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Time To Get Kilted!

Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012 is upon us, folks! Please donate what you can on the following links.       If you blog, please pass this on to your readers. Share with your Facebook friends, Tweet it, and go accost random strangers about it. Kilted pics to follow…

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Calling All EMS, Fire and Gun Bloggers!

Have you signed up for the Kilted to Kick Cancer fundraising challenge? Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012 is less than 39 hours away. We've already raised $711, and the challenge hasn't even begun yet! Remember that donations between 00:01 CST on September 1 and 23:59 September 30 count towards your total for the fundraising challenge, but you're free to start ...

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Kilted to Kick Cancer: The Knives!

Today's prize package highlight for the Kilted to Kick Cancer fundraising challenge is this beauty from Ka Bar Knives:   Since 1942, the name "Ka Bar" has been synonymous with survival knives, and many of our servicemen who carried one can attest to their quality. The Ka Bar Black Tanto carries on that tradition of excellence. We've got one of ...

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Kilted to Kick Cancer: Have You Signed Up?

We're two weeks out from Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012. Have you signed up for the fundraising challenge? Join Team KTKC for LiveStrong here. Join Team KTKC for Prostate Cancer Foundation here. As you can see, the map is filling up. We've got kilted representatitves in seventeen states, and we want to have that map covered in blue by September ...

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A Special Deal For KTKC Participants

Kilted to Kick Cancer sponsor Alt.Kilt has a deal for our kilted army: order any of their kilts between August 15 and September 30, and get 20% off with the promotion code "KTKC." That's a nice chunk of savings on one of Alt.Kilt's products. Of course, if that is still out of your price range, you could always go the ...

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Kilted To Kick Cancer: A Teaser Pic

Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012 is a bare two weeks away. Have you signed up? Join Team KTKC for LiveStrong. Join Team KTKC for Prostate Cancer Foundation. Top three fundraisers get to choose from three prize packages, to which prizes are still being added. Thanks to a generous supporter, we now have a CCW pistol (I'll announce what model in ...

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Valerie’s House

For you EMS types who are active in internet EMS forums and websites, Valerie's House has been set up to raise funds for Valerie DeFrance's expenses while she undergoes cancer treatment. You'll find a link over there at the top of the Blogs I Read Every Day, where it will stay until I receive word that Valerie is both cancer-free ...

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A Guns and Gear Bleg

I'll have a teaser pic for you tomorrow of the Queen Anne dueling pistols in one of the Kilted to Kick Cancer prize packages, but here's an example of what they will look like when finished: The pistols are being built, finished and engraved by professional gunsmiths, and I'll post teaser pics of the final steps of their construction. One ...

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Mustering the Kilted Army

Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012 is a bare three weeks away. Last year, we raised $12,000, and the gun bloggers raised the lion's share of it. This year, y'all really need to step up your game, because the goal is $50,000. We can DO this. You're going to have to step up your game, because I'm throwing down the gauntlet ...

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Time to Strap On Your Kilts!

Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012 is right around the corner, folks! Last year, we raised over $12,000. This year, the goal is $50,000. I know it's a lofty one, but it can be done. See that map? Those blue states represent the Kilted Army (okay, maybe right now it's just a platoon) prepared to strap on their kilts come September ...

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Kilted To Kick Cancer: A Deal’s A Deal

Last year, I promised readers that if they'd put me over the top in the Kilted to Kick Cancer Fundraising Challenge, I'd post a pisture of myself in drag, and leave it on my blog for a month. Well, it took my old boss forever to find it, but a deal's a deal. Here I am in all my drag ...

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Kilted to Kick Cancer: Gun Nuts Edition

Today, Caleb is shooting the 2012 Bianchi Cup… wearing a kilt. He’s donating $1 for every X he shoots, and Todd G. Of Pistol Training.com is matching his donation to LiveStrong. Pro shooter Julie Golob is kicking in $5 for every X that Caleb shoots. By the end of the day, the shooting community will have added several hundred more ...

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Kilted To Kick Cancer, Part The Second

Prostate Cancer Awareness month and Kilted to Kick Cancer 2012 is only four months away. Have you got your kilt? Last year's campain raised roughly $11,000, or will as soon as Caleb gets through shooting the Bianchi Cup in a couple of weeks.  For every X Caleb shoots in both classes at Bianchi cup, he's donating $1 to LiveStrong, and ...

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