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Texas is hot.  That’s the bad news.

The good news is that most Texans have a lower life expectancy than people in Libya, Malaysia and Ecuador, so the heat is the least of our problems.

A new national study found that women in hundreds of U.S. counties, including nearly a third of those in Texas, had a shorter life expectancy in 2007 than in 1997.

Men did not suffer the same kind of decline. And Hispanic immigrants live longer than whites and blacks, a puzzle the study underscored.

Thank you, Rick Perry.  Maybe you didn’t shoot them with your .380 Ruger  loaded with hollow-point bullets while jogging, but your policies killed them just the same.

Milam was the one Central Texas county where women lost longevity between 1997 and 2007 — 0.8 years. Women there had a life expectancy of 78.2 years in 2007 — lower than women in Estonia, Mexico, Cuba, Albania, Slovakia and Argentina.

Patsy Gaines, director of the Milam County Health Department, was not entirely surprised. Health services have been cut instead of expanded to meet the community’s needs, she said.

Texas Republicans have had a war on women for years.  Apparently, they are winning.

I’m planning on being around long enough to be a burden on my children, so I might need to relocate.