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4 The Baytown Sun
Viewpoints
Tuesday
July 7, 2015
OUR VIEW
Welcome,
Mr. Davis
Baytown officially welcomed its new city manager
on Monday.
Rick Davis, who served most recently as city manag-
er of West Jordan, Utah, was chosen from an original
46 applicants to replace Bob Leiper, who had held the
post since 2011.
Davis, who brings almost 20 years of experience in
public financial management, staff development, eco-
nomic development and redevelopment, and public re-
lations, including 14 years of city manager experience,
holds a master's degree in public administration from
BYU’s Marriott School of Management.
Major projects during Davis’ watch have included
creating West Jordan’s first economic development
strategic plan, which resulted in a tripling of pri-
vate-sector development. He developed and imple-
mented a strategy to rebrand the community’s image
and re-engineered the city’s development process,
earning accolades as Utah’s best.
Davis and his wife, Aimee, have three children.
The success of the city manager is vital to a city on
a major economic upswing and with many irons in the
fire.
We welcome Rick and Aimee Davis to Baytown and
wish him the best in his new job.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Best $12,000 ever spent
1 am offended by the letter written by Gertrude Teter
in the July 2 newspaper. For those of you who do not
know Mr. Haarmeyer, as this Lee College saga progresses
and is finally completed, should know that the $ 12,000 he
spent on the recent campaigns for Mark Hall and Mark
Himsel will be the best $12,000 ever spent on any cam-
paign in the history of Lee College.
After all this is over, everyone will also want to know
Mr. Haarmeyer and understand what he represents.
Wilma Neill
Baytown
To marry or not to marry...
On July 3, Jesse Flowers started his weekly lesson in-
forming us that “the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex
couples can marry nationwide. All fifty states are now re-
quired to grant a marriage license to same-sex couples and
recognize valid same-sex marriages from other states.”
He then launched into his take on the Holy Scriptures
interpretation of why this is against God’s will.
1 have no argument with his interpretation of homo-
sexuality in the scriptures, but what I found both humor-
ous and disappointing was he did not unequivocally state
whether he would perform a marriage ceremony involv-
ing a homosexual couple. Would he marry two drunk-
ards? Would he marry two fornicators who were living
together and wanted to go legal? What about two covet-
ous people, one of which is a reviler? I am reminded of
when Joel Osteen was asked if Jesus was the only door to
heaven and he danced around it.
If Mr. Flowers wanted to write about homosexuality
and the scriptures, that’s one thing, but starting the col-
umn off the way he did, pretty much demands an answer.
Yes or no, Mr. Flowers. Would you marry an unrepentant
pair of sinners to each other?
Bert Marshall
Baytown
Congress heads back to work
with looming funding deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress return
today from July Fourth fireworks and parades facing a
daunting summer workload and an impending deadline to
ftind the government or risk a shutdown in the fall.
The funding fight is shaping up as a major partisan
brawl against the backdrop of an intensifying campaign
season, with Republicans eager to avoid another Capitol
Hill mess as they struggle to hang onto control of Con-
gress and take back the White House next year. Already
they are deep into the blame game with Democrats over
who would be responsible if a shutdown does happen,
with House Speaker John Boehner denouncing Demo-
crats’ “dangerously misguided strategy” and House Dem-
ocratic leader Nancy Pelosi accusing Boehner and his
Republicans of pursuing “manufactured crises.”
The funding deadline does not even arrive until Sept.
30, but lawmakers face more immediate tests, too. Near
the top of the list is renewing highway funding before the
government loses authority July 31 to send much-needed
transportation money to the states right in the middle of
summer driving season.
Growing and sowing pains
My late MIL (mother-in-law) was
a full blood Cajun from Louisiana.
She was a superb cook, a meticulous
housekeeper, a good wife and a very
good mother to my wife BR.
MIL was primarily a homemaker,
she did all the cooking and house-
work never asking BR to lift a hand
with any task. There are some obvi-
ous pros and cons to this approach
when rearing your children. MIL
just preferred doing everything her
way. Some of the cons don’t appear
until after the young have left the
nest.
After BR and 1 got married all of
our cooking experiences were by tri-
al and erfor. Her first try at cooking
pinto beans was a memorable one.
All went well until we realized
there were rocks in the cooked
beans.
On another occasion BR tried her
hand at making a pot of rice. One
cup of dry rice seemed too skimpy
so she added a second cup. We had
rice all over the place.
These events could have been
avoided with a little training at
home. I think all parents should
teach their children any special
skills they possess especially those
not written down.
WINSTON
GARDNER
My MIL could
cook the best sea-
food gumbo you
ever tasted. Some
of her skills were
passed along to
BR by simple ob-
servation. BR has
perfected her gum-
bo cooking skill
along with many
others including her
famous chocolate pie.
My cooking expertise is very
limited. I can grill hamburgers and
steaks, and fry eggs and bacon, and
can figs.
Recently, I read an article about
canning of fruits and vegetables. It
said canning used to be considered
hopelessly old-fashioned, but now
it’s the newest “do-it-yourself’ pur-
suit. The article said the year 2014
was a record year for fruit jar sales.
The article was all about canning
fruits and vegetables with a pressure
cooker.
My fig canning experience does
not require a pressure cooker. All
you need is a 5-quart roaster, some
sterilized canning jars, lids and
rings, plenty of sugar and at least a
gallon or two of figs.
Figs ripen from late June to mid
July. To can figs simply dump the
figs in your sink with enough water
to rinse the figs, cut oft'the stem and
place the figs in the roaster.
Fill the roaster about half full so
you can easily stir the figs while they
cook. Do not cover the roaster with
a lid. Spread a generous amount of
sugar over the figs and cook very
slowly for about three hours. Con-
stantly stir the figs, adding more
sugar. When the figs have cooked
down to a golden brown they are
ready for the hot sterile jars.
Completely fill the jars, add some
of the juice and seal the jars with
the sterile lids and rings. More than
one batch of figs may be required
depending on the quantity of figs on
hand.
Fig trees like a lot of water. Figs
have ripened early this year because
of the abundance of rain. For many
years I had two big fig trees that pro-
duced 300 pounds each year. They
are gone now but 1 sharecrop with
a good friend for my annual supply.
Winston Gardner is a native Bay-
tonian of almost 75 years. Gardner
retired from Exxon 20 years ago after
completing 34 years of service.
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Justices should live under Obamacare, too
The Supreme Court’s recent deci-
sion to ignore the letter of the law
and uphold the Obama Administra-
tion’s unconstitutional rewrite of
Obamacare undermines the Ameri-
can people’s trust and confidence in
our nation’s highest court.
Justice Scalia summed up the
Court’s actions rightly when he
called them “absurd” and opined
that “words no longer have mean-
ing” under the Court’s ruling in
King v. Burwell.
As a result, more Americans will
now be forced into a broken health
care system that has already failed
millions of Americans; putting fed-
eral bureaucrats between patients
and their doctor, driving up costs
and hurting more American families
and businesses.
Unfortunately, this is symptomat-
ic of the larger problem in Washing-
ton - one where those of influence
and power live under a different
set of rules than average Ameri-
cans. Case and point, the Executive
Branch - which has written the rules
for Obamacare - and the Judicial
Branch - which is now a co-author
of Obamacare - are both exempt
from Obamacare. Yet, every other
American is required to live under
this disastrous law.
While Congress and its staff are
required to purchase their health
plans under Obamacare, such a re-
BRIAN
BABIN
quirement is not
extended to the
other two branch-
es of government.
This needs to
change - and I am
prepared to lead
the charge, start-
ing with the Su-
preme Court.
By upholding
the President’s
flawed and unconstitutional health
care law for the second time, the
Court has essentially become co-au-
thors and full partners in the imple-
mentation of Obamacare.
Justice Scalia perfectly described
what unfolded at the Supreme Court
of the United States (SCOTUS) by
making the point in his dissent that
“perhaps we should start calling this
law SCOTUScare.”
As the co-authors and saviors of
Obamacare, it’s important that these
individuals understand the full im-
pact of their decisions on the Amer-
ican public.
That’s why I introduced the SCO-
TUScare Act of 2015 (H.R. 2905)
to require the Supreme Court and
its employees to give up their Fed-
eral Employee Health Plan and en-
roll in Obamacare like the rest of
America. This legislation simply
extends the same provision of the
law that requires Congress to sign
up for Obamacare to include the
Supreme Court. By eliminating
their Obamacare exemption, it will
put the Supreme Court on the same
health care as the rest of America.
Since introducing the SCOTUS-
care Act, we have received a tremen-
dous amount of support from across
the country. We have heard from
countless individuals who continue
to feel more and more disillusioned
with Washington and the judiciary,
executive and legislative branches
of government.
As elected leaders, we have an
obligation to address these concerns
and the SCOTUSCare Act is a sim-
ple, but common-sense reform that
we can - and must take. It will pro-
vide us an opportunity to take an im-
portant step forward on the pathway
to restoring the American people’s
trust.
By refusing to take action, it will
only further the division and dis-
connection between the American
people and its leaders in govern-
ment. That’s why I introduced this
much-needed legislation and it’s
why 1 hope that my colleagues in
Congress will join me in fighting for
the SCOTUScare Act.
Dr. Brian Babin is the U.S. Con-
gressional representative for the
36th District, which includes the
greater Baytown area.
Today is the 188th day of 2015.
On this date:
In 1846, U.S. annexation of California
was proclaimed at Monterey after the sur-
render of a Mexican garrison.
In 1865, four people were hanged in
Washington D.C. for conspiring with
John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Pres-
ident Abraham Lincoln: Lewis Powell
(aka Lewis Payne), David Herold, George
Atzerodt and Mary Surratt, the first wom-
TODAY IN HISTORY
an to be executed by the U.S. federal gov-
ernment.
In 1919, the first Transcontinental Mo-
tor Convoy, in which a U.S. Army convoy
of motorized vehicles crossed the United
States, departed Washington D.C.
In 1948, six female U.S. Navy reserv-
ists became the first women to be sworn
in to the regular Navy.
In 1954, Elvis Presley made his radio
debut as Memphis, Tennessee, station
WHBQ played his first recording for Sun
Records, “That’s All Right.”
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan an-
nounced he was nominating Arizona
Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become
the first female justice on the U.S. Su-
preme Court.
In 1987, Lt. Col. Oliver North began
his long-awaited public testimony at the
Iran- Contra hearing, telling Congress that
he had “never carried out a single act, not
one,” without authorization.
Thought for Today: “Memory depends
very much on the perspicuity, regularity,
and order of our thoughts. Many complain
of the want of memory, when the defect is
in their judgment; and others, by grasping
at all, retain nothing.”
— Margaret Fuller
U.S. critic, social reformer (1810-1850)
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