Kee-rist! There's never a good ole texas sinkhole around when you need one.

I have met so many fine people from Texas since I have been here in Pennsylvania. Not a single one had any flaws that I could see or were hate filled or mean or otherwise were like the media often portrays Texans. And two former fine Texans who liberals adore were from Texas. Anne Richards and Molly Ivins were both Texans.

But so often I read about the courts in Texas, or other institutions in Texas, or think about their former Supreme Court Justice Alberto Gonzalez, who was appointed by President Bush, and all the problems the institutions in Texas still have and I can't help but believe that Texas needs many more libraries and repositories of learning to help it catch up with the rest of America. Perhaps the Bush Library can help in that regard.

The town I consider my "home town", even though I was not born there, even had an innocent man, Lenell Geter convicted by a Texas Court who spent several years in jail there for a crime he did not commit. Had a fine lawyer not intervened, Mr. Geter would spent his entire life in a Texas jail. He was completely innocent beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I hope that what you say about this institution will be true. Texas and Oklahoma both need more repositories of learning.

Not that there are not nice people in Texas and Oklahoma. My grandfather lived in both states a long time ago and said that the people in those states were the nicest people he had ever met. Perhaps though, many of the people there need more knowledge and need to learn more. Let's hope the libraries help those who are not like the nice people from Texas that I have met here in Pennsylvania (as well as the many nice people in Texas as well).

There was great rejoicing when Mr. Geter was let loose from a Texas jail many years ago. May he live long and prosper. He wrote a book a few years ago that is available on Amazon.com. May Texas Overcome and Succeed and Prosper, as the the title of Mr. Geter's book suggests should be the fate of everyone.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20197110,00.html

Now that I think about it some more though, not a single one of the nice people I know from Texas would want to be caught dead, much less alive near the place. That guy will always be the torture President, the guy who made torture the official policy of the United States Government. I don't care what the history books may eventually say.

They sure need a lot of help in Texas and Oklahoma, that's for sure. But as long as the torture President keeps on insisting that he didn't institute a policy of torture, the only people who go near the place are going to be people who agree. I doubt there'll be a bright mind going there for 30 years or more, unless it's just out of curiosity to see how much lying is going on inside.

Is that a banana or is the President just excited to be there ?

Nah, it's a sock. But he is excited to be there. Although in retrospect, he changed his mind.