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Many thanks to you all for your kindness, kind thoughts, prayers, and help for Albert Oppelt.
Read moreMany thanks to you all for your kindness, kind thoughts, prayers, and help for Albert Oppelt.
- Elizabeth Dugosh Oppelt
Devine, Texas
Read moreThis is in response to the letter that children do not need vaccines.
Read moreSeptember is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month — a time to raise awareness on this stigmatized, and often taboo, topic. In addition to shifting public perception, the Nagel Clinic uses this month to spread hope and vital information to people affected by suicide. Our goal isensuring that individuals, friends and families have access to the resources they need to discuss suicide prevention and to seek help.
Read moreRecently I read an article in our Bandera News “Why Children Need the COVID-19 Vaccine”. I was shocked to read statement after statement with minimal documented evidence to support this assertion. I am not writing this article to argue paragraph by paragraph. I am writing this to share where parents/grandparents may obtain knowledge and documented facts before you decide to vaccinate your child. Remember… it is irreversible.
Read moreI can’t say enough about the awesome care I’ve received at the Bandera Rehab Facility in Bandera, TX, but let me start with the stuff.
Read moreExactly five years ago, my wife, our two year old son, and I rolled into Bandera for what was to become one of the finest times of our life. I was the brand new high school principal reporting for work to legendary superintendent Marvin C. Schnelle.
Read moreAs a subscriber and reader of the Bandera Bulletin Opinion page, I note that the Democratic column and the Republican response seemed to have gone away for a while but it appears to have returned, without the warning labels and it is now slipping off into the “news pages”. It’s been written that the best place to hide a lie is in between two truths. Recent examples would be editorials by Jodie Sinclair, Gary Moore and the “special” about Bill Sinclair, I have to ask, “Do award winning writers take courses in straining credulity in their schools of journalism? It’s a pity that Ms. J Sinclair who recites her Texas history well, missed the salient points. In contrast to the Texas Democratic caucus, the defenders of the Alamo STAYED to fight until they perished in defense of a cause. While I’m familiar with the left’s post-modernist penchant for re-defining the language; in what parallel universe can legislators who leave the state to avoid their duty be an analogy to the heroes of the Alamo? I can just imagine the additions to the Cenotaph on Alamo Plaza...with their limp arms and uncalloused hands, not on a musket, but a sixpack of Miller Lite. Not being included in a writers’ mutual admiration society, I tend to look for actual truth in what I read, counting it as an unfair shortening of my life-span not unlike prison, when I realize I have spent time deliberately twisted self-serving propaganda. The proposed HB 3 and SB 1 are nothing about “voter suppression”. Texas had more voter participation in the last election than ever before. Even the supposedly unbiased Texas Tribune, founded and run by Democrat activists, reports that Texas had 66% voter participation...highest in 28 years. It is extremely easy for legitimate voters to cast one vote each in Texas. The rules in place serve to convince most of us that it is still worth the trouble. Honest people with the gift of logic can all understand that the Democrat foot-stamping initiatives to keep polls open all night and to allow for mobile voting vans to roam about invites fraud by eliminating the ability for poll-watchers to scrutinize the proceedings or any other “trust but verify” system in which people can have confidence. These support ballot-harvesting in selected districts and avoiding others, which would obviously skew the vote. Anyone who criticizes gerrymandering, which to be honest, both parties have used, while supporting ballot-harvesting and pushing subsidized housing projects into conservative voting neighborhoods should check their hypocrisy. Someone who learned their Texas history in the 50’s should have learned “honesty is the best policy” and personal responsibility from her parents. A proper analogy would be to see elections as a contest, not unlike a game of baseball or football. There are rules to be followed and enforced by referees if the results are to have credibility and meaning. Destroying people’s confidence in the proceedings is by far the largest element in real, not imagined voter suppression. Passing measures that legitimately allow the counting of only legal votes is the responsible practice and should be practiced only by voters who understand their duty, excluding those who are simply takers. A healthy economy requires a mutual confidence that trading partners will deal honestly with one another. Furthermore, one of the primary foundations Western Civilization was built upon was the right to own one’s personal private property. When a large group of wards of the state are given the right to vote for confiscating the assets of others to support themselves, that way of life can be considered in its death throes. The NY Times has already begun lobbying for voting privileges for non-citizen illegal border jumpers.
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