It’s been THAT kind of week…

Just waiting for something like this to show up in the inbox…

TO ALL EMPLOYEES [EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY]


DRESS CODE 
-It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary. If we see you wearing Prada shoes and carrying a Gucci bag, we assume you are doing well financially and therefore do not need a pay raise.

-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 pay raise.

-If you dress just right, you are right where you need to be and therefore you do not need a pay raise.


SICK DAYS
-We will no longer accept a doctor’s certificate as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.


HOLIDAY DAYS 
-Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturday and Sunday.


COMPASSIONATE 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 attend to the arrangements. In rare cases where employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should be scheduled in the late afternoon. We will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour and subsequently leave one hour early.


TOILET USE 
-Entirely too much time is being spent in the toilet. There is now a strict three minute time limit in the cubicles.

-At the end of three minutes, an alarm will sound, the toilet paper roll will retract, the cubicle door will open, and your picture will be taken.

-After your second offence, your picture will be posted on the company notice board under the “Chronic Offenders” category.

-Anyone caught smiling in the picture will be sanctioned under the company’s mental health policy.


LUNCH BREAK 
-Skinny people get 30 minutes for lunch, as they need to eat more so that they can look healthy.

-Normal size people get 15 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to maintain their average figure.

-Chubby people get 5 minutes for lunch, because that’s all the time needed to drink a Slim-Fast.


SURGERY
As long as you are an employee here, you need all your organs. You should not consider removing anything. We hired you intact. To have something removed constitutes a breach of employment.


SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND WORKPLACE BULLYING
-Any employee caught filing complaints to these matters will be framed and terminated expeditiously.


INTERNET USAGE
All personal Internet usage will be recorded and charges will be deducted from your bonus (if any) and if we decide not to give you any, charges will be deducted from your salary. Note: charges applicable as $3 per minute as we have a fast connection.

-73% of staff will not be entitled to any salary for next 3 months as their Internet charges have exceeded their 3 months salary.


PREGNANCY
-In the event of labour pains, you will be allowed to go to the first aid room when the pains are FIVE MINUTES apart. If it is false labour, you will have to take an hour’s leave without pay.


DEATH
This will be accepted as an excuse, BUT two weeks’ notice is required as we feel it is your duty to teach someone your job.


Thank you for your loyalty to our company. Remember we are an employer of choice and we are here to provide a positive employment experience. Therefore, all questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternation and input should be directed elsewhere.


Regards, HR Department

Male Cancer Facts…

Male specific cancers don’t just happen to old men…


Testicular Cancer Facts:
 •It most often affects men between ages 20 and 39.
 •It affects 8,000 men a year, and kills 390 of them.
 •It is the most common form of cancer in men ages 15-34.
 •95% of cases can be cured if detected early.

Prostate Cancer Facts:
 •About 240,890 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in 2012.
 •About 33,720 men will die of prostate cancer in 2012.
 •About 1 man in 6 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime.
 •More than 2 million men in the United States who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point are still alive today.
 •Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer.
 •About 1 man in 36 will die of prostate cancer.

Bill tells his story of surviving Prostate cancer HERE. Thankfully he’s fully recovered…

If you’re so inclined, hit the logos above this post in the header a donate to your cause of choice.  The life you help save just might be yours or your loved ones!

On the road… Again… Still…

If this is Wednesday, and it’s raining, and the sun is shining and I’m seeing rainbows, it MUST be Hawaii… Or Charlotte and Obummer is farting rainbows again…


And the idjit drivers… Coming back to the hotel this afternoon, six lanes of traffic (3 each way), I’m in the far right lane at a light.  It changes and the pickup in the middle lane suddenly turns LEFT across two lanes, plus 3 lanes coming the other way, and drives merrily up the side street!!!

And about three blocks later, surfer dude on a bicycle comes tooling up to the cross intersection, and proceeds to ride right on out into cross traffic!!! And he lived too!!!

 They’re either charmed or smokin something… sigh…

Borderless…

This one needs to be watched by EVERYBODY, not just those on the Southern Border!  Those folks are already living it!!!

NRA: Borderless

This IS coming to a town/city near you, and sooner rather than later!

OR, there is the other option…


h/t JP and others

Lemme get this straight..


We’re going to be “gifted” with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don’t, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people,without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a  Congress that didn’t read it (but exempted themselves from it), and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we’ll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a congress which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by an obese surgeon general and financed by a country that’s broke!!

What the hell could possibly go wrong???

Sigh…

Light blogging/commenting…

No connectivity tonight… Maybe tomorrow…

Go read the folks on the sidebar.

Posted from my iPhone.

Contrasting Ads…

What a difference 26 years makes…

This first one is from 1984, with President Reagan running for a second term. The Reagan reelection campaign set the standard for modern political advertising with its fabled “Morning in America” series… This one is considered one of the best political ads ever done!



And this one is this year…



Quite a contrast isn’t it?

Need I say more?  I don’t think so.

VOTE on Nov 6th, I don’t care WHO you vote for, but please exercise your rights!

Empty Chair, Empty Suit…

I don’t see much difference… Don’t know about y’all…


Actually, I’d PREFER the empty chair, less chance of him screwing anything else up!!!

Just sayin…

Care and Feeding…

Let me start by saying this is what “I” do, each person has their own ways; but based on a conversation yesterday, I’m offering this up for comments/criticism…  OBTW, it was the Airdales against the SWOs and the Army…

How often do you take care of your EDCs???

Daily, weekly, monthly, 12th of never???

Do you have a plan? A vague thought? When ever your remember it? Or it gets too dirty to shoot anymore?

Being an old fart, and growing up with blued/wood furniture guns I’m ‘paranoid’ about rust. Any time it rains/gun gets wet, it gets wiped down at the minimum. 

Weekly (Sunday night), I bore snake the gun, lube the rails and wipe it down with a silicon cloth.  I also change out mags (both in the gun and the spare), unloading the old and loading new.  I also (now) check for primer strikes, condition of the rounds (set back), and wipe down and condition check the holster and belt too.

Monthly first weekend of the month, (if I haven’t shot in the interim), full cleaning, function check, dry fire practice with a Laserlyte from various carrys (belt, with/without jacket, ankle).

Why?  Because I want my tools to WORK!  Everybody hears about the cop or F-I-B who shows up for qualification with the gun corroded into the holster…

Also, being an ex-aviator, we were always taught attention to detail!!! Cause if you didn’t the probablility was you’d end up DEAD!

And maintenance is a routine operation in the aviation world. 

Now that the pistol is clean, what about the light?  How long since you’ve wiped it down?  Changed the batteries? Made sure it works???

Now I will tell you I consider electronics as nothing more than holders for dead batteries (too many years of cheap military goose neck flashlights and strobes that seemed to fail in the first 30 seconds)…

I figured I use my EDC flashlights on an average of 10 minutes a week, for a variety of reasons.  So every three months, I change the battery(s); this is to save me from the dead battery syndrome, and if worst comes to worst I’m going to have at least a ‘half’ charge as the worst case average. 

And knives??? Same questions, but since I’m lazy, go over to EIA’s blog HERE, on care and feeding of knives… He lays it out well, and with options.

Ammo? How old IS that ammo in your EDC?  The worst I’ve seen was my own family, my uncle left me a 1917, and I picked it up in the mid-90s from his wife.  It was still loaded!!! And the ammo, you might ask?  WCC 1943!!!

So that ammo had been in the gun for 50 years!  We did go ‘test’ it, and it fired, but I swear one round just barely made it out of the barrel!  It hit the ground about 2 feet in front of the target!!!   

Last but not least, I try to shoot both mags of carry ammo at least once a quarter through both the primary carry and the BUG.  That forces me to cycle through ammo on a fairly routine basis!

What did I miss?  Or what do you do differently???

Comments/criticism??? 

Kilted to Kick Cancer Bleg…

As you’ve noticed, there’s something new at the top of the header.  It’s that time of year, and once again I’m willing to be humiliated by Ambulance Driver, Jay from MArooned and others to try to get a few donations to support men’s cancer issues…

We don’t have a Komen for the Cure on the men’s side, so this drive was put together by some Paramedics and some of us gun bloggers.  Last year we raised over $11,000 in about three weeks. 

Our goal this year is $50,000 in a month.  The two ‘options’ are the Prostate Cancer Society (the KTKC banner), which targets specifically prostate cancer, the other option LiveStrong (the LiveStrong banner) supports testicular cancer.

It IS important for men to get checked, especially as we get older.

My ex-Father-in-law has advanced prostate cancer, and he is untreatable at this time.  He’s basically waiting for the cancer to take him…

He’d never gotten checked, nor had a physical in the past 10 years…

One of my co-workers is now a prostate cancer survivor, based on his ‘wellness’ physical last year. His PSA was 11ng/mL where 4-6 is considered normal for his age.

He had the biopsy, the chemo and is now back working and looking forward to many more healthy years!

NONE of the donations come to us, they all go directly to the selected agency.  If you can, throw a buck or two their way. 

Thanks for taking the time to read this! If nothing else, get checked; for the ladies, get your hubbies checked!!!
 
Who knows, the life you save later just ‘might’ be your own, or somebody important to you…