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Lists! Find your own state Senator! - Republican-ruled Georgia is issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens…
Who opposes drivers licenses for illegal aliens in Georgia? Who is fighting to stop that practice by helping to pass SB 6?
Contact your state Senator HERE.
Senate Bill 6 has been officially filed in Georgia and would end the practice of the Republican-controlled state issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens. The Georgia state Senate has a Republican super-majority. They have the ability to pass anything they choose.
Enemies of the bill:
Republican Governor Nathan Deal
Deal said in 2010 that Georgia spends about $2.4 billion every year on the crime of illegal immigration. He has remained mostly silent on the issue since. The Chamber of Commerce wants the politicians to raise our taxes to fund improvements in transportation.
Republican Lt. Governor and President of the Senate, Casey Cagle
Cagle wants to be governor in 2017.
* Leadership members n the Senate who want to be governor or Lt. Governor in 2017 and are much more fearful of the business lobby than the voters they know will "forgit" in a month and who they consider to be "The Bubbas."
* The entire Georgia business community, led by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and the Atlanta Metro-Area Chamber of Commerce. In 2014, these same lobbying groups that now control Georgia killed a similar bill on licensing illegals, a resolution that would have allowed Georgia voters to decide via the November 2014 ballot whether to amend the state constitution to make English the official language of government and a 'Religious Freedom' bill.
* Lazy and shy Republicans who will vote for nearly anyone with an "R" near their name and then treat the public servant as celebrity and master.
For the politically un-aware who are asking "why?" – the answer is profit. Money. The bottom line. The Chamber members make more money by hiring black-market labor in place of Americans and they want to show they control the state when corporations look to relocate to save money on labor.
It was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that teamed up with the ACLU and the National Council of La Raza in an attempt to remove a 2008 Arizona E-Verify law designed to protect American jobs and wages from illegal labor. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court. The open borders lobby lost that one.
The Georgia Chamber of Commerce also worked alongside the ACLU here in Georgia in 2011 in a failed attempt to stop Georgia's E-Verify law.
There are many ways for Lt. Governor to kill thi sbill. But each time a phone rings in the state Capitol with calls from irate Georgians who want to know what in the world is going on when Republicans fight to reward illegal aliens with a drivers license (the 'keys to the Kingdom") it gets a little more difficult. You should know that the Chamber of Commerce lobbyists are everywhere, all day long under the Gold Dome. Like flies. While you are at work.
The more co-sponsors the bill has, the more difficult it is for the press to ignore it and for Lt. Governor Casey Cagle to kill it - or let it rot in a committee until April of 2016 when the General assembly concludes.
Two lists. One shows which GOP Senators have signed on to like a 21st century John Hancock . The other who has not signed on.
There are 38 Senators in the Georgia Senate. 11 of them are working to deter illegal immigration in Georgia on SB 6.
Pro-enforcement Senators who have sponsored SB 6:
Senator Josh McKoon Senate Bill 6 Sponsor
Steve Gooch
William Ligon
Bill Heath
PK Martin
Greg Kirk
Bruce Thompson
Marty Harbin
Frank Ginn
Michael Williams
Mike Crane
The below Republican state Senators have not yet signed on…and most of them have no intention of taking a chance on offending senate leadership or even worse for them, the Chamber of Commerce that donates money to their campaigns. Put a different way: They are siding with the Chamber and the ACLU on the illegal alien future Democrat voters who are taking jobs and lowering wages.
One more thing: Ask yourself the question: "Would any candidate have promised to give illegal aliens a drivers license in Georgia during the campaign just months ago? Would you have voted for them if they did?"
Senators who have NOT signed on to endorse/co-sponsor SB 6:
Hufstetler, Chuck (Republican)
Unterman, Renee S (Republican)
Illegal aliens cannot get a drivers license in Mexico.
House Homeland Security Committee chairman Mike McCaul (R) of Texas has introduced a border-security bill (HR 399)…" Remember that, because it will be a big deal in "the news" soon. Experts agree - the McCaul bill is "an empty green suit."
Which reminded me: Just after the election in November, I remember grimacing while listening to a radio interview with newly elected Georgia Congressman Rick Allen (R) who said in an answer to a question on immigration that "we should not do anything on immigration until we agree to secure the border." (the bold italics are mine)
Note for the "I still can't tell when I am being treated like a dumb Bubba" voter. Rick Allen didn't say we shouldn't do anything about immigration until we secure the border. But kudos to Rep. Rick Allen for being such a quick study in the deceit of immigration politics.
How to make it look like we all "agree?" Pass a bill with the words "border security" in its title and tell people "It is the toughest border security bill ever before Congress, with real penalties for the administration for not doing their job," as McCaul said Friday in a statement announcing his new trick…I mean legislation.
So, for the GOP-bots who still trust the politicians we have sent to Washington from Georgia on the immigration issue: "Agreeing" to secure the border is not securing the border. It isn't most things that need to be done to secure America.
From a past MDJ column, a partial list of "agreements" that the politicians in Washington have passed as a way to placate "We The Bubbas"
1986 — Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act amnesty, with the estimate that it would affect an estimated one million illegal aliens. While promising an end to illegal immigration, the law prohibited the employment of future illegal aliens. The enforcement never really happened. The number of illegals who were legalized was closer to three million. In 2004, only three employers in the entire nation were fined for hiring illegal aliens. The (very) low estimate is that 7 million to 8 million illegal aliens continue to hold American jobs.
1996 — In the wake of the first World Trade Center bombing, Congress passed another wide-ranging enforcement law, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Among its provisions was a requirement to develop an automated check-in/check-out visa system for foreign visitors, by which the feds could at least identify those who refused to leave as promised. Congress has mandated such a system five more times for all ports of entry/exit. No such system exists.
2001 — In line with the 9/11 commission recommendations, the USA Patriot Act expanded the mandated visa departure system requirements to include biometrics. No such system exists.
The recently passed Senate amnesty bill actually dismantles the never-enforced visa monitoring laws. Reasoning? "Too costly."
2005 — The REAL ID Act required that state driver's licenses meet certain minimum standards to be acceptable for federal purposes, such as boarding airplanes. The standards included requiring proof of legal presence in the United States before issuing a license. The driver's license is essential to illegal aliens seeking to embed themselves in American society. The original deadline for state compliance was adjusted to 2008, later postponed to 2011, then 2013, and now 2017. It seems likely the deadline will be extended yet again, permitting more states to continue issuing licenses to illegal aliens. Terrorists notice and take advantage of these dangerous broken promises.
2006 — The Secure Fence Act of 2006 required "at least 2 layers of reinforced fencing" along roughly 650 miles of specifically designated stretches of the Mexican border. Less than 40 miles of such double-layered fencing have been built. The remainder is a mix of easily defeated single-layer "pedestrian" fencing and vehicle barriers.
It is my advice to listen to Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions on immigration. Here is what he says about the McCaul bill.
We The Bubbas should agree to not agree with any Georgia congressman who comes home peddling this "agreement" as an excuse for another amnesty and expanding legal immigration.
D.A. King is a nationally recognized authority on immigration and president of the Dustin Inman Society. Twitter: @DAKDIS
"The only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class." Angela Davis, Sunday Keynote speaker at a KSU event in honor of MLK.
A note for people who may have an interest in what goes on at our tax-funded Georgia universities: Communist and race hustler Angela Davis is coming to Kennesaw State University on Sunday, as keynote speaker. You read that correctly, she will be here for a Martin Luther King Day event on January 18 sponsored by the Kennesaw State African-American Student Alliance.
Davis is described by the far-left magazine The Nation as "an icon of the Black Power movement."
The area newspaper out of Dunwoody describes Davis as a "noted scholar, author and veteran Civil Rights activist and allows that she was acquitted in the early 1970's for murder and was once on the FBI list of "10 Most Wanted."
We don't think the very short description of Davis does her justice.
Here is part of her bio from the noted reference source on leftists Discover the Networks:
"In 1968, as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague spring," Davis joined the Communist Party, voicing her belief that "the only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class."
In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking hostage the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors. In an ensuing gun battle outside the court building, Judge Harold Haley's head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis. To avoid arrest for her alleged complicity in the plot, Ms. Davis fled California, using aliases and changing her appearance to avoid detection.
Two months later Davis was arrested by the FBI in New York City. At her 1972 trial, Davis presented her version of where she had been and what she had been doing at the time of the shootout. Because she was acting as her own attorney, she could not be cross-examined. She presented a number of alibi witnesses, almost all Communist friends, who testified that she had been with them in Los Angeles playing Scrabble at the time of the Marin slaughter. Prosecution witnesses who placed her in Marin were dismissed by Davis and her fellow attorneys as being unable to accurately identify blacks -- because they were white…"
This, no doubt, in the minds of the KSU student group, is a tribute to the non-violent, equality agenda of Dr. King. Or maybe to the Black Panther terrorists… we are confused too.
But no one can say that KSU isn't "inclusive" – unless one notes the near absence of pro-American speakers invited to address our future leaders and voters. I once watched as KSU hosted former Mexican president Vicente Fox and his demand for open borders in North America (photos here)
More quick facts on KSU's Sunday speaker:
*Communist professor Emeritus at the University of California's Santa Cruz campus.
*Davis has never really written a scholarly or academic text. Her books are little more than revolutionary political tracts.
*Recipient of the Lenin "Peace Prize" from the police state of East Germany in 1979.
*Leader of a movement to free all criminals who are minorities claiming that they are political prisoners of the racist United States
Oh, and Davis ran for Vice President of the United States in 1980 and 1984, alongside Gus Hall - on the Communist Party ticket.
There is much more to know about Comrade Angela Davis if you are too young to remember her proud and murderous "over-throw America" past here.
See this event at KSU for yourself
The Dunwoody newspaper promoting the Davis event includes the time and location of the event right here in Cobb County, Georgia if you want to go see your educational tax dollars at work.
The MLK observance, which is free and open to the public and begins at 6 p.m. in the Dr. Bobbie Bailey and Family Performing Arts Center, 488 Prillaman Way on the KSU campus.
I wouldn't miss it.
Collecting remarks from elected officials around the nation on Obama trashing the constitution with his illegal executive amnesty?
Don't overlook this one.
Below is a reaction/quote to the Atlanta Newspapers from Nathan Deal, the newly re-elected Republican Governor of Georgia - where we have more illegal aliens than Arizona and where he says we spend more than $2.4 billion annually on the crime of illegal immigration.
"Anytime the legislative process is circumvented, we all should have concerns, and this is no exception. Based on the information being circulated in the news about the proposed order, I have reservations and further questions."
— Gov. Nathan Deal
From HERE
From Town Hall
By Conn Carroll
Novemeber 21, 2014
In a primetime address on November 20, President Obama made his sales pitch to the American people for a series of immigration executive actions he will sign on November 21 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here is what you need to know:
What actions is Obama taking specifically?
The key to Obama's new immigration policy is the creation of one new amnesty program and the expansion of another.
Specifically, Obama's new amnesty program will give illegal immigrants who have been in the United States for at least five years, and who are parents of U.S. citizens or legal residents, a three year work permit. This permit will also allow them to obtain a Social Security number and get a driver's license. Pew estimates that 3.5 million current illegal immigrants will qualify for this program…
VIDEO: Ignore your own lying eyes! Listen to the screaming liberals! Illegal voting just does not happen!
A lot to ignore here…
Below is a short video report from North Carolina that shows the mentality of the Democrat get-out-the-vote machine.
Ignore it! Don't ask if illegal votes elected Democrat Al Franken to the U.S. Senate in 2008. Do not ask if Dear Leader Obama is in office because of illegal voting. Because that would be, you know… "racist." Right?
Forget about "motor-voter" registration! Do not ask how many illegal aliens have managed to register to vote here in Georgia where the Republican-controlled state government has been giving illegal aliens a drivers licenses since 2012!
And don't ask how many more victims of borders will be awarded a Georgia drivers license when Obama expands his own voter-drive program called "DACA - deferred deportation" to millions more illegals.
And don't ask how many illegal voters the illegal alien lobby here may have registered in Georgia and across the country.
Don't even ask if illegal voting had any effect on the elections of 2008 or 2010, as is discussed in this news story.
Which reminds me of a grin I saw on Facebook this week:
"Uncle Irving is gone now. He voted conservative in every election in his hometown of Chicago until the day he died, twenty years ago.
Ever since then, he has voted Democrat."
What ever you do, do not ask how many Georgia Republicans pander to, contribute to and are members of the leftist illegal alien lobby in the Peach State!
Illegal alien murderers released by Obama's immigration enforcement agency
Companion information to my latest MDJ commentary.
Last year, President Barack Hussein Obama's administration released 36,007 criminal illegal aliens from deportation proceedings and ICE custody, including 169 illegal aliens who have already been convicted of "homicide-related crimes" in the U.S.
*You can see the Center for Immigration Studies revelation, including a chart, from earlier this year here.
U.S. Senator Charles Grassley sent a letter of inquiry to ICE asking for much more information and last week released a press statement and the ICE response letter with a list of zip codes.
CIS also created a reference map to match zip codes with U.S. locations.
Here in the Atlanta area, WSB TV did a same-day (Friday, August 22, 2014) segment on the seven killer illegals released that had Georgia zip codes featuring comments from Cobb Sherriff Neil Warren.
On Monday, August 25 WSB followed up with another segment ("Activist: Convicted killers' release not cause for alarm") with comments from Cobb County's Village thinker, Rich Pellegrino.
For your education, we link to both WSB TV news segments below.
We also note that I have spent the week since the news of the homicide illegal aliens release trying to pry public comment out of the elected officials elected to serve and protect Georgians. With the exception of the Cobb Sheriff , I have been unable to locate any comment, news or expression of outrage from any of these officials.
We are happy to note that Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, David Perdue, offered this quote to WSB TV on Monday:
"Releasing convicted criminals into our communities is not only dangerous but it is unacceptable. The president's failed policies of amnesty and catch and release have created an illegal immigration crisis and sends the wrong message to those trying to come into our country legally. As David Perdue has said all along, securing our borders and enforcing current laws is a matter of national security and must remain our top priority."
We link to the official website of Governor Nathan Deal. As of 2:00 PM Thursday we see no press release on the illegal alien murderers being released into Georgia.
As we suspect most people will be, we are alarmed at the absence of any visible attempt from politicians to educate constituents on the details of the above and to insure that voters are clear on the position of most officials - including state and local office holders - candidates for office and political party leaders.
And we don't care who knows it.
Georgia contains more illegal aliens than does Arizona.
WSB TV news segment with Sheriff Neil Warren
WSB TV news segment with Rich Pellegrino segment:
It seems that even in Obama's hometown for community organizing, Americans are starting to be pointedly vocal on his betrayals concerning immigration and equal protection.
Below is a video and report of a few of these quite observant citizens asking – without any flowers – why our own poor and oppressed are not the center of Dear Leader's focus.
A note of suggestion to the Republicans who continually wring their hands on how to enlarge their tent: Try hard to understand that people will eventually "get it" if you make it clear that you stand for equal opportunity and protection under the law for all Americans. And that we as a nation should promise and work for equal opportunity, not an equal outcome.
And that enforcing immigration and employment laws is the base of the "protect American workers" plan.
Catering to the business lobby that is in bed with the ACLU and La Raza et al on immigration enforcement isn't fooling anyone. Well, except maybe some Georgia state legislators, but no one else…
Compare the cries of the Americans in Chicago to a song sung by a group of illegal aliens who regard themselves as victims of borders ("Illegal Aliens Chant in Spanish: 'Illegal are your laws and that's why I'm not leaving" )
"No me digas illegal"/Don't call me illegal ""Porque eso no lo soy"/Because I am not ""llegal son sus leyes"/Illegal are your laws ""Y por eso no me voy"/And that's why I'm not leaving…""
VIDEO: Another border crisis - What you may not know about "the children" and what to expect in Georgia
Readers who have heard about Obama's request for tax dollars to deal with the stampede of "the children" at the southern border on "the news" may want to see these two videos of what Obama's goal for life in the entire country looks like.
For my Republican friends, keep telling yourselves that if we just grant another amnesty and double legal immigration, the problem will go away - and that these people, once made "legal" will bloom into small government, low-tax, conservative GOP voters.
Bonus x 2: Congressman Dr. Tom price (GA 6) has released a public statement on Obama's request for mo'money to throw at the invasion he arranged.
And here is a copy of the letter Congressman Dr. Phil Gingrey (GA 11) sent to the director of the Atlanta-based Center for Disease Control.
Great work by Breitbart News.


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Sometimes referred to as tandoori chicken, this Indian chicken is marinated in a mixture of yogurt and spices and traditionally cooked in either a clay oven (tandoor) or grilled. We grilled the flavorful chicken on skewers and found it paired well with jasmine or basmati rice.
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Combine first 9 ingredients in a medium bowl. Add chicken; toss to coat well. Cover and marinate in refrigerator 8 hours.
. Soak 12 (6-inch) wooden skewers in water 30 minutes.
. Prepare grill.
. Thread chicken pieces evenly onto skewers. Place skewers on grill rack coated with cooking spray; grill 12 to 13 minutes or until done, turning once. Serve with lime wedges and mango chutney.
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Gravity hasn't really been toyed about with since Half-Life 2 redefined the shooter with Eli Vance's patented Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator.
But Inversion decides to toy with Newton's favourite law on a far more expansive, invigorating scale. We bet Sir Isaac never dreamt of gravity-whipping some nasty chap from behind cover before gorily eviscerating him in a bubble of floaty entrails. Well, probably not.
It's a gimmick, certainly - but has the potential to be so much more. We've all been there: enemy hordes manically rushing us, only a scant few cartridges left in the chamber... But what if we tossed said baddies, flailing, into the air with a flick of our Gravlink? How about pinning others to the floor with a surge of high gravity? Or summoning lava from a nearby volcano for a fiery demise? All these things are possible in Inversion.
Inversion's plot goes like this: An army of what can only be described as sophisticated cavemen - the gravity-manipulating Lutadores - suddenly emerge from... somewhere. It puts something of a downer on the day for cops Davis Russel and Leo Delgado, especially when they kill said hero's missus, cart him off to a prison camp and abduct his precious daughter. Every daughter - and son - on the planet in fact, so the quest begins to seek out Russel's lil' Leila while extracting bloody revenge on the Lutadore scum.
Saber's last project may have been Halo CE: Anniversary, but their primary influence for Inversion - gravity notwithstanding - is surely Gears of War. Whether Russel is roadie running, impaling Lutadores on his retro-lancer-by-any-other-name, directing Delgado about Dom Santiago-style, buddying up to whack open a blocked door or even selecting weapons via a HUD that could have been lifted wholesale from Team Fenix, it's hard to shake the parallels.
Thing is, that isn't such a bad thing - and while in overall terms Inversion doesn't feel in any way as slick as Epic's shooter classic, it still feels surprisingly solid. Cover crumbles, Russel dashes about with more élan than dump truck Marcus and grenades arc their way towards targets with satisfying regularity... and that's before the gravity-bending antics kick in.
Starting off without the Gravlink, Russel and Delgado quickly acquire a backpack each. Although you'll be drip-fed new powers throughout the adventure, your core powers revolve around low gravity (a blue stream) and high gravity (a red one). Blast away with low and you'll throw objects, baddies and scenery alike into the air; switch to high and you'll pin stuff to the ground.
You'll also be able to manipulate objects, and - in some specific cases - interact with the environment. You can also blow it to bits; at one point we jumped behind a gun turret and, in a Red Faction-rivalling moment, systematically mullered an entire gigantic building.
There's some neat tech underpinning all of this, even if Inversion's never going to win best in show on the visuals front. The underlying physics are seriously impressive - a particular standout bit being a romp through a tenement block in the midst of some temporal tremor. Furniture slides about, windows rattle, fridges open and topple over, partition walls explode in dusty showers of masonry... the city of Vanguard feels like a veritable playground of particle-packed destruction, a theme that pervades whether we were exploring crumbling mines or spooky graveyards.
A decent amount of foes onscreen, some mighty draw distances, loads of dynamic objects. A night-time thunderstorm prison break scene early in the game is proof positive of some seriously savvy programming. We're hoping for more imagination though; although being able to dump a pile of debris that's dangling in the air over a chasm to form a makeshift bridge, drag hulking cargo containers about to form makeshift cover or lob a barrel at somebody's bonce is fun-ish, we can't help but think there's even more fun to be had messing about with gravity.


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Alas! I'm finally updating with the final Elite 4: UNTAMED article! I apologize for the lack of updates over the past week. I had "open classes" at work (the one day a year where the parents come in and watch you teach), so I was staying in late all last week to plan. Not only that, but we had our monthly portfolios and evaluations due to the students, so needless to say my work load was tremendous! I'm also applying to grad school and putting in for new positions at public schools in Seoul. I'm ready to wind down all of the excitement so I can play the English version of Pokemon Conquest and the Japanese version of White 2 (zomg O_O).
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Well, folks, that ends the final Elite 4 member for the Unova region! Stay tuned for upcoming articles, especially since Black and White 2 was released. Leave your feedback in the comments section!


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Lt. Colonel Thomas Leiper Kane
Responding to President Lincoln's call for volunteer troops to rise to the defense of the Union, following the confederate bombing of Fort Sumpter, in April, 1861, Thomas Leiper Kane began recruiting young men from the northern tier counties of Pennsylvania. Mr. Kane, an influential businessman in McKean County, and his lieutenants, were successful in recruiting enough young men to fill 7 companies (approximately 700 men). Many of these men were lumberjacks, raftsmen, and farmers accustomed to living in the rugged mountainous areas of the "Wildcat" district (Elk, McKean, Tioga, and Cameron counties). Prior to leaving for Harrisburg, the men adopted the tail of a buck as their "regimental badge of honor". The deer tails were placed on each recruits cap and they became known as the Bucktails. En route to camp curtin a bucktail also adorned the top of the mast on one of the rafts the men built to travel to Lock Haven where they could pick up the railroad. Once at Camp Curtin, another company from Northern Pennsylvania, a company from Chester County and a company from Perry County joined Kane's group to complete the required 10 company regiment, and became the 13th regiment--the Rifle (sharpshooter) regiment--of the newly fromed Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. As part of the federal army, they became the 42nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, also known as the Bucktail Regiment.
The regiment trained at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania until June 1861, when it was detached, along with the 5th regiment, to the assistance of General Lew Wallace in the Cumberland, Maryland area. Upon their return from Maryland, they joined the balance of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps which had been mustered into service by the federal government and was now attached to the Army of the Potomac in and near Washington D.C..
Colonel Hugh McNeil
The Bucktails served with distinction in most of the major engagements of the Army of the Potomac until May 1864, when those who did not reenlist in the 190th Pennsylvania, were mustered out of service. The Bucktails were engaged at Dranesville; the Seven Days Battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill, New Market Crossroads and Malvern Hill; Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Spottsylvania (1864) and finally, Bethesda Church. The unit completed its service on May 31, 1864.
Colonel Charles Taylor
In May, 1862, four companies of Bucktails--companies C, G, H, and I were detached from the regiment, under the command of Lt. Col. Thomas L. Kane, and sent to participate in the Valley Campaign against the renowned Stonewall Jackson. This detachment was engaged in the battles of Harrisonburg, Cross Keys, Catlett's Station, 2nd Bull Run, and Chantilly. At Harrisonburg, the Buctails were credited with killing confederate general Turner Ashby. The detached companies joined the regiment after the Battle of 2nd Bull Run.
Company A | The Anderson Guards | Tioga County | Captain Phillip Holland CaptainJohn G. Harrower |
Company B | The Morgan Rifles | Perry County | Captain Langhorne Wister Captain Thomas B. Lewis |
Company C | The Cameron Rifles | Cameron County | Captain John A. Eldred CaptainLeander W. Gifford CaptainNeri B. Kinsey |
Company D | The Raftsman's Guards | Warren County | Captain Roy Stone Captain Hugh McNeil Captain John T.A. Jewett Captain David G. McNaughton |
Company E | The Tioga Rifles | Tioga County | Captain Alanson E.Niles Captain Samuel A. Mack |
Company F | The Irish Infantry | Carbon County | Captain Dennis McGee Captain John A. Wolfe |
Company G | The Elk Rifles | Elk County | Captain Hugh McDonald |
Company H | Wayne Independent Rifles | Chester County | Captain Charles Taylor Captain John D. Yerkes |
Company I | The McKean Rifles | McKean County | Captain William Blanchard Captain Frank J. Bell |
CompanyK | The Raftsman's Rangers | Clearfield County | Captain Edward A. Irvin Captain James M Welch |
For additional information on the "Old Bucktails" I suggest you follow the link below. Hopefully, your trip through these pages will provide the most extensive information on the 1st PA Rifles that you will find anywhere in the world.


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Heinlein Centennial Short Story Contest
Just a reminder. The Heinlein Short Story Contest closes one minute after midnight June 1. If you have a story, ship it off NOW!!! They take email entries. (That means that you have to press the send button in May.)
I sent off a story, The Window Washer Murder, that I'd almost forgotten about. When I started writing stories, about five years ago, I wrote a number of stories about a robot detective named Mark Denker. One of these appeared in Aoife's Kiss and several others wound up eventually on low end zines. Robot detectives are a tough sell, it seems. I gave up on this story, although it was the best of the bunch. It is full of ideas borrowed from Heinlein, in fact I found a line in the story that was lifted (unintentionally) from The Door Into Summer. I reworded it to keep the Heinlein-esque idea without being a direct quote.
The Heinlein contest will report by the end of the year, so I expect I will have a summer and fall of chewed fingernails. Some big name authors have entered, so my own little story probably won't be able to climb out of the slush. Luckily, Spider Robinson will probably be a judge, so my story won't have to compete with one of his. No one writes more like Heinlein than Spider.


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And the timing, he says, is right, too. "The reason why we were able to sign a second lease is because I have an incredible crew of people that I work with, and a lot of them would like to move up, plus the public's embrace of what we've done in the original location has been nothing short of incredible," Morrison tells me.
And while he admits that he doesn't want to grow the concept too quickly, he also allows that he may do more. "I say that I want to move slow, but I'm always looking to see what's available," confesses Morrison. "But let's see how well we do here first."
And come early next year -- Morrison speculates that he'll open in January -- he'll find out.
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In addition, Fire Prevention Week will be observed Oct. 7-13 and is held to mark the anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Hundreds of people were killed in the blaze which destroyed about four square miles of the city. The fire was one of the largest U.S. disasters of the 19th century and sparked the beginning of fire safety standards in the U.S.
Activities for Fire Prevention Week will begin with the annual fire safety poster contest. All school children in Bradley County and across Tennessee are encouraged to create posters based on the national fire prevention theme of the year, "Have 2 Ways Out." According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), many people underestimate how fast fire spreads so they don't take escape planning seriously. The results can be tragic.
In 2010, a home fire was reported every 85 seconds, killing 2,640 people and injuring 13,350. Firefighters know that when fire strikes, a home could be engulfed in smoke and flames in just a few minutes. Therefore, they will be using Fire Prevention Week, and activities such as the Poster Contest, to promote public awareness of fire prevention and fire safety.
Children interested in entering the poster contest are encouraged to use the "Have 2 Ways Out" theme and highlight escape planning. Posters can be dropped off at any time between now and Oct. 13 at the firehall on Tasso Road at North Lee Highway or the BCFR headquarters at 260 Inman St. The posters will be judged on a local level and the winning posters from each participating community will go to the State Fire Marshall's Office for judging. A state winner for each grade level (K-12) will be chosen during the statewide judging held in December. All winners and their families will be invited to attend a state awards banquet held in February 2013. Information regarding the poster contest can be obtained from the Bradley County and Cleveland Fire departments.
Fire safety and prevention are serious business with 43 fire-related deaths reported so far in Tennessee in 2012. Property loss to fires through the month of August amounts to more than $141.6 million. Firefighters across the state have responded to 5,665 structure fires and 114,476 rescue calls. These statistics help us understand the urgency of fire prevention education and awareness.
BCFR and the CFD are committed to protecting the safety of our citizens and their property through fire prevention, education, codes enforcement, regulation, investigation and law enforcement.
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Thats the conclusion many in this state might have come to about Dr. Aldona Wos, secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, whose wealth allows her to work for the state for a salary of $1 a year.
She eschewed the $135,000 that GOP Gov. Pat McCrory offered her when he took office last January.
With a year under her belt, Wos seems to be overpaid at that buck a year.
Her short tenure has been rocky. Shes already cost the state more than the $135,000 she could have earned because of poor personnel decisions including excessive pay for young inexperienced staffers hired for jobs for which they lacked pertinent qualifications.
Last month, her department breached the confidentiality of nearly 49,000 child Medicaid recipients by mailing their personal information to the wrong addresses. The state had to notify Medicaid recipients of the mistake, re-mail new cards and agree to send recipients detailed accounts of charges to their cards to assure them no one else had or was using them. The costly blunder was a breach of federal HIPAA rules and opened the door for potential Medicaid fraud.
And two weeks ago, seven physician groups filed a class action lawsuit against DHHS over the faulty performance of NCTracks, the states Medicaid claim-processing system that was rolled out last July. The system has been plagued by errors and caused payments to providers to be delayed, unpaid or shorted by more than half a billion dollars in the first 90 days, the lawsuit said. Some providers have had to borrow to meet payrolls; others went out of business. Some were still experiencing late payments this month.
Said Robert Seligson, chief executive of the N.C. Medical Society, in support of the lawsuit: NCTracks has inflicted real damage on Medicaid patients and providers across the state... Multiple state oversight agencies have identified problems and urged system improvements. Despite these efforts, progress is slow and problems remain pervasive... Legal action may be the only remaining option to remedy the harm to the Medicaid system and get NCTracks to function as advertised.
The doctors said in their lawsuit that NCTracks has been a disaster, inflicting millions of dollars in damages upon North Carolinas Medicaid providers. The suit is pursuing damages, declaratory relief and injunctive relief against the defendants. In other words, the state that is, N.C. taxpayers may have to pay through the nose for this bungled mess.
On top of all that, North Carolina could lose millions of federal dollars it gets to administer its SNAP program, better known as food stamps, if officials dont significantly reduce a waiting list of thousands and get needed assistance to struggling North Carolinians.
Last week, the state got a second yes, second warning letter from the U.S. Department of Agriculture warning of a possible cut-off of administrative funds if the state didnt get its act together. Wrote Robin Bailey Jr., regional administrator for the USDAs Food and Nutrition Service: [We are] alarmed by the persistent problems despite our extensive technical assistance and repeated communications concerning the severity of the situations. Citizens of North Carolina that need help putting food on the table are not receiving the basic level of responsiveness and quality of service that they deserver from their government. Continued delays create undue hardship for the most vulnerable citizens of North Carolina.
The truly alarming part of the USDAs letter last week is that it followed a warning letter in December that noted a backlog of over 6,000 waiting in North Carolina for more than three months to receive benefits. That number, by the states own data, hadnt shrunk but grown to more than 8,000 waiting more than three months to receive benefits. Thousands more (more than 20,000, the USDA said as of Jan. 21; DHHS says its less now) have been waiting a shorter time for assistance but still longer than the 30 days from application allowed by federal law.
The federal government has given DHHS until Feb. 10 to significantly reduce the backlog including, crucially, erasing the waiting list of those who havent received benefits for 90 days. The department expects full resolution of the remaining backlog no later than March 31.
As with many DHHS problems, Wos has tended to deflect responsibility. Bailey read of her pinning the food stamp woes on requirements of the Affordable Care Act. ACA, with implementation woes of its own, has become a convenient target to pin blame on and some observers might be inclined to buy that explanation.
But Baileys rejoinder is on point: It should be noted, he writes, that many other states have implemented ACA without the dramatic impacts on SNAP that have occurred in North Carolina.
DHHS responded to the USDAs most recent letter with this from Sherry Bradsher, the N.C. deputy secretary for Human Services: We strongly disagree with the federal governments threat to withhold Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) administrative funds, which could adversely impact counties abilities to assist families in need. However, we are encouraged by positive conversations between Governor McCrory, Secretary Wos and the U.S. Agriculture Secretary (Tom) Vilsack that resulted in a verbal agreement of our plan to clear up outstanding FNS applications and recertifications. We will continue working closely with our partners in county government to solve this problem.
Bailey will likely appreciate that cooperation. In his letter last week, he noted that to date, DHHS has failed to provide [Food and Nutrition Service] with regular weekly status reports as agreed to in DHHS November 20, 2013, letter. On two occasions, the transmittal had multiple and contradictory data sets...
The reason for the governments threat becomes clearer.
DHHS had a troubled past before Aldona Wos. But under her leadership so far, things are worse not better. It is unacceptable when the state shorts medical providers on money for their services, and its unacceptable when families depending on food stamps cant get them.
McCrory and Wos need to fix these problems with haste. Then McCrory needs to look elsewhere for someone to lead DHHS. And this time, consider that anyone who accepts only a $1 for their services might not be up to the job.
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Many immigrants and other medically underserved people lack the resources to obtain food. In fact, 61 percent of patients served by the Integrated Cancer Care Action Network (ICCAN) are food insecure. Such patients often have worse treatment outcomes and a poorer quality of life than those who have enough to eat.(1)
Food to Overcome Outcome Disparities (FOOD) is working to improve food security among immigrants and other medically underserved people who are undergoing treatment for cancer and other chronic illnesses.
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Also, atheists are now eligible for admission into a heaven they don't believe in
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A "textual" argument on immigration
Congress is debating immigration reform and all I can say is, God help us: A bit of a theological debate also ensued. David Fleming, the senior pastor of Champion Forest Baptist Church in Houston, argued that Christian scripture wasn't a … Continue reading
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Chik-Fil-A and bigotry
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50 years later, Iranians remember US-UK coup
Iranians mourned this week the consequences of Anglo-American regime change as they marked the 50th anniversary of a CIA coup that toppled their democratically elected prime minister.
At a time when the United States has adopted a policy of preemptive action in its war on terrorists - and is portrayed here as encouraging student street protests - the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh's government is taking on fresh relevance for some Iranians.
"This year, many political groups in Iran are showing more interest in the history of the [US-orchestrated] military coup," says Ibrahim Yazdi, a former foreign minister and leading member of a political party that traces its origins to Mossadegh's National Front. "Now it seems that the Americans are pushing towards the same direction again. That shows they have not learned anything from history."
Organized by the CIA and the British SIS to secure Iran's oil resources from a possible Soviet takeover and secure Iran's oil resources, the coup marked America's first intervention in the Middle East. Its aftershocks are still being felt.
The end of Iran's first democratic government ushered in more than two decades of dictatorship by Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, who relied on US aid and arms. The anti-American backlash in 1979 shook the whole region and helped spread Islamic militancy.
"If there had not been a military coup, there would not have been 25 years of the Shah's brutal regime, there would not have been a revolution in 1979 and a government of clerics," says Mr. Yazdi, who served briefly as foreign minister in the first cabinet after the fall of the Shah. "What we have now is a result of the coup."


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Lorelei McFadden, 17, a senior at White Center's Evergreen High School, smiles as she stands with second runner up and classmate, Hang Thao, 18, while first runner-up and South Seattle College student Nina Coluccio, 19, stands at right, during a Spring Tea and Hi-Yu Court Coronation at Fauntleroy Hall on Sunday, May 18, 2014. Hi-Yu, which means "much, plenty, abundance" in Chinook jargon, is a non-profit organization established in 1934 to produce the Hi-Yu Summer Festival, which promotes West Seattle every July. This is the first year the organization has allowed boys to enter the Court competition. Christina Mastrangelo, who worked on the judging process, said they have had queries over the years as to why they only allowed women, and this year they decided to make a change. "We're a community organization, so why not reflect our community?" she said.
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Weatherization Improvements: Attic and sidewall insulation, air-sealing, weather stripping, equipment repairs, etc.
Weatherization Service Provider: Heartland Community Action Agency
Mike Calvin and Todd Raap, co-owners of Maple Street Construction in Raymond, Minn., are grateful to serve as weatherization contractors for the Heartland Community Action Agency in central Minnesota.
They're grateful because weatherization has given them steady work in an otherwise volatile construction market. And they're hopeful that their enhanced weatherization skills will apply to a bullish retrofit market that extends well beyond the low income households they're currently serving.
Calvin and Raap admit they were skeptics before partnering with Heartland in the summer of 2009. They feared that quality might be compromised. But nothing could be further from the truth, they agree.
"After meeting with the Heartland staff and receiving training and monitoring of our weatherization work, we could see that Heartland administers an excellent program of energy home improvements," said Calvin. "They demand quality."
Maple Street Construction is among hundreds of contractors nationwide who are refining their skills to deliver the energy-saving techniques of weatherization. In July 2009, the Heartland Agency in Willmar, Minn., asked Maple Street and several other contractors if they would work for the Weatherization Assistance Program. The state's 35-year-old program, which provides energy conservation improvements (insulation, air leak sealing, safety and efficiency testing, repairs or replacement of heating systems, etc.) to homes of low-income households, expanded significantly in 2009 when the state received $203 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The bulk of that stimulus money—$132 million— was earmarked for the Weatherization Program. About 17,000 Minnesota homes are to benefit from weatherization by March 2012. The state's Division of Energy Resources facilitates the program and works closely with 32 local service providers to deliver energy-saving improvements.
'House as a system' approach
Calvin and Raap say that working as a Heartland weatherization crew has increased their knowledge of the "house as a system" approach to energy savings. "We have learned how to operate the different diagnostic tools such as the blower door, learned where the most common air infiltration areas are located in a home, and discovered the best methods for sealing air leaks while maintaining adequate ventilation."
What sold them most on weatherization, however, was when they weatherized their own homes. "Using the blower door diagnostic equipment and weatherization specific techniques, we were able to drastically reduce the energy consumption in our own homes," said Raap. After solving bypass problems, adding 100 bags of insulation, and replacing a hot water heating system with a forced air system, Raap decreased energy use by over 50 percent and cut his heating costs by about $2,000. By filling air leaks and adding 158 bags of cellulose, Calvin reduced his home's annual energy consumption by 33 percent and trimmed heating bills from $2,700 to $1,800.
Calvin and Raap, convinced of weatherization's benefits, feel they've discovered a new market niche: weatherizing homes for people of all income levels. "Our work with Heartland helped solidify our commitment to weatherization work," said Calvin. "We're confident that cost-effective weatherization is something that can be applied to a wide range of homes."
Maple Street Construction has displayed its blower door equipment at a home improvement show in Willmar and explained its use to potential customers. "We stress the long-term benefits of having a properly insulated home," said Raap.
Creating, sustaining jobs
Heartland's manager of weatherization, Jude Deming, said her other contractors also realize the potential for private-sector weatherization. Using the federal stimulus funds, Heartland tripled the number of homes it weatherized in fiscal year ending June 30, 2010. To meet that demand, Heartland increased its contractors from two to seven, and the auditing staff doubled from two to four people.
Central Lakes Insulation, another Heartland contractor, is also sold on weatherization. "Since working with Heartland, we have used the blower door equipment a lot more," said Corey Thorson, owner of Central Lakes Insulation, based in Willmar and Alexandria. "We have also used an infrared camera to measure the insulation levels of homes."
Since beginning weatherization work for Heartland in August 2009, Thorson said his company has kept a regular crew busy full-time for the entire year and added one full-time worker. "We feel fortunate," said Thorson. "The training we received from Heartland has been more on the technical side. We've done weatherization work before, but the blower door testing is pretty new to us. What we've learned has enhanced the way we go about doing homes for higher-end customers. We address the house as a whole system; we do testing and show customers what they need. Our customers are very happy when we show them the reduction numbers for air infiltration and energy consumption."
Saving energy, trimming heating bills
Indeed, Heartland clients are especially grateful when results are documented. Heartland's weatherized homes have achieved an average air infiltration reduction of 27 percent and average annual savings of $1,067 in heating bills, Deming said.
Heartland auditors conduct home energy assessments to determine energy improvements needed and then issue work orders to contractors. After the work is performed, Heartland staffers inspect the work. Additionally, state weatherization monitors inspect about 10 percent of all jobs.
Monitors from the state's Weatherization Assistance Program work closely with Heartland to train and educate auditors and to ensure that contractors are trained in the latest weatherization techniques. Deming says the auditor training and auditor certification course has enhanced the credibility of the weatherization field.
The increased weatherization work and training has given construction workers—and the entire economy—a big boost. "It has helped keep us going," said Calvin. "Having worked with Heartland, we can see that the ARRA dollars are being spent wisely. And now we're in a better position to provide energy-saving home improvements to people of all income levels."
To learn more
For more information about Minnesota's Weatherization Assistance Program and ARRA funded project, visit the Divison of Energy Resources.
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I pulled some scion today from the crisper drawer in my fridge, and they were frozen.. some looked ok, some did not. I wonder if I should hustle out and get some new stuff? honey crisp which I wanted the most of, looked the worst? does it need to be perfectly green, or will a little green suffice? |
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If you have more then go ahead and hustle. It can't hurt. I received fig cuttings when we got down to -20 and they were in the mailbox when we were out of town. They don't look like they'll make it but I'm going to try anyway. You have nothing to loose if the scion is coming from your own trees. |
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I looked through all of my stuff and for some reason only the honey crisp looked bad. I think I'll take my chances. They would be frozen on the tree anyways right? |
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Right, its been freezing and thawing all winter on the tree. The only thing worse in the freezer box is they may have dried out more. Scott |
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I am already spayed, housetrained, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and good with cats.
Three beautiful senior cats are in desperate need. Their previous mom had a serious stroke and may be in rehab for months.
Two brothers from a Bengal mama cat, Sage, a gorgeous blue-eyed, siamese boy, and Tiny Kitty, a rich chestnut brown tabby, along with companion/sister Marmalade, an orange beauty, are all approximately 14-15 years old. In comfortable health, they love one another and always cuddle together. Tiny Kitty is missing quite a few teeth and both boys have had a life-long weakness in their hind quarters -- but excellent litter box habits nonetheless. All are very, very sweet cats.
Ideally, we are trying to keep them together while their owner recovers or, at least, until her daughter can move back north and secure a place to live (which may be difficult with 6 cats and 1 dog in tow). There is no other family able to help due to severe allergies. K is hoping to accomplish this in 1-3 months at most. Knowing that L is a caring cat owner who has also helped rescue cats/kittens in the past, if she was to learn her cats were euthanized, I fear it would be extremely detrimental to her recovery. It would definitely break her heart.
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Liston works with parents whose children have social, emotional, physical, developmental, or learning disabilities and delays. She helps them to understand the relevant laws, medical terms and their children's diagnoses, as well as to separate their emotional responses from their quest to secure the best help for their kids.
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When a parent arranges a consultation with Liston Advocates, Liston first determines whether the child is already classified or is seeking classification for special education services. If the child needs independent testing, Liston will refer the family to experts who are respected in their fields. "It is the quality of the evaluation combined with the knowledge of the law that allows us to get the appropriate services," she says.
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