And now... Something completely different!

Many of you know how involved I am with Emergency Preparedness. Well, I went one "step" further last night.

I have taken the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training for the City of Folsom about 2 years ago. Last night (10-28-08) the class graduated their 5th class. There are now about 107 CERT volunteers for the City of Folsom.

I thought I would share a few of my taking a "step" further into emergency preparedness!

The graduating class participates in an emergency scenario. The scenario was a severe earthquake and the victims are in a two story office building. The CERT members are to use their new skills and search through the building for anyone caught in the earthquake.

Here is what happened to me! I was the victim of a crushed foot. When I was "found", I had a chair over my foot near the "bruising". It "was" very painful!

And this is what the CERT team did to rescue me... stopped the bleeding and put a splint around my ankle. It worked too! I couldn't move my ankle at all, but could still wiggle my toes. Naturally, that wouldn't happen, the victim would be in too much pain to want to wiggle their toes!

The team did a really great job at rescuing everyone.

Here are a couple more pictures of "Victims".

This lady had her arm "severed" and her husband was to be in shock and hysterical. He didn't have any injuries, just shock. This means that the two of them are in two different triage sites and he wanted to find her and be with her. When he "found out" about her injuries, he would ask about the "severed" arm... what happened to it and stuff like that. His roll was to leave the area to search for his wife, making the CERT team go and get him and try to keep him calm and eventually "reunite" him with his wife and her arm.

Here are two more victims...

If your community offers a CERT training program, I highly recommend that you participate in the course, if not to help out in the community, the training will provide some insight into what you can do to be more prepared at home when a disaster strikes.

For more information on the web, see my favorites listed here on my blog.

1st Amendment

I like this one too...

Take Courage

Do you think "Samuel the Lamanite" is available to help?

Proposition 8 - Short video

I know that we are all getting inundated with radio and TV adds concerning the election and all of the propositions to be voted on this November 4th.

Here's is a short 6 min video about the ramifications if Prop 8 fails in California. Before I give the internet address, the California State School Superintendent says that California schools will not and do not teach homosexual marriage in school. While that may be true in some locations, it is not true in Massachusetts where gay marriage is already legal. In Massachusetts, parents are not given any notification at all about what is being taught to their children when it comes to gay marriage. Since gay marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the schools there do teach gay marriage and the gay lifestyle as early as kindergarten. If this isn't indoctrination into something that is morally wrong, then what is.

Please view this video and pass it along to those you know in California and encourage them to vote YES on proposition 8 on November 4th.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1815825713

So, as you can see from the video, if Proposition 8 fails in California, then things will change. Schools will teach (if they don't already) that being gay is ok and that being gay is normal. Also, now here's the big one... Parents will not have a say in what is being taught to their children. Parents will not be able to tell the school(s) that they (parents) do not want their children to be taught that it is ok for gays marry.

I am a parent and I will have the last word when it comes to what my children are taught in school, even to the point of taken them out of school and teaching them myself at home.

Protect our children, protect the sanctity of marriage and vote YES on Proposition 8.

Proposition 8 - In Plain English

Here's a short video that talks about Proposition 8, the Sanctity of Marriage amendment to the California Constitution.

Please let your friends and family in California know about this important proposition and ask them to watch the video and remember to vote on November 4.

Sanctity of Marriage

The Connecticut Supreme Court just trampled on the law and common sense, voting 4-3 in favor of same-sex marriage. The four arrogant justices who engaged in judicial activism, forgetting their oaths of office, ignored common sense, the will of the people of that state and its Governor’s position.

Of course, the media is ignoring this story - and the Governor of Connecticut is publically backing down on her pro-marriage stand!

I signed a petition urging Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell to take a stand for marriage.

Please go here to sign the petition to protect the sanctity of marriage.

http://www.libertyaction.org/296/petition.asp?PID=18442005&NID=1

I've been tagged....

Thanks a lot Karyn! This is what you get for tagging me!

4 things I love about my wife...
1. Likes to go on drives with me
2. Lets me watch NASCAR
3. Snugly
4. Great teacher

4 movies I can see over and over...
1. Blazing Saddles (not enough ‘Yiddish’!)
2. Office Space
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Kraig likes to watch too!)
4. Breakfast Club

4 TV shows I watch...
1. CSI (The one in Vegas…)
2. Numb3rs
3. Bones
4. Scrubs

4 places I have been...
1. Orlando
2. Memphis
3. San Antonio
4. Seattle

4 people who email me regularly...
1. My MBA team
2. My Parents
3. My buddy Jim from San Jose
4. e-Magazines

4 favorite foods...
1. Peanut M&M’s (do they count as a food?)
2. Spaghetti
3. Chicken
4. Hamburgers

4 places I want to visit...
1. London
2. Hawaii
3. Alaska
4. Toronto

4 things I am looking forward to...
1. Graduating with my MBA
2. Retiring
3. Kraig going on his mission
4. Seeing my kids get married

4 people I tag...

Everybody has been tagged!

Like my bio says... "Its hard to write about oneself!"... Unless your Steven! My sister Karyn says on her blogg that I've been tagged... what's up with that?? Is this like the "letter" that got passed around in Jr. High...

Question 1: Do you like me?
Question 2: What is your favorite color?
Question 3: Who is your favorite teacher?

Remember those? I do... I think I even passed one around to someone once upon a time! ;-) So I will wait and see what happens next.