Back from Vacation

I have been on vacation so you may have notices no new post. I plan to get back into the routine ASAP.

Here is last weeks Uncle Jay explains for May 23, 2011

Uncle Jay Explains: May 16, 2011

The world is ending on Saturday, so please make sure all your homework is turned in by Friday. And maybe that guy can finally go to his prom, but will there even be one? And one consolation: no 2012 election! Uncle Jay explains.

Interesting take

Below is a link to Green Mountains Homesteading blog, Neat picture

Can I get an AMEN!

from Green Mountains Homesteading by Toaster 802

...One of these frauds is not like the other...Or maybe not.
Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com
...“Scarcely have our minds been able to emerge from the astonishment into which one stroke of parliamentary thunder has involved us, before another more heavy, and more alarming, is fallen on us. Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate and systematical plan of reducing us to slavery. When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution”. -Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America. 1774
...If thinking like Jefferson and Judge Andrew Napolitano make me a terrorist, then I guess they are both right about the state of the "State" today, Huh?

Embarrassing to say the least!!!!!

Mo. Fire Trucks Collide, Five Firefighters Injured
Platte County firefighters were headed to a house fire when the wreck occurred at an intersection early Monday morning.

 

PLATTE CITY, Mo., May 9 (UPI) -- Five firefighters were seriously injured in the head-on collision of two firetrucks in a rural area of Missouri's Platte County, authorities said. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/05/09/Missouri-firetrucks-collide-five-injured/UPI-90791304961653/#ixzz1Lt8R2T2F Video at this link too!

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Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Olive Branch, MS

Charles Foster of the Barton Volunteer Fire Department in Olive Branch, MS has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2011-04-25

Initial Summary:  
Firefighter Foster passed away in the hospital from a heart attack he had suffered several days earlier while working debris removal related to severe weather incidents in the region. Incident Location: Hwy 309, south of Deer Creek RD (USNG: 16S BD 544 684)

Uncle Jay Explains: May 9, 2011

Uncle Jay Explains: May 9, 2011

From: UncleJayExplains  | May 8, 2011  | 635 views

Osama-Rama! Osama is now like Elvis, enjoying a great popular surge thanks to the ultimate career move. Uncle Jay explains every version of exactly what happened!

Another Good prior to arrival video

A little old but I had not seen this. Good prior to arrival video of this single family home. Good tactics and strategy video. Deck gun put into operation, that’s what it’s for. No tenable victims, probably not. Save the exposures, save what's left.

Uncle Jay Explains May 1, 2011

UncleJayExplains on May 1, 2011

Osama Bin Laden is dead! Yeah, right ... next they'll tell us that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. Hey, you think the Pope has an anti-beatification for Osama? Uncle Jay explains!

Immediate Nationwide Home Fire Data Available

Immediate Nationwide Home Fire Data Available

Every weekday, USFA’s Quick Response (QR) program scours media websites across the nation and lists news accounts of non-arson fatal home fires on the Residential Fire Fatalities in the News webpage.

Spreadsheets containing yearly Quick Response data, since 2007, are available for download. Your department can use this information to supplement media interviews, press releases, publications, community presentations or enhance fire safety outreach. QR data can be utilized in a variety of ways, including:

• Identifying yearly or seasonal trends through an array of variables such as cause, number of deaths or age. You can compare and assess the trends in your state against a neighboring state.
• Comparing back-to-back calendar year or seasonal data.

Quick Response data should be considered a general reflection of recent fatal home fires that occur across the nation and not official residential fire data.

You can receive daily Quick Response summaries automatically through RSS or e-mail. Your department can repost Quick Response information on its website by using the RSS feed. To view Quick Response data or subscribe for automatic Quick Response updates through RSS or e-mail, go to: http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/subjects/fireprev/qr/fatalities/index.shtm

Ask a Colleague: Are You a Member of the Quick Response Media Corps?

Is your colleague a part of the 3,200-member Quick Response Media Corps? Members receive valuable fire safety materials and are some of the first to learn about USFA's fire safety initiatives. Invite your colleagues to become a member of the QRMC today!

Benefits of being a QRMC member:

• Some of the first to know about new USFA fire safety initiatives
• Receive 15 cause-based, USFA fire safety fact sheets for a general audience, in English and Spanish
• Receive 15 cause-based, fire safety fact sheets for use in media interviews
• Receive six, 30-second live-read radio PSA scripts on smoke alarms, escape planning, careless smoking and fire safety for children and older adults.

For more information about USFA’s Quick Response Media Corps or to enroll online, go to http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/fireservice/subjects/fireprev/qr/index.shtm

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Notice of Firefighter Fatality: Neon, KY

from USFA Firefighter Fatalities

Michael C. Webb of the Neon Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department in Neon, KY has died as the result of an on-duty incident that occurred on 2011-04-26

Initial Summary:
Fire Captain Webb passed away from an apparent heart attack at his home shortly after responding to an all-terrain vehicle accident in a mountainous area. Incident Location: Millstone, KY (USNG: 17S LB 44 14)