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Author: Greg Kopp Created: 9/17/2004 9:57 AM
Greg's Random Thoughts

By Greg Kopp on 4/23/2005 8:22 PM

I held a one-day CCW class today for 6 students. Wow, that was a long day. It would have been longer had a friend of mine not tought the last hour or so of the class. He did me a favor and let me cut out early to attend my Son's final hockey practice of the season.

Everyone did very well and I was very pleased with how much of the information the absorbed. It's interresting. I get experienced shooters all the time tell me they learned something new in one of my classes. That makes me feel good and lets me know I'm doing my job.

By Greg Kopp on 3/6/2005 9:46 PM

ChampionsThe Garfield Heights Squirt B1 team beat the Shaker Heights team to take the CSHL Playoff Championship banner. Congratulations team!

By Greg Kopp on 2/21/2005 7:52 PM

Squirt ChampionsAnother tournament trophy for the case! The Squirt B1 team took the championship trophy in the annual Melt The Ice Tournament.

By Greg Kopp on 1/16/2005 9:49 PM

ChampsThe Garfield Heights Squirt B1 team beat the Shaker Heights team to take the Squirt Division Champions. Congratulations team!

By Greg Kopp on 1/6/2005 3:45 PM

I have no idea why I started this thing. I never seem to have time to blog.

And even when something interresting does happen, I usually forget to make an entry anyway.

*sigh*

By Greg Kopp on 11/5/2004 2:19 PM

I haven't had much time to blog, so I figured my latest entry should be about, what else, the presidential election.

I am ver much relieved that John Kerry was so soundly defeated. I must say, I was thinking for the last week or so that Bush would have lost the election. The polls were bouncing all over the place.

It's promising to see that so many democrats were able to get past party politics and realize that George W. Bush was the best choice. He's a better leader, he has better moral values, and has a determination to win this global war on terror without asking permission from the French.

I was also relieved and impressed that John Kerry didn't take the advice from the far, far, far, far left of his party or the even farther left John Edwards, and fight the vote counts. Everyone besides Mary Beth Cahil and John Edwards knew that there were not enough provisional ballots outstanding in my great state of Ohio to move the vote count in Kerry's direction. It just wasn't ...
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By Greg Kopp on 10/15/2004 8:54 AM

A large group of Al Qaeda terrorists are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune

"One United States Marine is better than ten Al Qaeda!"

The Al Qaeda commander quickly sends 10 of his best fighters over the dune, whereupon a gun battle breaks and continues for a few minutes, then silence.

The voice then calls out "One United States Marine is better than one hundred Al Qaeda!"

Furious, the Al Qaeda commander sends his next best 100 fighters over the dune and instantly a huge fire fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence.

The American voice calls out again "One United States Marine is better than one thousand Al Qaeda!"

The enraged Al Qaeda Commander musters one thousand fighters and sends them across the dune. Cannons, rockets and machine guns ring out as a huge battle is fought.

Then silence. eventually one wounded Al Qaeda fighter crawls back over the dune and with his ...
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By Greg Kopp on 10/14/2004 2:43 PM

The notion of instant gratification is becoming more prevasive in our society every day.

My son doesn't want to wait a few more weeks to earn enough of an allowance to buy a new toy. The younger kids don't want to get a job at McDonalds because entry level jobs don't pay enough. They all want the top spot with no experience and no qualifications.

I think that is why dealing drugs is so attractive to inner city youths. When you're young, you're indestructible. Nothing can hurt you. Even though most of the your older friends and siblings have been gunned down in gang violence. Waiting weeks to get paid is a lot less attractive than having $5,000 in cash in your pocket.

This irrational behavior doesn't exist in just our kids. Adults are the same way.

Our forefathers declared thier independence in 1776. Our nation didn't ratify our Constitution until 1789. It took 13 years. The Afgan people just help thier first elections after only a couple of years of fighting ...
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By Greg Kopp on 10/14/2004 2:26 PM

By Zell Miller

What if today's reporters had covered the Marines landing on Iwo Jima, a small island in the far away Pacific Ocean, in the same way they're covering the war in Iraq? Here's how it might have looked:

DAY 1

With the aid of satellite technology, Cutie Cudley interviews Marine Pfc. John Doe, who earlier came ashore with 30,000 other Marines.

Cutie: "John, we have been told by the administration that this island has great strategic importance because if you're successful, it could become a fueling stop for our bombers on the way to Japan. But, as you know, we can't be sure this is the truth. What do you think?"

Pfc. Doe: "Well, I've been pinned down by enemy fire almost ever since I got here and have had a couple of buddies killed right beside me. I'm a Marine and I go where they send me. One thing's for sure, they are putting up a fight not to give up this island."

Cutie: "Ou ...
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By Greg Kopp on 10/13/2004 11:41 PM

I'm rather disgusted by this coordinated tactic by the Kerry/Edwards campaign to bring up the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney when being asked about gay marriage.

What in the hell gives these two idiots the right to use Mary Cheney as a poster child for their liberal causes?

They're trying to get the far-right of the Republican party to turn agains Bush/Cheney and it won't work.

John Kerry - you owe Mary Cheney an appology.


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