It looks like you have to guess at the amounts.
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Brown your ground beef and drain completely - then add refried beans, taco seasoning and about half a can of tomato sauce. Mix together and scoop into taco shells, (stand them up in a casserole dish).
Sprinkle the cheese on top and bake at 375 for 10 minutes.
Any immigration plan the Republicans come up with that is enthusiastically accepted by Democrats, and especially the President is a trick. Democrats are not necessarily smarter than Republicans, but they certainly are sneakier, and have a bigger bag of tricks. They have been pulling this scam about how they care about the little guy and the poor for so long, while lynching blacks, passing Jim Crow laws, aborting babies that could live outside the womb, keeping the poor out of their neighborhoods with strict zoning and EPA, and condemning generations to live the welfare plantation, that one could assume we have a very dumb electorate. One of their favorite heroes is FDR who kept the country in a Depression for almost a decade and imprisoned Americans according to their race.
Ask yourself why Democrats want lax border security, or no borders. Who benefits? Unions? Big business? Mexico? Democrat voter rolls? Why are rules or fences different than check points that currently exist between all countries?
Reread the 1986 immigration law that they say doesn't work. Enforcement is the key. It provides for guest workers, border security, rules for employers so American labor doesn't suffer, amnesty for "3 million" and guess what the Democrats got--amnesty for those already here.
I found some bargains at Volunteers of America yesterday. I bought two colorful summer skirts and three tops that will work with both skirts. The tops all have sleeves, which is important for 2 reasons—upper arms aren’t what they used to be, and many restaurants and meeting rooms run the AC too high (also nice for walks at night along the lake.
This outfit cost under $4.00. The sandals, however, are new—Sears, and will only work if I don’t plan on a lot of walking.
I also found a pretty Longaberger plate of a little girl looking for shells on the beach for $2.92. I’ll keep that at the lake house.
Nice article in the WSJ about Lakeside and the other Chautauqua communities. When my parents were young children, there were traveling Chautauquas that settled for about 2 weeks at camp grounds near their homes. There was one in Franklin Grove, IL, and one in Dixon, IL (with permanent buildings), and although my parents didn't know each other then, they both attended the one closest to their home. The photo with the hollyhocks is from the end of our street.
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The one in Dixon: “Rock River Assembly was formed in 1887 to train Sunday school teachers in an outdoor education format. The first, formed in 1874 at Chautauqua Lake in New York State, was the model for many Chautauquas throughout the United States. Classes in art, bible study, gymnastics and oratory were included in the curriculum along with games and outdoor activities.
Visitors enjoyed a large hotel, a Bible hall, a Sunday School and a bath house. Many rented tents for their stay. World renowned speakers and star performers both enlightened and entertained large audiences.”
The peak year of the traveling chautauqua was 1924 when over 10,000 little midwestern towns hosted over 40 million people who came to be educated, entertained and uplifted. (American Midwest, 2007, p. 692). In fact, this is where I first heard of the Chautauqua movement because my grandparents had helped with the local organization. I didn’t know there were permanent Chautauqua sites like Lakeside, Bay View, Boulder, and Lake Chautauqua, NY until we first visited Lakeside.
An Associated Press article said: "Since World War II, 10 U.S. recessions have been followed by a recovery that lasted at least three years. An Associated Press analysis shows that by just about any measure, the one that began in June 2009 is the weakest. Economic growth has never been weaker in a postwar recovery. Consumer spending has never been so slack. Only once has job growth been slower. More than in any other post-World War II recovery, people who have jobs are hurting: Their paychecks have fallen behind inflation." According to Wall Street Journal economist Stephen Moore, "We've had the worst, by far -- not by a little bit, by far -- the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression."
Thanks, Democrats.
The National Cancer Institute, the American Cancer Society, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and other cancer non-profit/research organizations won't tell the public about the high risks to women for breast cancer, hormonal changes that affect their immune system and sex drive, and suicide caused by abortion and contraception. They won't tell the public about the risk for premature babies with altered health outcomes.
But I will.
Early, pre-term babies http://www.jogc.com/abstracts/full/201302_Obstetrics_5.pdf
Increased health risks for babies
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22933527
Triple negative breast cancer risk
http://authors.fhcrc.org/236/1/MaloneKCEBP030909.pdf
The Democrat policy of pushing contraception and abortion even on very young girls is not only a war on the unborn, particularly African Americans, it is also a war on women's health.
The best schools in Ireland are historically Catholic, and their Constitution supports "choice" by also funding Protestant schools. At the rate Irish Catholics are abandoning their roots, I don't think Protestants need to worry if they send their kids to a Catholic school. Obama needs to stay out of local affairs, whether it is his buddy and the Boston police, or schools in Ireland, or squabbles between a Muslim dictator and Muslim al-qaeda rebels.
If Obama thinks it is divisive for Catholics and Protestants to have separate schools, does he also think private schools like where his daughters and the children of other politicians attend because of their parents' wealth are divisive?
“If towns remain divided,” said the U.S. President, “if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation.”
Obama, who arrived in Northern Ireland this morning to attend the two-day G-8 Summit at the Lough Erne resort in Enneskillen, made the disproved claim on Monday, speaking before an audience which included many Catholics. -
In the Irish constitution, “State aid for schools cannot discriminate between schools of different religious denominations. Every child has the right to attend a denominational school receiving State funding without having to participate in religious instruction in the school.”
Nancy Pelosi supports abortion after 22 weeks and calls the recent House bill to let babies live, "disgraceful." She claims to be a "practicing and respectful Catholic." Sorry, ma'am, that would make you a Protestant. We get to declare own personal beliefs are above the church, scripture and tradition; you don't.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/pelosi-banning-abortion-post-22-weeks-disrespectful-women
From the east side of the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama gave an extraordinary speech today sketching out his plans for a new global order in which traditional national security interests will be replaced by a collective approach to everything from global warming to nuclear weapon capability.
The irony, of course, is that President Obama was free to stand on the formerly-Soviet side of the Brandenburg Gate and opine about global peace with justice because of the strength of the very nuclear arsenal he now proposes to dismantle. While the President claimed today that at the end of the Cold War, “Openness won. Tolerance won. And freedom won here in Berlin,” the reality is that the United States of America won. The Berlin wall did not come down simply because the German people dreamed of freedom. The Berlin came wall down because an American President distilled his policy towards the Soviet Union into a simple formula: “We win, they lose.”
If history be our guide, although the notion of “peace with justice” that the President mentioned ten times in his speech may sound appealing, we will be far better served by President Reagan’s policy of “peace through strength,” which cannot be achieved by appeasement or yet another round of nuclear cuts by the Obama administration.
Our favorite home town hasn’t changed much. On my first bike trip around the town after winter in Florida I did take note of the fact that the residents do a damn good job of keeping their homes up. Thank goodness for vinyl siding. There are some in a state of disrepair or abandoned, but considering the situation the town looks pretty neat. Whitmer, who farms the field back of our house, usually alternates between corn and soybeans but has elected to go for the ethanol crop again this year. The land around the airport outside of the village that had 5 acre lots for sale has utilized the land for an ethanol crop also while waiting for lot sales to pick up. We now have a new Dollar General Store located just before you get to the trailer court on Rt. 64. This was badly needed as the little discount store located in the old Brass Rail closed down after a year or so of opening although there is a sign painted on the window glass, "New Business Coming." I stopped by on my bike trip and was able to talk to the owners. They are going to modify the store with a lunch counter and gift shop. They are aiming to reopen during the 4th so drop in. They are located in the old Brass Rail. Unfortunately, we lost the remaining ( Hough) hardware store that has been one of the town's mainstays. That store building plus the old Hough house is for sale. Probably the best news is the Kable Printing Company's building has been sold by Quad Graphics to a business out in California. It's my understanding this business does not operate any type of business of their own. They buy property, renovate it and rent or resell it to others. Part of the selling contract allows for Quad to use it for storage for 3 years. After that, hopefully Mt. Morris will see a new business startup. Here's the story: http://www.oglecountynews.com/2013/04/26/quad-graphics-plant-in-mt-morris-purchased-by-california-company-few-details-available/asa5iy0/
Our golf course is doing well and is in great shape so if you visit bring your clubs and call me cause I'm still whacking the ball around. Right now they are busy getting ready for the 32nd annual Old Home Week Golf Tournament. They are calling it the 32nd but I remember playing in it back in the 60's and 70's. Click here for tournament info: http://sunsetgolfmm.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2013-Old-Home-Week-Entry-Form.pdf. The group from the Rockford Country Club did not sign up this year therefore leaving the tournament a few teams short. Some of the area courses aren't doing as well as Sunset. Oregon Country Club has been sold and is currently closed. The new owner is trying to resell it as a golf course. Good luck with that one. Silver Ridge closed last fall but has a new owner this spring and is open for play. Sterling Country Club closed and was sold. It is now farmland. Looks like more ethanol on line. As of now I don't know what's holding the Polo course together. Dixon and Lost Nation are still going along with Prairie View in Byron.
In spite of the fact that small town America is disappearing, Mt. Morris refuses to give up on it's traditions and way of life. They held their memorial day festivities as usual with a good turnout at the Band shell and Memorial fountain. The Band shell has been renovated complete with a cement pad to hold the new park benches out front. The Kable Band has given concerts for the last 117 years. Click here: http://www.mtmorrisil.net/Blank.html Somebody needs to call Guinness on this....could be a record! And of course, as many of the natives count on, our annual 4th of July celebration will draw people back home from all over the country. I'll be at my usual spot out in front of the old Brass Rail hopefully along with the usual old friends that annually check each other out during the parade. If you come bring a few tall tales to add to the ones you'll be hearing from the "old regulars" They have a million of them that get better each year!
The Blackhawk statue is soliciting for donations for badly needed renovations. You can help. Go here for information about the restoration: http://www.rrstar.com/news/x1503808519/Summer-2014-repair-expected-for-Black-Hawk-statue-in-Oregon#axzz2WO4dE7M4
Pinecrest Manor continues to expand it's facilities. Everybody's little buddy Jimmy "Lil' Pete" Smith from the class of '55 is now a resident. Besides the facilities to house the elderly requiring assistance, they now have a small village of their own called Pinecrest Grove. The plans call for 42 duplex homes with 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms. They already have 10 built with 4 of them sold. They really look nice and the prices range from $50,000 to $167,000 depending on the type of "plan" you subscribe to. Click here to have a peek. http://www.pinecrestcommunity.org/lifestyle/pinecrest-grove
The biggest bummer is our main drag. Starting at the corner of Wesley & Center going north there are 10 store fronts in the first block with 3 empty. Not too bad. But, the next block that includes Felkers Drug is completely void of any businesses. The final block shows Zickuhr's Corner Drug empty and with just a tavern plus gas station. (Dewey's old place) The recent closing of the old hardware store renders that side of the block empty now . So the heart of the town is pretty quiet most days.
Here are other websites that will provide you with just about anything you want to know about your favorite hometown:
http://www.mtmorrisil.net/Tourism.html
http://www.mtmorrisil.net/Mt_Morris_Updated_Businesses_6-25-12.pdf
So they got their bonuses. During the last election they managed to really cool down conservative donors and board members with threats and audits. Works every time. The big guy was reelected.
Probably someone should look into charitable non-profits. But maybe not waste IRS resources on the mom and pop tea party groups the IRS was harassing. How about the largest public charity in the country, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. The CEO George Halvorson makes about $8 million a year (2009). Kaiser paid its six top executives a combined $16.6 million (2009) and provided them with executive perks like first class air travel, forgivable home loans, and multiple pension and bonus plans. Of the top 10 public charities, 8 were health systems. I'm guessing they are all on board for Obamacare. Non-profits are very profitable and have a revolving door with the government.
http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/412228-nonprofit-government-contracting.pdf
1. This bill is amnesty. In 1986 we saw what happened. The 3 million illegals were given amnesty with a promise that the borders would be secured later. The borders never were secured, and we now have at least 11 million illegal immigrants. . .
2. Democrats want this for politics. Senator Chuck Schumer said that if there is not citizenship (i.e., voting rights), there cannot be reform. Why not? Why must the illegals be given citizenship, and is that even what they want? . . .If they wanted citizenship, they know how to come through the front door.
3. Latinos will not support the Republican Party if the Senate immigration bill is passed. Senator Ted Cruz today explained a poll recently taken in Texas. Among voting Latinos, 68% support more border security — they want to make sure that legal immigration (the immigration they had to go through if they’re voting) is what is furthered in this country. In addition, Cruz explained that 46% of Latino voters in Texas supported a work permit without citizenship and only 35% supported a pathway to citizenship. Over 40% of Latinos in Texas voted for Ted Cruz in the Texas Senate race, the race in which he was very clear that he did not support amnesty. Rather, he supports legal immigration.
4. Republicans will not win by passing the Senate immigration bill. In fact, if the Republicans would take a firm, predictable stance on immigration, Latinos who are citizens would likely be supportive, according to the above poll numbers and Cruz’s own race. What the illegals think is irrelevant — they aren’t citizens, and they aren’t voting (yet).
5. The House does not have to bring this bill to the floor. Congressman Trey Gowdy is working on his own immigration bill. According to his official web site, the “Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, the SAFE Act, introduced by Immigration Subcommittee Chair Trey Gowdy (R-SC) … improves interior enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws.” Let’s see the House pass their own immigration reform bill and send it to the Senate.
6. This bill will not stop illegal immigration. The new CBO scoring that was released Tuesday says that the Senate immigration bill will decrease illegal immigration by only 25%. Since we’re all math whizzes, that means illegal immigration levels will remain at 75% of what they are today.
7. The Senate immigration bill will lead to 46 million new citizens and immigrants — possibly more. Where are all of these people going to find jobs (see bullet point #9 below)? These are all low-skilled workers, who are going to take the jobs that our high school students and college students can and should be taking (or anyone else for that matter). . .
8. The “Gang of 8″ Senate immigration bill allows the 11 million here illegally to be immediately eligible for state welfare. The CBO estimate that says that this will reduce the deficit is based only on federal dollars, not state and local. . .
9. This bill makes the normalized illegal immigrants less expensive to hire. They all receive waivers from ObamaCare, so the employers will have an incentive to not hire Americans in favor of those who are here illegally because it will be a huge cost savings — at least $2,000 per year for the ObamaCare fines — to the employer. . .
10. Republicans supporting this bill will go nowhere. That includes Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. If either of them are nominated in 2016, you will likely see more conservatives stay home from the polls yet again, rather than going to support another squishy Republican . . .
“On Friday, Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration, an informal group of well-respected evangelical Christians announced its opposition to the Gang of Eight immigration bill. The group, recently organized by Kelly Monroe Kullberg, founder of the Veritas Forum and co-author and editor of Finding God at Harvard, featured a letter written to members of Congress by Kullberg outlining the Biblical principles on which opposition to the bill is based on its website and Facebook page. . .
Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration's opposition to the Gang of Eight bill comes just two weeks after a George Soros-backed group, the Evangelical Immigration Table, launched a $250,000 media campaign in support of the bill's passage.” (Summary from Briebart.com)
And I say with Kelly:
“. . . as a citizen in the Heartland, I have a simple request of the Senate: Please stop. Please, no more surprises. Rather, rebuild our trust. There seems to be great confusion about what the bill means and how it will be implemented. Rushing to a vote, once again, is not wise.”
- See more at: http://evangelicalsforbiblicalimmigration.com/#sthash.mI0tkYmt.dpuf
The rebels, supported by our President.
We could have a booming economy with enough gas to export, if Obama would just allow drilling on federal land (half of the western U.S.). But rabid environmentalists gum up the works with mountains of paper work. Since 2007, natural gas production on federal lands fell by 33 percent while production on state and private lands grew by 40 percent. According to Congressional Research Service, the average time to process an Application for Permits to Drill (APD) on federal lands increased 41 percent from 2006 to 2011, extending the process by nearly 90 days. The sale and profits could lower our taxes and countries now enslaved economically by China and Russia's high prices for fuel could enjoy the benefits. Instead, he allows the greenies to keep him on the plantation of failed 19th century socialism. They don't care about the earth; they care about destroying the country.
The rebels Obama is arming are a branch of al-qaeda. Also they are murdering Syrian Christians.
Ayers, the former Weather Underground member and University of Illinois at Chicago professor, told Real Clear Politics that Obama is “absolutely” engaged in terrorist activity by using drones and “absolutely” should be tried for war crimes.
“Every president in this century should be put on trial,” Ayers said. “Every one of them goes into an office dripping with blood and then adds to it. And, yes, I think that these are war crimes. I think that they’re acts of terror.”
Ayers said he would give Obama a failing grade for his presidency but praised his personal style.
“I like him personally,” Ayers said. “I mean, he’s a really good guy.”
January 2014 will usher in multiple changes to health insurance plans for Ohio residents from the Patient Protection and Affordable Act Care (PPACA or ACA), popularly known as ObamaCare. The ValuePenguin analyst team dove through pending health insurance rate tables filed by health insurers with the State of Ohio's Insurance Division to get a preview of what premiums residents could expect. We compared the costs of health insurance today to costs expected under ObamaCare for three sample demographic profiles (27, 40, and 55-year old non-smokers) to give you a sense of how much health insurance costs would increase in Ohio. Unlike some gender neutral states, these premium costs are not the same for men and women as health insurance companies do factor in gender to more accurately price their products. -
See more at: ValuePenguin
These are the rebels Obama wants to arm.
"The video shows the teenagers shooting handguns at a large photo of Syrian leader Bashar al-Asad. It also shows them stating that their leader is Abu Bakr al Baghdadi (the head of al Qaeda in Iraq), and then singing joyfully of their desire to overthrow both Asad and his sister Bushra, of the valor of al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri and of al Qaeda’s success in blowing up the World Trade Center towers. "We destroyed America with a civilian airplane,” the young Syrian rebels sing. “The World Trade Center was turned into rubble. The World Trade Center was turned into rubble. -
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