The reasons:

1. No AK 47 or High Capacity “clip” was involved. Political hay cannot be made.
2. Hard to attach the “Poor boy gone wrong because of uncaring society” label to a stone cold killer. Political hay cannot be made.
3. One of the Officer killed was Latino. Hard to make a case against Racist Pigs. Political hay cannot be made.
4. The other Officer killed was a woman. Hard to make a case against Sexist Pigs. Political hay cannot be made.
5. No community or national faux religious “leader” available for comments. There is no political hay to be made.

Expect some small extra coverage of the officers during their burial, specially if lots of out of town cops come to pay their respects. It makes for good video.

Nice words fail me…

Never mess with a woman that owns a Glock with a bayonet.

So I email Kathy and tell her I am oozing with envy about her being at the SHOT Show. Her reply was:

Hey, you’re a writer now … you could get a press badge if you wanted one.   🙂

Excuse me while I throw a hissy fit inside my closet.

Over at Gunblogs, I’d say about half the participants are heavy into bacon. My own wife believes Life is not worth living without a proper daily dosage of bacon (sausage is a good substitute for a couple of days only) and I now have surrendered to the Church of the Exalted Pork Bellies In The Pan.

Everybody must have a particular Bacon & Foodstuff recipe so I’ll give you mine. Not a gourmet thing, more like a “What were you thinking?” experiment.

Miggy’s Very Messy Pasta:

• Short pasta of your predilection.  I tend to favor Barilla penne (those of the Spanish persuasion, no penis jokes).
• Bacon in the amount of your predilection.
• Sausage
• Smoked Ham
• Cream Cheese
• Olive Oil (I favor Spanish and Portuguese oils. Not into Italian or Greek.)
• Fresh Minced Garlic…. Oh yeah…

While you cook the pasta Al Dente, cook the bacon and the sausage, chop it in very small pieces and set it aside. In a frying pan, pour olive oil, the very chopped smoked ham and about 2 plentiful teaspoons of minced garlic. Saute ham quickly and add bacon and sausage to the mix. Add more olive oil and garlic if needed and set aside.

Right before the pasta is ready to drain, soften up about 1/4 cup of cream cheese and have it stand by. Drain the pasta well and out it back in the pot. Add a squirt of olive oil and stir the pasta until properly coated with oil. Next pour the softened cream cheese and stir until evenly coated and them dump the rest of the ingredients on the pasta. Stir, add pepper as wanted and serve.

NOTE: I do not add salt to my meals so I rely heavily on spices. I go nuts on garlic and pepper for this dish but please vary the recipe to adjust it to your particular taste.  Careful working with olive oil, it burns fast and leaves a nasty aftertaste. The amounts of every item to be used are up to your discretion and practice in the kitchen. I don’t do formulas 🙂

Pump action 6+1 rifle in 500 S&W. At $1,500 staring price, I do need to hit the lotto first.

They were supposed to be the perfect solution to our environmental woes. If you love Gaia, you had to get rid of those evil republican, right-wing, Bambi killer incandescent light bulbs. Just in case, Congress made sure those evil incandescent light bulbs are phased out and erased form existence by making them pretty much illegal after 2020.  So, once your abode is fully utilizing the new CFLs, you should feel clean and refreshed as morning dew plus you helped save Mother Nature!

Can you imagine anything prettier than this?

But…(there is always a but, the fly in the ointment) apparently CFLs are not that good for the environment or you. If you don’t know by now that the twirly savior of Gaia is filled with mercury, you are in for your own version of the poisoning in Minamata.

Mercury poisoning is one of those particularly nasty ways to slowly die. Mercury attacks the nervous system, slowly destroying it causing pain, reduced brain function…. and death, don’t forget that. And Mercury is the gift that keeps on giving by passing its nastiness to the next generation in the form of grave birth defects.

So, what happens when one of these bulbs break in your house? What should you do? All the answers are in this 3-page instructive by the EPA. It should take you some 6-8 hours to get it clean…maybe. Then again if I were you, I wouldn’t wait for the damn thing to break or die. Just pull the bubls out and dispose of them properly at authorized locations such as Home Depot and then start stocking up on incandescent light bulbs till LEDs drop their prices to where you don’t need to sell your kid’s kidneys to pay for them.