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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
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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".
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Remember building the pyramids?
Either 20,000 or 100,000 - depending on which historian/archeologist you believe - sweating Egyptians, each hooked to a long rope, the other end of the rope attached to a giant, multi-ton block of stone, pulling with all their might, under a hot sun?
Sounds like fun, huh?
And only 2.5 million more multi-ton blocks to go! (That’s just for the largest of the three pyramids - the others are there, waiting, too!)
People laboring for the state. Without pay. However willingly or unwillingly (we don’t know the answer to that question).
500 feet high, covering 13 acres - that’s one big mama!
It’s possible dragging the stones there was the easy part. Lifting them in place, and ‘dressing’ them to fit so smoothly a knife blade won’t fit in the joint - that prob was the real work.
Here’s a take on how it was done:
“”[It's]…now believed that the labor force reached 100,000…when farm work was impossible due to the annual Nile floods [July to late October]. During the rest of the year these human beasts of burden would return to their tasks as serfs on the rest of the land.”
Right there you have it. At least one theoretical construct of it.
Yet, reading it, can you maybe relate it to something more modern? Something closer to home?
Anyone ever heard of something called “Tax Freedom Day”??
It’s the day of the year when you’ve worked and earned enough to pay all your taxes for the year - state, federal, local - and you are free to begin working for yourself, and keeping what you make.
This year the Tax Foundation says, after taking into account the 1.5 trillion federal budget deficit, you’ll have to work from Jan 1 to May 29 to pay your annual taxes.
Only after that do you begin keeping for yourself what money you’ve earned.
Let’s look at the box score:
Ancient Egyptians: 3+ months working for the state (but during a time when they could not work for themselves - I guess - because the fields are flooded), over ten or twenty years.
The strong, free, modern 21st-century American: five solid months working for the collective state - national, regional, and local - with every year generally seeing “Tax Freedom Day” delayed a day or two longer - for a lifetime.
Say, who had it better?
Or more properly, who had it worse?
Or in yet another way, you can ask “what’s the difference?” What’s the difference between involuntary labor 4500 years ago and even more [semi-]involuntary labor, today?
(I asked this question at an Appleseed, and a lady blurted out “Air conditioning!” Actually, I was thinking the answer would be “the Egyptians had it better, because they only labored three-plus months every year, whereas we have to labor five” - or maybe “the moral here is, don’t waste your time pitying the poor Egyptians - there’s plenty to pity us poor hard-working Americans about” - but she had a point. Maybe it explains why Americans are not rushing to build time machines to go back to “the Land of Vacation” so many centuries ago. )
Let’s add one more historical fact to the mix: 200+ years ago, 13 colonies revolted over a penny stamp tax. (OK, a slight exaggeration - it was the attempt to seize arms at Concord that really set things off.)
The Stamp Tax, like many of the acts of Parliament at the time, led to riots, tar-and-featherings, and a massive boycott of imported English goods. So massive, the Stamp Tax was quickly repealed.
All that, over a penny.
Actually, over the issue of “taxation without representation”.
However, recent experience suggest it looks like taxation WITH representation has been a little oversold, right?
We get to this point when we let our standards slip - the standards set by the Founders. And we slip into an “unholy trinity”.
1. Politicians become adept at one thing: saying anything to get re-elected.
2. The vote-counting procedure in modern American can’t seem to be made idiot-proof - or tamper-proof.
3. The voters are largely lazy, ignorant, and self-centered in their self-interest.
It’s a “deadly trinity” which has the power to easily sink this ship.
And, is sinking it.
The past has many uses. Inspiration, motivation, education, and, not least, as a standard by which to measure the present.
By that standard, I’m not sure how well we measure up - either to 2500 BC, or to the late 1700s…
Guess you’ll have to decide.
In the meantime, resolve to come to an Appleseed, learn your heritage, then join us to make America once again conscious of and respectful of those liberty-loving and -winning people who went before us so long ago.
PS: By a curious twist of history, back in Egypt, it was the poorer level of society that carried the burden; today, the poorer level can take a vacation, and watch and enjoy “their betters” as they bear all the burden…
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