In the Florida retirement community of the Villages, there was a defensive shooting at an Applebee’s restaurant early on Tuesday morning. Details are sketchy, but the story seems to be that it was a defensive shooting. The story is that there was some sort of an altercation outside the restaurant, possibly involving shots fired. One of those involved in the altercation entered Applebee’s restaurant through a side employees-only door after the restaurant had closed. Another man already in the restaurant, who was waiting for an employee to get off duty and has a concealed weapons permit was armed and shot the man who entered the restaurant. The man, who was shot three times, died at the scene.
The decedent, has not yet been identified. Police are attempting to determine his identity using a fingerprint scanner. Police have not released additional details about either altercation: the initial gunshots heard outside the restaurant, nor the shooting inside of the restaurant. There is also no information regarding potential arrests in either case.
The Capitol police are calling Tucker Carlson a liar because they claim that he was cherry picking video footage when he claimed that the events at the Capitol were a peaceful protest. They also claim that he released video that might contain security secrets, even though video of the same locations was released to the public as a part of the Trump impeachment hearings.
Legacy media is no better at truth telling than the Soviet Pravda. Today we learn the truth: the Q-Anon Shaman was escorted around the capital and let into the Senate chambers by police. He even praised them for their hospitality. pic.twitter.com/AExUn5hzru
First, the left claims that J6 was a violent uprising while continuing to call riots by the left as being mostly peaceful because “The first amendment doesn’t go away when a single person sets a fire,” and, “Destruction of material is fundamentally different from violence.” The article mentions that 500 people have been convicted of crimes, but most of them were for nonviolent things like “parading” or “trespassing.”
The fact that Republicans are jumping on the bandwagon is a telltale sign that they are not in our corner. They will sell out the American people in a heartbeat if it means maintaining power and wealth.
Ray Epps Lied in His Sworn Testimony to the January 6 Committee, and Surveillance Footage Proves It
"Epps testified that when he sent the text messages to his nephew, he had already left the Capitol grounds to return to his hotel room. That is not true." pic.twitter.com/Hcae3GIsiM
Schumer accused Speaker Kevin McCarthy of treason after giving Tucker the tapes. Treason is one of the crimes defined in the Constitution. Article III, Section 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution defines treason as:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
So are we to understand that Schumer considers the people are the enemies of the United States?
[Researchers at Rutgers University] found that 58.3 percent of firearm owners store at least one firearm unlocked and hidden and 17.9 percent store at least one firearm unlocked and unhidden. Among those who store at least one firearm locked, gun safes are the most frequently used type of option both for devices opened by key, PIN code or dial lock (32.4 percent) and biometric devices (15.6 percent).
I don’t have any biometric devices. I frequently have at least one firearm that is not secured in the house, but there are no children in my house, which brings us to the next quote:
First, to address motivation we need to address disproportionate fears regarding the likelihood of armed home invasions. Similarly, we need to help the public better understand the risks associated with having firearms in the home – above and beyond the risk of unauthorized access by children.
Let me guess, this is the point where they trot out the old bull about guns being more likely to be used on a family member than a home invader. The problem with that “fact” is that guns are highly unlikely to be used against you or a family member if you are not a criminal. Gun safes don’t prevent suicide if the owner is the one committing suicide.
It seems that the Southern Poverty Law Center needs to list itself as a Domestic Terror Organization, seeing as how one of the attorneys on staff there has been charged with Domestic Terrorism, with authorities alleging that the attorney participated in a mostly peaceful protest by throwing deadly missiles at police. The left continues to gaslight everyone with this:
“Music is not a crime, protest is not a crime. The first amendment doesn’t go away when a single person sets a fire,” the Atlanta Solidarity Fund tweeted following the events of the day.
That’s bullshit and they know it. If one person robs a bank, the getaway driver is still guilty of bank robbery, even if he never enters the bank. They continued with their bullshit by making this claim:
Destruction of material is fundamentally different from violence.
Again, that is total and complete bullshit. This is how the left defines “mostly peaceful.” Under the SPLC’s own definition, they are an anti-government hate group.
In Massachusetts, Florida and New York, Americans spend 32.9%, 32.6% and 31.2% of their income respectively on rent. Assuming you make $71,456 (the mean American income as of 2022), if you live in the Sunshine State, you’re actually sitting under a dark cloud: paying close to $6,000 a month in rent, based on those income and 32.9% figures.
I really don’t know where they are getting these “average” numbers from. Florida has a median household income of $61,777. (source: US Census bureau) When you want to borrow money for a home purchase, lenders want you to have a Debt to Mortgage ratio of no more than 35%, and a total Debt to Income ratio of no more than 50%. So that equates to a payment of $1650 per month for housing (35%) and all monthly debts that are no more than $2,575 per month. (including housing)
In most places, that gets you a pretty decent place to live. There are places claiming that the median one bedroom apartment in Florida costs are higher than they really are. Rent.com claims that renting a one bedroom in Miami costs an average of $3,250 a month. That’s about average in places like South Beach, but South Beach is a VERY expensive area where oceanfront condos regularly rent out for $25,000 a month. But if you don’t make a pile of money, don’t live in Miami Beach.
The problem is that people want luxury living in the most desirable areas and think it should be free. IF you are living on minimum wage, expect a minimum standard of living. My mom used to call that “Having a champagne and caviar taste on a beer and crackers budget.”
“There is nothing in those documents to show they operate like a real news organization,” said Doug Gordon, a Democratic strategist. “If you are running a campaign in 2024, how do you in good faith hand your ads to Fox when you know they handed them over to Republicans? If there are any general election debates, how do you let Fox be a moderator?”
Et tu, commie. Fox news is the only major news organization that isn’t completely in the tank for the Democrat party, and even they aren’t so far to the right.
Democrats have started calling on the White House Correspondents’ Association to ban Fox News reporters from the briefing room, and are demanding that The Associated Press declare that Fox News is not a news organization. This would, in effect, move the entire nation one step closer to having official state sponsored news.
Keep in mind that this administration has been using private companies to carry out its policies, claiming that it isn’t a violation if a company does it, even if done at the behest of the government. Now that they have control of social media, it’s time to move on to traditional media.
We might as well begin calling the remaining press things like “Izvestia” and “Pravda.”
Issue 1: So a car hit a telephone pole somewhere in the area, and we lost power for about an hour. That isn’t the bad part. The bad part is that the electrical surge that came along with it fried some electronics in the house. I wonder what a whole house surge protector costs. It seems like we are constantly losing electronics here because of power surges, although they are usually lightning related. It’s pretty much an annual event.
Issue #2: In preparing to move, we were getting rid of some bulk items. We called to have the garbage people come get them, then put them out on the curb for pickup day. No one showed, they remain out there. So we call the garbage folks on our bill, and they can find no record of our house. I ask “Well, if I stop paying my bill, who will call me?” They say, “You must be covered by our contractor” and transfer the call. Company two says, nope. We have no record of your house having an account. Call company number three. So we do. Company three says that they aren’t servicing our neighborhood. So back to the number on our bill. They say that company two is definitely the one, and transfer us to Company 2’s manager. Voice mail, leave a message. Total time on phone: 75 minutes.
You guessed it. No call back. So we call again the next day and play phone tag for another hour, getting nowhere. I snap a picture of the garbage truck while it was picking up our garbage, and it has the name of Company 2 on the side in foot tall letters. So we call them.
Company 2 drone: “Sure, I can place an order to get your bulk items. What is your address and the name of your neighborhood?” We give them, and she says: “That neighborhood isn’t in our reporting system. Do you have the correct name?”
We reply, “That is the only name. We have lived here for 15 years, and we are sure that’s the name.”
Drone: “Well, that one isn’t in the system, and I can’t put in the work order without one. The computer has a drop down menu with neighborhood names, and unless we put it in, it won’t let us go any farther.”
Can we speak to a manager?
Drone: “I can transfer you to their voicemail, and they will call you.”
I can’t drive it to the dump myself, because the closest dump is in a different county and won’t accept out of county drop offs. I think what I am going to do is load the items up over the weekend, and dump them in front of the garbage people’s business office and let them figure out what to do with it.
Issue #3: My storage locker had been costing me $68 a month. A new company bought out the Mom and Pop that was running it, consolidated it with three other facilities, and then doubled rates. That was back in November. When February came, they raised them again. Now it’s nearly $200 a month for storage. So I spent three days emptying that 10×10 storage unit into my garage. Now I can’t park in it, and I lost my little workshop I had set up in there. That’s OK, since we are moving in less than a year, and we are getting a larger garage in the new place. I will probably build a storage barn in the back of the new place. I can get a 10×16 that looks like the one below for about $4,900, delivered.
When I went in to tell them that I had moved out, I noticed that the security cameras were no longer hooked up, and I had noticed that the electric gate securing the property has been disconnected. So this place was bought out by a large company, the on site managers are gone, the security gate is gone, and the security cameras no longer work. And rates are now 285% higher than they were just four months ago. What the hell are those higher rates paying for? Don’t know, don’t care. I vacated the place.
