Nearly 200 people responded as Nashville officials led a weekend “safe surrender” event at a church for people who had warrants or wanted to check their status.

The two-day event was designed for people with outstanding warrants to show up to a local church and turn themselves in to receive “favorable consideration.”

A total of 193 people came to the church, 67 of whom had warrants, the Metro Nashville Police Department said in a tweet. Charges included 65 misdemeanors and 23 felonies. Out of the 67 people with warrants, 60 were free to go after seeing a judge, police said.

Nashville Safe Surrender event has response from nearly 200 people (tennessean.com)

This is an interesting idea. There is an ungodly amount of outstanding warrants out there and the idea is to see if they can clear the logjam by doing these events in which people can show up and check if they have warrants. If they do, a judge tries to figure out a solution agreeable to all, especially since so many are for dumb misdemeanors. How many people get in trouble for a simple failure to appear? I like this.

Obviously, some crimes are heavy enough they need to be duly processed. If you have a felony warrant for a violent crime, you should not expect just to show up and be forgiven. But guess what? Some idiots demand that to happen.

Community leaders from Nashville’s Interdenominational Ministers Fellowship and several criminal justice organizations voiced hesitancy over the program, calling for more clarification on the meaning of favorable consideration.

Some suggested on-the-spot expungements or suspension of fines and fees for those who showed up, while others questioned why there were so many outstanding warrants in the first place.

Dear Lord! What is wrong with you people? Automatic pardons just for showing up regardless of the crime? And these are supposed to be Christian ministers, people that should have a passing knowledge of sins, punishment, acts of contrition and redemption. God loves everybody, but still will send your ass to Hell if you were an unrepentant asshole in this mortal coil. But yeah, you guys know better than God.

They are that twisted.

Excited to join @CNN team to continue being part of the discussion on law enforcement and criminal justice. #RelationalPolicing pic.twitter.com/BNsnRSDepF

— Chief Art Acevedo (@ArtAcevedo) December 15, 2021

Fuck me…

This guy got fired unanimously from Miami after only six months.

He went to Miami because his political ambitions in Houston went to shit.

Now he has a six-figure job at CNN, joining the exalted ranks of a Zoom masturbater, child rapist, and fraternal sexual abuser.

My only hope is that he too turns out to be a pervert and gets axed.

What a shit show.

From Inside the Magic:

But in the production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast currently running at the Olney Theatre Center in Maryland, Belle is played by Jade Jones, a self-described queer, plus-sized Black woman.” MSNBC recently posted a story having picked up on the viral sensation in Olney, Maryland, and it’s been making humongous waves.

The Wokies may squee over this but the normies have no interest in a fat lesbian Belle.

But when it flops we’ll be called racist, homophobic, and fatphobic.

Go woke go broke but Disney doesn’t seem to care.

To follow @HotlineJosh point:

Unless the US moves to vastly stricter vaccine mandates – which I would favor, but which is plainly not going to happen – the US will stall at present vaccination levels. 1/x

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 12, 2021

So the practical political choice is: keep schools and businesses on the present hobbled footing indefinitely – or return fully to normally as boosters become available to all, accepting the inherent risks of “normal” in a 30% unvaxxed society? 2/x

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 12, 2021

You want to fulminate against the dumb-ass malignity of the anti-vaxxers and their (quietly personally vaxxed) media and political enablers? Go ahead, I do it myself almost every day right here in this space. 3/x

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 12, 2021

But the malignant minority is not yielding to reason any time soon. And even such seemingly basic mandates as “no jab, no fly” seem beyond the enforcement capability of the US federal government. So what now? 4/x

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 12, 2021

If, at this point, you are still unvaccinated, you are not a victim. You are a cause of the victimization of vulnerable others

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 12, 2021

Seems the best option is

1) Keep encouraging vaccines and boosters;

2) Impose vaccine mandates where it can be done;

3) Otherwise return to normal as fully as we can, especially the schools; and

4) Let hospitals quietly triage emergency care to serve the unvaccinated last

— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 12, 2021

The vaccine neither prevents transmission or infection.  What it seems to do is minimize the symptoms and reduce lethality.

Making it tantamount to a flu shot.  You still get the flu with a flu shot but it’s not as severe.

But thats not the point.

The point is a “malignant minority” who refuses to obey the elites’ demand for compliance are the problem and the final solution to that is to deny them medical care and let them die.

I got vaccinated early on before it really turned into the shit show it is now.  I had a bad reaction, I got laid out for two days.  It hurt as much as when I got COVID the first time.  I’m not getting the booster and I’m not vaccinating my 8-year-old because of the reaction I had.

I’m fine with personal choice on this.

The dehumanizing of those who don’t want it and the advocacy for their death is crossing a Rubicon.

These people are getting danger close to violent pushback.

First they came for the unvaccinated and I slotted them all because when they decided the unvaccinated includes those who refuse boosters they will come for me.

My first long gun was a Mossberg 835 bought new at a Miami gun show back when you could still find good deals in those events. It was the gun that was at the ready when 9/11 happened alongside my Taurus PT92.

I updated my 835 with a 24″ deer barrel with rifle sights, a Tru-Glo red dot and that was it. Why 24″? Because the only other barrel length for the 835 is 28″ except some weird cammo thing at 20″.  As shotgun goes, it is too long for regular social work and I decided to cut down the barrel that came with it to shortest legal size AKA 18.5″ (yes, i know. I am giving that extra half for the Three Letter People that might be reading don’t get ideas)

Why cut? A couple of reasons: I contacted Mossberg several times about what legal short barrel for the 835 was available (there was a rumor of an 18.5 for sale if you asked them by phone) but I never got shit back from them. I also heard that the barrel for the 590 would work in the 835, but I know better than trusting Gun Forum Gurus.

And possibly the sexiest reason to cut the original barrel is the chambering:

It comes chambered for 2 3/4, 3 and 3.5 inches. Having the possibility of feeding your shotgun almost anything available in the market in 12 gauge is just too sexy to pass.

And since I am going to lose the front bead, I found that TruGlo makes a set of sights designed to be attached to the rib. I will probably keep the red dot, but I want the ability to have regular sights as back up.

Advice and suggestions welcomed, of course.  The idea of having 18 doses of double ought buck “unwelcome” a home invader from a manageable shotgun is somewhat reassuring.

I know, it is gonna leave a mark and feel it in the morning.

Desperate victims of Mayfield tornado burn the wreckage of their own home to stay warm as temperatures drop below freezing ahead of Biden’s visit: 12 children are among the 74 confirmed dead from storms

The victims of last week’s Mayfield tornadoes, which killed at least 74 across Kentucky, have been left without heat, water or electricity as they burn what’s left of their homes to stay warm in frigid temperatures.

State authorities said the level of destruction was hindering their ability to tally the total damage of Friday’s storms that raged across five states and worried about people’s ability to fend off the freezing cold as President Joe Biden heads to Mayfield on Wednesday to survey the ruin.

‘Our infrastructure is so damaged. We have no running water,’ Mayfield Mayor Kathy Stewart O’Nan told CBS Mornings.

‘Our wastewater management was lost, and there’s no natural gas to the city. So we have nothing to rely on there. So that is purely survival at this point for so many of our people.’

People are freezing, starving, and burning the wreckage of their homes for heat.

What does Biden care about?

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1470943672703328268

https://twitter.com/SlayerWolf11/status/1470457851684573197

He’s pushing the BBB as a bill that could prevent tornadoes and force COVID boosters on freezing people who had everything they own blown away.

This is malicious.

The “grief whisperer” and “most empathetic” President ever is a scumbag who has no interest in helping people, just taking advantage of them and using them as props for his BBB.

Maybe the town could collect enough cash to buy a Hunter Biden painting for the town hall then Pedo Joe might actually muster up a shit to give about poor people in rural Kentucky.

Every single one member of this Administration can go fuck themselves with a tornado downed power line.