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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: 11/28/2008 2:39 PM UTC
I get a lot of emails from people who want to come to an Appleseed Event, but they say they are “not where they want to be yet” with their marksmanship. This is preventing them from coming to an event, until they are ready, in their minds, to ace the course.
Of all the reasons not to come to an event, this has to rank as the worst one, and epitomizes the current plight of the American People. The course is designed to take you from never having fired a rifle, to being able to fire at four minutes of angle, which is the Appleseed standard and is above what 99.99% of American firearms owners can acheive. How do I know? I have been teaching events now for several years and have seen many hundreds of shooters attempt to shoot to this standard and fail on their first attemps on day one, but acheive this standard by the end of day two.
But if this was all Appleseed did, teach you to shoot to a four minute of arc standard, I could see, maybe, why people do not wish to show up “unprepared”. Even though an Appleseed event is not a contest, it is a fundementals of rifle marksmanship course, no one wants to make a bad showing when they are meeting new people and trying something new, right?
Banish these thoughts, because Appleseed is much, much more than a rifle marksmanship program. Appleseed is a beginning. A place to start, a launch site.
Americans are adrift in a sea of uncertainty, floating nervously along in a nebula of media pablum without a compass and no real desire to find true north. Were they to find the source of their anxiety, they would then be faced with doing something about it. Much like the sick and dying Grandfather or Mother that is ignored until the funeral makes things right . Faced with the mess of a dying relative better to ignore it and try to make the best of your day rather than having it make a mess of your life right? Soon enough they will die and all will be well again, right?
Wrong. When America dies, we all die. Like all the fruit on a vine, when the vine is cut or the roots pulled from the ground, the fruit of the vine does not survive. We have a direct and unbroken link to our past in all the men and women who have embodied all that being an American is.
In Naomi Wolf’s latest book “Give Me Liberty, A Handbook for American Reviolutionaries”, she talks about what being an American really means. About who Americans are. By what right they deserve the title “American”. This is what we do at Appleseed. We help people to understand what it is that defines them as Americans.
That is what Appleseed is. It is a starting place, it is a way to reconnect with the Founding Fathers. We teach people who attend that they did not just today, pop into existence with no history and no direct line to the Founding Fathers. We tell them that they owe all that they have to men and women who came before them and sacrificed all in some cases so that they would have the freedom and liberty that they now enjoy. And that without remembering and honoring, and continuing to safeguard those very same principles and ideas, they will lose them. With only two days we can not give them everything they need to know to do all that is needed to save our country, but we can start them on the path, and we do.
We try to teach people that being an “American” is not granted to you by virtue of being born on a certain piece of ground, but earned by you every day you live. The path to becoming a Rifleman in the RWVA Appleseed Program is not an easy one. It is not a program where you learn to shoot at a target and hit it and then go home and put your rifle away in the closet with your training and get back on the couch and become one with the remote again.
A chimp could be taught to hit a target with a rifle. We teach you that once you have been to an Appleseed and we tell you what is occuring in our country and how you have a blood debt to honor the Founding Fathers and do your part to protect and defend our liberty and freedom, that you are a changed person and you can never go back to who you were. Not with a clear conscience. You now have a duty, a place to start.
So when I get that email saying “I am not where I want to be yet”. I have a ready answer. As a Rifleman with the Appleseed Program, get used to saying that. That should be the phrase that follows you into the grave. If you ever think you have learned all there is or that you have nothing left to learn or teach, think about how sad that would be?
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.
Date / Time: 11/28/2008 2:53 AM UTC
I was turning into the field I was going to bale hay in a few evenings ago and a dog started chasing the baler and snapping at the tires. A big spotted dog, some kind of pit bull, big dog mix, about 120+ pounds. A big dog. Sleek hide and smooth rippling muscles, mouth full of teeth like a barracuda.
It must have come from down the street, as I had seen it on this street before but I was not sure who owned it. It followed me into the field like it owned the whole road and all the property on either side. It stood there barking and snarling at the baler,glaring in the window at me.
I have never been especially afraid of dogs, but I respect their ability to do harm if they want to and I have been bitten several times by dogs. I had been to an Army Dog handling seminar while I was with the Rangers and once at Bragg, an Army Dog Tracking Team taught us the finer points of defending ourselves from dog attacks.( while chasing us to the ends of the earth with them for eight days)
So, when I climbed out to let the wheels down on the baler, the dog came for me. I had thought about this while I was getting ready to set up the baler and I had faced down dogs before, so it was not something to be afraid of and I did what I usually do, I looked him in the eye and said “back off”, in a nice low voice, hands on my hips and looking him right in the eyes.
He wasn’t having any of it. He was a big mean bully yes, but not stupid.
He only attacked things that ran or were too afraid to face him. I was neither.
So I got back in the baler and started baling. The place belonged to a woman who moved out into the country from the city and she brought her dogs out with her.
Well, the big mean dog kept grabbing at the tires and making a scene, and the dogs who lived on the property finally noticed and ran out to see what was going on.
There were seven of them . They were all semi-big dogs, but none were as big or as aggressive as the big mean dog that came in from the road. They were all kind of apprehensive and were all fearfull of the big mean dog.
They would come out into the field and he would make a run at them and they would retreat back closer to thier home. He followed after them and finally ran them off from their own yard and strutted around and peed wherever he wanted to, ate their food. They all kind of huddled out in the field now and kind of looked at each other waiting for one of them to tell the rest what to do
These were city dogs you see. Where they come from, dogs are supposed to be on the leash. It is the law . So no wonder they didn’t know what to do. Always before, someone would come and get the big mean dog, back on a leash or locked back in it’s own yard.
But no one was around to do it here now, so what to do ? Gee, they were on there own it seems. And since no one had a plan, the big mean dog was peeing in all their favorite places. Making them look like poodles. Neutered poodles.
I have had a lot of dogs, and of them all, my dog Scout, a sleek big female German Shepard, and her demented buddy Boo Radley, a smaller mentally unhinged Blue Heeler, had the best plans off all of them.
They grew up together and developed a technique that worked every time it was ever called on except once, on many animals of all sizes and shapes. Hundreds of animals fell prey to this. And all the unlucky animals ended up in exactly the same condition, DEAD.
Once the technique was begun, they were in the “Dog Fighters Bubble”. Nothing I could do would stop them, much to my chagrin many times. I could yell, throw stuff, tell the attacked animal to run, nothing stopped them once they started.
Scout would face off with the prey animal, or enemy dog. Snarling and getting right in the animals face. Boo Radley was very quick and made a feint to attck the animals flank, and when the animal turned it’s head to fend off Boo Radley’s attack……it exposed it’s neck and wind pipe.
Scout knew to the micro second when this was going to happen and she was already in mid leap when the animal turned and she had her teeth into it’s neck. Sunk fast and hard.
The animal would try to return to the front to fend off this attack and get Scout to release it, but right then, Boo Radley would sink her teeth into the animals hind leg, holding the leg with forty sharp teeth. Shaking it with a wild ripping motion.
That was it. It was over. The only exception to this being once when the dogs were still young and inexperienced. A huge old coon saw the two coming at him in the front yard one night. He climbed up a fence pole between the yard and the hay field and the two dogs split up. One went on one side of the fence and the other went to the opposite side.The fence was made of small opening field wire and the dogs could not support each other through the fence
Guess what? The coon whipped each dog in a seperate one on one fight. He had a mouth full of sharp teeth too. And many old years of experience. The dogs were young and inexperienced then, but they never forgot this lesson. They always used a team to win every fight after this.
The city dogs could have too. None of them were as big or mean as the Big Mean Dog, but there were seven of them. A whole pack. They could have easily driven the Big Mean Dog away, covered in blood and shame after giving it a sound thrashing and plenty of bites that would take a long time to heal so it would have a good reason never to come back. Maybe even stood around him in a circle giving him the one back leg in the air, male dog salute.
But they didn’t. They didn’t know how. Someone had always come and got the Big Mean Dog before and put it back on it’s leash. So they had to watch as he peed in all their favorite places and made them all look contemptable.
Maybe Big Mean Dogs should never be on a leash. When Big Mean Dogs are on a leash, all the other dogs think they are safe. That “The Big Mean Dogs” can never come after them and bite them and take their food and pee in all their favorite places.
There are laws and mechanical devices that prohibit this type of thing from ever occuring right? I mean if there is a law against it, it can’t happen…right? Geeze, so when it does happen, it is a shock and they all have to stand around with bites taken out of their hides, all beat up and feeling like Bitches (female dogs).
So maybe they should always be aware that a Big Mean Dog, is a Big Mean Dog, and that something like this is always possible. Always. It is the nature of the Big Mean Dog. To get off the leash.
So what to do then?
Have plan to deal with the Big Mean Dog if it ever gets off it’s leash, which it is guarenteed to do. No Big Mean Dog has ever not gotten off it’s leash in all of recorded history.
So you better have a plan.
Two dog, and three dog teams. They work. Ask Scout and Boo Radley.
Or better yet, come to an Appleseed , learn to improve your rifle marksmanship skills, learn about how the first Americans dealt with Big Mean Dogs at the beginning of our country’s history. Become an instructor so you can pass these skills on to others and soon we will have a “Band of Brothers” stretching from ocean to ocean who are willing to help guide and protect American liberties against all enemies.
And get “Fred’s Guide to Becoming a Rifleman”.
It’s all in there.
Advice on what to do when The Big Mean Dog gets off it’s leash.
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