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Last year I took it standing up and got it in the back, but this time around I wanted to see if I could keep my hands under me and not give them up to the cops. For that exercise they would simulate me resisting and the officer on my leg shoot the probes instead of a drive stun to get me to release my hands. It beats the hell out of try to pry them out with an ASP or PR24..trust me it works! Shooting the lower extremity with the probes takes all the fight out of you. All the other guys in the course took it in the back. The front shot is very risky as there have been probes that hit the eye ball and all sight is lost forever. Come on, don't be skeered you'll be fine. It's a hell of a lot better than being shot

With all the other BS going on, I thought I would give you guys/gals something to laugh at..ME. Yesterday I was in Scottsdale, AZ taking my TASER X26/M26 Instructor certification. I passed but with a little pain involved. Enjoy the comedy and yeah there is a little swearing involved. http://s80.photobucket.com/albums/j163/ash...t=AshNemetz.flv

Here's what happened, some guy/gal was sitting in their cube with some good Steiner's looking out and thought holy shiat that is a big a$$ jet coming right for us. Now I ask you, if you didn't hear anything beforehand, would you stay or would you go now, would you stay or would you go now? If it were me I'd be gone with a quickness. I just threw in the footprint because the Govt. is all about clean this and clean that and then they do this. It's trivial since I just landed on a 737 from Phoenix. As far as the Govt. and FAA not doing the right thing by notifying everyone, well shame on them..doesn't surprise me in the least. Bottom line, everyone on this board paid for that little stunt.

I didn't see this posted so I will post it up. Whoever came up with this brain scheme idea should be hung up by their nuts!!! Of all the F'n places to do a "photo op" with a 747 and a couple F16's, you pick F'n NYC. Hello, real bad F'n things happened there 8 years ago. Did it not dawn on the mornonic a-holes that maybe, just maybe this would produce some fear and anger amongst the people of NYC? Why not do the photo op over Washington, DC? How much in tax payer dollars was spent on fuel, manpower and how big of a carbon footprint do you think that big beast left and for what, an F'n photo shoot. You mean to tell me that there are no pictures anywhere of AF1 flying over a city? What was the idea, Hey let's fly a big 747 as near to a skyscraper as we can in NYC and hope no one notices! And this is who's leading our country? Enuff said I'm pissed, here's the video... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=afd_1240869510

Okay here's one I really hate and I just saw it tonight..Kids on HEELEYS or however the F you spell it. Those little shoes with rollers in the heals. Tonight at Chili's a kid comes skating right by my table, man did I want to just stick my foot out.

My biggest gripe right now is the trend of buying up all the fuggn' ammo from every single store in the world, why...because the sky is falling you bunch of Chicken Littles. WTF do you need 20k rounds of ammo in your garage for? Other than that, Flatbillers, Fart pipes on the rice burners and WIGGERS..2 decades or not, it's still trendy and I hate it.

I talked with Ynot today and we are going to get together for a trail ride at Cold Creek on April 19. I'm bringing the Rhino's. Anyone wanting to go, we are meeting up there around 8:30am and the wheels go round and round at 9:00am. Hope to see you there...

Both of mine were done at Pricz. I wouldn't go back just because they were heavy handed and I was more bruised than I should have been. I'm getting a large chest piece done soon, but I'm having a hard time with the shop I want to use. It has to be detailed and clean. Any suggestions I'm open.

Here's just a taste of what's happened so far: -His first phone call was to Abbas, the terrorist leader of the Palestinian Authority and al Fatah; · His first interview was on al-Arabiya News Channel, where he apologized for the United States; · His first appointment of an envoy to Syria was the appointment of George Soros; · He bankrolled Hamas out of Whitehouse funds to the tune of $23 million, following Israel’s invasion of Gaza to stop the missile strikes; · He promised another 900 million to Gaza; · He immediately adopted the Saudi Plan as policy for Israel, which favors a contiguous Palestinian state (that is, a geographic area that connects Gaza with the West Bank and includes Jerusalem – necessarily dividing Israel); · He dismissed charges against the perpetrators of the bombing of the USS Cole; · He announced the shut-down of Gitmo, and apologized to the Islamic world for its existence; · He announced that his first summit would be an Islamic summit; · He turned a blind eye to Iran’s launch of a satellite capable of triangulating coordinates for ICBMs that Iran is furiously trying to develop for the delivery of nuclear weapons; · He turned a blind eye to the release of A. Q. Khan, Pakistan’s top nuclear scientist, who is believed to be the very person to have delivered nuclear bomb technology to North Korea; · He intends to eliminate our anti-ballistic missile defense program; · He intends to reduce our nuclear weapons arsenal by 75%; · He intends to reduce our military budget by 25%; · He has reneged on developing nuclear power; · He continues to block off-shore or expanded drilling; · He continues to try and block the production of coal (45% of our electric generating capability) So where does this leave us? FUKED that's where! And now he bows to a terrorist King..Nice BO, very nice

Okay for those of you who do not know, ONLY servants bow to the King. Now, this particular king happens to be the king of a terrorist country. Okay, nuff said..check out the video at .58 seconds. I watch in amazement! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S60U-hl35Gw...player_embedded

It's been a while since I have been able to just chill and read some new posts. I'm glad to see there is an area for photography enthusiasts. Currently I have a D50 (I think Mike 330R) turned me onto it a few years ago. Anywho, I'm looking to upgrade to a newer model and hand this one over to my wife (she has a D40). Photography is an addiction, like tattoos and dunes. You just never know what your gonna get. Here's a pic that Mike330R took about 4 years ago at Glamis and if I remember right, he took it from a real long ways away And here's one of me in Cabo San Lucas this last weekend taken with a plain ole' Kodak Digital 8.2 megapixel Hopefully I'm grounded for a few weeks before I take off again and with the weather being as nice as it is, I think I will get out and take some good pictures around town.

I have a few filters for my D50 and it makes a huge difference in the way the pictures turn out, especially in the dunes on a bright day.

You know Pete, that's a great question..one that I continue to ask my wife. It seems that every time I want to or plan to get out there, I get on a plane and go somewhere very far away. So far this year it's been ONE trip to D and the following: Ireland Austria Germany Spain London NYC Florida Virginia and now I'm sitting at McCarran waiting on my flight to Hawaii that let me point out, was supposed to leave at 10:30 this morning but got delayed until now. I return on Thursday and then first thing Friday morning I'm back on a plane to Mexico. Sorry about that, just had to vent a little. To answer the question, who F'n knows. Chances are, we won't make anymore trips out this season but you can bet your a$$ that I will find a way to Coral at one point.

It seems that the school board approved these to be sold. They make good money for the school, but I just can't help but think that there are better ways to raise money. I brought up the John 14:6 thing and that got some eyebrows raised. Apparently the kids would be very "unhappy" if they were yanked from the school. I'm not done with this fight by a long shot. Now that I know the board approved them, that's where the fight will end up.

This company is pretty slick, I guess they didn't bet someone like me would put the can under a microscope and find the little things such as NO expiration date, John 14:6 and in little fine print within the photo, " 0% juice" typed in to blend into the Kiwi Fruit. I am going to the next PTA meeting and bringing it up there and get a consensus from other parents. Nick I'm with you, it was either water or milk and if I ever thought about bringing any food or beverage into the classroom, well it didn't happen. Some kids buy 2-5 of these things in the morning and then bring them to the classroom. At least the oldest daughter's teacher now doesn't allow them in her classroom. This is only the begining, I will give some updates on my crusade

HoOcKeD oN FoNiCs werked fer me

Okay, I have 2 daughters ages 7 and 9, both go to the same elementary school where they sell Flav H20. They advertise it as Refreshing water with a "fruity splash". This stuff is nothing but liquid sugar that is being sold for $1.00 a can and to make matters worse, the school is now putting stickers under some cans and say to the kids that if they get an H20 with a sticker, they get a free treat at the Snack Shack. My girls are not allowed to have these things but their little friends insist on being little bastards and tease them that they can't have an H20. That's really the least of my concerns, my biggest concern is the fact that the school is allowing the sale of this sh*t. If schools can't sell Diet Coke, how can they justify the sale of sugar water? Okay now for the kicker, on the can it says John 14:6. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this cross the line when it comes to religion in the school? John 14:6 says, "Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Give me some good input fellow DDR peeps, I'm going to approach the school about taking this stuff out of the school and petition that what's good for a high school should be good enough for elementary when it comes to nutrition.

For me it's AT&T. At Dumont I just get a Verizon pre-paid phone to handle any emergency calls. At my cabin in Duck Creek, AT&T is the only service that will get reception on both cell and air card..Verizon blows inside. Since Alltel and Verizon merged, maybe the service will be better than anyone out there, but for now I'm an AT&T believer.

Okay, I'm not going to get out of control, but I turned on the tube tonight and saw that the NAACP Image Awards were on and well, Beyonce' was the opening act so I figure what the hell, she's kinda hot I'll watch. After she was done it all started and then I hear it.."If it wasn't for the NAACP WE wouldn't have O B A M A". I about fell off my couch. And the whole wearing sunglasses inside an already dark venue, well I just don't F'n get it. Nuff said, I'm gonna get banned if I continue.

I just can't stop watching this video and as sad as it may be, I can't stop laughing everytime I watch it Enjoy http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=66c_1234301009

From of the looks of them thare cars, never a dull moment in North Las Vegas..bad guys, guns and beer..well that's an average day over there and that's just at the court house :B On a serious note, glad you got your beer back

First trip out and it was great! It was nice meeting some new peeps and getting back in touch with some not so new ones. All the equipment ran just fine except for a quick trip to Pahrump for some battery acid which was not shipped with the batteries. Oh well gave the wife and I some time alone. This season we decided that we would throw some paddle tires on the girls' Raptors and see how they did. I was happy that they did so well. But as we all know, paddles come with a price if you're not used to them. So on the way back from the North Pole on Sunday, my 8 year old daughter decided to climb a hill and when she got to the top, she looked down and froze at how high she was. I looked up just in time to see her take her left foot off the peg and stick it right in the sand, at which time the padddle pulled her off and sucked her underneath. Screams of help came out and off I went. The boots did their job, but the paddle went all the way up her leg to the thigh. After calming her down, making sure she wasn't broken, she decided to ride back to camp swearing she would never go up a hill again..yeah right. Anyhow, she's okay..a little bruised up. The weather was great, a little rain never hurt anyone. We stayed through Monday and arrived back in Vegas around 5pm. Here's some pictures from the trip. The first one is self explanatory..the leg Heaven at D Our new rescue dog Jack ready to ride After the ride just chilln' And a perfect sunset to end the day

Likewise Nick. I'm getting the trailer over to the house tomorrow and getting everything running right, especially the 450 cause I plan on riding a lot more this season! See you then

I will be there with family. We are leaving Friday night coming back Monday afternoon sometime. I cannot stress how much I need to get out to the sand for some serious stress relief!

Now this really makes my F'n blood boil...there are not enough cuss words known to man in every language that describes how I feel right now!!! My God, what has it come to? http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,434223,00.html WASHINGTON — Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday. The tab included $23,380 worth of spa treatments for AIG employees at the coastal St. Regis resort south of Los Angeles even as the company tapped into an $85 billion loan from the government it needed to stave off bankruptcy. The retreat didn't include anyone from the financial products division that nearly drove AIG under, but lawmakers were still enraged over thousands of dollars spent on catered banquets, golf outings and visits to the resort's spa and salon for executives of AIG's main U.S. life insurance subsidiary. "Average Americans are suffering economically. They're losing their jobs, their homes and their health insurance," House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., scolded the company during a lengthy opening statement. "Yet less than one week after the taxpayers rescued AIG, company executives could be found wining and dining at one of the most exclusive resorts in the nation." Click here to see a copy of the bill for the retreat. The hearing disclosed that AIG executives hid the full range of its risky financial products from auditors as losses mounted, according to documents released Tuesday by a congressional panel examining the chain of events that forced the government to bail out the conglomerate. The panel sharply criticized AIG's former top executives, who cast blame on each other for the company's financial woes. "You have cost my constituents and the taxpayers of this country $85 billion and run into the ground one of the most respected insurance companies in the history of our country," said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y. "You were just gambling billions, possibly trillions of dollars." AIG, crippled by huge losses linked to mortgage defaults, was forced last month to accept the $85 billion government loan that gives the U.S. the right to an 80 percent stake in the company. Waxman unveiled documents showing AIG executives hid the full extent of the firm's risky financial products from auditors, both outside and inside the firm, as losses mounted. For instance, federal regulators at the Office of Thrift Supervision warned in March that "corporate oversight of AIG Financial Products ... lack critical elements of independence." At the same time, Pricewaterhouse Cooper confidentially warned the company that the "root cause" of its mounting problems was denying internal overseers in charge of limiting AIG's exposure access to what was going on in its highly leveraged financial products branch. Waxman also released testimony from former AIG auditor Joseph St. Denis, who resigned after being blocked from giving his input on how the firm estimated its liabilities. Three former AIG executives were summoned to appear before the hearing. One of them, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg — who ran AIG for 38 years until 2005 — canceled his appearance citing illness but submitted prepared testimony. In it, he blamed the company's financial woes on his successors, former CEOs Martin Sullivan and Robert Willumstad. "When I left AIG, the company operated in 130 countries and employed approximately 92,000 people," Greenberg said. "Today, the company we built up over almost four decades has been virtually destroyed." Sullivan and Willumstad, in turn, cast much of the blame on accounting rules that forced AIG to take tens of billions of dollars in losses stemming from exposure to toxic mortgage-related securities. Lawmakers also upbraided Sullivan, who ran the firm from 2005 until June of this year, for urging AIG's board of directors to waive pay guidelines to win a $5 million bonus for 2007 — even as the company lost $5 billion in the 4th quarter of that year. Sullivan countered that he was mainly concerned with helping other senior executives. Sullivan also came under fire for reassuring shareholders about the health of the company last December, just days after its auditor, Pricewaterhouse Cooper, warned of him that AIG was displaying "material weakness" in its huge exposure to potential losses from insuring mortgage-related securities. AIG's problems did not come from its traditional insurance subsidiaries, which remain healthy, but instead from its financial services operations, primarily its insurance of mortgage-backed securities and other risky debt against default. Government officials feared a panic might occur if AIG couldn't make good on its promise to cover losses on the securities; investors feared the consequences would pose a threat to the U.S. financial system, which led to the government bailout. AIG suffered huge losses when its credit rating was cut, thanks largely to complex financial transactions known as "credit default swaps." AIG was a major seller of the swaps, which are a form of insurance, though they are not regulated that way. The swap contracts promise payment to investors in mortgage bonds in the event of a default. AIG has been forced to raise billions of dollars in collateral to back up those guarantees. Sullivan said many of the firm's problems stemmed from "mark to market" accounting rules mandating that its positions guaranteeing troubled mortgage securities be carried as tens of billions of dollars in losses on its balance sheet. This in turn, said former AIG chief executive Willumstad, who ran the company for just three months after Sullivan left, forced the firm to raise billions of dollars in capital. The federal rescue came after AIG suffered disastrous liquidity problems after its credit rating was lowered, forcing the company to come up with even more capital. "AIG was caught in a vicious cycle," Willumstad said in the testimony. Greenberg said that AIG "wrote as many credit default swaps ... in the nine months following my departure as it had written in the entire previous seven years combined. Moreover, "unlike what had been true during my tenure, the majority of the credit default swaps that AIGFP wrote in the nine months after I retired were reportedly exposed to subprime mortgages." But Sullivan said the complex swaps had underlying value, even as the market for them froze, sending their book value plummeting and forcing AIG to scramble for collateral. "When the credit markets seized up, like many other financial institutions, we were forced to mark our swap positions at fire-sale prices as if we owned the underlying bonds, even though we believed that our swap positions had value if held to maturity," Sullivan said. The hearing is the second in two days into financial excesses and regulatory mistakes that have spooked stock and credit markets and heightened fears about a global recession.