There is a fine line between bravery and the Emergency Room.

Hat Tip Sal F.

Senator Corey Booker had a temper tantrum against the DHS Director Kirstjen Nielsen . It was not only bad acting but a great display of the overuse of the Race Card.

But once again, it is a picture that provides a better description than a thousand words and if Senator Booker had any intention of being treated serious after this event, he can pretty much kiss it goodbye.

Jesus, what a fucking clown.

PS: It goes without saying that is a GOP Senator to a Democratic cabinet member what he did to Ms. Nielsen, the Media and the Libs would be standing in front of his house with pitchforks and torches accusing him of sexual violence.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday that New York City is filing a lawsuit against Big Oil, seeking unspecified damages that will likely total in the tens of billions of dollars. The immediate cause for the suit, filed against BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, and Shell, is the damage and expenses associated with climate change— caused by the oil companies, on this view. In particular, the city wants to recoup the costs of rebuilding from Superstorm Sandy and the $20 billion that it plans to spend on storm resiliency.

Suing the Industrial Age.

Hold on, I need a minute to stop laughing.

OK, done. Damn, that is some funny shit. Now let’s get down to some comment, the reason why De Blasio is suing (besides being an idiotic Socialist) is because Superstorm Sandy did not trigger Hurricane Emergency Federal Funding. “But Miguel! It was a Superstorm!” Sorry that is made up bullshit by Chris Christie (At lest that is the first one I hear using the term) in order to see if Trenton would release some extra cash to get things fixed.

Sandy got to that area as a weak Category One Hurricane (80 mph) and when making landfall and as it happens with all hurricanes, the speeds drop down immediately and the National Weather Service downgraded it to Tropical Storm. (73 mph and under) and making all that FEMA superfunding unavailable.

If you are a regular visitor of the blog, you know Floridians have very little respect for Tropical Storms. We cannot even have a hurricane party simply because there is no hurricane.  Schools maybe close for a day and you don’t see the shelves in supermarkets bare of milk and bread. At most you make sure that the outside furniture is tied down and you bring the parrots and other birdies inside the house for the duration. And companies do not care if you house has no power, you better show up for work the next day.

Hurricane Irma hit the Keys with sustained winds of 130 mph and proceeded then to hit the West Coast of Florida with sustained winds of 115 mph and gusts up to 142 mph. Over at this side of state (125 miles away)  we were getting sustained winds 70 mph with gusts of 100 mph.  That was a fucking monster storm, not some whiny-ass rain and wind bitch soaking the panties of NYC residents.

If anything, today shows that Democrats do not learn from history. First we fiind out that they are pissed a study they ordered to prove more Gun Control is necessary goes south again but they want to do repeat it till it comes their way and then they are going to sue somebody who they claim cause the problem they had without any frigging evidence to back them up, only propaganda. It does sound so eerily familiar to the 1990s lawsuits against Gun Makers in order to get compensation for ER medical expenses they claimed were direct result of guns being tossed about in the Ghettos.

That did not go well and the Gun Companies did not have the available capital Oil Companies have to fight in court. Maybe De Blasio is seeking some sort of arrangement, a check with a billion or several hundred millions as way of sealed settlement which more likely a good part will go to lawyers friends of the Dems who will spread the wealth in campaign contributions and ultimately a house by the sea-shore for those upcoming retirement from politics years. I do hope they build them to Hurricane Specs, though.

I just read in a chat what probably is the worst insult that anybody can give to a firearm:

“It shoots like a bad copy of a Russian gun.”

That is just savage.

Remember the result of the GAO investigation where it was confirmed Gun Owners are very much respectful of the law for internet sales? Democrats are not happy about it and want to force GAO to repeat the experiment till they get the results they want.

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers don’t like the methodology that the Government Accountability Office used to find that it’s difficult to buy firearms illegally on the internet.

The Democrats requested the report on online gun sales, but now they seem to want a new study to be conducted with different methodology.

“Well, when we send something to GAO, we allow them to do the process that they think makes sense. But we do have a disagreement with their methodology, and we’re going to go and sit down with them and discuss how to get at the problem,” Hawaii Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz told The Daily Caller last Thursday.

Dems Mad That Government Report On Gun Sales Didn’t Confirm Their Talking Points.

The point was never to find out if regular gun owners were following the law and selling illegally to known prohibited persons. The point was to kill internet sales and send everybody to a FFL for Universal Background Checks.

If this “changes in methodology” crap and redoing the study seem familiar, you are not wrong. This is the same crap they pulled with the CDC reports during the Clinton Administration which said over and over could not find a relationship between Gun Control and a reduction in criminal and/or gun violence. That did not make the Democrats stop and they kept demanding for more reports, wasting the time of the CDC and the taxpayer’s money which was the reason the Republican-dominated congress put the brakes on any further expenditures for such studies. The Dems have been trying to use that as proof the Republicans and the NRA are in cahoots to hide the real (but never found) reasons of “gun violence” without success even when Obama managed to bypass the congressional mandate, the results came the same as before.

But have no fear, Democrats will continue to throw tantrums and beat on a barn full of Dead Horses till they think they will get their way, even if they have to fake a report.
Maybe they need to hire that FBI guy who redacted the Hillary’s Mail Server investigation report.

Hat Tip John R.

Oscar Perez was a Venezuela Bolivarian Police’s Helicopter pilot who stole a chopper last year and took a couple of rifle shots to the Presidential Palace. He and his buddies had been hiding till yesterday when he was finally found by Government forces. He refused to surrender and apparently taken out.

One of the weapons used? RPG.

There has been an outcry by Opposition and non-chavista people in general because they used an RPG. Apparently there are rules to be followed and that includes only shooting people with foam bullets or some shit like that.

When dealing with communist forces, you cannot go Kumbaya, hope their souls start crying and that they will surrender: not gonna happen. And they have no problem using overwhelming force to annihilate you and the go get some cold ones. The problem with Venezuela is that people is firmly programmed to believe only a peaceful solution can save the country or foreign intervention. It is a sad mix of stupid wishful thinking and cowardice.

I do sincerely hope we don’t send troops down there. It ain’t worth it.

“Everything you send is stored on my server… So all your sex messages and you, like, d*ck pics are on my server now…”

“All your illegitimate wives and, like, all the girls you’ve been f*cking around with, they’re are on my server now… I’m going to send it to your wife, she’s going use it in your divorce.”

“So, what happens is like, you like, write something or post pictures on line, they never go away… Because even after you send them, people are like analyzing them, to see what you are interested in, to see what you are talking about. And they sell that data.”

HIDDEN CAMERA: HUNDREDS of Twitter Employees Paid to View “Everything You Post Online” Including Private “Sex Messages”

This has been a shock for many people who are trying to rack their brains remembering what kind of shit they shared via DMs.  And as unethical and disgusting Twitter engineers are, they are most likely protected by the law. Why? you gave up your right to privacy when you joined Twitter, remember?

And the one physical problem companies had before that we don’t have now is cheap storage. The cost of a megabyte of storage is now literally cents and the profit they can get from the info obtained by a couple of hundred clients will offset that cost rather fast.

Back in the Age of Internet Dinosaurs, there was an expression regarding what to send via email: “Never write anything so private you would not dare to send it in a postcard.” The problem is that now we have generations that have no idea what a postcard is, so we need to update it to something the can relate.

“Never send anything so private you would not dare to have it posted in a bumper sticker.”

I am open to suggestions on this slogan thing.