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Sorry, Bruce.Last week, I unfairly referred

to former Mayor and currentDistrict Judge Bruce Boyer as

the guy that forced the still

incomplete Walnut Avenue

project upon us. Sure, the fiasco

was authorized during his watch

as Mayor, but (according to equally former

Mayor Stoney Williams) he voted against it.

We got in touch with Judge Boyer, and asked

him to clarify the situation for us. Heres what

he had to say, via the electronic mail:

As I recall I voted against passing

the bond issuance for the project because I

believed it should have been put back before

the voters on a bond election ballot. That

was because the voters had previously voted

against the project. And that is still my opinion.I was in the minority on that vote. So no, I did

not vote to go forward on Walnut without the

approval of the voters.

Granted, it was his administration (for

lack of a better word) and choice of City

Manager that that did the actual shoving,

but conscience demands we give Boyer a

pass on this one. Council members haveshown their contempt for the public on more

than one occasion, and this situation was no

different. To the Judge, we apologize for the

unfair stigmatization and want to thank you

for giving us a prompt, straight answer. And

for voting no, for that matter.

From here on out well place the blame

for this on the City Council that served with

you as a whole, rather than you specifically,

with special contempt heaped upon former

City Manager Michael Morrison. Henceforth,

we will refer to the Walnut debacle simply as

the Morrison Parkway, rather than the Boyer-

Morrison Parkway. Former Mayor Gale Pospisil,

however, will still bear full blame for allowing

City Staff to screw up the project over the last

three years. Hopefully it will be complete beforeMayor Casteels first term is up in 2017. Hey,

maybe we should call it the Morison-Pospisil

Parkway. Yeah, thats got a nice ring

to it. Lets do that.

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Department loves

yo money.

ParkingOver at Parks and Rec, we got action on two

fronts. First, the parking pass situation hastaken a turn for the worst, as one might have

expected. When parking fees were reinstated

for Prince Solms Park, local tennis players

stormed City Hall to protest. City Council

came up with a plan to allow parking passes

to be purchased for $20. Everybody seemed

happy with that, until it was discovered that,

while the park is equipped with picnic areas,

a disc golf course, basketball courts, and riveraccess, that the parking passes are only good

for people that play tennis. The public at large

didnt see that one coming.

At first, the passes were issued without

photographs. Then pass holders were asked to

come back to the Parks office to get new passes

with their photographs on them.

Of course, the passes are supposed

to be good for an entire family, not just the

purchaser. Now the purchaser will need to be

on the grounds and visible in the tennis area

to avoid being ticketed. And Rangers will

need to go to the cars, memorize the faces

on the passes on the dashboards, go back

to the tennis area and check off the people

in the photos.

Maam, Im going to have to ask you to

restyle your hair in order for me to compare

you to the photo I memorized a few minutes

back at your car.

Maam, Im going to have to ask you

to provide me with a photo of your husband

to compare to the photo I memorized a few

minutes back at your car.

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Thats the stupid. Now for the unfair, as

previously mentioned: The parking pass is not

valid if you are in the river, having a picnic,

swimming, playing basketball or disc golf, or

just walking around.

Maam, it appears you played disc golf

and took a walk. Im afraid Im going to have

to ask you to play some tennis in order to

avoid a fine.

Never in the history of history has the use

of a discount for something been contingent

on increasedconsumption of a public amenity.

Never before have parking passes been ruledvalid or invalid on the basis of what the parker

is doing at any given moment. This is madness.

PicnickingOn the second front, weve got the picnic

table thing going on in Landa Park. As you

might know, theres a $10 fee to use a Landa

Park picnic table (although the first ones free

if youre a local). What you may not know is

that the same $10 fee applies if you bring your

own table. But wait. Check this out. As usual,

the City itself doesnt know its own laws. This is

from the Citys website, emphasis ours:

Per Article 1. Sec. 86-2 of the City of

New Braunfels Code of Ordinances, individual

picnic spacesare available throughout the parksystem on a first come, first served basis. Park

rangers will collect a $10 per picnic spacefee

in season. With proof of residency, citizens

living inside the corporate city limits of New

Braunfels will not be charged for the first picnic

space. A picnic spaceis defined as the use of

one picnic table for the purpose of picnicking

or for additional setup areaswith table and

chairs per day.

So we went and checked Article 1. Sec.

86-2 of the City of New Braunfels Code of

Ordinances, and wouldnt you just know it? It

says something completely different. Theres a

chart with all the rates for things like the gazebo

and various permits. There is no provision,

at all, for a picnic space. Individual picnic

tables are mentioned at $0 to $10 per. This

refers to park equipment, like the dance slab.

Its clear that certain activities and things

brought into the park require permits, not just a

fee. Live music, foot races, and inflatable games

require permits. There is no permit required for

privately owned tables, per ordinance. There is

no fee noted for picnic spaces. The City madethat distinction when it passed the law, and now

the Parks Department is trying to make an end

run around it. The distinction stands. If a ranger

tries to charge you for your privately owned

table, show them the law and tell them to

#### off. Or Take a hike. They like to hike.

Much like parking passes that only work

if you play tennis, charging someone to setup a table on land that would otherwise be

free (say, for sitting on or playing catch)

should be considered good for a one-way

ticket to Crazytown.

If youd like to check out and print the

code for yourself, navigate to tinyurl.com/

nbparkscode, and click on Chapter 86

PARKS AND RECREATION. And remember,

dear taxpayer: youve already paid for those

picnic tables and that parking lot, many times

over. Might as well enjoy them.

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$20 million to coax an insurance companyscalling center to Austin.The company, Red Shoes Inc., claims

it sells insurance for shoes. The vast sum ofmoney would be used to help build the firma skyscraper in the capital city. The Chamberpromises that the money is well worth it, seeingthat it would bring nine minimum wage jobs tothe area, sort of.

Its a no-brainer, said Chamberspokesperson Charlene Wanton-Hussy. How

could we not take the opportunity to bring sucha large, reputable company somewhat nearNew Braunfels?

I mean, nine jobs are nothing to sneezeat, the spokesperson said. Sure, theyre inAustin, but its a good possibility that at leastone of those jobs could go to a New Braunfelsresident. Its a win-win.

However, what the Chamber seemed tooverlook is that Red Shoes Inc. is a well known

collective front that launders money for Somalipirates and Mexican drug lords.When asked if the Chamber had any

concerns about the criminal element behindRed Shoes Inc., Wanton-Hussy responded thatit wasnt the Chamber of Commerces habit ofinterfering in other peoples business.

While simultaneously offering $20 millionto pirates and drug dealers, the Chamberalso announced that small businesses in NewBraunfels will now have to submit to public

whippings and humiliation if those mom-and-pop shops want to continue receiving Chamberprotection. The small businesses will also haveto pay an extra $200 per month for the service.

Look, were in the business of business,Wanton-Hussy said. If that means beatings andhumiliation, so be it. Were only looking out forwhat is best, financially, for the community.

Asked if Red Shoes owners will have tosubmit to such treatment as well, Wanton-Hussyreplied, Oh, hell no! Theyre pirates and druglords, for Gods sake!

When it was pointed out that she previouslysaid she didnt know about Red Shoes criminalactivities, the Chamber spokesperson quicklyhung up the phone, claiming that she wasabout to drive into a tunnel, of which there arenone in New Braunfels. Also, she was speakingfrom the Chambers landline.

City Appeals AgainIn a fresh example of legal cognitive dissonance,the City of New Braunfels appealed a court rulingin a case that has nothing to do with the City.

Jim Barnes successfully sued dentist ThadHatter after things went awry during Barnesvisit for fillings.

Barnes said he went to Hatter to have

cavities filled in two molars. However, whenBarnes awoke two days later in a seedy motelnear Ft. Stockton, he found that he had becomea woman and was pregnant. He accusedHatter, who was the last person Barnes saw, ofmedical malfeasance.

I wondered why he was giving me amorphine drip just for fillings, Barnes said onthe stand, but I figured, hes the expert after all.

The most damning evidence against Hatter

was a post on his Facebook page: Big daytoday. Turned a male patient into a woman andgot her pregnant.

Naturally, the court ruled in Barnes favor,awarding him $150 million.

The case then took a strange turn as theCity of New Braunfels appealed the decision,irrelevantly claiming that it cant be sued.

In a pitiful exchange, justices on the ThirdCourt of Appeals explained, in the simplest termspossible, that the City cannot appeal a case that

it is not enjoined in nor is part of in any fashion.Confused City attorneys then asked

for clarification.You. Cannot. Appeal. This. Case. the

justices responded.We dont understand you, City

attorneys replied. You are saying words, butthey make no sense.

The justices then had the attorneys removedfrom the building.

The City has since appealed the decisionto the Texas Supreme Court, arguing that courtsare not allowed to rule against the City.

Krueger QuestionsCrownover CashAfter winning the primary runoff for the PrecinctFour Commissioners Court seat, Jen Crownoverhad her political donations questioned bydefeated foe Dan Krueger.

Krueger asked Crownover to come cleanabout money she received from out of state.

Mrs Crownover noted that the moneycame from her parents.

That cant be true, Krueger said. Theirnames arent Crownover.

Krueger then went on to say that he hasstrong evidence that the money actually camefrom a front that represents you-know-who,refusing to elaborate.

Krueger also refused to answer questions

about large sums of campaign funds hereceived from Red Shoes Inc.

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Dear Opa Esel:

I was recently driving to San

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really gave me the creeps. Are there

any other creepy creeks in and around

Comal County?

Just Curious

Dear Just:

Oh, my, yes. Screaming Woman Creek

was named after the ghost of a woman who

screams at passersby. But the creek isnt the

only spookily named waterway by a long

measure. Here are some more:

Syphilis SpringsBack in the olden days, people believed you

could cure venereal disease by swimming in

these springs. They were wrong.

Typhoid River

This river once contained typhoid. It still does.

Dont go there.

Rabid Coon Creek

The raccoons here are rabid and they bite. So

do the people that live along its banks.

Sociopathic Hobo LakeThere arent a lot of hobos here these days, but

there are some businessmen and politicians.

You can find them around campfires, cooking

Sociopath Stew out of old tin cans.

Dead Headless Clown CreekNot as terrifying as it sounds. This is just where

clowns go to die.

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Dear Opa Esel:Whats with all the deer around

here? Should I be frightened?Deer Wary

Dear Deer:

Yes, you should. They are plotting

something. It is a well-known fact that deer

are devout Communists. The proof of this is

their unwavering support for Russias push into

Ukrainian territory.

The genus of this hard move to the leftcame as businesses started to build into areas

that the deer once inhabited. Pushed from the

homelands, the deer became anti-Capitalists.

The situation was further aggravated after

the deer were given copies of Karl Marxs

Communist Manifesto by malcontent squirrels.

Marxs work served as kindling to the dangerous

fire of angry, establishment-hating deer.

Now, they are planning to destroy us.

When you pass them on the road at night, get

a good look. Those big, angry, hateful eyes tell

you all you need to know.

Good luck.

Liebe, Karl

Karl Esel is a lifetime resident of our fair city, and is wellknown for his sage advice on a wide range of topics. Ifyou find yourself perplexed with no one to turn to, sendyour question to Opa Esel at: askesel@txcitizen.com.Be sure to write Question for Opa Esel in the subjectline of your email.

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By Gustavo Arellano

Dear Mexican: I am a Mexican who

owns a successful wholesale liquidation

business, which happens to be an

industry dominated by Jews and Asians

and some gringos. So why does almost

everyone, including mexicanos, that

visit my warehouse think my business

or any successful business (for that

matter) is always owned by a Jew or a

gabacho? Cant a pinche Mexican own

a successful business? Just cause Im

54, named Armando and dont look

like the typical business type and Idont have a MBA?

My customers always assume Im

the sales rep or the forklift operator

and ask to speak to the owner or El

Arabe and almost always include a

statement like, El dueo es judio,

verdad? Well, no, the damn owner

is not judio: soy yo, si este mexicanito

es el dueno de esta b odega. Like if only

Jews can own a business? Like the

stupid joke says, wo Jews walked into

a barand bought the place. Yeah, I

dont think its funny, either.

Que la chingada, attention everyone:

my pockets may not be as deep as those

camellos but we are getting there.

chame la mano to my Mexican-ownedbusiness. Im thinking about putting up

a sign like during the Rodney King riots

MEXICAN OWNED or maybe not,

mis gabacho clients se van asustar. P.S.

A Mexican designed our website, not

Patrick or Chang, I support the cause.

Mexican BusinessmanBelieve It

Dear Wab: Okay, we get it: youre not a

Jew, and you dont like Arabs (calling Arabs

camels? Everyone knows Mexicans call

Arabs Talibans if they want to be insulting).

But the reason why people are so surprised

you own a business is because theres nearly

not enough of ustedes.

Mexican-American Entrepeneurship,

a 2008 study by Robert W. Fairlie and

Christopher Woodruff, showed that only

5.1 percent of Mexican-American men were

business owners, compared to 12.6 percent

of gabachos. The researchers blamed

surprise, surpise!U.S. immigration policy

that kept Mexicans undocumented and

away from the roads to owning a legitimate

business. On the other hand, recent research

by University of Southern California professor

Jody Agius Vallejo and others show Mexican-

Americans getting into the middle class by

starting their own businesses and in some

ways succeeding more than other immigrants

based on how low they started.

And the Mexican would argue that

Mexicans are born small-business owners.

Selling oranges at freeway exits? Small

businessperson. Tamales from car trunks?

Small businessperson. Jornaleros, cutting

grass for gabachos, screwing wives gabachos

dont screw properly? Small businessperson,

Small businessperson, small businessperson.

Dear Mexican: Why do my

90-pound junior high students wear

three and four white -shirts (all sized

6x or larger) layered one on top another

in 100-degree heatthen complain

about the heat?

Maestro De Foto

Dear Photography Teacher Gabacho:

Por pendejosDUH. Then again, logic and

fashion sense among American high schoolers

of any ethnicity go together like the PRI and

clean government.

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Out here on the ocean, I not only cook what our guests catch, I catch fish as well! We had a

great day fishing, testing out our boats tackle and our on-board fishing guides skills before the

first guests arrived for this weeks voyage on the M/V Liseron. I was lucky enough to catch two

40 lb. halibut! Our guides and deck hands filleted the fish for me and I was off to the galley to

whip up a spicy, yet sweet treat, for you and them!

Alaskan halibut is a very mild and flakey fish. You dont need to season it too much to bring

out its amazing flavor. I like to treat halibut like the steak of the sea, and the recipe I used is

very simple for that very reason. The vinegar and oil is mostly used so that the halibut doesnt

stick to the hot grill grates. The flavor will come from the fish itself, and the mixture of the lime

and sweet chili sauce will add an Asian and Caribbean touch. Wild caught Alaskan halibut

will run about $25.00 to $32.00 per pound in your local grocery stores fish department. It is

worth the money and will make for a great celebration dinner or romantic evening. Pair with

nice warm sak or a chilled white zinfandel wine.

Spicy Grilled Alaskan Chili-Lime Halibut cup rice vinegar

cup grape seed oil

Juice from 1 fresh lime

1 cup sweet Thai chili sauce

cup black sesame seeds

4 Alaskan halibut lets, about 8 oz. each

Combine first 5 ingredients and pour into

a large zip lock freezer bag. Reserve a little

of the marinade for brushing the fish during

grilling. Add halibut filets and ensure the

filets are evenly coated. Refrigerate at least

1 hour. Grill over white-hot charcoals until

filets begin to flake easily with a fork; about

5-6 minutes each side. Brush each halibut filet

with the reserved marinade as needed. Serve

with lime wedges, Asian vegetables, and my

Cilantro-Lime Rice recipe below:

Add 1 cup of white rice to 1.5 cups boiling water, add

Juice from the 1 fresh lime

tbls salt

tsp coconut oil or unsalted butter After rice is cooked, add 4 tbls fresh chopped cilantro; mix with fork

Lets see what I catch next!

Until next time, Eat, Drink & Be Sherri!

Sherri

Copyright 2014 by Eat, Drink & Be Sherri. All rights reserved.Sherri Gallagher is a New Braunfels chef who grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she began cooking at the age of

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VA Hijinks,

Shenanigans, Tomfoolery

There are quite a few things worth talking

about this week, but before some new scandal

completely removes the VA from the news, I

thought I would use this column to cover it.

Its sad that we have a system in place that

treats our honorable servicemen so poorly

that many die before they can get the medical

treatment they need, but its not surprising.Government does everything badly, and when

you combine that incompetence with perverse

incentives a tragedy was bound to occur.

The media is unlikely to cover this scandal

effectively primarily because there are several

aspects to it that need to be examined, and

none of them fit the comfortable narrative the

media likes to work with.

First is something that many

conservative writers have already talked

about at some length. What we see at the

VA is just a preview for what we will see with

Obamacare. Many liberals during the initial

healthcare reform debate held up the VA as

a shining example of a socialized medicine

success story. This is true in the same way

that many programs in the Soviet Union or

Communist China were success stories: the

government simply lies about the results until

they get caught.

Now that they have been caught, we can

see that a one-payer system is not one that serves

the patient best. As always, it is the customer

that receives services. In a single payer

system, the patient isnt the customer. Worse,

when the payer is the government, a mismatch

of power interferes with the normal economic

relationship between customer and provider.

The government has more power available to

them than just economies of scale. Providers

can be coerced into providing services that

dont make economic sense. When they are,

providers will either seek ways to cut corners

or get out of the market altogether. The patient

is left either with substandard care or no care

at all because of shortages.

This is what will happen with

Obamacare as well. Healthcare providers

forced to participate will look for ways to

offset costs. This will lead to a decrease in the

quality of the care provided. The alternative

option for providers is to get out of the system

entirely. We are already seeing this. Doctors

who are unwilling to work for a pittance or

compromise on their quality of care, are

leaving the profession.

The government has a last option that we

will no doubt see employed for both the VA

and Obamacare: spend more money. When

all else fails, the government inevitably throwsmoney at a problem, and this crisis will be no

different. When faced with the inability to get

services and angry taxpayers, the government

will offer to pay more. This will drive up costs

and lead to more waste.

The larger scandal in the VA story is the

fact that government workers were profiting

from what was happening. The problemof long waiting times for veterans was

something the government was aware of

since the Bush administration. In an attempt

to solve this problem, bonuses were offered

for shortening waiting times. Having no

way to avoid the basic laws of economics,

workers and supervisors colluded to create a

system where not all of the veterans waiting

for care were placed on line. A separate,

secret line was created, preventing the

records from showing any overflow. As a

result, they were given bonuses.

While this behavior is reprehensible,

criminal even, its probably worth understanding

that the bureaucracy was reacting at least in

part out of self-preservation. One can expect

that after the carrot, the stick would be quick

in coming out. There was no way to solve the

problem they were presented with, and I have

no doubt that many were convinced that they

would soon be held responsible for something

that was outside of their control.

As I suggested before, the next step in this

process will be to throw money at the problem.

Expect to see calls for more funding for the VA

soon. It wont matter that spending has already

been ramped up. It will be assumed that only

more funds will get results.

In some respect this is correct. If enough

money is spent, we probably will be able

to hire enough doctors and other provides

to decrease wait times, but it is also sure

that most of the additional money will be

wasted. Much of it will be eaten up in the

bureaucracy. Fraud and waste will also takea good-sized chunk. When all is said and

done, the costs will be far and beyond those

in the private sector.

Beware a call for vouchers from the

Republican side. This is almost certainly the

direction they will see as a solution. They

will forget that this is no different than the

low-interest loans that we offer for collegestudents. Government pumping money

into any market will only increase costs.

Vouchers offer a better solution than the

standard think-happy-thoughts-and-keep-

growing approach, but it is still a form of

market interference.

The way the administration has handled

this is shameful but also no surprise.

President Obama seems to ignore problems

until they become so large that they are

impossible to ignore. The VA seems to have

worked this way; after all, the problem

was specifically pointed out by the Bush

administration when Obama came into

office. Nothing was done until the media

uncovered that the system was so broken

that veterans were dying.

Once Obama was forced to address

the issue, he was far too slow to get

Shinsekis resignation, and he still has not

taken any real action. Part of this comes

from Obamas belief that he already has the

best people in place for the jobs they do. If

that is true, he would argue that there is little

to be gained by removing the person most

capable of solving the problem. We saw the

same attitude with Sebelius. Of course, it

might not be true that these people are the

best ones for the job, and regardless of how

smart the technocrat in question, Obamas

attitude simply ensures that there wont be

any accountability.

What Obama fails to understand is that

leadership requires accountability. Shinseki

was the head of the VA. The responsibility

for this failure is his for that reason alone.

Shinseki may not be the source of the

problem; it may even be true, as he says,

that he relied on people who deceived him.

None of that matters. There may be a good

many heads that need to roll at the VA, but

Shinsekis must be the first.

That has occurred now, but it is a little

late in coming. The truth is that there is no

way to solve the problem at the VA, but

that doesnt mean that people shouldnt be

held accountable. Shinseki has lost his job

already, now its time to get rid of everyone

who misled him, gave him bad advice, or

sought to cover this up. This can be followedup with the firings and criminal prosecutions

of anyone who sought to profit from filing

false reports.

There are others who should be punished

for this too, but their firings arent possible until

November 2014 and 2016.

You can read more from Kelly Colby at yourfirstshrug.blogspot.com.

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