20 Reasons Why You Should Include Nondrinkers (Teetotalers) In Your Next Party-Invitation List

Those hosting social parties or dinner parties where alcohol will be consumed by most of the invited guests can greatly benefit from including civil and law-aiding, non-stalking, privacy-respectful nondrinkers (teetotalers) in their next party invitation list.

The nondrinker on your party list as an invited guest at your next social party offers you the following advantages over your alcohol-consuming party guests:

(1) The nondrinker is less likely to embarrass yourself by making a lewd or crassly vulgar comment.

(2) The sober nondrinker is more likely to provide a reliable and calm and factually detailed as well as accurate 911 emergency phone call report to the local police department if the social party turns into a brawl or fist-fight for which a criminal-law complaint is needed.

(3) The nondrinker is far less likely to physically force himself on or rape or attempt to rape or sexually assault any other party guest at your party.

(4) The nondrinker can save you lots of money. He will never pursue any conduct that compels you to leave the party site in the middle of your party in order to purchase additional bottles of alcohol that you can then offer your alcohol-crazed guests.

(5) The sober nondrinker is more likely to add variety to the conversation topics at your party. He will do that because the nondrinker is far less likely at your party to talk about any of the following "most frequently discussed topics" of alcohol-party conversations:

Sex organs and who most recently elicited a stiffening or itchy sensation in one's own cited sex organ; the last occasion in which the male speaker can recall having "gotten laid" and what might account for his cited "drought" in that way; the asserted length of one's own male organ; female breast sizes; memorable orgasms; which female orifice offered the very "best fit" during the sex act that the male speaker has himself encountered thus far in his own romantic life; which women are most likely to say "yes" to any man who wants to go "all the way" with her; why the male speaker often compares himself to either Don Juan or Casanova, and he is not sure which of the two is the most like himself though he plans to read biographies on each in order to be completely sure on that point; masturbation and favorite masturbation fantasies; the cited name of the one Hollywood star whom the male party guest would most like to have a "hot date" with and "go all the way with", though he probably would not want her as a girlfriend or spouse, the male speaker hastens to add; X-rated movies and porno movie stars; X-rated party jokes; coitus interruptus experiences of his that the male party guest now regards as having been fine material for wonderfully entertaining anecdotes he can share with everyone in elaborate detail, this clearly being a naughty topic of keen interest to everyone; the male speaker's all-time favorite experience inside a whorehouse or house of prostitution; everything you always wanted to know about sex and sexuality, but were presumably afraid to ask; romantic trysts, sexual "conquests", one-night stands, illicit affairs, and recent gleeful sex orgies he has attended, etc.

(4) The nondrinker can help protect the personal safety of your other party guests. He can do that by kindly agreeing to serve as a sober "designated driver" for guests of yours who consume alcohol at your party.

(5) The nondrinker is far less likely to grab or slap or embrace or pinch or physically strike or pounce on yourself or any of your other party guests.

(6) The nondrinker is far more likely to volunteer to help you clean up after your social party has ended.

(7) The nondrinker is more likely to successfully perform cardiopulmonary rescuscitation on any party guest who falls unconscious or suffers a heart attack during your party.

(8) The sober nondrinker is more likely to help promptly clean up any vomit that any of your alcohol-consuming guests leave in your bathroom or hallway leading to your bathroom.

(9) The nondrinker is less likely to bring marijuana with him or any other illicit drug with him to your party. This is so because a significantly lower percentage of the nondrinkers consume marijuana or some other illicit drug.

(10) The nondrinker is more likely to later recall for you what happened at your party. By contrast, most of the other party guests will be waking up the next morning with hangovers and unable to recall for you what anyone said or did at your party.

(11) The nondrinker is more likely to take first-rate in-focus photographs of the other party guests, should you wish to have some designated guest at your party take numerous photographs there that you can then add to your personal scrapbook or your personal online website.

(12) The sober nondrinker is less likely to make any racist-sounding comment or verbalize a racist-sounding "joke" that would offend or enrage or infuriate another party guest at your party.

(13) The sober nondrinker is less likely to ask you if he can "pass out" on or stay overnight on one of your beds or sofas or couches in your private residence.

()4) The sober nondrinker is less likely to force you to call a taxi service to drive him home in your role as party host.

(15) The sober nondrinker is less likely to put you in the awkward position of feeling "like a baby-sitter, since everyone around me here at my party is acting up like a mischievous child!"

(16) The sober nondrinker is less likely to put you in the awkward position of wondering whether the motif for your Polynesian-theme party should have instead been "50 Ways to Get a Hangover."

(17) The sober nondrinker is less likely to put you in the awkward position of having to ask him during your party whether he has considered joining an Alcoholics Anonymous group?

(18) The sober nondrinker is less likely to fault you at your party for not offering any wine that was produced by bare-footed monks in France.

(19) The sober nondrinker is less likely to strip naked and pursue a delirious spree of streaking at your party site.

(20) The sober nondrinker is less likely to approach other party guests at your party and ask them to please show him each of their most intimate tattoos that are situated below their waistline.

A Moral Crusade for Store Customers: Ask Store Manager to Verify Age of Someone Buying Alcohol Who Appears to be Under Age 21

Texan consumers while shopping inside a store can help to prevent the flagrantly illicit consumption of alcohol by persons under age 21.

Texan consumers can do that by immediately locating a store manager whenever those Texan consumers observe someone who appears to be under age 21 placing an alcoholic beverage into his own shopping cart.

Texan consumers can also help out by immediately locating a store manager whenever those vigilant Texans observe a youthful-looking customer attempting to purchase an alcoholic beverage at a check-out counter inside that store.

The store manager can insist that the youthful-looking customer please present that store manager with a valid identification card indicating that the young-looking customer is, in fact, age 21 or older.

It is a flagrant violation of the law in Texas for any store clerk inside a supermarket or other other retail store in Texas to sell any alcoholic beverage to any customer who is under age 21. It is also a flagrant violation of the law in Texas for any person under age 21 to himself purchase an alcoholic beverage inside a store in Texas.

A staff member for the Austin Police Department municipal law-enforcement agency did inform me on the phone today that the law requires that signs be posted inside each store selling alcohol which clearly state that store clerks are required by law to ask for an identification card from any customer seeking to purchase alcohol or beer who appears to be age 35 or younger.

That same Austin Police Department (APD) staff member also told me today on the telephone that if a store clerk provides the explanation to a vigilant middle-aged customer that a youthful-looking customer purchasing alcohol there "is a regular customer of mine, so I don't need to ask him for his identification," that store clerk is required by law to have the ability to then prove that that store clerk previously checked a driver's license identification card for that very same customer on a prior occasion, the APD staff member informed me.

My own concern about this type of "he's a regular customer, so we've already verified his age" explanation that I've myself been told this week by two different store clerks in Austin is that the cited customer may NOT be the individual for whom that store clerk said he has previously checked that customer's identification card. It is very common for an underage younger brother or cousin of someone to strongly resemble that relative of his who's age 21 or older. Also, many of the youthful-looking gentlemen of Austin who appear to be age 35 or younger bear a striking resemblance to one another---even though they are completely different persons, one being a minor and the other being age 21 or older.

Texans seeking to help prevent under-age consumption of alcoholic beverages by minors are urged to contact the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) in Austin for additional information.

The phone numbers that vigilant Texans can use for contacting the State of Texas law-enforcement agency in Austin to report concerns about possible violations of the law of this type are:

-----Main Switchboard Number for the TABC state agency: (512) 206-3333.

-----Complaint Line for TABC: 1-888-843-8222 (888-THE-TABC).

-----TABC Enforcement Division: (512) 206-3400 or (512) 206-3449.

Vigilant Texans are particularly encouraged to contact the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission state agency if those Texans observe repeated incidents in which any particular supermarket or other retail store in Texas appears to be selling alcoholic beverages to persons under age 21 on a frequent basis.

Welcome to the Chef's Table!

Welcome to the Chef's Table!
I would like to read blogs from your Chef that explore such topics as:
---His own previous trips to Italy, and the various ways in which those trips of his to Italy inspired in your Chef new ideas and new techniques and greater respect for the Italians' style of cookery.
----Is your Chef a current member of an Italian Cookery Academy, or some such organization solely dedicated to promoting excellence in Italian cookery?
---Which of your entrees are the spiciest, and which of the spiciest dishes you offer are your Chef's favorites?
---Which regions of Italy or islands of Italy are highlighted the most extensively in your menu?
---Which of your menu items might be described as a Cardiologist's Favorites, and I pose this question because I've read the Italian diet at its best protects Italians from contracting heart disease.
---Which sauces do you offer your customers, in addition to Alfredo sauce and Marinara sauce?
---Which of your menu items would you recommend the most to a tomato-sauce-lover or a customer who craves the taste of tomatoes, at least.
---Which of your dishes takes the most time for your Chef to prepare, and why?
---Does your Chef support the offering of whole-wheat pasta on your menu, even if it might involve an extra charge for customers requesting whole-wheat pasta in their entree or side dish?
---What sets Italian cuisine apart from the other Great European cuisines, such as Greek Cuisine, French cuisine, etc.
---Which of your menu items or combinations of menu items does your Chef most recommend to married couples seeking to celebrate their Wedding Anniversary?
---Which of the special orders or special requests from your customers does your Chef personally admire the most as a clever innovation upon the current menu options?
---What makes the Artisan bread that your restaurant offers special?
---Does your Chef ever use or recommend any alternative dipping sauces for bread other than the combination of the Balsamic dressing and olive oil?
---In which way does your Chef believe that Italian cuisine is particularly superior? Would that be in the genre of appetizers, entrees, side dishes, breads, or desserts?
---Does your Chef ever have the opportunity to brainstorm creatively for Maggiano's by sending suggestions and ideas of his own to your corporate headquarters or to your first-rate General Manager inside your restaurant?
---What is the most difficult or challenging aspect of cooking meals Italian-style?
---Since your child customers and teenage customers are not legally permitted to drink wine, and some of your adult customers are teetotalers, does your chef have any suggestions about which non-alcoholic beverages on your menu most successfully complement and highlight the Italian menu offerings?
---Would you please tell me more about the namesake of your restaurant, and what their own all-time favorite Italian dishes were or are?

Questions that American Society Should Be Asking on Behalf of Deterring Terrorism and Related Violence

The initial euphoria expressed by many Americans after the death of a world-infamous Arab terrorist has been naive and ill-advised.

For American society to achieve a lasting peace and a lasting harmony with the rest of the world, our federal government must first strive to make our nation as morally defensible and admirable as possible. Our nation's political and cultural leadership can achieve that crucial goal by diligently and comprehensively addressing each of the following questions:

---Are there any ways in which the United States Government or American society does, in fact, inflict any form of defacto or government-endorsed "state terrorism" on any foreign citizens or any foreign nations (or on any American citizens, for that matter)?

---Does the United States Government this century ever act in an unjustifiably unilateral manner in initiating military invasions of other nations?

--In which ways do American society and the U.S. Government significantly wrong any persons born in a foreign nation or any foreign nation?

--Does the United States Government currently wrong the residents of Puerto Rico, who are each currently denied their citizenship right to be represented in the United States Congress as well as many other citizenship rights that are routinely granted to other American citizens.

--Does the United States of America champion a principled approach to human rights issues featuring full support for the legal and human right of each and every person on this planet to be classified as a citizen of some country or foreign nation, or, if need be, of a United Nations Protectorate territory, it being the case at present that millions of human beings who are born Palestinian in ancestry, for instance, are themselves denied the legal and human right of citizenship in any nation of the world or in a United Nations Protectorate, because of an outrageous violation of and contempt for their own human rights.

---Are there any ways in which American society has acquired global infamy for somehow "sponsoring" or "permitting" or "authorizing" or "approving" any form of anonymous communications or illegal communications or injurious communications featuring verbalized death threats being inflicted on persons who are being subjected to those anonymous communications against their wishes?

---Does the United States Government currently provide technical assistance on contraception-education programs and vasectomy-surgeon training programs in foreign nations, it being flagrantly obvious that American society currently plays a role in unwanted pregnancies in other nations that result from sexual promiscuity and non-marital sex between single teenage persons, with many hypersexual Hollywood movies and X-rated movies produced in the United States appearing to exalt frequent and anonymous promiscuous sex with a wide variety of sex partners.

---Has American society subjected any current resident of the United States or any current citizen of the United States to any form of defacto or actual involuntary public nudism or defacto or actual involuntary public nudity in any context that occurred against the wishes of that individual?

---Has the United States Government failed in any way to fully acknowledge the legal right of any single adult person in the United States to himself or herself enjoy the option and legal right at all times of himself leading a completely celibate and single adult lifestyle on a 24-hour-a-day and year-round basis?

---Has the United States Government fully protected the legal and human right of any and all current residents or citizens of the United States to not themselves be subjected to any type of "pre-arranged marriage" to another person or other persons?

---Has the United States Government sponsored or permitted more extensive violations of the privacy rights and intellectual-property legal rights of any cited current resident of the United States or any cited current citizen of the United States than has virtually any other country in the entire world in regard to any of the persons residing in that foreign country.

---Is the United States Government currently permitting any business entity or non-profit group or government-sponsored institution or "educational services" institution or media company or individual or group of individuals to deprive any current resident of the United States or any current citizen of the United States of having full and immediate and readily-obtainable access to fully reliable and honest and accurate news and factual information services, including fully reliable, honest, and authoritative medical information services for himself in regard to his own medical health, on a year-round and lifelong basis inside the USA?

--Has the United States Government courageously opposed the infliction of religious propaganda or anti-religious propaganda or atheist propaganda on any current resident of the United States or citizen of the United States in any context that violates the privacy rights of that American resident or American citizen, with the so-called "deprogramming" activities involving the kidnapping of American residents or American citizens often involving a violation of the human rights and privacy rights of the individuals held hostage in that type of context.

--Does the United States Government currently permit the censorship or attempted censorship of any law-abiding and privacy-respectful adult citizen of the United States, any such censoriousness that is currently occurring in the United States being a flagrant form of repressive violation of the Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion legal rights of that individual.

---Does the United States Government fully honor the legal and human right of any adult American citizen to himself NOT himself be a member of any religious denomination or religious group other than the one he directly agrees to as being his own religious group or religious organization.

---Is the United States Government currently permitting any business entity or non-profit group or individual or group of individuals or government-sponsored entity anywhere in this country to inflict continuous, year-round noise pollution on any law-abiding citizen of the United States in a context that's flagrantly violative of his own privacy rights and his own legal and human rights, such as his asserted legal and human right to fully protect his own hearing capacity and medical health.

---Is the United States Government currently permitting the illegal and very sinister and injurious infliction of noise pollution as a weapon being used to punish or harm the medical health and personal safety and financial earnings capacity of any current citizen of the United States whose own political or religious beliefs or personal beliefs or law-abiding conduct differ from those of any or many members or officers of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the Libertarian Party, the Socialist Party, or any other political group or religious group or civic group or non-profit group found in the United States.

---Is the United States Government currently permitting or sponsoring the alleged religious persecution or political persecution or economic persecution of any law-abiding American citizen whose political and religious beliefs and priorities and whose current choice of city or state of residence for himself, for instance, are somehow opposed by others.

---Is the United States Government permitting the illegal infliction of any illegal or unethical "thought-control" projects or "thought-control" experiments or the infliction of any illegal or unethical "brainwashing" attempts on any current American citizen?

---Is the United States Government currently permitting reprehensibly punitive and injurious and illegal vigilante activities (such as flagrantly illegal actions by any religious or political group or individual or media company or media entity to stalk and harass or slander or verbally abuse someone whose political or religious or personal beliefs differ dramatically from their or his own beliefs) that are reportedly occurring anywhere in the United States?

---Is the United States Government currently permitting any cases of flagrantly and outrageously illegal and violent lynchings of any law-abiding American citizens or law-abiding visitors to the United States.

--Is it truly necessary and justifiable for the United States Government to deploy American military troops overseas in each and every year of the 21st Century?

--Has the United States Government conducted a conscientious review of our nation's current policies in regard to the sale of military arms to foreign nations?

--Has the U.S. Government adequately studied the implications of the very sobering fact that each and every occasion in which U.S. Armed Forces kill or shoot at a foreign citizen overseas, will trigger several decades of intense hatred of the United States and American society by hundreds or thousands or millions of foreign citizens?

--Shouldn't it pose a concern to the U.S. Government that millions or billions of people throughout the world look upon the United States of America as "the hated enemy"?

---Has the United States of America as host country for The United Nations in New York City, New York, pursued any actions that undermined the legal authority or potential strength of The United Nations, including in regard to any military actions that The United Nations might ever have a need to pursue.

--In which ways does American society significantly offend or alienate any foreign nation in a context in which that foreign nation has a legitimate grievance against the United States or against American society?

---Why hasn't the United States Congress approved the official bipartisan goal for the United States of our nation striving to become the number one industrialized nation in the world for comprehensive commitment to environmental protection?

--Are there any multinational corporations headquartered in the United States of America that pursue business practices and other conduct in or relating to foreign nations that undermine American society's moral credibility with those foreign nations?

---Are there any multinational corporations headquartered in the USA that inside foreign countries where they are situated fail to fully participate in comprehensive recycling of any and all recyclable items (paper products) they use or consume and would otherwise discard or throw away, or that fail to adequately protect the environmental quality in each of the geographical areas of foreign countries where those U.S.-identified corporations are themselves situated.

--Are there any ways in which any corporation operating inside the United States or operating in U.S.-governed territory or waters inflicts water pollution or noise pollution or air pollution or any other form of environmental destructiveness on Canada or Mexico or Siberia or any other foreign nation?

--Is American society relying excessively on raw materials in foreign nations for use by American-financed manufacturing plants? Doesn't any such over-reliance underscore the urgent need for American society to significantly increase recycling of raw materials that can already be found inside the United States?

--Why doesn't American society currently have a nationwide recycling program that is truly comprehensive in nature, and that is mandated by the United States Government for all citizens and residents and employers of the United States to participate in fully, regardless of where in the United States they reside.

--Should the United States Government provide financial incentives or impose legal requirements for all businesses operating in the United States to each participate in recycling of recyclable items that are currently being discarded as trash by those businesses, including paper products, glass products, aluminum products, plastic products, etc.

---Is American society through an official American Anti-Deforestation Policy striving in a diligent manner to prevent deforestation of much of this planet?

--Why hasn't the U.S. Congress this century officially ratified a crucial recent international treaty that was aimed at halting any further depletion of the ozone layer?


---Has the United States Government incurred a major legal liability and moral responsibility from the Global Warming Effect for which many observers say that American society is primarily blameworthy for that global environmental disaster.

---Are any of the multinational corporations headquartered in the U.S. themselves guilty of unconscionable exploitation of any of the foreign citizens who are employed by that multinational corporation? In which ways does any such exploitation of foreign labor by U.S.-identified multinational corporations play a role in the global crisis of foreign citizens in foreign countries developing a sharp antipathy or intense hatred toward American society and the United States?

--Why hasn't the U.S. Government formally and officially established the nationwide goal of the United States of America becoming the most energy-efficient and fossil-fuel-conserving industrialized nation in the entire world?

---Why hasn't the U.S. Government formally and officially established the nationwide goal of the United States of America becoming the leading nation in the world for research and development and deployment of renewable energy sources?


---Why doesn't the U.S. Government currently have the official national goal of American society striving to generously share recycling technology and environmental-protection technology and renewable-energy technology with as many foreign nations as possible?

--Why does the United States of America continue to export a larger number of gratuitously-violent media productions, including in the form of Hollywood movies and video games, than possibly any other nation in the world?

--Why does the United States of America continue to export a larger number of profanity-filled media productions, including Hollywood movies and videotapes of "popular" music group performances, to foreign nations than does any other nation in the world?

--Does the United States of America have an adequate nationwide policy for preventing the deplorably illicit "export" from the United States of marijuana or any other illicit drug to Canada or any other foreign nation, it being a certainty that any and all illicit-drug trafficking that originates in the United States and enters a foreign country in an illicit manner is a form of defacto terrorism that American society inflicts on foreign nations.

---Why hasn't the United States Government imposed new prohibitions on any and all travel to foreign nations by American citizens who are either HIV-positive or who have AIDS, it being a certainty that many foreign citizens understandably blame citedly promiscuous and irresponsible Americans for the unconscionable spread to foreign nations of the HIV virus and of the often-fatal AIDS.

---Why hasn't the United States Government established an adequate AIDS-prevention program that, among other things, requires any and all persons in the USA who test positive for the HIV-virus to each promptly register that alarming medical information about themselves with the United States Government.

---Should the United States Government assume a leadership role in AIDS prevention by classifying the infection of another person with the HIV virus as a federal offense and felony crime for which the individual charged with infecting another human being with the HIV Virus should be prosecuted in federal court.

---Why shouldn't the United States Congress help to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS by approving a new federal law that orders the closing anywhere and everywhere in this country of any and all commercial sex parlors and other establishments, including the so-called "gay bathhouses," where anonymous sex frequently occurs in a public place.

--Why doesn't the United States Government encourage land-conserving, compact development of existing municipalities in this country by imposing a five-year ban on any future intrusion into wilderness land or farmland or agricultural cropland or ranchland that would have occurred for the purpose of real-estate development.

--Why doesn't the U.S. Government assign very high priority to establishment by the U.S. Congress of a nationwide criminal-recidivism prevention program, it being painfully apparent to any observer of the United States of today that the vast majority of all Americans who are convicted of a felony crime will, upon release from prison, eventually commit yet another felony crime.

---Why doesn't the United States Congress approve a new federal law declaring a zero-tolerance policy toward either homicide or attempted homicide by requiring the imposition of a court-ordered death penalty that would be imposed on any person convicted in the United States of either having attempted to commit homicide or having committed homicide.

---Why hasn't the United States Congress assigned high priority to approving a comprehensive network of treatment programs in the United States that provide affordable treatment services to individuals who are currently addicted to either alcohol or tobacco or illicit drugs or having their body tattooed.

---Why hasn't the United States Government adequately acknowledged the shameful legal fact that our nation with millions of illicit-drug addicts and many millions of alcohol-addicted citizens and illegal aliens is a nation where many of those U.S. citizens on either cited basis pose a danger to themselves as well as a potential danger to citizens of foreign countries.

---Should the United States Congress seek to protect the medical health and personal safety of citizens of foreign nations by imposing an immediate ban on the exportation from the USA to any foreign country of any tobacco product or any alcohol product other than wine or beer.

---Should the United States Congress seek to protect the medical health and personal safety of citizens of foreign nations by imposing an immediate ban on the exportation from the USA to any foreign country of any marijuana peraphernalia or any other illicit-drug paraphernalia.


---Should the United States Congress approve a new law that classifies any and all terroristic threats of violence occurring inside the United States of America as a federal offense and felony crime?

---Should the United States Congress approve a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that imposes a court-ordered death penalty on any person convicted of the unconscionable and heinous crime of either attempted homicide or homicide in a context in which either type of outrageous violent crime occurs in the United States or on territory (Puerto Rico, for instance) that is owned by the United States.


---Has the United States Congress approved a new federal law aimed at deterring the unconscionable crime of stalking, such as might occur if Congress were to classify any and all cases of stalking of any current resident of the United States or any current citizen of the United States as a federal offense and felony crime, the crime of stalking often occurring in a context in which the intrinsically sinister stalker resides in a U.S. state other than the one where his intended victim resides.

---Has the United States Government pursued any actions to strengthen the legal right of any American citizen to decide for himself in which city or town or county or state of the United States he agrees to reside, any policy to the contrary by American society being an example of the deplorably repressive policies that are pursued by communist countries or socialist countries exhibiting a contempt for the right of individuals to set their own course in life and decide for themselves where they agree to reside.

Why My Religion Favors Strictly-Heterosexual Adult Applicants as Prospective and Actual Members

Many Central Texans have repeatedly and incessantly asked me in recent years why my non-Christian Progressive Prohibitionist Religion---a wholesome and law-abiding and fully independent new religion for the very honorable---excludes from prospective or actual membership in my fully independent religion an estimated 99.99 percent of all self-described homosexual adult persons, all self-described gay adult persons, all self-described bisexual adult persons, all self-described transsexual adult persons, all self-described transvestite persons, and all self-described lesbian adult persons.

The answer to that question is simple. The following persons are automatically disqualified for prospective or actual membership in my own religion:

---Any person who is not friendly or genial and polite and sincerely empathetic, at least, toward a wide range of persons, including a wide range of acquaintances, whom he encounters in his everyday life.

---Any person exhibiting such a dreadful crassness of materialism that he habitually refers to other human beings as "things" or "possessions" or "slaves" or "sex slaves" or "underlings" or "toys" or "studs" or "hunks" or "bods" or "chicks" or "bitches" (awkward verbatim quote from frequently-overheard profane speech in American society of today) that he seeks to grab or seize or torment or abuse or exploit or stalk or own or possess or acquire or subjugate or control.

---Any person who habitually in everyday telephone conversations or in-person conversations with others, and in his own diary or personal journal writings and letters, refers to another human being primarily in terms of whether any particular organ or physical attribute of another human being is sexually alluring or a "sexual turn-on" or "romantic turn-on" to himself.

---Any person who habitually in everyday telephone conversations or in-person conversations with others, or who in his own diary or personal journal writings and letters, habitually refers to another human being primarily in terms of how well or whether the latter individual "performs" or "puts out" during the sex act.

--Any person who either physically beats or physically whips or places a harness upon his sex partner or romantic partner, or who knowingly permits a sex partner or romantic partner of his to physically beat or physically whip or places a harness on himself.

---Any person who practices or agrees to participate in the barbarous defacto sex crime of fist fornication (AKA "fist f--king"), a very sadistic and very injurious and deplorably outrageous and illicit "lifestyle" practice in which one "sex partner" thrusts his fist into the anus of the other "sex partner" and proceeds to brutally penetrate the anus of the latter individual solely or primarily through repeated thrusting of the fist in a brutally dangerous form of illicit sodomy.

---Any person who has consumed any quantity of drinking alcohol at any time in the most recent two-year period.

--Any person who has a prior or current addiction to drinking alcohol.

--Any person who ever at any time consumed any tobacco product on any occasion in the most recent two-year period.

--Any person who has consumed marijuana or any other illicit drug on any occasion in the most recent two-year period.

--Any person who hosts a party at which he himself directly offers any of his party guests a marijuana brownie or marijuana or any other illicit drug.

--Any person who offers what he claims to be a wholesome and fully innocent brownie to an acquaintance, and who thereby subjects that acquaintance to involuntary consumption of what is, in fact, an infamous "marijuana brownie" instead.

---Any person who subjects another human being to involuntary consumption of marijuana or any other illicit drug.

--Any person who has had a prior addiction to marijuana or any other illicit drug.

--Any person who lacks a full devotion to helping to lawfully eliminate marijuana and all other illicit drugs from American society as soon as possible.

--Any person who is addicted to gambling involving the expenditure of money.

--Any person with any tattoo on his or her body, with the sole exception of one total military tattoo that was approved in advance by that individual's employer, the United States Armed Forces.

--Any person who has a justifiable reputation for dishonesty or mendacity or pathological mendacity. Pathological liars, for instance, are automatically disqualified from prospective or actual membership in my religion.

---Any person who has knowingly lied to another human being about whether the former individual has a sexually transmitted disease or the HIV virus or AIDS or any other major medical problem.

---Any person who is determined to be significantly sly or very devious in his style of conduct.

--Any person who through negligence or otherwise has infected another human being with a sexually transmitted disease, whether that be herpes or the HIV virus or any other sexually transmitted disease, on any prior occasion.

---Any person who exhibits contempt toward or disdain toward procreational sexual intercourse, intercourse that makes possible the birth of a new human baby.

---Any person who exhibits a contempt toward or antipathy toward children, or a contempt toward or antipathy toward biological parents raising their biological offspring inside those parents' own home.

--Any person who condones or supports paid sexual prostitution and sexual trafficking or public sex parlors, among those illicit sex parlors being the so-called "gay bathhouses" where anonymous sex occurs in a public place in violation of the state laws of Texas.

--Any person who has been convicted in a court of law at any time of having himself committed a felony crime in the United States, for instance, on any occasion in his entire life.

--Any person who directly and repeatedly verbalizes death threats to others, whether in person or in writing or through other means.

---Any person who lacks a well-intendedness and kindness and civility toward others, so much so that he would himself seek to banish from this entire planet any and all of his ideological adversaries or perceived enemies or competitors or persons verbalizing criticism of himself, with himself possibly exclaiming in a nasty-sounding voice that "they can go to hell, as far as I'm concerned," or "I hope they get struck by lightning and drop dead," or "I hope they get attacked by a tornado or hurricane," "a pox on them," or words to that effect.

--Any person who has knowingly maintained ties with or knowingly associated with one or more violent terrorist groups or organized crime organizations such as the Mafia at any time in the most recent five-year period, in particular.

--Any person who on his own face has a significant amount of facial hair, whether that be in the form of a mustache or a beard or a goatee or whiskers, on his face.

--Any person who is not fully dedicated to himself responding to any and all of his own life challenges in a law-abiding and civil and honorable manner.

--Any person who exhibits a contempt toward or defiance of the ideal of men conducting themselves like gentlemen of valor and women conducting themselves like ladies of politeness and decency.

---Any person who habitually grabs or pinches or hugs or kisses or embraces or physically forces himself upon other human beings in public places in a context in which that physical contact definitely was not wanted by the latter individual.

---Any person who has a history of himself subjecting another person to involuntary nudity in any context.

--Any person who participates in anonymous communications that violate the privacy rights of others.

--Any person who knowingly participates in fraudulent or significantly dishonest communications.

--Any person who participates in fraudulent communications that are inflicted on another person in a context violative of the latter individual's privacy rights.

--Any person who spies on others or subjects others to illegal electronic surveillance or illegal videotaping of themselves or stalking.

---Any person who seeks to significantly undermine the quantity and quality of the law-abiding options and law-abiding opportunities available to others in any noteworthy manner.

--Any person who supports or participates in "thought-control" projects that are inflicted on human beings against their wishes.

--Any person who supports or participates in "brainwashing" attempts or "social science experiments" in which the human subject did not agree to himself be a participant in or a subject in either the brainwashing attempt or the "experiment."

--Any person who pulls pranks on others on a frequent or habitual basis.

--Any person who is observably and physically violent in his conduct toward others, or who seeks to harm others.

--Any person who exhibits or who has a well-documented history of his being viciously vindictive and inordinately punitive toward anyone whose own beliefs and accompanying law-abiding conduct differ from or conflict with his own.

---Any person who fails to fully acknowledge the Freedom of Speech rights, Freedom of Religion rights, Freedom of Association rights, Freedom of Assembly rights, privacy rights, and other Constitutional and human rights and legal of law-abiding individuals whose own political or religious beliefs or personal beliefs or prejudices or law-abiding conduct is or are somehow repugnant to or disliked by the former person.

---Any person who might be describable as "arbitrary and capricious" and "significantly volatile and often-hostile or often-irate" in his response to other human beings in his everyday life.

---Any person who pursues illegal or unethical forms of harassment of, or stalking of, or the infliction of pranks and other forms of criminal mischief on, another human being whom he dislikes (or whose political or religious or personal beliefs he dislikes) in an attempt at compelling or pressuring the latter individual into moving away from the city or town or county or U.S. state where the former individual resides.

---Any person who is repeatedly vindictive or punitive toward another human being in response to the freedom-based decision of the latter individual to simply reject and lawfully and in a civil manner permanently exclude the former individual from the latter's own life.

---Any person who exhibits habitual abrasiveness or cruelty or mental cruelty or sadistic torture or rudeness or viciousness or nastiness toward individuals whom he agrees to have communications with or interact with.

---Any individual who is pathologically unappreciative of the persons whom he agrees to associate with in his everyday life, and who fails to habitually verbalize words of praise or words of appreciation for other human beings.

---Any person who in an arrogant manner exhibits intellectual elitism in his repeated or habitual failure to acknowledge or appreciate the insightfulness and intelligence and competence and merit and creativity to be found in human beings who are not as well-educated, or who are not possessing as high of an intelligence quotient (IQ), as himself.

---Any person who appears to exhibit a lack of self-critical aptitude, such as would occur if a person lacked a conscience and had no sense of whether her had wronged any other human being at any time.

---Any person who exhibits a lack of courageous vigilance, and who habitually fails to report to a law-enforcement agency in the United States very noteworthy examples he has himself directly observed of possibly criminal or flagrantly criminal and illegal conduct by others.

---Any person who opposes the legal and human right of any other resident of the United States of America to himself report to a law-enforcement agency any criminal-law complaint that the latter individual wishes to share with that law-enforcement agency.

---Any person who opposes the legal and human right of any other resident of the United States to complain to any other government agency or individual or media company or non-profit group about any noteworthy aspect of the latter individual's own living conditions being substandard or unfair toward himself or allegedly injurious to himself (the Freedom to Complain in a civil and law-abiding manner most certainly being a very basic legal right protected by the Freedom of Speech clause of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution).

---Any person who exhibits a lack of full and comprehensive support for crime prevention.

---Any person who subscribes to the view that individuals of his own cited or perceived "sexual" identity or "gender" identity or "racial" identity or "religious" identity or "intellectual" identity or "genetic" identity or "ancestral" identity or "national" identity or "political" identity should somehow be exempted from or spared from criminal-law investigations and criminal-law prosecutions, regardless of whether legal and factual evidence actually exists which implicates one or more such individuals in alleged violation of the criminal law or penal code.

---Any adult person who attempts to undermine or restrict or oppose the legal and human right of another adult human being to himself pursue a lawfully and legally heterophiliacal life, both personally and professionally, in which he enthusiastically identifies with and feels a deeper and more heartfelt human affinity toward, and he agrees to associate with, and he is significantly more receptive as a human being toward, a higher percentage of all of the law-abiding heterosexual men and of all the law-abiding heterosexual women than of all of the homosexual male adult persons, gay male adult persons, lesbian adult persons, etc.

---Any person who knowingly agrees to attend, or remains at, a party or dinner party where marijuana or any other illicit drug is being offered by the party host or is being consumed at that party site by at least one participant in that party or dinner party.

---Any person who opposes court-ordered and lawfully-administered capital punishment of individuals found guilty in a court of law of the heinous crime of either homicide or, through revision of state law on this, the also-unconscionable and violent crime of attempted homicide.

--Any person who exhibits a defiance of or contempt for law-enforcement and crime deterrence in the United States.

--Any person who verbalizes foul or profane or obscene language in his everyday oral communications or E-mail communications on a frequent and year-round basis.

---Any person who in a recklessly misanthropic manner drives with "road rage" exhibiting contempt toward and hatred of other motorists on the roadway.

---Any person who exhibits a significant amount of misanthropy and accompanying cynicism or pessimism.

---Any person who fails to support and uphold the ideal of the scholar athlete in American society, and who lacks a sincere and healthy devotion to himself leading a scholarly or intellectually motivated life that is also athletically active.

---Any person who opposes full accountability by one's own religious denomination each year for the incidence of attempted suicide and suicide by any and all approved dues-paying members of that denomination, and who fails to agree that each and every religious denomination or religious congregation or religious group anywhere in the world is itself partly blameworthy and negligent whenever any member of that religion either attempts to commit suicide or commits suicide.

---Any person who fails to be fully and cheerfully devoted to helping to address the broader societal needs of any and all persons and any and all age groups of human beings residing in his city, county, state, region of the country, nation, and world.

---Any person who is flagrantly cruel toward animals.

---Any person who exhibits a contempt for or failure to uphold and champion the legal and human rights of all current and future generations of human beings on this planet, such as might occur through a failure of the former individual to participate in recycling of his paper products, plastic products, etc.

---Any person who fails to exhibit any degree of contrition or regret or remorse about the very tangible damage that members of his own generation, along with previous generations, have inflicted on this global environment and world, whether through environmentally destructive practices or through warfare or other means.

---Any person who exhibits a lack of full support for local, statewide, nationwide, and global environmental protection, energy conservation, and recycling of plastic products, glass products, paper products, etc.

---Any person who fails to enthusiastically support a dramatic realignment of his nation's economy, as can be endorsed through one's own investment practices, in a context that fosters massive and speedy expansion and improvement of the following salutary and healthful industries: the recycling industry, the energy-conservation industry, the natural-resource-conservation industry, the environmental-protection industry, the urban-planning indusrty, the municipal-renovation and municipal revitalization industry, the mass-transportation industry, including the passenger-train-service industry, the lifelong-sports athletics industry, the drug-addiction-treatment industry, the alcohol-addiction-treatment industry, the tobacco-addiction-treatment industry, the crime-prevention industry, the child-care industry (including day-care programs), the lifelong-education and lifelong-education services industry, the reliable news and information industries, the factual-reference-books industry, the documentary-films industry, the preventive-medicine industry, and the health-foods industry.

---Any person who fails to whole-heartedly support a realignment of his nation's economy in a context that significantly reduces the role held by the following industries, among others: the drinking-alcohol industry, the tobacco industry, the tattoo-parlor industry, the sex parlor and gay-bathhouse industry, the junk-food industry, the gambling industry, the frivolous products industry, etc.

---Any person who exhibits a contempt for or antipathy toward safe and reliable and fossil-fuel-conserving mass transportation systems, including rail passenger train systems, high-speed passenger train systems, subterranean subway systems, and light-rail transit systems.

--Any person who exhibits a contempt or disdain or antipathy toward voluntarism and attempting to "do good" in this world and befriend a wide range of people through one's civic involvements during one's leisuretime.

--Any person who exhibits a lack of full devotion to befriending and helping as many infants and children and other young persons under age 30, along with their biological parents and step-parents, as is humanly possible.

---Any person who fails to exhibit a very emphatic moral and religious and legal opposition to pederasty or pedophilia, as that very deplorable form of sex crime is often called in the world of today.

---Any person who is privy to factual evidence of pederastic conduct toward a minor by an adult person, yet who chooses to himself withhold from a law-enforcement agency that criminal-law evidence of that particularly outrageous sex crime in which a minor has been allegedly victimized by an adult person.

---Any person who exhibits a contempt for or defiance of the following: The philosophical and religious belief that human identity is NOT primarily sexual in nature, and that 99 percent to 100 percent of all human relationships in each person's life are, in fact, observably platonic and not involving sexual contact of any type.

---Any person who exhibits a defiance of or contempt for the crucial importance of achieving and promoting and fostering platonic-intimacy and platonic-relationships credibility in one's own life.

---Any person who fails to generously and valiantly "open doors" for others and foster a hospitable and generous inclusiveness for others that would have thereby helped those cited individuals to make new friends and make new friendly acquaintances as well.

---Any person who fails to agree with the religious and philosophical view that long-term and lifelong mutual-consent and strictly-platonic personal friendships involving mutual consent and honest communications between each of those personal friends, are just as important as romantic relationships in influencing the level of happiness of, and the medical and emotional and psychological health of, each human being on this planet.

--Any person opposed to the use of contraception or voluntarily-chosen vasectomies for oneself as a means for preventing unwanted pregnancies and, when applicable, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases in this country.

--Any person opposed to a citywide, countywide, statewide, nationwide, and worldwide policy of strong and comprehensive support for population control, or, when applicable, very orderly and well-planned growth, within that city, county, state, nation, and world.

--Any person who fails to fully oppose, or who supports or condones, the infliction of noise pollution on any person in any context that is damaging to the hearing capacity and medical health of the latter individual.

---Any person who habitually listens to loud or very loud noise in the ostensible form of "music," as well as any person who habitually and repeatedly inflicts that loud or very loud noise in the ostensible form of "music" on persons who do NOT want to hear that noise pollution AKA "music."

---Any person who is uncomfortable with a religion where piano music and electric guitar music are either minimal or non-existent, and where a wide variety of other musical instruments, including the trombone, the clarinet, the oboe, the mariachi, the trumpet, the wooden recorder, the bassoon, the flute, the harp, the accordion, the harmonica, the tuba, the cello, the harpsicord, etc., are instead exalted as preferable alternative sounds for members of that religion to listen to.

--Any person who fails to oppose the infliction of noise pollution on anyone in any context in which that noise pollution is being used as a weapon or means of "punishing" a human being whose beliefs or values or law-abiding conduct is somehow disliked by the former individual.

---Any person who fails to oppose the infliction of noise pollution on anyone in any context in which that noise pollution is being used as a means of "driving" another human being out of the U.S. state or city or town or county where the former individual resides or is situated.

--Any person who fails to fully honor the Freedom of Religion human rights and legal rights of any other individual, including the legal right of that individual to choose to not himself be a member of the former person's religious denomination or religious community.

---Any person who regards himself as being atheistic or agnostic, and who is not comfortable with membership in a religion that officially endorses "implicit deism" focusing on factual information and rational inquiry in which any and all directly verbalized references to a "deity" per se are only minimal, and in which modern scientific research findings are consulted for explanation about the origins of the universe.

---Any person who is uncomfortable with membership in a deistic religious group that rejects prayer per se, the ancient practice of religious prayer being based on the wrongheaded belief that any human being can directly communicate with an invisible deity through that human being's own thought process or verbalized words of entreaty on behalf of divine "intervention" or "assistance."

---Any adult person who fails to honor the legal and human right of another adult human being to set his own priorities in his own life.

---Any person who fails to honor the Freedom of Speech rights, privacy rights, Freedom of Association (and, as a corollary to that, Freedom of Non-Association) legal and human rights of any other adult person in the United States.

---Any person who condones or supports slavery of any type.

---Any person who fails to honor and revere the legal right and human right of any other human being to lead a politely aggressive and enterprising life in which the latter individual pursues creative initiatives on a year-round basis in a privacy-respectful context.

---Any person who opposes a full re-examination and full investigation and full review in regard to whether the sex-change operations occurring in the United States that each involve the surgical removal of a male penis from a biological male person's body are, in fact, adequately justifiable or medically necessary in all cases.

---Any person who believes that ANY adult person should be subjected to a sex-change operation in any context in which that adult person states or indicates at any time that he himself does NOT want to be subjected to the surgical removal of his own penis.

---Any person who supports arranged marriages in which one of the "partners" in that marriage or romantic relationship is pressured or forced or coerced or compelled by another person or group of persons into "marrying" the other individuals.

---Any person who fails to fully acknowledge that the finest and truest mutual-consent personal marriages and the finest and truest romantic personal relationships are the ones in which both partners in that marriage or romantic relationship have a strong in-person devotion to shared companionship in their everyday lives, including a mutually-respectful, mutually-empathetic, mutually-tender, thoughtful in-person conversational companionship and accompanying authenticity of platonic intimacy, between each partner in that mutual-consent personal marriage or personal romantic relationship.

---Any person who supports the view that the worth or merit of another human being is pre-determined at birth by the racial, ethnic, national, or genetic identity of that infant.

---Any person who opposes the philosophical outlook and religious outlook that each and every human being on this planet should be the master of his own destiny (through the logical and rational steps that each human pursues to improve his own life and the lives of other persons whom he agrees to befriend).

---Any person who is uncomfortable with the religious and philosophical view that each human being (regardless of his own marital status, socioeconomic status, level of intelligence, level of kindness and generosity toward others, etc.) should regard himself as being the most important person in his own life, and that his all-time best friend in his own life should, in fact, be himself at all times.

--Any person who repeatedly fails to honor the legal right of another human being to reject the former individual and permanently exclude himself from all aspects of the latter individual's life.

--Any person who is determined through a factual and impartial investigation to have himself been guilty of significant and alarming intergenerational exploitation of someone at least 10 years younger than himself, regardless of whether that younger person is himself or herself a legal-status adult human being.

--Any person who seeks to censor the beliefs and ideas and values of another human being, with the exception of a civil and law-abiding effort to prevent another human being from inflicting anonymous communications per se on oneself or any other person in any context that violates the privacy rights of the former individual.

--Any person who fails to exhibit a tolerance and kind empathy toward a wide variety of personality traits, and a wide variety of personalities, found in other human beings.

--Any person who fails to exhibit a sense of joyous and prevailingly philanthropic and cheerful humor in his outlook toward his own and others' lives, and who, to the contrary, himself tends toward humorlessness and an accompanying grim outlook.

Are our State Legislators of Texas Becoming Wiser and More Insightful?

Texans seeking to determine whether the current 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature has been marked by wisdom and incisiveness and foresight on the part of those lawmakers, should ask themselves the following questions:

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve funding for and establish an official consolidated toll-free State of Texas information and referral phone service----a toll-free hotline providing quick referrals to Texans unsure about which State of Texas-affiliated institution or agency or office to contact, with the proposed consolidated State of Texas toll-free hotline service citing the name and phone number and street address or mailing address or E-mail address of the applicable office or division or bureau or agency or institution or department owned by or affiliated with the State Government of Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law authorizing a salary increase to a total figure of $100,000 per each year, in addition to generous fringe benefits, for each and every year of each state representative's tenure, and a salary increase to a total of $150,000 per year, in addition to generous fringe benefits, for each and every year of each state senator's tenure in the State of Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law in 2011 that's designed to reduce air pollution levels in several cities and towns and metro areas in our state.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature provide funding for State of Texas-ordered clean-up of any lake or river in Texas that is currently unsuitable for swimming or as a primary source of municipal drinking water for a nearby municipality.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law in 2011 that's aimed at deterring energy-wasteful and environmentally-destructive and unsightly urban sprawl in our state?

----Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law providing financial incentives to business owners and property owners to locate their business or residence or real-estate within a one-mile radius of the center of the downtown section of a city or town or village in this state.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature in 2011 approve any new law that provides financial incentives for land-conserving and energy-conserving multi-story (multi-level) construction of new real-estate properties and multi-story (multi-level) expansion of existing real-estate properties situated anywhere in Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law in 2011 that's aimed at protecting the total existing quantity and quality of agricultural and ranching acreage throughout our state?


---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new legislation in 2011 that's aimed at promoting organic farming throughout our state?

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new resolution or law publicly praising each of the seven avocado-farming counties of our state (those 7 counties being Hidalgo County, Cameron County, Dimmit County, Kaufman County, Liberty County, Washington County, and Willacy County, according to Jessica Glover of the Texas Department of Agriculture) and officially designating the very healthful Texan salad of Guacamole as the Official State Salad of Texas?

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve funding for and authorize establishment of an official Texas Avocado Council designed to promote the production, sale, and consumption of healthful avocados that were raised on agricultural land in Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law in 2011 that provides financial incentives to private-sector employers throughout our state to themselves participate comprehensively in recycling of plastic products, glass products, aluminum products, paper products, and other recyclable items.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law in 2011 that provides significant financial incentive to new and current for-profit or non-profit businesses operating in Texas that exclusively or primarily provide recycling services or environmental-protection services or renewable-energy-related services anywhere in Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature follow the longstanding lead of the U.S. state of Maine in that way by approving a new law that requires all grocery store and supermarket owners in Texas to pay 5 cents to customers returning recyclable bottles or recyclable plastic jugs to that grocery store or supermarket.

---Did the 82nd Ssssion of the Texas Legislature in 2011 approve state funding for the purchase of numerous additional environment-friendly "trash cans" on State of Texas-owned properties--- including at each of the state parks of Texas----that are each exclusively reserved for the deposit and pick-up of recyclable items (aluminum cans, for instance) only.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature provide funding for the acquisition by the State Government of Texas of parkland for 10 additional state parks, with nearly all of those proposed stae park sites being situated within 100 miles of metro areas or cities where the population of our state is increasing the most rapidly.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature that concludes in late May 2011 approve any new law or legislative resolution citing the official statewide goal of Texas becoming the leading state in the entire nation for research and development of solar power and wind power technologies.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature feature approval of a new law in 2011 that provides for a significant increase in State of Texas funding for conversion of as many government buildings as possible to reliance on wind power or solar power for their electricity.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law, and provide funding for, a mandatory energy audit of each and every State of Texas-owned building or institution or agency, with the 82nd Session of the State Legislature also providing funding for implementation of resulting recommendations for renovations or modifications to those buildings that will reduce energy bills incurred by the State Government of Texas or any institution affiliated with the State of Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve funding for high-speed rail passenger-train services throughout our state, making it very easy and safe and comfortable for a resident of Austin, for instance, to travel to El Paso or Dallas or Houston or Fort Worth or Houston or Tyler or Lubbock or Midland for the weekend by high-speed passenger train.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law in 2011 that provides funding for and mandates the construction of dozens of railway overpasses for trains that significantly reduce the risk of collisions occurring between trains and motor vehicles in our state at current ground-level points of intersection between railway routes and roadways in Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law requiring any city in Texas with at least 50,000 residents to develop a light-rail transit system or subterranean subway system providing energy-efficient and comfortable and safe public-transportation services throughout that city.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature provide funding for numerous additional public-sidewalk construction or public-sidewalk renovation projects in cities and towns throughout Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature provide funding for the design and construction of numerous pathways and hiking paths in cities and towns and rural areas throughout Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law and providing funding for the biannual awarding by the Texas Legislature every two years of 10 generous financial stipends of $10,000 each to the private citizens not employed by a State of Texas institution or agency who in the most recent 10-year period provided an idea or recommendation to the State Government of Texas that generated significant financial savings for the State Government of Texas or, alternatively, significantly improved the quality or efficiency of the services provided by a state agency or State of Texas-owned institution in our state.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law that requires the conferment of generous financial awards upon 10 respective employees of State of Texas-owned institutions or agencies who in the most recent applicable two-year period distinguished themselves through courageous vigilance and admirable support for law-abiding as well as honorable and honest conduct by employees and officials of State of Texas-owned institutions and agencies.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a change in state law that prohibits an employer from punishing or retaliating against an individual working for that employer who has filed a workers' compensation claim with that employer.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law that provides financial incentives to employers based in Texas to offer their employees the additional option of those employees selecting a 401K retirement plan for themselves in which at least one or several or the majority or all of the corporations featured in the investment portfolio of that 401K plan are themselves headquartered in Texas or in a southwestern state (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Southern California apparently comprising all the geographical areas included in that description, though possibly Colorado and Utah might also be included in that cited geographical area).

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve the conferment of a "Texas's Friendliest" award and accompanying financial prize on one adult man, one adult woman, one male youth, and one female youth who are each permanent residents of Texas.


--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law in 2011 that authorizes any city or town of Texas to establish a legal "Alcohol-Free" zone within that city, a protected zone and fully-enforced section of that city where no sale or possession or consumption of drinking alcohol is permitted anywhere within that zone.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law that significantly increases State of Texas funding for affordable treatment programs serving Texans who voluntarily seek treatment for addiction to marijuana or any other illicit drug, tobacco, or alcohol.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve and provide funding for establishment or expansion of a Wellness Program for employees of any and all State of Texas-affiliated institutions or agencies, with treatment programs for addiction to illicit-drug addiction, alcohol-addiction, or tobacco addiction being among the services provided to individuals employed to the State of Texas who agree to or choose to seek treatment for that addiction.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new requirement that any and all hourly employees of any State of Texas agency who wish to take a "smoke break" in the middle of that employee's workshift must first obtain prior permission from a supervisor, must clock out for that time period in order to go on a "smoke break," must clock back in after they have completed their smoke break, and must later make up for that lost time by working additional minutes or hours later that day or some other day during that same workweek.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law authorizing disciplinary actions against, and possible termination of, any hourly employee of any State of Texas-owned institution or agency who takes any "smoke break" without obtaining prior permission from a work supervisor and without clocking out for the entirety of that smoke break.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law providing financial incentives for insurance companies in Texas to offer financial discounts on auto insurance premiums and health insurance premiums to Texan nonsmokers and to Texans who completely and permanently abstain from consumption of any drinking alcohol, respectively.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law providing financial incentives for insurance companies in Texas to offer financial discounts on health insurance and auto insurance premiums to Texan residents who do not have any felony-conviction criminal record.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law that strictly prohibits the sale by any business operating in Texas of any marijuana paraphernalia or any other illicit-drug paraphernalia?

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law significantly increasing the sales tax on any and all tobacco pipes being sold in Texas for use in pipe-tobacco smoking.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law requiring and providing funding for random-drug testing twice per year of each and every part-time or full-time staff member, faculty member, and administrator at each and every State of Texas-owned educational institution or State of Texas-owned research institution (with those State institutions being subjected to that type of legislative requirement including, among other institutions, the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University at College Station, and Texas Tech University in Lubbock), accompanied by an automatic dismissal from that educational institution of any and all individuals testing positive on any such random drug test (for marijuana or any other illicit drug) that is administered to them without any prior warning and at randomly-selected varying times of the year.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature promulgate to our entire state a healthy Zero-Tolerance Policy toward marijuana consumption and any other illicit-drug consumption, by the Legislature approving a new law in 2011 that imposes unannounced random-drug testing at least twice per year (with dates and times for those drug tests being randomly selected each time), on each and every state legislator and each and every member of that lawmaker's legislative staff, with any state legislator or member of his staff who tests positive on any such illicit-drug test being automatically dismissed from that individual's elective position or appointive position of employment.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature in 2011 approve a new law requiring and providing funding for the Texas Department of Public Safety to establish an official website that cites by name and provides the cited mailing address for each and every person who was convicted in a court of law in Texas of having been guilty of illicit-drug trafficking anywhere in Texas at any cited date in the most recent 50-year period.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature impose a statewide ban on any and all consumption of tobacco by anyone inside any restaurant and inside any other public place, anywhere in Texas?

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature impose a permanent ban on the establishment of ANY additional tattooing parlors or any additional businesses providing tattoos emblazoned on human bodies anywhere in this state.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature impose a five-year ban on any additional sex-change operations occurring anywhere in Texas, and a new law fully protecting and upholding the legal right of any male adult Texan resident to refuse to himself undergo a sex-change operation at any time.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas legislature approve a new law in 2011 that is expected to help significantly reduce the criminal-recidivism rate throughout our state?

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law requiring each and every county and municipality in Texas to post fully up-to-date factual information on the Internet that cites the neighborhoods or districts or sections of that county and city or town where the crime rate, by cited category of crime, is the highest for that entire county and that entire city.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature provide funding and authorization to the Texas Department of Public Safety to invite complaints about and investigate alleged cases of "snuff movies" or intended "snuff movies" in which a cited victim against his wishes is subjected to illegal violations of his privacy rights involving media technology in a context in which one or more of the participants in or actors in or financiers of or sponsors of or producers or directors of that media project allegedly sought to harm the medical health or injure or attempt to kill that cited victim.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature authorize the Attorney General of Texas to file a lawsuit in a court of law against the Federal Communications Commission of the U.S. Government relating to any current "interactive-media" productions involving a current resident of Texas and any form of electronic media, whether that be television, radio, or film, and that, in each such case, allegedly violated the privacy rights of a law-abiding Texan resident, or otherwise significantly wronged an individual subjected to any such "interactive-media" production without his own directly-stated consent.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature provide funding for and approve a new law in 2011 which requires that the salary levels paid to Texas Department of Public Safety troopers must equal or exceed the average of the salary levels that are paid to municipal police officers in the three respective cities of Texas with more than 100,000 residents that each pay the highest salaries to their police officers.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law in 2011 that is designed to help reduce the student dropout rate at high schools throughout our state.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law in 2011 that is designed to help significantly reduce the teenage female unwanted pregnancy rate and the female adult unwanted-pregnancy rate throughout our entire state?

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law in 2011 that prohibits any and all thought-control projects involving human subjects anywhere in this state, and that delineates a criminal-law penalty through the state penal code for the deliberate infliction of a thought-control project at any time on any resident of Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law in 2011 that imposes a criminal-law penalty on any individual or group of individuals or business entity or non-profit group or religious group that is ever found in a court of law in Texas to have illegally attempted to brainwash a Texan resident over a multi-hour period or multi-month period or multi-year period or multi-decade period.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law or legislative resolution that protected the legal right and human right of any law-abiding adult Texan resident to set his own priorities in his own life, and to enjoy full privacy rights in that cited context.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any resolution or new law emphatically stating that the Texas Legislature and the State Government of Texas and the people of Texas will NOT tolerate any form of censorship of honest and law-abiding and privacy-respectful adult residents of Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve generous financial compensation to a current adult resident of Texas who had been subjected against his wishes and in a manner violating his legal and human rights to incessant and unwanted communications and verbal abuse from a vigilante-style group of individuals harassing that Texan resident in a context in which that group committing a defacto form of illegal vigilanteism allegedly sought to compel and hound that Texan resident into moving to or traveling to another U.S. state or to a foreign country.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law strictly forbidding the use of continuous multi-hour, multi-week, multi-month, multi-year, or multi-decade noise pollution and accompanying non-stop verbal harassment and slander and character assassination as a weapon or cited "tool" aimed at punishing or harming or restricting or persecuting a law-abiding adult Texan resident whose own political and religion-related beliefs and personal beliefs and philosophical beliefs and priorities differ significantly from, and are significantly incompatible with, the individuals and entities and groups inflicting incessant noise pollution on that Texan resident in an unconscionable and very cruel and unjustifiable manner on their part.

--Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any resolution deploring any other U.S. state or commonwealth or any foreign nation for that state's or commonwealth's or foreign nation's alleged sponsorship of or complicity in alleged violations of the privacy rights of any current specifically cited resident of Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new resolution upholding the legal and human right of any current resident of Texas to himself enjoy full and immediate year-round access to reliable and honest news and information services, including reliable and honest medical-information services, at all times.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law making the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality or the Texas Department of Public Safety legally responsible for investigating and pressing criminal-law charges relating to legal complaints from Texas residents that they were themselves significantly medically harmed by unwanted noise pollution inflicted on them in Texas that they did not want and did not themselves authorize and did not themselves generate.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature in 2011 approve a new law and provide funding for official State of Texas establishment of a "State Ombudsman" office in Austin, Texas, that invites and investigates specific complaints about state and local government agencies in Texas that are filed with that State Ombudsman by any and all current residents of Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law that prohibits anonymous communications occurring in Texas in any cited context?

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new legislation requiring a formal report to the Legislature that formally evaluates whether the statewide anti-stalking law in Texas (a law approved by the Legislature in a recent prior decade) has, in fact, been successful at adequately protecting any and all Texans from the risk of their being stalked by someone whom those Texans have already rejected from their own life.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new legislation that increases the criminal-law penalty against any individual or group of individuals or business entity or civic group or religious group or political group or labor union that is found in a court of law in Texas to have inflicted illegal electronic surveillance or illegal televising or illegal videotaping on any current resident of Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new legislation prohibiting and outlawing fraudulent or deliberately-dishonest or fictitious communications in any cited context, with that new law providing funding for investigation and prosecution of individuals and businesses and non-profit groups held blameworthy for fraudulent communications occurring in Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve any new law that strengthens the legal authority of the State Comptroller of Texas, the Attorney General of Texas, and the Texas Department of Public Safety state agencies, respectively, to investigate allegedly unethical conduct apparently or possibly violating the law that allegedly originates from a citedly unethical media company or citedly unethical media entity or "entertainment-industry" corporation operating in or evidenced in Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law that assures a single adult Texan resident who is himself not under a current mental health commitment in Texas, not currently incarcerated or institutionalized in Texas, and not currently officially classified as "disabled" in Texas, of his legal right to himself have and enjoy full and immediate access at present to ALL of his own cumulative financial wealth and property wealth, including all of his own intellectual property rights, that he has accumulated or accrued or earned or obtained over the course of his life, including during the most recent multi-month period of his life.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law that imposes strict criminal-law or civil-law punishment on any individual or any group of individuals that were or was determined in a court of law in Texas to have been guilty of abuse of power of attorney in any context victimizing a current resident of Texas.


---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a revision to our state penal code that imposes more stringent punishment than at present, such as through an mandatory and automatic life sentence punishment, upon any person found guilty in a court of law in Texas of having himself or herself committed the unconscionable and outrageously violent crime of attempted homicide anywhere in Texas.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature in 2011 approve a new law that after each applicable 12-month period automatically cancels and nullifies any cited "power of attorney" authority that any individual or group of individuals may claim to have hold for 12 consecutive months in regard to a cited resident of Texas, with any renewal of that power of attorney authority after each such 12 month period requiring a formal court proceeding in Texas at which the individual cited as having "given" or "assigned" power of attorney authority to another individual or group of individuals, must himself testify in person in that judicial proceeding that he is willing to authorize a possible continuation of that power of attorney authority for that additional one-year period of his own life, or, to the contrary, that he now opposes the holding of any such legal authority toward himself by the cited individual or cited group of individuals.

---Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law prohibiting employment discrimination by any employer in Texas against a job applicant or current employee at a workplace that allegedly occurs after that individual volunteers on his own initiative to a prospective employer or current employer, or after that individual provides a very recent medical report on his behalf indicating, that he himself is HIV-negative and that he himself does NOT have AIDS.

----Did the 82nd Session of the Texas Legislature approve a new law in 2011 that orders the State of Texas-mandated permanent closing of any and all of the commercial sex parlors throughout Texas, including any of the so-called "gay bathhouses" in Texas, where sex between human beings occurs in a public place, it being a violation of the state penal code of Texas whenever sex between human beings occurs in a public place.

A Great Guacamole Cause: Urgent Plea to Residents of Hidalgo County, Texas

This is a special plea addressed to all current residents of Hidalgo County, Texas, who are also constituents of State Rep. Veronica Gonzales.

If you reside in the great avocado-producing county of Hidalgo that's situated along the Rio Grande River, you can help make Guacamole Salad the "Official State Salad of Texas" this month.

Texas currently does not have any Official State Salad.

The proposed Texas Legislature designation of Guacamole as the "Official State Salad of Texas" will help promote heart-healthy avocados. Avocados are considered to be a "miracle food" because they are very beneficial to Texans' cardiovascular health.

The proposed Guacamole resolution or bill this session of the Legislature will also help promote avocado farming in Texas as well as the purchase and consumption of Texas avocados by Texan consumers.

At present, many Texans are unaware that we have any avocado-producing counties, much less that we have any avocado farms, anywhere in our state.

According to an E-mail letter that Jessica Glover of the Texas Department of Agriculture sent me in February of this year, there are, in fact, seven avocado-farming counties in our state. They are: Hidalgo County, Cameron County, Dimmit County, Kaufman County, Liberty County, Washington County, and Willacy County.

You can help promote this Great Guacamole Cause by contacting the Austin legislative office of your duly elected state lawmaker, State Rep. Veronica Gonzales. That legislator's office phone number in Austin is (512) 463-0578.

The legislative aide of State Rep. Gonzales who has been serving as the primary contact person on this public-policy issue is Katherine Mendiola. Katherine Mendiola, a very nice lady, frequently answers the phone at the above-cited phone number on behalf of Rep. Gonzales's legislative staff in Austin.

Katherine Mendiola told me several days ago on the telephone that if Rep. Veronica Gonzales receives enough phone calls of support from Hidalgo County residents, Rep. Gonzales is likely to author legislation this session that designates Guacamole as the "Official State Salad of Texas."

E-mail letters of support for this Great Guacamole Cause can also help persuade Rep. Gonzales to author this important legislative resolution or bill for our entire state. The official E-mail address for Katherine Mendiola in Rep. Gonzales's office is: katherine.mendiola@house.state.tx.us.

The official E-mail address for State Rep. Veronica Gonzales is: veronica.gonzales@house.state.tx.us.

In your phone calls and E-mail communications to Rep. Gonzales's legislative office in Austin, please remember to state your own full legal name, your own mailing address and phone number, and whether you yourself reside in Rep. Gonzales's legislative district.

Also, please state clearly whether you would like to see the Texas Legislature this month designate Guacamole as the Official State Salad of Texas.