How lucky
can you be to have two rants in as many days!! Just so much happening today I
just felt like needed to vent a little. So let’s get to it!!
1.
Venezuela’s Dictator Hugo Chavez has died. His
Vice-President blamed the US for contaminating Chavez with cancer, but
President Obama is hopeful we can build a relationship with their new
government. Did he not just listen? Anyway, you remember Chavez? He is infamous
for wanting to befriend Comrade Obama and for calling George W. Bush “el Diablo”
during an address to the UN. Funny thing is, I do believe Hugo is about to meet
el Diablo for real!!
2.
The White House is discontinuing the White House
Tour on the 9th of March. According to a White House recording it is
due to sequestration. I know this disappoints many folks; however, if the White
House thinks that canceling the availability of an unguided tour will help with
the sequester then I guess we must defer to their better judgment.
3.
As if the TSA hasn’t already made some of the
most asinine decisions possible with security screenings in the last few years,
now they are in the process of changing the allowed items on a flight and how
the security process will work? Well no, you still can’t take a box cutter on
board nor a razor, and yes you still have to take off those dangerous shoes and
belts before you board your flight, BUT now you will be allowed to being your
pocket knife on board…HUH? I guess it’s important to remember that this is the
same organization that takes away plastic toy hammers from children and will
frisk granny in a wheel chair so I suppose this makes sense…
4.
The state legislature is looking at what to do
to make Texas schools more competitive in the area of college preparedness. How
about we worry about the thousands of kids not going to college and how to put
some vocational education and training back in schools. That way those of us
who have kids who go through 13 years of school can graduate with a marketable
skill like welding, cosmetology, and automotive repair. We used to do it and it
worked, but somewhere we lost site of the importance of skilled labor and now it
is expected that inside the next decade America will have a shortfall of 10% to
20% of the skilled workers we need!
5.
The State Legislature is also working to move
the primary date from March to February so that the state’s primary will be
more in play for the upcoming 2016 presidential election; however, the move
forward will cost the state delegates to the national convention. So in the end
we need to either leave it where it is or move it to January 1st so
we can have the first primary in the nation and people can vote on New Year’s
Day, which is a holiday.
Okay, that’s
the quick and ugly. Hope it helped you as much as it helped me!!
Till Later,
Bill
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