We need to pass a law requiring background checks to close the “break into the gun show and steal guns while the gun show is closed” loophole.
Orlando police have made another arrest in the theft of nearly two dozen guns from the Fairgrounds Gun Show. Surveillance video shows several juvenile suspects forcing their way into the gun show at the Central Florida Fairgrounds on the Fourth of July and making off with 24 firearms, police said.
Ever since I retired, I have picked up cooking as a new hobby. Here is one the better recipes I have come up with:
Nut Crusted Mahi with Vanilla Rum Butter Sauce
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Serves: 4
4- 4 ounce pieces of Mahi
1/2 cup Roasted unsalted Macadamia nuts
Sesame oil
1/4 cup Panko Breading
1/2 cup Flour
salt
black pepper
Grind Macadamia nuts in a food processor, and mix with Panko, salt, pepper, and Flour
Rub fish with sesame oil, and then roll the fish in the breading mix. Place on a baking sheet, and bake for 35 minutes at 375 degrees. Fish coating should be brown.
1 shallot sliced thin
2 tsp vanilla extract-pure
1/8 cup white wine (cheap will do)
1/4 cup Rum (cheap rum will do)
¼ cup granulated sugar
1cup heavy cream
1- 4oz stick of unsalted butter (room temp)
Place the rum, shallots, white wine, sugar and vanilla extract into the sauce pan and stir
Place the pan on the stove with high heat and bring to a boil
Reduce heat, simmer until the mixture starts to thicken
Add the heavy cream and reduce by 1/2
Turn off the heat and whisk in the softened butter
I teach classes on my days off at various health care facilities around the state of Florida. This brings me to quite a few of our states’ hospitals. When I entered Winnie Palmer hospital (part of Orlando Regional Medical Center), this is the sign that they have posted outside each of the entrance doors of the hospital:
If you look, they have made an attempt to make the sign appear to have the force of law by placing a statute number at the bottom of the sign. That particular statute is the guns in parking lots statute and has exactly nothing to do with carrying a weapon through the door.
Then, at a hospital in the Ocala/Gainesville area, there is this sign on the door:
The statute referred to here is the statute for trespassing and burglary. There is no provision in the law for conditional access. That is, a business is either open to the public, or it is not. There is no case law which allows a business to place conditions on the people who they allow to enter. In a business that is open to the public, a person must be personally asked to leave. This sign means nothing.
Three men, two of whom are convicted felons, shoot a cop who attempts to pull them over. This will be used as an excuse for certain people to claim that I cannot be allowed to have a weapon, or as an excuse to some other restriction on my rights.
Just in Orange County, Stephen Dantzler, has been arrested/convicted three times for operating a motor vehicle without a license, once for leaving the scene of an accident, once for petty theft, and once for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon (charges dropped). There are more records out there somewhere, because he is a convicted felon, and there are no felony convictions on record for this guy in Orange or Osceola counties.
I see that he followed the law about carrying a weapon just as diligently as he did the laws about having a drivers’ license, proving that more laws will not fix the problem.
A Navy officer and Marine reportedly returned fire at the shooter who killed five service members in Chattanooga, Tenn., even though current policy does not permit military members to carry firearms on facilities such as those where the attack occurred. That officer will now face a court martial for possessing a weapon in a gun free zone.
I was recently talking to a friend of mine who stated that he is proud to have voted “no” on the question of legalizing marijuana by physician’s order for medicinal purposes. He stated that he was against drugs and drug addicts. Of course, the last time he went on a cruise, he purchased the “all you care to drink liquor package” for $400 and bragged to me that he got his money’s worth by drinking more than 50 drinks containing Jack Daniels during the seven day cruise.
Smell the hypocrisy.
This is busybody neighbors using stupid government rules to control their neighbors.
Apparently they have a neighbor that doesn’t like them very much and is sending the local authorities to harass them for whatever reason they can come up with. The guys in the video explain that the neighbor has called local fire, police and now some pencil pushing desk jockey from the the local government to come harass them.
The anti gunners frequently try to use convoluted interpretations of the law and of the founders to justify more gun grabs. Several years ago, I grew tired of all of the arguments and justifications and finally decided that it will boil down to this: As soon as the antis think that they can take our guns, they will.
In an earlier post, I mentioned considering a place in northern Maine as a possible BOL. This place was nice, because it is secure, fairly isolated, and is self sustainable. Here are my thoughts:
Shelter:
The cabin itself was nice. It has three bedrooms and a single bath, with a large common room that serves as kitchen, dining room, and living area. Eight people should have no problem living in it, if they get along. The place is about 800 square feet of interior space, with wood and propane for heat.
Food and water:
– The water is well water, with lake water as a backup.
– There is a large garden outside. Due to large amounts of snowfall, a winter greenhouse will not be possible. The hunting is great, with large numbers of deer and moose, along with other animals like beaver, rabbits, geese, ducks, and squirrel. The cabin is on a lake, and the fishing is spectacular.
One day we were fishing for about two hours, and we caught 30 white perch, three large pickerel, and a 4 pound bass, along with numerous yellow perch, which we threw back. It made for one heck of a fish fry.
A diet consisting largely of fish is not sustainable in Maine, due to high Mercury levels in the water.
Security:
There are six cabins in the camp, with a year round caretaker. The caretaker is related to my girlfriend, and can be trusted to not stab us in the back. This is important, so that we know our storage is safe while we are not there.
The cabin is very remote, and this is a significant security feature. It is difficult to find, and is off the beaten path. This is good for security.
Communications:
The place is so far removed from civilization that there is no cell phone signal in the area. Landline telephone and internet are available, but unreliable.
When the phone an internet lines get knocked down during frequent winter storms, communication with the town of 5500 is possible for HAM operators, thanks to a VHF repeater that is located 16 miles away. The 2 meter radio in my truck had no problems reaching the repeater anywhere I went, and my 5 watt portable was usually able to reach it, as long as I was not deep in a valley.
Weather:
The winters are tough, with residents telling me that the ice on the lake is frequently more than 3 feet deep, and the temperatures dip to more than 35 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, and there is frequently three or more feet of snow on the ground.
Assistance:
The town has only 30 residents, and 25 of them are more than 50 years old. The next closest town is 15 miles away down a small road that is rarely plowed clear of snow. This town is larger, with nearly 500 residents, and the next larger town is another 20 miles away, with 5,500 residents. The nearest city is Bangor, nearly 100 miles away.
Many residents own trucks with plows on them, so they can clear their own snow. This means that you are on your own if the SHTF. Almost everyone has a boat and a snowmobile. Boats won’t get you far, however, as the lakes and rivers have large numbers of rocks in them, creating lots of rapids.
Other thoughts:
The mosquitoes and biting flies are incredible. The area is overrun with them.
The biggest problem is distance and difficulty in getting there. The cabin is 1,300 miles from my home, and the shortest route has you passing through New York, Maryland, and New Jersey, as well as skirting Washington, DC. As far as I am concerned, it would be safer to travel to a foreign country than to those socialist utopias. When the SHTF, as bad as those places are now, they will likely be no-go zones at that point.
I will keep the place as an alternate relocation site, and perhaps stage some limited supplies up there, but my search for a BOL continues.
