No complaints about the moisture. A bolt of lightning would strike you on top of the head if you complained about it being too wet out here, even if you were sitting on the roof of your house and the water was to the rafters.
Funny, the weather man gets to keep his job, no matter how many times he's wrong.
A couple of weeks ago, I heard that the speed limit would be changing, again, and I'm always suspicious that this topic is just a smoke-screen to draw our attention away from more significant matters. It looks especially shifty right now since the highway department's budget has been cut to the bone. Repairing only the wheel-path instead of the whole lane is proof of how drastic the reduction has been. So modifying the speed limit at this time is not in keeping with the idea of being economical. Changing all those signs out is an expensive and major project.
With that in mind, I urge you to check out the Texas Legislature Online and see for yourself what's going on at the capitol. Look at Filed House Bills and Filed Senate Bills. You won't give the speed limit another thought when you read these hair-raising and often confusing proposals. Like Senate Bill # 40, creating the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation. Huh. If they're just now creating it, who have I, and everyone and their dog, been indebted to for much of our life and probably until our death? Yes, yes, I'm sure if I researched it, there is some distinct or oblique reason to be creating the same business that already exists. Be sure to check out Section 17 of this bill. The laws that it repeals, if the bill is passed, may be of interest to you.
One more thing. I should be used to the hypocrisy of the conflicting messages that come over the magic picture box that sits in my living room, but I am continuously astonished at seeing such things as news articles railing against obesity funded by commercials for chocolate candy. The new duplicity I witnessed is closer to home and perplexes me. The last three weeks we have been bombarded with outcries against the cutting of education funding; I even heard and saw with my own ears and eyes the governor say that there was going to be a huge, gashing cut in education. Then this week I heard about a convention type deal sponsored by the Texas Education Agency to try to induce high-school students to go into the teaching profession. I hope I don't have to explain this incongruity. It's just stupid, especially since the TEA is a Texas government organization. Come on, kids, have a career in a failing field!
I'm sorry to be so disingenuous today and sound like a whiny complainer, and some of you may have noticed that I leaned heavily on the thesaurus button. My head feels as cloudy as the weather. The weather man promised clearing skies this afternoon. Cross my fingers.
