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Ron DeSantis turned Florida from a bluish-purple state into a red state.
The Hispanic population of Florida has consistently gone more conservative as they watched their ancestral homelands in the Caribbean and South America fail as they’ve turned socialist or communist.
I wouldn’t at all put it past this administration to add 9.5 million illiterate, unemployable, welfare dependent voters to the state of Florida to secure it as a blue state.
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“6 keys to safe storage of firearms, from the experts” —The Conversation, 6 keys to safe storage of firearms, from the experts, oregonlive, (last visited Mar. 10, 2024) came across my feeds. I didn’t expect much, but I went to read, just to have some fodder for the blog.
The first step is to identify the “experts”. The link to “experts” takes us to a single associate professor with a Ph.D. in Public Administration. Her dissertation was Assessing the Role and Impact of Public Policy on Child and Family Violence..
Her undergraduate degree was in Sociology.
So soft science. She may or may not have any real statistical background. She is a pure academic, never having worked outside the education industry.
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Everyone knows that South Florida is 90 miles from Cuba. The Cuban influence in Miami is undeniable.
Cuba is not the only Caribbean island that is within a short boat ride from Florida.
There is a large Haitian immigrant population, just a little further north of Miami, in north Dade and Broward County.
This came to mind when I saw this:
Haiti declares state of emergency after thousands of dangerous inmates escape
Haiti has declared a three-day state of emergency and a night-time curfew after armed gangs stormed the country’s two biggest jails, allowing more than 3,000 dangerous criminals, including murderers and kidnappers, to escape back on to the streets of the poor and violence-racked Caribbean nation.
The UN estimates that about 15,000 people were forced to flee the violence between Thursday and Saturday, including those already in makeshift camps for displaced people set up in schools, hospitals and squares around the capital, Port-au-Prince.
But even in a country accustomed to the constant threat of violence, Saturday’s attack on the national penitentiary in Port-au-Prince came as a huge shock.
Almost all of the estimated 4,000 inmates escaped, leaving the normally overcrowded prison eerily empty on Sunday with no guards in sight and plastic sandals, clothing and furniture strewn across the concrete patio. Three bodies with gunshot wounds lay at the prison entrance.
So how is Haiti doing now, after the three day state of emergency?
Oh. They are eating each other.
??BREAKING NEWS: Here is disturbing footage of the Haitian cannibal gang eating body parts of one of their victims as he cooks in the fire. The Haiti Cannibal Gang leader is named ‘Barbeque’ and is now the most powerful man in Haiti after their Prime Minster Ariel Henry fled. https://t.co/2j41sdPZ4Z
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) March 10, 2024
Gang leader named ‘Barbeque’ is now most powerful man in Haiti — as US evacuates Americans
Haiti’s most notorious gang leader, known as “Barbecue,” may be the most powerful man in the nation as the prime minister remains unable to return home.
Jimmy Chérizier, the leader of the notorious “G9 and Family” gang, is in command of the bulk of the gunmen stirring anarchy in the capital — and he vowed to fight until embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigns.
Some claim that the rifle-wielding 47-year-old mobster’s nickname comes from his penchant for setting his victims on fire — though he says it’s an old moniker his mother gave him as a boy.
Fourth thousand prisoners, gang members, and fucking cannibals have the potential to come to Florida to seek refuge in the Haitin community in South Florida.
We’ve seen in Texas and California how drug and gand term wars in Mexico have spilled over into the US. Why would Florida be any different?
Be prepared because this has the potential to get really bad.
By now, you probably have heard that Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer on the set of Rust when Alec Baldwin shot two people, was convinced of involuntary manslaughter.
There has been a lot of coverage of that trial.
She deserved to be convicted.
I want to take a look at the expert her lawyers hired for her defense.
Frank Louis Blair Koucky III.
He went viral for mishandling guns on the witness stand and being chastised by the judge.
I wanted to know who this idiot was and how he became an expert in firearms.
He is, by career and experience, a financial advisor. He has never worked professionally with guns.
His experience is as a hunter, reenactor, and extra on movie sets.
I’m shocked that he was even allowed to testify.
I’m shocked that the defense wanted to call him because he was such a bad expert, I believe he made the defense’s position look worse.
The only thing that I can guess is that ever other reputable gun expert refused to agree to work for the defense because her case was so bad.
I gave it a try, 3 whole episodes.
And that’s it, I can’t watch it anymore.
I know, I made the mistake of reading the book and watch the old mini-series years ago, so I have a frame of comparison and that is “unfair.” Then again, the producers, director and actors could have used that same reference and deliver an equal or better experience. But they failed to do that.
Lots of CGI, probably to avoid costs but if you compare scenes and overall production from 40 years ago to the modern stuff, it is like comparing a Rembrandt painting with a fill-by-the-numbers from a 6-year-old. Acting is subpar going from the emotional expression of drywall to monumental resting bitch faces to Tom and Jerry over-the-top.
The script is “based” on the book, but probably in an effort to be “different”, they added and subtracted stuff that ends up creating some deep narrative holes.
If you are like me and watched the old miniseries and/or read the book, avoid yourself the disappointment and waste of time. If you haven’t, you may want to give it a try.
Parents in Uvalde, Texas expressed their outrage after a long-awaited report on the Robb Elementary mass shooting absolved first responders of any failings in their response that day.
The Uvalde City Council held a special meeting on Thursday to hear the findings of the report into the May 2022 shooting, which left 19 students and two teachers dead.
The investigation found that none of the initial five Uvalde police officers who attended the scene violated policy or committed serious acts of misconduct, prompting outrage from victims’ families in the room.
Truthfully, I was pessimistically expecting this result. This not only shields the cops from being fired and having to work as Walmart Loss Prevention associates but protects (somewhat) the local county from being sued into becoming the parking lot of a closed Sears.
And somewhere another maniac just learned that there is a chance that he will be uninterrupted in his future killing because cos now can use Uvalde as an excuse not to get in the line of fire.
And probably the only people shot by cops will be armed parents rushing to the rescue.
Government Hates Competition.
Hat tip EricSSon
