The Prairie really is Grand

I had cause this week to feel really proud of my adopted state of Texas, thanks to two girls in Grand Prairie. They brought a painful episode of my childhood to a complete close with a gesture that I never got.
Like their classmate, when I was in school (junior high for me) in Florida, I was played a cruel joke by being 'nominated' for class princess. It was all a joke to those who put my name in, and none of them voted for me. Unlike their classmate, I had no one to stand up for me and show the bullies what being human means.
Like their classmate, I found much nicer people when I moved to Texas, and that is why I don't live in Florida anymore, even though a lot of my family is there.
Thanks, girls, you have helped people you don't even know.

Thanks, but no thanks.

The one good thing I can say about W is that he has stayed out of politics since he left office.
Unfortunately, it seems his supporters don't have that kind of consideration.
While the man himself has not commented on Obama's current conundrum, they are digging up some words from the past and inserting them now.
In spite of the fact that he got us into this mess to begin with, and in spite of the bigger mess his officials made of Iraq once they got there, and in spite of the fact that he abandoned Afghanistan to go fight the war he really wanted, which gave al-quaida more time to work its will, they now insist he was downright prophetic in saying that we should not leave until every general said we were done.
Of course, they forget how much the American public wanted us to leave, how tired they were of the wars the Bush administration had gleefully committed us to. And they forget that Obama tried to leave a larger force, but the Iraqi government wouldn't agree to it.
We should have done it anyway, I guess.
Bush was willing to ignore the facts to go into war, and his supporters are willing to ignore the facts to make him wise and keep us there for who knows how long.
Maybe they should all take up painting.