTACT. SUCH AS THROUGH PHONE CALLS OR LETTERS OR E-MAIL CORRESPONDENCE, WITH THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE STATE AGENCY?
---WHY IS IT THAT IF ALL TEXANS OF TODAY WERE ASKED IN A SURVEY TO CITE THE LEGAL NAME OF THE CURRENT HEAD OF THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE, 99 PERCENT OR MORE OF ALL RESPONDENTS TO THAT SURVEY WOULD NOT KNOW THE CORRECT ANSWER TO THIS VERY BASIC QUESTION.
--WHY HASN'T FACIAL HAIR ON MALE PERSONS IN TEXAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE NEWS MEDIA IN TEXAS AS A PUBLIC HYGIENE ISSUE AND A THREAT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF ALL TEXANS.
--WHY IS IT THAT NO MEDIA COMPANY IN TEXAS HAS EXPRESSED CONCERN IN WRITING ABOUT ATHEISTIC TEXANS' AND ANTI-RELIGIOUS TEXANS' CONTEMPT AND DEFIANCE TOWARD THE ASSERTED FREEDOM OF RELIGION RIGHTS OF LAW-ABIDING AND DEISTIC TEXANS SUCH AS MYSELF.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN THIS U.S. STATE CLAIMING TO REVERE THE RIGHT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL ADULT TEXAN RESIDENT TO SET HIS OWN COURSE IN LIFE, AND TO SET HIS OWN PRIORITIES IN ALL ASPECTS OF HIS OWN LIFE, THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS HAVE EXHIBITED A DEFIANCE AND CONTEMPT TOWARD THE LEGAL RIGHT OF SOME LAW-ABIDING ADULT TEXANS TO EXERCISE THOSE VERY SAME CONSTITUTIONALLY-PROTECTED LEGAL RIGHTS IN THEIR OWN LIFE.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAS CHOSEN TO PERMIT THE CONTINUATION OF INCESSANT YEAR-ROUND NOISE POLLUTION IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, THAT HAS BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY DOCUMENTED IN WRITING BY A FIRST-RATE EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT SPECIALIST, DR. DAVID TOBEY OF AUSTIN, AS HAVING SIGNIFICANTLY AND PERMANENTLY HARMED AND INJURED THE HEARING CAPACITY AND MEDICAL HEALTH OF A LONGTIME AND LAW-ABIDING AUSTIN RESIDENT (MYSELF, FOR INSTANCE) OVER THE COURSE OF THE MULTI-YEAR TIME PERIOD SINCE 2005, FOR INSTANCE.
--WHY ISN'T TEXAS THE LEADING STATE IN THE ENTIRE NATION IN SOLAR POWER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT?
--WHY HASN'T ANY CITY IN TEXAS BUILT A SOLAR-POWERED MAYOR'S MANSION IN WHICH THE MAYOR OF THAT CITY IS EXPECTED TO RESIDE THROUGHOUT HIS TERM OF OFFICE IN THAT POSITION, WITH THAT ARCHITECTUALLY BEAUTIFUL SOLAR-POWERED MAYOR'S MANSION HELPING TO SHOWCASE THAT CITY'S MESSAGE TO ALL RESIDENTS AND ALL VISITORS THAT STATEWIDE CONVERSION TO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IS CRUCIAL IN 21ST CENTURY TEXAS.
---WHY ISN'T TEXAS THE LEADING STATE IN THE ENTIRE NATION IN WIND POWER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT?
---HAS ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT OR SCHOOL IN TEXAS BUILT WIND-POWER OR SOLAR POWER ELECTRICITY GENERATORS ON THE STRUCTURE OR GROUNDS OF THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT'S OR SCHOOL'S FOOTBALL STADIUM ---- RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATORS THAT ENABLE THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT OR SCHOOL TO BOAST OF HOSTING ATHLETIC EVENTS ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS THAT ARE POWERED PRIMARILY BY WIND POWER ELECTRICITY GENERATORS AND BY SOLAR POWER ELECTRICITY GENERATORS.
---WHY ISN'T TEXAS THE LEADING STATE IN THE NATION IN HYDROELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT?
---WHICH PHILANTHROPISTS OF TEXAS HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE MOST GENEROUSLY TOWARD EXPANSION OR IMPROVEMENT OF RENEWABLE-ENERGY GENERATING FACILITIES, OR TOWARD RENEWABLE-ENERGY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS, THAT BENEFIT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN TEXAS.
---WHICH COMPANIES OF TEXAS CURRENTLY HAVE BEEN RATED BY THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS OR OTHER AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES AS BEING THE "GREENEST" IN TEXAS, BASED ON THOSE COMPANIES' LEVEL OF CONSERVATION OF FOSSIL FUELS AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES, AND THOSE COMPANIES' LEVEL OF PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
---WHY HASN'T THE NEWS MEDIA IN TEXAS INSISTED ON PUBLICIZING AN AUTHORITATIVE ESTIMATE OF TEXAS'S PER-CAPITA RANKING AMONG THE U.S. STATES IN LEVEL OF ENERGY CONSERVATION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CONSERVATION OF FOSSIL FUELS.
---WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLICIZED NUMEROUS EDITORIALS DENOUNCING POLICIES AND CONDUCT BY THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS THAT HAVE PRIMARILY ACCOUNTED FOR OUR ENTIRE STATE'S STANDING AS ONE OF THE MOST ENERGY-WASTEFUL STATES OF THIS ENTIRE NATION.
---WHY HAVEN'T THE MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLISHED NUMEROUS EDITORIALS IN A WIDE VARIETY OF NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES OF THIS STATE THAT EACH DECRIED TEXAS'S VERY DUBIOUS DISTINCTION AS BEING ONE OF THE LEADING SOURCES OF THE GLOBAL WARMING EFFECT AND ACCOMPANYING ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD.
---WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLISHED NUMEROUS EDITORIALS EXPRESSING GRAVE CONCERN THAT TEXAS'S INFAMOUS ROLE AS ONE OF THE LEADING SOURCES OF THE GLOBAL WARMING EFFECT WILL INEVITABLY INVITE MASSIVE LAWSUITS AGAINST THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS AND AGAINST HEAVILY-POLLUTING CORPORATIONS BASED IN TEXAS THAT ONE OR MORE PLAINTIFFS MIGHT ALLEGE IN A COURT OF LAW TO HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY BLAMEWORTHY FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS OUTSIDE OF TEXAS THAT ALLEGEDLY INFICTED A LOSS OF LIVES AND EXTENSIVE PROPERTY DAMAGE AND RUINATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND IN A FOREIGN NATION OR IN ANOTHER U.S. STATE.
---WHY HAVEN'T NUMEROUS NEWS MEDIA COMPANIES IN TEXAS PUBLISHED RECENT EDITORIALS DENOUNCING THE ONE CORPORATION OPERATING IN TEXAS THAT IN THE MOST RECENT TWO-YEAR PERIOD ALLEGEDLY HAS BEEN THE LARGEST SOURCE OF AIR POLLUTION INVOLVING THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS.
--HAS THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS DONE ENOUGH TO INCREASE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF STATE NATURE PARKS THROUGHOUT OUR STATE, INCLUDING STATE PARKS WITH CAMPING FACILITIES, IN RESPONSE TO THE RAPID INCREASE IN THE POPULATION OF TEXAS.
---WHY AREN'T TEXAN DAILY NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHING NUMEROUS EDITORIALS OR FEATURE STORIES PRAISING THE RUBY-RED GRAPEFRUIT INDUSTRY AND RUBY-RED GRAPEFRUIT JUICE INDUSTRY OF TEXAS, AND EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT THE LOSS OF RUBY-RED AGRICULTURAL CROPLAND AS A RESULT OF RAPID URBANIZATION OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY REGION OF TEXAS.
---WHICH STATE LEGISLATOR OF TEXAS OR OTHER STATE OFFICIAL OF TEXAS HAS DEVELOPED A PUBLIC-POLICY RECOMMENDATION DESIGNED TO MORE EFFECTIVELY PROTECT THE TOTAL ACREAGE AND QUALITY OF THE RUBY-RED GRAPEFRUIT-GROWING AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY IN TEXAS.
---HAS THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFERED PUBLIC-POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW THE TOTAL EXISTING QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF AGRICULTURAL CROPLAND AND RANCHLAND IN TEXAS CAN BE PROTECTED AS FULLY AS POSSIBLE.
---WHY HAVEN'T THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS AND THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE ASSIGNED HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRIORITY TO HELPING REDUCE THE UNWANTED PREGNANCY RATE THROUGHOUT TEXAS?
--SINCE THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF TEXAS APPARENTLY REMAINS FAR MORE POWERFUL POLITICALLY THAN THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, BASED ON THE FULL RANGE OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND LEGAL POWERS HELD BY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, WHY HAS THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS GENERALLY CHOSEN NOT TO DEVOTE MUCH COVERAGE TO TEXAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DEWHURST'S ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC-POLICY DECISIONS IN THAT STATEWIDE ELECTIVE OFFICE?
---WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLISHED A VARIETY OF RECENT FEATURE STORIES HONORING PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS IN TEXAS IN WHICH THE NUMBER OF FEMALE STUDENTS AT THAT PUBLIC SCHOOL WHO BECAME PREGNANT OUT OF WEDLOCK WAS AMONG THE LOWEST IN THE ENTIRE STATE FOR THAT SIZE OF STUDENT ENROLLMENT.
--WHICH "PREVENTION OF UNWANTED-PREGNANCY" EDUCATION PROGRAMS BEING OFFERED TO FEMALE YOUTHS IN TEXAS ARE CURRENTLY THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL?
---WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLISHED A VARIETY OF FEATURE STORIES HONORING PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS IN TEXAS WHERE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FEMALE STUDENTS THERE WHO REPORTEDLY BECAME PREGNANT OUT OF WEDLOCK DURING THE MOST RECENT SCHOOL YEAR COMPRISED A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION FROM THE PRIOR SCHOOL YEAR.
---IN WHICH COUNTIES OR CITIES OF TEXAS HAS THE PER-CAPITA INCIDENCE OF UNWANTED PREGNANCIES OCCURRING OUT OF WEDLOCK BEEN THE LOWEST IN RECENT YEARS? WHAT MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR THE COMPARATIVE SUCCESS OF THOSE CITIES AND COUNTIES AT DISCOURAGING UNWANTED PREGNANCY OUT OF WEDLOCK.
--OF THE CITIES AND COUNTIES OF TEXAS THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST RATES OF POVERTY OR THE LOWEST MEDIAN INCOME FOR THAT CITY OR COUNTY, WHICH CITY AND WHICH COUNTY HAS THE LOWEST PER-CAPITA INCIDENCE OF UNWANTED PREGNANCY OCCURRING OUT OF WEDLOCK. WHAT MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR THE COMPARATIVE SUCCESS OF THAT CITY OR COUNTY AT DISCOURAGING UNWANTED PREGNANCY OUT OF WEDLOCK.
---SHOULD THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS PROVIDE MORE SERVICES TO ASSIST SINGLE-PARENT MOTHERS WHOSE FORMER SPOUSES HAVE DEFAULTED ON MAKING CHILD-SUPPORT PAYMENTS?SHOULD THOSE MOTHERS RECEIVE CONSIDERATION FOR SPECIAL LONG-TERM AND LOW-INTEREST LOANS THAT MIGHT ENABLE THOSE MOTHERS TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILY, INCLUDING EACH OF THE CHILDREN THOSE MOTHERS ARE RAISING IN THEIR OWN HOME, DURING A MULTI-MONTH OR MULTI-YEAR TIME PERIOD IN WHICH THE FORMER HUSBAND OF THOSE SINGLE-PARENT MONTHS FAILS TO MAKE FULL CHILD-SUPPORT PAYMENTS TO HERSELF.
---WHAT HAS BEEN THE LONG-TERM TREND IN RECENT MONTHS IN THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL TEXAN ADULT WOMEN WHO ARE PURSUING ILLICIT CAREERS AS SEXUAL PROSTITUTES AND WHO, IF SURVEYED ON THE SUBJECT, WOULD STATE THAT THEY WERE UNEMPLOYED FOR MORE THAN SIX MONTHS OR ONE YEAR BEFORE THEY EITHER CHOSE TO PURSUE AN ILLICIT CAREER AS A SEXUAL PROSTITUTE OR THEY WERE PRESSURED INTO AN ILLICIT CAREER AS A SEXUAL PROSTITUTE. ALSO, HAS THERE IN FACT BEEN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF SEXUAL PROSITUTES IN TEXAS OVER THE COURSE OF THE CURRENT NATIONWIDE ECONOMIC RECESSION OR DEPRESSION.
---WHAT HAS BEEN THE LONG-TERM TREND IN THE PERCENTAGE AND NUMBER OF ALL TEXANS UNDER AGE 17 WHO, AFTER NOT BEING ABLE TO LAND A PAYING PART-TIME JOB FOR THEMSELVES AS MINORS, EITHER PURSUED AN ILLICIT CAREER AS MINORS INVOLVED IN SEXUAL PROSTITUTION OR WERE THEMSELVES PRESSURED BY OTHERS INTO PURSUING AN ILLICIT CAREER AS MINORS INVOLVED IN SEXUAL PROSTITUION.
---WHICH DRUG-TREATMENT AND ALCOHOL-TREATMENT PROGRAMS OF TEXAS APPEAR TO BE OUR STATE'S FINEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL, AND WHY?
---WHICH GAMBLING-ADDICTION TREATMENT PROGRAMS IN TEXAS APPEAR TO HAVE THE HIGHEST RATES OF SUCCESS AT CURING INDIVIDUALS OF THEIR ADDICTION TO GAMBLING.
--WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ALL PERSONS WHO PURCHASE TEXAS LOTTERY TICKETS AT LEAST ONCE PER MONTH ALSO SPEND MONEY ON OTHER TYPES OF GAMBLING ACTIVITIES? IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT PURCHASING TEXAS LOTTERY TICKETS IN TEXAS CAN SPAWN AN OVERALL ADDICTION TO GAMBLING?
---WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU ABOUT THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE OF ALL TEXANS WHO GAMBLE WHEN YOU LEARN FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF TEXANS THAT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, IS A FAVORITE VACATION OR LEISURETIME DESTINATION FOR THEMSELVES. ISN'T IT LIKELY THAT TEXANS WHO ARE ADDICTED TO GAMBLING WILL BE CITE "LAS VEGAS, NEVADA," AS A FAVORITE CITY OF THEIRS TO VISIT?
---WHY IS IT THAT WHEN TEXANS ARE ASKED WHICH CITIES ARE FAVORITES OF THEIRS TO VISIT FOR A VACATION, THEY OFTEN REPLY THAT THEIR FAVORITE "SIN CITIES," AS THEY CALL THEM, INCLUDE PLACES SUCH AS LAS VEGAS, LOS ANGELES, MIAMI, SAN ANTONIO, ETC. DOES THIS IMPLY THAT MANY TEXANS EQUATE FUN AND LEISURETIME ENJOYMENT WITH PURSUING AN ACTIVITY THEY ACKNOWLEDGE AS BEING EITHER ILLICIT OR INVOLVING HEAVY CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL OR CONSUMPTION OF ILLICIT DRUGS OR PURSUIT OF ONE-NIGHT STANDS WITH COMPLETE STRANGERS.
---OF THE CITIES AND COUNTIES OF TEXAS, WHICH CITY OR COUNTY OF OUR STATE HAS OFFERED THE MOST EFFECTIVE PROGRAM FOR ASSISTING HOMELESS PERSONS WHO SEEK TO FIND PERMANENT HOUSING OR LODGING FOR THMESELVES.
--WHY IS IT THAT NEARLY ALL TEXANS WOULD BE STUMPED IF ASKED IN A SURVEY IF THEY COULD CITE THE NAME OF AT LEAST ONE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OR COUNTY GOVERNMENT OR REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OR STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WHO AS PART OF HIS CURRENT OFFICIAL DUTIES SERVES AS AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT LIAISON TO AND OMBUDSMAN SERVING HOMELESS TEXANS.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN A NATION AND WORLD WHERE POPULATION GROWTH IS OUT OF CONTROL AND PERVASIVELY INJURIOUS, THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAS NEVER ONCE APPROVED A RESOLUTION OR NEW STATE LAW CITING AN OFFICIAL GOAL FOR THIS STATE AS A WHOLE OF TEXAS ACHIEVING ZERO POPULATION GROWTH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
---WHY HAVEN'T SEVERAL OF THE VARIOUS NEWS MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS IN TEXAS DEVOTED EXTENSIVE COVERAGE TO THE NOBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD FAMILY PLANNING AND ZERO POPULATION GROWTH ON THE PART OF CONSCIENTIOUS AND ETHICAL VASECTOMY SURGEONS OF TEXAS.
---WHY HAVEN'T PROMOTERS OF TOURISM IN TEXAS DONE MORE TO PROMOTE PUBLIC POLICIES THAT HELP TO PREVENT AND DETER URBAN SPRAWL THROUGHOUT TEXAS, IT BEING PAINFULLY APPARENT TO ANY TEXAN OF TODAY THAT URBAN SPRAWL SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERMINES THE CURRENT LEVEL OF SCENIC APPEAL OF NEARLY ALL OF THE TEXAN CITIES AND TOWNS AND URBAN AREAS OF TODAY.
---WHY HAVEN'T TEXAN POLITICAL LEADERS AND CIVIC LEADERS ASSIGNED VERY HIGH PRIORITY TO SPONSORSHIP OF COMPREHENSIVE URBAN RE-DESIGN PROGRAMS AIMED AT REDUCING THE LEVEL OF UNSIGHTLINESS AND CHAOS AND ENHANCING THE AESTHETIC OR SCENIC APPEAL OF DOZENS OF CITIES AND TOWNS OF TEXAS.
---WHY HAVEN'T EACH OF THE MOST GEOGRAPHICALLY COMPACT (LAND-CONSERVING) AND PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY CITIES OF TEXAS RECEIVED SPECIAL AWARDS FOR THAT DISTINCTION FROM THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS?
--WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLICIZED AND PROMOTED EACH OF THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF TEXAS THAT HAVE ACHIEVED THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF PROGRESS DURING THE MOST RECENT 12-MONTH PERIOD OR TWO-YEAR PERIOD AT MAKING THEIR CITY OR TOWN AS PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY AND FULLY ACCESSIBLE TO PEDESTRIANS THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE MUNICIPALITY.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS THUS FAR HAVE FAILED TO ADEQUATELY PUBLICIZE AND PROMOTE THE 10 OR 20 PHILANTHROPISTS OF TEXAS WHO HAVE EACH MADE THE MOST GENEROUS FINANCIAL DONATIONS TOWARD DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT AND ATTRACTIVE AND PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY PUBLIC SIDEWALKS IN MUNICIPALITIES OF THIS STATE.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS THUS FAR HAVE APPARENTLY FAILED TO ADEQUATELY PUBLICIZE AND PROMOTE THE 20 PHILANTHROPISTS OF TEXAS WHO HAVE EACH MADE THE MOST GENEROUS FINANCIAL DONATIONS TOWARD THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT AND SCENICALLY ATTRACTIVE HIKING TRAILS AND BICYCLE PATHS SET APART FROM MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC IN CITIES AND TOWNS AND RURAL AREAS THROUGHOUT TEXAS.
---WHY IS IT THAT IF MOST TEXANS WERE ASKED IN A SURVEY TO CITE THE 10 CITIES OR MUNICIPALITIES OF TEXAS OF TODAY THAT THEY REGARD AS BEING THE MOST HOSPITABLE FOR PEDESTRIANS SEEKING TO TRAVEL BY FOOT THROUGHOUT THAT MUNICIPALITY, 99 PERCENT OF THOSE SURVEY RESPONDENTS WOULD BE STUMPED BY THAT QUESTION. "IT SEEMS TO ME THAT PORT ARANSAS IS MORE PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY THAN MOST, SINCE IT'S ON A NARROW ISLAND AND THAT LIMITS URBAN SPRAWL THERE," MIGHT BE THE TYPE OF RESPONSE THAT A SURVEY OF THAT TYPE MIGHT ELICIT. "HOWEVER, I CAN'T CURRENTLY RECALL WHETHER PORT ARANSAS OFFERS PUBLIC SIDEWALKS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD THROUGHOUT THAT CITY. SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT EVEN PORT ARANSAS COULD BE FAULTED AS NOT BEING ADEQUATELY PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY."
---WHY HAS NO CITY OR COUNTY IN TEXAS PURSUED ANY PUBLIC POLICIES TO RESTRICT OR PROHIBIT ONE-STORY REAL-ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, IT BEING ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT MULTI-STORY REAL-ESTATE DEVELOPMENT CONSERVES LAND, PREVENTS UNSIGHTLY URBAN SPRAWL, HELPS MAKE TEXAN CITIES MORE PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY AND HOSPITABLE, AND CONSERVES ENERGY.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE STILL TO THIS DAY HAS FAILED TO APPROVE ANY STATE LAW REQUIRING FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE AND YEAR-ROUND PARTICIPATION IN RECYCLING OF ITEMS SUCH AS GLASS, ALUMINUM, PLASTIC GOODS, PAPER PRODUCTS, ETC., BY ANY AND ALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND EMPLOYERS IN TEXAS.
--WHY HAVEN'T THE SO-CALLED "DRY COUNTIES" OF TEXAS---THE ADMIRABLE TEXAN COUNTIES THAT CURRENTLY PROHIBIT THE SALE OF DRINKING ALCOHOL INSIDE THOSE COUNTIES---WORKED TOGETHER TO HELP FINANCE A PROPOSED "TEXAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLES" IN ONE OF THE CURRENT COUNTIES OF OUR STATE WHERE THE SALE OF ALCOHOL IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.
---WHICH MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE DURING THE MOST RECENT SESSION OF THAT GOVERNING BODY FOR OUR ENTIRE STATE, REPORTEDLY EACH REFRAINED FROM CONSUMING ANY DRINKING ALCOHOL THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE MULTI-MONTH SESSION OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE.
---IS TEXAS HELPING MEXICO TO DEVELOP RENEWABLE-ENERGY-GENERATING INDUSTRIES AND RENEWABLE-ENERGY-POWERED BUSINESSES AND RESIDENCES THROUGHOUT MEXICO?
---WHY HAVE NO TEXAN POLITICAL LEADERS ALLEGED THAT TEXAN RESIDENTS WHO CONSUME ILLICIT DRUGS IMPORTED FROM MEXICO ARE THEMSELVES PARTLY BLAMEWORTHY FOR THE APPALLINGLY HIGH LEVELS OF VIOLENCE IN MEXICO TODAY THAT RELATE TO DRUG-TRAFFICKING IN MEXICO.
---WHY HAVE NO MEDIA COMPANIES OR TEXAN POLITICAL LEADERS ALLEGED THAT THE WIDESPREAD ILLICIT PRACTICE OF COCKFIGHTING IN OKLAHOMA INVOLVING THE SADISTIC TORTURE OF CHICKENS HAS, IN FACT, BEEN FINANCED IN PART BY CURRENT RESIDENTS OF TEXAS OR BY NATIVES OF TEXAS.
---IF THERE IS IN FACT A TEXAN CONNECTION TO THE ILICIT COCKFIGHTING UNDERWORLD IN OKLAHOMA, THEN HAS THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STATE LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCY ADEQUATELY INVESTIGATED ANY SUCH TIES TO DETERMINE WHETHER ONE OR MORE CURRENT OR FORMER TEXANS SHOULD BE ARRESTED BY THE TEXAS DPS AND FORMALLY CHARGED WITH A FELONY CRIME RELATING TO ILLICIT COCK-FIGHTING ACTIVITIES IN OKLAHOMA.
---WHY IS IT THAT TEXAS STILL, TO THIS DAY, HAS NO HIGH-SPEED INTER-CITY PASSENGER-TRAIN SERVICES THAT TRANSPORT TEXANS FROM ONE CITY TO ANOTHER IN THIS STATE, WHEN U.S. STATES SUCH AS PENNSYLVANIA AND CALIFORNIA, BY CONTRAST, ALREADY HAVE HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICES.
--WHY IS IT THAT THE SHOCKINGLY HIGH NUMBER OF INTERSECTIONS ON THE ROADWAYS OF TEXAS BETWEEN MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC AND PASSENGER TRAINS HAS NOT PROMPTED THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE TO INSIST ON THE CONSTRUCTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OF TRAIN RAIL OVERPASSES AT THOSE POINTS THAT ELIMINATE THE RISK OF A MOTOR VEHICLE COLLIDING WITH A PASSENGER TRAIN THERE.
--WHY IS IT THAT MANY OF THE MAJOR STREETS OR THOROUGHFARES IN TEXAN CITIES AND TEXAN TOWNS OF TODAY ARE EITHER INADEQUATELY LIGHTED FROM ANY AND ALL LIGHTPOLES PLACED ALONG THOSE STREETS, OR DO NOT HAVE ANY GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED PUBLIC LIGHT POLES ALONG THOSE STREETS.
---WHY IS IT THAT NO CITY IN TEXAS HAS FOLLOWED THE ADMIRABLE LEAD OF NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, BY ALSO BANNING ANY AND ALL TRANS FATS FROM FOODS AND BEVERAGES BEING SERVED TO CUSTOMERS IN RESTAURANTS INSIDE THAT CITY.
---WHY IS IT THAT NO STATE HEALTH OFFICIAL IN TEXAS HAS EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE ALARMINGLY HIGH LEVELS OF SATURATED FATS FOUND IN THE CULINARY DISHES OF NEARLY ALL OF THE MEXICANS-STYLE RESTAURANTS THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS.
---WHY HASN'T THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES EXTENSIVELY AND FREQUENTLY PUBLICIZED ALARMING FACTUAL INFORMATION TO ALL TEXANS ABOUT THE ESTIMATED NUMBER AND ESTIMATED PERCENTAGE OF ALL 21ST CENTURY TEXANS---INCLUDING BY AGE GROUP----WHO REPORTEDLY HAVE CONTRACTED THE OFTEN-DEBILITATING AND LIFE-THREATENING MEDICAL DISEASE OF DIABETES.
---IS THE CURRENT NATIONWIDE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION SPAWNING AN INCREASE IN ORGANIZED CRIME ACTIVITIES IN TEXAS? IF SO, WHY HAVEN'T THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AND THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY DEVELOPED A COMPREHENSIVE AND INNOVATIVE NEW STRATEGY AIMED AT DETERRING ORGANIZED CRIME ACTIVITIES DURING THIS PERIOD OF FINANCIAL CRISIS THROUGHOUT OUR STATE.
--WHY HAVEN'T THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS PUBLICIZED SEMI-ANNUAL OR MONTHLY OR ANNNUAL STATISTICS ON THE TOTAL REPORTED NUMBER OF TEXANS OR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RESIDENTS OF THAT CITY OR COUNTY IN TEXAS WHO, IN EACH SUCH CASE, ATTEMPTED TO COMMIT SUICIDE DURING THAT MULTI-MONTH OR MULTI-WEEK TIME PERIOD.
--WHY HAVEN'T THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS DONE MORE TO PUBLICIZE SEMI-ANNUAL OR MONTHLY OR ANNUAL STATISTICS ON THE TOTAL REPORTED NUMBER OF TEXANS OR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RESIDENTS OF THAT CITY OR COUNTY IN TEXAS WHO, IN EACH SUCH CASE, REPORTEDLY COMMITTED SUICIDE DURING THAT MULTI-MONTH OR MULTI-WEEK TIME PERIOD.
---WHY HAVEN'T DAILY NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER NEWS MEDIA COMPANIES THROUGHOUT TEXAS PUBLISHED OR SPONSORED EDITORIALS DEPLORING THE FAILURE BY VARIOUS RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS AND VARIOUS RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS THROUGHOUT TEXAS TO SUCCESSFULLY PREVENT EITHER THE CRIME OF ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE OR THE CRIME OF HOMICIDE IN OUR STATE THAT IS BEING COMMITTED BY, OR HAS BEEN COMMITTED BY, RESPECTIVE DUES-PAYING OR SELF-DESCRIBED CURRENT INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THOSE RELIGIOUS GROUPS.
---WHY IS IT THAT WHILE TEXAS HAS A HIGHER NUMBER OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS RESIDENTS THAN ANY OTHER U.S. STATE, NEWS ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE APPARENTLY ALLOTS TOWARD SICLE-CELL ANEMIA MEDICAL RESEARCH (RESEARCH THAT IS PARTICULARLY HELPFUL TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS) IS EITHER IGNORED BY MOST MEDIA COMPANIES IN TEXAS OR NOT ADEQUATELY PUBLICIZED.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN THIS U.S. STATE WHERE THE STATE PRISON INMATE POPULATION IS NO DOUBT THE LARGEST FOR ANY STATE IN THE ENTIRE NATION, THE NEWS MEDIA FAIL TO ADEQUATELY PUBLICIZE AND PROMOTE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF THE VARIOUS PUBLIC-SECTOR AND PRIVATE-SECTOR REHABILITATION PROGRAMS THAT ARE AIMED AT LOWERING THE CRIMINAL-RECIDIVISM RATE IN TEXAS.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA IN TEXAS VIRTUALLY NEVER OR NEVER PUBLISH FEATURE STORIES AND EDITORIAL COLUMNS THAT PROMOTE AND CONGRATULATE MENTAL-HEALTH EXPERTS IN OUR STATE WHO SUCCESSFULLY AND ROUTINELY HELP TEXANS BECOME TACTFULLY HONEST ON A CONSISTENT BASIS AFTER THOSE SAME TEXANS HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED AS BEING PATHOLOGICAL LIARS.
---WHY IS IT THAT STRICTLY-MUTUAL-CONSENT AND STRICTLY-PLATONIC, MUTUALLY-POLITE AND MUTUALLY-CONSTRUCTIVE PERSONAL AND CAREER-RELATED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN TEXAS HAVE NOT BEEN ADEQUATELY FOSTERED AND NURTURED AND PROMOTED BY THE TEXAN MEDIA, TEXAN SOCIETY, AND TEXAN GOVERNMENT.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS HAVE THUS FAR FAILED TO CHAMPION THE CAUSE OF PROPOSED PUBLIC ERECTION OF A NEW MONUMENT OR NEW PUBLIC STATUE IN OUR CAPITAL CITY OF AUSTIN THAT HONORS DOZENS OF FAMOUS TEXANS OR PROMINENT TEXAN CIVIC LEADERS WHO ARE NOTED FOR HAVING LED CIVIL AND LAW-ABIDING AND HONEST LIFESTYLES IN WHICH THEY COMPLETELY ABSTAINED FROM CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, MARIJUANA, OR ANY OTHER ILLICIT DRUG, OVER A MULTI-DECADE PERIOD OF THEIR ADULTHOOD OR ON A LIFELONG BASIS.
---WHY IS IT THAT OUR NEWS MEDIA IN TEXAS HAVE NOT INSISTED ON THE COMPILATION OF ANNUALLY UPDATED AND AUTHORITATIVE ESTIMATES ON THE NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF ALL TEXANS WHO, FOR INSTANCE, ARE:
(A) ADDICTED TO LICIT DRUGS.
(B) ADDICTED TO THE ILLICIT DRUG MARIJUANA.
(C) ADDICTED TO ONE OR MORE OF THE OTHER ILLICIT DRUGS.
(D) ADDICTED TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
(E) ADDICTED TO GAMBLING.
(F) ADDICTED TO ALCOHOL.
(G) ADDICTED TO CELL PHONE USAGE FOR MORE THAN TWO TOTAL HOURS OF PERSONAL CONVERSATION TIME PER DAY.
(H) ADDICTED TO PHYSICALLY BEATING OR PHYSICALLY WHIPPING THEIR OWN SO-CALLED ROMANTIC PARTNERS OR SO-CALLED SEX PARTNERS, OR ADDICTED TO PERMITTING OR AUTHORIZING A ROMANTIC PARTNER OR SEX PARTNER TO PHYSICALLY BEAT OR PHYSICALLY WHIP ONESELF.
(I) ADDICTED TO SPEAKING PROFANELY OR OBSCENELY.
(J) ADDICTED TO HAVING YET ANOTHER TATTOO EMBLAZONED ON ONE'S BODY.
(K) ADDICTED TO THE PURSUIT OF INDISCRIMINATE SEX WITH NUMEROUS SEX PARTNERS, INCLUDING MANY COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS SEX PARTNERS, AS A CITED "LIFESTYLE PRACTICE."
(L) ADDICTED TO TELLING MAJOR LIES OR ENGAGING ON SIGNIFICANT PREVARICATION ON A HABITUAL AND DAILY AND YEAR-ROUND BASIS.
---WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ALL EXTENSIVELY-TATTOED TEXANS OF THE 21ST CENTURY HAVE ATEMPTED TO COMMIT THE CRIME OF SUICIDE AT LEAST ONCE IN THE 10-YEAR PERIOD SINCE 2000? IS THERE RECENT SOCIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE IN TEXAS INDICATING THAT THOSE TEXANS WHO ARE HEAVILY TATOOED EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT SELF-ALIENATION AND SELF-HATRED AS A RESULT, AND FOR THESE AND OTHER REASONS ARE MORE LIKELY TO ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE THAN ARE ALL TEXANS WHO EITHER DO NOT HAVE ANY TATTOOS ON THEIR BODY, OR ALL TEXANS WHO HAVE ONLY ONE OR TWO TATTOOES ON THEIR BODY.
---WHY IS IT THAT NO NEWSPAPER IN TEXAS OF WHICH I'M AWARE HAS PUBLISHED A RECENT EDITORIAL OR SERIES OF NEWS-FEATURE ARTICLES EXPLORING AND DEPLORING THE GROWING TREND TOWARD SADOMASOCHISTIC AND OFTEN-ILLEGAL PRACTICES SUCH AS ATTEMPTED CENSORSHIP BY MANY TEXANS OF ANYONE WHOSE POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OR PERSONAL BELIEFS OR CITED "PREJUDICES" OR CITED "ANTIPATHIES" ARE OFFENSIVE TO THOSE TEXNANS, BEATING AND WHIPPING, TATOOING OF ONE'S OWN BODY, BODY-PIERCING OF TONGUES AND NOSES, SLAVERY AND QUASI-SLAVERY, INTER-GENERATIONAL EXPLOITATION OF YOUNGER PERSONS, INCLUDING LEGAL-STATUS-ADULT YOUNGER PERSONS, STALKING OF OTHERS AND PERVASIVE VIOLATIONS OF AND DEFIANCE OF THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF OTHERS, USE OF NOISE POLLUTION AS A MEANS OF ILLEGALLY PUNISHING AND ILLEGALLY ATTEMTING TO HARM OR INJURE SOMEONE WHOSE BELIEFS DIFFER DRAMATICALLY FROM THOSE OF THE TEXANS SPONSORING THAT NOISE POLLUTION, ANY AND ALL OF THE SO-CALLED "SNUFF MOVIES" OR WOULD-BE "SNUFF MOVIES" INVOLVING ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A CITED "VICTIM" THAT ARE EVER ALLEGEDLY BEING PRODUCED ANYWHERE IN TEXAS, PRANKSTERISM AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, FRAUDULENT COMMUNICATIONS INFLICTED ON OTHERS, PROFANE OR OBSCENE COMMUNICATIONS INFLICTED ON OTHERS AGAINST THEIR WISHES, SUBJECTING TEXANS TO COMPELLED SPEECH AGAINST THEIR WISHES, COMPELLED PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OR ARRANGE3D MARRIAGES THAT ARE CLEARLY ILLEGAL AND INJURIOUS IN NATURE, AND SUBJECTING TEXANS AGAINST THEIR WISHES TO NOISE POLLUTION THEY DO NOT WANT AND HAVE, IN FACT, COMPLAINED ABOUT.
---WHICH CITY OF TEXAS CURRENTLY HOLDS THE DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF BEING THE PROFANE SPEECH CAPITAL OF TEXAS, AND WHY?
--WHICH CITY OF TEXAS HOLDS THE NOBLE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE CLEAN-SPEECH CAPITAL OF TEXAS?
---WHICH CITY OF TEXAS CURRENTLY HOLDS THE DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF BEING THE FRAUDULENT COMMUNICATIONS CAPITAL OF TEXAS, AND WHY?
--WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN ANY RECENT GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED STUDY IN TEXAS EXPLORING AND DOCUMENTING TIES BETWEEN ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE GAMBLING INDUSTRY, THE BETTING INDUSTRY, THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY, THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY, THE ILLICIT DRUG INDUSTRY, THE ALCOHOLIC BAR INDUSTRY, THE NIGHTCLUB INDUSTRY, THE SO-CALLED "BATHHOUSE" INDUSTRY, THE ILLICIT PROSTITUTION INDUSTRY, THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, AND THE COMMERCIAL SEX PARLOR INDUSTRY OF TEXAS.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE WINNING FOOTBALL COACHES IN TEXAS WHOSE VARSITY FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN ANY GIVEN SEASON SUSTAIN THE FEWEST INJURIES, AND WHOSE OPPONENTS SUSTAIN THE FEWEST INJURIES FROM COMPETING AGAINST THOSE FOOTBALL COACHES' OWN VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAMS, CURRENTLY DO NOT RECEIVE STATEWIDE ACCLAIM AND RECOGNITION.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE ONE U.S. STATE IN THE ENTIRE NATION THAT'S MOST ASSOCIATED WITH THE SPORT OF FOOTBALL --- TEXAS --- IS ALSO A U.S. STATE THAT HAS CHOSEN NOT
TO ESTABLISH OR SPONSOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A TEXAN INSTITUTE FOR FOOTBALL INJURY PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER AND LIBRARY.
--WHY HASN'T ANY NEWS MEDIA COMPANY IN TEXAS SPONSORED AN ANNUAL "TEXAS LIFELONG SPORTS DECATHLON COMPETITION," THE PROPOSED ANNUAL STATEWIDE COMPETITION BEING OPEN TO MALE YOUTHS, FEMALE YOUTHS, MALE ADULT PERSONS, AND FEMALE ADULT PERSONS IN A VARIETY OF AGE CATEGORIES, WITH EACH COMPETITOR IN THAT ANNUAL CONTEST ATTEMPTING TO DEMONSTRATE SUPERIOR TALENT IN AS MANY OF THE LIFELONG SPORTS AS POSSIBLE, THE FEATURED LIFELONG SPORTS IN THAT CONTEST POSSIBLY INCLUDING CLAY-COURT TENNIS, HARDCOURT TENNIS, RACQUETBALL, SQUASH, HANDBALL, SPEED-WALKING, HIKING, JOGGING, RUNNING, ROLLER SKATING, BASKETBALL, VOLLEYBALL, BOWLING, SOCCER, SHUFFLEBOARD, BADMINTON, CROQUET, GOLF, JUMP ROPING, AND SOFTBALL.
--HAS ANY HIGH SCHOOL-LEVEL VARSITY SOCCER TEAM ANYWHERE IN TEXAS RANKED AMONG THE TOP 10 HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY SOCCER SQUADS IN THE ENTIRE NATION? IF NOT, WHY NOT?
--WHY DON'T THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS DO MORE TO HELP PROTECT THE FULL RANGE OF LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE ENTIRE HIV-NEGATIVE COMMUNITY OF TEXAS, THAT COMMUNITY OF TEXANS BEING DEFINABLE AS ANY AND ALL TEXANS OF ANY AND ALL BACKGROUNDS WHO ARE THEMSELVES HIV-NEGATIVE AND DO NOT THEMSELVES HAVE AIDS.
---IN WHICH CITY OR COUNTY OF TEXAS HAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CRIMINAL-PROSECUTIONS BEEN PURSUED IN A COURT OF LAW IN WHICH THE CITED DEFENDANT WAS A LEGAL-STATUS-ADULT PERSON WHO ALLEGEDLY INFECTED ANOTHER PERSON WITH THE HIV VIRUS.
---WHY HAS NO MEDIA COMPANY ANYWHERE IN TEXAS PUBLISHED AN EDITORIAL PRAISING AND HONORING THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY IN TEXAS WHO IN THE LAST TWO-YEAR PERIOD OR FIVE-YEAR PERIOD HAS SUCCESSFULLY PURSUED THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CRIMINAL-LAW PROSECUTIONS OF ANY AND ALL GAY OR HOMOSEXUAL OR BISEXUAL LEGAL-STATUS-ADULT PERSONS, AND OTHER LEGAL-STATUS ADULT PERSONS AS WELL, WHO IN EACH SUCH CASE WERE FORMALLY CHARGED IN TEXAS WITH THE UNCONSCIONABLE AND TRULY OUTRAGEOUS AND VERY SINISTER CRIME OF INFECTING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING WITH THE HIV VIRUS OR WITH AIDS.
---WHICH COMPANIES OF TEXAS HAVE "WELLNESS PROGRAMS" SO SUCCESSFUL AND EFFECTIVE THAT ONLY A TINY PERCENTAGE OF THOSE COMPANIES' EMPLOYEES CURRENTLY CONSUME ANY TOBACCO PRODUCTS, AND OBESITY RATES AMONG EMPLOYEES ARE VERY LOW.
---WHICH COMPANIES IN TEXAS, IF ANY, DO THE MOST TO TANGIBLY REWARD CREATIVE BRAINSTORMING BY EMPLOYEES OF THAT COMPANY, AND WHICH COMPANIES OF TEXAS OFFER THE MOST EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR "IDEA PERSONS"?
---WHICH INVENTORS RESIDING IN TEXAS IN THE MOST RECENT 12-MONTH PERIOD HAVE HAD INVENTIONS OF THEIRS PATENTED THAT HOLD THE GREATEST PROMISE FOR HELPING TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF MANY TEXANS.
---WHY IS IT THAT MOST COMPANIES AND MOST EMPLOYERS IN TEXAS DO NOT GENEROUSLY FINANCIALLY REWARD CREATIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE BRAINSTORMING EFFORTS BY THEIR EMPLOYEES?
---WHICH COMPANIES OF TEXAS OF TODAY CURRENTLY RANK AMONG THE MOST CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE AND LAW-ABIDING OF ALL COMPANIES IN OUR ENTIRE NATION?
---WHY IS IT THAT MOST EMPLOYERS IN TEXAS CURRENTLY DO NOT FINANCIALLY REWARD AND PROTECT THE JOB SECURITY OF EMPLOYEES OF THEIRS WHO IN A COURAGEOUS AND DILIGENT MANNER OFFER REPORTS OF ALLEGED IMPROPRIETY OR ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE LAW OR ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE RULES OF THAT COMPANY ON THE PART OF A COWORKER OR A WORK SUPERVISOR.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN THIS SOUTHWESTERN STATE OF TEXAS WHERE POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS OFTEN EMPHASIZE THEIR OWN CITED "INTEGRITY," THERE CURRENTLY IS NO APPARENT WEBSITE THAT IS EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO PROVIDING FACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT EACH AND EVERY PUBLIC OFFICIAL OR ELECTIVE OFFICIAL ANYWHERE IN TEXAS WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF ACCEPTING AN ILLEGAL BRIBE.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN A STATE THAT DERIVES ITS NAME FROM THE CADDO INDIAN WORD FOR FRIEND, AND A STATE WHOSE OFFICIAL MOTTO IS "FRIENDSHIP," AND A STATE WHERE A FRIENDSHIP DAY WAS COMMEMORATED ANNUALLY FOR MANY YEARS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY ON THE MARCH 7 BIRTHDAY OF TEXAN CIVIC LEADER ELEANOR BRACKENRIDGE, THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY HAS CHOSEN NOT TO OFFICIALLY AND PERMANENTLY REVIVE THAT GREAT ANNUAL TRADITION IN OUR STATE'S HISTORY BY DESIGNATING ONE DAY OF EACH AND EVERY YEAR AS TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN A STATE THAT TAKES PRIDE ON HAVING THE FRIENDLIEST PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, THE NUMBER OF HOMICIDES AND ATTEMPTED HOMICIDES THAT OCCUR IN TEXAS EACH YEAR ARE SHOCKINGLY HIGH. SHOULD FRIENDLINESS AS A STATEWIDE PERSONALITY TRAIT BE RE-EVALUATED IN VIEW OF THE SHOCKINGLY HIGH RATE OF VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT MUCH OF OUR STATE?
---WHY IS IT THAT THIS LONE STAR STATE THAT TAKES PRIDE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IN LAWFULLY PUNISHING OFFENDERS THROUGH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, HAS ITSELF FAILED TO APPROVE AN AMENDMENT TO OUR STATE CONSTITUTION THAT AUTHORIZES COURT-ORDERED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (COURT-ORDERED EXCECUTION, OR DEATH BY INJECTION AS ADMINISTERED BY THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STATE AGENCY) OF INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED IN A COURT OF LAW IN TEXAS OF THE BARBAROUS AND TRULY HEINOUS CRIME OF ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE.
--WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS HAVE FAILED TO PUBLISH AN ADEQUATE NUMBER OF EDITORIALS AND FEATURE STORIES PRAISING THE TEXAN CIVIC LEADERS OR POLITICAL LEADERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE MOST EXTENSIVELY AND THE MOST SIGNIFICANTLY TOWARD DETERRENCE OF CRIME IN THIS STATE.
---WHY IS IT THAT OUR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS CURRENTLY DO VERY LITTLE OR NOTHING TO HONOR AND FINANCIALLY REWARD CONSCIENTIOUSLY AND COURAGEOUSLY VIGILANT PRIVATE CITIZENS IN TEXAS WHO HAVE A STRONG CIVIC DEVOTION TO CONTACTING LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND INFORMING THEM ABOUT POSSIBLE CRIMINAL-LAW EVIDENCE OF SUSPECTED ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES THAT THOSE PRIVATE CITIZENS HAVE OBSERVED OR HEARD ABOUT.
---WHY HAS THERE BEEN A DEARTH OF OPED COLUMNS AND EDITORIALS OFFERING PRACTICAL AND HELPFUL ADVICE TO PRIVATE CITIZENS IN TEXAS WHO HAVE OBSERVED POSSIBLE CRIMINAL-LAW EVIDENCE OF ILLICIT-DRUG ACTIVITIES IN OUR STATE, BUT WHO FEAR THAT IF THEY CONTACT THE POLICE OR TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY OR FBI TO REPORT THAT POSSIBLE EVIDENCE, THOSE ADMIRABLY VILIGANT PRIVATE CITIZENS IN TEXAS MIGHT THEN BE SUBJECTED TO VIOLENT RETALIATION FROM THE ILLICIT-DRUG UNDERWORLD.
--WHICH CITY OF TEXAS WITH MORE THAN 50,000 RESIDENTS BOASTS OF HAVING THE LOWEST PERCENTAGE OF ALL RESIDENTS OF THAT CITY WHO REPORTEDLY CONSUMED AN ILLICIT DRUG AT LEAST ONCE IN THE MOST RECENT 12-MONTH PERIOD. WHY HAS THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE OR THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS APPARENTLY CHOSEN AGAINST OFFICIALLY AND PUBLICLY HONORING THAT WHOLESOME CITY OF AT LEAST 50,000 RESIDENTS AS THE 'DRUG-FREE CAPITAL OF TEXAS.'
--WHY IS IT THAT THE NUMBER OF OCCASIONS EACH YEAR IN WHICH A TEXAN MEDIA COMPANY DESCRIBES A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL BASED IN TEXAS AS BEING "BEYOND REPROACH" OR "INCORRUPTIBLE" OR "SOMEONE OF THE HIGHEST MORAL STANDARDS," REMAINS DISMAYINGLY LOW.
---WHAT MORE SHOULD TEXAN SOCIETY AND TEXAN GOVERNMENT AND THE TEXAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY DO IN ORDER TO GENEROUSLY REWARD HONESTY AND IDEALISM AND OBEDIENCE OF THE LAW BY TEXANS?
--WHY IS IT THAT TEXANS TAKE PRIDE IN BEING THE FRIENDLIEST PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, YET THEY ALL TOO OFTEN BALK AT ANY AND ALL FORMS OF MASS TRANSPORTATION INVOLVING A BUS OR PASSENGER TRAIN OR RAIL-TRANSIT SYSTEM, WHEN IT SHOULD BE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR TO FRIENDLY TEXANS THAT THEY HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR FRIENDLY CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW ACQUAINTANCES WHOM THEY MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON BUSES AND PASSENGER TRAINS AND LIGHT-RAIL PASSENGER VEHICLES.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE VERY STATE TAKING MORE PRIDE IN THE FRIENDLINESS AND POLITENESS OF ITS PEOPLE IS A STATE WHERE A SUBSTANTIAL SHARE OF EACH SESSION OF THAT STATE'S LEGISLATURE IS DEVOTED TO UNCIVIL AND UNFRIENDLY AND DISRUPTIVE FILIBUSTERING ATTEMPTS BY NUMEROUS STATE LEGISLATORS THAT PREVENT THE HOUSE OR SENATE OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE FROM SIMPLY VOTING ON ANY PARTICULAR BILL BEFORE THAT GOVERNING BODY.
---WHICH CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAVE PUBLICLY STATED THAT THEY ARE OPPOSED TO THE VERY DISRUPTIVE AND TIME-WASTEFUL TRADITION OF "FILIBUSTERING" DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS IN AUSTIN, AND THAT THEY THEMSELVES AS STATE LEGISLATORS REFUSE TO EVER PARTICIPATE IN ANY FILIBUSTER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
--WHAT HAS BEEN THE LONG-TERM TREND IN THE NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF ALL TEXANS WITH NO HISPANIC ANCESTRY WHO CAN THEMSELVES SPEAK SPANISH EITHER FLUENTLY OR SEMI-FLUENTLY.
---WHY IS IT THAT DESPITE TEXAS'S STATUS AS A GATEWAY TO LATIN AMERICA, THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS HAVE NOT PUBLICIZED OR PROMOTED ANY LIVE THEATER OR MOVIE THEATER IN OUR STATE OF WHICH I MYSELF AM AWARE, WHERE THE PLAYS AND SCREENPLAYS AND DIRECTORS OF A VARIETY OF LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS ARE EXCLUSIVELY HIGHLIGHTED ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS. WHY, IN SHORT, IS THERE NO 'THEATER OF THE AMERICAS' THAT OFFERS BOTH LIVE-THEATER AND MOTION-PICTURE PRODUCTIONS HIGHLIGHTING CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY NATIVES OF EACH OF THE LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS AND TERRITORIES, INCLUDING MEXICO, PERU, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA, CHILE, PANAMA, EL SALVADOR, COSTA RICA, PARAGUAY, BOLIVIA, ECUADOR, CUBA, BRAZIL, GUYANA, BELIZE, AND THE AMERICAN-OWNED ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO.
---WHAT HAS BEEN THE LONG-TERM TREND IN THE TOTAL NUMBER AND PERCENT OF CURENT TEXAN AUTHORS WHO HAVE HAD AT LEAST ONE FICTIONAL NOVEL OF THEIRS PUBLISHED? WHICH STATEWIDE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE MOST TOWARD HELPING TO PROMOTE AN INCREASE IN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLISHED NOVELISTS RESIDING IN TEXAS.
---WHICH TEXAN MUSICIANS OR TEXAN SINGERS HAVE WRITTEN SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL SONG LYRICS THAT MAKE THAT MEDIA COMPANY VERY PROUD TO DECLARE THAT THOSE MUSICIANS AND SINGERS REISDE IN TEXAS.
---WHY ARE THE FREQUENTLY OFFENSIVE and FREQUENTLY ANNOYING PIANO MUSIC AND ELECTRIC-GUITAR MUSIC STILL BEING OVEREMPHASIZED IN THE TEXAN MUSIC SCENE, WHILE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS THAT ARE TRULY PLEASANT AND CHEERFUL AND VERY ENJOYABLE TO LISTEN TO, SUCH AS THE SAXOPHONE, THE CLARINET, THE FLUTE, THE PICCOLO, THE OBOE, THE TROMBONE, THE TRUMPET, THE CLASSICAL GUITAR, THE WOODEN RECORDER OF BAROQUE ERA MUSIC, THE HARP, AND THE CELLO REMAIN WOEFULLY NEGLECTED AND SNUBBED BY THE TEXAN MUSIC SCENE.
--WHY IS IT THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAS FAILED TO APPROVE ANY LAW PROHIBITING THE USE OF NOISE POLLUTION AS A POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS WEAPON, OR AS A MEANS OF ALLEGEDLY "BRAINWASHING," ANY TEXAN RESIDENT BEING SUBJECTED TO THOSE UNWANTED COMMUNICATIONS (THE NOISE POLLUTION) AGAINST HIS WISHES.
---WHY HASN'T THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE APPROVED A NEW STATE LAW MAKING THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STATE AGENCY LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR UPHOLDING AND PROTECTING THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF TEXAN RESIDENTS WHO COMPLAIN IN WRITING TO THAT STATE AGENCY THAT THEY WERE VICTIMIZED BY UNWANTED AND INJURIOUS NOISE POLLUTION THAT WAS INFLICTED ON THEM IN TEXAS.
--WHY IS IT THAT NO MEDIA COMPANY OF WHICH I'M AWARE HAS PUBLISHED A RECENT EDITORIAL PRAISING THE PUBLIC OFFICIAL IN TEXAS WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED THE MOST TOWARD PROTECTING THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF ANY AND ALL LAW-ABIDING TEXANS.
--WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS COMPLAINED VEHEMENTLY ABOUT ANY CURRENT OR RECENT CASES IN TEXAS IN WHICH ANY RESIDENT OF TEXAS AGAINST HIS WISHES HAS BEEN DENIED FULL AND IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO FULLY RELIABLE AND FULLY HONEST NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICES ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE IN TEXAS.
--WHY IS IT THAT NO MEDIA COMPANY IN TEXAS OF WHICH I'M AWARE HAS PUBLISHED A RECENT EDITORIAL PRAISING THE PUBLIC OFFICIAL OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY IN TEXAS WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED THE MOST IN RECENT YEARS TOWARD PROTECTING THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION RIGHTS OF ANY AND ALL LAW-ABIDING TEXANS.
--WHO ARE THE LAW-ABIDING AND HONEST CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE ANTI-DRUG COMMUNITY IN TEXAS, AND WHICH STATE OF TEXAS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE MOST TOWARD PROMOTING THEIR NOBLE CAUSE?
--WHO ARE THE LAW-ABIDING AND HONEST CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE ANTI-ALCOHOL COMMUNITY IN TEXAS, AND WHICH STATE OF TEXAS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE CONTRIBUTED
THE MOST TOWRAD THEIR NOBLE ANTI-ALCOHOL CAUSE?
--IS THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS, AND ARE THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS, DOING ENOUGH TO FULLY PROTECT AND UPHOLD THE FULL RANGE OF LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF CLEAN-TALKING, NON-PROFANE, AND LAW-ABIDING AND CIVIL TEXANS?
---TO WHAT EXTENT HAS THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY OR THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY ALLEGEDLY BRIBED ANY CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE OR ANY OTHER STATE OF TEXAS OFFICIALS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, AND THEREBY UNDERMINED THE LEVEL OF INTEGRITY OF STATE GOVERNMENT IN TEXAS.
--How common is it in 21st Century Texas for an adult Texan resident to purchase tobacco products, such as a pack of cigarettes, and then commit the unconscionable crime of giving that pack of cigarettes to a Texan young person under age 18.
--WHY IS IT THAT MOST TEXANS OF TODAY KNOW VIRTUALLY NOTHING ABOUT THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE STATE AGENCY THAT'S HEADQUARTERED IN AUSTIN? WHY IS IT THAT MOST TEXANS OF TODAY HAVE HAD NO DIRECT CONTACT. SUCH AS THROUGH PHONE CALLS OR LETTERS OR E-MAIL CORRESPONDENCE, WITH THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE STATE AGENCY?
---WHY IS IT THAT IF ALL TEXANS OF TODAY WERE ASKED IN A SURVEY TO CITE THE LEGAL NAME OF THE CURRENT HEAD OF THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE, 99 PERCENT OR MORE OF ALL RESPONDENTS TO THAT SURVEY WOULD NOT KNOW THE CORRECT ANSWER TO THIS VERY BASIC QUESTION.
--WHY HASN'T FACIAL HAIR ON MALE PERSONS IN TEXAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY THE NEWS MEDIA IN TEXAS AS A PUBLIC HYGIENE ISSUE AND A THREAT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF ALL TEXANS.
--WHY IS IT THAT NO MEDIA COMPANY IN TEXAS HAS EXPRESSED CONCERN IN WRITING ABOUT ATHEISTIC TEXANS' AND ANTI-RELIGIOUS TEXANS' CONTEMPT AND DEFIANCE TOWARD THE ASSERTED FREEDOM OF RELIGION RIGHTS OF LAW-ABIDING AND DEISTIC TEXANS SUCH AS MYSELF.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN THIS U.S. STATE CLAIMING TO REVERE THE RIGHT OF ANY INDIVIDUAL ADULT TEXAN RESIDENT TO SET HIS OWN COURSE IN LIFE, AND TO SET HIS OWN PRIORITIES IN ALL ASPECTS OF HIS OWN LIFE, THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS HAVE EXHIBITED A DEFIANCE AND CONTEMPT TOWARD THE LEGAL RIGHT OF SOME LAW-ABIDING ADULT TEXANS TO EXERCISE THOSE VERY SAME CONSTITUTIONALLY-PROTECTED LEGAL RIGHTS IN THEIR OWN LIFE.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAS CHOSEN TO PERMIT THE CONTINUATION OF INCESSANT YEAR-ROUND NOISE POLLUTION IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, THAT HAS BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY DOCUMENTED IN WRITING BY A FIRST-RATE EAR, NOSE, AND THROAT SPECIALIST, DR. DAVID TOBEY OF AUSTIN, AS HAVING SIGNIFICANTLY AND PERMANENTLY HARMED AND INJURED THE HEARING CAPACITY AND MEDICAL HEALTH OF A LONGTIME AND LAW-ABIDING AUSTIN RESIDENT (MYSELF, FOR INSTANCE) OVER THE COURSE OF THE MULTI-YEAR TIME PERIOD SINCE 2005, FOR INSTANCE.
--WHY ISN'T TEXAS THE LEADING STATE IN THE ENTIRE NATION IN SOLAR POWER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT?
--WHY HASN'T ANY CITY IN TEXAS BUILT A SOLAR-POWERED MAYOR'S MANSION IN WHICH THE MAYOR OF THAT CITY IS EXPECTED TO RESIDE THROUGHOUT HIS TERM OF OFFICE IN THAT POSITION, WITH THAT ARCHITECTUALLY BEAUTIFUL SOLAR-POWERED MAYOR'S MANSION HELPING TO SHOWCASE THAT CITY'S MESSAGE TO ALL RESIDENTS AND ALL VISITORS THAT STATEWIDE CONVERSION TO RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES IS CRUCIAL IN 21ST CENTURY TEXAS.
---WHY ISN'T TEXAS THE LEADING STATE IN THE ENTIRE NATION IN WIND POWER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT?
---HAS ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT OR SCHOOL IN TEXAS BUILT WIND-POWER OR SOLAR POWER ELECTRICITY GENERATORS ON THE STRUCTURE OR GROUNDS OF THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT'S OR SCHOOL'S FOOTBALL STADIUM ---- RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATORS THAT ENABLE THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT OR SCHOOL TO BOAST OF HOSTING ATHLETIC EVENTS ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS THAT ARE POWERED PRIMARILY BY WIND POWER ELECTRICITY GENERATORS AND BY SOLAR POWER ELECTRICITY GENERATORS.
---WHY ISN'T TEXAS THE LEADING STATE IN THE NATION IN HYDROELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT?
---WHICH PHILANTHROPISTS OF TEXAS HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE MOST GENEROUSLY TOWARD EXPANSION OR IMPROVEMENT OF RENEWABLE-ENERGY GENERATING FACILITIES, OR TOWARD RENEWABLE-ENERGY SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROJECTS, THAT BENEFIT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN TEXAS.
---WHICH COMPANIES OF TEXAS CURRENTLY HAVE BEEN RATED BY THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS OR OTHER AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES AS BEING THE "GREENEST" IN TEXAS, BASED ON THOSE COMPANIES' LEVEL OF CONSERVATION OF FOSSIL FUELS AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES, AND THOSE COMPANIES' LEVEL OF PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
---WHY HASN'T THE NEWS MEDIA IN TEXAS INSISTED ON PUBLICIZING AN AUTHORITATIVE ESTIMATE OF TEXAS'S PER-CAPITA RANKING AMONG THE U.S. STATES IN LEVEL OF ENERGY CONSERVATION, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON CONSERVATION OF FOSSIL FUELS.
---WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLICIZED NUMEROUS EDITORIALS DENOUNCING POLICIES AND CONDUCT BY THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS THAT HAVE PRIMARILY ACCOUNTED FOR OUR ENTIRE STATE'S STANDING AS ONE OF THE MOST ENERGY-WASTEFUL STATES OF THIS ENTIRE NATION.
---WHY HAVEN'T THE MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLISHED NUMEROUS EDITORIALS IN A WIDE VARIETY OF NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES OF THIS STATE THAT EACH DECRIED TEXAS'S VERY DUBIOUS DISTINCTION AS BEING ONE OF THE LEADING SOURCES OF THE GLOBAL WARMING EFFECT AND ACCOMPANYING ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD.
---WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLISHED NUMEROUS EDITORIALS EXPRESSING GRAVE CONCERN THAT TEXAS'S INFAMOUS ROLE AS ONE OF THE LEADING SOURCES OF THE GLOBAL WARMING EFFECT WILL INEVITABLY INVITE MASSIVE LAWSUITS AGAINST THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS AND AGAINST HEAVILY-POLLUTING CORPORATIONS BASED IN TEXAS THAT ONE OR MORE PLAINTIFFS MIGHT ALLEGE IN A COURT OF LAW TO HAVE BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY BLAMEWORTHY FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS OUTSIDE OF TEXAS THAT ALLEGEDLY INFICTED A LOSS OF LIVES AND EXTENSIVE PROPERTY DAMAGE AND RUINATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND IN A FOREIGN NATION OR IN ANOTHER U.S. STATE.
---WHY HAVEN'T NUMEROUS NEWS MEDIA COMPANIES IN TEXAS PUBLISHED RECENT EDITORIALS DENOUNCING THE ONE CORPORATION OPERATING IN TEXAS THAT IN THE MOST RECENT TWO-YEAR PERIOD ALLEGEDLY HAS BEEN THE LARGEST SOURCE OF AIR POLLUTION INVOLVING THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS.
--HAS THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF TEXAS DONE ENOUGH TO INCREASE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF STATE NATURE PARKS THROUGHOUT OUR STATE, INCLUDING STATE PARKS WITH CAMPING FACILITIES, IN RESPONSE TO THE RAPID INCREASE IN THE POPULATION OF TEXAS.
---WHY AREN'T TEXAN DAILY NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHING NUMEROUS EDITORIALS OR FEATURE STORIES PRAISING THE RUBY-RED GRAPEFRUIT INDUSTRY AND RUBY-RED GRAPEFRUIT JUICE INDUSTRY OF TEXAS, AND EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT THE LOSS OF RUBY-RED AGRICULTURAL CROPLAND AS A RESULT OF RAPID URBANIZATION OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY REGION OF TEXAS.
---WHICH STATE LEGISLATOR OF TEXAS OR OTHER STATE OFFICIAL OF TEXAS HAS DEVELOPED A PUBLIC-POLICY RECOMMENDATION DESIGNED TO MORE EFFECTIVELY PROTECT THE TOTAL ACREAGE AND QUALITY OF THE RUBY-RED GRAPEFRUIT-GROWING AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY IN TEXAS.
---HAS THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OFFERED PUBLIC-POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW THE TOTAL EXISTING QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF AGRICULTURAL CROPLAND AND RANCHLAND IN TEXAS CAN BE PROTECTED AS FULLY AS POSSIBLE.
---WHY HAVEN'T THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS AND THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE ASSIGNED HIGHEST POSSIBLE PRIORITY TO HELPING REDUCE THE UNWANTED PREGNANCY RATE THROUGHOUT TEXAS?
--SINCE THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF TEXAS APPARENTLY REMAINS FAR MORE POWERFUL POLITICALLY THAN THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS, BASED ON THE FULL RANGE OF LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND LEGAL POWERS HELD BY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, WHY HAS THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS GENERALLY CHOSEN NOT TO DEVOTE MUCH COVERAGE TO TEXAS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR DEWHURST'S ACTIVITIES AND PUBLIC-POLICY DECISIONS IN THAT STATEWIDE ELECTIVE OFFICE?
---WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLISHED A VARIETY OF RECENT FEATURE STORIES HONORING PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS IN TEXAS IN WHICH THE NUMBER OF FEMALE STUDENTS AT THAT PUBLIC SCHOOL WHO BECAME PREGNANT OUT OF WEDLOCK WAS AMONG THE LOWEST IN THE ENTIRE STATE FOR THAT SIZE OF STUDENT ENROLLMENT.
--WHICH "PREVENTION OF UNWANTED-PREGNANCY" EDUCATION PROGRAMS BEING OFFERED TO FEMALE YOUTHS IN TEXAS ARE CURRENTLY THE MOST EFFECTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL?
---WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLISHED A VARIETY OF FEATURE STORIES HONORING PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS IN TEXAS WHERE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF FEMALE STUDENTS THERE WHO REPORTEDLY BECAME PREGNANT OUT OF WEDLOCK DURING THE MOST RECENT SCHOOL YEAR COMPRISED A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION FROM THE PRIOR SCHOOL YEAR.
---IN WHICH COUNTIES OR CITIES OF TEXAS HAS THE PER-CAPITA INCIDENCE OF UNWANTED PREGNANCIES OCCURRING OUT OF WEDLOCK BEEN THE LOWEST IN RECENT YEARS? WHAT MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR THE COMPARATIVE SUCCESS OF THOSE CITIES AND COUNTIES AT DISCOURAGING UNWANTED PREGNANCY OUT OF WEDLOCK.
--OF THE CITIES AND COUNTIES OF TEXAS THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST RATES OF POVERTY OR THE LOWEST MEDIAN INCOME FOR THAT CITY OR COUNTY, WHICH CITY AND WHICH COUNTY HAS THE LOWEST PER-CAPITA INCIDENCE OF UNWANTED PREGNANCY OCCURRING OUT OF WEDLOCK. WHAT MIGHT ACCOUNT FOR THE COMPARATIVE SUCCESS OF THAT CITY OR COUNTY AT DISCOURAGING UNWANTED PREGNANCY OUT OF WEDLOCK.
---SHOULD THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS PROVIDE MORE SERVICES TO ASSIST SINGLE-PARENT MOTHERS WHOSE FORMER SPOUSES HAVE DEFAULTED ON MAKING CHILD-SUPPORT PAYMENTS?SHOULD THOSE MOTHERS RECEIVE CONSIDERATION FOR SPECIAL LONG-TERM AND LOW-INTEREST LOANS THAT MIGHT ENABLE THOSE MOTHERS TO PROVIDE FOR THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILY, INCLUDING EACH OF THE CHILDREN THOSE MOTHERS ARE RAISING IN THEIR OWN HOME, DURING A MULTI-MONTH OR MULTI-YEAR TIME PERIOD IN WHICH THE FORMER HUSBAND OF THOSE SINGLE-PARENT MONTHS FAILS TO MAKE FULL CHILD-SUPPORT PAYMENTS TO HERSELF.
---WHAT HAS BEEN THE LONG-TERM TREND IN RECENT MONTHS IN THE PERCENTAGE OF ALL TEXAN ADULT WOMEN WHO ARE PURSUING ILLICIT CAREERS AS SEXUAL PROSTITUTES AND WHO, IF SURVEYED ON THE SUBJECT, WOULD STATE THAT THEY WERE UNEMPLOYED FOR MORE THAN SIX MONTHS OR ONE YEAR BEFORE THEY EITHER CHOSE TO PURSUE AN ILLICIT CAREER AS A SEXUAL PROSTITUTE OR THEY WERE PRESSURED INTO AN ILLICIT CAREER AS A SEXUAL PROSTITUTE. ALSO, HAS THERE IN FACT BEEN A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF SEXUAL PROSITUTES IN TEXAS OVER THE COURSE OF THE CURRENT NATIONWIDE ECONOMIC RECESSION OR DEPRESSION.
---WHAT HAS BEEN THE LONG-TERM TREND IN THE PERCENTAGE AND NUMBER OF ALL TEXANS UNDER AGE 17 WHO, AFTER NOT BEING ABLE TO LAND A PAYING PART-TIME JOB FOR THEMSELVES AS MINORS, EITHER PURSUED AN ILLICIT CAREER AS MINORS INVOLVED IN SEXUAL PROSTITUTION OR WERE THEMSELVES PRESSURED BY OTHERS INTO PURSUING AN ILLICIT CAREER AS MINORS INVOLVED IN SEXUAL PROSTITUION.
---WHICH DRUG-TREATMENT AND ALCOHOL-TREATMENT PROGRAMS OF TEXAS APPEAR TO BE OUR STATE'S FINEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL, AND WHY?
---WHICH GAMBLING-ADDICTION TREATMENT PROGRAMS IN TEXAS APPEAR TO HAVE THE HIGHEST RATES OF SUCCESS AT CURING INDIVIDUALS OF THEIR ADDICTION TO GAMBLING.
--WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ALL PERSONS WHO PURCHASE TEXAS LOTTERY TICKETS AT LEAST ONCE PER MONTH ALSO SPEND MONEY ON OTHER TYPES OF GAMBLING ACTIVITIES? IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT PURCHASING TEXAS LOTTERY TICKETS IN TEXAS CAN SPAWN AN OVERALL ADDICTION TO GAMBLING?
---WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU ABOUT THE OVERALL PERCENTAGE OF ALL TEXANS WHO GAMBLE WHEN YOU LEARN FROM A WIDE VARIETY OF TEXANS THAT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, IS A FAVORITE VACATION OR LEISURETIME DESTINATION FOR THEMSELVES. ISN'T IT LIKELY THAT TEXANS WHO ARE ADDICTED TO GAMBLING WILL BE CITE "LAS VEGAS, NEVADA," AS A FAVORITE CITY OF THEIRS TO VISIT?
---WHY IS IT THAT WHEN TEXANS ARE ASKED WHICH CITIES ARE FAVORITES OF THEIRS TO VISIT FOR A VACATION, THEY OFTEN REPLY THAT THEIR FAVORITE "SIN CITIES," AS THEY CALL THEM, INCLUDE PLACES SUCH AS LAS VEGAS, LOS ANGELES, MIAMI, SAN ANTONIO, ETC. DOES THIS IMPLY THAT MANY TEXANS EQUATE FUN AND LEISURETIME ENJOYMENT WITH PURSUING AN ACTIVITY THEY ACKNOWLEDGE AS BEING EITHER ILLICIT OR INVOLVING HEAVY CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL OR CONSUMPTION OF ILLICIT DRUGS OR PURSUIT OF ONE-NIGHT STANDS WITH COMPLETE STRANGERS.
---OF THE CITIES AND COUNTIES OF TEXAS, WHICH CITY OR COUNTY OF OUR STATE HAS OFFERED THE MOST EFFECTIVE PROGRAM FOR ASSISTING HOMELESS PERSONS WHO SEEK TO FIND PERMANENT HOUSING OR LODGING FOR THMESELVES.
--WHY IS IT THAT NEARLY ALL TEXANS WOULD BE STUMPED IF ASKED IN A SURVEY IF THEY COULD CITE THE NAME OF AT LEAST ONE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OR COUNTY GOVERNMENT OR REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OR STATE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WHO AS PART OF HIS CURRENT OFFICIAL DUTIES SERVES AS AN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT LIAISON TO AND OMBUDSMAN SERVING HOMELESS TEXANS.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN A NATION AND WORLD WHERE POPULATION GROWTH IS OUT OF CONTROL AND PERVASIVELY INJURIOUS, THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAS NEVER ONCE APPROVED A RESOLUTION OR NEW STATE LAW CITING AN OFFICIAL GOAL FOR THIS STATE AS A WHOLE OF TEXAS ACHIEVING ZERO POPULATION GROWTH AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
---WHY HAVEN'T SEVERAL OF THE VARIOUS NEWS MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS IN TEXAS DEVOTED EXTENSIVE COVERAGE TO THE NOBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD FAMILY PLANNING AND ZERO POPULATION GROWTH ON THE PART OF CONSCIENTIOUS AND ETHICAL VASECTOMY SURGEONS OF TEXAS.
---WHY HAVEN'T PROMOTERS OF TOURISM IN TEXAS DONE MORE TO PROMOTE PUBLIC POLICIES THAT HELP TO PREVENT AND DETER URBAN SPRAWL THROUGHOUT TEXAS, IT BEING PAINFULLY APPARENT TO ANY TEXAN OF TODAY THAT URBAN SPRAWL SIGNIFICANTLY UNDERMINES THE CURRENT LEVEL OF SCENIC APPEAL OF NEARLY ALL OF THE TEXAN CITIES AND TOWNS AND URBAN AREAS OF TODAY.
---WHY HAVEN'T TEXAN POLITICAL LEADERS AND CIVIC LEADERS ASSIGNED VERY HIGH PRIORITY TO SPONSORSHIP OF COMPREHENSIVE URBAN RE-DESIGN PROGRAMS AIMED AT REDUCING THE LEVEL OF UNSIGHTLINESS AND CHAOS AND ENHANCING THE AESTHETIC OR SCENIC APPEAL OF DOZENS OF CITIES AND TOWNS OF TEXAS.
---WHY HAVEN'T EACH OF THE MOST GEOGRAPHICALLY COMPACT (LAND-CONSERVING) AND PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY CITIES OF TEXAS RECEIVED SPECIAL AWARDS FOR THAT DISTINCTION FROM THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS?
--WHY HAVEN'T THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS PUBLICIZED AND PROMOTED EACH OF THE CITIES AND TOWNS OF TEXAS THAT HAVE ACHIEVED THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF PROGRESS DURING THE MOST RECENT 12-MONTH PERIOD OR TWO-YEAR PERIOD AT MAKING THEIR CITY OR TOWN AS PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY AND FULLY ACCESSIBLE TO PEDESTRIANS THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE MUNICIPALITY.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS THUS FAR HAVE FAILED TO ADEQUATELY PUBLICIZE AND PROMOTE THE 10 OR 20 PHILANTHROPISTS OF TEXAS WHO HAVE EACH MADE THE MOST GENEROUS FINANCIAL DONATIONS TOWARD DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT AND ATTRACTIVE AND PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY PUBLIC SIDEWALKS IN MUNICIPALITIES OF THIS STATE.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS THUS FAR HAVE APPARENTLY FAILED TO ADEQUATELY PUBLICIZE AND PROMOTE THE 20 PHILANTHROPISTS OF TEXAS WHO HAVE EACH MADE THE MOST GENEROUS FINANCIAL DONATIONS TOWARD THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT AND SCENICALLY ATTRACTIVE HIKING TRAILS AND BICYCLE PATHS SET APART FROM MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC IN CITIES AND TOWNS AND RURAL AREAS THROUGHOUT TEXAS.
---WHY IS IT THAT IF MOST TEXANS WERE ASKED IN A SURVEY TO CITE THE 10 CITIES OR MUNICIPALITIES OF TEXAS OF TODAY THAT THEY REGARD AS BEING THE MOST HOSPITABLE FOR PEDESTRIANS SEEKING TO TRAVEL BY FOOT THROUGHOUT THAT MUNICIPALITY, 99 PERCENT OF THOSE SURVEY RESPONDENTS WOULD BE STUMPED BY THAT QUESTION. "IT SEEMS TO ME THAT PORT ARANSAS IS MORE PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY THAN MOST, SINCE IT'S ON A NARROW ISLAND AND THAT LIMITS URBAN SPRAWL THERE," MIGHT BE THE TYPE OF RESPONSE THAT A SURVEY OF THAT TYPE MIGHT ELICIT. "HOWEVER, I CAN'T CURRENTLY RECALL WHETHER PORT ARANSAS OFFERS PUBLIC SIDEWALKS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD THROUGHOUT THAT CITY. SO IT'S POSSIBLE THAT EVEN PORT ARANSAS COULD BE FAULTED AS NOT BEING ADEQUATELY PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY."
---WHY HAS NO CITY OR COUNTY IN TEXAS PURSUED ANY PUBLIC POLICIES TO RESTRICT OR PROHIBIT ONE-STORY REAL-ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, IT BEING ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT MULTI-STORY REAL-ESTATE DEVELOPMENT CONSERVES LAND, PREVENTS UNSIGHTLY URBAN SPRAWL, HELPS MAKE TEXAN CITIES MORE PEDESTRIAN-FRIENDLY AND HOSPITABLE, AND CONSERVES ENERGY.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE STILL TO THIS DAY HAS FAILED TO APPROVE ANY STATE LAW REQUIRING FULL AND COMPREHENSIVE AND YEAR-ROUND PARTICIPATION IN RECYCLING OF ITEMS SUCH AS GLASS, ALUMINUM, PLASTIC GOODS, PAPER PRODUCTS, ETC., BY ANY AND ALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND EMPLOYERS IN TEXAS.
--WHY HAVEN'T THE SO-CALLED "DRY COUNTIES" OF TEXAS---THE ADMIRABLE TEXAN COUNTIES THAT CURRENTLY PROHIBIT THE SALE OF DRINKING ALCOHOL INSIDE THOSE COUNTIES---WORKED TOGETHER TO HELP FINANCE A PROPOSED "TEXAN INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF ALCOHOL-FREE LIFESTYLES" IN ONE OF THE CURRENT COUNTIES OF OUR STATE WHERE THE SALE OF ALCOHOL IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.
---WHICH MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE DURING THE MOST RECENT SESSION OF THAT GOVERNING BODY FOR OUR ENTIRE STATE, REPORTEDLY EACH REFRAINED FROM CONSUMING ANY DRINKING ALCOHOL THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE MULTI-MONTH SESSION OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE.
---IS TEXAS HELPING MEXICO TO DEVELOP RENEWABLE-ENERGY-GENERATING INDUSTRIES AND RENEWABLE-ENERGY-POWERED BUSINESSES AND RESIDENCES THROUGHOUT MEXICO?
---WHY HAVE NO TEXAN POLITICAL LEADERS ALLEGED THAT TEXAN RESIDENTS WHO CONSUME ILLICIT DRUGS IMPORTED FROM MEXICO ARE THEMSELVES PARTLY BLAMEWORTHY FOR THE APPALLINGLY HIGH LEVELS OF VIOLENCE IN MEXICO TODAY THAT RELATE TO DRUG-TRAFFICKING IN MEXICO.
---WHY HAVE NO MEDIA COMPANIES OR TEXAN POLITICAL LEADERS ALLEGED THAT THE WIDESPREAD ILLICIT PRACTICE OF COCKFIGHTING IN OKLAHOMA INVOLVING THE SADISTIC TORTURE OF CHICKENS HAS, IN FACT, BEEN FINANCED IN PART BY CURRENT RESIDENTS OF TEXAS OR BY NATIVES OF TEXAS.
---IF THERE IS IN FACT A TEXAN CONNECTION TO THE ILICIT COCKFIGHTING UNDERWORLD IN OKLAHOMA, THEN HAS THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY STATE LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCY ADEQUATELY INVESTIGATED ANY SUCH TIES TO DETERMINE WHETHER ONE OR MORE CURRENT OR FORMER TEXANS SHOULD BE ARRESTED BY THE TEXAS DPS AND FORMALLY CHARGED WITH A FELONY CRIME RELATING TO ILLICIT COCK-FIGHTING ACTIVITIES IN OKLAHOMA.
---WHY IS IT THAT TEXAS STILL, TO THIS DAY, HAS NO HIGH-SPEED INTER-CITY PASSENGER-TRAIN SERVICES THAT TRANSPORT TEXANS FROM ONE CITY TO ANOTHER IN THIS STATE, WHEN U.S. STATES SUCH AS PENNSYLVANIA AND CALIFORNIA, BY CONTRAST, ALREADY HAVE HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICES.
--WHY IS IT THAT THE SHOCKINGLY HIGH NUMBER OF INTERSECTIONS ON THE ROADWAYS OF TEXAS BETWEEN MOTOR VEHICLE TRAFFIC AND PASSENGER TRAINS HAS NOT PROMPTED THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE TO INSIST ON THE CONSTRUCTION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE OF TRAIN RAIL OVERPASSES AT THOSE POINTS THAT ELIMINATE THE RISK OF A MOTOR VEHICLE COLLIDING WITH A PASSENGER TRAIN THERE.
--WHY IS IT THAT MANY OF THE MAJOR STREETS OR THOROUGHFARES IN TEXAN CITIES AND TEXAN TOWNS OF TODAY ARE EITHER INADEQUATELY LIGHTED FROM ANY AND ALL LIGHTPOLES PLACED ALONG THOSE STREETS, OR DO NOT HAVE ANY GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED PUBLIC LIGHT POLES ALONG THOSE STREETS.
---WHY IS IT THAT NO CITY IN TEXAS HAS FOLLOWED THE ADMIRABLE LEAD OF NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, BY ALSO BANNING ANY AND ALL TRANS FATS FROM FOODS AND BEVERAGES BEING SERVED TO CUSTOMERS IN RESTAURANTS INSIDE THAT CITY.
---WHY IS IT THAT NO STATE HEALTH OFFICIAL IN TEXAS HAS EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE ALARMINGLY HIGH LEVELS OF SATURATED FATS FOUND IN THE CULINARY DISHES OF NEARLY ALL OF THE MEXICANS-STYLE RESTAURANTS THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS.
---WHY HASN'T THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES EXTENSIVELY AND FREQUENTLY PUBLICIZED ALARMING FACTUAL INFORMATION TO ALL TEXANS ABOUT THE ESTIMATED NUMBER AND ESTIMATED PERCENTAGE OF ALL 21ST CENTURY TEXANS---INCLUDING BY AGE GROUP----WHO REPORTEDLY HAVE CONTRACTED THE OFTEN-DEBILITATING AND LIFE-THREATENING MEDICAL DISEASE OF DIABETES.
---IS THE CURRENT NATIONWIDE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION SPAWNING AN INCREASE IN ORGANIZED CRIME ACTIVITIES IN TEXAS? IF SO, WHY HAVEN'T THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AND THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY DEVELOPED A COMPREHENSIVE AND INNOVATIVE NEW STRATEGY AIMED AT DETERRING ORGANIZED CRIME ACTIVITIES DURING THIS PERIOD OF FINANCIAL CRISIS THROUGHOUT OUR STATE.
--WHY HAVEN'T THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS PUBLICIZED SEMI-ANNUAL OR MONTHLY OR ANNNUAL STATISTICS ON THE TOTAL REPORTED NUMBER OF TEXANS OR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RESIDENTS OF THAT CITY OR COUNTY IN TEXAS WHO, IN EACH SUCH CASE, ATTEMPTED TO COMMIT SUICIDE DURING THAT MULTI-MONTH OR MULTI-WEEK TIME PERIOD.
--WHY HAVEN'T THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS DONE MORE TO PUBLICIZE SEMI-ANNUAL OR MONTHLY OR ANNUAL STATISTICS ON THE TOTAL REPORTED NUMBER OF TEXANS OR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RESIDENTS OF THAT CITY OR COUNTY IN TEXAS WHO, IN EACH SUCH CASE, REPORTEDLY COMMITTED SUICIDE DURING THAT MULTI-MONTH OR MULTI-WEEK TIME PERIOD.
---WHY HAVEN'T DAILY NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER NEWS MEDIA COMPANIES THROUGHOUT TEXAS PUBLISHED OR SPONSORED EDITORIALS DEPLORING THE FAILURE BY VARIOUS RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS AND VARIOUS RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS THROUGHOUT TEXAS TO SUCCESSFULLY PREVENT EITHER THE CRIME OF ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE OR THE CRIME OF HOMICIDE IN OUR STATE THAT IS BEING COMMITTED BY, OR HAS BEEN COMMITTED BY, RESPECTIVE DUES-PAYING OR SELF-DESCRIBED CURRENT INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THOSE RELIGIOUS GROUPS.
---WHY IS IT THAT WHILE TEXAS HAS A HIGHER NUMBER OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS RESIDENTS THAN ANY OTHER U.S. STATE, NEWS ABOUT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE APPARENTLY ALLOTS TOWARD SICLE-CELL ANEMIA MEDICAL RESEARCH (RESEARCH THAT IS PARTICULARLY HELPFUL TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS) IS EITHER IGNORED BY MOST MEDIA COMPANIES IN TEXAS OR NOT ADEQUATELY PUBLICIZED.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN THIS U.S. STATE WHERE THE STATE PRISON INMATE POPULATION IS NO DOUBT THE LARGEST FOR ANY STATE IN THE ENTIRE NATION, THE NEWS MEDIA FAIL TO ADEQUATELY PUBLICIZE AND PROMOTE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF THE VARIOUS PUBLIC-SECTOR AND PRIVATE-SECTOR REHABILITATION PROGRAMS THAT ARE AIMED AT LOWERING THE CRIMINAL-RECIDIVISM RATE IN TEXAS.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA IN TEXAS VIRTUALLY NEVER OR NEVER PUBLISH FEATURE STORIES AND EDITORIAL COLUMNS THAT PROMOTE AND CONGRATULATE MENTAL-HEALTH EXPERTS IN OUR STATE WHO SUCCESSFULLY AND ROUTINELY HELP TEXANS BECOME TACTFULLY HONEST ON A CONSISTENT BASIS AFTER THOSE SAME TEXANS HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED AS BEING PATHOLOGICAL LIARS.
---WHY IS IT THAT STRICTLY-MUTUAL-CONSENT AND STRICTLY-PLATONIC, MUTUALLY-POLITE AND MUTUALLY-CONSTRUCTIVE PERSONAL AND CAREER-RELATED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN IN TEXAS HAVE NOT BEEN ADEQUATELY FOSTERED AND NURTURED AND PROMOTED BY THE TEXAN MEDIA, TEXAN SOCIETY, AND TEXAN GOVERNMENT.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS HAVE THUS FAR FAILED TO CHAMPION THE CAUSE OF PROPOSED PUBLIC ERECTION OF A NEW MONUMENT OR NEW PUBLIC STATUE IN OUR CAPITAL CITY OF AUSTIN THAT HONORS DOZENS OF FAMOUS TEXANS OR PROMINENT TEXAN CIVIC LEADERS WHO ARE NOTED FOR HAVING LED CIVIL AND LAW-ABIDING AND HONEST LIFESTYLES IN WHICH THEY COMPLETELY ABSTAINED FROM CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO PRODUCTS, MARIJUANA, OR ANY OTHER ILLICIT DRUG, OVER A MULTI-DECADE PERIOD OF THEIR ADULTHOOD OR ON A LIFELONG BASIS.
---WHY IS IT THAT OUR NEWS MEDIA IN TEXAS HAVE NOT INSISTED ON THE COMPILATION OF ANNUALLY UPDATED AND AUTHORITATIVE ESTIMATES ON THE NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF ALL TEXANS WHO, FOR INSTANCE, ARE:
(A) ADDICTED TO LICIT DRUGS.
(B) ADDICTED TO THE ILLICIT DRUG MARIJUANA.
(C) ADDICTED TO ONE OR MORE OF THE OTHER ILLICIT DRUGS.
(D) ADDICTED TO TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
(E) ADDICTED TO GAMBLING.
(F) ADDICTED TO ALCOHOL.
(G) ADDICTED TO CELL PHONE USAGE FOR MORE THAN TWO TOTAL HOURS OF PERSONAL CONVERSATION TIME PER DAY.
(H) ADDICTED TO PHYSICALLY BEATING OR PHYSICALLY WHIPPING THEIR OWN SO-CALLED ROMANTIC PARTNERS OR SO-CALLED SEX PARTNERS, OR ADDICTED TO PERMITTING OR AUTHORIZING A ROMANTIC PARTNER OR SEX PARTNER TO PHYSICALLY BEAT OR PHYSICALLY WHIP ONESELF.
(I) ADDICTED TO SPEAKING PROFANELY OR OBSCENELY.
(J) ADDICTED TO HAVING YET ANOTHER TATTOO EMBLAZONED ON ONE'S BODY.
(K) ADDICTED TO THE PURSUIT OF INDISCRIMINATE SEX WITH NUMEROUS SEX PARTNERS, INCLUDING MANY COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS SEX PARTNERS, AS A CITED "LIFESTYLE PRACTICE."
(L) ADDICTED TO TELLING MAJOR LIES OR ENGAGING ON SIGNIFICANT PREVARICATION ON A HABITUAL AND DAILY AND YEAR-ROUND BASIS.
---WHAT PERCENTAGE OF ALL EXTENSIVELY-TATTOED TEXANS OF THE 21ST CENTURY HAVE ATEMPTED TO COMMIT THE CRIME OF SUICIDE AT LEAST ONCE IN THE 10-YEAR PERIOD SINCE 2000? IS THERE RECENT SOCIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE IN TEXAS INDICATING THAT THOSE TEXANS WHO ARE HEAVILY TATOOED EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT SELF-ALIENATION AND SELF-HATRED AS A RESULT, AND FOR THESE AND OTHER REASONS ARE MORE LIKELY TO ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE THAN ARE ALL TEXANS WHO EITHER DO NOT HAVE ANY TATTOOS ON THEIR BODY, OR ALL TEXANS WHO HAVE ONLY ONE OR TWO TATTOOES ON THEIR BODY.
---WHY IS IT THAT NO NEWSPAPER IN TEXAS OF WHICH I'M AWARE HAS PUBLISHED A RECENT EDITORIAL OR SERIES OF NEWS-FEATURE ARTICLES EXPLORING AND DEPLORING THE GROWING TREND TOWARD SADOMASOCHISTIC AND OFTEN-ILLEGAL PRACTICES SUCH AS ATTEMPTED CENSORSHIP BY MANY TEXANS OF ANYONE WHOSE POLITICAL OR RELIGIOUS OR PERSONAL BELIEFS OR CITED "PREJUDICES" OR CITED "ANTIPATHIES" ARE OFFENSIVE TO THOSE TEXNANS, BEATING AND WHIPPING, TATOOING OF ONE'S OWN BODY, BODY-PIERCING OF TONGUES AND NOSES, SLAVERY AND QUASI-SLAVERY, INTER-GENERATIONAL EXPLOITATION OF YOUNGER PERSONS, INCLUDING LEGAL-STATUS-ADULT YOUNGER PERSONS, STALKING OF OTHERS AND PERVASIVE VIOLATIONS OF AND DEFIANCE OF THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF OTHERS, USE OF NOISE POLLUTION AS A MEANS OF ILLEGALLY PUNISHING AND ILLEGALLY ATTEMTING TO HARM OR INJURE SOMEONE WHOSE BELIEFS DIFFER DRAMATICALLY FROM THOSE OF THE TEXANS SPONSORING THAT NOISE POLLUTION, ANY AND ALL OF THE SO-CALLED "SNUFF MOVIES" OR WOULD-BE "SNUFF MOVIES" INVOLVING ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A CITED "VICTIM" THAT ARE EVER ALLEGEDLY BEING PRODUCED ANYWHERE IN TEXAS, PRANKSTERISM AND CRIMINAL MISCHIEF, FRAUDULENT COMMUNICATIONS INFLICTED ON OTHERS, PROFANE OR OBSCENE COMMUNICATIONS INFLICTED ON OTHERS AGAINST THEIR WISHES, SUBJECTING TEXANS TO COMPELLED SPEECH AGAINST THEIR WISHES, COMPELLED PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS OR ARRANGE3D MARRIAGES THAT ARE CLEARLY ILLEGAL AND INJURIOUS IN NATURE, AND SUBJECTING TEXANS AGAINST THEIR WISHES TO NOISE POLLUTION THEY DO NOT WANT AND HAVE, IN FACT, COMPLAINED ABOUT.
---WHICH CITY OF TEXAS CURRENTLY HOLDS THE DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF BEING THE PROFANE SPEECH CAPITAL OF TEXAS, AND WHY?
--WHICH CITY OF TEXAS HOLDS THE NOBLE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE CLEAN-SPEECH CAPITAL OF TEXAS?
---WHICH CITY OF TEXAS CURRENTLY HOLDS THE DUBIOUS DISTINCTION OF BEING THE FRAUDULENT COMMUNICATIONS CAPITAL OF TEXAS, AND WHY?
--WHY HASN'T THERE BEEN ANY RECENT GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED STUDY IN TEXAS EXPLORING AND DOCUMENTING TIES BETWEEN ORGANIZED CRIME AND THE GAMBLING INDUSTRY, THE BETTING INDUSTRY, THE ALCOHOL INDUSTRY, THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY, THE ILLICIT DRUG INDUSTRY, THE ALCOHOLIC BAR INDUSTRY, THE NIGHTCLUB INDUSTRY, THE SO-CALLED "BATHHOUSE" INDUSTRY, THE ILLICIT PROSTITUTION INDUSTRY, THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, AND THE COMMERCIAL SEX PARLOR INDUSTRY OF TEXAS.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE WINNING FOOTBALL COACHES IN TEXAS WHOSE VARSITY FOOTBALL PLAYERS IN ANY GIVEN SEASON SUSTAIN THE FEWEST INJURIES, AND WHOSE OPPONENTS SUSTAIN THE FEWEST INJURIES FROM COMPETING AGAINST THOSE FOOTBALL COACHES' OWN VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAMS, CURRENTLY DO NOT RECEIVE STATEWIDE ACCLAIM AND RECOGNITION.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE ONE U.S. STATE IN THE ENTIRE NATION THAT'S MOST ASSOCIATED WITH THE SPORT OF FOOTBALL --- TEXAS --- IS ALSO A U.S. STATE THAT HAS CHOSEN NOT
TO ESTABLISH OR SPONSOR ESTABLISHMENT OF A TEXAN INSTITUTE FOR FOOTBALL INJURY PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER AND LIBRARY.
--WHY HASN'T ANY NEWS MEDIA COMPANY IN TEXAS SPONSORED AN ANNUAL "TEXAS LIFELONG SPORTS DECATHLON COMPETITION," THE PROPOSED ANNUAL STATEWIDE COMPETITION BEING OPEN TO MALE YOUTHS, FEMALE YOUTHS, MALE ADULT PERSONS, AND FEMALE ADULT PERSONS IN A VARIETY OF AGE CATEGORIES, WITH EACH COMPETITOR IN THAT ANNUAL CONTEST ATTEMPTING TO DEMONSTRATE SUPERIOR TALENT IN AS MANY OF THE LIFELONG SPORTS AS POSSIBLE, THE FEATURED LIFELONG SPORTS IN THAT CONTEST POSSIBLY INCLUDING CLAY-COURT TENNIS, HARDCOURT TENNIS, RACQUETBALL, SQUASH, HANDBALL, SPEED-WALKING, HIKING, JOGGING, RUNNING, ROLLER SKATING, BASKETBALL, VOLLEYBALL, BOWLING, SOCCER, SHUFFLEBOARD, BADMINTON, CROQUET, GOLF, JUMP ROPING, AND SOFTBALL.
--HAS ANY HIGH SCHOOL-LEVEL VARSITY SOCCER TEAM ANYWHERE IN TEXAS RANKED AMONG THE TOP 10 HIGH SCHOOL VARSITY SOCCER SQUADS IN THE ENTIRE NATION? IF NOT, WHY NOT?
--WHY DON'T THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS DO MORE TO HELP PROTECT THE FULL RANGE OF LEGAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE ENTIRE HIV-NEGATIVE COMMUNITY OF TEXAS, THAT COMMUNITY OF TEXANS BEING DEFINABLE AS ANY AND ALL TEXANS OF ANY AND ALL BACKGROUNDS WHO ARE THEMSELVES HIV-NEGATIVE AND DO NOT THEMSELVES HAVE AIDS.
---IN WHICH CITY OR COUNTY OF TEXAS HAS THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CRIMINAL-PROSECUTIONS BEEN PURSUED IN A COURT OF LAW IN WHICH THE CITED DEFENDANT WAS A LEGAL-STATUS-ADULT PERSON WHO ALLEGEDLY INFECTED ANOTHER PERSON WITH THE HIV VIRUS.
---WHY HAS NO MEDIA COMPANY ANYWHERE IN TEXAS PUBLISHED AN EDITORIAL PRAISING AND HONORING THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEY IN TEXAS WHO IN THE LAST TWO-YEAR PERIOD OR FIVE-YEAR PERIOD HAS SUCCESSFULLY PURSUED THE LARGEST NUMBER OF CRIMINAL-LAW PROSECUTIONS OF ANY AND ALL GAY OR HOMOSEXUAL OR BISEXUAL LEGAL-STATUS-ADULT PERSONS, AND OTHER LEGAL-STATUS ADULT PERSONS AS WELL, WHO IN EACH SUCH CASE WERE FORMALLY CHARGED IN TEXAS WITH THE UNCONSCIONABLE AND TRULY OUTRAGEOUS AND VERY SINISTER CRIME OF INFECTING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING WITH THE HIV VIRUS OR WITH AIDS.
---WHICH COMPANIES OF TEXAS HAVE "WELLNESS PROGRAMS" SO SUCCESSFUL AND EFFECTIVE THAT ONLY A TINY PERCENTAGE OF THOSE COMPANIES' EMPLOYEES CURRENTLY CONSUME ANY TOBACCO PRODUCTS, AND OBESITY RATES AMONG EMPLOYEES ARE VERY LOW.
---WHICH COMPANIES IN TEXAS, IF ANY, DO THE MOST TO TANGIBLY REWARD CREATIVE BRAINSTORMING BY EMPLOYEES OF THAT COMPANY, AND WHICH COMPANIES OF TEXAS OFFER THE MOST EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR "IDEA PERSONS"?
---WHICH INVENTORS RESIDING IN TEXAS IN THE MOST RECENT 12-MONTH PERIOD HAVE HAD INVENTIONS OF THEIRS PATENTED THAT HOLD THE GREATEST PROMISE FOR HELPING TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF MANY TEXANS.
---WHY IS IT THAT MOST COMPANIES AND MOST EMPLOYERS IN TEXAS DO NOT GENEROUSLY FINANCIALLY REWARD CREATIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE BRAINSTORMING EFFORTS BY THEIR EMPLOYEES?
---WHICH COMPANIES OF TEXAS OF TODAY CURRENTLY RANK AMONG THE MOST CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE AND LAW-ABIDING OF ALL COMPANIES IN OUR ENTIRE NATION?
---WHY IS IT THAT MOST EMPLOYERS IN TEXAS CURRENTLY DO NOT FINANCIALLY REWARD AND PROTECT THE JOB SECURITY OF EMPLOYEES OF THEIRS WHO IN A COURAGEOUS AND DILIGENT MANNER OFFER REPORTS OF ALLEGED IMPROPRIETY OR ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE LAW OR ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE RULES OF THAT COMPANY ON THE PART OF A COWORKER OR A WORK SUPERVISOR.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN THIS SOUTHWESTERN STATE OF TEXAS WHERE POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS OFTEN EMPHASIZE THEIR OWN CITED "INTEGRITY," THERE CURRENTLY IS NO APPARENT WEBSITE THAT IS EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED TO PROVIDING FACTUAL INFORMATION ABOUT EACH AND EVERY PUBLIC OFFICIAL OR ELECTIVE OFFICIAL ANYWHERE IN TEXAS WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED OF THE CRIME OF ACCEPTING AN ILLEGAL BRIBE.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN A STATE THAT DERIVES ITS NAME FROM THE CADDO INDIAN WORD FOR FRIEND, AND A STATE WHOSE OFFICIAL MOTTO IS "FRIENDSHIP," AND A STATE WHERE A FRIENDSHIP DAY WAS COMMEMORATED ANNUALLY FOR MANY YEARS IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY ON THE MARCH 7 BIRTHDAY OF TEXAN CIVIC LEADER ELEANOR BRACKENRIDGE, THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY HAS CHOSEN NOT TO OFFICIALLY AND PERMANENTLY REVIVE THAT GREAT ANNUAL TRADITION IN OUR STATE'S HISTORY BY DESIGNATING ONE DAY OF EACH AND EVERY YEAR AS TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY.
---WHY IS IT THAT IN A STATE THAT TAKES PRIDE ON HAVING THE FRIENDLIEST PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, THE NUMBER OF HOMICIDES AND ATTEMPTED HOMICIDES THAT OCCUR IN TEXAS EACH YEAR ARE SHOCKINGLY HIGH. SHOULD FRIENDLINESS AS A STATEWIDE PERSONALITY TRAIT BE RE-EVALUATED IN VIEW OF THE SHOCKINGLY HIGH RATE OF VIOLENCE THROUGHOUT MUCH OF OUR STATE?
---WHY IS IT THAT THIS LONE STAR STATE THAT TAKES PRIDE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IN LAWFULLY PUNISHING OFFENDERS THROUGH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, HAS ITSELF FAILED TO APPROVE AN AMENDMENT TO OUR STATE CONSTITUTION THAT AUTHORIZES COURT-ORDERED CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (COURT-ORDERED EXCECUTION, OR DEATH BY INJECTION AS ADMINISTERED BY THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE STATE AGENCY) OF INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED IN A COURT OF LAW IN TEXAS OF THE BARBAROUS AND TRULY HEINOUS CRIME OF ATTEMPTED HOMICIDE.
--WHY IS IT THAT THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS HAVE FAILED TO PUBLISH AN ADEQUATE NUMBER OF EDITORIALS AND FEATURE STORIES PRAISING THE TEXAN CIVIC LEADERS OR POLITICAL LEADERS WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE MOST EXTENSIVELY AND THE MOST SIGNIFICANTLY TOWARD DETERRENCE OF CRIME IN THIS STATE.
---WHY IS IT THAT OUR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS OF TEXAS CURRENTLY DO VERY LITTLE OR NOTHING TO HONOR AND FINANCIALLY REWARD CONSCIENTIOUSLY AND COURAGEOUSLY VIGILANT PRIVATE CITIZENS IN TEXAS WHO HAVE A STRONG CIVIC DEVOTION TO CONTACTING LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND INFORMING THEM ABOUT POSSIBLE CRIMINAL-LAW EVIDENCE OF SUSPECTED ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES THAT THOSE PRIVATE CITIZENS HAVE OBSERVED OR HEARD ABOUT.
---WHY HAS THERE BEEN A DEARTH OF OPED COLUMNS AND EDITORIALS OFFERING PRACTICAL AND HELPFUL ADVICE TO PRIVATE CITIZENS IN TEXAS WHO HAVE OBSERVED POSSIBLE CRIMINAL-LAW EVIDENCE OF ILLICIT-DRUG ACTIVITIES IN OUR STATE, BUT WHO FEAR THAT IF THEY CONTACT THE POLICE OR TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY OR FBI TO REPORT THAT POSSIBLE EVIDENCE, THOSE ADMIRABLY VILIGANT PRIVATE CITIZENS IN TEXAS MIGHT THEN BE SUBJECTED TO VIOLENT RETALIATION FROM THE ILLICIT-DRUG UNDERWORLD.
--WHICH CITY OF TEXAS WITH MORE THAN 50,000 RESIDENTS BOASTS OF HAVING THE LOWEST PERCENTAGE OF ALL RESIDENTS OF THAT CITY WHO REPORTEDLY CONSUMED AN ILLICIT DRUG AT LEAST ONCE IN THE MOST RECENT 12-MONTH PERIOD. WHY HAS THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE OR THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS APPARENTLY CHOSEN AGAINST OFFICIALLY AND PUBLICLY HONORING THAT WHOLESOME CITY OF AT LEAST 50,000 RESIDENTS AS THE 'DRUG-FREE CAPITAL OF TEXAS.'
--WHY IS IT THAT THE NUMBER OF OCCASIONS EACH YEAR IN WHICH A TEXAN MEDIA COMPANY DESCRIBES A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL BASED IN TEXAS AS BEING "BEYOND REPROACH" OR "INCORRUPTIBLE" OR "SOMEONE OF THE HIGHEST MORAL STANDARDS," REMAINS DISMAYINGLY LOW.
---WHAT MORE SHOULD TEXAN SOCIETY AND TEXAN GOVERNMENT AND THE TEXAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY DO IN ORDER TO GENEROUSLY REWARD HONESTY AND IDEALISM AND OBEDIENCE OF THE LAW BY TEXANS?
--WHY IS IT THAT TEXANS TAKE PRIDE IN BEING THE FRIENDLIEST PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, YET THEY ALL TOO OFTEN BALK AT ANY AND ALL FORMS OF MASS TRANSPORTATION INVOLVING A BUS OR PASSENGER TRAIN OR RAIL-TRANSIT SYSTEM, WHEN IT SHOULD BE ABUNDANTLY CLEAR TO FRIENDLY TEXANS THAT THEY HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR FRIENDLY CONVERSATIONS WITH NEW ACQUAINTANCES WHOM THEY MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER ON BUSES AND PASSENGER TRAINS AND LIGHT-RAIL PASSENGER VEHICLES.
---WHY IS IT THAT THE VERY STATE TAKING MORE PRIDE IN THE FRIENDLINESS AND POLITENESS OF ITS PEOPLE IS A STATE WHERE A SUBSTANTIAL SHARE OF EACH SESSION OF THAT STATE'S LEGISLATURE IS DEVOTED TO UNCIVIL AND UNFRIENDLY AND DISRUPTIVE FILIBUSTERING ATTEMPTS BY NUMEROUS STATE LEGISLATORS THAT PREVENT THE HOUSE OR SENATE OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE FROM SIMPLY VOTING ON ANY PARTICULAR BILL BEFORE THAT GOVERNING BODY.
---WHICH CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE HAVE PUBLICLY STATED THAT THEY ARE OPPOSED TO THE VERY DISRUPTIVE AND TIME-WASTEFUL TRADITION OF "FILIBUSTERING" DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS IN AUSTIN, AND THAT THEY THEMSELVES AS STATE LEGISLATORS REFUSE TO EVER PARTICIPATE IN ANY FILIBUSTER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
--WHAT HAS BEEN THE LONG-TERM TREND IN THE NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF ALL TEXANS WITH NO HISPANIC ANCESTRY WHO CAN THEMSELVES SPEAK SPANISH EITHER FLUENTLY OR SEMI-FLUENTLY.
---WHY IS IT THAT DESPITE TEXAS'S STATUS AS A GATEWAY TO LATIN AMERICA, THE NEWS MEDIA OF TEXAS HAVE NOT PUBLICIZED OR PROMOTED ANY LIVE THEATER OR MOVIE THEATER IN OUR STATE OF WHICH I MYSELF AM AWARE, WHERE THE PLAYS AND SCREENPLAYS AND DIRECTORS OF A VARIETY OF LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS ARE EXCLUSIVELY HIGHLIGHTED ON A YEAR-ROUND BASIS. WHY, IN SHORT, IS THERE NO 'THEATER OF THE AMERICAS' THAT OFFERS BOTH LIVE-THEATER AND MOTION-PICTURE PRODUCTIONS HIGHLIGHTING CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY NATIVES OF EACH OF THE LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS AND TERRITORIES, INCLUDING MEXICO, PERU, ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA, CHILE, PANAMA, EL SALVADOR, COSTA RICA, PARAGUAY, BOLIVIA, ECUADOR, CUBA, BRAZIL, GUYANA, BELIZE, AND THE AMERICAN-OWNED ISLAND OF PUERTO RICO.
---WHAT HAS BEEN THE LONG-TERM TREND IN THE TOTAL NUMBER AND PERCENT OF CURENT TEXAN AUTHORS WHO HAVE HAD AT LEAST ONE FICTIONAL NOVEL OF THEIRS PUBLISHED? WHICH STATEWIDE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE CONTRIBUTED THE MOST TOWARD HELPING TO PROMOTE AN INCREASE IN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLISHED NOVELISTS RESIDING IN TEXAS.
---WHICH TEXAN MUSICIANS OR TEXAN SINGERS HAVE WRITTEN SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL SONG LYRICS THAT MAKE THAT MEDIA COMPANY VERY PROUD TO DECLARE THAT THOSE MUSICIANS AND SINGERS REISDE IN TEXAS.
---WHY ARE THE FREQUENTLY OFFENSIVE and FREQUENTLY ANNOYING PIANO MUSIC AND ELECTRIC-GUITAR MUSIC STILL BEING OVEREMPHASIZED IN THE TEXAN MUSIC SCENE, WHILE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS THAT ARE TRULY PLEASANT AND CHEERFUL AND VERY ENJOYABLE TO LISTEN TO, SUCH AS THE SAXOPHONE, THE CLARINET, THE FLUTE, THE PICCOLO, THE OBOE, THE TROMBONE, THE TRUMPET, THE CLASSICAL GUITAR, THE WOODEN RECORDER OF BAROQUE ERA MUSIC, THE HARP, AND THE CELLO REMAIN WOEFULLY NEGLECTED AND SNUBBED BY THE TEXAN MUSIC SCENE.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Awards Traditions that are Urgently Needed in American Society
Among the non-partisan or bipartisan and well-publicized annual awards traditions that are greatly needed in the United States of America, with the following being very tentative possible wordings on honorary titles that could be bestowed in each of those important proposed awards categories, are:
(1) "Pedestrian Rights Activist of the Year," bestowed upon the honorable and law-abiding American citizen who in the most recent previous 12-month period or multi-year period contributed significantly toward protecting and strengthening the human rights and legal rights and personal safety and medical health of Americans who transport themselves on foot----by walking.
(1a) "Public Sidewalk Access Civic Leader of the Year."
(2) "Energy-Efficient Building Architect of the Year," bestowed upon the honorable and law-abiding American architect who in the most recent previous 12-month period or multi-year period designed renovations of one or more buildings that significantly enhanced the energy-efficiency and energy-conservation of that or those buildings.
(3) "Renewable-Energy Building Architect of the Year."
(3a) "Renewable-Energy Building Builder of the Year."
(3b) "Renewable-Energy Real Estate Developer of the Year."
(4) "Honesty in Government Civic Leader of the Year."
(4a) "Whitle-Blowing in Government Civic Leader of the Year."
(4b) "Corruption-Deterrence Civic Leader of the Year."
(4c) "Corporate Crime Deterrence Leader of the Year."
(5) "Lifelong Sports Athlete of the Year," bestowed upon the honorable and law-abiding American professional or amateur athlete who exceled in one or more of the salutary lifelong sports.
(6) "Lifelong Sports Coach of the Year."
(7) "Lifelong Sports Teacher of the Year."
(8) "Recycling Promoter of the Year."
(9) "Lifelong Education Teacher of the Year."
(10) "Lifelong Education Student of the Year."
(11) "Lifelong Education Promoter of the Year."
(12) "Urban-Sprawl Containment Civic Leader of the Year."
(13) "Agricultural Farmland Protector of the Year."
(14) "Clean Language Citizen of the Year."
(14) "Population Control Activist of the Year."
(14a) "Vasectomy Researcher or Promoter of the Year."
(14b) "Unwanted-Pregnancies Prevention Leader of the Year."
(15) "Drug-Addiction Treatment Program Counselor of the Year."
(16) "Alcohol-Addiction Treatment Program Counselor of the Year."
(17) "Preventive Medicine Researcher of the Year."
(18) "Preventive Medicine Physician of the Year."
(19) "Preventive Medicine Educator of the Year."
(20) "Quality of Life Studies Journalist of the Year."
(21) "Criminal-Rehabilitation Counselor of the Year."
(22) "Crime-Deterrence Civic Leader of the Year."
(23) "American Citizen of the Year for Courageous Vigilance Against Crime."
(24) "American Civil Liberties or Bill of Rights Protector of the Year."
(25) "Privacy-Rights Protector of the Year."
(26) "American Waterways Pollution-Cleanup Leader of the Year."
(27) "American Noise-Pollution Deterrence Leader of the Year."
(28) "'America at Its Best' Exponent of the Year Award."
(1) "Pedestrian Rights Activist of the Year," bestowed upon the honorable and law-abiding American citizen who in the most recent previous 12-month period or multi-year period contributed significantly toward protecting and strengthening the human rights and legal rights and personal safety and medical health of Americans who transport themselves on foot----by walking.
(1a) "Public Sidewalk Access Civic Leader of the Year."
(2) "Energy-Efficient Building Architect of the Year," bestowed upon the honorable and law-abiding American architect who in the most recent previous 12-month period or multi-year period designed renovations of one or more buildings that significantly enhanced the energy-efficiency and energy-conservation of that or those buildings.
(3) "Renewable-Energy Building Architect of the Year."
(3a) "Renewable-Energy Building Builder of the Year."
(3b) "Renewable-Energy Real Estate Developer of the Year."
(4) "Honesty in Government Civic Leader of the Year."
(4a) "Whitle-Blowing in Government Civic Leader of the Year."
(4b) "Corruption-Deterrence Civic Leader of the Year."
(4c) "Corporate Crime Deterrence Leader of the Year."
(5) "Lifelong Sports Athlete of the Year," bestowed upon the honorable and law-abiding American professional or amateur athlete who exceled in one or more of the salutary lifelong sports.
(6) "Lifelong Sports Coach of the Year."
(7) "Lifelong Sports Teacher of the Year."
(8) "Recycling Promoter of the Year."
(9) "Lifelong Education Teacher of the Year."
(10) "Lifelong Education Student of the Year."
(11) "Lifelong Education Promoter of the Year."
(12) "Urban-Sprawl Containment Civic Leader of the Year."
(13) "Agricultural Farmland Protector of the Year."
(14) "Clean Language Citizen of the Year."
(14) "Population Control Activist of the Year."
(14a) "Vasectomy Researcher or Promoter of the Year."
(14b) "Unwanted-Pregnancies Prevention Leader of the Year."
(15) "Drug-Addiction Treatment Program Counselor of the Year."
(16) "Alcohol-Addiction Treatment Program Counselor of the Year."
(17) "Preventive Medicine Researcher of the Year."
(18) "Preventive Medicine Physician of the Year."
(19) "Preventive Medicine Educator of the Year."
(20) "Quality of Life Studies Journalist of the Year."
(21) "Criminal-Rehabilitation Counselor of the Year."
(22) "Crime-Deterrence Civic Leader of the Year."
(23) "American Citizen of the Year for Courageous Vigilance Against Crime."
(24) "American Civil Liberties or Bill of Rights Protector of the Year."
(25) "Privacy-Rights Protector of the Year."
(26) "American Waterways Pollution-Cleanup Leader of the Year."
(27) "American Noise-Pollution Deterrence Leader of the Year."
(28) "'America at Its Best' Exponent of the Year Award."
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