In response on Nancy Pelosi’s antics to the SOTU, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent this Tweet:

pic.twitter.com/AaopLt8f9f

— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) February 5, 2020

Bill Oakley was a writer and producer for the Simpsons.  He decided to Tweet this:

https://twitter.com/thatbilloakley/status/1224923864452354048

That’s not how art works, douche bag.

You don’t get to decide who gets to like or look at or enjoy the art you put out into the world.  Considering that a meme like this is most likely protected as fair use, this is just Oakley being petulant.

Considering that Oakley, who was with the show for the 7th and 8th of the show’s 31 seasons believes that he is the arbiter of which people of what political bend can watch or reference a show that has become a part of the American pop culture is so hubristic that all it makes me want to do is have Pompeo and Trump send one Simpsons meme Tweet per day, every day, for the rest of his Presidency, just to annoy the fuck out of Bill Oakley and make him cry at his inability to do a God damned thing about it.

So if you are a Conservative on Twitter, send Simpsons memes to troll the Democrats just to put Oakley in his place.

Disgraced former Sheriff Scott Israel is like a bad case of herpes, he just refuses to go away.  The Broward Democrat Party is so infected with him, he just won’t stay gone.

Remember that he was suspended by the Governor by executive order.

He challenged that order, it went all the way up to the Florida Supreme Court, which upheld the suspension.

Then it went to the Florida State Senate which voted to not reinstate him.

That’s strike one, two, and three.

Keep in mind, each and every time he’s been shot down, the evidence of his failures as both Sheriff and as a human being are reentered into the record.

Not just at Parkland mind you, but his total bumble-fucking of the Fort Lauderdale Airport shooting the year prior.  That was a consistent argument against him.  That he totally mishandled the airport shooting and made all the same mistakes again at Parkland.  He failed to learn from his first failure and make any substantive changes to his department.

At some point, you’d expect a man who had been cut down by the Governor, the State Supreme Court, and the State Senate to crawl under a rock for a while and lay low.

If he’s hurting for money, he could probably find a job as a consultant or talking head for CNN or MSNBC.  He has the right credentials, i.e., a hard-line Democrat with an anti-gun agenda, and the perception of being a victim of an illegitimate Republican witch hunt.

He might even be able to take his show on the road and fail upward in a state like California.

But he is done in Florida.  The only one that doesn’t seem to understand this is Scott Israel.

Governor, Florida Senate president seek to quash Scott Israel lawsuit
Attorneys for ousted Broward County sheriff claim client deprived of due process without ‘factual and evidentiary support’

That mother-fucker.  I am truly astounded by the unbelievable hubris of this pile of human garbage.

[Attorneys for Israel] claim DeSantis and the Florida Senate deprived Israel of due process, compromising the will of Broward County voters and ignoring a special master’s recommendation that he be reinstated.

DeSantis suspended Israel in January 2019, citing “neglect of duty and incompetence” during two mass shootings in Broward County — at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in January 2017 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Valentine’s Day 2018.

Special Master Dudley Goodlette, a Republican and former state lawmaker, wrote in his 34-page report that DeSantis failed to present any evidence to support the Republican governor’s position.

You know what?

Fine.

Let that fucker sue.

Then the Governor’s lawyers should exhume the bodies of every kid shot on the third floor, wheel the open caskets into the courtroom and say:

“This is every child shot after your deputies had ample time to respond but didn’t, because they were too busy pissing themselves hiding behind trees and relaying bad information, or setting up a perimeter keeping out Coral Springs PD, which wanted to go in and kill that fucking son-of-a-bitch Cruz, which is what the SOP is for every law enforcement agency in the country responding to an active shooter since Columbine, except for yours, the Coward’s Sheriff’s Office, you piece of shit.”

He needs to be so thoroughly embarrassed before a federal judge that he loses the case, goes home, and gives his service weapon a blowjob.

I left a comment on my previous post that I thought I might as well turn into a full post.

I’ve talked about UL RSC (Underwriter Laboratory Residential Security Container) standards and double eye-locking before.

I am a nut for gun safes.  When you own a lot of guns, proper storage of those guns is important.

In long-range shooting, they say you should spend as much on the optic as the gun.  Why buy the most accurate rifle made, if you are going to mount a crappy scope with shitty rings and mounts?

I have a similar thought about safes.  Why spend $10,000 dollars on guns and then leave them sitting in a closet where they can get stolen?

$10,000 in guns deserves $2,000 dollars in safe to store them in.  A high-quality Browning or Liberty safe from Cabela’s is going to cost you that much.

Especially because most home insurance companies will only insure guns up to a specific dollar amount.  Ask, I did, and I was shocked that my upper limit was $2,500.

I have two safes, both are custom made by Fort Knox and are as overbuilt as I could get them.  Double-layer steel, outer body that is 1/4 inch thick, extra thick plate door, etc.

Yes, I am a security nut.

But let’s say that you don’t have an amazing shitload of guns.  Just a couple of handguns and maybe an AR or shotgun.  Or you don’t have the money to invest in a big fancy gun safe, but you want to keep your guns secured and locked up.  What do you do?

Here is my recommendation.

Do not buy a shitty made in China gun safe from Harbor Freight or Sam’s Club.  I do not for one instant trust the locking mechanisms on those.  I’ve had too many made in China LED flashlights die to trust shitty made in china circuit boards.  The last thing I want is my digital combo safe (they are all digital now) to die and lock me away from my guns.

I went nuts last Christmas during the Home Depot post-Christmas blowout and bought a great set of DeWalt 20V max tools.  Then I realized I had more than a grand worth of tools just sitting in my garage.  That’s like leaving a pair of 1911’s on my workbench, it’s a stupid thing to do.

I did some searching and I found a Ridgid portable storage chest.  Kobalt has one that is identical called a portable jobsite box.  I really love the locking mechanism on these, the padlock is very secure.

With all my coupons and sales stacked up, I bought mine for just over $100.00

It’ more than large enough to hold all my DeWalt tools, including my 20V chainsaw with the 12 inch bar.

It would be plenty large enough to told some pistols in their boxes as well as ammo, and even a few AR-15s if you broke them down and took the receiver halves apart.

But how do you stop some asshole from just hauling the whole box away.

The solution is two Redhead half-inch drop-in anchors, two half-inch eye bolts, and a Kryptonite U-shaped bike lock.

What I did was sink the two drop in anchors into the concrete with a rotary hammer (a hammer drill will work, but it takes longer and was an excuse to buy a rotary hammer) and a 5/8 inch bit.

I spaced the anchors so that they were on either side of one of the feet, which are metal loops welded to the bottom of the box.

I then screwed in the eye bolts and aligned them so the U-shaped bike lock would pass through two feet and both eyes and lock.

By doing this, the eyes can’t be unscrewed from the anchors without the bike lock removed.  There is about 20,000 pounds of holding force in the anchors, so it would be hard to pull it out with a pry bar.  And someone would have to cut both eyes, both feet, or the Kryptonite bike lock to free the box.

Altogether, the box, locks, anchors, and eyes cost me less than $200.

My handy-dandy Mitutoyo digital caliper (what, you don’t have a digital caliper in your arsenal of tools?  get one, it’s great for precision sight adjustment) the box is made from 14 gauge steel, which isn’t great, but is the same thickness as the body of most lower end gun safes in the $500 – $700 range, and thicker than the steel of those Stack-On gun cabinets (I have some of those too, but I installed shelves and use them for ammo storage).  The box feels pretty solid.

As a bonus, if you use one of these for gun storage, it doesn’t scream “gun storage.”

I have mine in my garage because it holds tools, but it’s small enough that it could be mounted into the floor of a closet using this same technique on a slab floor or using properly sized lag eyes into joists.

Again, this is only my recommendation for a low costs option.

I personally wouldn’t store in $20,000 in guns in a large Job Box, but if all I had was a pair of Glocks and a budget-priced AR-15, this might be a cost-effective way to store them against theft.

Update:

I want to make this point crystal clear when it comes to any advice I provide on gun storage or security.

All security can be defeated. It is a matter of time and effort. You just have to make the time and effort to defeat the security not worth the investment of time end effort to the thief.

I’m data driven. Most home burglaries take a few minutes and are done by guys who want stuff they can sell or trade for drugs. They would rather spend three minutes lifting your TV’s off the wall and stuffing your wife’s jewelry into bags than trying to pry open safes and lockboxes.

The best thing you can have is an alarm.  That automatically limits the criminals’ time the have to take your stuff and they will prioritize easy over hard.

I put a lot of security into my guns because they have meaning for me.  I have no emotional attachment to my TVs.  I will be very pissed if my guns are stolen because I put time into customizing them and loving on them.  If my TV is ripped off the wall, I’ll get a new one from Best Buy.  The most upsetting thing about that is the deductible.

I want the thief who breaks into my house to say “I have three minutes, I’m not going to fuck around with his Fort Knox safes, I’m going to help myself to his electronics.”

I have made personal decisions as to the cost-benefit analysis of how much some of my stuff is worth and how much I am willing to spend to secure it.

If you chose to have a higher or lower security cost to item value ratio, that is entirely up to you.

I’m only telling you what I see as reasonable.

J. Kb. sent me this.
According to Ballotpedia ” John Dennis (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent California’s 12th Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the primary election on March 3, 2020.”  He is after Pelosi’s turf.

I am sure the ‘Roid Asshole is violating several parts of the US Code, probably something in the Civil Rights Act, but since they are in California, we have this beautiful little paragraph in their law:

PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25 – 680.4]
( Part 1 enacted 1872. )
TITLE 11.5. CRIMINAL THREATS [422 – 422.4]
( Heading of Title 11.5 amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1001, Sec. 4. )
422.
(a) Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family’s safety, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison.

Now, it is Pelosi turf and the threat was generated against a Republican, so probably the Asshole will not be prosecuted but he may get a 20% coupon for protein shakes (Vegan Only).

I was reading just a couple of days ago about the election campaign of 1900 where President McKinley was running for re-election but who was doing most of the traveling was a young Governor from New York called Theodore Roosevelt. I forget where in cowboy country (I think North Dakota), he was giving a speech and some Democrats tried to apply heckler’s veto on him which apparently failed because Teddy had a naturally booming voice and engaged them directly to debate, much to their embarrassment. Unhappy about the challenge failure, the same local Dems tried what today would be Antifa tactics on Roosevelt and his followers while he was walking back to the train station: Pushing, threats and eventually throwing rocks at the Republican foot caravan. Unfortunately for the Antique Antifa, the fans of the governor, some of them former Rough Riders who lived in the area, decided that kind of behavior was impolite and took appropriate action. As you can imagine, the word spread, specially to the newspapers who were not fond of Roosevelt and accused him of having his own goon squad, but the end result was that no political violence against Theodore was repeated during the campaign.

Some people forget that Violence begets violence and they should be reminded of it by the forceful application of the actions they wish upon others.

OK, I was told by reader Formynder that my micturition aim was way off and I was reading that thing “wrong” as in incomplete. Bad design got me. He was gracious enough to send me a screen cap from NPR:

I’ll be having the Chicken Fried Crow with humble pie a la mode for lunch, thank you.

And thank you to Formynder 🙂

Before I headed for bed this AM, I caught a Facebook post from a buddy complaining that the Democrats had not finished the tally in Iowa. I went to check on it and saw he was right.

Almost there, but damn it, it should have been done all by now. Next and out of sheer curiosity, I clicked on the Republican side and noticed something disproportionate:

It was a given that Trump was going to wing big but, are those the caucus votes? over 31,000? That represents people? One person, one vote?
I pulled the calculator and I added the numbers for the Democrats: 2,098.

Wait a gorramed minute: Barely over 2,000 people show up to vote 2 days ago and you cannot count the effing votes? You are getting less people that lunchtime service Chick Fill A and the mighty Democrat party makes a cluster flock out of it?

All of the sudden those states that passed the laws forcing the Electoral College Votes to go to the winner of the Popular Vote? Suddenly it does not looks that good of an idea.

This deranged leftist wants to “slash the throat” of the President and every conservative. pic.twitter.com/XBxyRHyUnd

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 6, 2020

Who knew that Campus Carry would turn out to be necessary because of the Liberal Literal Menace?

They do want you dead, prepare accordingly.

Stolen from John Richardson.

And if you guys remember from the other day…

We need to have this thing graphics printed in a plastic or laminated card to have one in each First Aid/First Responder kit.