Outdoor commentary and legislative issues.
COLUMBIA, MO – In an unprecedented move to promote excellence in Missouri schools, Larry and Brenda Potterfield announced on October 5 that they have made a restricted gift to the Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in the amount of $1 Million. The gift is to be awarded to the first Missouri K-12 public school to apply for and receive the Baldrige National Quality Award. Read more
(Columbus) – As Washington D.C. faces another government shutdown, hunters, anglers and trappers across the country are facing a shutdown of their own. From Alaska to Florida, sportsmen and women are finding that the budgetary standoff in Congress is having a direct impact on their hunting or fishing season. Read more
GW: The inescapable reality of the debt crisis looms: Spend more now, pile on the debt, print more money, and let some future generations struggle even more to fund government, as it spirals into oblivion. Or, face the music now.
” For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children’s future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation? ” Ronald Reagan
The government shutdown hasn’t completely stopped the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS is still collecting taxes during the government shutdown, but it isn’t sending out refunds or, members of Congress complain, complying with a subpoena to turn over documents to a congressional investigation into the agency’s targeting of tea party groups. Members of both the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the Ways and Means Committee told the Washington Times yesterday they had stopped getting documents. October 15 is the deadline for filing by taxpayers who requested a six-month extension on their 2012 returns and the IRS says it- and all other deadlines- are still in effect.
The federal government announced yesterday that all National Wildlife Refuges have been closed and all public access, public programs and fish and wildlife management operations on the refuges have been suspended until the government resumes operations. At this time it is not known when operations will recommence. Read more
These are great in-flight photos of the FA-22 as the first aircraft delivery was being made to Langley AFB in Va.
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Langley is to be the first Operational AFB for the FA-22. It is a very beautiful AFB, located in a picturesque location, as you can see in these photos, near Norfolk and Hampton, Va.
The F-15, which will be replaced by the FA-22, is several times better. In actual in-flight (simulated) Combat Operations against the F-15, Two FA-22s were able to operate without detection while they went head-to-head against (8) F-15s. The FA-22s scored missile hits (Kills) against all of the F-15 Aircraft and the FA-22s were never detected by either the F-15s or by ground-based radar.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lewis said: ‘The Raptor operated against all adversaries with virtual impunity; ground-based systems couldn’t engage and no adversary aircraft survived’!
FA-22 — America’s most advanced fighter aircraft for the 21st Century! They’re a titanium and carbon fiber Dagger. They’re so advanced that if their on-board ocator is switched off , even our own satellites can lose track of them. They’re the first military aircraft ever built that is equipped with a ‘black-out button’.
What that means is this: The best conditioned fighter pilots are capable of maintaining consciousness up to in the vicinity of 15+ G. The Raptor is capable of making 22+ G turns. If someday an adversary builds A missile that is capable of catching up to one of these airplanes and a Raptor pilot sees that a strike is imminent, he hits the ‘b.o.b.’ and the airplane makes a virtual u-turn, leaving the missile to pass right on by. They know that in the process the pilot will temporarily lose consciousness, so the Raptor then automatically comes back to straight and level flight until he or she wakes up.
SEALY, TX – Keep your drink at just the right temperature with the 12-guage ShotShell Thermo Bottle in Mossy Oak camo. A product of Visual Promotions, this stylish insulated bottle keeps drinks hot or cold for up to 24 hours. It’s great for keeping coffee on hand for hunting and camping trips. Read more
NRA supports the whole Constitution, and demonstrated that support this week by weighing in on an issue that’s been of concern for decades.
On Wednesday, NRA filed a “friend of the court” brief in federal district court supporting an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s (NSA) phone records surveillance and collection program. The massive NSA data-mining program collects the records of millions of Americans. Read more
CHESAPEAKE, VA –Volvo Penta of the Americas now offers a fuel additive to protect marine engines from the harmful effects of fuels containing ethanol. Read more
BEAVERTON, OR. – Leupold® has launched an updated gear store at Leupold.com so fans of America’s Optics Authority® can get officially licensed apparel, headgear and other items right from the source. Read more