SO (for now, at least) DC is a Constitutional Carry zone.

They will, of course, appeal, and eventually put in place Illinois-like rules to satisfy the courts, and everything will wind down.

Until then, it should be fun. I predict crime will be greatly reduced.

HERE is the link..

Now I am sadly late in writing about this, and the book is currently sold out, but I have some knowledge of some of the stories, and I knew Barkley for a few years….And I can tell you that Brigid’s writing will make him come alive in your mind’s eye. It’ll be back in stock soon so you should order it to get in the que for shipping.

Order it. You’ll be glad you did.

Well, well:

So it seems that 18 out of 20 (for those of you having gone to public schools in a liberal area, that is 90%) of the illegal immigrant “children” don’t show for their initial hearings on their immigration status.

Betcha $50 that the trend continues.

Watching CBS news, you’d think that the “Palestinians” were all sitting there and drinking tea while singing Kumbayah” and holding hands and praying for world peace when Israel suddenly sent rockets and artillery into their midst for no reason.

No bias there, is there?

I mean, no mention of the rockets fired from “Palestine” by Hamas…Of course, we got pictures of women and especially children bleeding and such…and photos of school that was destroyed by Israel fire (no mention of the fact that the school courtyard was where the Hamas rockets were fired into Israel).

Apparently, 2 years ago, we narrowly (by like a week) missed having our electrical infrastructure fried by another “Carrington event“

Thing is, you don’t realize exactly how much of your daily life would be affected were the electrical grid to fail due to a solar storm. No Food after about a week. No gasoline for your generator (if you have one)….no money (you get paid with, and pay your bills via electronic money…If the bank has no electricity to power the computers, they can neither make withdrawals OR deposits. You paycheck is just so much paper for them……Your Visa card, ATM card and your debit card are just pieces of plastic…… The store where you get food has no registers, and no inventory control, so they don’t have any idea what to order, and the distribution warehouse isn’t getting either new shipments nor making any shipments because they can’t keep track of what goes where nor what they have in inventory…..and there isn’t any fuel for the trucks to deliver because fuel is moved through the pipeline and pumped to the truck by…..electricity. (Not to mention the fact that the billing for the fuel is also electronic, which ain’t working either.

The internet? Seriously. not there right now. House phones? Maybe, but unlikely. For sure no long distance. Cell phone network? Maybe, but probably not….besides, you can’t charge your phone anyway, so what does it matter?

Heat and air conditioning might matter depending on when it happens. But it won’t matter after a few weeks because you are gonna likely be too hungry to care. And thirsty too, because you either get your drinking and flushing water from either a municipal water supply (electric drives those pumps) or a private well (electricity again) The sewers are backed up if you live in a city anyway, so you will probably want to move out after a few weeks, but where to?

Yeah, we ans a nation will recover…but it’ll take about 2 years. Maybe more. And that assumes that the folks who supply those transformers and switchgear are still able begin making replacements immediately and don’t have infrastructure issues of their own.

Got food for your household a few months? (I do). Got fuel for your generator for at least that long? (I do, if I ration very carefully). Can you heat your house in the winter without power? (I can, but it won’t be pretty or comfortable).

Think about it. Be glad that it missed us and we didn’t even know it.  If it had hit, a lot of people would have died in the first 6 months.

You can prepare for this, up to a point. but only to a point. After enough time passes, you are living like your great great great great grandparents did, except that they knew how to live like that and you will have to learn….quickly.

Know what you are talking about before you let your emotions run.

HERE

Sympathy for the “children” is what Barry and all the Latino groups are hoping for….so you’ll want to let them stay.

No good story ever started with “We were having a salad and then….”

So shutting off the water to non paying residents in a predominantly black community is racist because said actions impact black american more than whites.

If I ever had any respect for the NAACP, I lost it when I read the article.

Note this line: “Water was restored to 43 percent after customers paid or worked out payment plans.”.

Truth:

45 years ago, we put a man (actually 2 men) on another celestial body.

(the actual time 3:18 PM Central time)

6 hours later Neil Armstrong became the first human (as far as we know, anyway) to walk upon the surface of the moon.

By today’s standards, the equipment they flew in and used was very crude. Your cell phone likely has more computing power than all the computers used in the effort…your desktop or laptop that you are reading this post on almost certainly does. If you fly commercial, you will likely be in a more complex craft.

It took a great deal of effort, and lot of money to do what they did.

Sadly, today, NASA no longer has the drive nor the people to do anything remotely as ground breaking as putting people on the moon. NASA isn’t the NASA we think of when we think of NASA.

They have become, at best, a political arm of the current administration, and a waste of money.

But take a moment and reflect on the achievement of the people of NASA then.

Now we gotta beg ex commies for a ride to the “international” space station.

ETA: THis is true. Sad, but true.