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It’s September 1st, which means it’s time for Kilted to Kick Cancer (link to my donation page).  Unfortunately, I’m too busy being at Dragoncon to do a proper post.  For the time being, I’ll just link to a YouTube vid of what should be the theme song:

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If you guys donate enough money, I may post a picture of Wizard in a kilt.  Yes, it will be silly (and yes, Wizard can probably guess which picture it is).  No, I haven’t discussed this with him yet.

By the way, here’s the initial post from last year.  It should work until I have time to upload new photos/have brain cells.

I present to you two buddies being silly:

I know I keep promising actual content and failing to deliver.  Wizard will probably lock me out of this thing soon if I keep this up.  Sadly, I’m going to this little convention called Dragoncon tomorrow, won’t be back until Tuesday, and then I’m heading to Outsidecon that Friday.  So… new content from me probably won’t be coming soon.

Actual Headline: Williamson Co. suspects’ cases dismissed after clerical error
Accurate Headline: Williamson Co. suspects’ cases dismissed after 4th Amendment violations.

Actual Headline: Sen. Corker criticized for working with Democrats
Accurate Headline: Sen. Corker criticized for practically being a Democrat

Actual Headline: No Explosive Device Found In Murfreesboro Home
Accurate Headline: Ex-girlfriend files false police report, causes panic.

Actual Headline: Woman says home show used her photo without permission
Accurate Headline: Woman doesn’t read fine print for contest, gets upset.

Actual Headline: Rutherford schools asked to replace LGBT posters
Accurate Headline: Rutherford schools asked to put up LGBT posters

John Kerry complains that it’s “harder to govern people with the internet.”

Also claims that it’s “much harder to organize people, much harder to find the common interest…”

wut

Naienko and I will be making our annual trip to Atlanta for Dragoncon.  I know there’s a few folks that read this that are going.

Anyone interested in meeting up at some point?  Maybe dinner on Thursday?

I’d like to point out that the Hyfin Chest Seals I bought as part of my roll your own IFAK post expire this month.

So, if you bought some back then, check them. They may be expired.

I’m glad to see that Joe and Ry took a class similar to the one oddball and I took a while back. Their class looks much more in-depth than the one we took. I really wish this were more readily available to more people.

I’ve been tossing around the idea of getting with a local EMT, ER Nurse, or some other trauma specialist to to a video series on this stuff. I may even try to get an in-person class together for the NRA Convention here in Nashville in 2015.

Unfortunately, I suspect the reason these classes aren’t more widely available is because the market isn’t asking for them. A local training facility recently stopped offering “tactical medicine” (God how I hate that term) classes due to lack of interest.

If you have the opportunity, please take it.

I was clicking through the headlines this weekend and came across this story:

Employees were cleaning up Wednesday night at Jet’s Pizza on Fort Campbell Boulevard when two men and a woman, all wearing masks, came in through the back door. […]

One employee, who preferred not to be identified, said he had a decision to make.

“Should I grab the machete next to me?” the employee said he wondered.

It was a big pizza knife, but he decided against it, knowing at least one of the guns wasn’t a toy.

“He had a .38 revolver, and I knew that was real, because it was about this far from my face, and I could see the bullets in the cylinder,” the employee said.

Now, all three robbers were armed with handguns (and none were legally allowed to own them, so there’s that), so that employee was absolutely right to not counterattack with a kitchen knife. I’m glad no one was seriously injured (the manager was pistol whipped) and the cops have caught at least one of the perpetrators.

However, this picture that accompanied the story scares the hell out of me:

I’ve mentioned before that the reason I’m a “gun guy” is that a serial killer named Paul Dennis Reid killed two acquaintances of mine in 1997 in separate fast food robberies. He executed his victims by making them lie on the floor face down, having the manager give him the money….and then shooting everyone in the back of the head. So when I saw that picture, I immediately had a flash back.

If Jet’s Pizza rings a bell, it may be because I mentioned that a local franchisee encourages his employees to get their carry permits and protect themselves as needed a couple of years ago. No word on whether or not the owner of this store has a similar policy.

I’m sure the closing of our embassies and the beefing up of security here for a “very specific threat” that has no specific time or target has everything to do with the president’s national security priorities and nothing to do with not wanting his birthday golf party interrupted by an inconveniently timed attack.

Even if it’s not for Trayvon, and Zimmerman isn’t involved, and it’s not in Florida.

I made the mistake of treating the media as an independent reporter of fact in the Zimmerman case. I won’t be making that mistake again.

Things that will help Sharpton et al this time: The kid is actually 14. This may mean that they just use his kindergarten pictures.

Things that won’t: He had jumped a fence and his brother has already referred to him in the media as a “professional burglar.”

This will be one to watch, unfortunately.