Did you know that as active outdoors people and shooting sports participants we all help contribute to making the outdoor world the great place that it is? We do this through a special excise tax collected on firearms, ammunition and archery equipment. These monies are part of a piece of legislation called the Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act. Monies from these taxes are distributed to state wildlife agencies for the good of everyone who uses the outdoors, including campers, hikers, birdwatchers, hunters, shooters, anglers and many more. Here’s an infographic created by the NSSF about the Act.

Some of the many programs funded by the Pittman-Robertson Act are state hunter education courses. Even if you never plan to hunt, taking a hunter education course with family and friends is well worth your time. Many subjects are covered that can provide you with a better understanding of wildlife and habitat conservation (and how firearms enthusiasts and sportsmen play such an important role in both) and improve your firearms safety knowledge. You may even find a reason to try hunting.

The International Hunter Education Association-USA has links to all state wildlife agencies. Click here

to find yours.Someone once said, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Never is that statement truer than when it comes to firearms and how sportsmen and sportswomen come together to contribute to something like the Pittman-Robertson Act in which we all work together to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. So get out there, shoot, participate, and share your new-found appreciation for the shooting sports and the great outdoors—for it truly is great, and you are an important part of helping it stay that way.

Source http://www.nssfblog.com/firstshotsnews/sportsmen-make-the-great-outdoors/

DENVER (AP) — Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it.

The state Supreme Court ruled 6-0 Monday that a medical marijuana patient who was fired after failing a drug test cannot get his job back. The case was being watched closely by employers and pot smokers in states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana.

Colorado became at least the fourth state in which courts have ruled against medical marijuana patients fired for pot use. Supreme courts in California, Montana and Washington state have made similar rulings, and federal courts in Colorado and Michigan also have rejected such claims.

The Colorado worker, Brandon Coats, is a quadriplegic who was fired by Dish Network after failing a 2010 drug test. The company agreed that Coats wasn’t high on the job but said it has a zero-tolerance drug policy.

Coats argued that his pot smoking was allowed under a state law intended to protect employees from being fired for legal activities off the clock. Coats didn’t use marijuana at work, but pot’s intoxicating chemical, THC, can stay in the system for weeks.

The Colorado justices ruled that because marijuana is illegal under federal law, Coats’ use of the drug couldn’t be considered legal off-duty activity.

Read the rest @ https://news.yahoo.com/colorado-court-decide-employees-smoke-pot-off-duty-062649973.html

Breitbart: Waco PD Story Re Biker Shootings Unravels

Posted: June 16, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

Robert Gore's avatarSTRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

There is no end of the shitty things our government does in remote corners of the world, where the press doesn’t usually venture. From David Vine and Tom Englehardt, at TomDispatch, via antiwar.com:

I’m sure that you’ve heard about the three bare-bones “staging outposts” or, in the lingo of the trade, “cooperative security locations” that the U.S. Marines have established in Senegal, Ghana, and Gabon. We’re talking about personnel from Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response-Africa, a unit at present garrisoned at Morón, Spain. It would, however, like to have some bases – though that’s not a word in use at U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), which oversees all such expansion – ready to receive them in a future in which anything might happen in an Africa exploding with new or expanding terror outfits.

Really? You haven’t noticed anything on the subject? Admittedly, the story wasn’t on the nightly…

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h/t Kerodin

Privacy Apocalypse: 5 Devices You Can’t Hide From

Devices you can't hide from

I’m going to alert you to what many are considering to be on of the worst doomsday scenarios for free American patriots. One that apparently not many are prepping for, or even seem to care about.

By now everybody knows that the government ‘alphabet agencies’ including mainly the NSA have been methodically collecting data on us. Everything we do, say, buy and search on the internet will be on permanent data base file by next year. All phone calls now are computer monitored, automatically recorded and stored with certain flag/trigger words (in all languages).

As technology improves, every single phone call will be entirely recorded at meta-data bases in government computer cloud storage, when ‘They’ finish the huge NSA super spy center in Utah. Which means they will be available anytime authorities want to look them up and personally listen for any information reference to any future investigation. Super computer algorithms will pin point search extrapolations of ANY relationship to the target point.

You can rest uneasily, but assured, that in the very near future when a cop stops you and scans your driver license into his computer, he will know anything even remotely ’suspicious’ or ’questionable’ about ALL the recent activities and behavior in your life he chooses to focus upon!

This is the ‘privacy apocalypse’ coming upon us. And you need to know these five devices that you can run to protect your privacy, but you can’t hide from.

When Security Overlaps Freedom

The NSA does more spying on ‘We the People’ than it does on the enemies of the country! Even simple text messages over a certain number of characters will join the wealth of stolen private communications flagged by certain trigger words, in the happy hunting grounds of mega-data heaven.

The two biggest fallacy arguments are that ‘those with nothing to ‘hide’ have nothing to fear’, or ‘this is the price we pay for living in a fast paced convenient modern computerized world if we want to improve our security and safety’.

Why does all these lame excuses remind me of something the old sage Ben Franklin used to say to slap that kind of thinking? “Those who are willing to give up any freedoms for a little more security deserve neither.’

The factual true reality is that these egregious violations of our privacy rights are premised on the never ending lies of the government. Maybe ‘They’ still get away with it because for some reason people are so dumbed down or not paying attention, or simply don’t know or see the bigger picture.

So assuming that most of us really don’t want the government or police to know our most private business just because it’s so easy for them to do so even though we are not doing anything wrong, we’ll provide a little edification herein about the cold hard realities.

Read the whole thing @ http://www.survivopedia.com/devices-that-you-cant-hide-from/#

Our Phantom Economy, by Charles Hugh Smith

Posted: June 16, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

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From Charles Hugh Smith, at oftwominds.com:

Those who believe that phantom recoveries and phantom metrics can be substituted for reality are in for a shock in the next downturn.

Stripped of artifice, there are only two kinds of media stories: those that support the status quo narrative, and those that are skeptical of that narrative.

What is the status quo narrative? Simply this: not only is this the best possible arrangement of labor, assets and money, it is the only possible arrangement of labor, assets and money.

It is impossible to challenge a system that is the only possible arrangement; the only option is to accept it.

In effect, the mainstream media is a vast Psychological Operation (PSYOPS) aimed at persuading the American public that the status quo Imperial system of predatory, debt-based crony-capitalism that benefits the few at the expense of the many is not just beneficial to all…

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The Money Quote…

“The solution to the divide being created in this country between police and the citizens is an easy one. Police need to stop agreeing to enforce cruel and unjust laws and become actual good cops.”

Excerpt…

“Police brutality has become so rampant in this country that many people now commend the officers who stand by and watch these violent attacks, simply for not participating in the crimes committed by their brothers in blue.

The lengths to which some people will go to praise police when they deserve no praise, even when they deserve total condemnation, is simply astonishing. No matter how egregious the misconduct, there are hoards who will desperately grasp for excuses to proclaim such actions to be “understandable,” if not outright heroic. And let’s not forget the fundraisers that have been set up for multiple cold-blooded killer cops.

Then there are the incidents in which one or more cops are caught on video brutally victimizing some unarmed person who isn’t fighting back, while other officers just watch, push witnesses away or simply block their view. Police apologists will often resort to the bizarre argument of, “It’s just a few bad apples, I mean just look at those wonderful officers remaining calm!” It’s absurd when these individuals spout the line about “just a few bad apples,” as if the other officers passively observing misconduct without doing anything to stop it somehow earns them respect.

Refraining from brutalizing innocents, in and of itself, is not a sign of being brave and noble. In how many other professions do individuals receive praise simply for not doing damage? To some,all you need to do to be a “good cop” is to watch injustice happen without perpetrating it yourself.”

The whole Good Cop / Bad Cop question can be disposed of much more decisively. We need not enumerate what proportion of cops appears to be good or listen to someone’s anecdote about his uncle Charlie, an allegedly good cop.”

We need only consider the following:

(1) A cop’s job is to enforce the laws, all of them;
(2) Many of the laws are manifestly unjust, and some are even cruel and wicked;
(3) Therefore every cop has to agree to act as an enforcer for laws that are manifestly unjust or even cruel and wicked.

There are no good cops.

The solution to the divide being created in this country between police and the citizens is an easy one. Police need to stop agreeing to enforce cruel and unjust laws and become actual good cops.

Immigration Threat to RKBA

Posted: June 15, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized

From David Codrea at The War on Guns

Author, columnist and commentator Ann Coulter joined nationally-syndicated “Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense” host Mark Walters yesterday to talk about her most recent best seller, “Adios, America!: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country Into a Third World Hellhole.”

In that interview, Coulter confirmed what very few of us who primarily emphasize gun rights have been consistently warning about — that government “immigration” policies and practices present an existential threat to RKBA, or at least to “legal” recognition of it.  She also had some very enthusiastic things to say about Larry Pratt and Gun Owners of America, the only national “gun group” that has raised the alarm and mobilized its members on this.

More @ http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2015/06/coulter-warns-against-immigration.html

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

“It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free—to be under no physical constraint and yet be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation wants him to think, feel and act. . . . To him the walls of his prison are invisible and he believes himself to be free.”—Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World Revisited

“Free worlders” is prison slang for those who are not incarcerated behind prison walls.  Supposedly, those fortunate souls live in the “free world.” However, appearances can be deceiving.

“As I got closer to retiring from the Federal Bureau of Prisons,” writes former prison employee Marlon Brock, “it began to dawn on me that the security practices we used in the prison system were being implemented outside those…

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Scientists in Sweden are launching their own mead – an alcoholic beverage made from a fermented mix of honey and water – based on old recipes which they say could help in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

Together with a brewery, the scientists who have long studied bees and their honey, have launched their own mead drink – Honey Hunter’s Elixir.

More @ http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/10/us-sweden-mead-idUSKBN0OQ17Y20150610?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews