Hell if I know. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Although, granted, that was a haze, too, so perhaps we're both wrong. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/texas.asp
As for the economy, I wonder if all the folks who knew that WMDs were not going to be found in Iraq (which includes a lot of us) are the same as those who know that things are going to get a whole lot worse for a long while, no matter how many paid-for Pollyannas break wind out of their mouths.
Karen in Austin Thence comes our true nobility by grace, It was not willed us with our rank and place. Chaucer
For example, i understood that lawmaking was done at the bar of the Driscoll Hotel, then later transferred to the "legislative" process.
"That's right, you're not from Texas Texas loves you anyway."
Mr. L. Lovett Skennah Kowa
I'd love to be a year-round fly on the wall at that place; lots of scoops to be had.