And I include movie selection. I have no idea why, but this scene from Dr. Detroit decided to play in my head early this morning.  You can’t go wrong with James Brown anyway.

Dr. Detroit was not very well accepted by the critics nor it made money for its investors (Production budget of $8 million, box office of $10 million) but it was a “profitable” enterprise for two of the cast. Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon met and eventually got married; hell, they are still married 35 years later and have 3 kids. As she tells it and he confirms it, she had to chase after him because he was (and is) a notoriously shy person.

So we know J. Kb’s stance on Pit Bulls and I am a firm believer that is the people who are too effing dumb to own dogs, here is a video showing what happens when you do not take dogs seriously.

If anything, this reinforces my belief that people get dogs as accessories to their lives and not because they need them as working animal and sure as heck do not know  how to control them.  Can a dog go crazy and attack its owner? yes. It has happened due to sickness or mistreatment or simply the dog is not right upstairs. We were given a German Shepherd that never took training, would not patrol and eventually came to ambush our other dogs for no good reason. One night he tried to attack me as I was walking by, but the body language betrayed him and received several good kicks for his attempt to harm me. The next day I took him to the vet and put him to sleep as I could not take the chance to have him injure a member of my family.

A dog is not your baby, is not your kid, is not a human member of your family: It is an animal that, as much as you can love, comes second to a human life.  With the exception of the shepherd mentioned above, I have suffered every dog that has died in our family, but that ever meant the next one was going to be treated any different.

If you own a dog, specially a big dog and you have not considered the possibility that you may have to get physical and even kill it, you are better off getting one of them miniature dogs or better yet, a cat.

Rooftop solar panels are becoming a common sight in South Miami, in part because of the efforts of one teen. Eighteen-year-old Miami native Delaney Reynolds is a freshman at the University of Miami. Two years ago, she learned that several cities in California have laws that mandate rooftop solar panels on new homes.

Reynolds: “I thought that that was an excellent idea for our state, especially because we’re the so-called sunshine state. I figured we have to make something like this here in south Florida.”

Reynolds sent a letter proposing the idea to almost a dozen mayors. South Miami’s Mayor Phillip Stoddard responded and offered to mentor her through the process of drafting the ordinance. Together, they reworked the California laws to fit local construction codes.

Last July, South Miami passed the ordinance, and it took effect in September. Now, any new homes built in the city – as well as major renovations – must include solar panels.

How one teenager got a city to pass new solar rules

So, because “We Care”™ we now are forcing to add several thousands of dollars extra in cost to new constructions or if you happen to need a new roof.  Where we spend lots of power and therefore money in South Florida is in Air Conditioning.  Our “winter” electrical bill without the AC running is a pittance compared with the rest of the year and we have a very efficient unit cooling the house. If you try to have enough solar panels to run your normal AC unit found in South Florida, you will be spending up to three times what you use in grid power.

And let us not forget that your insurance will go up because we have this recurrent events called Tropical Storms and Hurricanes that make their appearance occasionally in our areas.

But, hey! The Good Feels come first.  And we get to be cool like California.



I read this article a couple of times and I double checked it was not The Onion:

HIV-positive activist Josh Robbins first warned in November 2016 that Publix, Florida’s beloved supermarket giant, was refusing to provide its workers with drugs that prevent HIV transmission. Nearly a year and a half later, the grocery chain has still not answered why it has adopted this health-care policy. The Lakeland-based company danced around the question again this week when HIV-focused website TheBody.com asked for an explanation.
In light of the conservative leanings of the company’s founding family and its board, some critics are asking whether Publix has any business reason for denying “pre-exposure prophylaxis,” or PrEP, drugs (known by the brand name Truvada) to its workers or if the company simply objects to the fact that the drugs are recommended for use by gay men, who are at higher risk for HIV transmission.

Publix Under Fire for Reportedly Refusing to Give HIV Meds to Workers.

I love the term “pre-exposure prophylaxis.” In case you have not had your morning coffee, it means that some Gays working for Publix want the company to pay for a drug that helps not contracting HIV when they want to have sex with an unchecked stranger. Basically they want to irresponsibly go play “hide the sausage” and want Publix subsidize they don’t catch HIV.  I thought the use condoms were the most effective way not to get HIV and a host of other STDs. Does that mean they are riding the beast bareback?

And how much is the monetary haircut? According to Drugs.com “The cost for Truvada oral tablet (100 mg-150 mg) is around $1,645 for a supply of 30 tablets, depending on the pharmacy you visit.” 

Ladies and Gentlemen, according to some radical members of LGQBT community who probably does not want to wear condoms, it is the duty of a private company to pay for the unchecked sexual behavior of its employees at the tune of $19,740 a year. That is three thousand more than the Minimum Wage in Florida.  That means that in order to let some guy get his freak out over the weekend, Publix needs to fire the guy collecting the shopping carts and moping the spill in Aisle 5.

But yeah, it is Publix who are the heartless bigoted jackasses.

Dude, buy your own condoms.

Your Sub Sandwich just got more expensive, Publix caved in.

Really? The republicans? Trump? Why I don’t make a quick recap of years past not so long ago?

We were told by President Obama that cops acted stupid and then created a clown show with his beer summit.

The Mayor and the D.A. in Baltimore went after their own cops seeking social justice and their heads in a judicial platter for the Freddy Gray case, while letting the city be ran over by thugs, looting and torching.

Almost every frigging idiot in Congress and the Media (but I repeat myself three times) had to do a “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” pose for the cameras and the Democrats lock-stepped next to Black Lives matters basically declaring Black were being hunted by racists cops.

Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered by a drug trafficker armed by the Obama Administration and Eric Holder’s DOJ & ATF and to this date, the responsible for Operation Fast and Furious have not been punished and probably never will.

Law Enforcement endured 8 long years of being the punching bag of the Left, and suddenly because some agents and the top heads of the FBI were caught in complicity with the Democrats and Hillary to upset elections and then remove a sitting president, LEOs are their new favorite people as long as they can be used to stop the shit flood coming out of the Fake Russia Collusion Dossier.

There is two problems with that. 1) People are not stupid or forget easy. 2) Cops are not stupid or forget easy either.  Both know you hate cops unless they are doing your bidding and that the Democrats and the left have no shame throwing everybody under the bus at their political convenience.

So please, stop with the faux Cop Love. It makes you look even more deceitful and that is saying a lot.

The new version of Death Wish will be hitting the screens in about a month and I guess the advertising need to get cranky. Yesterday the new trailer (rated R) was released and it is my guess they are trying to attract we Old Farts who consider the original a classic and will give all kinds of internet hate if they mess it up.

The trailer begins old school and then goes full Eli Roth.

And here is the original from 1974:

For the time, it was a damned shocking trailer showing the violence and sexual assault.

And my apologies to Bruce Willis whom I have no doubt is a fan of Charlie, but the ending will always belong to Bronson.