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KATRINA: Of Highest Importance: Please Read, Share and Help! Hurricane Assistance, Assistance Opportunities (Very Important Note from MS in FL: If you think this has merit, please pass it along to the powers that be -- newspapers, politicians, etc... There is a veritable sea of construction trailers and truck/shipping containers --including refrigerated ones -- that can be donated, purchased or loaned. Send in crews -- and don't forget to hire those left homeless and jobless who so desperately need the work/income -- cut windows, doors, roof a/c, plumbing, insulation, etc.. They are about the same size as older mobile home...

Cape Coral and Hurricane Charley August 18, 2004 By Mary F. Stump Cape Coral, Florida westump@earthlink.net Hey folks! We got back into town on Sunday afternoon, passed Punta Gorda and a mobile home village -- or what was left of it -- butted up against Interstate 75. There is nothing but debris -- aluminum, fiberglass, wood all strewn about in patternless fashion. Sign poles with directions and exits from I-75 are snapped off or broken in half, while the signs themselves are laying haphazardly bent and twisted on the ground or hanging on fences. Destruction on a massive scale like...

Sheriff Warns Hage of Possible Cattle Confiscation and Arrest August 17, 2004 Nevada Live Stock Association For Immediate Release Contact: Ramona Morrison 775.424.0570 rhmorrison@sbcglobal.net Nye County, Nevada - According to Nye County Sheriff, Tony DeMeo, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in the midst of finalizing post-trial briefs in a thirteen-year old lawsuit with Nye County rancher, Wayne Hage, and in a move of apparent direct defiance of the several recent court decisions, are preparing to confiscate Hage’s cattle on his ranch in Nye County, Nevada. Hage was notified Friday, August 13, 2004, by Sheriff DeMeo,...

The Lady Truck Driver and The Gipper - and - The Man That Was, Is and Will Always Be: Reagan June 5, 2004 By Julie Kay Smithson propertyrights@earthlink.net Late one autumn Sunday evening during "the Reagan Years", I loaded twenty-one tons of rolled paper at a small manufacturer located in Dixon, Illinois, President Reagan's boyhood home. Ready to depart, I asked the shipping clerk if it would be possible for me to drive near Ronald Reagan's home on my way out of town. He chuckled and said that it would not only be possible, but also that I would have...

Nationwide Rally for Terri has One-Person Rally near London, Ohio - It was WORTH IT! May 10, 2004 By Julie Kay Smithson propertyrights@earthlink.net I got a sunburn -- part of it on top of my poison ivy! :-) BUT...it was worth it! It's the first one-person Rally I've ever done, so there aren't any photos, but I had a double-sided sign that said "Honk 4 Life: Save Terri Schiavo" and got LOTS of honks at the intersection (with traffic light) of two major state highways just north of Interstate 70 in west-central Ohio, Routes 42 and 29. Folks that saw...

Regional Governance is Here "This commission has become a nightmare, beyond the reach of either state government, or Congress, short of repealing the Act altogether. This appointed commission has absolute authority over all land use within the designated counties, with the authority to override both county and state elected officials..." March 1, 2004 By Henry Lamb henry@freedom.org NewsWithViews.com To submit a Letter to the Editor: newswithviews@newswithviews.com There are currently six Regional Commissions in place, or pending final approval, which impact states from New York to California; from Florida to Washington. Few people realize that these regional commissions even exist, or...

The Man Without a Country By Edward Everett Hale (1917) http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/ManOut.shtml I suppose that very few casual readers of the New York Herald of August 13th observed, in an obscure corner, among the "Deaths", the announcement: NOLAN. Died, on board U.S. Corvelette Levant, Lat. 2 deg; 11" S., Long. 131 deg; W., on the 11th of May, Philip Nolan. I happened to observe it, because I was stranded at the old Mission-House in Mackinac, waiting for a Lake Superior steamer which did not choose to come, and I was devouring, to the very stubble, all the current literature I could...

Anti-American forces not new February 11, 2004 By Bill Love Excerpted with permission from the Brevard Insider Malabar, Florida http://www.BrevardInsider.com/index.html To submit a Letter to the Editor: ESCMC@aol.com President George Washington offered some timely warnings to the citizens of the United States, in his 1796 Farewell Address: "One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the Constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus, to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown..." Washington knew even then that insidious forces were stalking our country, seeking to undermine its constitutional fiber. (I've described these "forces"...

Idaho Wolf Management - Wolves in Idaho January 29, 2004 Idaho Fish and Game Information (IDFG) http://www2.state.id.us/fishgame/ The US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reintroduced fifteen wolves into Idaho in 1995. At that time, the Idaho Legislature strictly limited Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) involvement with wolves and wolf recovery. The USFWS proceeded with recovery and contracted with the Nez Perce Tribe to implement wolf management in Idaho. In 1996 an additional 20 wolves were reintroduced. Since that time, the number of wolves in Idaho has increased, and in 2003 we have approximately 362 wolves, 25 verified breeding...

Diamond Bar Herds Face Removal Starting Feb. 7 (Note: Anyone that discusses the Diamond Bar issue needs to read [the Wayne Hage] article -- immediately below the two Diamond Bar articles. For much truth on this nightmare, please visit the excellent Gila National Forest Permittees Association website: http://www.cowboysandcattlecountry.0catch.com/diamondbarfrms.htm "The permit denial letter -- http://www.cowboysandcattlecountry.0catch.com/articles/united_states.htm -- was identical for every permit the Laney's filed for between Spring of 2000 and winter of 2002. They applied for the permit 3 times and were denied. Meanwhile the same ranger who kept denying the permit was also trying to purchase the Black Canyon Camp...