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FEBRUARY
21
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2015
YESTERDAY’S NEWS
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Coming to America
When President Barack Obama unveiled his
plan for executive amnesty, I was dismayed at
his disregard for our laws. His amnesty plan
goes much further than just allowing a few
million people from our neighbors to stay here
and become U.S. citizens.
More than 5 million immigrants have
obtained work permits from the federal gov-
ernment since 2009 as told by the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS).
Also 982,000 of those permits went to illegals
and other foreign nationals who did not meet
legal standards for employment.
Under congressional law, 1.1 million legal
immigrants and 700,000 guest workers are
permitted to enter the U.S. annually. The 5
million work permits uncovered by CIS are
above the legal numbers.
Our president, whether intentionally or due
to his lack of competency, has turned our
country into a haven for unrestricted immigra-
tion.
According to the American Family
Association, since 2008, the president has
added 18 million foreign workers to the
American Labor Force. Believe it or not, some
Americans are being fired and replaced with
Obama’s foreign workers.
At last week’s Congressional hearings,
Homeland Security Secretary stated, “Illegal
immigrants are being issued Social Security
Cards, Work Permits, and child Income
Credits from the IRS for as much as $24,000
per family.” Also, these welcomed new citi-
zens will be able to obtain a driver’s license
and voter registration with their new docu-
mentation.
Reading an article in the Washington Times,
President of Mexico, Enrique Nieto, stated his
government would supply the documents nec-
essary for millions of illegal Mexican immi-
grants to prove they’ve been living in the
United States. What’s in this for Mexico? For
one, it would be a good way to reduce their
prison population.
The Syrian civil war has created a humani-
tarian crisis, with 3.2 million Syrians having
fled their country and seeking refuge in camps
in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.
The State Department said in December it
was processing more than 9,000 applications
referred from the United Nations, with tens of
Herbs
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Female cannabis has the flowers
that people refer to as marijuana.
“Now we’re talking about all
this legalization, but how did we
even get ‘un-legalized’ in the first
place?” he asked.
“This is a very political issue,
and I don’t want to get into the
politics of cannabis, but it is good
to note that before Prohibition
started, cannabis was a very com-
mon ingredient in many herbal for-
mulas in the world.”
In McBride’s research, he dis-
covered that the U.S. banned
cannabis because of the male
plant, hemp, not the female plant,
which has the medicinal and psy-
chological effects.
“Hemp was the only fiber and
textile used across the world at that
time. All the sails on all the ships
before 1900 were made of hemp.
… Cotton was very minimally
used. Cotton has very low yields
and is inefficient to grow and har-
vest,” he said.
It took the inventor of the cotton
USPS# 497-660
MOMENTS IN TIME
The History Channel
• On Feb. 25, 1828, John Adams, son of
President John Quincy Adams, marries his first
cousin and inadvertently follows a pattern of
keeping marriages within the family. John
Adams’ grandfather, President John Adams,
had married his third cousin. John’s daughter
also married a family member — her second
cousin.
• On Feb. 24, 1938, Variety reports that the
film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has bought
the rights to adapt L. Frank Baum’s children’s
novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” for the
screen, and that MGM has cast 16-year-old
Judy Garland in the film’s central role,
Dorothy.
• On Feb. 27, 1942, the U.S. Navy’s first air-
craft carrier, the Langley, is sunk by Japanese
warplanes, and all of its 32 aircraft are lost. The
Langley had parted company from its convoy
when nine Japanese twin-engine bombers
attacked. Of the 300 crewmen, only 16 were
lost.
• On Feb. 28, 1953, Cambridge University
scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C.
Crick announce that they have determined the
double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule
containing human genes. Watson later claimed
that Crick announced the discovery by walking
into the nearby Eagle Pub and blurting out, “We
have discovered the secret of life.”
• On Feb. 26, 1968, allied troops who recap-
tured the city of Hue from the North
Vietnamese during the Tet Offensive find the
first mass graves in the former imperial capital.
It was discovered that communist troops who
had held the city for 25 days had massacred
between 2,800 and 5,700 civilians.
thousands more Syrians waiting in the U.N.
pipeline. Will they also be “Coming to
America”?
Homeland Security needs a lot of our tax
dollars to process this large influx of new U.S.
citizens. We already know the routine if our
gin, which allowed for faster har-
vesting, using political clout to ban
the versatile hemp so that cotton
could compete in the market.
“It had nothing to do with the
flowers at all,” McBride said.
“Because the flowers are so strong
and psychoactive, it was easy for
the powers that be to use those
things against the plant to con-
vince people that that was why it
was bad. Ultimately, it was a polit-
ical and economic agenda.”
The prohibition on cannabis is
ending now.
People with acute anxiety,
severe pain, epilepsy, even
Alzheimer’s, have begun using
cannabis medicinally.
Whitney, who spoke for the
Herb Enthusiasts once before,
said, “There aren’t a lot of studies
in general. That’s one of the main
points that I want to make today.
There are not a lot of studies show-
ing marijuana use and what it does
to the body. … I think that will
change eventually down the road
and more studies can be done.”
McBride said, “There’s no herb
that’s ever a silver bullet to any-
thing. You can’t take cannabis and
assume it’s going to heal all your
problems. … Any health regime
you do has to be part of a lifestyle
choice. It has to be part of a com-
prehensive plan.”
He recommended yoga, Pilates
and going to a chiropractor to help
alleviate pain.
“If you really want to rebuild
and heal, you can’t expect every
herb to do that for you. Only you
can do that for yourself. Herbs will
help you along the way and teach
you what you need to do for your-
self. You must look within yourself
to truly grow in the long-term,”
said McBride.
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• On March 1, 1971, musician James Taylor
makes the cover of Time magazine. The article
contrasted Taylor’s gentle rock sound to the
“walloping folk rock of Bob Dylan,” the “thun-
derous eloquence of the Beatles” and the “leer
of the Rolling Stones.”
• On Feb. 23, 1980, speed skater Eric Heiden
wins the 10,000-meter race at the Winter
Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, setting a
world record with his time. Before Heiden, no
other athlete in Olympic history had ever won
five individual gold medals.
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