PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Several mothers took the stage at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night. The mothers that graced the stage were a part of Mothers of the Movement, a group of black women impacted by the loss of their sons, which have prompted serious conversations about the relationship between black people and law enforcement in America.Among the mothers who spoke was Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin who died in 2012.

Source: Trayvon Martin’s Mother At DNC: Electing Clinton Is ‘About Saving Our Children’ « CBS Philly

The Democrats still selling the angelic baby mowed down by the racist prick.

Because the real Trayvon was a thug not even her mother wanted and had him shipped over his father.

Next at the DNC parade: Relatives of the 9/11 Hijackers complaining about how easy is to get pilot training in the U.S.

Asides the screaming of Allah-SnackBar, decapitating an 84-year-old priest and ISIS celebrating, there is no real motive we can pin.

Take equal parts of Political Correctness and Cowardice, shake well and you get blind lemmings happily heading for the cliff.

Just like at a nuclear accident location: I only stay in Twitter for 15 minutes, leave and go to DECON procedures.

OK< the profile explains a lot.

FORT MYERS, FLA. Two people have been killed and more than a dozen shot at a nightclub in Fort Myers, Florida, authorities said.As many as 17 people have been shot in the early Monday shooting at Club Blu, police Capt. Jim Mulligan said.Three people have been taken into custody and there are two active crime scenes, Mulligan said. Gunfire erupted outside Club Blu, at 3580 Evans Avenue, at about 12:30 a.m., where police found several victims suffering from gunshot wounds in the parking lot. Injuries ranged from minor to life threatening, Fort Myers police said in a statement.

Source: Fort Myers Club Blu nightclub shooting leaves 2 dead, others injured | Miami Herald

Teen party at a location known for adult entertainment: What could go wrong…again?

I have covered South Florida’s long and sad tradition of adult club shootings, so I am not surprised something like this happened again. And even with kids hurt, I predict this one will soon be swept under the rug of the news cycle.  Some stuff seems to be shady about the place such as advertising they are under new ownership:

Have regular advertising for Happy Hour:

With a liquor license removed:

This one goes to the “Going to Stupid Places” file.

UPDATE: A friend living in Ft. Myers informed me that the area where the club resides is not know for being the good part of town.

UPDATE 2: It gets “better” and “better”. A swimsuit competition?

The only thing missing is the van with the “Free Candy” painted on the sides parked outside the club.

As I write this post, I am about three weeks into my recovery for a fairly major abdominal surgery.  I was under the knife for almost three hours and now have seven healing incisions in my belly.  It also required an overnight stay in the hospital.  I’m happy to say that the surgery was successful and I am healing up ahead of schedule, but I suffered quite a bit of pain and loss of mobility in the days immediately following the operation.  It altered the way I had to think about personal defense.

Source: Self Defense After Surgery | Active Response Training

Go read. Another great post by Greg.

I was going to write about my experience when I came across Greg’s article, but as usual, he does a much better job that I could do.

Two weeks ago I went to the hospital for an outpatient procedure which required full anesthesia and I wanted to share what I learned from the event. I won’t go into the details about what was my defensive strategy going back and forth the hospital, but I felt rather covered as I had properly armed back up. But the great teaching moment was back at home, still under the influence of post-op drugs.

The first thing I noticed was that my brain was able to think coherently, I was not tripping or saying stupid stuff. I felt that my body did seem a bit slower and I had to be more cautious and “think” more about doing something. Still, I thought “This ain’t bad. I can control it” but I needed to compare it to some task that required decision-making and fast action. Guns were out of the question so I went with something that had the same requirements but without the danger: World of Tanks.

OK, stop laughing. I play almost exclusively Self Propelled Guns and my favorite is the M37 pictured above: It is fast, accurate, has a great reach and I am damn good with it. It is very rare that I don’t make money out of a battle even when I get killed and lose.

So I loaded WOT and  played seven games in a row to make sure I was not being lucky/unlucky. I won the first one and was decimated (not killed, not crushed but embarrassingly decimated) the next six. What I found out was that I was not only brutally slow reacting (seek target, aim, shoot) but the simple process of identifying a target took and ungodly amount of time. If you are not familiar with WOT, the targets are easily identified by the red tags and markers, it does not get any more user-friendly and still it took a certain amount of willpower and a lot of time to “pull the trigger.” But it went beyond that, I was not hitting what I was aiming for either because by the time I clicked on the mouse, the target was already moving from its original position or possible path (You don’t go far in Arty unless you get to hit moving targets from far away.)

So basically being under the effects of medication screwed with both the decision-making capabilities, the reaction times and manipulation: You can see the danger, but you are too slow to take appropriate action, will not be taking appropriate action and you will not perform the required drill to ensure a hit. As silly as it may have been testing on an Online Game, it was an eye opener and a humbling experience.

I was prescribed (standard) a schedule II narcotic for the post-op pain and although I weened myself out of it rather fast (went with ice packs and Motrin by the end of day 2 instead of the standard every four hours of narcotic) I still had to take one at least once a day for the worst wave of pain. After the learning experience with WOT, I made the decision not to touch a gun until 24 hours after I had my last schedule II pill. Basically I was a real Gun Free Zone for 6 days.!

It does not matter what your brain might be saying when you are under the influence of an intoxicant. The reality is that you will be affected and that is not kosher in both moral and legal terms. Do not make checks with your Ego that somebody’s life (yours included) may have to cash in blood.

This first batch of emails do not have much but I did catch a couple of interesting things.

First is a series of talking points/ideas from the Libertarian candidate from Vice President Bill Weld.

The second seems to show that they had an operative inside the NRA Annual Meeting. Not unexpected since it was an open event.

On the same vein, I found a forwarded email from our dear Shannon Watts. It seems you need to be rich to fight the Gun Lobby or they better move out of NYC because the overhead is killing them. $500 donation or more?

And saving the best for last, it seems that the Brady Campaign is not quite in sync with the DNC, in fact apparently might be prejudicial.

I am gonna keep scouring until all the emails are released. It promises to be fun.