The increase came even as the state lowered bag limits

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio wildlife officials say good weather and other factors led to an increase in the number of deer killed by hunters this past season.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources says hunters checked 188,335 white-tailed deer dating back to the opening of archery season in the fall. That’s up from the 175,745 deer checked during the 2014-2015 season.
The increase came even as the state lowered bag limits and eliminated antlerless permit use in most counties. Coshocton and Licking counties produced the most tagged deer.
The state says that until recently deer populations in nearly all of Ohio’s counties were well above the wildlife agency’s goal. In the last few years, the population in most counties has been brought down to near the goals.

WASHINGTON — Veteran ID cards to be issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs will be pushed back to 2017, according to House Veterans Affairs Committee sources, in order to fully test the GPS tracking functionality of the card mandated by Congress.

The implanted radio frequency identification chips, or “RFID trackers,” are required by the “Veterans Identification Card Act of 2015,” signed into law by President Obama last July. House Armed Services Committee members say the chips are there “to help protect those who protect our freedom,” but none would go on the record about the program, or who authored the amendment requiring the chips.

Similar technology is used in automotive and consumer applications but is proving unreliable in locations veterans typically frequent.

“Our first major challenge was penetrating the windowless clubhouses typical of veteran organizations,” said program manager George Orville. “Once we fixed that bug, we moved onto electromagnetic noise from strip club sound systems. But signal interruption from dense structures — like reinforced concrete walls, freezers, aluminum foil hats, and lead-lined containers — really strain today’s RFID technology.”

Reports also surfaced during early testing about the tracking chips overheating while in a user’s pocket, activating its self-destruct function. But Orville says those reports are blown out of proportion.

“Reports of injury from the self-destruct function are wildly exaggerated,” said Orville, before boarding a black Chinook helicopter. “One or two users experienced some mild discomfort, but the tracking device worked as designed, allowing first responders to subdue the veterans before they became violent and out of control.”

Despite the minor injuries and numerous setbacks, Orville is confident that he and his team will have the technology ready for mass production in the fall of 2017.

“We’re thinking an early to mid-September release,” Orville added. “Probably around the 11th.”

Veteran’s group leaders across the nation have condemned the tracking policy as unconstitutional, citing the 4th, 5th and 14th amendments, along with dozens of other federal statutes and Supreme Court precedents.

The veteran’s themselves are another matter, however, due to the offer of a free “US Veteran” trucker hat emblazoned with the branch of service or tour of duty of their choice with every ID card.

“This is an egregious violation of the Constitution and, normally, we would not stand for it. No way,” said VFW Post 2314 member Alex Little. “But have you seen the artist’s rendition of those hats? I’ll be the first one in line for my veteran ID card come 2017.”

A SIGINT Opportunity

Posted: February 10, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

ncscout's avatarbrushbeater

H/T NC Renegade:

NC Renegade- DOD Interoperability Exercise 12FEB16

Disclaimer- the guy narrating the embedded vid is a blathering idiot. He has little information, is jumping to ill-informed opinions, and lacks proper annunciation- in other words, your average tin foil moron. Never mind the fact that he did us all a favor through his insightful commentary, he also provided a solution to all of our signal problems. One wonders why we don’t just consult him for all the answers…

Be that as it may, the date and what .gov is doing IS important.

What’s actually happening is a MARS readiness exercise that’s fairly routine. What’s MARS? Military Auxiliary Radio System. In a nutshell, a system by which Amateur Radio Operators integrate with DOD and National Guard Units. They happen fairly often, and serve a small role in the Continuity of Government plan.

Now before anyone dives off into stupid land…

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You may have seen pictures on social media or videos on Facebook showing various ways of building a self-feeding campfire. Some people say to build a reverse fire (wood piled largest to smallest), others swear by a horizontal log fire (where you split a long log in half and then build your tinder fire inside the spaced-apart halves of the log). Off all of the schemes I’ve seen, this one, described by former biology teacher turned outdoor enthusiast and YouTuber Bob Hansler, seems the most efficient.

There’s obviously a lot of set-up involved. In the video, Bob stresses that the angle of the feed rails needs to be just right, the logs need to be very straight, spaced properly, and it’s important how you light the tinder fire. While you can tell he certainly has created the ideal conditions, he gets an over 14 hour burn out of his fire, including weathering a downpour of an 1-1/4″, six hours in.

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It may seem like a lot of work (and a lot of wood), but anyone who’s ever been camping in cold weather and tending a night fire, knows you don’t get a lot of sleep, and it’s a lot of work throughout the night. I guess a self-feeding fire is just front-loading that work.

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One of the YouTube commenters offered a great improvement to the set-up:

Try taking out one side. In it’s place, put large heavy rocks that will keep the logs from rolling towards you. Make sure those rocks aren’t found near water, as they may explode when the heat expands their moisture. That side you took out is where your body will go, perpendicular to the fire. The log side will also act as a wind protector and reflector.

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I’m not sure how many people are actually going to build this type of fire under a normal outdoor/camping situation, but the demonstration is interesting and it’s nice to know that you could construct such a fire if a situation were to call for one.

John W. Whitehead's avatarJohn W. Whitehead, Constitutional Attorney

“If you can’t say ‘Fuck’ you can’t say, ‘Fuck the government.’” ― Lenny Bruce

Not only has free speech become a four-letter word—profane, obscene, uncouth, not to be uttered in so-called public places—but in more and more cases, the government deems free speech to be downright dangerous and in some instances illegal.

The U.S. government has become particularly intolerant of speech that challenges the government’s power, reveals the government’s corruption, exposes the government’s lies, and encourages the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices.

Indeed, there is a long and growing list of the kinds of speech that the government considers dangerous enough to red flag and subject to censorship, surveillance, investigation and prosecution: hate speech, bullying speech, intolerant speech, conspiratorial speech, treasonous speech, threatening speech, incendiary speech, inflammatory speech, radical speech, anti-government speech, right-wing speech, extremist speech, etc.

Yet by allowing the government to whittle away at…

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How to Defeat Your Government, by Robert Gore

Posted: February 8, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

Robert Gore's avatarSTRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

In a recent article, “How to Defeat Your Enemies,” SLL maintained that governments and their people were natural enemies, and that the most powerful adversarial tactic is “getting one’s enemies to fool themselves.” The article detailed the effective use of this tactic by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. The question arises: how can the American people use it against their natural adversary, the US government?

Lies are always misrepresentations of reality, and reality always wins. The US government rests on an inherently unstable foundation of whoppers—big lies so huge they would make big lie proponent Adolf Hitler blush—some of which were detailed in the earlier article. The first trick to defeating an enemy is to ascertain its biggest weaknesses and the lies, which it feeds itself, flowing from those weaknesses.

Every government craves as much of its country’s resources as it can borrow, swindle, and steal. Our…

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Got to be arrested!

Posted: February 8, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

.gov insanity in U.K. …

5 Habits That Will KILL YOU in a Crisis

Posted: February 7, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

When it all begins

Posted: February 7, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

Rules Of The House

Posted: February 6, 2016 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized