Seems that there is some hope that Kalifornia will split. I doubt that it will happen soon, but there is a HUGE drive for it and it may well get on the ballot. I can’t see the LA folks letting this happen, as they will lose so much income….I can see “Norther” California wantin’ it to, but, again, LA will fight ’em….they need the money. Eastern portion is a wash, really….

In addition, LA needs the water the other portions would then control.

Plus I’m not so sure that I want any of the Californians to get more votes in the Senate. Even a conservative Californian is pretty liberal on my terms.

YMMV

Biometric ID cards announced by EU officials

I see this a a train wreck. You can always get a new card, and get a new password.

But since Fingerprints and Faces are the two security features, once it is hacked those folks are SCREWED. Where you gonna get new fingers?

So two dudes walk into a Starbucks coffehouse.

Sit down for a while.
They are asked to purchase something, or to leave.

They refuse to do either.

And again, are asked politely.
Refuse, again.

So the cops are called. And then they are asked to leave (again).

They refuse, and are then arrested.

They claim they were waiting for someone.

And that they were arrested because they were black. Somehow, I doubt that.

All they had to do was buy a cup of Starbucks Lousy (and overpriced) coffee…Or wait outside for their friend if they didn’t have the money.

They got stupid. and got arrested. And this is somehow the fault of Starbucks (both corporate and the local owner)….And racist. Because Black.

I see it differently….But I’ve been a business owner. I don’t see Black, I see assholes taking up space in an establishment without paying.

So now, Starbucks is gonna spend an entire day with their coffehouses ALL closed in order to expiate their sins……of asking people that use their establishment to, you know, buy something there. How terrible of them.

Social Media and Justice Warriors are totally screwing up our society. Attitude and judgement without the facts.
And, of course, the CEO of Starbucks just rolled over like a good puppy.

I’m so glad I sold out when I did. This could have been me.

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Be sure to wear the Oxygen mask as the Flight Attendant showed you: Proper fit is important…..

Gotta have oxygen at 32,000 feet…..But 3 of the three passengers we can see are wearing ’em wrong….

This picture is from the Southwest Airlines 737 that lost an engine today……

Sadly, one person died in this incident. Say a prayer for them, please. . 

Everyone seems to be making a big deal about the fact that Dicks Sporting Goods is choosing to destroy their remaining inventory of “Assault Style Rifles” instead of you know, seeling them.

WTF folks? What’s the big friggin deal? Yes, Dicks management are doing the whole SJW posturing, and yes, it is kinda stupid, but they have, apparently, determined that their customer demographic is impressed by such actions. It’s their (Dick’s) inventory and their money that they are wasting to (supposedly) impress their customers. They can do what they want with it, just as much as the idiots on YouTube who fire thousands of rounds through an AR or AK until the handguards catch on fire and such.  At the end of the day, it is just metal and plastic. Free country and all that. Maybe Dick’s can charge it off to advertising, if they can convince the IRS…..

Let’s face it…they, by their actions, have lost you and me and others of our ilk as customers long ago…..there is nothing they can do to fix that, and they really can’t piss us off more and make us less likely to purchase from them. So they lose a couple of tens of thousands of dollars. Obviously, they think it is worth it to pander to the folks who buy a bunch of Lycra or MicroFiber products, overpriced boots and (WAY OVERPRICED) Yeti coolers and sippy cups and such.
And really, anyone who shops at Dick’s and pays Dick’s higher-than-market prices for items one can buy on Amazon for 30% less is’t anyone who won’t be greatly impressed by their stunt of destroying those Ebil Blak Ryflez anyway. 

Time to settle up for last year, if you haven’t already.

 I didn’t pay any taxes, I got some money back….


Right.

Prepare accordingly…

Or don’t, as the case may be……

(I’m as prepped as I’m gonna be…..I might bother to top off the cars with gas and such, and make sure I have plenty of booze, but other than that, I’m pretty well set……)

Biblical end of the world shall start on 4/23/18.

If the Rapture comes, I’m set that way too……

Or, at least, that is what the officer “reasonably believed”.

I call BULLSHIT.  I say MURDER.  (HERE IS THE VIDEO….the shooting starts at 1:00….) The cops had reason to be wary, yes. The SWATTING had everyone on edge, and they thought they were surrounding the home of a man who was purported to have shot his father…

The cops were in position over 50 yards away, under cover. The poor dude, who had no idea what was going on, got shot because the cop at the back of the rifle, looking through a scope, at night, with VERY poor lighting, decided the guy on the porch was “reaching for his waistband”.
He shot and killed Andrew Finch, who likely never knew why the cops were surrounding his house or why he was shot.

If I had shot anyone at that range, for ANY reason, at night, with no weapon visible, I would (rightly) be charged with, and tried for, MURDER. The cop needs to be as well.  Low lighting, a LONG distance and yet the cop was able to “be assured” that there was a weapon (hint: There wasn’t…Mr Finch was unarmed).

“Officer Safety” and all that….Had there been an officer on the porch, instead of hiding across the street, then this could have perhaps been avoided.

Here’s a hint for cops: If you are that afraid, then FIND ANOTHER JOB.

No, I wasn’t there, and no, I don’t want to be a cop….but at the end of the day, your safety doesn’t trump those of the citizens you serve.

I call this, still, murder.

Seems that the Californians have actually  deigned to start looking at things in a logical manner:

Los Angeles to paint streets white in order to counteract the Urban Heat Island Effect.

Note: “If the 100 largest cities in the world replaced their dark roofs with white shingles and their asphalt-based roads with concrete or other light-colored material, it could offset 44 metric gigatons (billion tons) of greenhouse gases”….More than a years worth of Human caused emissions…


Anyone who lives in the country can tell you how much asphalt creates heat in the summer. And if you live in the snowbelt, you know how much faster things melt if you can find the “Black” under the snow……

I do think that $40K per mile is a bit “salty” for what is, essentially, parking lot seal, but has there ever been a Glowbal Warming initiative where someone in power didn’t make a shitload of cash in kickbacks?

Has passed/Was abducted by Aliens/is being held in captivity by the Government that Kidnapped him/Is currently being kept alive at a secret Government installation/has found a path to another dimension.

Other theories are being fabricated as we speak.

Godspeed, Art.
 You were entertaining and made me think many times when I was driving late at night.