We were talking about knives in Facebook and a couple of us mentioned we carry two of them. I was asked why and after I was done, i realized I could use the exchange as a blog post and maybe it could help somebody make a decision about carrying blades.

My “social carry” blades. depending one how I feel or where I wear, I carry one of these most of the times when I go out:

And my utility blade:

These were my explanations during the chat:

Most people, the moment they see the little cross in the red shield denoting a Swiss Army Knife, they just think Boy Scouts or camping and don’t worry much. Mind you, this is a respectable main blade that is one-hand opening locks just like your tactical knife, but there is no association with danger-ZOMG-Assassin-Blade! for normal people.

The other knives look menacing which in my personal experience have come handy to change the mind of critters thinking I was a victim. Whatever I am carrying does not come out unless I am back home and has to be put away or I need it to modify somebody’s aggressive behavior.

And, of course, those do not include blades I have all over the house and inside the truck. There be blades everywhere because sometimes they are easier to reach or you dumb plumb forgot to have one with you.

I almost forgot the official House Carry:

When you carry a blade, you are a useful individual. How many times a day do you find yourself trying to remove/open/trim/reduce/etc something and you can’t because simply you do not have the proper tool AKA a blade?

And if you carry at least one, how many times daily do we see people struggling with something and we say to ourselves “How come this person does not have a simple knife or even a box cutter?”

And probably was told to “stops acting out” when throwing a temper tantrum in the supermarket because mommy did not want to buy her favorite candy bar of sugary cereal. And I just know mommy gave up every single time.

Live look at the libs in DC at the Anti-Vax Mandate protest on the National Mall.

We will never stop invading “your” territory. pic.twitter.com/RTUXeVV4ow

— Vish Burra (@VishBurra) January 23, 2022

Palm Beach therapist sees increase in children’s speech delays during COVID-19

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say putting a face mask on your child is a critical tool in slowing the spread of COVID-19, however, some in the health community are now sounding an alarm.

Therapists say they are seeing children with speech delays.

“This has been a very challenging year,” said Jaclyn Theek, a clinic director and speech-language pathologist at the Speech and Learning Institute in North Palm Beach.

She said that during this pandemic, her speech therapy clinic has seen an enormous shift in the ages of its patients. Before the pandemic, only 5% of patients were babies and toddlers, while today it’s soared to 20%. Many parents call it “COVID-delayed.”

“We’ve seen a 364% patient increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers from pediatricians and parents,” Theek said.

When asked if they are children having a difficult time speaking, Theek said they are “speech-delayed.”

Babies start learning how to speak by reading lips at as young as 8-months-old. So when lips and faces are covered up by masks, therapists say for some kids, they can work around the mask and still learn to speak perfectly fine. But for others, it can cause speech delays.

To compound this problem, some places are requiring speech therapists to be masked while doing speech therapy, which makes it effectively useless.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1484651659263287297

This hits very close to home for me.

My son is very smart.  He’s 7 years old and in the second grade.  He’s doing 4th grade math (multiplication, division, and fractions) and has read the first three Harry Potter books (6th grade level).

Early on, he was tested for special education because he had a language issue.  He had an inner ear problem and was speech delayed.  A minor surgery and speech therapy later, he’s doing advanced work.

Speech delays and communication problems can be confused for slow learning and intelligence deficiencies.

All of this brought about by mask mandates which turned out to be totally useless.

We let a bunch of septuagenarian and octogenarian politicians create a cult of fear around Covid that had destroyed every level of child development.

This shit makes my blood boil.

Ever story like this makes me want to put every Covidian to the wall for what they did to children.

Last night, a shot from an illegal gun took the life of a @NYPDnews officer.

When I say we’re going to do everything we can to stop the scourge of illegal guns in our state, it’s not just talk. We are tripling funding for efforts to get these guns off the streets. pic.twitter.com/zXv0xbL4Em

— Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) January 22, 2022

Really? We have not only smart guns but sentient ones that go in search of police officers and kills them without human intervention. Are they going to hire the NY equivalent of Blade Runners?

Or maybe idiots like Hochul should stop saying stupid stuff and acknowledge that they do not have the fortitude to go after criminals and tell people they are on their own.

PS: She has to quit the Botox. There was something wrong about her (besides being a Liberal) and somebody pointed out her eyebrows never move.

If the omicron variant continues to spread across Tennessee, hospitals may soon turn to a strategy that once felt unthinkable: Letting infected employees stay on the job. Hospitals across the state could ask doctors and nurses who are infected with coronavirus but still well enough to keep working to continue to treat patients.

To be clear, this strategy is a desperate one. It has been recommended as a “last resort” by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and recently employed by some embattled hospitals in California and Rhode Island.

In Tennessee, where hospital staff are in short supply, multiple hospitals have considered allowing infected but asymptomatic employees to keep working, said Andrea Turner, a spokesperson for the Tennessee Hospital Association.

This week in COVID-19: Hospitals may let infected employees keep working (tennessean.com)

In the search for the perfect COVID purity, the health systems went stupid to the point of almost uselessness. The problem is people are still getting sick from the regular stuff, but there is nobody to take up the slack because they were sent away. “Infected but asymptomatic” simply means they caught the bug and belong to the almost 99% of those who either are immune to the bug or their bodies took care of it. They are in other words, healthy individuals capable of doing work and take care of others, but in the search of the COVID purity (part and parcel of the COVID theater of Horror), were set aside as impure, but now are desperately needed.

I hope when this shit ends, the lesson learned is how fucked up the approach to fighting a sickness was done and how to never do it again. And I firmly believe that the final count of those who dies from other infirmities but could not be treated or prevented, will be tenfold the number of those who died from the Chink Flu.

And that head should roll high and far for it. And that is not a figure of speech.

'It looked like a Third World country': California Governor Gavin Newsom visited railway tracks in east Los Angeles littered with thousands of open and damaged packages looted from freight trains pic.twitter.com/8dR8qU4S1X

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 21, 2022

The far Left Democrat Governor of California, a state with a super-majority far Left Democrat legislature, and filled with far Left Democrat prosecutors, wants to know why gangs of organized criminals are robbing trains and making California look like many other “third world countries” run by Leftists/Socialists, e.g., Cuba, Venezuela, etc.

Clearly it’s not his fault.  He was only the Lieutenant Governor in 2014 when California passed Propositions 47.

He’s going to get to the bottom of this, which means finding a Republican to scapegoat and publicly sacrifice.

Yesterday I published a post I don’t think this Dem Oklahoma State Rep gets it so I made some meme to explain it to him.

In it I included this meme:

The responses to his Tweet were almost universally the same.

Today we have a follow-up.

Let me get this out of the way: obviously I’m not moving forward with this bill as written. I’m glad many of you understood the idea but it clearly needs work. So to actual constituents of mine like @realmartypeercy who requested that I go back to the drawing board, I hear you.

— Forrest Bennett (@ForrestBennett) January 22, 2022

I’ll own this: I should’ve been more thoughtful & thorough in crafting this bill in the first place. It’s clear there are many unintended consequences, both from the language & design. I appreciate folks like @CrownAndJoke & @kendallybrown, among others, for pointing them out.

— Forrest Bennett (@ForrestBennett) January 22, 2022

I understand how the language in my message and bill both hurt the cause instead of helping it, and I apologize for not being more thoughtful. Thanks again to everyone who genuinely engaged with me in an effort to make better policy.

— Forrest Bennett (@ForrestBennett) January 22, 2022

Here is the takeaway:

The Left has absolutely no idea what Conservatives actually believe and instead believe Conservatives are the bullshit strawmen they make them out to be.  The Left then projects the worst aspect of their side onto the Conservatives.  They do this because the Leftist bubble is so thick and their echo chamber is so loud that reality rarely penetrates it.

In this case the Left’s mantra is that the Right wants to ban abortion because the Right hates women and wants to control them.

This bill also assumes that Conservative men are like Leftist men when it comes to sexual morals, i.e., easy sex and hookup culture.

This bill was supposed to scare Conservatives, i.e., “you’ll be financially responsible for the women you knock up when you sleep around.”

If he actually knew any Conservatives he’d know that Conservatives are anti-hookup culture and pro-marriage.  That isn’t a talking point, that’s real.

But he doesn’t actually know any Conservatives or understand what we think so made up a bill that attacked his strawman idea of Conservatives, and when we reacted with completely support if his bill, he had to pull it before it was passed overwhelmingly by the Oklahoma House.

This is a microcosm of politics in America.

If you want to understand why there is no more compromise and why I say we need a national divorce, it’s because their side doesn’t operate in reality but an echo chamber filled with Conservative strawmen.