Marijuana 'Purists' Indirectly Support Other Illicit-Drug Activities as Well

To the many "Marijuana Purists" of the United States who claim that they are themselves very decent and patriotic and honorable Americans because, they say, they limit their own
illicit-drug consumption to marijuana only, I offer this reply:

HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOUR ILLICIT DRUG DEALER, OR ANY OF HIS OTHER CLIENTS YOU KNOW, WHETHER THAT DRUG DEALER EXCLUSIVELY SELLS MARIJUANA?

HAVE YOU SPECIFICALLY ASKED THAT DRUG DEALER, OR ANY OF HIS CLIENTS YOU KNOW, WHETHER THAT DRUG DEALER ADAMANTLY REFUSES TO SELL ANY ILLICIT DRUG EXCEPT MARIJUANA?

I would like to point out, first of all, that the chances are very high that that illicit drug dealer you are buying marijuana from also sells a wide array of illicit drugs other than marijuana.

Each and every time you buy an ounce of the illicit-drug marijuana from your drug dealer, he will use some of the money you gave him for purchasing cocaine and heroin and methamphetamine and other illicit drugs from his illicit-drug suppliers.

Your illicit-drug dealer will then be selling those OTHER illicit drugs to clients of his other than yourself.

This means, by definition, that your own professedly "Marijuana Purist" lifestyle is DEFINITELY NOT a lifestyle marked by the "moral purity" you claim to have! Through your purchases of marijuana, you are indirectly providing financial support for the production, distribution, and sale of many of the illicit drugs---heroin and cocaine among them---that you profess to personally despise!

Second, your illicit-drug dealer himself may sense that you are a self-described 'marijuana purist' and lie to you about which drugs he sells. He may falsely state to you that he does not sell any illicit drug other than marijuana. So don't assume that his reply to your question will be accurate.

Third, I would like to challenge each of you marijuana purists of the United States to please write and send an E-mail note to the Chicago-based "American Medical Association" or the "Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America" non-profit organization that's based in Virginia.

In that E-mail note, you could ask each of those non-profit groups if they agree with your own claim that marijuana is "benign" or "morally superior" or "good" or "innocuous" or "not harmful" to you.

You will be very surprised by the anti-marijuana factual information you glean from that research. It will be information that may well shock you into seeking medical treatment for your current addiction to the very injurious illicit drug marijuana.

Fourth, your self-identified status as a "morally superior marijuana purist," as you call yourself, overlooks another crucial point.

Your illicit purchases of marijuana from an illicit drug dealer in your American city play a nefarious and injurious role, both directly and indirectly, in the unconscionable financing of terroristic violence in foreign nations as well as inside the United States.

Those foreign nations victimized by terroristic violence partly because of your own illicit purchases of marijuana in the USA, include Mexico, Colombia, Middle Eastern nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq, Turkey, and other foreign nations as well.

Fifth, your claim to being a "morally superior marijuana purist" overlooks yet another glaring point.

The money you spend on the illicit drug marijuana is money that you COULD have instead spent on wholesome and strictly-legal material goods --- food and clothing, for instance --- for yourself or your girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband, or child.

Your own quest for a "marijuana high" may have deprived your romantic partner or child of a coat that could keep that individual warm and healthy during freezing temperatures outdoors.

Sixth, your year-round purchases of marijuana undermine the vitality of wholesome, law-abiding agricultural and ranching enterprises in this and other nations. That occurs because of your immoral financial support for illicit marijuana-crop farming.

Because of your own and other Americans' illicit-drug addictions to marijuana, many thousands of acres of farmland, pastureland, and ranchland in the USA and elsewhere that could be used for raising wholesome, healthful fruits and vegetables and livestock, are instead being occupied with the illicit alternative purpose of growing and harvesting illicit marijuana plants!

That is a flagrant and truly hideous perversion of our global agricultural and ranching scene---including, I might add, our American agricultural and ranching scene.

MY FUTURE INTERVIEW WITH 'TEXAS TALKS' MAGAZINE ABOUT TEXAS OF TODAY

When a weekly or monthly publication called "Texas Talks" gets established in the Lone Star State, I will welcome that opportunity to comment on our state during an interview with that new media company.

The following is the transcript of what I expect will someday be my interview with "Texas Talks" magazine:

TEXAS TALKS: "You talk a lot about Texas's potential greatness. What do you believe is keeping our state from being truly great at present?"

MYSELF: "We could start with our state's unwanted pregnancy crisis, which should be so embarrassing to our state legislators that they all turn beet red with dismay whenever they are asked to publicly speak about this very alarming statewide problem."

TEXAS TALKS: "Have you ever seen a Texas legislator appear embarrassed when he talked about our state's astronomically high unwanted pregnancy rate?

MYSELF: "I myself haven't. But those legislators should all feel personal responsibility for unwanted pregnancies in our state. Our Legislature's failure to address this crisis has made our legislators a lot like the proverbial Texan parents who tell their teenage daughter, 'Have fun with your boyfriend tonight, but remember to protect your virtue'."

TEXAS TALKS: "What is your personal objection to that type of parental advice?"

MYSELF: "It invites the young lady to re-define the word 'virtue' as 'generosity in sharing physical affection with my boyfriend.' And that, in turn, leads to pregnancy out of wedlock."

TEXAS TALKS: "Are you suggesting that every time a teenage female Texan gets pregnant out of wedlock, you believe she should file a lawsuit against the Texas Legislature, alleging that the Legislature played a role in subjecting her to an unwanted pregnancy?"

MYSELF: "That's my view. But I myself have not been aware of a legal precedent of that type that developed from a court of law in this state."

TEXAS TALKS: "Could you elaborate a bit about what makes the unwanted pregnancy rate in our state a crisis?"

MYSELF: "Unwanted pregnancy translates into an unwanted parenting crisis. Let's face it. If you're pregnant out of wedlock and you give birth to a baby, the chances are very high that you won't fully put your heart into raising your unwanted child. And your unwanted child will sense that you don't love him. He's a year-round reminder to you that you made a mistake when you got pregnant to someone you did not want to get pregnant by."

TEXAS TALKS: "What do you believe our state and local governments can do about the unwanted-pregnancy crisis in our state?"

MYSELF: "Personally, I would like to see our Legislature approve a new slogan for our entire state. That slogan would be: 'IF YOU DATE, DON'T DRINK'. Many Texan ladies get pregnant because they drank alcohol during a romantic date with a young man, and later that night they went further with their male dating partner than they had planned on.

"If all the single ladies of our entire state would develop a lifestyle practice of never drinking alcohol during or shortly before ANY of their romantic dates, this would cause the unwanted pregnancy rate to fall dramatically."

TEXAS TALKS: "That would sure be nice, if the percentage of all pregnancies occurring in this state that are planned and truly wanted, could increase dramatically. I would think that we'd see a lot more Texans who are happy about their lives.

MYSELF: "That's exactly my hope, too."

TEXAS TALKS: "And what about your position on noise pollution in our state? I raise this question because some of my colleagues at my 'Texas Talks' magazine office tell me that this is a major issue for you."

MYSELF: "I'm very hopeful that our Texas Legislature in the session that begins January 2011 will approve a new law that makes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality state agency in Austin legally responsible for helping to terminate unwanted continuous year-round noise pollution anyplace in Texas----even in our capital city of Austin---that has been determined to be medically harmful to any resident of Texas."

TEXAS TALKS: "Are you saying that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality currently does not have any legal authority to enforce federal or state laws relating to noise pollution?"

MYSELF: "This is what the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has repeatedly claimed in reply letters to myself in recent years. Whenever I've written to the TCEQ state agency about continuous year-round, multi-year noise pollution in Austin, Texas, that a first-rate ear, nose, and throat medical specialist, Dr. David Tobey of Austin, has determined to be significantly injurious to myself, the TCEQ has told me in writing that it's strictly up to the City Government of Austin in Austin, Texas, to enforce the laws on that."

TEXAS TALKS: "Sounds like some rather sly buck-passing by a state agency of Texas."

MYSELF: "That's exactly my conclusion about it, too. Let's not forget that the name of this state agency is the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Enjoying full freedom from injurious noise pollution should be a very important aspect of environmental quality for all Texans, including myself."

TEXAS TALKS: "Do you ultimately blame the Texas Legislature for unwanted noise pollution in Austin, Texas, that has permanently damaged your own hearing capacity, according to the first-rate ear, nose, and throat specialist who has reportedly examined your hearing capacity inside his medical clinic on numerous occasions since 2005."

MYSELF: "Yes, I do blame the Texas Legislature. Those legislators' failure over a multi-decade period to protect my and other law-abiding Texans' freedom from medically-injurious and constant year-round noise pollution that I and those other law-abiding Texans did not request or authorize or generate or cause, is truly outrageous."

TEXAS TALKS: "I get the impression that you possibly plan to file a multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the Texas Legislature governing body of the State Government of Texas."

MYSELF: "Thank you for your very kind empathy about this legal-liability matter currently facing the Texas Legislature governing body in Austin, Texas. I will of course welcome that opportunity, in a very civil and law-abiding manner, to make the Texas Legislature fully accountable in a court of law for that governing body's unconscionable failure to protect my own hearing capacity as a law-abiding, gainfully employed, single adult gentleman residing in Austin, Texas."

TEXAS TALKS: "What do you think might have prompted the Texas Legislature governing body to repeatedly fail to uphold your legal right to enjoy full privacy rights in Texas, including during your leisuretime?"

MYSELF: "It seems to me likely that many current members of the Texas Legislature in Austin, Texas, regard noise pollution as a weapon they're willing to secretly 'sponsor' that they regard as a source of surreptitious state-sponsored punishment and attempted censorship of any law-abiding Texan gentleman---myself, for instance---whose political and religious and personal beliefs are comprehensively incompatible with those of all current members of the Texas Legislature. I take great pride in being a politically and religiously Prohibitionist and anti-alcohol, anti-tobacco, anti-gambling, lifelong non-Christian gentleman with strong support for implicit deism. I'm definitely NOT an atheist or agnostic. I'm also someone with a strong devotion to well-bridled capitalism accompanied by full conservation of natural resources and comprehensive environmental protection. I also strongly support honest, law-abiding, non-stalking, civil, clean-talking conduct, and privacy rights for everyone who is not involved in organized crime or observably violent terrorism. I revere the Bill of Rights, including the Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Strictly-Mutual-Consent Association clauses of the Bill of Rights. I also strongly support law-enforcement, including court-ordered capital punishment for the heinous crime of either homicide or attempted homicide. That combination of political beliefs by myself sets me apart from all of the current state legislators of Texas of whom I'm aware."

TEXAS TALKS: "Are you suggesting that the Texas Legislature has deliberately chosen to be 'deaf' to your own civilly-worded and lawful complaints about medically-injurious noise pollution throughout a multi-decade period in which that very same governing body in Austin, Texas, has secretly and allegedly conspired to make you yourself 'go deaf', as it were, in medically verifiable terms inside this capital city of Texas?"

MYSELF: "It's a classic case of projection on the part of our state legislators here in Austin, Texas. After they learned that I was at risk of 'going deaf' because of medically injurious noise pollution that the Texas Legislature governing body chose to permit over a multi-decade period of my life in Texas ever since 1987, the very same legislators in Austin have been pretending that they themselves are 'deaf' to my own complaints. Their appalling deafness to my complaints to state legislators over a multi-decade period of my own life, is just adding to the amount of my inevitable multi-billion dollar lawsuit against the Texas Legislature in a court of law in Austin, Texas."

TEXAS TALKS: "Have you considered the possibility that these Texas legislators in Austin, Texas, have somehow sponsored an illegal thought-control or illegal brainwashing attempt inflicted on yourself, partly because those state lawmakers disliked your own political and religious ideology?"

MYSELF: "I am very sure that the Texas Legislature governing body of the State Government of Texas in Austin, Texas, has been guilty of very repressive censoriousness toward myself. They've identified themselves as being contemptuous of my own Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, and Freedom of Strictly-Mutual-Consent Association legal rights."

Warning Signs That the Man You Just Met Is Not Appropriate as Friend or Associate for Yourself

The following are 20 questions you should ask yourself whenever you meet a male adult person for the first time:

(1) Does he give any indication that he has a felony-conviction criminal record?

(1a) Does he pursue any conduct in your presence that you believe or suspect to have been possibly or allegedly illegal on his part. Does he order an alcoholic beverage from a bartender in your presence, and then later state to you that he himself is age 20 or age 19, prompting you to suddenly recall that state law in Texas prohibits the sale of alcohol to anyone under age 21.

(2) Does he give any indication in your presence that in the last 12-month period he has consumed marijuana, a so-called "marijuana brownie," cocaine, heroin, or any other illicit drug on at least one occasion?

(2a) Does he indicate to you during your first-ever meeting with him that he is addicted to pursuing some activity that might be morally compromising to himself? Does he volunteer to you, for instance, that "I (the first-time acquaintance of yours) travel to Las Vegas, Nevada, every chance I get, since I love to gamble there." Does he also volunteer to you that "even though she rejected me, I am continuing to make phone calls to her at all hours of the day, and I knock at her front door on a frequent basis. I'm hoping that she'll eventually give in to my demands, since I'm someone who doesn't take 'no' for an answer. When I want someone, I won't stop harassing them until they agree to my demands!"

(3) Does he make conflicting statements to you that indicate that he is a frequent liar or pathological liar?

(4) Does he physically grab or strike another person in your presence, or verbalize within earshot of you his cited desire to physically attack or harm anyone?

(5) Does he appear to not be responding directly to what you are saying to him, and instead appears to be giving you a "spiel" or "rehearsed monologue" of some type that, you sense, he may have given in similar form to hundreds of other persons during a first-time meeting with them?

(6) Do the terms or words 'shyster', 'con artist,' 'bully', 'thief,' 'Mafia', 'thug', 'criminal', 'very slick,' 'shallow', 'very superficial', 'phony,' 'artificial', 'shady character', 'unsavory', 'illicit', 'cruel', 'callous', 'mentally cruel', 'sadistic', 'liar,' 'Sugar Daddy', 'sadomasochist', 'slyly manipulative,' 'manipulator', 'power-crazed', 'unethical', 'dishonest', 'ruthless', 'deceitful', 'egomaniacal', 'arrogant', 'narcissistic', 'psychopath', 'selfish', or 'domineering' ever pop into your head when you speak with him in person during your first-time meeting with him?

(7) Does he make at least one statement to you indicating that he opposes law-enforcement or opposes obedience of the law in any cited context, and that he himself dislikes police officers?

(8) Does he give any indication in your presence that he consumes tobacco cigarettes?

(9) Does he express exasperation or significant impatience or anger at any time during your first-time meeting with him?

(10) Does he impolitely disagree with opinions of your own that you verbalize to him, prompting you to wonder whether he might seek to censor you, if he were somehow given the opportunity to inflict censorship on yourself?

(10a) Do you get the impression that he would like to be Dictator of the Universe, if he could hold that ultra-powerful position?

(10b) Does he never make any statement to you about his having any significant point of agreement with you about anything, and does he fail to cite any personality trait of yours, or other trait of yours, such as your intellect, or any conduct of yours he directly observes during your meeting, that he regards as being admirable or impressive or noble or kind or very fine.

(11) Does he never once smile at you at any time during your first-time meeting with himself?

(11a) Do you find that you yourself never smile or chuckle delightedly during your first-time meeting with him?

(12) Does he verbalize any profane or obscene language during your first-time meeting with him?

(13) Does he stand closer to you than you would regard as appropriate during a first-time meeting with a new acquaintance?

(14) Does he pat you on your back, physically touch your shoulder, physically touch your body, pinch you anywhere on your body, push you, grab you, or shove you in any way during your first-time meeting with him?

(15) Does he verbalize criticism of yourself during your first-time meeting with him?

(16) Does he appear to have extensive tattooing on his own body, so much so that you note to yourself that he appears to be a human junkyard or unsightly walking billboard devoted to the apparent theme of self-hatred?

(17) Does something about his demeanor or style of speaking or presence make you feel uncomfortable or nervous or elicit a wince of revulsion from you that you sense to not primarily be revulsion toward his unattractive or homely physical appearance?

(18) Does he wear a beard or mustache on his face?

(19) Does that individual initially remind you of another man whom you have previously encountered, and who had himself triggered a rejection of himself by yourself?

(20) If you could summarize in a nutshell what this first-time male adult acquaintance has cited to you as his leading aspirations in life, would they be "having sex," "owning lots of money," "owning fancy cars," "owning lots of material goods", "having lots of power", "seeking to toy with other human beings', "living dangerously," or "drinking lots of alcohol"?

If the answer to any of these 20 questions is "yes," this could be an indication that the adult man you just met might possibly be incompatible with you as a prospective new acquaintance, a prospective new friend, or a prospective professional associate of yours.

Urgent Need for Multi-Story Shopping Malls Symposium

Those concerned about excessive urban sprawl throughout the United States can help promote land conservation by helping to finance symposiums and workshops on how to make multi-story shopping malls as compact, energy-efficient, customer-friendly, and attractive as possible.

The multi-level shopping malls offer a very pleasant contrast to one-story shopping centers, the latter of which require significantly more land in order to provide the same total number of stores to customers.

I'm also hopeful that an annual nationwide awards program will soon be established that honors, and provides generous financial rewards for, the very finest of the two-story and three-story indoor shopping malls throughout the United States.

Among the criteria that might be used in rating multi-story shopping malls for overall level of excellence could include:

---Are the exterior and interior of that shopping mall so attractive that this shopping mall makes an impressive architectural contribution to the urban scenery of the city or town in which that mall is situated?

---Does that shopping mall attract lots of tourists from out of town as customers inside that shopping mall? Is the shopping mall a leading "tourism drawing card" for the city or town in which that shopping mall is situated?

---How much fossil fuel does that shopping mall consume on a monthly basis?

---To what extent is that shopping mall's electricity powered by renewable energy sources?

---What is the overall energy efficiency rating of that shopping mall?

---Is that shopping mall situated within a comfortable walking distance from a mass-transportation bus stop or mass-transportation passenger-train station or subway stop?

---Is that shopping mall fully accessible to persons who are handicapped? Are there elevator options, for instance, that make it easy and comfortable for a handicapped person to shop in that shopping mall?

---Does that shopping mall provide an adequate number of emergency exits, in the event of a fire, tornado, or hurricane?

---Is it safe for customers to shop inside that shopping mall without being victimized by pick-pocketing or mugging or theft from other persons anywhere on the premises of that shopping mall?

---To what extent does that shopping mall attract illicit-youth gangs as "visitors" inside that mall?

--How many robberies of any of the various stores inside that shopping mall reportedly occurred in the most recent 12-month, 24-month, 36-month, or five-year period?

My Advice to American Society: Aphorisms, Observations, and Opinions about the United States of Today

(1) The official national bird of the United States of America---the bald eagle---has been an endangered species for many years, and this tells you a lot about the future of America as it currently conducts itself.

(2) To the many liberal Americans who cite "support for human diversity" as one of their most cherished goals for American society, my reply is that those liberals should instead be supporting LAW-ABIDING and HONORABLE FORMS OF HUMAN DIVERSITY---with emphasis on the term 'LAW-ABIDING AND HONORABLE'.
Cocaine addicts and drug dealers may add to the "diversity" of this country's millions of lifestyles, but they do so in a very disagreeable and dastardly manner. Profane-speaking Americans may add to the "diversity" of this country's millions of lifestyles, but many of us prefer NOT to hear that dreadfully obscene speech.

(3) To those who primarily look to our chief of state for leadership, I offer this response: When was the last occasion when you heard or saw a President of the United States verbalize the word "recycling" or "recycle" in a nationally televised address to the American people?

(4) America is a nation where many of us look upon our nation's youth as a pejorative term couched between the words "illicit" and "gang." What about the LICIT YOUTH GANGS of America? Why is it that the honorable youth groups receive so little interest from our nation's news media?

(5)America is a nation sorely in need of a "Profanity-Free Movie of the Year Award." However, it is not clear whether any movie director operating in this country these days could ever actually earn that award. The resulting news story might well prove to be that this admirable award could not be bestowed on anyone that year, since there were no current candidates for the honor.

(6) "Spend more time with drug addicts and help to rehabilitate them." This is one of the primary messages that our nation's political leadership offer us law-abiding Americans. My response is that if I instead spend more time with drug-free and law-abiding Americans, I may actually experience a moment of true pleasure and serenity and happiness in my own life.

(7) One of my fears about California is that our "very innovative" far western state will soon be hosting that state's very first "Drug Dealer of the Year Awards Banquet." News about that appallingly perverse banquet, I can predict with certainty, will be an occasion that makes me want to vomit.
It is just the sort of outrageous scene, ironically, that cries out for a desperate plea of "Batman to the Rescue, if only our Noble Caped Crusader is willing to drive his Batmobile to California, thousands of miles from his fabled Gotham City hometown!"

(8) Ours is a nation where vampirism is regarded as a popular theme for Hollywood movies---so much so that to decline to admire the "vampire chic" of today is to risk being accused of disloyalty to this country.

(9) If our nation's political leadership would take one-tenth of the time they currently devote to national security issues, and use that time instead for exploring the question, "How can America make itself MORALLY DEFENSIBLE"?, that change in our nation's priorities might actually help to save this country from ruination.

(10) The less that American troops have to actually wage war overseas, the better. Every time an American soldier kills one foreign citizen overseas, at least 100 surviving relatives and friends of the dead person are immediately turned into America-haters for life.

(11) The first employer in American history that sponsored year-round random-drug testing of all of its employees and prospective employees deserves a special award from the United States Congress.
But that very award would never come from a governing body in Washington, D.C., that refuses to require all of its own members to routinely undergo the very same random blood tests on at least two separate occasions per year. "My worst fear," as a U.S. Senator might note in his private diaries, "is that I myself would be exposed as an illicit-drug addict if I ever agreed to random drug testing on myself! And that would be politically disastrous for me, since my constituents would demand my immediate resignation!"

(12) Most American women would like to marry a man who is as physically powerful as a professional football player, but as gentle as a baby. What those women all too often end up with for husbands are former high school football players who are crybabies.

(13) American generosity toward the Chinese government is record-setting. Never before in American history have so many American consumers and American policy-makers done so much to finance massive military build-up of a ferocious foreign tiger that appears prepared to pounce on less powerful nations at the earliest opportunity! The resulting World War III, it seems, will feature lots of "fireworks" being exploded by Communist China!

(14) Ours is a nation where Americans contemplating a move to another U.S. state habitually ask themselves, "How does that state rank among our U.S. states for level of risk of an Arab terrorist attack inside that state?" This might help explain why so many Americans have moved to Nebraska, where the number of Arab-Americans per capita is decidedly low.

(15) Ours is a nation where Hollywood movies honor 10 "anti-heroes" for every one true hero. The surprise is that there's currently no "Hollywood Anti-Hero of the Year Awards Ceremony" annual tradition in Beverly Hills, California.
It's an awards ceremony, I predict, in which American actor Jack Nicholson is guaranteed of adding to his massive awards collection. Jack Nicholson prefers to be anti-heroic in his movies---often to the point of being openly sinister---and I, for one, cannot recall any truly benevolent role that Jack Nicholson ever agreed to play in his entire career thus far. Nicholson through his acting roles defines the exact opposite of the proverbial Christian gentleman: he apparently proceeds on the assumption that doing good deeds would increase his risk of going to Hell after he dies.

(16) Those who wonder why our nation's criminal-recidivism rate remains alarmingly high need only ask themselves why the directors of the most successful rehabilitation programs for convicted felons never receive Congressional Medals of Honor. American society has never adequately honored rehabilitation of criminals, and this explains why those convicted criminals continue being criminals after they are released from prison.

(17) One of the inevitable future trends in American society will be ear-transplant operations in which all the auditory organs of a recently-deceased human being are surgically removed and transplanted into another human being. This trend is inevitable since 9 of every 10 Americans of today appear to be at risk of going deaf. This is occurring from noise pollution they definitely DID NOT want and definitely DID NOT authorize. It's also occurring from noise pollution that Americans actually chose to inflict on themselves---rock concerts they actually agreed to attend, for instance.

(18) The perversion of moral values in this nation is so extensive that I dread the day when the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles County, California, features a "Best Snuff Movie Documentary of the Year" award honoring the heinously criminal American who directed or produced the most citedly intriguing, entertaining, and original "alternative movie" highlighting the deliberate real-life infliction of murder on an involuntary hostage. It will be an Academy Award that a wildly popular "S&M Magazine" of the future, with millions of subscribers throughout this country, will gleefully celebrate through a full front-cover photograph.

Need for Turkey-Meat Education Programs Among Hispanic Americans

The heart-disease rate among Hispanic Americans could be significantly lowered if the United States Department of Agriculture would co-sponsor educational workshops throughout the U.S. that offer Mexican-style culinary dishes that each feature the turkey as an ingredient.

At present, the heart-disease rate and heart attack rate among Hispanic Americans is alarmingly high, and much higher than among Anglo Americans.

Through the proposed workshops aimed at educating Hispanic Americans, the U.S. Government could help promote increased consumption of turkey by the millions of Hispanic Americans who currently do not eat turkey on a year-round basis.

Among the Mexican-style turkey dishes that could become very popular among Hispanic Americans and all other Americans, too, are:

---Turkey Enchiladas;

---Jalapeno Turkey Soup;

---Spicy Turkey Casserole;

---Jalapeno-Flavored Turkey Meatloaf.

Huge Boost in Turkey Sales In Other Nations Could Help Reduce U.S. Trade Deficit

One of my hopes for American society is that our federal government would promote turkey-education programs in as many foreign nations as possible where turkey meat is only rarely eaten, if at all, by the people of that nation.

If the citizens of Greece, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Chile, and Argentina, for instance, could each be given the opportunity to sample cooked turkey, global demand for turkey meat would skyrocket.

Turkey---the bird that Benjamin Franklin wisely nominated to be America's national bird, even though the bald eagle was instead chosen for that distinction---could be one of America's most healthful exports all over the world.

Turkey meat is lower in saturated fat and calories than chicken meat. Turkey meat is also higher in protein than chicken is.

The more persons around the world who eat turkey meat instead of beef or pork, the lower the heart-disease rate will be throughout the entire world. This would also mean that the number of people suffering heart attacks each year will decline dramatically throughout the entire world, thanks in part to increased American exportation of frozen turkey meat around the world.

Growing demand for turkey meat all over the world would also boost the American economy by triggering a massive increase in the number and size of turkey farms throughout the United States.

At present, most Americans are not aware of which states account for the highest farm production of turkey meat. The top 10 turkey-producing states in the recent year 2008 reportedly were Minnesota; North Carolina; Arkansas; Virginia; Missouri; Indiana; California; Pennsylvania; South Carolina; and Iowa.

This factual information, which I obtained today from the very helpful answers.com website, raises the immediate question of why the Texas Legislature has so far apparently chosen not to approve funding for increased financial incentives on behalf of new turkey farms being established throughout Texas, along with expansion of existing turkey farms in Texas.