Yesterday I got the notification from Division of Licensing that my CWP would expire in January 2019. Very typical of Florida, they give you plenty warning so if you end up carrying with an expired permit, it is your frigging fault.

I went to the Concealed Weapon or Firearm License Renewal website and unsurprisingly for Florida, it is not attractive one bit and the buttons are backwards in some instances. I am pragmatic to hell, but a bit of decoration won’t kill you guys. Again, expect that from Florida Government sites.

Before you do anything else, get a digital picture. You are given 2 links, one is How to Take a Passport Style Photo and the second and coolest idea is that they “stole” the United States Department of State Photo Editing Tool. Once you have your picture taken, uploaded, centered, cropped and saved, then proceed to fill the online forms

You will have to enter your personal data, CWP number and tracking number that came with the notice to find your license. Then upload the photo, do the digital signature thing and pay for the renewal.  Once you are done that, you are shown a summary and have to click on submit to finish.

You will be given a receipt that you can choose to download and/or email to yourself.

It took maybe under ten minutes. It would have taken less if I did not keep hitting the RESET FORM button instead of the SUBMIT in the payment page and had to re-enter the info all over (they are ass backwards.) Let’s call it 10 minutes including brushing the bushy beard, getting a decent shirt and convincing the wife to take the picture.

That was it. I will let you guys know when it comes in.

Leave it to the democrats to squeeze a fantasy to death.  Dear old Alyssa Milano pretty much accused the Russians of meddling the Ohio elections via the Green Party.

Expect more of the same and even louder if they smell that the November elections will not only not bring the “Blue Tsunami” but be swamped by a Red Tide. And riots will follow to protest and excuse how come their voters were not attracted to any of the crap that got nominated by the Democratic party. .

Well, that is what we are told is supposed to happen, but reality was the other way around.

Unfriended! Democrat drives to man’s house and shoots him after heated political disagreement on Facebook
Brian Sebring, 44, of Tampa, Florida, was arrested for shooting Alex Stephens, 46, also of Tampa, in the thigh and buttocks after their online disagreement
Police say the row was sparked by a political disagreement on Facebook
Stephens reportedly began sending Sebring ‘explicit messages and threats’
Sebring then armed himself with an AR-15 and Glock, drove round to Stephens’ house just two miles away from his own home, and opened fire
He fled the scene but later turned himself in and was arrested on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and carrying a concealed firearm

But wait, it gets so much better:

Sebring is a registered Democrat who follows Barack Obama on Twitter.
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Sebring was booked into the Hillsborough County jail, his bail set at $9,500.

Facebook political argument ends with Tampa man shot in buttocks

 

How many hard-core Democrats are packing AR 15s in secrecy? We know candidates who destroyed theirs and now we have one Obama fan engaging in Agg Batt with a Deadly Weapon. Isn’t this kind of hypocritical on their part?

Who wants to bet Sebring will claim Stand Your Ground?

Hat Tip Mike Kupari

I just got this with the mail.

Still six months away from expiration, they send you the notification, the form and, if you are so inclined, tell you the whole thing can be done online including you sending the picture.  And the renewal fee comes to $6.43 a year.

I am so doing this. Will keep you posted.

Stolen from Bayou Renaissance Man

In Florida, Cows herd you!

I think I pissed off the Twitter Overlords with this tweet which I used as reply on anybody supporting the #endfamilyfire:

I found peculiar that after more than  a couple of dozen of individual replies none of them had anything to say or even blocked me. There is a website  Shadowban.eu that checks your status and breaks it down in the following categories:

Search Ban

This type of ban causes your tweets to be hidden from the search results entirely, no matter whether the quality filter is turned on or off. This behavior includes hashtags as well. This type of ban seems to be temporally limited for active accounts.

Thread Ban

This is what is referred to as conventional shadowban as well. It comprises a search ban while threads are completely ripped apart by hiding reply tweets of the affected user to others. Everything will look perfectly normal to the affected user but many others will not be able to see reply tweets of the affected user at all. Reasons for this ban include behavior like excessive tweeting or following. Again, this type of ban seems to be temporally limited for active accounts.

Quality Filter Discrimination

QFD causes your tweets to be invisible within the latest section of the search, including hashtags, when the quality filter is turned on. Note that this quality filter is located on the search page, is turned on by default and will be reset for each search anew. It differs from the quality filter controlling your notifications. QFD was introduced on May 15, 2018 as part of Twitter’s so-called healthy conversation project.

I went ahead and checked my twitter account and I got the following results:

Yay! I am officially a Twitter Non-Person! At least they have not kicked me out of the place yet.

Again, it is not paranoia if they are attacking you.

UPDATE: I decided to do a temporary change of Twitter Profile.

You know I had to go with a classic.

I have been replying to people who post under the #endfamilyfire tag with the following:

Then I saw this post:

Resources? For a moment, I hoped that I was wrong and they actually and finally stepped up and started to provide real-life solutions like free gun locks.
I should have known better:

 This toolkit contains all the resources you need to extend the reach of this important campaign: PSAs, printable materials, social media assets, and helpful tips to engage your partners and your community.

Short answer: Nope. Just another useless campaign to clutter the waves with useless gun control crap. I did find this particular tweet ironic:

“Hey doc, I have a bad infection.”
“Here, read this pamphlet and post in social media. That should cure you. Your copayment will be $70.”

Yes, that stupid.