bersaguy

I think your right mse9. I think this time Obama and Reid has pushed the envelope a bit to far and like I said in another post it is just about to bite them both in the butt. They have been so focused on making the Republicans look bad that it is coming back on them to now...............jmho

I know for a fact that my Boys didn't get to learn real history in high school back in the 80's. I looked at one of their history books and there was no mention anywhere about slavery, the civil war and many other issues from that era in our country. The Black organizations got all of that removed as teaching racism and racist. Now I don't agree with slavery and never have. I don't think any man should be allowed to own another man body and soul. But I do believe that even though Yes is was a dark time in our country's history it is still a part of our country's heritage and needs to be taught to all children or all races in our schools...........jmho

Well, I have got one memory that come to mind that happened back in the mid 70's not to long after I got home from Service. Not much scared me back then. Syill your and dumb and , well you know the rest but anyway I was a part time fireman for subscription fire department there in Donelson/Hermitage area. There are two different events that I can remember both involved me and people that don't respect the sounds of sirens and emergency vehicles trying to get to a fire or accident. This is back when Lebanon Road was still two lane from Donelson to Hermitage. I was driving truck #2 which had a huge nose pump on it plus twin smaller pumps and hauling 800 gallons of water. It's about 8 Pm and a call comes in about a house fire so we are in route had all the lights on the truck lit which I think was about 20 plus both spot lights lit. Had twin Federal Q sires on front fenders that you could hear for at least 10 miles when they were wound up. We reached the two lane and this little old man in a 1971 Ford maverick was going 25 MPH and would not move over. I was on his back bumper and he would not move. I rocked out into left had lane on coming traffic twice but had to get back in because of on coming traffic. Finally I got enough of a break I could get the entire truck in left hand lane and on coming cars were moving to shoulder to give me room. This truck had big hook bumpers that extended out past the rear and I kept looking in mirror and guy in shotgun said your not gonna and about that time I swerved the truck just enough to hook the front wheel well of that maverick and I ripped the fender off the car and never took my foot off the gas, Just reached down and radioed that I hit a car  it's 20 and I was still in route so they sent the police and come to find out when we arrived at the house and began fighting the fire the old man in that maverick followed us all the way to the fire and was cussing me and threatening me and I look over at one of the Leos on the seen and he stuffed the old man in a squad car. We put the house out just losing the garage and saving the rest. I looked and Red , one of the other firemen was removing the fender from the rear bumper of the firetruck. In the end the old man got a ticket for fail to yield to emergency vehicles and following a  fire truck to a fire and reckless driving. I know it was a mean thing to do but back then I really didn't care........   About a month later same truck different situation. Intersection of Jacksonian Blvd and Lebanon Road. I have #2 stretched out all lights lit sirens screaming and I knew the light was gonna go red on me and I was hoping everyone would sit still on cross street." wrong"  big 1972 Buick 225 pulled out into intersection and I couldn't swerve much hauling the water but I was able to hit the land yacht in the rear quarter panel with that front pump and spun the car around in the intersection. Never took my foot out of it and went on to the fire. Just radioed that I hit a car and told them the 20 and a metro police car was sitting in a gas station and saw the whole thing so they were already on site in a few seconds. Four young men high on Pot were in the Buick and they all said they never saw or heard any fire truck and they didn't know what hit them....Needless to say they all went down town to the Graybar Motel. Lost 1 room of the house in the fire. Needless to say my batting averages were not to good with the traffic deals but I was batting 1000 on not losing any complete houses to fires. I worked for them part time until Metro took over in 1978 and Subscription and volunteer fired departments went the way of the dinosaur but I can say one thing I looked back over the years I worked there and we had a better response time and lost less homes to fire than all that fancy metro fire department equipment did in the same time period............ :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Gosh, I have been reading for the last 3 hours and I have come to only on conclusion. Many of you are lucky to be here to tell these stories and most of ya'll definitely need to stay away from anything pertaining to electricity cause that seems to be the  main culprit in your lives that you have trouble conquering....... :ugh: :rofl: :rofl: Also seems that tools have a sweet place in many of ya'll heart also. I suffered a stroke back in 1996 and my short term memory is terrible but my long term memory is fine. I might see if I can remember something from my past to add soon.

I think Obama and Reid thought they were going to have an easy blame it on the Republicans and it would just go away. Wrong decision I think. More and more people everyday are beginning to see through all of the charades of Reid and Obama and it is going to turn around and bite them hard before it is all over..........jmho   I was talking to a die hard devoted Democrat this morning that looked me right directly in the eye and told me he would be switching parties soon as he could to independent as right now he was disappointed in both of them and especially his party. He said that his father was a WWII vet and was at Normandy and what Obama did with the WWII war Memorial was the final straw with him.

  Malcom X spoke against the control once to often. your 100% correct and yea it got him killed.

Oh ! Don't get me wrong. I was not a Lincoln fan at all. It just struck me as odd that back in those days it was the Democrats that wanted to keep the blacks enslaved to control them and today about 80 to 85 % of all blacks are Democrats and vote democratically. I often wonder how many would have done that had they been taught what we were in school back in our day verses what they are taught today........broylz has a good point also....

I wonder how bad things are going to get on the 17th when the debt limit discussion begins? Might be time to lock and load at that point..........jmho

Yep, a lot of things not adding up at all. If the boy was using a shotgun and he shot himself in the leg you would think him walking of even making his way back to the cabin would be slim at best.........jmho

Gosh!!!! by the way they have been acting I thought they already had those and loaned one to Austria for testing to make sure they are working properly.............jmho

I think it is just another fund raiser for the NRA. They keep sending me emails about it but I just delete them. They are like everything else like  contests that you can win a new car yet you never hear an announcement of the winner. I have been watching the PCH  $7000.00 a week for life that has been going on for years and I have never known anyone that ever really won any of them things and don't know any one else who knows anyone. I think they are all scams for the most part but  that is .....jmho

I know a lot of people that still live 90% off the land for their food. They hunt deer, Squirrel, Rabbit, Turkey, Ducks, Quail, Doves and any other meat allowed to hunt. They have gardens large enough and several different family members tend the gardens and nothing goes to waste. I began working with a few of my buddies a couple years back and now each Fall we will split two heifers at about 1200 lbs each and 1/2 dozen Hogs we purchase from one farmer and we pay to have them processed. By doing this we are saving about 40% on our meant products for a year. We have the beef processed just like store cuts and we have the pork done the same way including Bacon and Smoked Hams and nothing goes to waste that is edible. We even have found uses for the back bones. Next Spring GOD willing we will be putting a large garden in and begin using many of our own Veggies and buying less in store items. All of this is much healthier since the farmer uses no chemicals on our animals when feeding them up. All natural foods. I think more folks should look into this idea............jmho

Now I didn't say I agreed with him, I just said he did it without a teleprompter. I don't believe any of his stats but the truth is we still have the best health care system in the world bar none. That is why people come from all over the world to have surgeries performed here. I have a feeling that will all end if the ACA goes into full implementation unless they sign up in some foreign country which as greedy as the bill is I won't doubt they will let other countries sign up for it..........jmho   

I guess he made sure they got that before he had the EPA close down that mine............ :rant: :rant:

I like that guy. I think he did that whole Video without a teleprompter........... :popcorn: :popcorn: .

There are no words to make the loss any less painful but Very sorry about your brothers passing. I am sure there are many of us who have lost family in a similar manner. My next older brother to me took his life and no one to this day knows why. He had a wife he loved and 3 grown children, lots of money and no wants for anything. He left a note on his wife pillow. Gone to buy a New Vette. Not uncommon, he bought a new one every year. She found the next note in his desk top drawer a few days after the Funeral. It just said "To tired to stay here any longer". He drove that new L-88 Vette down I-80 with 5 squad cars in pursuit about midnight and they had him clocked at  157 MPH when he made a deliberate left hand turn into a concrete via dock  pillar and the car almost self destructed. He always said Speed would kill him one day and we all use to just laughed because he was not happy unless he was driving far to fast. He did not use a gun but he still took his own life. No one blamed the car. He never showed one sign of having any mental issues at all and still took his life. Somethings you just can't explain, they just happen. 

Yea, Obama and Reid shut the Government down, Blamed it on the Republicans, then they make the statement that the government is spending more being shut down than when they are up and operational. It was Obama that ordered all the monuments closed to tourism, it was Obama that ordered all the Parks closed, It is Obama ordering everything closed because he is the only one with the authority to do it but you can bet before it is over  it will be Boehner and the GOP that ordered them closed..........You can bet he's not going to take the blame. He has not taken the blame on a damn thing that has happened since he took office From Fast and Furious to right now.  Some one said he is as slick as Teflon, Hell he is Teflon!!!!!!!............. :rant:

Well, to answer someones question as to why the police where there so fast, they were there because they where already chasing her for a traffic violation and she was headed for the White House and the leo's were going to box her in at the barricade in front of White House from several different directions and that is why there were so many leo's at the one location before she broke loose and tried to run again and that was when the shots were fired. She had struck a police officer with her car at that point so time for bullets. Only thing good that came out of all of it was the little girl was not shot and killed. My only question is I wonder how Obama felt being locked up during all of this. I know he was taking orders for a short time instead of giving them..... :rock: :rock: :rock:

  Well truth be known I really don't have much use for either but I am proud that a few Republicans are making the voice of the people heard and believe it or not the Democrats I am seeing right now are acting more like the Democrats of Lincolns time than present day ones are.......jmho

Gosh, when my first wife found her a new bo and walked out on me and my two boys I loaned her money to get a new place to live with him so she would not need a reason to come back. I even helped her pack. I have a philosophy that goes, "If you want him more than me then you should have him more than me so by all means leave"!!! He wound up beating the hell out of her at least once a week, got her pregnant and then walked out on her and told her if she ever filed for a paternity test or Child support he would kill her. He moved back to St Louis were a few years later he bet a girlfriend to death and is now in prison doing life without parole. She made her bed and I had no plans of messing it up..........lol

Maybe so but it just struck me as odd that there have been so many swings at so many different things in the Federal Government during the writing of our Constitution to be written so effectively and to have this President pretend that the most important document written in this country does not even exist and just does what he wants when he wants and to hell with what the people think..........jmho

I was watching the movie Lincoln the other night  after reading the book a month ago and it took me back the my high school days and my studying in U.S.History class. It reminded me that while Lincoln was a Republican, he was dealing with a Democratic controlled Congress during the Civil War. He had already sign the Proclamation two years prior and in 1865 was fighting a volatile Congress about the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that would once and for all remove slavery and never allow it to be where one man could own another. The Democratic Congress fought him tooth and nail to keep the 13th Amendment from passing because they wanted to keep the black man under total control. It took Abraham Lincoln every bit of courage he and his Republican associates could mustard to finally swing enough Democrats to get the vote and pass the 13th Amendment. Now I don’t know how long all of this has quit being taught in our schools but I know it is no longer in our history books. I wonder, if our true history was still being taught in our schools just how many black people today would really be Democrats had they known the real truth about who wanted to keep them enslaved. It appears those same type of Democrats are still around today in the form of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. I don’t even know if Obama even knows about the Democratic Party wanting to keep the Black people in chains but sometime back I think Joe Biden mentioned something about chains and people. Just thought that some of you younger folks that didn’t learn about this in history class would like to do some research on it. You will find it interesting I think.

Obama is doing this because he said the Sequester would be really bad and it turned out to be almost totally unnoticed so he is doing this to draw attention to himself and his party. He is doing it but he is to stupid to see that all the attention he is attracting is all negative but thats a good thing..........jmho

Congrads on the new addition. God has blessed you and your wife with his most special gift he can give you. I can still remember both of my boys being born and now I am celebrating great grand Children being born. So yea, they do grow up before you know it so lots of pictures and videos are a must............. :up: :up: :up:

he's lucky someone has not mistaken him for a robber. Every robber I have seen in news video's always pull their guy from their belts and never from a  holster. That is why I thought he was probably an illegal immigrant. That is how most of them pack their guns. It's amazing you don't hear about more of these types of shootings by these idiots.......jmho