I looked up Nikki Fried because of Miguel’s post.

This is her flagship campaign ad:

Hooray, she’s going to legalize marijuana and ban guns.  She wants to violate Federal Law and the Constitution of the United States.

One would think that a lawyer would be against that, but she’s not.

First of all, as someone with a background in biomedical engineering, let me say “medical marijuana is bullshit.”  I’m not denying that there are therapeutic potentials for cannabis.   If there are pain killers that are less addictive or have fewer side effects than opiates, that is worthy of study.

But smoking a joint is not medicine.  There is no dosage, no contraindications, no drug interaction lists, nothing that meets the standards of scientific pharmacology.  It’s the equivalent of taking away every prescription opiate and giving people plastic bags full of poppy heads and saying “do what makes you feel better.”

Besides that, when I worked concert security at Sturgis, it was right after California passed its medical marijuana act.  I cannot tell you how many old bikers we busted from California, who were getting high at rock concerts, and had their “pot card” because their “knee hurt.”  It’s bullshit.  It was an excuse to get high that moderates could be suckered into voting for.

If you really care about medical marijuana, run for Congress or the Senate and change the Federal schedule so pharmaceutical companies can do research.

What is the point of legalizing medical marijuana at the state level if you have a Federal job with drug testing and you lose your security clearance?

In addition, we are seeing a sharp rise in youth use in states where it has been legalized.  For years the MADD sales line was “when parents drink regularly, kids are more likely to experiment with or abuse alcohol,” and it’s true.  But when mom and dad can smoke pot, suddenly junior taking some from the nigh stand to smoke it behind the bleachers at school is not a concern?

There is strong evidence that teenage use of marijuana results in long term brain development issues from poor long term memory to emotional and cognitive function problems.

Lastly, states that have legalized marijuana have seen a surge in DUI Pot related car accidents.  Amazing how nobody seems to bring the problem of stoned people driving on the highway.

So it’s not so much “being against a plant” as it is being against unscientific quasi-medicine that increases the number of car accidents and has the high potential to be abused by school kids who  as a result will grow up with developmental issues.

But she’s for children and students.

At the same time she wants more gun regulations.  Yes, there have been two high profile shootings in Florida with these guns, but both had far more do to with incompetence of local law enforcement than the actual guns.

As Miguel mentioned, CCW permit holders are the most law abiding demographic in the state, but she wants to focus her attacks on them.

In the Soviet Union, when the farmers couldn’t meet the crop quotas, it wasn’t that the Soviet bureaucrats miscalculated and mismanaged the farms.  It was that the farmers had to be traitors and were shot.  There was no number of farmers that could be executed to sent to gulags that would make the government consider that it was screwing up, not the farmers.

That same illogic applies here.  No one running on the “more government” ticket will ever criticize the bureaucrats for a failure of government, they will just blame the liberties of the citizens.

“Our plans are not working because you have too much freedom!”

It boggles my mind that a person could run for a high ranking goverment office on the platform of “I want to break Federal law and violate the Constitution.”

That should be immediately disqualifying, but not for Democrats.

She might as well say “I want to strengthen Florida agriculture by bringing back chattel slavery.”  Go big or go home, right?

The Holy Trinity of Florida Gun Control has been summoned: The elimination of Stand Your Ground, The banning of “Assault Weapons” and now threatening Concealed Weapons Permits.

The Florida CWP system is efficient and self-sustaining. It does not depend of the general budget because the fees the department collects are more than enough to run it and upgraded as needed. Obviously the NRA is not running things, but Democrats hate efficiency and a surplus so Ms. Fried must screw with it.

And the fact that we are the most law-abiding sector of the population of Florida and that has to piss the hell out of Democrats.

Her original platform as found in her website is marijuana.

 Nikki is running for Florida Agriculture Commissioner because she saw firsthand how our politicians failed the people with medical marijuana. Despite 72% of Floridians voting to approve a medical marijuana law, the Florida Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott have obstructed its implementation and denied access to sick, injured and dying individuals in our state.

Her sudden discovery of the NRA and  Concealed Weapons Permit maybe tell us that potheads are not enthusiastic about her much and that more than likely, Bloomberg already has deposited a sizeable chuck of cash in her coffers.

One of my few votes this November is going to be for Matt Caldwell for Commissioner of Agriculture.

Yard sign and sticker already ordered.

You remember the old political saying: Where California goes, the country goes?

When it comes to guns, it is where Florida goes, so does the country. We began the revolution with the Concealed Weapons Permits and they spread over the land like Freedom’s wildfire.  By the same token, we are the unicorn for Gun Control, if the kill us, other states will follow suit.

You have been warned, they are coming after you. Be ready, be active and vote.

And stock up.

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC) – Police are searching for suspects after 400 guns were stolen from a UPS facility.
The burglary happened Sunday on Brooks Road.
The one of the two suspects were seen wearing a black and gray jacket with dark pants. The other was wearing all black.
They left the scene in a U-Haul.
The ATF is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspects.
Anyone with information about this crime should contact ATF at (800) ATF-Guns (1-800-283-4867) or the Memphis Police Department at (901) 528-2274.

400 guns stolen from UPS, ATF offering cash reward

Don’t worry folks, I am sure the thieves had background checks performed before stealing the guns. [/end flowing sarcasm]

Yeah, I am the Gun Violence problem, right.

We all know by  now that there is no expectation of privacy in public spaces and that includes the streets.  This is settled law, no argument.

Unless you are in San Francisco and organizing the Folsom Street Fair.

Now, Folsom Street Fair is not your average Market’s farmer with clowns making animal balloons for the kids and the smell of hot corndogs in the air.  There is rubber…and leather and it smells but more horndog than corndog.  Folsom Street Fair is a no-holds-barred Sexual Fetish extravaganza in which anything goes, except photography in public places.  

(Warning: The links will take you to articles with photos you may not want to see. You have been warned)

Organizers of the Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco’s famed fetish festival, took new measures this year to educate attendees — especially sightseers and gawkers — on the subject of consent.
“Gear doesn’t mean consent. What you’re wearing doesn’t mean consent. An enthusiastic ‘yes’ means consent,” said Edwin Morales, president of the Folsom Street Events board.
The message was distilled into a social media campaign and onto signage around Sunday’s 13-block fair, which featured bondage exhibits, people pulling their collared partners on leashes, and lots of bodies clad in leather — or nothing at all.

Folsom Street Fair stresses consent amid leather and BDSM

I predict that they will use this as to portray photography as the new rape. A rape that does not requite physical contact. I do love how their little minds twist themselves to make censorship sound polite:

Finger says that when it comes to the photography, the flier is an effort to establish best practices and be respectful. “It doesn’t say you can’t photograph people, it just says ask first,” says Finger of the fliers. In 2016, Folsom began a campaign to request that fairgoers “ask first” before photographing people. “We’re not telling someone not to do something.”

Folsom Street Fair emphasizes consent in advance of 2018 event

Yes, that is exactly what you are saying.

Finger says that showing an attendee out of the fair for repeatedly taking photos without a person’s consent would be a “last resort.”

“Tovarish, you have violated the illegal photography consent rule in a public are and you must be removed by Eric and Patty and their collection of whips.”  That is censorship, you effing moron.

Then again, if somebody were to take a picture of a White Woman flogging a Black Man, I’d be worry somebody  may take it the wrong way and feel insulted.

Or violence against women? If Liberals are shitting bricks about accusations without corroboration 36 years after the accuser say it happened but do not remember well about the event, shouldn’t photographic evidence be definite even if it is staged? Somebody may get confused and think they can tie a woman up just because they like it or just condemn the whole fair because its depiction against women, gays and People of Color..

Yeah, I know. Those rules do not apply to them.

KENT, Ohio — A high-profile open-carry walk at Kent State University on Saturday was far from what “gun girl” and alumna Kaitlin Bennett wanted it to be.
Counter-protestors significantly outnumbered her group of gun-rights activists as hundreds of police called in from across the state separated the two groups.
The two sides screamed insults at each other as police stood as a wall between them, gradually prompting the gun-rights activists to return to a parking lot across the street.

The flood of counter-protestors led to the gun-rights group marching for less than 30 minutes, spending the rest of the time surrounded by police.

Kent State University open-carry walk sparks turmoil, arrests as protestors and gun-rights activists clash: See photos and video

Only one little mistake with that description: The police was not there to protect the Open Carriers, they were there to hope no Antifa went to the morgue.

I won’t address the lack optics required to carry rifles openly at Kent State knowing that the Media was salivating and dripping from their collective gonads for a shooting to occur and get themselves  21st century version of the Mary Ann Vecchio picture.

And I won’t address it because I believe we are bound to have a one great horrific event that is being pushed by the assholes we know and think they will be able to control and benefit from it.

From the TV show that predicted President Donald Trump back in 2000.

Comes this gem from from 1994 which predicted the Kavanaugh hearing.

Amazing, isn’t it?

They just need to rebrand it into something scary and then ban it.

And now to the part of the story that is relevant(Bold is mine):

Officers went to Apartment 1602 and found two men — Concepcion De La Ros and Daniel Alvarez — inside, the report said. Officers also found a black, scoped pellet rifle inside, the report said.

Man on balcony kills passing dog with ‘sniper rifle,’ police say

If unchecked, these sniper rifles will be in everybody’s hands and soon enough we will have terrorists downing 747s full of orphans on their way to Disney World.

Let’s do it for the puppies!

Update: The Miami Herald did only a smidgen better, it is just “a rifle” for them.

And amazingly, the Sun Sentinel published the most accurate headline.