b'October 2023 from the Publisher5Ask the Vet: Pumpkin Season THE SKY IS FALLINGRemember the story from your childhood about 9Lee Anderson: Did You Know, young Chicken Little who threw his small town into panic by claiming the sky was falling. That childhood In the Old West. story has become reality? Just listen to a one-hour news cycle any day and 11John Samsill: From the Back of the Box you would think the sky is falling. 11 12Cowboy Wisdom: Blackie the Horse That impression has been true for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic has fueled more fear in people and today makes uncertainty part of life. The 14 Cowgirl With A Pen: Team Work pandemic according to most news reports was handled 18Alan Rockman: Jews in the Old West, 18 poorly with so much false information and fear spewed out of news outlets and CDC sources Fauci boo. The Part 4 problem is that NO one was held accountable for false information. No repercussions from what they did wrong and how many lives were lost 24AZ Road Trip: Fall Colors because of the false information. No studies or reports on the people who have died from the mRNA vaccine due to related side effects. Just this 26Crossword / Sudoku / Cowboy Comic week news hit that a new vaccine must be taken by everyone including infants 6 months and older. The old vaccine does 28Arizona Real Country Equine you no good??? Fear is powerful but knowledge can combat and calm any fear, DO YOUR RESEARCH. 24 Supply Source I personally may never take any shot ever again, who knows what they have put in it. The sky is falling.31 Running the Race: What Is Your Worth?Political advertising is everywhere and will continue through 2024 32Jim & Bobbi Jeen Olsons Collectors Corner: with a projected 10.2 billion dollars being spent. Just the other night I watched a Biden political commercial stating that Biden says healthcare Dating the Age of Belt BucklesFrom Vintage, 36 should be private. Then the reason was unveiled. The Biden commercial then said abortion rights are just that private. Well, holy smokes Antique & Native American where was the privacy in healthcare when people chose NOT to take the COVID-19 vaccine and were fired from their jobs? Where was that 34Bob Boze Bell: True West Moments privacy when Biden singled out non-vaccinated people from certain events and entering federal buildings and commercial planes? The 36 Frank & Dotties Real Country Recipes question is do you believe political ads? Is the sky falling?38Bridgette Crosby: The October Garden As I write this, it is day one of a UAW auto strike. 41Charity of the Month: 4 Hooves Ranch Automakers, werent they bailed out with 17.4 billion dollars in 2009? Do the workers need to 42Randy Miller: Your Constitutions get back some of the concessions they gave up to be able to survive? Are the automakers profits too 49A Cowboy Rests in Heaven: Alberto Canez large? How much do workers need to live a good life? Has greed become the fuel for life? Where does it stop?52Bill Roberts: Jack Swillings Life & Tragic End in Life is not fair for every single person, but is the sky falling?Arizona Territory Wait a minute, we are being told inflation is coming down and that Bidenomics is working. So why would anyone need to strike for higher 5796.3 Real Country Upcoming Concerts 38 pay? Try telling me inflation is going down when Im pumping gas into my truck. Tell me inflation is going down when Im at the grocery store, 59Lee Anderson: Assumptions at a restaurant, having the AC replaced in my home, when purchasingbuilding materials, paying the electric bill, or really when purchasing 63 News from Copper State Peruvian just about anything. Is buying a home really affordable with todays interest rates? Should I keep going, or is the sky falling?Horse ClubThe US is sending billions to Ukraine to fight a war. Mining and oil 67A View of the Zoo: Wildlife World Zoo, drilling in the US is being shut down. The US is in a healthcare crisis. We have a judicial system that seems to be politically run. We live in Aquarium & Safari Parks Sanderson a world where girls want to become boys and boys want to change into girls. We have companies endorsing wild ideologies. How is that Ford Giraffe Jam 5K and Annual working out for them? We have a looming recall of our paper money to Halloween Spooktacular become a digital currency with a single government-run bank. We live in a country without a border. Illegal border crossings each month are 68DIY: Crafts for the Spooky Season! 41 setting new records. You hear about border arrests but that just gives 52 71Justin Legler: Pound Sand, Got Us Beat them a piece of paper and lets them go inside the US by the bus load. We have a former US president under indictment, a current president in an impeachment inquiry, and the current presidents son being indicted. By Three Years, and They Didnt Count Election fraud is still a huge concern. Only about 1% of what I could have written about made it here. There is so much more and it is sad that on AMERICANS so many just dont care. Do you wonder if the sky is really falling? The question you should be asking yourself is how does it end? Those with a 73Arena Directory faith-based life can answer that. However, the way many think is just like the ending of that childhood story.76 Taking Care of Business:Chicken Little, Henny-Penny, Ducky-Lucky, Goosey-Loosey, and Special Advertiser Section Turkey-Lurkey waddled and waddled and waddled back home to safety. Chicken Little hugged her fowl friends and kissed Turkey-Lurkey on the 77Classified Ads cheek, grateful that Foxy-Loxy had not eaten themand that the world 78 Advertiser Index was not ending! Instead, they all lived happily ever after.80October 2023 Equine Event Calendar68 81 October Events Around the State Mike Barna, Publisher 67 ArizonaRealCountryMagazine@gmail.com4 October 2023'