Five Personal Idiosyncrasies

I'm really a pretty boring sort of person. And I never really try to participate in memes. However, this one sounded interesting, so I thought I'd rack my brain and see if I could come up with five things. I picked this up at Cowboy Blob's.

I hate clowns. Circus clowns, anyway. I have great respect for rodeo clowns.

I actually believe that sometimes certain items simply vanish. No one took them--they are just gone. I compulsively place certain important items in the exact same spot every time I put them down because of this. I want to make sure that when they vanish, I know it wasn't my fault.

I have an aversion, shall we say, to amphibians. Toads are the worst. Frogs are slightly less bad. I'm not too fond of turtles, either.

You know how Spiderman had his "Spidey-sense"? Well, I have the same thing, except that it's specific to exposed female cleavage. I'm serious. If there's any within eyesight, I know about it, even if I haven't turned that way to look yet.

There are certain foods that I absolutely cannot tolerate. I mean, they actually make me physically ill. Macaroni makes me vomit, although I love spaghetti (I don't know why, since they're both pasta). The mere sight of guacamole makes me queasy. No kidding. Someone once made me a sandwich and smeared some of that stuff on it, and on my first bite I had to make a run for the bathroom. I can't handle pineapple or coconut either.

I have an odd habit of laughing at things that no one else sees humor in, and not laughing at things that some other people think are funny. A new-age girl I once knew said this was because I was the archetypal Fool (from the Tarot deck). I like to think it's because I have a highly refined sense of the absurd.

I like to sleep with my head under a pillow.

I have had "The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe" in my nightstand for about 20 years now. I occasionally just pick it up and read a couple of poems at random.

I have a number of old gospel hymns so well memorized that if the world of Fahrenheit 451 came to pass, I would be the guy they go to for old gospel hymns.

A long time ago our local PBS station showed Dr. Who every weeknight at 10:00 PM. They started at the very beginning and showed every episode that has survived right through to the end with Sylvester McCoy. I taped almost every single episode, and I still have all the tapes. (And yes, I know the series is being revived).

A friend of mine and I have a habit of using random lines from Monty Python as titles for our emails, although the lines usually have no relation whatsoever to the content of the email.

Well, I said at the beginning that I was a pretty boring sort of person.

Rewilding America

When I first heard of this, this past week, I thought, cool, let's let wild lions and cheetahs loose in North America. The only way to control their populations is hunting, and this would mean those of us who could never afford a trip to Africa could get a chance at big-game hunting right here in the good ol' U.S. of A!

My second thought was, nope, can't be that simple, Bubba.

Some spokesman (I didn't catch his name) was on NPR's Science Friday this week. Now Ira Flatow isn't really one to ask hardball questions, but this spoksman was so lame that Ira actually kept asking him the same question at least twice, maybe three times. The basic question was, Yeah, but how are you actually going to do it?

The spokesman seemed to be about three hints short of a clue. All he could do was go back to a species of tortoise that is nearly extinct here, and by starting with them, re-introducing them back to the wild, and using a "science-based process," we would eventually work up to lions, cheetahs, elephants, and camels. These are all animals which had prehistoric counterparts living on this continent some 15,000 years ago, so it only follows that these modern-day versions of them should thrive here now. His logic, not mine. Personally, I would love it if a wombat population were established here, because I just love the word "wombat" and try to work it into everyday conversation as often as possible, but I guess there were never any sabre-toothed wombats living in this neck of the woods.

(By the way, camels were given a chance already, and didn't make it. The Army tried using them in place of horses in the southwest back in the old days. Eventually the project was discontinued and all the camels were set free. They weren't able to establish themselves and survive. But then, they weren't subjected to a "science-based process," whatever that is).

This person also loved using the reintroduction of wolves in the west as an example. Of course, these were the same kinds of wolves that were essentially wiped out within the lifetimes of humans living today. He failed to clarify how this was the same kind of thing as reintroducing contemporary cousins of prehistoric species.

But, it's really worse than just some goofball coming up with some goofball idea. Liberty Matters has a good roundup on this, of which I will quote some, and although this is an older article, its age shows that this has been brewing for a long time:

The Wildlands Project is a massive program for restructuring society around nature as the organizing principle. The concept is Foreman's, but the plan was developed by Dr. Reed Noss under grants from The Nature Conservancy and the National Audubon Society. It was first published in Wild Earth, a publication of the Cenozoic Society, of which Foreman is chairman.

Funded by the Ira Hiti Foundation for Deep Ecology, 75,000 copies of the plan
were produced and distributed. The Wildlands Project was set up as a corporation with offices in Arizona and Oregon; Foreman is Chairman of the Board; Reed Noss is a Director.

Working in tandem with the Wildlands Project is the Biosphere Reserve Program, a creation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The objective of the program, conceived in 1971, has been to designate sites worldwide for preservation and to protect the biodiversity of chosen sites on a global level. Toward that end, the Sierra Club has redrawn the map of North America into 21 "bioregions."

In turn, each of the 21 bioregions has been divided into three zones:

1) Wilderness area, designated as habitat of plants and animals. Human habitation, use, or intrusion is forbidden.

(2) Buffer zones surrounding the wilderness areas. Limited, and strictly controlled, human access is permitted within this zone.

(3) Cooperation zones, the only zones where humans will be permitted to live.

According to Dr. Michael Coffman of Environmental Perspectives, Inc., a strategy to implement reserves and corridors (in the northern Rockies, for example, see map on page 4 [Ed. Note: Not reproduced here; see maps at http://www.libertymatters.org/MapWild.html ]) would be to:

1) Start with a seemingly innocent-sounding program like the "World Heritage Areas in Danger." Bring all human activity under regulation in a 14-18 million acre buffer zone around Yellowstone National Park.

2) Next, declare all federal land (except Indian reservations) as buffers, along with private land within federal administration boundaries.

3) Next, extend the U.S. Heritage corridor buffer zone concept along major river systems. Begin to convert critical federal lands and ecosystems to reserves.

4) Finally, convert all U.S. Forest Service, grasslands, and wildlife refuges to reserves. Add missing reserves and corridors so that 50 percent of landscape is preserved. [Based on United Nations World Heritage Program; United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Article 8a-e; United Nations Global Biodiversity Assessment, Section 10.4.2.2.3; U.S. Man and the Biosphere Strategic Plan (1994 draft); U.S. Heritage Corridors Program; and "The Wildlands Project," (published in Wild Earth, Dec. 1992). Also, see Science, "The High Cost of Biodiversity," Vol. 280, June 25, 1993, pp.1868-1871.]

Investigative reporter Karen Lee Bixman, in her article, "The Taking of America," states that "each of the 21 bioregions will be governed by bioregional councils. Although in its infancy stage, the setting up of such a council is taking place [now] in the south in conjunction with the Smokey Mountain National Park in Tennessee. When these councils come into play, local, state and national government will not be able to interfere with their enforcement. It will be under the strong arm of the UN.Environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy and other green organizations will be given the green light [to be] the enforcement arm of these councils at the local level." [Karen Lee Bixman, "The Taking of America," The Investigative Reporter (Huntington Beach, CA), March 1996, .3.]

It cannot be too strongly emphasized that this is a radical agenda designed to control not just the land, but all human activity, as well. Under the Wildlands Project, at least 50 percent of the land area of America would be returned to "core wilderness areas" where human activity is barred.

Those areas would be connected by corridors, a few miles wide. The core areas and corridors would be surrounded by "buffer zones" in which "managed" human activity would be allowed, provided that biodiversity protection is the first priority. Reed Noss's words put it very, very plainly: "the collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans." ["Rewilding America," eco-logic Magazine (Publ. By Environmental Conservation Organization, Hollow Rock, TN), November/December 1995, p.20.]

That's a big quote, but then it's a long article. And yes, this is just another facet of the "all humans must die so that the earth can be preserved" movement.

Maybe I'm way behind the curve on this one, and maybe I'm wrong. But it seems plenty sinister to me. Note especially the words I emphasized in the last quoted paragraph above. Sinister, because he is talking about animals that do not even live on this continent now, and never did (although their prehistoric cousins did).

I still think it would be cool to go elephant hunting in Arizona. All I would need is to find somebody who would rent me a .416 Rigby.

Something I just discovered...

I installed a search tool on this site, mainly for my own use in hunting down previous posts. I picked one that has a very large limit, which it will be a long time before I reach, and also one that I can index manually.

I discovered something. I found this out simply due to a hunch, based on no conscious technical knowledge on my part.

A while back I went into my Blogger settings and changed "Add your blog to our listings?" to NO. I did this so that my blog wouldn't be included in the "next blog" button function anymore. This way my web stats would be a lot more accurate, and the web counter that I recently installed would be more accurate, because it would eliminate random hits from that "next blog" thing.

Whatever this "NO" setting does, it also prevents the site from being spidered by certain search engines. I'm not sure exactly which ones or how extensive, except that, for sure, Picosearch and Freefind are both rendered inoperable by this setting.

Some Minutemen in Texas will be carrying concealed weapons

Talk about stating the obvious. But of course, this is a problem for some.

The Houston Chronicle reports:

Leaders of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps of Texas had earlier said volunteers observing Houston's day laborers in October would carry nothing but video cameras.

But leaders now say those involved in the operations targeting local illegal immigrants will be allowed to carry arms as long as they comply with all federal and state laws.

In fact, those who have a concealed-weapons permit are being offered a discount on joining the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps. An Arizona-based organization, the Minutemen started out by patrolling the Arizona-Mexico border in April to prevent illegal immigrants from crossing, but the group has announced it will conduct a variety of operations here this fall.

Members are normally charged $50 to join, with the money used to conduct a criminal background check. Those with a valid concealed-weapons permit can have that fee waived, since they already have undergone a background check and met other requirements, such as a handgun course, to get the permit, said George Klages, spokesman for the Minutemen in Houston.

So now the Minutemen have finally become targets of gun bigots. Notice the emphasized paragraph above. They can carry concealed if they comply with all the laws. So that means they are all going to be armed and looking to kill illegal aliens at their whim. Yeah.

Also note that they are not actually using a discounted fee as a recruiting tool. They have a smaller fee for those with concealed weapons permits because they know those people have already been through background checks. Those background checks aren't free, you know.

This article also points out that Chris Simcox has a gun-related criminal record:

He was convicted of entering a federal park with a loaded weapon and offering false information to a federal officer, both misdemeanors, and was sentenced to two years' probation, court records show.

Bad boy, Chris. We all know federal parks are completely free from crime and violent attacks.

Arizona and Sonora to team up on border crime

Border Governors Implement Safety Plans from AP:

The governors of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora on Friday announced stepped-up plans to combat border-related crime, saying they were prompted to act in part because their respective national governments have been slow to help.

Arizona will create a new detail of officers to help target vehicle theft -- a crime often linked to transporting of illegal immigrants -- and to gather intelligence to identify people taking large amounts of cash from the United States to Mexico, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said.

In addition, police in the border-area cities of Nogales, Bisbee and San Luis and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department will assign dozens more officers to combat vehicle theft, drug trafficking and other border-related crime, Napolitano said.

Meanwhile, Sonoran Gov. Eduardo Bours announced the establishment of four new checkpoints in Sonora where officers will try to identify and detain people engaged in smuggling and vehicle theft.

I never expected the Mexican Federales to do anything about border problems. Any real work will have to be done by the states. Pretty much just like in this country.

Attention XD owners

I like my XD40 so much, that for the first time, I wish there were some good lasergrip sights for it. (If someone else already makes them, I don't know about it). In the Crimson Trace forum, it has been stated that they are looking seriously at the XD series, but there are no firm plans for development...yet. So hop on over to the Crimson Trace request page and vote for the XD series.

And you can join Free Lasergrips Drawing while you're there, for a chance to win Lasergrips for one of your other guns.

Austin Community College tells veteran he is no longer a Texan

The Star-Telegram reports (bugmenot: bugmenot2004@yahoo.com/hasnone):

Carl Basham was born in Beeville, registered to vote in Travis County in 1998, holds a Texas driver's license and does his banking in Austin.

So he was shocked when Austin Community College told him a few weeks ago that he didn't qualify as a Texas resident 'for tuition purposes.' Basham, a former Marine corporal, said he was even more shocked when officials told him why: After two tours of duty in Iraq, he's been out of the state too long to qualify.

This is important to him because as a resident, his tuition would only be about $500 per semester. As a non-resident, it's about $2,600 per semester. I think bad P.R. is going to win the day on this one.

More bad news for Texas land-grabbers

Eminent Domain Bill Sent to Governor Perry:

The government's power to take private property for economic development would be limited under a bill approved today by the Texas Senate.

The eminent domain measure now goes to Governor Rick Perry, who says the bill provides common sense protection for every private property owner. Perry last week added the issue to the call of the special session on school finance.

The Senate's 17-to-6 vote of approval came as any hope of passing a school finance measure appeared to have faded for good. The bill was filed in response to a June U-S Supreme Court ruling in a Connecticut case. That decision lets governments take land for private development to generate tax money.

Texas is one of at least 25 states that have considered changes to eminent domain laws this summer.

Right Hand of God comments on Intelligent Design

Right Hand of God comments Intelligent Design. I have nothing to added. Except, perhaps, amen.

Toronto Mayor wants to fight gun-smuggling by disarming residents

Apparently, the mayor of Toronto believes that illegal gun-smuggling is the fault of "lax gun laws" of the United States, and to solve the problem wants to collect all firearms from residents of Toronto and store them in a centralized location. The National Post reports:

'There's no reason to own a gun in Toronto -- collector or not. If you are a collector and you have a permit, the guns need to be stored in a way that they can't be stolen. And perhaps a centralized facility of some kind could accomplish that goal,' Mr. Miller told the National Post. 'The law requires gun owners to have proper storage, but obviously not everyone adheres to that.'

Following a spate of shootings in Toronto, the Mayor has asked city lawyers and the police to determine whether the municipality has the 'legal ability' to require individuals to store their weapons at a secure facility such as a gun club.

'It's a very serious issue and I don't have all the answers to it, but I've spoken to the [Police] Chief as well as our own legal department to see what we can do,' Mr. Miller said.

The Mayor has repeatedly blamed lax gun laws in the United States for some of Toronto's violence, saying half of the firearms in the city originated in the United States.

While pressing the federal government to stem the smuggling of guns across the border, Mr. Miller said steps must also be taken steps to address domestic gun problems.

[...]

Mr. Miller noted several U.S. cities such as Chicago have passed ordinances restricting handgun ownership. But legal gun owners argue the new rules would only make life simpler for criminals.

Chicago is his example. Yeah. But not everyone is buying it:

'It would just put all the firearms in one place so they could all be stolen at one time,' said Eric Greer of the Ontario Arms Collectors Association. 'That would be a wonderful thing.'

Mr. Greer added the Mayor's proposal would not prevent criminals from acquiring weapons, noting Canada enacted its first handgun registry in 1934.

'It hasn't made one iota of difference. And the reason is the people that registered their handguns don't commit the crimes. The people who commit crimes don't register their guns. It's as simple as that,' he said.

Other gun owners said they are tired of being conflated with murderers and thieves.

'There are legal gun owners all over Ontario who don't go around brandishing their guns, who go through the whole rigamarole to get licensed properly,' said Bill, a member of the Maple Leaf Revolver Club, who asked his last name not be used citing safety concerns. 'The Mayor's not thinking properly.'

He added most gun owners would support tough sentences for individuals caught using firearms to commit a crime.

"At most of the clubs, you will hear people say, 'Arrest the guy, look at the law and if the law says to throw him away for five years or 10 years, do it,'" the gun owner said. Mr. Miller agreed the courts must be more stringent, noting individuals caught with weapons currently are routinely released on bail.

More news on Anthony Diotaiuto

More from the Sun-Sentinel.

An ounce of pot, 10 bullets and one failed drug war:

In the annals of drug takedowns, this wasn't much. Three quarter-ounce bags of marijuana in a bedroom refrigerator, a joint and another loose gram on top. Four grams scattered on a dresser. Six pipes with pot residue, three ashtrays with less than a gram each, three packs of rolling paper and a digital scale.

Thanks to the efforts of the Sunrise Police Department, today a pothead in west Broward might have to go an extra 10 blocks to score some smoke.

And Anthony Diotaiuto is dead. All for 30.2 grams of weed, a little more than an ounce.

The drug inventory above is what Sunrise police said they found in Diotaiuto's home the morning a SWAT unit shot him with 10 bullets in a pre-dawn raid.

No coke. No heroin. No ecstasy or meth.

'What in the hell were they doing with a SWAT team?' asked Eleanor Shockett, a retired Miami-Dade circuit judge who advocates a sweeping overhaul of drug laws. 'To break into someone's home at six in the morning, possibly awaken someone from a deep sleep, someone who has a concealed weapons permit? What did they expect to happen?'

This is a tragedy that never should have happened.

Even if Diotaiuto, 23, was a small-time pot dealer, which his friends and family deny, the methods used show the madness of our country's war on drugs.

No discretion. No proportionality. No sense.

'Using SWAT in this case is like using a sledgehammer on a fly,' said Jack Cole, a former narcotics detective for the New Jersey State Police who heads Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), a drug-law reform group. 'I'd much rather use a little bit of stealth.'

Cole spent 14 years as an undercover agent and nearly three decades as a cop. He doesn't understand why such a huge show of force was necessary, why it needed to be done at 6:15 a.m., or why detectives couldn't detain Diotaiuto when he left his house for work.

'When you kick in a door, all it does is alert them that someone is coming that they don't want to see,' Cole said.

If this is the "war on drugs," I want no part of it. My original opinion, that a bigger pusher turned in his name as part of a plea bargain, seems supported by this paragraph:

Broward Circuit Judge John Frusciante on Aug. 3 granted the search warrant for Diotaiuto's home. According to warrant details released Monday, Diotaiuto didn't even have to be home during the search. The warrant affidavit said a confidential informant bought an ounce of marijuana from Diotaiuto there last month. That came two weeks after an anonymous tipster told Sunrise narcotics officers that "cannabis and cocaine were being sold at all hours" at the house.

Either that, or a real drug "kingpin" used this method to eliminate some small-time competition.

San Antonio suddenly discovers an already existing technology

Someone finally realized they can synchronize traffic lights. And I must say, it's about time. WOAI reports:

Say good-bye to driving one block down main streets like Bandera Rd, Commerce St., or San Pedro, waiting at a red light, then driving one more block and waiting at another red light. City officials today announced plans to synchronize traffic lights on all of the major thoroughfares.

I haven't checked this one out thoroughly yet...

...but I think this website should prove both informative and amusing (and possibly scary as well). NK News catalogs propaganda from that goofball extraordinaire Kim Jong Il:

NK News is a searchable database of North Korean propaganda. This site contains nearly every article published on the KCNA's website, in English and Spanish, since Dec 2, 1996--over 50 MB of hard-core Stalinist propaganda! And each article written in that unique and indelible style of the KCNA.

There is also a KCNA Random Insult Generator:

You bourgeois stooge, your accusation against the DPRK is no more than barking at the moon!

More rampant "political correctness"

ClayCalhoun.com reports:

LAS CRUCES - Pistol Pete, the gun-toting mascot for New Mexico State University, may have a battle on his hands to keep his job.

Talks are under way about whether the time has come to retire the mascot, who has donned his huge cowboy hat at Aggie games and other events for 40 years.

NMSU President Michael Martin said no one has decided that Pete needs to go, but it's at least time for a makeover.

The current Pete costume is decades-old and scares children, Martin said.

Because the mere sight of a not-gun prop gun carried by a cartoonish mascot is too traumatic for the faint of heart, I daresay.

Random Notes

Welcome other TTLB Gunblogger Community members. I'm happy to be part of the fun.

For some time now, there has been a small script on this blog that shows me the 10 most frequently clicked links for the day, thanks to MyBlogLog. Now, also from MyBlogLog, is another short script that shows any viewer how many times that day a link has been clicked by other visitors. Just hover your cursor over any link and if anyone else has followed it that day, it will show you how many.

Since I am actually starting to get a little traffic, I finally installed a hit counter on the site, thanks to StatCounter.

And last of all, someone actually subscribed to this blog with Bloglines!

NRA-ILA picks up the ball

Excerpt from NRA-ILA news:

You might have recently heard of a new organization claiming to represent hunters and gun owners. The new group calls itself the American Hunters and Shooters Association, a friendly sounding name designed to earn the trust of gun owners and hunters. The reality is that AHSA is nothing more than the enemy in camouflage.

At first glance, everything about AHSA sounds just fine. They even have one useful tool on the website, a history of wildlife conservation laws in America--strange thing is it was lifted nearly word for word from http://www.nraila.org/.

UPDATE: Previous references #1 and #2.

NRA-ILA Newsfeed

There is supposed to be a newsfeed from the NRA-ILA in the sidebar. For some reason, it has the bad habit of disappearing for hours at a time. So when the sidebar title says "Newsfeeds," it isn't a typo. There really should be two newsfeeds there.

Bittersweet stoplight update

Reference previous posts here and here. According to the portable flashing sign on highway 87 now, the stoplight will go into operation on Tuesday 8/16. It has been about three years since the extension to FM 1346 turned this into a four-way intersection which has been plagued with numerous accidents and more than one death.

I am convinced that if a real stoplight had been installed at this intersection in the beginning, as it should have, many of these accidents would have been prevented simply because of better traffic control. I also believe there would be a very good possibility that that little girl would not have been killed.

When this highway extension first opened, and I was utterly astounded to see that they were not going to put a stoplight there, the first thing I said to my wife was, "I wonder who will have to die before they put up a real stoplight." Unfortunately, now we know.

Some readers of this blog might be wondering why I'm harping on this. I guess this is the only way I can say "I told you so, you stupid !@#$%&* idiots." The little girl who lost her life here was the same age as my daughter, and they attended pre-K at the same time, though in different classes. I was horrified at the time it happened, and writing this has made me realize the horror still hasn't worn off very much.

A notable ruling for Mississippi

The Clarion-Ledger reports:

A faulty jury instruction prevented Ardes Johnson from being allowed to argue that he killed a man in self-defense, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled.

The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out Johnson's 2004 murder conviction and life sentence in Bolivar County Circuit Court.

Johnson was convicted in the 2003 stabbing death of Terrell Davis outside a store in Shelby.

Johnson claimed at trial that Davis had threatened him by displaying a gang sign and he felt his life was in danger.

Johnson said he was carrying a folding knife for protection.

Johnson also claimed he was defending Shirley Landrum, Davis' girlfriend, after she was struck by Davis.

On appeal, Johnson challenged a 'pre-arming' instruction given by the judge to the jury.

In the instruction the judge told jurors that if 'a person provokes a difficulty, arming himself in advance and intending, if necessary, to use his weapon and overcome his adversary, he becomes the aggressor and deprives himself of the right of self-defense.'

Chief Justice Jim Smith, writing for the Supreme Court, said the instruction deprived Johnson of his claim of self-defense.

'The type of pre-arming instructions has repeatedly been denounced by this court,' Smith said.

This goofball judge thinks that preparing oneself for any eventual violent attack is the same as provoking attack. Thank goodness a higher authority had the sense to tell him he was wrong.

August Range Report

I did manage to get to the range today, taking with me the XD40 and the Single-Six. Shooting the XD went pretty much as expected. I used up 100 rounds of Wolf Polyformance plus 20 rounds of Winchester JHP without a single problem. The reloads that a friend recently gave me were another story. Now at 300 rounds plus, I think the XD is sufficiently broken in and has proven itself reliable, as long as I'm using decent factory ammo and not reloads. I just need to keep working on it to improve my accuracy. I'm always kind of worried that I'm going to look like a real incompetent at a public range, but I went straight to the 15 yard line. Four other guys there were shooting at the 7 yard line and were doing no better than I at half the distance. So I guess I was doing okay.

The Single-Six was a problem. I don't know how, when, or why, but the sights were way off (high and to the left). Another kind soul there gave me one of his Shoot-N-See targets so I could see those tiny .22 holes, and it helped, but by the time I had started to get the hits where I wanted them I had run out of ammo. I think I might even go out in my big "back yard" later today or tomorrow and work on it some more. At least my grouping with this gun was quite good, I just had to keep adjusting the sights and never did get it into the center where I was aiming.

One note about this range, Bullet Hole Shooting Range. They hold CHL classes every Saturday (and CHL renewal classes every Sunday). There must have been about 30 people there for the class today (the shooting qualification for which is held on a separate range from the "public" range). If they have that many there every Saturday...wow. That's a lot of people getting CHL's.