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Obama orders 34 million immigrant worker cards
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Hamas influence declining in Gaza?
Recall also that on our Israel trip last November, we visited the West Bank, which, though part of Israel, is mostly Palestinian people who have elected to be governed by the non-terrorist Palestinian Authority. In the West Bank we we were served a very nice lunch in a small Palestinian college. Of course we were aware of no hostility or conflict there- the place appeared as peaceful as the rest of Israel we visited. And the Palestinians of the West Bank did not participate in Hamas’ attacks on Israel from Gaza, but remained peaceful. (Even many Arab nations opposed Hamas’ attacks on Israel.) Bethlehem is in the West Bank, and Jerusalem is on the edge of the West Bank.
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NO on Billionaires’ Background Check Law I-594
Billionaires Attack Washington Citizens
I-594 the billionaire law would require burdensome, bureaucratic, expensive and time-consuming background checks on all gun purchases, gifts, loans, handing to a friend, even in a private home, make failure to check background a felony crime, result in registration of both the firearm and the purchaser, and is a thinly-veiled first step toward confiscation of firearms and imprisonment of gun owners.
Its intent is to make good citizen gun owners into criminals, and to discourage gun ownership with impossible “red tape.” Washington State elected legislators voted this law down. The largest law enforcement organization in the state, the Washington Association of Police and Sheriffs, opposes the initiative, saying it would not get guns out of criminal hands, it would be unenforceable, and would be “an impossible bureaucratic nightmare.”
According to the Public Disclosure Commission, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer has given the most to Initiative 594 — $1.5 million, as of the last reporting period. According to records, ex-New York mayor Bloomberg, has donated $1 million; Bill and Melinda Gates have given $1 million; owner of the Los Angeles Clippers Steve Ballmer has given $825,000; and Paul Allen has donated $500,000.
The citizens’ organizations Second Amendment Foundation, WA State Rifle & Pistol Assoc., NRA, with no billionaire contributors, are being outspent more than 7 to 1.
“This is a terrible ballot initiative that was dreamed up by people who don’t even live in Washington,” NRA spokeswoman Catherine Mortensen said.
Don’t vote to please the billionaires!
VOTE NO on I-594
Also put your money & time where your heart is:
GIVE TO and SUPPORT:
Second Amendment Foundation: http://x.co/5XSPZ 12500 NE 10th PL, Bellevue WA 98005 – (425) 454-7012
WA State Rifle & Pistol Association: http://x.co/5YsvC 3903 E. Bridgeport Ave. Spokane, WA 99217- (425) 985-4867
NRA Washingtonians Against 594: www.voteno594.com 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, VA 22030 – (425) 351-4088
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Defeat The Liberals!
Let’s get behind and really push the below Republican Eleven POSITIVE Points and Speaker Boehner’s Five POSITIVE Points in these last weeks before the election!
Remember- WE MUST DEFEAT LIBERALS! Defeating liberals is now of supreme, almost eternally crucial importance!
DO NOT attack or in any way oppose or criticize or weaken Republicans who are opposing LIBERALS!
DEFEATING THE LIBERALS IS OUR PRIMARY OBJECTIVE!
Another victory by liberals will lose not only all American but all world freedom forever!
Quit the negative attacks on Obama & Co.’s outrageous errors- oh how true and obvious and disgusting and ruinous they are– and how fun to scorn and ridicule them– but negative does not win the moderate middle-road voters.
NEW WORDS TODAY: Remember that Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America” promised to America a list like the Republican positive points below, and we accomplished not only getting elected but also many items on the list– after 40 years of Democratic rule– and even though it was under a Democratic president! We can do it again– not only get elected but return the United States to real goals, real values, real progress, real jobs, real families, real security, real happiness!
Speaker Gingrich is one of our best thinkers and speakers. Watch his July, 2014 enthusiastic review of that incredible success, pushing us toward doing it again. It’s 52 minutes long BUT SUPREMELY WORTH WATCHING.
Bless and encourage yourself by watching it- it’s super RAH RAH for us, like hearing from our football coach. These are the best words you’ll hear in this election cycle:
Newt Gingrich July 14, 2014 Review of the astoundingly successful 1994 “Contract With America”
Speaker Boehner’s Five POSITIVE Fixes:
This just my Dave B’s summary of his points
1. Fix the Tax Code: Make it pro-growth and pro-family. Bring down the rates for every one, clear out al l loopholes, let people do their taxes on two sheets of paper.
2. Fix Entitlements: Our entitlement programs weren’t designed to deal with all of us retiring at once as most of us born post-WWII are now doing , and they weren’t designed for us to live to well past 80. We won’t throw these programs away , but gradually put them on a more sustainable path without radical changes.
3. Limit Damages in Lawsuits: I’m all for taking care of people who have been injured, but we ought to establish reasonable limits on lawsuits and compensation.
4. Reduce Regulations: Other countries focus on just what’s truly necessary and feasible , which means fewer regulations, only the more important and more easily implemented.
5. Improve Education: That’s why we created the first federally-funded private school choice initiative in America, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. And I’ll tell you what: it is succeeding beyond even our highest expectations. 97 percent graduating from high school. A 92 percent approval rating among parents. Why wouldn’t we go ahead and start expanding this initiative to the rest of the country? –
Republican Party’s Positive Principals for American Renewal:
Constitution: Our Constitution should be preserved, valued and honored. We need to return to our democracy with three equal branches of government with laws made by Congress elected by the people.
Economy: We need to start growing America’s economy instead of Washington’s economy so that working Americans see better wages and more opportunity.
Budget/Debt: We need to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution, make government more efficient, and leave the next generation with opportunity, not debt. Borrowing 40¢ of every dollar we spend is madness.
Healthcare: We need to reform healthcare , reduce its costs, and put patients and their doctors in charge, not unelected bureaucrats in Washington.
Veterans: Our veterans have earned our respect and gratitude, and no veteran should have to wait in line for months or years just to see a doctor.
Security: Keeping America safe and strong requires a strong military, growing the economy, energy independence, and secure borders.
Education: Every child should have an equal opportunity to get a great education; no parent should be forced to send their child to a failing school.
Poverty: The best anti-poverty program is a strong family and a good job, so our focus should be on getting people out of poverty by lifting up all people and helping them find work.
Values: Our country should value the traditions of family, life, religious liberty, and hard work.
Energy: We should make America energy independent by encouraging investment in domestic energy that will lower prices and creat e jobs at home.
Immigration: We need an immigration system that secures our borders, upholds the law, and boosts our economy.
Read Newt Gingrich’s 2013 $3 book “Breakout”
He recommends we read a $5 book by a liberal Gavin Newsome “Citizenville”
He points to the huge 1981 $56 1,093-page book by 250+ experienced conservative elected officials “Mandate for Leadership”
And oh how I wish WordPress did not add all the space between paragraphs and make other peculiar changes to my formatting!
Soon heading out a hundred miles to take my wonderful daughter to dinner tonight at the best beef steak and prime rib place in the area! Yum Yum Yum! Even on my low-carb diet: meat and salad! Need to renew my driver’s license en route. Also if I have time go to big feed store to pick up 50# or larger quantities of wheat and other grains, beans, salt, sugar, Crisco, yeast, etc. to renew my store of emergency food.
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Ecstatic! Seventeen pounds in eleven weeks!
Update Oct. 21:
Ecstasy continues! As of Oct. 1, after 11 weeks I was down 17 pounds! It is SOOOO easy on this low carb diet. I don’t feel I’m sacrificing at all. Eating great food. Sixteen pounds to go!
From Sept 2:
I am ecstatic!
Today I’m down 12.5 pounds in seven weeks!!
In just the past one month, I’m down seven pounds and two inches in girth!!
I’m on the simple low-carb diet aiming for under 50g of carbohydrates per day.
I more or less follow the dietary suggestions used and recommended by Steve Gibbs on this site:
https://www.grc.com/health/lowcarb.htm
and Steve’s podcasts with Leo LaPorte- if you’re interested, first watch at least the first podcast #124 below:
www.twit.tv/show/twit-live-specials/124
www.twit.tv/show/twit-live-specials/125
This is similar or identical to the 20-year-old Atkins Diet and the many more recent modifications of it- many are now called “ketosis” diets, as all are based on our metabolism converting from sugar/glucose-based to ketones-based.
It has been easy!
I’m almost never hungry.
The near-painful sugar craving I’ve had for years is gone! It disappeared almost the first day I started the diet.
I don’t think I’m looking gaunt in the face like I have dieting in the past.
I just intentionally eat almost NO:
Bread or other grain products
Pasta
Potatoes
Sugar (Pepsi/Coke etc., candy, fruits, honey, etc.)
While I am easily quite diligent about staying off bread, pasta, potatoes, Pepsi, candy, etc., I do break the diet eating the fruit I love now in this wonderful fruit season– four nectarines daily is 56 carbs but apparently that hasn’t damaged the diet.
I also break it periodically when rarely, for example I go out to eat with friends– with no full-service restaurant remaining here in Packwood, I go to our Pizza parlor and enjoy pizza. But most restaurant dinners are easy- I eat and fully enjoy just the meat, vegetable and salad with dressing.
It has seemed as though I’ve been so non-diligent in these ways that I was literally scared to get on the scale this morning for my monthly weigh-in. I actually said a little prayer that I’d be down at least a pound or two. But SEVEN POUNDS in one month!! I AM THANKFUL!! AND ASTOUNDED!
The diet works!
Notes about the diet: For low-carb to work, one must keep carbs below a certain level (differs among people, maybe 50 to 90 carbs) every day and at every meal- just reducing carbs a little bit across the board DOES NOT produce the low-carb effect, won’t lose weight- you remain on glucose-based metabolism. Though the American Heart Association once recommended against such a meat-heavy diet, they have now determined that for most people the diet is OK. The abbreviation “carb” means one gram of carbohydrate food.
My diet now is mostly among: meats, cheeses, sausage, cottage cheese, yogurt, eggs, and the fruit. I make no effort to avoid fats.
Twenty pounds still to lose!
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Good Passwords
“Which of the following two passwords is stronger,
more secure, and more difficult to crack?
D0g…………………
PrXyc.N(n4k77#L!eVdAfp9
“You probably suspect this is a trick question, but the answer is: Despite the fact that the first password is HUGELY easier to remember and use, it is also the stronger of the two! In fact, since it is one character longer and contains uppercase, lowercase, a number and special characters, that first password would take an attacker approximately 95 times longer to find by searching than the second impossible-to-remember-or-type password!”
For the first three characters of every one of your passwords, just use your initials but with one initial capital and one lower case, and replacing one with a number. Like for initials ABC use 1Bc (for all your passwords), then add two symbols repeated four times, like 1Bc$#$#$#$#.
All of my passwords look like that and they’re all very secure passwords.
I use this idea, but use a very simple, very easily remembered rule that changes the repeated characters and the number of times they are repeated, based on the name and length of that specific website’s name.
If you could receive PGP encrypted email, I’d tell you my rule exactly. But you can figure out your own rule that is both very easy to remember and very secure and different for every website.
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I’ve lost 5 1/2 pounds on low carbs
I just posted on FaceBook:
Good news! The scale says I’ve lost 5 1/2 pounds in three weeks on low-carbohydrate diet. My pants are already noticeably less tight! And with it 10 points down in my thankfully always normal BP!
And without hunger or discomfort!!
They say the average person loses about 5 pounds of water in our first ten days on low carbs, as our body changes from using mostly sugar to using mostly ketones. Water loss is not real fat loss, and such good weight loss may not continue. But I am pleased!
I’m essentially following the diet recommended and discussed in these two podcasts:
www.twit.tv/show/twit-live-
www.twit.tv/show/twit-live-
That means, try to be below 50g carbohydrates per day: no breads or other grain foods, no potatoes, no sugar (no Pepsi, candy, cookies, etc.), and limiting fruit. I can’t eliminate fruit now in wonderful fruit season!
I was at BMI 30.2, just barely into “obese” range. Already with my 5 1/2 pounds loss, I’m at BMI 29.3 near the top of “overweight” range. When I climbed Mt. St. Helens seven years ago, I was at BMI 25.3 low in the “overweight” range after having lost 20 pounds in four months on NutriSystem. My goal is to be no more than BMI 24.9, the maximum for “normal” which requires I lose total 33 pounds. I hope it’s possible to reach loss of 33 pounds by around November.
If you’re interested in calculating your BMI visit:
http://1.usa.gov/1sbGMFV
Typical meals: For breakfast I often eat just four of the little frozen Jimmy Dean sausage patties (zero carbs), just thawed and eaten as finger food- I almost never take time to prepare a breakfast. Eggs are also good zero carb breakfast. For lunches or brunches I often eat three slices of summer sausage with three slices of medium cheddar cheese, or if at home, a gas-grilled 4 or 5 oz lean hamburger patty, all of those being zero carbs, but plus fruit. For supper three or four fish filets or chicken patties, or an 8-oz lean burger steak, all of those again zero carbs, plus a big 12oz glass of V8 and plus fruit. If at restaurant, meat entree plus cottage cheese, sliced tomatoes and green salad with dressing. Most days my only real sugar/carbs is fruit. I’m surprised- so far at least, these are all meals I enjoy a lot! No more Pepsi- now I drink iced tea. This is similar to the well known old Atkins Diet.
And like Steve Gibson says in the podcast, I never get hungry!
But warning- the American Heart Association warns don’t go too extreme in low carbs. We all must consume 1600 to 2300 calories to fuel our bodies and brains. In reducing our carb calories, we must replace those calories with protein or fat calories. So if you go to low carbs, try to make up your required calories more in protein foods than in fat foods.
Gosh I don’t know how you all put up with FaceBook! I almost can’t read what I’m writing because of the FaceBook non-closeable pop-ups almost forcing me to enter farther into their clutches.
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Gaza: Hamas has more tunnels than expected.
“More than 60 access shafts leading to 28 tunnels have been uncovered since Israel’s ground operation — dubbed Operation Protective Edge — began on July 8.
‘We’ve been busy with the tunnels for a long time — in the last year we have discovered four in our territory,’ Ya’alon said. ‘This [could have been] dealt with diplomatically or militarily — now it’s being done militarily with a lot of success.’
IDF officials initially expected that most of the tunnels would be destroyed within days, but once on the ground learned there were more than intelligence sources knew. And on Tuesday, a U.S. intelligence source revealed that American satellite imagery had suggested that as many as 60 tunnels might have been built underneath Gaza.
Should Hamas or Islamic Jihad succeed in emerging undiscovered from one of these tunnels, there could be carnage on a massive scale.”
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