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Fly Fishing, it is an addiction indeed

May 10, 2008

I first began fly fishing some thirty one years ago. Admittedly at first, it was a challenge. I read book after book, and watched VCR film after VCR film. As soon as the Rocky Mountain News came out on the days that the Outdoors column was published, I was glued to the article, and just had to have whatever supper slam dunk fly that Bill Logan wrote about that week.
After all was said and done though. I ended up catching various sunfish from the local ponds as I perfected my madness, if not methodology. Casting on a stream was, well, things just didn’t work very well.
What was wrong? I have come to learn that the problem was one familiar to most people at some time or other. I was all gung ho! I had no patience. I beat the water to a pulp.

Fly fishing is, to me, a form of hunting. Think you can bag a bull Elk stomping all over the place? Not very likely. Or a Whitetail Buck while thrashing all over? Again, not likely. In fly fishing, you need to keep the sun in your face, least you cast shadows before you that spook the fish. It is akin to keeping the wind in your face while stalking a Mule Deer, or most other animals that are hunted.

I learned to settle down one day while casting to trout in Boulder Creek, in the oxbow ares about two miles west of the city of Boulder, Colorado. The fly I used was very much like the one pictured above, it is a gray bodied Elk Hair caddis pattern. I fell into a rhythm, and so did the fish. That day was a true lesson in catch and return fishing. Some people that were watching me while they picnicked along side the river said that they counted more than thirty fish that I returned unharmed to the water.

Since then, Sedge flies have been a favorite of mine for surface fishing, along with Adams patterns. If, however, you come to Colorado to catch fish, plan on fishing nymphs. Top water hits are the icing on the cake. Think about it though. Just how much of the cake is frosting? How much is below?

If you should happen to get bitten by the fly fishing bug, do not despair, just get another fly rod…

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Trojan Horses and Politics

May 10, 2008

Sometimes while looking around the Internet you find work that truly expresses what someone, or a lot of people know to be the truth, but were afraid, or not quite exasperated enough to actually post publicly about. Enjoy…

By Lee Duigon
May 7, 2008Do you think the Trojan horse trick would have worked if the Greeks had only built a framework of a horse, with some scaffolds in it? Would the Trojans have been fooled if they could have seen the enemy soldiers, in full armor, sitting inside the wooden skeleton?

Of course not. The Trojans may have lost the war, but they weren’t flaming stupid.

But the American people, in this year’s presidential election, are expected to haul a see-through Trojan horse into the White House. There are three Trojan horses out there: three candidates whose estimation of the voters’ intelligence is so low, they’ve hardly bothered to disguise themselves. Or maybe they’re as stupid, all three of them, as they think we are.

Consider Hillary Clinton, one of the worst politicians we have ever seen. Somehow she got away with putting on a one-woman minstrel show in front of an African-American audience: “Ah don’ feel bah no means taahred” must be the historic nadir of campaign speechifying. Now she panders to the working class, yapping about her experiences on “the night shift”—the only night shift she was ever on was in the Clinton war room, squelching bimbo eruptions—knocking back boilermakers, and pretending to chew tobacco. Obviously she has a mental image of Mrs. Ordinary America as some kind of Mammy Yokum type, clumping around in oversized boots with a corncob pipe clenched between what’s left of her teeth.

Hillary’s rival, Barack Obama, surely shares that vision. He’s the one who thinks you’re all out there “bitterly clinging” to your guns and your religion because Uncle Sam neglected to tuck you in and tell you a bedtime story.

Obama has another see-through Trojan horse. Sitting inside it with him are such frothing-at-the-mouth leftists as the Rev. Jeremiah “God d*** America” Wright and former Weathermen terrorists Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn, whose likeness was last seen gracing an FBI poster in our local post office. They expect the besotted voters to drag this horse into the White House. Then they can all climb out and bedevil America with slavery reparations, sodomite “marriage,” appeasement of Islamic suicide bombers, and more new taxes than you ever dreamed existed.

The third candidate who presumes on your stupidity is the GOP’s see-through Trojan horse, John McCain. One would think, with the torrent of hate, hysteria, and hee-haws flowing out of the Democrats’ campaigns, that all McCain has to do to win is to press a strip of duct tape over his mouth and not take it off until the morning after Election Day. But asking a senator not to blurt out tomfooleries is like asking Old Faithful not to erupt.

Who’s sitting with McCain in his see-through Trojan horse? An army of twenty or thirty million illegal aliens! Be prepared, America, to melt down those Capitol Hill switchboards several times a year, if he gets in.

It’s funny, isn’t it? If you’re a pacifist appeasement monkey and “world citizen,” you’ve got a presidential candidate. If you’re an abortionist, or just a fan of abortion, you’ve got two presidential candidates. If you’re a gay activist, you’ve got two and a half. If you’re a tree-hugging, global warming Kool-aid drinker, or an illegal alien who thinks a couple dozen American states ought to be given back to Mexico, you have three candidates. If you’re any kind of far-out fringie, you’ve got at least one horse in this race.

But if you’re just an everyday, workaday, decent conservative American, of whom there are more than any other kind of voter, you don’t have a presidential candidate.

All you’ve got is a choice among three senators who don’t think you’re smart enough to see through a see-through Trojan horse.

 

SOURCE:  http://amcon.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=basic&action=display&thread=440

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Rogue Agency plagues the good guys…

May 9, 2008

A rogue agency, whose very mission was to interfere with the rights of American citizens was, during the Clinton Days given a legitimate mission, later was merged with the good guys. You know, the F.B.I. Well, it appears that they still find it impossible to play well with others. From the folks that brought you Ruby Ridge and the holocaust at Waco we have them acting like cocaine gang bangers involved in a turf war.

Here’s what I think. Get rid of everyone of them, and turn over any duties that they are rightfully performing to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24549241

In the five years since the FBI and ATF were merged under the Justice Department to coordinate the fight against terrorism, the rival law enforcement agencies have fought each other for control, wasting time and money and causing duplication of effort, according to law enforcement sources and internal documents.

Their new boss, the attorney general, ordered them to merge their national bomb databases, but the FBI has refused. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long trained bomb-sniffing dogs; the FBI started a competing program.

At crime scenes, FBI and ATF agents have threatened to arrest one another and battled over jurisdiction and key evidence. The ATF inadvertently bought counterfeit cigarettes from the FBI — the government selling to the government — because the agencies are running parallel investigations of tobacco smuggling between Virginia and other states.

~snip~ four more pages*

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American Independence

May 5, 2008

Sometimes we as Americans need to just tell the whiners of the world to just plain shut the hell up. No other country has fed more people from other countries than the United States. No other country can even come close to what we Americans have done rendering humanitarian assistance after natural disasters. The following was stolen from my friend Texas Fred’s blog, pleas click the link at the bottom to see full commentary.

Here are some excerpts from articles this week that should make anyone frightened. When it comes to our national sovereignty, our safety and our food supply should be number one! But it looks like the U.N is well on its redistributive way to take what’s left of our food.According to USA Today, Surplus U.S. food supplies dry upBecause of the current economics of food, and changes in federal farm subsidy programs designed to make farmers rely more on the markets, large U.S. reserves may be gone for a long time.Could the global food crisis impact America?

 

Worldwide, food prices have risen 45% in the past nine months, posing a crisis for millions, says the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization.

 

The upshot: USDA has almost no extra food to supplement the billions in cash payments it spends to combat hunger at home and in developing nations.

 

NEW YORK (FinalCall.com) – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, in a recent meeting here with Bretton Woods Institution organizations, called for immediate and long-term measures to tackle a growing global food crisis.

The rapidly escalating crisis of food availability has reached emergency proportions,” Secretary-General Ban said April 14. He was referring to food riots taking place in different parts of the world, from Italy to Yemen and Mexico to the Philippines. Tanks were deployed in parts of Yemen April 4 after five days of protests by 1,000 people, mostly youth, angry about the rising price of food. Wheat prices have doubled since February, while rice and vegetable oil jumped 20 percent…

While international leaders gathered to find solutions to the world food crisis, analysts in the United States braced for the April 16 Consumer Price Index Report. Analysts say the U.S. is wrestling with the worst food inflation in 17 years because of sharply higher costs for wheat, corn, soybeans and milk as well as higher energy and transportation costs…“It’s hard for most Americans to even conceive of the idea that food could become scarce in this country,” said Raj Patel, a writer, activist and former policy analyst with the advocacy group Food First and analyst for the World Bank, World Trade Organization and the United Nations. “Few of us are paying attention to the close relationship between bio-fuel, grain crops and price inflation,” Mr. Patel told Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman. He was appearing on her Pacifica Radio show, to push his new book, “Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.” The book is due out April 25. Competition between corn and other crops for planting acres has driven up the price of food in the U.S., as the government mandates more acreage for corn, wheat and soybeans, ingredients needed for ethanol production…

“We are studying ways to communicate to people in the U.S. that they have to change their behavior.”Americans are too complacent, believing there never would be a food shortage, which could be caused by a drought,” he said. “From my academic position, I can say that people are having a hard time finding food in America, so we have to change our thinking.”

 

This from What is Running Through Our Minds

. . .President Bush in mid-April drew $200 million from the Emerson Humanitarian Trust, named after former congressman Bill Emerson, a Missouri Republican. Bush’s action followed a desperate plea from the United Nations for food aid. Thursday, the president announced he would ask Congress for $770 million in separate, additional funding to meet international needs.But Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, at a recent food aid conference, says his agency faces tough decisions about managing the rest of the reserve in times of widespread hunger. “How far do we draw down?” he asked. “Do we take it down to zero because we need it? Do we hold some in there, because who knows what’s going to happen, for emergency purposes later?”Proudly Stolen From: Maggie’s Notebookhttp://texasfred.net/archives/1116/trackback/

 

 

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Open Letter To Environmentalists « Bob’s Bites

May 4, 2008

Open Letter To Environmentalists « Bob’s Bites

Bob found another good story here. Click the link, and read all about it!

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WATERFOWL HUNTING CHANGES IN NORTHEAST

May 4, 2008

If you hunt waterfowl in Colorado, these are “must” attend meetings.

DIVISION OF WILDLIFE TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS ON STATUS OF WATERFOWL HUNTING CHANGES IN NORTHEAST

Representatives from the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) will hold five meetings in May to discuss proposed changes to waterfowl hunting in the northeast region of the state.   Potential property hunting regulation changes to affect restricted access, limited hunting through reservations, hunting hours restrictions, and mandatory check out will be discussed for the following State Wildlife Areas:  Jackson Lake, Jean K. Tool, Brush, Atwood, Overland Trail, Bravo, and Red Lion.  Potential regulation changes to allow waterfowl hunting from boats will be discussed for Jackson and Jumbo Reservoirs.
 
Please join us to share your sentiments on the proposed changes.  All meetings will take place from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
 
May 15, 2008 – Comfort Inn, 2020 Leisure Lane, Sterling (970-522-3700)
 
May 19, 2008 – Morgan Community College, Bloedorn Lecture Hall, 820 Barlow Rd., Fort Morgan (970-542-3100)
 
May 20, 2008 – Hilton Fort Collins, 317 West Prospect Road, Fort Collins (970-482-2626)
 
May 21, 2008 – Greeley Guest House, 5401 West 9th Street, Greeley (970-353-9373)
 
May 27, 2008 – Hunter Education building, DOW headquarters, 6060 Broadway, Denver      (303-291-7234)
 
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is the state agency responsible for managing wildlife and its habitat, as well as providing wildlife related recreation. The Division is funded through hunting and fishing license fees, federal grants and Colorado Lottery proceeds through Great Outdoors Colorado.

For more information about Division of Wildlife go to: http://wildlife.state.co.us.

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Time For Public Comment On New Rules For Guns In National Parks

May 4, 2008

This is an important issue that all Americans should chime in on. It has to do with your ability to adequately defend yourself and others in areas where dangerous animals do in fact exist. Not to mention the possibility of human criminal acts.

On April 30, the U.S. Department of Interior, through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, issued a proposed rule to amend the current strict regulations on firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges.  NRA-ILA led the effort to amend the existing policy regarding the carrying and transportation of firearms on these federal lands.  The public has until June 30 to comment on the proposal, and NRA-ILA strongly urges members to file comments in support. 

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Renewed Attack on Privacy of Gun Buyers

May 4, 2008

Lautenberg is back at it again with yet another assault on the American people. When will he ever be sated? I doubt that will ever happen. He is such an egotistical authoritarian maniac that he will probably be bossing around the people that embalm him. Now he is attempting to link firearms buyers to terrorism.  Well Senator, you are the terrorist, and enemy of the American people.

 

 

Renewed Attack on Privacy of Gun Buyers
 
Friday, May 02, 2008
 
This week, anti-gun U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) registration legislation that would invade the privacy rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Cosponsored by like-minded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Charles Schumer (D-NY), S. 2935 would, among other things, require the FBI to retain records of cleared firearm transactions for at least 180 days.  Current law requires federally-licensed firearm dealers to conduct a background check on a prospective buyer using NICS prior to selling a firearm.  NICS creates an audit log of the purchase during the course of the search.  Under current Justice Department regulations, those records must be destroyed within 24 hours to preserve the lawful purchaser’s privacy.  The Clinton Administration originally proposed keeping these records for as long as 180 days.  NRA successfully fought to reduce this time period to 24 hours.  Lautenberg’s legislation would undo this regulation. 

Once again trying to create a link where none exists, Lautenberg opined, “We must overturn the ill-conceived law mandating destruction of this data so we can successfully combat gun violence and terrorism in America.” 

This latest anti-gun scheme should further remind gun owners of the importance of this year’s elections.  S. 2935 demonstrates that threats to our Second Amendment rights remain very much alive.  Sen. Lautenberg has a long and well-documented anti-gun record, and in sponsoring legislation that is a gross invasion of law-abiding gun owners’ privacy, his intentions are clearly aimed at further restriction of those rights. 

 

source: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=3897

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New York City Lawsuit Against America’s Firearm Industry Blocked

May 4, 2008

Some politicians just never learn do they? Well Bloomberg, you lost, and the American people won a victory.

New York City Lawsuit Against America’s Firearm Industry Blocked
 
Friday, May 02, 2008
 
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has delivered a major blow to New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s lawsuit aimed at bankrupting the firearms industry, by ruling on April 30 that the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) of 2005 blocks the city’s lawsuit against a host of gun makers and distributors. 

“The blocking of this bogus lawsuit against America’s firearm industry is an important victory,” declared NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox.  “New York City’s lawsuit was a politically motivated attack by an anti-gun mayor to bankrupt a lawful industry.” 

The Second Circuit, like other courts around the country, found that the law is constitutional and that District Judge Jack B. Weinstein had wrongly interpreted its exceptions. Weinstein, one of the most frequently overruled federal judges in the country, had said that the suit, under a “public nuisance” law, was still allowed under the PLCAA. 

After reviewing the history of the PLCAA, Judge Robert J. Miner wrote, “We think Congress clearly intended to protect from vicarious liability members of the firearms industry who engage in the ‘lawful design, manufacture, marketing, distribution, importation, or sale’ of firearms.” 

This decision is just the latest setback for Mayor Bloomberg, who has also been publicly rebuked by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for his unlawful “sting” operations against firearm retailers in several states.

source: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Federal/Read.aspx?id=3898&issue=

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Colorado: Prairie Dog Hunting Ban Defeated!

May 4, 2008

Pasture rat hunting  survives the ban!

Colorado: Prairie Dog Hunting Ban Defeated!
 
Friday, May 02, 2008
 

Please Call the Commission Members and Thank Them Today!

Thanks to your calls and attendance at last week’s meeting of the Colorado Wildlife Commission in Junction City, a proposed ban on prairie dog hunting was defeated by a 9 to 0 vote ensuring that the necessary hunting of these animals can continue.  While radical anti-hunting/animal rights groups targeted prairie dog hunting as cruel, it is a traditional sporting activity and necessary management tool, especially for ranching interests in the state. 

Please call Commission members and thank them for protecting your right to hunt. You can reach the members of the Commission at (303) 297-1192.

SOURCE: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3887

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