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al-Qaida terrorist hid in northern Mexico - The cable, obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request, details how the U.S. government received the tip about Shukrijumah in northern Mexico. The cable says: “An individual approached the Ciudad Juárez consulate to provide information pertaining to suspect Arab extremists who have been smuggled through Mexico to the United States/Mexico border. http://jwatch.us/c9K82X   Fast & Furious Victory - In a statement released Friday by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch; unreleased documents relating to a long-forgotten lawsuit over the Obama administrations failed "Fast and Furious" program have been obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Department of Justice (DOJ) action was an attempt to track guns being obtained by Mexican drug cartels. Now the truth of that operation is one step closer to becoming public. http://jwatch.us/6ctjZy

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FWC’s Hunting Hot Sheet...

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February 2016

FWC’s Hunting Hot Sheet

Check out the latest hunting news and events from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), with a special emphasis on the upcoming spring turkey season.

FREE Youth Turkey Hunt Weekend
Florida’s Youth Spring Turkey Hunt is set for Feb. 27-28 south of State Road 70, and March 12-13in the rest of the state. Only those 15 years old and younger are allowed to harvest a turkey while supervised by an adult. For more information about this opportunity, visit http://myfwc.com/media/2982032/YouthTurkeyHunt.pdf

Are These 5 Things on Your Wild Turkey Season To Do List?

1. Clear your calendar to enjoy the upcoming spring turkey season. Florida’s 2016 spring turkey runs March 5 – April 10 south of S.R. 70 and March 19 – April 24 for the rest of the state (except Holmes County). In Holmes County, the season runs March 19 – April 3.Season dates and bag limits are available here http://www.myfwc.com/hunting/season-dates
2. Get your hunting license ($17 for residents, $46.50 for nonresident 10-day license), and turkey permit ($10 for residents, $125 for nonresidents) before you head to the turkey woods. If you plan to pursue a gobbler on one of Florida’s many WMAs, you also must purchase a management area permit for $26.50. Licenses are available at county tax collectors’ offices and at most retail outlets that sell hunting/fishing supplies. They also can be bought with a credit card by calling 888-486-8356 or at http://GoOutdoorsFlorida.com.
3. Figure out where to turkey hunt on public land without a quota permit. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) offers 43 public hunting areas statewide where hunters can “walk on” to hunt spring turkeys. Check out FWC's 2016 Florida Spring Turkey Hunting Guide to find which wildlife management areas allow it. http://myfwc.com/hunting/by-species/turkey/hunt-without-quota-permit/. 
4. Get ready for turkey season with a calling lesson (video). FWC’s Tony Young shows you how to make the following calls using a box, friction, and mouth call: tree call, fly-down cackle, yelp, cluck and purr, and cutt. He also demonstrates an owl hoot, crow call and gobble tube, and talks about what each of the sounds mean and when and how to best use them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65yIgjswUvI&index=5&list=PLCkzBjKfMRSCISs1Z9vSq7ncGB7XUXz6R Check out these other turkey hunting videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCkzBjKfMRSCISs1Z9vSq7ncGB7XUXz6R
5. Commit to introducing someone to turkey hunting. You can start that process by having them take a hunter safety course. Students learn about firearms safety, wildlife identification, conservation, responsible hunting strategies and more. Plus, there’s a hands-on component where students demonstrate their newly acquired skills. Find a hunter safety course here http://myfwc.com/hunting/safety-education/courses/

Florida National Archery in the Schools 
The Florida National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP), an in-school curriculum designed to introduce youth to target archery, is a great way to teach a lifetime skill that every student can enjoy. It's so popular with students that it has become a motivating force for them to excel at school. See how Polk County kids brought up their grades so they participate in the state finals, which will be held Feb. 27 at the Carver Recreation Center in Bartow. http://www.theledger.com/article/20160125/news/160129615. For more information about Florida National Archery in the Schools Program, visit http://myfwc.com/education/outdoor-skills/archery/contact/

Florida Deer hunting continues through Feb. 28 in Zone D
There’s still a little time to head to the Florida woods to deer hunt. General gun season remains open on private lands in Zones B and D through Feb. 21. In Zone D, those who hunt with a bow, crossbow or muzzleloader get an additional week - from Feb. 22-28 - to participate in a late muzzleloading gun season. This unique late season, which occurs on private land only in Zone D, was established to give hunters the chance to hunt the rut, which occurs from mid-January through February in the Florida Panhandle. Season dates are available here: http://www.myfwc.com/hunting/season-dates

Make plans to hog hunt this spring or summer
Going hog hunting this spring or summer? Check out the 2016 hog hunting opportunities at these WMAs. http://myfwc.com/hunting/by-species/wild-hog/dates/

Lily’s Story – A Camo Dream Come True
Liliana (Lily) went on her first hunt last fall, taking a mature whitetail buck and making a memory to treasure. In many ways, her story is similar to other young first-time hunters. In one very important way, it’s not.

Lily has cystic fibrosis. This serious disease makes breathing and digesting food extremely difficult. The activities most people take for granted are a million times harder for Lily. But this young adventurer doesn’t let that hold her back. Her mother said she tries as many activities as she can from surfing to horseback riding. And even though Lily comes from a family that doesn’t hunt, she can now add becoming a huntress to her list. 

Wondering why Lily decided to try hunting? Her interest was piqued while attending a geocaching festival at FWC’s Ocala Conservation Center and Youth Camp, which is part of the Florida Youth Conservation Centers Network. She saw a flyer for the Ocala Outdoor Adventure Camp and decided she wanted to attend. After being released from the hospital due to cystic fibrosis complications, Lily attended the Ocala Hunt Camp last summer. It was important to her that she not miss a single activity that the other kids would be participating in. So before camp started each morning and after dinner, camp staff helped Lily with her treatments and medications. Lily’s mom said she had a wonderful time at camp and received her hunter safety certification. 

Seeing how much she enjoyed herself, Ocala camp staff recommended Lily for a special opportunity with Camo Dreams, Inc., a Florida-based nonprofit organization that grants youth with a disability or life-threatening illness a once-in-a-lifetime trip into the outdoors. Lily had a safe and successful hunt while being accompanied and mentored by an adult with the Camo Dreams program. She’s going back to the Ocala camp this summer to expand her archery and bowhunting skills. 

Lily’s spirit and dedication as a hunter are something everyone can admire. And her story reminds us all of the power of sharing our outdoor experiences.

Find an outdoor adventure for a special young person in your life at a conservation center or camp near you by visiting http://fyccn.org/.

Wood Duck Nest Boxes
Providing nest boxes for wood ducks can be fun and rewarding. And if done properly, it can establish or increase local populations of this beautiful bird.  Now is an excellent time to install or clean your existing wood duck boxes for the nesting season, which typically runs from March through June.  Bees, wasps, and other insects that find their way into the boxes are less active during the cold months. Clean out old nests and material, and replace with fresh wood chips.  Don’t forget to make any necessary repairs and make sure the predator guards are in good working order. For wood duck nest box information, visit http://www.myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/birds/waterfowl/wood-ducks/nest-box/. Download plans for building your own box http://www.myfwc.com/media/2873917/Wood-Duck-Box.pdf

Calendar of Events
What: Traditional Bowhunters of Florida 25th Anniversary Championship
When: March 4-6, 2016
Where: Ocala Conservation Center & Youth Camp, 73 NE 170th, Ave. Silver Springs, FL
For more info: http://www.tbof.org/upcoming-events/2016-state-championship-march-4-6th.html

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After the bras, it's meth in lolipops...

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After the bras, it's meth in lolipops. Posted: 16 Feb 2016 07:25 AM PST Posted by DD republished from  Omaha.com Associated Press |  MEXICO CITY — Police at Mexico City's international airport have found a load of lollipops with each piece of candy containing a capsule of methamphetamine. The federal police say the freight shipment originated in the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa and was headed to Omaha. Police X-rayed a 9-pound box of candy labelled "Handicrafts and Candy." Inside, they saw the circular shadows of capsules inside the lollipops. Police said Monday that experts are still testing the capsules to determine their exact composition and weight. DD:  Even as mild mannered as Warren Buffet is, I think the cartels better be careful.  They don't want to piss him off by sending meth laden lollipops into his city

And now a barking socialist Libtard ...

SOCIALIST HILLARY CLINTON LITERALLY BARKING MAD 

Posted: 16 Feb 2016 10:52 PM PST

The loop to scare the burglars …

The loop in full context ... 

Bottom line …

This illustrates the depths to which our nation has fallen. A corrupt, lying socialist barks like a loon on stage and the progressive socialist democrats applaud.

We are so screwed.

-- steve

Update on Aleppo and Recommendations from "Armed Opposition Forces in Aleppo"...

Update on the Situation in Aleppo and Recommendations from "Syrian Armed Opposition Forces in Aleppo" By Jennifer Cafarella Update on Situation in Aleppo Province The U.S. requires partnerships with Syrian armed opposition groups in order to destroy ISIS and al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al Nusra in the long term. Without local Sunni partners that hold the support of the population, the U.S. faces high costs to destroy ISIS and al Qaeda in Syria and risks failure. The U.S. still retains potential partners in the North to achieve this objective: ISW assesses that six of the powerbrokers or potential powerbrokers in Aleppo Province are eligible for this partnership.   Russian military support to the Assad regime's offensive in Aleppo is forcing U.S.-backed opposition groups to rely more heavily on support from Jabhat al Nusra and its Salafi jihadi allies in Syria. With the help of Russian airstrikes, the regime has continued to close in on the opposition and has nearly completed a full siege of the opposition-held parts of Aleppo City. The Salafi-jihadi opposition group Ahrar al Sham has begun to consolidate leadership over the Syrian armed opposition in Aleppo in order to coordinate the defense of the city more effectively. Ahrar al Sham plays a prominent role on the battlefield in Aleppo, as ISW assessed in a recent report. The group is assuming control of the Aleppo-based opposition as international support to those groups fails to materialize.   Eight prominent Aleppo groups agreed to unite under the leadership of former Ahrar al Sham leader Hashim al Sheikh on February 15. These eight groups include four U.S.-backed groups, of which ISW has assessed that one is a powerbroker in Aleppo and two are potential powerbrokers. The agreement places Ahrar al Sham in operational control of much of the Aleppo opposition, but it is not a complete merger. It does not mean these groups will cease operating independently, nor that they will necessarily accept Ahrar al Sham's religious agenda. Instead, the deepened coordination with Ahrar al Sham will help these groups fight more effectively against the Assad regime. It is unclear whether al Sheikh will now assume control of the Jaysh Halab military coalition that fifteen opposition groups declared on February 6. The absence of two major Jaysh Halab component groups, Jaysh al Mujahideen and Jabhat al Shamiya, indicates that al Sheikh may lead an alternate alliance, or possibly a subcomponent within Jaysh Halab.     The U.S. must act quickly to prevent Ahrar al Sham from translating operational leadership of U.S.-backed groups into their full merger under its command. Hashim al Sheikh will most likely try use his new leadership role to facilitate deepened cooperation between these eight groups and Jabhat al Nusra in defending opposition-held parts of Aleppo City. Over time, Ahrar al Sham will likely assist Jabhat al Nusra to create a new coalition in Aleppo under joint leadership, akin to the Jaysh al Fatah coalition they currently lead in Idlib Province.     It remains possible for the U.S. to fragment Ahrar al Sham's leadership of opposition groups in Aleppo, therein restoring their independence, by providing an alternate source of military support to defend against the Russian-supported regime offensive. ISW recommended the following steps to preserve the opposition groups in Aleppo that are potential U.S. allies on February 13. These recommendations remain valid, and acting on them is even more crucial following Ahrar al Sham's rise to new leadership in the province. Below are the recommendations from ISW's recent paper "The Opposition Forces in Aleppo" by Jennifer Cafarella and Genevieve Casagrande. Read the full paper here.  ______________ First, the U.S. could conduct humanitarian airdrops of supplies into opposition-held neighborhoods of the city in order to sustain both the opposition groups and the hundreds of thousands of civilians in opposition-held areas of Aleppo City to forestall a humanitarian catastrophe. Providing humanitarian aid to opposition groups in Aleppo increases their ability to endure the siege without submitting to Jabhat al Nusra's leadership. The U.S. has the capability to do so from airbases in Turkey currently used for the antiISIS campaign. Turkey would support such operations and almost certainly grant the use of its bases for them to preserve opposition groups in Aleppo, including those that already receive Turkish aid, in order to pursue regime change in Syria. Jabhat al Nusra would be able to access some of this aid, but the U.S. should not let Jabhat al Nusra's presence in the city condemn the civilian population and opposition groups at risk. Any American intervention in Aleppo, even an airdrop of humanitarian supplies, will risk provoking Russia. Russia is very unlikely willing to rise escalation over Aleppo, however, as it is not a core Russian strategic interest. U.S. policymakers are reportedly considering humanitarian airdrops, and should undertake them immediately.   Second, the U.S. should significantly increase the military and financial support to the non-Ahrar al Sham powerbrokers and potential powerbrokers examined in this report. The U.S. already provides aid on a limited scale to many of them. The U.S. should provide these groups with increased TOW anti-tank missile shipments in addition to increased shipments of light weapons, ammunition, and money to pay their fighters. The U.S. could do so from Turkey, where a covert U.S. program to provide small numbers of TOW anti-tank missiles to vetted opposition groups is already reportedly based.72 The U.S. can deliver these supplies quietly through the Bab al Hawa border crossing with Turkey west of Aleppo City. This is advantageous because air dropping the supplies is more vulnerable to Russian interdiction.  The provision of military supplies in addition to humanitarian aid would preserve the powerbroker status of four ideologically viable powerbrokers (al Jabhat al Shamiya, Jaysh al Mujahideen, Feilaq al Sham, and Fawj al Awal) and increase their relative strength vis-à-vis Ahrar al Sham. The increase in both military and humanitarian support could also transform all of the potential powerbrokers into powerbrokers by both providing them more access to resources than smaller Aleppo based groups have and closing the gap between powerbrokers and potential powerbrokers. It would also mitigate Jabhat al Nusra's ability to coerce or exploit the weakness of potential powerbrokers in order to absorb or transform them. It could even be sufficient to coalesce smaller opposition groups in Aleppo under the leadership of powerbrokers that are potential U.S. allies as opposed to al Qaeda-allied Ahrar al Sham.    The U.S. should not make additional support contingent upon a refusal by opposition groups to coordinate with Jabhat al Nusra, because it is not a demand these groups can meet under current military conditions. The U.S. should instead adopt an approach to incentivize and enable these groups to retain freedom of action and to withstand Jabhat al Nusra coercion over the medium term while potentially growing stronger. The severity of the situation in Aleppo will likely prevent Jabhat al Nusra from attacking these groups directly because doing so would greatly harm the group's image. The upcoming siege of Aleppo thus offers the U.S. the opportunity to build future partners against Jabhat al Nusra by exploiting conditions in which Jahbat al Nusra's freedom of action against Western clients is limited.    Third, The U.S. could also support the establishment of a humanitarian safe zone along the Turkish border. Turkey may independently do so in order to address the flow of refugees that it cannot absorb. A safe zone north of Aleppo could also provide Turkey with basing it can use to deliver additional support to opposition forces in Aleppo City, such as indirect fire. The U.S. could support this course of action with aerial overflight to prevent the regime from attacking the safe zone, and could leverage U.S.-trained forces operating near the Turkish border to help secure the zone and pressure the regime's forward line of troops (FLOT).  Read this post online

The International Syria Support Group (ISSG) - a group of world powers that includes the U.S., Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey - reached an agreement to implement a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria...

Besieged and Hard-to-Reach Regions  Syria: February 12, 2016 By Christopher Kozak The International Syria Support Group (ISSG) - a group of world powers that includes the U.S., Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey - reached an agreement to implement a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria during their most recent meeting in Munich, Germany on February 11, 2016. The "cessation of hostilities" will face significant hurdles, including the lack of a clear enforcement mechanism and the prospect of continued attacks by ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), and other irreconcilable groups. The ISSG also agreed to secure immediate humanitarian access to six besieged locations in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 2254. The demands for renewed deliveries of humanitarian supplies nonetheless include only a fraction of the civilian populations across Syria in need of assistance. This map overlays current zones of control in Syria with publicly-available data on besieged and hard-to-reach populations as released by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).        Read this update online   ISW will continue updating on the situation at www.understandingwar.org  as well as on our Twitter handle @TheStudyofWar

Senator Maria Cantwell. Today, as I approach my 79th birthday, I am heart-broken when I look at my country and my government. I shall only point out a very few things abysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold...

Senator Maria Cantwell Washington, DC , 20510   Dear Senators:   I have tried to live by the rules my entire life. My father was a Command Sergeant Major, U.S. Army, who died of combat related stresses shortly after his retirement. It was he who instilled in me those virtues he felt important - honesty, duty, patriotism and obeying the laws of God and of our various governments. I have served my country, paid my taxes, worked hard,volunteered and donated my fair share of money, time and artifacts.   Today, as I approach my 79th birthday, I am heart-broken when I look at my country and my government. I shall only point out a very few things abysmally wrong which you can multiply by a thousand fold. I have calculated that all the money I have paid in income taxes my entire life cannot even keep the Senate barbershop open for one year! Only Heaven and a few tight-lipped actuarial types know what the Senate dining room costs the taxpayers. So please, enjoy your haircuts and meals on us.   Last year, the president spent an estimated $1.4 billion on himself and his family. The vice president spends $ millions on hotels. They have had 8 vacations so far this year! And our House of Representatives and Senate have become America's answer to the Saudi royal family. You have become the "perfumed princes and princesses" of our country.   In the middle of the night, you voted in the Affordable Health Care Act, a.k.a. "Obamacare," a bill which no more than a handful of senators or representatives read more than several paragraphs, crammed it down our throats, and then promptly exempted yourselves from it substituting your own taxpayer-subsidized golden health care insurance.   You live exceedingly well, eat and drink as well as the "one percenters," consistently vote yourselves perks and pay raises while making 3.5 times the average U.S. individual income, and give up nothing while you (as well as the president and veep) ask us to sacrifice due to sequestration (for which, of course, you plan to blame the Republicans, anyway).   You understand very well the only two rules you need to know - (1) How to get elected, and (2) How to get re-elected. And you do this with the aid of an eagerly willing and partisan press, speeches permeated with a certain economy of truth, and by buying the votes of the greedy, the ill-informed and under-educated citizens (and non-citizens, too, many of whom do vote ) who are looking for a handout rather than a job. Your so-called "safety net" has become a hammock for the lazy. And, what is it now, about 49 or 50 million on food stamps - pretty much all Democrat voters - and the program is absolutely rife with fraud and absolutely no congressional oversight?   I would offer that you are not entirely to blame. What changed you is the seductive environment of power in which you have immersed yourselves. It is the nature of both houses of Congress which requires you to subordinate your virtue in order to get anything done until you have achieved a leadership role. To paraphrase President Reagan, it appears that the second oldest profession (politics), bears a remarkably strong resemblance to the oldest.   As the hirsute first Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834 - 1902), English historian and moralist, so aptly and accurately stated, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." I'm only guessing that this applies to the female sex as well. Tell me, is there a more corrupt entity in this country than Congress?   While we middle class people continue to struggle, our government becomes less and less transparent, more and more bureaucratic, and ever so much more dictatorial, using Czars and Secretaries to tell us (just to mention a very few) what kind of light bulbs we must purchase, how much soda or hamburgers we can eat, what cars we can drive, gasoline to use, and what health care we must buy. Countless thousands of pages of regulations strangle our businesses costing the consumer more and more every day.   As I face my final year, or so, with cancer, my president and my government tell me "You'll just have to take a pill," while you, Senator, your colleagues, the president, and other exulted government officials and their families will get the best possible health care on our tax dollars until you are called home by your Creator while also enjoying a retirement beyond my wildest dreams, which of course, you voted for yourselves and we pay for.   The chances of you reading this letter are practically zero as your staff will not pass it on, but with a little luck, a form letter response might be generated by them with an auto signature applied, hoping we will believe that you, our senator or representative, has heard us and actually cares. This letter will, however, go on line where many others will have the chance to read one person's opinion, rightly or wrongly, about this government, its administration and its senators and representatives.   I only hope that occasionally you might quietly thank the taxpayer for all the generous entitlements which you have voted yourselves, for which, by law, we must pay, unless, of course, it just goes on the $17 trillion national debt for which your children and ours, and your grandchildren and ours, ad infinitum, must eventually try to pick up the tab.   My final thoughts are that it must take a person who has either lost his or her soul, or conscience, or both, to seek re-election and continue to destroy the country that I deeply love.  You have put it so far in debt that we will never pay it off while your lot improves by the minute, because of your power.   For you, Senator, will never stand up to the rascals in your House who constantly deceive the American people. And that, my dear Senator, is how power has corrupted you and the entire Congress. The only answer to clean up this cesspool is term limits. This, of course, will kill the goose that lays your golden eggs. And woe be to him (or her) who would dare to bring it up.   Sincerely,   Bill Schoonover 3096 Angela Lane Oak Harbor, WA

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