RINOs

I keep hearing people call Republican politicians “Republicans in Name Only” or “RINOs” for short, and claiming that these politicians and candidates are somehow not true Republicans because they support socialist positions. However, it seems to have gotten to the point where pretty much every politician from the GOP is leaning to the left, and the majority of them seem to be falling into the “RINO” category.

At some point, you begin to realize that the mainstream of the party’s leadership is moving to the left. I will point out that I have not called myself a Republican for years. I didn’t leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me.

Loophole

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.

Macadamia crusted Mahi with Vanilla Rum Butter Sauce

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

Nut Crusted Mahi

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.

Vanilla Rum Butter Sauce

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

Mashed potatoes:
5 medium sized potatoes, peeled and chopped
1/4 cup of sour cream
2 table spoons of butter
1 cup raw spinach 
Boil potatoes for 10 minutes. With hand mixer, stir in sour cream and butter.
Boil Spinach for for 2 minutes in salted water. 
To serve:
Place mashed potatoes on plate, cover with cooked spinach. Spoon several tablespoons of rum butter sauce on top. Place a piece of Mahi on top of that, and top with another tablespoon of rum butter sauce.

Bluffing

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.

Boyscouts

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.

Hypocrisy of the war on (some) drugs

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.

Busybodies

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.