ALL AMERICAN Wednesday December 17, 2014 WEEKLY Volume 18, Issue 42© email: [email protected] America’s Best Conservative Newspaper since 1997 �Super-Elites in Washington and Wall Street Dream of World Without Borders’ Over 1,000 Gun Owners Violate Washington’s I-594 - In Front Of Police! Page 3 Page 8 Page 12 Former CIA How Obama and His Environmental Base Are the Oil and Gas Industry Chief: ISIS Planning to Eradicate By Ron Arnold to Attack U.S. Soon Ex-CIA Director Morrell says terrorist attack in U.S. “guaranteed” by Kit Daniels Morrell was commenting on the current Sydney, Australia, hostage situation on CBS Monday when he claimed jihadist militants will likely carry out a similar operation in the U.S. “What concerns me the most is we’re going see this kind of terrorism around the world and we’re going to see it here,” he stated. “We need to be prepared for that.” Why does the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory war against hydraulic fracturing look like the Natural Resources Defense Council’s 2007 agenda for eliminating domestic oil and natural gas development? million in taxpayer dollars to its coffers—is highlighted in an October report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee minority staff titled, “Setting the Record Straight: Hydraulic Fracturing and America’s Energy Revolution.” Because it is. “You know, it shouldn’t surprise people when this happens here sometime over the next year or so, guaranteed.” The hostage situation in Australia wasn’t surprising, Morrell said, because 300 Australians left the country to fight in Iraq and Syria, including 70 who are fighting for ISIS. “ISIS has had a focus on Australia for sometime,” he added. “Just a couple of months ago the Australians did a countrywide raid arresting a number of people after a senior ISIS leader called for individuals in Australia to behead Australians in public for ISIS, so there is this focus on Australia.” President Obama is coordinating with far-left environmental activists to wage an all-out assault on American oil and natural gas. The NRDC’s unjustifiable access to such anti-fracking regulatory power—and the diversion of $8.4 The 111-page committee report opens by citing the enormously positive impacts of America’s oil and natural gas renaissance, which has: •Created and sustained millions of jobs and revitalized our manufacturing sector; •Provided greater energy security and geopolitical strength while reducing our trade deficit; •Lowered domestic energy prices both in our homes and at the gasoline pump. But the emphasis is on those who would obliterate that renaissance. The message to the public is a warning: President Obama is coordinating with far-left environmental activists such as the aggressive NRDC and the Sierra Club, along with their millionaire board members, their Hollywood celebrity boosters and their “philSee Obama, pg. 8 �Cold, dead hand’ of Reid steers Congress in 2015 Rep. McClintock: �Cromnibus’ was �huge surrender’ of GOP power for 9 months By Greg Corombos “Most of us unwittingly fall victim to it all too often and sadly if we don’t stop, we will continue to lose our free will and liberties,” journalist General Maddox wrote. “It has been widely used by our governments and corporations around the world.” “You could say that in terms of controlling the masses, and society in general, its deployment has been an effective tool in keeping humanity in check.” And it’s also worth wondering what else Morrell knows which he isn’t revealing. By Erick Erickson Democrats who spent a number of years being advised of what the CIA was doing to extract information from enemy terrorists released a report claiming we w e r e torturing bad guys. Further, they claimed that we were gaining no valuable information from that torture. Individuals in the intelligence community have pointed out, mostly to deaf ears in the press, that (1) these same Democrats were well briefed for years; (2) there were no objections at the time; (3) we did, in fact, learn useful intelligence that kept us safe; and (4) none of the intelligence officers who were involved in the interrogations of the bad guys were interviewed by the Democrats. The very same people embracing the Democrats’ report as some fountain of wisdom and salve to wash sins away were only two weeks ago claiming there’s a “rape culture” on American college campuses and anyone who dismissed Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Rolling Stone article was siding with rapists. Lest we forget, on September 11, 2001, a number of Muslim terrorists hijacked American airliners and flew them into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and would have hit another building had passengers on United 93 not fought back. Subsequent terrorists tried to blow up other airliners and killed more people abroad. No doubt the federal government will use the Sydney hostage situation, and ISIS in general, to justify a greater expansion of the police state which creeps into every aspect of Americans’ lives. This is a centuries-old government strategy called “problem – reaction – solution” in which the government manufactures a crisis or takes advantage of an existing one to scare the public into demanding a “solution” which was the government’s objective all along, before the crisis even started. God Bless Dick Cheney Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev The House of Representatives avoided a government shutdown Thursday night, but Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., says it came at the cost of letting the outgoing Senate Democratic majority have control over government spending for nine months after they lose power, and he says Republicans relinquished their strongest weapon for confronting President Obama’s immigration actions in the new Congress. “This was a huge surrender of the prerogatives of the Congress to bring this administration under control, which is what the American people clearly voted for us to do when we saw a nine-seat shift toward the Republicans in the U.S. Senate,” McClintock said. On Thursday night, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 219-206 to approve a $1.1 trillion spending package that funds most of the federal government until the end of September 2015. However, it only extends funding for the Department of Homeland Security until February. The combination of an omnibus bill and a continuing resolution was tagged as a “cromnibus” bill. Nearly 70 conservatives voted against the plan. Fifty votes from Democrats put supporters over the top after heavy lobbying from President Obama and the decision of House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., to back it. McClintock said the “cromnibus” strategy never made any sense to him. He and other conservatives preferred a short continuing resolution into next year so Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress could lead the way on spending. “Instead of negotiating with the new Republican Senate that has has the imprimatur of approval of the American people, they decided they’d get a better deal, I don’t know why, by negotiating with Harry Reid, (outgoing Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman) Barbara Mikulski and the Democratic Senate that voters just thoroughly repudiated,” said McClintock, who argued those rejected leaders have largely handcuffed Republicans for most of 2015. “So now, the cold, dead hand of Harry Reid and the Democratic Senate will be steering the new Republican Congress’ spending priorities for the first nine months of the new Republican Congress,” he said. It is a fact that enhanced interrogation, not torture, yielded useful information that helped the American military stop other Americans getting killed. Democrats have the luxury of peddling this report because they are all alive and our intelligence community successfully extracted information from bad men to avert further catastrophe. What’s more, the media and left are now exposed as moralist preeners. They are vastly more concerned with a “narra- See Reid, pg. 9 Wed Thur. Cloudy High 45 Low 36 PM Showers High 45 Low 40 0% 40% Fri See Erickson, pg. 7 Sat Sun AM Mostly Showers High 42 Cloudy Sunny Low 35 PM Sun High 49 High 46 Low 32 Low 29 60% 10% 0% Mon Tues Partly AM Rain/ Cloudy SnowHigh 50 Showers Low 36 High 47 Low 35 10% 40% CONTENTS Classifieds Crossword Puzzle/Horoscopes Editorials/Comments /Politicos Fishing Report/Golf Report Page 11 Page 10 Page 2 Page 10 Page 2 The BANNER Wednesday, December 17, 2014 Governor Mary Fallin’s “Oklahoma Now” THE VIEW FROM HERE By Neil Carson (CKA Bob McDowell) Governor Mary Fallin Fills Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission Vacancy Clinic; and helped host the governor and confirmed by the Governor’s Big Buck Hunt in Senate. They serve in an unpaid 2011. capacity as the department’s advisory, ad“I am excited for this oppor- ministratunity to serve on the Wildlife tive and Conservation Commission and p o l i c y I appreciate Governor Fallin’s m a k i n g appointment,” said Gaddis. “I body. look forward to working on wildlife management issues as G a d d i s well as overseeing the state’s received a Gov. Mary Fallin Gaddis, of Ada, owns and also hunting and fishing regulations bachelor’s serves as a financial adviser at while protecting Oklahoma’s degree in biology education Gaddis & Gaddis Wealth Man- natural resources and beauty.” from East Central University. agement, a financial planning Gaddis currently serves as a She and her husband, Roger, and investment firm. mentor on the Ada High School have four sons. “Leigh Gaddis is an avid out- Student Mentoring Program; Since becoming Oklahoma’s door enthusiast and a leader as a member of the President’s first female governor in 2011, within the community,” said Circle at East Central Univer- Fallin has appointed numerFallin. “She brings a unique sity; in the Circle of Friends at ous women to various boards background to the commission Mercy Hospital, Ada; and as an and commissions. She also has as well as a passion for hunting, elder of the First Presbyterian made several first-time female Church in Ada. She is also a appointments to various bodies, fishing and the outdoors.” 2011 graduate of Leadership including Sandy Bracken as the Gaddis is a lifetime member of Ada and currently serves on the first female bank executive to the Oklahoma State Banking the National Rifle Association; planning committee. Board and Karen Krehbiel to a member of Safari Club International; annual participant in The eight-member Oklahoma the Oklahoma State Board of the Oklahoma City Gun Club’s Wildlife Conservation Com- Agriculture. Women on Target Shooting mission is appointed by the OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin today announced the appointment of Leigh Gaddis to the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission. Gaddis, the first woman appointed to the Wildlife Conservation Commission, will replace the late Harland Stonecipher, pending confirmation from the Oklahoma Senate. Congressman Jim Bridenstine on Passage of the National Defense Authorization Act Prevent divestment of 7 Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base and disestablishment of 513th Air Control Group. · Prevent cancellation of C130 Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) and reallocate funding to complete AMP “Passing the NDAA helps Con- R&D. gress discharge its most important constitutional responsibility of · Authorize the providing for the common de- transfer of land Jim Bridenstine, fense and protecting the American to expand Camp Rep. R-OK people. NDAA gives Congress a Gruber. The voice in national security policy Oklahoma Army National Guard and defense programs. Failure to requires additional space at Camp pass the NDAA would amount to Gruber for maneuver and indirect simply rubber stamping President fire training. Obama’s reckless national security agenda. As Oklahoma’s represen- · Authorize transfer of 13 MCtative on the House Armed Services 12 aircraft to the Oklahoma Air Committee, I am proud that many National Guard. of my provisions are included in · Restore funding for National the final bill. Guard State Partnership Program. “I thank Senator Jim Inhofe, Rank- Oklahoma’s National Guard parting Member of the Senate Armed ners with Azerbaijan. Services Committee, for his leadership and tireless efforts to produce · Prohibit U.S. funding of certain an NDAA that funds our troops, military cooperation programs pushes back on the President’s with Russia. agenda, and is good for Oklaho· Require a plan to mitigate risks ma’s warfighters and industry.” from Russian global satellite naviSeveral Bridenstine initiatives are gation ground monitoring stations near U.S. military bases. included in the NDAA: Today, the Senate passed the FY15 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) conference report to authorize funding for American’s military by a vote of 89-11. The legislation now heads to President Obama’s desk. The House passed this bill last week by a vote of 300119. Congressman Jim Bridenstine helped draft the bill and voted for its passage. Toll Free Capitol Switchboard 1-877-762-8762 Sen. James M. Inhofe E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.inhofe.senate.gov.senate Washington Phone 1-202-224-4721 FAX 202-228-0380 Tulsa Phone: 1-918-748-5111 • Oklahoma City 1-405-608-4381 Sen. Tom Coburn Washington 1-202-224-5754 FAX 202-224-6008 Tulsa Phone: 1-918-581-7651 Okla. City 1-405-231-4941 U.S. House of Representatives Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Dist. 1) 216 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington DC 20515 1-202-225-2211 FAX (202) 225-9187, Tulsa, 2448 E. 81st. St., #5150, Tulsa, OK 74137, 1-918) 935-3222 FAX (918) 935-2716 Rep. Markwayne Mullin, (R-Dist. 2) Washington 1-202-225-2701 Claremore 1-918-341-9336 Muskogee 1-918-687-2533 Rep. Frank Lucas 1-202-225-5565/Stillwater 1-405-624-6407 Rep. Tom Cole 1-202-6165/Norman 1-405-329-6500 Oklahoma State Offices Governor Mary Fallin OK State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. Room 212 Oklahoma City, OK 73105 www.governor.state.ok.us • Phone 1-405-521-2342 Fax 405-521-3353 Tulsa Office: 440 S. Huston Ave. , Suite 304, Tulsa, OK 74127 Phone: 1-918-581-2801 • Fax 1-581-2835 Rep. Bennett Receives Farm Bureau Award OKLAHOMA CITY – A state representative has been recognized for his work helping the state’s rural farming and ranching families. Merry Christmas As we come to the last full week of December, and 2014, it seem time to pause, relax, and reflect on the great blessing that was given to all mankind over 2,000 years ago when GOD in his love for humans allowed his SON, JESUS, to be born to a young woman named Mary. According to scripture, Mary was a descendent of the original Chief Priest of the Jewish faith, Aaron, older brother of Moses. She was, it is written, betrothed, that is engaged, to a man who was a direct male descendent of the great Israelite King, David, but was still a virgin. Virginity in young women is still vitally important in the Middle Eastern societies to this day. The Israelites, like most of the world around the Mediterranean Sea, had been conquered by the Roman state and Cesar had ordered every man to go to the home town of his ancestors to be registered, with family. Thus Joseph, residing in Nazareth and working as a carpenter, went to Bethlehem, called the City of David, to be registered. Mary was already in the ninth month of her pregnancy, and came to be delivered while there. The Jewish rulers believed that the couple had naturally created the baby and thus that Joseph was his father. As a result, the baby was considered to be of both the king and priest lines. This was necessary so that JESUS would, as God, be able to experience all the temptations that beset mankind and yet, because of who he is, stand firm to resist succumbing to them. Having done so, his death by crucifixion just 33 years later, served to be a sacrifice to cover ALL the multitude of sins committed by men and women from the beginning to now, and on into the future. All that is necessary for each of us to receive that forgiveness is to accept the gift that was offered them. Thus we who have accepted JESUS as Lord and Savior have been forgiven and, we believe from Scripture, can look forward to eternal life after the death of our borrowed bodies on earth. Unfortunately, in my mind, the observance of Christmas has been far too commercialized so that the more serious meaning of it is lost to many, if not most, people. Further, there is a heavy movement abroad, both in and out of government, to remove any reference of God from the daily life. In the US Military there is an attempt, it is reported, to remove the position of Chaplain from units. In some cases there have been attempts to place practicing Atheists in the Chaplain offices. Also, reports have been received that recently installed superintendents of the Military and Air Force Academies have outlawed the use of God, Jesus, or even “Bless you” from the respective campuses. As one with an early involvement with the Air Force Academy I’m wondering if she is ordering the closing of the Cadet Chapel. All this removing of Christianity and Jewry from government and schools, at all levels, has caused me to become concerned that the military (terrorist) attacks, earthquakes, and major weather problems of recent years is resulting from the removal of divine protection we have enjoyed since 1776. There have been so many instances of what appears to be “miraculous” intervention to allow us to prevail and thus rise from a small group of English colonies into becoming the most powerful and influential nation in the history of the World in just 238 years. Any one not occurring and this could not have happened. My concern is that we may be losing the divine protections because of the departure from God from our lives. In any event, it is my wish for everyone to have a most wonderful Merry Christmas, to be followed by a very prosperous and safe 2015. Thank you for reading these tomes and for the complimentary remarks that have been forthcoming. My goal is to be interesting, informative, and amusing. The Conservative View The Oklahoma Farm Bureau has By Russell Turner awarded state Rep. John Bennett a spot in the organization’s “100 Percent Club” for his efforts in I have found that on some practice of water boarding was maintaining a friendly operational occasions trying to convince some- condemned and the statement was and business environment for rural one of something is just a waste of made that the CIA didn’t receive businesses. breath. You would have about as any usable information after using “The plight of our state’s farmers much success talking to a rattle- it. From what I have read the charge and ranchers is a cause near and snake and trying to convince him that no usable information is totally dear to my heart,” said Bennett, not to bite you. You might make false, a wealth of information was R-Sallisaw. “Oklahoma is what it the best argument in the world but collected from several terrorists usis today because its farmers and you will probably still get bit if you ing this technique. I also may note get too close. The snake really can’t that the terrorists had no permanent ranchers have put in long, hard help it, he is a snake and that is disabilities hours maintaining their land, raiswhat snakes do. Over the past few because of ing cattle and harvesting crops. days some of our elected leaders t h e w a t e r They are the backbone of this have been doing a lot of talking; boarding; it state and I am deeply grateful to in my opinion they might as well is a far cry have been recognized in helping be talking to one of our slithering from the acthem out.” friends. tions of the A recent quote by Hillary Islamic terThe Farm Bureau’s “100 Percent Clinton showed an insight to the rorists beClub” honor is handed out to liberal mentality. She said we heading our members of the state House and Americans need to give respect to citizens in Russell Turner Senate who support its mission our enemies and to sit down with Syria and of protecting personal property them and have a conversation and Iraq. rights, keeping taxes low and try to understand their grievance When we have American boosting agricultural and rural with us. I am getting tired of our lives at stake water boarding is businesses. elected leaders apologizing to some a small price for a terrorist (who tinhorn dictator because they think probably needed a bath anyway) to “I was raised on a farm in eastern that the United States is a terrible pay to insure their safety. I am not Oklahoma,” Bennett said. “I am and evil place. Just a couple of days ready to sacrifice any of my family proud to stand for rural values as ago the actions of Senator Dianne or friends because of some selfwell as farming, ranching and agri- Feinstein went to the absurd. She righteous politician on Capitol Hill. cultural families. I thank the Okla- released a report on alleged torture I wonder if the likes of Hillary and homa Farm Bureau for this special by the CIA in the aftermath of the Diane would be willing to sacrifice honor and I will continue to work 911 attacks. She and some of her their family members to a bunch of to ensure the rights, freedoms and colleagues condemned the CIA for murderous thugs instead of using operations of our state’s farmers their attempts to gather informa- strong interrogation methods? It is and ranchers in the future.” tion after the terrorist attacks. The very easy to set back in a nice office where they have around the clock security and critize the people and solders on the front lines whose life is in immediate danger. The timing of the release of the report also serves as a distraction from the issue of the president’s illegal action on Jay Vickers, Editor illegal immigration. Editorial & Advertising Offices: Over the years I have noticed Located/Mailing address is: that the current administration 433301 E. 350 Road, Adair, OK 74330 kisses the backside of our enemies Published by Banner Weekly Corp. while trying to rule the citizens of Donna Vickers, President/Publisher this nation with an iron fist. Just To Subscribe, call 918-783-5657 like talking to a rattlesnake, a [email protected] rorist does not listen to reason and Subscription Rates: $60 Annually for mailing. An Independent Newspaper, All Reproduction Rights of Advertising and he cannot help it he cannot change Articles are Reserved by Banner Weekly Corp. his ways simply because he is a Copyright© 1997-2014 terrorist; and no amount of talking will change that. Talking To A Snake Wednesday, December 17, 2014 The BANNER From My Pointless View...by Ruth Bivens Dear Friends and Faithful Supporters I am writing you today from our little house in Pharr, TX. We have been back here a little over a week, having spent some time up at the Getsemani Children’s Home after we got back from our good trip to Alabama. The state meeting was a tremendous blessing and we were privileged to be in services in several churches as well. Folks there always make us feel so welcome and at home. We left there on Nov. 12th and pulled into our front yard here Thursday evening the 13th. By the time we made it back that evening we were both worn out. We just brought in the essential items for the night, and collapsed into bed. As usual, people loaded us down with donations for the Getsemani Children’s Home, so we left most of the load in the van. Neither of us were prepared for the cold weather we ran into in northern Alabama, nor the cold weather we ran into in deep south Texas. We are blessed to have a window unit in our little living room that is an air-conditioner and heater too. Bud turned it on, sat down in his favorite chair, put his feet up on his foot stool, and turned on the television. It did not matter that we were exhausted. He found a football game to watch. I pulled the spread off of our bed and dug our electric blanket out of the hall closet. I got it all hooked up, the spread back on, and turned on the blanket. We had a light snack, then I crawled into bed. It was not long until Bud joined me. He said that electric blanket was worth its weight in gold. When we are here in Pharr, as usual, we are counting the days until we can get back to the Getsemani Children’s Home. We consider this our Northern Mexico mission field. It is such a great blessing and challenge to minister to the children there and guide their steps in following Christ. We got to be with them over Thanksgiving, and it was a special time. Bud made 11 pies, two cakes, and a pile of cookies. John and Paulina prepared three turkeys. Of course, since Thanksgiving is not a Mexican holiday, the children all had to go to school that day. But, the evening “dinner” was just as special as could be. John had invited some English speaking neighbors, five German Baptist who have a farm nearby. And, the Christian Psychologist couple who counsel the children were also invited for the meal. We stood in a large circle and joined hands as we all gave thanks and a few individuals shared special testimonies of their personal thanksgiving to the Lord for His special blessings. I reminded them that Bud had spent several hours in the Emergency Room at a large hospital in McAllen on Sunday, Nov. 16 suffering with chest pain. I truly feel that it was the prayer of friends and family that made all of his blood work, EKGs, Chest X-Ray, and other tests turn out in normal range. After four hours, the tests were all repeated, just to make sure that nothing had been overlooked the first time, or that nothing new had developed. Again, everything turned out normal showing no heart involvement. The doctor concluded that Bud must have pulled some muscles as he unloaded the van from our trip to Alabama. I didn’t bother to tell the doctor that the van had not been unloaded yet. Bud set the ice chest out of the back of the van and left it in the front yard. But, that is not anything unusual as far as lifting weight or activity. I know that the Lord was at work, and He permitted Bud to go through that pain because He had a purpose. We do know that Satan is always on the attack and, we have to stay prayed up and close to the Lord to resist him. But we also need to be on the lookout for chances to serve Him. As I stood in the emergency room that morning and considered why our normally sweet Sunday morning had been so stressful, I wondered what the Lord’s purpose was for allowing this event. I looked around that emergency suite and I knew that we would never have gone there without Bud’s having suffered pain that morning. So, I pulled out my hand full of Chick Tracts and began to scatter them around where the nurses and other staff would find them. I prayed for each tract to fall into the hands of someone who needed it. Each of them has a clear Gospel message and clear directions for accepting the Lord. We will never know this side of eternity who picked them up, read them, and how they responded. The doctor released Bud to come home, and we praised and thanked the Lord for that! I quickly notified friends and Ruth Bivens family, and we all prayed our thanksgiving prayers for his health and strength. It was not long until he was back on his bike, running errands, and keeping up the active life he always enjoys. We know that we still have work to do. Please keep us in your prayers, we are not getting any younger. That Sunday, when Bud told me he was having chest pain, I went into the kitchen to fix my coffee, trying to keep from panic. There on the cabinet my eyes fell on the little container where I store my sweetener. It is a small clay bowl with a clear glass lid. Years ago I found a white card that just easily tucked right into the inside of the lid. It has a message that I have needed many times over the years. It says, “Trust Me, I Have Everything Under Control. Jesus” I rested in that confidence and, sent messages to friends and family to pray. Then we got in the car and headed for church. Bud insisted. We were two blocks from the church when I received a message from our dear friend, Sally Cash, the wife of the Alabama State Director. She sent the message that he should go to the Emergency Room. With that message, Bud made a U-turn and headed for the hospital. He would never have listened to me tell him that. He is fine now. It is hard to keep a good man down. And, we know that PRAYER WORKS! During the whole time we were at the children’s home I was cleaning up the filth from a huge invasion of mice. Paulina had emptied four from the traps. I found five in traps the day we arrived, then caught two more during the next two days. I have never seen such a mess of mouse droppings in my life-it was high and low, all over the house. I had to wash all of our sheets and blankets, and a pile of Bud’s folded clothes. I did not get finished cleaning shelves, so will have to wrap up that project when we go back. And, besides that, all the book shelves are full of spiders and their webs. I did not even start there. On the 6th I was privileged to speak to the District Ladies’ meeting at the Seminary of the Cross, in Reynosa. There were ladies represented from five or six of the churches in Reynosa. Some we had not seen since ’98. We are finishing up our semester of teaching at the Seminary this week. We gave final exams this morning. This has been a great blessing to us, getting to work with our precious friends Lalo and Elvira Gonzalez, and the students there. They have asked us to share their need for prayer and support. Their next semester is still uncertain. There are pastors who want to close the Seminary and there is such a great need for trained pastors and workers, all over! Their graduation is the 19th of this month, and one young lady will be receiving her diploma. The news we have from Altamira is this: Sister Eva, wife of Lazaro de la Rosa, is critically ill. Pastor Adrian Hernandez and his wife Ana have a new baby girl, and she is a cutie. The night classes at the IBLAC Bible Institute will be wrapping up next week. The violence with the cartels in Mexico continues. We heard on the news last night that 199 Americans had been kidnapped this year! It is clear that Satan is alive and well, and attacking every area of the ministry in Mexico. Meanwhile, there are new churches under construction See Pointless. pg. 9 Page 3 Sen. Sessions: �Super-Elites in Washington and Wall Street Dream of World Without Borders’ By CNSNews.com Staff In a speech delivered on the Senate floor Friday as the Senate was debating a 1,603-page government funding bill that will permit President Obama to spend tax dollars to implement his unilateral amnesty, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) argued that trends in U.S. immigration and employment are depressing the job prospects and income of Americans. “This summer alone the White House met 20 times with business executives, amnesty lobbyists, immigration activists to craft their executive amnesty,” Sessions said. “You know who wasn’t invited into that room? You, the American citizen. You don’t get a say. “These super-elites in Washington and Wall Street dream of a world without borders,” said Sessions, “a paradise where things like laws and rules and national boundaries can don’t get in the way of their grand chimera.” nated many of the jobs in which high school graduates…once could earn $40 an hour, or more.’ Since end of the 1960s - the time frame identified by the article – the share of the US population that is foreign-born has increased from less than 5 percent to more than 13 percent. As a total number, the size of the foreign-born population has quadrupled over the last four decades. Due to current Washington policy, these figures are only going to rise. The Congressional Research Service estimates that the foreign-born population could reach as high as 58 million within a decade based on recent trends. Only an adjustment in policy will change this trajectory – just as policy was changed early in the 20th century to allow labor markets to tighten. This is an issue that affects all Here is the text of Sen. Sessions’ residents, foreign-born and USspeech: born. In fact, among those most affected by the size of these large Sen. Jeff Sessions: The U.S. De- immigrant flows are the immipartment of Commerce informs us grants themselves. By continuing that �today’s typical 18- to 34-year- to admit these large numbers over old earns about $2,000 less per such a sustained period of time, year (adjusted for inflation) than many immigrants themselves are their counterpart in 1980.’ That is unable to find jobs. For instance, a sharp and painful wage decline less than half the immigrants who for young Americans. What has entered California since 2010 are happened in the labor market since participating in the labor force. In 1980? Los Angeles – where 4 in 10 residents is an immigrant – one-third Data from the U.S. Census Bureau of immigrants recently-arrived live offers this insight: �From 1930 to in poverty. 1950, the foreign-born population of the United States declined from We have an obligation to those we 14.2 million to 10.3 million…[but] lawfully admit not to admit such a Since 1970, the foreign-born popu- large number that their own wages lation of the United States has and job prospects are diminished. increased rapidly due to large-scale A sound immigration policy must immigration.’ Census Bureau serve the needs of those already statistics report that in 1980, the living here. foreign-born population stood at 14.1 million. Immigrants and native-workers are also competing with a large From 1980 through 2013, the im- flow of temporary guest workers migrant population tripled from 14 – individuals brought into the U.S. million to more than 41 million. from abroad for the explicit purpose of taking a job. Each year, This large increase in the size of the U.S. admits roughly 700,000 the immigrant population is the guest workers for this purpose. direct product of policies in Wash- Of those roughly 700,000 guest ington. workers only about 10 percent are for agricultural work – the other 90 Legal immigration during the 80’s percent take jobs in almost every averaged around 600,000 a year. industry in America, from goodBut since 1990 through today it paying construction jobs to coveted has averaged about 1 million an- positions at technology firms in nually – meaning the annual rate Silicon Valley. almost doubled. The sustained large-scale flow of legal immigra- The pressures on the middle class tion – overwhelmingly lower-wage are great. You have a large flow and lower-skilled – has placed of permanent immigration and temsubstantial downward pressure on porary workers, the elimination of wages. many good-paying jobs at factories and plants due to advances in robotWe have, right now, a very slack ics, the shedding of manufacturing labor market with more jobseekers jobs due to overseas competition, than jobs. a sluggish over-regulated economy that is growing too slowly to keep The White House has itself esti- pace with population growth, and mated that are three unemployed the high costs of energy, healthcare persons for each one job opening. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that, in the construction industry, there as 7 unemployed persons for each available job opening. and household goods. Policymakers in Washington need to be reducing the burdens on working families, not increasing them. Harvard Professor Dr. George Borjas estimates that high immigration flows from 1980-2000 reduced the wages of lower-skilled American workers by 7. 4 percent. In gross dollar terms, Professor Borjas estimates that current immigration rates produce an annual net loss of $402 billion for American workers who compete with foreign labor. Furthermore, as documented by the Center for Immigration Studies relying exclusively on government data, all net employment gains among the working-age since the year 2000 have gone to immigrant workers. This remarkable trend occurred even as the number of working-age native workers increased by nearly 17 million. Here a few more statistics: •Nearly 1 in 4 Americans in their prime working years (ages 25–54) are not working. This includes 10 million American men and 18 million American women. •Real median weekly earnings are lower today than they were in 2000 •Median family income is down $4,000 since November 2007 It is in this context that we must consider the economic fallout from the President’s unconstitutional executive amnesty. In plain violation of law and the expressed will of the American people, the President has ordered 5 million work permits to be issued to those here illegally – who will now be able to take any job in America. This illegal amnesty is part of a broader immigration vision from the President. The legislation he endlessly champions – the bill written behind closed doors with immigration activists and open borders billionaires – surges immigration rates yet higher. After four decades of record immigration, the President’s bill – supported unanimously by Senate Democrats – triples the issuance of permanent residency cards and doubles foreign guest worker admissions over the next ten years. The Center for Immigration Study explains that this legislation would, in a mere six years from today, increase the percentage of the U.S. population board abroad to a level never before reached in America history. And by 2033, nearly 1 in 6 U.S. residents under this plan will be foreign-born. Unsurprisingly, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected that the result of this legSee Sessions, pg. 11 A Thank You from the Bieberdorf Family This large-scale immigration flow, paired with the forces of globalization and automation, has made it ever more difficult American workers to earn a wage that can support a family. Consider this report just published in the New York Times: �Working, in America, is in decline. The share of prime-age men — those 25 to 54 years old — who are not working has more than tripled since the late 1960s, to 16 percent. More recently, since the turn of the century, the share of women without paying jobs has been rising, too. The United States, which had one of the highest employment rates among developed nations as recently as 2000, has fallen toward the bottom of the list… At the same time, it has become harder for men to find higher-paying jobs. Foreign competition and technological advances have elimi- The Family of Donald Bieberdorf would like to thank the following for all their care and kindness during Don’s illness and passing: Dr. Renee Russell, Dr. Kyle Wooderson, Dr. Michael Miller, Grove Hospital, Freeman Cancer Institute, Rev. Jr. Mullin, Pryor Pentecostal Church of God, Shepherd’s Table @ Fellowship of Believers Church, Amedisys Home Health, Good Shepherd Hospice and Shipman’s Funeral Home. A special thanks to our neighbors in Sportsman Shores who helped us during emergencies. God Bless each and everyone. Norma Bieberdorf Matt Bieberdorf Joe Bieberdorf Monica Oliveira Katrina Ferguson Member FDIC Phone: 918-785-2446 Fax: 918-628-5170 www.bankboc.com P.O. Box 199 • Adair, OK 74330 Page 4 The BANNER Wednesday, December 17, 2014 Selling Children Racism We’re Being Cooked!!... by Joe Esposito BANNER ARTICLE #35 December 17, 2014 (This testimony was retyped for this article) This week December 17th, will be excerpts from Richard Conradʼs Ph.D. testimony By Larry Elder The recent “rash” of police officers killing blacks is prompting “civil rights activists” to describe America -- despite the election and reelection of a black president -- as still a simmering caldron of racism. Never mind that according to the CDC, in 2012 (the most recent year with available data) 140 blacks were killed by cops -- versus 386 whites killed by cops. person’s genetic capacity for happiness (S), plus their circumstances (C) and factors under their voluntary control (V) equal their happiness (H). The following is the continuation of last weekʼs BANNER article of Diana Ostermannʼs testimony, December black teens called “Menace II Society.” A black high school teacher speaks to two former students: “Being a black man in America isn’t easy. The hunt is on, and you’re the prey! All I’m saying is ... all I’m saying is -- survive! Alright?” In case the identity of the alleged “hunter” is unclear, we hear a police siren in the background. Cops are out to get young black men. person’s ability to monitor his or her emotions, cope with pressures and demands, control his or her thoughts and actions, and one’s ability to assess and affect situations and relationships with other people. Salesmen, for example, with “high EQ” for a strong positive outlook outsold those with higher traditional aptitude, but with lower EQ. High EQ people engage in positive behavior, which leads to positive results. 2, 2014. She also filed Dr. Richard Conradʼs testimony following her comments that was also presented to: His extensive research discovered that a low “C” -- adverse circumstances like poor health or poverty -- matters very little if a person has a high “V,” a positive, optimistic outlook and a belief in himself. For example, he found that an upbeat wheelchair-bound factory worker often leads a happier life than a robust, wealthy CEO. Michigan House Oversight Committee Michigan House of Representatives PRE-FILED TESTIMONYOF RICHARD CONRAD, Ph.D MPUC Docket No. 2011-00262 (Dated February, 2013) Pg 1 Q. Please state your name, address, contact information and occupation. A. Richard H. Conrad, Ph.D. 84-1330 Maunaʼolu St. Waianae, HI 96792 Psychologists called this the 808-695-1128 [email protected] This dreary movie scene comes “emotional quotient” factor, www.conradbiologic.com from a film about inner-city or EQ: a measurement of a Biochemist, Inventor and Consultant Ridiculous. But that gloomy narrative tracks closely with Attorney General Eric Holder’s assertion that America suffers from “pernicious racism.” And a few weeks after the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting happened, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, “Blacks are under attack.” George Foreman, the former heavyweight boxing champion, is one of the most successful pitchmen of our generation. A spokesperson for products ranging from Meineke mufflers and Doritos to his own low-fat indoor grill, which earned him $138 million when he sold the grill’s naming rights in 1999, Foreman has an estimated net Absurd. worth of $250 million. A high school dropout, Foreman reIn 1997, CNN and Time con- cently wrote this about the value ducted a poll that asked white of optimism: and black teens about “racism.” Question: Is racism a major “This life, this country, is about problem in America? Both HOPE. black and white teens said, “yes.” But when black teens “My first two jobs were about were asked if racism is a “big selling: Four hours of putting problem,” a “small problem” out sale papers, on doors, cars or “no a problem at all” -- in and handed out. Then at a fruit their own lives -- 89 percent stand. Texas watermelon season called racism a “small problem” was the best. Competition was or “not a problem at all” for great -- we had to (as boys) have themselves. a variety of melons and a lot of charm. In fact, 17 years ago, not only did black teens see racism as “The ability to sell is about the an insignificant problem in their best asset one can pass on to a own lives, but nearly twice as generation to come. And the many black teens than white most critical and influential teens called “failure to take product anyone can deal or trade advantage of available oppor- is �Hope.’ tunities” a bigger problem than racism. “No matter who we lose, every young doctor is optimistic we What damage do “activists” will win this one. And many a inflict by convincing young time we do. Not a whole lot is black men that cops -- or, for new, just the same old Hope. ... that matter, Republicans, tea When things go wrong in this party members and black con- life our sole obligation to our servatives -- are out to get them? children is to sell them on Hope. This emotion-based paranoia Sure, beating our head against has real-world consequences. the wall is an option. But time Fear and paranoia hurt potential and life must proceed. Anger and careers. and disappointment bring more dark clouds. Oh, but HOPE is In the �60s, University of Penn- the sunshine that every child sylvania professor Martin Selig- needs for play. ... Teach them man developed the theory of Hope. And BELIEVE there is “learned helplessness” -- when Hope. a person learns to believe and act helpless when, in fact, they “It’s our duty.” do have control over their own Larry Elder is a best-selling negative circumstances but fail author and radio talk-show to exercise it. He then devoted host. To find out more about most of his studies to “positive Larry Elder, or become an “Elpsychology” and the effect derado,” visit www.LarryElder. of happiness and optimism in com. Follow Larry on Twitter @ people’s lives. He produced an larryelder. equation, H=S+C+V, where a PH: 918-785-2841 FAX: 918-785-4423 2976 W. 410, Adair, OK 74330 2 Miles West, 1 Mile South of Adair STEEL & LUMBER • Formex • Anchor Paint • Composite Decking Lumber, Pipe, Angle, Square Tubing, Channel, Strap, Beams, Purlins, Etc... Q. What is your scientific background: your training and degrees? A. I have a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Johns Hopkins University and did postdoctoral research at the Institute of Molecular Biophysics of Florida State University and in the Department of Biochemistry of Cornell University, Please see my curriculum vitae attached as Exhibit A for further details. Q. Have you studied the phenomenon of Electrical Sensitivity associated with exposure to radio frequency radiation? A. Yes, in great depth. I have a great deal of experience with Electrical Sensitivity/ES/ EHS from having it myself, from having consulted with hundreds of people suffering from it, and by reading the scientific literature on non-thermal effects of RF/EMF and on Electrical Sensitivity. I recently conducted a survey of people who have experienced electrical sensitivity related to smart meters (Smart Meter Health Effects Survey). The following excerpts are pertaining to Richard H. Conrad, Ph.D. Smart Meter Health Effects Survey. There are some questions (Q) with answers (A) but there are some with just answers (A), all the answers are responding to the problems being caused by smart meters. Pg 3 A. Every week I get calls from new people (who find me via my website...who say they have recently become electrically sensitive: especially lately, with the installation of so many smart meters. Pg 4 A. EHS is very real. Pg 6 A. #4 Repeated, strong and direct correlation between specific cause and specific effects, closely related in time: EMF exposure repeatedly and rapidly resulting in uncomfortable, painful symptoms. This clearly shows that the smoking gun is EMF exposure. Q. Please give a summary of the most common symptoms of EHS. A. The symptoms fall into a typical group. Many of these seem to be generated by neurological changes and/or inflammation and include heart palpations or arrhythmia, burning skin, tinnitus/microwave hearing, unusual headaches and insomnia. The symptoms are often diffuse, and should be expected to be so because they appear to involve systems of the body that are completely diffused throughout the body: the biochemistry of the cells, and the nervous system, endocrine system and immune system. Pg 7 A. Week or months after their symptoms began they first discovered a smart meter on their home. Upon inquiry, they found out it had been installed at the time or just before their symptoms initiated. What struck me most was the common time-line: normal people, strange new symptoms, and only later discovered that a smart meter had been installed. Pg 8 A. I saw these people were really suffering with what appeared to be a common array of diffuse neurological and other symptoms, that it seemed to be due not to fear or psychological factors, but to the smart meters and it was destroying their lives. Pg 9 A. My Smart Meter Health Effects Survey is specifically about health effects and asks many more detailed health effects questions. Pg 10 Q. What are the conclusions of Smart Meter Health Effects Survey? A. A copy of my report with a summary of survey results is attached as Exhibit D. The survey results provide very strong evidence that smart meters are causing painful and debilitating new symptoms in many previously normal healthy people, and causing them to become electrically sensitive to a whole range of electronic devices... Because of exposure to smart meters, people are becoming electrically sensitive at an unprecedented rate. Pg 11 Q. What are some common effects on people of the symptoms reported in the Survey, and when do these symptoms appear and disappear? A. The symptoms caused by smart meters are often disabling, and are sometimes painful to a degree of torture. Since smart meters and cell phone towers that smart meters have sensitized people to are almost everywhere now, these people have no place to go to escape. They are trapped... They are trapped in a hellish situation, not one of their own making. These unfortunate people bear none of the responsibility. The responsibility falls solely on new technology - particularly smart meters, and the people who implemented them without any biological conscience, without conducting a human impact study (while distributing a large amount of propaganda in an attempt to proactively counter the thousands of research papers that demonstrate biological effects of non-thermal levels of microwave radiation). This is a illogical conclusion due to either a lack of intelligence, being misinformed, or having vested interests combined with lack of ethics. Therefore people with EHS, the real experts, whose vested interests are biological - human health, human rights and biocompatibility - are those who should be listened to, rather than engineers and businessmen with technological and financial vested interests. It is extremely important to note that in 42% of the survey respondents, the symptoms and sensitization began before, (often months before) they knew that there was a smart meter present. Many of these persons had never heard of electrical sensitivities before their symptoms began, and some had never heard of a smart meter. Pg 12 A. ...the survey results show that in: 1. 210 survey respondents, 2. the majority well-educated (9 PhDs, 1 MD, 1 DDS, 42 MS or MA, 70 BS or BA), 5. all began to develop painful symptoms very typical of electrical sensitivities (including loud tinnitus, heart palpations of arrhythmias, burning skin, severe headaches, neuropathies, difficulty concentrating, sleep problems and more) soon after their smart meters were installed, Pg 13 7. when they were able to have the smart meters removed, their symptoms lessened usually immediately, sometimes completely... I am writing here about real people and real suffering. Presently more and more people are developing EHS worldwide at an alarming and unprecedented rate... These people will have no place left to go, and no careers. Smart meters are an experiment carried out by utilities and others mostly for their own profit, without prior safety testing, and it appears to be a classic example of technology creating far more problems than it solves, problems of all kinds that will persist and increase. There will be no end to health problems, health costs and financial costs. Smart meters as they are today are extremely flawed - an overly complex system being propagated worldwide without any human impact study. Pg 16 A. Even with opt out or opt in programs, neighbors and all businesses will still have smart meters. Sensitive persons will have to move, with very, very few affordable practical places to go,... See Meter, pg. 8 Wednesday, December 17, 2014 The BANNER The Majority hates the Minority By Walt Thrun Profound differences between the worldly majority and the kingdom minority can actually be expressed as hatred. Scriptural synonyms for hatred include enmity, persecution, and hostility. And remember it all began with the curse pronounced on the serpent after he deceived Eve in the garden. “And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her Seed.” Genesis 3:15 The hatred is the greatest between the ruler of the majority and the king of the kingdom, i.e. between the devil and the Seed of the woman, Christ Himself. Such animosity and hatred is extended to the followers of the ruler of the world and the citizens of the kingdom and is being accelerated during the present age. Jesus warned His disciples of the hatred they would face, and the reason for it.“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” John 15:19-19 As Jesus prayed to His Father, He reiterated the world’s hatred for His chosen. He also stated that He would send them into the world as light. “I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world…As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.” John 17:14, 18 Jesus’ chosen ones have become children of God while the majority of mankind was/ is under the influence of the wicked one. “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs – heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ…” Romans 8:16-17 But on the other hand: “…and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.” 1 John 5:19 John reminded the church (kingdom) that the world did not know or understand Christ or His chosen. “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him…Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.” 1 John 3:1, 13 James had a similar mes- sage to professing Christians (hypocrites) but didn’t possess saving faith. Such were committing spiritual adultery. “Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever thereWalt Thrun fore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.” James 4:4 Kingdom citizens should not take lightly the granted authority of the ruler of the world. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities…against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 The Seed of the woman, however, will prevail and preserve His chosen. “…for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.” John 14:30 “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John 3:8b And in God’s precise preordained timing in the future: “Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.” John 12:31 The devil, who deceived them…was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” Revelation 20:10 How about today? The redeemed minority has been defined as well as the worldly majority. The leader of the world has been identified as Satan and the leader of the kingdom has been identified as Jesus Christ, the Seed of the woman. Now the philosophy and ideology of the present day can be examined to see which leader is being followed. Simply stated, is America as a nation more closely allied with the tenets of the world and its leader or the kingdom and its leader? Or does America even recognize the difference between the two? After two decades of teaching Statistics and Economics at ORU and NSU Walt now teaches Bible at FBC Claremore and the Claremore Veteran’s Center. YOUR AGRI. DIESEL SERVICE SPECIALIST Dedicated to Liberty By Randy Brogdon The darker the night, the easier it is to see a glimmer of light in the distance. Politically speaking, many Republicans began to see the light at the end of the tunnel with the recent Republican swamp of Democrats in the last election. We breathed a sigh of relief after having so many Republican wins, but one thing for sure, now is not the time to relax. Just like the barking dog that has to figure out what to do with the car after he catches it, Republicans now, must figure out how to properly serve the people and lead with conservative values. Page 5 From �Science Fiction’ to Reality: The Evolution of Saving a Life Before Birth By Josh Siegel We’ve all felt the long arm of government smother us with liberal and even socialistic policies over the last several years while the Democrats were in control of the Senate and the White House. Here in Oklahoma we are fortunate to have a strong Republican majority in the state legislature, as well as having control of all the statewide offices. The fetal surgery enterprise came to In 1981, Harrison conducted the life like most innovations do: from first open fetal surgery to correct a an idea inspired by a problem. dangerously advanced urinary tract obstruction, a condition that likely For innovators Drs. Michael Harri- would have turned fatal if treated son and Scott Adzick, the problem after birth. was death—and in their minds, avoidable death that could be pre- Today, surgeons can fix even nonvented by upending science as the fatal birth defects before birth, for world knew it. defects such as spina bifida. Now is a perfect time for Republicans to showcase the benefits of our party values. The Republican platform states, “We believe in limited government, individual liberty, natural rights, and personal moral responsibility.” It also declares, “Oklahoma Sovereignty is considered constitutionally superior to a Federal government.” “The idea arose from the frustration of caring for babies after birth and realizing it was too late,” says CHOP’s chief of surgery. “The idea arose from the frustration of caring for babies after birth and realizing it was too late: the damage was already done,” said Adzick, chief of surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “We had Since we have a unique system of to get to the baby earlier, while still government of the people, by the inside mom.” people, and for the people, it requires the people to maintain it. The In the early 1980s, Adzick, eager thousands of grass-root volunteers, to solve the problem, asked Harprecinct chairmen, party leaders, rison if he could work under him and activists, are the fuel that powat the University of California, San ers our party and are the ones than Francisco. can protect our conservative values. The Republican Party is not supHarrison, known as the “father” posed to be run by special interests, of fetal surgery, had never had a consultants, lobbyists or even poliresearch fellow before. ticians. At the top of the political food chain are the people. “I wanted to serve as the creative force to solve unsolved surgical We will always have differences of opinion when it comes to politics, problems for children,” Adzick told because of our life experiences. But The Daily Signal. the basic tenants of the party platform should be something we can all rally around. I’m convinced if we get our principles right the policies will take care of themselves. Oklahoma is already red, now let’s get it right. In the future, medical professionals expect to be able to use stem cell and gene therapies to treat an even wider range of diseases in utero, with less risk. To get to where they are today, Adzick, Harrison and others had to overcome people who viewed fixing a birth defect in the womb as “science fiction.” They had to set selection criteria to determine what and who would be eligible for operations before birth. What do the conditions need to be to make risking the life of an unborn baby—and the mother carrying it—worth it? “We learned that we had to be selective,” Adzick said. “There were some fetuses—unborn patients—who we wanted to treat before birth whose kidney damage was already so severe that we couldn’t help them. They were Science succeeded. too severe. On the other hand, you wouldn’t want to treat a fetus that Surgeons have been operating was too good, who didn’t’ really on fetuses for more than two decades. 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This year we were connected with the local Pryor Lion’s Club and had 24 children to s h o p with for clothes a n d toys. I have to admit Bill Chupp that this time I was slow in getting a shopping cart and hoping that there were enough volunteers to help, so I could stand back and watch. As I pushed my cart back to the cash register in the garden center area, there stood Jennifer Back, the coordinator checking in a young mother with two sons. She asked me if I would take the 8 year old and gave me a list of his clothing size. We exchanged names and started down the aisle toward the clothing department to collect a coat, shirt and pants. We had only taken a few steps after he told me his name when he told me his daddy had died on Thanksgiving Day. “That’s really bad, I’m so sorry,” I said, as emotions stirred a lump in my throat and I had to fight back tears. He was such a nice round faced kid as he looked up at me through his glasses with a hurtful look in his eyes as he said, “My daddy’s funeral was on my birthday! I wish he could have lived to see it.” By this time we had made it over to the clothing and were busy choosing a coat, shirt and pants. This left money to use in the toy department. He had a little difficulty on a toy, but he ended up with two large toys and a small one. “Sometimes my daddy would buy me a toy if we had enough money,” he said. “He was only 30 years old.” Boy, every time he said something it hit me hard, especially when he told me they may have to find some place to live because daddy had a job and was paying the bills and now they would have to move. We were one of the last to check out at the cash register. He left with his mother and older brother, pushing a shopping cart full of clothes and toys. I hope our time together makes the Christmas season a happier one for him. I know it really has for me. I sat in the truck for a few moments to collect my thoughts and say a prayer for them and thanking God for allowing me to have this experience before traveling home. “…In as much as you have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me.” Matthew 25:40 Thursday evening Edith and I went out to help at the MCC meat canner at church. The canner had begun operations at 5:00 am and we finished labeling and boxing the 37th basket of cans that had been processed. The baskets hold 140 cans, so that totaled 5,180 plus more for Friday to bring the total to 10,134 cans. Last year 476,664 cans were distributed to countries around the world. The Mennonite Central Committee meat canning schedule begins early in October in Ohio and travels around the United States and ends in Ontario, Canada in late April. The portable canner is operated by a crew of four men, who rely on local volunteers at each location to provide the labor for set up, processing and clean up. The crew on this year’s canner was David Hochstetler from Shickley, Nebraska and three fellows, Raynor Krahn, Stanley Toews and Toby Penner from the Mennonite colonies in Paraguay, South America. This year special recognition was given to David A. Yoder, a local Chouteau, Oklahoma fellow who died in a farm accident on September 5th this year. He was on the canner crew a few years ago and a tremendous help at our yearly project. His coveralls were on display on the wall with a newspaper article about his term of service. Whew!! My blessings did not end as I was privileged to ring the Salvation Army bell Friday evening by the north door entrance at Wal-Mart. How lucky to pick nice weather. The little red kettle was nearly packed full and as customers entered from the parking lot, you could see them pull out folding money or toss loose change into the slot. Small children were also alert to the bell ringing and some really small tots riding in the shopping carts were given dollar bills to stuff into the slot. Saturday I went to the Tulsa Farm Show and saw friends that have been involved with the show every year. I visited with several people and told them my experience with the young boy at Wal-Mart. Everyone agreed that this makes a good Christmas story. I get a lump in my throat every time I tell it. Have a good week. God Bless… Easy Cut 320 es #1 Krone Dealer in O • Easy Cut balance center-of-gravity suspension • KRONE breakaway pin for added protection • Efficient direct drive system relies on shaft and gearbox- k la h o m a! Maximum protection and minimum life-cycle cost EasyCut mowers now feature SafeCut cutterbar protection The innovative and patented SafeCut system is standard-fit on EasyCut mowers. 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If one is asked, “What did you do after the prom on graduation night?” I’m sure they could remember and tell you even late in their life. Unless, personal shame is involved and then they will choose not to remember. This is politics at its best and worst. It’s known in many circles, as “CYA.” When sitting in the “hot seat” an onset of Alzheimer’s sweats overcomes the one answering questions. The more probing the questions become, the more Alzheimer’s shuts down the frontal cortex of their brain. Buried in the cerebrum is the limbic system, the “emotional brain.” Containing the amygdala and the hippocacampus, etc. The amyygdala is involved in emotions, which starts the Alzheimer’s sweats, the hippocampus is important for memory. As a trapped animal that has been disavowed by his cohorts, looks for a way out and loses control of his emotions, starting the sweats that shuts down his memory. Truth is shut down and must be avoided at all costs. Such as Gruber’s testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform when asked about his famous words, that the American people were too stupid to understand that the authors of Obamacare had found a indirect way to raise their taxes. He answered, “I honestly didn’t remember making them.” The same comment or a fact simile was used 20 times during his testimony. Here we have a man with a brilliant mind that is a renowned economist from MIT and a supposed expert on healthcare who wouldn’t be able to remember if he had had a bowel movement before testifying. His conviction of being right withered away when it was put under the microscope of the noonday sun and his speech failed him. The ole Rancher said, “All governing organizations will sacrifice their followers in different manners on different occasions to preserve the sanctity of their power structure. If they chose to air their dirty laundry out for the world to see, it causes a seed of doubt in their followers’ eyes, which might bear fruit. Then their followers will come to understand their leaders are but mere mortals not deserving of all the accolades laid upon them.” All political animals feed on easy money, from central bankers to politicians on Pennsylvania Avenue. They’ve sold their souls many times over and they have no fear of sacrificing your prosperity for their own advancement. One thing the forgotten taxpayer must remember, for every dollar he makes, there are thousands on Capitol Hill and across this nation, who want it. These animals are leeches clinging to anything or anyone who might have an extra dollar. These people sell dreams or fear to get you to turn your dollars loose. Each and every-one of these individuals will tell you they are going to help you, but first you must trust them with your hard earned money. They believe a fool and his money are soon parted. We Americans prove this statement daily, we throw our money at the casinos, buy new boats and cars we don’t really need, many live far beyond their means, we borrow on our tomorrows to Corbett Mason live in luxury today, a king today and a pauper tomorrow. Mankind creates most of his hardships and misfortunes by living beyond his means and then wants to lay his hands on the money of the man that did without and saved. Bad management by man or government is no excuse for a moral claim on another man’s labors. President Obama once said, “The only people that don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.” Speaking of Gruber, Obama said, “Some advisor that never worked on our staff.” Jonathan Gruber, the man that was instrumental in selling the Affordable Care Act according to Senator John Kerry as he said Gruber was responsible for, “...walking everyone through the benefits of the Affordable Care Act so consumers are armed with assessable information.” This is the man the Democrat National Committee put their spotlight on as they sang his praises 71 different times in 2009 alone. He almost walked on water according to those that sang his praises as a choir, many were recorded on video. The choir consisted of Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and others. When Gruber’s videos came forth, he was disavowed by all. Those that spoke so highly of Gruber, now can’t remember who he was. As Nancy Pelosi said, “I don’t know who he is. He didn’t write our bill.” Her Speaker of the House website started touting Gruber in December 2009. His name was mentioned six times and identifies him as a “noted MIT health care economist.” Where ever truth resides, we now know once again, it doesn’t reside in Washington D.C. When the truth comes shining through exposing the many lies, those on high do what they do best, lie again. Truth is definitely lost amongst our many leaders; they’ll change their story until they find one you like. Gruber’s brilliant mind and his superior attitude, plus his unrepentant nature, while talking about people considered beneath his stature has come full circle. The man who loved to talk, now has nothing to say. He has become as contagious as a man with leprosy, his bed-fellows have deserted him. During this time, Sen. Dianne Feinstein has brought the allegations or transparency against the CIA and their torture tactics. 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Hwy 60 Vinita, OK 74301 Wednesday, December 17, 2014 The BANNER What the Media Are Missing in Their Obsession with Kate Middleton’s Baby Bump Scalia: The Constitution Says Nothing About Torture Leah Barkoukis Senate Democrats released a highly controversial report on the CIA’s post-9/11 Enhanced Interrogation By Katrina Trinko Techniques this week and the pushThe media can’t stop cooing over according to the Mayo Clinic. back was swift. Critics took issue Kate Middleton’s baby bump. with everything from the partisan Yet the United States still doesn’t nature of the report, to the fact that “Prince William, Kate Middleton, ban abortion after 20 weeks. CIA operatives were not even interand Bump Touch Down in New viewed, to the conclusion that the York City,” proclaimed a Daily The United States is one of only EITs were not an effective means Beast headline. NBC’s Today.com seven countries—including China of acquiring intelligence. announced, “Americans are giving and North Korea—allowing elecRegarding the actual tactics, there’s no way around the fact that they were unpleasant and in some cases downright disturbing. But what about their constitutionality? Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia weighed in on Wednesday, saying that the Constitution itself is actually silent on the matter. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is joining the debate over the Senate’s torture report by saying it is difficult to rule out the use the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge a warm reception for their first visit to the Big Apple, where the royal couple gave frenzied fans exactly what they wanted: A peek at the growing baby bump.” “It’s all about the bump now. It’s all about baby No. 2,” Victoria Murphy, who covers the royals for the Daily Mirror, told ABC News in an interview. “We still love Prince George, but we’re looking forward to learning more about baby No. 2.” It’s all about baby No. 2. tive abortions after 20 weeks. A majority of Americans support such a ban. Sixty percent of Americans support banning abortion after 20 weeks, with exceptions for rape and incest, according to a November Quinnipiac poll. The United States is extremely unusual in permitting abortions after 20 weeks. According to a report released earlier this year by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, only six other countries—including China and North Korea, countries we’re hardly seeking to emulate in human rights—allow elective abortions after 20 weeks. It’s great that everyone is so excited about Prince William and Kate’s House Republicans—and six Demunborn daughter or son. ocrats—passed a bill last year banning abortions after 20 weeks. But it’s also incredible what a Senate Republicans, who will disconnect there is between the control the Senate in January, are media’s coverage of wanted kids also poised now to have a vote on and the coverage of unwanted the matter. kids—even when they’re the same age. “I look forward to having the Senate consider similar legislation in Kate Middleton is around five the next Congress,” soon-to-be months pregnant, according to me- Senate Majority Leader Mitch dia reports. At this stage, the baby McConnell told the Wall Street has a heart, a face, a brain and fin- Journal. gernails. Hair is beginning to grow on the baby’s head and body, and Let’s hope that the excitement he or she might be already hearing. over Kate’s baby bump translates (Kate and William might also know into a renewed interest for protecttheir child’s gender—an ultrasound ing all babies’ lives. Because you could reveal it at this stage.) Kate shouldn’t need to be royalty to have may already be feeling her child to have your life celebrated—and moving in the womb, especially as safeguarded by law—at the age of second-time moms are more likely 20 weeks. to feel their child moving earlier, Erickson, from pg. 1___________________________________ the media get to morally preen because they are alive and might not be had Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and these nameless men and women not done what That leads us to Dick Cheney. needed doing. He is one of the few men publicly pushing back against the This whole episode is only posDemocrats. Cheney knows both sible because the very things what we did and how effec- the Democrats are attacking tive it was. He is willing to be prevented other domestic and unpopular to defend what must international terrorists attacks. Had there been more attacks, be defended. these same moral preeners Because of Dick Cheney, would be looking for scalps George W. Bush, and many of people who, the media and nameless men and women, the Democrats would have insisted, Democrats and their friends in should have done more. tive” that portrays the interrogations as torture and ignores the effectiveness of the same than they are the basic facts. Page 7 Corbett, from pg. of extreme measures to extract in- credible and very worrisome reformation if millions of lives were ports about a second and third wave of major attacks against the United threatened. States,” he said, “And while we Scalia tells a Swiss radio network grieved…we feared more blows that American and European liber- from an enemy we couldn’t see and als who say such tactics may never an evil we couldn’t fathom. This is the backdrop against which the be used are being self-righteous. agency was directed by President The 78-year-old justice says he Bush to carry out a program to doesn’t “think it’s so clear at all,” detain terrorist suspects around especially if interrogators were the world.” trying to find a ticking nuclear He also reminded people that bomb. the program was authorized by Scalia says nothing in the Constitu- the Bush administration and the tion appears to prohibit harsh treat- Department of Justice. Only after President Obama took office, he ment of suspected terrorists. continued, was the use of EITs CIA Director John Brennan re- banned. minded Americans this week that in the immediate aftermath of Interestingly, more Americans 9/11, the intelligence agency was believe the public release of the report on the EITs is more harm“looked to for answers.” ful to U.S. interests than the actual “Indeed, there were numerous, tactics themselves. 6_________________________________________________________________ of Gruber discretions for telling the truth “before” he stood in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. This is the woman who spoke up for NSA’s spying and more or less said they wouldn’t spy on the American people. This has turned out not to be the case. However, when the CIA spied on her Senate Intelligence Committee, it became a horse of another color, her displeasure and demeanor came forth like a “jilted lover.” It’s seems our leaders consider it to be their God-given right to kill many innocent civilians in drone attacks while trying to kill one or two terrorists, but don’t water board anyone. Where does the American people or Senator Diannne Feinstein draw the line in what is permissible? The following paragraph from an article by Spencer Ackerman: Larry Lewis, a principal research scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses, a research group with close ties to the US military, studied air strikes in Afghanistan from mid-2010 to mid-2011, using classified military data on the strikes and the civilian casualties they caused. Lewis told the Guardian he found that the missile strikes conducted by remotely piloted aircraft, commonly known as drones, were 10 times more deadly to Afghan civilians than those performed by fighter jets. Myopia seems to be a growing problem on Capitol Hill, one of the sufferers would be Dianne Feinstein as she has stated in Feb. 2013, “...drones kill only “single digits” worth of civilians annually. As the woman who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, it seems she has blood on her hands also. Thereby making her as guilty as the CIA that water boarded prisoners. It seems as everyone wants transparency as Obama promised, January, 2008: “hold myself as president to a new standard of openness… Let me say it as simply as I can: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.” Nancy Pelosi said, “But we have to pass the bill (health care) bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Now that’s what passes for transparency. When the money cartel consisting of the seven richest men in the world at that time planned a bill for the creation of the Federal Reserve, they spoke against it. With these big bankers talking against this bill, John Q. Public gave their approval for it. The bill was guided thru the Conference Committee between 1:30 AM and 4:30 AM on December 22, 1913. Later that morning it passed the House and then the Senate. Most of the representatives of the people had gone home for Christmas and those that were there hadn’t had time to read the bill or have any idea what was in it. That that is conceived in darkness behind closed doors by government bodes ill for the good of the nation, in the past or presence. It’s not too late, let’s shine a little transparency on the IRS, Lois Lerner’s lost emails that were found, Benghazi, the 20,000 tax documents that found their way to the White House and the Affordable Care Act. Those residing on Cloud Nine seem to be in total agreement with Jonathan Gruber as to the stupidity of the American people as they renounce what was on their web pages and captured on video. Their excuses run the gauntlet for the defense of the indefensible. One has to wonder, were you lying then or are you lying now? 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By Rachel Alexander Fed up with the passage of an 18½page incoherent, rambling, unconstitutional gun control initiative that was bankrolled by billionaires, gun owners across Washington state held the largest felony civil disobedience rally in the nation’s history, brazenly titled “I Will Not Comply.” No one was hurt and no stores were looted. Between 1,000 and 3,000 lawful gun owners showed up openly armed at the state capitol in Olympia, Wash., on Saturday to defy the newly passed gun control law, I-594. Organizer Gavin Seim made the extraordinary nature of the rally very clear, “This isn’t just a protest. We are here to openly violate the law.” Attendees publicly transferred their guns to each other in violation of I-591’s background check provisions, and some even bought and sold guns just a few feet away from law enforcement. A fire pit blazed throughout the rally, and at the conclusion, gun owners lined up to burn their concealed weapons permits. A petition was circulated affirming gun owners’ refusal to follow I-594, which ended with, “We pledge our blood. We will not comply.” As the RSVPs in advance of the rally grew to over 6,000, the police - most who probably detest I-594 - decided not to enforce the law. The Washington State Patrol announced there would be no arrests for exchanging guns - not even for selling guns. Seim refused to obtain a permit to hold the rally, citing the right of people to peaceably assemble. The rally could not be dismissed as fringe elements. Several lawmakers and lawmen spoke, including former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack of Arizona, Washington State Rep. Elizabeth Scott (R-Monroe) and Rep. Graham Hunt (R-Orting), who sported an AR-15 during his speech. Mack advised gun owners engaging in civil disobedience to “put your sheriff next to you to keep it peaceful.” Scott defiantly explained in her speech, “I will not comply with I-594 because it is unconstitutional, unenforceable and unjust. It is impossible to enforce this law unless there is a police officer on every back porch and in every living room. So it will be enforced selectively.” She noted that Founding Father Alexander Hamilton said any law that violates the Constitution is not valid, and there is a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws. Seim, a political activist and congressional candidate, wrote on his website, “Today I become an OUTLAW! Arrest me! I will NOT comply.” He led the rally peacefully, and at one point asked everyone attending to kneel with him in prayer. As he led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, he stressed, “I am not pledging obedience to the government, it is to the Republic. We don’t ask for our rights, and we don’t negotiate for our rights. We will take America back.” Another speaker explained what was happening this way, “We no longer consent nor comply.” Mike Vanderboegh, whose Three Percenter movement is modeled after the three percent of the colonists who fought in the American War of Independence, said that those at the rally are the resistance behind enemy lines. The resistance is also taking place in a handful of other states with strict gun control laws, where patriots are now smuggling in weapons illegally. Vanderboegh told attendees, “This is the tyranny the Founding Fathers warned us about. Tyranny can be voted into existence by a majority. We will not fire the first shot, but if need be, we will fire the last.” Gun control zealots have finally gone too far. Gun owners are now discovering that the police in New York are using gun control laws to confiscate guns from family members within days after their owners pass away. Hundreds of thousands of gun owners in Connecticut and New York who failed to register their AR-15s earlier this year are now felons. Requiring the registration of guns or requiring background checks, as I-594 does, allows the government to compile a list of gun owners, which can be used later for confiscation. If guns cause crime, then why wasn’t there a single mishap, considering there were 1,000 or so guns present and hundreds of violations of felony law taking place? Tellingly, Washington State Trooper Guy Gill predicted beforehand, ““Most of these folks are responsible gun owners. We probably will not have an issue.” The truth is, the state capitol was The new Rhino Flex-Wing has been unleashed! Our Flex-Wing cutters are designed for performance, reliability, and value. With seven models to choose from and 50 years experience, we know how to make them durable enough for any use. Republicans Avoid Confronting School Lunch Debacle Fix This Nation In an America where the country’s meaningful legislation. “conservative” leaders have backed Even though Republicans didn’t down from fights on Obamacare fight hard to include a broad waiver and illegal immigration, the debate in the bill, the mainstream media is over Michelle Obama’s school promoting what changes they did lunch program is comparatively make as a strike against Democrats. unimportant. Yet it should not go “Spending bill eases school nutrition without notice that Republicans rules,” was USA Today’s headline. managed to find no room at all in They reported on the two minor the $1 trillion CRomnibus bill for a small-government victories in the waiver that would provide schools bill: relaxed standards on whole with some relief from the ridiculous grains and no increases on the curmeal standards. rent sodium caps. But to even call these “partial victories” is overstatFar-left liberals in Congress have ing the case. It’s a compromised bill been nearly as outspoken against from top to bottom, but it feels like the spending bill as conservatives, Republicans made most of the big but one has to wonder why they’re compromises. so upset. Beyond providing “populists” like Elizabeth Warren with Washington as America’s Parents a moment in the spotlight, the bill provides almost nothing for con- Beyond all the overspending, this servatives who had hoped for some is another example of the federal big victories at the end of the year. government trying to take the place While the results of the midterm of the American parent. There’s elections won’t shape Congress until no question that we face a national the new year, many voters thought childhood (and adult) obesity crisis, Republicans would have a little but the solution to that crisis is not to more power going into this budget be found in mandatory school lunch negotiation. regulations. Michelle Obama’s entire push for healthy lunch mandates If they did, it was hardly evident. has been driven by shaky science, Not only did they hand Obama labor money, and that old faithful almost all the funding he needs to Democrat standby: the desire to see his immigration reform through increase the federal government’s to completion, but they also threw influence over America. a bone to his wife as well. School officials have been lobbying for Republicans had a chance to stand some economic relief from the up to big government once again in standards imposed by the new meal 2014, and once again they let the regulations, standards the School opportunity pass them by. I used to Nutrition Association insists have dismiss the argument that there was increased food costs, contributed no discernible difference between to more food waste, and decreased the nation’s two political parties. lunch participation across the board. With every passing year, however, Republicans have gone public with that argument becomes harder to their concerns on the issue, but ignore. these concerns did not translate into Meters, from pg. 4______________________________________ Pg 17 A. What we do have in the Survey is real-world solid evidence that real people have actually been injured and continue to be injured by smart meters, in spite of the opinions of engineers. Pg 19 A. 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Secondly, there’s no reason why you couldn’t take up issues like Keystone at the same time.” “The better way to go was simply to adopt a three- or fourweek continuing resolution to keep the government open, put all the appropriations questions into the new Senate that’s just been freshly approved by voters so that their priorities can be accurately reflected in the spending plan that will be locked Leadership has argued that pass- in until October 1 of next year,” ing all funding for the rest of the McClintock said. fiscal year except for the Department of Homeland Security will Some of the greatest drama in allow Republicans to fight tooth the House played out during and nail against what they see the vote for the rule allowing as Obama’s unconstitutional debate on the spending package. amnesty afforded to some five Normally just a formality, the million people in the country vote dragged on as GOP leaders illegally. McClintock said that’s lobbied members to vote for the unlikely to work, either. rule. The procedural hurdle was cleared after Rep. Kerry Ben“The problem is, Homeland tivolio, R-Mich., switched his Security funds the entire border vote and Rep. Marlin Stutzman, security programs such as it is. R-Ind., finally cast his ballot That’s a hostage we’re not going with leadership. to shoot, so why would we want to choose a strategy that would However, Stutzman later claimed require us to shoot a hostage he supported the rule only after that we’re not going to shoot?” leadership vowed to pull the he asked, arguing that this ap- “cromnibus” and put forward proach only makes it harder to a simple short-term continuing thwart Obama’s actions. resolution. The congressman alleges leaders reneged on that “It makes no sense,” McClintock promise once Obama supported said. “Had we maintained the the plan and leadership conchoice over all of the budget, cluded it could get the votes for we would have been in a much passage from Democrats. stronger bargaining position. I think this has greatly weakened McClintock said he knows nothout bargaining position going ing about that squabble, but he into that discussion in Febru- 990PF reports from recent years reveal anti-fracking grants totaling more than $3 million to media outlets, including the American Prospect, Earth Talk, Grist, Mother Jones, the Nation and Yes! Magazine, along with activist groups including Earthworks, Food and Water Watch, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Media Matters for America and a network of about 50 others. The report notes that “the price of energy is no object to them; they can afford to pay their energy bills at virtually any price.” They can dump hundreds of millions of dollars into a coordinated campaign against affordable energy, decrease the standard of living for middle- “This strategically organized alliclass America and devastate the ance,” says the report, “has gone to poor without a qualm. great lengths to misconstrue facts, falsify science, and manufacture Specifically, NRDC and oth- risks in order to vilify hydraulic er groups are “initiating legal fracturing” while ignoring the challenges to force regulatory numerous failed “green” stimulus action with sue-and-settle ar- projects, including Solyndra. rangements”—the Sierra Club has received more than $19 million Government regulation and the NRDC $252,004 in EPAfriendly settlements. The committee report was particularly concerned about Obama’s An anti-fracking agenda rhetoric that masks his intent, citing remarks that he gave to NorthwestThe most insidious attack is “blur- ern University in October. Accordring the scientific literature with ing to the report, Obama bragged spurious studies.” that “our 100-year supply of natural gas is a big factor in drawing jobs Since 1997, EPA regulation of oil back to our shores. Many are in and natural gas extraction grew by manufacturing, which produce the more than 145%. quintessential middle-class job.” The foremost example is a 2011 Cornell University report by two biologists and an engineer who “falsely concluded that the lifecycle emissions from natural gas development emit more greenhouse gases than coal,” which was touted by The New York Times as “settled science” useful to silence defenders of fracking. But it was, in fact, science made for hire. Lead author Robert W. Howarth “was approached by the Park Foundation in 2010 and asked to write an academic article that would make a case that shale gas was a dangerous, polluting fuel. That same year, Park Foundation gave Cornell University $135,000 for Howarth’s study,” the report said. Howarth’s “outdated and manipulated data” were so wrong that his study was refuted by his own Cornell colleagues, state regulators, some environmental groups and even Obama’s White House. The Park Foundation’s IRS Form didn’t need fetal therapy. “It’s a big-time intervention. Not only for the fetus, who in these circumstances would have everything to gain because otherwise the baby was going to die, but also an operation on the mother who is really medically an innocent “In retrospect, I think the bill bystander.” Several conservative members were seething over the tactics used by House Speaker John Boehner and his leadership team to get the bill passed and made it clear they’d prefer that he wasn’t speaker in the next Congress. McClintock is not happy with leadership, but he said making a change is easier said than done. “The problem with replacing John Boehner as speaker is you have to have a replacement that is competent to take that role,” he said. “The problem is the people who were competent to replace Boehner were not willing to do so, and the people willing to replace Boehner were not competent to do so.” The congressman noted that no one inside the House GOP Conference challenged Boehner for the post last month. McClintock believes any challenge to Boehner going forward should play out in the conference and not on the House floor during the vote for speaker of the House next month. Obama, from pg. 1__________________________________________________________________ anthropic” funders, such as the rabidly anti-fracking Park Foundation, to wage an all-out assault to shut down domestic production of American oil and natural gas. Life, from pg. 5__________________________________________ does admit to supporting the rule, noting his general approach is to support rules to protect the power of the majority to set the agenda. But Thursday’s vote is one he’d like to have back. raised such important fiscal and constitutional issues that it shouldn’t have been brought to the floor in its current form,” he said. “I’m not going to sugarcoat it. Every now and then, I make a bad vote. That was a bad vote, and I regret it.” tional, “which obtained exclusive power purchase agreements for four solar projects that received [Department of Energy loans].” In May 2011, Bryson was appointed to be Obama’s Secretary of Commerce and resigned in 2012 for health reasons. NRDC has numerous doorways to the corridors of power. Conservatives puzzle over the socialist direction of Big Green’s crony capitalists. Anti-fracking activist Bill McKibben’s 350.org bluntly positioned itself as socialist when director Naomi Klein published her 2014 book, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” which sets the anti-fracking, anti-fossil fuel task as, “shredding free market capitalism.” Does her gang mean to shred America’s private enterprise by nationalization? Crony capitalism Why bother? If your crony capitalist money can buy the government regulations you want and reroute the federal treasury into your antifossil fuel agenda, you get to keep your taxpayer-fed crony capitalism and anybody who survives gets the But at the same time, the report socialist shreds. said, “over one dozen federal agencies [are] attempting to justify the We all owe a debt of thanks to federal usurpation of states’ rights Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana, to regulate hydraulic fracturing.” top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Since 1997, EPA regulation of oil Committee, for having the courage and natural gas extraction grew by and diligence to spearhead such inmore than 145 percent, and 13 fed- vestigations as this fracking report eral agencies are trying to regulate documents. fracking out of existence. Looking beyond the waning days of The overall picture of the presi- the lame-duck session, he told The dent’s allies is one of heirs, inves- Daily Signal, “With a Republican tors and entrepreneurs who became majority in the Senate, committee vastly rich in the capitalist system reports—which are based on honest and thus envision themselves as the research—will have a more signifibest directors of everybody else’s cant presence in terms of creating life. They became a new ruling awareness and setting policy. class, crony capitalists out to mold the public destiny by destroying “These reports are crucial to unall competing visions, using power derstanding how aggressive the purchased from politicians, activ- EPA and Obama administration ists and media shills. are in broadening the scope of their authority to issue regulations that The committee report connects affect small businesses and indisome crony capitalist dots: John vidual families across the country. Bryson was a co-founder of NRDC Plus, they could lead to oversight in 1970 and later became the chair- hearings and perhaps legislative man and CEO of Edison Interna- reforms.” Page 9 “It was a very controversial concept, to do something before birth,” Adzick said. “Most of the response [from people] was one of being flabbergasted. … With time, applying things cautiously clinically in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and with a lot of failure, we got better and better and better. And now it’s sort of an established field.” The goal, as fetal surgery evolved over time, has always been to in- Although fetal surgery is no longer crease the pool of birth defects that experimental, because of the danare treatable in utero. ger to both mother and child, the procedure is still rare. Alan Flake, a pediatric surgeon at the Children’s Hospital of Phila- This year, the Children’s Hospital delphia and Adzick’s colleague, of Philadelphia will evaluate 1,500 has been pursuing the science of mothers carrying babies with seusing cell therapy in the womb for vere birth defects. 30 years. The hospital performs only 150 Medical experts believe that suc- fetal surgeries per year. ceeding in that science—redefining the future of medical care for birth So only 5 percent to 10 percent of defects yet again—would allow patients at the hospital’s Center for more patients a chance at life. Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment get fetal surgery. “You can imagine the payoff if it worked,” Adzick said. “The payoff Additionally, the hospital reports could be huge—helping this new that 20 percent of mothers who cohort of unborn patients.” receive treatment at the center— including both those who pur�Controversial’ to �Established’ sued fetal surgery and those who Field didn’t—lose their babies. From 1983-85, as a fellow, and from 1988-95, as an attending surgeon, Adzick worked with Harrison to develop the fetal surgery enterprise—first testing on animals, graduating to clinical trials, and then, the real thing. “The payoff could be huge,” if stem cell therapy can be used to treat birth disorders in utero, says Dr. Scott Adzick Medical experts say if they can expand the types of defects that can be treated before birth, more babies The two men studied at Mas- can be saved. sachusetts General Hospital 10 years apart—Harrison before As of 2011, about 2 in every 100 Adzick—sharing an ambition to pregnancies involve birth defects help children. that could be repaired prenatally, according to a review by the In 1995, Adzick left San Francisco Agency for Healthcare Quality and to launch the fetal surgery program Research. in Philadelphia. Pointless, from pg. 3___________________________________ and believers are reaching the lost. God is to be praised! Please keep us and all of God servants in Mexico in your prayers. P.S. The newscaster who gave the report about the high number of Americans kidnapped in Mexico in the past year made the comment that no one should drive into Mexico unless they have Mexican license plates on their car. Of course, we have Texas plates on our pickup, van and car. The car is just for running around Pharr, to keep from wearing out our travel vehicle, the van. We use the pickup to haul large loads-you guessed it, to the childrens’ home in Mexico. We work hard to avoid being on the highway between Eagle Pass, TX and Morelos, Coahuila after dark. Since Day Light Saving Time is over it gets dark earlier and earlier. We have always felt that daylight is safer. But, lately there have been terrible shootouts at all hours of the day. Last Friday there were two terrible shootouts just south of the Seminary where we have been teaching, at eight o’clock in the morning. So much for daylight being safe. Hubby has given me some beautiful jewelry over our 51 years of marriage. Before we headed south, he had a great business in Tulsa. His State Farm Insurance business was a tremendous success, especially since no other agents in the area spoke Spanish. So, with his business, we enjoyed the luxuries it provided. My wedding set, which grew with more and more diamonds over the years, is in a safe deposit box at the bank. There is no way I would dare to wear it into Mexico. One never knows who might grab a Gringo and carry him off for ransom. And, that jewelry would be an invitation for some jerk to grab an old lady and cut off her finger! For years now I have worn a simple gold band that Hubby bought for me in Honduras when we were there on a mission trip. It is much safer. I did not give you that little detail to brag, but to remind you again. We are in and out of Mexico on a regular basis, in our vehicles with Texas plates. Prayer is needed and greatly appreciated. Dr. Shaw’s Prescription Senator Wayne Shaw at Mabel Bassett Women’s Prison Chapel Dedication Being a pastor and PK (preacher’s kid) I have attended a lot of church services, but few have been as moving and meaningful as the one I attended the other day at Mabel Bassett. Mabel Bassett is the largest female correctional center, i.e. prison in the state of Oklahoma. It is located outside McLoud, Oklahoma. It was the dedication of a new chapel that had been built inside the fences. (This is the fifth such chapel that Dr. Joe Wilson of Prison Chapel Inc. and his volunteers have built. These are built with private funds and given to the State of Oklahoma when finished.) A number of concerned individuals, churches, and companies gave generously to make this possible. But here is the rest of the story. Even the inmates worked to make this happen. They are given about $11 a month to buy shampoo, soap, etc. Out of that meager amount they collectively gave over $5,000. That is not all, they helped with the construction, that included helping pour the concrete. As I sat there in that dedication service, I sensed a couple of miracles. One was Sen. Wayne Shaw that with all the security that must be maintained, with all the tools and trucks that had to be brought in, and with all the money that had to be raised that a chapel could be built inside the prison walls. The other was that in a facility where 1,200 women are incarcerated (Oklahoma incarcerates more women per capita than any other state in our nation.) you sense the power and presence of God. God’s grace is greater than all our sin. Page 10 The BANNER Wednesday, December 17, 2014 The Golf Corner By Steve Pace Certified Golf Instructor at Patricia Island Golf Club-Grove, OK (918786-3338) (PGA-Former, US Golf Teachers Federation- Retired, NGI- Association of National Golf Instructors) Cell: 405-834-3217 – email: [email protected] - or website: www.stevepace.net Deer Gun Hunters Have Final Chance Over Holidays Deer gun hunters will have one more opportunity to harvest a white-tailed deer in Oklahoma this Only a few days left for waited outside the 19th hole winter during the Holiday Antlershopping! at a local country club. So he less Deer Gun Season, which will GIFT TIME parked himself right around run from Dec. 19-28 in specified Be thinking about that golfer in the golf course and waited for the family: someone to come out drunk and open areas. And in the gift-giving spirit - we have try to drive. several brand Sure enough, of the season, any antlerless deer taken during those 10 days is connew ADAMS at 11:45 pm, sidered a bonus deer and does not LADIES SETS a man came count against a hunter’s combined that would stumbling deer season limit. make great out. It took Resident hunters who plan to gifts. him five participate in the Holiday Antler- we also have minutes to “personalized” get to his car less Deer Gun Season must have an appropriate hunting license and gift certificates and another a Holiday Antlerless Deer License, for lessons or five to turn unless exempt. Nonresident hunters Steve Pace equipment. the car on. must have a Nonresident Deer Gun Contact Steve The police License. Unfilled licenses from the at 405-834-3217 or Ileta Bray at officer sensed victory and let 918-801-5912. the man start driving. He pulled previous Youth Deer Gun, Deer G O L F T I P O F T H E the man over only 50 feet away Muzzleloader or Deer Gun seasons are not valid for the Holiday AntWEEK from the club. He walked up lerless Deer Gun Season. Simple grip check: While to the man and said, “I just The Holiday Antlerless Deer holding your club in the address saw you come out of that bar Gun Season will be open in eight position, can you see the first and you were pretty loaded.” of the state’s 10 Antlerless Deer (index finger) knuckle on each “Daknguifshregjdgfnfdjgn,” hand? You want to have the said the drunk man. “How many Zones. Closed areas include the sensation that you are rolling beers did you have?” asked the Oklahoma Panhandle west of your thumbs downward or of police officer. “Anoout fiften,” U.S. 83, and most of southeastern Oklahoma. Also, many wildlife having your palms more toward said the man. “FIFTEEN! And management areas are closed to the ground than at each other. you’re trying to drive?!? You Almost all amateur golfers or will get life for this,” said the at least high handicappers, have officer. “Hop out of the car. OKLAHOMA HAY MARKET an improper grip. The grip is I am going to run some tests REPORT very much like a foundation of on you,” said the officer. The Movement mostly light this week a house. It must be as correct as man hopped out of his car with with most sales moving locally. possible in order for the rest of perfect grace, he smiled and Demand light to moderate for all the swing to work correctly. stood on one foot, hopped up offerings. Supplemental feedGolf Specials are just and down and said his ABCs ing continues to increase in most waiting on you. forwards and backwards. areas but producers seem to have All area courses currently have The police officer didn’t get immediate needs secured. Only special “WINTER RATES” it. “Okay, let me smell your light rainfall received in portions and encourage you to take breath,” said the officer. “Sure,” of western and northern Oklahoma advantage. said the man. He exhaled right this week with other parts of the -Cherokee Grove Golf Course into the officer’s nose and the state receiving trace amounts. (Grove) @ 918-786-4100 officers smelled no beer on Moderate temperatures returned -Grand Cherokee Golf Course his breath. “Well, I guess I am this week benefitting wheat and (Langley) @ 918-435-8727. gonna have to let you go, but winter grasses. -Patricia Island Golf Club why did you stumble out of the Alfalfa Central Oklahoma: Pre(Grove) @ 918-786-3338 bar so drunk?” “Oh, I’m the mium quality 200.00-220.00. Some -Shangri-La Golf Club (Monkey DD,” said the man. Good quality 150.00-165.00, inIsland) @ 918-257-4204 “A designated driver?” stances 185.00. Fair quality no G O L F J O K E o f t h e “No, a designated decoy,” said recent sales. Premium quality WEEK the man. small square bales loaded on truck A police officer, who was HAPPY GOLFIN ! 15.00 per bale. Eastern Oklahoma: hoping to catch someone drunk, Steve Premium quality small square bales NE Oklahoma Fishing Report by The Oklahoma Wildlife Department NORTHEAST Ft. Gibson: Elevation above normal, water 45 and clear. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 15-20 ft. along creek channels, docks and coves. Blue, flathead and channel catfish fair on cut bait and shad at 15 ft. along the river channel and creek channels. Kaw: Elevation rising, water 40 and clear. Crappie fair on minnows and jigs at 12-20 ft. around brush structure and riprap. Blue catfish fair on juglines baited with cut bait and shad at 12-20 ft. in the main lake. Lower Illinois: Elevation normal, water 50-55 and clear. Trout good on orange Power Bait and in-line spinnerbaits below the dam, tailwaters, riffles below the dam and deep holes. McMurtry: Elevation below normal, water 58 and clear. Crappie fair on minnows, jigs and worms at 6-12 ft. around docks, points and brush structure; most fishing activity has been from docks with minnows. Tenkiller: Elevation 4 ft. below normal, water mid 50s and clear. Largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass slow on plastic baits and jigs at 10-20 ft. around brush structure and the main lake. Crappie slow on minnows and tube jigs at 15-20 ft. around brush structure and docks. 14.00-15.00 per bale. Grass Hay Central Oklahoma: Prairie hay 4 X 5 bales 25.00-30.00 per bale, mostly 25.00-28.00. Good Bermuda 60.00-70.00 per bale in 5 X 6 bales. Good wheat hay 75.0080.00 per ton. Western Oklahoma: Good grass hay 60.00-65.00 per ton. Good wheat hay 65.00-70.00 per ton. Fair to Good Bermuda grass 5x6 bales 45.00-60.00 per bale, best quality Bermuda 60.00-70.00 per bale. Prairie hay 4 X 5 bales 25.00-30.00. Crab grass 5 X 6 bales 35.00-40.00 per bale. Eastern Oklahoma: Good mixed grass hay in 4 X 5 bales 25.0030.00 per bale, mostly 25.00-28.00. Bermuda 5 X 6 bales 50.00-70.00 per bale. Bermuda small square bales 6.00-8.00 per bale. Horoscopes ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, things are going to change with regard to your professional life. Expect some good news at work and possibly a promotion. Make the most of this opportunity. TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 This week is bound to be very social, and your calendar is full, Taurus. You can pick and choose what you want to do, and you can expect to enjoy all of your experiences in the week ahead. LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Home matters have been on your mind, Leo. This week you will reach a resolution to your issue. Your hard work has paid off so you can have some fun. VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 This is a week you are bound to enjoy, Virgo. The next several days will be full of structured fun, and that is right up your alley. Enjoy the company of friends and family. GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Expect to start the week on an exciting note, Gemini. Big news is coming your way, and you can allow yourself to enjoy this exciting time in your life. LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, you may prefer to keep to yourself this week, but you are more likely to be surrounded by friends and family. Make the most of this time with loved ones. CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, enjoy time with your significant other in the days ahead. A romantic trip could be just the way to go, and both of you will appreciate the one-on-one time. SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, things are set to go your way and you couldn’t be happier. You thrive on being in control, and that’s right where you will be this week. Good things are ahead. SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you tend to get restless with routine, so take some time to switch things up this week. Take a different route to work or school. Otherwise, make new friends. CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, your love of travel continues this week, and you won’t be content until you hit the road. If you have the chance to travel, make the most of this opportunity. AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, now is a great time to aim for a promotion at work or make some changes to make yourself more marketable. It’s time to push ahead in your career. PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, this is an exciting period for you, as both personal plans and career goals come to fruition. Enjoy the ride in the days ahead. Crossword Answers Holiday Antlerless Deer Gun Season. For open areas, consult the public hunting area listings and the zone map on page 22 of the current “Oklahoma Hunting” regulations guide. Additional doe harvest helps accomplish several important deer management benefits, said Erik Bartholomew, big-game biologist for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Some of those benefits are improvement of the buck-to-doe ratio for a more healthy herd structure; preventing localized overpopulation of does; reducing competition for forage to promote greater antler growth in bucks; reducing the potential for deer/vehicle collisions; and lessening the extent of potential crop depredation for landowners. This is the first year that a Holiday Antlerless Elk Gun Season will be held on private lands in all elk zones except the Special Southwest Zone. This season will be Dec. 19-28 only in zones where harvest quotas have not yet been met. Hunters who plan to pursue antlerless elk from Dec. 19-28 may use any unfilled elk license from the previous elk firearms seasons or buy a resident or nonresident elk license. Elk taken during this holiday season will count toward the hunter’s combined season limit, so any hunter who already has harvested a combined season limit is not eligible to participate in the holiday season. And zone quotas remain in effect, so any hunter planning to pursue elk must first check the status of the elk harvest quota at wildlifedepartment.com before going afield. Season dates vary in the Special Southwest Zone (all private lands in Caddo, Comanche and Kiowa counties) for Elk Gun (Dec. 18-21) and Additional Antlerless Elk (Jan. 1-31, 2015) hunting seasons. For details, see the current “Oklahoma Hunting” regulations guide online at wildlifedepartment. com or in print where hunting and fishing licenses are sold. In addition, Deer Archery and Elk Archery seasons remain open until Jan. 15. All hunters are reminded that wearing hunter orange clothing is required during any open deer, elk, bear or antelope firearms season. Only hunters pursuing waterfowl, crane or crow, or while hunting furbearing animals at night, are exempt from hunter orange requirements. Hunters also are required to check-in all harvested elk and deer using the online E-Check system within 24 hours of leaving the hunt area. Hunting licenses, deer licenses and elk licenses are sold by vendors statewide or online on the license sales page at wildlifedepartment.com. For additional regulations and information, see the current “Oklahoma Hunting” regulations guide online at wildlifedepartment.com or in print where hunting and fishing licenses are sold. CLUES ACROSS 1. Cuts off a branch 5. 13th Hebrew letter 8. “Hair” producer Joseph 12. Giraffa camelopardalis 14. Indicates near 15. Capital of Samoa 16. Roving adventurously 18. Help 19. Deafening noises 20. Spanish neighborhood 21. Portable computer screen material 22. 20th Hebrew letter 23. “Blue Bloods” lead actor 26. Scholarly 30. Raleigh NC river 31. Alongside each other 32. Electronics Support Module 33. Dogma 34. New Deal statesman Harold 39. A corporation’s first stock offer 42. Slender tower with balconies 44. Young eel 46. Deviation from the normal 47. CBS police drama 49. Cliff 50. Resting place 51. Island in Venice 56. 1981-82 Sec. of State 57. Young man 58. Skylighted central area 59. Oily skin disorder 60. East northeast 61. 1945 Crimean conference city 62. Transfer property 63. Used to be United __ 64. Daze CLUES DOWN 1. Murderers Leopold & ___ 2. Southern veggie 3. Henry’s 6th wife 4. Practice fight 5. Dinners 6. Hermaphrodite 7. Centers 8. Fathers (Spanish) 9. For each one 10. SW Belarus city 11. Australian slang for a kiss 13. Ability to begin 17. Short whistle blasts 24. Were introduced 25. Glowing quality 26. Ingest 27. Relative biological effectiveness 28. Footed vase 29. River in NE Scotland 35. English Univ. river 36. Malaysian Isthmus 37. Soft-finned fish 38. Eyelid infection 40. Fred & Wilma’s baby 41. New __, Louisiana city 42. Tse-tung or Zedong 43. Hindu weather god 44. ___ May, actress 45. Hauled laboriously 47. One suspender 48. More peculiar 49. N. 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The only challenge these great global citizens face are these pesky people called voters, who cling to the old-fashioned idea of a nation as a home and a border as something real and worth protecting. These elites, you see, know better. If you’re worried about your jobs or wages, if you are concerned that the pace of immigration into your community is too fast and too large, if you feel like your needs aren’t being considered, well, you’re just a nativist you see. You’re being selfish. So when an election happens, and the people rebel against this open-borders agenda, there is really one thing for these wise elites to do. They must impose The American people their own laws. have begged and pleaded for a lawful system of im- How Congress answers migration that serves the this challenge will shape national interest – not the the future of this Repubspecial interests. But the lic. Will we defend and politicians have refused, protect the people who refused, refused. 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James Woolsey Jr. spoke with Aaron Klein of “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York’s 970 AM The Answer Sunday about the committee’s $40-million, 6,000-page review of the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the post9/11 era. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the head of the intelligence panel that ordered release of the report, alleged on the Senate floor Tuesday that the CIA techniques in some cases amounted to “torture.” An op-ed piece written by former CIA Directors George J. Tenet, Porter J. Goss and Michael V. Hayden, along with former CIA Deputy Directors John E. McLaughlin, Albert M. Calland and Stephen R. Kappes, blasted the report as a “one-sided study marred by errors of fact and interpretation – essentially a poorly done and partisan attack.” As WND reported, Woolsey is only the latest former CIA official to soundly criticize the Senate committee report. The report further alleged that the CIA’s interrogation methods were not an effective means of ac“To make this material quiring intelligence or public was a very great gaining cooperation from disservice to the country detainees. “Astonishingly, the (Senand to the cause of antiate) staff avoided interterrorism,” Woolsey said. Woolsey disagreed: “John viewing any of us who “It’s is not just announc- Brennan said it right when had been involved in esing what we did, it’s issu- he said that the informa- tablishing or running the ing this hundreds of pages tion that they got was program, the first time a of material explaining to essentially useful and he supposedly comprehenthem how we make deci- believes it contributed to sive Senate Select comsions, how we think this is our being able to under- mittee on Intelligence important, how we think stand what the terrorists study has been carried out that is important. had done and what they in this way,” the former “It’s a gold mine of infor- might do next and also to CIA directors wrote. Fight looms over $3 billion Obama administration payment to UN-linked climate fund By George Russell The Obama administration can expect a knock-down battle with the next Congress over its announced $3 billion contribution to the United Nations-affiliated Green Climate Fund, a centerpiece of talks over a new treaty on greenhouse gas emissions held in Lima, Peru, last week. “If they think they are going to get all that money for the fund, they’re mistaken,” a senior aide to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., told Fox News. “You’re going to see us being more aggressive about not sending more money to the U.N. and elsewhere for climate change.” Inhofe is the incoming chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee in the Republican-controlled Senate that will be take office in January, and a vocal skeptic about the administration’s drastic climate policies. He is not a member of the powerful Appropriations Committee that actually decides how U.S. taxpayer money is doled out. But aides point out that climate skepticism shared with other Republicans, and a hopedfor end to the cliff-hanger process of funding the government through catch-all legislation like the $1.1 trillion “Cromnibus” bill that passed late Saturday, give a real edge to the climate fund threat. Skepticism about climate change funding, the aide tional commitments” to reindicated, would be a “top duce carbon emissions, as a priority” of Inhofe. solid step toward creating a successor to the now defunct Failure to honor the Green Kyoto Protocol. The intenClimate Fund commitment tion is to make the final deal would deal a huge blow to at a climate summit schedthe aggressive climate strat- uled for Paris late in 2015. egy of an administration that has already announced that One of the few quantifiable it will double down on its achievements at Lima, howown cuts to carbon emissions ever, was the growing size by 2025, with 26 percent -- at least in terms of pledges to 28 percent reductions -- of the Climate Fund, or beyond what it has already GCF. It topped $10 billion, achieved. including the U.S. contribution, about $1.5 billion from “If they think they are going Japan, and a spate of smaller to get all that money for the pledges by other Western fund, they’re mistaken.” nations. - Senior aide to Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. The fund is intended to help finance green projects that Blocking the money also cut carbon emissions in the would give a possibly mortal developing world; developwound to the increasingly ing countries expect it to Rube Goldberg business of grow to enable green investorganizing a global climate ments worth more than $100 deal in the face of economic billion annually by 2020. austerity, resistance from rising industrial powers such But that depends, among as India, and virtually no other things, on whether the evidence that global tem- Obama administration’s $3 peratures have risen in the billion check bounces -- a past two decades. question that will not be fully answered until early next The Lima climate session year, after the White House that closed Sunday was al- submits a budget request for ready teetering on the edge fiscal 2016. The Green Cliof failure due to tensions mate pledge money will be between developing nations included in that request. that want both drastic carbon cuts from developed nations The administration got a and mountains of cash to pay foretaste of the likely resisfor green projects on their tance read in the Cromnibus own territory. bill itself. It contained a stopper to prevent money from In the end, organizers hailed the catch-all funding from the nebulous outcome, built being dedicated to the Green on as-yet unrevealed “na- Fund, while acknowledging that the White House had not yet asked for the $3 billion it announced for the Fund in mid-November. “The 2015 budget is not relevant for GCF funding,” a Fund spokesman told Fox News, “since we understand that the U.S. administration will first submit a budget request for the GCF as part of the 2016 budget.” When that happens, the rules of the game for getting a congressional stamp of approval on GCF money are likely to have changed considerably. While the Cromnibus bill wrapped up funding for 11 sections of the government into one massive piece of legislation, Inhofe’s senior aide said that the Republican Senate next year will return to a more regular order of business -- allowing senators to “really get into the weeds at each agency” -and thus selectively cut and add funds through budget amendments. “For the past eight years, Senate Majority Leader [Harry] Reid prevented lots of amendments from going forward, and limited members’ ability to engage in the process,” the Inhofe aide said. That engagement, he implied, was likely to put a major chill on climate change funding. Page 12 The BANNER Christmas Wishes from PAASVinita pet rescue Christmas is in the air. Children are counting the days until Santa arrives and families are making last minute preparations to be together and/or stay in touch. All too often, there is a “puppy surprise” gift which brings oohs and aahs when the wiggly bundle of fluff comes tumbling out of the Christmas box. Unfortunately, unless the recipient had expressed their desire to have a puppy - -in a few short months a gangly, lovable, untrained, bouncing ball of energy will suddenly be brought to a shelter, given away or - just dumped. Yes - - - we want people to adopt lovable bundles of fluff - - but we also want them to make a commitment to keep that bundle of fluff through the puppy/chewing/jumping/high energy stage and for the next 10+ years. Wednesday, December 17, 2014 A Shelter Dog’s Christmas Poem from Second Chance Pet Rescue As you gather this holiday season to spend time with friends and family and your own beloved furry family members, take just a moment to think of those dogs and cats who sit alone and unwanted at the Second Chance Pet Rescue of Grand Lake. Gather up some old blankets and towels, or grab an extra bag of treats or a few toys when you are out shopping to drop them at the shelter. You can do this any time of the year, but at this special time of love and sharing, take those few extra minutes and make this holiday a little more special for a few lonely shelter animals. Meet Lucy, a small, adorable rescue currently at Second Chance Pet Rescue but hoping to be adopted soon. When you meet her, she will steal your heart. Lucy and her four-legged friends currently residing at Second Chance Pet Rescue would like to share “A Shelter Dog’s Christmas Poem” this holiday season. To put a smile on your face go to youtube - type in This Single Dad is waiting to meet his baby click on the submission by Kingmaker Nesh- - sit back and smile. “Tis the night before Christmas and all through the town, every shelter is full--we are lost but not found. Our numbers are hung on our kennels so bare; we hope every minute that someone will care. They’ll come to adopt us and give us the And if there is a puppy on your call, “Come here Max or Sparkie gift list - - please, please make sure - come fetch your new ball!” But the recipient really wants a puppy now we sit here and think of the - - - for life. days we were treated so fondly-we had cute, baby ways. Once we were little, then we grew and we Merry Christmas - grew. Now we are no longer young and we are no longer new. Kay Stout - - - - Executive DirecSo out the back door we were tor Facebook: PAASVinita e: thrown like trash. They reacted [email protected] 918so quickly--why were they so 256-7227 rash? We “jump on the children,” “don’t come when they call,” we “bark when they leave us,” “climb over the wall.” We should have been neutered, we should have been spayed. Now we suffer the consequence of the errors THEY made. If only they had trained us, if only we knew, we would have done what they asked us and worshiped them, too. We were left in the backyard, or worse. left to roam. Now we are tired and lonely and out of a home. They dropped us off here and they kissed us goodbye - “ Maybe someone else will give you a try.” So now here we are, all confused and alone, in a shelter with others who long for a home. The kind workers come through with a meal and a pat. With so many to care for, they can’t stay to chat. They move to the next kennel, giving each of us cheer. We know that they wonder how long we will be here. We lay down to sleep and sweet dreams fill our heads of a home filled with love and our own cozy beds. Then we wake to see sad eyes--our friends filled with emptiness, worry, and fear. If you can’t adopt us and there’s no room at the Inn, could you help with the bills and fill our food bin? We count on your kindness each day of the year. Can you give more than hope to everyone here? Please make a donation to pay for the heat and help get us something special to eat. The shelter that cares for us wants us to live, and more of us will, if more people will give. (Author Unknown) In this season of giving, will you consider helping Second Chance Pet Rescue? No donation is too small. Even $10 can provide a life saving vaccine to an animal in our care. Please send your tax-deductible donation to P.O Box 451205, Grove, OK 74345, or donate online via the website www.doitforthepets. com. Follow Second Chance Pet Rescue on Facebook to see pictures of available pets, read some heartwarming stories about adoptions and how you can help support Second Chance Pet Rescue of Grand Lake. We wish all a very Merry Christmas. Carol Rice Volunteer/Second Chance Pet Rescue of Grand Lake We carry breast prothesis, mastectomy bras, wigs, turbans, camisoles, hats and bathing suits to meet your cancer needs. To look and feel your best, have a personalized fitting. Call Beggs Pharmacy for an appointment with our Certified Fitter at (918) 825-3059. 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