Press conference still going on live
It will be empaneled in Broward County but it will cover the whole state.

The executive order specifically mentions the PROMISE program — an acronym for Preventing Recidivism Through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support & Education.

Cruz, who had a troubled past with Broward County Public Schools, had been a part of the PROMISE program.

DeSantis has been critical of Superintendent Robert Runcie for how the school district handled Cruz. The governor’s executive order cites the recommendations of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission as a reason for challenging the PROMISE program and others like it.

One of the things he mentioned was that the Grand Jury investigate why the funding for hardening schools was not used and if it was distracted for other things. Reader NYC2AZ gets brownie points for pointing it out about 3 weeks ago.

I could not catch the whole thing. Let me see what I can find and post later.

This is VERY good for our side.

My local taco Bell and Burger King are the only restaurants that I go to because they have passed aced their health inspections. The employees in the BK tend to be older, past their 22 to 25th birthdate while the Taco Bell are mostly under and at 20. To both I treat with the utmost courtesy and other than in one instance at TB where the Drive-Thru guy wanted me to buy what he was recommending rather than what I wanted, I had great service from both places.

I always say Please and Thank You, with a smile both in my face and in my voice.  I have seen that simple formula change the attitude on people who 5 seconds before were upset or mad or bored.  It simply pays to be nice and polite. I have seen people lose their cool and become impolite assholes because their food was not ready in the 10 seconds they allotted themselves in their minds to collect it making themselves miserable, the workers miserable and ticking me off because now I have to deal with the crap they leave behind.

Mistakes happen, delays happen and usually stuff is resolved in 3 minutes which is the average it takes for fries to be cooked at a fast food restaurant. If you cannot afford 3 minutes, maybe you should brown bag and spare yourself and everybody the theatrics of indignation. Plus you save yourself the possibility of having your food spit on prior to wrapping.

It is like the old bumper sticker said: Smile. It is contagious.

Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, be ready for media onslaught and usual display of Bloody Shirts . David Hogg already appeared out of the nowhere to make a stupid statement. They have been parading Parkland students and parents to do the usual media bits and demand more Gun Control by pushing Assault Weapons Ban both in Florida a and in the US Congress.

And of course, the Gun Control Advocates will lose their shit in Social Media. No need to be polite, hit them back hard. Pull out the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission official report and ask them how come they are not addressing the real issues that led to the shooting. How come they defended former Sheriff Scot Israel, how come they are not asking for the collective heads of the Broward school board in general and Robert Runcie in particular. How come there is not an outcry from them about the Promise program which covered up Nikolas Cruz’s constant and long running violations that could have made him a prohibited person and unable to pass a background check to buy firearms. Ask them how come the Broward Sheriff deputies that failed to intervene the day of the shooting are still on the job.  Ask them how come after 4 years of getting the money to institute a Single Point of Entry in the school, the board had not bothered to implement it in many schools including MSD and Nikolas Cruz was allowed to walk in the school without a challenge.

Remember, you will not convince the hard core member of Moms demand or other groups. Your job is to challenge their narrative so those uninformed/misinformed learn the truth.  Anybody asks, send them the link of the report I posted above.

How bad are the chances to pass the legislation that they need to bring The White Privilege Of Harvard and “survivor” David Hogg to lay a line of BS this huge?

I have been musing for the truck gun & Travel Combo for a while.  I had settle for some sort of long gun that could also be taken in trips by air or by land in the same caliber of the weapon I would carry.  For long time, I lusted for a takedown lever-action in .357, but those suckers are mighty expensive.  I looked at survival rifles and every single one I saw are tragically a .22LR with or without a .410 barrel included.  One in a .22 magnum would have changed the game.

I am a 9mm man. All but one semi auto sidearm is in 9mm. I reload 9mm and I can tune rounds to my specifications and the needs of the rifle. If I have to travel, I do not have to worry to make sure I have the different ammo boxes packed, I just throw any box of ammo in the suitcase and I am done.

The it came the pistol caliber carbines. Mostly based in the AR platforms and for the most part you could buy a .223 AR 15 with a bunch of mags and ammo for the price of one AR in 9mm. Suddenly Palmetto State Armory is offering some truly amazing dealings and it gets interesting and affordable to go that way.

But after a lot of thinking, I am going to go with the Ruger PC. Hear me out.

It is a true take-down rifle. I know you can take apart and reassemble an AR, but it is not the same and not as fast. The Ruger PC has been out long enough and subjected to owners’ abuse enough to prove itself a reliable weapon and if the aftermarket toy offerings are any indication, the Ruger PC is not going anywhere.

But what tilts the result in favor of the Ruger PC is that does not look Evil Black Rifle but more like an overgrown version of a 10/22.

Why the “racism”? Simply is because you don’t know what kind of LEO or Airline counter person or many others who you may come across and turn out to be scaredy cats allergic to an AR 15 and will lose their shit at the sight of one. I hope I get to do some weekend travelling around  with the missus and I want to carry just more than a pistol with us in the car if SHTF. Since we will probably remain in the South, it is likely we will find cops that have some sense, but I always worry about the carpetbagger LEO from NYC or New Jersey who is gonna shit a brick and treat us like terrorists.

And I am even trying to figure out a simply looking case to carry it. Something with rad sides but that does not scream tactical. I am looking at some business-looking cases like this:

Interior measurements are 19×12.25×5.50 and if the read the specs right, I have plenty space for the rifle, a sidearm and magazines.  Paint it pink or red, add a bunch of My Little Pony, Care Bear or Sponge Bob stickers and nobody is the wiser. I already look like a grandpa, so they will assume I am taking toys back to my grandkids or I am a very weird old man.

Your thoughts?

But [Senator Dick] Durbin warned that Trump and McConnell are using a dangerous tactic

“Every authoritarian regime of the last century has prefaced their grab for power by saying you’ve got to stop the left. Sometimes they call it socialist, sometimes they call it communist,” he said.

Trump divides Democrats with warning of creeping socialism

A statement so stupid, it begs its own meme.

J. Kb’s post about who benefits from the sex works, is a reminder that there are indeed people benefiting from Prostitution and just because of the basest of needs: Greed. If you look at Europe where Prostitution is either not a crime anymore or the laws are not being enforced (just like with drugs) you would have to buy into the narrative that the women in the Sex Trade are doing it so voluntarily and making a profit for it.

And you would be wrong. But you can’t find much about it because it is not very well reported over there. Part of it because it is a “legal” thing and the press does not want to be seen as coming down on the prostitutes and part is because they do not want to hurt the tourist trade.  It is easier for a tourist to dip his willie in a woman he does not know has been kidnapped and kept under control because she is pumped full of drugs by the pimp and she has not seen a doctor or performed a lab check on STDs since she started working in the trade.

And for politicians is easier to allow underage girls brought from East Europe and Africa to have their asses peddle than admit their platform was not only wrong but it actually created more victims.

I would like to give you firm numbers (I am in a bit of a hurry, taking mom to her doctor’s appointment), but about the only global source I was able to find was the UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking. What I briefly saw, makes me think they are not taking this thing too seriously plus it is old history about the UN Peacekeepers setting their own Child and Adult prostitution enterprises.