C. Cross
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December 19, 2005
It was a hot and dusty summer day in the Rio Grande Valley way down South in Texas. My parents, my brother, and I were on one of our biannual trips to visit my grandparents in McAllen, Texas and my Dad had taken my brother and me to a swimming pool at a local motel. It was one of those real pools t...
October 05, 2005
There hardly seems a day goes by without someone lamenting how bad things are in the United States. Every little tyrant with an attitude wants to scream to the world that we do things so poorly here. They claim that we do not take care of the sick but thousands come to this country each year for t...
October 05, 2005
A few years ago I would occasionally have a late breakfast at a nearby restaurant. There was never anything special going on; it was just one of those, “I want to do something different” situations. I would take the morning paper with me and find a secluded seat where I could eat and read and rela...
October 01, 2005
What is money? Where does it come from?
These are very good questions. Just what really is money and where does it come from? Is money dollars, guilders, Pounds, marks, Euros, or what? Do governments make the money or does it come from the minions of the banking industry?
To help you under...
October 01, 2005
There is a famous quote from Shakespeare advising us what to do about lawyers. I believe that it also should apply to a large percentage of politicians. Politics is a strange and yet necessary evil in a representative government such as ours. There have been many honest and decent people who have...
October 01, 2005
I love gumbo; not the sticky, smelly, paste that lies just beneath the wild grasses covering the unpaved fields around the Bayou City. Rather, I like the dark brown mixture of flour, oil, various vegetables, meat, spices and love that goes into the making of a good, homemade gumbo. There are few r...
October 01, 2005
The next time you travel about the Bayou city, take a look at some of the scenery. Be sure and pay attention to traffic. You want to avoid the “I’ll drive in the left lane hogs” and the “90 mph weavers.” Personally, I think such clueless individuals should be required to ride tricycles while wear...
September 29, 2005
Imagine, if you will, the labor of Diogenese. Searching the known world for an honest man, his travels took him on the fruitless quest of finding someone he believed to be honest. Did he find the person for whom he had been looking? I do not think that history records a successful conclusion to h...