One of the envelopes I sent was my first NRA Election Ballot.

Have you sent yours?

And no, I am not telling you whom I voted for… OK, just one: Robert K. Brown. His articles and the ones from other writers in Soldier of Fortune, were my first comprehensive Second Amendment reading.

Sorry, but I am faithful to my Elders and Wisers.
(Is that even a word?)

As your average American, I don’t do a lot old-school mailings. Maybe the occasional big envelope or package and almost always through the US Postal Service. I know, but I never had an issue with them and I had plenty with the private carriers.

Today I had to send out a couple of envelopes and SURPRISE! Not a single stamp to be found in the house. If there is one things I hate with passion is dealing with the inevitable lines at my local post office. It is not necessarily crappy postal workers but the customers: You see, Cubans (I am including all Hispanics) not only want to argue about everything but they do it loudly and suck the time and joy of being outside the house. And you don’t wanna be there in Payday when every single sucker goes buy a Money Order.

So, I exclusively go to this almost never used machine in the lobby of the same location:

For whatever reason, this machine is almost always free when I drop by.  Today was no exception (The line at the counter was 18 people deep, I counted them) but I was mailing only a couple of envelopes and the machine informed me that the minimum transaction was $5 and gave the option to buy stamps. Oh hell yes, sure as hell I don’t wanna stand in line and I was already hearing what sounded like an argument about the price of sending a box to some exotic Caribbean location with urgent shit for mom.

I was expecting to get a booklet of some sort like you get at the counter, nope: printed the QR code on the stickers right there after a quick ATM card transaction.

TADA! A few seconds later, the envelopes were tagged and deposited in the proper slots. Total time in the Post Office? I’d say easily under 10 minutes.

IMHO, the USPS should machines like this not only in every post office but any business that would take them. Go to the supermarket? Do your postal stuff there. Gas stations also come to mind.

Just my opinion.

Since the invasion of Poland by the Nazi blitzkrieg in 1939, it has been in the Military Sacred Scrolls and Historical Commandment Tablets that Cavalry is dead. It was a foolish thing when the Poles attacked tanks on horseback and think they had any chance of winning. It couldn’t be done then and now in modern times, no way Jose.

Till a group of Green Berets and a bunch of Afghanis did just that in the opening days of the War on Terror. Not only they won that battle, but they toppled the Taliban as the De Facto governance of the country.

There has been many High Speed-Low Drag shit done during these years of war, including the killing of Bin Laden, but nothing can topple that, specially from a group of truly special operators  who avoid door-kicking-superman actions and shy away from any publicity.

The movie “12 Strong” based in the book “Horse Soldiers” has ruffled the Social Warrior Justice’s feathers something awful.

This quote should give you all you need to know:

The Taliban are portrayed as black-clad savages, executing women who teach others above eight years old how to read and write.

Not for nothing, but that is an accurate portrayal of the Taliban. Others include the beat downs as a first and only warning of males not wearing beards; after that was death by an assortment of methods. Suicide bombers targeting strictly civilian targets and the destruction of any  historical artifact from an era or culture not mentioned in the Quran apparently escaped the critics. It should not be surprising since at the time, “human rights” organizations were more into trying to denounce the US and have US Soldiers tried for Crimes against Humanity than actually go after the truly evil fucks that ran Afghanistan and gave OBL refuge.

I cannot tell you if the movie is any good and I will keep to my tradition to wait for it in PPV eschewing theaters, but if it is any close to the book, it should be a decent flick. I hope it makes money and pisses the critics off just like it happened with Act of Valor.

HatTip Justin Blogson

Watch the video, just five minutes will be enough:

If this pastor is that misguided (or lying), she is doing a tremendous disservice to her flock. There is the new sanctuary movement resuscitating the old one from the 80s and the Salvadorans but now because it is the cool thing to be against the law because Trump is president. Mind you, people got in trouble back in the 880s for doing the Sanctuary thing simply because there is no legal protection for it. The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law offers a Legal Toolkit for the New Sanctuary movement, but buried in it, you will find the following:

We believe that it is unlikely that the historical tradition of offering sanctuary would provide a defense to an indictment under 8 U.S.C. ß 1324(a)(3). As noted above, church sanctuary for criminal offenses was abolished by statute in England in 1623 and thus did not enter the United States as part of the common law. It has [*7] never, as far as we can discover, been recognized here by any state or federal legislation. n12 The only way to use church sanctuary as a successful defense on historical grounds would be to persuade the courts to resurrect the common law right. This is unlikely. Not only have centuries passed since sanctuary was abolished by statute, but there are major policy implications in a decision to revive sanctuary. Sanctuary grew out of the need of primitive societies for a place of respite. Where blood feud and tribal concerns dominate a society or the courts are weak or the executive is too ready to dispense harsh and bloody punishment, there may be a need for sanctuary. None of these conditions exists in this country today. We doubt the courts would be willing, even in the face of sympathetic facts, to hold that they were no longer able to enforce the country’s laws in the church sanctuaries. n13
n12 Although a complete search of all state laws enacted since 1789 is impractical, we have reviewed human rights treatises, general and specialized encyclopedias, and historical reference works without uncovering any reference to an American law dealing with church sanctuary. Churches have often opposed particular government policies by preaching civil disobedience, but not, as far as we can determine, by claiming a general exemption from the legal process

CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – NEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT – LEGAL TOOLKIT

Again, there are no sanctuary laws at either state or federal level. However there are laws against harboring criminals. The only reason churches get passes is because the Bosses do not want the bad publicity that will come with any public action.

So, once again,  There Is No Such Thing As A Church Sanctuary.

PS: Subscribe to Donut Operator. He is a retired cop and he does great analysis of police videos.

UPDATE: Scrappycrow informs that the pastor is no longer associated with the church.

 EAST HAVEN, CT — Just a few days after the Old Stone Church Pastor confronted East Haven Police officers that they searched inside her church for an accused violent fugitive, church officials announced that the Pastor, Rev. Care Goodstal Spinks is no longer with the church.
In a lengthy post on social media, the Old Stone Church (aka First Congregational Church of East Haven Inc.) released the following statement.
“We are deeply saddened by the events that unfolded at the Old Stone Church on Tuesday January 23. The behavior and language on video by the Intentional Interim Pastor, do not necessarily express the opinions of the wider congregation. We have accepted a letter of resignation from the interim pastor -effective immediately.”

Read first, my comment at the bottom:

DATE: January 25, 2018
TO: USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President

ACTION THIS WEEK ON PRO-GUN BILLS

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 24, 2018 the House Criminal Justice Committee

HB-1419 Guns on Church Property/Church Private Property Rights by Rep. Lawrence McClure (R) is a bill to restore private property rights to churches, synagogues, and other religious institutions. It passed by a vote of 7-3. The bill now goes to the House Judiciary Committee

THURSDAY, Jan. 24, 2018 Senate Judiciary Committee

SB-1048 Guns on Church Property/Church Private Property Rights by Sen. Dennis Baxley (R) is a bill to restore private property rights to churches, synagogues, and other religious institutions. It passed by a vote of 6-4. The bill now goes to the Senate Rules Committee

Restoring the Private Property Rights of churches, synagogues, and other religious institutions was OPPOSED by NY Mayor Bloomberg’s Mom Demand Action, League of Women Voters of Florida, and Florida PTA. It appears these organizations are not only anti-gun but are also anti-private property rights and anti-religious freedom.

Here are the keywords: It passed by a vote of 6-4. Ladies and Gentes, may I remind you this was the committee where Senator Anitere “Sleeping with the Enemy” Flores is a member and has been the one responsible for blocking our Pro Gun Bills. This meant that somebody changed his/her mind so I immediately went to the Florida Senate site, but could not see how they voted yet. Luckily the video of the meeting was already up (Voting is around the 15 minute mark) and the bill was the first one to be considered and discussed. 

Much to my surprise, Sen. Flores (RINO-Moms Demand) voted for the bill! You could not hear he voice in the video when polled, so I had to count the “no” votes to make sure that they came out to four.

Not saying that the revelations of her adulterous ways with an anti-gun member of the Democrat party like Oscar Braynon had anything to do with it, but I welcome it nevertheless. Hell, abuse the shit out of her screw up; she wants to play politics and screw with our rights, I have no problem with her having the political dagger to the hilt in her back.

Not only 2,000 cops but uncoordinated officers listening to false reports of additional shootings.

So kudos to the officers on the scene for not shooting anybody that did not need shooting including fellow officers in civilian clothes. (Oh shit, there goes that argument against Open carry!)

And the “WTF were you thinking” award to the bosses that apparently never consider to plan inter-agency coordination for a possible mass casualty event in the Fort Lauderdale Airport.

The owner of a $300,000 Ferrari is suing Marriott International, saying a hotel valet gave his keys to a young man who was trying to impress a woman he just met.

The Tampa Bay Times reports that 73-year-old attorney James “Skip” Fowler parked his yellow 458 Italia Spider outside the Vinoy Renaissance Resort & Golf Club last July 27 while attending a lawyer’s convention in St. Petersburg.

There the 2014 Ferrari remained for more than 12 hours, until Levi Miles, then 28, showed up. Miles said he told the woman it was his and demanded the keys, telling the valet that the ticket was in the car and he’d bring it back.

He never did.

Lawyer: Florida Hotel Valet Gave His $300,000 Ferrari to Wrong Man

Holy crap. That is a major failure of protocol from the valet and the hotel. No wonder Hotels are hiring outside companies to do this chore and wash their hands in case of trouble.