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One thing I hate is people who are late for appointments. I just think it’s disrespectful of the other person’s time to be late, it’s like saying that their time isn’t important to you.

That is why I get annoyed when people wait to the last minute to leave for a destination. They look at Google maps, and if the map says 48 minute travel time, they will leave the house at 9:12 for a 10 o’clock meeting. If they are late, they blame traffic and not their own lack of planning for their tardiness.

I was always taught that if you are 5 minutes early, you are already 10 minutes late.

Smith and Wesson reported that its sales returned to the prepandemic normal for the quarter ending in October, which is still profitable for the company. The drop in sales echoed ones reported by Sturm, Ruger, and other manufacturers and is the second consecutive quarter of slumping sales. This caused the company’s stock price to plunge to a 52 week low- from $14.39 a share in August down to $9.49 this morning.

I pulled out of the stock market last October, when it became obvious that things were going south. I resumed buying stock in July, and am picking up anything that looks like a healthy company but whose stock is selling at fire sale prices. Royal Caribbean Cruise lines is one, and now Smith and Wesson is added to that list. The company is still sound and is still turning a profit. When there is blood in the streets, buy oil. So that’s what I did- I picked up 100 shares. Maybe I will get some more before the stock recovers. I am betting that it will bounce back as inflation cools. If inflation DOESN’T cool, then money will be worthless anyhow.

I did the same thing in 2020 and made a shitload of money on Royal Caribbean and on Darden Restaurants. I bought RCL at $21 a share, then sold it 8 months later for $80 a share. I bought DRI at $50 a share then sold at $115. I made almost $50,000 in 8 months on those two deals when I turned $30K into over $75k.

My recommendation? If you have some spare investing money, find a deal on a stock. They are going to bounce back in a year or so, and you will make some decent returns. There are plenty of reputable stock purchasing companies that will let you buy stock direct with no commissions. I use ETrade.

******** As usual, the disclaimer: I don’t advertise, and receive nothing for my reviews or articles. I have no relationship with any products, companies, or vendors that I review here, other than being a customer. I pay what you would pay. I only post these things because I think that my readers would be interested.

Here is a prime example as to why you can’t rely on a TASER in a situation where you are in danger of death or serious bodily injury. The cops hit this guy twice with a TASER, and he still fought with them and with hospital staff, to the point where they had to use restraints.

Now instead of fighting with cops, imagine that you are shooting him with a TASER while he is stabbing your wife.

Florida man arrested for public sex with a dog.

Even though it’s come about that masks and vaccines accomplished nothing, there are some who still cling to what science has told us was wrong. It’s like masks are MAGA hats for the left.

The San Francisco city council voted to allow police to use robots to kill suspects. Being antigun liberals though, the robots won’t have guns. Instead, they will be armed with explosives.

Don’t tell me that whites are the ones who are racist. (Watch the second, or bottom video)

People in one neighborhood are being attacked in their own yards by wild hogs. A suppressor, a crossbow, even putting some spikes in the end of that bat, and you have some bacon coming to you.

We have been getting screeched at about gender for several years now. People can be whatever gender they claim to be. They can change it on a daily basis. Until they do something that the left doesn’t like. Then gender is definable, it’s just that the left is the one that gets to do the defining.

The shooter at Club Q, the Colorado gay bar, identifies as non-binary. According to the left, that is his decision to make, but the left is saying that he is simply lying. So which is it?

If the shooter says “I’m non-binary,” do we have to respect and accept that? Or can we say, “No, you’re not. You’re clearly a man pretending to be neither male nor female. We trust your biology, not your psychology, and we think you’re lying about who you are.”

The interesting thing here, is that the left may be laying the groundwork for destroying one of the basic tenets of hate crime charges. Leftist legal experts are claiming that someone who is a member of the group being victimized can also be charged with a hate crime. Under this legal theory, one black man screaming “shut up, nigga” before shooting another black man has just committed a hate crime.

They are using this shooting to come after Republicans. The shooter is the grandson of a Republican lawmaker from California. They are already trying to connect the dots from this shooting to the J6 protests, MAGA, and Donald Trump. It will soon be a hate crime to be a Republican.