It seems that you can crap on public figures because it is a protected right under the First Amendment (and rightly so) but when you accuse somebody, specially a judge, of breaking the law, they kinda take it personally and send lawyers as Linda Wilder Bryan found out.

Here is the important part from the letter sent by the judge’s lawyer:

It seems that Ms Wilder got caught in the middle of an apparent ongoing war between Judge Odell and Savannah’s Chief of Police Joseph Lumpkin. As a rule of thumb, you don’t get in the middle of any fight among powerful people, at least not a frontal attack.

Anyway, I am sure that Michael Bloomberg is gonna send her a team of great NY Lawyers or at least the money to pay for the best local lawyers to defend her from this possible lawsuit.

OK people, you are mean. Stop laughing.

I am not a fan of Alex Jones and InfoWars is a joke, so it is hard for me to admit that I watched two videos by Paul Joseph Watson from my YouTube recommended videos that I actually liked.

The first was about why modern art sucks, and the second is about why modern architecture sucks.

These videos make very good and well researched points similar to the content of a Vice article I’ve posted before: I’m Sick Of Pretending: I Don’t “Get” Art.

There is real evidence that modern or post-modern architecture actually destroys cities.  They take away from our ability to define a place as something unique.  There are no less than two TED talks about the terribleness of modern architecturea and why people hate it.

It comes down to two issues.  First: the philosophy of post-modernism rejected the idea of absolute truths, and in doing so rejected the idea that beauty was something objective.  The avant garde of post-modern architecture rushed to make buildings as ugly as possible to show off their post-modernist cred.  It was a style called brutalism.

The other comes down to the idea summed up in the quote from the “father of modern architecture” Louis Sullivan: “form follows function.”

I’m a gun guy.

I am a 1911 guy.

I love the works of John Moses Browning (peace be upon him).

I have some other guns that I truly love, my S&W Model 41 (from 1974), my Model 52, my Colt Woodsman target, even my Beretta 92.  Each is unique in  their own way.

I got to handle the new Beretta APX the other day.

Here is what I have to say.  Fuck Gaston Glock.  He is the Louis Sullivan of guns.

That brutalist aesthetic has infected the gun world.  How else did a 500 year old company go from something so iconic in it’s silhouette like this:

To this:

Because Berreta got infected with post modernist Glockism.

Everybody has.

Glock

A Springfield Armory Glock or a Spock

A Sig Glock or a Slock

A Smith and Wesson Glcok or a Smock.

A Ruger Glcok or a Ruock

A Remington Glock or a Rock.

I have been brutalized by post modernist Glockism.

I don’t care that it only holds eight rounds.  Manual safeties do not scare me.  I find there to be few more beautiful pistols than the 1911A1 and the P35 High Power.

How can the plastic block compare to the elegance of this:

Art in steel and wood, with real checkering instead of random stippling.

I reject post-modern Glockism.  Sure they function, but life is more than just about function.  It is about beauty and style and being unique.

It is making an impression on the world and not just being a simulacrum of something else.

I call for a return to elegance in the gun world before gun counters become like modern cities, where everything new is devoid of soul in a bleak landscape of black and FDE plastic.

Seen it in different blogs… “Murica!

Yes, he is Top RINO and Country Club Republican who does not stand for the Republic or the Constitution.

No, there will be no celebration or amusement in this blog about his brain cancer.

We are not George Clooney.

This is something that is going on across the book of faces and mostly from cops and I sincerely do not get.

Narcan nasal is not a difficult medicine to use. It is not expensive and I do believe that any cop who wishes to carry it for life-saving duties, should do so.  A five-minute trip around Youtube shows that the application of the “Emergency opioid antagonist” as it is called in the Florida Statutes is as difficult as using a nose spray for the cold… because it is a nose spray.

I had a great exchange with Andrew Branca who opposes cops having Narcan. He points out that it is a potential lawsuit against the agency and therefore a waste of taxpayers’ money. Although I agree that anybody can bring a lawsuit against anybody or any department, the “Emergency opioid antagonist” laws offer a wide protection and the lawsuits would not proceed, specially if the state has a way to force the asshole to pay for court and lawyer’s costs.

A lot of cops are carrying Individual First Aid Kits and tourniquets without “official training” and department approval. These are life-saving devices same as the Narcan and if the excuse is that they would only used the IFAK and/or tourniquet on themselves of a fellow officer, the same can be said for Narcan after it is already a thing for officers to be accidentally exposed to Fentanyl like in Ohio and in Pennsylvania and two officers in West Virginia. And here in Miami, we learned about the sad death of a 10-year-old boy, and I doubt very much any cop would not mind standing doing nothing and watching an innocent kid die because they don’t wanna carry Narcan out of some misguided principle.

Again, I do believe on voluntary carry only (for both cops and civilians) and hopefully in a state like Florida that has a damned good Great Samaritan law and backed up with a Narcan Law.

If you agree or disagree, please expand in the comments. Do remember to keep it civil.

Full of Cubans and other species from the Latin American fauna but very peaceful for the most part, specially if you don’t mind Salsa played loud till the wee hours on the weekends.

But as with always, there is that one guy that screws it up

(Click here for a Low Res version in Youtube)

He don’t like AT&T much. And truth be told, their service sucks, but not to that extreme.

PS: If you shoot revolvers, this shows why you need speedloaders,

Here is the interesting part: It seems that it was just a threat. No gun was present.

From another source:

Around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 8, Los Alamos Police Department Cpl. Jemuel Montoya was dispatched to Rigoberto’s Taco Shop for a male individual that was being loud and disorderly. Montoya arrived on the scene and found Deines at the counter being argumentative with workers behind the counter. While standing next to Deines, Montoya said he noticed a strong scent of liquor emitting from his person. Deines began to be aggressive with the workers, making the patrons very uncomfortable. When Montoya moved closer, Deines noticed the police officer and reportedly said, “Oh, it’s come to this.”Montoya spoke with Deines outside the restaurant to get a sense of the situation. Apparently, Deine’s food order was wrong and the restaurant employees would not change it.Montoya spoke with one of the employees, who told the officer that Deines threatened to retrieve a gun out of his car if he did not get what he wanted.

Source: Taco Troubles: Man threatens to get gun over wrong order at Rigoberto’s | LAMonitor.com

Now, if the guy had a gun, would Corporal Montoya be so calm about and arresting the guy after talking to him? We know better.

But for Moms Demand, now saying the word gun in a threatening manner is as bad as Sandy Hook as long as they can make riveting headlines.

PS: The answer to their question is yes.