Month: February 2020

They Want You Dead: Van driver who attacked Republican Volunteers arrested.

That was quick for a change.

Here is the jail info & charges:

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I may have mentioned once or twice in the blog that Florida tends to be rather inflexible when it comes to morons attacking senior citizens. What Mr. Timms did was bad per se: a thrid degree felony, but with the added penalty of two of the victims being over 65, he graduated to a second degree felony. He went from the possibility of a maximum of 5 years in prison to 15 years.

Let’s see how the judge play it come Monday.

Sunday Music

This is a dream for me and any recording engineer: A good band, live session in a church and good equipment.

Live session like that is always in the verge of chaos and catastrophe and it is the guy behind the console who  gently steers it into fruition.

PS: I found out where they recorded and it hit me right in the feels: Ocean Way Studio in Nashville.  I lived, literally (no BS) across the street. It was a chucrh back then in the 80s and the last I heard it was shutdown. Little I knew it was bought by my old Alma Mater and converted into a teaching & for profit facility.

I will admit, I shed a tear of two at this view.

Missed it by this much.

Stolen from Predator Tactical LLC. I don’t disagree one bit with their message.

This photo was posted in a comment on another instructors page, talking about when things get caught in your holster, while your gun is out. I hear, all the time, “my last instructor told me I shouldn’t have to look at my holster, to holster my gun. I should keep my eyes on the threat”
Ok. But if there’s still a threat, why are you holstering your gun?
In the heat of a gunfight, any number of things can happen. One of those could be something taking up residence in your holster. And that something (in this photo, it was a drawstring from his jacket) could potentially get into your trigger guard, and then you catch a round in your leg. ORRRR…. you can take a second to look at your holster, and reduce the chances of shooting your self, by a factor of ten. Your choice. This guy got lucky, that it just ruined his pants.

You have all the time in the world to reholster a gun. Use it.

They want you dead: Man driving van tries to run over Republican Volunteers.

The Republican Party of Duval County had six volunteers at the Kernan Village shopping center where they were registering voters. JSO reported that around 3:45 p.m., an older brown van, driven by a white man in his early 20s, approached the tent. He then drove right through the table and tent with his van. The suspect then stopped, got out of the van and took a video of the scene, flipped off the victims and fled.

Van plows through voter registration tent, narrowly missing volunteers

Maybe one of those Militant Mennonites we hear about felt it was necessary to attack evil Republicans doing voter registration..

Here is the tweet with pics from the Duval County GOP.

 

It seems that Duvall county flipped Blue in the last election. So I figure if they find the guy, there is a chance he will get not the punishment he deserves and his charged reduced for whatever effing excuse of the day they can apply.  This sill only help to encourage more people to do similar or final actions without fear of heavy penalties.

You are on your own. Prepare accordingly.

Robert Conrad, RIP. “Only the rocks live forever.”

As many in my generation, I met him as Jim West and never missed an episode.

Later, he introduced me to a real WWII hero and started my never dying love for Corsairs as Pappy Boyington.

Conrad with Pappy Boyington.

And his best character IMHO and the backbone of the best miniseries ever: Pasquinel in Centennial.

This episode was titled “Only the rocks live forever.”

 

New York Democrats are guilty of conspiring to murder a witness

It turns out that criminal recidivism is not the worst aspect of New York’s criminal justice reform.

Catch and release of violent criminals so they assault people every day on New York City’s streets or letting rape suspects go unmonitored is mild in comparison to this horror.

New York man attacked by MS-13, who was set to testify against them, found dead

A New York man willing to testify against MS-13 members who attacked him in 2018 was found dead earlier this week after his identity was disclosed to defendants’ attorneys in pre-trial proceedings, police say.

The bludgeoned body of 36-year-old Wilmer Maldonado Rodriguez was found Sunday outside an abandoned home in New Cassel, the Nassau County Police Department announced Wednesday. Investigators said Rodriguez in October 2018 came to the defense of two boys who were being threatened by the gang — only to be beaten with a bat and stabbed, according to Newsday.

Singas says prosecutors tried to keep Rodriguez’s identity secret by obtaining a protective order in December 2018.

But last December, ahead of looming changes to New York’s criminal justice system, including reforming the pre-trial discovery phase – during which prosecutors reveal evidence to the defense for preparation – the judge in the case issued a new order.

It allowed “for the disclosure of the protected information to defense counsel,” Newsday reports. The judge’s order, it added, required attorneys for two defendants not to reveal Rodriguez’ s name to their clients until the trial’s start date of Jan. 6.

So a man who was going to testify against to assailants had his personal information given to the people he was going to testify against, and he ends up dead.

Who didn’t see that coming?

That is such an obvious outcome that I can only believe that is what the Democrats who passed this bail reform law want.

They want zero enforcement of the law.

They have turned “snitches get stitches” into actual legal policy.

Take this hypothetical:

A man violently rapes a woman.  He is arrested but is let go without bail.  The name and address of his victim are given to him in pre-trial.  He murders her to keep her from testifying.

Why should a woman in New York even report her rape to the police?  Her rapist won’t be held behind bars and her private information will be given to him as he prepares for trial.  This woman is just putting her life at risk for no good reason.

If her rapist is an illegal immigrant, New York City being a sanctuary city, will most likely plead him down to a minimum if they punish him at all, so they would be under no obligation under federal law to hand him over to ICE for deportation.

And New York City still has no concealed carry so the people cannot defend themselves.

I cannot understand why a political party would deliberately turn an American state into a caged hunt for criminals to prey on law-abiding citizens, but that is what they’ve done.