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  1. Crap.  I hated I missed this one.  I have spent so much money the last couple of months that I didn't want to spend anymore for training classes.  But $100, I would have done that. This would have been a class where I could have learned a lot considering my cup is completely empty.  Hopefully I will catch the next one.

     

    Thanks for the review.  I have had several classes with Randy, and have enjoyed them all (except the winter class in the snow). He is a good teacher and extremely knowledgeable.

  2. In Chattanooga I am a huge fan of New York Pizza Department.

     

    Second.  About every two weeks I drive up to Hixson to get a couple of slices of pepperoni.  It is fantastic.   http://www.indoughwecrust.com/  Being out in East Brainerd, I open they open another restaurant out here.  They would do great out here.

  3. Before it got too hot today I decided to drive over to Enterprise South http://www.hamiltontn.gov/esnp/ and do a little trail riding.  It didn't appear to be very crowded so I decided to listen to some music while riding.  I put on the soundtrack to American Flyers (yes, it is dated, but I love that movie and soundtrack) and hit the trails.

     

    I did a quick jaunt through the Black Forest, and I noticed I was the only one on the trail outside of a few walkers, which is great because I can go as fast or slow as I want to.  I was little peppy today, so my speed was a little faster.  As I started climbing into the TNT trail I cursed the people who laid out the trail as to why they couldn't have made it downhill both ways. :)

     

    About 4 miles into the trail I came across a couple of early 20-somethings resting on the side of the trail.  They waved me down, so I stopped and asked if there was anything wrong.  There was nothing wrong.  All they wanted to know was if I knew a shortcut out of the trail as they couldn't go anymore.  I gave them a little pep talk and encouraged them to finish out the trail as there were only a few more challenging spots remaining and they were past the halfway point.  I am not old by any means, but I am not in my 20s either.  Inside I was relishing the moment.  :)

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  4. I finally broke down and solved my problem.  I took a half day from work and went on a shopping spree.  The first place I went to was really a bummer.  I was a customer ready to spend some cash, and I couldn't get anyone to take an interest in helping me out.  I finally got irritated and decided to go elsewhere.  I guess my money wasn't good enough.

     

    I finally made it up to Homestead Tractor, http://www.homesteadjohndeeredealer.com/ in Cleveland.  They were every friendly and had no problem helping me decide on what I needed.  I ended up buying a John Deere X320 with a dump cart.  I also got a bunch of Stihl stuff.  I got a chainsaw, pole saw, trimmer, edger, and a hedge trimmer.

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  5. This my friends is customer service and standing behind your product.  I got my hawk back from the shop today, and I was absolutely stunned.  The Kestrel looks brand spankin' new.  The cost?  Free.  I wish I would have taken some before  pics to show you guys. 

     

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    They are a bit pricey, but in my opinion, you get what you pay for and these are well worth it.  This won't be my last RMJ hawk as I gotta get me some Berserker love.

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  6. I took a couple of Benadryl yesterday and today.  I think my left arm has just went through too much this past month.  About 20 something days ago I got absolutely nailed by a yellow jacket.  Then I got a rash from poison ivy/oak a week or so later.  Sunday I got stung again, and this was a mild sting.  I think the redness, pain, and the swelling was just my arm saying, "Dammit man, stop this s***.  I can only take so much."

  7. I had insurance with Geico for 15 plus years.  They are a good company, but they are expensive.  When I bought my house, I switched to Travelers.  I got homeowners and car insurance for just a little bit more than what I was paying for car insurance through Geico.

  8. I just ran over one about 30 minutes ago.  As soon as I felt the slightest sting I knew what happened.  I swatted my arm and took off running.  About 30 feet away from my lawnmower I turned around and saw a swarm of them around my mower.  I waited about 10 minutes for them to die down and I carefully made it over to my mower.  I grabbed it and started running.  Thankfully I only got hit once.

  9. Stuff like this worries me and I'll tell ya why.

    Us crackers tend to identify with our fore fathers more than anyone else, and by "crackers" I'm referring to us gun toting, Constitution loving conservatives. We don't have a problem taking matters into our own hands if need be. We don't look to others for help to solve our problems.

    The concern is for those of us crackers that see this purely as a race thing, just as much as it is a concern of mine for the black people who see this as a race thing. It is a prescription for disaster, but I couldn't classify it as a "race war" since the term itself implies that all members of the races would be active participants. I look at it as an ignorance war, which very well could happen, and could subsequently pull in the more moderate people who feel like they don't have a choice.

    I think the problem is all this racially charged talk and finger pointing by the fringe who are hoping this will happen, and it very well could. The scenario that worries me is another Trayvon type incident which sparks widespread attacks on whites I which one of those attacks results in a pile of bodies, which fuels a backlash we haven't seen before, followed by more bodies. That is how it starts in all these third world countries, and spirals out of control due to exponential ignorance. What folks on both sides of the race baiting aisle need to do is to take a step back, realize that it is not about race, it is about ignorant people doing ignorant things. But I don't think that's what they want. I think the fringe want exactly the thing they predict.. like a self fulfilling prophecy. So, when I see folks peddling racial discontent I am suspicious of their motives. I believe they want conflict. Hard to believe anyone would want that for their kids.

     

    I don't really worry about a race war.  People have been predicting it for decades, and while it could happen, I believe the chances are very slim.  We had a bunch of people predicting massive riots and destruction if the TM/GZ verdict came out a certain way.  The media was even stoking the flames (for ratings no doubt).   While I was still ticked about disruption caused by some, overall it was relatively mild.

     

    In regards to people that spout off about things being a black versus white or vice-versa, I really don't pay attention to them.  They aren't going to do anything except run their mouths.  The ones I worry about are the true racists, and they often speak using words like equality, fairness, and leveling the playing field.  It is really not hard to see who the true racists are in this country.  All one has to do is look at those in Washington, and especially if they are of a certain party affiliation.

     

    On August 28th, Obama is set to give a speech on economic equality to commemorate MLK's march.  It is his contention that the only way to achieve racial justice is through economic equality.  According to Valerie Jarrett,

    “He (Obama) wants to create opportunity and to make sure the level playing field is ready for everybody,” Jarrett said. “If you look at poverty or unemployment, they disproportionately affect people of color. People who don’t have health insurance are disproportionately of color. There is inevitably an overlap in addressing racial equality at the same time you’re trying to create economic empowerment."

     

    When I hear this s***, it makes me want to vomit.  First off, it is not the government's responsibility to do this.  Second, it is meddling by the sumbitches in government that have caused the problem in the first place.

     

    I agree with your comment stating that is ignorant people doing ignorant things.  However, I would like for people to recognize this as race issue, but I don't mean it in the sense that it is black folks coming after whites.  That view is too simplistic, and if you look at ratio of black on black crime versus black on white crime, we would see that really isn't correct.  I would like for people to recognize that there is a problem among the youth within black community.  Statistically speaking, it is impossible to deny.

     

    Once the problem is recognized, I wish people would dig further as to determine the root cause.  When we get past personal accountability/responsibility, bad parenting, etc... we will find that it is government involvement/interference that has caused the problem.  Obama and other politicians know there is a problem, but their answer is more government, which is always government's answer to anything.

     

    It is too bad that so many can't recognize that a lot of the government programs over the past several decades weren't designed to lift people out of poverty or provide true equality.  It is my belief that a lot of these politician's intent was, well... I will let LBJ's words sum it up

    These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.”— LBJ

  10. Luckily for me I don't interpret a situation based on the emotional reactions of "the other side" in a reversed situation. I just don't see how JJ and Sharpton's race baiting means that I automatically have to make assumptions as well about all blacks when a couple of black guys beat a white person to death. Maybe it is racially motivated, but so what? Why should that change anything? The guy is still dead. Who do I have to be mad at other than the little monsters who did this and the breeders that raised them?

    Trust me, if the state of Washington asked me to be the executioner on this I'd not hesitate to get my hands bloody delivering justice, but I have no anger at anyone except for those responsible. Making this about race is just as bad as the race baiters. The moral high ground has better fields of fire. That's where "our side" needs to be.

     

    I understand what you are saying, and I agree that nobody should stereotype all blacks based the actions of few.  To do so really makes one no different than poverty pimps like Jackson and Sharpton.  However, I believe it is a mistake to not recognize race in this situation when taken in conjunction with recent black on white crimes.  The reason I believe this should be acknowledged is for decades the media and political class have suppressed personal accountability/responsibility and promoted victimization within the black community.  Their actions have led to poor parenting, 72% out of wedlock births, and a staggering 1:15 incarceration rate of young black men.  Tragic.

     

    In years past, most of the crime involving blacks (I refuse to use African-American, because I do not believe in hyphenated Americans.  We are all Americans.) was black on black crime and was concentrated in lower income urban areas.  Thanks to the actions by the social engineers within the political class, they caused the crime to spread to more affluent and typically lower crime areas (see my thread on HUD's recent proposal). 

     

    When white on black crime occurs, they shout racism and demand justice.  When opposite occurs, it is almost total silence.  I believe people are getting sick and tired of the blatant double standard.  I would also argue that whitewashing the latter is very dangerous in that it obscures the underlying cause of the problem, which is an overreaching federal government.

     

    I have no problem recognizing race in this situation in addition to recognizing it in numerous other black on white crimes.  I don't do it out of any bias or prejudice.  I recognize it solely as an acknowledgement that the government's vile and down-right immoral actions the past several decades have created a disaster, especially within the teenage/young adult black community.  It is my belief that we will never see any improvement until society accepts that fact. 

     

    As a side note, I want to post an excerpt of Dr. Bill Cosby's speech he gave at a 2004 NAACP convention.  I enjoyed his speech, and thought he was right on.  It was unfortunate that he was criticized for his remarks by so many.

     

     

    “They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English.
    I can’t even talk the way these people talk:
    Why you ain’t,
    Where you is,
    What he drive,
    Where he stay,
    Where he work,
    Who you be…
    And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
    And then I heard the father talk.
    Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
    In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.

    People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now we’ve got these knuckleheads walking around.
    The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
    These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
    $500 sneakers for what?
    And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.

    I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
    Where were you when he was 2?
    Where were you when he was 12?
    Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn’t know that he had a pistol?
    And where is the father? Or who is his father?
    People putting their clothes on backward:
    Isn’t that a sign of something gone wrong?
    People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn’t that a sign of something?

    Isn’t it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
    What part of Africa did this come from??
    We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a thing about Africa …..

    I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
    I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don’t have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !
    With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ……… And all of them are in jail.

    Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem.
    We have got to take the neighborhood back.
    People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different ‘husbands’ — or men or whatever you call them now.
    We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
    We have million-dollar basketball players who can’t write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.
    Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
    We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..
    We cannot blame the white people any longer.’

     

    Accepting personal responsibility and getting government out of people's lives is really the only way this will ever be fixed.

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  11. Speaking of RMJ Tactical, I sent them an email regarding sharpening services.  I have used the crap out of my Kestrel, and it definitely needed some sharpening.  Here was the response I got.

     

     

    Hi Eric,
     
    You could drop it off at the shop to have it resharpened for free! John, who does our sharpening, may not be in the shop at the time you drop it off so it could be a couple of days before you can pick it up, but it is no problem at all!
     
    Hanna

     

    I don't know about you, but I like the word free.  I had my mother drop it off for me since it would be difficult for me to make to their shop.  She was told that they would make it look brand new again.  That is pretty darn good service in my book.

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