New Golf Web Site

Howdy gang!

I wanted to take a moment and let you know about Frank's new website. The website is www.buygolfforless.com in the website Frank will be hosting a blog and links to different golf equipment manufacturers. Along with this he will also be doing course reviews of different courses. His reviews will initially start in the central Oklahoma area. The course reviews will sometimes have coupons that will give discounts for green fees. The first course reviewed was the Jimme Austin course in Seminole, Oklahoma. The review also has a coupon which waves the green fees, all you pay is the cart rental.

So check out his website be sure to sign the guestbook and give your feedback.

Keith

Future of OIL??

Howdy Gang,

I read an article about a new company in California. This company is able to take agricultural waste introduce a microbe to it and the microbe turns it into oil.

Here is their website http://www.ls9.com/index.html I have not heard much on the news about this company. I saw a show on tv and they were talking about ethanol and bio-diesel and how the next generation oil men will be the farmers. I think this company may be taking this one step closer.

Keith

Very Good Movie

Hi Gang,

I just wanted to share a movie Wanda and I watched over the weekend. The movie title is "Taking Chance" starring Kevin Bacon. The movie is based on a true story of a Marine Lt. Col. that volunteers for escort duty in April, 2004. The movie is based on the journal that was kept by Lt. Col. Mike Strobl. Lt. Col. Strobl escorts the fallen 19 year old soldier Chance Phelps home to Wyoming. The movie chronicles his trip from Dover AFB to the small town in Wyoming.

The movie shows the care and appreciation that is shown for these soldiers by their fellow soldiers and the public that come in contact with the process.

A warning have plenty of tissues ready for everyone who watches this movie. We received the movie through our Netflix account I would believe the video would be available through most any video store. If you want more information on the movie here is the link to the movie at IMDB.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1019454/

Keith

What? No one uses this blog anymore?

Madison jumping his Honda CRF80 last weekend. Only his 4th or 5th time riding his motorcycle.

Max races in the Texas Off Road Nationals

Max has been riding dirt bikes on and off for about a year or so. Last year he road his Honda 80 a few times and at Christmas he got a Yamaha YZ125 (2-stroke). The leader of his youth group at church is a motocross/enduro racer and has really built an interest in dirt bikes with most of the guys in his group. About 10 of them now have dirt bikes and ride about 2-3 times per month. Today Max raced for the first time. It was an eye-opening experience for him and he did pretty well. He raced a 1 hour timed race in the TORN championship in the 125cc Amateur class. He finished about mid pack (we'll get the times tomorrow when they are posted to their web site). He fell a few times and go a few scrapes and bruises, but nothing serious. Here are a couple of photos of the day. You can check out more photos @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbphotography/sets/72157614567578053/

My week with an American hero

I thought I’d share a little about my last week. I spent 8 days training at a location called CSAT (Combat Shooting and Tactics) in East Texas. This is a 300 acre training range owned by MSGT Paul Howe, Ret USA and a Delta Operator for 10 out of his 20 years (check out his name at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Howe). If you don’t know about Paul Howe check him out on Wikipedia.org. He is the real deal and among many assignments was most famous for his rescue efforts during “Black Hawk Down” in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is very humble and doesn’t talk much about his time unless you ask. The many can shoot everything he requires of his students and probably 10 times better.

I wrote up a summary or After Action Report of my 6 training days with him. I thought I’d share that with you. You can read my complete right up at http://www.baileytactical.com/blog .

There are a couple of photos and a short video I posted on my flickr account. You can see the video here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dbphotography/3307360059/ .

Here’s a photo of the group of guys I trained with. They came from the FBI SWAT team, Air Marshal Service, US Marshalls, local SWAT teams and a couple of Blackwater private security guys going back for their 3rd and 4th time to Iraq and Afghanistan. I was way out of my league but it made me better at the end of the week and I surprisingly kept up with all of them. On my last test I actually ran the fastest times of the week and hit every target in the kill zone, except I threw 1 shot just outside the kill zone on target. The kill zone is a target that is 6” by 13” over the spine/central nervous system.

Hopefully you’ll find it interesting. I came back sore, bruised, bleeding and a lot better tactically than I had been in years. It was hard but a lot of fun! 2000 rounds of ammo - it's all good!

Peace!

David

Sooners Not Enjoying Miami

THE game turned out to be are really good game.  OU didn't win but at least they came to play this year, as compared to the last couple of years.  They came close but then that is only good in horse-shoes and hand-grenades.  Perfect weather and a competitive game; only thing missing was a win.

Just a note on the Florida fans.  I've read several articles about Gator fans being worse than LSU fans.  I often thought that was impossible.  Well, the Gator fans in Miami were very civil and definitely not over the top when cheering for their team or talking to OU fans.  There are still the young, immature, stupid fan that should not be let out in public without his/her mother.  I would also add that most of the really rowdy fans were probably in Gainesville and didn't have a ticket to the game.  I don't think I would want to go to Gainesville to play the Gators on their real home turf.  Being out-numbered here in Miami by @ 3-1 was bad enough.

Now my soap box comment.  Why are all the Championship games play on the East and West coasts except for the Sugar bowl but it is in the heart of SEC and south.  Mid-America teams will never have a type of home field advantage that Florida did last night, LSU did in the Sugar bowl win OU played them.  I think the Cotton bowl needs to be added to the BSC bowl structure.  I'm done, I'm stepping of my soap box and am going to enjoy the Miami weather and food.

Did I mention Liz came with me???