Male Cancer Facts…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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..

Posted on by March 6, 2013

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…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
No connectivity tonight… Maybe tomorrow…

Go read the folks on the sidebar.

Posted from my iPhone.

Contrasting Ads…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

Posted on by March 6, 2013
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…

 

Sigh…

Posted on by March 6, 2013

Kalifornia is at it again…

“The state Senate on Wednesday approved a measure allowing up to 450,000 illegal immigrants in California to get state driver’s licenses once they are awarded work permits under a new federal program providing a reprieve from deportation.”

Be prepared for more accidents and higher premiums, Californicators!

Full article HERE!

h/t JP