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Volume 7, No. 3 March 2012

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From the Editor... UpcomingEvents!

March 2012 The Lake & Country Shopper - 2

Church Directory

St. Michael's At The Lake -

Episcopal, Worship Sunday 3

pm, Healing Thursday 11-

11:30 am, Thrift Shop Thu 10-

2 & Sun 1-4

Faith Church United Church

of Christ, 106 Faith Dr., Or-

ange Grove, 384-2414. Sunday

School: 9:15, Worship Service:

10:30.

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic

Church, FM 534, Mass: Sun-

day, 9:15. Call church for other

times.

West Shore Baptist Church,FM 534. 547-6153, SundaySchool: Sunday 9:30 am. Serv-ices: Sunday 10:50 am.Women's Bible study Tues.mornings from 10:00 to 12:00,Men's Bible study Wednesdaymornings at 10:00 A.M.

Lighthouse Faith Fellowship

(charismatic, non-denomina-

tional), 331 FM 534, 547-6243.

Sunday School: 9:15am

Services: Sunday 10:00 am.

Grace Lutheran Church of

Mathis, 1205 E. San Patricio

Ave., Mathis, 547-2239

First United Methodist Church,

420 S. Duval, Mathis 547-

3381. Adult Bible Class 9:45 am,

Worship Service 10:50

Brush Country Cowboy

Church, Brush Country Cowboy

Church, 1417 S. Hwy 37 access

We are located 1 mile north of

FM 799. Sunday Services at

10:00am. 361-449-2400.

First Baptist Church, 404 S.Bee, Mathis, Texas, 547-2139.

Services: Sunday Bible study:

9:45am. Worship 11:00am.

Evening Worship 6:00pm. Wednes-

dayEvening Service: 7:00pm

St. John of the Cross Catholic

Church, 20 S. Metz St., Orange

Grove, Mass: Saturday 6:00 pm

Sunday 7:30 am . & 11:00am,

361-384-2795.

Church of Christ, Exit 40 @ I37

N./Hwy 888, one mile east. Sun.

Bible Study 9:45. Sunday Serv-

ice 11am & 6pm. Wed. 7:00pm

Lake View Baptist Church,

6 mi North of Mathis on Hwy

3024. Sunday Bible study

9:45am, Worship services at

11am and 6pm Wednesday night

at 6pm. 361-547-6325 leave mes-

sage.

Cross Trails Cowboy Church

2 miles East of Orange Grove on

CommunityOrganization News

Lagarto

Community

Club Newsfrom DeOtta Meyer,

Club Reporter

Friends of

Swinney

Switch VFDfrom Shirley Bradley

March 17

Rabies clinic by Dr. McCoy

at Swinney Switch VFD

Building. 8am to 12 noon.

April 14

Lagarto Community Club

Rummage Sale and Vendor

Sale. Lunch for $3. Call Lucy

at 384-1527 for vendor space.The cost per vendor will be$10.

April 14

SSVFD Spring Bazaar, 9am-

3pm. Vendors call ShirleyBrandleyat 547-9774 or ElaineDoran at 547-9307. $10 pertable. Outdorr areas approx.10x10 are also available.

Apr. 28

Third Annual Ranch House

Tour, Unify to Beautify inGeorge West. Tickets are $15.Can be purchased at The Buck

West House (Chamber ofCommerce) located at 400 N.Nueces St. in George West bythe end of March. (Open from9:00am - 12:00)

Tickets will have a map onthem. You can call Grace Wil-son for more Information.361-449-3084

The Lake & Country Shopper, an independent newspaper, is pub-lished monthly. Distributed for free to consumers around LakeCorpus Christi, including Mathis, Orange Grove, Swinney Switch,George West, Pernitas Point, Lagarto, Calallen, Sinton, Annaville,Alice, parts of Corpus Christi and other south Texas locations.Mailing Address: 111 Pack Trail, Sandia, Texas, 78383PHONE HOURS: 9:00 - 5:00, M-F, 361-547-9062OFFICE HOURS: BY APPOINTMENT ONLYE-mail:

Letters: [email protected]: [email protected] for payments and copy for ads, 20th of month precedingpublication.Subscriptions by 1st class mail: $42 per yearCopyright: Penny Peavy dba The Lake Country Shopper

FM 624, Sunday Morning Serv-

ices 8:45 and 10:30am,

227-9828.

Lagarto Community

Church

287 FM 3162

Lagarto, Texas 78383

Sunday: Bible School 9:45-

11am, Church 11am, BibleStudy Wed & Sunday 6pm

Mathis Church of Christ

407 E. Rockport, Mathis,

Texas 547-2016, Sunday

Bible Study 9:30am, Worship

10:30am, Sunday Evening

6PM, Wednesday Bible Study

7pm.

First Evangelical Lutheran

Church, 600 S. Dibrell St.,

Orange Grove TX, 361-384-

2712 Sunday School:

9:00 a.m. Worship Service:

10:30 a.m.

www.firstogtx.org

Safe Harbor - a Lutheran

mission (ELCA) meeting at

St. Michael's Episcopal

Church on FM 534. We meet

at 5 p.m. each Saturday

evening. Contact us at Safe-

[email protected] or

361-244-6045. All are wel-

come!

All of you who must useM 534 to get to gas stations,rocery stores or to any otherlace of business are probablyondering why you are stalledut waiting for road crewsearly every day. I wonderedhy FM 534 was being re-one for what seems like theth time in the past 15 years. Ialled and left a message withomeone named Robin, who

eft no message other than myame and phone number, so Iad to repeat my reason foralling to the man who re-urned my call, a man who onlydentified himself as Tomas. Itounded like DeMoss. (I dontnow whether that is his firstame or last name. Perhaps henly has one name.) This was aot like visiting a doctor, wherehe nurse asks you a bunch ofuestions and then the doctorsks you the same questionsecause the doctor believesou wont tell the truth to onef them (probably the nurse)nd they can catch you in a lie.

Having worked for State ofexas agencies and school dis-ricts, heres what I haveearned about budgeting. Whenn agency or any department ofny government-funded entityrepares a budget for the fol-owing year, always asking forver-increasing amounts ofoney of course, if that entity

f government has not spentvery single cent of the currentears budget, the futureudget will be reduced, defi-itely not increased. Therefore,ou find ways to spend everyime, even if you do not actu-

lly need to do so. Then the en-ity pads the new budgetequest by at least ten percent,oping to get at least the cur-ent budget amount. After all,ithout money, your power is

educed. With more money,ore power.So when Tomas called I ex-

lained to him that it appearedhat TxDot was widening FM34 but not widening theridges. I explained that I amick and tired of dealing withhis road work every two orhree years and asked just ex-ctly what the point is ofidening the road and leaving

he bridges just as they are. Iold him how scary it can be topproach one of those bridges

hen an 18-wheeler is ap-roaching from the other side.e said he had spoken withnthony Villareal who is in

harge of bridges in the areand that Villareal said ourridges were not eligible foreplacement. Apparently,rom what Tomas said, aridge is only eligible for re-lacement when it can noonger support its load rating.o, as long as no huge heavy

ruck falls through a bridge ren-ering it unusable, it is not el-

gible for replacement. (Thatsunny. I thought a large portionf fees and taxes I pay were forridges.)

Then I asked Tomas whatas the point of widening the

oad but not the bridges. Heeplied that there were reportsf people going off the roadnd that by widening it themargin of error was im-roved. The only people I per-onally know of who havegone off the road in the areahere the work is being doneere under the influence ofrugs, alcohol or both. I knowf another man who almost

ent off the road because of alick layer of mud on the road.

hen I mentioned these issueso Tomas and explained it wasriver error and not the fact thathe road was too narrow, heidnt have the figures on theauses for people going off theoad but agreed that most ofhem were probably drunkrivers. I asked him where theargin of error was on the

ridges. He couldnt answerhat. So, finally I told him I un-erstood. I understood he hado find a place to spend avail- ble money so he could get

ore of it next year. It reallyas nothing to do with safety. It

has nothing to do with anythingbut spending tax dollars to keepthe bureaucrats in business.(After all, all government agen-cies at every level are in busi-ness to perpetuate themselvesand for each agencys employ-ees to keep their highly over-paid jobs.) I closed with tellinghim that I did not know how aman could in good consciencework for such a non-sensical

bureaucracy. Of course, I knowthe answer: He is being paid farmore than he could possibly getpaid using the same knowledgeor skill set in the private sector.

Yours truly,Penny PeavyEditor/Publisher

Mark Your Calendars!!!

SSVFD will be hosting a Ra-

bies clinic by Dr. McCoy on

March 17th from 8am to 12

noon. On April 14th we will

have a Spring Bazaar. The

hours will be from 9:00 AM to

3 PM. All those who wish sell

their crafts, please contact

Shirley Bradley at 547-9774 or

Elaine Doran at 547-9307.

Cost is $10.00 per table. Out-

side areas of approximately

10'X 10' are also available.

The last Bazaar in November

was a huge success so we are

expecting an even better one

this time. Bring your family

and friends.

Valentines Day

At LagartoCommunity Club

We GetMail

The Presidential election of2012 has the political world ina battle between the GOP tonominate someone who couldessentially beat Obama. Themainstream-media-complexhas taken it upon themselvesto present you with only twopossible candidates: Mitt Rom-ney and Newt Gingrich. Whatthe mainstream-media doesnttell you is that Gingrich andRick Santorum are not eligible

for 564 of the 2,286 delegatesawarded. 1,144 delegates willsecure a candidate the Republi-can Nomination.

Every four years our countryfocuses on the Presidentialelection, its usually the high-est voter turnout than any otherelection, national or local.Most folks pay no mind to whorepresent them in Washington,and it is mostly for those that Iwrite these words.

When I learned and could ac-tually understand the purposeof government, I saw how far beyond our Constitution wehave gone. One under-lookedaspect of the decline of our Re- public is the decay of theUnited States Senates job to preserve State Sovereignty.One way to preserve our StateSovereignty is through theoriginal intent of the Constitu-tion as to how Senators areelected; disregarding the 17thAmendment.

Senators were originally ap-pointed via State legislatures torepresent a State as a whole.States lost that representationwith the ratification of the 17thAmendment which allowed thedirect election of a U.S. Sena-

tor as opposed to an appoint-ment by the State legislatures.In the Texas U.S. Senate race

there is a candidate who hasfought tirelessly against theWorld Court to uphold U.S.Sovereignty and stop the pres-ident from enforcing the WorldCourts decision onto the Stateof Texas.

In the Texas U.S. Senate racethere is a candidate who foughtfor the State to have a TenCommandments monument.

In the Texas U.S. Senate racethere is one candidate who haswon in straw polls with an av-erage margin of 42%. This can-

didate is Ted Cruz.Cruzs interest with politics

began when he understood thegreatness of America that hisfather worked hard to achieve.During Cruzs high schoolyears, he was enrolled in a pro-gram where the participantshad to write an abridged ver-sion of the Constitution frommemory. Cruz was so intriguedwith the Constitution and theoriginal intent of the structureof government that his Prince-ton thesis was based on the 9thand 10th Amendments.

Not only has Cruz fought forU.S. and State Sovereignty, he

is an avid opponent to theUnited Nations Agenda 21

whose goal is to strip landfrom the population, housingthe people in sustainable de-velopments where human ac-tivity is strictly monitored andrestricted.

Cruz stands in opposition of

the 2011 NDAAs section1021, where American citizenscan be detained indefinitely ifdeemed a terrorist by the exe-cute branch. However, Cruzalso supports some elements ofthe PATRIOT Act. Mr. Cruzfeels that enemies and terroristof the United States must beswiftly dealt with. During the2000 Presidential bid for theWhite House, Cruz served asthe domestic policy advisor tothe Bush campaign. Mr. Cruzsthoughts on the PATRIOT Actworry me a bit, although I willsay that his defiance of the NDAA goes to show his ac-knowledgment of the outra-geous breach of ourConstitutionally protectedRights.

In 2003 Cruz became TexasState Solicitor General, duringwhich he defended StatesRights to nullify an attempt bythe executive branch to enforcethe verdict of the World Court.It is quite impressive to saythat someone who advised theBush campaign on domesticpolicy would end up fightingthe same administration onStates Rights and the power ofthe executive branch.

We can only hope that if weelect a candidate like Cruz thathe would fulfill all his prom-ises, leading us to a more pros-perous Nation. There are manyreservations to send anotherlawyer to Washington and Idont blame the reluctance;however, here we have alawyer who doesnt lobby formore control by the federalgovernment. I cannot say forsure if Cruz will stick to hiscampaign rhetoric if elected,but judging by his record I cangive him the benefit of thedoubt that he will accomplishmany a great things if honored

with the senatorial seat.The other major candidate in

the race for Hutchisons U.S.Senate seat is Texas LieutenantGovernor David Dewhurst. Imust say that Lt. Gov. De-whursts infamous record ofkilling bills in the State Senatesuch as ending sanctuary citiesor stopping the TransportationSecurity Administrations un-constitutional searches (pat-downs), does not sound likethe record I would appreciateof my U.S. Senator.

Dewhursts campaign is based on the idea that hismulti-million net worth will

assure him the Senate seat;however, when a candidate passes on many forums tomeet-and-greet the voters, thenthe candidate loses credibilityin a race. Over 90% of thestraw polls taken for the Sen-ate seat have graciously fa-vored candidate Ted Cruz.

The Cruz campaign sings aclear message of conservative beliefs and the determinationto drive the conservativemovement back to the Consti-tution. The Cruz Agenda hasdenounced Obamas unconsti-

Dont Forgetthe U.S. Senate

Election

Challenges are

opportunities to

find out who we

really are...

LAGARTO February 18

...The business part of our

meeting went quickly begin-

ning with our selecting blue for

the color change on the trim

outside our building. We also

discussed having lights put out-

side the building for our per-

sonal safety. From there we

moved on to a brief discussion

about the Rummage and Ven-

dor Sale scheduled for April

14th. Trish Arink will be pro-

viding lunch that day by serv-ing Mostacholi with bread,

salad and soda for $3. Lucy

Cantu volunteered to take

charge of signing up the ven-

dors and the rest of us will be

working the rummage sale. If

you would like to reserve a

table with Lucy you can give

her a call at 384-1527. The

cost per vendor will be $10.

We decided to have a mid-

year raffle with the drawing to

be in May around Mothers

Day. Items to be raffled in-

clude makeup, dinner for two

and a necklace set. Our No-vember raffle was also dis-

cussed and, as usual, we will

offer a quilt with Chole Trevino

taking the lead on getting this

made in time.

The Lagarto Community

Club has business meetings

monthly, nine months out of

the year. The members come

tutional recess appointments,Obamacare, and actions to-wards Libya. Any candidatewho campaigns with this sen-timent, and has a record ofwinning Constitutional battles,is a candidate who I wouldlove to see as our Senator. It isthese types of actions why Icast my vote for Ted Cruz forTexas United States Senatorfor 2012.

Armando CondeKingsville

together weekly on Thursdays

for crafting workshops; a few

members participate weekly in

soft aerobics; a few members

break out the cards weekly for

some friendly competition. All

this is done at the Old Lagarto

School on FM 534. BUT, you

can use the school too. You

can lease the building for that

graduation party, that birthday

party or even a wedding

Come and check us out anyThursday morning and one o

our members will be happy to

show you around.

There are many Texans outthere today who are very angry

about Obamacare, Cap and

Trade, NDAA, the Rural

Council the Patriot Act and a

whole host of other federal

government abuses. Every day

we hear about our rights being

stripped from us, and we do

not even know how many

rights are taken away that we

do not even hear about.

Additionally, the entire re-

districting battle on-going in

Texas which has caused us

unknown primary dates has

essentially been caused by thefederal government. Our re-

districting is really none of

their business!

As a result of our anger,

many have been talking of

state nullification of such

atrocities as the Obamacare

bill and other abuses, but noth-

ing has actually been done.

Others speak in hushed and no-

so-hushed tones about seces-

sion of the State of Texas from

the United States. People from

other states also talk about se-

cession.

Texas, along with most of the

south and much of the midwest

have apparently entirely differ-

ent concerns and beliefs about

the federal government than do

the west coast states and many

northern states. If several states

with common goals and inter-

ests seceded, forming a very

light union with minimal

central government, all those

Democrat states can have each

other and continue to head to-

wards bigger and bigger failed

government with no rich folks

left to pay out all the welfare to

the rest.

What might happen if Texasand/or other states were to se-

cede? (First, realize that the se-

cession of the Confederate

States in the 19th century was

over states rights and the north-

ern states abuses of the south.

The conditions were much like

they are today.) More than

likely, since Obama has al-

ready stated that he thinks Lin-

coln was great president and he

likened himself to Lincoln,

Obama would probably de-

clare war on any state that se-

Secession and

Nullification

ceded. Whether he would win

or not is somewhat debatable.

It would depend largely on

whether Texas (and/or other

states) active duty military

would be willing to fightagainst their own people or

would instead desert the U. S.

military establishment and

fight on behalf of their state(s).

It would also depend on

whether there enough real Tex-

ans left in Texas to support

such a move.

There are presently a few se-

cessionist organizations out

there who insist that secession

can be done entirely peace-

fully. Maybe it can be. I cer-

tainly would hope so. The

Obama administration is cer-

tainly afraid of Texas (except

maybe Austin, certain parts of

Dallas and certain parts of

Houston)

If it cannot be done peace-fully, Texas and/or other states

might lose and face the same

awful fate the south faced after

the first War of Northern Ag-

gression --evil and relentless

martial law. Whatever might

be the consequences, I think

its time for Texans to draw a

line in the sand and stand up

against the thugs in Washing-

ton, fire all Texas elected offi-

cials and start overElizabeth Wallace

Houston

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countrymen. Reach down in-

side and become what our

Founding Fathers were TRUE

AMERICANS, who were will-

ing to give the very blood they

had for you and me. I am will-

ing to give my very being to

stand for God and give my life

if necessary for Americas

Life, Liberty and FREEDOM.

You just have to have the

courage to be a man and

woman of integrity! It starts

with you standing up for your-

self, and your family. There is

no organization for this exceptfor your love of this God given

Country. Hopefully, I will be

talking to you this April 2012.

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Be sure to visit us on facebook for all the latest info:www.facebook.com/frontporch534

or email us with any questions [email protected]

Jesse Marley

(Owner)

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Dawn Marley

(Manager)

361-562-1601

Home Style Cooking with a

Different Daily Special,

Breakfast Served on Saturdays and Sundays!!!

OPENING SOON!309 FM 534 Sandia, Texas 78383

HOURS:

Wed. & Thurs. 12pm - 8pm, Friday 12pm - 9pm,Sat. 7am - 9pm, Sun. 7am - 7pm

Closed Mon. & Tues.

Just how free are you today?

Guess you have noticed that

gas has zoomed up! So who

you gonna call? Ghost Busters,

Obama, Hinojosa? Oh! Yeah

they are going to help you.

Right!! So goes that fantasy.

Well, Cowboys and Cowgirls

the time is soon coming to

where we will have over $6.00

er gallon ($5.99 is still $6 to

me). Then what? Well, before

we have the elections for a new

resident, those prices will

drop and we will be such

grateful to this Obama presi-

dent, that you are going to run

out and vote him in!

Does that sound like you.

Regardless of your party fa-

vorite, the money runs out! Itmay not really run out cause

that President still has some,

your congressman still has

some but you will have almost

zero (even if you have $1000.

For one weeks groceries, what

are you going to buy?), be-

cause either you cannot afford

it, the food supply is so mini-

mal you cannot buy it or it is

rationed by the Federal Gov-

ernment. Yes, I am making this

statement, as I lived and re-

member the days of what is re-

ferred to as The Depression

from the 1920's, lived thruWWII, and all the other crap

that this Federal Government

has had us go through, and it is

time for We The People to go

to that voting booth and vote

for Freedom, Liberty for all,

and for our government to get

ack in line with what our

Constitution requires it to be!

You deserve more, and you can

have more. Just pick yourself

up by the bootstraps and create

yourself a job, and it can grow

into a business to be so very

proud of, and support your

family, have some kids who

can learn the business and keep

it going. Not all of us have to

go to college, just to a good

school that actually teaches the

basics of learning...example:

how to comprehend what you

have just read. Maybe that

should be a requirement for

voting. We have to do some-

thing that will give us the

ability to see that it is up to

each one to chose what we de-

termine to be for our life and

go far it.

You ask, What if I dont

make it. I say keep trying! I

know you are not a fool for try-

ing just an idiot for not keep-ing on with your vision! None

of this comes quickly to you

and if it does, you may need to

look at your resources and

make sure you do not have

some type of loan shark hiding

amongst the dollars you have

acquired. Remember nothing

good comes easy, but then

again you get to keep what is

actually yours...so keep up the

hard work! Do not become the

fool!

Back to this voting in No-

vember 2012 for our officials.

Have you ever checked howthey have voted on any of the

issues that may concern you?

Did they vote for more money

for food stamps, or any other

TANEF benefits? Well, if, for

example, you are on food

stamps and they did vote for

that and you had a big increase

is your benefit. Guess you are

really happy? But now look a

little further down the street.

What happens when all the

people who pay into this fund

(other taxpayers) also land on

bad times and they go to get

food stamps and they do and

everyone is happy, right! Wait,

it is now a year later and now

who is putting money in cof-fers for your food stamps since

the one who was doing it is

also now on food stamps?

Soon no one will be putting

anything into food stamps or

TANEF, and where does the

money come from now?

Great question! Since the

governments only get funding

from you and me and we are

not putting any money back

into the system where does the

government get the money?

(Meaning we do not pay any

taxes). Right the government

just prints up some more

money. (That means here

comes price hikes) and the

cost of food is so high that

even the increased amount the

government has given you

now buys much less food than

before you got the food stamp

increase, right! So, another

year comes around and this

country is in shambles, cause

everyone is in need of food

stamps, and the government

can print more money but

what does that mean?

Well, just as any good com-munist infiltrator knows...It is

time to take over this country,

because the people are hungry,

afraid of whatever, willing to

lick the shoes of the invaders

(also know as kiss the rear-end

of the new Master) and will

not even desire any FREE-

DOM, or Liberty. They know

that the masses of people will

allow this horrible take over of

your country. Do not stand by

and allow that to happen to

you, your family, neighbors, or

Its Your Life,

Your Money,

Your Freedomby V. J. Alford

"People who get

through life dependent

on other people's

possessions are always

the first to lecture you

on how little

possessions count."--Ben Elton, Enlish Comedian

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See Devils Advocate

Continued on Page 11

Devils Advocate or

Objective Observer?

Regardless of the eventsthat do unfold after the immi-

nent Mayan apocalypse, theyear 2012 will be one forworld history books, if they dostill exist. The calamity that isthe Euro, our own fiat cur-rency being constantly devalu-ated by the feds setting interestrates leaving the economy inshambles, and of course, thepurported threat of Iran acquir-ing a nuclear weapon. Muchfocus has been concentrated ona threat of a nuclear Iran;however, Iran has denied itsresearch and uranium enrich-ment program as a move to-wards nuclear weaponry. Iranadamantly claims that their en-

richment program is for the ad-vancement in cancer regimentsand is in accordance with the Nuclear Non-ProliferationTreaty (NPT). The NPT is aUnited Nations treaty signed by nuclear member countriesto promote cooperation of peaceful nuclear purposes;with a further goal of completedisbarment of nuclearweapons.

Three of the four Republi-can Presidential Candidatessubscribe to the idea thatAmerica must not removefrom the table military actiontowards Iran in an attempt tostop the Islamic Republic fromacquiring nuclear weapons.From the social conservativeRick Santorum to the Massa-chusettss moderate Mitt Rom-ney, and who can forget aboutMr. I-want- a-moon-base NewtGingrich; all three have calledfor more than economic sanc-tions on Iran. They seek moreaggressive covert actions andthe possibility of backing Is-raeli-led preemptive attacks onIran.

Now-a-days it has becomequite convenient to join theranks of the Republican estab-

lishments idea of AmericanExceptionalism. It is nowmuch easier to wrap ourselvesin the Flag and simply de-clare our actions appropriateregardless of the conse-quences. The pride of any na-tion is held by the People;however, the sad truth is thatgovernments no longer repre-sent the People. Today, mostelected servants serve thosethat make major contributionsto their cause. I point this outbecause it is imperative to re-member that the actions of acountry do not always reflectthe voice of the People. Also,

that when I speak of a country,I am specifically referring tothe government of the countryand not the People.

The main reason why theRepublican establishment re-fuses to accept Ron Pauls for-eign policy is all due to the factthat, as Americans, we cannot bring ourselves to admit thatour Great Country is capableof such horrendous acts. Thestrength that is the U.S. mili-tary has, over the past decades,been the means to overtake acountry and secure its re-sources. Military action on acountry, whether overt or

covert, has led to many civil-ian deaths abroad. Your localnews does not tell you that theU.S. is constantly bombingterrorist sanctuaries whichhave turned out to be every-thing from funerals to residentdwellings. They dont tell youthis for the same reason whynobody likes to know how asteak gets to your plate. All wewant is the bloody-sweet-and-savory taste of victory.I love my country as much asany other patriot, however, aTrue Patriot, a humble soul candecisively stand for liberty re-gardless of the establishmentrhetoric. In the beginning of achange, the Patriot is a scarceman, brave, hated, andscorned. When his cause suc-ceeds however, the timid joinhim, for then it costs nothing tobe a Patriot, said Mark Twain.When you understand libertyand God-given rights, then youwill understand that we, as acountry, do not have the rightto infringe on another coun-trys sovereignty. America andIsrael have executed numerouscovert missions against Mus-lim countries in the Middle

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If I were ten years old today

rather than in the 1950's, mymother would have been im-

prisoned for child abuse, and

my brothers and sisters and I

would all have been sent off to

foster homes. Why do I say

that? Because my mother made

our lunches each and every

day, and those lunches did not

have enough vegetables (ac-

cording to the federal govern-

ment), included mayonnaise

and sugary homemade choco-

late chip cookies and did not

include USDA-approved Big

Agra processed foods such as

chicken nuggets. My lunch

was exactly the same every

day: one tuna fish sandwich,

one salami sandwich, one

boiled egg, two homemade

cookies and a half an apple or

grapefruit. Despite the fact that

we were poor by todays fed-

eral government standards,

Mother gave us each 7 cents

each day to purchase a half pint

of milk and a 4 oz. cup of ice

cream. There were no free

lunches at school, no free

breakfast. Why did she get up

at 5:30 every morning to fix us

breakfast and make our

lunches? The food served atschool by the cafeteria was 1)

considered by my mother as

being unhealthy, and 2) consid-

ered by my siblings and me as

some sort of strange and un-

palatable food, nothing like

what we ate at home, and 3) at

35 cents per lunch, it was far

more than our family could af-

ford when the total family in-

come was about $250 per

month before taxes, and there

were five children. I would

probably have been kicked out

of school for trading my noto-

riously good chocolate cookiesfor an extra ice cream cup.

Other reasons the above sce-

nario might have happened?

We were allowed to play

around the neighborhood, go to

the park by ourselves, and ex-

pected to respect all the bound-

aries set out for us, such as Go

to the park only with a brother

or sister, or Call me if you

get hurt. For about an hour

and a half each day after

school, we were HOME

ALONE, with no adult super-

vision and with me, at age nine

and ten being the oldest childat home. Whats worse, we

walked or rode our bikes to

school because we hated riding

the bus with all the hooligans.

Even then, awful things hap-

pened on school buses. School

was a mile and half from

home.

Sometimes, while home

alone, we injured ourselves,

but we knew what to do. If it

was serious, such as in a bro-

ken bone, we knew to go to the

mom next door and knew she

would take care of us until our

mother came home. If it was

just a scrape or minor cut, we

knew all about cleaning the

wound, applying Campho

Phenique and a bandage, usu-

ally made from old clean rags

and a piece of adhesive tape

because ready-made bandages

were too expensive.

In todays world, the school

would deem our lunches as not

meeting federal standards.

When my sister broke her arm

jumping off a sawhorse and

pretending to fly like Super-

man, the school would proba-

bly call CPS to investigate as to

why my sister was unsuper-

vised and hurt herself as an

eight-year-old while ourmother was not home.

Now it gets worse: On school

holidays, Mother gave us a dol-

lar to buy hotdogs or ham-

burger meat and gave us

matches so we could go out to

the woods behind the house,

build a fire and cook out. She

also gave each of us, both boys

and girls, a pocket knife at

about age seven or eight. We

rode our bikes all over the

place, playing cops and rob-

bers and cowboys and Indi-

ans on bicycles, with no

helmets, yet we have all livedto tell about it. Sure we had our

accidents, and I still have the

scars, but the freedom we all

had led to our becoming re-

sponsible, creative, competi-

tive and productive citizens.

We were responsible. We were

taught what the boundaries of

behavior were and respected

them. We were not allowed to

play with children whose par-

ents did not enforce or respect

boundaries of behavior.

In todays schools, there are

no choices for truly healthy

lunches. Who knows better?The federal government? or a

childs own parents? The gov-

ernment is simply pushing

phoney food produced by Big

Agra, leading eventually to

poor health and subsequent in-

tervention by drug-prescribing

doctors and Big Pharma. What

business is it of the government

to tell you your child should be

in a special car seat? What

business is if for the govern-

ment to force you buy a bicy-

cle helmet for your child?

What business is it of the gov-

ernment to intervene in child-

raising? What business is it of

the government to order vac-

cines for children? These are

the decisions that should be

made by parents alone. Sure,

there are always going to be ir-

responsible parents raising ir-

responsible and damaged

children, but government inter-

vention simply makes these is-

sues worse, not better.

School

Lunches

Sense

Why is it that people who

call themselves "Christian"

confuse marriage sanctified by

their church and civil mar-

riage? Why do they honor

"Justice of the Peace" mar-

riages of a man and a woman

the same as they do "church

weddings." Why do they seem

to think the civil rights that

come with marriage in this

country are "ordained by

God." Why does civil law give

all sorts of rights to married

couples (one man and one

woman) to the exclusion of

gays living in a committed,

"marriage-like" relationship or

to any same-sex life relation-

ship? Lets see, a man and a

woman living together seem tohave more rights than any two

same-sex pair living together,

as the man and woman (in

Texas, at least) may simply

agree that they are married, tell

others that they are married

and receive at least one bill to

Mr. and Mrs. and be com-

mon-law married. Also,

felons in prison, pedophiles,

murderers and sociopaths can

marry and receive the civil

law benefits of marriage, but

law-abiding gays cannot. Why

do these folks think that what

they perceive as sinful shouldbe legislated?

Worse, why is it that there

are voters out there who seem

to think that all our countrys

woes are because of abor-

tion/contraception issues and

gay marriage issues, rather

than the real problems of Pro-

gressivism, the Federal Re-

serve and excessive

government spending? These

are the people who vote for

Rick Santorum in the primar-

ies. These are people who can-

not reason and perhaps cannot

read or write and do not under-

stand the huge problems this

country faces in terms of eco-

nomic issues, foreign policy,

gargantuan government con-

trol and rampant socialism and

fascism.

I am beginning to think that

only people who can read and

write English should be al-

lowed to vote. In fact, I am

thinking a reading comprehen-

sion test should be required of

everyone when first applying

for voter registration. Why do

we allow people who cannot

read or write in English (and

often not in any languagewhatsoever) the right to vote?

How do they decide on which

candidate to choose? The per-

son who they think will give

them the most government

freebies? The person some guy

who takes them to the polls

tells them to vote for? The

person some guy who buys

them a BBQ dinner and beer

tells them to vote for? The guy

the mainstream media televi-

sion tells them to vote for?

Why is it that the 51% of

Americans who pay no taxes

can vote for how the rest of ushave to allocate our money?

Why does our government

(and insurance companies, as a

result) consider pregnancy an

illness? Why do I pay, via

taxes and high insurance rates,

for pregnancy benefits? If you

don't have the money to have a

baby, do what is needed not to

have one. Why do they want to

use my tax dollar to provide

birth control and abortion to

women who live uncontrolled

lives? "No" is supposed to

mean "no," and I cannot be-

lieve that all these womenseeking birth control and/or

abortions don't know how ba-

bies are born. "If you are going

to play, you gotta pay."

Why do people who want the

federal government to outlaw

abortion and keep Catholic

agencies from requirements of

providing contraception con-

sider this an infringement on

their faith? After all, many

Muslims in American want

"honor killings" to be legal.

What's the difference? Both

are religious zealots wanting

the government to pass laws

that support their religious be-

liefs or to be relieved of fol-

lowing the law.

Why does the government

seem to believe it knows what

is best for childrens lunches at

school? Why do parents even

allow their children to eat

lunch served up by the notori-

ously dreadful school cafete-

rias, mandated by the USDA,

heavily in bed with the huge

conglomerate food production

corporations.

Why does the Obama Admin-

istration say the economy is

improving? Its cost-of-living

indicators do not include food

and gasoline, the two itemsthat affect us most. The fig-

ures do include such non-ne-

cessities as electronics,

washing machines and cell

phones.

Why does the Obama Ad-

minstration say that unemploy-

ment figures are going down,

when they only count the peo-

ple who have applied for un-

employment benefits? They

dont count people who have

quit looking for a job, become

self-employed or people

whose unemployment benefits

have run out, or people whoare living on the streets? Of

course, they are scamming the

stupid among us into believing

Obamas Good, Obamas

Great, Let us thank him for our

food. We should reword that:

Obamas Bad, Obama thinks

hes Great. Lets detest him for

our FATE.

Why did both mainstream

and not-so-mainstream media

not report that Ron Paul was in

a statistical tie in the Maine

primary? Could it be because

the powers who want Neo-

Con, RINO, Romney-Gin-grich-Santorum in office just

in case Obama loses? The stu-

pidest candidate is Santorum.

The career candidate who has

nearly no actual productive

work experience is Romney.

The candidate who could do

better than both of them, but

not much, is Gingrich. The

only candidate who can some

close to saving America is the

unmentionable Ron Paul. The

mainstream Republicans, the

Democrats, the Socialists, the

Progressive and Communists

are terrified of Ron Paul.

Why is health care called

health care, when it is obvi-

ously disease/symptom care

or Big Pharma promoted by

its drug pushers (doctors)?

Why is it that the disease-ori-

ented organizations, such as

the AHA, ADA, ACS and Big

Pharma spend so much money

to keep true health-care

providers, such as natur-

opaths, from legitimately prac-

ticing health care?

Why do rich people get huge

tax-payer funded rebates for

buying a Chevy Volt when I

cannot even afford to drive mypickup truck to the gas station

and back?

Why, when I go to the gas

station in Orange Grove, do

they limit my purchase to $75?

Valero says its the fault of my

bank. My bank says its the

fault of Valero. So, who is re-

ally behind this? It sort of

smells like gas rationing.

Why, when I make too

much money to be on Medi-

caid yet cannot afford

Medicare Part B or Advantage,

am I paying more for Medicare

Part B, Medicare Advantageand co-pays than I have ever

paid for any kind of insurance

in my life? Nearly 25% of my

Social Security income goes to

pay for Medicare Part B. What

am supposed to use for gro-

ceries or my house payment?

Somehow I had always be-

lieved I was going to get better

and cheaper medical care

when I became 65 years old.

"Whenever destroyers appear among

men, they start by destroying money, for

money is men's protection and the base of

a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold

and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile

of paper. This kills all objective standards

and delivers men into the arbitrary power

of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was

an objective value, an equivalent of wealth

produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth

that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed

at those who are expected to produce it.

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters

upon an account which is not theirs: upon

the virtue of the victims. Watch for the

day when it bounces, marked, 'Account

overdrawn.'"

---Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982

East, yet when we hear thatthese countries have retaliated,

the news is usually labeled asan attack rather than retribu-tion.

Pauls foreign policy is not based on isolationism; it is based on the belief of diplo-macy and free trade. Perhaps ifwe were not constantly occu- pying other countries, thenmaybe, our country, and ourname will not be spited. Pauland many like-minded libertar-ians endorse this view becausenon-aggression is paramount todiplomacy. Pakistan has nu-clear weapons and is accusedby the U.S. as abetting Amer-icas number one enemy:

Osama bin Laden. If the threatof terrorists is the reason whywe must give up privacy anddue process, then why hasAmerica not threatened mili-tary action on Pakistan? Couldit be that Pakistan has nuclearweapons, and America is re-luctant to overtly attack Pak-istan? Paul has said that hedoes not want to see Iran get anuclear weapon, but if they do,maybe they would get more re-spect.

The act of aggression andtaking the role of the worlds policemen has become themain cause of much hatredfrom Middle Eastern Muslims.How would we feel if the ISIwas bombing an apartmentcomplex on a corner block toeliminate Al-Qaeda membersor if the Mossad were linked tothe assassination of a U.S. nu-clear scientist? What wouldwe think if we found ourselvesunder hostile occupation whilebeing told that they are here tohelp?

When Paul got booed bySouth Carolinians after he ad-dressed the old proverb: dounto others as you would wantto be done to you; my heart

sank for my country. The ideathat any American agenda canbe justified based solely on thefact that America is the mostprosperous country in history, brings disappoint when theagenda does not advance lib-erty.

Republican PresidentialCandidate Rick Santorumclaims that Iran has aggres-sively acted towards Americaever since the 79 hostage cri-sis. Well the truth is that theU.S. has been involved eversince the overthrow of Mo-hammad Mossadegh in 1953.Dr. Mossadegh backed legisla-

tion that would nationalize theIranian oil industry, with thehopes of Iranians netting morethan the 16% of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company agree-ment. The British werent tookeen on allowing Iraniansmore profits for oil production;this led to the British convinc-ing then Secretary of StateJohn Dulles, that Irans coop-eration with the Soviets wouldlead to the expansion of com-munism in the region. With thethreat of communism, Eisen-hower allowed for the oustingof Mossadegh.

So, to rebut the former Sen-

ators notions that Iran hascaused the aggression seems a bit nave when you factor inevery covert operation exe-cuted by our CIA, military, andproxy militant groups. The as-sassination of many Iranian nu-clear scientists can be traced backed to CIA and Mossadagents. As a matter of fact, thelatest assassination (January11, 2012) of a nuclear scientistcan be linked to Mossad agentsposing as CIA. A passing mo-torcyclist stuck a magneticbomb to the car that the Iranianscientist occupied.

February 13, 2012 Israel hasblamed Iran for the attemptedassassination of Israeli diplo-mats in India and Georgia. Theattempt in Tsilibi, in the formerSoviet Republic of Georgia,was unsuccessful when thedriver noticed a black bag onthe cars undercarriage whichturned out to be a bomb. Thevery same day, over 2000miles southeast of Tsibili in New Delhi, India a magnetic

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A paper published by theAmerican Medical Associa-tion's Virtual Mentor is con-cerned that current enrollmentin vaccine trials is extremelylow.The proposed solution?

Creating a federal law thatwould force each individual tomake a "mandated choice" toparticipate in vaccine trials.

Such a law would give drugcompanies a more or less guar-

anteed supply of human guineapigs.

According to the featuredpaper:

"... The lack of animalmodels that can reliably pre-

dict vaccine efficacy means

that development still unavoid-

ably relies on testing of novel

vaccines in healthy individu-

als...In recent decades there

has been a distressing decline

in the numbers of healthy vol-

unteers who participate in

clinical trials, a decline that

has the potential to become akey rate-limiting factor in vac-

cine development.

... The modest financial

remuneration commonly pro-vided often means that students

and the unemployed make up

the bulk of volunteers.

As a result, the risks of de-

veloping a health intervention

that would benefit the wholepopulation are carried dispro-

portionately by some of soci-

ety's most poor and

vulnerable.

This is a situation fewwould judge to be fair or ethi-

cal. Compulsory involvement

in vaccine studies is one alter-

native solution that is not as

outlandish as it might seem on

first consideration.Many societies already

mandate that citizens under-

take activities for the good of

society; in several European

countries registration fororgan-donation has switched

from "opt-in" (the current U.S.

system) to "opt-out" systems...

and most societies expect citi-

zens to undertake jury servicewhen called upon...

Mandatory involvement in

vaccine trials is... perhaps

more akin to military conscrip-

tion... In both conscription and

obligatory trial participation,individuals have little or no

choice regarding involvement

and face inherent risks over

which they have no control, all

for the greater good of soci-ety."

Medical Tyranny of the

Worst Kind!

From my perspective, theidea of compulsory involve-ment in vaccine trials "for thegreater good of society" is not

only outlandish, it's a completeabomination. It's tyranny of theworst kind, and the epitome ofa heartless system based onbroken ethics. Sadly, there aresigns that we're already slidingin that direction. For example,consider the fact that the USgovernment has already ok'dthe testing of the incrediblycontroversial and dangerousanthrax vaccine on infants.And the fact that when 14 ba- bies died in an Argentineanvaccine trial, the drug company, GlaxoSmithKline, was

fined a measly $250,000.Again and again, we see that

life is not valued as highly asthe prospects or promises of fi-nancial profits... Human ex-perimentation -- the practice ofsubjecting live human beingsto science experiments that aresometimes cruel, painful, ordeadly -- is a shameful part ofU.S. history that you won'tfind in most history or sciencebooks. But it is a practice thatis still continuing to this day,and if Susanne Sheehy and

Joel Meyer, the authors of thefeatured paper, have anythingto say about it, medical exper-imentation on ALL infantswould not only be possible, itwould be mandatory! Folks,this is an absolute nightmare;one that I hope will never ac-tually come to fruition.

Know Your Rights!

While you may one dayhave to opt out of vaccine trialsfor your child, we're not quitethere yet. However, you doneed to educate yourself aboutyour rights when it comes to

vaccinating your child. Thereare currently three differenttypes of exemptions you canuse to avoid vaccinations of allkinds: Religious exemption,Medical exemption,Philosoph-ical/conscientious exemption

Unfortunately, the religiousexemption is being targeted forelimination by lobbyists work-ing for pharmaceutical corpo-rations and medical tradeassociations funded byPharma. In some states, like New York, parents are beinggrilled about the sincerity oftheir religious beliefs by state

officials and denied religiousexemptions to vaccination forthe purpose of barring theirpartially vaccinated or unvac-cinated children from attend-ing public schools.

All 50 states allow a medicalexemption to vaccination ifyou or your child has a verifi-able medical reason to defer oravoid use of one or more vac-cines. However, the U.S. Cen-ters for Disease Control andPrevention (CDC) and Ameri-can Academy of Pediatrics(AAP) have eliminated mostof the officially recognized

contraindications for vaccina-tion, to the point that almost nomedical condition qualifies fora medical exemption to vacci-nation...

Still, depending on whereyou live, you may have the op-tion of using a philosophical orconscientious belief exemp-tion. This exemption, like thereligious exemption, is underattack by forced vaccination proponents. Only 18 states(listed below) still allow con-scientious, personal or philo-sophical belief exemption tovaccination. These states come

the closest to protecting a citi-zen's right to exercise volun-tary, informed consent tovaccination in America:Arizona, California , ColoradoIdaho, Louisiana, M a i n e ,Michigan, Minnesota, NewMexico, North Dakota, Ohio,Oklahoma, Rhode Island,Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wash-ington, Wisconsin.What You Can Do to Make a

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While it seems "old-fash-ioned," the only truly effectiveactions you can take to protectthe right to informed consentto vaccination and expand vac-cine exemptions, is to get per-sonally involved with yourstate legislators and the leadersin your community.

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38. Breathe hard

40. Sleep in a conven-

ient place

41. Move forward sud-

denly

43. A hard metallic ele-

ment

44. Larder

46. Eyeshade

47. Ancient Greek mar-ketplace

48. Thin

49. S S S S

50. Verdant

51. District

53. Employ

56. Spelling contest

57. Regulation (ab-

brev.)

A DOG used to run up quietly

o the heels of everyone he

et, and to bite them without

otice. His master suspended

bell about his neck so that the

og might give notice of his

resence wherever he went.

hinking it a mark of distinc-

ion, the Dog grew proud of his

ell and went tinkling it all

ver the marketplace. One dayn old hound said to him: Why

o you make such an exhibi-

ion of yourself? That bell that

ou carry is not, believe me,

ny order of merit, but on the

ontrary a mark of

isgrace, a public notice to all

en to avoid you as an ill

annered dog."

oral: Notoriety is often

istaken for fame.

A VERY LARGE OAK was

uprooted by the wind and

thrown across a stream. It fellamong some Reeds, which it

thus addressed: "I wonder

how you, who are so light and

weak, are not entirely crushed

by these strong winds." They

replied, "You fight and contend

with the wind, and conse-

quently you are destroyed;

while we on the contrary bend

before the least breath of air,

and therefore remain unbro-

ken, and escape."

Moral: Stoop to conquer.

Once upon a time, there were

two families living in the same

neighborhood, the Smiths and

the Joneses. The Smiths had

started their own business

when they were first married.

They worked hard every day

and honored their commit-ments. They were honest in all

their business dealings. After

about ten years of struggling to

make ends meet, they had all

debts paid off, a nice home,

two cars, a savings account and

several luxuries such as a big

screen TV, a spa, cell phones

and computers. They contin-

ued to prosper.

The Joneses, on the other

hand, held jobs, spent what

they had on good times, beer

and trying to keep the rent

aid. Their rented property was

always full of junk in the yard

and overgrown weeds. They

often had to ride the bus be-

cause they didnt have enough

money to get their rattle-trap

old car fixed. The Joneses en-

vied the Smiths and felt they

should have their fair share of

the wealth the Smiths seemed

to have. So, when Mrs. Jones

found herself pregnant, Mr.

Jones went to Mr. Smith and

asked for money to pay for her

see doctors. Mr. Smith said,

No, you go get an extra job or

start a side business, and then

you will have enough money.

Jones had a brainstorm. He

went back to Mr. Smith and

announced that he had started

his own business doing yard

work. He asked Mr. Smith for

work. Mr. Smith, proud of his

neighbor for wanting to better

himself, offered him a few

hours work in his yard, mow-

ing and weed-whacking. Mr.

Jones showed up an hour late

for the job, thinking it didnt

matter since he didnt have a

boss. Mr. Smith was miffed

but decided to let it ride.

Mr. Jones went right to work,

beginning with the mowing.

When he finished mowing, he

went to work with the weed

whacker. After a few minutes,

he fell to the ground, writhing

with apparent pain. Mr. Smithheard his cries and went to see

what was the matter. Jones

cried out that he had hurt his

back. Mr. Smith suggested he

go home and rest, paying him

for the work he already com-

pleted.

Smith did not hear from

Jones for quite a while. When

he did, it was through a lawyer.

Jones had filed a multi-million

dollar law suit against Smith

for his (bogus) back injury.

Smith, who did not have lia-

bility insurance, liquidated his

life savings to pay lawyers to

counter the suit. Meanwhile,

Jones filed for and received

food stamps, Medicaid, TANF

benefits and many other gov-

ernment benefits paid for by

taxpayers like Smith. Soon the

Smiths had to get a second

mortage on their home to pay

for mounting legal fees. When

it was time to pay the IRS, the

Smiths had no money left to

pay. The Smiths lost their busi-

ness, lost their home and had

to lay off their ten employees,

each of whom was eligible to

draw unemployment benefits

and many other government

freebies.

Since the Smiths could no

longer afford lawyer fees, they

settled with Jones for a few

thousand dollars. Jones

quickly squandered the money,

and soon the Smiths, the Jone-ses and all the former employ-

ees of the Smiths were on the

government dole.

When you take from the rich

to pay the poor, everyone

ends up on welfare. Who is

left to pay the bill?

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"Be quiet now," said an old

urse to a child sitting on her

ap. "If you make that noise

gain I will throw you to the

olf."

Now it chanced that a Wolf

as passing close under the

window as this was said. So he

crouched down by the side of

the house and waited. "I am in

good luck to-day," thought he.

"It is sure to cry soon, and a

daintier morsel I haven't had

for many a long day." So he

waited, and he waited, and he

waited, till at last the child

began to cry, and the Wolf

came forward before the win-

dow, and looked up to the

Nurse, wagging his tail. But all

the Nurse did was to shut down

the window and call for help,

and the dogs of the house came

rushing out. "Ah," said the

Wolf as he galloped away,"Enemies promises were

made to be broken."

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Its a Dogs Lifeby Miss Daisy Duke

I am telling you right now:

My Mom has eyes in the backof her head and can see in the

dark. My peeps were on to me

about sneaking up on the sofas

after they went to bed at night

and sneaking back down when

I heard one of them get up, so

they started placing stuff on

the sofas at night where I

couldnt get up there. I havent

the slightest idea how they

knew Id been on a sofa, but

somehow they knew. Boo-hoo!

But one night I thought I

was going to outsmart em. I

got up to Moms easy chair inthe middle of the night. I had

no sooner gotten situated when

I hear a booming voice shout,

Daisy! Down! Believe you

me, I was down out of that

chair in a heartbeat!

How in the heck did she

know I was there? It was dark

in the house! Now, I have

heard Mom call that chair her

Archy Bunker chair and no

one but her can sit in it, but I

thought she just meant people,

not sweet little doggies like

me. I dont know who the heckArchie Bunker is, but appar-

ently he meant bidness about

no one sitting in his favorite

chair, cuz Mom was MAD! I

tell you she was mad! But,

why? After all, Im Queen ofthe World!

Little Mom has started call-

ing her chickens The Dixie

Chicks. When Mom asked

her why, she said they went for

four or five days not laying

enough eggs and that was

downright Un-American! I

wish I could lay eggs. Little

Mom sure prizes those eggs.

Mom says I dont have eggs

anymore cuz Ive been

fixed. Somehow that does-

nt seem fair, I guess.

One night Mom and LittleMom turned on that brightly

lighted window-like thing they

call a TV and seemed to pay-

ing great attention to it. They

both fell asleep in front it,

though, so I guess it must have

been really boring. Mean-

while, I was outside, so when

Mom got up to go to bed, she

forgot all about me and left me

outside all night without any

water. Boo-hoo. Whine,

whine! The next morning,

though, she let me in and I got

all the water and food Iwanted, curled up on my day

bed (nevermind the forbidden

furniture) and slept and slept

and slept. I guess I should be

grateful for small favors. (Sigh)

While I was out that night Ibarked and barked when a cat

headed for chicken coop. No

one is going to mess with my

Dixie Chicks! They are mine, I

tell you, all mine, even if Little

Mom collects the eggs. At least

Little Mom thanked me the

next morning for doing my job

by giving me one of her fantas-

tic cookies. Yum!

A little human boy visitor

came over one day, along with

his moms mom and dad. He

was not much taller than me. I

liked him right away cuz hesmelled like dogs and he

seemed happy and cheery.

Him and me were out in my

yard, and my peeps went

through the people door to go

out to the garage. That little

boy followed me right through

my doggy door to get to the

garage, giggling as he went. I

wasnt sure if I liked him using

my door, but when all the

grown-up humans started

laughing I decided it best to

go along to get along.

I sure am glad all the rain hasquit for now. I like playing out-

side without all those water

drops raining on my head. I get

to play and play and then come

in and sleep and then go out

and roll in the dirt, chase cats.Whew! Its a great dogs life.

Woof, woof to all my pals out

there. Talk at ya next month!

Isabelles Garden Tips

Well, we actually had a little

it of rain. Amazing! Now we

get to watch all those weeds

start growing. I sure have had

my fair share. Pulling those

weeds is quite easy right after a

rain. Have you checked on

your seedlings? Mine for the

most part seem to have made

great plants. We will know

more about 6 weeks from now.

I have great salad greens grow-

ing and will sometime this

week (February 24) start re-

lanting so that I will have lots

of great greens all summer.

Hope it all comes out as

lanned. How are you doing? I

have not heard from many ofyou this month, so I do not

know what is going on. Are

you making any new gardens

around your place?

I am thinking of planting a

grapefruit tree, since I had to

have my Orange tree cut down.

Also my olive trees either have

died or went into some type of

hibernation for a few weeks.

Still the bark is really in good

condition with green limbs, so

I just do not know what is

going on but will let you know

in April. Those trees were so

eautiful but not all things goas I planned for them to. Guess

it is up to the good Lord. I also

want to plant a couple of avo-

cado trees.

I have great compost from

the hay in my chicken coop.

Those chicken play with one

egg each day. Seems like they

attempt to play keep-a-way.

And another likes to play the

drum which is a plastic red

Folgers coffee can turned up-

side down in the feeder. It ac-

tually keeps those chickens

from messing up their food

server. Works well. Then I dis-

covered that a piece of alu-

minum screen wire cut with ahole in the middle makes a

great barrier to keep them from

messing up their water dis-

penser. They are picking up in

the egg laying department.

Using the same food as al-

ways. I do have a brooder light

on them so that they should not

molt to much (I guess that is

what it is called.), I am really

new to these chicken cycles.

If you havent started your

seedlings I would just buy

plants from the nursery. But

keep in mind here in this part

of Texas you can grow just

about year round. That means

you can start seedlings for the

fall that can carry you over the

winter with all the fresh food

you like. If we get a freeze, just

have on hand some snow blan-

kets they sell at the local nurs-

erys. Also you can get a large

piece of plastic that you can

see thru and make a makeshift

greenhouse if necessary should

a freeze come up. The freeze

shouldnt last more that a few

hours but sometimes 2-3 days

in a row.

If you have been growing for

a few years maybe it is time foryou to buy two or three differ-

ent vegetable plants to see if

you like them. If youre just

starting, stay with the plants

you know you and your family

will enjoy. Then work into new

varieties and know what you

are eating. Know what you use

to keep the plants healthy, and

in doing so you know what

you are putting inside your

body. That is very important!

Try sending me some pic-

tures of what you are doing. I

am very interested in what you

do in the gardening realm. Es-

pecially the organic side of

things.How do you keep pests from

eating your food. I have heard

of some very unusual ways.

And will print any that even

sound strange...so many of

those do work. Like pouring

beer in a lid and letting the

slugs slide in and have a drink

and then go bye, bye!Hope we get more rain as it

is desperately needed in this

area, well most of Texas even

those places who have been

having a lot of rain. Remember

Texas is in drought.

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Tips to BetterPhotos

by Wayne Green

In the past I have written

bout evaluating your image

nd how to decide whether it is

omposed of mostly dark areas

r light areas or if it's balanced

venly between areas of lightnd dark. Throughout most of

y career selling photos for

se in magazines and other

ublications, transparency film

lways had to be used and ex-

osure of the film had to be ex-

ctly right for any photo to be

ccepted and purchased. Now

ith digital cameras your ex-

osure of the image can be

uite a bit under or over ex-

osed and still produce a usable

mage, however carefully ad-

usting your camera for the

ost accurate exposure possi-

le will even with digital cam-

ras achieve much better

esults and also cut down on

ny extra work in post expo-

ure software attempting to im-

rove your image after it's been

hot.

Your first step in learning

ow to achieve better exposure

s to find out what kind of me-

tering system your camera

uses and to learn how your

meter can be adapted to

change the way it measures

light coming into the camera.

Some cameras have metersthat can't be changed, so light

is measured in one way only.

Most of these cameras meas-

ure the amount of light coming

mostly from the central area of

your composition. Finding out

the exact area of the center that

is being measured will go a

long way to helping you create

better exposed photos.

For more sophisticated me-

ters, you'll need to find out the

system's different modes, how

to switch to each mode and the

area of the image that each

mode measures. Often you'llhave a spot mode, this mode

only measures the light com-

ing from a circle of a few de-

grees of the image. As you

look through your camera

there will be a circle marked

on the viewfinder to show you

exactly what small area of the

scene is being measured. The

spot mode can be extremely

useful because you can pick

out any area of your scene that

is a medium tone ( half way be-

tween white and black ) set

your exposure from the

medium tone and you're very

likely to obtain a well exposed

image that includes some detail

in the darker areas of your

scene as well details in the

lighter areas of your scene.

If you set your meter at one

of the modes that reads a large

area of the scene, you will need

to analyze the composition. If

the image contains almost all

medium toned areas or if it's

composed of just about equal

light and dark areas you can

usually get by with exposing

the shot according to what your

meter reads( auto exposure )

However if the composition

consists of primarily dark

areas, you'll have to override

what the meter indicates and

set the camera to allow less

light than the meter recom-

mends so that the abundance of

dark areas will look naturally

dark and the few light areas

will not be blown out with too

much exposure. Just do the op-

posite for a scene that has al-

most all light areas and only a

few areas of darkness. The

meter in a general automatic

mode will measure the light re-

flected from all the light, al-

most white areas and try to

create a medium toned scene,

making the light areas into

greyish medium toned areas.

If your camera doesn't have

a spot mode, another way to get

very accurate exposures is to

buy an 18% Grey Card. These

are sold at most places that sell

photo equipment and are very

inexpensive. To use them is as

simple as placing the card in

front of your camera to set ex-

posure. Just make sure that the

same amount of light is falling

evenly across the grey side of

the card as is falling on the

scene you are about to photo-

graph.

Please remember that I wel-

come questions, comments,

and ideas, just send to Wayne

[email protected] or call

361-547-6898.

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Sometimes I do get toplaces just when God's

ready to have some-body click the shutter.

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