The Ray Report
A blog of my two cents worth. Like it or not this is how I believe.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Senate Bill 3525
That being said there were a couple things that drove me to investigate this particular bill. The bill of course, if you didn't read the title, is Senate Bill 3525 or the Sportsman's Act of 2012. One of those things was the fact that, usually, the shorter the bill description is the farther from the truth it is. Also, the Democratic party usually stands against anything gun or game related, while the Republican party is usually very pro gun and wanting to expand the game rights of hunters and fisherman. So, when I see a "Sportsman's" bill being co-sponsored by all Democrats and not a single Republican (or at least not the last time I checked, go see for yourself govtrack.us) it makes me a little leary.
Again don't just take me word for it go read the bill. But doing my own research these are a couple of the things I discovered. First of all, it gives the government the completely unconstitutional ability to take privately owned real estate for government use if the said government deems it necessary to protect wildlife and game. However, its not to be brought in front of anybody to see if it is actually necessary to use emanate domain on these particular parcels of land.
I think we can all agree that our country is in some serious financial trouble. Unless of coarse your a brainwashed Obama cronie receiving a check from the government, that actually believes we are in better shape now then four years ago. This being said, enough of our tax dollars are being sent down the drains for useless bureaucracies, thus leaving us in debt by spending more then we are capable of collecting in taxes (don't miss interpret that as an ad to raise taxes, IT IS NOT!). For this reason I do not support the opening of ANY new government offices for ANY reason until some of this nonsense is straightened out. This bill wants to open yet another one of these offices and use my tax dollars to pay their salaries. Yet another reason for a no vote.
Thirdly, Sec. 210 gives the Secretary the ability to put regulations into practice necessary to carry out this subtitle. Referring to Title II Subtitle A which outlines National Fish Habitat. The biggest problem with this line in the bill is that is no oversight or checks and balances as to the Secretary's power. So how does anyone know if what is being regulated is actually necessary?
Again go read this bill for yourself but as for this author I will be calling my representatives and voicing my opinion for a"no" vote or at least a "no" vote in its current form. There are a number of worthwhile things in this bill, but without reformation the bad drastically outweighs the good.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
America's Voice
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Internet Browsing
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Over a year
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Introduction
Alright to start things off, a little about myself. My name is cj ray and I currently live in west plains, mo. I've been an EMT for three years now and been fighting fire for 4 years. The start of my fire fighting was on a small volunteer department in my home town of eminence. After graduating high school I moved to west plains where I started part time on a paid on call fire department and full time on an ambulance service. Ive been at both for almost a year now. About a month ago I decided to take my education (and pay scale) to the next level, so I started a Paramedic program. So far its been great, but I can tell already its going to be alot of hard work and probably take up most of my social life. However, I have high hopes and the payout will be very worth it in the end.
So that's where my life is at right now, and I thought there might be some people curious about the training of the people that they call to come too their house in their most desperate times, so I started this blog to keep people informed. Paramedic class is made up of three different blocks, the first of these blocks is mostly in class studying. So most of my posts during this time will be the type of stuff I'm learning in class and the problems I'm finding/holes I have to fill in myself. We can't learn everything on our own, nor can we expect our instructor to teach us everything. Needless to say we're gonna have to put or nose to the grindstone and get out there and find more information if we want to come out and be some of the best.
The second block is a good mixture of both classroom time and clinical time. For those of you that don't know what clinicals are that's where we get out in the field and start to use the knowledge and practice the skills we've learned under very close supervision. Then finally the third block, which is almost all clinical time and the time that is spent in the classroom is used to prepare for testing. After all the classroom material is covered and all clinicals have been completed we are released to go test on a national and state level. After passing both state and federal level testing, the past 18 months pays off and were allowed to start working as a licensed Paramedic.
That's just a quick overview of what the layout of the class will entail. Please join me for this this long but interesting ride into the depths of the works of emergency medicine.