Few things unite Texans like the shared experience of Texas weather. We can all agree that Texas summers are hot, our droughts are frequent, and Texas-sized storms can pack a punch. And we have all learned to pay close attention to flood and hurricane warnings.
The state climatologist recently predicted that Texas will continue to get hotter and for longer periods of time during the next 15 years. In “Assessment of Historic and Future Trends of Extreme Weather in Texas, 1900-2036,” John Nielsen-Gammon predicted the average annual temperature in Texas will be three degrees warmer than the average from 1950-1999, and the number of 100-degree days could nearly double compared to 2000-2018.
For grey-beard dinosaurs like me, the world, especially America, has become an incredibly insane place to live. The PC crowd, the “woke” crowd, the anti-vax crowd, fights at school board meetings over face masks, President Joe Biden wanting to force financial institutions to file a report (deposits and withdrawals) with the IRS for every customer who has an account with a minimum of $600 in it, the BS never seems to cease.
Merry Christmas. This year we'll all be able to celebrate boxing day (the day when we send back every President Joe Biden gift because we can't afford it). Eleven Republican senators caved and voted for a short-term extension of the national debt limit (which adds a whole new meaning to Christmas). A couple hundred billion more to spend, of course, doesn't solve anything since that amounts to chicken feed to those now occupying Capitol Hill. Nor does increasing the debt limit by any amount ultimately solve anything. The more we owe, the more precarious our financial situation becomes.
Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the Texas Legislature to increase the penalty for illegal voting, adding the item to the third special session now underway. However, House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, quickly rejected the proposal, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
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