Someone purporting to represent antifa has responded to Wheeler with a new video. In this video, the masked individual pushes anti-American themes and publishes Wheeler’s home address. The individual finishes the disturbing presentation with a veiled threat to kill Mayor Wheeler.

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— nefelibata33_ (@knotathreat) April 29, 2021

BREAKING: In Chilling Video, Antifa Doxes, Threatens to KILL Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler

And to quote from a famous movie.

Eff you ted. You let them play around, get bigger and stronger because Orange Man Bad. Yet you thought they would disappear just because PedoJoe was selected to the White House.

Have fun, asshole.

It is 7:35 pm EST as I write this.  I screen-captured the Tweet above because Twitter still has it up after 22+ hours.

But at least it is not a mean tweet calling the Chinese flu by nasty names.

Hat Tip Sean S.

Vaccine salvation remains, for now, still tantalizingly out of reach. Only about 10 percent of Europeans have received a first dose, compared with 23 percent in the United States and 39 percent in Britain.

There is no single culprit. Rather, a cascade of small decisions have led to increasingly long delays. The bloc was comparatively slow to negotiate contracts with drugmakers. Its regulators were cautious and deliberative in approving some vaccines. Europe also bet on vaccines that did not pan out or, significantly, had supply disruptions. And national governments snarled local efforts in red tape.

New York Times Article About Why Europe is Lagging Behind the U.S. and U.K. in COVID19 Vaccinations

I now understand why was one of my aunts that lives in Spain was amazed that we were already vaccinated while she being old and a teacher was still trying to get the shots and did not know when would that happen. I should not be surprised after horror stories of Spanish healthcare system being shared in sotto vocce since I was a teen.

I still hold my belief that the EU is nothing more than an economic version of NATO developed to compete against the US. But Europe has a long tradition of screwing things up and rather than being a liberalizing contract, it became a de facto economic dictatorship ran by a bunch of power hungry socialist pols and bureaucrats in Brussels.  Even the Open Borders agreement which was supposed to liberate the movement of workers and trade only helped move roving bands of criminals across different nations and made it a free highway for refugees and “refugees.”

They made their bed and paying the price., we don’t need to follow their instruction book.

General Bill by Rodrigues
Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition Regulation: Providing that written or unwritten policies are subject to provisions allowing for recovery of damages if such policies violate specified provisions; providing that a plaintiff challenging a local government regulation concerning firearms is considered a prevailing plaintiff for certain purposes in specified circumstances, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2021

Read the bill

Last Event: Passed; YEAS 78, NAYS 39 on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 12:35 PM

Since both the Senate and the House bills were discussed, I am not sure where do we go next. I hope this is it and the bill gets enrolled and sent to the Governor’s desk

I’ll update as soon as I know.

Dear Lord. Two pro gun bills in one Legislative session? Be still my beating heart!

UPDATE: The bill is enrolled!

Yup, I trust them implicitly, NOT!

You figure they consulted with Heckler and Koch for this report?

Hat Tip David C.

With Florida’s bill  to expand Church Carry heading for the Governor’s desk, there has been some amount of hair pulling among media, but not at the rate you’d think. The problem is this bill when was being discussed in committees found some supporters  on the House Democrat side, specially those who had churches in not-so-nice neighborhoods and may have been subjected to crime activity themselves.

Catholics bishops in Florida seem to always have been on the side of Gun Control. It ranks me that a person can be a child molester or a murdered and he will be welcomed with open arms in a church with a school in the premises, but me, the armed and very law abiding citizen is treated like a leper was treated in some passages of the Bible. Even the Catechism of the Catholic Church defines self defense and the defense of others as “… not only a right but a grave duty for one who is responsible for the lives of others” but yet, Bishops do not find contradictory to deny parishioners to carry the tools of Self Defense in the House of God.

So reading some articles about the passage of the bill earlier today, I found a letter the Bishops sent in March when the original unmodified bill was being discussed:

First and right out the bat, discard the notion of “Catholic opposition to SB 489.” Catholics did not oppose the bill but the Bishops did. I know they think they speak for all of us, but not even the Lord suggests that.

Gun Free Zone signs in Florida have little to no power behind it. Unless a location specifically mentioned in the statutes as GFZ, anybody can paint all the gun signs they want in a business or location and you can pretty much ignore them and carry concealed understanding that if caught and asked to leave, you do so immediately. Seriously, don’t argue as trespassing with a firearm is a felony in Florida.

If you remember, at first I complained about the law opening the door of optional Gun Free Zone signage with the power of law behind it which included penalties. This was just too much of a possible temptation for future Legislatures to cave when other sections of society demand they wanted their own signage with penalties for ignoring it. The requirement was eventually dropped because religious institutions figured out the obvious: It made them a target. It was so obvious even the Bishops got it:

The signage requirement was eventually dropped and the bill was reduced to a very simple and straightforward text without new penalties or burdens for those with a Florida CWL.

It strikes me a hypocritical by the Bishops that they would gamble and hide on criminals not knowing that churches without schools on property were allowed to have armed parishioners while most Catholic churches with schools couldn’t.  If you are proud of your stance against guns, the shout it to the four winds and do not hide behind the skirts of other denominations and then claim moral superiority.

And now, I am just waiting for the Governor to sign the bill so I can wear my Sunday’s best.

The use of sweet tea as weapon is rather cruel. I could never stand the stuff with or without sugar.