On Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:43 PM, John McMillan
--- On Thu, 7/30/09, mcmillanj@att.net
From: mcmillanj@att.net
Subject: re: TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY (8-2-09); injurious noise pollution
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Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 11:43 AM
To: John Broders, Story Assignments Editor, "Texas Monthly" magazine, Austin, Texas.
Dear John,
Thank you for your friendly reply message (below).
I meant to also tell you and Mr. Chris Barbee, the people-friendly publisher of the "El Campo Leader-News," that back in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, the Texas "Friendship Day" was celebrated statewide on March 7 of each year, according to a staff member named "Sergio " who's employed at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. I spoke with Sergio about this on the phone this week.
By the way, John, I would like to share with you and your "Texas Monthly" colleagues that this year I've had a new development relating to my longstanding concerns about non-stop, year-round, incessant noise pollution I've been subjected to in Austin that I've complained about to you on numerous occasions over a multi-year period.
John, I hope that the following alarming medical evidence I've recently obtained will help to reassure you and your colleagues at "Texas Monthly" that my own perceived genial and felicitous "eccentricity," as you have put it to me on the phone earlier this year, is not, in fact, the pertinent issue in this matter.
Dr. David Tobey, a first-rate ear, nose, and throat specialist who has examined me over a recent multi-year period, has signed a disability statement for me this year, indicating that permanent damage to my own hearing capacity and medical health has occurred during that recent multi-year time period in Austin, Texas. (I have resided in Austin proper on a continuous basis ever since mid-March of 1997.) I have provided Dr. David Tobey with full written authorization to share any and all of his medical findings or other findings about me with any media company that might ever wish to inquire about that. The phone number for Dr. David Tobey is: (512) 346-5562. His office address: Austin Ear, Nose, & Throat Clinic, 11623 Angus Road, Suite 20, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Dr. David Tobey told me earlier this year, during an April 21, 2009, medical appointment I had with him at his medical clinic along Angus Road in northwest Austin, that damage to my own hearing capacity resulting from noise pollution in Austin, Texas----including at some or several of my workplaces, he has repeatedly stated to me in recent years---that Dr. Tobey has documented through several examinations of me, including during a videotaped removal of wax from my ears that he very helpfully conducted for me on April 21, 2009, inside his medical clinic, is very similar in magnitude and severity to what a municipal police officer would sustain over the course of a career in which that police officer is subjected to lots of gunfire noises and other loud noises, Dr. Tobey informed me that day.
Dr. Tobey also helpfully assured me this year that I myself am NOT the source of the noise pollution he has determined to be the cause of permanent damage to my hearing capacity. He also has assured me that I did not generate that noise pollution myself, and that I definitely did not authorize that noise pollution, Dr. David Tobey has also assured me in person inside his medical clinic.
In regard to the injurious noise pollution documented to be harmful to myself in Austin, Texas, I myself suspect harmful or criminal intent toward myself by some person or group of persons, or possibly a media entity, unbeknownst to myself.
Any "expose" story that "Texas Monthly" might ever be willing to pursue about an unethical media company---possibly, as you have indicated to me on the phone in a recent prior year, an unethical "gay" media company (and as you may be aware, John, I myself do not have any current relationship with any gay media company anywhere in the world, no such media company having any such authorization of any type from myself), with yourself helpfully stating to me that you support my legal and human right to myself file a lawsuit in a court of law as soon as possible against any such unethical gay media company---- allegedly injuring my own hearing capacity in Austin, Texas, and itself violating the law in the process, would be greatly appreciated by myself. And, of course, I would welcome any opportunity to be interviewed about that subject by any and all law-abiding and honorable media companies not themselves subjecting me to noise pollution (such as either "Texas Monthly" or "The El Campo Leader-News" or the Wharton "Journal-Spectator"), that contact me about this.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan,
11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com
--- On Thu, 7/30/09, John Broders wrote:
From: John Broders
Subject: RE: a clarification re: TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY (8-2-09)
To: mcmillanj@att.net
Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 8:34 AM
John,
Thanks for your call the other day. I'll share this message with my colleagues.
John
From: mcmillanj@att.net [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 6:11 PM
To: John Broders; ChrisBarbee@LeaderNews
Subject: a clarification re: TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY (8-2-09)
Dear John,
This is a friendly follow-up message to you relating to the statewide observance of a Texas House-approved "Texas Friendship Day" a few days from now on Sunday, August 2, 2009.
John, I hope that you will consider sharing this "good news" item with each of your "Texas Monthly" colleagues, as well as with your personal friends and relatives in Texas.
You will also note, incidentally, that additional information about "Texas Friendship Day" can be found at my own personal Blog, http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com .
One of the Blogs at that website that I wrote a matter of hours ago explains that according to a staff member for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Eleanor Brackenridge of San Antonio, a civic leader in our state who reportedly had resided in or near Edna, Texas, during an earlier period of her life, proposed an annual statewide Texas "Friendship Day" tradition in our state on her 80th birthday in 1921.
A gubernatorial proclamation issued by Texas Governor Beauford Jester on March 5, 1947, reportedly praised Eleanor Brackenridge for her helpful role toward establishment of an annual statewide Texas "Friendship Day" tradition. According to a Texas State Library and Archives Commission staff member named Sergio, whom I spoke with on the phone this week, Texans celebrated a statewide "Friendship Day" in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. It is not known when that statewide Texas "Friendship Day" tradition was discontinued.
With Friendly Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan,
11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
Blog: http:///www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com
cc: Mr. Chris Barbee, publisher and managing editor of the award-winning "El Campo Leader-News," with my apologies to Chris relating to my failure to obtain solid factual information about a previous statewide Texas "Friendship Day" tradition until this week. It now appears that the "Texas Friendship Day" tradition being celebrated on Aug. 2, 2009, will be the first-ever statewide observance of that type in the RECENT history of Texas. Please feel free to publish a clarification or correction on that in your newspaper, since I believe that my recent letter to the editor in your newspaper referred to "Texas Friendship Day" as being the first ever statewide event of that type in all of Texan history.
John Kevin McMillan
--- On Mon, 7/27/09, mcmillanj@att.net wrote:
From: mcmillanj@att.net
Subject: re: TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY (8-2-09)---your public support is urgently needed
To: joe.straus@house.state.tx.us, joseph.straus@house.state.tx.us, aaron.pena@house.state.tx.us, alma.allen@house.state.tx.us, brandon.creighton@house.state.tx.us, byron.cook@house.state.tx.us, corbin.van_arsdale@house.state.tx.us, dawnna.dukes@house.state.tx.us, debbie.riddle@house.state.tx.us, diane.patrick@house.state.tx.us, evan.avery@house.state.tx.us, donna.howard@house.state.tx.us, elliott.naishtat@house.state.tx.us, fred.brown@house.state.tx.us, fred.hill@house.state.tx.us, hubert.vo@house.state.tx.us, joe.driver@house.state.tx.us, joseph.moody@house.state.tx.us, juan.escobar@house.state.tx.us, larry.phillips@house.state.tx.us, taurie.randermann@house.state.tx.us, lois.kolkhorst@house.state.tx.us, mark.homer@house.state.tx.us, mark.strama@house.state.tx.us, judith.dale@house.state.tx.us, patrick.rose@house.state.tx.us, paul.moreno@house.state.tx.us, paula.pierson@house.state.tx.us, rob.eissler@house.state.tx.us, robert.talton@house.state.tx.us, solomon.ortiz@house.state.tx.us, stephen.frost@house.state.tx.us, sylvester.turner@house.state.tx.us, tara.riosybarra@house.state.tx.us, terri.hodge@house.state.tx.us, thomas.latham@house.state.tx.us, melanie.harrison@house.state.tx.us, warren.chisum@house.state.tx.us, velinda.bolton@house.state.tx.us, cbarbee@leader-news.com, DEngland@TexasRangers.com, ttaylor@texasrangers.com, jjordan@dallasnews.com, kam1204@aol.com, mloehlin@att.net, kmcallister@texas.usta.com, chris.turner@house.state.tx.us, rose_brian@dao.hctx.net, john.edwards@texasbar.com, Elizabeth.Rogers@TexasBar.com, jmatter335@yahoo.com, district.attorney@co.travis.tx.us, psharpe@texasmonthly.com, chelsea.thornton@governor.state.tx.us, window@cpa.state.tx.us, secretary@sos.state.tx.us, pio@txdps.state.tx.us
Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 1:14 AM
Dear Honorable and Very Influential Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus, Distinguished and Highly-Esteemed Members of the Texas House of Representatives of the Texas Legislature, and your people-friendly and first-rate staff members,
I would like to thank each of you state lawmakers for having cast a voice vote on June 1, 2009, in support of H.R. 3132. That resolution authored by the people-friendly, innovative, and sagacious State Rep. Dawnna Dukes of Austin, designates SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 2009, AS "TEXAS FRIENDSHIP DAY" THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE STATE.
As each of you must be very aware, less than a week remains before the first-ever statewide Texas Friendship Day observance and celebration in the recent history of this state that is an event open to any and all persons residing in Texas.
The level of success of the statewide observance of Texas Friendship Day one week from today will be largely determined by how many of you Texas House members are willing to make a public statement this Monday, July 27, or Tuesday, July 28, in which you might very kindly and publicly urge each of your constituents to please observe Texas Friendship Day on Aug. 2, 2009.
Your constituents could each do that by having a thoughtful dialogue with a relative or friend about the role of personal friendships in those constituents' respective lives. Your constituents might also choose to celebrate Texas Friendship Day by doing something special and generous and kind for a mutual-consent personal friend of theirs.
Your constituents could also be encouraged by each of you to consider treating a mutual-consent personal friend to a meal inside a nice restaurant on Sunday, August 2, 2009. You also might want to suggest to your constituents that they consider inviting a personal friend to accompany them on an outing to a cultural event or sporting event taking place next Sunday (Aug. 2).
With help from public support from each of you very fine state representatives and your other colleagues in the Texas House, there will be growing statewide support by many Texans for proposed official approval of "Texas Friendship Day" by BOTH chambers of the Texas Legislature. And that growing support from constituents, in turn, will help to persuade the 82nd Texas Legislature in 2011 to officially approve that annual statewide civic event for our entire state.
This proposed permanent annual "Texas Friendship Day" tradition for our entire state will be a major boon to our state's cultural life and economy, and will help to promote mutual-consent, honest, mutually-enjoyable, and lasting personal friendships that have a huge bearing on the quality of life and medical and emotional health and level of civility and obedience of the law of all Texans.
Finally, I would like to close by reminding each of you state lawmakers that the House Resolution you wisely voted for on June 1, 2009, stated that:
----Texas is the ONLY state in the nation whose name officially refers to friends or friendship, and Texas's state name derives from the Caddo Indian word for "friends."
---The Texas Legislature in February 1930 officially designated our state motto as "Friendship."
---Friendliness and extrovertedness have long been among the most impressive attributes of Texans.
---The Texan cities of Eagle Pass, Dallas, and Burkburnett each host annual friendship festivals, and for the first time, Houston hosted a friendship festival in 2009 that is expected to become an annual event in Houston.
---Texas does not currently have an annual statewide friendship-theme civic event tradition primarily or exclusively for Texans that is open to the general public.
More information about the "Texas Friendship Day" resolution (H.R. 3132) that was approved by you and your Texas House of Representatives colleagues on June 1, 2009, can be found at either or both of the following links:
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/html/HR03132F.htm
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HR3132
Additional information about Texas Friendship Day can also be found in several of the blogs I've written, with help from factual research I've pursued during my leisuretime, at my own personal Blog website of: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com .
Some culturally influential Texan media companies, including the award-winning "El Campo Leader-News" in El Campo, Texas, and the highly-regarded "Wharton Journal-Spectator" newspaper based in Wharton, Texas, have already published items promoting the "Texas Friendship Day" that's scheduled for Aug. 2, 2009.
Thank you again to each of you very distinguished state representatives for giving consideration to this request for help in promoting and publicizing the upcoming Texas Friendship Day that takes place next Sunday.
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan,
11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
Blog: http://www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com
cc: Mr. Chris Barbee, the people-friendly publisher and managing editor of the award-winning "El Campo Leader-News" semi-weekly newspaper in El Campo, and a kindly married gentleman, who very kindly published a recent letter to the editor informing his newspaper's readership about the upcoming Texas Friendship Day on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009.
Mr. Derek England, a people-friendly Texas Rangers professional baseball team Community Relations Representative, who has very kindly made several long-distance phone calls to me from Arlington, Texas, in recent weeks about the possibility of his professional baseball organization in Arlington promoting or saluting "Texas Friendship Day" at the Texas Rangers home game on Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, against the Seattle Mariners pro baseball team.
Ms. Taunee Taylor, a Texas-friendly Community Relations Representative for the Texas Rangers pro baseball team, who very helpfully sent me the initial friendly E-mail reply letter on behalf of the Texas Rangers that expressed interest in this Texas House-approved special day for our state on Aug. 2, 2009.
Mr. John Jordan, the people-friendly Office Manager for the "Dallas Morning News" Austin Bureau, who earlier this year sent me much-appreciated reply E-mail letters expressing his tentative support for a statewide "Texas Friendship Day" tradition in Texas. It is apparent from my two or more telephone conversations with John Jordan, whom I have never met in person, that he takes pride in conveying a professionally polite style toward all persons who contact the Austin Bureau of his Dallas-based daily newspaper.
Mr. Ernie Motloch, a people-friendly Central Texan gentleman, married man, and first-rate businessman, who very kindly and helpfully contacted State Rep. Dawnna Dukes's office at the State Capitol in 2009 to encourage Rep. Dukes to author and sponsor a "Texas Friendship Day" resolution in the Texas House this year.
Mrs. Marge Loehlin, a longtime personal friend of my beloved mother, Mrs. Phyllis McMillan of Westlake Hills. Mrs. Loehlin very kindly stated to me earlier this year that Mrs. Loehlin supports a proposed annual Texas Friendship Day tradition throughout all of Texas.
Mr. Ken McAllister, an official of the Texas United States Tennis Association, who sent me a reply E-mail letter on February 2, 2009, offering his very kind tentative support for a proposed statewide Texas Friendship Day tradition throughout Texas.
Former Harris County District Attorney Rosenthal, a very distinguished member of the State Bar of Texas who sent me a Texas-friendly reply E-mail letter on January 27, 2005 (a copy of which I still have on file inside my private residence) in which then-District Attorney Rosenthal of Houston stated that he supports my idea for a proposed annual "Texas Friendship Day" statewide tradition in Texas; care of State Bar of Texas Officials and the current Harris County District Attorney in Houston, Texas.
Mr. Josh Matter, a Texas-friendly and first-rate restaurant-industry employee and married gentleman in northwest Austin, who very helpfully stated to me earlier this year that Josh strongly supports a proposed annual "Texas Friendship Day" tradition in Texas. I am grateful to Josh Matter for kindly stating to me earlier this year that he planned to contact State Rep. Dawnna Dukes in order to ask her to please sponsor a "Texas Friendship Day" resolution in the Texas House of Representatives this year.
Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who might be very impressed to learn that a widely-admired prosecuting attorney colleague of hers, Harris County District Attorney Rosenthal, on January 27, 2005, sent me an E-mail reply letter early that morning in which District Attorney Rosenthal kindly endorsed a proposed annual statewide "Texas Friendship Day" tradition in Texas.
Ms. Patricia Sharpe, Senior Editor, "Texas Monthly" magazine, Austin.
Ms. Chelsea Thornton, a legal representative for the Office of the Governor of Texas in Austin.
State Comptroller Susan Combs, Office of the State Comptroller state agency, Austin.
Secretary of State's Office, State of Texas, Austin.
Public Information Office, Texas Department of Public Safety state agency, Austin.
John Kevin McMillan
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