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On January 24th, at 6:30 pm, at the Rosenberg Civic Center, 3825 State Highway 36, TxDOT will make itself available to answer questions from the public on the I69/TransTexas Corridor project. This is a matter of public interest as not only will it affect your pocket book and environment, but it will bring in more goods from China that were originally to be made in Mexico under the NAFTA agreement and (according to many) it has great potential to attenuate our security.

Someone electronically shared the following with me today. I would dearly like to know the author of the piece in order to give my praises to her or him. I think it would be hilarious if it wasn't so truthful and therefore frightening. Scary to think people who think (hmmm, can you really call it "thinking"?)these things vote and have power.

To be a Republican you need to believe:

1. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton

Texas needs your help to reduce the number of toll roads. Many of us concerned about the TranTexas Corridor, NAFTA, and all this toll road business recently received a newsletter from the good folks at Texas TURF (Texas Uniting for Reform and Freedom). If you are interested also, here are a few things you can do:

1) Join Texas TURF and help spread the word and volunteer your services and some money by visiting http://texasturf.org/alerts/?p=subscribe

Abstract. This article contains information about the TransTexas Corridor, NAFTA, toll roads, the North American Union, how it all came about and how if we ALL don’t work together to stop it, well….refer to the title.

So many people these days have been exposed to harsh chemicals that they have developed serious reactions to them whenever they are exposed again. Certainly the earth has had its share of exposures. Some of us just want to not only take it easier on our families, but on the earth too. So according to the “Queen of Green”, Karen Ironkwe recommends the following:

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Dateline, November 17, Austin, Texas as reported in the Houston Chronicle on the same date: TxDOT aims to tighten purse strings. Deficit may top $1.8 billion by fiscal 2012 with current slate of road projects.

Seems there’s a funding shortfall. Could we say poor financial management or foresight? I don’t know. I’m new to this. Maybe you’d know. But it seems big time cuts are coming. Now THIS I’ve heard before when my energy and efforts were focused on the state school system. It’s gone to hell in a hand basket and if you are one of the more than 60,000 families in Texas with a severely mentally, physically or mixed handicapped member, you and that member are pretty much on your own. However, roads have the ability to grow money, especially if our governor and president have their ways (and when have they not?)

The following are some key findings in a report issued Saturday, November 17, by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change:

• Global warming is "unequivocal". Temperatures have risen 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 100 years. Eleven of the last 12 years are among the warmest since 1850. Sea levels have gone up by an average seven-tenths of an inch per year since 1961.

You know, I’m still a neophyte at the nitty-gritties of politics and of the cyber-world, so you hardcore experts will have to bear with me sometimes on my learning curves. But today as I was surfing around for websites of various Democratic clubs around Texas, I came across this bit of information that was published on Jan 31, 2007. It seems that the office staff of State Senator Eliot Shapleigh (D)-El Paso annually gleans our state’s ranking among the other 49 in a variety of categories. I’m telling you, the results are pitiful and I’m embarrassed. I also think that Mr. 39 Percent, our Governor should also be mightily embarrassed. Too embarrassed I would think to even show his well-coiffed head outside his mansion, much less to have designs on national politics. Take a look at some of these beauties that I am sure have not changed much in 11 months. They are ghastly:

 

He keeps trying and trying to get the children of poor parents in this state covered by SCHIP (State Comprehensive Health Insurance Program) one way or another, but his hero, President Dubya, just won’t do anything but veto any compromise. Now let’s step back and take a wide-angled view at just five areas that are pretty important over the next four years, of which SCHIP is just one of which Dubya is using to shape the future of this country almost as heinously as Dr. Moreau changed the future of the animals on his island in the story by H. G. Wells.

President Bush on Tuesday vetoed Congress' spending bill for education, labor and health programs for fiscal year 2008 and asked that Congress support his fiscal year spending request. The President fails to point out that his original spending proposal would cut education funding by $1.2 billion. Visit http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/Z71fI7E1Lc98/ to send a letter to your representative pressing Congress to stand up to President Bush and reject his veto.