That is almost 1/5 of all Floridians vaccinated. Even if you only have the first dose, you can stand the virus much better than without it.

There are more than double the number of people vaccinated than officially infected with the virus:

All kinds of lovable data available via Florida’s COVID-19: vaccine summary and Florida’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard. But they buck the official narrative of “DeathSantis” so they get maybe a passing mention and possibly only to refer to the false accusation the date may or may have not been tampered once without any evidence presented.

Here is the line up.

The poor missus likes chicken while I can’t even stand to smell the darn thing. But in an effort to keep her happy and now that we have an air fryer, I went looking for runs for chicken and after reading some, the three in the middle were bought and tried.

Kick’n Chicken is a bit hot and she hates that kind of stuff being pepper her upper limit. Not bad tasting. But she was heartily approval of the other two: Roasted garlic and Herbs and Beer Van Chicken. I seasoned one drumstick each and she could not make her mind which she liked best.  They are not expensive at all and easy to find. I got those in Publix.

LawDog’s recommendation of Head Country is also certified by me as great on beef, specially grilling. In fact I took delivery last week of a 26 oz. jar so I don’t run out of the good stuff soon. Not so easy to find locally so I ordered online.

And my well known favorite for anything pork: McCormick’s Grill Mates Brown Sugar Bourbon. It even goes well on a Congress spending bill. Also available at your local big grocery store.

In the background> a pepper grinder and granulated garlic. I am from Spanish stock, (almost) everything can use garlic and don’t fight me on this one because I have not been attacked by vampires ever!

There you have it.  You can have that spectacular meal the Fourth of July while open carrying firearms and dedicating every piss you take to the asshole Dr. Fauci who wants to cancel our most sacred festivity to satiate his ego.

Shot:

Were the mean tweets really that bad? pic.twitter.com/IzzcDEjrbH

— Kevin Sorbo (@ksorbs) March 18, 2021

Chaser:

Watch until the end. Utterly brutal. Completely outclassed.

This is bad, folks.pic.twitter.com/0lW4YYXwqB

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) March 19, 2021

One more:

Joe Biden just fell 3 times in a row trying to go up the stairs to Air Force One pic.twitter.com/gTUTckUH32

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) March 19, 2021

I’ll give credit where it’s due and China isn’t wrong.  When President Dementia can’t manage a flight of stairs, we are not in a position of strength.

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Not bad pictures for a Kodak AZ521 in the hands of an idiot

Atlanta spa shootings spark new push for gun controls

Prominent gun control groups angered by the ease with which the alleged Atlanta spa shooter was able to acquire his weapon are calling on politicians to convert their outrage at the massacre into a renewed push for legislative reforms.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Giffords Law Center, the advocacy group named for the former congresswoman and gun violence survivor Gabrielle Giffords, say the deaths of eight people, including six Asian American women, merely hastens the need for action in Washington DC and at state level.

The alleged murderer, Robert Aaron Long, purchased a 9mm handgun on Tuesday morning, just hours before Tuesday’s deadly rampage through three Atlanta area spas. According to law enforcement sources, and the gun shop owner, the transaction breached no federal gun laws or procedures.

“Hate exists everywhere in the world and America’s unfettered access to weapons makes that hate lethal. It is tragic that it took the highly public murder of eight people to prompt that conversation, again,” Brady’s president, Kris Brown, told the Guardian.

“The attack in Atlanta is a horrifying display of how racism, misogyny and white supremacy, when combined with firearms, are lethal. Whether it’s waiting periods for firearms purchases, expanded and strengthened background checks, or resources for mental health and community violence intervention, it is clear that this attack has catalyzed the discussion around what measures we need to take to stop gun violence.”

The news from the police is that this was not a racially motivated hate crim but the shooter was a sex addict that shot women at “full service” massage parlors to end the temptation.  Yes, horrible and sick, but not a racist hate crime.

Numerous politicians at national and state level condemned the shooting, with several expressing concern that Long, 21, was able to walk into Big Woods Goods gun shop and range in Canton on the day of his killing spree, pass a rudimentary background check, and walk straight out with the weapon in his pocket.

He passed a 4473 NICS check.

He had previously spent six months at a rehabilitation facility in Roswell, Georgia, beginning in 2019, seeking treatment for sex addiction, according to a roommate at the Maxwell Recovery Center, and attended weekly therapy sessions thereafter.

This only matters if he was adjudicated mentally ill.  If he volunteered for rehab and therapy than it’s  not illegal for him to buy a gun nor would that show up on a background check.

Moreover it shouldn’t.  Most addicts are not violent and we don’t want people who are facing addiction or other issues to worry that seeking help with lose them their gun rights.  We want to encourage people who need help to get it, and that means when people seek help they shouldn’t be punished for it.

Igor Volsky, executive director of the advocacy group Guns Down America, pointed to the state’s no-wait law as a significant factor in the shootings. “I would really encourage Georgia and other states to look at what happened here and think about what they could do in order to reduce or prevent such incidents from happening again,” he told Newsweek.

Mike Wilensky, an attorney and Democratic party representative in Georgia’s state house, concurred.

“Waiting periods create an important ‘cooling off’ period that can help prevent impulsive acts of gun violence, including gun homicides and suicides,” he said in one of a series of tweets calling for new restrictions.

Is there any evidence that cooling off periods work or this person would have not shot eight people if he has been forced to wait 72 hours for his gun?

“We need to have a law in Georgia that after you apply for a gun there is a waiting period. I have never heard of someone in a rush to get a gun for a safe, good reason.”

That’s bullshit.  There are many more legitimate reasons to need a gun now than not need a gun now.  Ask anyone who has been threatened.

This is pure blood dancing.

How many recovering alcoholics shoot bartenders to avoid the temptation of drinking?  This seems extremely rare.

I not sure what else within reason could have stopped this?

The guy had no real red flags that I’ve seen reported on that he was a potential mass murderer.

But that doesn’t matter, the point is to eliminate your rights.

Every drop of blood that falls is one for them to splash around in and they are doing that with alacrity.

As usual, you get to find that your vision of historical events is restricted to whatever authors of history books decide should be taught. Unfortunately, that leaves a wide gap which lacks details that may or may not have influenced other historic events.

Prohibition is one of those historical events. The term “Dry Agent” was applied to those in Law Enforcement assigned to enforce Prohibition, the Dry Law of the land. It is embedded in the American consciousness the legend of Elliot Ness and The Untouchables facing against a well heeded and armed Al Capone and his minions. The stuff of heroes them Agents of days past.

And then you start finding out that dry agents were not as heroic and righteous as the legend goes.

There are more cases of raids gone badly out of control as in shooting for the hell of it and people getting killed unnecessarily.

And, of course knowing the people back then, a response was given.

A lot of these agent kills were not coming from the Armani wearing Mobs you see in the well known The Untouchables movie but for common American citizens who were trading in corn liquor at county level and were being abusively targeted by Dry Agents.  It became open season on Dry Agents and I have to wonder how much of that killing made Washington say “You know? So many bodies dropped and all the crap surrounding Prohibition is simply not worth the effort.”

One of many nails in that coffin.

PS: And yes, I cannot but think some traits of present agencies do come from that checkered past.

As seen over Clayton Cramer’s

Longtime oppression and historical barriers have kept many people of color from feeling comfortable in the American outdoors. Now that may be changing. Groups in Southern California and around the nation have made it their goal to introduce people of color to nature in a positive way. Their mission is to remove barriers and help people experience the connection, whether they are seeking fitness, healing, personal accomplishment or knowledge about all the outdoors has to offer. For many, the first step is going on a hike. Here are groups working toward a more diverse outdoors.

Latino Outdoors: Christian La Mont, program manager of Latino Outdoors, a national organization with a Los Angeles chapter, calls the process of removing barriers “the hike before the hike.” The idea is that people of color see themselves represented on the trail.

Hiking has a diversity problem. These BIPOC groups are working to fix it

I had to laugh when I read this, specially the “historical barriers” part. Latinos by far avoid “hitting the trail” and “hiking” because for many it represents the abject poverty of people living in places so crappy or remote, they cannot move around unless it is in a path carved by centuries of foot traffic.  In the Colombia-Venezuela frontier, the “trochas” (trails) are the domain of the human and drug smugglers and you transit those at the risk of your own life because usually there will be bullets flying from both sides of the law.

And then there is the question of the government-owned parks as opposed to the idea here of National Parks. Again, it is government-owned parks and governments, specially in South America do not like you to go traipsing around their property without the proper permits which are hard to obtain. I was an avid backpacker in my early 20s and I enjoyed to walk the spur of the Andes that ended in Venezuela, but I had to get a permit, report myself with the National Guard before hiking  and obligated to stay to certain areas under penalty of arrest if I deviated. And the permit could only be obtained at one office in Caracas in person for the whole country,  so you can imagine how many were issued. Hell, I surprised more cops and National Guard with the fact that I actually had a permit and they saw me suspiciously as some sort of high government official undercover. And yes, I fully took advantage of that.

The National Park system as you find here in the US is something we are surprised and amazed to see because it simply does not exists where we come from.  And yes, Latinos would do great by hiking the many available paths at our disposal so we can get rid of the extra calories brought by out cuisine. But to hide a cultural trait behind a fake cloak of racism is political dishonesty (OK, I know it is redundant, let it be), I would bet this guy call himself Latinx rather than Latino.