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Subject: FW: [JHS61] Brass Shell Casings - You Got to Read this one to believeit... Look at what is happening ! Georgia Arms is the 5th largest retailer of .223 Ammo in America . They sell 9mm, .45, .223 ammunition. They normally buy spent brass from the US Department of Defense. Spent brass is "one time used" shell cases used by our Military for training purposes. They buy the brass, recondition it, and then reload the brass for resale to Law Enforcement, Gun Clubs, Gun Shops, and stores like Wal-Mart. They normally buy 30,000 lbs of spent brass at a...

I received the following email and thought it might be of interest to fellow Southern Californian. This is from my friend Steve Martini, a writer of novels, and although he is a little right of center he makes some strong points and you can see why he is a successful novelist. Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 14:35:12 +0700 One more screed I couldn't resist. Many of us grew up or lived in Southern California. Some of you still live there. Those were happier times given what is happening to the state now. I have followed with some interest the scant...

Play Video Video: Good Question: Why Is Israel Bombing Hamas? WCCO Minneapolis Play Video Video: How to Handle Israel ABC News Play Video Mideast Video: Gazans seek refuge in schools Reuters AFP/File – Palestinians wave as the aid boat named Dignity pulls into port at Gaza City on December 20. An Israeli … TYRE, Lebanon (AFP) – An Israeli naval vessel collided on Tuesday with a boat carrying activists and medical supplies that was trying to break the blockade of Gaza, forcing it to head to port in Lebanon. Passengers on board the the 20-metre (66-foot) Dignity said the Israeli...

How Long Do We Have? About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier: 'A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.' 'A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.' 'From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits...

Subject: Israel Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:07:44 +0000 I wonder how many of you are familiar with the full text of PM Olmert's speech to the Knesset on 7/31/2006, which follows below. Very few people, outside of Israel, I would wager. What we got were a few sound bites essentially showing Olmert's defiance but not one word of his reasoning. This is a further example of the asymmetrical reporting to which we are being subjected, daily. Read this and weep for the demise of balanced reporting and if you can try to ensure that your efforts make up for...

Subject: Israel Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 16:07:44 +0000 I wonder how many of you are familiar with the full text of PM Olmert's speech to the Knesset on 7/31/2006, which follows below. Very few people, outside of Israel, I would wager. What we got were a few sound bites essentially showing Olmert's defiance but not one word of his reasoning. This is a further example of the asymmetrical reporting to which we are being subjected, daily. Read this and weep for the demise of balanced reporting and if you can try to ensure that your efforts make up for...

<p>There has been general back-patting in the West about renewed European-American comity during the Ukrainian crisis. Both the United States and Europe have been doing exactly the right thing: rejecting a fraudulent election run by a corrupt oligarchy and insisting on a new vote. This gives us an opportunity to ostentatiously come together with Europe. Considering our recent disagreements, that is a good thing. But before we get carried away with this era of good feeling, let us note the reason for this sudden unity.</p>

Longtime CBS newsman Dan Rather abruptly announced last week that he will end his tenure as anchorman of the CBS Evening News on March 9, the 24th anniversary of his debut as the network’s principal news reader. The 73-year-old journalist had reportedly been planning to complete 25 years as an anchorman before stepping down, working until March 2006, and the network has taken few measures to prepare a successor. Rather’s abrupt departure is the latest in a long line of actions taken by media conglomerates in recent years bowing to objections from the government or from corporate, military or intelligence...

CNN Hires New President for Its U.S. News Group Mon Nov 22,12:10 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters) - CNN News Group on Monday said it has tapped an online media CEO as its new president overseeing U.S. news, just a little over a year after it hired a former local TV newsman to run its domestic operations. Jonathan Klein, founder and chief executive officer of The FeedRoom Inc., a high-speed Internet news network and video streamer, will assume the role of head of U.S. news operations, answering to CNN President Jim Walton. CNN is the cable news unit of Time...

Blair defies critics to stand by US alliance By Cathy Newman, Chief Political Correspondent Published: November 14 2004 22:00 | Last updated: November 14 2004 22:00 Europe must unite with the US under the banner of democracy to defeat the scourge of terrorism around the world, Tony Blair will urge on Monday. The prime minister will defy leftwing critics of the war in Iraq to mount an impassioned defence of Britain's “special relationship” with the US. In his annual foreign policy speech at the Mansion House in London, Mr Blair will lay out his vision shared with George W. Bush,...

Mother Teresa's Letter to the US Supreme Court. The following brief was filed recently before the U.S. Supreme Court in the cases of Loce v. New Jersey and Krail et al. v. New Jersey, by Mother Teresa. I hope you will count it no presumption that I seek your leave to address you on behalf of the unborn child. Like that child I can be considered an outsider. I am not an American citizen. My parents were Albanian. I was born before the First World War in a part of what was not yet, and is no longer, Yugoslavia. In...

USING ALL OF A MANDATE by Charles Krauthammer November 5, 2004 Later than most two-term presidents, George Bush got his mandate. To be sure, he did get one on Sept. 11 from Osama bin Laden but, until Tuesday, not from the American people. The bin Laden mandate gave him freedom of action on a very large scale (two wars, the Patriot Act). With it he produced a remarkable success in Afghanistan and a still-unresolved war in Iraq. Above all was the one inescapable if unspoken fact, greatly overlooked in explaining this election: Three years had passed since Sept. 11 and,...

COUNTRY AT A CROSSROADS November 2 will say a lot about the American people, and our future by Victor Davis Hanson National Review November 8, 2004 Had Lincoln lost the 1864 vote, a victorious General McClellan would have settled for an American continent divided, with slavery intact. Without Woodrow Wilson's reelection in 1916 — opposed by the isolationists — Western Europe would have lost millions only to be trampled by Prussian militarism. Franklin Roosevelt's interventionism saved liberal democracy. And without the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan and his unpopular agenda for remaking the military, the Soviet Union might still be...

Arrived at my polling place at 7:15 AM , about 40 people in line, usually there is 3 or 4, all the people seem to be average church going type people, no MTV types, no one under 25., voting went smoothly with the electronic equipment, last time we had glitches., out the door by 8:15 AM

<p>In the 1990s, Afghanistan was allowed to fall to the Taliban and become the global center for the training, indoctrination and seeding of jihadists around the world -- including the mass murderers of Sept. 11, 2001. This week, just three years after a two-month war that destroyed the Taliban, Afghanistan completed its first free election, choosing as president a pro-American democrat enjoying legitimacy and wide popular support.</p>

Stretching the franchise By George F. Will Sunday, October 24, 2004 Not since the election of 1800, the first in which one party displaced another from the presidency, has there been such anxiety about voting. In 1800 there were fears that the losing side would resort to arms. Today's worry concerns a cloud of locust-like lawyers asserting novel theories that purport to demonstrate that sensible rules, such as requiring voters to have identification, are illegal, even unconstitutional. This locust litigation will erupt around any close election -- any not won beyond "the margin of litigation" The lawyering, which already has...

Sacrificing Israel By Charles Krauthammer Friday, October 22, 2004; Page A25 The centerpiece of John Kerry's foreign policy is to rebuild our alliances so the world will come to our aid, especially in Iraq. He repeats this endlessly because it is the only foreign policy idea he has to offer. The problem for Kerry is that he cannot explain just how he proposes to do this. The mere appearance of a Europhilic fresh face is unlikely to so thrill the allies that French troops will start marching down the streets of Baghdad. Therefore, you can believe that Kerry is just...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) said Monday that terrorists are aiming to derail U.S. President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s chances at re-election through their attacks in Iraq (news - web sites). AP Photo "I consider the activities of terrorists in Iraq are not as much aimed at coalition forces but more personally against President Bush (news - web sites)," Putin said at a news conference after a regional summit in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. "International terrorism has as its goal to prevent the election of President Bush to a second term,"...