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Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America's Border

Sometime after dark on March 27, 2010, Arizona rancher Robert Krentz was found dead next to his four-wheeler on the grounds of his ranch on the Arizona-Mexico border. Krentz and his dog, Blue, had been missing since that morning. They were last heard from when he radioed his brother to say that he’d found an illegal alien on the property and was going to offer him assistance. The man Krentz encountered that day shot and killed him and his dog, without warning, before escaping to Mexico.
It’s difficult to overstate the impact of Krentz’s death, which turned the issue of Arizona’s unsecured border—a crisis that the federal government had repeatedly ignored—into a national concern. As Arizona sheriff Larry Dever said in his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, “We cannot sit by while our citizens are terrorized, robbed, and murdered by ruthless and desperate people who enter our country illegally.” This momentum helped pass SB 1070, a bill that authorizes local law enforcement under certain conditions to question persons reasonably suspected of being illegal aliens, which Governor Jan Brewer and the state legislature had been working on for months. With the passage of this controversial bill, the state of Arizona became ground zero in the impassioned debate over illegal immigration. The Democrats and the media went into overdrive, denouncing the state and its governor as racists and Nazis.
Governor Brewer, a lifelong Arizona resident with deep ties to the community, was first elected to the Arizona House of Representatives in 1982, and hasn’t lost an election since. As a state official, she watched with increasing dismay as illegal immigration exploded across Arizona’s border, and noticed the devastating effect it was having on the state. Causing an escalation in violence, an influx of drugs, and prisons and hospitals to fill to overflowing, this problem was not only wreaking havoc on the moral fabric of the community but placing an even greater strain on Arizona’s beleaguered health, educational, and social welfare networks. Growing frustrated with the failure of the federal government to respond to her pleas for assistance, Governor Brewer led the state to action. Scorpions for Breakfast is Brewer’s commonsense account of her fight to secure our nation’s border in the face of persistent federal inaction. Her book is vital reading for all Americans interested in the real change that can happen when local leaders take the initiative to preserve our country and our laws.

We ate the Japanese food the supporters who came to see Kanpei brought yesterday for breakfast.

Kanpei: "This is what we needed! It's so good, don't you think, Booyan?"

Booyan: "Yes, these rice balls are delicious."

Kanpei: "You should eat more."

Booyan: "No, I'm fine, I already had 3."

Kanpei: "You've got to eat more or you will loose weight."

Booyan: "Well, I actually lost some weight already."

Kanpei: "No way!"

Booyan: "Yes really, ... 8kg."

Kanpei: "That means that you are going not to be Booyan anymore and that's not good. Have more."

Booyan: "No, I really had enough, I'm so full."

Kanpei: "Eat eat! or I won't be able to call you Booyan."

I saw a photo of myself yesterday. I was horrified. At least whilst I am in charge of the camera I can restrict what parts of me are on show should I need to be in front of the camera. I know I need to lose weight, but the reality of how I look shocked me.

So, for the meantime, if I do decide to do a Self Portrait, you will have to make do with my eyes (2007ers & 2008ers will be bored of them by now! lol!).

2009 goal number 1 - I will learn to love myself and treat my body with the respect it deserves. I will treat it right by exercising (more!), eating 3 meals a day (rather than skip breakfast & occasionally lunch too), drink loads of water, and pamper myself. Not forgetting buy it nice things to wear. :)

When Moss finds a "wanted" ad advertising a position for "bed and breakfast", he has no idea it will lead him to an unlikely love.

Marlais "Moss" Hayden is a young man struggling to survive after being sent away by his impoverished family. A want ad falls into his hands, advertising a position for "bed and breakfast". When he checks it out, Moss realizes the job represents providing sex and blood to bloodkin Vane Bloodmoor.

Vane offers him instead a position as a secretary and blood donor, and Moss is unable to refuse or the resist the bloodkin's allure. But as he struggles through unfamiliar emotions for Vane, a political plot threatens to destroy their unlikely love. Can Moss and Vane save their budding relationship?

When Moss finds a "wanted" ad advertising a position for "bed and breakfast", he has no idea it will lead him to an unlikely love.

Marlais "Moss" Hayden is a young man struggling to survive after being sent away by his impoverished family. A want ad falls into his hands, advertising a position for "bed and breakfast". When he checks it out, Moss realizes the job represents providing sex and blood to bloodkin Vane Bloodmoor.

Vane offers him instead a position as a secretary and blood donor, and Moss is unable to refuse or the resist the bloodkin's allure. But as he struggles through unfamiliar emotions for Vane, a political plot threatens to destroy their unlikely love. Can Moss and Vane save their budding relationship?