One of the incisive questions that Austin City Council members should be asking is simply this:
Are there currently an adequate number of detectives and other police officers and support-staff members employed in the Sex-Crimes Division of the Austin Police Department?
I sense that the answer to that question is probably "no."
However, I myself have not seen or heard any recent local news media account addressing this very important question for the City of Austin and the people of Austin.
Another important question that the Austin City Council should be asking is the following:
In what percentage of the cases in which the Austin Police Department formally charges someone with having allegedly committed a sex crime is the criminal-law suspect actually convicted of that felony crime in a court of law?
It seems likely that increased staffing for the Sex-Crimes Division of the Austin Police Department could help to foster an increase in the conviction rate on individuals who get formally charged with having allegedly committed a sex crime in Austin.
At present, unfortunately, many Austin residents are completely unaware that there is, in fact, a Sex Crimes Division of the Austin Police Department. The phone number for APD's Sex Crimes Division is: (512) 974-5230.
Any and all Austin residents who have ANY evidence of any possible or alleged sex crime that they have observed, or that they suspect to have allegedly occurred, are each urged to immediately contact APD's Sex Crimes Division and share that "hunch" or "impression" or "factual information" or "suspicion" or "crime tip" with that nobly crime-fighting section of our municipal law-enforcement agency.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Recycling Philanthropy: Which Affluent Americans and Foundations Contribute the Most Toward that Cause?
I have never once heard about or witnessed a 21st Century White House ceremony in Washington, D.C., that exclusively honors and promotes the American philanthropists and American philanthropic organizations that have contributed the most toward research relating to and development and expansion and improvement of recycling services in this country.
For all those who praise U.S. President Barack Obama for his bold "new" style of leadership, it remains painfully apparent to many of us that the "new direction" Obama has presided over for our country has not, in fact, been bold enough or innovative enough.
Ours is a country where a nationwide poll of Americans that asks them to identify the leading philanthropists of recycling of today would provide massive evidence of woeful nationwide ignorance about that crucial definer of our nation's level of vitality and healthfulness.
For all the talk about the "rights of the unborn" that anti-abortion activists are sponsoring in this country, almost never do we hear an even more profound public discussion about the human right of younger generations and future generations of Americans to all enjoy full access to recycled aluminum products, recycled paper products, recycled plastic products, recycled glass products, and any other recycled products, that can and should all be found inside the United States of today.
For all those who praise U.S. President Barack Obama for his bold "new" style of leadership, it remains painfully apparent to many of us that the "new direction" Obama has presided over for our country has not, in fact, been bold enough or innovative enough.
Ours is a country where a nationwide poll of Americans that asks them to identify the leading philanthropists of recycling of today would provide massive evidence of woeful nationwide ignorance about that crucial definer of our nation's level of vitality and healthfulness.
For all the talk about the "rights of the unborn" that anti-abortion activists are sponsoring in this country, almost never do we hear an even more profound public discussion about the human right of younger generations and future generations of Americans to all enjoy full access to recycled aluminum products, recycled paper products, recycled plastic products, recycled glass products, and any other recycled products, that can and should all be found inside the United States of today.
Plea to Employers: Your Civic Duty to Offer Paid Time Off to Employees for Crime Reporting They Pursue Off Duty (or During Lunch Break)
If I were an employer, I would insist on offering up to two weeks of paid leave time per year to any and all of my employees, part-time or full-time, who during their lunch break or off-duty hours had witnessed a possible crime or possible evidence of crime (a suspicious vehicle, for instance) and who courageously and vigilantly called a law-enforcement agency to report that incident.
Employees of mine would also be expected to promptly contact their workplace and explain in advance that because they are in the midst of reporting possible evidence of crime to a law-enforcement agency, they expect to themselves be late for work or late returning to work that day.
In this way, I could ensure that the company I owned contributed significantly toward crime prevention and apprehension and prosecution of criminals in the city or metro area where my business was situated.
I would also, of course, provide paid leave of absence to any employee of mine who had been asked to testify in a court of law on behalf of the prosecuting attorney for a criminal-law courtroom trial.
It seems obvious that vigilant employees who seek to courageously uphold law-abiding conduct by all American citizens and all visitors to the United States should be generously rewarded in this way.
In fact, as owner of a company of my own I would also insist on offering an annual "Vigilant Crime-Fighting Employee of the Year Award" and generous $1,000 financial reward to the employee of mine whose report or reports to a law-enforcement agency had contributed the most toward crime deterrence in the most recent 12-month period.
As an employer, I would also make it very clear to all of my employees that I refused to let any of my employees during working hours inside their workplace ever criticize a coworker or a work supervisor for "being a NARC"---someone, in other words, who in a very law-abiding and honorable and very nobly and courageously manner seeks to deter crime in our city and metro area and state and nation and world.
Employees of mine would also be expected to promptly contact their workplace and explain in advance that because they are in the midst of reporting possible evidence of crime to a law-enforcement agency, they expect to themselves be late for work or late returning to work that day.
In this way, I could ensure that the company I owned contributed significantly toward crime prevention and apprehension and prosecution of criminals in the city or metro area where my business was situated.
I would also, of course, provide paid leave of absence to any employee of mine who had been asked to testify in a court of law on behalf of the prosecuting attorney for a criminal-law courtroom trial.
It seems obvious that vigilant employees who seek to courageously uphold law-abiding conduct by all American citizens and all visitors to the United States should be generously rewarded in this way.
In fact, as owner of a company of my own I would also insist on offering an annual "Vigilant Crime-Fighting Employee of the Year Award" and generous $1,000 financial reward to the employee of mine whose report or reports to a law-enforcement agency had contributed the most toward crime deterrence in the most recent 12-month period.
As an employer, I would also make it very clear to all of my employees that I refused to let any of my employees during working hours inside their workplace ever criticize a coworker or a work supervisor for "being a NARC"---someone, in other words, who in a very law-abiding and honorable and very nobly and courageously manner seeks to deter crime in our city and metro area and state and nation and world.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
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.
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.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
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.
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.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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?
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?
Sunday, May 8, 2011
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.
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.
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