pitt2magic

Agreed but I can tell you that if I am walking down an ally and there is a group of teenage boys walking towards me,  I sure as Hell would be paying more attention to them than the poor guy in the video.  The woman in the video that got attacked from behind really had no chance of defending herself.

CNN and MSNBC will be showing pictures of the kid back when he was in preschool or playing T-ball wanting us to believe that he was a harmless little boy killed by some racist gun nut.

That video made my blood boil.  Just another reason to always focus on situational awareness.

Done !

Ordered a copy from Amazon as well, looking forward to watching it.

It says that I can not join this group.

I'm out as well.  

SInce my Key West trip will be my first 1000+ mile trip I would love to hear about what things you were glad you had with you and also maybe the things you didn't have but wish you did.  Be safe and have fun.

I keep waiting for the day they try to pass a law stating that kids must graduate from a Common Core school to be admitted into a state funded college or university.  You know the end goal is to eliminate home schooling and private Christian schools that aren't pushing the government agenda.  

I have a GSX-R 750 for short rides but we have an FJR-1300 for the long rides.  That bike was created with long days in mind.

Have a great trip, we are doing Chattanooga to Key West in January.

I mean this in the nicest possible way:  I hate you!!  I live in the boonies and can't get EPB, Hell I can't even get Comcast.

I have been wearing Bates for years.  I do have and like Danner boots as well but I spent 2 long weeks in the Hell pit of lower Louisiana after hurricanes Ike and Gustov doing disaster recovery for HHS.  16-20 hour days in the heat and muck and they held up fine and my feet survived just fine in my Bates.

My wife's sister lives here in Chattanooga but commutes 2 days a week to the Northern perimeter of Atlanta for work.  My bro in law have repeatedly told her that at the first sign of things going South she needs to get out of that Hell hole immediately.  No time for finishing the business day.  Grab your purse and get in the car.  Atlanta would be nearly impossible to escape from by car almost immediately.

I have an average of 22-25 college students that work for me.  I have not and will not ask to befriend them on Facebook.  On the flipside I have had about a dozen of them request to be my friend and I will accept.  Not sure why they would want to be my friend but I find it to be a useful tool when one of the calls in sick then checks in at a downtown bar a few hours later.  Had one chick tell me she needed to be off for 2 weeks for a mission trip then began posting pics up on Daytona Beach with all her friends.  

I cant listen to them while driving, next thing I know I'm doing 30 over the limit and want to kick everyone's ass.

I am in no way advocating driving after drinking but it is my personal opinion to take the blood test.  I will occasionally have a beer with dinner then drive home.  Certainly not impaired or above the legal limit but I am not willing to trust my future to a machine that is kept in an officer's trunk.  Of course you have to be willing to be cuffed and hauled to an ER to have your blood drawn, to me its worth the trouble.  I am a reserve deputy but my main gig is ER nursing.  I have drawn many blood samples for DUI over the past decade.  I think that my technique is consistent and the results more accurate than a machine that gets slammed around in a car all day.     Again, this is all opinion so dont ask me for research data on accuracy and such.  They legally have the right to test me, I just want it done the right way.

I'll also admit to being a faithful viewer.  Sadly the show is getting a bit ridiculous just like they did with the Shield.  While I love the show I hope they wrap it up this season or next before it gets too crazy.

Just upgraded, not like I'm going anywhere.  This was a no brainer.

I will admit that I liked the Dixie Chicks back in the day.  I wish that all artist would just make music and stay the Hell out of politics.  Sadly some of my favorite bands are the most vocal (REM, Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam....)  I did listen to the 30 second samples of the songs on that album a week or two back and it did nothing for me personally.  I love Pink Floyd and the remake was pretty blah in my opinion.  Just my .02.

I am another very happy Yamaha FJR 1300 owner.  This bike really does it all.  2006 is the oldest that I would look at, they made major changes for the better starting in 06.

Go to Scott's Bikes in Cleveland and ask for Doug, he is the owner and a personal friend.  He has always been more than willing to answer questions and help you find what you are looking for.

Pretty sure you are correct.  I am not a full time officer but a reserve deputy and my primary task is officer safety on call outs.  I do not know for certain what training our officers have exactly.  I do know that most of ours have AEDs in the trunks of their cars so one would assume that they did cover medical issues in training.  I know that officer safety has to be a key but certainly there is some way to mix in common sense to situations.  

He is giving a speech at the Amazon distribution center about job growth.  It just hit the news this week that Amazon plans to expand that center and add up to 5000 more jobs.  I am sure that Obama plans to take the credit for all of this.

I was an EMT, am a Registered Nurse and also a Tactical Medic for the S.O.  I will not stand and defend these officers because I feel that their actions were wrong.  I watched an old episode of COPS the other night and saw two officers tase a guy that was not following commands after he was ejected from a car.  No S#*t is isnt following orders, who knows at this point what all is wrong with him.  While it is not feasible to have every officer trained to be an EMT,certainly they can spend one day in the academy teaching some common sense tactics when it comes to dealing with unresponsive people.