MOVING TO MEXICO

This came in on my e-mail and I felt it was very interesting.

Dear President Obama: I'm planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We're planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. Into Mexico, and we'll need your help to make a few arrangements. We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I'm on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following: 1. Free medical care for my entire family. 2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not. 3. Please print all Mexican government forms in English. 4. I want my grandkids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers. 5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history. 6. I want my grandkids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school. 7. Please plan to feed my grandkids at school for both breakfast and lunch. 8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to government services. 9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico, but, I don't plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won't make any special effort to learn local traffic laws. 10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer. 11. I plan to fly the U.S. Flag from my house top, put U S. Flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals. 12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start. 13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy. 14. I want to receive free food stamps. 15. Naturally, I'll expect free rent subsidies. 16. I'll need Income tax credits so although I don't pay Mexican Taxes, I'll receive money from the government. 17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Gov't pays $4,500 to help me buy a new car. 18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I'll get a monthly income in retirement. I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all his people who walk over to the U.S. from Mexico . I am sure that President Calderon won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely. Thank you so much for your kind help. You're the man!!!

Between issues it often rains

We love getting mail, even letters that do not have checks in them. We do read and share among the staff any letters that are from our readers. This includes e-mails that need to be seen by all the concerned eyes in our company. We get many letters in the mail as well as on-line and found that placing these letters in our print publication just serves to compound a past problem that has already been addressed. Also being a monthly print publication, the time frame is much too long to keep issues alive.

Our answer to addressing this time warp is to post letters of interest here in my on-line column. This also allows for interested parties to respond to the issues involved in a timely matter. So, today on-line we received the following letter about a boo boo we made two issues ago and have since made every effort to correct. Excuses are not going to be given, other than to say we agree we screwed up, we did not mean or want to do it, but it happened. This type of screw up most likely will not happen again due to new safeguards put into place.

So here is the mail that came in today to my e-mail address at: mike@upmag.net . . .

UP Magazine

To: John Colley, UP Magazine Editor

I don’t understand why your publication doesn’t feature a “Letters to the Editor” column . . . like most reputable publications offer. On second thought . . . maybe I do.

I fear your editorial “navigation” compass is off . . . about 180 degrees (maybe it's all the iron ore in dat Superior Yooper soil up dar)! Here’s why, but first let me tell you that, by my calculations, I figure you owe me ten cents ($0.10). Broken down that’s $4.00 (cost of one issue) divided by 80 pages which equals about five cents ($0.05) per page, times two (2) pages which equals ten cents.

Here’s my reasoning. In Vol. 21 - #3 pp. 20-21, “Superior Heartland: Book Two––Woodsmen’s Impression of the City” article by the late, C. Fred Rydholm, you present some pictures, very nice woods scene (purportedly representative of the White Deer Lake Camp), also a nice photo of kids playing on a (presumably) Chicago street––with a not so nice dead horse laying only a few feet away, plus a couple of logging camp scenes. The gist of the story being told explains how two of the men, a George Baker with another White Deer Lake Camp worker, go to Chicago at the invitation of Dr. Dudley to receive some surgery. However, the “big” city is so distasteful that the two men turn around and return to White Deer Lake. Then in Vol. 21 - #4 pp. 20-21 which features as its main picture a horse-drawn sleigh loaded with snow, steam locomotive pulling passenger cars, and scene of snowy woods with snow shoes in the foreground (all these pictures also “presumably” from the White Deer Lake Camp and that era). However, this portion of the story––which the reader was told at the end of the previous issue would be about “Walter McClintock”––is the SAME text used over again telling how George Baker and his traveling companion go to Chicago !!! ??????

What’s my complaint and why the request for a ten cent refund? Only that the publication’s readership has been duped, by a few different pictures in each of those issues but twice we are given the SAME STORY to read! So, what happened to the Walter McClintock segment that was promised to appear in Issue #4 of this volume?

Thus, you can see, why I feel we've been “lied” to . . . after having paid––in our subscription fee––for new material in each issue. Yes, we the readership have been ?”cheated”? out of reading further about the White Deer Lake Camp . . . AND by the end of this Vol. 21 (presuming that future issues WILL––hopefully––offer new material) we will most likely still be behind by two pages of content for this volume year. Thus, I figure you owe me (and all the readership?) ten cents ($0.10)! We won’t go into the potential for a “class action suit” right now.

Thanks for listening to my rant. No doubt Toivo and Eino were allowed to jointly edit this issue of the 21st Volume. I'm just hopeful that Baker and his friend won’t have to travel all the way to Chicago still another time during this volume!

Regardless of what I've said above, I do enjoy, immensely, each issue of your publication!

Pulling UP the Anchor and Heading South East

Packing UP this weekend to head to the Carolinas on Monday. That is the main course that My Lady Robin and I will be steering, but we will have to be making a few stops along the way.  Almost like being under sail and heading into the wind, we will be making a few tacks to get where we are going. Before we even get out of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan we have to cruise east along U.S. 2 and make some stops at a few stores to deliver the current issue. It seems Robin ran out of copies on her way back home from her routes downstate. 

The next tack will take us to find a safe spot to anchor in Lansing, so I can attend a meeting at the headquarters of the Michigan Press Association. This planning session has been called to set an agenda for the Annual Winter Convention of the group, to be held in downtown Detroit next January. After the meeting we will cast off for Chapel Hill, N.C. for sisters youngest daughters wedding. There is a real story involved with this event.

Mollie has been attending the University of North Carolina long enough to get a Master degree in her field. The wedding will start a real lessons of life as it really is. It seems see did not follow the instructions her parents before starting relationships while at the school. It was one simple rule, "Do not get involved with a guy named Chad," which might seem as a weird request, but there was a good reason for this. It seems Mollie's two older sisters both married Chads and having Chad #1 and Chad #2 was confusing enough, but a Chad #3 would be even worse. I'm sure you guessed it . . . Mollie is getting married to a Chad. I guess the way to keep things straight will be to call everybody by their last names, sort of like a military thing. That might even help mollie's parents to maintain so kind of control.

From there we will be setting a course for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina where we will be doing some story writing for our publications. So stay onboard and you can be cruising along with us as we make this cruise.

Submarine Sailors Dive Deeper then Lie About It

Sometimes I get things sent to me that really gets my blood pressure rushing to all time highs. Today was one of those days. For those of you that don't know, I spent about six years of my life serving on submarines in our Navy. My last sub was the USS Scorpion SSN589 and I got out of the Navy in 1964. In 1968 the Scorpion went down for the last time and never came back up, resulting in the loss of all hands.

For years, our Navy stood on the grounds that it was an accident and I and many others never fully believed their story. A few months ago a writer who spent half his life digging into the facts of this event, published his book called "Scorpion Down" exposing all the cover ups and lies, both our government and the Russians put out to mask the truth. Not only did a Russian submarine torpedo sink the Scorpion in ambush, our government knew they did it and let it ride. They didn't think we had a right to know the truth. Things are pretty much like that still today and maybe even more so.

Strange as it may seem, when we were looking to fill the fifth and last spot for a band to play at our BASH 2010 "Saluting Our Military," we were considering a few bands. The list got cut to only one band when we learned some inside facts about the band called, "Red, White & Blues." It became a no brainer when we learned that one member is an active member of the National Guard, another is a Vietnam vet, and one is a son of a submarine sailor who lost his life when his submarine named the Scorpion sunk when he was only a baby. Wow . . . if you think that it is odd that a submarine with of crew of just shy of one hundred men would have two of us from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, it gets better than that.

The navy had sent me to radio school and then to submarine school and then to the fleet. A new kid, right out of radio school was the last thing they needed and I got handed many different jobs while I and the captain tried to find the right spot for me. It came to pass that we became short handed after losing a cook and I was put in that job until they cold get one. They never did find a new one and I guess I just became one. I hadn't poisoned anybody and nobody had thrown their food back at me, so they started calling me a cook. Well, the point that is more than strange, is that the dad, that was lost, was also a cook and might have replaced me when I got out of the Navy.

Now, all that aside, we need to focus on two things I had mentioned above. One, the people in Washington are very good at covering up things they do not want you to know, for whatever reason they feel is right. Two, I know about submarines and what they can do and stay up with who has what and why. What I am about to add here, needs to be read and then keep in mind I think this just could be very true. If I didn't think so, it would not be here for you to read.

Here is the site for the original story to see for yourself, then follows the story as I got it as an e-mail. . . .

http://www.eutimes.net/2010/05/us-orders-blackout-over-north-korean-torpedoing-of-gulf-of-mexico-oil-rig/

US Orders Blackout Over North Korean Torpedoing Of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig

A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia's Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea's torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World's largest offshore drilling contractor, Transocean, that was built and financed by South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., that has caused great loss of life, untold billions in economic damage to the South Korean economy, and an environmental catastrophe to the United States.

Most important to understand about this latest attack by North Korea against its South Korean enemy is that under the existing(?) laws of war, it was a permissible action as they remain in a state of war against each other due to South Korea's refusal to sign the 1953 Armistice ending the Korean Conflict.

To the attack itself, these reports continue, the North Korean cargo vessel, Dai Hong Dan, believed to be staffed by 17th Sniper Corps (suicide) troops, left Cuba's Empresa Terminales Mambisas de La Habana (Port of Havana) on April 18th; whereupon it severely deviated from its intended course for Venezuela's Puerto Cabello bringing it to within 130 miles of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform which was located 50 miles off the coast of the State of Louisiana where it launched an SSC Sang-o Class Mini Submarine (Yugo class) estimated to have an operational range of 200 miles.

On the night of April 20th the North Korean mini-submarine manned by these (suicidal) 17th Sniper Corps soldiers attacked the Deepwater Horizon with what are believed to be 2 incendiary torpedoes causing a massive explosion and resulting in 11 workers on this giant oil rig being killed outright.

Barely 48 hours later, on April 22nd, this North Korean mini-submarine committed its final atrocity by exploding itself directly beneath the Deepwater Horizon causing this $1 Billion oil rig to sink beneath the seas and marking 2010's celebration of Earth Day with one of the largest environmental catastrophes our World has ever seen.

To the reason for North Korea attacking the Deepwater Horizon, these reports say, was to present US President Obama with an impossible dilemma prior to the opening of the United Nations Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) set to begin May 3rd in New York.

This impossible dilemma facing Obama is indeed real as the decision he is faced with is either to allow the continuation of this massive oil leak catastrophe to continue for months, or immediately stop it by the only known and proven means possible, the detonation of a thermonuclear device.

Russian Navy atomic experts in these reports state that should Obama choose the nuclear option, the most viable weapon at his disposal is the United States B83 (Mk-83) strategic thermonuclear bomb having a variable yield (Low Kiloton Range to 1,200 Kilotons) which with its 12 foot length and 18 inch diameter, and weighing just over 2,400 pounds, is readily able to be deployed and detonated by a remote controlled mini-sub.

Should Obama choose the nuclear option, it appears that he would be supported by the International Court of Justice who on July 8, 1996 issued an advisory opinion on the use of nuclear weapons stating that they could not conclude definitively on these weapons use in extreme circumstances or self defense.

On the other hand, if Obama chooses the nuclear option, it would leave the UN's nuclear conference in shambles with every Nation in the World having oil rigs off their coasts demanding an equal right to atomic weapons to protect their environment from catastrophes too, including Iran.

To whatever decision Obama makes, it remains a fact that with each passing hour this environmental catastrophe grows worse. And even though Obama has ordered military SWAT teams to protect other oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico from any further attack, and further ordered that all drilling in the Gulf of Mexico be immediately stopped, this massive oil spill has already reached the shores of America and with high waves and more bad weather forecast the likelihood of it being stopped from destroying thousands of miles of US coastland and wildlife appears unstoppable.

And not just to the environmental catastrophe that is unfolding, the only devastation to be wrecked upon the United States and South Korea by this North Korean attack as the economic liabilities associated with this disaster are estimated by these Russian reports to be between $500 Billion to $1.5 Trillion, and which only a declaration of this disaster being an act of war would free some the World's largest corporations from bankruptcy.

Important to note also in all of these events was that this is the second attack by North Korea on its South Korean enemy, and US ally, in a month; as we had reported on in our March 28th report titled "Obama Orders Immediate Stand-down After Deadly North Korean Attack." To date neither the Americans or South Korea have retaliated, giving one senior North Korean party leader the courage to openly state that the North Korean military took "gratifying revenge" on South Korea. 

And for those who believe that things cannot get worse, you couldn't be more mistaken. New reports coming from Japanese military sources are stating that North Korea is preparing for new launches of its 807 mile intermediate range ballistic "Rodong" missile. Russian Space Forces experts state NK is able to deploy and detonate an atomic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) device, which if detonated high in the atmosphere could effectively destroy the American economy for years, if not decades, to come.


Comments are open and I hope everyone has on opinion of this!