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			<title>any IT gurus here?</title>
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<div>my hotmail account has been hacked, and they changed the password. i've had the account since the late 90s and don't remember the "home address" i used.  <br />
is there any way to recover this account?   it has a lot of important emails.<br />
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			<title>Painting Soldiers</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:53:51 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Comments on Illegals by a rancher in Apache, Arizona</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:09:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<div>I can't confirm validity, but I'm sure there's more truth in this than the government wants to admit.  It's an interesting read.<br />
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A long read - READ IT<br />
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This speaks for its self.  Straight from the source.<br />
According to the Arizona Daily Star, Ed Ashurst's 53,000 acre ranch lies to the east of the ranch of Bob Krentz, who was killed on his ranch on March 27, 2010.<br />
July 28th, 2010<br />
By Ed Ashurst<br />
Apache Arizona<br />
I believe story telling to be an art form, certainly verbal record is the oldest form of recording history and recognized by historians worldwide. There is an old adage among those who love to tell a good tale, "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story." And yet there are times when the truth is even more fantastic than exaggeration. What I write here is the truth, plain and simple.<br />
I reside on, and manage a large cattle ranch in the far southeastern corner of Arizona. I've been here for 13 years and in that time frame have become far too familiar with the illegal trafficking in human beings, marijuana and other illicit drugs. Some have called it "the wetback culture" or "America's border problem". Lately it's been taking steroids.<br />
The recent murder of Robert Krentz by an illegal alien has received massive amounts of publicity worldwide. I live on the ranch bordering the Krentz ranch to the east and north. I can see the Krentz home looking out of my front door approximately 10 miles away. The day after Rob's death I was involved in tracking the outlaw into Mexico. I saw the outlaw's footprints where he crossed the border fence. I mention this to say I feel that I'm qualified to speak about current border issues.<br />
My home has been broken into twice. My son's home has been broken into also and between us we have had between twenty and thirty thousand dollars worth of stuff stolen from us including two ranch pick-ups, a four wheeler, 9 firearms (including a loaded AK 47) cash, jewelry all of our credit cards, driver's license, etc. A guest house here on the ranch has been broken into so many times we quit counting... many times we haven't even called the Sheriff's dept. The Cochise County Sheriff's dept. has no less than fifteen reports on file where I've called for assistance dealing with an outlaw illegal alien.<br />
Several months ago, not long after Rob Krentz's death, Fox news (channel 10 in Phoenix AZ) contacted me and expressed interest in coming down and doing a news story about me and the problems myself and other ranchers in this area have had in recent months with illegal outlaws. To prepare for my interview with Fox, I asked for assistance from six other neighboring ranchers and businessmen. All of these men are prominent men in the community, tax payers, business owners and individuals who have the best of reputations. Together we made a map of the area which covered from the southeastern corner of AZ going west about 20 miles to the silver creek area, and going north about 30 miles to the area around the towns of Portal, AZ and Rodeo, N.M. On this map we made marks recording violations to United States law committed by illegal aliens. We did not use government statistics <br />
(we wouldn't know how to get them) but recorded incidents that we knew had happened first hand, many of which we had witnessed. We tried to record only the incidents that have happened in the last several years.<br />
The sum total of what we recorded is this:<br />
The arrest or capture of 40 illegal in one bunch - 40 (we didn't bother with the countless smaller groups)<br />
Loads of Marijuana found and captured - 213<br />
Dangerous encounters with illegal aliens - 132 (assault, burglaries, forced entries, etc.)<br />
Dead illegal aliens found by civilians - 16<br />
High speed vehicle chases between dope haulers and law enforcement - 14<br />
Illegal aliens spotted with firearms - 12<br />
Fires started by illegal aliens - 9<br />
Over 1000, 000 acres burned with the cost to taxpayers of $ 40,000,000. One fire near Portal AZ in June of 2010 cost $10,000,000. to fight (forest Service estimate)<br />
Outlandish incidents - 4<br />
Example: One bachelor in the Portal area was burglarized around 100 times. He finally took all his valuables and put them in a steel vault and welded the door shut. He then moved out of his house into a shed hoping the illegal aliens would leave him alone. They did not and he finally abandoned his property. Another outlandish event was when outlaws stole a brand new Caterpillar motor grader on the Geronimo Trail east of Douglas, AZ and drove south through the border fence never to be seen again. The grader belonged to Cochise County Hwy Dept.<br />
Financial losses to private sector - $100,000,000.00 (losses in real estate value, personal property, etc., losses in wildlife habitat - immeasurable)<br />
Last but certainly not least, the murder of Rob Krentz, which is right in the center of our map.<br />
Let me put this in perspective. The area I'm talking about is an area that covers approximately 17 or 18 townships with only 20 miles being adjacent to the US - Mexico Boundary. Within this area, there is a population of perhaps <br />
600 people, 90% of which reside in Rodeo, N.M. or Portal, AZ, 30 miles or so north of Mexico. No less than 80% of the people in this area have been burglarized or otherwise molested by illegal aliens. This area is about half as big as the Diamond A ranch or Babbitt ranch in northern AZ, both of which I've been employed on.<br />
I'm sorry to report that this, in my opinion, is the small part of the story. The Mexican-American border has taken a dramatic change for the worse in the last several years. Those of us who live here see it first hand. As early as February of 1999 Sheriff Larry Dever warned me and others at a town hall meeting at the Apache School that the Sinaloa Cartel was moving into the Douglas-Agua Prieta area (Rob Krentz was at this meeting). The cities of Nuevo Laredo, Coahila, Cuidad Juarez, Chihuahua, and other border towns south of Texas have been controlled by outlaws for years. There is virtually no law enforcement in those places. The law is the law of the jungle. Until the last two years it seemed that Agua Prieta and Nogales were safer places but that has dramatically changed in recent months.<br />
I am personally acquainted with 2 Mexican men, that I know to be honest and trustworthy, who have been involved first hand with Mexican outlaw terrorist acts. One witnessed first hand an execution of several people in broad daylight in Juarez. Several weeks later his daughter witnessed an assassination in Casas Grandes, Chihuahua no less than fifteen feet from where she stood. The other man is a legal Mexican green card holder (who was employed by the Krentz family for years) whose nephew was murdered by cartel members in Sonora. At night people in Douglas are hearing machine gun fire from Agua Prieta south of the border fence.<br />
The Sinaloa Cartel is now putting a stranglehold on Agua Prieta. No more than 2 months ago 8 armed Mexicans were confronted by 2, U.S. Border Patrol agents north of the International Boundary in southeast Cochise County disguised as Federalizes. They were in fact cartel employees armed with assault rifles and automatic pistols. Mexican people that know tell me the situation in Agua Prieta has deteriorated dramatically in recent months. The good people are told to look the other way "or else." Volumes could be written about this subject alone, but I will move on.<br />
You could ask, "So what does this have to do with us living north of the border fence?" Plenty! The situation on the border isn't just about a few workers walking north. It has everything to do with big business. Billions of dollars are being made trafficking humans, drugs, and contraband across the International Boundary. The Sinaloa Cartel, headed by Chapo Guzman and others, is reaping huge profits doing business along the border. The average coyote charges $1500 - $2500 to guide an illegal alien north to find work; usually abandoning them a short distance north of the line. A young man willing to pack dope north can make more than a construction worker or a teacher in the U.S. and only work a day or two a week.<br />
This is not all south of the line. I could take you and show you businesses where checks and credit cards are not accepted and where very few customers walk through the door, yet the owners live in the largest mansions in town and drive very expensive cars. Could there be some money laundering going on? There are only two industries of any significance in Douglas, AZ: law enforcement (Douglas has one of the largest Border Patrol stations in America), and the illegal trafficking of drugs, people, etc. across the border. These two industries feed on each other, and the powers that be seem happy with the situation. Crooked politicians look good to the public when they clean up drunk driving and prostitution, until you find they own bars and whore houses south of the line. These things have happened!<br />
But this, in my opinion, is only the beginning. Chapo Guzman who heads up the Sinaloa Cartel is a multibillionaire. This guy and others like him may be cruel and sinister people but they are also very smart businessmen. They are reaping profits off of the largest tax free unregulated business on the planet. They have so much cash they are befuddled what to do with it all. But they are going to figure it out.<br />
There are rumors that Guzman is financing modern, state of the art feedlots and packing houses in Mexico with plans to overtake America as the Western hemisphere's leading beef producer. This is probably only a small part of his plans. Mexico is a nation rich in natural recourses. Petroleum is abundant and the corrupt Mexican government is in control of all of it. Pemex is the only gas station in town. Pemex, because of the incompetent Mexican government, is broke. Chapo Guzman is at war with the Mexican government and has dreams (not unrealistic) of controlling the entire nation. Think of all of Mexico's natural resources in the control of Chapo Guzman! He already has the most profitable business in the world - selling Marijuana to your next door neighbor. Think what he could do with a tax free unregulated strangle hold on a nation of poor people begging to work for practically nothing.<br />
Do you think that Chapo Guzman and others like him haven't thought of all of this? Do you think that Guzman isn't laughing all the way to the bank as he watches the evening news and hears how the American Government proclaims that the situation on the border is under control? What is going on in northern Mexico is capitalism in its rawest form. They have an untaxed unregulated business making huge profits and they have no plans of closing up shop any time soon. We here in the U.S. are overtaxed, overregulated and being smothered by increasingly intrusive government that makes it hard to do business in a successful manner. You don't have to be rocket scientist to figure this one out.<br />
This has nothing to do with being Republican or Democrat or Latino or White. It has everything to do with being right or wrong. I came from a long line of Democrats. My great uncle was a U.S. Senator for several decades. My grandfather was an attorney, and a Superior Court Judge. I have a 1939 copy of a Time Magazine with his picture when he ran as a Democrat for Congress. The only time in history the U.S deficit was paid off was by a Democrat - Andrew Jackson. John Kennedy announced nearly 50 years ago that America could put a man on the moon and in less than a decade we did it.<br />
I am now a registered Republican, but I'm not a Democrat hater. But, how can the president of the "can do" nation of Andrew Jackson's and JFK's party say we can't seal the border? We conquered Adolph Hitler in World War II, but can't seal the border? We put a man on the moon but can't seal a leaking oil well in less than 90 days? While this is going on we tax and regulate American business with a vengeance that stifles the free market system that has made our country great. While Janet Napolitano announces the border is safer than ever, Chapo Guzman and others pack billions of American dollars south to invest in a tax free market with one of the largest cheap labor force on the planet at his disposal!<br />
I challenge you to come to Douglas, AZ and drive east on the Geronimo Trail, or northeast on US Hwy 80 to places on the map like Chiracahua and Apache. Or go to Rodeo and Hatchita, NM. Go and search out the 5 biggest cattle ranches in the Apache, AZ area and ask them what they think. Go to Hidalgo County, N.M. and ask the ranchers and cowboys there what they are seeing and hearing. Ask the people who we do business with what they think of our opinions. I challenge you to ask the prominent people in this area, who work hard and pay taxes if they agree with Barack Obama or Ed Ashurst when it comes to what is really going on near the U.S.-Mexican border. Unlike Obama and others I don't have to be surrounded by sycophants to make a statement. I purposefully left out the names of those who helped me with my map and the data I collected when preparing for the Fox interview.<br />
In closing I challenge you to look around to see if what I say is the truth. This isn't about a few Mexicans wandering around looking for a job. This is about American civilization going into a time of tremendous change - a building has foundations and walls, maybe the foundation of our country is still strong, I don't know, but the walls have certainly fallen down and the keepers of the house are out to lunch.<br />
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When you have time, we think you will want to read this.    Everyone living in AZ (and elsewhere) should know what is happening near our borders and near our homes.</div>

 
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			<title>Did anybody know Jeremy Gallagher from Lake Worth?</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:08:45 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>He was murdered last night. Apparently he rode/raced dirtbikes. RIP. 
  
 
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			FORT WORTH, Texas — A 28-year-old Lake Worth man was fatally shot Sunday night right after an altercation in the parking lot of a northwest Fort Worth apartment building.<br />
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The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office pronounced Jeremy Gallagher dead at the scene at 10:55 p.m.<br />
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Sgt. Chad Mahaffey, a police spokesman, said Gallagher had just dropped off a friend at the Lakeview Apartments at 6501 Shady Oaks Manor and was driving toward the exit when he had an altercation with a group of people standing in the parking lot for unknown reasons.<br />
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Mahaffey said a man then walked up to Gallagher’s truck, firing repeatedly through the open passenger window.<br />
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Gallagher, still seated in the driver’s seat, was struck several times, Mahaffey said.<br />
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Police were still working Monday to determine the shooter, he said.<br />
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Greg Martin, Gallagher’s uncle, said his nephew was born and raised in Lake Worth, worked as an auto mechanic, and liked dirt bike racing.<br />
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“He could fix anything that had wheels and a motor,” Martin said. “He loved to ride his motorcycles.”<br />
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Martin said while Gallagher was a little misunderstood at times, “he had a heart of gold and would never turn his back on his family or friends and would give his shirt off his back if it would help another out.
			
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			<title>looking for recommendations</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:59:20 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>looking for a reasonably priced custom car shop in or around the dallas metro area to do  
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<div>looking for a reasonably priced custom car shop in or around the dallas metro area to do <br />
some work on my 67 mustang fastback.<br />
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preferably a shop that you or a friend have had some work done at and can recommend. <br />
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thanks so much.</div>

 
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			<title><![CDATA[REEMER'S MATCH!]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:55:21 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>IN THE CODE MONKEY WORLD REEMER IS KING. WELL I HAVE MET HIS EQUAL. HIS NAME IS SERGEI AND HE LIVES IN BULGARIA! NUFF SAID. THE DUDE IS GOOD.</description>
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<div>IN THE CODE MONKEY WORLD REEMER IS KING. WELL I HAVE MET HIS EQUAL. HIS NAME IS SERGEI AND HE LIVES IN BULGARIA! NUFF SAID. THE DUDE IS GOOD.</div>

 
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			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:16:57 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The state's slogan is "Don't mess with Texas." But the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing just that, and at stake is whether the...]]></description>
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<div>The state's slogan is "Don't mess with Texas." But the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing just that, and at stake is whether the Obama administration can impose its global-warming agenda without a vote of Congress.<br />
President Obama's EPA is already well down the path to regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, something the act was not designed to do. It has a problem, however, because shoehorning greenhouse gases into that 40-year-old law would force churches, schools, warehouses, commercial kitchens and other sources to obtain costly and time-consuming permits. It would grind the economy to a halt, and the likely backlash would doom the whole scheme.<br />
The EPA, determined to move forward anyway, is attempting to rewrite the Clean Air Act administratively via a "tailoring rule," which would reduce the number of regulated sources. The problem with that approach? It's illegal. The EPA has no authority to rewrite the law. To pull it off, the EPA needs every state with a State Implementation Plan to rewrite all of its statutory thresholds as well.<br />
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Chairman Bryan W. Shaw saw the tailoring rule for what it really is: a massive power grab and centralization of authority. They are fighting back, writing to the EPA:<br />
"In order to deter challenges to your plan for centralized control of industrial development through the issuance of permits for greenhouse gases, you have called upon each state to declare its allegiance to the Environmental Protection Agency's recently enacted greenhouse gas regulations - regulations that are plainly contrary to U.S. laws. ... To encourage acquiescence with your unsupported findings you threaten to usurp state enforcement authority and to federalize the permitting program of any state that fails to pledge their fealty to the Environmental Protection Agency. On behalf of the State of Texas, we write to inform you that Texas has neither the authority nor the intention of interpreting, ignoring or amending its laws in order to compel the permitting of greenhouse gas emissions."<br />
Texas leaders are doing what Congress so far has been unable to do (a Senate vote to stop the EPA's global-warming power grab got just 47 votes on June 10): take on the EPA. Good thing, because Texas would be hit especially hard by these regulations.<br />
Federalist principles have allowed Texas to become the strongest state in the union. The Lone Star State leads the nation in job creation, is the top state for business relocation and has more Fortune 500 companies than any other state and is the top state for wind generation. President Obama said he wants to double U.S. exports in five years; he could look to Texas, as we are the top exporting state in the country. The Obama administration could learn a lot from Texas.<br />
Instead, it is attempting to ride roughshod over Texas, and it goes beyond the greenhouse-gas issue.<br />
For 16 years, the EPA allowed Texas to run its own permitting program to meet federal air-quality standards. But in May, the agency announced- out of nowhere - that the state is not in compliance with federal regulations. Even though Texas had met its clean-air obligations, the EPA announced it was taking over permitting.<br />
Texas is the nation's energy-production capital, but the air we breathe is cleaner today than it was in 2000, even though the state's population has grown by nearly 3.5 million people. Between 2000 and 2008, Texas' nitrogen oxide levels decreased by 46 percent and ozone levels dropped by 22 percent, compared with national reductions of 27 percent and 8 percent, respectively. All major Texas metropolitan areas meet the 1997 federal eight-hour ozone standard, with the exception of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, which is within 1 part per billion of meeting the standard.</div>

 
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			<title>EPA Ammunition Ban</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:19:16 GMT</pubDate>
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All Gun Owners, Hunters and Shooters: <br />
<font size="+0"><font size="+0">With the fall hunting season fast approaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under Lisa Jackson, who was responsible for banning bear hunting in New Jersey, is now considering a petition by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) - a leading anti-hunting organization - to ban all traditional ammunition under the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976, a law in which Congress expressly exempted ammunition. If the EPA approves the petition, the result will be a total ban on all ammunition containing lead-core components, including hunting and target-shooting rounds. The EPA must decide to accept or reject this petition by November 1, 2010, the day before the midterm elections.   </font></font><br />
<font size="+0"><b><font size="+0"><b>Today, the EPA has opened to public comment the CBD petition.  The comment period ends on October 31, 2010. </b></font></b></font><br />
<TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; PADDING-TOP: 0in" vAlign=top><font size="+0">The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry -- urges you to submit comment to the EPA opposing any ban on traditional ammunition. Remember, your right to choose the ammunition you hunt and shoot with is at stake.  <br />
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><font size="+0"><font color="black"><font color="black">The EPA has published the petition and relevant supplemental information as Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2010-0681. If you would like to read the original petition and see the contents of this docket folder, <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103637050212&amp;s=8747&amp;e=0010BoOgr4M3JkqutO71pjpTz6r3YYPLLfHsNdB3y3S20jTKivXCD1mqnUeD6lwrzyII341WnnahDRxU_uHduAeomOlzS7D-R1SUsAn1pODVKYehO81NMD5UuctpuIxaEn22KXQ7wto3NMR9i4RxGDru5kcCkve-WY0tccEsxq6L9lUTjJ90GDIJhvfHBA8HTR2oKlYr7stwfxoAI6hOt0BQg==" target="_blank">please click here</a></font></font><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103637050212&amp;s=8747&amp;e=0010BoOgr4M3JkqutO71pjpTz6r3YYPLLfHsNdB3y3S20jTKivXCD1mqnUeD6lwrzyII341WnnahDRxU_uHduAeomOlzS7D-R1SUsAn1pODVKYehO81NMD5UuctpuIxaEn22KXQ7wto3NMR9i4RxGDru5kcCkve-WY0tccEsxq6L9lUTjJ90GDIJhvfHBA8HTR2oKlYr7stwfxoAI6hOt0BQg==" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><font color="navy">.  </font></font><font color="black"><font color="black">In order to go directly to the 'submit a comment' page for this docket number, <a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103637050212&amp;s=8747&amp;e=0010BoOgr4M3Jkc1r964lWRylFjhzJTy0xHgHctguJbHdYi64mjCHaLwg00R29df41aAlFg5FCnOxpvxKiFoBxrMfmB9JhZvn75dBK8gC39iUN5rzPVAxi0OqH7cY2OJ91ByI93Q5i2jQ_LADrarmVU0NCKnbRZnl8kjLzEDnOCN_lrIYyJrkYCaFO4WjoGgUqn6KVSJaz7PM4=" target="_blank">please click here.</a></font></font></a></font><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103637050212&amp;s=8747&amp;e=0010BoOgr4M3JkqutO71pjpTz6r3YYPLLfHsNdB3y3S20jTKivXCD1mqnUeD6lwrzyII341WnnahDRxU_uHduAeomOlzS7D-R1SUsAn1pODVKYehO81NMD5UuctpuIxaEn22KXQ7wto3NMR9i4RxGDru5kcCkve-WY0tccEsxq6L9lUTjJ90GDIJhvfHBA8HTR2oKlYr7stwfxoAI6hOt0BQg==" target="_blank"><br />
<font size="+0"><b><b><font color="black"><font color="black">NSSF urges you to stress the following in your opposition: </font></font></b></b></font><ul><li><font size="+0"></li>
<li><font color="black">There is no scientific evidence that the use of traditional ammunition is having an adverse impact on wildlife populations. </font><LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font color="black">Wildlife management is the proper jurisdiction of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the 50 state wildlife agencies.  </font> <LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font color="black">A 2008 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on blood lead levels of North Dakota hunters confirmed that consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition does not pose a human health risk.</font> <LI style="COLOR: black"><font color="black">A ban on traditional ammunition would have a negative impact on wildlife conservation. The federal excise tax that manufacturers pay on the sale of the ammunition (11 percent) is a primary source of wildlife conservation funding. The bald eagle's recovery, considered to be a great conservation success story, was made possible and funded by hunters using traditional ammunition - the very ammunition organizations like the CBD are now demonizing. <br />
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</font><LI style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; COLOR: black"><font color="black">Recent statistics from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service show that from 1981 to 2006 the number of breeding pairs of bald eagles in the United States increased 724 percent. And much like the bald eagle, raptor populations throughout the United States are soaring. </font></font></li>
</ul><font size="+0"><b><font color="black"><font color="black"><b>Steps to take:</b></font></font></b><font color="black"><font color="black"> <br />
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<li><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103637050212&amp;s=8747&amp;e=0010BoOgr4M3Jkc1r964lWRylFjhzJTy0xHgHctguJbHdYi64mjCHaLwg00R29df41aAlFg5FCnOxpvxKiFoBxrMfmB9JhZvn75dBK8gC39iUN5rzPVAxi0OqH7cY2OJ91ByI93Q5i2jQ_LADrarmVU0NCKnbRZnl8kjLzEDnOCN_lrIYyJrkYCaFO4WjoGgUqn6KVSJaz7PM4=" target="_blank">Submit comment online to the EPA.</a><font size="+0"> <br />
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<li><font size="+0">Contact Lisa Jackson directly to voice your opposition to the ban: </font></font></li>
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</ul><font size="+0"><font size="+0">Lisa P. Jackson<br />
Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<br />
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW<br />
Washington, DC 20460<br />
(202) 564-4700<br />
Fax: (202) 501-1450<br />
Email: <a href="mailto:jackson.lisa@epa.gov"><font color="#114170">jackson.lisa@epa.gov</font></a><br />
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<font size="+0"><font size="+0">              3. Contact your congressman and senators and urge them to stop the EPA from banning ammunition. To view a sample letter, </font><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103637050212&amp;s=8747&amp;e=0010BoOgr4M3Jn500VOEUN83eFa6wvhMQi1OVKu8vwJ2sA8Q_S9bQHqO478TJc3N5k8Jq5gPCuv2kY0eqEvf0_wMNlxqj-BC92pBWwFSZyudD3BOpCHNHiksSAOjR0BsRnkUwQIGOH5MEqLI_ic2rd9sxB7aHj-EXN_xDAQ7YaZ8y4=" target="_blank">click here.   </a><br />
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			<description>are the reason Nobama will be re-elected. Click on the link for the police report then watch the video below it. 
 
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<div><font face="Tahoma">are the reason Nobama will be re-elected. Click on the link for the police report then watch the video below it.</font><br />
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			<description><![CDATA[It is YOUR responsibility to change the tide @ the election polls!!!! 
  
just carry this list w/ you, find your district & vote Libertarian!!  :D...]]></description>
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<div>It is YOUR responsibility to change the tide @ the election polls!!!!<br />
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just carry this list w/ you, find your district &amp; vote Libertarian!!  :D<br />
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			<description>Airiana is the granddaughter of a friend here at Alcon and she is the sweetness, most loving and beautiful little girl! Full of personality and life!...</description>
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<div><font color="#006666"><font face="Arial">Airiana is the granddaughter of a friend here at Alcon and she is the sweetness, most loving and beautiful little girl! Full of personality and life! </font></font><br />
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<font color="#006666"><font face="Arial">In her honor, they are holding a benefit for Down Syndrome Awareness. They are raffling off a 2010 Ironworks Challenger 83”x18” steel bed car trailer for $5 a ticket. The drawing will be held on Saturday, October 16<SUP>th</SUP>. </font></font><br />
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<font color="#006666"><font face="Arial">If you are interested in purchasing a ticket, please let me know! If you could kindly forward to everyone you know that would be greatly appreciated!</font></font><br />
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<font color="#006666"><font face="Arial">Thanks!</font></font><br />
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			<title>Wtf!</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38698500/ns/politics-white_house 
  
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			<description>Click here:  Tim Hawkins: Old Rock Stars (http://biggeekdad.com/2010/06/old-rock-stars/) 
 
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