Like many, I hate Big Goverment and lousy service. So it is with great pleasure that I have to report that the Division of Licensing of Florida’s Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is just top frigging notch.

About a couple of weeks ago I was reading this hit piece in the Philadelphia Enquirer against Florida’s Out of State Concealed Weapons Licenses. It is your usual crap about how our shall issue licenses are helping the criminal element up there, but what caught my attention was this:

Seventy Florida permit-holders list addresses in West Philadelphia’s zip code 19143, which includes the Cobbs Creek and Kingsessing neighborhoods. In 2005, there were three Florida permits in that zip code.

I was dumbfounded at the fact that Zip Code info was being released in a newspaper knowing that Florida Law is pretty strict about releasing personal info on who has a CWL. I wrote a letter to the Division of Licensing requesting to know if the Philly Enquirer asked for licensing info and what kind of was given plus the same for any Philly LEO, expecting a reply sometime next year. To my surprise, about a week later I got a very explicative letter from Whitney Shiver who took her time and patience explain that Zip Codes are not considered personal information and can be released as information (We might have to look into that at Legislature level, I am not even comfortable with that but that is not the Division’s fault) and assuring me that they take the privacy of Licensees very seriously and answering all the questions I had.

Silly me I had misplaced the envelope and found it again some 15 minutes ago. I gave Ms. Shiver a call and thanked her for all her attentions and apologizing for giving her extra work. She was again very helpful and thankful for me taking the time to contact her which was the least I could do.

My wife also had a great interaction with the Division of Licensing. She went to the Regional Office of Division of Licensing in downtown Miami and applied in person (you just have to take your certificate and the checkbook since they do the rest electronically) and came out singing the praises of the ladies working the office for their utmost professionalism and politeness.

And cherry on top, I just renewed my CWL via mail and it was back in less than two weeks. Now that is service!

Can we make this type of behavior contagious with the rest of the State & local services?

FINAL UPDATE: I am done watching this crap.

UPDATE (3:41 pm) And what is with the idiot wearing flowers in his head? This is Miami, not Oahu.

UPDATE (3:39 pm): I swear I just saw a buddy of man in the background. He is a federal agent……………NARC!!! 😉

UPDATE (3:32 pm): Note to Rapper on the left. It looks stupid to rant against the corporations while wearing an Adidas T-Shirt. K?

UPDATE (3:28pm): watching the live feed. There is a guy “singing” and sounds like somebody is raping a dolphin.

Occupy Miami has a Livestream feed now! Sponsored by Evil Corporations though.

The really sad part is that the ads are the best thing of the show.

Down Twinkles baby!

The Hippie asks: What’s going on? Shall I call 911? Who is gonna save me? Will there be free Tofu yogurt?

We ask: Do I have enough ammunition or should I reload another 1,000 rounds for the new Mosin Nagant? And fire up the smoker, we are having BBQ tonite!

Some Wisconsinites are having a serious crap-fit about Wisconsin’s Concealed Weapons law and Castle Doctrine and it has now reached Mayan Calendar Catastrophe  proportions.

AB 69 changes Wisconsin law by providing a defense for irrational people armed with deadly force. Under its provisions, malevolent, reckless, or paranoid people who shoot trick or treaters or repairmen on their porch will be presumed to be acting in self-defense.

This quote is not from Brady or CSGV, not even an editorial from one of the Left of The Left leaning newspapers in Wisconsin. The quote is from a letter by Gregory J. O’Meara, S.J. in representation of The Criminal Law Section “representing over 600 criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors, judges and academicians with the purpose of promoting respect, fairness and professionalism in the administration of criminal justice in Wisconsin.”

So, what is with the Castle Doctrine that they hate so much? That people might use it to commit murder:

Assume a man kills his wife in cold blood in the family home without witnesses. I suggest that a man who is willing to kill his wife is not squeamish about committing perjury. If he takes the stand and claims that he mistakenly thought she was an intruder, under AB 69, the jury must be instructed that he is presumed to have reasonably believed that force was necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself.

Once again we have a bunch of Lawyers making the assumption that Castle Doctrine will intermediately give automatic immunity to a murderer and that Homicide Detectives are a bunch of morons who cannot operate crayola without instructions and are easily deceived by some cheese-eating wife beater. That the law in itself says nothing about giving passes to anybody and that is pretty much crafted the same as many other Castle Doctrine laws already in the books in other states without any problem is not mentioned. They also do not mention that you cannot claim self-defense while engaged in a felonious crime and that if you try, you will be laughed all the way to prison.

So why are they pissed? They lost the power to declare somebody a murderer  and take him to trial whether they were in a self-defense situation or not. It is plain and simple job security. I have seen many cases where regular folks would conclude that a shooting is an obvious case of self-defense but a politically-motivated D.A. determines that it was a murder for reasons of his own, mostly re-election & specially if there is some controversial angle it can be used such as race. The the defendant has to go through the hellish crapshot of a trial and the winners (even if he loses) are the D.A., defense lawyer, judge, etc because they get their TV and press time plus monetary income that might come from the family of the dead criminal suing the accused in civil court.

Wisconsin Gun Owners better be ready because if history in other states is any indication, D.A.s and judges will want to ignore the law and take people to trial anyway just to prove they can. As usual they will be seriously slapped on appeal, but it will take a while for the lesson to be absorbed. They are going to be like little kids when warned no to touch the stove: they will wait for you to turn around, stick the tongue out and touch it anyway.

Well of course they are that childish, you did read the first quote above, didn’t you? Have you seen anything more infantile than that?

Wisconsin Bishops, ignoring reality and the teachings of the Catechism tell parishioners to attend mass unarmed. Brady applauds.

As Brady Fan Jacqueline Kelly Darnell writes: I find unconscionable that anyone would take a weapon into a church or synagogue…a place where one goes for peace and meditation. Hopefully the gun owners in Wisconsin will respect the bishop’s position…better yet if there was an amendment enacted to prohibit guns in places of worship.

But when you live in a mental vacuum, you ignore that there are critters out there. that ignore the sanctity of church. This just happened down here in beautiful Fort Lauderdale: 2 women robbed in church parking lot.

Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki is quoted saying: The Catholic Church has a long tradition of sanctuary, allowing people feeling violence to take refuge in church buildings as a place of safety and protection.
Yo Archie, you are not supposed to offer a sanctuary for criminals to attack your flock. It kinda screws up with the collection plate’s take, y’know?

OK, if corporations are not people, why I also see you guys with this sign?
Greed: a selfish and excessive desire for more of something (as money) than is needed.
Merriam-Webster

I might be wrong, but desire and greed are human feelings. If you say Corporations are greedy, then they are human? But then you say they are not So which is it?

And before you go on a rant about Citizens United vs. F.E.C. SCOTUS decision, be ready to answer why a Corporation shouldn’t be allowed political speech but Unions should without sounding like a ….like a… like an Occupy Wall Street idiot.