Tampa Bay Times Columnist Daniel Ruth seems not to like Putnam.

So Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, a Republican candidate for governor, went on an NRA boot-licking tour a few days ago. He noted what a swell idea it is to permit gun owners to carry their little friends on college campuses, as well as endorsing proposals to allow the open carry of weapons in public places. Yep, this chap is really running for governor. It is entirely possible by the time the 2018 campaign gets into full swing, the Opie of open carry will be suggesting that any newborn infant in the state should be given a Glock in the maternity ward.

Source: Ruth: Adam Putnam sells out to the NRA | Tampa Bay Times

Damn son! Who took a leak on your tofu breakfast cereal? Last time I saw that many derogatory terms for somebody of the Ginger persuasion, Eric Cartman joined forces with BLM. (OK, he didn’t. Cartman has a modicum of morality.)

You have to forgive Mr. Ruth. he has not had a good year so far. Just alone the fact that he has to live with the fact that Trump is his president no matter how many #NotMyPresident he keeps typing alone in his IBM Selectric has to be dreadful. But Danny boy here got “released” from the radio station he used to have a talk show and it got cancelled. Why? They could not get sponsors for the show. He was the only Lefty in an all-talk-radio station of Tampa which I gleefully call The San Francisco of Florida conveniently located in our West Coast. That is the equivalent of going bankrupt with a donuts shop next to a police station. How bad do you have to suck when even your own people will not tune in?

I am going to have to check on Mr. Putnam, after all, my CWP license is signed by him. Who knows? maybe we will have a Ginger President in the 21st president and I have a cool memento from when he got started?

A  Gay military group in Muslim Syria that goes under the acronym TQILA.

TEQUILA?

Somebody at Newsweek has been eating the worm with much vigor.

Imagine you’re a fully-armed Adam Putnam, Florida’s current Agriculture Commissioner and a strong contender for governor, where do you go out to eat? Well, for starters you tell your staff to take you to a place where you can pack heat and simultaneously eat meat. Yesterday, Putnam, who isn’t shy about clearing the way for open carry in Florida, posted a photo to Instagram of a sign reading “You pack the heat, we cook the meat,” with the caption “My kind of place.”
Putnam, you bad boy.

Source: Florida GOP candidate Adam Putnam wants you to know he prefers to pack heat while eating meat | Blogs

There is no doubt that Putnam has been saying the right things and making the right noises to Gun Rights Advocates. And although I don’t know where the guy really stands plus being wary of the GOP legislature this season, I am tickled pink that the Opposition is just Trump-hating this guy already. Maybe we should coin the phrase Trump Electoral Effect as a political version of the Streisand Effect: The more the Media and the Left hates on a politician, the bigger the chance of getting him elected.

“Minneapolis police released body camera video showing how two dogs approached an officer before they were shot and seriously wounded in their fenced-in backyard earlier this month.”

Training police officers about dog behavior is necessary for the officer’s safety. And I am not saying that most dogs are a threat, but it is bound to happen that they are going to shoot a dog and an owner is going to lose his mind and shoot at the officer.

The first dog not only was not a threat, it was downright submissive:

Even the second dog’s body language is not aggressive but inquiring. More than likely it heard the first dog yelping and came to find out what was going on and got shot for its trouble.

Now, they can say that they never owned dogs so they do not understand the behavior of the animals, but a big department surely has K9 units and I am sure most if not all officers have seen Fido pissed off and in attack mode which is a lot different from the attitude we saw in the video.  If an officer cannot distinguish a dog happy and prancing from mad and attacking, they have no business in the streets because in all probability they will also confuse human body language and end up shooting the wrong person. Minneapolis PD sort of proven the point.

The only reason Democrats applaud this decision made by Bush 41 is because it cost him the re-election. Remember, this is a president that was basically anointed by Reagan and had successfully won a war against Saddam and yet few conservatives, military and certainly almost no Gun Owners voted for him.  Even his son Bush 43 knew better than talk crap against the NRA.

Say a prayer for @emily_marie43.

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Leni Riefenstahl — Google her — would’ve been proud. As propaganda goes, this was a masterpiece, playing like Yo-Yo Ma on a Stradivarius the racial, religious, and cultural resentments that gave rise to our present president.Indeed, many observers saw the ad as a coded incitement to violence. One gun owner, commenting on Facebook, called it “disgusting.” Another said the NRA was “hate mongering.” Still, another called it a “terrorist” group.”

Source: The NRA plays upon Americans’ religious, racial and cultural fears | Miami Herald

Leonard Pitts is a columnist for the Miami Herald, my local bird dropping catcher. He pretty much dislikes anybody at the right of Winnie Mandela and I would not be surprised if he has a picture of Patrice Lumumba illuminated by candles in his office. And, of course, if you are White, you are suspicious. If you are a person of color who does not agree with him, you are a traitor.

With minorities and women being the fastest growing segment of new Gun Owners, dear old Leonard here is afraid he won’t be able to use the “Fear The White Devil” shtick for much longer.
He knows it is not just owning the guns but becoming self-sufficient, not depending on somebody else for safety and people finding out he’s been lying to them for decades. And that has to be scaring him shitless.

Armed Citizens of ANY color simply cannot be intimidated easily and then you will face terrible consequences for doing so. A black person with a gun is not a threat to the NRA but to the Democratic Party Plantation Values.