Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Susan Smith

In other words

or

In plain English

Sorry we cashed the checks a long time ago

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokeswoman Susan Smith said, the hunt must go on so we must defended the commission's ability to approve rule changes in spite of the lawsuit!

Florida Fish and Wildlife begins accepting bear hunting permit applications

Bear hunting season starts end of October

http://www.wptv.com/news/state/florida-fish-and-wildlife-to-accept-bear-hunting-permit-applications-monday

Lawsuit Seeks To Halt Return Of Bear Hunting

By JIM TURNER OF THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA • 14 hours ago

The lawsuit doesn't ask for a judge to halt the commission from offering the permits. However, Speak Up Wekiva and groups supporting the lawsuit -- the Sierra Club, the Massachusetts-based Environmental Action, the League of Women Voters of Florida and the Center for Biological Diversity -- want the state agency to suspend permitting until the lawsuit is settled.

"If they do sell the permits, and the hunt is ruled unconstitutional, they'll have to pay everyone back, and that could be very time-consuming," said Chuck O'Neal, a Longwood resident and member of Speak Up Wekiva whose name also appears on the lawsuit.

Smith said permitting remains on schedule to begin Monday.

http://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/lawsuit-seeks-halt-return-bear-hunting

Riding a sea turtle is totally illegal.

Riding a sea turtle is totally illegal.

If riding endangered species is in fact illegal (Sea turtles and Manatees for starters), what happened to those two girls and why did those boys jumping on a manatee get off with a little slap on the wrist?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2327496/Facebook-video-shows-man-jumping-manatees-Florida.html

How much trouble this woman could be in

 

MELBOURNE BEACH -- Pictures on social media show what appear to be girls riding a sea turtle on a Brevard County beach during the critical sea turtle nesting season.

One picture shows what appears to be a young girl looking as if she's riding a large sea turtle, either sitting on or hovering over it with her hands in the air.

The other picture shows another girl, but her hands appeared to be pressed down on the turtle's back. She was either sitting or leaning over its shell.

http://www.bradenton.com/2015/07/03/5880852_viral-photos-of-girls-riding-sea.html?rh=1

These pictures of what appear to be two girls riding a sea turtle, allegedly at Melbourne Beach, have sparked outrage on social media and prompted an investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. It is illegal in Florida to harm or harass sea turtles.

(PHOTO/via Facebook)

Steve Barrett ‏@SBarrettWFTV • Jul 3

Riding a sea turtle is totally illegal. #WFTV

Save Lake Eola Park Petition

One of the very few parks left in central Florida and maybe all of Florida where a pet lover can walk with their pet in peace and enjoy the day with friends and Florida is about to chop this off and hand it off to developers?

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/eoladogpark/

Notice that it was just on the news today, the morning of the vote a 'Cruel trick' on the public used often by our public official after the checks are already in the mail!

Local group fights high-rise proposal in Lake Eola Park

City planning board to discuss proposal Tuesday

UPDATED 7:22 AM EDT Jul 21, 2015

The new tower would go up at East Central Boulevard and North Rosalind Avenue but the project has strong critics who plan to make their presence known Tuesday in front of the city planning board.

The 28-story high-rise is designed to have residential units, shops, restaurants and a parking garage. It is the brainchild of Chicago developer Mark Bortz, who owns the two buildings that would be taken down to make way for the high-rise.

The proposal also includes outdoor seating, a water wall and other park enhancements.

But a group called Save Lake Eola Park Park said the land that the new building would take up was deeded from St. Luke’s Cathedral to be used as a public park only.

The development is ultimately subject to City Council’s approval after the municipal board reviews it.

The city planning staff recommended that the proposal be approved, but only under 10 pages of conditions, including everything from trees to lighting. They are meeting at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to discuss the proposal.

City leaders could approve new high rise buildings near Lake Eola

http://www.wesh.com/news/local-group-fights-highrise-proposal-in-lake-eola-park/34270470

Janai Norman WFTV News Reporter Orange County Two New High rise on Lake Eola

One 26 stories high the other 28

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/city-leaders-could-approve-new-high-rise-buildings/nm36c/

Voting on this morning?

Taipei Taiwan

Welcome Taipei Taiwan

http://english.gov.taipei/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei

To our dog Breanna's blog looking for and translating

Black Bears food tupelo, saw palmetto, blueberry

http://airedalepets.blogspot.com/2015/07/black-bears-food-tupelo-saw-palmetto.html

into your language for all to read.

http://translate.google.com.tw/translate?depth=1&hl=zh-TW&prev=search&sl=en&u=http://airedalepets.blogspot.com/2015/07/black-bears-food-tupelo-saw-palmetto.html

9 Investigates: Is Florida's bear hunt necessary?

It started out being 250 bears?

Now it is up to 320?

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/9-investigates-floridas-bear-hunt-necessary/nmpYW/

Black Bears food tupelo, saw palmetto, blueberry are being gathered up and sold faster than it can grow!

But 9 Investigates discovered that FWC doesn’t know exactly how many bears live in the state.

“Most animal populations should be estimated every generation, which is roughly every eight years for bears,” said Sarah Barrett, of FWC’s Black Bear Management Program. “We have updated numbers on four of the subpopulations and are collecting the data for the remaining three subpopulations.”

“If they’re going to hunt, they may as well kill them all because they have nothing to eat,” Lake County resident David Baumgardner said.

Baumgardner’s family has lived in Lake County for three generations. He said his family has always shared the land with the bears, but recently they have had far more interactions.

“I have seen more bears, morning, noon, afternoon and night in the past six years as the bears scurry about trying to find native food sources than I have in the previous 65 years,” Baumgardner said.

Immigration and crime

See if any of this sounds familiar to my friends/followers?

In recent weeks, there has been an upsurge in controversy over crime committed by immigrants.

Fact!

Both legal and illegal immigrants have far lower crime rates than native-born Americans do.

Even if they did not, it does not follow that immigration restrictions and deportation are the right solution to the problem.

Claims that we could lower violent crime rates by reducing immigration or deporting more illegal's are fundamentally misplaced.

Indeed, if reducing violent crime is really the goal, we could shift some of the vast resources currently devoted to keeping out and deporting peaceful

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/07/14/immigration-and-crime/

Numerous studies show that immigrants have lower crime rates than natives, a finding which holds true even if you focus solely on Mexican immigrants – the main objects of Trump’s ire. Indeed, Mexican-born immigrant males aged 18-39 who lack a high school diploma actually had a lower incarceration rate in 2010 (2.8%) than all native-born males of the same age group (3.3%), regardless of education level (the incarceration rate for native-born men without a high school diploma was 10.7% in the same year).

Now try this if you will?

All Florida Black Bears are the cause of pet food being eaten by wild life in central Florida and all of the trash containers being invaded in central Florida?

If we kill innocent Black Bears all over Florida our trash will be safe if left out all day and all night and we can feed our pets outside anytime that is convenient for humans?

As with, shifting some of the vast resources currently devoted to keeping out and deporting peaceful migrants and reinvest them in combating violent crime and terrorism.

We also should/could shift some of the vast resources currently devoted to unnecessary meetings and hunts to laws the will deeply punish the habitual offenders leaving their pet food out, feeding the bears and placing their trash containers out the night before trash pickup day?

http://www.mysuncoast.com/news/permits-for-florida-black-bear-hunting-season-will-be-available/article_e28bf076-2550-11e5-badb-cff2841442ca.html

 

Lets face the truth, if deporting legal and illegal immigrants will do little to effect our crime rate?

How is it that killing innocent Black Bears all over Florida except in the problem areas will solve that problem?

And with this my friends/followers, the Defense Rests!