I hadn’t even look what other states (besides Florida) have reciprocity agreements with Tennessee, so I checked and seemed like a similar list but some differences still exist. Nevada accepts  Enhanced/Lifetime Tennessee permits but not Florida’s. And Illinois accepts TN’s but in cars only (?) and nothing for FL which with idiot Fried in charge of Permits, we are not seeing any more advances in this area.

I’ll update when the card arrives.

(PS: Always check the latest information on reciprocity and do not trust the links above are the latest and freshest if you are reading this months after this post was published. )

https://twitter.com/FirearmsRetro/status/1439033175028682753

These girls are absolutely positive that they know to fix an air conditioner in a car and that these guys are just creepy, mansplaining, misogynists.

For centuries, people were terrified of the mentally ill.

The history of asylums and how the mentally ill were abused is one of the great shames of civilization.

Only in the last few decades has the study and treatment of mental illness caught up with other areas of medicine and the mentally ill can get effective treatment and be treated with dignity by the medical establishment.

That changed in the last few years.

Now, the mentally ill abuse the rest of us.

I mean that sincerely.

Miguel posted this video already:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1439482349557669890

Then there is this one:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1439486441625559041

And who can forget this gem:

This is not normal human behavior.

This is a neurosis.  These people are driven by fear and paranoia to react in absolutely unreasonable ways.

Then there is the mental illness of the new LGBTAI+ internet community.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1436423360825679872

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1436452883080388636

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1437135421171978244

I love Silence of the Lambs.  Both the book and the movie.

In Silence of the Lambs, the main antagonist, Buffalo Bill, believes himself to be transsexual or transgender.  He’s not.  He’s filled with nothing but self-loathing and misery and thinks that if he changes gender, that will fix him.

It won’t, and the proof of that is that he’s a serial killer who wants to make himself a woman suit out of actual women.

I feel like Thomas Harris was a prophet for what we are seeing today.

These people are not actually trans anything.  They have a lot of unresolved emotional problems and are full of self-loathing, and by glomming on to the LGBTAI+ gender identity trend, believe that they can create a new and more interesting personality for themselves.

Have you ever wondered why so many of them have garish tattoos and piercings, wear clown makeup, and have bizarre hair colors?  This is why.  They are trying to create a new persona, and this is how it manifests before they go all bespoke pronouns trans.

And like Buffalo Bill, they are utterly destructive.  They don’t murder women and skin them, they murder people’s livelihoods with internet canceling.

The most amazing video I’ve seen recently from this Twitter user is this one:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1437504263731699715

This girl realizes that something is wrong with her and is on the verge of realizing she needs to do something about it.

I know we like to joke “Liberalism is a mental illness,” but clearly each and every one of these people have something emotionally wrong with them.

I sincerely hope this last girl gets help and is able to overcome her paranoia and live a happy, healthy life as a fully functional member of society, not being crushed down by her own internal demons.

But the problem with society is that the people like those above are the ones who are setting the social norms.

There is power in catering to the most COVID paranoid.  The old, fat, vaccinated teacher in a mask and face shield who demands toddlers be masked so that she doesn’t catch COVID should be told to get the fuck out of the school system and retire on disability.  Instead, she is made a hero.

When a morbidly obese person, living in squalor with no job, with dozens of face piercings, and an aposematic hair color, not being a productive member of society, demands that you call them by some gender-neutral neologism they just made up, starts making demands about society should behave to conform to people like them, politicians and corporate America should “no, you sick fuck, fix your own shit first.”

Unfortunately, that’s not how it works.

Modern politics and corporate America cater to these individuals and their neuroses and normal, healthy people suffer accordingly.

Miguel beat me to the punch with his post documenting child abuse, forcing a toddler to wear a mask.

My son has gotten in trouble at school for letting his mask slip below his nose.  He’s seven.

I’ve read all the studies and here is what the latest data says.

When testing with dummies, i.e., they put a mask on a dummy and aerosolize virus sized particles around the dummy’s face and measure how many particles the masked dummy inhales vs an unmasked control dummy, what they have found is that a cloth mask reduced the particle count by 1%.  Disposable fabric masks, e.g., the dental hygenist mask or nail salon worker mask that you buy in a 10 pack for a few bucks, reduce the particle count by 10%.  The best of the best KN-95 masks reduce the particle count by a whopping 65%.

So when some fuck-ass bureaucrat says “a cloth mask is better than no mask and therefore you should wear one,’ what he is actually saying is “on a dummy, under perfect mask fitting conditions, the dummy will only inhale 99% of the number of virus sized particles that it would have if it were unmasked.”

When studying mask mandates, what is crystal clear is that in every city, state, and country where mask mandates have had zero effect in reducing COVID transmission because take the 1% particle reduction of cloth masks, and then add to it all the error that comes from human beings moving and talking and not fitting masks correctly, etc.

I said all the way at the beginning of this shit over a year ago that mask mandates were going to prove worthless.  I have spent too much time in respirator training for working in industrial environments where we have substances in the air like hydrogen sulfide, lead, or carcinogenic dust, and have been through all the testing and fitting, and warnings you can get sent home without pay if you don’t have a clean shave every day to know that just telling people with no training to just put something over their face will have any chance in reducing airborne transmission.

The point being, mask mandates, like the masks themselves – except very specific masks, under very specific circumstances, worn by very specific people – are absolutely worthless.

That said, it is time that governors start inforcing anti-mask laws again.

Every COVID mask should be treated like a Klan hood.

Honestly, they are tantamount.  It’s just a symbol that the wearer is a Democrat who wants you to be stripped of your civil liberties, segregated far away from them, and quite possibly killed.

The onus should be on people who want to wear useless masks to get a doctor’s note for permission to wear one in public.

Without a doctor’s note, mask wearers are arrested on sight.

Music from Bosch on Amazon Music Unlimited

Thanks to the series, I had added to my streaming list several of the songs played in the series and mostly in the Jazz category which I am new to.  This collection helped me find more songs that I did not know I needed to hear and add to my list.

I am definitely an Art Pepper fan now.  Miles? Not so much.

Special mention to Mazzy Star’s Into Dust.  That is a great voice.

And yes, I asked and the missus gave me “The Look.”

I’ll have to stick with the glow-in-the-dark bloody skeleton suspended in the tree.