The Race Baiter’s CINC, Rev. Al Sharpton is now in the warpath. He is demanding tougher “Civil”  Action to get Zimmerman arrested. The problem with “civil” actions is that the can get quite “uncivil” in a blink of a meth head’s eye.

Having been forcefully invited before to a couple of social dislocations that overwhelmed public services, I can tell you that when your neighborhood goes gaga to the point that Law Enforcement has to withdraw, you better be ready to fend off and survive for at least a week. It may take three days for people to stop looting & burning and the authorities to regain control but seven days of mayhem are not unheard of.

Since you will be incommunicado from your usual supply sources, you should be know if you have enough foodstuffs to feed you and your family at the rate of three meals a day. The person most likely to accurately come up with that calculation is the one that cooks for the family. That person can, with a quick glance figure rapidly if there is enough food & water for 21 meals per person.

Although Social dislocations rarely affect the electrical grid in a wide area, you might be blessed with your local thugs accidentally parking a truck against a pole or setting a fire that will cut the lines in the 2 or 3 block radius that includes your home. That means that you better be sure your 21 meals can be eaten with no energy sources. Or that you have an independent source that can cook a very simple meal. Leave the fancy stuff for when you can actually only worry about the utility bill.

There has to be a secret code within the DNA chain that activates only in case of Mobs and makes the break any window on sight. Mobs apparently hate windows for some unknown reason and this leads to looting and general destruction of your private property. And please let us not forget the pyromaniacs that feel the need to disinfect your home with liberal applications of gasoline and other volatiles and a source of ignition. The great thing about South Florida is that hurricane panels are available everywhere and they are not very costly. It is in my plan that if we are suddenly in a Mob-Day-Out situation, the first thing that goes up will be the hurricane panels for the front of the house (The back & sides have no direct available access to the street plus you always need a way to GTFO in a hurry.

Florida Statutes allow for the use of deadly force to prevent arson. Of all the crap that can go bad in a riot, nothing scares me more than some idiot with a Molotov cocktail in his hand. Fire is not a joke or a prank and some of the biggest multiple death situations in the US have resulted because of fires. As with any defensive situation, distance is our friend and having a weapon that can deliver accurate firepower to long distances with ease has to be number one on your list. If you have not entertained ownership of a shotgun or rifle, you may want to reconsider your strategy. Nothing says “Please move along, nothing to burn here” that a well placed slug or rifle round inside the anatomy of an arsonist. But do not count on having to use the “warning” once, I have personally seen a mob who was being decimated by accurate fire and still tried to loot a bodega. Have enough ammo to make a lasting impression on those with special educational needs.

If you are alone or nobody else in your household is trained in the use of firearms, you will have to do with little sleep. Prepare accordingly. At least get one person in your home to stand as a lookout while you catch a well deserved nap.Make sure that person had had enough rest that he or she will not a fall asleep while you are in Sandman Land.

As for the rest of preparations, following a basic Hurricane Preparedness list should be enough. Depend on nobody but those who live in your family unit as it is not uncommon that neighbors turn idiotic and turn against their neighbors, specially if you had a constant disagreement about the length of the lawn or the dog pooping in somebody’s front yard. Such simple things can be exponentially exaggerated and a less than stable neighbor will use the as an excuse to take you out.

And, of course check the news as much as possible. A well advanced warning is something very much desired in this cases to do the initial defensive set up.

Be ready and pray for the best.

We’ve got cranes fornicating on the front field and it sounds like velociraptors doing jello shots but I’ve grown fond of the sound.

LOLed so hard that my glasses fell off my face. Go read the whole thing!

via Two Rules Of Critter Cohabitation: Part I | The Adaptive Curmudgeon’s Blog.

For the last week or so, I’ve been trying to leave comments on different blogs based on Blogger and I have pretty much given up. Even with the help of top cryptologists, Bloggers keeps saying I cannot read their mumbo jumbo words.

So, sorry guys and gals in Blogger. I hope they fix that crap soon. If not, come to the Dark Side of WordPress, specially if you host on your own.

And I am so getting this book. J.D. consider this my comment on your post 🙂

I think (operative word) that the way comments are being displayed now are a bit more easy on the eyes.

That is all…carry on.

OK, maybe not. But when you do knee-jerk Facebook posting, sometimes what you write is not precisely what you mean.

You have to admit, they are using the same arguments of the OC v CC forum arguments.

I wonder what flavor of foot they are tasting right about now.

Geraldo commented about the stupidity of the hoodie and, as usual got his ass handed over to the point of having to apologize. But question not asked was: Is he right or wrong? Answer: Partially right. The issue is not if the Hoodie is fashionable or belongs to a particular racial segment of the population and criticizing it makes you a racist. It is not the garment but the way it is used: If you are planning on obstructing the view of your face, you may end up dealing with some unpleasant consequences. And it is not racism, it is basic human nature, ingrained in our system. Deal with it.

Were visual animals. About 90% of the input we receive from the world comes through our eyes. Are we afraid of the dark itself because we cannot see. Lack of basic information about some place, some event or somebody put us at unease. The most basic information about a person is what it is reflected in his face so, if you cover it, disguise it or make it hard for somebody else to see it, expect the proper amount of weariness and even aggression.

Our interaction with others is heavily dependent on that visual input and the first thing every human will focus is the face. Humans have seven universally recognizable expressions (fear, anger, surprise, contempt, disgust, happiness, and sadness) that are the basis of such initial interactions and we will react accordingly. If we somebody displaying fear, we will automatically try to search for whatever is causing that fear. A happy face makes you want to share in that happiness and so on.

But when there is no input available such as wearing a mask, a bandana or a hoodie covering most of the face, our lizard brain immediately triggers the alarms: Somebody does not want to be read and we will assume bad intentions. If you cover your face, be ready for people to react by Freeze-Fight-Fright-Flight. This is deeply ingrained in our basic response system and can be modified with a lot of difficulty and only to be changed to another basic response:  instead of freezing to danger one can change to fleeing or fighting it. If we cannot read your face, you are an unknown quantity and by our own nature and we fear the unknown.

Covering the face is inedible associated with both avoidance of recognition and the attempt to inspire fear. A criminal does not want to be recognized by those who might know him or that might testify against them in the future. Ancient warriors would wear masks with fearful depictions to scare the enemy and hide their own emotions about going into battle. Armed robbers of old and present know the impact of a faceless & threatening  individual in controlling their victims. Shall we forget the fear that the faceless Knights of the Ku Klux Klan created on black folks as they appeared in the middle of the night with their own particular brand of hoodies?  Even SWAT and other special teams recognize that doing a dynamic entry while wearing balaclavas do wonders in giving them extra moments of paralyzing shock that can be used to end a hostage situation in their favor. Even a male with a heavy beard triggers a bit of suspicion on people. If you do not believe me, try and find out how many U.S. Presidents had a beard. And Abraham Lincoln does not count as he campaigned fully shaved.

Most all cultures if not all, meet strangers the same fashion: open and visible face and hands free of any objects that might be deemed a weapon. When we meet somebody in our western culture, we look straight at their faces and shake hands. We are transmitting a message that says “Here, see my face. I bid you no ill will. I give you my hand without a weapon as proof of my good intentions.” If you do not believe me, remember the times you have been introduced to somebody and promptly uncovered your face if needed and dropped whatever was on your dominant hand to make that initial contact.  Back in medieval times, when two knights meet on the road for the first time, they would rise the visors and the right hand would go up, palm facing front in show of truce. A knight who failed to do would be considered an enemy and end up being rapidly challenged.

Although we “know” that this picture is the Miami Heat team being supportive about the killing of Trayvon Martin, what they are sending is absolutely the wrong signals: faces covered or mostly covered & hands hidden. If you were walking down a steer and came to a group of unknown individuals like that, your alarm bells would go off and if you are smart, would take appropriate measure such as changing sides or reversing your course. And don’t BS anybody saying the opposite unless you are Rambo-Wannabe seeking trouble, trying to be Politically Correct and demonstrating you “care” now or plain stupid… but I repeat myself.

How ingrained is our distaste for covered faces? Seek no further than the recent marches and demonstration about the Trayvon Killing. Wearing a hoodie was supposed to be a symbol, but I found interesting how many people were wearing it.

Even wearing  hoodies, people chose to display their face clearly. I doubt that this was done on purpose but rather instinctively: They have nothing to hide or pretend. This last photo is even more revealing. Red circles denote those with covered or hard to see faces while wearing a hoodie. Yellow circles the opposite.

The majority of those present chose to have their faces open and on display signifying that they had nothing to hide. On purpose?  I am betting by instinct. Those who chose to hide their faces, you may want to ask them if they did it just because it is the cool (yet stupid) thing to do or other factors were in play.

And if you need another reason not to wear the hood like a head sock of ample proportions, just a reminder that peripheral vision comes in handy and if you are stupid enough to block it, then do not bitch when you don’t see it coming.

I am slowly getting hooked on this bastards 🙂