U. S President Tronald Dump Speaking on the Flooding in Texas

Note: This is fake news. This did not happen. Any resemblance to persons living or dead if purely intentional.

Mr. Dump speaking:

I want to tell the people of Texas, and America, and the world: we will fix Texas. We will fix Texas. We are going to make Texas better than it ever was before. We have a plan. We have a great plan, a greater plan than there's ever been before. And we will fix Texas.

I can't release all the details of this plan, but we have a weapon. We are going to soak up all that water. We are going to make all that flood water go away, so fast you wouldn't believe.

We are going to bring in a sponge. A really, really big sponge.  A sponge like nobody's ever seen before. And we are going to soak up all that water. And then we will dump that water. We are going to dump that water, maybe on some country we don't like. Maybe on North Korea, or on Iran.

Meanwhile, I've got people looking for the drain. And we are going to open that drain, and let all the water drain out. Drain away. We've got divers, right now, looking for that drain, that will let all that water drain away. And with God's help, we are going to find that drain. We are going to drain all that water away. We are going to drain Texas to where It’s drier than it's ever been before. Believe me. We are going to fix Texas. And we're working on it right now. And we've got really, really great ideas on how to fix Texas. And we are going to fix Texas, I can tell you.

Copyright (c) 2017.

When Everybody Has a Gun

A driver in Atlanta shot a 17-year-old boy because the boy egged his Mercedes.

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/police-prankster-tivarus-king-shot-dead-after-egging-mercedes/19698342

And the boy later died. It will be interesting to see if the Mercedes owner is prosecuted for homicide.

If it were Texas, I think he'd get off on the grounds that he was "defending his property." I don't know if Georgia is much better; we'll have to wait and see.

To my mind, it's yet another example of how, when guns are widely owned, they can and will be used in anger--with tragic consequences.

Copyright (c) 2010 by Richard Stein

As if We Didn't Already Know

Florida and Texas are backward.

www.dailyfinance.com/story/media/filming-in-florida-so-wholesome-only-a-5-year-old-could-enjoy/19397043/

www.aolnews.com/nation/article/texas-removes-thomas-jefferson-from-teaching-standard/19397481

And yes, what Texas specifies it wants in textbooks, it gets; and it not only may influence textbooks for the rest of the country, it definitely does. Because Texas has state-wide adoptions (that is, a state body specifies what textbooks are acceptable for the entire state), and textbook publishers can't afford to make different versions for Texas and for the rest of the U.S.--what Texas will buy pretty much dictates what the books are going to be like--what they may or may not contain--for the whole country.

Trust me on this: I've worked in textbook publishing.

Copyright (c) 2010 by Richard Stein