Tell me, where does one get the alternate numbers when one is knee-deep in to crap. This is why you can’t depend on 911, you cannot depend on your cell phone. Heck with yesterdays incident if I had wanted to I could have started self extraction. It would have taken considerably longer and would have been much more difficult, it would have been possible. If it had been the other truck I would have self extracted, as doing it with a winch makes life considerably easier.
911 though is not a sure thing in the even of an emergency. Even when it is working there are oddities that can go wrong. For instance Cellular skip does happen and you can actually end up calling into a 911 center well beyond your current location. This is one of the reasons they ask for your location first and foremost. If you’re in Kansas and you got into Whitman County Washington’s dispatch, they’re not going to be able to help you much. As a FYI, yes that has happened.
Since 911 has problems why use it at all? Well because when it does work, it’s an effective way to call in the cavalry. If it wasn’t for 911, I would have to keep track of all the different numbers for the different services myself. Not an easy task, especially while traveling. My point here though is to not plan on it being your sole solution to a problem. Don’t plan on 911 working correctly when you actually need it because Murphy is bound to show himself. By all means call for the cavalry but realize it may fail, it may take longer than expected, and most importantly it is going to take time for the cavalry to arrive. Assess your situation, make sure things are under control and then call for the cavalry.
You are on your own and you may end up being on your own for longer than expected. Know that you’re call for the cavalry may not exactly work out as planned, your methods may not work, and you may be on your own for longer than you thought. Remember they have no duty to respond.
So, today wasn’t exactly one of my best days. I didn’t listen to instinct. I was taking back roads to the match today and there were thunderstorms last night. Yeah, wet clay isn’t fun to drive on. Doubly so when it is like driving on ice and that’s pretty much exactly what happened. All I will say is the truck is fine, a bit muddy on one side, and need of a visit to Les Schwab’s for an alignment and suspension check.
Now, I have had many people tell me that Ham Radio is pointless. Just pick up and use your cell phone. I was merely 12 miles outside of Moscow Idaho, an urban center. Yeah, guess what didn’t work worth a damn and what got a tow truck sent in my direction with a winch.
If you said cell phone, you lost, it was my Ham Radio. Cell had 0 signal. Tow truck showed up about 45 minutes later and I showed up to the match 50 minutes after it started. Luckily I was still able to shoot, not only that but first stage I shot everyone’s comment was I need to do something like that before I shoot.
What do you mean I hear you ask? Well I shot the first stage in 5.11 and aced it with the exception of a single charlie. Compare that to our local Masterclass shooter who did it in 5.85 and was mainly in the charlie bracket. I was quite pleased with myself.
I did OK on the classifier, which was a fixed time stage with a mandatory reload. I was quite pleased with myself that I only wasn’t able to make one shot during the reload string. There was another stage that was actually a blast. It was a bunch of running and gunning. You started with your mags and gun down range on two different barrels with the gun unloaded. Adam (the Masterclass) shooter did a move to load the magazine in the gun straight out of Zombie Land. I will post the video later.
It was a fun day for the match. Overall I really am pissed for not listening to my instinct with regards to navigation. Thankfully at most it’s going to cost me an alignment. I’m taking the rest of the night off, I’m kind of feeling really stupid right now for that dumb mistake.
Never mess with cops who are generating revenue or otherwise engaging in tax collectionpenalty collection. For you see in this day in age, and in all honesty, a penalty is really a tax on something other people disagree with.
Because a citizen daring to alert her fellow citizens about officers rounding up “sinners” is a bad thing, they can’t let people dare do that, it would cause chaos.
*I meant for this to go up on Monday but the scheduling failed for what ever reason.
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Normally I kick these over to Weer’d for his “Gun Death” files. This one though wasn’t successful but it shows how pointless prohibition and laws are at actually stopping stupid behavior.
Unsurprisingly though the roots of this incident come back to something all too common. Something we regularly see or hear about when it comes to “Gun Deaths”.
So we have alcohol being a factor, witness claim one was quite intoxicated but the other was sober and hadn’t been drinking. No matter how hard you try, no matter how many laws you pass, you will not stop people from doing stupid things and exercising poor judgment.
You can ban and outlaw “X” but people will either resort to other means, or obtain the items outside the law. All it actually serves to do is prevent those who do exercise good judgment and those who would use the tool properly from using “X”.
Outlawing concealed carry doesn’t stop those who exercise bad judgment from carrying. Just the same, outlawing firearms doesn’t actually stop people from doing stupid things. What it does do is stop those who do not exercise bad judgment from being able to carry an effective tool for self-defense. Banning knives stops people who carry them for their utility, it doesn’t stop someone from using it in poor judgment or in violation of the law to commit assault or murder. Someone who is willing to commit murder gives no extra thought to the legalities of the tools.
The War on Nouns is doomed to failure. The war on Alcohol failed miserably and proved that prohibition of any kind was impossible to enforce. Prohibitions on any noun never benefit the law abiding, quite far from it. The enforcement of the prohibition as well as the actions of the criminal enterprises place the law abiding in the middle. The reasonable and law abiding suffer from these choices and it provides no actual benefit to their situation or safety. In the end, the side effects of the cure end up being considerably worse than the disease.
[It happens in lefties more because that is the only way they can argue. If they actually let the facts come out, they start to lose. The have to control the narrative, and their best bet is to attempt to change the opinions of history as well. More on that later. –B]
A more detailed video presentation can be seen here.
Scout’s had a very large role in my life growing up. I spent the majority of my summers away from home at summer camp, JLT, National Jamborees, backpacking, and just about anything else under the sun.
My parents both encouraged me in scouts wanting me to succeed. My dad’s comment as to why he supported the program reminds me even now of the significance of the program. His comment was, “I want you to grow up to have character, not be a character.” I would like to think it accomplished his goal. Especially since I have been described as being a literal Eagle Scout in the fact that I will do the right thing merely because it’s right, even if it’s to my detriment.
Stepehen Ambrose in his book D-Day noted that the war in Europe could easily be seen as the Hitler Youth vs The Boy Scouts. The facts found from this survey have been known for a very long time. Powell’s reason for Scouting was to help mold boys into men physically, mentally, and socially. The survey merely proves that the program accomplishes Powell’s original goals.
I proudly climbed the hill to Eagle and received a wonderful surprise after completing that journey. That journey played a significant factor in who and what I am today.
I aman Eagle Scout from the class of 2001. I am a Brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow.
Those of us who have made the climb know what it means, why it’s significant, and the results of this study come as no surprise for those of us here. We live to set ourselves apart from the rest of the pack, for those who may not understand, I give you 100 Scouts.
Of any one hundred boys who become Scouts, it must be confessed that thirty will drop out in their first year. Perhaps this may be regarded as a failure, but in later life all of these will remember that they had been Scouts and will speak well of the program.
Of the one hundred, only rarely will one ever appear before a juvenile court judge. Twelve of the one hundred will be from families that belong to no church. Through Scouting, these twelve and their families will be brought into contact with a church and will continue to be active all their lives. Six of the one hundred will enter the clergy of his chosen faith.
Each of the one hundred will learn something from Scouting. Almost all will develop hobbies that will add interest throughout the rest of their lives. Approximately one-half will serve in the military and in varying degrees profit from their Scout training. At least one will use it to save another person’s life and many will credit it with saving their own.
Four of the one hundred will reach Eagle rank, and at least one will later say that he valued his Eagle above his college degree. Many will find their future vocation through merit badge work and Scouting contacts. Seventeen of the one hundred boys will later become Scout leaders and will give leadership to thousands of additional boys.
Only one in four boys in America will become Scouts, but it is interesting to know that of the leaders of this nation in business, religion and politics, three out of four were Scouts.
This story will never end. Like the “Golden Pebble” of service dropped into the human sea, it will continue to radiate in ever-widening circles, influencing the characters of men down through unending time.
I’ve bolded the parts that tie to myself personally.
While I haven’t actually done the Oath in 10 years, I can still rattle it off, knowing full well its meaning. The same can be said for the Scout Law. Yeah, that’s how deeply it ingrained itself into my soul. I expect to be able to recite either until the day I die.
On my honor, I will do my best:
To do my duty to god and my country;
To obey the scout law and help others at all time;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.
A Scout is:
Trustworthy
Loyal
Helpful
Friendly
Courteous
Kind
Obident
Cheerful
Thirfty
Brave
Clean
Reverent
What I do find interesting, I have run into a decent number of Eagle Scouts within the gun community and I keep finding more. This however is by no means surprising.
Armed escorts were required for the paramedics who went to treat and rescue the victim. But they’re just smaller animals that couldn’t possibly be a danger to humans right?
So if you still think that wild animals, no matter their size, don’t present a threat or danger to humans, remember that’s your choice and opinion. Facts state that humans are not on the top of the food chain by PFM. They are there because of their tools and without them they are nothing but walking meat popsicle. If you choose to go into the wild unarmed, or even around suburbia, that is your choice and you can live with the consequences of your choice. You have no right to force your moral choices though on anyone else.
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