Seriously, if you buy a frigging gun, have a professional instructor teach you how to operate the damn thing. A friend that thinks he knows how to handle a gun because he plays a lot of Modern Warfare might not be the best on to teach you.

The gun slipped out of his hand, and when he went to grab it, he grabbed it by the trigger, and it shot his finger and my son’s leg,” said Gonzalez.

I just hate seeing so much stupidity.

At work there is the young feller that walks with a dark cloud on top of him. In the few months I have know him, at least three of his “homeboys” have been killed by unsavory characters. Of course they’ve been hanging around with the wrong crowds which might be a reason why they end up in the Miami-Dade Slab Room. It bothered me that there was an element of pride in the fact that they were vitims, a stupid badge of honor if you ask me. They took the chances, they paid dearly for a lifestyle without sense, there is no pride, no honor in that mentality. They are just dead in the most stupid way.

I made the comment that I should stay away from him since people next to him were dropping like flies. He took a bit of exception to my comment:”My homeboys are dying and youse making jokes? What if they were your homeboys?” Before I could engage the safety, my mouth opened up: “My homeboys are not stupid and can shoot good. And a lot.”

Dark Cloud ain’t talking to me.  Oh well!

While the Washington shrills are occupied denouncing Arizona as the new hot cradle of the Klan, just on the other side of the border a new version of the Colombian Drug Wars of the late 80s and early 90s is being played and played hard.

Till now the war has been run against drug dealers and their support systems (including dirty cops working for all sides) and the complacent Mexican government. But the ante was raised yesterday when a car bomb exploded in Ciudad Juarez yesterday taking out a cop, an EMT and an unknown civilian dressed as a cop.

Drug wars tend to spill far and wide. Arizona and Texas have been suffering some of the collateral effects of this war, but this car bombing is the loud warning that things are about to get seriously big body-count wise and it will spill with full force on this side of the border.

During the Colombian Drug Wars, we were insulated by thousands of miles of distance. Cali isn’t exactly next door and other than some well publicized shootouts in Miami and NY, the great majority of the carnage was produced in Cali. Even so, it got to the point where a commercial airplane was bombed out of the sky by good old Pablo Escobar Gaviria killing 109 innocent people and a reign of terror commenced with bombs targeting public places and killing anybody related to the drug war, relatives or even friends not connected to the drug war.

Washington is again asleep at the switch. I think this will get really bad before anything gets done and then only to target constitutional rights of regular citizens instead of going after the dealers and the Mexican Government. I think we are in for a nasty time within our borders.

For a great book on the Colombian Drug Wars and its effect on the population, I would advise you to get Killing Pablo:The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw by Mark Bowden, the same author of Blackhawk Down.  A documentary based on the book was also made for cable and you can watch part 1 and part 2. And don’t say we were not warned.

I got my hands on an issue of Mad Magazine from April 1962. Probably not the funniest but I did find something of a futuristic double whammy in one of the cartoons:

Not only a pun to the earliest stages of Political Correctness but the name they chose for the character was somewhat prophetic. 100 in the LOLZ Scale IMHO.

U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs. What in the flying flock of seagulls? ?  Listen I am all up for defending intellectual property, but forcing a whole web host and silencing those sites that were not involved in copyright violations is just amazingly stupid and awfully scary.

And this from a President that is a “Constitutional Scholar.” Maybe he is an expert on the Zimbabwe Constitution which I heard is written in pencil.

If Top Shots is too “Reality TV looks at Big Brother significant Other Survivor married to Real Housewife of East LA who thinks She Can Dance”, you have an alternative on Spike TV. It is called Conceal + Carry = Survive.

According to what I read, it takes several people with little or no experience in firearms and trains them in their defensive use. Some are just people who want to avoid trouble and some were victimized and want to be ready if crap ever happens again.

The show is to air on July 17 on Spike TV. Set your DVRs.

And now back to my self imposed rest… I know, I keep breaking it but I think this is worth watching.