A bit of democratic history in furniture.
Reader Buck7762 asked about the little table next to the bookcase and it has a bit of family history related to the Venezuela extinct democracy. The was the story was told to me by my father, it was late in January 23, 1958, an important date because a mostly blood-less coup had taken out of power General Marcos Perez Jimenez who had been the dictator of the country for a decade. And as usual in situations like that, some people became exuberant and “mostly peacefully” went looting after houses and business owned by members of the regime who were done beating a path outside the country. My dad said he was walking around taking on the experience of people just loosing it and a country starting a new path (he was born in Spain under a king and left under a dictator) possibly even a democratic future when he saw people ransacking a house (allegedly belonged to a high ranking member of Seguridad Nacional, the secret police) and tossing stuff out. One of the items was the little table that he liked and brought to his “pieza” (rented room in a boarding house) figuring that it would be nice in a future house he’d own. This was just before he and mom married.
So that little table has been with us for 62 years and was one of the few pieces of furniture I brought from Venezuela when I got move to move mom with us. The missus likes it and I like to have around a small piece of history in my living room.
Yankee Carpetbagger found in the wild.

Saw the vehicle driving into a Wally World and had to follow. The female driver was wearing a face jockstrap with the same message. which confirms she is indeed from the Garden Of Evil State as we could be ornery, but you don’t even see Cubans anywhere with anything labeled “Fuck Castro.”
I wonder why she is over here in Red State. Probably Winter & Chink Flu escapee that hates us but enjoys our way of life down here.
She can go Eff herself with a palmetto.
Thirty-three seconds of why you should carry a gun – also, how effective do you think universal background checks will be?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The City of Brotherly Love.
Like this one in South Phila? Sprinkle in a handed-off gun and a few punches for good measure pic.twitter.com/gkEUpUtj6b
— StinkyFeat (@FeatStinky) March 11, 2021
The city of a guy attacking a car with a concrete block then having someone hand him a gun.
After the first concrete block strike, I’m sure this would have been a good shoot in any Red state in America.
I’d also like to point out after this guy throws a concrete block at that car three times, someone hands him a gun.
The House just passed a universal background check law. The Senate will approve it and Biden will sign it.
So tell me, how would that law change this situation? It would have made the hand-off more illegal, but would it have stopped it?
Do you think the guy with the gun would say to the guy throwing a concrete block at a car: “we need to go to an FFL and have you fill out a 4473 before I give you this gun to finish your road rage.”
No, of course not, but that’s not really the point of the law, is it.
When selling Stupid Fear demands having asses treated with bamboo canes.
Yes, we have readers in this blog that are against vaccination and about the same number in favor of the shots. Debates in the comments have been lively but never stupid (OK, maybe a comment or two qualify as last). But this latest vaccine panic?
LONDON — The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has now been suspended in a number of countries across Europe and Asia, following reports of blood clots in some vaccinated people. Many other nations, however, have defended their use of the shot and said they will continue their respective inoculation campaigns.
And how many thousands of people have suddenly become ill because of clots crated by the vaccine?
As of Wednesday, around 5 million people in Europe had received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Of this figure, 30 cases of so-called “thromboembolic events” have been reported. These cases refer to blood clots forming in the blood vessels and blocking blood flow.
Are you effing kidding me? You suspend a vaccination because 0.0006% of those who got it reported developing clots? Who are the medical experts who concluded the vaccine was too much of a risk for clots that they rather have 100% of the people do without it than 99.9994% of the people get it without getting clots?
The worse part? People are applauding this decision and demanding a 100% Free Risk solution.
Darwin in action.
Hat Tip @el_espia_vago