Rural King, a chain of hardware stores, is having a rebate sale. Right now, they are offering pretty good prices on firearms. Some highlights:
DPMS AR-10 in .308 Winchester: $627
DPMS Panther Oracle AR-15: $368
S&W M&P 9 or M&P 40: $387
I am giving serious thought into picking up an AR-10, since I don’t own one. Check out the sale prices. The sale is good through September 4.
At least according to the Boston Antifa, a group composed of communist agitators with an expressed goal of overthrowing the government.
If you are displaying a Blue Line sticker or flag, know that Antifa will target you and shut down your free speech, because they are opposed to “fascism” and apparently do not recognize free speech or irony.
I learned of this from the NYT, who did not provide a picture of the flyer, or of any actual racists at the Boston event,
(no Nazis or racists here, just Trump supporters)
but did provide lots of pictures of communists.
Of interest is the NYT claim that all demonstrators were disarmed, and that:
Marchers were banned from bringing weapons, bats, sticks, flagpoles or anything that might be used as a weapon or a projectile, and backpacks were subject to search
I’m guessing they didn’t disarm the communists, who are plainly pictured carrying sticks and clubs, disguised as signs. That’s OK, because the police consulted with the Southern Poverty Law Center on how to “deal with the hate groups” – completely ignoring that the SPLC is a hate group itself.
Initial reports were that both police officers shot in Kissimmee were dead. In incidents like this, it is common for initial reports to be a bit confused, and this was no exception. One of the two was dead, and the other was hanging on by a thread, thanks only to the efforts of their fellow officers, the personnel of the Kissimmee Fire Department, and of Osceola Regional Hospital’s trauma department.
In the end, the second officer passed away this afternoon. I remember him from training sessions. What really bothers me about this, other than the fact that a friend was murdered in cold blood, is that Black Lives Matter is not only silent about this killing, but members of the BLM are actively condoning it. Why is THIS black man’s life
more important to BLACK lives matter than THIS black man’s
life? For that matter, what about THIS black woman’s life?
Confederate Nazis…i will hurt you all. You are the enemy. You can run but you cant hide.
Six police officers and two firefighters were shot in the past 24 hours. Four of the cops were in Florida, two of them are dead. One of the dead cops is a friend of mine. The suspect was known to the cops. According to a reliable source and friend, the two cops were ambushed, with their killer waiting for them to arrive, shooting them before they even knew what was happening, and then shooting them in the back of the head after they were down. Make no mistake, this was an ambush. Neither cop even had time to draw a weapon.
The coup and subsequent revolution that I wrote about recently continues. Things are going to get more and more violent as time goes on.
EDITED: The suspect in the Kissimmee shooting recently began calling himself Malik Mohammad Ali. Here is his Facebook page. It is filled with hate and racial propaganda, but one of the officers he killed was a black man. Go figure.
What we are seeing here is an attempted coup of the legitimately elected president. Whether you like it or not, Trump was legitimately elected to the Presidency, in accordance with the US Constitution. Overthrowing the President for anything less than “high crimes and misdemeanors,” for political reasons, or because you do not like the results of the election, means that you don’t care about this nation, that you and your opinion are more important than the legitimate process that was put in place by the founders.
I fear that should this coup be successful, we are looking at the end of the Republican form of government that was put in place when this nation was founded. What follows will more than likely be some sort of dictatorship, but there will be bloodshed in the interim. The future is not bright.
Last year, I was attacked in my classroom by a student. The student is a star athlete with a record of violence against staff. He will soon be signing with a division 1 college, and going on to a free college education, and perhaps even earning millions as a professional athlete.
I just received a letter from the state, saying that the investigation is complete, and that I committed no wrongdoing. Three lawyers, thousands of dollars, and a year later, I have been cleared. The student admitted that he attacked me first, and I had documentation showing that the reason he attacked me was because I was enforcing a policy of no cell phones in class, just as I had been instructed to do. The same supervisor that instructed me to do so was the one who pushed for my prosecution. She was angry that I “lawyered up” when the student attacked me.
The state immediately began an investigation into the incident, to see if I should be prosecuted for holding the student down to stop the attack. At any rate, the entire episode is over.
We left Vegas and headed for San Francisco. We spent the first night of this leg about an hour from San Francisco in Lathrop, California. The next morning, we drove to San Francisco, and spent a few hours at Fisherman’s Warf. We toured the maritime museum, and while there, we saw a dog and a large sea lion get into a bit of a territorial dispute. The dog was definitely on the losing side of that disagreement.
It was only a matter of time. Here come the trans-species people. A person who is trans-species has just as legitimate claim at being a cat or a dog trapped in a human’s body as does a man claiming to be a woman. That is, they both have the same mental issue.
The funny part is that South Park did an episode on this exact situation. EDIT: Actually, two.
Taking a break from my trip report to talk about a news story that appeared in the Orlando Sentinel back in May:
Carver Middle School is an F rated school in the middle of the Pine Hills neighborhood, located west of Orlando, in Orange County. This school’s students tested in the lowest 3 percent of all students nationwide. In order to correct this, Orange county is attempting to lure the best teachers in the state to the school by offering an extra $20,000 a year to teachers willing to work there.
The problem is that the school is in a crime ridden, poverty stricken neighborhood. I have blogged about Pine Hills and its surrounding neighborhoods before. More than once. The school is 91% black, 6% Hispanic of any race, and less than 1% white. Seventy percent of the students receive free or reduced lunch.
Both the violent and non-violent crime rates in Pine Hills are double the national average. Police officers are shot and killed in the area of this school often enough that several streets in the area are named for fallen officers, and shootings happen there nearly every night. The local government repeatedly dumps millions of dollars into this blighted area in an attempt to “clean up” the crime problem, to no avail.
Currently, the teachers there are inexperienced first or second year teachers who transfer away at first opportunity. Teacher pay is tied to student performance, and combined with the crime in the neighborhood, teachers avoid the area like the plague.
Any teacher who accepts a job at this school is placing his or her life in jeopardy. A $20,000 bonus is not worth it, in my opinion. The plan likely will not work and be a waste of money, anyway. You cannot, no matter how good of a teacher you are, teach a student who does not want to learn. The crime problems need to be addressed, the gangs eliminated, the drugs under control, before you can convince the students to give up the thug lifestyle and learn.
We left Zion and headed for Las Vegas. We stopped at an In ‘n Out Burger for lunch. Too bad those places are only out west, because they were pretty good, especially for the price.
When we got into Las Vegas, we spent the first night just off the old strip.
For the next five nights, we stayed on the strip at the New York, New York hotel and casino. We walked the strip, caught a showing of a Cirque du Soleil show, and spent some time in the casino. It was pretty warm while we were there- temperatures were around 102 degrees F during the day, but the humidity was low, and there was a pretty strong breeze blowing, meaning that it was pretty nice as long as you stayed out of the sun.
The casino was pleasant, there was good entertainment, and plenty of restaurants to choose from. We enjoyed the buffets of both Caesar’s Palace, and the Bellagio. I love playing craps, and this stay was good for us. We won a fair bit of money in the casino.
