Anti-Amnesty

Did you know there are over 4 million people waiting to enter this country legally? The Amnesty bills in Congress would reward 11.5 million others to cut into that line. Simply put, the amnesty bill is unfair, too costly and encourages more illegal behavior.

There’s a better way to strengthen the immigration system that focuses on the things that are supported by the majority of Americans:

• Fix our slow, broken, lawful immigration system through step-by-step legislation that is simple, clear, and transparent. This creates opportunities for legislative victories that make it hard to hide loopholes or sweetheart deals for special interests.
• Congress should keep the promises they made when they granted amnesty “for only this one time” in 1986.
• Enforce our existing laws by imposing stiff fines on those who hire illegal immigrants.
• Secure our borders – It is a top priority for Americans.

Don’t put up with the costly, bureaucratic, special interest-loving approach to immigration reform. Know what’s really going on in Washington and get information on the better way of fair, firm, and consistent immigration reform.

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Congressional Budget Office Should Forecast Long-Term Cost of Amnesty

With the Congressional Budget Office preparing to release a cost estimate for the Senate’s Gang of Eight bill in the coming days, a key Republican lawmaker yesterday insisted that any projection look beyond the 10-year budget window to fully understand the magnitude of granting amnesty to 11 million illegal immigrants.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), ranking member on the Budget Committee, wrote to CBO Director Doug Elmendorf that it was crucial to have a long-term fiscal and economic analysis given the implementation timetable included in the Gang of Eight amnesty bill.

Not only is a longer forecast period required because the legislation contains phase-in periods that differ by visa classification, but the fiscal and economic effects will likely develop across the lifespan of those immigrants immediately affected by S. 744. I would strongly urge you to consider using your long-term fiscal and economic models. The Global Insight U.S. Macroeconomic Model, which I understand you license, comes in a long-term version with baseline forecasts extending just beyond 2040. I believe you are capable of adapting this model’s baseline to one that incorporates your economic assumptions.

Given the long time period over which the key elements of this bill are implemented, I cannot imagine a circumstance in which a 10-year scoring of S. 744 would be deemed adequate for guiding the policy decisions that Congress will confront. Thus, I would stress in the strongest possible terms that you should produce a fiscal score that extends beyond the current 10-year budget window. Continue reading

How To Add Programs To The Windows Autoplay Menu

When you put a DVD movie in your computer, Windows (Vista in this case) should pop open a menu asking you what you want to do.  This menu should contain a few different programs depending on what you have installed on your computer.  Lets say you had DVDFab as an option to copy and backup any DVD movies you insert.  For some reason, this option disappears (you upgraded the version etc).  This sometimes happens.

Now for the part that probably brought you here. I have not made a program or script to automate this yet so you will have to make changes to the registry by hand.  This is not complicated, but if you don’t even know what the Registry is, you probably should have someone help you.  There are programs that can do something like this as well.  I didn’t want to install anything or pay for anything that could be done with a simple registry tweak.  I will try to keep it simple so anyone very familiar with this will have to put up with it.  Before making changes, you should back up your Registry.

Ill be doing this with Vista, but it should be similar for the Windows 7 etc.  If not, search for your Windows version.  Click the pictures for a larger version.

Lets open the Registry Editor.

Click Start (or Windows pearl icon)

In the “Run” or “Search Box” type REGEDIT then hit Enter.

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Once feted by grassroots conservatives nationwide, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer moved radically to the left in 2013. In her State of the State address, she surprised many by embracing Obamacare, calling for a massive expansion of Medicaid.

Like many state politicians, she claims the multi-billion dollar expansion would be largely funded by “free” federal money. Of course, the funding dries up in the out years and comes with strings attached that will tie up the state for years. And then there’s that tiny problem of the federal government having no money in the first place.

The GOP-controlled statehouse isn’t making it easy for Gov. Brewer, killing the expansion in committee yesterday. But all the Democrats, along with a few squishy Republicans, plan to reintroduce the issue on the floor — perhaps as early as today. Adding to the pressure, Brewer has promised to sign no legislation until Obama’s Medicaid expansion is sent to her desk. To prove her point, she quickly vetoed five bills.

Arizona’s current Medicaid system, called AHCCCS, is actually better than most states’ programs. A big reason for this is that the state held out for several years to get a better deal with the feds. As a result, AHCCCS is better at controlling costs while providing more options for the truly needy.

This time around, Gov. Brewer quickly caved to the Obama administration’s strong-arm tactics — an administration that has repeatedly sued and demonized both her and the state she claims to represent.

As usual, expansion supporters are insisting they are only doing this for the poor. But several studies suggest that Medicaid may actually hurt its supposed beneficiaries. A recent Oregon study showed that there is zero evidence that Medicaid saved any lives or made any improvements in several objective health markers.

The last time Arizona expanded AHCCCS, proponents insisted it would save money. Some legislators didn’t buy that claim and projected it would cost about $400 million, eight years later. The actual cost was more than $1.6 billion, four times as expensive as projected.

Far-left outlets like ThinkProgress are praising the governor for “sticking by her convictions.” Meanwhile, conservative publications like National Review are excoriating her for betraying her party, her state and basic economics:

Under law, the states cannot be forced to accept the Medicaid expansion. It is up to them. Some Republicans have stood strong against it, and some are rolling over for the Obama administration. Governor Brewer is for the moment unique in that she is throwing a gubernatorial temper tantrum on behalf of expanding government-run health care. Our hope is that Arizona’s legislators will keep the Medicaid expansion out of the budget and, for the good of the state, pass the budget over the governor’s veto. Governor Brewer may not be around to see the bill for the Medicaid expansion when it comes due, but Arizona taxpayers will.

For the people of Arizona, let’s hope state legislators stand firm so that Brewer’s tantrum isn’t rewarded.

Jon Gabriel on June 11, 2013

PHP / HTML script

This method is easy to use if you have your own hosting space (ie you have a website).  This works on a few hosting sites I tested.  Thanks to Sethioz for some of the code.

This basically sets up a form where you enter the fake email address, subject, and who you want to send it to.  The form then uses a script to actually send it.

NOTE: SMTP and PHP have to be supported.

These should be in the same folder.  Create a folder in your server.  Many sites use cPanel.  If so you  can go to the file manager and create new folder.  Now create two new files:

Name one index.html and the other spoof.php

put this code in index.html:

 <form action="spoofer.php" method="GET">
 <p>To Email: <input type="text" name="email" /></p>
 <p>Subject: <input type="text" name="header" /></p>
 <p>From Email: <input type="text" name="fake" /></p>
 <p>Email Message: <textarea name="message"></textarea></p>
 <p><input type="submit" value="Send Email"></p>
 </form>

Save it and put this code inside spoofer.php:

<?php
 if (!isset($_GET[email]) || empty($_GET[email]))
 {
 echo "TO field is empty";
 exit;
 }
 else
 {
 $to = $_GET[email];
 }
 if (!isset($_GET[header]) || empty($_GET[header]))
 {
 echo "Subject is missing";
 exit;
 }
 else
 {
 $subject = $_GET[header];
 }
 if (!isset($_GET[fake]) || empty($_GET[fake]))
 {
 echo "FROM email address is missing";
 exit;
 }
 else
 {
 $fake = $_GET[fake];
 }
 if (!isset($_GET[message]) || empty($_GET[message]))
 {
 echo "email message box is empty";
 exit;
 }
 else
 {
 $message = $_GET[message];
 }
 $headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0" . "\r\n";
 $headers .= "Content-type:text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" . "\r\n";
 $headers .= "From: " . $fake . " <" . $fake . ">" . "\r\n";
 if (mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers))
 {
 echo"<h1>Success</h1>\n";
 echo"<p>The e-mail was successfully sent to <i>" . $to . "</i></p>\n";
 echo"<p>From: <i>" . $fake . "</i></p>\n";
 echo"<p>Subject: <i>" . $subject . "</i></p>\n";
 echo"<p>Message:</p>\n";
 echo"<p><b>" . $message . "</b></p>";
 }
 else
 {
 echo"<h1>Error!</h1>\n";
 echo"<p>The mail() function failed.</p>";
 }
 ?>

Now save that and go to your site where you created the folder. For example, www.mysite.com/spoofedemail/ You should see the form pop up. Now test it on your address. Please note, your real address will show up in the header and anyone with more than cursory computer knowledge will know how to see that.

Final Note: use at your own risk. This site nor anyone else is responsible for anything stupid you do with this script.