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.

Earlier this year, the gun control group Everytown launched a new program to train its volunteers to run for office. More than 100 people are participating in Demand A Seat this year.

Among them is Mia Livas Porter, who is running for a California Assembly seat, and whose brother, Junior, took his own life with a gun after battling mental illness. She said that for years she felt powerless — but that changed when she joined Moms Demand Action, an arm of Everytown.

“I felt empowered to use my voice as a survivor. And I saw how it could make legislative change,” Livas Porter said.

Their lives were changed by gun violence, and now they’re running for office

Wow! So much BS is such a small number of lines. Well done NPR!

Everytown did not launch a new program, but it is a rehash of a constantly failed tradition within the Gun Control community: The Waving of the Bloody Shirt. They select somebody who was a victim or related to a dastardly event where a gun was used, and the media came down like crows pecking on the corpses and then tried to use that person as political battering ram.

Here I have to confess something: I tried to remember some of the people used by Gun control in the past and short of the most recent asshole, “pillow magnate” failure David Hogg and his short-lived partner in BS Emma Gonzalez, my mind drew a blank. I had to rack my brain trying to search cases I remembered that spawned “activists” like the Incel mass killer in California and that led me to Richard Martinez, (the parent of one of the victims) and this old post where I also found the name of Colin Goddard who was supposed to be the perfect and eternal voice of Gun Control since he was indeed a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre.  He was supposed to be the NRA killer, the Chose One to help Pass “sensitive gun control” in this country. He was courted by everybody and every news media organization, but he eventually disappeared from importance like all these “Bloody Shirt Stars” do.

About the only success story you can point out after decades of media push and millions upon millions of dollars spent in Bloody Shirt Stars is Lucy McBath whose son was killed in Florida by an idiot at a gas station over loud music or stupid crap like that. She is now  U.S. representative from Georgia’s 6th congressional district, and I seem to recall it was said she had a lot of support from Bloomberg money. But other than that, the Gun Control Rock Stars have been a miserable political failure.

And as for Mia Livas Porter, her claim to fame is she is a victim because her brother, afflicted by mental illness, killed himself with a gun. Holy shit! She is the victim! Not her emotionally sick brother, nope, she is the one suffering for his actions. How dare we challenge her victimization and not support her cause? Because we do not coddle vultures, especially the ones pecking the corpse of their own family for political or any gain.

Hat Tip MarkC

Half in new poll say it should be illegal to deny service, employment to unvaccinated

Half of Americans believe it should be illegal for companies to deny service or employment to those who are unvaccinated, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll.

Overall, the poll shows that 51 percent of those surveyed believe it should be illegal to deny service or employment, a view held by 55 percent of Republicans and 46 percent of Democrats.

I’m surprised that the number is that low for Republicans.

Honestly, the number should be 100% of Americans think it should be illegal to deny services or employment to the unvaccinated.

There is no way to have a unified country anymore.   Not with half the population believing that people who don’t want a vaccination against a virus that for most people has a very low mortality rate, and the vaccination doesn’t prevent transmission of the virus, should have fewer civil rights than convicted felons.

Civil rights are not dependent on getting a shot.  I’ve read the Constitution, I’m absolutely sure it says that.

A 14-year-old boy shot a would-be robber in the face Thursday after the man attacked the boy’s father at a pizza shop in Philadelphia, police say.

The events unfolded just before 10 p.m. on Thursday night at Bold Pizza. A man walked into the shop intending to rob it, police said, forcibly reaching over the counter attempting to steal money from the register.

A pizza shop employee attempted to stop the man when the attempted robber put his hands around the employee’s neck. The employee’s son, a 14-year-old boy, grabbed a gun, legally owned by the employee, from behind a counter and shot the attempted robber in the face, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Would-Be Pizza Shop Robber Stopped Cold After 14-Year-Old Shoots Him In The Face, Police Say | The Daily Wire

Good! Philly has become a monumental shithole under whatever administration is being run by and with the added spicy flavor of the pandemic. But it seems Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney (D, no shit) still has not figured out what the hell is going on in its city and resolved to go for the old and work talking point.

“The volume of guns that are in circulation in our communities is at a record-high,” Kenney said at the press conference, calling for more gun restrictions. “[Crime guns] join a sea of illegal and legal guns that are accessible in the heat of the moment, turning what could have stayed an argument into a homicide.”

Only a dumb and mentally lock-stepped moron redefines a robbery into “an argument.” I figure he would redefine a rape as a “bad weekend lay” if it suits him politically. But that is Gun Control advocates for you:  the victims are just emotional currency needed to be traded for political power.

Hat Tip Willrock

UPDATE: Local TV station says it was mom being attacked, not dad.

You don’t mess with mom!

Locals support the kid’s actions. Indeed!

The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) requested from the city’s COVID-19 Financial Oversight Committee a budget for new tasers, saying the ones they currently use are outdated, obsolete, and do not work properly.

MNPD Deputy Chief Chris Taylor told the committee in a December 8 meeting that the review of their taser equipment was prompted during COVID-19, while the department addressed how to arrest unruly suspects who were COVID-19 positive.

Metro Nashville Police Asks COVID-19 Budget Committee to Purchase New Tasers – Tennessee Star

OK, I am new to the state and all, but that seems to indicate a Law Enforcement agency has full access to a medical database of people infected with Chink Flu. My question is why and for what purpose? And no, I don’t think office safety is truly the motive, a suspect engaged in a criminal activity usually is not very forthcoming with the idea of identifying him/herself, so it is not after the arrest is made and an identity established that MNPD would have access to the infection status of the individual.

Now, needing tasers for known infected individuals who (for example) refuse to go to a Tennessee equivalent of Australia’s COVID camps does sound more plausible. I see you shaking your head and saying “Oh crap, he is now into the tinfoil hat mode” well, after all the shit that has happened in the last couple of years, you cannot dismiss the weird and the farfetched anymore.