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Dr. Pepper Snapple Group.   After ten years with the company It is disappointing it went down like this.   The snitch wasn't involved in my transactions, but he was involved with the other person. He lost his job, and turned belly up on everything that had ever occurred in the building. It led to a massive investigation. That is the reason so many folks went down. The guy I had dealt with lied through his teeth about the whole thing, and they had him dead to rights, because everyone else went in and told the truth. At that point no one had lost their jobs. I went in and was uncooperative until I knew what the situation was and what the accusations were. Because I refused to answer questions that they already knew the answers to and responded in kind it was taken that I was being dishonest. Even after I told them the truth, because of the tone and hostility it was taken that I was lying because I was not forthcoming. Not that it made a difference in regards to dishonesty, as the final charges for termination were dishonesty and possession/transfer on my termination notice.   It was after that that heads started rolling. At the end of the day anyone that had bought or sold anything 'prohibited' at work lost their job. I head a rumor that one guy is gone over a pocket knife. But that is just a rumor. A large portion of the management team is out of work this afternoon.    With the recent climate and attitude towards gun owners, I am certain this is the new normal.   In the last ten years I have bought, sold and traded well over a dozen firearms at work. I didn't roll on anyone, and only one person I had a transaction with lost his job, and it is him that lead to me. It was something I took completely for granted as we were very often doing this, and I would say that less than a third of the folks involved lost their jobs. So the good news is that not everyone turned on others. That is at least one good thing.   Like I said before, this is just a heads up for anyone like me that thought this was a practice that corporations would look the other way on.

I have been lurking lately, but life took a recent rough turn for me this morning and I thought I would take the time to tell my story as a cautionary tale.   We are all firearms enthusiasts, and collectors, and often times I see right here on the site folks talk about scoffing at the rules of their employers. Well, I was one of those. But as it turns out, employers take that stuff serious.   I had entered into several transactions with a coworker over the last several years, buying, selling horsetrading and the like. He came across some good deals from time to time, and passed them on. Well turns out that as a supervisor he wound up pissing someone off on his crew and they called HR and reported the situation. So even though I sold him an AR over a year ago, work took that as enough to terminate me for 'possession and transfer of a firearm on company property.' The fact that I was one of ten folks let go today for the same offense didn't really soften the blow. I had been with the company for ten years.   It is what it is, and I understand that I broke the rules, so don't take this to seem like I am blaming anyone. Well, other than myself.   I am just taking the time to let others that thought like myself that little infractions don't matter, well, they do.   I haven't made my mind up if I will fight it, it was a pretty rough time and a lot of things were said in the heat of the moment that could possibly hurt me, but it is what it is.             With that said, if anyone knows of a Dispatch/Warehouse/logistics position in the Louisville Kentucky area, let me know. I am fluent in UPS Roadnet and Fleetloader, and versed in AS400 with minimal knowledge of SAP. Ten years experience.

Well, except for the whole happening in Australia thing...

We went out last month to celebrate buying our first house and my birthday. We go to Texas Roadhouse because that is our usual haunt. As we are eating my daughter mentions that we should tell the waitress that it was my birthday.   I looked my daughter dead in the eye and told her that I didn't care how many witnesses there were, if she breathed that sentiment again, I would kill her where she sat.

I am not sure how I feel about the movies. I am a fan of books because they fill a niche that movies can't. The depth is deeper, you as the reader picture the characters. There is so much more that can be done in a book that just can't happen in a movie. That is why I think this story just won't be done justice. I am not saying they can't make a good movie out of it, but I don't think it will be as good as the book.   I think one of the Hemsworth brothers could be Roland. I am not sure if they have the proper age/weathered look to them though. I think the middle one could do it, but he is too young. The eyes are the most important part. They have to be that proper blue.   I like Aaron Paul as Eddie.   Zoe Saldana could be a good Susannah.

Texas Roadhouse is the only steak place I frequent anymore. They have the consistently best steak.   In ten years they have messed up one steak, and that was for my daughter, as she also only eats her steak medium rare like her father. They brought her a medium and she wouldn't eat it. When the waiter asked her was was wrong, she told him, and he brought her a proper steak in minutes. He got a decent tip for that.

My wife hates me, all spiders are relocated to the outdoors. No genocide in the house. We have a spider removal system specifically for the purpose. Well, an old Pringles can, but it does what it does.   Now on that flip side, if my dog or one of the cats; well, the kitten, the old maid won't eat bugs anymore; spots an insect in the domain, they will eat it post haste. I allow that to happen, as it is just nature taking it's course.

With the bottom having fallen out of that market since the last big upswing, it may in fact be that ARs and accessories are no longer profitable. This quarter.

IT is like witchcraft. When it works, no one acknowledges that you had anything to do with it, and when it doesn't, they want to burn you at the stake.

"Send him back to the store to buy an iMac, it is a computer especially made for idiots, er, Mommies and Daddies..."

I would say the RIA would be a better choice. What is better to start out with as your first gun than a 1911?   Get him an apple pie and a baseball glove too, an American Trifecta.

Well if they can find full auto weapons on the trees in Georgia, I am sure they will find the same in California.

Doesn't look bad at all to me. I have bought 'good' milsurps before that are in worse shape.

    When I was a lad we had a Mustang that required a minimum of two people to operate. Whoever road shotgun operated the 'throttle wrench.' As the throttle cable had broken, we tied a wire off to a wrench and attached it to the carburetor. It was a very valuable lesson in communication.   "Upshift, now!"   *reduce throttle*   "Done!"   *increase throttle*     Now of course, the lights were a completely different matter, and in order to activate the rear brake lights, you needed a second person the the back seats to touch the bare wires together.   This would lead to a three man synchronization that to this day I haven't seen matched without years of training.   "Downshifting!"   *reduce throttle*   "Braking!"   *sparking wires from the backseat*   "Complete stop!"   *release throttle"   *constant sparking*   "Taking off!"   *increase throttle greatly*   *no sparking*       The car was a death trap. You had to start it from popping off the solenoid, and the rag bushing in the steering column was gone, which meant you had 45* of dead air from side to side before reaction, the floorboards didn't exist, but the road signs kept you from stepping through, most of the time.                     Now, looking back as a mostly responsible adult, I am appalled at my actions, but at the time, just an old redneck kid deep in the woods, it was the time of my life. I had a car, and I was free.

There is an airsoft replica of any gun you could want to make a holster of. There is a HUGE following of airsoft.

Congrats!

A lot of the newer stuff coming out from Tooth and Nail recently is good. Icon for Hire, The Letter Black, Thousand Foot Krutch. Then of course you have the bands that have receive recognitions such as Skillet, POD and Switchfoot. A lot of folks discount some really good music because of the labels.

I like a lot of the newer Newsboys stuff since Tait joined them.

It isn't a 'deal' if you aren't happy with it.

I don't need religion to tell me right from wrong. All I have to do is look into my wife and daughter's eyes. That is who I answer to. No one else.             I am not a perfect man. I am a man. I am a flawed human being. And a religious person should respect that we all are. A religious person should also know better than to judge. It is not their place.             I am not anti religion. I was raised with religion. I spent a lot of time in church. However it is the rampant hypocrisy that led me to leave organized religion. I now identify as an agnostic. Through my life I was raised as a LDS, I have spent time with Presbyterian, Southern Baptist and Lutheran. I spent many summers in High School at King College preparing for attendance. I have played in several Christian bands, owned nearly every album put out by Audio Adrenaline, DC Talk, and Newsboys. I remember some of Disciples first shows in Knoxville, followed the Newsboys half way across the country for their Take Me To Your Leader tour. I remember when Jars of Clay didn't have drum in their music do to their beliefs. I am far from a religion expert, but suffice it to say, I have experienced it. Call it a crisis of faith, tell me the devil made me do it, but I have never doubted my path.     Now I know that my comments will rub a lot of folks the wrong way. I am certain that some folks will have plenty of well meaning advice, or even a bit of ire, but remember, it is my life to live, just as yours is yours.

Pretty much anything today can come with all the options you are mentioning.   Myself I am loyal to Ford and Toyota. They are the two makes that have proven themselves to me personally. I have a 25 year old Toyota that has been beat to death several times and always keeps living, and my wife and I both drive late model Fords (Mustang and Fiesta) that have been very solid and reliable. Her Fiesta came with a lot of bells and whistles. In dash nav, Bluetooth, Sync, XM, traction control, 6" touch screen, mood lighting, etc. That is not something you expect in the cheapest/most basic car in a manufacture's line-up.   While I am not sure that Ford has something off road based in an SUV, they do have plenty of AWD offerings.

I have a Micro Eagle which is a Kevin pistol. I am not sure they make a smaller .380. It isn't exactly light at almost 14oz, it is full metal. However, due to it's size, a pocket will swallow it.   It is also worth noting that it is a handful when it goes bang, the epitome of a carry a lot, shoot a little gun.

That is the point I am at. If I don't know the number, I don't answer.   The one that gets me is now, whenever I make a purchase, someone from the company wants to call me and survey me about my experience. They then call a dozen times, annoying the piss out of me. Buy a car? Ten phone calls and a hundred emails. Buy a mattress? Ten phone calls.   The one that really pissed me off though was when we had our cable service moved, and the very next day a customer service representative showed up on my door step and asked to come in and inspect the work. I don't think he liked my response to get the hell off my porch. 

Scam all the way.

I just bought a house a few weeks ago. We had a few hiccups with the appraiser, while the house appraised well above asking, there were issues with the yard that they refused to sign off on until it was fixed.   Our house was on the market a matter of days before we made our offer at asking. In the time it took us to close we watched ten homes in the neighborhood get listed well above ours (for less home too) and be removed from the market in days. I am assuming they sold.   I can't stress the importance of a good agent. Our home was a FSBO and that was an honest nightmare, though it did work out in our favor. Had the seller been using an agent I do think the process would have been several week shorter.