May 2013 ~ Volume 26
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May 2013 ~ Volume 26
May 2013 ~ Volume 26 Toha'eesha AZ CO: A group of Cherokee children has gathered around their grandfather. They are filled with excitement and curiosity. That day there had been a quite tumultuous conflict between two adults and their grandfather was called to mediate. The children are eager to hear what he has to say about it. One of the children pops the question that puzzles him. “Grandfather, why do people fight?”. “Well” the old man replies “we all have two wolves inside us, you see. They are in our chest. And these wolves are constantly fighting each other”. The eyes of the children have grown big by now. “In our chests too, grandfather?” asks another child. “And in your chest too?” asks a third one. He nods, “yes, in my chest too”. He surely has their attention now. Grandfather continues. “There is a white wolf and a black wolf. The black wolf is filled with fear, anger, envy, jealousy, greed, and arrogance. The white wolf is filled with peace, love, hope, courage, humility, compassion, and faith. They battle constantly”. Then he stops. It’s the child that asked the initial question that can’t handle the tension anymore. “But grandfather, which wolf wins?”. The old Cherokee simply replies, “the one that we feed”. OK this needs to be said for the AR Guy's, If you have any GI AR Magazines go through them. If they have black followers they will nose down and jam especially if loaded to capacity. They will also allow a bullet to jam back into a cartridge casing if they are loaded to capacity and tilt. That creates an overpressure situation for that cartridge and may go Kaboom. The green GI follower is better they are at best just OK. They are built with an anti tilt leg in the front and are much more reliable. However I would not completely trust them. The Magpul Enhanced Self Leveling Follower is the best option to make sure your magazine feeds flawlessly. They are sold in 3 packs from $5.95 to $10.00 usually depending on the source and pricing. Yellow is the current color but they are also made in Foliage Green also some are caliber specific so look at them and make sure your caliber is represented on the package. When you change them out you will see the large difference and it will make you happy you changed them. Make no mistake using crappy malfunctioning magazines could get you killed. So buy the Magpul followers and update your magazines you may just thank me for putting this here in the future. So just remember this. So if it's Black get rid of it Jack, If its Green it may cause a Scene. If it's Magpul you'll be Grateful. Submitted by Joe Dyer (Bestshot) State Coordinator, Florida The Arkansas group had their first Meet & Greet in Conway on April the 6th. While only 3 members were able to attend, we feel this is a start. A CO has been selected and we hope to make application for group status in June. The up-coming Meet & Greet, scheduled for May 11 in Russellville, already has several responses for attendance. We're moving forward! Nymiar The Texas House on Saturday approved a bushel of bills to further soften gun laws that were already among the most firearms-friendly in America, allowing college students to carry handguns in class, creating special, potentially armed marshals in public schools and exempting the state from any future federal bans on assault rifles, high-capacity magazines or universal background checks. Dubbed "gun day" by supporters and opponents alike, the parade of votes came as tens of thousands of members of the National Rifle Association attended the group's annual convention in Houston. Gov. Rick Perry welcomed convention attendees Friday with a video of him taking target practice using a semiautomatic rifle. A Democratic parliamentary point of order managed to shoot down just one firearms measure, a bill by Rep. Van Taylor that would have allowed the use of a concealed handgun license as a valid proof of personal identification - even though obtaining such a license requires a background check unnecessary to get driver licenses and many other forms of ID. http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/22162451/highlights-from-around-the-capitol The owner of a Midtown tourist shop is firing back at Mayor Bloomberg’s crusade against toy guns, filing papers to block a $60,000 fine from the city for selling lighters shaped like small pistols. “We don’t have the money,” said Fred Shayes, 49, who owns US Camera & Computer Inc. near Penn Station. “I would have to take a loan out from the bank to pay that.” Shayes filed a petition in Manhattan Supreme Court to vacate the fine. At issue is a bronze-and-silver colored 3-inch butane lighter shaped like a gun with a black handle and a red tip that was selling for $10 until investigators slapped the store with a fine and yanked it off their shelves. Under city law, toy guns can’t be sold in the city unless they are bright green, blue, red or a neon color. Toy guns are also supposed to have a legible stamp identifying the manufacturer or trade name. Although the gun-shaped lighter can fit in the palm of a smoker’s hand, inspectors for the city’s Department of Consumer Affairs said in 2011 that the lighters could reasonably be confused with a real firearm, and hit Shayes with the fine. http://t.co/BuyqSJYaVy Warrior Awareness pt. I by Talon Colonel Jeff Cooper is probably best known for his work in firearms instruction, helping to modernize the use of the pistol for self defense. However, he realized that having a prepared mind was far more important than a person's physical ability. In order to teach students mental awareness and readiness for combat, he developed what is known as Cooper's Color Code of Awareness. This code of awareness is about more than just observational awareness, but about being self-aware and preparing the mind for what one might have to do in a combat situation. The color code describes different levels of mental awareness ranging from inattentiveness to full combat readiness: White refers to being unaware and unprepared for what may happen. Yellow refers to a low level of alertness where no threat is perceived. Orange is increased alertness where a potential threat has been identified. Red is when you are engaged in a fight. Condition White Condition white is the state of being unaware and unprepared. Even if there was absolutely no fear of violence, condition white could get us very dead. We've all heard of people who've been in automobile accidents say that the other vehicle 'came out of nowhere.' We don't live in a science fiction story where a car can come barreling out of wormhole from another dimension, just appearing out of nowhere. The vehicle was there, but the driver's attention wasn't and paid a price for that inattentiveness. Drive through most urban areas and you'll see a large number of people living their lives in condition white. They walk down the street with their hands in the pockets and with their head down, thinking about the fight they had with their spouse that morning or trying to decide what to fix for dinner that evening. Burdened by the events of the past or the needs of the future; people become oblivious to the now. It's common to see people out exercising, wearing ear-phones that pump music directly into the brain in order to distract the mind from physical exertion and doing such a good job that they often become oblivious to everything else. Whether walking or driving, people are playing with technological toys such as IPods and cell phones. People are so busy talking or pushing buttons that they become unaware of the world around them. Read more It is primarily the unaware that become victims of violence or accidents. It doesn't matter how skilled or otherwise prepared you are. You could be a 5th Degree Black Belt, a qualified sharpshooter, or a soldier with decades of real combat experience. Assaults and accidents are over in mere seconds. Caught in condition white, you're an easy victim. Get prepared; but more importantly, be aware of what is going on around you. Put away the gadgets and gizmos and keep your attention on what is going on around you. The only time you should allow yourself to become unaware is when you are in bed sleeping. However, even then you should be mentally prepared to switch to a higher level of awareness and have physical preparations set up and practice time put in so that you can defend your home from an intruder or quickly grab your Bug-Out bag and escape from a burning home. Though created for combat, it applies to other aspects of life. Our purpose is to assist each other with emergencies. We’re all told to prepare an emergency plan with phone numbers to call, places to meet and grab bags of special items that might be needed in the case of an emergency. Yet how many of us have taken the time to actually prepare for such an emergency? Home invasions are becoming more and more common, but how many of us have taken the time to prepare a plan and practiced it a couple of times to ensure that we’ve got everything down so that if we hear glass breaking in the middle of the night we can quickly switch from being unaware to being fully alert and prepared to move into action to ensure the safety of our family? Don't get caught thinking that it won't happen to you. Be aware and be prepared! Quote of the MonthThe best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -- Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers The Federalist Papers were published and sold by John and Andrew M'Lean as a collected work as the “The Federalist: a collection of essays, written in favor of the new Constitution, as agreed upon by the Federal convention, September 17, 1787,” New York Printed, 1788. The work consists of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the U.S. Constitution of 1787. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October of 1787 and August 1788. http://www.federalistpapers.org/ http://thomas.loc.gov/home/histdox/fedpapers.html John C. Hamilton, the son of Alexander Hamilton, sent a letter to Abraham Lincoln on November 29, 1864, in which he writes, "I have the honor to send you a few pages of 'The Federalist' recently edited by me, the text revised by my father. My motive in sending you these pages is, to call your attention to page cxxiv. of the Historical Notice which it will cost you only a few moments to read pertinent to your Emancipation Proclamation." http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/federalist.html When was the last time you spent any time at the Watchmen Of America website? A few days? A few weeks? Or perhaps a few months? If it's been a while, you're missing out on a lot of good information. People who visit the website for the first time can learn a great deal about WOA, from it's very beginning with the birth of the Watchmen, to our creed and mission statement, to how the program works. They can find out which states have established groups by going to the Group Locator Map, and can even learn how to start a new group if their state isn't listed. There is even a listing of staff positions that are currently available, along with a section for frequently asked questions. For those of you who have joined the WOA, there is a Members Area that offers a huge amount of valuable information. You can find useful videos, a forum, as well as a listing of all of our newsletters. There are links to the Tac Gear Zone, and an explanation of how to claim your rewards points so that you can make purchases from the store at a huge discount. And, of course, there are several secondary benefits for you to take advantage of, such as topo maps, and targets that you can print off for your own use. Now if it has been a while since you last visited the Members Area, you may not be aware that there have been a few additions. Did you know that there is now a Classified Ads section? It's a great way to buy, sell, or trade items for the things you need. Were you aware that there is also a new Network Page to help find other like minded people in your state? You really do need to go check it out. By not checking into the Members Area often, you also risk missing out on important announcements, and update information, as it becomes available. A lot of people put a lot of hard work into the website in an effort to keep you as informed as possible. Please make time to take advantage of it. OldBulldog I Used To Have A Country GrassTopsUSA Exclusive Commentary By Don Feder 04/01/2013 Once upon a time, I had a country. It was called America or the United States, “Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean,” the land of the free and home of the brave. The Founding Fathers envisioned it as a Shining City on a Hill. For more than two centuries, it blazed across the skies of history. Now, its light flickers. Soon, it may be no more than a trail of dust and debris. It was the nation that taught humanity the lessons of republican government, personal sovereignty and inalienable rights. It was the foe of tyranny which twice in the last century saved humanity from unspeakable horror. It was the shores of refuge where my Jewish grandparents and your Irish or Italian or Hispanic or Asian ancestors came for a life which was impossible and, indeed, inconceivable, anywhere else. It was a cornucopia of products and inventions that enriched the masses here and abroad and made life infinitely easier for millions. It was the factory from whose assembly line rolled forth the incandescent light bulb, the telephone, the automobile, the airplane, the television, the refrigerator, the computer and on and on. It was a land of strength, determination, optimism, ingenuity and heroism. It was a nation that led by example, inspired, liberated and defended – that was unbelievably generous to the destitute and disaster victims around the world. It was a country that produced giants – leaders touched by the Divine – like Washington, Adams, Lincoln, Coolidge and Reagan – inventors like Edison, Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Charles Goodyear, the Wright brothers and Jobs, and artists like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Cecile B. DeMille. It was a nation whose optimism was reflected in movies like “The Wizard of Oz,” “Casablanca,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “The Best Years of Our Lives,” “It’s a Wonderful Life,” and “The Ten Commandments.” It was a nation that was born in blood, endured wars and depressions, slavery and segregation, bread lines, picket lines and quarantine signs, reversals and betrayals, gang warfare, urban riots and “peace” rallies. That was then. Today, what are we? We may still dominate the world – industrially and militarily – but, increasingly, we are living off the accumulated capital of the past, drawing down on our legacy until nothing is left but a wistful memory of our former glory. We are a people drowning in an ocean of debt – $16.6 trillion, over a third in the past four years alone, a nation of indigent sheep blindly following politicians who lack the will to stop spending money we don’t have (at an average rate of $3.86 billion a day). We are a car without brakes full of happy drunks, oblivious to the fact that we are careening toward a cliff. We are a culture of brokenness. For every 100 children born here, 60 will grow up in broken families. We are killing the future – 1.1 million of them a year –in the name of a spurious right to choose. Now, our fertility rate is the lowest since we began keeping records. Reagan said, “A nation that can’t control its borders is not a nation.” We lost our sovereignty at the Rio Grande. While politicians dress up amnesties as a “pathway to citizenship,” the nation is infiltrated by parasites, criminals, potential terrorists and the arrogantly inassimilable – and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. Washington, the courts and media multiculturalists tell us that attempts to stem the flow are hateful, bigoted and futile. We’re a nation whose entertainment industry is a cavalcade of degeneracy – a steady stream of nudity, raw sexuality, bathroom humor, gut-wrenching violence and sadism. Instead of manufactured products, this toxic trash is now one of our principal exports. We are a nation with leaders whose answer to rampaging psychopaths is to disarm the innocent, leaving them at the mercy of thugs and lunatics, while congratulating themselves on their courage in standing up to the mythical gun lobby, as they travel about with armed guards and live in gated communities. We are a nation of serfs whose laws are written by geriatric ideologues in black gowns who have made a mockery of democracy and turned the Constitution into an excuse for tyranny and bizarre social experiments. We’re a nation which betrays its historic friends while slobbering over its foes, whose response to the cold-blooded murder of 3,000 Americans was a decade-long orgy of tolerance and understanding for the death cult that animated the murderers, dubbed the “religion of peace.” We’re a country where a plurality now favors “solemnizing” an absurdity and calling the travesty “marriage” – an unparalleled corruption of language that is deconstructing an institution on which civilization depends. We are a republic riding a rising tide of secularism, rapidly turning away from the God in whose name we were founded. Our officials hypocritically take an oath of office on the Bible, while they rarely miss an opportunity to undermine its teachings. We’re a land of the lost where it’s illegal to display the Ten Commandments on public property or erect a cross as a memorial to war dead, with a president who deliberately misquotes the Declaration of Independence, leaving out the crucial affirmation “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” We are a people so consumed by envy that we habitually fall for the Democrats' con that society is a zero-sum game, that profits come at our expense and that Obama and his Congressional gang are all that stand between our precious programs and Republican budget-warriors determined to preserve “tax cuts for the rich” at any cost. We are a country of benefit-addicts who are hooked on handouts. We tell pollsters that we want Washington to reduce spending rather than raising taxes – but not at the expense of my program or any program marketed as benefiting children, the elderly, the disadvantaged, the disabled, or any but tap-dancing, Anglo-Saxon millionaires. America 2013 is epitomized by Barack Hussein Obama, a man who so despises this nation and every thing it stands for that he can’t even bring himself to say that there’s anything objectively special about the country he leads (American “exceptionalism”), who showed his contempt for Middle America right at the start, when he characterized small towns as the haunts of religious zealots, gun nuts and bigots – a president who’s determined to govern without Congress and outside the Constitution, who’s committed to expanding government as rapidly as possible – for whom “revenue-enhancement” is a religion and mega-deficits are a ritual. Still, the man who occupies the White House, the way Germany occupied France during World War II, is a symptom, not the disease. As a conservative congressman recently remarked: “I think we can survive another four years of this guy. I’m not sure we can survive another four years of a country that would reelect this guy.” It wasn’t the media or the elites that ushered in the Age of Obama. We the people put him in office and we kept him there. He’s given us the longest sustained period of 7%-plus unemployment since the Great Depression, and we reelected him. He’s given us our only trillion-dollar deficits – one for every year he’s been in office – and we reelected him. Due to his war on energy, gas prices more than doubled on his watch, and we reelected him. He nationalized health insurance, resulting in huge increases in premiums, and we reelected him. Due to a failure to mount a rescue operation (while he was off playing golf), a U.S. ambassador and three others died in Benghazi, and we reelected him. His administration spent weeks denying it was terrorism, and we reelected him. He called the Ft. Hood massacre (perpetrated by a Muslim militant shouting “Allah is great!”) “workplace violence,” and we reelected him. His Justice Department became an enabler of the New Black Panther Party, and we reelected him. ATF ran guns to Mexican drug lords, and we reelected him. He told businessmen who somehow managed to make a profit in his economy, that their success was due to the collective (“You didn’t build that”), and we reelected him. His family takes lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous vacations at our expense, while the ranks of the chronically unemployed swell, and we reelected him. No wonder zombie movies are so popular. Those of us who still believe in America are confronted with the appalling choice of two political parties. One is run by a conglomeration of radicals, panhandlers and perpetually aggrieved minorities; the other has turned our values into campaign slogans which it sneers at in non-election years. The Reptilian National Chairman recently castigated his party’s base for “acting like Old Testament heretics” (sic.) by taking his party’s platform seriously. We are fiscally and spiritually bankrupt. We are rubes at the county fair who fall for the most absurd nostrums, and gape in awe at the panaceas that are peddled to us, who care more for “Dancing With The Stars” (while Obama dances with the Czars) and the latest miniseries than our nation’s survival. We allow the decent and the honorable – the Boy Scouts, law-abiding gun owners, churchgoing Americans, entrepreneurs – to be vilified. We arm our enemies ($1.5 billion in military aid to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood), undercut our allies (dictating extinction borders to Israel), surrender our sovereignty and sell our inheritance for a bowl of government pottage. What can be done? First, accept the reality that we will probably lose – that those of us over 40 may well be the last generation of real Americans. But in that acceptance, there is power and, perhaps, hope. In “Band of Brothers,” a captain advises a private who admits his fear: “The only hope you have is to accept the fact at that you’re dead and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier’s supposed to function.” America may yet beat the odds, though the prospects grow dim. If not, what better than to die for than the country that once was? While there are still words to write and speak, ballots to cast, flags to wave, cases to argue and noble gestures to make, duty requires us to stand fast. Like the Marines who died in a green hell in the Pacific and the 101st Airborne who fell at Bastogne – like those who stayed at machine gun emplacements until the last bullet was fired and were later found dead with the bodies of the enemy piled up around them – we must fight to the last. Our sacrifice will be an appeal to Heaven that may yet avert what now seems inevitable. Or, perhaps, centuries hence, another people will arise to claim the title of “Americans,” more worthy of it than our contemporaries. May they be inspired by the example of the last of the old Americans. Don Feder is a former Boston Herald writer who is now a political/communications consultant. He also maintains his own website, DonFeder.com. The following story can be found on the GrassTopsUSA website at http://www.grasstopsusa.com/df040113.html. Permission to reprint or quote this commentary on the Internet is granted provided you include a byline to Don Feder, attribution to GrassTopsUSA and link back to the article at the URL above. May…… Classic Movie Month Core Attributes of a Warrior In true combat training one of the core attributes to be trained is that of awareness. Awareness is a conditioned or intuitive perception of one's internal and external environment combined with using that perception to feed knowledge about potential combat survival situations. This awareness should teach you about what cues within yourself and the world around you, indicate danger situations; well trained awareness also leads you to intuitive response which leads you to healthy resolution -- Survival. The apostle Paul calls us to this same awareness on a spiritual level. Paul tells us that when we are aware of the world around us and the divinity of creation then this should lead us to respond to the call of Christ; whether it is a call to salvation or service or both, this type of trained spiritual awareness and harmony with the world around us should lead us to worship the creator and not the creation thus Survival. In Hebrews, Chapter Ten, we are told, “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise." As a Patriot we show & exhibit confidence; Confidence in our ability; confidence in our instructor; confidence in our art; and confidence in our training. This level of confidence leads us to a high standard of participation, discipline & devotion. These qualities produce great rewards in terms of continually increasing our skills. These confidences would not lead to "great reward" unless we are willing to humble ourselves & be subjected to trials & tests; once we go through the testing we receive our reward and this increases our confidences, this then creates a cycle of service or a cycle of warrior training; that is, confidence leads to humility, which leads to testing, which brings us once more to rewards, which leads us to our confidences -- Survival. This cycle of warrior training is how we should approach our service, devotion & discipline beneath Christ's lordship as well as out training. Padre of Virginia Situational Awareness, who is that next to you? Tupac Shakur’s mother, has asylum in Cuba. Notice a pattern on countries of origin? •By Alan Caruba Native-born and naturalized Americans who are currently seeking work are already competing with illegal immigrants—a term that the Associated Press says it will no longer use—or standing in line behind them as they sign up for all manner of welfare benefits. The official estimate of the number of illegal aliens— oops, undocumented aliens—in the nation is estimated to be eleven million, but if the “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill becomes law, it will act as a magnet to attract millions more. As Roy Beck, the founder and president of NumbersUSA, points out, “If Congress passes the Senate Gang of Eight bill, it would be like re-creating ALL of the Top 20 cities in the United States, filling them entirely with foreign citizens and giving them lifetime work permits to compete with America’s struggling workers—in just ten years’ time.” NumbersUSA analysts spent two weeks reading the 844-page bill, concluding that 33 million lifetime work permits would be given to foreign citizens in the first decade if the bill passes. A revised bill has 867 pages and, according to a Daily Caller article, “contains 999 references to waivers, exemptions, and political discretion”, more even than Obamacare. That’s a lot of competition for jobs and it will hit those graduating from high school and college the hardest. Right now, the youth unemployment rate for 18-29 year olds is 11.7% and, among them, the African-American cohort’s rate it 20.1% and Hispanics’ rate is 12.6%. An additional 1.7 million young adults are not counted as “unemployed” because they are not in the labor force, meaning that they have given up looking for work due to lack of jobs. Do we really want to add millions of formerly illegal immigrants to the work force at this time? The Center for Immigration Studies also analyzed the Gang of Eight amnesty bill and discovered that it is essentially a Get Out of Jail card: The report, by Ronald Mortensen, a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, shows that the token penalties, when they do exist, are not commensurate with the employment-related felonies committed by the majority of illegal aliens, nor are they commensurate with the benefits received by illegal aliens. Just as unfortunate is the fact that millions of victims of these crimes are ignored while the amnestied illegals are rewarded and even benefit from the so-called penalties, as the monies actually go into a fund that provides services to the very people who paid the "penalties". “Illegal aliens will be rewarded for breaking laws for which American citizens are routinely punished," said Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies. "For example, an American citizen would face a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 for using a fraudulent Social Security card, but under this bill the illegal alien would face a $1,000 penalty covering all his many offenses, a penalty which in many cases will be waived. Then, they would be issued a new Social Security number without any past bad credit or arrest records.” View the full report at: http://cis.org/immigration-reform-amnesty-illegal-aliens-and-their-... Dr. Mortensen discovered the following amnesties for illegal aliens and their employers: Amnesty for the estimated 75 percent of illegal aliens committing Social Security fraud. Amnesty from returning to home countries for 10 years before adjusting status. Amnesty for illegal aliens committing Identity theft. Amnesty for illegal aliens by officially authorizing them to continue committing identity theft by using fraudulently obtained Social Security numbers belonging to American citizens. Amnesty for illegal aliens who have committed perjury on I-9 forms. De-Facto amnesty from the token $1,000 penalty, since it effectively pre-pays services provided to illegal aliens. Amnesty from existing exclusion, deportation, and removal orders: While illegal aliens would be granted amnesty for crimes they have committed, government employees who discover Social Security fraud, identity theft, or perjury on I-9 forms while reviewing applications for provisional status would be prohibited from notifying victims, law enforcement, etc. with a threat of a $10,000 penalty. This is 10 times more than the $1,000 penalty paid by an illegal alien who has committed felony identity theft. Amnesty for employers found to have employed illegal aliens or who are currently employing illegal aliens. Moreover, employers may continue to employ illegal aliens, accept fraudulent Social Security numbers, and renew falsified I-9 forms for those who apply for provisional status. Amnesty for employers who did not withhold and/or submit payroll taxes for individuals illegally in the United States. Amnesty for employers who violated labor laws by paying unfair wages, who failed to pay wages, etc. Amnesty for employers who facilitated Social Security fraud and identity theft by providing or accepting false Social Security numbers. While employers would be held harmless, government employees who find that employers violated the law while reviewing applications for temporary status would be prohibited from notifying the appropriate law enforcement authorities. If government employees do report tax or labor violations, they could face a fine of $10,000. Thanks to the passage of Obamacare, the amnesty bill would increase the cost of the nationalized health care system. Betsy McCaughey, the lieutenant governor of New York from 1995 to 1998, in an April 29 letter in The Wall Street Journal, warned that “One looming cost is health care. Under the Obama health law, starting January 1, 2014 legal immigrants will be eligible for subsidized private health plans on the exchanges as soon as they arrive in the U.S.” “The Senate Gang of Eight’s proposed bill will add $100 billion to the cost of Obamacare’s subsidies over the next decade by doubling the number of legal immigrants entering the country with green cards.” Ms. McCaughey noted that, in 2012, 484,072 immigrants entered that way. “The Gang of Eight plan will push it to about one million. About half of those green card holders will be eligible for the maximum assistance with premiums, subsidies and copays, totaling $9,000 per person, and more than 80% will qualify for at least some taxpayer-funded Obamacare subsidy.” Little known or reported is the fact that the Schumer-Rubio bill includes two “slush funds” amounting to $150 million that would be used to fund groups like La Raza and the American Immigration Lawyers Association with taxpayer money. The prevailing wisdom is that the amnesty bill will create more Democrat than Republican voters and that is precisely its purpose. Its victims will be every native-born and naturalized citizen paying taxes and trying to cope with a healthcare system that will be on life-support soon enough. The proposed bill is a massive multi-million fraud. If it passes and is signed into law, the further destruction of America will be accelerated. © Alan Caruba, 2013 1 pkg. (10 ounces) Pepperidge Farm® Puff Pastry Shells Survival Tip: You need to have a clear plan of what is going to be grabbed and who is going to do it. Which person is going to get the baby? Who is grabbing the supplies? Who is picking up the children from the babysitter or school? What order are things going to be done? Figure out this today so then when the situation arises you can follow your plan as opposed to panic. 1 cup Hollandaise sauce 6 slices Canadian-style bacon 1 tbsp. butter 6 eggs , beaten 1 green onion , chopped (about 2 tablespoons) 1. Prepare the pastry shells according to the package directions but do not remove the tops. Prepare the Hollandaise sauce and keep warm. 2. Cook the bacon in a 10-inch skillet over medium heat until well browned on both sides. Remove the bacon from the skillet and keep warm. 3. Heat the butter in the skillet. Add the eggs and onion and cook until the eggs are set but still moist, stirring often. 4. Cut the pastry shells in half crosswise. Place the bacon on the pastry bottoms. Top with the egg mixture and the pastry tops. Spoon about 2 tablespoons Hollandaise sauce onto each filled pastry shell. Garnish with additional green onion, if desired. 5. *Prepare your favorite Hollandaise sauce recipe or use a Hollandaise sauce mix. A mere 72 years ago.... Makes complaining about no cell service, high gasoline prices, not enough cable channels, seem a bit ludicrous. No credit cards to buy what you want, but don't need! the Great Depression was, here's the motto: "Use it up -- wear it out", make it do or do without!!!!! Grandma’s letter Yes, I came from the baby boomer generation – I joined hands with many of my fellow citizens and played around in the sandbox until all of the sand was gone. During my time I was not a willing participant but as the “norm” changed so did I… Our Nation was at war during this time being attacked from all sides by those who wished to destroy us. They (meaning the enemy) quietly and methodically started dicing and slicing our Nation gradually changing the “norm.” At first glance few of us realized what was actually happening to the greatest Country in the World. Shacking up and latchkey kids became the norm. 12 and 13 year old pregnancies were making headlines. Our youth were the victims because many parents were pre-occupied chasing other “Gods” such as money and material possessions. The Government and Supreme Court were viciously attacking our freedoms as given to us by our forefathers in the Constitution. Everything we believed in was being shattered bit by bit. They infiltrated our Government, our schools, some of our Religious institutions and our homes. We allowed this to happen because we were too busy keeping up with the Joneses and later the high tech society to take notice of the many changes taking place. Our Government along with the Supreme Court relentlessly continued brainwashing us using the term “rights” as the excuse for passing laws that actually infringed on our rights. Political correctness was the new "norm." Dr. Spock came along twisting parents' minds advocating that we let our children be free whatever that means and a role reversal became evident. Children were in charge of the family and parents were the gophers. Years later Spock changed his mind, but not until the damage was done to the family unit... , Our schools were under siege by parents and the Supreme Court. Parents sued anyone and everyone who dared to correct their children giving our youth a green light to run wild. During this time they started replacing great teachers with mediocre teachers whose job it was to poison our children’s minds or at least saturate their brains with a false ideology. Fast forward to 2013 and view the lay of our Nation – it’s hard to recognize it as “One Nation Under God,” because they have been fighting God for many, many moons in an attempt to take our Country from us. A large segment of our youth have been thrown to the wolves, never mentored, never disciplined and never taught love, respect, responsibility and citizenship. Our brave men and women who fight for our freedoms and rights are being devoured by the wolves and terrorists. Our Nation’s foundation is weakening by the day – we’re at war on our turf and it’s time to take back our Country. As a grandmother of eight I refuse to compromise anymore. I will not go behind closed doors and whisper “God's” name. I will stand up for our Nation as ”One Nation Under God With Liberty and Justice for All.” I will ask my children and grandchildren to do the same – marriage is between man and woman end of story. I’ll yell it from the rooftops! I won’t concede that a woman who voluntarily has sex with a male has a right to abortion – in fact she is an accomplice to murder if she is a participant in the abortion process. I won’t pretend that it’s alright for Johnny or Susie to have two daddies or two mommies because our children are too precious to use them as guinea pigs in this “gay experience.” I will not sit back quietly as Obama and his Administration continues their war on Americans and our beautiful America. I will not compromise on drugs and say it’s alright to have a bunch of potheads running around out of control living in their parent’s basement and taking all of the entitlements they can get their grubby hands on… I will say the Government has without a doubt been an accomplice to the biggest cover up of all times due to the Benghazi murders of four of our brave fellowmen. I will stand up for America and I will bear arms, will speak freely and will worship God in public and pray that he will give us the courage and wisdom to take back our Country. As Always Little Tboca Are Muslim men living in the United States allowed to have wives under that age of 16? Are Muslim men allowed to have more than one wife as a resident of the United States? Should non-citizens of the United States but living in the U.S. be allowed to serve on a jury? Should the United States place asylum seekers or refugees immediately on all ‘entitlement’ programs? Should any politician be allowed to serve in a civil service capacity while being a dual citizen? Should the government be able to place only designated countries on a Visa Express program as vetted travelers, so they are not subjected to TSA? Should foreign nationals be given Constitutional and Miranda Rights? Should girls under the age of 18 be allowed to buy over the counter, ‘the day after’ pill in the case of unprotected sex without their parents knowledge?