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OPINION
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Tuesday. Jiih 21.2009
THE BAYTOWN SI X
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the movies, Baldwin
has the potential to
; make Nancy Pelosi
J look like a reason-
able. sound, literate
i politician That would
I take a miracle, but
I’m betting old Alec
could come close to
doing it.
From what I read, I
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Cynthia Lipps
Baytown
• Under the current draft of the health-
care legislation, members of Congress are
exempt from the government-run health-
care option and will continue to enjoy
their own high-quality federal employees
healthcare plan
At the same time, as a result of the lat-
est healthcare draft, individual health
insurance enjoyed be many Americans
will be effectively regulated out of exis-
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of their hearts. We must work toward uni-
versal coverage 11 we would reduce cost
through prevention, etc
Cyrus Fletcher
Baytown
• l our years ago. my brother was diag-
nosed with leukemia at 47. He was given
a 12 percent Chance of survival for one
He sought a second opinion: A second
oncologist examined him that very day.
My brother did have a type of leukemia,
but not the kind initially diagnosed, l ie
had acute myeloid leukemia He was
treated at the Lipshy Center m Dallas and
is now cancer free.
Under the new healthcare bill, would
tny brother have been able to seek a sec-
ond opinion on the same day-.’
I think not Under Subtitle C Section
123 of the proposed bill, an appointed
health benefits adv isory committee com-
prised of 25 members headed by the
Surgeon General will make benefit stan-
dards recommendations to the Secretary
of Health and Human Services that w ill
be provided to the recipient Only one
member is required to be a physician. In
other words, they will decide what level
of health care y ou will receive, riot y ou.
not your doctor. I don’t want to lose my
freedom to choose my family's health-
care Do you?
Presenting some important items
from my summertime Real Newsman
Notebook:
SPITTING - I’m paid big bucks by
The Baytown Sun to observe and then
to expound on things of importance in a
readable, likeable style. And so two key
questions came to mind as I watched
the Major League All-Star Game last
_/ NOON /
Healthcare reform
Thank you for publishing Dr. Gott's
comments on national healthcare reform
especially after giving Senator
Hutchinson a guest column on her views.
Their conflicting perspectives give us a
good picture of the debate and alterna-
■ lives:
SenatorHutchinson demonstrated why
nothing has been done as the problem of
uninsured Americans has gotten worse
over the last 25 years She raises the false
straw man boogey-man of that terrible
‘government run program' which would
lead to socialized medicine and socialist
government. Her comments should be
noted not only for what she says, but also
for what she leaves out:
She fails to mention that insurance
companies have been dumping partici-
pants in favor of profitable ones and have
failed to solve the problem of uninsured
people for over thirty years. She also
does not mention that insurance bureau-
crats can be just as obtrusive and dictato-
rial as any government bureaucrat except
they do not answer to anyone but the boss
who pays them.:
All of us should ask just what she
thinks 'tax credit money' is: free. It is
really asking government to tax or bor-
row money to pay people to help them
with their insurance expenses; not their
healthcare. : ■ ?'
She is dreaming a false dream if she
thinks that insurance companies ate going
to voluntarily reduce their profits and
accept tnorc risks just out of the goodness Tveek''
I) Why do baseball players most of
basketball coaches wearing short pants.
Thusly, 1 won't go there.
Feel free to discuss these key ques-
tions at your next civic club or Bridge
party
MIXED FEELINGS - You won’t
believe the mixed feelings I had the
other day when I heard that picture
show guy Alec Baldwin might pursue a
career in politics. I say “mixed" because guy 'n the nose in the name ofTrig
I'm thinking our ration doesn’t need Palin Qorah’c
another Al Franken, but at the same
time it would get Baldwin off movie
and TV screens.
If he governs like he “performs” in
On the grounds of the present
Dallas convention center there is a
grave. The monument on that grave
gives a tribute to Nicholas Henry
Darnell, the last Grand Master of the
Masonic Lodge in the Republic
Texas. Some one hundred years after
Darnell held that illustrious post, the
marker was erected under the leader-
ship of M.W. Claud Austin, Grand
Master during 1945-46. Nicholas
Darnell also served the Republic of
Texas and the state of Texas in sever-
al other capacities. I claim an interest
in him because he is a link to Texas
history that qualifies my daughter to
become a member of the Daughters
of the Republic of Texas.
Nicholas came from
Tennessee in 1838
with his wife
Isabella, whose
maiden: name Was
Cozart. Her brother,
Henderson Cozart,
was killed either at
Goliad or the
ELIZABETH Alamo. (There are
conflicting
accounts.) They set-
tled in San
Augustine, and Nicholas was elected
to the Texas Legislature in the sixth
and seventh congresses. He was
made Speaker of the House in 1842.
When Texas joined the United States,
Mr. Darnell was a member of the
1845 constitutional convention. He
narrowly lost the race for lieutenant
governor while he was taking that
constitution and the annexation
agreement to Washington.
In 1858. the Darnells moved to
Dallas. Nicholas served as a legisla-
tor from that area and again was
elected as Speaker of the House. He
resigned ini 862 to accept the com-
mand of the 18th Texas Cavalry that
served the Confederacy. I don’t know
what his actual rank was, but he was
called “General” after that.
According to Sam Acheson’s col-
umn in a 1966 Dallas newspaper.
Nicholas moved,to Dallas to manage
a hotel named for him - the St.
Nicholas Hotel. It was the first three-
story building in Dallas. The owner
and builder was a woman named
Sarah Cockrell. Mrs. Cockrell’s son
said that Darnell had “a big bump of
egotism." However, he also said that
he thought the man had charm, good
manners and affability. The hotel
j burned tn a big fire in Dallas in
1860.
The next year General Darnell
moved to Ft. Worth and became a
legislator from Tarrant. Dallas and
Ellis Counties. A notable event
occurred during the next legislative
session. The Texas Pacific railroad
was building tracks toward Ft. Worth.
Somehow the state of Texas had
promised land and some other advan-
tages if the railroad reached Ft.
Worth before the legislature
adjourned. The legislature finished its
business; -however, supporters of the
railroad refused to vote for adjourn-
ment. They stalled for 15 days. The
vote was close, so close that General
Darnell, although he was sick, made
a point of being there every single
day to vote against adjourning. He
had to be carried into the chamber on
a cot to cast his vote. After fifteen
days, the railroad reached Ft. Worth,
and the legislature adjourned. Ft.
Worth businesses appreciated their
representative.
The most interesting thing 1 have
read about Darnell was his work on
the state constitution in 1845. The
Texas National Register on July 14,
1845, reported that Mr. Darnell
offered a resolution protecting
women’s rights to their own property
as well as half of the property gained
during marriage. That is what we
now know as the Community
Property Law. The newspaper colum-
nist, named Ford, offered a few
“humorous” remarks. He said “That
would be placing the ‘lords of cre-
ation’ pretty much under petticoat
government - giving the keys of
Plutus into the hands of Venus, and
depositing our hearts and our trea-
sures together, both to be guarded by
the witching smile of beauty. Let us
not look too inquiringly upon this
picture thus presented to the mind’s
think Baldwin is, at present, deciding
WHAT STATE he wants to run in.
Picking where you run for public office
is limited to only a few politicians, such
as Hillary Clinton.
The man says he has been
do, particularly on national TV Yet even to run for governor of Ohio and also
‘l : ““.s’: hr :t—«T.
punction in publicly letting loose large Connecticut to run for office. I’d love to
w i < run agajnst Joe Lieberman,” he was
quoted as saying. (Go for it! Please go
for it!)
Because Baldwin is a native New •
Yorker (you can tell, can’t you?), he
I.DITOKIM. BOARD
Clifton E. "Cliff" Clements
Editor,'Pubfoher
Dave Mathews
Managing Editor
Jay Eshbach
Community member
Jim Finley
former Managing Editor
whom had a fine upbringing - spit in
public more than athletes in other
sports? 2) Why is baseball the only
sport /where managers and coaches
dress like the players during a game?
Spitting is one of the most disgusting
things an athlete, or anyone else, can “approached” (heaven only knows why)
........................ do. particularly on national TV Yet even to runfor governorofOhio and also
year if tre.itment w as started immediately, the game s greatest stars have no com- considered “moving to New Jersey or
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amounts of spittle. Yuck!
What i f basketball players start spit-
ting on the hardwood at the same
alarming rate that baseball players do?
Ooooh! .. w. ... .,----
If that happens, I’m going to publicly might consider some race - senator,
call for an investigation by the World congressman, mayor (choose one) - in
I lealth Organization. I might, anyway. New York State. I’ll have to admit he
In regard to baseball coaches wearing would fit in well up there,
the same uniforms as players even on Since he's not concerned about what
the high school level 1 had this state he represents, I have a suggestion
thought: What if football and basketball for him: Move to Texas, man, and run
coaches dressed like their teams on against Ted Poe in the 2nd
game day? Congressional District.
Can you imagine UTexas' Mack Just trying to be helpfol.
Brown and Daytons Jerry Stewart, two STOP IT! -1 don’t know about you,
outstanding coaches, wearing full but I’ve had my fill of the Sarah Palin
Longhorn and Bronco attire? Can’t you bashing. Like her or not, this is ndicu-
‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ JOUS. ' ■ ■
It’s on an equal par-to me at least -
____________________r_____ of the overblown Michael Jackson cov-
I can’t even imagine some of today’s erage. Jackson was a singer, for gosh
■ • " . ■ . sakes, and one who couldn’t carry the
sheet music of Fats Domino, among
many, many others.
My breaking point came when some-
one named Erik Sean Nelson wrpte
this: “[Palin] will be the first politician
to actually try to increase the population
of retarded people.”
If 1 weren't so sweet, I'd punch this
Palin, Sarah’s Down Syndrome child.
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