I decided to drop by Japete’s blog and read about her latest. In a moment of weakness, I decided to give her an explanation why would anybody “need” guns and specifically “assault” weapons giving Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma as reference. With the clusterflock that happened in New Orleans after Katrina, most everybody do not remember the fact that Katrina and her cousin Wilma both hit South Florida, yet the cases of looting and mayhem were almost unheard of. South Floridians always add guns and ammo to their hurricane kit and it has worked pretty well because you’ll be hard pressed to find the idiotic chaos that happened in New Orleans even though we were without power for over a month and a total of 6 million people were affected by it. Japete did hit me with one of what know consider her top bon mot:

“Miguel-this is actually the first time I have heard anyone have the nerve to say that there was less suffering from Hurrican Wilma than from Hurricane Katrina because of guys like you with guns. Interesting that that didn’t make the news. ” disarming people and condemning them to suffer under the rule of the criminal mob that the police did not have the guts to go disarm. We know that so I won’t repeat it.”

Did people suffer during Katrina BECAUSE they didn’t have guns? That’s also a new one and a revisionist view of what actually happened. But nice that you can live in that fantasy world and make up stuff like this.” (The orange section is part of my original post quoted by Japete)

You cannot but sit and be totally amazed at Japete’s disconnect from reality. If there was a time where all the best ideas supported by Ms. Peterson were enforced and the consequences clear was the aftermath of Katrina in New Orleans and our side’s was confirmed. The Mainstream Media did come to these parts after Wilma in the vain search of Katrina part two, but since there were no bleeding bodies on the street, no mobs rampaging through the local Walmart and no army patrolling the streets, they left after the third day and pretty much ignored us. To Joan, this lack of news is an indicator that it never happened and that I am making stuff up!

I guess I had my fill of Japete for a while. I’ll drop by next month and see what new orbit has she achieved in her flight to irrationality.

Every morning, my first stop in front of the computer is Day by Day. Chris Muir never fails to poke somebody’s eye (mostly the Liberal/Progressive) and is always good for a chuckle dosed heavily with real common sense. The toons that ran Sunday and yesterday might shed a bit of light in the cavernous cranium of Japete. I’ll have more on her on a later post.

According to the Charlotte Observer: The agents for the North Carolina Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement are either the unluckiest SOBs, ride their guns real hard or something might be amiss. Kimbers falling apart like cheap Hi Points in a year? And before that the same thing happened to their SIGs? But the officers were kind enough to buy the weapons for themselves before getting new ones ….. at a substantial discount. By the way, Do you want a full auto M4?

What is wrong with Revenooers?

Man killed by fighting rooster…

Colonel Sanders will be prosecuting.

Streets of Fire is one of those movies that you either like or don’t give a darn about it. It is a cinematic Music Video in an era when MTV actually played music videos. I liked the music, the atmosphere (some mythical New York-like city but without what you don’t like of NY) during what looks like the 50’s, cool cars, good and great actors beginning their careers and with 2 exceptions nothing but lever action rifles and revolvers. Walter Hill directed the movie and I came to find out he also directed some of my classics like The Warriors, Southern Comfort, Long Riders (I just watched it for  the first time 2 months ago), Crossroads and written produced or was somewhat involved in a bunch of other movies, TV shows and miniseries.

Eve though the movie was supposed to ride on the fame of Michael Pare, just fresh from the hit movie Eddie and The Cruisers, my attention got caught by a couple of relative unknowns:

The bad guy was called Raven Shaddock played by Willem Dafoe. It was his second role in a movie and I cannot think of anybody back then who did not have a comment to make about him.

Make no mistake, all the characters in the movie are two dimensional, but Dafoe even back then manages to pop above and makes you think that there is something more that you need to know.

The love interest, Ellen Aim was played a very nubile Diane Lane.

During the whole thing she was nothing more than eye candy but I was not the only one that went “Whoa!” at the closing when she “sings” the centerpiece song of the movie “Tonight is what it means to be young.” She let’s herself go and she’s been in my radar ever since.

In summary, not an Oscar winner movie and Diane won the Razzie that year for worst supporting actress but I enjoy the heck out of the darn thing. Any movie with classic cars, classic guns, Willem Dafoe and Diane Lane can never be too bad.

In another post I showed video of Cavim (Venezuela’s Firearms and ammunition factory) going up in smoke. The intial reports that some of the ordnance was found up to four miles away apparently was inaccurate. It seems that some of the ammuniotion went as far as a thousand miles away landing in the Tolima Department of Colombia in the middle of a FARC camp as reported by the Colombian Army:

Patriot battalion troops found 1,300 rounds belonging to the FARC guerrillas in the village of El Retiro. Inspected the equipment was found that ammunition is manufactured by the Venezuelan military industry. In the same operation were found documents referring to the illegal armed organization.

I guess Venezuela’s Armament industry has advanced to levels no one ever suspected. A sure triumph for the revolution of Uncle Hugo.