I can only claim ignorance as I was unaware of Senator Anitere Flores’ proclivities and for being in Bloomberg’s payroll. But apparently I am not the only one that was surprised by the turncoat.

Flores, a key vote on the Judiciary Committee, vowed she wouldn’t support Steube’s 10 other bills, which means they would have virtually no chance of making it onto the Senate floor. 

Flores is one of five Republicans and four Democrats on the committee, so if she votes against bills and all Democrats vote in lockstep, Steube’s gun bills would be sent to their graves early.

Source: Anitere Flores Kills Off Pro-Gun Bills, But at What Cost? | Sunshine State News | Florida Political News

I am thinking we are done this year. Short of FDLE finding child porn in Sen Flores’ computers and having her arrested and thrown in jail, I don’t see any advance possible.

Flores’ Senate term will end in 2018, and she is rumored to be exploring a run for Mayor of Miami once her time in the Legislature is up. Flores currently resides in a Democratic-leaning district, but it wouldn’t be unheard of for the NRA to find a candidate to primary her should she decide to run for another office. That could prove to be especially alarming for Flores since primary turnout tends to be low in Miami-Dade races.

She can kiss that intention goodbye.

Some gave Flores a new nickname on Tuesday: “Madame DLP,” after former Sen. Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, who killed off numerous gun bills in the Senate last year. 

Other gun groups like Florida Carry trashed DLP after he axed the bills at the time, while sources close to Senate leadership said DLP was merely a victim of a GOP decision to have him spearhead sending the legislation into the legislative boneyard.

DLP lost his reelection campaign later that year.

She is an unknown in Miami-Dade politics. Her district is big but not that populated as she got elected to office with 97K votes against her opponent’s 82K. She will need to get a majority of the 1,398,112 voters in a county that is only 27% Republican and she just betrayed the hardcore voters of that party.  She also has not been involved in  MD Politics but has been more of a Tallahassee creature so unless she has been deceived she has a chance to win, the only other reason is some sort of payout from the Carpetbaggers.

Since she can’t be re-elected there is little we can do other than oppose every bill she supports and make sure she does not have a political life after. Hell, if we could send he out North with her new master, I would.

Or a transfer to Havana, permanently.

• Go to the O’Reilley Auto Parts website
• In the parts search box enter “121G”
• Hit ENTER
• Smile

And don’t forget to pass it on!

Hat tip Dante Z.

For the Left, today is a day where their “strong” women get to bitch because they don’t get taxpayer-funded maxi-pads.

Our Strong Women simply get shit fixed without male supervision:

My wife getting firearms instruction from Top Shot’s Gabby Franco. Apparently proper grip is not only good for manipulating a sidearm but also to strangle a meddling hubby with a camera…or so I was told. 🙂

I know for a fact that is the general showed at an IDPA match with those “skills”, he’d politely be told to attend a basic pistol course first. Give him a pass on the qualifier? Not by a fat chance, even if he tried to bribe me with a fully loaded Bradley , ten M4s and a pallet full of ammo.

Hat tip to Joseph L.

Updated: J. Kb.’s comments made me do a search… Oh Dear Jesus and the Apostles ridding a Harleys on their way to Las Vegas!

Major General Darrell K. Williams assumed command of the Combined Arms Support Command, Fort Lee, VA on 7 August 2015. CASCOM, as a major subordinate command of the Training and Doctrine Command, enables the Army’s Sustainment Warfighting Function through the development and integration of concepts, doctrine, capabilities and training.

Source: CASCOM Leaders – Commanding General

I was watching some YouTube last last night, and in honor of International Women’s Day, Microsoft blasted me with this ad.

What.  The.  Fuck.  Microsoft?

First of all, not until you get to Microsoft’s website do you get the fine print.

Only 6.7% of women graduate with STEM degrees vs 17% of men, meaning men are 2.5 times more likely to enter these high paying fields.

Watching the video, it looked to me like they were trying to imply that 93.3% of STEM degrees went to men.

I tried to double check their statistics and found this article from the US News and World report.

Overall, 40 percent of bachelor’s degrees earned by men and 29 percent earned by women are now in STEM fields.

That’s a little different from the Microsoft claim.  Isn’t it?

Then you go into the breakdown of STEM fields by gender and you find out that while 18% of computer science majors are women, so are 60% of biology majors.  So in the video, that girl that wants to cure cancer has good chance of being one of the women who make up the  57% of STEM degrees earned in biological or life sciences.

That bit is true.  Why?  Because they are girls?  No.

Because modern science is collaborative.   Research teams include hundreds and sometimes thousands of people.  You can dedicate your life to a project and sometimes only make a tiny dent in solving the problem.  The vast majority of engineers and scientists won’t ever become a Nobel Laureate or a famous inventor, regardless of gender.

Welcome to the world of engineering.

It is hard.  That is why so many students who start in an engineering degree fail to finish it.  It is academically rigorous.  While all your friends are out partying on a Wednesday and cutting that 8:00 am class, you are writing lab reports or doing differential calculus.  Being an engineering major sucks.  I know, I did it for 11 years.

But ultimately, what I want to know is, who is telling these girls that they can’t major in STEM.

That is what pisses me off the most.  I began my STEM career in 2001 and have seen nothing but program after program and initiative after initiative to bring girls into STEM.  Where are the people saying “science isn’t for the girlies?”  Everything I’ve seen is 100% the opposite.  I’m tired of hearing how discriminatory STEM is.  All Microsoft managed to do with this ad was beat me over the head with the same crap I’ve heard in eleven years in academia, somehow as a man who likes science, it’s my fault that there aren’t as many women in the field “as there should be.”

You may want to listen to this away from Snowflakes as they will surely melt into rage.

After 20 years of active duty military experience and nearly 30 years involved with professional civilian handgun training I have observed that:
1) Handguns are at best of tertiary interest to the Army.
2) The criteria used to select a handgun for the military includes several factors of very limited value to the civilian self-defense practitioner and fails to address several other factors which are critical to that user.
3) Only a VERY small minority of all military members EVER fire a handgun.
4) The training provided to the majority of military members who do fire a handgun is extremely rudimentary. (InSights General Defensive Handgun course is far more in depth and the material in our Intermediate Defensive Handgun course is not found in the military training system other than a few special operations schools.)
Based on the above observations it is my opinion that:What handgun the Army has chosen for standard issue should have exactly zero impact on what handgun a civilian should consider for self defense use.John HoschenMarch 3, 2017Via the InSights Training Center email list regarding the Sig P320
[I have nothing to add.—Joe]

Source: Quote of the day—John Hoschen | The View From North Central Idaho

Let me go again over #1: Handguns are at best of tertiary interest to the Army.

That means that they are an afterthought and may be carried by personnel because reasons and the learning and training on their use is scarcely sufficient. This is why I do not believe with feverish faith any handgun trainer whose experience is only or mostly military. There are great instructors that were former military, but they became great instructors by NOT following military doctrine but by attending classes in civilian life and adding to their knowledge.