Gun Free Zone

I know, I know. I haven’t done the Ham Radio License thing yet. My fault, life got in the way.

But I am going to step up with one of this two radios: The Midland MXT115 or the Midland MXT275.  GMRS, 50 miles range on flat areas, 5 to 10 miles in urban areas, 15 watt output and 8 preprogrammed repeater channels (There are two repeaters nearby) for $150? Both cost the same.

What attracts me is that they come ready to use, you just need a 12 DC cigarette lighter plug and that is it.

It is plug and play. I can take it with me in my truck or leave it home and plug it with my Disaster Battery Box.

Do remember you need an FCC license to operate GMRS radios, but you can get one online without need to take a test. And the best thing is your whole family is covered under the same $70,  10 years license.

I think I am going to go with the simple MXT115 because me being me. I will probably knock the crap out of the mike and I am guessing this one is a cheaper replacement that the 275.

Hurricane season is coming and we need to start the preps. As soon as some extra cash comes in, I will go for this sucker.

PS: there is still another model: MXT400. It also a GMRS  radio boasting 40 Watts, and up to 65 Mile range for $249, but it is not Plug And Play.

J Kb was succinct about this dumb ass.

It reminded me of another political group  not too long ago who had no problem spouting similar thoughts and right here in our country.

Archie Davis was a Louisiana State Representative for St. Tammany and I really do not have to tell you to which party he stood for, right? Right, Democrat.

So, they are not strange bedfellows after all.

Miguel sent me this:

I'd rather take my chances with the virus than consume an Israeli vaccine https://t.co/A3I6orCUYr

— Roshan M Salih (@RmSalih) March 12, 2020

Salih is a visceral Jew-hating, Muslim journalist living in the UK.

He likes to do things like spread an Al Jazeera created conspiracy theory that the Jews are undermining America’s and UK’s democracy.

According to Haaretz:

Israeli Research Center to Announce It Developed Coronavirus Vaccine, Sources Say
Scientists at the Biological Research Institute are making significant breakthroughs in understanding the virus, the sources say, but a long process of pre-clinical and clinical trials is to follow

So if he hates Jews so much that he’s rater have Coronavirus than an Israeli vaccine, I absolutely support that.  I hope he spreads it to his children, the others at his Mosque, their children, and so on.  I hope his death from repository failure is painful and I hope he experiences the unique suffering of watching his children die of Coronavirus first.

In fact, I hope this attitude is universal among Jew-hating Muslims and that Israel is the first to create a successful Coronavirus vaccine.

I want the Ayatollah to declare a fatwah against using the Israeli vaccine and to remind Muslims that they still need to go to Mosque and on Pilgrimage to Mecca and that Allah will protect them and if they do contract Coronavirus it’s the will of Allah.

When Israel starts to export their vaccine, I hope it’s marked with “Made in Israel” on the vial and every single member of BDS stands by their principles and boycotts Israeli made vaccines.

I’m going to be fourth in line, after my wife and kids, for the vaccine.

Jew-haters can take their chances, Inshallah.

Saw this in the Book of Feces. The damned quote never dies apparently.

I have no idea how many times I have typed “Fake Quote” since the Clinton administration, specially regarding this made up crap. It is not that there isn’t a true quote from Hitler regarding civilian gun ownership. From The JPFO FAQ Page:

Der größte Unsinn, den man in den besetzen Ostgebieten machen könnte, sei der, den unterworfenen Völkern Waffen zu geben. Die Geschichte lehre, daß alle Herrenvölker untergegangen seien, nachdem sie den von ihnen unterworfenen Volkern Waffen bewilligt hatten.

[The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.]
— Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitlers Tischegesprache Im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1942. [Hitler’s Table-Talk at the Fuhrer’s Headquarters 1941-1942], Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaum-Verlag, Bonn, 1951)

Back in the era of the Usenet and Newsgroups, a sure sign that somebody was a newbie was the use of the fake quote, specially in their signature. He/she usually got properly corrected and the sources for the correction and real quote given.  But if you try now via a search engine, the only thing you get is returns from Politifact and Snopes chiding gun owners as liars. Anything going that far back exists, bit you won’t get to see it unless you know where to look or specially know who to ask…. We The “Fudds.”

I think it was Patton who said something about not paying twice for the same real estate.  The Gun Culture 3.0 does not need to make the same mistakes because we already made them and they can save the time by simply not by paying a modicum of attention to what we have to share with you.

Or you can go along and keep eating the political Tide Pods.

Excellent news from the Trump White House:

Coronavirus Spurs U.S. Efforts to End China’s Chokehold on Drugs
The Trump administration says the U.S. is too dependent on China for vital drugs.

The global spread of the coronavirus is reigniting efforts by the Trump administration to encourage more American manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and reduce dependence on China for the drugs and medical products that fuel the federal health care system.

The effort includes a push by the White House trade adviser Peter Navarro to tighten “Buy American” laws so federal agencies are required to purchase American-made pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, according to people with knowledge of the plans.

To help facilitate such production, the White House is also pushing for streamlined regulatory approvals for American-made products and more detailed labeling of the origin of products made offshore, these people said.

This is excellent.

Guaranteeing that the US government will prioritize the purchase of drugs and medical supplies from US manufacturers made in the US gives a financial incentive to make those products here.

Add in the economy of scale and we should start to see American manufacturing cost competitiveness.

Our economy seems to be a house of cards build on a foundation of cheap Chinese labor bedrock, and that is an untenable situation.  A hiccup in the Chinese economy should not threaten the collapse of the US economy.

I would go so far as to say that the US needs to create a “strategic skills and technology reserve.”  We should give massive tax advantages for raw material production and machining in the US, domestic production and a continued influx of new workers into those areas so that if the Chinese have another hiccup we still have the capacity and capability here to make up the difference.

I fully support this Trump EO and I hope as China’s mishandling of the Coronavirus becomes more transparent, the President does more to bolster US manufacturing and production so when the dust settles, we are no longer so dependent on China for our economic survival.

Again quoting the EU:

They added: “The European Union is taking strong action to limit the spread of the virus.”

The EU condemns Trump for imposing a European coronavirus travel ban ‘unilaterally and without consultation’

Yes, we need to get their permission for amazing healthcare strategies like this:

“I have my sister in bed, dead, I don’t know what to do,” Franzese said in a Facebook video over the weekend, pleading for help. “I cannot give her the honor she deserves because the institutions have abandoned me. I contacted everyone, but nobody was able to give me an answer.”

‘Italy has abandoned us’: People are being trapped at home with their loved ones’ bodies amid coronavirus lockdown

I am pretty sure that since the era of the cavemen, the idea of not disposing of corpses has been proven to be not very conductive to proper health among the living. I don’t know, maybe the European Union is still studying this fact and will come up with a solution sometime in the next 2 or 3  decades.

And that was not an isolated case:

Yet another disturbing scenario played out this week when a woman was quarantined alongside the body of her dead husband. Giancarlo Canepa, the mayor of Borghetto Santo Spirito in northern Italy, told CNN that the man died at 2 a.m. Monday, but that nobody would be allowed to remove his body until Wednesday morning.

Sorry, my mind simply does not comprehend such level of ineptitude. Even during the Black Plague, there was regular removal of bodies from affected homes. But we are in the 21st Century and apparently European Health Care Officials can’t get shit started.

The European Union has condemned Donald Trump’s decision to impose a ban on European citizens travelling to the US.

In a joint statement, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel criticised Trump for failing to consult with European countries before taking the decision.

“The coronavirus is a global crisis, not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action,” the statement said.

“The European Union disapproves of the fact that the US decision to improve a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation.”

They added: “The European Union is taking strong action to limit the spread of the virus.”

The EU condemns Trump for imposing a European coronavirus travel ban ‘unilaterally and without consultation’

Dear dumbasses: This is not the Obama Administration where everybody but Americans were put first.  A bunch of assholes from Brussels may dictate the life and death of Europeans  but you don’t get to say shit about Americans other than complain bitterly.

It should not be so hard to understand that you should try to stop the importation of new carriers of diseases.  And your pissy tantrum and the “taking of action” is all well known BS, specially if we consider the story of the European Union of taking years to  come up with solutions. In fact, this little bit of news should end any discussion in this particular matter:

 Three Italian tourists are at the Pedro Kouri Medicine Institute on Thursday morning in Havana after being diagnosed with COVID-19 in Cuba.
According to Cuban public health officials, four Italian tourists traveling together arrived to Havana on Monday. They traveled to the Sancti Spiritus province to stay at a hostel in the city of Trinidad, officials said.
On Tuesday, the four Italians were tested for COVID-19. Only three tested positive, officials said. The epidemiological investigation into the cases continues.

3 Italian tourists diagnosed with COVID-19 in Cuba

It is not like these are the first Italian cases of the Corona virus known, right? Nobody knows Italy is having serious problems containing the epidemic, right?

Seriously, Europe deserves a lot of what has coming to it.