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At least they are going with the $15 minimum wage. But Part-Time only, no health benefits and no compensation for your use of your POV.

This is a Liberal mind unchecked by reality. A discussion about poorly or non-vetted refugees that I could not help myself but chum the water and see what happened. Caught me a whale.

I did not have the heart to tell Mr. Bill that he also managed to stamp himself as a certified homophobe.  I don’t think he had a big enough safe space available to survive that.

The good news if you ever happen to travel South, is that they are not widespread and you have to bother them. There was an Aquarium back in the not-so-old-country that had an electric eel in its exhibition and a very clear sign that said “Do not touch or thump the glass.” Of course, several Latino versions of Cletus had to do just the opposite with the inevitable result when you screw with an animal that can shoot up to 1,000 volts at one amp.

Keith Lamont Scott was shot by a cop in Charlotte, NC.  The police say he had a gun.   His family says he had a book.  Not a lot of information has been released, so I am not going to comment on the shooting.

I am going to comment on INSANE reaction to it.

First, over at the Moms Demand Action Facebook page:

Wait?  Does “gun violence” now include police shootings?  I thought that only police should be allowed to have and carry guns?  So are police now part of the gun violence problem?  Getting confused.

Let’s be clear on what open carry is and is not.  I am not a fan of open carry, but it is the law in some states.  If it stays in your holster, we’re cool.  If it comes out of your holster, it better be for a very good reason.  Having a gun in your hand is not open carry.

Officers approached Scott after he got back into the car. He emerged from the car again armed with a firearm “and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers, who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject,” police said in a statement.

These little details are important.  Thank you Rita Margolies for adding some more racial animus to this case.  There wasn’t enough already, glad you could add something totally unhelpful.

I can only assume that “Uncle Tom” is a reference to the black Charlotte Chief of Police, who is trying to keep a city in order.  It’s good to know that Gillian Kira Lyoness is a far left win, Trump hating, progressive liberal, otherwise being a beat-up old bag of a nasty white woman using a racist slur against a black man would be … racist.

Ah, the “I don’t know how guns work” opinion.

This is were things really started to slide for me.  These were only a few examples of posts from the Moms Demand Action page that condoned or borderline justified riots against the police.  The police were described as racist and murderers.  This is by members of an organization that has consistently said that only the police and military should be allowed to carry guns in public, and argument that I have not seen any of them walk back.

What I am starting to see is a very serious case of Doublethink developing among the ranks of the anti gun left:

The police are racist murderers, who abuse their power to kill innocent black men and are not held accountable for it and need more training in how to disarm people without lethal force, but they are the only people professional and trained well enough to be allowed to carry guns in public and should be empowered with unconstitutional authority to take law abiding citizens guns away.

Or

Cops are evil, racist pigs when they kill armed black men in self defense.  But cops are avenging angels of virtue when they kill law abiding citizen “ammosexuals” in Liberal disarmament fantasies.  

It would almost be humorous to watch a group like MDA fall apart and its message diluted as it became more and more consumed by social justice.  Except SJW types are even more dangerous.  “Social Justice” as come to mean “hurt everybody that disagrees with me.”  Their moral compass always points to wrong.

Update:  Speaking of dangerous SJW types.  Apparently the best way to protest the killing of a black man at the hands of the police is to riot and kill another civilian.

I understand that I am not hip to the latest in music, in fact, I pretty much ignore anything post mid-80s and most radio nowadays is the equivalent of QVC or the Shopping Network for music.  So who is Ray LaMontagne besides another Dancing Monkey who thinks he has a bigger ride in the High Morals pony? According to his Wikipedia page, his biggest claim to fame is to be the soundtrack for some TV and cable episodes and playing at locations where concealed carry is allowed but have no controversy around them.

Listen, I know it is cool to be all huffed and puffed about Campus Carry in Texas right now because it is the latest faux outrage, but concealed carry? Dude, that train left the station, traveled through the whole country and literally reached the end of its destination years ago. There are close (or possibly more than) 15 million people with Concealed Carry licenses and not counting the states that do not require a permit to carry. We all walk by you every day.
Where the hell have you been?

So my best advice for Ray LaMontagne:

PS: I just realized that if Ray LaMontagne is truly dedicated an meant what he said, he should not play in any state that issues Concealed Carry licenses. I dropped by his Twitter account and challenged him to do so. 😀

The one thing I hate about doing a review is I am always fearful to throw a spoiler or two out and ruin the surprise. Oh well.

The fourth installment of the Grey Man is again a great book to sit and relax with your favorite adult beverage. J.L. Curtis does not fall into the temptation of repeating a proven formula from earlier works, but focus the John Cronin story on two items: Family and continuing the tradition of doing what is right. He knows he is no longer the young pup that could take on the world and he is not only not happy about it, he might even be fearful. His almost extinct family however is now growing back, new life is coming in and there is hope for the future in their little patch of Texas.

My guess is that Cronin will eventually realize that the game is for the young ones and he will need to settle down, impart the wisdom acquired over the years and play with the wee ones on the porch. Patriarch is not a bad word after all.

The Gray Man – Partners is for the pickings at Amazon.

If you have not any of the books, You can get started with the first book, The Grey Man: Vignettes in Kindle which is priced at $1.99 for what I imagine a limited time.

I saw these two tweets, one by Vox and the other by Politico, trying to downplay terrorism in NYC.

These tweets are practically the definition of surrender.  Don’t try and convince me that I should accept regular acts of terrorism in NYC as the new normal.

As a Florida native, let me tell you how I interpret these tweets.

I am a veteran of Hurricane Andrew.  If Terrorism is to NYC as Hurricanes are to Miami, than Hurricane Andrew was our 9/11.  It was a watershed moment in South Florida history that changed the way people thought and acted.  Even people who were born in or moved to Miami after Andrew know about Andrew.

We didn’t just accept our city being wiped of the map as the new normal.   We changed all of our building codes.  We put in all new breakwaters and canals.  Most importantly, the people got prepared.

When hurricane season approaches, people start storing gallons of bottled water in their homes.  Nobody lets their tank get to less than half full.  Generators are tested.  Big trees get cut down.  Hurricane shutters go up.  Stores start to run low on batteries and flashlights as everybody starts stockpiling.

It doesn’t matter how small the chance is that another Andrew with blow through South Florida, we will be ready when it does.  We’re not freaking out.  We’re just prepared.

So if I extrapolate that to NYC and terrorism, what I know is that I should:

1. Have a fighting pistol on me at all times, with at least two reloads.
2. Bug out bag with an AR, spare rifle mags, knife, flashlight, first aid/trauma kit, and maybe even some AR500 plate armor stashed at both my work and in my car.
3. When the terror watch list goes to Orange, burn up my carry ammo at the range to check for zero, clean my gun, oil it, and load it up with fresh carry ammo.
4. Always have a fighting pistol on me at all times.

That’s not freaking out, that’s being prepared.

But for some reason, I think being equipped like that, would freak out the Quislings over at Vox and Politico.

Update: my post wasn’t to list what I’d carry in NYC.  I know NYC is a lost cause of forced government depentcy and learned helplessness  (you are banned from being self reliant even if you want to be).  My was we are seeing attacks across the country in that used to happen only in NYC, e.g., Orlando, Minneapolis, Arkansas,  etc.  If nation wide domestic terrorism is the new normal I will respond with being a prepper as my new normal.  I don’t live where we have CCTVZ cameras on every corner.  Just because I move out of Miami doesn’t mean I’ve stopped storing a weeks worth of water and batteries.