Even the National Weather Service acknowledges it that it gives us a Wind Chill Factor and everything.  I know you people in northern latitudes are laughing, but day before yesterday we were at 87 degrees. 30+ degrees drop is not something our bodies take in stride.

I am already wearing a thick t-shirt inside the house. Gym socks may be involved if I have to step outside.

Buddy Sal F. just posted this meme in Facebook and it is absolutely true:

It made me laugh.

From The BBC:

‘Dissident bullets explode’ in west Belfast house fire

Dissident republicans left guns and live ammunition on a hot boiler, and the bullets “exploded” in the heat, endangering residents and firefighters, a senior police officer has said.

Police and firefighters were called to a house fire in Rodney Drive, west Belfast, on Wednesday and discovered a “substantial” haul of weapons.

They included two AK-47s; two sawn-off shot guns; a high-powered rifle with a silencer and three pipe bombs.

I deep down truly believe that there are caches of guns hiding all over the UK.

Clearly some more motivated Irish have stockpiled them away.

I have a feeling that there were a lot of older Brits, the ones who fought in the Great War or grew up hearing about it and fought in WWII who knew that Europe is and has always been a powder keg and just didn’t turn their guns in.

How many STEN guns or Webleys, war trophy Lugers, granddad’s old shotgun or rifle from the farm days, or God knows what else are hidden up old chimneys, buried in yards, under a pile of old coal in the basement, or hidden under loose boards in a floor?

The number must be staggering.

I think there are a lot of younger Brits,  maybe not from the upper classes or bigger cities, that have been raised like so many middle Americans, to value the freedoms that their grandparents fought for.  Granddad told them where the old rifle was hidden before he died.

If and when all shit breaks loose in the UK we are going to find out if I am right.

I will freely admit that wild fires scare me. Living in urban South Florida, the chances of being involved on one are practically zero. Ask me about hurricane prep and I will fill your ear. But ask me fire and I will become a functional mute.

I bumped into this video about houses that survived Camp Fire and it was illuminating.

Then I checked on the recommended video that popped after the first.

As usual, a bunch of common sense followed by preparations that go from zero cost to not so much to ouchie. And still it will never be 100% guarantee, but I’ll take 50% rather than zero.

This is happening just now:

Parkland Kids: INVESTIGATE TH SHOOTING! WE WANT THINGS TO CHANGE SO IT NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!

(Investigation is done, changes are made, people are reassigned)

Parkland Kids: WE DON’T LIKE THE CHANGES! BRING BACK THE WAY THINGS WERE!

And for a moment, you almost get mad, but then remember it is Broward County and pretty much shrug it off. In America, if high school sheep want to end up as Friday’s lamb chop special to a crazy killer, they get to be it.

PS: According to other sources, the protest began with the teachers who resent their buddies got reassigned. Mind you nobody is fired, but still they are raising shit.

To this date, not one single individual connected with the screw up that led to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been fired. They have either allowed to resign and retire, got reassigned and the majority has not even been chided.

Right now, some other deranged kid is happy that Broward County’s hunting preserves for the criminally insane (A.K.A. schools) are maintaining the same level of security and organization. Mad Killers love soft targets.

If you want to know why the world today is the way it is today, the first thing you should do is study WWI.

Oddly enough, it seems that the geopolitics of WWI are largely forgotten despite the fact that they shaped the globe for the next 100 years.

So it amazed me when this trailer hit my YouTube feed last night.  It looks incredible.  If it does not come to Huntsville, I will get it on PayPerView as soon as I can.

Again, I will start a post with this quote “Crime will expand according to our willingness to put up with it.”

Why?  Because it is incredibly accurate.

Good news out of the UK for once, it seems that the Metropolitan Police are getting sick of the expansion of moped crime.

How are London Police dealing with this?

They are running them the fuck over.  And it works.

Police are now allowed to knock moped thieves off their bikes with police cars to cut crime

Moped crime in London has been cut by over a third in the last year partly because officers are trained to knock offenders off their bikes.

Operation Venice recorded a 36 per cent drop in crime involving mopeds across London since October last year.

While front line officers have been handed sprays to forensically tag both suspects and mopeds on the streets of London – specialised officers are authorised to hit riders with their own vehicle to unseat them. The stops are carried out by uniformed ‘Scorpion’ officers. The highly trained drivers are allowed to physically hit a rider on a moped to knock them off their bikes during a pursuit.

A major step in making this possible was the London Police growing a dick abandoning some PC rules and starting to protect their officers.

Officers feared being jailed or sacked if moped riders were injured during high-speed chases in the past, while criminals have taken their helmets off in the belief it will prevent a pursuit.

But the government has backed new legal protections for officers, and the Metropolitan Police said it targets moped criminals “even when they ride dangerously, discard their helmets and disguise themselves in the belief that this will prevent pursuit and their capture”.

For a while the tactics the police were using just caused more moped crime.

The past two years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of scooters for a range of crimes, including smash-and-grab raids, armed robbery and phone snatches seeing individual criminals swipe up to 30 phones an hour in London.

People are frequently targeted as they come out of Tube stations, while thieves also snatch handbags, high-value watches and other items.

But the adoption of “tactical contact” or “running criminals the fuck over” has worked to reverse that trend.

Police say from January to October last year there were 19,455 such offences across London but from January to October this year the numbers had dropped to 12,419 offences. And in the same period last year there were 12,192 moped thefts across London compared to January 2018 to October 2018 when there were 8,261 offences – a reduction of 32 per cent.

The video released by the Met is great.

Do not run from the London Police on a moped, they will strait up rear-end your ass with a Vauxhall.

Despite this small victory, knife crime is still on the rise in the UK.

Part of that is because of incidents like this:

And this:

The police have virtually no control in these situations.  The police are obviously outmatched by one aggressive person with a knife.

Perhaps it is time that the London Police start broadly issuing guns.

Keep in mind that North Irish Police always carried weapons because because of the political violence the British faced in Northern Ireland from the disgruntled Irish.

Now that London’s violent crime and terrorism rate has made the North Irish look like pacifists by comparison, bringing guns to the streets of London is probably a good idea.

The next time some homesick youth decides to go on a stab-happy rampage, rather than a dozen cops barely control the situation, one just shoots his ass dead on a roundabout, that will send a message to the rest of UK population that they police are no longer pussyfooting around with stabbings and knife terrorism.

Running moped criminals over is a good start.  Shooting criminals wielding knives is a great follow-up.