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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Texas currently does not have any Official State Salad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My Search for a Legal-Status Adult Gentleman Roommate in Austin, Texas

I have been searching for many months, including through a variety of Craigslist listings I've posted, for a non-smoking male adult roommate for myself in Austin, Texas.

The failure of my search so far for a roommate here in Austin has surprised me, since the traits I am seeking in a roommate strike me as being very minimal and very reasonable:

---A gentleman who is age 18 or older. Eighteen years of age is the minimum age at which anyone can legally room with me inside the very nice and modern apartment complex where I live.

---A gentleman who is himself a nonsmoker.

---A gentleman who does not consume ANY marijuana, ANY marijuana brownies, or any other illicit drugs.

---A gentleman who is polite and considerate and hygienic.

---A responsible gentleman who could himself pass a criminal-background check that's conducted by the first-rate management team at my very nice apartment complex in northwest Austin.

---A gentleman who is not currently on probation for any criminal conviction he has had.

I have emphasized in my posted announcements on the Internet that the gentleman who ends up rooming with me inside my four-room apartment unit (including one total bedroom---a relatively large bedroom, I might add) could cut his monthly living expenses in half that way. I would pay for all utilities, including for cable-television and high-speed Internet service that I'd give my roommate access to. Also, the total share of the rent I am seeking from my roommate would be very minimal (only $300 per month).

I remain hopeful that my search for a roommate will be successful in the very near future.

Among the traits I offer that make me a very good roommate for a gentleman age 18 or older are:

(1) I am dependably friendly and polite.

(2) I am dependably civil, tactfully honest, and law-abiding, and I have no criminal-conviction record.

(3) I am people-friendly and kind, and I'm a former official "Big Brother" and unofficial "Big Brother."

(4) I lead a very quiet and wholesome lifestyle.

(5) I never have any overnight guests inside my apartment unit, and I almost never have any guests or visitors inside my apartment unit.

(6) I can communicate orally in English or Spanish, and, to a lesser extent, in French.

(7) My hobbies and pastimes include tennis, racquetball, roller skating, cooking, creative writing, and public-policy brainstorming.

(An example of my enjoyment of public-policy-brainstorming: This week during my leisuretime, I plan to write to the Texas Department of Agriculture state agency and ask that government agency which steps it has taken to foster the development of commercial avocado farming in Texas.

I plan to write that letter because it's obvious that American society is relying excessively on importation of avocados from Latin American nations. I would like to see a lot more avocados being produced inside the United States.

Texans probably eat more guacamole salad per capita than the residents of any other U.S. state, with the possible exception of California. It would be very logical, then, for Texas to be among the leading U.S. states for commercial avocado farming.

Avocados are so popular in Texas that I myself feel that Guacamole Salad should be designated as the "Official State Salad of Texas", if the Texas Legislature in Austin officially approves that lofty status for Guacamole Salad during the current session of the Legislature.)

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On behalf of my search for a roommate in Austin, I have a very favorable signed letter of personal recommendation on my behalf that was written by a gentlemanly adult male visitor from Italy who roomed with me for a total of about eight months in 2000. That letter of recommendation, dated July 5, 2000, stated as follows:

"TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

"This letter is addressed to John K. McMillan's prospective roommates and is based upon my experience of sharing with him the efficiency apartment 101 at 2518 Leon Street, January to July 2000.

"Despite the space constraints, John made my rooming with him amazingly easy thanks to his limitless flexibility. He never stood back from meeting my exigencies and strived hard to create the most comfortable situation for me; among other numerous examples, he generously chose to shake down on the futon he bought himself at his own expense and let me have the bed throughout our cohabitation.

"He has a laid-back, thoughtful and soothing personality; he is ceaselessly polite and leads an unblemished alcohol-free, tobacco-free, illicit-drug-free lifestyle: he is so conscientious as to fully honour any verbalized rejections of himself (by anyone). He is an impressive conversationalist, as well, and his outlooks are accurately thought out, intellectually subtle and anything but mainstream....

"(H)e has been consistently respectful and considerate of my own privacy rights....Furthermore, he has shown no domineering attitude whatsoever, on account of his seniority or of his being the only acknowledged leasee.

"He was out on duty most of the day, because of his unconditional commitment to work, engaging him early in the morning, Monday to Sunday. On many occasions he treated me to dinner and was open to provisionally putting up some guests of mine in our apartment, too.

"I can't help but recommend as roommate such a versatile individual.

"Sincerely Yours,..."

Letter to Editor from Myself that was Banned by 'Austin American-Statesman' and Cox Enterprises Inc. of Atlanta, Georgia

The "Austin American-Statesman" --- a daily newspaper owned and operated by the Atlanta, Georgia-based Cox Enterprises Inc. --- in a recent prior year flatly refused to publish the following "Letter to the Editor" from myself that I wrote and E-mailed to that general-circulation daily newspaper in Austin, Texas, on November 23, 2006:

"As a subscriber to the 'Austin American-Statesman', I would like to thank your daily newspaper for providing me with some invaluable information this month.

"In exchange for the $22 I paid your newspaper in advance to publish my 'special notices' announcement Nov. 16-22 that invited all members of the anti-drug community to contact me, I received zero phone calls.

"I am now zero percent sure that the people of Austin are concerned about illicit drugs in our capital city of Texas.

"Sincerely,

"John Kevin McMillan.
"Austin, Texas."

My Recollections about Massachusetts

Based on my approximately three total years of having resided in the Bay State, the following are my recollections:

(1) I don't ever remember eating any Boston baked beans anywhere in the Boston area.

(2) I never once ate Indian Pudding in Massachusetts, even though that was a favorite traditional pudding among Bay Staters as they celebrate their state's American Indian heritage.

(2) I found it difficult to myself vicariously re-live the American colonists' involvement in the War for Independence from The United Kingdom. "Shouldn't the focus today be on the mutually-cooperative and mutually-beneficial aspects of the current relationship between the United States and United Kingdom?" I wondered. "Why all this emphasis on military conflict between those two nations, when we have been allies to each other ever since the early 20th Century."

(3) I felt a sudden panic one day in 1986 or 1987 after I exited from a subway stop in what I suddenly realized was a predominantly Italian-American section of north Boston. It was the first occasion in my entire life in which I had just entered a heavily Italian-American section of any city; and every step I took along the street in that section of town was filled with apprehension.

I had not planned to get off the subway in that much-rumored-about section of Boston. It was a section of town, I sensed, where law-abiding and polite Anglo-Saxon gentlemen who oppose illicit-drug consumption might be unwelcome. How could I be sure that there were no Mafia lurking in the shadows?, I wondered at the time. "And how can I trust a section of Boston where it appears to be dark outside even in the early afternoon? Isn't that a clue that this section of Boston is riddled with outlaws?"

I did successfully flee from that section of Boston within 15 minutes after I had entered it; and I felt very grateful for having achieved for myself a second chance at life.

It has since occurred to me that I might have felt more confident in that particular section of Boston if I had pursued a crash course in the Italian language before I visited that part of town. If an Italian-American resident of that section of Boston had shouted an Italian-language epithet at me, at least I would have known what to say in response.

My apprehension during my visit to a heavily Italian-American section of Boston was triggered in part by daily reports I had received in 1985 from an Italian-American roommate of mine in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That gentleman in his late teenage years habitually greeted me inside our duplex apartment unit by telling me he was very sure that the Mafia were going to break into our apartment unit and attempt to kill him! Nothing I could say could convince him otherwise; and he repeated his very dramatic concerns to me on numerous occasions.

(4) As I lay in bed late one night in 1985 in my upper-floor Beacon Hill apartment unit, I was suddenly roused from my sleep by rage-filled shouting from two Boston Police officers as they prepared to arrest a male adult criminal-law suspect on the narrow street below my apartment unit. "We're going to teach you," the Boston police officers shouted contemptuously at the suspect, "to never again show your face in Boston!"

(5) The many homeless people in Boston who asked me to please give them some money each seemed to offer elaborate and very lengthy narratives explaining their current plight. Looking back, I have to wonder whether some of those homeless people would have been well-suited to a career as a fiction writer. But it's unlikely that any representative for a book-publishing company in Boston actually approached one of those panhandlers, identified their creative talent, and offered them a lucrative advance on a book-writing project.

(6) My next-door neighbor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was a self-identified Harvard University professor who habitually greeted me in 1985 by asking me whether I would like to smoke marijuana with himself and his roommate. I repeatedly declined; and it was a point of pride for me, in fact, that I had never been previously addicted to marijuana or any other illicit drug in my entire life, and that I myself had not consumed ANY marijuana on any occasion since 1984.

(7) During a period of 1985 in which I lived in Boston proper, I had a curious phone conversation with a veteran male coworker of mine from "The Patriot Ledger" daily newspaper, who told me on the telephone from his private residence that my copy-desk coworkers at our daily newspaper in the Boston suburb of Quincy all regarded me as being "very strange," he said.

When I asked that copy-editing colleague of mine why my coworkers all regarded me as being "very strange," he replied, "You didn't even know the term 'freebasing cocaine' when you encountered that term in a recent story written by a reporter for our daily newspaper. Everyone else at our copy desk is very familiar with the term 'freebasing cocaine'!"

(7a) In late 1985 or early 1986, a female coworker of mine at "The Patriot Ledger" daily newspaper of Quincy, Massachusetts, invited me to accompany her to a social "party" being hosted by a male friend of hers in north Quincy. She also told me that she felt sure I would enjoy meeting her male friend who was hosting that "party," she said. Upon entering the party host's upper-floor apartment unit with that female coworker of mine, I was immediately informed by the bald male party host that it was a "cocaine party," he stated to me.

The party host, who was consuming cocaine himself, then asked me if I would like to consume some cocaine with him and the other party guests who were also consuming cocaine? I politely declined, and I felt myself to be thoroughly and comprehensively alienated from that entire scene. A few minutes later I left that party alone. I did that because my female coworker from "The Patriot Ledger" daily newspaper told me that she would like to stay at the party and would make arrangements on her own to herself leave the party at a later time.

(8) Coworkers at my "Patriot Ledger" copy desk in 1985 developed a habit of flashing messages that appeared on the top of our computer screen throughout our entire newsroom that repeatedly dubbed me as "The Reverend." Looking back, that may have signified the awareness by several coworkers of mine at that South Shore-based daily newspaper that I myself was consistently law-abiding and civil, and I did NOT consume any cocaine or ANY marijuana, and I myself almost NEVER consumed any alcohol, either.

(9) A male adult Russian Studies instructor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, accompanied me one day in 1985 on a tour of the newsroom of "The Patriot Ledger" daily newspaper in downtown Quincy---a newspaper where I was employed at that time as a full-time copy editor. The M.I.T. instructor commented to me minutes later that "You remind me of a Jewish dissident inside the Soviet Union! You are obviously being persecuted in Quincy just like how the Jewish dissidents of the Soviet Union are being persecuted!"

I myself am not Jewish, and I have never been a subscriber of Judaism, nor have I ever been affiliated in any way with any Jewish group or any Jewish congregation at any time in my entire life.

(10) In 1986 while I was living in Quincy, Massachusetts, I received a surprisingly worded two-sentence post card in the mail from a fiction writer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "It seems that nothing in the Boston area has escaped your attention!" he wrote in that apparently appreciative postcard addressed to myself.

The postcard message did not explain why a Minneapolis-based fiction writer would have any knowledge about the circumstances I myself had myself encountered in the Boston area of Massachusetts---a New England state situated thousands of miles from his own state of Minnesota.

(11) A polite female adult coworker of mine at an Office of Real Property state agency temp job for myself in Boston, Massachusetts, stated to me one day in 1986 or 1987 at our workplace that "You must be a Holy Man, since the hole underneath your shoe indicates that!"


(12) In May of 1987, during a period in which I resided in the downtown area of Quincy, Massachusetts, I was very abruptly and without prior warning of any type subjected to continuous and uninterrupted media "services" I had not requested, including inside my apartment unit and at my respective temp-job workplaces in Boston and north Quincy. Those "media services" featured the continuous sounds of "anonymous voices" in the background that repeatedly and incessantly shouted at me the emphatic message, "Eric Schwarz is superior to you in every respect but one---humor writing!".

"Die (sic) before your complement!", the "anonymous voices" involving sophisticated media technology in the background also repeatedly shouted at me in Quincy, Massachusetts, without their ever explaining to me at any time WHY they would seek to harm me or undermine my own medical longevity or my own medical health in any way.

"I have no sympathy for you!" a male-sounding voice shouted at me with surprising antipathy and surprising anger in his tone of voice through anonymous communications that that individual in the background verbalized to me in a context that was heard by me inside my rental apartment unit in central Quincy, Massachusetts, on the very first day in May 1987 when the voices began.

Those "anonymous voices" in Quincy, Mass., and elsewhere in the Boston area pf Massachusetts also incessantly subjected me to verbalized messages I did not want which referred repeatedly (with no cited reason for any of those statements) to three or more specifically cited respective University of Texas at Austin instructors, whose names I would myself be happy to share with any law-enforcement agency that might ever seek to investigate the matter at any time. I will be more than happy to remind that law-enforcement agency that NO instructor at the University of Texas at Austin has ever been authorized by me to violate my own privacy rights or impinge on my own privacy rights or meddle in my own life in any way, nor has any UT-Austin instructor ever been authorized by me to subject me to anonymous communications in any context or at any time.

Those "anonymous voices" also incessantly subjected me to the verbalized message I heard on a continuous basis that "You're undergoing a breakdown of your former personality!".

It was never clear to me WHICH PERSON OR WHICH PERSONS were verbalizing those and other messages to myself during that time period, or why anyone was expressing criticism of, or a lack of full appreciation for, my own personality or values as a human being.

I was aware of being among the most civil and law-abiding of all of the single adult non-Christian gentlemen in the Boston area. I never consumed any marijuana or any other illicit drug, and I almost never consumed any alcohol during that entire multi-year time period in which I lived in the Boston area. Also, I had not physically assaulted or physically beaten any other person anywhere in the Boston area; and I had no criminal-conviction record. Also, I never verbalized profane speech to any other resident of the entire Boston area; and I never stated to any other Boston-area resident at any time that I myself sought to "harm" or injure himself in any way.

(13) In 1992, during a period in which I worked and resided in the Zapata area of Texas, and I made a long-distance phone call from my rental trailer apartment to the private residence of an adult female former schoolmate of mine living in the District of Columbia, she volunteered to me in that phone conversation that "Massachusetts is a gallingly provincial state!" (approximate quote).
That female former schoolmate of mine did not elaborate on her observation in any way, and she did not indicate whether that comment she had volunteered to me on the telephone related in any way to any conduct toward myself, in particular, by any person or group of persons or entity or business or government-owned institution based in Massachusetts.

(14) In 1996, a medical physician serving as my primary-care physician during that time period in which I resided and worked for a general-circulation local newspaper in Denver City, Texas, surprised me during a medical appointment for me inside his medical clinic in Denver City by indicating to me that the people of Massachusetts were notorious for their lack of niceness, in his stated view.

"When I was stationed with the U.S. Navy on an island near New Hampshire, virtually everyone in New Hampshire was labeling the people of Massachusetts as 'Massholes,'" that medical physician emphatically stated to me on his own volition. That physician, Dr. Cotton, had been providing me with medical-care services in 1996 for what had been diagnosed a year before as bronchitis-pneumonia, a medical problem I had reportedly sustained very abruptly in 1995 in Baytown, Texas, during a period when I was a reporter for "The Baytown Sun" general-circulation daily newspaper.

(15) In 1994 or 1995, I made a local pay telephone phone call from a pay phone situated near Airport Boulevard in east Austin to the private residence of a former classmate of mine from Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin, Texas, who had herself expressed an affinity toward me in prior years. "I recommend that you stay away from Massachusetts," that kindly Austin-based Jewish lady who was also an attorney member of the State Bar of Texas state agency, advised me that day.

(16) In 2007 or 2008, a single adult gentleman and full-time State Government of Texas employee who was dining with me that evening inside a Schlotzky's sandwich shop in northwest Austin, surprised me during our conversation by emphatically stating to me that in his opinion, "the entire state of Massachusetts" had been guilty of alleged corruption and alleged complicity in alleged crime and allegedly injurious conduct in some context that had significantly wronged and victimized myself, that off-duty State of Texas employee emphatically stated to me.

(17) In 2009 or 2008, the subject of Massachusetts arose again for me in Austin, Texas, during a meeting I had with an attorney member of the State Bar of Texas. It was a two-person law-office meeting during which I paid a $20 consultation fee through a signed personal check I handed to that private attorney that same day inside his law office in northwest Austin. I had been referred to that family-law attorney by the Central Texas Lawyer Referral Service, which provides legal referrals to any and all Central Texans requesting referrals to an attorney for a cited legal issue.

That Austin-based attorney surprised me by stating inside his law office in northwest Austin that I had an apparent need to myself contact a private attorney in Quincy, Massachusetts, and myself file a lawsuit on my own behalf in a court of law inside the state of Massachusetts, that attorney emphasized to me.

The State Bar of Texas member attorney also emphasized to me during our first-time meeting inside his law office that since he himself did not have certification to practice the law in Massachusetts, he could not assist me in regard to privacy-rights concerns of mine relating to alleged violations of my own privacy rights that had developed for me in Quincy, Massachusetts, beginning in May of 1987.

Pet Peeves of Mine

My own pet peeves include the following:

(1) I am dismayed by the customary practice of many American architects of their placing water fountains in public office buildings within a few feet from the front door to a men's restroom or a ladies' restroom.
I find it very unpleasant to be drinking water from a water fountain while pondering the proximity of that water fountain to a public restroom where other human beings are actually urinating or defecating. When I am drinking water, I don't want to be asking myself whether I can be perfectly sure that the water I am drinking is completely free of any urine or feces.

(2) I am dismayed by the "modern tradition" of many American store clerks in which they respond to a polite "thank you" from a customer by immediately replying, "No problem." Often the store clerk does not even smile at the customer when the store clerk mumbles "no problem" to that customer.
The lack of graciousness and the lack of hospitality in that widely-uttered phrase is sobering to the point of unnerving.
Does a customer enter a retail establishment primarily to obtain information from the store clerk as to whether that customer is himself posing an "inconvenience" or a "problem" or a "nuisance" for that store clerk? I would hope not!

(3) I am dismayed by the many Americans who choose to greet the "New Year" on January 1 by contracting a hangover and lying in bed with intense pain.
They made that choice by agreeing to consume an excessive amount of alcohol on New Year's Eve.
Does it make sense to usher in the New Year by inflicting a severe headache and dizziness and nausea on yourself?
Does it make sense to be so tormented by a hangover on New Year's Day that you are not feeling sociable and friendly toward the friends and relatives of yours with whom you would have agreed in advance to share a New Year's Day meal and delightedly celebrate January 1?

(4) I am dismayed by the growing tendency of many Americans to rationalize their own deplorably illicit addiction to marijuana by declaring that "I only consume marijuana for medical reasons. I never consume marijuana in order to be frivolous or silly or outrageous or hedonistic or self-destructive or defiant of the law."

I can offer several responses to the Americans who claim to be "medical-marijuana-only" consumers of cannibis:

(a) The odds are high that the city or U.S. state where you reside has NOT, in fact, legalized any consumption of marijuana for citedly "medical" reasons. You are therefore breaking the law and committing a crime whenever you purchase or possess or consume any quantity of marijuana.

(b) Even if you do live in a U.S. state such as California that reportedly permits some individuals to consume so-called "medical marijuana", that legal right is only extended to residents of that state who formally obtained prior authorization from the government.

It is also my understanding that the government is generally limiting that type of "medical-marijuana patient certification" to persons who have been officially diagnosed as terminally ill---persons, in other words, who are suffering from an incurable and fatal disease.

(c) Even if you have been diagnosed with an incurable and fatal disease, you can consult OTHER medical doctors to determine whether ANY of them do NOT agree with the diagnosis and prognosis given to you by the medical doctor or doctors who labeled you as "terminally ill.

Your seeking a third and fourth and fifth opinion from a variety of medical experts could help you to save your own life and enjoy a full medical longevity.

(d) Even if all doctors whom you consult all agree that the disease you have is incurable and very painful as well as fatal to yourself, you can still pursue factual research to identify the full range of law-abiding natural options for pain-relievers that you can take.

It may well be that there are numerous natural pain-relievers that are perfectly legal everywhere in the U.S. and Canada and other nations, and that will not give you any of the adverse side-effects that ingesting the so-called "medical marijuana" would have inflicted on you.

(e) Even if you reside in a U.S. state that has officially given you advance specific written authorization for "medical marijuana" consumption by yourself, you should keep in mind that if you travel from your own state of California, for instance, to a state such as Utah---where any and all marijuana consumption is illegal----you are at dire risk of being arrested by a law-enforcement officer in Utah.

That very grim and degrading scenario could easily occur for you if you continue your
ill-advised marijuana consumption inside a hotel where you are renting a room in Utah.