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DUE TO BUDGET CUTS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATLEY! NEW OFFICE POLICY Dress Code: 1) You are advised to come to work dressed according to your salary. 2) If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we will assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a raise. 3) If you dress poorly, you need to learn to manage your money better, so that you may buy nicer clothes, and therefore you do not need a raise. 4) If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and therefore you do not need a raise. Sick Days: We will no longer accept a doctor's statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work. Personal Days: Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturdays & Sundays. Bereavement Leave: This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for dead friends, relatives or co-workers. Every effort should be made to have non-employees atten...

A link here to a story about local municipalities fighting back against large internet providers. Even though I found this link from a Facebook friend (who is a fellow gun-owner), it is a small world. Mr. DePriest mentioned in the article was a co-worker of my Pops for over 30 years.

Thanks to this blog for linking to this story . Very good advice on teaching the ladies to shoot. Or anyone for that matter.

Per State Senator Stacey Campfield's blog: the red light camera bill passed through the House transportation committee. I just wish this bill had more teeth. These red light cameras are nothing but revenue generators, and that means they are a tax. As such, they are being used unconstitutionally.

Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl was fired yesterday. While I will not defend what he did, the fact is that Tennessee will be another 5+ years before they can get a coach of comparable abilities. Then add in the time factor to get the program back up to snuff, and it becomes apparent that the Tennessee mens' basketball program will be in the toilet for 10 years or more. --- I'll go on record as one of the first to go this way - Tennessee Athletic director Mike Hamilton has managed in the last few years to: - Fire the best head football coach the program has seen since General Neyland. - Hire Lane Kiffin (enough said?) - Cover for Lane Kiffin when he broke NCAA rules. - Not cover for Pearl when he broke NCAA rules (and let's face it, all the good teams bend the rules to great lengths). - Fire the best basketball coach the mens' program has ever had. I say we get rid of Athletic Director Mike Hamilton.

I hereby nominate this quote as the best 2A quote of the year: I hear a lot about "compromise" from your camp ... except, it's not compromise. Let's say I have this cake. It is a very nice cake, with "GUN RIGHTS" written across the top in lovely floral icing. Along you come and say, "Give me that cake." I say, "No, it's my cake." You say, "Let's compromise. Give me half." I respond by asking what I get out of this compromise, and you reply that I get to keep half of my cake. Okay, we compromise. Let us call this compromise The National Firearms Act of 1934. There I am with my half of the cake, and you walk back up and say, "Give me that cake." I say, "No, it's my cake." You say, "Let's compromise." What do I get out of this compromise? Why, I get to keep half of what's left of the cake I already own. So, we have your compromise -- let us call this ...

I came across this questionnaire , put out there by a gun-grabber, thanks in part to this blog , and this one . My answers: 1. Do you believe that criminals and domestic abusers should be able to buy guns without background checks? Premise of the question is faulty. Criminals should be behind bars. This would be more than sufficient to prevent them from buying guns. 2. What is your proposal for keeping guns away from criminals, domestic abusers, terrorists and dangerously mentally ill people? Again, a leading question with a faulty premise. Since it is impossible to tell who might become a criminal, we clearly cannot preclude those without a criminal record from purchasing any legal object. Those who have committed a crime should be punished. Persons in prison are not capable of purchasing firearms… or much else for that matter. 3. Do you believe that a background check infringes on your constitutional right to "keep and bear ar...

When the TN legislature passed the so-called "guns in bars" bill, the liberal media was all up in arms about it. One thing they claimed is that the law would sway people away from TN. Evidently, that didn't happen . Here's another blog about it. Also, they claimed that bar and restaurant revenues would be adversely affected. That didn't happen , either. In fact, my hometown of Mt. Juliet saw tax revenues raise across the board.

I will teach anybody - for free - how to shoot, and how to shoot 4 MOA. At present, I can do this with enough advanced notice, on a weekend. To be fair, tell me what you want, because the way I see it, you can get one of two things, or both: 1. How to shoot 4 MOA or better.  I will teach you this in an afternoon or less. Shooting, like at Appleseed, will be done at 25 meters. If there will only be one or two of you, I'll bring the rifles. This will be at your pace ... not in a rushed manner. If you want, you can learn how to shoot from field positions. Or, you can shoot from a supported position. I'll teach you both, or either. Wanna learn how to use a sling? I'll show you. And I'll teach at your pace... not the pace of a group. Basic "How to shoot" I will teach you this, in my home, in an afternoon or less. Again, free of charge. The Catch You must bring the ammo. I'll teach for free, but your investment is the ammo. Acceptable ammo: ...

I've been advised by several instructors in Appleseed that they are in the middle of a meltdown in IL. Fred has banned several instructors. At the heart of it is the "firing" of "The Guy" last fall. Guy and Fred had it out. Guy had been doing a lot of Appleseeds, and Fred kept trying to stick his nose in. Guy kept hearing what needed to be done to improve things, and implemented it. Fred and his gang of Master Instructors kept trying to butt in and force the "traditional" Appleseed instruction. The instructors in IL, some very high ranking, were all (or mostly) from the lineage of "The Guy." In the words of Fred: "If you add clean water to dirty water, you end up with dirty water." Some of Fred's cronies had suggested: "burning Illinois to the ground and starting fresh." They were also involved (many crony-instructors known to be untrustworthy) by way of forwarding communications marked as be...

As always: SPOILERS! Friday night, the Mrs. and I saw " Battle: Los Angeles ." Setting: The film is set in the present. The plot centers around a platoon of Marines sent to help fight the threat of an alien attack. Summary: The story starts with the premise that you know that aliens are attacking Earth. Let's face it, if you wanted to see this movie, you already knew that. There are several scenes that establish the basics, but not much more. It seems to be as if they wanted to give the viewer enough information, but not too much. The idea is that if you were there, that's about how much you would know. Soon, we meet our heroes. The main character is a Marine Staff Sergeant who is about to retire from service. Naturally, as the attack happens, he is placed second-in-command of a platoon of Marines who are led by a very young, inexperienced Lieutenant. This is typical in the infantry - new 2nd Lieutenants are paired with seasoned Sergeants, as a sort of lear...

Last year, I blogged about my thoughts on the NCAA basketball tournament . It seems that after the tournament last year, the NCAA decided to add three more teams to the mix, and call the resulting games the "First Four." This year, the Selection Committee did not completely select small conference champions for the four play-in games. That happened for two of the first round games. The other two games are to be played by four at-large bids. According to this link , VCU and USC will play to see who earns the 11-seed and who will, therefore, play Georgetown in the newly-renamed "Second Round." Similarly, UAB and Clemson will face each other to determine the 12-seed spot that will play West Virginia in the Second Round. In a demeaning move, Arkansas-Little Rock will be forced to play North Carolina-Asheville. The "winner" will get to be trounced against a powerful Pittsburgh team. In the same fashion, Texax-San Antonio and Alabama State will have th...

Link . Warning - some adult language.

We are all familiar with how the leftists in WI fight - with pure cowardice by running away. Well, the leftist cowardice extends to other states, as well. In Oregon , leftists are kicking a Republican Congressional candidate's children out of college - for no reason other than being his kin.

WI Governor Scott Walker and the Republican led Senate have won the fight against the cowardly Democrats, who fled the state to try to prevent a vote on Unions. In a forced move, they stripped the budgetary constraints out of the bill, and passed it. WI law mandates that a quorum be met on all bills with financial impact. As long as the bill had a financial impact, and no quorum could be reached due to the cowardice of the Democrats running out of state, there was no way to pass the measure. By stripping the financial impact out of the bill, no quorum was needed and the bill was easily and quickly passed.

This is why I am leaving Bank of America, and why I think you might want to do the same. 1. They cater to illegal immigrants . (Pretty bad when even Snopes says it's true). 2. Shady mortgage practices. 3. Shady credit card practices. 4. Shady bank account practices. I have experienced each of these, and will detail them. I know, I should have left earlier, but I didn't - and I paid the price for that. Now I put these facts out to the public for all to see: 2010 I receive my September Statement on my mortgage. It shows the mortgage payment for August was not received and I am past-due. Problem is, I paid online in August and had proof. BOA has done this to others. And sometimes worse . Sad thing is, I took out the mortgage with Countrywide, and never had any problems from them. 2009 My checking account is hit with $15 fees on several occasions for my balance dipping below $1000. Problem is, this had happened before (see below) and I made sure it wouldn...

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A man who murdered a 5-year-old child, then ate the child , is set to get out of prison soon. The father says he will kill the murderer if the man gets out of prison early: "John Foreman said in an interview Monday with WPRO-AM radio that he will kill convicted murderer Michael Woodmansee "as aggressively and as painfully" as he killed his son if Woodmansee is released from prison early." I'll hold the criminal down for ya, man. 

The owner of the "Heart Attack Grill" has passed away . He was 29 years old. The Heart Attack Grill offers free food for people over 350 pounds. I wonder if they give drunks a drink?

Americans near the US - Mexico border have been forced to take up arms to protect themselves. This is part of the reason for the 2nd Amendment. The other part is for the possibility of a tyrannical government. Thankfully, we have ballots to use before it gets that bad.

A man broke into a home to rob the place. The homeowner comes home, and the robber locks himself in the bathroom... then calls the police - afraid the homeowner has a gun. Fortunately, the criminal was the one arrested.

Recently declassified documents from the 1960's show a big part of the thought process as to why the M16 was adopted over the M1 and M14 . Among the major considerations, it was found that most engagements took place at ranges under 100 yards. Almost no engagements took place beyond 300 yards. It would be reasonable to presume that of the engagements beyond 300 yards, most of those were conducted via sniper fire, or similar. Similarly, the following was observed: "A study of the data led to the following conclusions: (1) Hit effectiveness with the M-1 rifle is satisfactory only up to 100 yds. and declines rapidly to low order at 300 yds., the general limit for battlefield rifle engagements; (2) a pattern-dispersion principle in the hand weapon would tend to compensate for human aiming errors and increase hits at ranges up to 300 yds.; and (3) missiles with smaller caliber than standard could be used without loss in wounding effects and with logistical ad...

A reader has asked for me to explain my thoughts on the goings-on in Wisconsin.To be fair, I've touched on the matter, but not in detail . For those who have been living under a rock , there have been protests in Wisconsin. At the heart of the matter, Governor Scott Walker has proposed that state union employees be forced to pay about 5% toward their pensions, and about 14% toward their health care. For the average state union worker, this would not be devastating. It would be normal. 5% towards retirement is analogous to 401k's at many private employers. And the 14% toward healthcare coverage works out to be about $120 per pay period for a family of four. I pay $140. Hardly getting their legs cut out from under them. Then comes the damning evidence. 1. President Obama stuck his nose in.  You know this guy can't get it right . Remember when he said the police " acted stupidly " (for arresting a man who had jimmied into a house!?!?). Obama has sent his cr...

Per " Legally Armed ," TN Handgun Carry Permits are over 300,000. That's one for every 20 residents. Since nearly a quarter of our reported residents are under age 18, that means about 1 in 16 adults in the  population have a HCP.