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The Rifleman
9/8/2009 5:55 PM UTC
Sam- You are now in charge of guest hosts :)
Sam_Damewood
9/2/2009 2:12 AM UTC
Another good show as always. We need to see about getting SoM, Dond, the Guy, JB, Fred, and some of them "old guys to come on with you.
6/3/2009 12:00 AM UTC
Thanks MIB, I appreciate you listening and lending a hand. Scout
The Man In Black
5/20/2009 1:36 AM UTC
Keep fighting the good fight and spreading the word. I'll be listening.
KarenO
3/15/2009 5:45 AM UTC
This is one of the best shows on BTR. I enjoyed your visit to NoCompromise this week. Also appreciate that you visit so many other shows. Some hosts rarely, or never, bohter to listen to others and they wonder why they don't get the huge audience the expected.
Rachel Wells
2/8/2009 3:00 AM UTC
Thanks so much for listening to our show! And also for your fantastic comments!! We stand together!!
2/7/2009 8:21 PM UTC
Hey Siinger, I never made it to the Middle East, but I spent a year in a place called Rio Hato in Panama that had tb close. The surface of the moon heated to 125 degrees and completely devoid of water, not even an oasis. I am glad you enjoyed the show. I hope you will send me your snail mail address and let me send you an Appleseed AQT package and you can put your fellow Riflemmen through the test and see how they do. Anything else you need just email me and I will round it up and get it to you or your team. God bless you all-Scout
bsinger427
2/6/2009 6:28 AM UTC
I attended my first Appleseed out in Davilla last year after getting home from a Iraq. I managed to sqeeze one more in as well in the time I was at home. I honestly feel like I'm doing more good in the fight for freedom by being part of project Appleseed than I am deploying to far off lands. I write this from the middle east, at the beginning of yet another combat tour. Scout, I'm thrilled with this new project! You can be sure that I will download and listen to as many episodes as I can get my hands on. I just listened to "The Men of the Titanic" and it was a great show. Keep up the great work. You were a gracious host at the Appleseed shoots and a fantastic instructor, and it sounds to me like you may have found another calling as a radio show instructor. I can't wait to hear more. This is going to be an excellent way to get the word out about project Appleseed.
2/1/2009 6:57 PM UTC
I want to thank everyone for listening to the show and calling in, sending emails and submitting friend requests and answering friend requests. This is a brand new experience for me and I am trying to do the best I can for the Appleseed Program. Whether I sink or swim is not as important to me as it is that the Appleseed Program does, and you guys are helping the program to succeed, so THANKS! Scout
HopeNJesus
1/11/2009 8:18 AM UTC
Last night we were talking on a show about the fake military "Troop" names on BTR that had tricked not only us but countless others, including some big name guests that were on the troops shows. Little did we know how close we were to figuring it all out. We have figured out since that BTR knew about the fake military “Troop” names all along and were party to the entire scam. It was a scam to boost the BTR website and to get big name guests on the troop shows and to start an on-going Troops Show, with "Troop" names impersonating U.S. active military members over in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jimmy and Matt and their co-hosts for the Troops Shows were used by BTR to get the shows off the ground. Then BTR tried to take the shows over and have others run the shows, at which time the fake militarily "Troop" names began showing up in many other BTR shows. This was what alerted us to the possibility that the "Troop" names were fakes, the fact that they could be on BTR for so many hours and so many days. After searching out answers, it was learned that the names were indeed fakes. The user names then disappeared, but not the users; they Obtained new names and let it be known that it was them on the new names. Why didn't BTR take action? Here is all anyone needs to know; BTR knows where each user is from. This information is obtained through what is called Online IP Addresses. IP Addresses tell where an online user signs on from. Christie, John Sweet’s wife told Debra when Debra first talked with her seven months ago that BTR sees everyone’s IP Address when they sign onto BTR. Hence, BTR would have known all along that those “troop” user names were NOT signing on from Iraq and Afghanistan. It is clear now that the reason BTR got so upset with the exposing of the "Troops" names and the discussions that took place about them, was because BTR knew that it was just a matter of time before someone figured out the obvious. BTR was in on it all along. Fact is, if BTR was just as shocked as we were, BTR would have been thanking us for exposing the fake users and removing the fakes, as such is a federal offense. But BTR removed us and let the fakes sign on with new names. We have since learned that it is a Federal Crime to impersonate U.S. military. We have proof of the names and down loaded recordings of Troop Shows with the voices of the impersonators. We will be reporting this to U.S. officials on Monday. …This message is being sent on HopeNJesus, a user name belonging to Debra. No doubt it will be removed within hours of this message being sent out and posted on BTR. Please contact Debra at, djms@debrajmsmith.com and Matt at mgbuff@hotmail.com, and Jimmy at dirkbagdotcom@gmail.com. Our shows are now over at www.TalkShoe.com. If you email us, we can send you direct links to our shows. Though we will not be airing any of this on our new TalkShoe shows, there will be major information coming out in the next week on our websites exposing BTR for this and more. …Debra, Jimmy, and Matt
Levi Page Show
12/30/2008 9:17 PM UTC
Hi Thanks for listening. I'm going to do more shows on illegal immigration! :)
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"A Rifleman never stops learning, a Rifleman never stops teaching. A Rifleman continues to seek ways to to protect the freedom the Founding Fathers left us, to improve himself, his home and family, his community, his state and his country, everyday of his life. A Rifleman adapts, a Rifleman overcomes and a Rifleman persists. This is not just some fancy gilded rhetoric we throw around like popcorn and pennies. This is the code we live by here. There is nothing wrong, no matter how often the mass of talking heads tells you it is wrong, or outdated, or corny, stupid and cavemanish, with having a code to live by in your life. Modern Americans have forgotten their code. They have forgotten how to be Americans. We are here to help them remember." Scout The Revolutionary War Veterans Association's Appleseed Project is dedicated to teaching an intense rifle marksmanship and safety course. But the RWVA Appleseed Project is much more than a marksmanship organization and much more than a social organization. It is a direct link back to America's Founding Fathers and instruction about what the duties of a "Rifleman" are today in America. A Rifleman adapts, a Rifleman overcomes and a Rifleman persists. Find out what it means to be called a "Rifleman" and what it takes to live a "Rifleman's Life".
Date / Time: 9/29/2008 9:56 PM UTC
That’s right.
It’s not about guns. It’s about freedom.
The recent “boomlet” in gun sales in view of the coming election may reflect uneasiness and worry about the future of the country, but “buying a gun” is not the first answer, nor necessarily the best one.
The best response is to seek to understand why the American people face such a choice of candidates. And then to understand that all the old folk sayings are actually pretty good fountains of wisdom, and the one that says “a people get the government they deserve” might point the way to the solution.
If the American people are not going to continue to face an ever-sliding quality in elected leaders, they are going to have to do something about it.
The current recipe - staying at home on the couch in front of the TV, confident that “someone is doing something about things” - isn’t working - and it isn’t working, big time.
So, first step is to get off the couch.
Second step is to get some foundations, some standards, some guidelines, into place, so you know where you are, what you are about - and what you need to do in the future.
Right now, that’s pretty easy. Follow our analogy of the sinking Titanic. If you’re on the boat, no point in worrying whether the ship’s crew is properly organized, whether the Captain has enough mates to handle the job - no sir, the first thing to do is to bail, to bail like H!
But there’s something you have to do, even before then, as you quickly understand: One person bailing isn’t going to save the ship!
So, you need, before you even start to bail, to get the other passengers out of the deck chairs, and make them understand: the only way to save the sinking ship, is to get everyone bailing, bailing like H!
The first step, then, once you get off the couch, is to get others off the couch.
That, my friends, is the core of what Appleseed is about.
You come to an Appleseed, you find out that our history and Heritage is all we need to guide us, but you also find out that, powerful as one person can be, we aren’t gonna save this country unless we get Mr. & Mrs. America off their couches, and bailing with us.
Which is why you leave Appleseed understanding your trip was for naught (in terms of saving the country) unless you come back, and this time with your friends, your neighbors, your wife, your kids, your relatives, your co-workers - anyone you can get.
And to your shock, you better be prepared: most of them are gonna resist getting off the couch!
Can you really imagine how much our history has changed? It’s like if Paul Revere in his midnight ride found that people, far from getting out of their beds, and marching to the sounds of the alarm bells - it’s like he found them slamming their shutters, locking their doors - and going back to bed!
That’s what you’ll be facing. The fact of it should, far from discouraging you, motivate you even more. “These people call themselves Americans? For shame!”
Now you understand, you’re in this for the grind. As you heard (or will hear) at Appleseed, many times over, “persistence” is key.
The people you are dealing with are really no different from those of two hundred years ago. Just ill-educated, un-informed, and lazy and apathetic, when it comes to anyone but themselves and their own interests.
Inside each of them is a sleeping, inner-American, just waiting to be woke up, just waiting to respond to a call that was made 200+ years ago: “Alarm! Alarm! Muster and March!”
If you get discouraged at the constant rejection, understand three things:
1) Life offers no guarantees. They had no guarantees that the war they started on April 19, 1775 (started defending themselves and their communities, to be sure) would end in victory. And as you read the history of the times, you understand that most of the informed opinion of the day thought that it was a near-miracle that we won… So, no guarantees today, either. We take life as we find it, and there’s no reason for us to expect a guaranteed certainty that we can wake up Americans in time to save their country. Saving a nation is not an easy task. Nor should it be. As Paine said, “heaven knows how to value goods, and it would be surprising indeed if she placed so little value on Liberty” (from memory) and then went on to summarize, in these few words, the essential problem in America today: “That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”
Yep, we got our freedom handed to us by prior generations. Given to us. Not many of us have done anything to earn it. And, having paid nothing for it, it’s worth nothing to us. Which is the real reason for all those butts, supine on all those couches, as liberty and freedom disappear down a drain…
2) One person can make a difference, and that one person is you. The American Revolution was about the power and the worth of the individual. They used to teach in history (but not anymore, I bet) that this nation was about the “sovereignty of the individual”. Theoretically, there is no more supreme authority than the individual American, which is why the fight was over “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” - all things central to individual concerns. Over generations, that’s been eroded, and continues to erode, as people continue to sleep. But the founders said that “as long as the American people is alert and informed, Liberty is safe” (from memory) - but who can say, today, that the American people are alert and informed? Clearly, the proof is in the people we are electing to office.
But the good news is YOU can make a difference. One person bailing, while recruiting others to bail. You may only recruit one person - and that one person may recruit 100, or 1000 others - but if you hadn’t been the ONE person to recruit him, that 100 or 1000 would still be in the deck chairs, sleeping or complaining “about the lousy deck service”.
3) Consider the alternative to “doing something” - which is to do nothing. To sit by, while your country slips into the ashcan of history. While the heritage earned by blood of people far better than you is allowed to erode to nothing. There’s an implication here - a strong one - as to what that would say for your worthiness as a human being. What kind of a person would you be, to sit by as your family’s future, your future - along with your heritage - is taken away from you? So, it becomes an issue of personal worth and evaluation - are you an American?
So, in the coming months, “buying a gun” is OK, but it won’t help where help is needed. It won’t help bail the ship, it won’t help save the country.
What will save the ship, and the nation, is getting out of the deck chairs, and getting to bailing.
Coming to an Appleseed.
Reaching inside you, and waking that sleeping American who resides there.
You’ll be glad you did.
And so, ultimately, will be the nation.
Remember, I can’t do it for you.
Only You can do it.
And that’s good. It means the power - the future of the country - is in your hands.
Can you think of better, more trustworthy hands, for it to be in?