Dear Rossi/Taurus, where is my gun? (Update)
It has been freaking 9 months. I have been on the phone for 20 minutes listening to some cheesy Brazilian techno music (I am this close to go torch Sao Paulo) waiting for somebody to pick up and give me an idea when I am going to get the substitute Taurus 605 they promised to replace my recalled Rossi snubby back in September 2019.
If I had ordered a silencer, i would have had a better chance to be doing quiet pews-pees by now.
UPDATE:Â Finally I got through and the news are not good. A very polite young lady informed me that the gun is still in backorder and suggested that till Taurus finishes moving to its new location in Georgia, things are going to be slow.
Nothing to do but sit, grin and wait. Taurus should add a couple of Safariland speedloaders to the return for the annoyance and waiting.
Am I getting grumpier?
Wherein Omar admits that she wants to kill Jews
Ilahn Omar is so upset that there is talk about war with Iran that it’s giving her PTSD. Never mind the soldiers who had their lilmbs blown off and witnessed their buddies killed by Iranian supplied EFPs, that’s nothing compared to Omar having to contemplate the enormity of enemy casualties.
She took to Twitter to explain how sanctions are killing Iranians.
This makes no sense. Sanctions are economic warfare.
They have already caused medical shortages and countless deaths in Iran.
You cannot claim to want deescalation and then announce new sanctions with no clear goal. This is not a measured response! https://t.co/sGWtwXuNDT
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 8, 2020
Most rational people think that the problem lies in Iran. They chose to spend the money on funding terrorism rather than the Iranian people. But no, not Omar.
When asked why she supports BDS, the “S” stands for sanctions, against Israel, she said it was “very different” because BDS “is a movement driven by the people. The sanctions on Iran are sanctions that are being placed to create maximum pressure by a government. ”
It’s clear she wanted to say it’s different because it’s against the Jews but she has wised up enough to know not to say that on camera.
Her statement is bullshit because she introduced pro-BDS legislation in the House. Which would, of course, make sanctions against Israel “maximum pressure by a government.”
That, by her own train of thought, would cause countless deaths in Israel. But that’s what she wants, so thinking about dead Israelis isn’t going to give her PTSD.
By now it should be plain as day that she wants Jews to die. I just hope Progressive Jews recognise that and stop supporting her.
On Star Trek and foreign policy
I’m a big Star Trek: The Next Generation fan. I like other great works of science-fiction, there is a lot of real-world lessons to learn from it.
My minor in college was military history and strategy. I love military history. History is always repeating itself, all you have to do is know history and keep your eyes open enough to recognize it when it is happening again. If you can do that, you will know what to do to address your current problem, either by emulating the successes or avoiding the failures of the past.
So, Star Trek was running a marathon on BBC America and I was watching it.
It is interesting to follow the arc between the Federation and the Cardassians given current geopolitics.
The Federation sign a treaty with the Cardassians and the Cardassians are always fucking violating it. It’s not hard to understand why. The Federation doesn’t like violence. No matter how egregiously the Cardassians violate the treaty, the Federation exemplified by Picard refuses to blow the fuck out of the Cardassians.
Even when Picard s tortured, the Federation takes its lumps and slinks away. They do this with the Romulans too.
The Cardassians know a simple truth the Federation refuses to admit, a treaty is only as good as the character of the people signing it. If one party has a shitty character, you need something else to back up a treaty. That something else is usually force.
The Cardassians are people without honor. They know that if they violate words on a piece of paper, the Federation will not attack them, so they have no motivation to abide by the treaty. There is no consequence for their illegal actions.
Most people are aware of the quote by Theodore Roosevelt: “speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”
Having a big stick is important, but if you are unwilling to smack anybody with the stick, nobody will fear your big stick and you might as well not have it.
The Obama administration was a great analog to the Federation. The people at the top spoke of lofty ideals, but really they were corrupt and cowardly, and they let an enemy without honor violate treaties without consequence.
Now Trump is in office, and he’s reminding the world that we have a big stick, and they should fear it because he’s perfectly willing to beat a motherfucker down with it.
This lesson exists everywhere. Why is property crime out of control in California? Because there is no force to back up the words on paper that is the law. If you can rob a store for $950 and get a ticket, why not rob the store.
At the very end of the day, you need to be able to say to a person “you will do what this piece of paper says you will do, or we will break your fucking skull.” If you can’t do that, the paper is meaningless.
From criminals to countries, it is the same. There needs to be consequences for bad acts and those consequences need to come with force.
If you don’t want to listen to me, just watch how the Cardassians and Romulans treat the Federation.
Everything Progressives tough gets ruined – SoFla edition OR Stuck between a dumpster fire and a river of sh*t
The Californication of Florida continues.
Being unsatisfied with voter fraud, corrupt partisan law enforcement, and trying to pass massive gun control not quite making Broward County into the San Francisco of Florida; the fates seemed to be envious of California streets being covered with human feces as well.
Don’t worry, they got their wish.
126 Million Gallons of Sewage Spilled in Fort Lauderdale Neighborhoods: Report
A combined 126 million gallons of sewage spilled onto the streets of Fort Lauderdale neighborhoods after six sewer main breaks plagued the area in December, according to a report released by city officials Monday.
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Six sewer breaks.  Six. In a month. 126 MILLION GALLONS of liquid human shit, which is an equivalent liquid shit volume to 43 seconds of discharge from the Ganges River.
But shit on the streets is not the only thing California is known for, it’s also famous for its wildfires. Unfortunately for Florida, they don’t have the sorts of dry tinder forests that California has.
Have no fear, the fates have an answer for that as well.
Firefighters work to put out landfill fire in SW Miami-Dade
Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire that broke out at a Southwest Miami-Dade landfill.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene along Southwest 97th Avenue and 240th Street just after 7 a.m., Thursday.
Responding firefighters located a heavy fire coming from a mound of trash.
Officials said air rescue crews responded to the scene to help extinguish the flames in areas inaccessible by firefighters on the ground. Strong winds are making it difficult for crews to put out the fire.
That’s Miami-Dade and Broward for you. Stuck between a giant dumpster fire and a river of shit. Take that California.
Broward has already gotten rid of plastic straws in restaurants, so if they can ban high capacity magazines, stand your ground, and curb concealed carry the rivers of shit will dry up and the fires will go out. That’s the California approach anyway.
This is why everything Progressives touch literally turns to shit.