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There is no company that feels more passionately than USA Discounters about our nation’s service members and the sacrifices they make for our country. Recently, there has been some media coverage questioning our commitment. That media coverage is just plain wrong and we wanted you to hear the facts.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) examined every aspect of our company for a year. After that review, they raised a concern over a single issue - related to a $5 fee we charged service members as a condition of credit - a fee that was passed on to a third party company. USA Discounters made no profit and, in fact, lost money, in connection with the fees in question.

We disagreed with the CFPB’s conclusion but realized our communications with customers about the fee could have been better. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused. We agreed to return the $5 fee to our customers and pay a penalty of $50,000. We severed our relationship with the third-party vendor to which the fee was paid and eliminated the fee from all future transactions.

Despite what you may have read, there was no allegation that USA Discounters “scammed” or “tricked” anyone. Language like that is painful for us to hear. It is untrue, unfair and unethical.

Over the last few months we have begun making a number of other changes as well - on our own accord - simply because it is the right thing to do. These include:

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By Ali Khedery Three years ago, the Islamic State

of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) did not exist; now it controls vast swaths of Syria and Iraq. Showing off its handiwork daily via Twitter and YouTube, ISIS has repeatedly demonstrated that it is much more than a transnational terrorist organization – rather, it is an entity with sophisticated command, control, propaganda and logistical capabilities, and one that has proven its ability to take and hold strategi-cally critical territory at the heart of the Middle East.

But as world leaders grapple with how to respond to this unprecedent-ed crisis, they must first understand how ISIS came to exist.

Principally, ISIS is the product of a genocide that continued unabated as the world stood back and watched. It is the illegitimate

Three years ago, ISIS did not exist – now it controls vast swaths ofSyria and Iraq. How did we get here?

Con’t. onnext page

child born of pure hate and pure fear – the result of 200,000 murdered Syr-ians and of millions more displaced and divorced from their hopes and dreams. ISIS’s rise is also a reminder of how Bashar al-Assad’s Machiavel-lian embrace of al-Qaida would come back to haunt him.

Facing Assad’s army and intelli-gence services, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Iraq’s Shia Islamist militias and their grand patron, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Syria’s initially peaceful protesters quickly became disenchanted, disillusioned and disenfranchised – and then radicalised and violently militant.

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Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to the Islamic State in Sinjar town, ride a

donkey as they make their way towards theSyrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain,

near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh, onAugust 10, 2014. Islamic State

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ISISCont’d. from Page 3

The Shia Islamist axis used chemi-cal weapons, artillery and barrel bombs to preserve its crescent of influence. Syria’s Sunni Arab revolutionaries in turn sought international assistance, and when the world refused, they em-braced a pact with the devil, al-Qaida.

With its fiercely loyal army of trans-national jihadis, al-Qaida once again gained a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. Fuelled by the hate and fear engendered by images of dismem-bered children or women suffering from the effects of chemical weapons, disaffected youth from around the world rushed to Syria, fuelling an ever more violent race to the bottom.

Next door in Iraq, an emboldened Nouri al-Maliki waged his own sectar-ian campaign to consolidate power, be-traying promises to his political part-ners to share it around. Within days of being welcomed at the White House and praised by Barack Obama for his leadership, Maliki returned to Bagh-dad to mastermind the arrest of his principal Sunni rival, vice-president Tariq al-Hashimi.

Supported by Iran and armed with US-made Humvees, M-16s, and M1A1 tanks, Maliki’s forces closed in on Hashimi, only to see him flee to Kurdis-tan. Dozens of his guards were impris-oned on terrorism charges. At least one of them died under interrogation.

Another Christmas purge followed a year later, when a second prominent Sunni rival, the finance minister Rafea

al-Essawi, found his home surrounded by Maliki’s US-made tanks. He fled to the sanctuary of his tribe in Iraq’s An-bar province, and was eliminated from Iraqi politics.

Facing mass unrest, Iraq’s Sunni Arab provincial councils voted for

semi-autonomous rule like that of the neighbouring Kurdistan region. Maliki blocked the implementation of a refer-endum through bureaucratic ploys, in contravention of Iraq’s constitution.

Demonstrations of civil disobedi-ence erupted across the Sunni provinc-

es, as millions of Iraqis once again saw that they had no stake in Iraq’s success – only its failure. Claiming intelligence that al-Qaida had penetrated the pro-test camps, Maliki crushed them with

ISIS, cont’d. on Page 25

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ISIS has already be-gun its plan for world domination. They’ve cut out a piece of Syr-ia and Iraq the size of South Carolina for their terrorist Islamic state. Sharia Law has already been put into place and taken the lives of thou-sands of Christians, Muslims, Ameri-cans and anyone they feel they have the absolute right to put to death. If you think the beheading of the Ameri-can James Foley was an isolated, grue-some act, your entirely mistaken. The picture below depicts exactly what happened to Christian Muslims locat-ed in the city of Qaraqosh. Some of my editorial colleagues felt the picture might be too gruesome to be published in my article, but I totally disagree.

We Americans need to get our heads out of the sand and understand that from now on. each and every day. we will see on our TV news programs atrocities committed by the ISIS terror-ists. ISIS is funded by many different countries, groups and individuals who want to see the white, black, brown, yellow and red — yes, all Americans — put to death and drowned in our own blood.

If ISIS is permitted to take over a large part of the Arab world, we know absolutely for sure that Israel will be the first country to be wiped off the face of the earth. Once Israel is no lon-ger the tiny but dominating country in the Middle East, the world will be ISIS’ oyster.

A look at 99% of all countries that have uprisings and terrorist attacks shows they are committed by radical Islamists. It is starting to become the domino effect. One area, one country

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ISIS’s planfor world domination

and with the one and only objective of world denomination and instituting Sharia Law throughout the land.

I hate giving credit to Vladimir Pu-tin but he realized the effects of Mus-lims becoming radical and destroying Russia. He took immediate action in Bosnia when a radical group took over a school and the radicals killed over 400 people inside the building. Putin is not as dumb as he appears to be and you have to give them credit for pro-tecting his country.

I know many people have doubts about a supreme being — or God if you will — and the prophecy in the Bible that the yellow race will roll the world at the end of time. When I look at the world today that prophecy seems to be more accurate than fiction. If Isis and radical Islam goes unchecked (NOW ) the only country eventually that will be able to defeat Isis morally, monetarily, mentally and militarily… will be China.

My uneducated butcommon sense solution

We must use all of our technology and support in arming and defending any Kurdish, Syrian or Iraqi people that want to be free and not controlled by terrorist Islamic groups such as Hamas, Al Qaeda, Isis or any other groups that supports Sharia Law. I’m not talking about boots on the ground but we need to put upwards to 10,000 advisors to di-rect and support these countries.

We also also need to fight the terror-ist by using some of his own tactics, I’m referring to their demands for ransom for any prisoners they have in captivity. We need to offer hard cash — Ameri-can dollars — to any Muslims that turns in a proven Islamic terrorist, or

A file image allegedly shows militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province (AFP Photo / HO)

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READER INPUTToo many zeroesDear Mr.Matz,Recently you published an article

Spreading the Wealth and you stated that “Obama asked for and received 368 BILLION to provide a temporary/permanent residence for minor chil-dren who have crossed our borders over the last year.” It should be noted that the 368 billion you stated should have been 368 MILLION not billion, a big difference.

Second, you stated that absolutely NOTHING has been accomplished in the past six years. REALLY? Here is a list since you apparently have been out of communicato: stock market up, hous-ing prices rising, one war ended, one almost ending, deficit has been cut in half, unemployment reduced from 10% to 6.2% (while not great, unemploy-ment rate HAS improved).

Third, you stated that Democrats should “offer to Republicans.” Let me remind you that you can’t negotiate with a party that just says NO!

In 2010, Republican Senators Con-rad R-ND, and Republican Gregg R-NH, wrote a bill called the “Conrad-Gregg Deficit Reduction Commission. When Obama stated he could work with that bill, and when the bill came up for a vote, BOTH these Senators voted AGAINST their own bill.

This is just one example of the Re-publicans saying NO to anything, and everything, without EVER attempting to “negotiate.” Oh, please remember that it is the Democrats that control 2/3rds of government so shouldn’t they

get their way 2/3rds of the time?— William Benefield

Mr. Benefield,Thank you for reading the Military

Press. We appreciate you calling our at-tention to our mistake — $ 368 million instead of $368 billion.

Maybe you’re in the 1% bracket and had the ability to purchase stock. And if that’s the case then the story was right on the money — 1% get richer and mid-dle class foots all the bills and taxes.

Whether you are a Democrat or a Re-publican, please don’t insult my intelli-gence and give praise to either Obama or Bush. They are both are responsible for the demise of our great country.

Your unemployment numbers are only a disguised number as they do not reflect the millions (not billions) that have dropped out of the unemploy-ment ranks because they have given up on seeking the non-existent jobs. The increase in the job market is due to the addition of low level positions. The higher paying jobs have been out-sourced to foreign countries. Now, if President Obama breaks the law of the Constitution and gives legal status to the illegal aliens (to guarantee more votes for the Democrats) then all the new low paying jobs will be lost as well.

As far as the wars are concerned, do you really believe these newly-free countries are better off. We should have supported the uprising in Syria, not with boots on the ground but with air-support and arms for the oppressed Syrian people. That’s exactly what we are doing now fighting ISIS in Iraq.

Oh, and by the way, I bet you think Obamacare is a success. If you think so, just ask just ask the Americans whose insurance premiums have doubled!

In closing, the elections in 2016 shall tell us how well the Democrats have run this country. I personally will not be voting for Democrats or Republicans, but I will vote. What about you, or need I ask?

— Richard Matz, Publisher

Please get your “isms” straight

To the Editor and Chuck Baldwin,Thank you for your timely article

“Police State USA.” It is particularly relevant with the events in Ferguson, Mo.

However I wish to call attention to a egregious error in the article. In the opening paragraph a contributing fac-tor to this clear and present threat to all

Americans is identified as a “slide into socialism.” You need to get your “isms” straight. The slide is into FACISM not socialism. The oppressive tactics and, more importantly, overarching atti-tudes that support a militarized police state are those of Nazi’s in the style of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy etc.

Socialism, in stark contrast, holds at its core the principle of the state op-erating as an advocate for the general masses. Most of our historic allies, and most of the both happiest and most prosperous nations on earth have so-cialism as their operating system. The entire British Commonwealth (Canada, New Zealand, Australia) all of the Scan-dinavian nations, Norway, Sweden, Fin-land, Denmark, also Italy, Mexico, all with Socialized Medicine systems in place.

Ironically, where I find your pub-lication, the VA Hospital, is a prime example of a tremendously successful socialized, single-payer system, despite continued attempts to under fund it (a trend reversed by Obama). This is so-cialism at its best and we are fortunate to have it.

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Story and photos by Mike MadriagaThe American flag barely moved on

August 2. The sound of thunder wasn’t from the gloomy skies above, but from a caravan of motorcycles here in town for national Bikers for Christ weekend.

“Close to 400 bikes showed up to our gathering this day,” said Pastor Z, the organizer of the meeting atop Mount Soledad. Bikers trekked from as far as New Mexico, Texas, and Nevada; Bikers for Christ membership spans all 50 states and to 23 countries. “My brothers from Bikers for Christ helped make this happen, and let’s not forget the support of our Jesus Christ!”

Pastor Z and Machete star Danny Trejo were greeted by American war veterans at the top of the stairs. Pastor Z pulled out his megaphone and whis-pered, “We are going to start this off

the right way, with a word of prayer.”A big dude down on the grassy sec-

tion yelled, “I can’t hear #@it,” which caused a few indistinct shouts from others in the crowd.

Many of the bikers present were an-gered about the prospect of the cross being removed. One of the Vietnam vet bikers stepped up and yelled, “When they take this [cross] down, I’m going to be the first to lay down. When they take me and my bike away, who amongst you will replace me?” Many of his brethren stepped forward.

“I am very proud to be an American, I love my country, I’m patriotic, and I salute the flag,” calmly says Pastor Z, a Vietnam era veteran, who was in the Attack Squad-ron 174 (VA-174) also known as the “Hell-razors.”

Thunder from the skies atop Mt. Soledad

Pastor Z (center left), actor Danny Trejo (center right) and members of Bikers for Christ rally at Mt. Soledad to oppose removal of the cross.

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A San Diego County Veteran Center outreach program is quietly transform-ing lives of homeless veterans in ways they never dreamt while helping save taxpayers money in the bargain.

About a year ago San Marcos Vet Center director Joe Costello began the “Mobile Outreach for Homeless Veter-ans” initiative to increase veteran en-rollment in the VA healthcare system and connect veterans with housing op-tions.

Costello, an Afghanistan war vet-eran, leads one of the busiest centers of its kind in the country. He saw a need for outreach in San Diego County and worked to fill it. A key focus is the roughly 1,300 homeless veterans living in and round the city of San Diego.

“We needed to be on the streets,” Costello said of the program he spent three years building, “taking the assets we and our community partners, like the Veterans Village of San Diego and Interfaith Community Services, have and delivering them to the veterans who need them the most. That’s the only way we can really make an accurate

Homeless vet programs transforming lives in San Diego

needs assessment and to properly serve our homeless veterans.”

At first veterans were reluctant to seek help. But thanks to the Vet Cen-ter’s steady presence the barriers melted away now and up to 40 homeless vet-erans a week are coming forward.

“When I first saw the mobile van, I thought: Is the VA going to do what it’s always done in re-gards to homeless vets – nothing?” said Tim Watson, 57, a former airman, who has lived on San Diego streets for more than a decade.

“Then the van (mobile Vet Center’s RV outreach clinic) showed up the next week and the next and the next. When I knew they were here for the long haul, I came forward.

“Now starting Sept. 1 for the first time since 2002, I’ll have a roof over my head (an apartment in South Bay),” said Watson unable to check his tears. “This has changed my life. Now I tell all veter-ans about this program.”

Likewise, for-mer sailor Joey Bergman, 52, recently sought VA help after being homeless for “eight or nine years.”

“I didn’t understand how all the services worked,” said Bergman, who like Watson suffers from numerous ailments. “I just felt the VA was for people with bigger problems than what I had.”

Costello wants to expand mobile out-reach to the Midway District and other pockets of homeless veterans. Stud-ies show that delivering psychiatric and health care to the homeless saves about $16,000 per person every year by

VET PROGRAMS, cont’d. on Page 17


By Heather SiegelPhotos courtesy National CemeteryAdministration

San Diego veterans who want to use their VA benefit to fulfill their final wishes have benefited from a relatively new national cemetery in north San Di-ego.

Choosing a burial Miramar National Cemetery can reduce the economic burden of a traditional funeral up to $10,000. Plus, being able to visit one’s loved ones locally helps bring closure and peace to one’s family.

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Local veterans can make better choices about cremation not based solely on economics. “San Diego has always had the one of the highest percentages of cremation rates in the country,” said H. W. “Skipper” Rags-dale III, President, California Funeral Directors Association and owner of the Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary in San Diego. “Miramar National Cemetery has made a significant difference in people’s choices and the lives of their

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Privates and generals are interred side-by-side. Spouses are eligible for burial in the national cemetery even if the spouse pre-deceases the veteran. If both spouses are veterans, they are eli-gible for two plots, two headstones and arrangements can be made to set aside an adjoining plot.

Families who do want the remains of their loved ones cremated can chose to be interred at Riverside or Fort Rosecrans National Cemeteries, as well as Miramar National Cemetery. “I chose cremation for my beloved de-parted wife because it was less money and more environmentally friendly,” said Bruce Radder, a World War II Mer-chant Marine Veteran who’s planning to visit Washington, DC, on the Honor Flight next month. “It just suits me bet-ter and I’m already set to be interred next to Shirley.”

In an exclusive interview, Director Douglas Ledbetter, US Air Force vet-eran, who has managed both Miramar and Fort Rosecrans National Cemeter-ies since August 2013, advised veterans interested in interment at a national cemetery: “Keep your discharge pa-pers handy and share your desires with your loved ones. Start the conversation.

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By Rep. Duncan HunterIn a jail cell in Mexico sits Andrew

Tahmooressi, a former Marine Corps Sergeant who served honorably and survived two combat tours in Afghani-stan. For almost five months, Andrew has languished in prison for simply tak-ing a wrong turn into Mexico.

In past months, President Obama has found enough time to respond to the proposed deportation of Justin Bieber, talk up the White House beer recipe and offer insights into a wide variety of topics that are compara-tively insignificant. His own online pe-tition page collected more than the 120,000 signatures, thereby requiring a response from the White House. But Obama has yet to utter a single word on behalf of Tahmooressi.

As a combat Marine, Andrew saved lives on at least two occasions and sur-vived a roadside bomb blast that de-stroyed his vehicle and injured himself and others. His promotion to Sergeant

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came meritoriously and either on the battlefield or off, his commitment to his fellow Marines was unbreakable. In every sense, Andrew was a top-notch.

The alleged crime by no means pres-ents any real shock value: Andrew en-tered Mexico with three legally owned firearms. He did not conceal the weap-ons or attempt to mislead Mexican border officials, who happened to deny his initial request to turn around. They confiscated his firearms and the rest of his possessions. That night and into the

next day, he endured a period of deten-tion that exceeded the permissible lim-its, and he was denied the appropriate translation services.

The accusation was that Andrew was trafficking weapons but the facts sup-port a far different version of events. The night he was arrested, Andrew was visiting friends near the border area. He was relatively new to San Diego, California, seeking treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder at the rec-ommendation and instance of friends

who lived in the region, which is home to some of the best treatment and care facilities in the country. For area resi-dents, some of whom have lived in San Diego their entire lives, the border is a complicated place, day or night, and wrong turns are quite common.

For whatever reason, Mexican offi-cials violated Andrew’s rights. In fact, my office recovered audio of the 911 phone call Andrew made immediately after he was directed into secondary

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screening. He tells the dispatcher that he took a wrong turn, that he didn’t in-tend to enter Mexico and that he pre-sumed turning around was possible. The dispatcher informed him that he missed the turnaround and proceeded to say there was nothing that could be done to help.

The 911 audio is critical to Andrew’s defense, among other key pieces of evidence revealed through several evidentiary hearings. The tape verifies Andrew’s intent not to enter Mexico while other violations, including the prolonged detention and failure to con-tact U.S. counterparts and provide a suitable translator, invalidate actions on the Mexican side of the border.

Until recently, resolution seemed distant and sometimes uncertain. But new developments in the case could produce a ruling as early as next week thanks in part to a range of legal op-tions that are under serious consider-ation. The expectation is that Mexico will do the right thing and release An-drew.

Through this entire episode, it is worth noting that Mexico-despite maintaining the belief that its justice system should be given a chance to work-has been relatively direct and open to conversation on Andrew’s de-tention. Conversely, the President, his Administration and State Department have been silent. And for the most part, any support provided by the State De-partment has been routine under the circumstances.

A Marine of Andrew’s caliber de-serves more from his government. By now, the President and his Administra-tion probably won’t make a difference in Andrew’s case but out of respect to our veterans and our military, the Pres-ident should try to make an effort at least. Andrew is owed that much from the Commander in Chief he coura-geously served as U.S. Marine.

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of Chevy’s all-new 2014 Silverado, fin-ished in High Country crew cab dress and featuring a 6.2-liter, 420 horse-power V8 un-der the hood. Surprisingly, our four-door crew cab de-livers 20-mph highway thanks to Chevy’s cyl-inder deactiva-tion and fuel management systems, which allow this “Beauty and the Beat” dynamo to run on the highways in less than 8-cyl-inder mode.

Chevy’s done a great job in its re-de-sign, albeit still adhering to legendary Chevy Truck exterior looks while dou-bling up on the new interior. Chevy designers call it a “new from hood to trailer hitch” design. Our tester, mean-while, arrived in top tier “ High Coun-ty” dress, which is similar to GMC De-nali.

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With a towing capacity of 9,500 lbs., our High Country was a pleasure to drive during our weeklong test. With 420 horses available at the tap of the right foot, it was clear from the mo-ment we hit the highway that not only did Chevy’s new pickup deliver a com-fortable ride, it also has lots of acceler-ation ability thanks to the performance bred “LS” engine under the hood.

Other notable standard features on the amenity laden High Country in-clude EZ lift and lower tailgate, projec-tor headlamps, bed rail protectors, re-

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The 6.2-liter V8 is a $1,995 option on High Country, replacing the stan-dard 5.3 V8. However, Test Drive highly recommends driving with the 5.3 first, as it delivers an impressive 355 horses and then boasts 16 city and 23 highway EPA average. These EPA numbers are tops for all full size pickups, and even beats some of the competitor’s V6 of-

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The Midwestern native left home earlier this year to join the virulently anti-American Islamic State — and perished in a firefight last weekend just days after his fellow terrorists re-leased a video of the beheading of a U.S. journalist.

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exposed Tuesday as a jihadist carrying a U.S. passport and $800 cash when he was killed.

The man called himself “Duale ThaslaveofAllah” on Facebook. And he posted on Twitter, “It’s Islam over ev-erything.”

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By Chris BirkBuying a home can seem like an in-

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That’s especially true for service members and veterans using the VA home loan program. From start to fin-

Get a VA home loan in 5 stepsish, the VA loan process has at its heart only a handful of steps.

To be sure, there are plenty of small but important details, from credit scores and sufficient income to the condition of the property. But buying a home using your hard-earned VA loan

benefits doesn’t have to be an intimi-dating experience.

In fact, the big-time financial ben-efits of VA loans help scores of veter-ans who wouldn’t otherwise qualify for home financing achieve the dream of homeownership.

Let’s take a closer look at the five basic steps of the VA loan process.

PrequalificationThe first step is the most basic,

but it’s an important place to start. Prequalification typically takes about 10 minutes or less. A lender will ask for your permission to access your credit reports and then give you a clear sense of where you stand.

VA lenders are generally looking for a credit score of at least 620, although the benchmark can vary. That’s a con-siderably lower score than military borrowers will need for conventional financing.

In addition to learning about your credit profile, lenders during prequali-fication will look to get a better feel for your homebuying goals and objectives. They’ll ask about your income and your employment and try to identify any po-tential red flags at the outset.

The goal is to get you moving on to the second step — VA loan preapproval.

PreapprovalCompared to prequalification, loan

preapproval is more involved process. Lenders will want to get a much closer look at your financial situation and your ability to handle a mortgage pay-ment. They’ll also start developing a paper trail.

You’ll fill out documents and paper-work, and lenders will start working to verify your income and other impor-tant information. The end result should be a preapproval letter that details how much a lender is willing to loan, provided certain conditions are met.

Preapproval letters are increasingly

important in today’s housing market. Real estate agents and home sellers ex-pect to see these letters included in an offer. In fact, some listing agents won’t accept offers on a home without a copy of your preapproval letter.

To be sure, getting preapproved for a VA loan doesn’t guarantee you’ll ulti-mately get it. There are still a handful of things that need to happen before you ultimately get the green light.

But VA loan preapproval is a key step in the process. Like prequalifica-tion, it’s also non-binding, which means you can seek preapproval from multi-ple lenders.

Getting Under ContractOnce you’ve got a preapproval let-

ter, it’s time to start the house hunt. Finding a real estate agent who truly understands the VA loan program can make a tremendous difference for mili-tary borrowers.

VA loans are specialized loans that require specialized knowledge. The VA has its own Minimum Property Requirements that homes must meet. Real estate agents who know the pro-gram can help ensure veterans are fo-cusing on move-in ready homes that are a good fit for this long-cherished home loan benefit.

Once you find a home you like, you’ll work with your agent to craft a purchase offer. In addition to no down payment and no mortgage insurance, VA loans also limit what borrowers can pay in closing costs. It’s common for VA borrowers to ask a seller to pay most, if not all, of their closing costs as part of the negotiation process.

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Athletic apparel company Under Armour has made NBA MVP Kevin Du-rant quite a substantial endorsement offer, per a report from ESPN’s Darren Rovell.

Durant’s representation Roc Nation Sports informed Nike on Wednesday that he has a deal on the table with Under Armour worth between $265 million and $285 million over 10 years, sources told ESPN.com.

The deal includes Under Armour stock and other incentives, such a com-munity center built in his mother’s name, whose exact worth will not be known for some time.

Per the report, Durant’s previous signature line with Nike brought in $175 million this past season. Nike has the contractual right to match Under Armour’s deal, should they choose.

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Capitalizing in part on Vet Center inroads, a VA pilot program is provid-ing medical care and housing never before seen by San Diego’s homeless veterans.

The VA’s pilot Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team program – or H-PACT – is a national program operat-ing in more than 40 cities nationwide.

The program is proving so suc-cessful here that San Diego’s H-PACT program ranked second in the entire nation at lowering emergency room visits by its veterans.

Estimated savings last year to-taled nearly $730,000. That amount is now believed much higher since the number of veterans enrolled has doubled to more than 200 and rises weekly.

“The whole point of H-PACT is point-of-care access,” said Dianne McGuirk, the program’s care man-ager in San Diego. “We want to be where homeless veterans are to pro-vide care.”

San Diego won selection for H-PACT pilot program in 2012 when the VA was designing ways to fulfill its ambitious 2009 promise to house all homeless veterans by 2015.

The VA envisioned one-stop shop-ping for hard-pressed former military members that would connect them to medical care, employment and hous-ing.

H-PACT helped Bergman find housing in just three days. “It’s pretty amazing,” Bergman said. “It’s trans-forming my life as I speak. I can fi-nally see things happening for me. I can see myself getting better.”

Costello called the addition of medical services H-PACT provides veterans “phenomenal.”

A recent VA report on the H-PACT program found:

• 10,584 homeless vet-erans enrolled at 44 sites • 28 percent reduction in emergency department visits

• 25 percent reduction in hospi-talizations

• 85 percent of enrolled homeless vets getting mental health services

McGuirk said because of success these numbers reflect “there’s a good chance” the VA San Diego Health-care System will continue the pro-gram once VA pilot funding runs out.

H-PACT program times and loca-tions:

• First and third Fridays from 8 a.m. to noon at: PATH/Family Health Centers of San Diego at 1250 6th Ave., Suite 100, San Diego CA 92101. (Closed Sept. 19).

• Second and fourth Fridays, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., outside the San Di-ego Central Library, 330 Park Blvd., San Diego CA 92101, where vets are seen in a mobile vet center (Closed Aug. 22 and Sept. 12 and 26.) This is in collaboration with the Vet Center mobile clinic.

• Currently, homeless veteran cannot sign up for care at mobile or walk-in locations. The San Diego VA hopes to start point-of-service reg-istration at H-PACT locations in the coming weeks.

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CHARGERS REPORT

A look into the 2014 Roster

By Art GarciaWith the start of the NFL season

kicking off next Thursday, Sept. 4, teams are required to reduce their rosters to their final 53 players by this Saturday. Although most of the Char-gers opening day roster is likely set in stone, injuries along the offensive and defensive lines will have Telesco and Co. sifting through a number of players who will become available following the aforementioned league-wide cuts.

Every year there is a player or two whose performance both in training camp and exhibition games makes him too valuable to cut. And over the past decade there have been several un-drafted free agents who not only made the Chargers roster, but earned Pro Bowl honors as well.

Whether this roster produces an-other Antonio Gates, Kris Dielman or Kassim Osgood remains to be seen. However, as we go to print here’s a look at a projected 2014 Chargers roster pri-or to their final exhibition game versus the Arizona Cardinals.

Quarterback (2) – Philip Rivers and Kellen Clemmons.

Running Backs (3) – Ryan Mathews; Danny Woodhead and Donald Brown.

Wide Receivers (6) – Keen-an Allen; Malcom Floyd; Eddie Royal; Seyi Ajiro-tutu; Vincent Brown and Dontrelle Inman. Although Brown has been virtually a no-show in camp and the exhibition games thanks to a calf injury – his fa-miliarity with the system; rapport with Rivers; and past per-formance (although limited) keeps him on the roster for now.

Tight Ends (4) – Antonio Gates; Ladarius Green; Da-vid Johnson and John Phillips.

Offensive Line (8) – D.J. Fluker; King Dunlap; Chad Rinehart; Nick Hardwick; Chris Watt; Rich Ohrn-berger; Johnnie Troutman and Michael Harris.

Defensive Line (7) – Corey Liuget; Kendall Reyes; Sean Lissemore; Ryan Carrethers; Lawrence Guy; Joe Kruger and Doug Worthington.

Inside Linebackers (5) – Donald

Brown; Manti Te’o; Kavell Conner; Reggie Walker and Andrew Gachkar.

Outside Linebackers (6) – Mel-vin Ingram; Jarret Johnson;

Dwight Freeney; Jerry Attao-chu; Tourek Williams and

Thomas Keiser.Cornerbacks (5) –

Brandon Flowers; Sha-reece Wright; Jason Ver-rett; Richard Marshall and Steve Williams.

Safeties (4) – Eric Weddle; Marcus Gil-

christ; Jahleel Addae and Darrell Stuckey.Punter (1) – Mike Scifres.

Kicker (1) – Nick Novak.Long Snapper (1) – Mike Windt.

The Endzone:Looking to add much-need bulk and

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Richard Nixon37th President of the United States

Served from Jan. 20, 1969 to Aug. 9, 1974

World events• Cyclone in Bangladesh kills

500,000• Earthquake in Peru kills 67,000• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

goes into effect after ratifi-cation by 43 nations

• Paul McCartney an-nounces the Beatles

have disbanded• Apollo 13

mission to moon aban-doned

• Japan becomes the

world’s “fourth space power,”

after the Soviet Union (1957), the U.S. (1958), and

France (1965)• Presi- dent Abdel Nasser of

Egypt dies; 5 million turn out to honor him

• The Liberian registered tanker Pacific Glory spills up to 100,000 gallons of crude oil into the English Channel, creating a huge oil slick and environ-mental disaster

• South Australia suf-fers its worst number of fires, killing at least 75 and injuring 800

• U.S. invades Cam-bodia

• Cholera epidemic in Istanbul

• World’s population reaches 3.63 billion

• Japan has 1,083 people per sq. mile

• Aswan High Dam in Egypt is com-pleted

• Brazil wins third World Cup with Pele as

the captain

U.S. news• First Earth Day cel-

ebrated• Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) begins op-

eration• U.S. increases

import duty taxes to pro-tect American jobs

• U.S. population reaches 205 million; 85 people per sq. mile

• Hurricane Celia makes landfall near Corpus Christi, Tex-

as, leaving 15 dead• Voting age lowered to 18 from 21

• California be-comes first state

to adopt “no

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fault” divorce• Chicago Seven

defendants found guilty of intent to incite a riot in 1968

• Dow Jones drops to 631• National Guard fire on and kill

four protestors at Kent State

Technology• The daisy-wheel printer in-

vented• The floppy disk in-

vented

Popular culture• Isle of Wight Fes-

tival — 600,000 attend largest rock festival of

all time. Lineup includes Jimi Hendrix, The Who,

The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan

Baez, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Jethro Tull

Spiro Agnew39th Vice President of the United StatesServed from Jan. 20, 1969 toOct. 10, 1973 (resigned)

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“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.” — Richard Nixon

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Diana Ross• “I’ll Be There,” Jackson 5• “Get Ready,” Rare Earth• “Let It Be,” Beatles• “Band of Gold,” Freda Payne

TV shows• All My Children• The Partridge Family• Mary Tyler Moore• The Odd Couple• McCloud• Nanny and the Professor• NFL Monday Night Football• Flip

BORN THIS YEAR: Kelly Ripa, talk show host.Above left: Matt Damon, actor; Tina Fey, comedian

and actress; Vince Vaughn, actor;Uma Thurman, actress

• Jimi Hendrix dies of barbiturate overdose in London

• Janis Joplin dies in a cheap

motel from a heroin overdose

• The first New York Marathon is run

Movies• M•A•S•H• Patton• Woodstock• Hello, Dolly!• Catch-22• On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

Music• “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Simon

and Garfunkel• “(They Long To Be) Close to You,” Car-

penters• “American Woman / No Sugar To-

night,” Guess Who• “Raindrops Keep Falling on My

Head,” B.J. Thomas• “War,” Edwin Starr• “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,”

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SUDOKUThe rules to play Sudoku are quite simple. Fill in the blanks

so that each row, each column, and each of the nine 3x3 grids contain one instance of each of the numbers 1 through 9.

Just for

LaughsDeath bedconfession

My wife was dying. I was by her bed-side. She said in a tired voice, “There’s something I must confess.” “Shhh,” I said, “there’s nothing to confess. Ev-erythings alright.” “No I must die in peace. I had sex with your brother, your best friend, his best friend and your father!” “I know,” I whispered, “That’s why I poisoned you, now close your eyes!”

Dictionary pleaseSon: “Dad whats the difference

between confident and confiden-tial?” Dad: “Hmm. You are my son. Of that I am confident. Your friend Timmy is also my son. That’s confidential.”

Fly jokeThis guy comes back from the toi-

let, when a women says to him, “Hey, you have left your GARAGE door

open!” As the man is zipping his fly up, he says with a big smile, “Did you see my big white Mustang?” The woman re-plies, “Nope just a MINI COOPER with two flat tires.”

Pencil me inWhen NASA first started

sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to de-velop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, under-water, on almost any surface including glass and at tempera-

tures ranging from below freezing to 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.

Ducks & elephantsQ: Why do ducks have webbed feet?A: To put out fires.Q: Why do elephants have flat feet?A: To put out burning ducks.

Blonde in disguiseTired of constant blonde jokes, a

blonde dyes her hair brown. She goes for a drive in the country and sees a shepherd herding his sheep across the road.

“Hey, shepherd, if I guess how many sheep are here, can I keep one?” she asks.

The shepherd agrees. She blurts out, “352!”

The shepherd is stunned but keeps

his word and allows her to pick a sheep.“I’ll take this one,” she says proudly.

“It’s the cutest!”“Hey lady,” says the shepherd. “If

I guess your real hair color, can I have my dog back?”

At the doorQ: If your wife is shouting at the

front door and your dog is barking at the back door, who do you let in first?

A: The dog -- at least he’ll quiet down after you let him

Dog ballsQ: What do you call a dog that has

balls of steel and is dragging them across cement?

A: Sparky.

The dead dogThere was a lady, who had a dog

that she loved, and he followed her ev-erywhere. One morning she woke up, went to the bathroom, came out, and realized that her dog wasn’t at her feet. She found him in his bed ‘’sleeping’’. She called his name, but he didn’t get up. So she took him to the vet and told the vet that her dog wouldn’t wake up. So he looked at her dog and said, ‘’Your dog is dead’’. She asked the doctor to perform another test to be sure.

The doctor went into another room, and came back with a cage. In it there was a cat. He let the cat out, and she walked around the dog, sniffed, and went back in her cage. The doc put the cat back in the other room. He came

out and said again, ‘’Your dog is dead’’.She was like ‘’Ok, how much do I

owe you?’’The doctor said ‘’$300’’She said, ‘’What!?!? How could it

cost that much??’’He said ‘’$15 for me to say he was

dead. Then $285 for the cat scan’’

The duck and the condomTwo ducks go on their honeymoon

and stay in a hotel. As they are about to make love, the male duck says, ‘’Oh, we haven’t got any condoms. I’ll ring down to room service.’’ He calls and asks for some condoms.

The woman says, ‘’OK sir, would you like to put them on your bill?’’

‘’No,’’ he says, ‘’I’ll suffocate!”

Everyone’s doing itQ: What’s bright-eyed and bushy-

tailed?A: A squirrel on crack.

Drowning lawyerQ: How do you stop a lawyer from

drowning?A: Shoot him before he hits the wa-

ter.

A lesson in governmentA teacher was teaching her second

grade class about the government, so for homework that one day, she told her her students to ask their parents what the government is.

When Little Johnny got home that day, he went up to his dad and ask his


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what the government was.His dad thought for a while and an-

swered, ‘’Look at it this way: I’m the president, your mom is Congress, your maid is the work force, you are the people and your baby brother is the future.’’

‘’I still don’t get it’’ responded the Little Johnny.

‘’Why don’t you sleep on it then? Maybe you’ll understand it better,’’ said the dad.

‘’Okay then...good night’’ said Little Johnny went off to bed. In the middle of the night, Little Johnny was awak-ened by his baby brother’s crying. He went to his baby brother’s crib and found that his baby brother had taken a crap in his diaper.

So Little Johnny went to his parent’s room to get help. When he got to his parent’s bedroom, he looked through the keyhole to check if his parents were asleep. Through the keyhole he saw his mom loudly snoring, but his dad wasn’t there. So he went to the maid’s room. When he looked through the maid’s room keyhole, he saw his dad in bed with the maid. Little Johnny was sur-prised, but then he just realized some-thing and thinks aloud, “OH!! Now I understand the government! The President is screwing the work force, Congress is fast asleep, nobody cares about the people, and the future is full of s**t!’’

We need to show more sympathy for these people.

• They travel miles in the heat.• They risk their lives crossing a bor-

der.• They don’t get paid enough wages.• They do jobs that others won’t do

or are afraid to.• Theylive in crowded conditions

among a people who speak a different language.

• They rarely see their families, and they face adversity all day — every day.

I’m not talking about illegal Mexi-cans. I’m talking about our troops!

Doesn’t it seem strange that so many

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Lawyer-client relationsQ: Why does the bar association pro-

hibit lawyers and clients from having sex?

A: To prevent clients from being billed twice for essentially the same service.

Lucky driverA police officer pulls over a driver

and informs him that he has just won $5,000 in a safety competition, all be-cause he is wearing his seat belt.

“What are you going to do with the prize money?” the officer asks.

The man responds, “I guess I’ll go to driving school and get my license.”

His wife says, “Officer, don’t listen to him. He’s a smart aleck when he’s drunk.”

The guy in the back seat pops up out from under the blanket and says, “I knew we wouldn’t get far in this stolen car.”

Just then a knock comes from the trunk and a voice calls out, “Are we over the border yet?”

Condom dogA guy walks into a store and buys

six jumbo boxes of condoms. The store clerk asks the man, “What are you go-ing to do with all of those?”

The guy replies, “I taught my dog to swallow them, and now all l do is pick-up little plastic baggies!”

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AMERICANCont’d. from Page 15

are willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegals, but don’t support our troops.

Wouldn’t it be great if we took the billions we spend on illegals every year and spent it on our troops?

A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for any amount up to and in-cluding their life.

night.McCain is one of dozens of Ameri-

cans to join the terrorist war against their homeland, U.S. officials said.

His family was reeling but not sur-prised to learn of the Islamic convert’s violent death.

A close relative told The News that McCain’s kin was aware of his trip to the volatile region but they were kept in the dark about his purpose.

“The reason for the trip was hidden from me,” the family member said. “I didn’t think anything of it. Allah was with him. He’s been overseas before, so I figured he would be back like before.”

McCain left behind a job as a care-giver to special needs patients. And he had a daughter just short of her first birthday, relatives told the Star Tri-bune in Minneapolis.


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With the Chargers looking to field the best 53 players, it’s hard to see a scenario where Telesco keeps a third quarterback and a fourth running back at the expense of possibly losing a couple of players like Ajirotutu and Keiser – two players who always seem to make a big play when the team needs it. As teams around the league trim their rosters to 53 players this Saturday,

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Despite pleas from the highest lev-els in Washington, Maliki’s government did virtually nothing to halt the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ flights to resup-ply the Assad regime with thousands of tons of military hardware and ammuni-tion. Meanwhile, a Shia Islamist ally of Maliki privately conceded to me last year that senior officials in the Iraqi government were turning a blind eye – or even actively supporting – the dis-patch of thousands of Iraqi Shia fight-ers to participate in the spiralling Shia-Sunni holy war in Syria.

These militias – the Badr Corps, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, the Promised Day Brigades, among others – were warmly embraced by Maliki. Indeed, Badr’s commander is none other than Iraq’s incumbent transport minister, Hadi al-Ameri.

Ironically, al-Qaida’s wholesale in-troduction into Iraq came at the hands of Assad’s regime. From 2005 until the

ISISCont’d. from Page 4

end of the American occupation of Iraq, Assad’s military intelligence ser-vices and their Iranian backers sought to defeat the US forces by training, financing and arming al-Qaida opera-tives inside Syria and dispatching them across the border to foment chaos and destruction.

General David Petraeus and oth-er senior American officials warned Assad that he was igniting a fire that would eventually burn his house down, but Damascus did nothing to stop the flow of fighters, culminating in a crip-pling blow to Maliki’s government the day Iraq’s foreign and finance minis-tries were bombed. Maliki publicly condemned his future ally in Damascus for the attack.

And so, Syria’s unravelling spilled into Iraq, and vice versa. Powerful re-gional tribes such as the Shammar and Anezah, faced with countless dead and persecuted members in both countries, banded together with former Iraqi and Syrian military officers, embracing ISIS jihadis as their frontline shock troops. Cash poured in from sympa-thetic donors around the region.

Iraq’s four Sunni Arab provinces fell within days, entire Iraqi army divisions evaporated, and hundreds of millions

of dollars worth of advanced American military equipment was seized by ISIS and its allies. Fuelled by what was in-creasingly a regional Sunni-Shia proxy war, Iraq and Syria had become incu-bators for transnational jihad and reli-gious hate.

As world leaders now consider a military campaign to confront ISIS, they should remember the lessons of America’s costly and largely fruitless engagements in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. They should understand that no amount of foreign military power can ever make up for the misrule of corrupt, failed governments like those in Damascus, Baghdad, Kabul or Sai-gon. Unless they want a regional holy war, leaders should especially discount the advice of some who are now calling for an alliance with Assad’s genocidal regime – perhaps the single greatest root cause of ISIS’s rise.

Instead, they should embrace the lessons of Iraq’s Sunni tribal awaken-ing, that only Syrian and Iraqi Sunnis can defeat radical militant Sunni en-tities like ISIS. Likewise, they should understand that only the mullahs in Tehran can help quell radical militant Shia entities like Lebanon’s Hezbol-lah, Assad’s intelligence operatives or

Iraq’s militias.• Ali Khedery is chairman and chief

executive of Dragoman Partners, a stra-tegic consultancy. He served as special assistant to five American ambassadors in Iraq and as senior adviser to three heads of US Central Command from 2003-10. He was the longest continu-ously serving American official in Iraq.

groups and their whereabouts so that we may send in our drones and eliminate them forever.

In closing, if we wait much longer and I’m talking about (NOW ) we will surely have an-other 9/11 or worse. Our military leaders know that ISIS is the worst enemy and threat to the United States. We must close our borders NOW. (The money spent housing and feeding il-legal aliens should be spent on America’s protection and our homeless veterans… not crimi-nals.)

DOMINATIONCont’d. from Page 5


Pastor Fred Gorini, a vet from the 1st Calvary-Army in Vietnam, speaks into the megaphone, “The good book says, ‘Don’t remove the ancient landmarks that your forefathers have set!’”

I found one guy who opposed the cross. Paul M., an atheist and a 20-year military veteran dressed in civilian clothes. Paul’s soft-spoken response to why he is opposed to the cross’ presence was, “We need to separate church and state,” but when I asked what bothered him about the cross, he responded, “Be-cause I do not believe in —”

We were then split by a group of bik-ers walking between us. “Mike,” yelled one of them, “let’s get some grub at the Harley spot on Kearny.” I was happy to oblige. But when I looked for Paul to continue the interview, he had disap-peared into the crowd. As I looked to

MT. SOLEDADCont’d. from Page 7

interview more people from the other side of the issue, the rainfall increased. I covered my camera gear and ran to my car. As I loaded up my gear, Paul found me and finished up his take on the cross.

“Back then, this cross did not signify a war memorial,” he said. “It was built to scare away the Jewish community!” After talking to Paul for a few more minutes, the rain subsided and the cul-de-sac was back to normal with mostly tourists roaming about.

I spotted Trejo and Pastor Z putting on their helmets. Before Trejo got on his bike, he turned to the camera and said, “Can’t touch a war memorial — remem-ber that — or Machete will come look-ing for you!”

Pastor Z had no threat, but a sugges-tion: “I will stand up for the values of our country, if people get offended by what this country was founded upon, they might want to consider moving.”

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