One of the reasons I deride the NTY with the “taco stand” moniker is because they were saved from the bankruptcy hole by a friend of the Obamas, a Mexican national and Billionaire under the name of Carlos “Obamaphone” Slim who bought a considerable amount of shares of the rag to help it remain afloat.

I will never cease to be amazed at the disconnection between journalists and real life.

One of the great joys of living in south Florida is that there is a good chance your house is mostly concrete blocks and metal studs and the roof framing and boards are wood. Basically you are less prone of being attacked by termites although the effing wood eating ants can pose a problem.

My back porch is all wood and I keep some odd and ends of boards and other wooden things in case of need. A couple of pieced next to the fence were detected with the unholy signs of some small wood eating insect and since arson even for pest control is against the law, I have to go the route of insecticide.

You know what I did not do? Go to Home Depot or Lowes or Ace.  None of the shit they sell to deal with bugs is worth spit. I am not going to even think about the money I wasted over the years in that crap.

There are sites in the web that will sell you the real stuff that exterminations use in different size and the initial sticker price is gonna rock your butt. Most big cans of insecticide will cost about $5  and swear they kill everything with an exoskeleton. I have one can of an insecticide, not a wide spectrum like the one at Big Hardware Store that cost me $23 and I bought because of a flea infestation and only used it once inside the house. A little vial of Temprid (8 ml or 0.27 oz) cost me $10 and good for a gallon to spray all outside the back porch. Ladies and gents, one pass, no more fleas.  I did a retouch 3 weeks later just to assure the eggs were properly dosed and kill any new generation. No more issues.

The following year, we got a roach problem all of a sudden in the kitchen. Mom was pissed, the Missus was pissed and I was pissed ’cause this is not a low rent place where we don’t give a damn about cleanliness. This time I got not only spray but gel bait from Bayer and that is the first thing I used because I never done it before. I swear to you, I laid down the bait stations and I saw the effing roaches come out and attack the bait. I could not find a living roach 24 hours later.  I sprayed anyway, we cleaned all the following day and we had not had an issue with roaches since (2 and a half years ago). I think the total cost that time was over the $70 and it was well worth it.

One of the things I noticed that these professional products have that the store-bought products don’t (besides not being watered down) is IGR or Insect Grow Regulator and I quote “IGR are pesticides that don’t usually kill insects outright but instead affect the ability of insects to grow and mature normally. IGRs either block the insect’s ability to turn into an adult or cause it to change into an adult before it is physically able to reproduce.” basically, it neuters them. From what I understood reading about it, some insects like fleas have very tough eggs and most insecticide cannot penetrate them, but IGR will.

So I placed my order for some Terminator Quality Termicide ($43) to my people of Do-It-Yourself Pest Control and should be here Monday and I will go all Ahnold on their asses.  Word of warning: Remember I mentioned this stuff is not watered down? Use all precautions and I am not kidding, be safe with this stuff.

Amazing how the simplest of tsk get compounded in complication when your back is screwed up. Out almost all morning with mom and I now need my rest and 800 mg of Motrin.

In other news, JL Curtis released Rimworld- Militia Up. It is his second foray into science fiction and the second of the Rimworld books. You all know him from the Gray Man series I have posted about before and even though I am not a SciFi fan, I did enjoy the book’s story and the way he tells it. I was actually surprised that it “sounded” like him but not just like I am used to read him in his Gray Man books which makes for a nice surprise.  I particularly liked how easy he made for the characters to be believable even if they were a bunch of different species with particular idiosyncrasies.

If you like the SciFi, go ahead and give it a try. Available in Dead Tree and Kindle.

Since I have been posting the bills, it should not be a big surprise.

Now is the time to put up or shut up. And I want to reach to those who were so vociferous and uncompromising last year and remind them now it is the time they are supposed to be done talking and start lobbying.

Remember to post pictures from Tallahassee with the Legislators and share with us your accomplishments.

The New York Times (and taco stand) is at it again.  This time with a really shameful attempt to deflect what is going on in Venezuela just to try and stick it to the President.

Because no Socialist regime EVER has committed the sins of corruption and absence of democratic process, that is something unheard of in the former Soviet Union, in Cuba, Zimbabwe, etc.  As fo the rule of law, Maduro has followed the law plenty, but then again he had it written on his favor.

I am so for the NTY to sell its building and have it redesigned as unchecked homeless shelter and shooting gallery. At least the quality of people inside would be better.

Maybe rather than selling it, they should do the Socialist thing and donate it, right?

I like the concept as a way to remove BS from the mental component. I know I have done my best shooting in matches if I just go identify and with the flow rather than go objective and trying to over analyze my approach.

Washington (CNN)The father of a Parkland shooting victim who had a heated exchange with Rep. Matt Gaetz at a gun prevention hearing said Thursday he decided to interrupt the Florida Republican to “let the nation know he’s wrong.”
On Wednesday, during the House’s first hearing in years on gun violence prevention, Manuel Oliver interrupted Gaetz, a vocal Hill ally of President Donald Trump, when the congressman began arguing that illegal immigration, not firearms, poses a greater threat to national security and thus requires a wall along the US-Mexico border.
“My first feeling is that this guy’s in the wrong room. He should be discussing this matter in another place,” Oliver told CNN’s Poppy Harlow Thursday on “New Day.” “Don’t bring the wall as a solution for everything.”

Parkland dad says he interrupted GOP rep at gun hearing to ‘let the nation know he’s wrong’

J. Kb wrote about Manuel Oliver in another post. But I am not going to be as respectful to the gentleman for the simple reason we are tired of getting blamed for the things that we neither are responsible for, nor we could control and your first thought is to remove our rights.

How come I have not heard the screams of anger coming from  Manuel Oliver after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission official report was released to the public? How come he did not post his ass in front of the Sheriff Office demanding the removal of Scott Israel? I have not heard about of his banging the doors of the Broward School door demanding for Runcie to resign. Neither I have seen him protesting with a sign in front of the FBI Field Office, just a half an hour drive from where you son went to school?

You know what? I am going to bet Mr. Oliver is not a registered Republican. I suspect that he has voted straight Democratic ticket, including the former Broward’s Sheriff and even the school board members.

He probably voted for the people responsible for the death of his son.

But it is my fault and the fault of my fellow gun owners and fellow members  of the NRA.

Sorry, fuck him and his outrage.