Just my way of saying: I AM EFFING DONE WITH THE GORRAMED SHUTTERS!!!

I am waiting for a guy to help me put up the hurricane shutters as I (and my back) ain’t as young as my brain thinks. Officially I am off the Hurricane watch zone and well deep into the Tropical Watch zone, but I my long-time Floridian senses are giving me a twitch or two, so that is why I am not taking any chances. It served me well during Wilma when it was predicted it was going to be a weak Category One…and did not.

Let me tell you why I am a bit paranoid. The Eye of the Hurricane is the marker for the predictions (guesses) for the meteorologists and they build the graphics accordingly. The edges of the cone represent where the eye could be at certain time and then they average it, that is why you see the eye in the middle. What the cone does not show is how far the winds and rain extend all around the eye. Here is an infrared satellite image:

Compare the width of the hurricane with the with of Florida. If you discount the panhandle, the widest part of the state  (Between Clearwater and Melbourne) is about 138 miles according to Google Maps. This is from the Public Advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center at the same time as the graphics:

So, if Matthew indeed gets close to shore, even the West Coast of Florida will feel some of the hurricane. Not nearly as bad as being next to the eye, but there will be wind and rain. The local forecast is already issuing warnings:

So, that is why I am not taking any chances because I am supposed to be “safe” inside the Tropical Storm zone, as it can change if the eye of the hurricane moves closer to shore.

And to my fellow Floridians: Stay safe. Don’t win stupid prizes.

UPDATE: the panel guy is here…gotta go!

After last night’s VP debate, Everytown posted a link to this article on The Trace, again: Watch How Chicago Gets Flooded with Thousands of Crime Guns.

I included one of the comments in the screen grab, and the rest a very similar.  The goal is, of course, to make Chicago’s murder problem not the fault of half-a-century of Democrat rule, powered by the most influential Democrat Political Machine in the country; but the fault of the Republican governor of the neighboring state.

According to Everytown and people like them, the duty of the Governor of Indiana is not to pass laws and create policies that benefit the good people of Indiana, but to use Indiana to protect the criminals in Chicago from themselves.  Forget what the 6,5 million residents of Indiana want, the Governor of the Hoosier State has to make his priority the protection of young men in a handful of districts in Chicago, Illinois.

Having lived in Terre Haute, IN and Chicago, IL, I can tell you, what the people of Southern Indiana want and need is very different than the people of the Windy City.

The Bloombergians have been saying the same thing for year about every state south of DC and NYC.  The governors of Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Florida should ignore and even subvert the will of their constituents to protect NYC from gun violence.  When I voted for a Republican governor as a resident of Florida, I was really murdering some teen in Harlem.

This is typical anti-Flyover Country prejudice and blame the GOP for Democrat short comings practice.

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“We don’t trick, we don treat. We thirty ought six.”

I lost it right there…

And they ain’t kidding:

I wonder what broadhead for clown….

According to the citation, a woman was walking her dog down Burlington Court wearing a white afghan when a man yelled at her and then fired an AR-15.The man, Adam Tingle, said his wife was outside when she thought she saw a clown, so Tingle came out and yelled at the individual, according to the citation. The woman did not move after being yelled at, so Tingle fired one shot from his AR-15 rifle in an attempt to scare her. Tingle’s wife then called 911 to report the incident.

Source: Bardstown man cited after firing AR-15 to scare off woman mistaken for clown | Lexington Herald-Leader

Well, I have seen some women wearing so much and so ugly make up, one could honestly make a mistake.

But to avoid issues like this, always make sure you aim at the big red nose and follow with a controlled pair to the big floppy shoes.

Spain is having a problem with its government.  It doesn’t have one, and hasn’t for more than three-quarters of a year.  Spain’s last two elections didn’t go so well.  In typical European style, they have a whole bunch of different parties representing everything from Communists on one side to Franco loving Fascists on the other, with just about every other political and economic ideology being represented in the middle; and not one party has gained enough votes to be declared the winner.

It you talk to the people of Spain, they really don’t think it’s a problem.

For the past 288 days, Spain has plodded along without an elected national government. For some Spaniards, this is a wonderful thing.  “No government, no thieves,” said Félix Pastor, a language teacher who, like many voters, is fed up with the corruption and scandals that tarnished the two previous governing parties.

Just like we were told in 2013 when the GOP managed to get the Federal Government shut down for a few days, the Spanish Government said it would be a disaster of biblical proportions.

Spain’s leaders warned that having no government would mean chaos and deprivation.

Turns out, the government lied.

Instead, more than anything, the crisis seems to have offered a glimpse of life if politicians simply stepped out of the way. For many here, it has not been all that bad.  “Spain would be just fine if we got rid of most of the politicians and three-fourths of government employees,” Rafael Navarro, 71, said inside his tiny storefront pharmacy in Madrid. Too little government is better than too much, he said.

I am 100% sure if you replaced “Spain” with the “The United States” in the above quote, it would be just as accurate.

There has been no United States-style government shutdown. There are no mounds of uncollected garbage, no unpaid police officers, no shuttered ministries, no public trains or buses halted.

Except in the US, all of those services are state and local.  They would be largely unaffected by a sudden downsizing of the Federal Government.

Nacho Cardero, the editor of El Confidencial, a news website, reader clicks on stories about the crisis had dropped steadily.  “People are exhausted,” Mr. Cardero said. “They don’t want to hear one more thing from these politicians.”

I second that emotion.  So do most Americans, I believe.

Manuel de la Rocha Vázquez, an economic adviser in the Socialist Party, said Spain was so polarized that politics had turned almost into a brawl. “There are only insults and blame and arrogance,” he said.

I see your polarization and raise you Black Lives Matter riots and politically motivated beatings.

“We already knew that politicians were corrupt, but now we also see that they can’t even make politics work,” said Ana Cancela.

Yep, here too.

The only sad news I saw from this whole failure of the Spanish government is this.

Joaquín Sánchez Sanz, the director of a nuclear fusion lab for the government agency Ciemat, said he spent about 40 percent of every day dealing with cutbacks imposed by the caretaker government.  Just five days before a contract was to be signed to supply cooling equipment to a lab in Japan, the project was canceled, Mr. Sánchez Sanz said. Moreover, every agency contract not already signed was canceled.

Ultimately, the lesson the Spanish have learned is just how unnecessary most government is.

“A lot of people said we would go to hell if we didn’t form a government,” said Ignacio Escolar, the editor of the news website eldiario.es. “But we’re still here.”

Seeing this gives me hope.  Maybe we can elect ourselves the Spanish Candidate this year.  By that, I mean nobody.  We don’t need them.  Like Rafael Navarro said, fire 75% of government employees.  Divide the budget money allocated to these worthless bureaucrats between the Military, FBI (make sure Director Comey is included in the firings), Border Patrol, NASA, CDC, Park Service, and National Laboratories.  Then they can just shut off all the lights in the government buildings in DC and go home.

I’m pretty sure, we’ll do just fine.

It may be time to revisit and, if necessary, fine-tune Manchin-Toomey. Buyers with recently issued concealed carry permits would be exempted from background checks, as would transfers by gift or bequest, in-person sales outside gun shows, and buyers responding to unpublished (e.g., bulletin-board) notices. More importantly, interstate handgun purchases from dealers would be legalized, added safeguards would be implemented against a federal registry, the time required to complete a background check would be significantly reduced, and interstate transport rules would be liberalized. Those are consequential benefits.

Source: Gun Control: Grounds for Compromise? | Cato Institute

My only idea after this article and the two idiots running for President & VP is that the Libertarian party Is officially desperate to get in power and are willing to sacrifice their once closely held beliefs for a share of the D.C. pie.

I think no party is going to come unscathed from this election. But seeing the Cato Institute whoring themselves like that is amazingly disappointing.