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OPINION
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Sunday, January 4,2009
THE BAYTOWN SUN
You can shine
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reduced sentence for “connections and back at camp, he listens as T-Bone explains
CARTHAGE, TX.
he bagged an irresistible (what he figures
JANE G'SELL GRIFFIN
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Song of Obama
Apparently, Mr. Kinney has a lot of
time on his hands to spar back and
forth with Mr, Parker, etc.
I just wonder what kind of song Mr.
Kinney will be singing in four years,
FRED HARTMAN
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Jewelry will be bigger and bolder than
ever. Oversized pieces made from natural
after Mr. Obama's "reign"!!!
Will it be a song of praise?????
Maybe in his mind, but I am afraid Mr.
Kinney may be singing a different
tune. Not that he would admit, I am
sure!!! Time will tell!!!!!!!
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BAD EcoNoML
. It's
a family affair, and they very much enjoy
their time together, pursuing this Texas
sport.
MM is also a practised marksman and he
takes pride in making sure every shot
counts. One day recently, a yam was spun
in the breakroom that does MM justice.
"Flicking the four-inch long and angry
red scorpion off his Tony Lama alligator
boot, MM takes bead on a distant 250# feral
hog and fires off one well-placed custom-
loaded 85 grain Sierra boattail bullet. The
round makes it's way down wind, easily dis-
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Remembering Martha
I want to thank The Baytown Sun
for the nice tribute to Martha S. Reed.
She was a wonderful, talented lady
and I was proud to have her as my spe-
cial cousin. We shared many memo-
ries of great Sunday afternoons at our
grandparents J.B. and Mattie Spurlock
in Cedar Bayou. She will definitely
be missed.
a handgun swap. I traded him a Ruger
Blackhawk .41 Magnum revolver for a
Ruger .45 ACP pistol. It was- a good trade, fence lines and the owner of that other prop-
both of us exchanged a certain amount of erty hadn't left for towi^yeLvDid MM want
ammunition, and I got a spare ammo clip t0 help him go look for it before the ranch
owner came back? They needed to hurry so
TB could restock his beer cooler and get
more ammo for the evening hunt, since he
had went through three boxes already.
I've personally witnessed most of this
.l.e years from numerous
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ly relates to MM and TB, but the bottom
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of your age, seek out a Hunter Education
It is beyond disturbing that banks
across the country that received
bailout money from the federal gov-
ernment claim they do not know how
they’re spending the money....
The American taxpayers, who had
to bail these banks out of financial
crisis, deserve a better explanation....
There is nothing in place t6 ensure
if the money is being used as intend-
ed. Without controls or accountabili-
ty, for all we know some of this
money could be used for corporate
■ bonuses, junkets or to buy other
banks. And there are no consequences
for banks who don’t use it for the pur-
poses intended by Congress.
Part of the problem lies with
Congress, which attached hardly any
strings to the bailout money. The
other part of the problem is that the
Treasury Department never asked
banks how the money would be spent
when they handed it out....
I ’ This is a slap in the face to those in
Congress that voted to provide the
$700 billion to the banks and most of
i all it is unfair to the taxpayers.
We were pleased to learn that law-
makers want to tighten the restrictions
on the remaining, yet-to-be-released
$350 billion block of bailout money
before more cash is handed out.
This is a good start because more
oversight is definitely needed. We as
taxpayers deserve a full accounting of
how this money is being spent.
—Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky.
ily farmers lost their farms. Just like-
today, crooked bankers convinced the
farmers to make huge loans to
upgrade their equipment. These loans
were backed by the farm land as col-
lateral.
The real estate market tanked, and
the farms lost half of their value. The
bankers said that the farmers didn't
have enough collateral anymore, so
they called in their loans. Since the
farmers couldn't come up with any
more collateral, and certainly couldn't
pay off the loans immediately, the
■ banks foreclosed and we saw one pic-
ture after another on the news of the
farmers entire worldly possessions
being auctioned off to the highest bid-
der. These farmers were all current on
their loan payments. Then the big
money corporate farms didn't have
these pesky family farmers biting
their ankles. anymore. How conve-
nient.
These bankers are the same ones
that created the sub-prime fiasco,
making loans to people who they
knew could never keep up the pay-
ments. They made their bed; I say let
them sleep in it. We'll bail them out,
though. All government in this coun-
try is a funnel. It's only purpose is to
take money from the middle class and
give it to the rich. If a law is in the way
of a vulture making money, they just
pay off the lawmakers and get it
changed. Then, when it all falls down
around their ears, we the taxpayers,
save their skin against our will.
Government of the people, by the peo-
ple, and for the people. Yeah, right.
DAVID PARKER
we'll call him, is in my opinion wallets), an egg-eatin' fox and all this after
orlnlAcnont dovplnnmcnt of bagge(j an irresistible (what he figUTBS
hunting, the one the State Hunter Education js) 14-pdint buck deer that was "a good 350-
likes to fire his guns — a lot. The more he
■fires his weapon, the better time he has.
Back when I first met him, we decided to do didn't bother to bring any of it back.
tongue is firmly planted in my cheek. I
despise shopping. I’ll be forced to relinquish
my female card as soon as this is published.
Worse, I’m perfectly fine carrying a purse
from Target or even Payless. Hey, I’m ahead
of the recessionista trend bucking to upset
many fashionistas.)
Starting at the top and working my way
down: Braids, twists and buns with a femi-
nine yet functional look will rule well-
coiffed tresses. ‘Smart’ make-ups, and not
just foundations, that automatically adjust to while T.Bone wjth the 378 ^before
the natural tones ofyour skin will abound. (I ?./ . . .. ° ~ H °° H
may actually like these products. No thought
required. Just apply, and voila!) There will
be variations of the mini-dress (start work-
ing on the legs now) with futuristic, boxy,
boyish tailoring and geometric prints in
sherberty pastels and hot brights. The new
neutral will be hot pink. The must-have
shoe: metal cage boots. (I kid you not -don’t
know what they look like, but it doesn’t
also.
A few days passed and 1 asked TB if he
had had time to fire the revolver and check
out the box of 50 custom hand-loaded for
this gun ammunition, which were quite stiff,
by the way. He, to my surprise, remarked behavior over the
that on his way home from work, shot holes hunters and only a bit of this column actual-
in every road sign he saw, firing the large ] 2.22 ' T2, ™
bore magnum revolver out the, window of hne is this: If you love hunting, regardless
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"y?™. S?Ot. t^1,em^e1re .?ot roun^s one" Instructor, tie the State course and learn to
love the proper way to use the freedoms and
resources available to us as Texans.
Bert Marshall is a 30-year Baytown resident
BERT
MARSHALL patches the hog and then successfully takes
his 34-ton 4X4 truck. In shock, 1 blurted
out
handed?" for lack of a better response and
in my best Southern accent.
Mike-Mike and family never stop hunt- _ ~
ing something or preparing for the next
hunt. They go from one season to the next Historicai Resource. E-mail him at
planting oats and winter wheat, building admin@ourbaytown.com.
complement (not so sure about that given the
clothing description above) the year’s fash-
ions.
Moving along,
pnAnfc will Ko “<ti
nies looking to “go green”. Stem-cell
research is also looking promising.
Technology will bring us even more con-
sumer electronics with the big splashes this
year being made on the “home hospital”
front. Cool medical gadgetry once only
available to medical personnel will be yours
for a moderate price, of course. But mobile
personal technology will be the center of the f
universe for most new applications. (New
applications? Good grief. How much more
“wired” can we all be?)
On the exercise front, be on the lookout
for all sorts of programs boasting very brief,
but extremely intense workouts. (This is one
I just may have to investigate. I am curious
as to whether shorter, more intense suffering
will gamer results. If I actually try it . . .
well, you’ll probably hear me scream.)
Near the end of my semi-exhaustive trend
review, I was tickled almost hot pink and felt
far from neutral when I ran across the com-
ment, “Things that are really hot for 2009
are friends and family you enjoy spending
time with, clothes you can afford and feel
comfortable in, jewelry from someone who
loves you, and food and drink you enjoy.”
Cheers to that! Happy New Year!
Natalie Whatley resides in Baytown
with her family. Contact her at ndwhat-
ley@verizon.net
Weatherby Magnum. Mike is a finesse is lost, snuffs a cottontail rabbit.
hunter, constantly honing shooting skills Mike-Mike waits the prescribed thirty
and in his own words has "never lost a deer" minutes and appreciating the instant and
to the smaller cartridge. T-Bone is a hemi- humane dispatch of his game animals, gen-
powered raw horsepower shooter - he likes tly places the four fertile quail eggs in a
to send lead downstream and dang the tor- small soft bag with the intention of placing
«-pedoes...the more the merrier^MM always the eggs into the nest of another quail hen
acquires the proper licenses and permis- he has observed. MM has no trouble wait-
sions, while TB has an extensive history of ing the thirty minutes, as he is a patient man
Know wnat iney look iikc, out n uousn i imt,* j, J ,• •, \ » •
sound like something that goes with a dress.) VI0^’ng gT. ,he Passes *e time keasllY watching two
6 ■ MM is what the Texas Hunter Education yearling deer play on the other side of the
program defines as a 'True Sportsman'. T- fenceline of the neighboring ranch, which
Bone, at one time, was fined $17,000 for he has no intention of hunting.
good behavior.” He also shot a mute swan that he "doe-popped" a ki-o-tee, a bobcat,
1 (along with other federal and State-restrict- three hawgs (which he left lay because they
the new race in invest- ed crawling, running, swimming and flying were probably boars and most likely a tad
ments will be “green” products or comoa- animals)and was apprehended and released gamey), two jack-o-rabbits, a dirty old crow,
g P - - -- by a State Game Warden due to certain three buzzards (he hates buzzards and
likens them to women who plunder men's
As,one who enjoys observing the world
and all that goes on in it, I keep my finger on
the pulse of the wild roller-coaster ride we
call life. I thought for some
time about the new year we
have before us and decided ■
1 didn’t want to look back.
So, let’s all take a breather K
from what has been and
look to what will be.
1 have no expertise in
predicting future trends,
but I can Google with the U1T1. ar
best. Below, you’ll find a NATALIE
synopsis of what some in the WHATLEY
know say will be hot, hot,
hot for 2009. Fashionable
highfalutin types claim that those of us who
hang our hats in the Southern United States
take about two years to catch up with pretty
much everything. I’m doing you a great ser-
vice here; many of our brethren won’t catch
on until 2011. Here’s your chance to look
very avant-garde.
I’ll start with women’s fashion because,
honestly, is there anything else? (For those
EDITORIAL BOARD
Clifton E. “Cliff” Clements
Editor/Publisher
Dave Mathews
Managing Editor
Jay Eshbach
Community member
Jim Finley
former Managing Editor
Bone, although very knowledgeable and
past hunting phi-
^*3 are
, ’ -xl x ’ 'nx x-x r i passionate about hunting,
who are without the curse/benefit of know- L. ., ■
ing me outside of what you read here, my
Texas hunters: The good,
bad and ugly.
Our first hunter, a guy I'll call Mike- meticulously checking for the latest sign of
Mike, along with his son and dad represent activity. When game is harvested, they ren-
the future of hunting in Texas, in letter, law der all of it themselves, wasting nothing
and spirit. Our second hunter, we'll call T- usable, making sausage, steaks and ribs.
extremely field-sawy and proficient - rep-
resents j
losophy. Both parties
Both can tell you anything
and everything about
equipment, habits of
ducks, deer, turkeys, squir-
rels and feral hogs. Both
are Texas hunters and both |
are actually a mixture of
many people, whom many
of us will recognize.
Some of my old ways are —— down a 12 point buck deer standing behind
mentioned here and maybe it. But before the deer has*dropped painless-
you will see yourself also. ly in it's tracks, the venerable bullet turns on
Mike-Mike, or MM is a .243 Winchester a rib and takes out two quail, which both
questionable extenuating circumstances.
TB, as we'll call hmi, is m my opmivu
still in the adolescent development stage of
class defines as the ‘shootingjtage.’ He yard shot". Oh, by the way, he laughs and
toe 37g Weatherby Magnum flat
exploded most of this smaller game, so he
TB would have been back at the camp
earlier he explains, but he had to cross two
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