Or mostly ignorant. OK, a lot ignorant.

J. Kb sent me this as payback for all the crap I send to him.

Most Latinos and those who lived under that sphere of food influence immediately recognized this “new” hot trend as the centuries-old custom of “Tapas.” Italians call it Antipasto and probably every culture surrounding the Mediterranean has a version and a name that goes with it.

In Spain is not only a way you sit to eat a meal but a firmly established culinary and profitable culture known as Tapas Bars.

Visiting Tapas bars are actually one of the best things you can do if you travel to Spain. The last time I was there eons ago, I took a whole afternoon and night bouncing from one bar to another tasting the incredible food they offered. The only smart thing I did was to stay away from booze, but I reckon I could not eat for three days after that celebration of gluttony. And whenever you have a pocket of Spaniards anywhere, you can probably find a Tapas bar nearby.

Gen Z is composed by a bunch of idiots.

From The Hill:

Maui residents who disobeyed barricade survived fires: AP

Those who disobeyed the barricaded road closures during the Maui fires survived the disaster, while many of those who heeded orders to turn around perished in their cars and homes with no way out, The Associated Press reported.

At least 114 people were killed in the fires earlier this month, and the FBI is estimating that up to 1,100 more are unaccounted for. Officials are facing increased scrutiny for the emergency response, including why the emergency sirens were not set off and whether closing the roads prevented people from getting to safety.

In the early hours of the Maui fires, there were more than 30 power poles downed alongside the Honoapiilani Highway at the south end of Lahaina — a historic town that was decimated in the fires earlier this month. Officials closed Lahaina Bypass Road due to the fires, blocking the only way out of Lahaina to the southern part of the island.  

Maui Police Chief John Pelletier said during a news conference that officers never stopped people from leaving the area, but the AP report suggests that residents were discouraged from disobeying the barricade. 

One family swerved around the barricade set up to escape the flames, while another resident took a dirt road uphill to climb above the fire, according to the AP. However, many others who stayed in the cars on that road were stuck in a gridlock, with fires surrounding them on most sides with the ocean on the remaining side.

Kim Cuevas-Reyes said that she survived with her two sons by ignoring orders to turn right onto Front Street, which has now been devastated by the fires. Instead, she turned left and drove in the wrong lane to escape the town.

This is evil.

The government murdered people.  There is no other way to describe this.

The government put up barricades which trapped people in harm’s way of a raging fire.

The people who survived disobeyed the barricades, going around them and off-road or in the opposite lane.

We at GFZ have always been advocates of owning firearms as a bulwark against tyranny.

It seems that having a 4X4 is another weapon in your arsenal against government oppression.

When the government barricades your escape from certain death, you kick it into 4WD and blaze a new path to safety.

Good news: all of the bad bills are dead and with little chance of resuscitation.

Bad news: Good gun bills are also dead or appear so. The Senate has been tabling bills left and right and only a handful without true danger to gun rights are still alive.

As I told you before, I am still a babe in the wood when it comes about the TN legislature, and I cannot say with absolute certainty if all is good till the final gavel kills the session. I hate to see that the School Carry for enhance permits died, but I figure eventually that will come down too or will go out via Bruen.

Senators are taking the day Friday off and I guess so will I.

I opened the freezer earlier and found out I am down to my last container of pulled pork. That means this weekend will be one of smoking a couple of pork butts to restock the reserves. And I have to do another trip to the local Wally World and see if they still have the cheap spareribs for a ridiculous low price.

I can almost hear a couple of you grumbling about “another foodie post” but hear me out. I pack lunch to work and I eat a lot of that delicious BBQ for an insanely low price. My local true BBQ joint prices its pulled pork and $11+ a pound while mine comes about just under $4 and I get three work lunches out of it. Where I work offers a lunch cooked in the facility’s kitchen for $2.50 and it tastes as industrial bland as you can imagine and far from healthy. Other coworkers choose to buy from the nearby fast-food joints and I believe the cheapest meal you can grab is about $5 and again, not all that healthy.

I am eating good and cheap, and I secretly enjoy the looks of envy of my fellow co-workers when they come into the break room and smell honest-to-God BBQ.

I am an a-hole, I know.

Miguel posted this video earlier.

The cop takes a bullet to the finger and then tourniquets his hand halfway up his forearm.

Yes, absolutely tourniquets are life saving tools, and it’s good that some of the medical equipment and knowledge used to save lives on the battlefield in the GWOT has become adopted by the police and civilians alike.

But when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Tourniquets are used to occlude blood flow by squeezing arteries shut.

Under the wrong conditions, they can cause more harm than good.  Tourniquets can cause nerve damage by comprising nerves.  Not something you want in your hand.

Lots of arterial bleeding?  Absolutely apply a tourniquet.  The premium is on saving a life.

A healthy person is not going to bleed to death from splitting a finger wide open, or even taking a finger off.

A pressure bandage is much more applicable here.

On my person, I generally carry an Israeli bandage instead of a tourniquet, because it’s more versatile.  It can be used with a tourniquet like function.

Don’t think I’m sitting on tourniquets, they are a vital tool for saving lives. But they have a time and a place when they are appropriate.

Being prepared is absolutely critical.

So is using your brain in an emergency situation.

You don’t want to stop the bleeding of a bad finger boo-boo in such as way as to cause nerve damage to the hand.

The Rahimi case has brought out all the normal infringers, along with a number of lesser known groups and people. They filed numerous amicus curiae briefs. I had intended to do a brief look through them all. Nope, no, forget it. Too much pain. What follows is a sampling of the first few, along with a couple of others I found interesting. Most of the text came from the table of contents. Take it for what you will.

(2300 words, mostly theirs)

If you want to go read these yourself, they are all on the Supreme Court’s webpage under the Rahimi case.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-915.html

American’s Against Gun Violence

1. Bruen’s “text and history” test, applied in Rahimi, relied on two deeply flawed assumptions
   1. Both Bruen and Heller are based on the false premise that the text and history of the Second Amendment established an individual right to own a gun
      1. The “well regulated militia” clause refers to the right to possess and use firearms in connection with militia service
      2. The “keep and bear arms” clause refers to a right to possess firearms if needed for and in relation to military activities
      3. The Second Amendment did not codify any right inherited by English ancestors because no such individual right to own firearms ever existed
      4. The drafters of the Second Amendment knowingly did not include language to provide for an individual right to possess firearms for self-defense
      5. Heller and Bruen improperly departed from this Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment
   2. Bruen’s framework is also improper because it compels a foregone conclusion and perpetuates the myth that gun ownership is important for individuals’ safety and self-defense
2. Heller and its progeny “threaten the breakdown of law and order” as Justice Breyer warned in the Heller dissent
   1. Gun related deaths have been significantly increasing since Heller
   2. Gun ownership conveys a greater risk than benefit
   3. Gun related deaths in the United States far exceed those of any other high-income country

American Medical Association

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…start fighting because it never ends well.

I have seen news items like this too many times and if there are survivors is because pure luck, great theatrics playing dead and bad aiming.
If a bad guy or guys demand you go to the back, your response should be loud and carefully-aimed ballistics.