tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-275006142024-03-09T18:46:35.204-08:00BS.RanchHowdy, This Here is the BS-Ranch, The Ranch looks after a small amount of land located in the Inland Empire, but we also take notice to Things that are going on in the Owens Valley. We Welcome to the Ranch Pasture, Barns, and Corrals! But, if your not minding your feet you will have a Smelly Mess to clean off your boots when you leave.. Have a good time I hope you enjoy Da' BS.Ranch!BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.comBlogger1149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-7346020275919244712015-01-01T23:38:00.000-08:002015-01-05T23:39:15.344-08:00A Reminder for those who forgot or for many that didn't know.......<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21.5pt;">A reminder for those who forgot or for many that didn't know</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Top Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35% </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6% </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2% </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dividends tax went from 15% to 39.6% </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Remember this fact: </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These taxes were all passed only with democrat votes, no republicans voted for these taxes. </span></u></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<b><i><u><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These taxes were all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.</span></u></i></b><b><i><u><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></u></i></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you think that it is important that everyone in the U.S. should know this, pass it on</span></u></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. If not, then delete it.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-70756220808961841292014-07-06T16:30:00.001-07:002014-07-07T11:18:57.121-07:00MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Consitutinal Carry! By Dean Garrison July 6, 2014. <div class="copy-paste-block">
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For those who wonder why <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/01/24/msnbc-lost-half-audience/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">MSNBC has lost nearly half of its viewers</a>, this might serve as yet <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/polls-something-fishy-going/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">another example</a>. A poll, hosted on MSNBC.com, asked a simple question:
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<a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/poll-do-you-think-people-should-be-allowed-carry-guns-public" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry "><em>Do you think people should be allowed to carry guns in public?</em></a><em><br />
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People were given three options for answering and, with 90,000+ votes cast, here are the current numbers (as of July 6, 2014):
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<li><strong>88% – Yes! <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://joshuamark5.com/2014/07/federal-gun-laws-unconstitutional/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">The Second Amendment guarantees it</a>. (79,000+ votes)</strong>
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<li>8% – No, it's too dangerous. (7.266 votes)
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<li>4% – Only for self defense. (3,636 votes)
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This result does not fit in with the network's leftist narrative or
agenda. To listen to MSNBC you would think that 90% of Americans are
begging to turn in their <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://joshuamark5.com/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">guns</a> so that they can receive the proper state protection.
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I would not look for these poll results to be featured on any
network shows in the near future. Remember, this is the same network
that defended <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/03/29/msnbc-defends-state-senator-told-gun-rights-activist-go-fk/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">Rhode Island State Senator Josh Miller</a> after he told a gun rights activist to, "Go F*ck Yourself."
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The truth is that American people are listening to the reports of
violence and they are taking notes. But they simply do not agree with
the <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/06/09/latest-mass-shooting-sen-feinstein-co-launch-pause-safety-act-confiscate-guns/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">proposed solutions given by the government</a> or main stream media. They do not trust either source and it is beginning to show in both polls and <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/07/03/ratings-in-msnbc-hits-7-year-low-fox-news-continues-domination/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">media ratings</a>.
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The solution is to <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/armed-society-spends-time-stopping-evil-contemplating/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">arm and protect yourself</a>. People are not quite as stupid as MSNBC, et al, tend to assume. When we <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/02/documents-show-sandy-hook-shooter-adam-lanza-interest-mass-shooting-homosexuality-pedophilia/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">see stories of mass shootings</a> and <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/heavily-publicized-walmart-shooting-results-siren-calls-rewrite-second-amendment/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">violence</a> our first instinct is <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/mass-shooting-thwarted-arizona-concealed-carrier-think-socialist-gun-grabbers-will-mention/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">not to turn in all of our guns</a>.
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This is America and we believe in the right to protect ourselves.
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We all know that bad guys are going to find <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/06/14/why-are-irs-agents-training-with-ar-15-assault-weapons/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">guns</a>, <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/01/20/brooklyn-islamic-immigrant-rasel-siddiquee-beheads-landlord-sword-burns-body-basement/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">swords</a>, <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/03/15/muslim-student-caught-making-bombs-georgia-tech-dies-injuries-bomb-blast-apartment/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">bombs</a> or whatever it takes to kill innocent people. <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/obama-comes-open-pushes-gun-confiscation-agenda-like-australia/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">No policy of gun confiscation will change that</a>. We certainly <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/01/wi-sheriff-david-clarke-tells-residents-you-have-a-duty-to-protect-yourself-your-family/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">can't trust the police to defend us</a>. In a hostile situation, there is no time to call 911. And let's not forget that, in some cases, <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/12/15/500-innocent-americans-killed-cops-year/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">the cops are the bad guys</a>.
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The truth is, contrary to reports from Bloomberg and Obama, even the left is very much in support of the <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/04/wisconsin-sheriff-david-clarke/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">Second Amendment</a>. It's only the very vocal extremist left that says otherwise.
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They pretend to speak for all of America when they do not even represent the majority will of their own party.
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Somehow the argument of, <em>"There are bad guys everywhere. You must turn in <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://joshuamark5.com/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">your guns</a> so we can protect you…"</em> doesn't yet wash with Americans. <a alt=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry " href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/11/attorney-general-eric-holder-we-must-brainwash-people-on-guns/" target="_blank" title=" MSNBC Shocked: Nearly 90% of Americans Support Constitutional Carry ">The brainwash</a> is seemingly incomplete.
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People are beginning to make the connection and see the media for
what it is. Every media outlet has an agenda. Some just refuse to admit
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I'd be very surprised if MSNBC doesn't rip down this poll at some point.
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For now, however, this is the most truth to come from MSNBC in a long time.
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“So, you know, this is one country,” Dean told CNN’s “State of the
Union” with Candy Crowley on Sunday. “We all have to live by a set of
things that are passed in Washington and agreed to by the court. We’ll
see what the court does, but I don’t think a particular employer has a
right to decide what kind of health care their employees are going to
get. That’s now in the hands of the federal government, and that’s where
it should be.”<br />
Dean was talking about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear
Hobby Lobby’s challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s birth
control-abortion-sterilization mandate. The store’s owners are devout
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You are about to read some of the most shocking quotes that Barack Obama has ever uttered in public. A few of these have been widely circulated, but most of them are very obscure.<br /><br />Even though he claims to be a Christian, throughout his political career Obama has repeatedly attacked traditional Biblical Christianity and he has a very long history of anti-Christian actions.<br /><br />In public speeches he has repeatedly cast doubt on the Bible, he has repeatedly stated that he does not believe that Jesus is necessary for salvation, and he has consistently said that he believes that all “people of faith” believe in the same God.<br /><br />At the same time, Obama has always referred to Muhammed as “the Prophet”, he has always expressed great love and respect for Islam, and he has even removed all references to Islam from terror training materials used by federal government agencies.<br /><br />So what in the world does “the leader of the free world” actually believe? Read the quotes below and decide for yourself…<br /><br />20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Islam<br /><br />#1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam”<br /><br />#2 “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”<br /><br />#3 “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country.”<br /><br />#4 “As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”<br /><br />#5 “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”<br /><br />#6 “Islam has always been part of America”<br /><br />#7 “we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities”<br /><br />#8 “These rituals remind us of the principles that we hold in common, and Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings.”<br /><br />#9 “America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.”<br /><br />#10 “I made clear that America is not – and never will be – at war with Islam.”<br /><br />#11 “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”<br /><br />#12 “So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”<br /><br />#13 “In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”<br /><br />#14 “throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.”<br /><br />#15 “Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”<br /><br />#16 “The Holy Koran tells us, ‘O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.’”<br /><br />#17 “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month.”<br /><br />#18 “We’ve seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants – farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.”<br /><br />#19 “That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn’t. And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.”<br /><br />#20 “I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.”<br /><br />20 Quotes By Barack Obama About Christianity<br /><br />#1 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation”<br /><br />#2 “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”<br /><br />#3 “Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”<br /><br />#4 “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages – the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ’s divinity – are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.”<br /><br />#5 “The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.”<br /><br />#6 From Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope: “I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex—nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount.”<br /><br />#7 Obama’s response when asked what his definition of sin is: “Being out of alignment with my values.”<br /><br />#8 “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they.”<br /><br />#9 “This is something that I’m sure I’d have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There’s the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven’t embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they’re going to hell.”<br /><br />#10 “I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can’t imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That’s just not part of my religious makeup.”<br /><br />#11 “I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.”<br /><br />#12 “I’ve said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know … I do not believe she went to hell.”<br /><br />#13 “Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God’s will–they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.”<br /><br />#14 On his support for civil unions for gay couples: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.”<br /><br />#15 “You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them.<br /><br />And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not.<br /><br />And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”<br /><br />#16 “In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology”<br /><br />#17 “On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.”<br /><br />#18 “we have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own”<br /><br />#19 “All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra — (applause) — as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. (Applause.)”<br /><br />#20 “I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”<br />
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<img alt="symonsambulance.jpg" height="242" src="http://www.sierrawave.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/symonsambulance.jpg" width="300" />For the past two years, Symons Ambulance of San Bernardino and Bishop was named by Inc. Magazine in its “List of 5,000″ as one of the fastest growing companies in the nation with revenue this year listed at $3.9 million. Also this year, Symons has failed to pay the City of Bishop $13,000 for several months of ambulance dispatch services, failed to negotiate a new contract which expired in July, failed to cooperate with financial documents and discussions. Now the City faces the possibility of termination of dispatch service for Symons. This does not mean an end to ambulance service, but it could mean an end to the Bishop Police Department dispatching ambulances.<br />
In a press release issued by the Bishop Police Department, officials say, “At the regularly scheduled City Council meeting of<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1024514544" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">December 9th</span></span>, Police Chief Chris Carter will ask the Bishop City Council to consider discontinuing providing dispatch service to Symons Emergency Specialties (Ambulance) effective <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1024514545" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 1, 2014</span></span>.” The press release goes on to say that “This request from Chief Carter comes after several months of negotiations with Symons in an attempt to renew an existing contract.”<br />
Symons Ambulance originated in Bishop with founder, Judd Symons. Now, it is a major company with millions in revenue, according to Inc. Magazine. The Symons Ambulance website says the company is the ambulance provider for Southern California areas, including a newly opened Loma Linda University Medical Center in Murrieta. The site also says Symons Ambulance raced the first ambulance in the Baja 1000 on November 18th and recently opened a division in Henderson, Nevada. So why the lack of response and payment to the City of Bishop?<br />
We called Dr. Jeff Grange, President and CEO of Symons Ambulance. When asked about the delinquent payments to Bishop, Dr. Grange said he has been out of the country and needed more information before he could comment. We placed a call to Judd Symons. He did not return our call.<br />
Two days later, Dawn Downs of Symons Ambulance emailed to Sierra Wave Media a brief response to the Bishop Police press release. It is one paragraph and available, along with the Bishop press release, at the end of this story. The Symons ambulance response, signed by Judd Symons, did not answer why payments have not been made nor a contract negotiated. The statement did say that the company has its own dispatch center in San Bernardino but had an agreement in Bishop for such services and has been renegotiating the contract. The statement claims it has insurance reimbursement problems but says they will continue to provide service in Bishop. It was unstated if Symons will pay the City or what dispatch services they will use.<br />
The Police Department has continued to provide dispatch services in spite of non-payment and an un-renewed contract. The Bishop press release says Symons Ambulance had asked the City to reduce their charges, “citing low reimbursement rates and financial difficulties.” The release says Chief Carter brought this request along with proposed contract changes to the City Council in October. The release says, “At that time the City Council was willing to consider the requested changes, however also asked that Symons produce a financial statement verifying the need to reduce the amount the City charges Symons for providing this service.” At news time, Symons had not provided that documentation.<br />
In spite of repeated requests to bring their account current, Symons has failed to pay the City since February and owes $13,000. The press release says initially, Symons Ambulance officials found the terms of the dispatch contract to be “reasonable and fair”. The release says, “While the City of Bishop recognizes and appreciates the valuable service to the public that Symons provides, we cannot ignore the fact that Symons is a private, for-profit business. As such, they are not entitled to have their operation funded with taxpayer monies.”<br />
The press release says all of this does not mean that Symons will cease operations in Bishop. The Police Department, however, would not be responsible for dispatching ambulances to where they are needed. That responsibility would fall on Symons to determine.<br />
The final paragraph of the Police Department press release says that “Chief Carter and the City of Bishop have gone to extraordinary measures in attempts to work with Symons in order to settle the matter and continue to assist Symons in providing services to our citizens. Unfortunately,” says the City, “it appears that an agreement will not be forthcoming.”<br />
<strong> BISHOP POLICE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE</strong>:<br />
City Council to Consider Termination of Dispatch Service to Symons<br />
Emergency Specialties (Ambulance)<br />
At the regularly scheduled City Council Meeting of <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1024514546" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">December 9, 2013</span></span>, Chief Chris Carter of the Bishop Police Department will ask the Bishop City Council to consider discontinuing providing dispatch service to Symons Emergency Specialties (Ambulance), effective <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1024514547" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 1, 2014</span></span>. This request from Chief Carter comes after several months of negotiations with Symons in an attempt to renew an existing contract.<br />
In July of 2012, Symons Ambulance and the City of Bishop entered into a contract whereby the Police Department would dispatch Symons ambulances throughout the greater Bishop area.<br />
That contract expired in July of 2013 and the Police Department has continued to provide dispatching of ambulances while attempts to renegotiate the contract were ongoing. During the negotiations process Symons Emergency Specialties, which is based out of San Bernardino, had made a request for the City to reduce their charges, citing low reimbursement rates and financial difficulties. Chief Carter brought this request along with other proposed changes to the contract before the Bishop City Council in October. At that time the City Council was willing to consider the requested changes, however also asked that Symons produce a financial statement verifying the need to reduce the amount the City charges Symons for providing this service.<br />
As of today, Symons Emergency Specialties has not responded to the City’s request to provide documentation of financial hardship. Additionally, Symons owes the City approximately $13,000 and has not remitted payment for services to the City of Bishop since February of 2013, despite repeated requests that they attempt to bring their account into balance.<br />
When the contract was originally constructed, a representative of Symons met with Chief Carter and City Administrator Keith Caldwell. The terms and conditions of the contract were determined to be reasonable and fair and thereafter agreed to by all parties. While the City of Bishop recognizes and appreciates the valuable service to the public that Symons provides, we cannot ignore the fact that Symons is a private, for-profit business. As such, they are not entitled to have their operation funded with tax payer monies. Even where one Government Agency is providing similar service to another, the costs for those services must be covered. Currently the Town of Mammoth Lakes Police Department contracts with Mono County for law enforcement dispatching services. The Town of Mammoth Lakes is contractually obligated to pay Mono County for this service.<br />
<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=27500614" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=27500614" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a>This does not mean that Symons will cease operations and there will be no ambulance service, it only means that the Bishop Police Department will not be responsible for dispatching ambulances to where they are needed. This responsibility will now fall back upon Symons and they will determine how best to accomplish this task.<br />
Chief Carter and the City of Bishop have gone to extraordinary measures in attempts to work with Symons in order to settle the matter and continue to assist Symons in providing service to our citizens. Unfortunately, it appears that an agreement will not be forthcoming. Should the Bishop City Council agree to Chief Carter’s request, the Police Department will discontinue service effective <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1024514548" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 1, 2014</span></span>.<br />
<strong>SYMONS AMBULANCE STATEMENT</strong>:<br />
Symons Ambulance remains committed to providing the residents of Bishop with the highest quality ambulance service. Symons Ambulance has it own dispatch center in San Bernardino, however, in order to provide better service to the local community, Symons had an agreement with the Bishop Police Department for dispatch services. Due to increasingly decreased reimbursements for emergency services, Symons has been in the process of renegotiating the dispatch contract and already made the first payment for services rendered. The residents of Bishop can continue to rely upon Symons Ambulance to provide them with timely, compassionate, high quality medical care.<br />
Judd Symons</div>
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BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0Bishop, CA 93514, USA37.3635404 -118.3951101000000137.3383004 -118.43545060000001 37.388780399999995 -118.35476960000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-64655252809069864522013-11-27T04:09:00.000-08:002013-11-27T04:09:56.551-08:00More Icy Fun, A Sierra Wave Story.. Nov. 26, 2013.. <div style="margin: 1em 0 3px 0;">
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<span>Posted:</span> 26 Nov 2013 02:23 PM PST</div>
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<img alt="icerink" height="209" src="http://www.sierrawave.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mammothicerink-300x209.jpg" width="300" />The
Mammoth Ice Rink is an outdoor facility located in the Town of Mammoth
Lakes offering public skating sessions, pick-up hockey, lessons and
special events.
<strong>The Mammoth Ice Rink is scheduled to open for the 2013/14 season on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1548111680" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">Friday, November 29, 2013</span></span>. Get your skates on! (TOML Press Release)</strong><br />
Check out the <a href="http://www.ci.mammoth-lakes.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=435" target="_blank" title="Winter Schedule">Winter Schedule</a>, <a href="http://ca-mammothlakes.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=436" target="_blank" title="Ice Rink Special promotions">Special Promotions</a>, NEW <a href="http://www.ci.mammoth-lakes.ca.us/index.aspx?NID=508" target="_blank" title="Friday NIght Lessons">Friday Night Lessons</a>, and <a href="http://ca-mammothlakes.civicplus.com/index.aspx?NID=434" target="_blank" title="Ice Rink Winter Rates">Winter Rates</a>. You can also call <a href="tel:%28760%29%20934-2505" target="_blank" value="+17609342505">(760) 934-2505</a> during operating hours or the Recreation Department Office at <a href="tel:%28760%29%20934-8989%20ext.%20222" target="_blank" value="+17609348989">(760) 934-8989 ext. 222</a> for additional information.<br />
You can also call <strong><a href="tel:%28760%29%20934-2505" target="_blank" value="+17609342505">(760) 934-2505</a></strong> during operating hours or the Recreation Department Office at <a href="tel:%28760%29%20934-8989%20ext.%20222" target="_blank" value="+17609348989">(760) 934-8989 ext. 222</a> for additional information.<br />
WE ASK FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND CONSIDERATION DURING EFFORTS TO RE-OPEN THE FACILITY AFTER A WINTER STORM.</div>
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Amenities</div>
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Amenities include skate sharpening, skate rentals and snack and beverage
services. The Mammoth Ice Rink is a drug, tobacco and alcohol free
facility. Kids 4 and under must skate with an adult, and children 10 and
under must be supervised by an adult at all times.
The Mammoth Ice Rink is owned and operated by the Town of Mammoth
Lakes through a partnership with the Mammoth Unified School District and
Mono County Office of Education. The Town of Mammoth Lakes is committed
to providing the most enjoyable outdoor ice-skating experience
possible.</div>
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Location</div>
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The Mammoth Ice Rink is located at 416 Sierra Park Road adjacent to the
new Mammoth Lakes Library and opposite the Mammoth High School near the
corner of Meridian Boulevard and Sierra Park Road.
Please consider taking the Main Lodge – Village/Vons – Snowcreek
Shuttle (Red Line) or the Mid-Town LIFT (Purple Line) or Old Mammoth
LIFT (Gray Line) to the Ice Rink as parking is limited.</div>
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Review the <a href="http://www.ci.mammoth-lakes.ca.us/DocumentView.aspx?DID=2210" target="_blank" title="Ice Rin Map">Mammoth Ice Rink Map</a> or find us on <a href="http://maps.google.com/" target="_blank" title="maps">Google Maps</a>.</div>
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BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0Sierra Park Road, Inyo National Forest, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546, USA37.6431675 -118.9639571000000237.630594499999994 -118.98412710000001 37.6557405 -118.94378710000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-86557381076997400732013-11-27T04:04:00.000-08:002013-11-27T04:04:23.416-08:00Inyo/Mono/Alpine Tri County Fairgrounds Still Under Investigation Nov. 26, 2013, by Sierra Wave News. <div style="margin: 1em 0 3px 0;">
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<span>Posted:</span> 26 Nov 2013 08:50 AM PST</div>
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<img alt="fairgrounds.jpg" height="235" src="http://www.sierrawave.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fairgrounds.jpg" width="300" />The
California Highway Patrol Investigative Services Unit continues to look
into reports that an embezzlement may have taken place within
operations at the Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fairgrounds. The CHP took
over the investigation since the Fairgrounds are State facilities.<br />
San Bernardino CHP Officer Filemon Verdi said he is handling the
case. He said, “The investigation is still ongoing. We are putting
together a report to present to the District Attorney at this point,” he
said. Officer Verdi did not have a time frame on closure of the
investigation.<br />
It was in late August that word surfaced that money may be missing
from Fairgrounds accounts. Sam Dean, President of the Fair Board, had
earlier said the Board did not know how much money was missing. He said,
“Investigators have our paperwork.”<br />
More recently, Dean said that investigators have contacted officials
for clarification on details. Said Dean, “I think they are close to
sending the case to the District Attorney.”<br />
At the same time reports circulated about a possible embezzlement,
Fair officials placed employee Rebecca Bragdon on administrative leave.
Again, the case is still pending and no charges have been filed.<br />
Meanwhile, Sam Dean said he has assumed the responsibility of oversight of Fair operations at this time.BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0Bishop Creek Community Church, Tri County Fairgrounds, Bishop, CA 93514, USA37.3726895 -118.3980381000000111.850655 -159.7066321 62.894724 -77.089444100000009tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-18022567532354488632013-11-27T03:59:00.000-08:002013-11-27T03:59:47.143-08:00Mammoth Arrests: Alleged Assault, Drugs.. Nov. 26, 2013, by Sierra Wave News. <div style="margin: 1em 0 3px 0;">
<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/sierrawave/%7E3/2vjMJpRo8IA/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email" name="142994adbff97f54_3" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" target="_blank">Mammoth arrests: alleged assault, drugs</a>
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<span>Posted:</span> 26 Nov 2013 08:54 AM PST</div>
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<img alt="mlpd_3-23-10.jpg" height="196" src="http://www.sierrawave.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mlpd_3-23-10.jpg" width="300" />UPDATE: Press Release from MLPD -<br />
Victim in Mammoth Lakes ‘Bonged’ on the Head<br />
On Sunday November 24<sup>th</sup> at about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1548111682" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">5:30 pm</span></span>,
Mammoth Lakes Police Officers and Mono County Paramedics responded to
362 Old Mammoth Rd for a report of a physical fight, one of the suspects
was armed with a knife and someone had been cut. Upon arrival,
officers contacted the victim, who was bleeding from wounds to his
face. The victim told officers that during a heated argument with his
roommate, Cole Martin, Martin allegedly brandished a knife and moved
toward the victim. The victim retreated behind a table and flipped it
up toward Martin. The victim said Martin tossed the knife, and grabbed a
glass marijuana smoking ‘bong’ from a nearby table. He said Martin
then broke the bong and used it as a weapon, cutting the victim’s lips.
Martin left the scene prior to officers’ arrival. The victim refused
treatment.<br />
MLPD Officers telephoned Martin on his cell phone and requested that
he come to the Mammoth Lakes Police station to be interviewed. After
the interview, Officers arrested Cole William MARTIN, 20, of Mammoth
Lakes for 245(a)(1) PC, Assault With a Deadly Weapon. He was
transported to the Mono County jail and is currently being held on
$30,000 bail.<br />
Officers responded to the same residence a total of three times that
evening. On the third response, Officers heard a subject yelling and
throwing objects inside. They were let inside by a roommate who told
them the victim from the prior call was destroying the residence and was
“..out of control”. Other roommates at that location told officers
that the victim was pounding on their door with a skateboard and had
kicked a door off the hinges. They said he was convinced Martin was
still in the residence, although he had already been taken to jail.
Mammoth Lakes Police officers ultimately arrested the victim from the
prior call, Conner MORRIS, 19, of Mammoth Lakes. for 11550 H&S,
Being Under the Influence of a Controlled Substance. After being
treated at Mammoth Hospital, he was also booked into the Mono County
jail and later released on his own recognizance with a notice to appear.<br />
(Sierra Wave earlier story)<br />
According to Mammoth Police, on Sunday, Nov 24 at approximately <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1548111683" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">6:30 pm</span></span>,
Cole Martin, age 20, and his roommate, Connor Morris, age 19, got into a
verbal argument in their residence on Old Mammoth Road. The argument
escalated and Martin took a swing at Morris while holding a broken glass
bong resulting in Morris receiving a cut lip.<br />
Morris fled to his room and Martin fled the scene. MLPD officers
responded and obtained information from Morris. Martin was contacted via
his cell phone and he voluntarily responded to the police station where
he was arrested for Assault with a Deadly Weapon.<br />
Meanwhile, Morris began damaging his residence resulting in
additional calls from another roommate. Morris was subsequently arrested
for being Under the Influence of a Controlled Substance.<br />
Both Martin and Morris were transported to Mono County Jail and booked.BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0Mammoth Lakes, CA, USA37.648546 -118.9720790000000137.447311500000005 -119.2948025 37.8497805 -118.64935550000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-64918380161550433852013-11-10T23:59:00.000-08:002013-11-10T23:59:14.057-08:00Obama considers costly unilateral "fix" of Obamacare Subsidies... By Karl HotAir.com. <h1 style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
Obama considers costly unilateral “fix” of Obamacare subsidies</h1>
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When the going for Obamacare gets tough, the Administration considers <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/07/obama-health-care-law-fix_n_4237204.html?1383886080" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">throwing more money at the problem</a>. To quote the Allahpundit, “<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Shocka</em>“:</div>
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The Obama administration is considering a fix to the president’s health care law that would expand the universe of individuals who receive tax subsidies to help buy insurance, an administration source told The Huffington Post.</div>
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According to the administration source, the White House is “looking at an administrative fix for the population of people in the individual market who may have an increase in premiums, but don’t get subsidies.”</div>
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Even liberal pundits like <a href="http://prospect.org/article/obamacare-expansion-offing" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Paul Waldman</a> wonder how the Administration does this without Congress. True, Obama has not considered the Constitution to be much of a constraint in other situations. On the other hand,<a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/a-fix-to-boost-obamacare-subsidies-would-explode-cost/article/2538763" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> exploding the projected cost of O-care subsidies</a> from $458 billion to $1.2 trillion in just the first six years might be difficult to pull off with a wave of the administrative wand.</div>
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Yet the most interesting thing about this trial balloon is the extend to which it does not fix what you would think the Left would consider the problem with O-care subsidies. The proposal could be a purely unserious political feint which tries to put the GOP in opposition to decreasing O-care’s pain (per Waldman’s suggestion), or — like Obama’s “sorry, not sorry” this week — to avoid supporting <a href="http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/obama-apologizes-for-people-losing-health-coverage/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">broader legislative fixes</a>. If not, the Administration may have deeper political concerns in mind.</div>
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The policy landscape is fairly well-understood, even across ideological lines. As <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/11/04/49-state-analysis-obamacare-to-increase-individual-market-premiums-by-avg-of-41-subsidies-flow-to-elderly/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Avik Roy and the Manhattan Institute</a> crew show, health care premiums are set to increase significantly on average under Obamacare, even after the subsidies are included in the calculations. Moreover, there will be distinct winners and losers under this scheme. Men, particularly young men, will tend to be losers. Young women and those approaching retirement age will tend to benefit. TNR’s <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114622/obamacare-premiums-and-rate-shock-new-studies-and-consensus" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Cohn</a> does not directly dispute much of this analysis. Rather, he relies on experts suggesting O-care will produce more winners than losers, “as long as you account for subsidies, Medicaid, and the ability of young adults to enroll in special catastrophic plans or stay on their parents’ policies,” particularly the Medicaid expansion. These are important qualifiers, as we we will see later.</div>
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Cohn continues with perhaps the most salient point:</div>
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Of course, the debate about how premiums is just one piece of the story. The ultimate question is whether, under Obamacare, people buying insurance on their own think they are getting a good deal. And the answer to that question will depend on a bunch of factors—not just how much people pay up front in premiums, for example, but also what kind of out-of-pocket costs they face if and when they get sick. And what’s affordable to one person may not seem so affordable to another.</div>
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Indeed. Accordingly, it is useful to look at a couple of several examples provided by heath industry consultant <a href="http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2013/09/benefit-shock-consumers-will-be.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Robert Laszewski</a>, based on fairly typical figures from California for the mid-range “Silver” plans to which subsidy levels are tied:</div>
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A single person making $22,980 per year would face a premium, net of subsidies, of $121 per month. That’s pretty good.</div>
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However, the point most people have been missing is that same person would also face a $500 deductible and up to $2,250 in out-of-pocket costs for things like co-pays. If the individual were sick, that looks like a pretty good deal. If they were healthy, would they spend what is perhaps 10% of their monthly take home income for a plan with an upfront $500 deductible?</div>
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For so many individuals and families, 10% of their take home income is a huge issue. This is the marginal income left at the end of the month, after taxes, rent, and car payments that is so critically important to them. As purely an insurance value, it’s a good deal. But the notion that hard earned and important dollars would be spent for something they aren’t going to get any measureable short-term value for is another matter entirely.</div>
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A family at 300% of the federal poverty level will make $71,000 and have to pay out 9.5% of their income for premium, or $6,700 a year for that second-lowest cost Silver plan. How many families making even this much have an extra $558 a month in their budget to buy a plan with a $2,000 per person deductible?</div>
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At <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/29/obamacare-website-glitches-not-only-problem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Guardian</a> — no right-wing outlet — Marc Rubin notes the same problem with respect to the low-end “Bronze” plans:</div>
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The cost alone of these “low end” policies are producing sticker shock when people see them. It gets worse when people see what the insurance companies are actually offering for these premiums. That’s when they get the second shock.</div>
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Many uninsured are finding that the bronze or lowest end policies are being priced in the range of $250 a month and up on average and that they come with $6,000 yearly deductibles(pdf) to be paid out of pocket before they get full coverage. Until then, they pay 40% in co-pays until the $6,000 out-of-pocket is reached in addition to the monthly premiums. And again, this is for the bottom tier polices for a single person, not a family. Costs to a family are higher.</div>
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It doesn’t take Warren Buffet’s financial savvy to figure out that young, healthy uninsured Americans, who are largely uninsured because they cant afford health insurance in the first place, are not going to be flocking to buy these policies for the privilege of having a health insurance card in their wallets that requires another $6,000 out-of-pocket before their expenses are fully covered and includes co-pays of 40% of all initial costs until that $6,000 is reached. What most of them will do is what they have been doing – live without insurance and go to an emergency room if they need medical care where the law says they have to be treated whether they have insurance or not.</div>
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As Laszewski notes, the problem with the subsidies results in part from the fact that the Democrats wanted to price Obamacare at below $1 trillion for political reasons. We have already seen the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/challenges-have-dogged-obamas-health-plan-since-2010/2013/11/02/453fba42-426b-11e3-a624-41d661b0bb78_story.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">establishment media</a> begin to report on the degree to which the implementation of O-care — though Healthcare.gov — was compromised by political considerations. We have yet to see much revisiting the degree to which politics <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/03/budget-games/38157/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">warped</a>the creation of the policy itself. <a href="https://twitter.com/JayCostTWS/status/396866156536946689" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Jay Cost</a> has been tweeting about it, and the <a href="https://twitter.com/JayCostTWS/status/396866578790092800" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">many times</a> progressives have done it in the past.</div>
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Politics also would appear to be the motivating factor behind the Administration’s latest trial balloon. As <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/the-simple-question-that-will-determine-obamacares-fate/article/2538650" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Byron York</a> noted earlier this week, “[t]he key to Obamacare’s success or failure — provided the administration can actually learn to operate the system — is whether it helps more people than it hurts, or hurts more people than it helps.” I would slightly amend that argument. The key is whether the Administration, and Democrats in general, have a net gain politically.</div>
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Progressives see a net gain, but not just on the subsidized voter — they rely on those getting Medicaid (to the extent Medicaid actually helps) and young people staying on their parents’ plans. But the younger and poorer population is also less likely to vote than the older, healthier and wealthier. Providing subsidies to people with incomes higher than 400% above poverty may help stabilize a risk pool currently being filled mostly by the Medicaid expansion. However, as subsidizing the more affluent does nothing for the people in the examples described above, one might be forgiven for suspecting the Administration is looking to buy off more likely voters who will feel the pains of O-care.</div>
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Among the many virtues that flow from recognizing God’s existence is humility. Without God, every man begins to think of himself as his own little deity, leaving him free to set his own rules and, if his rules call for it, to hold the power of life and death over others. For that reason, Americans are singularly fortunate that the vast majority of troops in our military hew to traditional Judeo-Christian religious principles that see them subordinating themselves to a Higher Power’s dictates about morality, justice, and grace.</div>
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If the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (“MRFF”) has its way, though, the Air Force Academy is going to kick God out of its precincts. The MRFF, founded and controlled by the fanatically anti-Christian Mikey Weinstein, is up in arms about the fact that the Air Force Academy’s current oath invokes God: “We will not lie, steal or cheat nor tolerate among us anyone who does. Furthermore, I resolve to do my duty and live honorably, so help me God.”</div>
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Seems that this is something that they haven't quite decided on just yet, or it would not read considering, however if they have considered it, then they might be putting it in the works to go that route.<br />
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Now if you are giving an oath, that means you are promising something to someone, that someone was God! Now who would they be giving there Promise to, the President of the United States?? If that is the case he is No God, Never will be... The fact is that this country was founded on God's Word, the form of our government was taken from the Bible, the Constitution was written and derived from Scripture, again God's Word, so it only made sense that in the last 237 years we gave an oath to God, the one True God, that gave us our way of life, our Freedom, which was given not in the 5th amendment, but the first amendment!!<br />
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Now they are going to consider taking God out of the Oath, then to me that oath that they are given from that point on, is an Oath that super weak!! The Oath To God is given because of the consequences that are passed on to one's Soul, and not to his soul in this lifetime, but the lifetime that he gets after this life.. IF that oath is broken it is between his soul and our Father God!!<br />
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This to me is a sign that should not be taken lightly, because it is truly that sign that the end of time's is near... better get your life in order and prepare to travel to the Heaven's when those Horsemen come calling!!<br />
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BS RanchBSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0Washington, DC, USA38.907230899999988 -77.03646409999998938.709493899999991 -77.359187599999984 39.104967899999984 -76.7137406tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-56088954008089943462013-10-16T02:02:00.000-07:002013-10-16T02:02:38.141-07:00Jesus Edited Out of Reality Show to Avoid Offending Muslims Posted by Frank Camp on Oct. 12, 2013.. <h1 class="main-title" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Raleway, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Jesus Edited Out of Reality Show to Avoid Offending Muslims</h1>
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P. D. James said: “I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.”</div>
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What is political correctness? Political correctness is the removal or whitewashing of words and actions from society that may offend certain individuals’ religious, ethnic, or racial sensibilities. In other words, it’s the forced politeness brought upon us by a society dominated by fear of legal or physical retaliation.</div>
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I detest political correctness, not only because it’s an insidious social control mechanism, but because it is not culturally enforced in any fair way. Don’t misunderstand me, when I say that political correctness isn’t enforced in any fair way, I don’t mean that it is enforced inconsistently. The inequality of PCness lies in its enforcement, in that it specifically and routinely protects one religion over another, one political stance over another, and one social belief over another. Political correctness belongs to the Left, and as such, only exists to protect Liberal ideology.</div>
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“<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking with Sports Spectrum magazine, Duck Dynasty stars Willie and Phil Robertson stated that editors on Duck Dynasty had edited out Jesus’ name in prayers to spare Muslim sensitivities. Phil stated: When we prayed, we said, ‘in Jesus’ name, amen.’ I don’t have a verse that says you must always use pray in the name of Jesus, but it’s a very good idea, I think. So they would have me say, ‘Thank you, Oh Lord, for the food, thank you for the leavens, amen.’ So I said, ‘Why would you cut out “in Jesus’ name”? And they said, ‘Well, those editors are probably doing that, they think, you know, it might offend some of the Muslims, you know.</i>’”</div>
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Allow me to reverse the situation for the purposes of our education. If an extremely popular television show that was based around Muslim business owners was to feature regular prayers, would the editors ask the same thing of the Muslims as they did of the Dynasty crew? Would the editors cut out the name of Allah in order to make Christian viewers feel more comfortable, and less alienated? I can answer that without question: NO. If the situation were reversed, the media would endlessly praise how culturally significant it was to have a Muslim business in television. They would have no care for Christian viewers, because it would be absolutely stupid and asinine to care about something so trivial.</div>
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<br />It is protected for one reason: to safeguard the illusion of Liberal compassion. Liberals fain compassion to get anything they want from the constituents about whom they pretend to care. It’s all a power grab. Christians represent many things that the elite Left despises: family values, not murdering children, not rewarding law-breakers, etc, so they have no need to protect those for whom they have no use. You can see it everywhere: the Left only offers PC protection to those who benefit the Left. Everyone else is useless to their agenda, and therefore left unprotected.So why—the situation being as it is—are the editors so concerned with offending Muslims? Because Islam is a protected entity, just as abortion clinics, gay marriage, illegal aliens, and every other Liberal item on the checklist is protected. It is not only protected from offense, but from scrutiny and criticism as well. It is an entity that lives inside a steel media bubble.</div>
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Take notice of who the Left shields from inquiry and criticism. It will show you just who they need to push their agenda forward.</div>
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I don't know what this is all about, it seems that most of the, so called, Main Stream Media is afraid to show people praying or even show a wholesome Family show that depicts them praying and being valid, good Christians on their show...<br />
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That is just it, right?? It is there Show!! The Robertson's of Duck Dynasty, close each one of there shows with a prayer, and depending on what the episode is about they might even mention prayer or our Good Lord Jesus Christ in the middle of the show!! This is all great wholesome Television that is missing in today's Programming on all the networks.. now since the Robertson's have graced our Televisions, there have been some shows that have mentioned Jesus and prayer, However it is not the center of the show, and the mentioning of Jesus is mild at best!! <br />
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Why I saw Phil Robertson on a video short not to long ago, and he was saying that when their show started, the Producer's for what ever reason would blank out words that they were saying and add a beep tone, making it look as if they were cussing on the show.... Phil Robertson went to the Producers of the show and complained, because they are not a family that uses profound language on their show..<br />
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I think that the Success of Duck Dynasty is the fact that they are a Christian Family, who are praying and demonstrating the right way to live!! With Respect for one another, and their ability to ask for forgiveness from God Almighty, Our Savior who died for our sins' so that we can experience Everlasting Life!!<br />
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BS.Ranch is in full support of Phil, Sci, Willy, Chas, Jep, and Mrs. Kay...<br />
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God Be with them in their Daily Lives, and allow them to minister to those that haven't found their way just yet, and make the minor prayers that they do on their show, be enough to bring people to Worship God!!<br />
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BS.RANCH.BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-85377341570925394672013-10-16T01:45:00.001-07:002013-10-16T01:45:48.525-07:00"Use It or Lose It" Plaguing Washington D.C. By NewsMax.com Oct. 10, 2013 <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">
<strong> 'Use It or Lose It' Plaguing Washington</strong></div>
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On the last day of the 2013 fiscal year, Sept. 30, the Department of Agriculture spent $144,000 on ink toner cartridges — but that was business as usual for the federal government.</div>
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"It's a Washington phenomenon referred to as 'use it or lose it,'" according to a report from the Cost of Government Center.</div>
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"Agencies typically have to give back what they don't spend at the end of the fiscal year, prompting them to blow it on, say, three years' worth of staples instead of returning their surplus."</div>
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Also, agencies are allocated funds in large part based on what they spent the previous year, and they fear having their budget cut if they don't spend all they can.</div>
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So in the last week of September, the Department of Veterans Affairs spent $562,000 on artwork designed to "enhance clinical operations" — including $27,000 on photographs of sunsets — while the Coast Guard spent $178,000 on "Cubicle Furniture Rehab."</div>
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"Use it or lose it has been around for 30 years with budget-busting consequences," the center observed.</div>
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The most notorious example of the practice came in 2010 when the Internal Revenue Service, which had millions of dollars left in an account to hire new personnel, funded a lavish "Star Trek"-themed conference, which included a parody video filmed on a "Star Trek" set the IRS paid to build.</div>
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In 2012, the federal government spent $45 billion on contracts in the last week of September, The Washington Post reported. That was more than in any other week — 9 percent of the year's contract spending money allocated in 2 percent of the year.</div>
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A study by two university researchers found that during a recent five-year period, spending in the last week of the fiscal year was nearly five times higher than in the average week during the rest of the year.</div>
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Moreover, their data showed a sharp drop-off in the quality of information-technology projects at the end of the year.</div>
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Dean Sinclair, a former State Department employee who is urging a change in the system, suggests giving bonuses to managers who return leftover money to the Treasury at the end of the year. He told the Post: "It takes time and effort to waste money."</div>
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Let me see, this old money plan is not a very wise budget plan!! This leads to Federal Department's spending money on things that it doesn't necessarily need or would never purchase in ordinary situations, but since they had money in a budget that was set aside to purchase a predetermined product, and the targeted spending on that product was not met by the Purchasing Agent for that Department... The fact that they would just go out and spend it on something that they could someday use, is not wise... There should be a way to turn that money into a savings account or some kind of an account to use on the following year.. The monies saived doing this will lower the following amount's Budgeted for the next year, but that is only because the money that they needed is already in the account, since it wasn't spent the previous year! Makes perfect sense to do it that way, rather then go out and spend it on something that nobody in the federal Government needs or would use.. this leads to total Government Waste which is one thing that seems to make Americans Upset, espeically when the object purchased is nothing that they could or would ever need or use!! </div>
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It is also a great way to start lowering spending in this country!!! </div>
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BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-25024197415472375932013-10-16T01:36:00.001-07:002013-10-16T01:36:33.888-07:00United States, Now is the World's Top Oil & Gas Producer... By NewsMax.com Oct. 10, 2013... <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 24px;">
<strong>U.S. Now World's Top Oil and Gas Producer</strong></div>
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Recently released figures disclose that the United States surpassed Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas in July.</div>
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The United States produced about 22.2 million barrels a day of oil, gas, and related fuels in July, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the International Energy Agency.</div>
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Russia's forecast for oil and gas production in 2013 is about 21.8 million barrels a day.</div>
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The "startling shift" in production by the two countries is "eroding the clout of traditional energy-rich nations," The Wall Street Journal observed.</div>
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America's rise to the top has been fueled by new drilling techniques, such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which have unlocked vast quantities of oil and gas from shale rock formations – especially in North Dakota and Texas, The Guardian reported.</div>
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An analysis by The Journal reveals that the United States is on track to surpass Russia as the top oil and gas producer for 2013.</div>
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As a result of increased domestic production, U.S. imports of natural gas have fallen 32 percent in the past five years, and oil imports dropped 15 percent, narrowing the trade deficit.</div>
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Last year the United States produced more natural gas than Russia for the first time since 1982, according to the International Energy Agency.</div>
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America is also catching up with Russia in oil production, pumping 10.3 million barrels a day compared to Russia's 10.8 million. Saudi Arabia is the leading producer at 11.7 million barrels.</div>
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Most of the new oil is coming from the western states. Oil production in Texas has more than doubled since 2010, and has tripled in North Dakota. Oklahoma, Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah also have shown sharp increases in oil production over the past three years, according to EIA data cited by The Guardian.</div>
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As the Insider Report disclosed in September, the U.S. energy boom is benefiting not only the energy industry, but every American household, boosting household income by more than $1,200 last year.</div>
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And lower energy prices will result in a rise in disposable income, adding $2,700 per household in 2020.</div>
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Yes, this is true, The United States of America is once again the highest producer of Oil and Gas for the nation.. The Obama Administration would want you to believe that the reason for this increase is because of his allowing Drilling and the like to be done on Federal Lands, However, Permits Issued by the Federal Government for Federal Lands is actually at the lowest it has been. Having said that the real reason that we are now the highest producers of Gas and Oil, is due to the Private Owners who have allowed Drilling on there Private Properties.. there is a current Black Gold Rush that has been going on in South Dakota, & North Dakota.. There has also been more private lands that have explored for Oil in Texas, however again the most claims that are now in full production are all in those Northern Border States.... </div>
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The Current Geologist Reports all say that the United States has an Oil Reserve bigger then that of what Saudi Arabia has.. I Pray that we are in good hands and that those Geologist's are Correct in their findings!! </div>
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width: 7px;"></i><span class="pw-button-counter__count ra1-pw-button-counter-value" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; background-color: white; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204) !important; color: inherit !important; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px !important; min-width: 13px; padding: 0px 3px !important; text-align: center; vertical-align: top; width: auto !important;">39K</span></span></a> <a class="pw-button pw-button-twitter button-type-looknative pw-size-small pw-button-counter-horizontal look-native" href="" style="background-image: none !important; border: none !important; box-sizing: content-box; color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; display: inline-block !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 12px !important; margin: 0px 10px 1px !important; padding: 0px !important; 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What’s been the biggest obstacle in challenging Obama’s eligibility in court? It’s been finding a judge who isn’t afraid to allow the merits of the case against Obama to be argued in court. The Alabama Supreme Court might just be different. In an earlier case before the Alabama Supremes, Associate Judge Tom Parker stated that “McInnish has attached certain documentation (Joe Arpaio’s investigation) to his mandamus petition, which, if presented to the appropriate forum as part of a proper evidentiary presentation, would raise serious questions about the authenticity of both the ‘short form’ and ‘long form’ <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cnn/posts/4160664955395" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">birth certificates</a> of President Barack Hussein Obama that have been made public.”</div>
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Here, we have a judge who actually recognizes that the fake birth certificates are a serious issue and should be addressed. Now we have <a href="http://www.birtherreport.com/2013/03/obama-document-fraud-case-appealed-to-alabama-supreme-court.html" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a new case</a> before the Alabama Supreme Court. This case is <em>McInnish/Goode v. Beth Chapman</em> (SOS). It is being handled by famous attorney Larry Klayman. Also, it will be the first and only civil case in which Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse is personally involved. Chief investigator for Arpaio Mike Zullo has written a <a href="http://obamaballotchallenge.com/zullo-affidavit-roils-al-obama-eligibility-case-mcinnishgoode-v-chapman" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153) !important; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">200 point affidavit</a> to this court and has agreed to testify in person. Zullo will show the court that the “picture” of the long form birth certificate is a 100% digitally created fake.</div>
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Now comes even better news. In the 2012 elections, Alabama elected Judge Roy Moore as the Chief Justice of her Supreme Court. In an earlier interview concerning the case against Terry Lakin, Justice Moore stated that he not only thought that Lt. Col Lakin had a right to question Obama’s eligibility, but had a duty to do so.</div>
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He also said that he has seen no documentary evidence that Obama is a natural born citizen, and in fact hasn’t seen anything that even proves he is a citizen of the US. Judge Roy Moore is a staunch Constitutionalist who declares that the Constitution is the “law of the land” and cannot be changed by politics. He’s a tough judge.</div>
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I’ve followed most of the eligibility cases, and I’ve noticed a very common occurrence. Even in those cases in which the judge appears to follow the law, there seems always to be a sudden and abrupt change. As in the Georgia case before Judge Michael Malihi, the case was pretty well decided by a default judgment against Obama when Malihi abruptly dismissed the case. This was done even though Obama’s attorneys refused to show up in court.</div>
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When you read Judge Malihi’s decision and compare it to his earlier denial of motion to dismiss, it’s as if they were written by two different people. Could it be that Judge Malihi got a visit? And from whom? And who wrote the decision? I don’t see this happening to Judge Roy Moore and the Alabama Supreme Court. I don’t think they can be intimidated. There is no timeline for the court to rule on this case, so we wait to see what happens. This could be monumental.</div>
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Alabama eligibility case in St.Clair County</div>
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I for one cannot wait to know what the closing statement by the Judge will be in this case! The fact that it took one Sheriff, all the way to this situation and this was the only court that accepted the finding's of this Investigation.. Now I don't know what all their findings are, but what I can say is what they have found is unusual and there is some kind of wrong doing that has occurred either by Obama himself or someone on his team!! If it was someone on his Election Team, who were they working for and who gave them the idea or direction to falsify a Birth Certificate for the President of the United States of America, if these crimes have happened, then why did they happen.. If the President wasn't born in the United States of America, then where was he born?? </div>
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I for one believe that there has been some wrong doing in this case, I believe that there has been falsified paper's indicating the date and time of the Birth of President Obama!! If there was a finding that these papers were falsified, then when does the Impeachment Hearings Start?? </div>
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A glitch in the Electronic Benefits Transfer system resulted in chaos and the need for police assistance at a couple Wal-Mart stores in Louisiana Saturday, according to local reports.</div>
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The scary thing about this is that the system was down for a short period of time, and in that time those that were waiting, just ran in and removed food & goods from the shelves... the store was vertualy empty in a short period of time... The sad thing was that this frenzy happened when the EBT Card Computer System went down for a short period of time.. The scary part of this is, this is a small model of what will happen when the government fails.. .Trust me when you are almost 17 Trillion in Debt, there is a good likelihood that our Government will fail when China and Japan call in there loan to America... We will be without food and the word Riot, and unruly actions that took place with this small down time.. the next one will lead to people getting hurt and Law Enforcement to be stretched beyond what they can handle.. </div>
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Tildren Injection</h2>
Tildren® is a drug that has been one of the main breakthroughs in the treatment of navicular disease in horses. <br />
It has been available in Europe for many years to treat navicular
disease, bone spavin (hock arthritis) and other selected boney
conditions and has recently become available in the United States to
veterinarians who obtain special permission for it’s use. Tildren® has
the benefit of being a systemic therapy which can be used to treat
multiple sites of osteoarthritis at once instead of the traditional
individual intra-articular therapy.<br />There are many different
treatment protocols being utilized with Tildren® but most involve
placement of an intravenous catheter and administration of a large
amount of the drug as an intravenous drip for about an hour. Generally
in 2-4 weeks the benefits are beginning to be realized and the effect
lasts for approximately six months but in some cases for much longer.
Horses may remain sound longer by giving monthly boosters. <br />
<strong>Details on Tildren®’s mode of Action</strong><br />Tiludronic
acid belongs to the bisphosphonate therapeutic class, a class of
products with activity on bone metabolism. The main pharmacological
property of TILDREN lnjection is to reduce bone resorption by inhibiting
the activity of osteoclasts.<br />TILDREN lnjection acts as a regulator
of bone remodelling in all situations involving excessive bone
resorption. This regulator effect is not associated with a negative
effect on bone formation or bone mineralisation at the recommended
therapeutic dosage.<br />Areas of reduced bone density are a pathological
change common to most cases of Navicular Disease and Bone Spavin and are
due to inappropriate resorption of bone ("osteolysis"). In
double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials for both conditions,
TILDREN treatment produced clear improvement as demonstrated by
long-term reduction in lameness and progressive resumption of sporting
activity.<br />In another double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial
into the treatment of back pain associated with bony lesions of the
vertebral column, TILDREN treatment induced a clear improvement in back
flexibility, however further research is required to add this indication
as a registered claim. Other studies have shown that TILDREN treatment
can prevent the bone loss which usually occurs during inactivity in
horses, as shown by measurements of bone density in spelling horses.<br />TILDREN
lnjection has also demonstrated anti-arthritic properties in a model of
poly-arthritis in rats. In vitro data identified inhibiting effects on
the secretion of enzymes which degrade cartilage matrix.<br />
Indications<br />Treatment of lameness associated with bone and cartilage changes such as those observed in Navicular Disease and Bone Spavin.BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-70189523594149191532013-08-17T04:35:00.002-07:002013-08-17T04:36:36.063-07:00Navicular Disease and Treatments... Oct. 11, 2011 by Heather Smith Thomas<h2>
<span>Navicular Disease and Treatments</span></h2>
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In earlier years, a diagnosis of navicular disease was often
considered career-ending for a horse. Chronic lameness was typical, in
spite of therapeutic shoeing, medication, etc. and sometimes the only
option to enable the horse to travel sound was neurectomy—so he would no
longer feel pain in the foot. Success rate for neurectomy is only about
50% however, because the nerves may regrow, and this procedure is not
without risk.<br />
Today we realize that what was earlier called navicular disease (with
the horse showing pain in the rear part of the foot, often positive to
hoof testers over the navicular area and going sound after a posterior
digital nerve block) includes a host of different problems within the
foot, some of which are unrelated to the navicular bone and/or its
bursa. The term navicular syndrome is now used instead unless the
condition actually affects the bone and bursa specifically.<br />
Mike Pownall, DVM (veterinarian/farrier, McKee-Pownall Equine
Services, Rockwood, Ontario) says the biggest difference today in
diagnosing and treating heel pain, compared to 10 or 20 years ago, is
the advent of MRI. This diagnostic technique enables us to know what is
actually going on with the foot.<br />
“It gives us an accurate diagnosis, and more accurate and effective
treatment options, and also gives us a prognosis. Without using MRI, a
person is usually trying to deal with the condition with shoeing,
shockwave treatment, injecting the bursa or coffin joint, or resting the
horse,” he says. You are just shooting in the dark as to what might be
the best treatment for that particular horse.<br />
Joe Bracamonte, DVM, DVSc, Diplomate ACVS (Assistant Professor, Large
Animal Surgery, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of
Saskatchewan) says our way of looking at horses with navicular disease
has changed. “Radiography, for a long time, served as the gold standard
for looking at horses with lameness localized to the foot. Radiographs
provided excellent evaluation of bony structures but minimal information
on soft tissue structures. We can’t assess very much soft tissue injury
with radiography,” he explains.<br />
“With MRI we can visualize so much more—not just the navicular bone.
We can also identify lesions involving the deep digital flexor tendon.
This is a common finding in horses that present with caudal heel pain,
that cannot be assessed with plain radiographs,” says Bracamonte.<br />
Other diagnostic methods that may be more helpful than radiographs
include contrast CT scans, if a person doesn’t have access to MRI. Bone
scan (nuclear scintigraphy) may also be helpful in some situations.
“With accurate diagnosis we are able to help more horses with proper
treatment and provide owners with a more realistic prognosis,” he says.<br />
<strong>NEW TREATMENTS</strong><br />
“We are also having good luck now using a drug called Tildren for
treating navicular disease,” says Pownall. “This drug is licensed in
Europe for treating women with osteoporosis. Veterinarians started using
it for horses with navicular disease. This drug is very effective in
treating navicular cases that involve the bone,” says Pownall.<br />
When the bone is traumatized it begins to remodel. “If you can slow
down that process, this can head off severe changes, and also helps with
pain regulation. Thus this new drug is very helpful. It’s available now
in both the U.S. and Canada via an emergency drug release,” he says. If
your veterinarian thinks this drug might help a specific horse, it can
be obtained for use in that particular horse.<br />
Tildren (tiludronic acid or tiludronate) is a biphosphate that has
been shown to inhibit bone resorption and slows down bone turnover. This
drug is usually given to the horse via a large intravenous dose
(usually with a catheter and IV drip for about an hour) and has a
beneficial effect on any sites in the body affected by osteoarthritis,
including the navicular bone. It affects bone metabolism and reduces
bone resorption by inhibiting the activity of osteoclasts. Benefits
(including relief of pain) can usually be seen within 2 to 4 weeks and
the effects generally last about 6 months or longer. Some horses are
given monthly booster doses to prolong the beneficial effects of this
drug.<br />
“Another thing that’s helpful in dealing with these horses, when we
can use MRI to see what’s going on in the foot, is that we are having
better luck treating the navicular bursa as opposed to treating the
coffin joint. Injecting the bursa is tricky. It helps to use digital
x-ray so you can see instantly if the needle placement is correct, but
with the better diagnosis we can treat the bursa this way if needed, and
have a better success rate,” explains Pownall.<br />
“Regarding some of the medications that can be injected into the
navicular bursa, we’ve typically used some type of cortisone and
hyaluronic acid, but now I think veterinarians are using newer
treatments more often such as stem cells and IRAP (interleuken receptor
antagonist protein) which are both showing a lot of promise in treating
this area. Research in treatment is still in its infancy, so we don’t
have a lot of evidence yet, but I think as time goes on we will get a
better idea of the efficacy of various treatments and medications,” he
says.<br />
Bracamonte says that back in the 1990s a lot of people were using
isoxsuprine for navicular disease but most veterinarians no longer use
this. “Tildren is looking more promising,” he says.<br />
“I still think the hallmark of treating any kind of navicular area of
pain is excellent trimming and shoeing,” says Pownall. “You can do all
the modern treatments in the world, but if the foot is out of balance or
shod improperly you are going one step forward and two steps backward
in trying to resolve the problem.” If the foot is not balanced there
will be stress on areas that shouldn’t be undergoing extra stress and
strain.<br />
Thus it helps to have a good farrier working with the veterinarian on
a navicular case. A team effort is crucial with many types of foot
lameness. “If you don’t have that team working together to help the
horse, you are missing the benefit that both the farrier and the
veterinarian can provide,” he says.<br />
<strong>ANOTHER POTENTIAL TREATMENT OPTION</strong><br />
Dr. Carl Kirker-Head (Tufts University’s Cummings School of
Veterinary Medicine) has been working on several research studies
involving navicular disease. “The treatments for classic navicular
disease, which shows clinically as lameness caused by pain emanating
from the bone, bursa and/or adjacent deep digital flexor tendon, have
had only limited success. Historically, we were trying corrective
farriery, blood thinners, blood vessel dilators, etc. The end stage
treatment has often been neurectomy, cutting the nerves to that area,
which has also met with poor success. In our experience, about half of
the horses receiving neurectomy have regrowth of the nerve within 2
years, and re-sensitization—which means they start to feel the pain
again,” he says.<br />
“There have been a couple of studies looking at horses with navicular
disease, identifying the fact that the pressure of the fluid inside the
navicular bone (intraosseous pressure) is elevated above normal in
affected horses. In our study, we looked at this and made a correlation
with human bone diseases, some of which also result in increased
intraosseous pressure. In several of the human conditions, the standard
of care has been to drill decompression channels into the affected
bone—to essentially relieve the pain by reducing the pressure within the
bone and possibly to facilitate a more balanced remodeling of the
bone,” says Kirker-Head<br />
This core decompression is currently used for treating human patients
with osteonecrosis (bone death due to poor blood supply to that area).
The procedure has had moderately good success in human patients.
Kirker-Head simply took that concept and applied it to the horse to see
if it might be a way to ease a horse’s pain by relieving the abnormally
high fluid pressure within the navicular bone, and to see if it might
help stimulate new bone growth in a way that would be more favorable to
the bone.<br />
In horses with navicular disease, one feature is that the constant
extra pressure on the navicular bone from the deep digital flexor tendon
(which is often due to poor conformation) results in abnormal
remodeling of the navicular bone. As part of that process, the bone
begins to degenerate and fill with fluid creating pain from the
increased pressure. Kirker-Head decided to try the decompression
drilling to see if it might ease the pain, first doing the procedure
experimentally on normal, healthy horses.<br />
“Here at Tufts the research has been done by myself and my associate,
Dr. Florien Jenner, who was my research fellow at the time. We designed
a minimally invasive surgical procedure that would allow us to access
the navicular bone safely and repeatedly. We drilled three decompression
channels into the bone from the back of the pastern. Thus we were able
to get down into the bone safely without having to approach the bone
through the hoof capsule,” he explains.<br />
“We had good visualization of the proximal (top) border of the
navicular bone, within the coffin joint, using fluoroscopic
visualization which is like an x-ray video. We created the three
decompression channels into the bone,” he says. This was done with six
healthy horses that had no sign of any problems to make sure this
procedure could be performed successfully and repeatedly without
complications.<br />
“We then monitored those horses post-operatively for 12 weeks to make
sure there were no adverse complications. We were able to show that we
could perform the surgery and that drilling the holes did provide a
reduced spike in pressure in a stress test—in which we injected a small
volume of fluid into the navicular bone—to simulate the elevated
pressure you might encounter in horses with actual navicular disease,”
he says.<br />
“We were able to substantially reduce the pressure spike,” says
Kirker-Head. The next logical step was to try this on navicular horses.<br />
“We have not done very many yet. At this point, between myself and a
colleague in the UK (Dr. Andy Bathe), we have only done five horses. So
far, this procedure has provided improvement in soundness in the trial
horses, but not necessarily lasting improvement. In one of the five
horses, we had a return of clinical lameness several months later. So at
this point we are just collecting more cases,” he says. Kirker-Head
hopes to try this procedure in more horses and evaluate the results.<br />
It’s increasingly difficult to find horses with actual navicular
disease, however. “With the advent of MRI, we now realize that many of
what we thought were classical navicular disease cases are actually not,
and their lameness issues are more complicated. So we have to be quite
selective and make sure that horses having the surgery are 1) in the
earlier stages of the disease process and 2) are not showing pain
because of other conditions within the hoof,” he says.<br />
If navicular horses can be treated with core decompression drilling
in the early phases of this degenerative disease, they might have more
chance to respond positively and become sound again. “We hope to treat
horses within the first 6-12 months of this disease,” he explains.<br />
The blanket term “navicular syndrome” covers a lot of issues within
the foot, and many of these cases result in complications that would not
respond to simply drilling the bone. “But we have now done enough of
these surgeries that we are comfortable with our ability to get there
and do it, and we have shown that we can do it without endangering the
horse. So now we just need to get a clinical series to show how the
short-term and long-term outcome plays out,” says Kirker-Head.<br />
“This will be an ongoing study and we encourage people who are
interested in enrolling their horses to contact me,” he says. Horse
owners can participate in this program and possibly help their own horse
in the process.<br />
Anyone who has a horse that has been diagnosed in early stages of
navicular disease can get in touch with him by e-mail at
carl.kirker-head@tufts.edu<br />
<strong>ABOUT TILDREN RESEARCH</strong><br />
A study was done in 2003, in France, evaluating use of Tildren in
horses with navicular disease. “This was a double-blind,
placebo-controlled clinical trial,” says Bracamonte.<br />
The objective of this study was to determine if the bone remodeling
changes in navicular disease could be corrected with this drug. Two
different doses of tiludronate were evaluated. Horses with navicular
disease were split into two groups—recent and chronic cases—and then
followed over 6 months after receiving the drug. Some of the horses were
given 0.5 mg/kg and the others were given 1 mg/kg. The drug was
administered daily for 10 days via IV injections.<br />
The horses receiving the higher dose showed the most improvement and
returned to normal levels of activity within two to six months after the
treatment. Horses with recent onset of navicular disease showed the
best improvement. The lower dose of the drug failed to significantly
improve the condition.<br />
“We are finally able to get Tildren in Canada and the U.S. Success in
treatment depends partly on how severe the pathology is; it’s always
better to catch it early before there are significant changes in the
bone. Horses that have recent onset of clinical signs are the best
candidates for this treatment,” says Bracamonte.<br />
At this point it’s still an “emergency release” drug and can only be
used on a case-by-case basis with the veterinarian requesting its use.
“We are now working on licensing so we can offer it to our clients,” he
says.<br />
“Some veterinarians are using Tildren in regional limb perfusions.
This is the same way we treat horses with joint infections, using
antibiotics,” he says. A tourniquet is used temporarily on the affected
limb—to help make sure the drug stays in that area awhile—to deliver
high levels of the antibiotic into the affected area.<br />
“Giving a drug systemically doesn’t get enough of it into the joint.
The dose we’d have to give, to have high enough concentration at the
site of infection, would be bad for the horse’s health and might damage
the kidneys,” he explains.<br />
“So we isolate the area of the problem, apply a tourniquet (to
restrict blood in and out of that area), and with a catheter we inject a
certain volume of antibiotic to deliver a high concentration to that
area. We only leave the tourniquet on for about 30 minutes.” This
procedure is now being used for administering Tildren. It is normally
given IV, but some people are trying it via regional limb perfusion and
feel it gives even better results.BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-8698250896924880192013-08-17T04:19:00.001-07:002013-08-17T04:21:10.358-07:00Tildren, The Magical Product against Lameness?!! Sat. Jan. 10, 2009.. repost, 2013<h1 class="title">
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<em>by Erin Richards - Republished by permission of The Chronicle of the Horse. Visit </em><a href="http://www.chronofhorse.com/" target="_blank"><em>www.chronofhorse.com</em></a><em> to subscribe.</em><span></span><span></span><br />
The signs are familiar and common yet never easy to watch: short,
stubby strides, marked soreness, the head-bobbing lameness. When those
kinds of symptoms are caused by navicular syndrome, treatment options
have been depressingly slim.<br /><br />But in the early part of this
century, veterinarians with well-connected European colleagues heard
whisperings about, or actually obtained, a new drug that appeared to
work wonders at restoring soundness in horses with bone-related
lamenesses.<br /><br />From grand prix jumpers with slight changes in their
legs to backyard pleasure horses stricken by navicular, a drug called
Tildren appeared to slow the bone deconstruction process.<br /><br />Today,
Tildren has become a one-dose ticket to recovery or prevention for many
horses. The problem? In the six years since people started hearing about
the medicine, the U.S. Federal Drug Administration has yet to approve
Tildren for use in this country.<br /><br />That may change soon, however,
if the results of an intense, nationwide study currently underway and
being funded by the drug’s founder, Ceva Sante Animale in France, go
according to expectations. FDA approval of the drug would open up access
to Tildren for veterinarians and likely decrease the price of the
medicine, making the drug available to a greater number of horses and
owners.<br /><br />Perhaps because of its international origins, Tildren
still isn’t well known. In France, Ceva is a leading science and
research company that has introduced new drugs and therapies for
everything from cows and poultry to dogs and swine and horses.<br /><br />But
to obtain Ceva’s Tildren in the United States, licensed veterinarians
are required by law to fill out separate applications for each horse
they think qualifies for the medicine, a process that can take six to
eight weeks from the time a veterinarian diagnoses a horse’s condition
to when he or she has Tildren ready to administer.<br /><br /><strong>An Intravenous Intervention</strong><br /><br /><img height="238" src="http://www.eurodressage.com/equestrian/sites/default/files/data/images/09_usa_tildren_0_01.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 3px;" width="239" />Upon
arrival, the drug maintains its mystique. At Homestead Equine Hospital
in Pacific, Mo., veterinarian Mark Cassells remembered being a bit
perplexed when he ordered Tildren for the first time. The package was a
little blue box that, when unwrapped, revealed rows of little bottles
and vials and a bunch of French or German directions on how to
administer it.<br /><br />“None of the instructions are in English,” said
Cassells, who started ordering Tildren for his clients a few years ago
after hearing about the drug at a conference. “There are 20 vials
inside, 10 that contain the drug in a powder form and 10 that contain
the dilutant,” Cassells said. “You mix up one vial of powder and one
vial of dilutant every day to administer intravenously, or you can mix
up the entire thing and administer it in a one-time intravenous dose.”<br /><br />Most
veterinarians prefer the one-time intravenous dose. Instead of oral
medicine, which gets absorbed more slowly or not at all because it goes
through the digestion system, intravenous Tildren soaks into a horse’s
bones like water seeping into a sponge.<br /><br /><strong>Controlling The Damage</strong><br /><br />This
is where Tildren goes to work. In a horse with navicular or any other
chronic bone condition—ringbone, for instance, or osteoarthritis of the
hock—Tildren inhibits bone deconstruction by shutting down what are
known as osteoclasts. Osteoclasts, like hungry termites, digest bone,
and Tildren impedes their progress.<br /><br />More scientifically, Tildren
is a class of substances known as bisphosphonates, which inhibit
osteoclast action and the resorption of bone.<br /><br />In healthy horses,
bone is constantly being remodeled. This is how animals get stronger;
when the skeletal structure is stressed through training, it responds by
making new bone tissue. Osteoclasts in a healthy horse eat away old
bone to make room for the new and denser bone, which is formed with the
help of osteoblasts. But typically, osteoblasts work much more slowly
than the nibbling osteoclasts.<br /><br />This is especially important in
horses with navicular syndrome and other chronic bone conditions, where
the bone breakdown process may exceed the bone rebuilding process,
explained veterinarian Rick Mitchell, of Fairfield Equine Associates in
Newtown, Conn.<br /><br />“By reducing bone breakdown and further
degeneration, the thought is that the drug reduces pain,” Mitchell
explained. “Before Tildren, we didn’t have anything that could do this.”<br /><br /><img height="305" src="http://www.eurodressage.com/equestrian/sites/default/files/data/images/08_aachen_domingo-2143.jpg" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 3px;" width="240" />Tildren
already exists in an oral form that is approved for human use. Known
generically as “tiludronate” or “tiludronate disodium,” the substance
is typically obtained under the brand name Skelid, and it’s used to slow
the weakening of bone that occurs in a condition called Paget’s
disease. Currently, it’s also being tested for treating osteoporosis.<br /><br />As
for horses, the best ammunition veterinarians and owners had against
chronic bone conditions before Tildren weren’t substances that directly
targeted the bone at all. Drugs such as isoxsuprine and pentoxifiline
are thought to primarily increase circulation in the afflicted areas,
though as Mitchell noted, nobody has rigorously proved isoxsuprine’s
efficacy in randomized and controlled studies.<br /><br />Tildren hasn’t
replaced those drugs, but it has offered a significantly different way
of attacking the root problem of many chronic bone conditions: bone
breakdown.<br /><br />In one small study Mitchell and his colleagues
conducted several years ago, the administration of Tildren, combined
with corrective shoeing in horses that showed signs of navicular, had
about an 80 percent soundness success rate after six months.<br /><br />The
study was fairly small, but Mitchell and other researchers were careful
to make sure the cause of lameness was navicular and not some other
factor. In every case, the administration of Tildren helped more horses
after six months than horses that were administered other types of
therapies without Tildren, for instance, corrective shoeing with bute
and banamine treatment.<br /><br />It’s still possible, said Mitchell, that
it was simply their selection of cases that produced the positive
results and not the drug itself. But, the results they got in that study
matched the results obtained by Jean-Marie Denoix, a veterinarian in
France, one of the earliest researchers to test the drug and one of the
most well-known experts in the field.<br /><br />“I think we have good
information that Tildren works, but we don’t have solid proof yet,”
Mitchell said. “What we do know is that if it works as well as we think
it does, then the earlier a horse with bony changes gets treated with
it, the better.”<br /><br /><strong>More Rigorous Study</strong><br /><br />The
most rigorous and widespread Tildren study to date is currently being
carried out in about nine locations across the United States. Mitchell’s
clinic is one of the test sites, as is the Wisconsin Equine Clinic and
Hospital in Oconomowoc, about 35 minutes west of Milwaukee.<br /><br />Ceva
is paying for the study, with the explicit goal of proving efficacy and
getting an FDA permit to treat navicular bone disease with the drug.<br /><br />At
Wisconsin Equine, veterinarian Doug Langer has so far had 23 horses
that have been accepted into the study. He expected the 200 horses
needed across the country to be accepted before the end of 2008.<br /><br />The
only problem, he said, is that only a small percentage of horses they
test actually qualify to be a part of the study—between 20 and 25
percent. With more thorough imaging, Langer said they sometimes discover
that potential test subjects have more going on inside their bodies
than just changes to the navicular bone.<br /><br />For control purposes,
the horses accepted must only show changes to their navicular bone and
no other ligament, tendon or bone injuries.<br /><br />“I don’t think the company paying for the study expected they would have to be paying for so many MRIs,” Langer said.<br /><br />Once
the test subjects are identified, the horses either receive Tildren or
an intravenous placebo. The veterinarians then follow the test subjects
for two months and document any changes.<br /><br />If, at the end of the
two months, it turns out that the horse received the placebo, then the
owner is allowed to have their horse receive the real drug, if they so
choose.<br /><br />On the East Coast, Mitchell said that getting horses into
the study has been a bit slow because some owners don’t want to disrupt
their show schedule; others are leery of being involved in a study
where for two months their horse may only be receiving a placebo.<br /><br />“The
other problem is that sometimes it’s hard for us, too, to identify just
navicular bone edema,” Mitchell said. “There’s a potential for owners
to not get the drug, and that makes some of them reluctant to
participate.”<br /><br /><img height="235" src="http://www.eurodressage.com/equestrian/sites/default/files/data/images/04_hagen_mud_9131.jpg" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 3px;" width="310" />But
the point of a rigorous study, Mitchell said, is to prove efficacy.
Once you can prove efficacy and safety, everything else tends to fall in
line and the drug will be made available in the United States.<br /><br />In Wisconsin, Langer said his experiences with the drug so far have been, “quite remarkable.”<br /><br />“Back
in May, I had a horse with navicular that was [grade] three out of five
lame,” Langer said. “Severe navicular. It wasn’t even a candidate for
nerving. It was given one treatment of Tildren, and I didn’t evaluate it
again until four months later. At that time, it was completely sound.”<br /><br />Langer added: “If we can help even half of the horses with that kind of affliction, then it’s a step in the right direction.”<br /><br /><strong>Not Perfect</strong><br /><br />Tildren
is not a cure-all, and there are still some drawbacks. The drug targets
bone and, specifically, the processes that affect bone degeneration. So
that means it won’t ease any lamenesses caused by tendon, ligament or
muscle injuries. Also, it’s not intended for use on horses that are
still growing, or mares that are pregnant or lactating.<br /><br />Occasionally,
some horses get a bit colicky after the administration of the IV fluid
with the Tildren solution. Also, Tildren cannot be used while a horse is
in competition as there are some withdrawal times.<br /><br />Then there’s
the issue of price. At $1,000 to $1,100 per dose (one time or 10
intravenous shots over 10 days), Tildren isn’t a cheap medication.
However, that price is likely to decrease once the FDA approves the drug
and it becomes warehoused in the United States.<br /><br />To keep extra
doses of Tildren on hand right now, many veterinarians are compelled to
engage in a bit of sleight of hand with the FDA, usually by
re-submitting the names of horses who have already received the drug to
keep new doses coming over from Europe. This keeps the veterinarians
from having to go through the laborious process of filling out all new
paperwork for a new horse that needs the drug and making the owner wait
six weeks or so until the medicine comes through in that horse’s name.<br /><br />Some veterinarians combine Tildren with additional therapies such as shockwave therapy to get the best results.<br /><br />Kathy
Frame, from Oconomowoc, Wisc., said that her 16-year-old grand prix
show jumper had a bit of a hitch in his hind end, which she treated with
Tildren and then shockwave therapy. Frame said the horse was never
lame, he just seemed a bit off.<br /><br /><img height="305" src="http://www.eurodressage.com/equestrian/sites/default/files/data/images/09_usa_tildren_0_02.jpg" style="float: right; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; margin-top: 3px;" width="240" />“We
won a grand prix the week I did the shockwave, so it’s a little hard to
tell if it was the Tildren I did before or the other therapy,” Frame
said.<br /><br />Kyle Dewar, also from Oconomowoc (and engaged to Frame),
said he once used Tildren on one of his older horses. The horse had
ringbone, Dewer said, and he administered Tildren after getting the drug
from a friend in Europe.<br /><br />“It eased his arthritic changes,” Dewer said of his older jumper.<br /><br />Now, Dewar said, he uses it on some warmbloods that he imports from Europe.<br /><br />“If
I notice a little something on an X-ray in Europe, I know I could use
some Tildren on it,” Dewar said. “They may have an enlarged vascular
channel in their foot or slight navicular changes, and Tildren seems to
improve the bone density and clear those right up.”<br /><br />As a rule,
people won’t see immediate effects from Tildren. It takes time to work,
and the maximum benefit will be seen in about two months.<br /><br />“By no means is this a magic cure,” said Langer at Wisconsin Equine, “but it has helped a lot of horses.”<span></span><span></span><br />
Source: <a href="http://www.chronofhorse.com/" target="_blank">The Chronicle of the Horse</a><span></span><span></span><br />
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and built by Rich and Kathy White of Independence using promotional
materials furnished by local visitors centers, museums and chambers of
commerce, Inyo County’s exhibit at the California State Fair in
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With a fraction of the budget of other counties and a display they
built themselves at home, Rich and Kathy White not only took home
another gold medal at the California State Fair for their Inyo County
exhibit, but also one of the most important awards offered at the 17-day
event.<br />
The Whites, aided by a hearty contingent of fellow volunteers, secured
for Inyo County the 2013 People’s Choice Award – a sought-after honor
that’s viewed as an endorsement of the tens of thousands of fairgoers
who visit the California’s Counties Exhibit portion of the State Fair.<br />
Twenty-five counties had exhibits on display this year, taking advantage
of the opportunity to promote themselves to tourists and potential
transplants by highlighting aspects of their counties that range from
agriculture and art, to history and industry.<br />
With a budget of $13,000 – half of which went to pay for volunteers’ gas
money, motel rooms and one-corndog-a-day meal allotment (“You can’t
stand more than one corndog a day,” Kathy joked) – the Whites designed
and engineered a three-dimensional, interactive, multi-media exhibit
that highlighted the Owens Valley and Death Valley and included
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<b>Manzanar Committee Denounces LADWP Proposal To Build 1,200-Acre Solar Farm Near Manzanar</b><br />
LOS ANGELES — On August 16, the Manzanar Committee announced its
opposition to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s (LADWP)
proposed 1,200-acre Southern Owens Valley Solar Ranch, which would be
constructed east of the Owens River, but in a direct line of sight with
the Manzanar National Historic Site, which lies to the immediate west.<br />
The proposed site would generate electricity that would be delivered
to LADWP customers in Los Angeles. But generating that energy would
result in the destruction of Manzanar’s historic solid waste dump, which
has not undergone an archeological study. Equally important, the site’s
approximately one million solar panels, along with buildings, large
equipment, transformers, a substation, transmission lines, and much
more, would destroy a significant portion of the historic landscape
surrounding Manzanar National Historic Site.<br />
“The importance of maintaining and enhancing the physical
characteristics of the Manzanar National Historic Site cannot be
downplayed or overlooked,” said Manzanar Committee Co- Chair Bruce
Embrey. “One of the most powerful parts of Manzanar is the unobstructed
view, and that many of the structures, gardens and other features of the
World War II American concentration camp have not been bulldozed over
or destroyed by ‘development.’<br />
“Some of the best and most memorable parts of Manzanar have always
been seeing the remnants of the camp set in contrast to the natural
landscape of the area,” added Embrey. “The continued restoration of the
gardens, the apple orchard, and other crucial archaeological aspects,
including Manzanar’s World War II-era solid waste dump, which
undoubtedly contains historically significant artifacts—none of that
should be compromised for commercial exploitation.”<br />
Embrey noted that while LADWP has supported the Manzanar Pilgrimage
for many years, this proposal is yet another blot on their poor record
regarding the site.<br />
“LADWP has a long and checkered history regarding the establishment
of the Manzanar National Historic Site,” Embrey stressed. “They have
offered support over the years to the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, led
for decades by Sue Kunitomi Embrey. But the relationship between LADWP
and the Manzanar Committee has been marked by serious and fundamental
disagreements along the way.”<br />
“LADWP opposed efforts to establish a National Historic Site at
Manzanar, arguing instead for a local memorial park,” added Embrey.
“Even as late as 1991, they continued their efforts, under then-General
Manager Michael Gage, to prevent the establishment of a National
Historic Site under the auspices of the National Park Service.”<br />
As a response to an LADWP-supported bill in Congress that would have
established a locally administered memorial at Manzanar, rather than a
National Historic Site, in an October 5, 1991 letter to the editor, Sue
Kunitomi Embrey, one of the founders of the Manzanar Pilgrimage and the
Manzanar Committee, wrote in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>:<br />
“The DWP proposal is highly inappropriate and totally unacceptable to
the Manzanar Committee for many reasons, the important one being that
Manzanar has national significance, and local jurisdiction does not give
Manzanar the integrity and national recognition it deserves.”<br />
More than twenty years later, LADWP’s insensitivity and disregard for
Manzanar, not to mention the people who were unjustly incarcerated
there, and their families, continues.<br />
“The very idea that any land in or around the Manzanar National
Historic Site could be used for a massive generating facility would not
harm the ongoing efforts to preserve and understand the tragedy of
justice that occurred there is simply beyond insensitive, and it’s not
just insensitive to the Japanese American community, the survivors of
America’s concentration camps and their families,” Embrey lamented.
“That gross insensitivity extends to the efforts of the National Park
Service, and others who have worked so hard to bring this brief, but
essential, part of American History to light.”<br />
“George Santayana said, “those who cannot remember the past are
doomed to repeat it,” Embrey added. “This is true for our nation, and
for the LADWP. Their proposed solar farm will severely harm efforts to
remember our past.”<br />
“The long-term, negative impact on the Manzanar National Historic
Site cannot be understated. We call on the Inyo County Board of
Supervisors, as well as the LADWP, to revisit the proposal and find
another, more suitable location for the proposed solar generating
station.<br />
<i>The Manzanar Committee is dedicated to educating and raising
public awareness about the incarceration and violation of civil rights
of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II and to the
continuing struggle of all peoples when Constitutional rights are in
danger. A non-profit organization that has sponsored the annual Manzanar
Pilgrimage since 1969, along with other educational programs, the
Manzanar Committee has also played a key role in the establishment and
continued development of the Manzanar National Historic Site. For more
information, send e-mail to info@manzanarcommittee.org, call (323)
662-5102, or check their blog at http://blog.manzanarcommittee.org.</i>BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-37056179874533655222013-08-13T03:32:00.000-07:002013-08-17T03:33:09.287-07:00County Contiues to extend support to Alabama Hills Designation... Aug. 13, 2013 By Inyo Register Mike Gervais... <h1 class="print-title">
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and federal legislators to create a federal “National Scenic Area”
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Inyo County has again voiced its support for the Alabama Hills
Stewardship Group and its efforts to preserve the Alabamas and bring the
Hills into the national spotlight.<br />
Last week the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to support the
Stewardship Group’s efforts to have the hills designated as a “National
Scenic Area.”<br />
“The Alabama Hills Stewardship Group is appreciative of the Inyo County
Board of Supervisors’ new level of unanimous support for the future
‘Alabama Hills National Scenic Area,’” said Stewardship Group President
Chris Langley. “We are hopeful this support will serve as a catalyst
with Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Paul Cook, for designation
legislation to be introduced and passed this year.”<br />
The Alabama Hills Stewardship Group, Inc. is a local group of community
members who have partnered with the Bureau of Land Management over the
past seven years to help direct management of the Hills.<br />
“The goal is to make the Alabama Hills as accessible and activity
inclusive as possible, while still preserving its ‘semi-primitive’ and
scenic landscape,” a press release from the Stewardship Group states.<br />
Over a two-plus-year period, the Stewardship Group met with a variety of
stakeholders and user groups who enjoy the diverse activities offered
in the Alabama Hills, from hiking and rock climbing, to off-highway
vehicle recreation, horseback riding and rock hounding, to explore a
federally legislated designation for the 18,000-acre recreation area.<br />
“A designation,” the Stewardship Group said, “will protect (through a
Congressional bill) both the spectacular landscape and the various user
groups’ access to the Alabama Hills.”<br />
Senator Feinstein’s staff has indicated an interest in carrying the
National Scenic Area designation bill, but only if the designation has
community support behind it.<br />
In a recent letter to the Stewardship Group, Feinstein said that she
would be “happy” to consider legislation for a federal designation for
the Alabamas, but “I would first need to hear that this proposal has the
support of local elected officials, especially the Inyo County Board of
Supervisors.”<br />
Last week, the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously (5-0) to continue
the county’s support of the federally legislated National Scenic Area
designation.<br />
According to the Stewardship Group, an “overwhelming majority of
stakeholders and user groups support a designation that promotes (the)
area and protects their access and continued use.”<br />
The group also said there is a strong desire by stakeholders and user
groups to drive/lead the process “before ‘outside forces’ potentially
dictate the future of the Alabama Hills”<br />
According to Stewardship Group member and local business owner Kevin
Mazzu, the next step in the designation process is to have Feinstein’s
and Cook’s staff officially back the bill and finalize language for the
legislation.<br />
From there, the group will work with the county, the BLM and
stakeholders to develop a management plan for the Hills and put the
legislation to a congressional vote.<br />
If the bill is passed, the management plan will be implemented.<br />
“The AHSG is committed to protecting the jaw-dropping beauty of this
area with continued access for hikers, motorists, photographers and rock
climbers, while allowing important economic activities like commercial
filming, cattle grazing, hunting/fishing and recreation to continue,”
the Stewardship Group said. “Balancing all these needs is what makes the
Alabama Hills so special to so many people and necessitates its
protection.” <br />
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RIALTO -- Harold Cebrun, the superintendent of Rialto Unified, has been receiving death threats and racist fliers, police officials said. <br />
Capt. Randy DeAnda, spokesman for the Rialto Police Department, said the department is investigating both death threats and racist literature left for Cebrun, who is black, to find.<br />
"During the layoffs, hang-up calls and name-calling come with the territory, since emotions and tensions run high," district spokeswoman Syeda Jafri said. "But after recognizing that these were blatant racist fliers, bigoted words were being printed to describe his specific ethnic origin, the superintendent found it increasingly difficult to brush it off. It is inappropriate, inexcusable and it has become quite obvious that the direction of this action is resulting from pure hate."<br />
Rialto Unified pink-slipped 101 teachers and 124 nonteacher employees in March.<br />
"There are still elements in the community that are back with racial hatred. They're back decades," school board member Joe Martinez said. "Now, it's rearing its ugly head."<br />
The fliers, which started being sent in April, include pictures of gorillas with messages written on them like "you people are trained to run, so run" and "(racial epithet) go home." The literature has been mailed to Cebrun and dropped through an open car window. His car has also been keyed, and a Mexican flag has been mailed to him.<br />
"The board saw what it was, and they're things that are just horrible," Martinez said. "I wouldn't want to say those (things) to anybody. I wouldn't want to hear them." <br />
Although DeAnda would not provide details, he said the department was working on the case, which they're investigating as a hate crime, "very aggressively."<br />
"Hate should have no place at our schools or, quite frankly, in our world," Jafri said. "Hate and bigotry are often actions that are learned behaviors. We recognize it, are deeply disappointed by it and will work with the authorities any way we can to assist with the investigation."<br />
According to Rialto Unified's 2011-12 District Accountability Report Card, the then 26,764 student body was 13.7 percent black, 78.7 percent Hispanic and 4.6 percent white.<br />
"We believe that, in Rialto, everybody's important," school board President Joe Ayala said. "We don't discount people: We give them opportunities. These people who are lashing out, (and) we'd like to tell them there are better ways to communicate."<br />
This isn't the first time racial tensions have reared their head in Rialto Unified:<br />
Earlier this spring, a girls' bathroom at Rialto High School was also covered with graffiti attacking black students, Jafri said. San Bernardino City police investigated the incident. The school is 75 percent Latino, according to the California Department of Education's most recent Academic Performance Index data.<br />
In 2010, self-proclaimed white supremacist Dan Schruender sought a seat on the Rialto Unified school board. He ended up coming in last place, garnering only 9.64 percent of the vote, with voters instead choosing a black woman and Hispanic man.<br />
"In education, we constantly deal with gray matter," Martinez said. "That's the color that we work with; it's not any other color." <br />
<i>Staff writer Doug Saunders contributed to this story.</i></div>
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Hundreds of people took advantage of a gun-buyback program in San Bernardino County Saturday, June 1, swapping weapons for Stater Bros. gift cards.<br />
So many people came to the first county-wide gun-buyback in San Bernardino County that police in Redlands had to obtain more gift cards from the grocery chain and Rialto police shut down nearly three hours early when their $18,000 supply of cards was exhausted.<br />
In all, police collected 1,424 weapons, including 23 assault weapons. Gun owners received Stater gift cards of at least $50 for inoperable weapons, $100 for handguns, shotguns and rifles, and $200 for assault weapons.<br />
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at a news conference Friday that the guns will be melted down and used to make reinforcing bars used in construction.<br />
"This is an opportunity for people to turn in guns that may end up being stolen," he said. "All of the weapons will be run through the stolen weapons (computer) system and any that are determined to be stolen weapons will eventually be returned to their rightful owners."<br />
He said the weapons were being taken with no questions asked and sees the effort as a way to get guns off the street.<br />
Gun swaps for everything from turkeys to gift baskets have been staged in Riverside County, including Riverside and Hemet, but it is not clear whether there has ever been a countywide buyback there.<br />
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A gun manufacturer teamed up with a 2nd Amendment rights group, Inland Police Officers Coalition, to set up shop outside the Stater Bros. parking lot in Redlands, offering cash in similar amounts to the gift cards in exchange for guns.<br />
David Ives, who owns Nemesis Arms in Calimesa, would not say how many guns he purchased. He said he would be refurbishing them and re-selling them legally.<br />
"Our taxpayer money is being wasted" in the gun-buyback program," Ives said. "They are over here buying firearms and destroying perfectly good firearms that under the 2nd Amendment can be owned and operated by legal citizens."<br />
Bill Rhetts, a retired Los Angeles policeman, used a speaker to plead to gun owners in line at the Redlands buyback station not to turn them over to police.<br />
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Police from 11 San Bernardino county agencies traded gift cards for guns. What is the best way to get guns off the street?</div>
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<label for="4f736c83-bc2c-7e84-097f-e9377a3aca8c:100569">Police trading gift cards for guns and melting down the guns is the best solution.</label> </div>
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<label for="4f736c83-bc2c-7e84-097f-e9377a3aca8c:100570">Gun owners should hold onto and take care of their weapons, preserving 2nd Amendment rights.</label> </div>
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<label for="4f736c83-bc2c-7e84-097f-e9377a3aca8c:100571">Criminals will hang onto their guns, making buy-backs a useless process.</label> </div>
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<label for="4f736c83-bc2c-7e84-097f-e9377a3aca8c:100572">Guns should be purchased by police, but sellers should be screened.</label> </div>
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"This is a counter-productive agenda that doesn't work," he argued. "In 30 years of law enforcement … experience I've worked thousands of investigations where criminals did, in fact, use firearms. Not in any of those cases did the suspect lawfully own the firearm.<br />
"Gun restrictions and gun laws don't work," he said, "because the criminals don't play by the rules."<br />
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San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies and officers from 10 police departments across the county operated gun-buyback stations Saturday at six locations: Redlands, San Bernardino, Rialto, Upland, Victorville and Barstow.<br />
In Victorville, so many people turned out that sheriff's deputies opened their station an hour and 45 minutes early. By 11 a.m. they had to open a second lane to accommodate traffic.<br />
Deputies there traded gift cards for 379 weapons, including 135 rifles and two assault weapons, according to department spokeswoman Jodi Miller.<br />
Redlands police opened their station half an hour before the official 10 a.m. start when they found a line of cars waiting. By 10:30 they had used up all 350 of their $100 gift cards – to be traded for operable handguns, rifles and shotguns.<br />
Redlands city spokesman Carl Baker said police obtained at least $2,000 more from Stater Bros. and re-opened at 11:30 a.m. By the end of the day, Baker said police in Redlands had collected 308 guns and handed out at least $30,000 worth of gift cards.<br />
'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH'<br />
Carl Christopher, 29, off San Bernardino, brought in 10 shotguns and hunting rifles that had belonged to his 75-year-old grandfather.<br />
"He doesn't need them any more," he said. "We'd rather get them off the street. At least we know they'll be destroyed and won't be used in a crime."<br />
Joyce Christopher, Carl's 55-year-old mother, said she saw a flier advertising the buyback at an Arco gas station in Redlands, where she lives.<br />
"My nephew was killed with a handgun three years ago," she said. "He pulled up to a stop sign and a somebody rode up on a bicycle and shot him three times. He lived (five weeks) and died on Christmas Day. It was the worst Christmas of my life.<br />
"Get them all off the street," she said of guns. "Enough is enough. Anybody who has guns, turn them in."<br />
Elvin and Paula Lightcap, drove 50 miles from Yucca Valley to exchange two shotguns and seven handguns they acquired when they handled the estate of a distant relative five years ago.<br />
"We've been waiting since we cleared up the estate for a gun-buyback," Paula Lightcap said. "They never have them in Yucca Valley. I didn't know what else to do with them."<br />
In Rialto, a line of cars stretched four blocks in 98-degree heat as gun owners waited to swap weapons for the gift cards. They turned in 180 guns, including 32 shotguns and 68 rifles, including four assault rifles that fetched $200 gift cards for each.<br />
Rialto police Capt. Randy De Anda said officers also took in four specially modified weapons and three replica handguns.<br />
"I don't know if they were movie props, but we took them anyway," he said. "They look real and they could be used in a robbery."<br />
Freddie Lewis, 62, of Rialto, traded in a rifle and a semi-automatic Tec-9 pistol, which he said is illegal in California.<br />
"I got two sons, 25 and 30 years old, living in the house now, so I wanted to get the guns out of the house," he said.<br />
Martin Villegas, of Colton, got $100 for the sawed-off shotgun he traded in.<br />
"I had the gun for a year," he said. "I didn't have kids with me, but I became the legal guardian of these (three school-age) kids. I feel good about getting rid of the gun."<br />
Asked what he would do with the gift card, he said, "Like the man suggested, let's have a barbecue."<br />
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BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-41788265677671140522013-06-13T00:35:00.000-07:002013-06-13T00:35:00.536-07:00The Sequester and Oil Prices.. by Steve Austin for Oil-Price.com.<div dir="ltr">
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With the Sequester might come the Lower prices for Fuel in this country!! The reason that you ask is simple, the supply will go up, as the governments needs for Fuel goes down in the time that they are forced to cut their budget, all because of a move that was done by the Republicans during the last Ceiling raise of the Governments Credit Ceiling.. </div>
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The good of this is that the price of Gas/Diesel can and will drop a little... I don't know where you are with fuel prices but for me it is killer... IF I can find fuel below $4.00 I feel like it is gold found in the bottom of a creek bed!! Gold there for the panning, but if this fuel goes down to say $2.00 I might be able to do more with my life since I can possibly pay for the bills that I carry across from one month to the next via credit cards.. sad but true.. </div>
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<span style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Well, March arrived with</span><span style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequester_(2013)" style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">'the sequester,'</a><span style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">didn't it? As you heard, on March 1,</span><span style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_sequestration" style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">'the sequester'</a><span style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="color: #003366; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">swung into action with President Barack Obama signing an order to bump away $85 billion from the budget of Government agencies between March 1 and October 1, 2013. If there lurked some hope of a different budget plan with last-minute resolutions, what a pipe dream it turned out to be. Truth be told, the cuts in spending can axe away almost 0.5 percent from the economic growth of the months leading to October, according to the International monetary fund. To put things in perspective, unemployment figures have just showed signs of recovery. Nailed is the word.</span> </div>
BSRanchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14697483841080495272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27500614.post-16654618018745198742013-06-13T00:33:00.000-07:002013-06-13T00:33:55.385-07:00Faith Under Fire... Christians on Trial.. By Michael Carl<div dir="ltr">
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Iran is now putting five Christians arrested in October on trial for "action against national security" in what some say is the Islamic republic's all-out effort to stop the spread of Christianity.<br />
<a href="http://dynamic.csw.org.uk/article.asp?t=press&id=1502&search"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported</span></a> that Church of Iran members Mohammad Roghangir, Surush Saraie, Eskandar Rezaie, Shahin Lahooti and Massoud Rezaie will stand trial before the Revolutionary Court for disturbing public order, evangelizing, action against national security and Internet activity against the system.<br />
<a href="http://www.mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6339:christian-prisoners-in-shiraz-still-held-after-more-than-a-year&catid=36:iranian-christians"><span style="color: #0066cc;">The Iranian Christian news site Mohabat News reported</span></a> that in addition to the five arrested in October, four other Christian believers arrested more than a year ago are still being held in the Revolutionary Guard prison in Shiraz.<br />
Christian Solidarity Worldwide spokesman Kiri Kankhwende said his organization stands by the Iranian Christians.<br />
"We continue to advocate in the international arena for these and many other prisoners in Iran. The prisoners may well be imprisoned for longer, though they have already been detained for some time," Kankhwende said.<br />
He said the Iranian government has one simple goal.<br />
"By sentencing Christians such as these, the Iranian government is looking to stop the spread of Christianity," Kankhwende said.<br />
In a statement to the press, CSW Advocacy Director Andrew Johnston said by persecuting these Christians, Iran is violating its own law.<br />
"Once again Iranian Christians face charges couched in political terms that in reality stem from their choice of faith and desire to exercise the right to worship in community with others, as guaranteed in article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Iran is party," Johnston said.<br />
ACLJ International Director Tiffany Barrans said this aggressive act of jailing and trying Christian leaders reflects the regime's desperation in dealing with Christianity in advance of the approaching election.<br />
"In the lead up the Iranian elections, scheduled for June 14, 2013, it is abundantly clear that the Iranian Regime is terrorizing the Christian community and other minorities in an attempt to force Iranians into submission," she said.<br />
The Iranian government has the wrong idea about Iranian Christians, Barrans argued.<br />
"What Iran does not realize with the Christian community is that the exercise of their faith is not based on politics or an attempt to undermine the government," she said.<br />
Iran's treatment of American pastor Saeed Abedini is an example of the regime's anti-Christian hysteria, according to Barrans.<br />
At the same time, Iran is planning to put nine Church of Iran members on trial, American Center for Law and Justice spokesman Gene Kapp said his group presented pastor Abedini's human rights case before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.<br />
"In the oral presentation before the Human Rights Council, our attorney told the U.N. that the imprisonment of pastor Saeed, a U.S. citizen, is a violation of international law and called on Iran to release him," Kapp said.<br />
"At the same time, the U.S. State Department expressed its concern again about the imprisonment of pastor Saeed and called for his release," he said.<br />
Kapp noted that there is growing support for Abedini from the American public.<br />
"More than 420,000 people have signed on to a <a href="http://savesaeed.org/"><span style="color: #0066cc;"> petition</span></a> demanding his release," Kapp said.<br />
Reports on the nine Church of Iran believers and Pastor Abedini are consistent with a recent trend in Iran toward more persecution of all religious minorities.<br />
International Christian Concern <a href="http://www.persecution.org/category/countries/middle-east/iran/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">documents the plight</span></a> of three other Christians who have been arrested and put on trial in the past three months.<br />
Charisma News confirms ICC's reports. Charisma News <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/34749-persecution-watch-iran-authorities-arresting-more-christians"><span style="color: #0066cc;">reported in November</span></a> that there is a wave of anti-Christian activity.<br />
"Reports of Iranian authorities arresting Christians for their faith are pouring in, indicating that the Islamic nation is running a massive campaign targeting house churches," Charisma News reported.<br />
Also, a report from Iran claimed Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani had been executed.<br />
<a href="http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2013/s13030023.htm"><span style="color: #0066cc;">Assist News Service reported</span></a> an Anglican cleric in Iraq said an Iranian news report claimed Nadarkhani had been put to death.<br />
Barrans said the report was an Internet rumor, and "several of our sources today talked directly with pastor Youcef himself."<br />
In further confirmation, Islam activist Walid Shoebat said the rumor started from an Arabic source.<br />
"I can say that pastor Youcef is not dead," Shoebat said. "All the Arabic sources I researched say that Nadarkhani is still alive."<br />
However, Shoebat added, another man wasn't so fortunate.<br />
"The man who was hanged is a Sunni dissident and not Nadarkhani," he said.<br />
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