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What’s Happening In The US Of A?
Yesterday, in yet another mass shooting, at least 10 people were killed with 16 more injured in a bar. One suspect died in the shootout. The investigation continues.
It is only August and 251 mass shootings have occurred in 2019 so far. This resulted in 1,032 people being shot. Of those people, 180 have died. For the purpose of this blog, a mass shooting is defined as a shooting where at least four people were shot.
Living in a country where things are rather rough, I think I can more or less identify with the problems that come with violence of this nature but it is the magnitude of it that disturbs me. What I see is a lot of angry people and I wonder what it is that enrage them.
One might argue that, given the population of the USA, it is a small percentage but I wonder how the Americans feel about it.
My most sincere condolences to the victims and their relatives.
It is only August and 251 mass shootings have occurred in 2019 so far. This resulted in 1,032 people being shot. Of those people, 180 have died. For the purpose of this blog, a mass shooting is defined as a shooting where at least four people were shot.
Living in a country where things are rather rough, I think I can more or less identify with the problems that come with violence of this nature but it is the magnitude of it that disturbs me. What I see is a lot of angry people and I wonder what it is that enrage them.
One might argue that, given the population of the USA, it is a small percentage but I wonder how the Americans feel about it.
My most sincere condolences to the victims and their relatives.
"AUSTRALIA"
Thousands Of Years Before The Arrival Of The British?..................Australia Was Settled By The Indigenous People Of The Time.......... Called...... The Aborigines...........................But Then The European Explorers Started Rearing Their Ugly Heads
And In The Year 1606?............It All Began
And In The Year 1606?............It All Began
Chicago Rewired...
I went to a concert last night sponsored by the City of Boca Raton. The group playing was the Chicago tribute band, Chicago Rewired, a bunch of old fat guys playing Chicago songs to the best of their ability. Actually, they were okay especially since the venue was free admission.
Earlier in the week, a friend told me about the concert and asked if I wanted to join him. He went to a concert last week in Fort Lauderdale that got rained-out and we weren't sure about the weather this time as seasonally, we get afternoon showers.
Held in the Mizner Park lawn-style amphitheater where folding lawn chairs were optional and so is the rain. Earlier, I was on a jobsite around 4pm and heard distant thunder... by 6pm the storms had moved offshore and we confirmed... let's go for it.
We got to the event early and easily found free parking. I estimated the around 4,000 in attendance. Mostly people age 50 and up with a few parents bringing their kids along. Music started around 7:30pm, before sundown here and the temperature was 84 degrees. Hot for most, but there were enough winds where the heat wasn't affecting me.
Expecting the music to be loud, I travel to events like this with industrial ear plugs. From the first shriek of the lead singers voice, it was time for some decibel reduction!
It wasn't so much the volume of the sound system, it's the the lack of fidelity that I found so bothersome. All the the sounds on stage were pumped through the system. Bass, Trumpet, Trombone, Saxophone, Guitar, Synthesizer/Keyboards, drums and vocals from 4 singers. As expected, the volume of the bass drum drowned out the voices and instruments. I've always wondered what the guys at the console 200 feet from the stage actually do considering it's their job to mix the audio volume. We weren't too far from them so the sounds we were hearing were most likely the same sounds they were hearing.
The band played for about 45 minutes and took a 20 minute break. Someone must have commented to the sound crew to adjust the microphone volume as the second set had much better balance. You could actually hear the harmonies... including they high notes the lead singer couldn't reach! Peter Cetera he wasn't, but they were only doing a tribute to Chicago.
From their website, I see they gig 4 to 5 times a month around the country. Worthwhile to see if Chicago is the easing listening music you care to listen to.
Earlier in the week, a friend told me about the concert and asked if I wanted to join him. He went to a concert last week in Fort Lauderdale that got rained-out and we weren't sure about the weather this time as seasonally, we get afternoon showers.
Held in the Mizner Park lawn-style amphitheater where folding lawn chairs were optional and so is the rain. Earlier, I was on a jobsite around 4pm and heard distant thunder... by 6pm the storms had moved offshore and we confirmed... let's go for it.
We got to the event early and easily found free parking. I estimated the around 4,000 in attendance. Mostly people age 50 and up with a few parents bringing their kids along. Music started around 7:30pm, before sundown here and the temperature was 84 degrees. Hot for most, but there were enough winds where the heat wasn't affecting me.
Expecting the music to be loud, I travel to events like this with industrial ear plugs. From the first shriek of the lead singers voice, it was time for some decibel reduction!
It wasn't so much the volume of the sound system, it's the the lack of fidelity that I found so bothersome. All the the sounds on stage were pumped through the system. Bass, Trumpet, Trombone, Saxophone, Guitar, Synthesizer/Keyboards, drums and vocals from 4 singers. As expected, the volume of the bass drum drowned out the voices and instruments. I've always wondered what the guys at the console 200 feet from the stage actually do considering it's their job to mix the audio volume. We weren't too far from them so the sounds we were hearing were most likely the same sounds they were hearing.
The band played for about 45 minutes and took a 20 minute break. Someone must have commented to the sound crew to adjust the microphone volume as the second set had much better balance. You could actually hear the harmonies... including they high notes the lead singer couldn't reach! Peter Cetera he wasn't, but they were only doing a tribute to Chicago.
From their website, I see they gig 4 to 5 times a month around the country. Worthwhile to see if Chicago is the easing listening music you care to listen to.
The Monster In Your Star Sign
Horoscopes seldom elaborate on the negative traits of the star signs and when they do, it is only superficially. We all have a dark side that we do not know about, or that we do not wish to talk about or ultimately that we will not admit to having. The stars influence what this darker side looks like and how it might affect the person’s life. Every star sign has a part that is capable of some terrible things.
I think that the general believe that man is inherently good and that he is corrupted by his surroundings is a load of crap. When I look around me I’m more inclined to believe that we are rotten inside but keep up a good façade because society demands it and because we have a build in desire to be accepted by those around us. When the society that you live in is corrupted, you will break down those walls around you and be what you really are. It’s the same with alcohol. Alcohol does not change your personality. It only brings your true self into focus.
They say that evil breeds evil but that is also nonsense. The evil is already inside us – in a suppressed state – just waiting for the right conditions to break free. There is a monster living inside you and only you can keep it at bay.
May you and your monster have a grand and a quiet day ... respectively.
PS
Search for your star sign in the comments section and learn what you are capable of.
I think that the general believe that man is inherently good and that he is corrupted by his surroundings is a load of crap. When I look around me I’m more inclined to believe that we are rotten inside but keep up a good façade because society demands it and because we have a build in desire to be accepted by those around us. When the society that you live in is corrupted, you will break down those walls around you and be what you really are. It’s the same with alcohol. Alcohol does not change your personality. It only brings your true self into focus.
They say that evil breeds evil but that is also nonsense. The evil is already inside us – in a suppressed state – just waiting for the right conditions to break free. There is a monster living inside you and only you can keep it at bay.
May you and your monster have a grand and a quiet day ... respectively.
PS
Search for your star sign in the comments section and learn what you are capable of.
=== BREAKING BLOCKBUSTER === New Docs Show Obama Admin. FBI Spying Warrant On Trump Was A Fraud
Documents just released after a long court battle forcing them to be turned over show that top officials in Obama administration’s FBI and DOJ knew that the documents they were submitting to a FISA court to support getting a warrant to spy on President Trump’s presidential campaign were biased, paid for by the Democrats and Clinton campaign and filled with salacious and false accusations. And they made no mention of any of this to the court as required by law.
They illegally used these phony documents repeatedly to justify a spy and sabotage campaign against President Trump in an attempt to prevent him from becoming president and ensure that their candidate, Hillary Clinton, would win the election.
Make no mistake about what this is. This is top officials in a current presidential administration using its state police powers to ensure that their candidate is the only candidate that can take their place and that no other candidate has a chance of being elected regardless of the will of the American voters. In other words IT IS AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE A DICTATORSHIP. And if that isn't bad enough they then go on to illegally use these powers try to sabotage a duly elected President of the United States after he is elected. And they did all of this in conspiracy with foreign nationals associated with foreign governments including those of our foreign adversaries. The is the TEXTBOOK definition of TREASON.
We already know that the Democrats rigged their own primary election to ensure only Hillary Clinton could win it. That has been proven and they are not even denying it. They deceived their own party members and canceled out the votes of millions of Democrats who voted for other candidates. Why should we expect anything different in the general election?
As alarming as this is, it is just the tip of the iceberg. If you think that Obama was the only person in his administration who didn’t know about this treasonous fraud taking place right under his nose, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
This is now documented confirmation that we are on the verge of uncovering the most treasonous anti-American plot in the history of American government. Much more is to come.
They illegally used these phony documents repeatedly to justify a spy and sabotage campaign against President Trump in an attempt to prevent him from becoming president and ensure that their candidate, Hillary Clinton, would win the election.
Make no mistake about what this is. This is top officials in a current presidential administration using its state police powers to ensure that their candidate is the only candidate that can take their place and that no other candidate has a chance of being elected regardless of the will of the American voters. In other words IT IS AN ATTEMPT TO CREATE A DICTATORSHIP. And if that isn't bad enough they then go on to illegally use these powers try to sabotage a duly elected President of the United States after he is elected. And they did all of this in conspiracy with foreign nationals associated with foreign governments including those of our foreign adversaries. The is the TEXTBOOK definition of TREASON.
We already know that the Democrats rigged their own primary election to ensure only Hillary Clinton could win it. That has been proven and they are not even denying it. They deceived their own party members and canceled out the votes of millions of Democrats who voted for other candidates. Why should we expect anything different in the general election?
As alarming as this is, it is just the tip of the iceberg. If you think that Obama was the only person in his administration who didn’t know about this treasonous fraud taking place right under his nose, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
This is now documented confirmation that we are on the verge of uncovering the most treasonous anti-American plot in the history of American government. Much more is to come.
Hollywood Film Depicts Trump Supporters Being Hunted for Sport by Liberals
'The Hunt' from Universal Pictures (Screenshot via YouTube)
Kathy Griffin claims she can’t get work following her photoshoot with a decapitated and bloody Trump head, but don’t let that fool you. Hollywood clearly still likes the idea of promoting violence against people who aren’t good and obedient leftists, because Universal Pictures is set to release a thriller called The Hunt on September 27, which features left-wing “elites” hunting Trump supporters for sport.
In the past few days we’ve been hearing a lot about how Donald Trump’s rhetoric is apparently to blame for the El Paso shooting, yet Hollywood apparently lacked the foresight to think that a movie promoting violence against “deplorables” might be in bad taste until after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, as only now is Universal rethinking their promotional strategy for the film.
"Did anyone see what our ratf**ker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."
In the aftermath of mass shootings within days of one another that shocked and traumatized the nation, Universal is re-evaluating its strategy for the certain-to-be-controversial satire. The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum's Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals.
Over the Aug. 3 weekend, ESPN pulled an ad for the film that it had previously cleared, while AMC ran the spot during the season premiere of its drama The Preacher. It's unclear whether the ads were identical, but the one yanked by ESPN opened with a sound resembling an emergency broadcast signal. A rep for ESPN parent Disney declined to comment on the move, but an ESPN source says no spots for the film will appear on the network in the coming weeks.
According to THR, the movie “features guns blazing along with other ultra-violent killings as the elites pick off their prey.”
The original title for the film was Red State Vs. Blue State, so the political themes of the movie are clearly important to the plot. THR says that The Hunt “made some executives at Universal skittish back in May 2018, when film chief Donna Langley acquired the script and fast-tracked it at a modest $18 million budget,” but several studios “did not pursue it because of the explosive premise.” One studio executive reportedly didn’t even bother reading the script because "The idea seemed crazy." The movie was produced by Jason Blum, who also produced other well-known horror flicks like The Purge, Paranormal Activity, and Get Out.
The script for The Hunt features the red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, with one bragging about owning seven guns because it's his constitutional right. The blue-state characters — some equally adept with firearms — explain that they picked their targets because they expressed anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter. "War is war," says one character after shoving a stiletto heel through the eye of a denim-clad hillbilly.
Kathy Griffin claims she can’t get work following her photoshoot with a decapitated and bloody Trump head, but don’t let that fool you. Hollywood clearly still likes the idea of promoting violence against people who aren’t good and obedient leftists, because Universal Pictures is set to release a thriller called The Hunt on September 27, which features left-wing “elites” hunting Trump supporters for sport.
In the past few days we’ve been hearing a lot about how Donald Trump’s rhetoric is apparently to blame for the El Paso shooting, yet Hollywood apparently lacked the foresight to think that a movie promoting violence against “deplorables” might be in bad taste until after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, as only now is Universal rethinking their promotional strategy for the film.
"Did anyone see what our ratf**ker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."
In the aftermath of mass shootings within days of one another that shocked and traumatized the nation, Universal is re-evaluating its strategy for the certain-to-be-controversial satire. The violent, R-rated film from producer Jason Blum's Blumhouse follows a dozen MAGA types who wake up in a clearing and realize they are being stalked for sport by elite liberals.
Over the Aug. 3 weekend, ESPN pulled an ad for the film that it had previously cleared, while AMC ran the spot during the season premiere of its drama The Preacher. It's unclear whether the ads were identical, but the one yanked by ESPN opened with a sound resembling an emergency broadcast signal. A rep for ESPN parent Disney declined to comment on the move, but an ESPN source says no spots for the film will appear on the network in the coming weeks.
According to THR, the movie “features guns blazing along with other ultra-violent killings as the elites pick off their prey.”
The original title for the film was Red State Vs. Blue State, so the political themes of the movie are clearly important to the plot. THR says that The Hunt “made some executives at Universal skittish back in May 2018, when film chief Donna Langley acquired the script and fast-tracked it at a modest $18 million budget,” but several studios “did not pursue it because of the explosive premise.” One studio executive reportedly didn’t even bother reading the script because "The idea seemed crazy." The movie was produced by Jason Blum, who also produced other well-known horror flicks like The Purge, Paranormal Activity, and Get Out.
The script for The Hunt features the red-state characters wearing trucker hats and cowboy shirts, with one bragging about owning seven guns because it's his constitutional right. The blue-state characters — some equally adept with firearms — explain that they picked their targets because they expressed anti-choice positions or used the N-word on Twitter. "War is war," says one character after shoving a stiletto heel through the eye of a denim-clad hillbilly.
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Why Americans Will Never Surrender Their Guns -- Important Things You Never Heard Before
Before I get to the meat here I want to make another point.
I am a lifelong conservative Republican. In all the years I have been around other conservative Republicans, I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, NOT A SINGLE TIME met ANYONE who thought that “white supremacy” was a good idea. I have heard CONDEMNATION of white supremacists expressed, I’ve heard anger towards white supremacists, but I have never met or even personally heard of anyone who either subscribed to the notion of white supremacy or thought that it was a good idea.
So I don’t have a clue what the hell Democrats are talking about when they trip over themselves day and night painting this phony picture of Republicans and conservatives as being white supremacists. It’s like they live on some other planet.
It’s a damn shame that the Democrat party has been reduced to this pathetic level of stunts, false narratives and fake accusations. They are wasting who knows how many billions of American taxpayer dollars, and worse years worth of time when they could be focusing on trying to deal with the many REAL problems this country is facing. Instead they fritter it all away with phony witch hunts for racist bogeymen who don’t even exist. SHAME ON THEM!
Here are some things you didn’t know about why Americans will never surrender their guns.
I am a lifelong conservative Republican. In all the years I have been around other conservative Republicans, I have NEVER, NOT ONCE, NOT A SINGLE TIME met ANYONE who thought that “white supremacy” was a good idea. I have heard CONDEMNATION of white supremacists expressed, I’ve heard anger towards white supremacists, but I have never met or even personally heard of anyone who either subscribed to the notion of white supremacy or thought that it was a good idea.
So I don’t have a clue what the hell Democrats are talking about when they trip over themselves day and night painting this phony picture of Republicans and conservatives as being white supremacists. It’s like they live on some other planet.
It’s a damn shame that the Democrat party has been reduced to this pathetic level of stunts, false narratives and fake accusations. They are wasting who knows how many billions of American taxpayer dollars, and worse years worth of time when they could be focusing on trying to deal with the many REAL problems this country is facing. Instead they fritter it all away with phony witch hunts for racist bogeymen who don’t even exist. SHAME ON THEM!
Here are some things you didn’t know about why Americans will never surrender their guns.
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Firearm safety sense.....
...Rigorous personal background investigations, serially performed, and repeated yearly. Biofeature ID's. Weapon biomarker on safety chips. Using national and state/regional IT data, then interview with a local specially trained official. Could be law enforcement and or a mental health clinician, latter at least with relevant master's level training, and several years of practice. Yearly recertifications for these evaluators as well. NO gun show/private sale/on line purchase exceptions to this careful vetting proceedure. ZERO, NONE. Relevant initial/ongoing flags include history of mental health issues with data driven risks toward violence, convictions/jail time for same, and so on. It really isn't rocket science, peebles, won't keep guns out of the hands of responsible legal owners, and will greatly decrease, but never totally eliminate, the issue of mass shootings/gun suicides/family gun deaths. No guns for ueber liberal moonbat TDS Dems, either.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDSY!!!"
(Though She Told Me Not To Do This?)...........(Im Doing It Anyway)..........................Upon Realizing........... That She's Probably Not Going To Be............................ Let On The Blogs Anymore?........Lindsy Is Thinking Of ......................Cancelling Her Membership Here Altogether...................Id Probably Be Thinking The Very Same Thing Also
What Would Be The Sense Of Being Here...................... And Not Allowed Back On The Blogs?
Not Much Sense At All
So For Those........ Who Will Be Jumping With Joy At This News?
Have A Good Time Doing It
But....... There Are Some Of Us Here That Would Rather That She Didnt Go
"And?....At The Same Time?
"Lindsy's Birthday Is Coming Up Shortly"
So?...I Hope She Stays Here And Waits It Out...Maybe They Will Finally Concede And Let Her Back On
"Anyway...If She Does Leave?"...Ill Be The First To Say..."I Wish She Wouldnt Leave Altogether"
So....While Your Still Here?..........."Happy Birthday Lindsy!!!"...(Despite The Circumstances)
(If The Past Is Brought Up?..Ill Be Deleting These Comments)
What Would Be The Sense Of Being Here...................... And Not Allowed Back On The Blogs?
Not Much Sense At All
So For Those........ Who Will Be Jumping With Joy At This News?
Have A Good Time Doing It
But....... There Are Some Of Us Here That Would Rather That She Didnt Go
"And?....At The Same Time?
"Lindsy's Birthday Is Coming Up Shortly"
So?...I Hope She Stays Here And Waits It Out...Maybe They Will Finally Concede And Let Her Back On
"Anyway...If She Does Leave?"...Ill Be The First To Say..."I Wish She Wouldnt Leave Altogether"
So....While Your Still Here?..........."Happy Birthday Lindsy!!!"...(Despite The Circumstances)
(If The Past Is Brought Up?..Ill Be Deleting These Comments)
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