This was supposed to be a comment on J. Kb.’s post, but it got long so it requires its own post.

Pope John XIII began the groundwork to stop the Catholics v Jews stupidity. The Vatican Council 2 established Judaism as where the Catholic Church came from and it could not be denied or rejected.

“The Church of Christ acknowledges with a grateful heart that the beginnings of the faith and of its election, along with the saving mystery of God, can already be found among the Patriarchs and Prophets. For all the believers in Christ, the sons of Abraham according to the faith (cf. Gal. 3:7), are included in the vocation of that same Patriarch and that the salvation of the Church is mystically prefigured in the exodus of the Chosen People from the land of bondage. The Church, a new creature in Christ (cf. Eph. 2:15), cannot forget that it is a continuation of that people with whom of old God, out of his ineffable mercy, was pleased to make his Old Covenant.”
 “On the Attitude of Catholics Toward Non-Christians and Especially Toward Jews”  November 8, 1963.

I went to a Catholic school and I remember being drilled on how it was a now a sin to have anti-Semite feelings and to spread the word in our families if we encountered it (This was around 1967-68, still fresh) and I remember having Jewish kids with us at school. They did not look different from anybody so there was no prejudice other that the usual crap that happens among kids.

I do remember a little story published about John XXIII meeting with Rabbis at the Vatican’s entrance and asking them to come in first by saying; “Old testament before the New Testament.”

That sealed it better than any papal decree could.

One more thing, Antisemitism was unheard of in Venezuela till the Chavez revolution. For some reason, Socialism always ends up either blaming the Gringos and/or the Jews for its failings. Lots of Jewish families did not wait for shit to get started against them and took off for better places. Those who remained, did so while liquidating assets, moved to secure compounds under armed guard and rumor has it they were former IDF.  The government was smart enough not to fuck with them.

This is Venezuela now. You cannot tell how utterly embarrassing this is to me.

These are the product of the same sick fucks that would love to see Bernie Sanders as president and Antifa his shock troops.

There is no difference between Nazis and Antifa other than the way they are dressed and both deserve clean head shots for supporting this crap.

“Miguel! You are advocating violence!’ You bet your ass I am as Antifa is already out and about saying they will use violence against anybody they don’t like…. including Jews.

After that, you are next.

My grandfather used to say “scratch a Christian and find an antisemite.”  That may have been true for Jews growing up a century ago, when the official doctrine of the Church was that the Jews killed Jesus.  Not anymore.

One of the reasons I have so much respect for Pope John Paul II, and a glad that he was beatified, was that he did away with that dishonor and really worked to improve the relationship between Christianity and the Jews, largely motivated by his experience in WWII.

Today, I believe that the accurate statement is “scratch a Progressive and find an antisemite.”  The social justice Left just loves their Jew hatred.

Tariq Nasheed is described as a media personality and relationship expert.  What he is, is vile scum that has written several books, and hosts a radio show, about how to score an easy lay with psychological manipulation.

Tuns out, he’s also a total racist and antisemite.

Yep, you read that right.  Ben Shapiro is “claiming to be Jewish” to be able to get away with white supremacist rhetoric.  He is also a member of the “everything I disagree with is white supremacism” school of thought.

Dana Loesch called him out on his Jew hatred on Twitter.  That back-and-forth is a hoot.

Tariq is a bigot who justifies his own bigotry by accusing other people of bigotry.  That is 100% the Antifa model, but in this case with Tweets not beatings.

Here is where this story goes to 11.

Shannon Watts, who has made herself Loesch’s foil, tried calling out Loesch for picking on a fellow Progressive.

It seems that a tiny detail was left out of Watts’ tweet…

I think that the NRA CCW insurance is a little excessive (not to mention a potential liability*) but supporting the right to self defense does no negate Loesch’s morals.

In effect, Watts was defending a viscous antisemite.  Scratch a progressive…

So here is the question: now what for Bloomberg?

You know, the Jewish billionaire bankrolling Watts.

If I were a mean SOB (and I am), I’d corner Bloomberg on this.  Either he, as a Jew, is willing to turn a blind eye to antisemitism to promote gun control OR he has to condemn his own minion for her antisemitic moral equivocation.

Let him stew over that.

He explained that he secured the necessary votes to defund DC gun control at a time when no specific event provided the impetus for doing so. Now, however, the Alexandria baseball practice attack has provided impetus, making the passage of HR 2909 a no-brainer. Yet Massie admitted, “Paul Ryan will not let me bring that amendment to the floor.”

Source: GOP Rep: Paul Ryan Will Not Let Congress Touch Concealed Carry Reciprocity

And we still manage to pick up three more co-sponsors:

Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48] 09/13/2017
Rep. Gallagher, Mike [R-WI-8] 09/12/2017
Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8] 09/12/2017

Those make it 212.

Ryan has become a whiny brat trying to spoil shit for everybody because nobody likes him anymore.

I am amazed to see that both parties are in a fierce competition to see who burns and crashes the biggest and more spectacular.

… and according to the gator, he tasted funny.

…not doing it right.

Yes, that is a Ryder BB Gun. The assault weapon responsible for taking millions of eyes out. Jesus wept!
The other gun in the video is a plastic scaled down model of an AR 15 which I doubt it even shoots plastic BBs.

In the September 2017 issue of Vogue, the magazine did a full spread and bio of Bradley Manning turned Chelsea Manning.  Photography was done by Annie Leibovitz, perhaps the most influential and popular portrait photographer alive today.

Chelsea Manning Changed the Course of History. Now She’s Focusing on Herself.  That was the title.  The article was obsequious.

From February to April 2010, while living as Bradley, an Army intelligence analyst stationed in Iraq, Manning sent three-quarters of a million classified or sensitive documents to WikiLeaks. The breach’s breadth was startling, as were its contents, ranging from the so-called Collateral Murder video, showing a U.S. helicopter killing a group of Baghdad pedestrians that included children and press, to hundreds of thousands of “Cablegate” documents, disclosing 44 years of State Department messaging. When Manning’s role became clear, she turned into a polarizing figure—celebrated as a whistle-blower by some, condemned as a traitor by others. In August 2013, after pleading guilty to ten charges and being found guilty of 20, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The day after the sentencing, Manning came out publicly as trans.

What utter fawning coverage.  What intellectual dishonesty.

“[W]hile living as Bradley” 

No.  He is Bradley Manning.  Let’s get that straight, first of all.  The article glosses over the 750,000 classified documents released to WikiLeaks.  It seem that Bradley Manning did what he did because he always had a problem with the military.

The Left has always loved dangerous traitors who change their names for political purposes.

Wesley Cook is a cop killer.  He shot Philadelphia PD officer Daniel Faulkner to death in 1981.  He was a member of the Black Panther Party and changed his name to Mumia Abu-Jamal and has henceforth become a hero to The Left.

JoAnne Deborah Chesimard, nee Byron, joined the Black Liberation Army and was convicted of the first degree murder of  NJ State Trooper Werner Foerster.  She escaped from prison in 1979 and has been hiding in Cuba ever since.  She changed her name to Assata Shakur and is now a “civil rights hero” of the Woman’s March and was honored with a mural at Marquette University.

But the last sentence of the Vogue paragraph is the most telling.  Not just was Bradley Manning a traitor, guilty of violating the Espionage Act, he changed his name to Chelsea, and changed his gender, and is now a celebrity darling for the same revolutionary chic Leftists.

James Kirchick published an OpEd in The New York Times, criticizing the Vogue spread, titled When Transgender Trumps Treachery.  It was intended to be warning to The Left not to make Bradley Manning into a hero.

Kirchick tried to appeal to The Left’s sense of reason.

According to The New Yorker, when the United States tried to locate “hundreds” of Afghans named in the documents and move them to safety, “many could not be found, or were in environments too dangerous to reach.” When pressed by a journalist about the possibility of redacting the names of Afghans who cooperated with the United States military, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, reportedly replied: “Well, they’re informants. So, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it.”

Meantime, Mr. Assange gave a Russian Holocaust denier 90,000 of the cables. That man, who goes by the pen name Israel Shamir, delivered a trove to the Belarussian dictatorship, which then utilized the material to detain opposition activists. In Zimbabwe, President Robert Mugabe used a leaked cable detailing a United States Embassy meeting with opposition figures as pretext for an investigation into “treasonous collusion.”

The problem is, when it comes to their heroes, The Left has no reason.  They embrace cop killers, mass murders, and the most vile scum of the earth.  Harvey Milk was a child molester who prayed on teen boys who had fallen on hard times, but you’d never know that from the white washed history of him celebrated for being the first openly gay elected official.

Apparently the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard saw the Manning Vogue spread and float at the NYC Pride Parade and said “hold my beer.”

Chelsea Manning has been named a visiting Fellow at JFK as an expert in network security and technology.  He is also being hailed as the school’s “first transgender fellow.”

That is like making Ted Kaczynski a Harvard Fellow for expertise in domestic terrorism and rural American lifestyles.  Maybe if Ted weren’t a white man, they would.

This is absolutely unconscionable.

This will be a whole chapter in the history books of reasons for America’s Second Civil War, when The Left figured out how to use their institutions to bankroll and praise those who committed actual treason against the United States.

I think the name of that chapter should be “How to Cut Off Your Dick and Influence People.”

After you have assessed damages, done clean up, hopefully got your power back soon enough and are on your way to some sort of normalcy? Packing your stuff.

Of course, it is not just “trow shit in the box and put it away.” It needs to be properly cleaned, preserved if needed, replace spent items and even improved on stuff you already have.

IE: I realized that my seriously hand-made heavy-duty extension cord was missing from action. I did happen to have plenty of spare cable from another job and the male and female plugs I had as spares were used. Now they need to be replaced.

Somehow some humidity got in the generator’s gas tank and it was performing a bit roughly. I had to go out and cruise around till I found an open gas station and bought two small containers of gas treatment. That solved the problem and one is now stored in the Generator box of stuff.

And yes, in the next couple of days, the generator’s gas tank will be emptied and the oil changed before storing it. I am also making the tires flat-free because South Florida weather will ruin rubber like termites to cheap wood.

What is on my list to buy? An adapter to fill the 1 lb propane bottles from your BBQ propane bottle. And I need to look for an adapter hose to connect the gas stove to the regular BBQ propane bottle. I would love to have both options.

Another Streamlight Siege lamp will be bought. I can’t stop singing the praises of this little thing.

Maybe another pair of good gloves just to leave in the hurricane kit. A back up for the back up of the originals.

Something always go wrong, but this time it was non-consequential. The stove’s knobs came apart, I am guessing cheap plastic. I did not enjoy having to use pliers to get some cooking done, but I remembered I had 2 bass guitar volume knobs somewhere in a closet from a AK safety lever modification project from years go. The fit was tight enough a mallet was needed to convince the knobs to go in. Don’t knock it, it worked.