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Young People Today

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older lady that she should bring her own grocery bags, because plastic bags are not good for the environment.

The woman apologized to the young girl and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

The older lady said that she was right - our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day. The older lady went on to explain:

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that we reused for numerous things. Most memorable besides household garbage bags was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But, too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220volts. Wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.
Back then we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blade in a r azor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $45,000 SUV or van, which cost what a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

This makes you wonder about all the other 49 States especially the ones with Democrats in controll.

8 Texas counties list more voters than residents
No law prevents localities from having more registered voters than voting-age residents, and eight Texas counties do.

Now a vote-watch group accuses the counties of violating the National Voting Rights Act by failing to purge dead, duplicate and ineligible voters.

"We are deeply concerned (that) voter rolls contain substantial numbers of ineligible voters," True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht stated in a letter to the eight Texas counties.

The counties — Loving, Brooks, McMullen, Roberts, Irion, Jim Hogg, Culberson and Polk — list a combined 52,298 registered voters. But the latest U.S. Census data show only 49,457 voting-age residents in those counties.

County officials told Watchdog.org they are reviewing their voter lists in response to TTV's threat of legal action.

Mary Slavin, deputy clerk of rural Roberts County, said she was perplexed by the findings. "We're a small county. When someone dies, I know it as quick as the family knows, and remove that person (from the voter rolls) as soon as I can," she said.

TTV spokesman Logan Churchwell said some of the bloating of voter rolls could be due to simple clerical errors. "Duplicate registrations occur when there are slight differences in names — such as 'McDougle' versus 'Mc Dougle,'" he noted.

Churchwell also blames "imperfect" federal law for inflating voter rolls. For example, voters who skip two election cycles over four years remain on active status, as long as verification letters sent by election offices do not bounce back. The law assumes the registration is still valid, without positive verification. Churchwell said the recent nullification of Texas' photo ID law opens the door for mischief on Election Day.

True the Vote has given the counties 90 days to produce correct registration data or face legal action.

The Democratic Party, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and other "progressive" groups have countered TTV's efforts.

"NVRA does not require the number of registered voters in a county to be below a specific threshold," the groups note.

But True the Vote says where there's smoke, fire is nearby. A 2012 court challenge by TTV prompted Indiana's legislature to pass tighter list maintenance laws.

Except for Polk County near Houston, the other seven Texas counties identified by True the Vote have stagnant or declining populations.

Loving County, the smallest county in the United States, lists 106 registered voters, but just 69 voting-age residents. That's a 154 percent registration rate, the highest in the state, according to TTV figures.

Section 8 of the Voting Rights Act requires every county to publicly disclose "all records concerning the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and currency of official lists of eligible voters."

"Counties need to adopt the idea that they own their own data," Churchwell said. "If there's better data (than TTV has), then bring it."

The Texas Secretary of State's office, which was conducting a training session for county election officials this week in Austin, declined to comment.

http://watchdog.org/236415/texas-voters-residents/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=watchdognewsletter_36

Another Wall and Not a Peep From the Israel Haters

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Yes another wall and where, oh where, are the Israel haters?

Until a week ago I was under the impression at the last count there were more than 45 walls separating countries and territories. Now it seems there are more being built elsewhere in Europe.

In Hungary the government is rushing to complete a 109-mile-long barbed wire border fence along its southern frontier with Serbia.

The Hungarian government hopes this new fence will stem the flow of migrants and refugees traveling through Hungary in what has been referred to as the West Balkans route. In 2015, Hungary often serves as an entry point to the European Union and border control-free travel in the Schengen area for those crossing from Greece and the Balkans.

In the immediate future, however, the fence may not have the desired effect. News of its construction has led refugees to race across the border into Hungary.

Earlier this year, Bulgaria announced a plan for a border fence that will eventually span 100 miles of its border with southern neighbour Turkey.

Bulgaria's wall is not far from a wall built by Greece in 2012. This wall, constructed with the intent of keeping out migrants and refugees crossing from Turkey, pales in comparison to the more recent walls. It covers just 6.5 mile of land border with Turkey (barriers were put up along the Evros river as well) and failed to stop the growing number of migrants who reached Greece by boat.

In the French town of Calais, the British government recently spent $10 million to erect improved fencing around the Channel Tunnel, a train link between France and Britain which has recently attracted relatively large numbers of migrants. Pascal Aerts, who leads the police assigned to the migrants in France, told the BBC that the fences would only push the problem elsewhere, most likely to ports in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Barriers around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Mellila in Morocco, significantly expanded upon in 2005, have done little to stem Europe's overall migrant issues.

The walls coming up in Europe aren't all about migrants and refugees.

In Ukraine, an enormous, $250 million plan to seal up the 1,200-mile-long border with Russia is born of fear of Moscow's destabilizing influence. Estonia has also pledged to build a fence along almost 70 miles of its border with Russia.

In January this year it was announced that Saudi Arabia was building a 600-Mile (965 klms) 'Great Wall' to shield itself From ISIS? Not a peep from anywhere. This is to add to their wall along part of its 1,800 kilometre border with Yemen.

It is a structure made of pipeline three metres (10 ft) high, filled with concrete and supported on posts and fitted with electronic detection equipment.

The border fence cuts through mountains, deserts and sea borders provide visibility and operational awareness to Saudi Border Guard by the use of cutting-edge technology, which includes installation of sophisticated radar systems along the extensive border.

It is designed to stop Al Qaeda attacks.

Saudi Arabia also has a 550-mile ( 885 kilometres) high-tech fence to seal off its troubled northern neighbour, Iraq.

It is a barrier equipped with ultraviolet night-vision cameras, buried sensor cables, thousands of miles of barbed wire, snakes across the vast and remote desert frontier between the countries.

Richard Spencer, in the The Telegraph says:
When a raiding party from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked a Saudi border post last week, it was no mere hit on a desert outpost.
The jihadists were launching an assault on the new, highest-profile effort by Saudi Arabia to insulate itself from the chaos engulfing its neighbours.

Much of the area on the Iraqi side is now controlled by Isil, which regards the ultimate capture of Saudi Arabia, home to the "Two Holy Mosques" of Mecca and Medina, as a key goal.

The proposal had been discussed since 2006, at the height of the Iraqi civil war, but work began in September last year after Isil's charge through much of the west and north of the country gave it a substantial land border with the Kingdom to the south.

The border zone now includes five layers of fencing with watch towers, night-vision cameras, and radar cameras.

In July Turkey revealed it has plans to build concrete wall along its a 560-mile border with Syria to fend off the threat of ISIS attacks.

The estimated cost is a mere $1.5billion, which apparently will include airships to fly several hundred metres high to monitor the frontier.

It also plans to put in two fences separated by a military patrol road at the border, complete with observation towers and moats at some locations.

Again not a peep from the Israel haters... but then Israel it seems is the only country to build an apartheid wall.

http://conservativepapers.com/news/2015/09/03/another-wall-and-not-a-peep-from-the-israel-haters/

Re: Mychal Massie The Daily Rant : Rules for Patriots by Roseann Salanitri

What is really scary is that Hillary Clinton is running for president and Hillary's senior thesis about about activist Saul Alinsky.  If you thought Obama was good at socialism Hillary will be Obamas thrid term.  Why anyone would want to vote for her and have her finish destroying our Republic I will never understand.

Re: Cornel West: Obama the First 'N*ggerized' President "White supremacy is American as cherry pie." : Bradford Thomas

Frist of all Obama is not the first black president.  He is the first half black half white and plays both against each other.  Obama could care less about blacks or whites.  He is an actor when it comes to speaking to different groups, he gives them what they want to hear not what is the truth.  When he was running for president he protraited himself as some one who would heal the black community and change America.  He has changed America headed to a third world country.  We are over run with illegals which American tax payers have to support with food, shelter, healthcare.  We have a real unemploiyment rate of 10.8%.  We are the laughing stock of the world since our president wants to lead from behind.  The other nations of the world no longer trust us and we have provin that we do not support our allies.  Obama has made his millions and does not really help his relatives out unless it is in the press.

President Obama chipped in money for his aunt's burial costs but skipped funeral to go golfing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2611324/Obama-goes-golfing-instead-attending-aunts-funeral.html#ixzz3eBRsiTj7

Of course then there is his half brother in Africa that lives on $12 a year.  Yep Obama really knows how to treat the blacks. in his family.

Black unemployement has not gone down since he took office.  We will have 21 TRILLION DOLLARS IN DEBT, 100 TRILLION in unfunded liabilties.  we have 93 Million people out of work with 50 Million in poverty and 46 Million on Food Stamps.  I really feel sorry for the next president with all this and the fact that Obama has done nothing to stop ISIS. 

WATCH: Teenager Invents Remarkable Way to Stop Bleeding That Could Save Countless Lives

Most teenagers are trying to decide which college to attend. Joe Landolina was innovating a medical breakthrough that could save countless lives.

Developed when he was only seventeen, Landolina invented "Vetigel," an "algae-based" substance, that when applied to an wound can stop blood loss almost immediately.

Landolina told Business Insider the gel works within "in less than 12 seconds," and can start the healing process for a wound "within minutes."

Watch the video below to see how this incredible medical innovation works.

http://www.mrctv.org/blog/watch-teenager-invented-remarkable-way-stop-bleeding-could-save-countless-lives#.czovta:JNZM

Re: House votes to weaken Obama’s climate rule By Timothy Cama and Cristina Marcos

All Obama is doing these last two years is trying to protect his legacy even if destroys America.   Of course I know he has been trying to destroy America ever since he was elected, but now he is running out of time and no one can stop him, and Congress doesen't have the back bone to do anything about him.

Re: U.S. Embassy Reveals These Important Items Were Just Stolen From A Truck In Mexico : James Beattie

Why did they steal the cards?   All they have to do is walk across the border or even drive.  Obama has told the border patrol they can't pick any one up and if they do they are just turned lose again.  Supposedly we have about 11 million illegals when Obama took office if we don't have 30 Million right now I would be surprised.  Obama does nothing to stop the illegal and we have real uneployment of 10.8 %  http://www.portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp

You would think Obama would be impeached for aiding and abetting the illegals.

Top 9 Most Profound Quotes from Politicians

1. "Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." - John F. Kennedy

2. "There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician." - Richard Nixon

3. "For too long we've been told about "us" and "them." Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that "they" are the problem, not "us." But there can be no "them" in America. There's only us." - Bill Clinton

4. "This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

5. "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

6. "We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage." - Teddy Roosevelt

7. "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty." - Woodrow Wilson

8. "You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln

9. "America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens." - George W. Bush

Ben Carson Had a Mic-Dropping Response To An Atheist Who Denigrated His Belief in God

Ben Carson, while speaking to the Faith and Freedom Conference in Washington, D.C., last weekend, told a story about how he responded to an attack from a particularly aggressive atheist:

"I remember a few years back I was engaged in a debate in Hollywood with a leading atheist. This guy thinks anybody who believes in God is a total moron. As they got to the end of the conversation, you know, he is denigrating anybody who could believe in Creation, I said, "You know what? You win."


 "I believe I came from God, and you believe you came from a monkey. And you've convinced me you're right."