Fort Lauderdale, FL – A shooting at a Fort Lauderdale gas station on Christmas Day left one person dead and police looking for the killer. The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. at Westar gas station, 701 Broward Blvd. Police confirmed late Tuesday that an unidentified “adult victim” was found wounded and taken to a nearby hospital. The victim died a short time later, police said. No information on a suspect or motive was available Tuesday night.

This is a video with a serious predator on it. Nobody knows why the shooting happened, but I can’t shake off the feeling that the second card blew the horn when it pulled in, the killer took offense and his respect needed to be avenged or some stupid crap like that.

I think it was legendary lawman Delf “Jelly” Bryce who is quoted to  have said “Greet everybody you meet with a smile on your face and murder in your heart.” It sadly appears his advice still applies in the 21st century.

Not to be taken as sound strategy.

When keeping it real goes wrong… Lmao pizza man wanted all the smoke ??????? pic.twitter.com/b41te8mlNq

— FIGHT ROW (@FightRow) December 27, 2018

“I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday,”
Henry IV of France

Pernil is roasted pork (leg or shoulder) and  is the traditional main dish for Hispanics as much as turkey is for Thanksgivings.  In Venezuela, the socialist revolution promised some years ago that Venezuelan families would get one Pernil for Christmas for free because they care.  No matter how poor, you would get to have some piggy protein to celebrate the birth of Jesus (Christ that is, not the weird neighbor that is always drunk and making passes at girls.)

Now, last year the government announced that distribution of Pernil was sabotaged by the Empire (US) and the Capitalist cabal. What was the sabotage? The company selling the pork refused to ship any to Venezuela for one reason: They were still owed money from the shipment sent the year before last. Apparently demanding payment for goods produced and delivered is sabotaging the Chavista Revolution, go figure.

This year, President Maduro assured the people that they would have their perniles for Christmas, but not only the majority of people did not get it, the few that managed to land some of the  scare swine are complaining it is spoiled and inedible.

Santos Inocentes

Enter your #PernilCeption comment here#LosotrosNoSomosZamuros#SantosInocentes

RT @partidoPSUV pic.twitter.com/xxWk6fF4Gc

— Nellie Yzarza (@myteks) December 28, 2018

Other than a few half-assed protests of very few people trying to block roads, there has been little out of the “people.”

My take is people are resigned and know they won’t get even a can of deviled ham. I fear Venezuelans are entering the starvation lethargy brought by weakness.

Coming soon to a CNN Special Report: Somalia en Español.
(PS: They will blame Trump too.)

Back when there was this thing called film,  I used to run around with Pentax cameras. I liked them because they were slimmer than the competition and delivered great pictures. My best combo was a Pentax MX with a Vivitar macro Zoom 70-210 which unfortunately got stolen along with 6 rolls from my trip to NYC back when it was a not-so-safe place.

In the digital ear, I ran around pocket cams and did the job good enough, but I wanted to get back to Pentax. I still have some of the old lenses (Including one that needs a bayonet adapter) but the prices of digital cam bodies run from Glock 20 for the not so pro models, to Korth revolvers for the pro stuff. With all the expenses we had this year with mom’s health stuff and assorted every day shit, Pentax was relegated to the  nice dream folder.

I did some research on the Kodak’s PixPro series because they seem better than just a pocket camera and have a lot of features for an inexpensive camera, specially in the manual mode. I had one model on my Wish List and my dearly beloved surprised me with PixPro AZ251.

I don’t think I have taken 20 pics yet and all but a couple in Auto, but I am surprised at what it does.

Zoom test. See the house with the four big palm trees across the lake?

Testing the Macro function in low light.

It caught raindrops in Auto.

For a camera running a price equivalent of a Hi-Point, I am not complaining.  And once I get to know the manual settings, I am sure I will be able to get much better pictures.

The size of our appliances is determined by the width of out home entrances and passageways. When we moved to this house, I did not recognize that principle and installed cabinetry where I should have not. I have to take down one sliding glass door later today so we can get our new fridge in the kitchen.

On Christmas Day, our refrigerator decided to pull a Hans Gruber (without the dropping from the Nakatomi Tower) and we found ourselves dealing with the idiotic aftermath of losing the least amount of food possible. We have a small stand alone fridge which helped save some of the expensive items. Other stuff went to coolers with ice and other yet has began to spoil making the missus rather unhappy.

But making space in the freezer required brave sacrifice, so we had to extract the ribs and take care of them.

And since the missus did not get the hint about the remote smoker thermometer for Christmas (She got me a nice camera instead) I am forced to do the Surveillance of the Smoker once again.

If it looks stupid but works, it ain’t stupid.

The Daily Herald reports the men, ages 22 and 23, allegedly took four nail guns, each worth more than $400, from the Coastal Farm & Ranch store Saturday in Marysville.

The men walked out of the store and got into a Honda Civic, only to be surrounded by about six customers with guns raised.

Court documents say the driver pulled forward, causing one man confronting him to land on the hood.

Documents say another customer shot at the driver’s side front tire, while a third fired twice at the rear tire.

Marysville police found the theft suspects’ car unoccupied about three blocks away, with two flat tires and the tools inside. Both men were apprehended after a search.

6 customers draw guns on men attempting to steal tools

It makes you feel good to have good people stand for the “right thing”, but in this case this is not the legal way.  I don’t think a prosecuting attorney would be political dumb enough to bring charges against the customers, but let’s not tempt faith, shall we?  Just say no to use of deadly force for simple loss of property.