I got smacked with this headline:

Pfizer Issues Recall of Chantix After Finding High Levels of Carcinogens | PEOPLE.com

Holy crap! People who took the drug to quit smoking and not get cancer are gonna get it anyway!! ZOMG!

Not so fast, Francis.

Pfizer is recalling batches of its anti-smoking medication Chantix after an increased level of impurities that can cause cancer were found in the drug.
Included in the nationwide recall are two lots of Chantix 0.5mg Tablets, two lots of Chantix 1 mg Tablets, and eight lots of a Chantix kit of 0.5mg/1 mg Tablets, the drug manufacturer announced on Friday.

So a total of ten lots of recently-produced medication have been recalled, but you do not get to find out unless you bother to not just read the headline but actually go in deep in the article. Some proud  journo and/or editor doing his duty to drive clicks to the failing website, crafts a alarming headline without giving a scrap if smokers who want to quit and may benefit from Chantix will now reject the idea to go into treatment.

I did Chantix and come November, I’ll be 5 years free of the clutches of nicotine after 30 years of addiction. I am not saying it will work for you because my best friend tried it and failed to kick the habit. But to sabotage somebody’s the possibility of quitting by scaring him into staying away from the medication just for shits and page clicks?  They deserve to have an enema radioactive waste every day for six months.

ANTIOCH, Tenn. (WKRN) — One man was injured in an apparent road rage shooting on Bell Road at Cane Ridge Road that happened Thursday afternoon around 3:45 p.m.

According to Nashville Fire Department, MNPD was on scene with the patient who said he had brake checked someone driving behind him, and that person pulled alongside their vehicle and began shooting.

Man injured in apparent road rage shooting in Antioch | WKRN News 2

This is what happens when two set of idiots occupy the same general area and interact with each other.  There are people who cannot stand to ignore a stupid ego challenge and there are plenty of idiots who are willing to provide them. It is always a bad combination.

So, once again, here are the basic concepts we all should follow: Avoidance, Deterrence, and De-Escalation.:

Your number one philosophy for personal security should be a life long commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.

Avoidance: The act of avoiding or keeping away from (Three Stupid Rule.) If you can safely retreat from the encounter, by all means do so. For instance, if you are out for a walk and feel threatened or intimidated by an occupant of a car, you should retreat in the opposite direction that the car is traveling.

Deterrence: The act of discouraging someone from taking hostile action against you by being aware of them and their possible intent.

De-escalation: The act of decreasing in intensity. To not let your ego or emotions get the best of you, to refrain from escalating the problem into more than it already is. As a CCW you may need to back down from non-life threatening, argumentative encounters in order to not allow things to spiral out of control.
When these things do not work, then and only then may you need to show or use the gun. Just because we are carrying does not mean that we need to use the gun. You want to do whatever is reasonably possible to avoid using the gun. But when your well researched, well thought out “line in the sand” has been crossed you need to act without hesitation.

The “Three Stupid” Rule

“Do not go to stupid places, with stupid people, and do stupid things”

We all know that nobody wants thugs to dictate where they can or cannot go. Put there are simply some places, people, and things that you should avoid if you want to lower your risks. You can cut down on your risks by a good 95% if you just follow the three stupid rule.

Roger Phillips Owner of Fight Focused Concepts, formerly know as Sweatnbullets

You cannot be part of a Health Kabuki Theater to scare & threat civilians into compliance and then say you are not taking part in the same dance number. You will not only be chastised by the People you were part on scaring, but also properly reamed by the machine you helped feed because you are screwing with the directive of Power Acquisition and Retention.

You thought you were special, you thought you get special exceptions and suddenly you are collecting unemployment and looking online for classes on how to code.

Or, with all that practice, maybe try for pole dancing and work for tips. Do demand the customers use mask and gloves while shoving dollar bills up your… garter.

In this exchange during the oral arguments from Wrenn v DC, the district argued that “there might be a right to defend yourself from attack the first time” in the home or countryside.

Judge Griffith: “But not the city? That’s absurd.”https://t.co/y5lhotdBKo pic.twitter.com/mgwRnXQxm4

— Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) April 30, 2020

 

And here is what I found: Wrenn v. District of Columbia, No. 16-7025 (D.C. Cir. 2017)

 This is going to be an interesting case if it gets to be heard by SCOTUS

Our things arrived earlier today and we have to unload all the boxes into the garage so they come take this thing away and not charge us for an extra month of rental.

I will have to pat myself on the back for deciding that a fully detail inventory of each box was a must, even if the extremely detailed missus thought it was overkill. We have been living out of a couple of suitcases and boxes for a week and she was in need of a few packed things which were located fast by just checking the list and finding the appropriate box.

I’ll be unloading and segregating boxes all day tomorrow so blogging might might be scarce. I still owe you guys a write up about a meeting I had with local folks and visitors, but I am waiting for a couple of things, mostly to show off. However I did some shooting with the sweetest silenced lever action .22LR you could ever imagine, courtesy of the host. I could not but think about the line in that movie “Welcome to Tennessee, patron state of shootin’ stuff.”

PS: Newspapers here are as bad and lefty as down in Miami and 90 miles past that. I am going to give myself 6 months before I cut them off because I need to know the players, but I believe the news game is as rigged as anywhere else.

PS: I think the house will be officially sold next week.  Wish us luck.

HOUSTON — As the state reels from increased hospitalizations being driven by the rampant delta variant, a major Texas hospital system has confirmed its first case of the emergent COVID-19 lambda variant.

Houston Methodist Hospital, whose network includes eight hospitals, confirmed the case Monday involving what the World Health Organization has deemed a “variant of interest,” ABC News reported.

Coronavirus: Texas hospital system confirms its 1st case of COVID-19 lambda variant – WFTV

It is now officially annoying and pissing me off. They do not care about health or the vaccination but the constant injection of fear and “trust the Feds and its allies” with a dose of “eliminate the heathens that do not heed us.”

Coming soon: Covid 22: Electric Boogaloo.

Hat Tip Manny L.

Another “new” experience: Smoke from the fires out West combining with the local fog and making for an eerie morning.

Fog is kind of weird in South Florida and when it happens, it dissipates rather fast between the wind and the sun burning through it. And when the Everglades catch on fire, we will have smoke, it once again the breeze will take care of it rather fast. When I was living here in the 80’s I got caught in heavy fog at night driving outside Knoxville and scared the crap out of me since I could not see past the effing hood of the truck. I pulled over, got out, walked away as far as I could and waited till it lifted. Zero visual references (like visible road) is simply too much of a challenge for me behind the wheel.

And according to the NWS, we are going to be dealing with this crap all day.  Good thing I am expecting my moving container today (was supposed to be here yesterday) so I have no need to go out.

I know, I am a wuss.