U.S.-based Kellogg became the latest multinational to pull out of Venezuela due to the oil-rich country’s economic crisis, the latest business to end operations in the oil-rich nation heaving under hyperinflation and strict price controls.
“In December of 2016, Kellogg deconsolidated its Venezuela business from the company’s results. The current economic and social deterioration in the country has now prompted the company to discontinue operations,” Kellogg said in a statement.

Kellogg pulls out of Venezuela due to economic crisis

Corn flakes is not complicated: You get the corn, you press the corn, you add vitamins and minerals to the corn, you bake the corn, you package the corn.

Simple, right? Yet, The Venezuelan Revolution and Full Fledged Socialism has managed to make those simple tasks impossible.

Much has been written about President Trump doing his thing with North

Korea and apparently getting results. But leave it to the Militant Left to ignore reality. Dear old Jim Morin, from the Miami Herald is a great example:

So Trump wants to have imposed a full-blown dictatorship like Kim Jong-un’s? Lack of freedoms, starvation, summary executions, no rule of law?

But at the same time, he addresses the group of people who would actually stand up and do something against an overreaching government?

The answer is: American Dictatorships are good if brought by the Left. Morin would draw beautiful pictures about it too.

This video popped up in my YouTube recommended videos.

That quote by Colin Gibson is sheer awesomeness.  A man who “gets it.”

“Forget hunkering down in a bunker.  Come the end of the world, steal a V8, steal a gun, and you’re gonna last a little longer.”

Really makes you think about how much overlap there is in the Venn Diagram between people who are anti-gun and people who are all about mandating fuel efficiency and hybrids.

I may not to live in a post apocalyptic wasteland, but a man with a V8 and a gun is a man ready for anything.

TONIGHT: The president couldn't be there in person so he sent members of his family to help open America's new embassy in Jerusalem. #LSSC pic.twitter.com/YvhD5SEvjZ

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) May 15, 2018

I guess vicious anti-Zionism and antisemitism are what makes for late night comedy punchlines now days.

I wonder if he was such a Jew hater when he was working for Jon Stewart or is this because of Trump?

Found via 90 miles from Tyranny.

 On Mother’s Day, employees at a Cheesecake Factory in Miami, Florida, verbally attacked and made threatening gestures toward a black man who dined with his girlfriend’s family simply because he was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, according to multiple witnesses interviewed by The Daily Wire.
The Sunday incident allegedly began at the Cheesecake Factory located inside Dadeland Mall when 22-year-old Eugenior Joseph was seated while wearing his MAGA hat.
According to multiple witnesses and Joseph’s own account, a woman who worked at the restaurant walked up to him and started pointing at his hat, signaling for the other employees to come over.
“Her finger was literally on top of his head, we were all looking at her like ‘what is happening?'” one witness told The Daily Wire. “She was pointing at him, calling her other coworkers, telling them to look at this guy wearing a Make America Great Again hat.”
At that point, approximately a dozen or so employees approached the table and began making comments about the hat, with some saying they wanted to punch Joseph in the face. Witnesses also allege that some of the employees also referred to him as a “n**ger” in their conversations among each other.

EXCLUSIVE: Cheesecake Factory Employees Attack Black Man For Wearing MAGA Hat, Witnesses Say

Almost lynching blacks in Miami was supposed to be something we, the gun-toting Conservatives were supposed to do, not the open-minded & good-hearted Liberals.

Listen, I can engage in a long-winded article about the true and sad nature of our political opponents, but I am gonna keep it simple because it is a Monday:

THEY HATE YOU AND THEY WANT YOU DEAD.
PREPARE YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY.

PS: At the time of publishing this post, the local media has said zilch about this attempted lynching.

After reading what may be the worst piece of Fuddish propaganda I’ve seen in decades, I decided it was high time to pass on a few tools to help spot a Fudd when they intrude into the public discourse about firearms.

Top 10 ways to spot a Fudd – Lee Williams.

Lee is one of the blogs in my Reader. You need to read this article and keep track of him, specially Floridians as he takes on Guns and State 2A issues.

When the Florida Legislature in one of its last recorded Pro-Gun & Pro-Self-Defense acts changed the Statutes so the burden of proof of those seeking Stand Your Ground was shifted to the prosecution, which was a correction added to clarify a gaping legal hole left from the original statute.

In a criminal prosecution, once a prima facie claim of self-defense immunity from criminal prosecution has been raised by the defendant at a pretrial immunity hearing, the burden of proof by clear and convincing evidence is on the party seeking to overcome the immunity from criminal prosecution provided in subsection (1).

I know (or I think) I covered that a Miami judge ruled against it because only the Florida Supreme Court can enact procedural provisions in which was then a celebrated triumph for the Opposition. Unfortunately for the judge and Gun Control fascist, the ruling on that sense was deemed invalid by Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal.

Article V, section 2(a) gives the Florida Supreme Court the authority to adopt rules of practice and procedure. However, the Legislature has the constitutional authority to enact procedural provisions in statutes that are intertwined with substantive rights.

The Third Court goes on to say that this is a well established and accepted practice and then goes on to the specifics for Stand Your Ground:

The amendment shifts the burden of proof to the prosecution after the defendant has made a prima facie claim of justified use of force, and it requires that the State meet this burden of proof with clear and convincing evidence. § 776.032(4), Fla. Stat. (2017). This is consistent with the well-established legislative practice of passing statutes allocating the burden of proof in judicial proceedings. In addition, section 776.032(4) does not conflict with any rule of procedure promulgated by the Florida Supreme Court because no such rule was added to the Florida Rules of Criminal procedure regarding section 776.032 before subsection (4), nor was there a rule of procedure set forth by the Legislature before January 2017.2 The Legislature, thus, had the constitutional authority to enact the burden of proof provision of section 776.032(4) in order to give effect to the substantive right to immunity in the Stand Your Ground statute.3

About the only “challenge” I see the Florida Executive trying to forward in an appeal (IANAL Warning applies) is that they try to make the case that Stand Your Ground is not a substantive right, thus the Third Court of Appeals ruling needs to be vacated.  I my inexperienced legal opinion, this would be not only stupid as it would legally diminish the worth of Self Defense in Florida so it would probably be tossed out and Pam Bondy sent to the corner wearing the dunce hat in punishment, but it would political suicide for a Florida GOP already severely wounded for the lack pro-gun bills passed by the Legislature and the outright treason of SB 7026.

So what did the Third Court of Appeals did not approve? That the application of the amendment to the law was retroactive. The particular case argued in front of the court involved Ms. Tashara  Love:

The decision came in a case in which Tashara Love sought to use the “stand your ground” law to be shielded from prosecution after a November 2015 altercation outside a Miami-Dade County nightclub. Love shot a man as he was about to hit her daughter, according to the decision.

But the appeals court Friday ruled against Love on a key issue —- and created a conflict with a May 4 decision by the 2nd District Court of Appeal in a Hillsborough County case.

The issue centers on whether the 2017 shift in the burden of proof should be applied to cases that occurred before the change took effect, an issue known as applying the change retroactively.

The 3rd District Court of Appeal turned down Love’s argument that she should be able to use the 2017 change in a “stand your ground” hearing. Such a hearing had not been held in her case at the time the Legislature approved the change, but the appeals court focused on the law that was in effect at the time of the November 2015 shooting.

South Florida court upholds constitutionality of revised ‘stand your ground’ law 

There was another case taken to the Second Court of Appeals which ruled the opposite and that will probably take this specific section of “our” case to the Florida Supreme Court. There might be another renegade judge who, in a new case,  may want to be activist and declare the shift of burden of proof unconstitutional, but there is already a precedent for smacking it down and hard.

So, rejoice! This is great news for all of us. Who knows? Maybe as with Shall Issue thirty years ago,  we are witness to the beginning of a new defensive rights’ chapter that will sweep the nation’s legal system.