… or, Waiting For The Storm. Which title plays better?

I’m thinking I should have gone with the storm. We are waiting for the rains here in the Phoenix area (Flagstaff area got hit hard last week, and they are still cleaning up. flash floods are pretty rough!) and we are also waiting for tomorrow, July 29. That marks sixty days after the legislative session ended, and a boatload of bills takes affect. The two big ones are SB1070 and the Concealed Carry bill.

SB1070 gets plenty of play every where, let’s not dwell on that one.

Concealed Carry – now, there’s a polite society waiting to happen. This bill makes it legal for any legally owned firearm to be carried concealed within the state of Arizona without a CCW license. So – that little old lady you just helped across the street? Yeah – she’s got your back in a firefight. Soccer Moms and carpool pilots alike can pack the heat – and nobody can tell who’s carrying what. Talk about speaking softly! I predict a whole lot less road rage, more consideration for the other guy, and I am certainly going to increase my personal “don’t tick off the women” ratio. Think about it – concealed weapon, a certain uptick in hormones, and one wrong word – I shudder.

Yep, gonna be a lot more civil in the Grand Canyon State now.

No wonder liberals hate us.

Chat ya later…

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Getting arrested by not following the law is not the way to get your point across about being “law abiding members of society” – just saying.

All photos visible at azcentral.com.

Photo by Nick Oza

Photo by Nick Oza

Photo by Nick Oza

Photo by Nick Oza

Photo by Pat Shannahan

I don’t know how long the link to the location of the original photos will last; it is on AzCentral’s web site, and they have a habit of taking down info or changing URLs after a while.

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I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Who would have thought that a rubber, inflatable dam in the middle of the desert would eventually fail? Catastrophically?

When the dam was installed over ten years ago, I remember thinking to myself “What kind of idiot would use a rubber tube in the desert to hold back water?” Then I remembered it was a government project. Common sense ain’t so common, is it?

The river filled as far as the eye could see within seconds, witnesses reported.

Warning sirens started wailing within minutes, and officers rushed along the riverbed to try to warn anyone of the approaching flood.

When seconds count, official response is only minutes away!

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Separated at birth … or possibly modeled after the VP? You decide!

Tip of the funny bone to Ol Broad.

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Well, I thought I could get the doors installed yesterday. As it turns out, scheduling conflicts appeared and with the home owners being away from their home until it was time for us to go see our babysitter’s brand new bouncing baby boy ( 9 lbs, 14 ounces and 21 1/2″ long) the screen doors are still sitting in my garage.

And will be until the home owners get back from their trip, sometime in August.

That means I can pretty much count on starting the next project while trying to keep the doors from getting damamged in any way. We’ll see how that works out.

Chat ya later…

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