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My wife, Jan and I, and our children, Amy and Nathan Starkey, lived near Battle Ground until the early 1990s. Our son, Nathan, was in 8th grade at Lewisville Middle School and our daughter, Amy, was a student at Battle Ground High School in 1988 when a serious auto accident fatally injured Nathan less than a mile from school. Amy was driving and pulled out without seeing a logging truck. Though injured, Amy, and two other children in the car survived. Nathan, age 13, was buried in the Venersborg Cemetery, east of Battle Ground, near our home. In 1992, I...

My fellow Americans, Your urgent attention is needed for an emergency bail-out to avoid a financial melt-down. I am here at the Casino on the Indian Reservation and I am now facing a perfect storm of credit risk and complete lack of confidence in the ability to repay a multitude of obligations. This crisis has grown quickly and with little warning and the situation is indeed dire. Who knew playing a conservative game like roulette, betting on just red, would result in such unforeseen, widespread financial catastrophe? The roulette settlement was just the final stroke following the blackjack dealer hitting...

This is a brand new original song tribute written and recorded to honor Sarah Palin.

What if your UPS overnight delivery doesn't come overnight?A small item was shipped UPS overnight to me in Tennessee from Idaho on Tuesday, November 28, 2006. The shipper paid for overnight service.The tracking number we all think is a security blanket showed the package arrived at the Nashville UPS hub at 6:45 AM Wednesday morning.The item was a critical, hand-made prop to be used in a motion picture. I needed to take it with me on a flight to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Friday morning, December 1st.The problem is when a critical item disappears, the UPS web site can...

I wanted to share a link to our web site for a new action Western feature motion picture nearing completion. This is an "indie" movie being made by folks who are just in love with Western movies and wanted to make one ourselves. It is based upon a true story.It is being shot in state-of-the-art high definition digital video. This movie has been shot completely within the United States over this summer and fall, in Idaho, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota.You can watch a two-minute trailer of scenes from the movie at our site.www.thehayfieldmovie.com

I am producing an independent action Western movie to be shot in high definition digital video. It is to be movie based upon a true event that happened just two years after the Civil War. We are in pre-production and have assembled a fine cast of talented folks already rehearsing in the Nashville TN area.We are not Hollywood people but really we want to make a good Western and have enlisted a lot of help to do it. The principal action sequences will be shot on location on a remote ranch in southeast Idaho and at a frontier fort replica...

WASHINGTON – "I'm here basically to get more money for California," Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger told reporters Wednesday after a meeting with House Republicans.

Philadelphia, Pa. - The next time you order a banana split or sip on a banana daiquiri by the poolside, make sure you savor the sweet taste of the popular yellow fruit, because it may go the path of the mighty dinosaurs - extinction. That's right, the crescent-shaped fruit, which is one of the largest agricultural products in the world, is in for the fight of its life against a plague of pests and diseases. The banana's biggest foe is Black Sigatoka, a fungal disease that affects the fruit's all-important leaf area, causing premature ripening and reducing the productive life...

The head of an airline pilots' organization pressing for legislation to allow guns in the cockpits of commercial airliners has criticized the Bush administration's decision to deploy air-defense missiles and fighters over Washington, D.C., during the Sept. 11 commemoration – ready to shoot down any passenger jets that were hijacked. "On the one-year anniversary of the (9-11) attacks, the U.S. government aimed surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) at the skies" over the nation's capital "and launched armed fighters to patrol the skies over our largest cities," said Capt. Tracy Price, chairman of the Airline Pilots' Security Alliance. "The decision to 'defend' our...

A year after the September 11 attacks, you would think our immigration system had significantly improved its ability to keep out those who want to kill our children. You would be wrong. To the conspiratorial mind, it would appear that Congress and the administration have been trying to tighten immigration controls just enough to placate public concerns over the threat posed by radical Islam on our shores, but not so much that immigration controls could actually work, since that would anger vocal political interests.

It has been centuries since native North Americans were so vulnerable to the sickening sword of a smallpox attack. The first time it was so used was when Lord Jefferey Amherst, commander of the British forces in North America during the French and Indian War (1754-1763) approved sending smallpox-infected blankets and handkerchiefs to the Ottawa tribe attacking Fort Pitt. It had the desired effect — subsequent epidemics probably killed more than 50 percent of affected tribes, a consequence of Native Americans having practically no immunity to the smallpox-causing variola virus. The U.S. population now has about that same level of...

"CBS Evening News" anchorman Dan Rather doesn't think much of the commander of the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan.In an upcoming issue of Rolling Stone magazine the TV news superstar complains that Gen. Tommy Franks "has been the least accessible of any U.S. commander with this many troops and this much responsibility in the history of the country."Saying that will probably eliminate me from ever getting an interview with him," adds the multi-million dollar newsman, according to the website Ratherbiased.com. "But we need the facts in full. I'll go ahead and say it: I may be wrong, but on my ...

I would like opinions on the best shotgun shell load for use in a 12 Gauge Shotgun when being used for home defense. I have heard of using bird shot, buck shot and slugs - standard or magnum loads. I have heard of progressive loading such as first round-bird shot, second round-buckshot, third round-slugs.Considerations seem to include whether you want to blow the door or wall down in the process of stopping the intruder.

Alleged Partial Flight 93 Cockpit Transcript Obtained [4 EYEWITNESSES SAW UNMARKED PLANE] Crime/Corruption Breaking News News Keywords: UNITED FLIGHT 93, SHOOTDOWN? Source: WTAE TV4, Pittsburgh (ABC affiliate, Hearst owned) Published: 2001-9-13 8am EDT (updated from 9-12 2:59pm) Author: Paul Van Osdol Posted on 09/13/2001 22:33:52 PDT by Plummz >SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -- A partial transcript has been obtained An FBI agent said Wednesday that finding Flight 93's black box was the key to investigating its hijacking and fatal crash -- a plan which was apparently related to terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Meanwhile, presidential press secretary Ari ...

By LUCAS WALL Anchorage Daily News August 15, 2001 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A China Eastern Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Beijing diverted to Anchorage after a 36-year-old passenger stripped to his underwear, threatened passengers and the flight crew, and attempted to open one of the jumbo jet's doors. China Eastern Flight 584 made an unscheduled stop at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Sunday night, FBI spokesman Eric Gonzalez said. It's at least the fourth trans-Pacific flight to make an emergency stop this year in Anchorage to discharge an unruly passenger. Flight 584 left Los Angeles about 1:30 p.m. ...

M-1911 Conditions The legendary guru of the combat 1911, Jeff Cooper, came up with the "Condition" system to define the state of readiness of the 1911-pattern pistol. The are: Condition 1 - Also known as "cocked and locked," means a round is in the chamber, the hammer is cocked, and the manual thumb safety on the side of the frame is applied. Condition 2 - A round is in the chamber and the hammer is down. Condition 3 - The chamber is empty and hammer is down with a charged magazine in the gun. People have added two additional states, ...

Oregon Trail Card - Electronic Benefit Transfer The Oregon Trail card makes cash and food stamp benefits electronically available to consumers through use of a plastic debit card at point-of-sale devices (POS) at retail grocery stores, and at selected automated teller machines (ATM)s.

BERLIN (Reuters) - American actor Robert Redford has called President Bush ``ignorant'' on the environment and urged other nations to keep pressure on the United States at a global climate conference next week. Redford, who has become an active environmentalist aside from his acting and directing, told the German weekly magazine Stern that Bush was oblivious to the extent the United States squandered natural resources compared to other countries. ``Bush doesn't have a clue,'' Redford said, adding that Bush was unaware ``we are all living in a global village.'' Redford said he felt the president relied too much on advisers ...

It began in the 1960s. It probably grew out of the World War II generation’s mad dash after the war toward wealth and material gain to help their children live a better life than they had. That generation – today memorialized by Tom Brokaw and others as the Greatest Generation – saved this nation but in the process birthed a baby boomer generation of self-centered pleasure seekers who have systematically rotted this country from within. The United States of America in 2001 is now suffering for the social and personal excesses of that Selfish Generation. Virtually all our national ...