If you have been watching the weather people during the latest hurricane troubles, you may have heard about the “European Model” and how is being praised for accuracy.

We have Irma coming over this side of the country and I have been checking the probable paths including the European forecasts:

Somewhere under that “spaghetti” of tracks that may or may not happen,  is Florida.

That is not a forecast. That is a “Fuck it. let’s buy all the tickets to the raffle and then we can claim we know our shit.”

My belief is that Cuba is gonna get beaten to crap and Irma will continue to the Gulf. But as my wife has pointed out, I am wrong a lot. Anyway, we won’t know better till at least Wednesday.

This was last week. I took the picture because by this time, both individuals had done at least four different transactions and were holding a long line of cars behind them.

Besides being impolite as hell, the absolute lack of awareness was impressive. Not once they bothered to look around to check for possible dangers.  Please get the idea that if the ATM tells you three times in a row you do not have funds, it is probably not an issue with your card and that about the only way you can fix it is to find a spot, park your car, get out and go inside the bank.

There are only two transactions to be done at the ATM (if you have any brains): Deposit and Fast Withdraw. The rest of inquiries, transfers and what–nots can be done at home with your computer or smart phone app.

Be both polite and smart.

Novi officers say two Farmington Hills women, ages 32 and 46, were inside the Novi Towne Center Walmart, shopping for school supplies. Apparently, so was a 20-year-old South Lyon woman and her mother, 51.”One girl was going to buy a notebook. There was one left, some pushing resulted,” Baetens says. “They began to argue who was the rightful purchaser of that notebook.”

Source: Back to school brawl leads to woman pulling gun at Novi Walmart – Story | WJBK

Let’s be clear: A notebook is not worth the risk of getting beaten up, nor it is a point of honor, it is silly to fight for something that could be worth a buck and some cents. Choose your fights as in “avoid them as much as possible!”

With that out of the way and with the caveat that this is only the only video available to us, let me give you my two cents:

1. We see somebody in  a pink shirt close to the ground. At least two women appear to be manhandling her.
2. Same as before. Appears that woman in ink is having her hair pulled and she is being trashed around. Still only 2 women visible.
3. Green arrow denotes a fourth woman who we now know id the mother of the woman in the pink shirt.
4. Mom tries to intervene and separate the apparent attackers from her daughter.
5. Mother fails to separate. In the video we see her arm shoved aside forcefully.
6. Mothers places what appears to be bags and her purse o the floor.
7. Mom deploys sidearm and aims at the closest woman. We now see there are possibly three women attacking the daughter.
8. Suddenly, people get religion and release the daughter. Bystanders remember they have things to do in other places.
9. Daughter rises from the ground. Woman in stripped shirt suddenly remembers she has a shopping cart with toddlers in it.
10. Mother still has sidearm drawn and appears to have a proper hold of the gun. Video ends.

As usual, I am not a lawyer, nor I dress as one for Halloween.

Mother sees daughter attacked by 2 or possibly three women (Disparity of Force), tries non-lethal force to rescue daughter but is pushed aside by bigger opponent, so she draws legally carried firearm. Attack on daughter ceases.

My take on what is going to happen? (Once again, we only have this video) I think the Mother is gonna get a charge of use of deadly force if the prosecutor is a hard ass. If a modicum of common sense applies, she would go free or at worse, simple assault. That she was not arrested on the spot bodes well about her chances.

What gives me the willies is that Michigan Law is not as specific as Florida in regards of threatening to use of deadly force to stop a forcible felony.

Again, IANAL and we do not have the complete picture yet, so we will wait for this one to develop.  With the long weekend, we will probably find out sometime next week and i will try to post if we are not batted down for Hurricane Irma.

Thanks to Andrew Branca now you have a reference:

Only 13 Duty to Retreat States (as of 9/4/17)

In the last few days I have seen two political cartoons criticizing the people of Texas by absolutely terrible media shit weasels.

After that I saw New York Congressman and totally corrupt fuck-shit Joe Crowley open his stupid lie hole on Morning Joe blathering on about the same crap.  (You can tell this subject doesn’t put me in a good mood)

Yep, you head that right.  Hurricane Harvey is reason to support Nancy Pelosi … because “all politics is local” Texas and Kentucky have to support a Representative from California who is becoming hated by her own party.

This is more proselytization by worshipers of the religion of the Church of State.  There is nothing that doesn’t require more big goverment intervention.

Was the response to Hurricane Katrina a cluster fuck? More goverment!

Was the response to Hurricane Sandy politics gone awry with everybody trying to stick their hands in the government cookie jar at once?  More Government?

Was the response to Hurricane Harvey a heartwarming reality show of neighbors helping neighbors?  Texas rednecks in mud boggers dubbed the “Diesel Army” driving through flood waters to rescue people and turn down offers of money.  Guys in punts and airboats known as the “Cajun Navy” driving in to rescue people.  A successful businessman known as “Mattress Mack” turned his stores into emergency shelters, which other local businesses dropping off food and other supplies to help the survivors there?  More fucking government.

There is no end for these people.

Hence the cartoons mocking the people of Texas.

There are crazy Christians who are bible literalists.  They believe the world is 6,000 years old and the Grand Canyon and dinosaur fossils are evidence of Noah’s flood.  Their faith seems strong but it is really a house of cards.  If the world is really 4.54 billion years old, how can anything else in the bible be true

The cartoons above are the big government equivalent to that.  Their is no room in their faith to incorporate the idea that independence and self reliance are good too.  It’s all big government all the time, or nothing.

I am one of these small goverment types.  I believe in independence and self reliance.  I still believe in the need for good goverment.  Those are not mutually independent.

I remember the words of the Preamble “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

Note both the “promote the general Welfare” and “secure the Blessings of Liberty” clauses.

These Statists would have you believe that the opposite of big goverment is anarchy.  Either you want a cradle to grave welfare state with massive economic redistribution and social engineering schemes OR you die in a flood because the Coast Guard doesn’t exist.

There is an enormous gap between those two positions.  The moderate, reasonable, and dare I say the intent of our Founding Fathers, was to put government between those two points.  We (that includes the small government types in Texas) pay taxes with the expectation that emergency services are available to use.  We pay for an Army to defend us, police to protect us, and other programs to provide aid in a time of crisis.

That doesn’t mean when there is no emergency we want you meddling in our daily lives, over regulate the economy to death, bailout the banks in such a way that the executives whose decisions crashed the economy ended up with bonuses instead of prison sentences, create a surveillance state, and all the other skeezy shit that the government does on a regular basement.

If you want me to summarize my attitude, and if I may be so bold as to speak for many people in Texas and around the country:

“Leave me the fuck alone UNTIL I ask for your help, and then ONLY provide the help I ASK YOU FOR, until i tell you to fuck off again.”

I am happy to take care of myself until I am in over my head (for the people in Texas, quite literally) and then I’ll call emergency services.

Big goverment is not the answer.  The good people of Texas showed that.

That doesn’t mean they don’t want any government either.  They showed that too.

There is a healthy balance of self reliance and civil service that occurs that is optimal for society.

New Orleans was a city with a culture of government dependence.  When the city flooded and the local and state government fucked the dog on that response, people were unable to help themselves.  It was chaos.

Houston showed how well an independent people and responsible government can come together for everybody’s benefit.

These statistics can’t have people seeing that, they can’t have people learning that lesson.  If the do they might not want to give into big government so quickly.

Rep.  Bob Goodlatte, [R-VA-6] joins the distinguished list.

the official tally stands at 209.