Month: March 2019

Monitor issue solved.

One has been donated with my undying thanks

Thank you to everybody who gave input and advice. Sometimes it is hard to sit in front of the screen and write  because you are in a foul mood thinking you are just spinning tires in the mud. You all are proof I am not.

Thank you all.

I thought it was The Onion: UK Pol demands GPS tracker in every knife sold.

But since it is a Twitter Blue-Checked account, I have to go with simply stupidity. He wants a GPS tracker AND the politician’s favorite gift: A Database!

I have not had enough coffee this morning to deal with the avalanche of stupid out there.

I need to save for another monitor. (UPDATE)

This crap of copy-minimize-maximize-paste between documents is driving me insane.  Last night just to figure which committees are dealing with gun issues (18) and find out who are the members of each (only 4 committees) took me an hour and a half.

And I have not started with the email addresses. Found a source, but it requires me to click each name to get the email.

I need to go out so I will take that up again later. I should get some Excedrin while I am out there.


UPDATE

Readers have kindly asked for a monitor and price to help but I want to double check so I don’t screw up. This is the back of my machine and I see an HDMI which I presume is an output.

I figure I need a monitor with an HDMI input, right? And you can see the model of the puter and it is just as it came out of the box.

Cheapest and available in my local Walmart is ELEMENT 24″ Full HD (1080P) LED Monitor at $118.

Cheapest and available at my local Best Buy is LG – 24″ IPS LED FHD FreeSync Monitor – Black at $129.99.

I know I have readers that know this stuff, so I will defer to your advice.

Socialism makes you stupid. Die Hard 4 attacked Venezuela.

I hope some of you speak Spanish or know somebody who does to fully appreciate this video.

The title explains what comes out AOC or why people vote for Bernie and why this lady, I guess a supposed expert in cyberwarfare explains that a truck full of electronic gear  just like in the movie Die Hard 4 was used to create the “cyber attack” the Venezuelan Government claims sabotaged the electrical grid in Venezuela. Those who have seen the movie will be laughing their asses off because we know  it was the electrical power plant the only thing that could not be hacked remotely and people had to go inside the plant to shut it down .

 

I figure that they think people are solemnly stupid and they can get away with stuff like that because it is dogma that the State is never wrong and you must accept whatever it comes out of it.

So now you know, what happened in Venezuela was like the movie with President Maduro reprising the role of John McClane.

In case the tweet disappears:

Miami Herald and Trump Derangement Syndrome

Facebook feed and then the article itself.

Evil Orange Man grounds Miami outbound planes because hate!

There has been a couple of accidents with the Boeing 737 Max and unless I am missing something, it is not unusual for the FAA to order the grounding of planes till they clear and fix the issue.

But it is the Era of Trump. …

Florida: As expected, there is resistance from School Boards to allow the Guardian Program.

Only 25 districts have joined the Guardian Program. Most districts have not yet adopted the program and several have even voted to not participate in it. The Leon County School Board approved a resolution that only sworn law enforcement officers are permitted to have guns on campus.

Every district is different, said Kurt Browning, superintendent of Pasco County Schools and president-elect of the Florida Association of District School Superintendents.

“I understand where the sheriff is coming from as far as teachers and coaches but with all due respect he’s not in the school system and doesn’t know how it works,” Browning said. “You cannot tell me that putting more guns on campus is going to prevent accidents.”

Pinellas sheriff urges Florida superintendents to adopt Guardian program, arm school personnel

If approved, one of the things SB 7030 would do is remove the prohibition for teachers to carry on campus. It is still not a better bill because it requires the approval of the school board to allow teachers to carry in school and there is ample opposition to the idea. Here is another article.

AVARES, Fla. – State lawmakers are considering a bill that would expand the school guardian program to include arming teachers.
Orange County School Board member Angie Gallo said she asked her colleagues earlier this week to articulate the board’s position in writing.
“I would like to ask staff to create some language for a resolution that states (the) Orange County School Board opposes any legislation that will arm our teachers here in Orange County,” she said.
Gallo, the Seminole County School Board’s Tina Calderone and the Lake County School Board’s Bill Mathias each told Channel 9 on Thursday that they do not foresee their districts arming teachers should the bill be passed into law.

3 Central Florida school districts seem uninterested in new proposal to arm teachers

Why did I bolden Seminole County? becase there was some sad news just yesterday.

LAKE MARY, Fla. (WESH) – A Florida high school was briefly placed on lockdown Wednesday morning after a student killed herself with a handgun on campus.

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said a 17-year-old junior at Lake Mary High School shot herself in the school auditorium. The student asked to leave class to use the restroom around 7:45 a.m. A teacher reported hearing the gunshot about five minutes later.

The school was immediately placed on a code red lockdown following the reports of a gunshot

Florida teen shoots, kills herself in school auditorium

Yes, it was a suicide but you would be missing the point: A Florida student living in the aftermath of the alleged security increase after Parkland managed to easily sneak a gun into a school in a system that swears does not need extra security.

These school boards are the Anti-Vaxxers of the Florida Educational System. I am no longer outraged at the idea we are going to have another school shooting because of this political bullshit,  I am just resigned. And then I get to  see the usual Gun Control fiends come out to dance and jump over the corpses of the kids and blame us.