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March 14th --- Paintingwith a Twist a la PolkCounty with Rose West,at the Livingston FireHall. There will be afee associated with thisevent to pay for paintingsupplies.

We will have toRSVP and pay Rose in

advance for thesupplies and materials.We need to make surewe have enough sup-plies for everyone. I will

visit with Rose aboutthe cost of supplies.The RSVP date will

need to be around

March 1, 2013. We donot have to pay for theFire Hall --- they are al-

lowing us to use it free

of charge. Thank youCorky Cochran and allthe firemen!!

Everyone is respon-

sible for bringing theirown food and bever-

ages --- it's an eveningbrown-sack lunch

event! Bring pizza,

sandwiches, wine, etc,

whatever your heart de-sires. There will be nocalorie counting hap-pening at this event.We will start around5:30 pm. Make sureyou bring something tocover up your workclothes/nice clothes orbring extra clothing forthat evening.

The next noon meet-

ing will be at Jalisco's

Texas Pepper withRita Cromartie, "FitTexas" ---- just in time

for summer and bathingsuit season!

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The Women’s League

of San Jacinto Countyhas scheduled its annualspring style show andluncheon for March 14,

2013. The event will beheld at the ColdspringUnited Methodist ChurchFellowship Hall.

Spring styles andfashions will be providedby Sue’s Boutique on theLake in Onalaska and

modeled by members of

the League.A silent auction will

also be held. Bidding on

items donated by League

members and area mer-chants will begin at 11:30

a.m. League membersand guests may arrive

any time after 11:30.

Lunch, prepared by the

Church Ladies, will be

served at noon. Tickets for the event

are $20.00 and may bepurchased fromWomen’s League mem-bers. For more informa-tion call ArnetteDaugherty at 377-3906.

Top Left Picture: Bea Glassco, member of theSJC Women’s League, lookslike a spring flower in her newoutfit from Sue’s Boutique onthe Lake in Onalaska. She willbe modeling this outfit andother fashions at the annualSpring Style Show & Lunch-eon on March 14, 2013, atthe Coldspring UnitedMethodist Church.

Boom Picture:Katy Smith, 1st Vice-Presi-dent of the Women’s Leagueof SJC, had a hard time decid-ing which accessories tochoose for her new spring out-

fit. She will be modeling springfashions from Sue’s Boutiqueon the Lake at the SpringStyle Show and Luncheon onMarch 14, 2013, at theColdspring United MethodistChurch.

San Jacinto County Women’s League2013 Spring Style Show and Luncheon

It’s time again for our

Quarterly Membership

Luncheon! This lun-

cheon’s topic will be on

Tourism and will be heldat Camp Cho-Yeh from

12:00 to 1:00 pm on

Tuesday, March 19th.We are inviting all of our

members that have

Tourism related busi-nesses to set up an in-

formational table to tell alittle about yourself and

give others some ideas

for their families and/orguest of Polk County.

Continuing to educate

the community is impor-tant to assist and en-

courage local growth and

expansion. It is key to

know what is being of-

fered to our local resi-

dents and for our

welcomed visitors so wecan stay persistent with

our support and spend-

ing locally!!! Space is limited to

display information and

will be 1st come, 1stserve. Please RSVP a

spot if you would like totake advantage of show-

casing what you have to

offer as soon as possi-ble! Deadline to reserve

space is Friday, March

8th. Coupons are agreat idea, with hopes it

will encourage members

to visit your business

and promoting to spend

local and support our

community! Please let

us know if you will havesomeone at your

info/display table or if

you would like to just layout some info,

brochures, etc. in your

reply email. Tickets are$12.00 each and must

be purchased in advancefor food count. You must

have a ticket to set up an

in info/display table. NOTICKETS WILL BE

SOLD AT THE DOOR.

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By Crystal Laramore

Life works in mysteri-

ous ways and I metBruce Bramlett, executive

director of the BattleshipTexas Foundation,through a series ofevents that can only bedescribed as divine inter-vention. Most of youreading this article bleedall the colors of the Amer-ican Flag, as do I, asdoes Bruce, as does theBattleship Texas. During

the monthly meeting atthe Houston Gun Collec-tors Association I was ex-cited that our guestspeaker was someone

from the Battleship Texas.I was sure he was goingto speak of the splendor

of the Battleship Texas,

which he did. What I wassurprised to hear was thelevel of decay she is in.

Bruce was on a heart-

string-pulling-mission,aka a fund-raising mis-sion…for the USS Texas.

Her long-term survival,

her life, depends on get-ting her out of the water

and dry berthed. This willonly happen by the gen-

erosity of YOU! Whether

you are a Congressman,

a Senator, a General, a

Colonel, a veteran or apatriot or the mother/fa-

ther/son/daughter of any

of the above and you arereading this paper-She

needs YOU! She served her county

in a way no other ship

had before or has since.She has been strong,

brave and heroic for over

100 years and now SHEneeds a hero. She needs

many, many heroes.

And, yes, she needs dol-lars, $75 million of themto be exact. It’s a daunt-ing number at first glanceand almost unbelievable,but take a closer look ather, as I have, and youwill see not only hergreatness but also thevastness of her troublesand you too will haveyour heartstrings pulled.

How can you help?Many ways:

Are you a gun collec-

tor? Bruce Bramlett and

his team have guns forsale! .45-caliber Coltsemi-automatic pistols to

be exact! The pistols are

modeled after the 100weapons the arms makergave the crew prior to the

ship's 1912 launching.

About 2,000 pistols,engraved with images ofthe ship at various points

in its career along with

the Texas star, are forsale in observance of the

2014 centennial of thewarship's commissioning.

"The Mighty T - 100

Years" is engraved on

each pistol.

Until May 1, the pistolsonly cost $1,699; but

after that the price in-

creases to $2,014. Or-ders will be accepted

through Sept. 1. Whatan amazing piece of his-

tory to give as a gift or to

purchase for yourself!Close to 100 firearms

have been sold to date!

Why the pistols? Well,this is Texas and we ARE

in America! We are a pa-

triotic nation and Bruce isso patriotic that alongwith saving the USSTexas he wanted a wayfor people to afford op-portunity to grip a littlepiece of the history in thepalm of their hands. Plusyou will have an emo-tional, historic tie to the100th anniversary of thechristening of the Battle-

ship Texas. Bramlettsays the commemorativepistols, though functional

firearms are targeted pri-

marily at the collectorsmarket. Bruce and histeam are also trying to

figure out a way to makepistol grips out of theoriginal wood flooring thathas become unusable.

Are you a philanthro-

pist? The USS Texas’foundation is a private or-ganization that donates

money for the ship's up-keep and arranges tours

and overnight stays for

visitors. The ship isdocked near the San Jac-

into Monument in LaPorte, TX. There is quite

a view of the monument

from the bow of the ship.

The USS Texas is ownedby the Texas Parks and

Wildlife Department and

you can make donationsspecifically for her.

Ship manager AndySmith said, “The most

critical repairs will be

strengthening areas be-neath the engines, which

weigh 1,100 tons each,

and the aft-most tanks.Presently, the supporting

structures have lost 80

percent of their viability.”Andy also said the re-

pairs are expected totake about 18 months tocomplete, which will befunded through a $25 mil-lion bond issue Texas vot-ers approved in 2007.

Until last summer, thestate had hoped to makenecessary repairs andthen place the old dread-

nought - the only existing

battleship to fight in bothworld wars - in dry dock.Then, beginning in early

July, a series of leaks un-derscored the vessel'sperilous condition.

State plans to exhibitthe ship in an out-of-

water setting wereshelved indefinitely after

it was determined that theeffort could cost as muchas $75 million. Repairing

the ship's summer leaks,Bramlett says, cost thestate more than $2 mil-lion.

Final thought: On theafternoon of SundayMarch 3rd my phone rangand it was Bruce. “Crys-tal, this is Bruce. Hey,

can you get in touch with

Glen Beck?” Imagine my

surprise. My first thought

was “NO. Are you KID-DING me right now?” My

second thought-which is

what I said to Bruce-was,“Of course I can. I will be

seeing him at the NRAconvention and I will

make sure to give him a

copy of this paper.” Todate that was one of the

most ego-boosting phone

calls I have ever had.When I say divine in-

tervention I mean it. If

not for the graciousnessof Jesse Coburn of

Coburn CB’s in Liv-ingston, TX I would notbelong to the NRA and ifnot for the generosity andfriendship of Jack &Penny Uselton and theircousin Rick Uselton, withUselton Firearms in Ten-nessee and Rick Clay(who I hope to write a

book with) I would not be

going backstage at theNRA convention andmeeting Glenn Beck and

Ted Nugent. BTW, Tedwill also receive a copy ofthis newspaper. Justsayin’! And if not forGod…

Bruce and I have a lotof plans to raise money,

have fun and save a ship!Ami Blackwell with Spin-Drift Media & Entertain-

ment and I have twoevents we are workingon. One involves TexasSinger-Songwriters, Polit-

ical Leaders/Activists andmaybe even a fly-over!

So, if we call you, besure we intend to incor-porate your help, take

your money and/or build

She’s A Lady & She Needs A Hero!

Don’t Sink My Baleship!March 2013_TDGT Tabloid 3/5/13 7:09 PM


TOP DOLLAR GOLD BUYERS

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Fellow Patriot,

I need your help now

more than ever.

In my last message Itold you about the effort

to remove me from office

through a recall cam-

paign.

Well, just this week,the group behind this re-

call effort posted a com-

ment on their site from anindividual who stated the

following:

"He should see thecolor of his skin and

where he comesfrom...stupid

motherf***er...let's kill

him. I will kill him for free.I am going to Arizona to

kill that a**hole."

Ignacio Carbajal is a U.S.Citizen living in Arizona

who wrote these words

while visiting Mexico. As disappointed as I

am about this, I under-stand that there are stillelements and people inthis country that have norespect for the Rule ofLaw; that there are thosewho cannot accept themajority will when it

comes to fair elections;that there are those whowant to thwart the will of

the voters and make

them pay for a costly spe-cial election.

What I don't under-

stand is why some ofthese groups would toler-

ate the idea of violence

committed by their mem-bers.

The threat was postedon a Facebook site called

"People Against Sheriff

Joe Arpaio." This site isone of many dedicated to

raising money and organ-

izing the effort behind myrecall campaign.

And, this is not the first

threat made against mylife. Many threats havecome in from drug cartelsin Mexico to other sus-pects around the country.And several people havebeen arrested for makingthese threats.

It's one thing to dis-agree about public policy

but threatening violenceagainst specific individu-als is way beyond re-

proach.

The same people who

tried to beat me in last

year's election are nowtrying to recall me from

office and now appear to

be tolerating murderthreats by individuals

within their organization.That's wrong.

I'm going to continue

to do the job you electedme to do despite these

threats against my life. I

will always work for youand I will never back

down one inch because

of political or physicalthreats against me.

Clearly the people be-hind this recall effort areserious. So serious thatnot only do they want toend my term in office,they seem to want to endme, period.

I ask that you pleasesupport my campaigntoday with a much-

needed contribution.

Please follow this link to

make your instant contri-bution of $25, $50, $100

or more. I don't have to

tell you what is at stake ifthese people are suc-

cessful.

It is an honor and aprivilege to serve as the

Sheriff. I took an oath toprotect and defend the

United States Constitu-

tion. I intend to do justthat no matter what the

consequences.

Please click here tomake a donation today. I

must have the support of

good people like you ifI'm going to survive thisrecall effort.

Very Sincerely Yours,

Sheriff Joe ArpaioMaricopa County, Arizona

Sheriff’s Roundup

Battleship

Cont’d from Pg 5

on your love of God &country in this daunting

and fulfilling task. And

Jay, we are also planninga little game of golf…

Anyone interested in pur-chasing a gun or donating tothe USS Texas should contactBruce Bramlett at 713-827-9620. If you are interested inhelping with the Music FestFundraiser “She’s a Lady &She Needs a Hero” or the GolfTournament, email CrystalLaramore at [email protected] and put Battle-

ship in the subject line.

Google Battleship Texas orUSS Texas to read more about

her.


ATTENTION Republicans!

The Polk County Republican Club meetsthe first Tuesday of each month and be-ginning in March (5) the meetings will be

held at Shrimp Boat Manny’s.

Coldspring

American Legion Post 629

Browder’s Marina

Bear Heating & Appliance

Coldspsring Cafe

Coldspring Library

Crystal’s Bistro

El Taquito

Frank’s Liquor

Lucky Star Cleaners

Shell

Valero

Livingston

Bear Arms

Car Care CornerCoburn's CB’s

FNB of Livingston

Gigs of Knowledge

Indian Hills Marina

People’s State Bank

Pedigo Furniture

Post Net

Premier Tire

Pueblo Viejo

Signs & Printing

Shrimp Boat Manny’s

Shipley’s Donuts

Urgent Doc Clinic

West U

El Paso Furniture

Kirby Cleaners

Krogers

Randalls

Rice Epicurian

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Polk Co. Chamber:

Contact us: Livingston-Polk County Chamber of

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Celebrating Women:

Mind, Body, SpiritWomen's Conference

with Keynote Speaker

Candace Bushnell, authorof "Sex and the City" April

5, 2013.

San Jacinto County

14 - Noon, Women's

League meets at Cold-spring United MethodistChurch

19 - Noon - ChamberMembers Luncheon - Lo-cation TBA21 - Coldspring GardenClub Field Trip - TimeTBA

21 - 6:00 p.m. Demo-cratic Party, San Jacinto

County Meeting at Cold-spring Community Center23 - Trades Day, SanJacinto County Historical

Commission936.653.2332

25 - Kelly Miller Circus,Shepherd Chamber ofCommerce 936.628.3890

30 - March Madness,Coldspring Area Business& Merchants Association936.653.2332Coldspring / San JacintoCounty Chamber of

CommerceP O Box 980,

Coldspring, Texas [email protected]

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million places to place

your advertising dollarsand we are not only

grateful you choose to

place your hard earnedmoney in our hands but

we want to assure you it’s

the RIGHT place! We area group of networkers at

heart; from the peoplewho read/subscribe to the

people who contribute to

the people who do ourad-work all the way to our

editors. We are addicted

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from Clear Lake to LakeLivingston and a lot of

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The Dam Good Timestravels all over the worldgetting attention. Re-cently one of our Liv-ingston readers had ourpaper in New York andnow we have our THIRD

subscriber there! Now,that may not sound like alot but seriously, its uswe’re talking about!

The Dam Good Times

paper has spread acrossthis country in a way thathumbles my heart. We

are passed out at gun

shows and various con-ventions throughoutTexas as well. We have

been seen and read by

some of the most influen-tial people in the UnitedStates of America and

have received countless

accolades for our unwa-vering patriotism. We

support our troops inword and in deed and we

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Know that when you

spend money advertising

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just yet...we talk aboutour advertisers in our

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working...I think I said that

once already...Inessence, we are passion-

ate about our publication

and our advertisers!When you advertise

with us people know you

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services. Our goal is tohave a small group ofloyal advertisers who be-lieve the way we do; in astrong America, a strongmilitary, the right to beararms and a small govern-ment. We believe in free-dom, liberty and justicefor all!

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Military MinutesBy Dean Garrison

I feel a tremendous re-

sponsibility to write this

article though I am a littleapprehensive. Thinking

about the possibility ofrising up against our own

government is a frighten-

ing thing for many of us. Iam not Johnny Rambo

and I will be the first to

admit that I do not wantto die. The reason I feel

compelled to write this,

however, is simply be-cause I don’t think the av-

erage American isequipped with the facts. Ifeel that a lot of Americancitizens feel like theyhave no choice but tosurrender their guns if thegovernment comes forthem. I blame traditionalmedia sources for thismass brainwash and Icarry the responsibility ofall small independentbloggers to tell the truth.

So my focus today is tolay out your constitutionalrights as an American,

and let you decide what

to do with those rights.About a month ago I

let the “democracy” word

slip in a discussion with a

fellow blogger. I knowbetter. Americans havebeen conditioned to use

this term. It’s not an accu-

rate term and it never hasbeen a correct term todescribe our form of gov-

ernment. The truth is that

the United States ofAmerica is a constitu-

tional republic. This is

similar to a democracybecause our representa-

tives are selected by

democratic elections, butultimately our representa-

tives are required to work

within the framework ofour constitution. In other

words, even if 90% ofAmericans want some-

thing that goes against

our founding principles,they have no right to call

for a violation of constitu-

tional rights.If you are reli-

gious you might

choose to think ofit this way… Saythat members ofyour congregationdecide that massfornication is agood thing. Dothey have the rightto change theteachings of your

God? The truth isthe truth. It doesn’tmatter how manypeople try to stray

from it. Did I justcompare ourfounders to God?In a way I did, but

please note that I

am not trying to in-sult anyone. Forthe purpose of the Ameri-

can Government our con-

stitution and founderswho wrote it are muchlike God is to believers. It

is the law. It is indis-

putable.Our founders did not

want a “democracy” forthey feared a true democ-

racy was just as danger-

ous as a monarchy. Thefounders were highly ed-

ucated people who were

experienced in defendingthemselves against

tyranny. They understood

that the constitution couldprotect the people by lim-

iting the power of anyoneto work outside of it much

better than a pure system

of popularity. A system ofchecks and balances was

set up to help limit cor-

ruption of government

and also the potential for

an “immoral majority” de-veloping within the Ameri-

can People. We haveforgotten in this country

that we are ultimatelyruled by a constitution.

Why is a democracy po-tentially just as danger-ous as a monarchy? Let’slook at something that

Benjamin Franklin saidbecause it answers that

question more fully and

succinctly than I can.Democracy is two

wolves and a lamb voting

on what to have for lunch.Liberty is a well-armed

lamb contesting the vote.-Benjamin Franklin

Even 230+ years ago our

founders were perceptiveenough to realize that

democracy was a dan-

gerous form of govern-ment. How so?

Because the citi-

zens of a countrycan become just ascorrupt as any gov-ernment. We haveseen evidence ofthis throughout his-tory. Ask NativeAmericans andAfrican-Americans ifthis population can

become corrupt.I think in 2012

we are seeing evi-dence of what

Franklin was tryingto tell us. Just be-cause a majority ofpeople may support

certain ideas it doesnot mean that those

ideas are just. Insimple terms, just be-cause most Americanslove our president and

voted for him, it does notmean that he has thepower to go against ourconstitutional rights.

Next I’d like to reviewthe text of the second

amendment. It is veryclear. This is the law of

this land. So when Sena-

tor Feinstein or President

Obama talk about takingyour guns, you need to

think about something.

Are they honoring theirsworn oath to uphold the

constitution?A well regulated Mili-

tia, being necessary to

the security of a freeState, the right of the

people to keep and bear

Arms, shall not be in-fringed.

This is a pretty clear

statement. The fact is thatit took 232 years for the

Supreme Court to evenrule on this amendmentbecause it has neverbeen successfully chal-lenged. In 2008 a case ofColumbia v. Heller theSupreme Court ruled thata handgun ban in Wash-ington D.C. was unconsti-tutional. One also has to

take this into considera-tion. The Supreme Courtsupports your right to

own guns. If you want to

research this decision fur-ther you can start here.

For those who try to

debate the spirit of the2nd amendment, they aretruly no different frompeople who will try to takeBiblical quotes out of con-

text to try to support theirimmoral decisions. Thefounders were very clearon the intent of the 2ndamendment. Let me

share a few quick quoteshere:

The strongest reasonfor people to retain theright to keep and bear Continued on Page 12

If They Come For Your Guns, Do You Have A Responsibility to Fight?



March 2013 The Dam Good Times Page11

Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone stands around reloading. Thomas Jefferson


Continued from Page 10

arms is, as a last resort,to protect themselvesagainst tyranny in gov-ernment. -Thomas Jeffer-son

Firearms stand next inimportance to the Consti-tution itself. They are theAmerican people’s libertyteeth and keystone underindependence … Fromthe hour the Pilgrimslanded, to the presentday, events, occurrences,and tendencies provethat to insure peace, se-curity and happiness, therifle and pistol are equallyindispensable . . . thevery atmosphere offirearms everywhere re-strains evil interference –they deserve a place ofhonor with all that isgood. -George Washing-ton

The Constitution shallnever be construed….toprevent the people of theUnited States who arepeaceable citizens fromkeeping their own arms. -Samuel Adams

I could find hundredsof quotes like these. Thiscountry was built on theright to bear arms. It wasbuilt on the rights of anindividual to bear arms,regardless of what hisgovernment or neighborhappened to think. This iscrystal clear. Ironically thepeople who voice theiropinions against this righthave their free speechprotected by your guns.Without guns in thiscountry, all other amend-ments become null andvoid, simply because “Wethe People” will lose ourpower of enforcement.

We need to keep thisin mind as our “represen-tatives” try to push gunbans. I don’t care if 99%of people are in supportof gun bans (which is farfrom the case), it is a vio-lation of our constitutionalrights, plain and simple.

A constitutional repub-lic protects the rights ofthe individual even whentheir ideas are very much

in the minority. If I werethe only person in Amer-ica who believed in the2nd amendment, I wouldstill be within my rights tocall upon it. You would allthink I was insane andpossibly celebrate if I wasgunned down, but in theend I would be the onlytrue American among us.

Our framers were veryclear on this. If my gov-ernment comes to takemy guns, they are violat-ing one of my constitu-tional rights that iscovered by the 2ndamendment.

It is not my right, atthat point, but my respon-sibility to respond in thename of liberty. What Iam telling you is some-thing that many are tryingto soft sell, and many oth-ers have tried to avoidputting into print, but I amgoing to say it. The timefor speaking in code isover.

If they come for ourguns then it is our consti-tutional right to put themsix feet under. You havethe right to kill any repre-sentative of this govern-ment who tries to treadon your liberty. I am think-ing about self-defenseand not talking about in-citing a revolution. Re-read Jefferson’s quote.He talks about a “last re-sort.” I am not trying tostart a Revolt, I am talk-ing about self-defense. Ifthe day for Revolutioncomes, when no peacefuloptions exist, we mayhave to talk about that aswell. None of us wants tothink about that, butplease understand that amajority can not takeaway your rights as anAmerican citizen. Onlyyou can choose to giveup your rights.

Congress could passgun ban legislation by a90%+ margin and it justwould not matter. I thinksome people are very un-clear on this. This is thereason we have aSupreme Court, andthough I do not doubt thatthe Supreme Court can

also become corrupt, in2008 they got it right.They supported the con-stitution. It does not mat-ter what the majoritysupports because Amer-ica is not a democracy. Aconstitutional republicprotects the rights ofevery single citizen, nomatter what their “electedservants” say. A majorityin America only matterswhen the constitution isnot in play.

I just wrote what everybeliever in the constitu-tion wants to say, andwhat every constitutionalblogger needs to write.The truth of the matter isthat this type of speech isviewed as dangerous andradical or subversive, andit could gain me a worldof trouble that I do notwant. It is also the truth.To make myself clear Iwill tell you again. If theycome for your guns it isyour right to use thoseguns against them and tokill them. You are pro-tected by our constitution.

Most of the articles Iam reading on the sub-ject are trying to give youclues without just comingout and saying it. I under-stand that because cer-tain things in this countrywill get you on a list thatyou don’t want to be on. Imay well be on that list.This blog is small andgrowing so I may not bethere yet, but I havedreams. I also have myown list of subversivesand anyone who attemptsto deny my constitutionalrights is on that list.

I am not the “subver-sive” here, it is the politi-cal representatives whoare threatening to takeaway my inalienablerights. If they come totake my guns and I leavea few of them woundedor dead, and I somehowsurvive, I have zero doubtthat I will spend a longtime in prison and mayface an execution. But Iwould much rather be apolitical prisoner than aslave.

If I go down fighting

then I was not fighting toharm these human be-ings. I was simply de-fending my liberty andyours. It is self-defenseand it is what our countrywas built on. We won ourfreedom in self-defense.We would not be ruled bya tyrannical governmentin the 1770′s and we willnot be ruled in 2012 by atyrannical government.There is no difference.

This is a case of rightand wrong. As of now the2nd amendment stands.It has never been re-pealed. If Feinstein orBarack have a problemwith the constitution thenthey should be removedfrom office. They are notdefending the constitutionwhich they have swornan oath to protect. It istreasonous to say theleast. They would likelysay the same about me,but I have the constitu-tion, the founders, andthe supreme court on myside. They only have theirinflated egos.

I am not writing this toincite people. I am writingthis in hopes that some-how I can make a tiny dif-ference. I have no ideahow many of my neigh-bors have the will to de-fend their constitutionalrights. 2%? 20%? I amafraid that 20% is a highnumber, unfortunately.When push comes toshove many people maygive up and submit tobeing ruled. I believe thatour government is bank-ing on this.

What I do know is thatthis country was foundedby people who had ballsthe size of Texas and Pa-triotic Americans take shitoff of no one, especiallyour own government. Forevidence of that, youmight research the Revo-lutionary War. My ques-tion is how many Patriotsare left?

I would hope that ourofficials come to realizethat, regardless of ournumbers, we still existbecause they are callingPatriotic Americans to ac-

tion. They are making usdecide if we want to diefree or submit to theirrule. I can not tell youwhere you should standon that. I do know that itmay make the differencebetween living a life offreedom or slavery.

You must start thinkingabout this because Ibelieve that the day iscoming soon and I per-sonally believe it hasalready been planned.Not all conspiracy the-ories are hogwash.They may throw downthe gauntlet soon andmy suggestion is thatyou prepare yourself toreact.

I mean no disre-spect to our elected of-ficials but they need tounderstand that “Wethe People” will not bedisarmed. If they pro-ceed then it is they thatare provoking us andwe will act accordingly.We are within ourrights to do so.

For those who arein support of taking theguns, you need to askyourself a very impor-tant question, and I amnot just talking aboutthe politicians, be-cause if you supportthem, you have chosenyour side.

Are you willing todie to take my gun?

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Sent in by the Colorado

(no, not the Texas)

Bureau of TDGT

Chappell Hill is a small

town between Houstonand Brenham on Hwy

290. Any would-be rob-

bers planning to walkinto this bank had better

think twice. There's anew sign in town. About

a month ago, Chappell

Hill Bank president Edward Smith looked at a

sign on the front door

prohibiting concealedweapons from his bankand decided to make apolicy change. Licensedto carry a handgun?Come on in, and bringyour weapon.

The sign, now promi-nently displayed on thebank's front door, says:

"Lawful concealed carry

permitted on these prem-

ises. Management rec-

ognizes the Second

Amendment of the U.S.Constitution as an in-

alienable right of all citi-

zens. We thereforesupport and encourage

the carrying of licensed

concealed weapons." Smith said he made

the policy change to senda warning to potential

robbers, and to express

support for Americans tobear arms. "We had the

conventional sign on the

window, with the red cir-cle and pistol inside and

a line through it. I started

thinking...we've got this"no gun" sign up, so a

robber can come in anddo anything he wants.But if we've got a policythat allows handguns, hewon't know how manypeople in the bank aregonna be carrying a con-cealed weapon. Theremay be some little oldlady who's mad at thegovernment, and would

love to use her concealed

weapon," he said.

The bank has been

robbed twice in the last

three years, including last

March when a manwalked in, ordered bankemployees to fill a canvas

bag with money, and thenfled in a pickup truck.

The man, who didn't

brandish a weapon, has

not been caught.

The sign has made

Chappell Hill Bank some-what of

an Inter-

net cu-riosity. A

photo of

the signhas

made itsway

around

theworld,

and

Smithhas

been in-

ter-viewed

for theNationalRifle As-socia-tion'sradio

networkwww.nranews.com/#/nranews . He's also beencontacted by variousmedia outlets wanting in-

terviews. "It's kind of

gotten a life of its own,"

he said. Expressions of

support have far outnum-

bered criticism. "I haven't gotten any

reactions from Chicago or

California, which doesn'tsurprise me," Smith said

with a chuckle.

The policy change hasalso brought Chappell Hill

Bank some new cus-tomers, as well as com-

ments from people

outside WashingtonCounty, saying that

they'd bank there if they

lived here, said Smith. "Itell them that we're a full-

service bank, and we're

on the Internet. They canbank online," he said.

Editor’s Note: I wouldalso like everyone to notethe bank is backed by$45,000 worth ofGold...wonder when thesign was made and howmuch the gold is worthnow?


Commentary


By Matt Bruner

Years ago, I had fin-

ished a restoration of aVolkswagen Convertible

and was looking for an-

other project. A friendpointed out a VolkswagenKarmann Ghia in a localauto repair’s junk corral.For those of you thatdon’t remember, the Ghiawas a small and sportytwo-door Volkswagen, farahead of the “bug” instyle. I visited the shop,

made a quick deal withthe car’s owner andtowed it home.

The body was in pretty

good condition, includingthe protruding nose,which typically had beendented in once or a few

times. Good news, butthe paint and interiorwould wait until the me-

chanical issues were ad-

dressed. First the enginewas seized. Word wasthat it ran when it was

parked, so I assumed it to

be rust and not a me-chanical failure. Isprayed a bunch of rust

dissolver into the cylin-

ders, removed the rockerarm covers and tapped

the rockers with a ham-

mer. All moved exceptone – problem found.

The exhaust valve on onecylinder was stuck open,

which kept the piston on

that cylinder from movingbeyond a point. I would

give that cylinder a spray

and tap it a few timeseach day. After several

days, it came free.

I poured a little gasdown the carburetor and

it started. So I was ontocleaning out the old gastank and replacing therotted fuel lines, rebuild-ing the seized brakecalipers on the front axle,checking light bulbs anda host of other little me-chanical issues.

When the mechanicalissues were solved, Kelly

and I took the car out toget pizza. About one milefrom the house at a stop-light, a full-size truck

pulled beside us. The bigchrome bumper was ateye level. We decided atthat moment, while star-

ing at that bumper, that

the car would be sold, notkept.

I ran an ad in the local

paper. The first guy that

came to see it offered meabout half of what I wasasking and half of what a

fair price would have

been. On my refusal, hebecame indignant and

said he had another “bet-ter and cheaper” car to

look at and left abruptly.

As he was pulling away,

my second prospect ar-

rived. He quickly looked

over the car, acknowl-edged the work to be

done, welcomed it as a

father-son project andagreed to my asking

price.

While he was peelingoff $100s, the first guy re-

turns, apparently havingdriven around the block.

He asks me what I am

doing with “his” car. I re-minded him that he did

not want it at my asking

price, so I sold it to some-one else. He began tocry, kick the ground, andloudly exclaim how stupidhe was. I offered no re-assurance for his mentalcapacity, but I did tell himthat there were othercars. He left a wet andsobbing mess.

That was actually thesecond time I sold the

car. The first time was toa gentleman who “always

wanted a red car.” I re-minded him that the carneeded work, that it wasa restoration that had just

begun. He just bought itand drove it. I bought it

back where it sat forabout half of the selling

price, with a perforatedpiston and a showing ofmy big heart. I towed ithome again. Under atarp during a rainstorm, Ireplaced the engine with

a spare I had. For thosethat don’t know, the Volk-

swagen engine has fourbolts, a fuel line and a

couple of wires – that’s

about it.

After I sold the car the

second time, I bought a

1951 Chevrolet. I hadseen the ad in the paper

and had tried to reach the

man dozens of times withno answer. (This was be-

fore cell phones and the

ubiquitous answeringservice.) When the ad

reappeared, I called andgot the man. He basi-

cally said, “It’s in the yard

– if you want it knock onthe door.” I looked at the

car, knocked, and offered

him about 60 percent ofhis asking price. He said“nope” and slammed thedoor. No negotiation, no

insistence on the full

price, not even a second

word. I left, got about two

blocks and called himfrom a pay phone. “Your

full price, cash, I will be

back in four minutes.”

“Deal.”

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By Penny Uselton

I wrote this piece be-

fore the November elec-tion of 2012 in late

September. I was hop-ing, upon hope, that we

would have new leader-

ship at the helm of ourcountry getting ready tosteer us out of this abyssand on the right coursewith honor and dignity.

Benghazi is a perfectexample of everythinggone wrong with the di-rection of this inept, and

feckless, executivebranch of our govern-ment under Obama’sleadership. Talk about

getting caught with yourpants down! TheFACTS are they

knew within the first

hour that the consulwas under attack byterrorists. They knew

within 24 hours who

was taking credit forthe attack. By 5:00PM EST in Washing-

ton, D.C., the presi-

dent, vice presidentand Leon Panetta,Secretary of Defense,

had a meeting at the

White House for overan hour. (We

learned, during recent

congressional testimony,

that there was ONE tele-

phone conversation with

the president and it in-

cluded the Joint Chief of

Staff. No further conver-sations occurred with the

president that day.) Offi-

cials within the State De-partment, specifically

those who were charged

with the security of ourembassies and con-

sulates, visibly watched,

in real time, what washappening on the ground

in the Benghazi com-pound? The Deputy As-

sistant Secretary of State

for International Pro-grams, Charlene Lamb,

was one of those who

observed live from asatellite broadcast.

This was an attack onour country and its’ peo-ple…no doubt about it!Libyan governmentforces couldn’t, or would-n’t, help us. The U.S.military got on “readyalert” status. Special opsin Tripoli, and othersflown in from Sicily, werewaiting on an aircraft car-

rier, with one hour flying

time from the consul.

NO ONE gave the orders

to rescue our people.

Evidently the consul and

the information officer

were killed from smokeinhalation within the first

hour…but NO ONE has

verified that fact. If thisis true, that is better than

we were first led to be-

lieve by the news media.The other three men, two

Navy seals and a con-

structions representativewere killed six hours after

the initial raid started.The two Navy seals man-

aged to rescue some 34

people and get them outsafely. To this day NO

ONE has told the Ameri-

can people, or Congress,who these people are sothey can be interviewedand their story told. Wehad ample time to rescuethe Navy seals and payback the attackers forwhat they did. NO ONEdid anything and we arelucky another 34 people

were not killed!!

In the months leadingto this attack, there werenumerous episodes of

Middle-

East terrorism (200+) in

2012 that were directedtowards Western powers.

We were attacked in Apriland, then, June where a

large area of our com-

pound wall in Benghaziwas blown up and still

needing repair on Sep-

tember 11, 2012. By lateAugust, numerous con-

suls had shut down andsent their people out of

Libya, including the Brits.

Wouldn’t you think thatthe United States of

America might have fol-

lowed suit and pulledout? What, you wonder,

was Obama’s group think

when they had their brief-ings….or did they have

briefings on the subject?So far it seems asthough little, or no,thought was given to thesubject. Who waschecking the emails andcables coming in fromthe consul? Did they notunderstand the concernsabout the lack of protec-tion?

We have gotten lie,after lie, from the Obamaadministration. The

plethora of lies on this

September 11, 2012

episode is UNFORGIV-ABLE! We lost Ameri-

cans who were servingtheir country and doing

the job we asked them to

do. Our government“ALLOWED” them to be

slaughtered; and, then,

have stonewalled andlied to the American peo-

ple. We still have over-seas personnel, who are

in harm’s way. They are

working for us and count-ing on our protection.

This is NOT the kind of

government we want, norexpect. The majority of

our countrymen sent the

pathetic excuse for apresident, and supposed

leader, back for a secondterm. Remind them youget what you vote for.Believe me more, andmore of them will beginto start waking up…un-fortunately a lot of themare low information peo-ple…but hopefully we willfind a cure for that in thefuture. We are stuck withhim; his cronies; hisknow nothing econo-

mists; his green

groupies; his expen-sive policies, andhabits, flitting

around, here andthere, by planecosting us mil-lions and millionsand billions and

billions and tril-lions of taxpayerdollars.

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By Paula Garcia

Good Morning all.

Hope it is a great morningfor everyone. It is nice

and cool outside rightnow. Just got the backporch swept and hosedclean. My mama duck

has decided that she

likes it up here and shereally likes the dog food.Trying to figure out a way

to keep her off the porch.

She likes to leave a "sur-prise" to let me know shewas there and I am really

getting tired of those sur-

prises!I have been debating

almost all week about this

article. I hate to write

about things controver-sial. We have so much ofthat to read already andhear it every time we turnon the tv or radio, but, Ithink I am going to haveto. I like writing about myyard and my crazy ani-mals because I like tothink someone may get a

kick out if and of course

before I go today, I willhave to share somethings about them withyou.

I have just beenamazed at some of thethings I have been read-

ing and hearing lately. I

think the Chick-fil-A upris-ing is what has amazedme the most. I just don't

understand people's rea-

soning. The owners haveto right to their beliefsand opinions just like

everyone else does. If it

is not the same as minewell that is what our

country is about isn't it? Idon't understand how an

official can say they don't

want these restaurants in

their city....what is up withthat? These are also thepeople who have beenpraised for not openingon Sundays in order fortheir employees to attendchurch, IF THEY SOCHOOSE. They don'tsay they have to attendchurch, they are just of-

fering them the opportu-

nity to do so. If I don'tagree with their opinionand I don't want to eatthere because of that dif-

ference, that is mychoice. I don't really thinkthis whole thing has any-

thing to do with gay

and/or lesbian marriage.I think people have gotten

eaten up with the powerto protest and the govern-

ment has just jumped on

the band wagon and runwith it. Wasn't one of the

reasons for the beginningof our country the right tohave freedom of religion?

Or was it just the freedomof religion the loudestpeople believe in?

I also don't understand

how an official can tell mewhat size drink I can con-sume. I agree that alco-hol consumption iseveryone's business. Wesee why this is trueeveryday when we get upto news of another alco-hol related accident. But,if I drink 20 oz. of coke in-stead of 8 oz. I don't thinkit will effect my driving.And, if the government

tells me I can't buy a 20oz. coke, then I guess Ican just buy two 10 oz.

ones? What is happen-ing here?

Ok, I feel better; I gotthat off my chest. I knowthere are many people

who can hold this samediscussion much betterthan I just did, but, I justhad to vent for a minute.And as far as I know

today at least I am still al-lowed to do that.

Now, on to other top-ics-hasn't this summerbeen different so far? Ihave things blooming in

my yard that I have neverseen bloom before. Wehave 12 crape myrtles infront of our house. Thisis the first time in all theyears we have been herethat I have seen all 12blooming at the sametime. The trumpet plantsare absolutely goingcrazy with flowers as arethe moon flowers. This isthe first time we haveever had canna lilies andI don't know why. Thosethings just multiply overnight. I have to say I lovewalking in the yard andjust looking. The gardenhas been the same wayuntil now. The stink bugshave discovered ourtomatoes and they likethem. I don't think we willbe having any more freshtomatoes this year. Wehave sprayed them, but, Ithink that was just likesalad dressing to them.But, the banana peppershave gone crazy and thatalmost makes up for it.Actually, I like them best any-way so that has been goodfor me. Continued on next page

By Blake Kellum, SJRA

Looking out my officewidow across the south-

ern expanse of Lake

Conroe this morning, thescene reminds me more

of looking out of the cabin

window of a crab boat onan episode of Deadliest

Catch. There are 4 to 5foot swells, with white

frothy tops cascading

down the lake under a 35mile per hour north

wind... yesterday I was in

shorts and a t-shirt; today

its back to the jacket and

long pants.

Unfortunately thisfront, as has been the

case lately, passedthrough with little or no

rainfall to help with the

continuing drought.Make no mistake, SE

Texas remains in a se-

vere drought and predic-tions for the coming year

are not encouraging.Evaporation rates under

windy, sunny and cool

conditions can almostmatch those of a hot

summer day.

Lake Conroe remains

2 3/4 feet below normalpool elevation and is re-

porting in at 198.25msl.Normal pool elevation is

201.00msl. The San Jac-

into River Authority ismaking no releases form

the Dam at this time.

Lake Livingston,meanwhile, remains a lit-

tle above full pool at131.20msl (normal pool

is 131.00msl), and the

Trinity River Authority isreleasing 1000cfs

through the Dam.

This report is last that

I will submit as SJRA’sLake Conroe Division

Manager. After nearly 30years of public service I

have elected to retire

early in order to pursuesome other exciting op-

portunities. I intend to

keep my fingers on thepulse of the surface-

water industry, and par-ticularly how it impacts

South East Texans. I will

continue to submit thisreport as long as the

“Boss Lady” will have it.

(Note from “Boss Lady”…

Oh, she’ll have it all right!Congratulations to you

and Edith for pursuingyour dreams! May we all

be life-long partners in

our endeavors and ourpursuit of the American

Dream! God Bless you

both! I love you, Crystal!)See you on the water!

For Lake Conroe info-www.sjra.net, for Lake

Livingston info –

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By Slim Randles

“I believe I’ll write some Celticmusic,” said Dud one morn-

ing at the world dilemmathink tank down at the coffee

shop. “I’ve been studying it.”“I didn’t know you were

Celtic,” Steve said.

“I’m not, but I do get occa-sional bouts of depression

and that qualifies me. I’ve

thought about it a lot. Maybe

they sing that way because

they don’t have sunsets like

we do, or because the

horses run around the race-

track the wrong direction. All

I know is, after two hours of

Celtic music, circus clowns

would look at each otherand say ‘Why bother?’

“But writing Celtic music

should be fairly easy. To startwith, just find a girl who has

a voice like a mouse caughtin an echo chamber or

empty septic tank, then you

add in some stringed instru-ments and a flute played by

someone whose

dog just died. You

start out by havingthe singer say how much

she loves the guy despite

her condition, and we know

what condition that is, right?

Those Celts are trying tooutnumber the sheep again.

“Then she wails that her fa-

ther was depressed one dayand ran the young man off.

He was told not to returnuntil he either had more

sheep than the old man or

had done something worth-while, like whittling down the

House of Lords or starting a

distillery.”“Isn’t that kinda depressing,

Dud?” Doc asked.

“Of course. That’s the

whole point. Then she wailsthat Mr. Wonderful became

an outlaw and wandered

freely, thinking only of her

until he was either shot by

some English guy or inflictedon Australia. And that’s why,

as soon as she finishes this

little ditty, she’s off to drownherself in a loch.”

The gang shook theirheads.

“There is some variety,

though,” Dud said. “Some-times she’s expecting twins.

Sometimes her beau is at-

tacked by sheep. Some-times he sails away to

darkest Cleveland to escape

her singing.

But in this depression thereis at least a key to the entire

culture.”

“How do you have that fig-

ured?” said Steve.

“It’s obvious,” Dud said,grinning. “The application of

single-malt whisky is to kill

the pain, and they raisesheep so they can stick

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...Our great dane ischanging colors. He waswhite with a few black spotsor freckles as we call them.Now he is getting brownspots all over him. He gets abath once or twice everyweek and the poor thing isprobably raw from us tryingto scrub those spots off. Wethought his fur was just dirty.I did not think this dog couldget any bigger but guesswhat? He has. And, he is stillgrowing. He is such a funnyanimal. He loves attentionand is happiest when some-one is petting him. He ab-solutely worships thehusband. He (husband, notdog) went to a friends housefor the day last weekend towork on things for deercamp. This dog mopedaround here all day, going tothe door many many timesto check the driveway.When the husband gothome he went bananas.You would think he had beengone for a week or a monthinstead of a few hours. He isvery possessive where the

other dogs are concernedand now he thinks he has tostand between the two of us.I am not allowed any closerand since he weighs morethan I do, there isn't a lot Ican do about it.

The baby cat (she will al-ways be that even when sheis ten) is as sassy as everand will be having her firstbirthday the third of nextmonth. I will also be havinga birthday on the 12th of nextmonth, not my first by farthink we may have a jointcelebration. The funny thingis cake and ice cream aresome of her favorite things toeat so she would enjoy that.

Well, I guess I better closethis out. It is close to feedingtime for all these animals andthat is a two man job thesedays.

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World & LocalWashington, D.C. – Rep.

Kevin Brady is a busyman these days. He’s

chairing Congress’ JointEconomic Committee.

He’s heading up the

House Ways & MeansCommittee Health Sub-

committee.

And now he’s takingon new and significant re-

sponsibilities: He’s beenasked by House Ways &

Means Committee Chair-

man Dave Camp to coor-dinate a bipartisan task

force looking at energy-

related provisions of thetax code.

Brady’s intensive mis-sion — the deadline is tax

day, April 15 — is to study

how comprehensive taxreform should affect the

energy sector of the U.S.

economy.The Republican from

The Woodlands said hisgoal is to modernize en-

ergy tax code provisions

— some of which date to1913 and 1914 — to

focus on “making it more

competitive globally.” Thereform mix could include

lower rates and closingloopholes, he said.

Brady said the energy

industry currently pays aneffective tax rate of 40

percent, compared to 25

percent for most otherbusinesses.

“If we want lower ratesand we want a simpler

tax code, the status quo

is not an option,” he saidin an interview with Texas

on the Potomac this

morning.

Brady’s Democraticpartner in the tax-reform

exercise is Rep. Mike

Thompson, a CaliforniaDemocrat.

The Texas Republicansaid he and Thompson

are “not expected to

come to a consensus.”Instead, their goal is to

“identify key questions

that the committee shouldbe asking” as it pursues

comprehensive tax re-

form this year.“Chairman Camp is

dead serious about mov-

ing fundamental [tax] re-

form this year,” Bradysaid.

Let us know YOUR

suggestions for energy-related tax changes by

sharing your ideas on ourTxPotomac Facebook

page, tweeting us at

@TxPotomac or sendingus an email. We’ll pass

your ideas along to Rep.

Brady

Kevin Brady to Head House Tax Reform Task Force on Energy

Washington, D.C. Chair-man of the House Waysand Means Committee,Dave Camp of Michigan,

today announced the for-mation of eleven separateTax Reform Working

Groups that will focus oncomprehensive tax re-form. Republican Con-gressman Kevin Brady(The Woodlands, TX) was

named chairman of theEnergy working group.

“Affordable energy

driven by the free market

is key to America’s eco-nomic growth. A fairer,simpler tax code that en-

courages a wide variety

of energy production hereat home, without picking

winners and losers, is crit-ical,” said Brady.

The Energy Tax Re-

form Working Group will

review and research cur-rent laws that affect theenergy sector by talkingto various stakeholders,

customers and col-leagues. The findings willbe presented as a report

to the full Committee byApril 15th.

Brady noted that thefact-finding group wouldwork as a bi-partisan or-

ganization. “I look forwardto working with my Demo-crat colleague from Cali-

fornia, Mike Thompson.

Both parties recognizethat a simpler, fairer taxcode would be a benefit

to families and industries

alike. Together, we canbuild a framework that

leads to fundamental taxreform.”

Tax Reform: Brady to Lead BipartisanWorking Group on Energy Taxes Fender Bender?

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By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN

President Obama's

most recent prescription

for economic growth—more government stimu-

lus spending, new social

programs, higher taxeson upper-income earn-

ers, subsidies for some

industries and increasedregulation for all of

them—is likely to havethe same anemic results

as in his first administra-

tion.Recall: The $825 bil-

lion stimulus program did

little economic good at acost of hundreds of thou-sands of dollars per job,even based on the ad-ministration's own in-flated job estimates.Cash for Clunkers cost$3 billion merely to shiftcar sales forward a fewmonths. The PPIP (Pub-lic-Private Investment

Program for Legacy As-sets) to buy toxic assetsfrom the banks to speedlending generated just

3% of the $1 trillion that

the program planners an-ticipated.

And now? Mr. Obama

proposes universal pre-

school ($25 billion peryear), "Fix it First" repairsto roads and bridges,

plus an infrastructure

bank ($50 billion), "Pro-ject Rebuild," refurbish-ing private properties in

cities ($15 billion), end-

less green-energy subsi-dies, and a big hike in

the minimum wage. Thepresident and Senate

Democrats also demand

that half the spendingcuts under sequestration

be replaced with highertaxes.

These proposals are

ill-considered. The evi-dence sadly suggests the

initial improvement in

children's cognitive skillsfrom "Head Start" quickly

evaporates. Higher mini-

mum wages increase un-employment among

low-skilled workers. Adozen recent studies in

peer-reviewed journals,

including one by thepresident's former chief

economic adviserChristina Romer, docu-ment the negative effectsof higher taxes on theeconomy.

As for adventures inindustrial policy, formerObama economic ad-viser Larry Summerswrote a memo in 2009

about the impending$527 million loan guaran-tee to Solyndra and otherrecipients of government

largess. "The govern-ment is a crappy v.c.[venture capitalist]," hewrote, in what is also the

best postmortem. In

2010, Harvard economistEdward Glaeser con-cluded in the New York

Times that infrastructure

is poor stimulus because"It is impossible to spendquickly and wisely." Fed-

eral infrastructure spend-

ing should be dealt within regular appropriations.

Will more spendingtoday stimulate the econ-

omy? Standard Keyne-

sian models that claim aquick boost from higher

government spendingshow the effect quickly

turns negative. So the

spending needs to be re-peated over and over,

like a drug, to keep this

hypothetical positive ef-fect going. Japan tried

that to little effect, start-

ing in the 1990s. It nowhas the highest debt-to-

GDP ratio among thecountries of the Organi-

zation for Economic Co-

operation andDevelopment—and that

debt is a prime cause, aswell as effect, of Japan'senduring stagnation.

The United States isheading in this wrong di-rection. Even if the $110billion in annual seques-tration cuts are allowedto take place, the Con-gressional Budget Office

projects that annual fed-eral spending will in-

crease by $2.4 trillion to$5.9 trillion in a decade.The higher debt impliedby this spending will

eventually crowd out in-vestment, as holdings of

government debt replacecapital in private portfo-lios. Lower tangible capi-tal formation means

lower real wages in thefuture.

Since World War II,OECD countries that sta-

bilized their budgets with-out recession averaged$5-$6 of actual spendingcuts per dollar of tax

hikes. Examples include

the Netherlands in the

mid-1990s and Sweden

in the mid-2000s. In apaper last year for the

Stanford Institute forEconomic Policy Re-

search, Stanford's John

Cogan and John Taylor,with Volker Wieland and

Maik Wolters of Frank-

furt, Germany's GoetheUniversity, show that a

reduction in federalspending over several

years amounting to 3%

of GDP—bringing nonin-terest spending down to

pre-financial-crisis lev-

els—will increase short-term GDP.

Why? Because ex-

pectations of lower futuretaxes and debt, and

therefore higher in-comes, increase privatespending. The U.S. re-duced spending as ashare of GDP by 5%from the mid-1980s tomid-1990s. Canada re-duced its spending asshare of GDP by 8% inthe mid-'90s and 2000s.In both cases, the reduc-tions reinforced a periodof strong growth.

An economically "bal-

anced" deficit-reductionprogram today wouldmean $5 of actual, not

hypothetical, spendingcuts per dollar of taxhikes. The fiscal-cliff dealreached on Jan. 1 in-stead was scored at $1

of spending cuts forevery $40 of tax hikes.

Keynesian econo-mists urge a delay onspending cuts on the

grounds that they willhurt the struggling econ-omy. Yet at just one-quar-

ter of 1% of GDP thisyear, $43 billion of this

year's sequester cuts in

an economy with a GDP

of more than $16 trillionis unlikely to be a major

macroeconomic event.Continued delay now

leaves a long boom as

the only time to controlspending. There was

some success in doing

this in the mid-1990sunder President Clinton

and a Republican Con-gress. More commonly

the opposite occurs: A

boom brings a surge intax revenues and politi-

cians are anxious to

spread the spending farand wide.

In any case, the de-

mand by Mr. Obama andSenate Democrats that

any dollar of spendingcuts in budget agree-ments this spring (to fundthe government for therest of the fiscal year andwhen the debt limit againapproaches) be matchedby an additional dollar oftax hikes is economicallyunbalanced in the ex-treme. Those who are at-

tempting to graduallyslow the growth of fed-eral spending while mini-mizing tax hikes havesound economics on

their side.

Mr. Boskin, a professor ofeconomics at Stanford Uni-versity and senior fellow atthe Hoover Institution,chaired the Council of Eco-nomic Advisers under Presi-dent George H.W. Bush. Thisop-ed is based on the author'stestimony last week beforethe U.S. Congress Joint Eco-nomic Commiee.

Larger Spending Cuts Would Help the EconomyCountries that stabilized their budgets have averaged $5-$6 of actualspending cuts per dollar of tax hikes.


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The Joint EconomicCommittee serves the im-

portant role of advising

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including identifying road-blocks to stronger

growth," said Brady.

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the JEC to play an active,

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mending economic poli-cies to boost jobs along

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pher Murphy (D-CT), andMartin Heinrich (D-NM).

Returning members of

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mings (D-MD), Carolyn

Maloney (D-NY), andLoretta Sanchez (D-CA).

Returning members also

include Senators DanCoats (R-IN), Mike Lee

(R-UT), Pat Toomey (R-

PA), Amy Klobuchar (D-

MN, Vice

Chairman-designate),Robert Casey (D-PA),

Bernard Sanders (D-VT),

and Mark Warner (D-VA).

Brady Welcomes New and Returning Members to the Joint Economic Commiee

Washington, D.C. – U.S.Congressman KevinBrady (R-Texas), chair-man of the Joint Eco-nomic Committee and a

senior member of theHouse Ways and MeansCommittee, issued the

following statement after

President Obama’s fifthState of the Union ad-dress:

“On the birth date ofour 16th President, it’sclear Barack Obama is noAbraham Lincoln. Presi-

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“What’s lack-

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Editor’s Note: As mostof you already know,The Dam Good Times isa friend of the militaryand vice versa. Wecould almost print apaper a week based onthe military data I re-ceive. Hmmm.

Anyway, the follow-ing is an exchange ofinformation betweentwo marines, a retiredNavy Officer, a retiredarmy Colonel and oneof the highest rankingcivilians on the globe.I’ve decided not to printtheir super secret iden-tities or their super se-cret locations; Hmmm…my second group of pro-tected sources this week.Whew! We are on a roll;must be somethingRIGHT…get it? Right.

From Super Secret Marine Spy 1:

Hey everyone,I don't know if you've

heard about this, but re-

cently the DOD releasedthe Distinguished WarfareMedal, an award de-

signed for drone pilotsand cyber-warriors (com-puter hackers) to recog-nize the important effortsthey have made in the

defense of our nation. Ifully agree that theirunique billets should be

recognized. However, the

DOD has ranked thismedal just below the Dis-tinguished Flying Cross

and ABOVE the Bronze

Star, and subsequentlythe Purple Heart.

This is a slap in theface to those that have

actually stepped foot in a

combat zone. When Ithink of the Marines that I

have served with, and theamazingly heroic actions

they have taken, I am dis-

gusted at the ranking ofthis medal. Many service-

men are presented the

Bronze Star w/ "V"posthumously after being

killed in action while self-

lessly serving their coun-try. Think of the

thousands of single, dou-

ble, and triple amputeesthat have returned from

Iraq and Afghanistan

while serving and sacrific-ing for their country with

nothing to show exceptdisability payments, life-

changing dismember-

ment, and a Purple Heart- which they wear

proudly.Please take a moment

out of your day and regis-ter to sign the WhiteHouse petition bycopy/pasting this link intoyour browser:http://wh.gov/dfzD

Thanks again for allthe support you've givenus through my deploy-

ments. Please continueto support veterans byspreading this word in

order to keep the awardswe use to recognizeheroism and sacrifice ap-propriate to the actionsand service of our amaz-

ing servicemen andwomen.

From Super Secret Marine Spy 2:

Crystal, Department ofDefense is creating anew medal called the Dis-tinguished Warfare Medalspecifically for UnmannedAerial System (Drone) pi-lots and Cyber "warriors"who conduct their mis-

sions from the safety ofoutside the combat zone.What has everyone allpissed off is that the DODintends to "rank" thismedal higher than theBronze Star and the Pur-ple Heart, medals whichusually require exposureto hostile fire and ad-mirable performance inthe face of an enemy (aswithin the same TimeZone…face of theenemy).

Response from Super

Secret Navy Spy 1 (Youcan tell by his tone why I

decided to keep his iden-

tity secret…just sayin’…):

Already fully aware.This has been a majortopic of discussionamong the Veterans or-ganizations and they arePO’d!!!!! They don’t careabout adding another rib-bon, but to rank it abovethe Bronze Star is consid-

ered an insult to MOSTfolks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Response from SuperSecret Marine Spy 2:

I'd just like to ask,since words have mean-ing, what precisely is"DISTINGUISHED" aboutthis Distinguished War-fare Medal? How shouldwe consider it "DISTIN-GUISHED" above othermedals associated withwarfare?

I can just hear the con-versation now inside theunmanned Drone missionvan at some undisclosedair base in Nevada:

"Wow Skipper, thatwas a really draining mis-sion. I tell ya, I'm just

soaked in sweat and myback is killing me! Isn'tthere SOMEBODY wecan complain to abouthow these simulatedEjection Seats are sogosh-darned uncomfort-able? The padding's onlya few inches thick!They're so bad that I ac-tually had to get up out ofthe cockpit 3 times duringthis flight and walkaround the room so that Icould stretch my achingmuscles! Thank good-ness Technician Suzywas here to take over thecontrols for me while Istretched! And thankgoodness the RoachCoach is back up and op-erating so that I couldstep outside to get a hotmeal! I don't know howI'd take it otherwise! Ithink my flight today prob-ably merits another oneof those DISTIN-GUISHED WarfareMedals Skipper! After all,I hear those Cyber War-rior Geeks are handingthem out like CANDYover on the other side ofthe Base! I saw one ofthem loud-mouthing it atthe Club last night and hehad SIX of those medals,I'm telling 'ya! And allthose LAME-O's do is de-sign and launch somesoftware code!!!!! Why,they can actually go tolunch at the Base BurgerKing! What a bunch ofSissies! Talk about skat-ing by in this War!!!!!They don't know whattough is I tell 'ya! Owww!My back is just killin' me!Well, I'll see 'ya tomorrowSkipper! I'm off to homefor a hot shower, someAmerican Idol, dinnerwith my kids, a couple ofbeers and maybe even

chasing the Wife aroundthe house a little... if youknow what I mean!!! "

Meanwhile, back inthe REAL world, I wonderhow the IDJUTS whocame up with the brightidea for the ranking ofthis Medal think it will af-fect morale of our REALSoldiers and Marines.You know...the guys man-ning a post and sleepingin mud-filled holes in theirKevlar, in the freezingground...

Response from Super

Secret Civilian Spy 1:

AMEN!!! Obviously

pushed forward by abunch of bureaucratic

weenies who have NOclue the difference be-tween playing war in avideo game and actuallyliving and dying in a realwar zone in constant riskof losing life or limb fordays, weeks, months,and years, watching bud-dies blown apart, etc! It'sshameful, embarrassingand just WRONG onevery level!!

Response from SuperSecret Army Spy 1:

I’m betting the littlelady with a newspaper inTexas would be glad toprint a smoking hot storyif a Marine wanted to ver-balize it to a louder audi-ence…no, she is notcopied on this email…

And THAT’s how YOU,

global smart reader, end up

with this super secret infor-

mation!

Distinguished Warfare Medal...for DRONES!



Sent in by the Colorado Bu-reau of TDGT

In BUTTE , MON-

TANA two illegal aliens,Ralphel Resindez, 23,and Enrico Garza, 26,

probably believed they

would easily overpowerhome-alone 11-year-old

Patricia Harringtonafter her father had left

their two-story home. It

seems the two crooksnever learned two things:they were in Montana

and Patricia had been a

clay-shooting championsince she was nine.

Patricia was in her up-

stairs room when the two

men broke through thefront door of the house.

She quickly ran to her fa-ther's room and grabbed

his 12-gauge.

Mossberg 500 shot-gun. Resindez was the

first to get up to the sec-ond floor only to be thefirst to catch a near pointblank blast of buckshot

from the 11 year-old'sknee-crouch aim. He suf-fered fatal wounds to hisabdomen and genitals.When Garza ran to the

foot of the stairs, he tooka blast to the left shoul-der and staggered out

into the street where hebled to death before

medical help could ar-

rive. It was found outlater that Resindez was

armed with a stolen 45-caliber handgun he tookfrom another home inva-sion robbery. That victim,

50-year-old David0'Burien, was not so lucky. He died fromstab wounds to thechest.

This story was onlyreported on FOX News!Ever wonder why good

stuff never makes NBC,CBS, PBS, MSNBC,

CNN, or ABC news...?

An 11 year old girl,properly trained, de-

fended her home andherself...against two mur-derous, illegal immi-grants...and she wins,

She is still alive. NowTHAT is Gun Control!

Thought for theday...Calling an illegalalien an “undocumented

immigrant” is like callinga drug dealer an “unli-censed pharmacist”.

Sent in by the Wyoming Bu-reau of TDGT

The Canadian GrayWolf runs in packs of upto twenty wolves. Forevery one animal they killto eat, these Canadianwolves kill about three

more just for the fun of it.

The biologists call it"sport-reflex killing" or

"lustful killing". The Cana-dian Gray Wolf is a killingmachine. These are fed-eral wolves, as it was thefederal government whointroduced them intoIdaho over our objec-tions. They told the Stateof Idaho that the wolves

would be considered re-covered when they had atotal of 100 wolves in

Idaho .

Now they have be-

tween 800 and 2,000

wolves and the situation

is out of control. Idaho 's

wolf emergency is a state

issue. And in this situa-tion, the State of Idaho

has both a duty and the

authority to protect itspeople and their property.

House Bill 343 lays out

the facts, the argumentand the authority to do

so. - Idaho Rep Phil Hart.

Can you imagine guncontrol out there.

This is not a good

place to let the cat out.Make sure you are pack-

ing protection when yougo for a walk in themountains. You neverknow when a wolf packmight surround you! Re-member Uncle-GovernorAndy Cuomo only wantsyou to have 7 rounds inyou gun and no morethan 2 magazines, too. Ifyou are a GREAT shot,that still leaves 6 to 11wolves to chew on your

butt. Enjoy your stay.

This is also a big prob-

lem in Alaska. Go to yournearest arms dealer andget yourself a gun!

Bear Arms in

Livingston, Texas hassome! Call James at936.967.3633

Shotgun Armed Preteen vs. IllegalAliens in Home

The Canadian Gray Wolf; Man vs. Beast/Govt.

All Pics Sent in by PaulPhillips, Wyoming Bureauof TDGT



By Crystal Laramore

Did you know

1,300,000 people at-tended the HLSR in

2012? Did you know that

the HLSR kicked offGeorge Strait’s career?

Well, it did. Eddie Rabbit

was supposed to playone year and he got un-

expectedly sick andGeorge Strait replaced

him at the last minute-

thus kick starting his ca-reer! Wonder if he sends

Eddie a bottle of cham-

pagne every year?How did the HLSR

begin? With 7 men sitting

around (a bar I imagine)at the Rice Hotel in Hous-

ton, TX. As a matter-of-

fact, the original namewas the Houston FatStock Show. In 1957 thefirst scholarship of$2000.00 was awarded.

The benefactor became

an educator and is now a

dean at a college. TheHLSR has since donated,

through its generous do-

nations, over $300 Mil-lion!

Every year over

30,000 volunteers makethe Houston Livestock

Show and Rodeo possi-ble. And without the vol-

unteers, the generous

donations and givinghearts the size of Texas,

they would not be able to

give so many scholar-ships that mean so much.

Knowledge is freedom

from poverty used prop-erly and every dollar do-

nated goes toward ending

poverty in that sense.

Houston Livestock ShowRodeo Music Round-Up

March

1st: Mary J. Blige

2nd Brantley Gilbert3rd Demi Lovato/Austin

Mahone

4th Styx5th Lady Antebellun

6th Dierks Bentley (Value

Day)7th Bruno Mars

8th Tim McGraw9th The Band Perry

10th Julion Alvarez & Los

Invasores de Nuevo Leon11th Jason Aldean

1th Kenny Chesney

13th Jake Owen (ValueDay)

14th Pitbull

15th Blake Shelton16th Luke Bryan

17th George Strait, Mar-

tina McBride & TheRandy Rogers Band(Sunday 6:30 pm ConcertOnly-NO RODEO)

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo

Washington DC—Rep.Kevin Brady (R-TX), in-coming Chairman of the

Joint Economic Commit-tee, will preside over ahearing focusing on the

state of the U.S. econ-

omy, lagging economicgrowth and job creation,and recommendations to

accelerate both. The

hearing will be heldThursday, February 28that 10:00 a.m. in room 216

of the Hart Senate Office

Building.

In preparation for the

hearing Brady said, “Thecurrent recovery is notsatisfactory and is a con-

cern shared by both polit-

ical parties. Five yearsafter the January 2008peak, the American econ-

omy is still down 2.7 mil-

lion private payroll jobsand suffering from a stub-bornly high unemploy-

ment rate of 7.9%. We

need faster growth andmore business invest-

ment to create jobs andsolve our nation’s fiscal

crisis. I look forward to

our witness’s constructive

suggestions as to how we

can jump-start America’seconomic recovery. ”

The following persons arescheduled to testify:

The Honorable MichaelBoskin, former Chairman

of the Council of Eco-nomic Advisers, SeniorFellow at the Hoover In-stitution, and the T. M.

Friedman Professor ofEconomics at StanfordUniversity.

The Honorable Austan

Goolsbee, former Chair-man of the Council ofEconomic Advisers, and

the Robert P. Gwinn Pro-fessor of Economics atthe University of Chicago,

Booth School of Busi-ness.

When the heart stopsbeating or someone

stops breathing, there isonly a 6-minute window

for oxygen to reach the

brain. A lack of oxygencan result in brain dam-

age or death. By per-forming cardiopulmonary

resuscitation—or CPR—

there is a greater chanceof survival until profes-

sional help arrives.

Cardiac arrests canhappen at any time, and

are more common than

people realize. Eighty-eight percent of cardiacarrests occur at home,that’s nearly 383,000heart attacks per year.According to the Ameri-can Heart Association, ifmore people had CPRtraining, the number ofindividuals who die from

sudden accidents suchas a heart attack woulddecrease drastically. If a

loved one life’s depended

on you, would you beprepared?

No one should everbe placed in such a horri-

fying position, and that’s

why the San JacintoCounty Office of Emer-

gency Management ishappy to announce it will

be hosting a series of

CPR courses one Satur-day of each month start-

ing in April.

The first CPR classwill be held at the EOC

from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00

p.m.:Saturday, April 20,

2013 51 East PineAve, Coldspring

Currently, the class isopen to 16 students on afirst come-first servebasis. A $10 donation willbe asked to cover thecost of course materials.For more information onhow to register, please

contact 936-653-3823 or936 653-3395.

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San Jacinto County Office of Emergency Management

to Host CPR Class

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Polk County ChamberPresident, Sydney Mur-phy, that is! Peg Husoncreates these fun hats fora very wallet-friendlyprice. Most are between$15-20! Just a little FYI:Fascinator is the name

used in England to de-scribe outrageous hats!

The hats were auc-

tioned off at the monthlyRotary Club meeting inLivingston to raise fundsfor Sadie's trip to Spain.Peggy Huson is makingthe hats for all kinds ofoccasions; birthdays, an-niversaries, promotions

and various holidays. Canyou say DERBY?

Pictured below (l to r) are Sadie Hicks and Carol Moseley whoboth became proud owners of Peggy Huson's "Fascinator" hats.Sadie is being sponsored by the Livingston Rotarians on a tripthis Summer to Spain. She is an outstanding young lady!

...The iPhone 5S is coming out in the fall...also, do you know that the ONLY differencebetween the 4S and the 5 is the speed with which data is transferred? Is it really worththe money? Plus the plug-in adapters are completely different...none of your currentiPad, iPhone adapters will work with the new iPhone 5. Not exactly a wirelessworld...yet.

...Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to

completely forget what that purpose was? Turns out, doors

themselves are to blame for these strange memory lapses.

Psychologists at the University of Notre Dame have discov-

ered that passing through a doorway triggers what's known as

an event boundary in the mind, separating one set of

thoughts and memories from the next. Your brain files away

the thoughts you had in the previous room and prepares a

blank slate for the new locale. It's not aging, it's the

door! Thank goodness for studies like this.

...SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) — The popular wine known as "Two-Buck Chuck" will need a new name after the bargain beverage'sprice was raised. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports thatover the past decade shoppers at Trader Joe's Californiastores paid $1.99 for a bottle of Charles Shaw shiraz orcabernet sauvignon. The new $2.49 price tag had shopperssearching for new names. Some customers joked that the brandshould now be called "Inflation Chuck" or "Upchuck." TraderJoe's sold about 5 million cases of the wine last year. Themaker, Bronco Wine Co., said it was able to keep the price solow because it owns 45,000 acres of vineyard, which insulatedit from large fluctuations in grape prices. But bad crops in2011 and 2012 impacted the price.

The President dons a Huson Original!

Polk Co. Chamber President, Sydney Murphy, Sadie Hicks & Peggy Huson Photo by Penny Uselton



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the dune. Rifle fire, ma-chine guns, grenades,

rockets and cannon firering out as a terrible battle

is fought. Then silence.

Eventually, one badlywounded Iraqi fighter

crawls back over the

dune, and with his dyingwords tells his com-

mander, "Don't send any

more men, it's a trap.There are two of them."

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By Amy Payne

On Pennsylvania Av-enue, right near the end,

there lived a President

who wanted to spend.He knew spending

meant power, so hour by

hour, he thought up morespends from his Wash-

ington tower.“I’ll spend without lim-

its; I’ll spend without

blame! Raising taxes topay—that’s the name of

the game.”

Down the street,though, a House filled

with thriftier folk had a

budget to pass, or thecountry’d go broke. “We

can’t spend all day; we’vegot bills to pay! Let’s keep

deficits and higher taxes

away.”The Senate next door

to the House just refused.“We don’t like yourbudget. We’ve got somebad news: The Presidentsays we can spend all wewant, and we’ll simplyraise taxes whenever we

choose.”So they spent and

they spent and they bor-rowed some more. Andwhen all that was spent,they spent same as be-

fore.But not everyone thoughtthe spending was nice. Inthe House and the Sen-

ate, some spendersthought twice. “We’ll cutdown on spending. We

have a bad feeling…”

then—SMACK!—right onschedule, they hit thedebt ceiling.

Then the President’s

office, confronted withdebt: “If it’s cuts they

want now, then it’s cutsthey shall get. We’ll

threaten such cuts that

NO one would take, and

show them that cuts are

not smart to make.”

“This will make Con-

gress move. We’ll justfloat out a tester… broad,

haphazard cuts that we’ll

call the sequester.”The Senate and even

the House said, “Okay!

That will motivate us tofind a good way. We’ll fig-

ure this out and stave offthose cuts—to allow them

to happen, we’d have to

be nuts.”So the deadline was

set, but the spending

went on. A year and ahalf had soon come and

gone. The House passed

a budget; the Senate saidno; the President very

much enjoyed the show.“Spend higher! Spend

faster! Grow the welfare

rolls! Soon, love for the

spending will show up in

the polls.” He even raised

taxes, but it wasn’t

enough—the levels ofspending grew too fast to

keep up.

“Don’t you mind thesequester,” he told Capi-

tol Hill. “You said you

would fix it, and I’m sureyou will.”

But they could notagree on ways to cut

spending, and before

they knew it, the se-quester was pending.

“Oh no!” they all cried.

“We can’t let these cutsstand!”

And the President

said, “WHO thought ofthis terrible plan?”

They didn’t rememberhis plan all along. He dis-tracted them with his

spending-cut song. Now

he returned to save them

from harm, and to keep

them forgetting all but his

charm.So the President said

with a glint in his eye,

“You tried to cut spend-ing. I saw how you tried.

But it’s just too painful—

I’m sure you can see.From the beginning, you

should have listened tome.”

“I’ll save you all from

the spend-cutters’ axes.You see, the solution is

just to raise taxes.”

***

We don’t know yet

how this story will end.Will Congress raise taxes

and continue to spend?We need a balancedbudget with smarter

cuts—reforming entitle-

ments will take guts.

Let the President

know that we’re onto his

plan. Share this story withas many people as you

can.

Amy Payne is the

Assistant Director,

Communications, The Heritage Foundation

heritage.orgThis araticle reprinted

with permission from

Amy! Thanks Amy!


Youth Club Fundraiser @ Crystal’s BistroA Valentine's Treat

Granny Evergreen's

Lovefest -- Dinner and a

Show gave SJC a localromantic evening to re-

member. Crystal's Bistroawash in red sparkles and

velvets was the backdrop

of the February 14 event,benefiting the Youth Club

of San Jacinto County.

Chef Tif provided ascrumptious dinner and

dessert in the candlelit,

romantic, music-filledBistro. Amid roses,

flowers, and chocolates,Granny gave her "lesson"

on love, eliciting huge rau-cous laughter from theSRO crowd. Her songsmatched the tone of theevening and astonishedthose who had neverheard that wonderful, pro-fessional voice.

The Youth Club pro-vides after-school care

and help for children ingrades 1-5, and it subsists

on community supportthrough donations, mem-berships, and volun-teerism. The group hosts

seasonal fundraisers;raising awareness anddollars that stay in thecounty is part of the mis-

sion of the group. Creat-

ing community to rallyaround our youth is an-other. YCSJC President,

Sandra McQuiggin en-

courages the communityto find out more.

Mark your calendars:Valentine's Day 2014...

you'll want a ticket.Our next event will be held

at Crystal’s Bistro on May18th. Mark your calendars!



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