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.