Where a Redneck Jew, a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
One of four armed robbers holding up a bar and surprised by Officer Heath. They ran away and he gave chase shooting on the move. at the running men. So yest, that would be the exit hole.
The officer was shot in the foot and was not able to finish up the rest of the gang. No mention what type of weapon was used.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (CBS12) – The estate of a boy stabbed to death during a sleepover in Palm Beach Gardens is suing Publix Supermarkets.
Corey Johnson faces one count of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon and two counts of attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon. He’s accused of killing 13-year-old Jovanni Sierra on the boy’s birthday at a home in Ballenisles on Mar. 12, 2018.
The LaBovick Law Group claims Publix illegally sold the knife that Johnson used to kill Jovanni and stab Elaine Simon and her son, Dane Bancroft.
Publix illegally sold murder weapon to teen in sleepover stabbings, lawsuit claims.
This is a head scratcher. Where is the legal basis for this? It comes to the old question of when does tool become a weapon and can you ban distribution if no Mens Rea is present. The lawyers enage in a verbose shaming of Publix with statements like “Publix has refused to change their reckless policy of selling knives to underage buyers and has spurned Florida law by intentionally failing to check identification before selling dangerous weapons to underage knife purchasers”
Here is the money quote (Pun intended)
The firm claims Johnson bought the knife at Publix hours before the attack. It’s against the law in Florida to sell any weapons to people under the age of 18.
IANAl and surely do not have Florida Statutes 790 memorized, but I do n ot recall anything about minors forbidden to own knives. So I downloaded the lawsuit (always read the source) and things started to get clearer:
They almost got it. The only section in 790 that deals with minors being sold/transferred a weapon is 790.18 which reads:
Now, unless the lawyers manage to prove that Publix is a licensed dealer, I do not see how they are planning to win this case, unless the only thing they really want is for Publix to settle out of court as fast as possible to avoid bad publicity and unnecessary legal expenses..
“Hey, for $100K we stop this and have everybody a non disclosure agreement and nobody accepts/issues blame. Deal?… OK we will take $75K”
Anyway, that is my uneducated opinion.
Hat Tip to Jeffrey B.
From the New York Post:
AOC: We need to ‘slow down’ on bail reform fixes
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the jury is still out on bail reform.
“What I would just say is that we should just give this time. It’s been five minutes,” AOC told The Post when asked if the controversial new law needed to be amended.
There’s a very strong campaign coming from a lot of different interests to roll them back,” she said. “I’m sure that there’a a lot of money with the bail bond industry, a lot of folks make a lot of money on cash bail, and I think that this is a well-funded campaign.”
See, it’s not that criminals are getting arrested for their 139th time and being let out again, or that violent offenders are assaulting and attacking people by the day and can’t be held in prison. Or that the Squeegee Men are back and NYC has descended into recidivist chaos.
Nope, it’s the greedy bail bondsmen who want to profit off the police abuse of POC.
Both Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio want bail reform amended because in a very short time it has fully turned NYC into a pre-Giuliani shit hole, but the de facto leader of the Democrats wants to pump the brakes on restoring an iota of sanity to that city.
I fundamentally do not understand why, but the Democrats love violent criminals more than you.
From the New York Post:
French tourist describes how Valentine’s NYC surprise turned into nightmare
What!?
Gabriel Bascou described to The Post on Monday how he was randomly attacked by an ex-con on Friday as he and girlfriend Manon Duma were leaving a breakfast date at IHOP.
The lovebirds were stepping out of an IHOP on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard near West 132nd Street around 11 a.m. — when a man slashed Bascou in the neck and face with a knife.
(Warning)
Holy shit, that’s a lot of blood.
When you see the pictures of his neck after he was sutured up, you can see how close he got to being killed.
What about the guy who did it?
Man who allegedly slit French tourist’s throat arrested
Oh good. Well, sort of…
Khalief Young, 28, was busted by an officer who spotted him on the street around 3:50 p.m. Monday, police sources told The Post. He was charged with two counts of assault in the second degree, police said.
On Oct. 20 last year, he rang his neighbor’s doorbell and punched the woman in the face and kicked her several times, the sources said.
Four months earlier in June, he went into a deli on West 135th Street and slashed a deli worker in the neck, police sources said.
Prior to those two incidents, Young was arrested in March 2015 for criminal possession of a loaded firearm and spent a little less than two years in an upstate prison.
That bail reform is really working for New York City, isn’t it?
I bet that Young is released in the next couple of days and goes back to kicking women and slashing men because that’s what he does.
Just don’t go to New York City. It’s not worth having some career psycho nearly cut your head off so you can take a selfie in Times Square.
The Times of Israel has reported on a Bernie campaign ad that made blood squirt out of my eyes, until I started reading the comments.
Here is the ad:
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1229204299151966208
This is disgusting pandering, slanderous lies, and complete disinformation.
Bernie, who says that he is “proud to be Jewish” has never identified with his Judaism in any meaningful way during his tenure in Congress. Bernie has admitted he is not a practicing Jew, he is a “secular Jew,” which I have said many times, is a bullshit non-existent entity.
Bernie has been antagonistic to Israel and pals around with Islamist Antisemites.
Lastly, this blog has documented over and over again that the overwhelming majority of Antisemitic violence and rhetoric has come from the Progressive-Islamist Bund.
That Bernie featured a clip that shows him speaking before J-Street is telling. J-Street is a Progressive “Jewish” group made up of mostly “secular Jews” that is anti-Israel and sides with Progressive anti-Israel groups like Students for Justice in Palestine.
At the end of the day, the simple fact is Trump has Jewish grandchildren and Bernie does not.
This ad is clearly cover for the fact that Linda Sarsour is his proxy and Ilhan Omar is one of his most vocal supporters, and they can’t open their mouths without revealing their contempt for the Jews.
I was about to have a stroke when I started reading the comments from the Times of Israel Twitter feed on this article. There is hope yet.
How about some support for Israel in your campaign?
— becky (@becky02996908) February 17, 2020
If he’s proud to be Jewish he should denounce his antisemitic aides and allies. https://t.co/P110efnXEP
— benjamin kerstein (@benj_kerstein) February 17, 2020
Sanders is as proud to be Jewish as any other goy.
— embe (@MarcBWilson) February 17, 2020
Sanders is as proud to be Jewish as any other goy.
— embe (@MarcBWilson) February 17, 2020
Oh, hell yes.
If he is proud to be Jewish why does he coddle Ilhan oMar , Sarsour and all those Jew haters? Hypocrite. Speak against Jew hatred and Anti Israelism
— Shaldag10 (@shaldag10) February 17, 2020
If he is proud to be Jewish why does he coddle Ilhan oMar , Sarsour and all those Jew haters? Hypocrite. Speak against Jew hatred and Anti Israelism
— Shaldag10 (@shaldag10) February 17, 2020
Give me a beak. Sanders is Jewish in name only. He surrounds himself with antisemitic advisors and has been outspoken in his lack of support for Israel. He’s not fooling anyone with this new campaign, and as a proud Jew, there is no way I will vote for him.
— Tired Of The BS (@Tired_Old_Fart) February 17, 2020
He’s a KAPO
And Times of Israel should know he is— sari mason (@alexmenachin) February 17, 2020
Simple lesson in what a “proud Jew” actually does. He tells Sarsour, Omar and Tlaib he doesn’t want their support. He tells them to get off his stage. He tells them antisemites, who want the destruction of Jews, are not welcome in his campaign. Until he does that, he’s a liar.
— marnes (@marnes) February 18, 2020
That zaftig Bernie Bitch in the video who looks like everything I hate about historically illiterate, “that wasn’t real socialism,” pro-BDS Jewish Progressives, packed into derma like an over-stuffed Leftist kishka, notwithstanding. Real, proud, patriotic, religious Jews hate Bernie’s guts, and that’s a good thing.
They won’t succumb to Trotski’s law: Jews who support the Leftist revolution are killed by their non-Jewish co-revolutionaries when the revolution is over.
I have hope for my people yet.
Reader 76 Shovel commented that I may have inherited my mom’s green thumb. Not quite as magical as hers, but I am cursed with the damned color digit.
My dad, as good European from the mountains, decided to have our patio shaded with grapevines. He had built a metal and wire frame that took all our back porch and about half one side of the house and planted three grape vines in strategic locations. This was when I was all of 6 years old and even relished the idea of maybe having fresh grapes picked directly from the fine.
Fast forward a decade.
Three crappy looking vines have managed to creep all the way up and spread some through the wires, but only after dad spending money on “experts” and even grafting the darned things to get is the big juicy wine grapes of which we had ONE harvest and the squat. Basically after 10 years and Lord Knows how much spent, not even half the wire grid was covered , I’d say about 70 square meters (753 sq f according to Google), maybe less, I am measuring from memory here.
One year when I am 17, it is time to prune the vines which was a chore my dad enjoyed. He would drag the ladder, climb up with the pruning shears and sped all day measuring knots and sprouts and cut in the places experts determined. The prune had to be done during New Moon so the gravitational pull would help the plant sprout faster and stronger (Don’t ask me) and you end up with a nice harvest.
Dad was unusually sick as a dog on the day that the vines HAD to be pruned. He tried to climb the ladder, but almost fell on his ass and mom dragged him back to bed with him complaining all the way. She calls me over and orders me to prune the crappy thing lest dad did it himself and broke his neck in the process. Threats were issued and, as usual, she won. I put on a straw hat, a buttoned up long sleeve shirt, a bandana covering my face and I proceeded to murder-prune the vines.
If you are wondering about the wardrobe, I saved the reason IO hated the vines for last: It was a stink bug magnet. Two or three times during the year, you could barely stand the stench in the patio because of the concentrating of the little &%$@ peeing/squirting all over including your body walking under the plants.
But the stink bugs never really all left. There were always several hiding even after I sprayed the effing thing regularly with insecticide (I was not allowed to use paraquat) so I knew going up and trimming will force me to face down this evil creatures… and I did while learning the importance of eye protection the hard way. That shit HURTS! Bring on the Ray Bans.
Earlier I called what I did to the grapevines murder prune because I did not follow the expert’s protocol but went fully Genghis Khan on it while pretending I was doing it right. My idea was to do such a piss poor job that the damned plants would die. Mom had a fit when she saw the end result. Dad just about had me removed from the house by cops. What was left was a post mortem skeleton of what once was three grapevines. I was secretly smiling.
Man Plans, God Laughs.
Two months later and for the first time in over a decade, every single square inch of the vine grid is covered with luscious branches full of gorgeous leaves finally providing the shade my dad had been wanting for over a decade. And you could see all over the tiny grape bunches starting to develop in quantities we had never seen outside the vineyards in Spain. When t was over, we had so many grapes, we gave a lot of them away to fellow European neighbors who all proceeded to make (and fail) homemade wine. Huge silky purple grapes all over the place! People congratulated my dad into finally conquering the stubborn vegetation and he dutifully placed the due laurels on my head. I was the rescuer of his adored plants.
I was not amused.
Guess who was socked with the duty of pruning the effing thing after that? Yup. And it only help confirm I had a “good hand” for taking care of it because every time I pruned, no matter how criminally , the plants would develop beautifully
It took me going to college in the States to have that sentence removed. And just to be sure, I got married and moved to our own house. Dad continued to play with them till he died and after that, nobody gave too much of a care for the vines, but they still remained strong. For all I know, they are still running stinkbugs and making somebody’s life miserable.
So yes, I am cursed with a green thumb. I only used for growing herbs for the kitchen.
And the orchid.
