There were a couple of eating places in Caracas called rotisseries (They did not have or sold anything done in a rotisserie, don’t ask me why) and they sold from soup and sandwiches to pastries and other baked goods. The one I liked to eat the most was the Empanada Argentina, especially if it just came out of the oven.
It is real simple: Ground beef (and por if it is to your liking) cooked at your own taste, but make sure you drain as much as the sauce as possible. Combine with raisins and a piece of hard-boiled egg over dome stretched dough, wrap and bake at 365 F for 15 and no more than 5 minutes in broil for nice finish on top.
As you can see, mine do not have the aesthetical look required, but trust me: They taste great!
Old NFO should take notes for his next get-together with the rest of the Texas Food Fiends.
While checking bills from out esteemed Florida Legislature ( A good one but ignored, HB 6073 – Firearms) I can keep track of the front of the house with the door bell camera.
I was not the only person do it. NRA Spokeswoman Dana Loesch broke down Booker’s bull in less than 140 characters on Twitter.
Not a word uttered by @CoryBooker here is correct. 1) NRA represents everyday Americans. NRA isn’t NSSF. 2) Federal law bars domestic abusers from buying or possessing guns https://t.co/ATbiOOMY6I 3) Charge people on watch lists. If they can’t buy a gun why aren’t they charged? https://t.co/QzXZdjNnAX
1) Almost 70% of NRA members support background checks. 2) Massive gaps nullify those laws: https://t.co/QkAeGICbmo 3) Why does the NRA only want to support 2A rights when convenient?
Do anti-gunners and Democrats (redundant) have some sort of allergy to the truth?
I’m just about 100% that “Almost 70% of NRA members support background checks” is pulled out of his ass.
If it’s not, that it’s not a poll of universal background checks, just support for the 4473 and NICS done through an FFL. I know nobody asked me, as an NRA member and Golden Eagle, and I can assure you I don’t support UBC’s.
Conflating support for NICS and UBC’s is ignorant at best and total dishonest at worst. My guess, totally dishonest.
The link he provides for Number 2 in reference to domestic abusers jumps over to a page from the Giffords Law Center.
The page acknowledges the Lautenberg Amendment, then blows right by it and starts talking about the “boyfriend loophole.”
I have covered this several times before and I have come to realized the purpose of this bullshit.
Gun rights are Constitutionally protected. The bar for removing someone’s Constitutionally protected rights should be rather high. Traditionally that involves a felony conviction.
The Lautenberg Amendment is the only misdemeanor conviction I can think of that permanently strips a person of their Constitutionally protected civil rights.
I believe the justification for this is that such domestic violence is both habitual and hard to escape. A woman who is married to a man, cohabitiates with, or shares a child with him cannot easily escape the situation. She may share a home, car, and bank account, it’s not as simple as just moving out and walking way.
Furthermore, what constitutes abuse in some states doesn’t necessarily require violence. Intimidation requires only the threat of violence or making the other person feel afraid.
Reading the law in the most literal way, if a man and woman have an argument, and the man in a fit of rage punches a dent in the drywall or throws a chachky through a TV, but never touches the woman, he still committed a misdemeanor. Under the right circumstances, that is enough to make that man a prohibited person.
Of course I don’t want to see people get hurt, but hat is a very low bar, perhaps too low, to strip someone of their Constitutional rights.
For the antis, lowering the bar for everyone to make it that much easier to make people prohibited persons isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. Stumble over it and you lose your gun rights forever, even if you never actually hurt anybody.
Throw in the old adage “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” and the fame of Mattress Girl for parading around about a rape that was proven never to have happened, and you can see how a man might be terrified of losing his rights from a “he said, she said.”
Third, I have no idea what “why does the NRA only want to support 2A rights when convenient?” even means.
Lastly, we in the gun community have said it before, if you don’t respect the Second Amendment, you don’t respect the First (or any others). When Booker says “this kind of response only further proves my point—the NRA needs to go” how does he intend to disband a law abiding organization protected by the First Amendment “right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
There are only two things Booker knows how to do, lie and impose the heavy hand of government.
Booker was caught doing that by Dana Loesch, and when called on it, did it again.
There is no lie they are not willing to tell to convince you to abdicate all your liberties to them.
Then they will take away you guns and intellectual property to be sure of that.
I know it is not all Gun Owners, but last year I was told I was less than a true Gun Owner because of the plastic gadgets and that there was a battalion of No-Compromise ™ Real Gun Owners that would not back down to any infringement to the Second Amendment here in Florida and in the nation.
We are now in 2019 and with enough gun control bills in the legislature to send Florida all the way to California, if not Great Britain. And I have not heard and/or seen bupkis from the No-Compromise ™ Real Gun Owners Army, so I am being an arsehole (a big one) and poking the shit out of them.
A lot of us are paying fees and donations to Local groups that have not done squat other than press releases and tactical fishing fashion shows while I do all this for free except for the occasional donation from great readers. When my memberships come up again for renewal last year, I will analyze and reconsider who gets my money again. I fear I may have a bit of a cash in my pocket after that.
I saw Cory Booker answer another question at his CNN town hall that was actually worse than his gun control question.
Yeah, really.
“This is a broken system and we must fix it … Health care is an American right and the current system is definitely wrong. I believe the best way to get there is by having Medicare for all," Cory Booker says. #BookerTownHallhttps://t.co/8If7Lkd89Cpic.twitter.com/Ve2BbE2tg7
Most of the people on the internet criticizing Booker are pointing out that this woman is already on Medicare and supplementary private insurance and Booker is saying that the solution to her issue is Medicare for all.
First, from an economic perspective, while I feel for this woman, if she is on Medicare, supplementary insurance, and because she said she is disabled (presumably) SSDI, than her medical needs are so extreme that policy can barely touch that.
This is a rule borrowed from engineering applied to politics, but a policy that does the best for the 95% of people within two standard deviations of the mean won’t work for the outliers, and a policy that works for the outliers isn’t optimized for the 95%.
To put it bluntly, you can’t make car that has enough cab room and seat travel to fit both Verne Troyer at 2’8″ and Yao Ming at 7’6″ and still have it be affordable for your average consumer. That’s why design engineers design things to fit the 95% percentile and Shaq has to have his cars modified for him.
Any one-size-fits-all policy that is designed to help this woman in her extreme need is going to be unreasonably expensive for the rest of the population that doesn’t go through $100,000+ a year in health care.
Second, he says that part of the problem with our “broken system” is that “all that money doesn’t go to patient care, doesn’t go to support folks like you.”
So he wants a big, bloated government bureaucracy to manage healthcare because government is so effective in eliminated needless overhead and inefficiency?
Somebody remind Booker of the Iron Law of Bureaucracy. Go ahead and create Medicare for All. Within five years Medicare will be the largest branch of government by far, with more federal workers pushing papers in the Medicare offices than doing everything else combined.
But I digress….
No, the point that stuck out to me was how Booker plans to tackle drug prices.
“If you raise your drug prices higher than that in other countries… we’re going to take away your patent and let the generics come in and undercut those prices.”
WOW, Booker just killed drug and medical device R&D in the United States, and the rest of the world.
Across Europe, the government monopoly on the drug market allows them to price fix, which drives down profitability forcing the drug companies to up the cost in the US.
Booker saying that if US prices for drugs are higher than Europe’s price fixed prices for drugs, Booker will yank these companies patents and give them to generics.
That will destroy the financial impetus for drug R&D in the Unites States.
Not just that, it will effectively destroy the non-generic drug manufacturers.
I get it, nobody liked it when drug prices went up in the closing years of a patent.
Here is the problem, American insurance companies prefer generics because they are cheaper. As a drug is coming close on patent protection, the drug company has to try and recoup its billions in investments. They may raise prices accordingly, knowing that soon as the drug comes off patent and goes generic, insurance companies will switch to the generic and their sales will drop.
Booker’s response to this is to understand the reason for the cost increase but to become a price fixing Socialist son-of-a-bitch fucking asshole and strip a company of their intellectual property.
This is no different that Maduro’s nationalizing of businesses if he deemed prices to be too high.
Being a free market guy and R&D engineer, my solution would be to extend the patent protection and create a licencing scheme that would allow drug companies that do R&D to capture more money by licencing production generic manufactures over a longer period of time.
Booker is going to kill drug R&D and then the US drug industry, all in the name of reducing costs.
Countless people will suffer because of this plan to help the poor, which is the history of socialism everywhere.
If Booker gets elected, stock up on your drugs before he wipes out the pharmaceutical industry.
Update:
I was reminded of something by one of the comments to this post.
It’s shocking just how similar Booker’s solution to the cost of healthcare is to Directive 10-289.
As the Democrat primary heats up, I swear this could easily be a speech given during a DNC primary debate.
The 2019 60-day Legislative Session will begin on March 5, 2019 and is expected to end on May 3, 2019. Committee weeks will be held leading up to the start of the regular session, and during the interim we will be crisscrossing the state meeting with legislators in their home districts
20 working days have passed and 25 working days are left. Most of the Gun Bills remaining (good and bad) have not had any movement since the first day of the session and the few that advanced appear to be immobile in a committee. I have 44 gun-related bills being tracked and there are 3436 Bills up for discussion and being discussed and I don’t think anything yet is ready for full legislative vote so I am hoping that a lot of stuff gets left in a drawer and we get a respite.
But I am not expecting one.
Truthfully, if we get the Church Carry and lifting the prohibition for volunteer teachers to carry with no bad bills passed, I will call this year a success.
