July 2022 – Page 3 – Bear Bussjaeger

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Polio in New York. They can’t explain how that could happen.

New York Reports 1st US Polio Case in Nearly a Decade
Officials said the patient, who lives in Rockland County, had developed paralysis. The person developed symptoms a month ago and did not recently travel outside the country, county health officials said.

It appears the patient had a vaccine-derived strain of the virus, perhaps from someone who got live vaccine — available in other countries, but not the U.S. — and spread it, officials said.

The person is no longer deemed contagious, but investigators are trying to figure out how the infection occurred and whether other people may have been exposed to the virus.

I’ve actually expected more of this. By sheer chance, I had the answer to their puzzler open in another tab.

REPORT: Why are we here?; migrants directed to city by Biden administration amid homeless crisis
Some of the migrants who Mayor Eric Adams says are overloading the city’s homeless shelters have no ties to the Big Apple — but were still directed here by President Biden’s administration, The Post has learned.
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Since Tuesday, Mayor Adams said more than 2,800 asylum-seeking migrants have entered the city’s shelter system, calling on Biden to send “additional resources immediately” to help the city “as we serve both a rapidly growing shelter population and new clients who are seeking asylum.”

Guess where Rockland County is.

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Yet Another Philly Shooting

Watch the surveillance video of this shooting, and tell me what he’s doing with that slide. Is trying to clear multiple jams. Is he having manually cycle it like a Semmerling LM4?

Biden Needs An Extended Vacation

A permanent one, naturally; but I’m thinking of something more specific.

The other day, the White House announced Gropin’ Joe’s planned executive actions to fight “climate change.” My sister brought one in particular to my attention.

Expand Offshore Wind Opportunities and Jobs: The Department of the Interior is proposing the first Wind Energy Areas in the Gulf of Mexico, a historic step toward expanding offshore wind opportunities to another region of the United States. These areas cover 700,000 acres and have the potential to power over three million homes. President Biden is also directing the Secretary of the Interior to advance wind energy development in the waters off the mid- and southern Atlantic Coast and Florida’s Gulf Coast —alleviating uncertainty cast by the prior Administration. These actions follow the President’s launch of a new Federal-State Offshore Wind Implementation Partnership that brought together Governors to deliver more clean, affordable energy and new jobs.

Well, I’ll grant that the Gulf and the southern Atlantic see some pretty strong winds, especially from June to November.

I suggest Gropin’ Joe Xiden take a hurricane season vacation on a Gulf oil rig. Sun, wind, waves… and perhaps a slight understanding of why the Gulf may not be the best choice for a giant wind farm.

On the other hand wind farms in hurricane-prone waters would guarantee lots of permanent jobs in the wind gennie manufacturing industry. Someone’s gonna have to build and install all those gennies every time a tropical storm or hurricane blows through.

TZP Column: “Assault Weapon” Confiscation?

Idiots All Around?
The latest Dimwit attempt to pass a federal “assault weapon” ban just passed in committee. And none of the swamp critters seem to know what’s in it, if this article is to be believed.
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Hint: One would merely piss off a lot of people, while the other would get a lot of cops killed. I think even some Dims get that, which is why mandated confiscation, seizure, or surrender of arms is nowhere in the bill. Yet.
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The Babylon Bee Is Having Fun With This

If Occasionally-firing-Cortex didn’t exist, The Babylon Bee would have to invent her.

[Updated] That’s Some Great Shooting

Remember the Indiana police chief saying the Good Samaritan took down the mall shooter in two minutes?

Nope. He misread his notes.

Indiana police say ‘Good Samaritan’ took out mall shooter in 15 seconds, landed 8 of 10 shots
Police say it took Elisjsha Dicken just 15 seconds to neutralize a man who opened fire on shoppers at an Indiana mall; quick action they believe saved countless lives.

“The time lapse between the moment that Jonathan Sapirman exited the restroom and began shooting, and when he was shot by the civilian was only fifteen seconds, not two minutes,” Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said in a statement Tuesday. “The surveillance video shows Sapirman exit the restroom at 5:56:48pm. He was neutralized by Dicken at 5:57:03 pm.”

Dicken fired ten rounds, and hit the scumbag eight times. Nonshooters may not get it, but — real world, under stress, engaging an armed, moving target — that’s damned fine shooting. I used to know some officers who couldn’t get eight rounds on a paper target at the range in a minute, much less fifteen seconds.

And I’m told his girlfriend performed well, too. As soon as the shooting stopped, I hear she ran to one of the victims, stripped off her jacket, and tried to apply pressure to wounds.

Contrast that with this shooting by highly trained professionals.

Denver police shoot five bystanders after suspect pulled out gun, police say

Dicken’s two stray rounds apparently did not strike any bystanders.

Added: Finally, another bit of data I wanted. I had heard that Dicken fired from a “considerable” distance, but this is the first I saw just how far.

At 5:57:03 p.m., Elisjsha Dicken, an armed bystander, fired on the shooter from 40 yards away,

Forty yards. 120 feet. Eight rounds on an active target in 15 seconds. I wonder if he shoots three-gun.

Fentanyl – Weapon Of Mass Destruction

No kidding. I pointed this out three years ago.

Fentanyl awareness group applauds Florida AG’s ‘necessary’ call to declare drug a weapon of mass destruction
“The whole federal government and every tactic and capability that we have should be utilized to stop the death and destruction that fentanyl is causing,” Moody said in a letter to President Biden obtained exclusively by Fox News Digital on Monday.

The U.S. government defines a WMD as a “nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological, or other device that is intended to harm a large number of people.” Moody’s office cited prior government assessments that fentanyl “is very likely a viable option for a chemical weapon attack.”

But what do I know. I’m just a dumb blogger.

School Bus

I saw that and thought of a Russian science fiction movie, Attraction.

The Russians shot down an alien spacecraft, which crashed in the middle of Moscow. They’ve had one interaction with the aliens which ended with a Russian official in the hospital. Everyone figures it’s an invasion.

So figure how Americans, and and an American-made movie, would deal with it. The Russians?

The next day, the heroine — a schoolgirl — is waiting for her school bus. An armored transport pulls, the rear hatch pops open and a classmate helps her in.

“New school bus, huh?”

“Yes.”

And that is the sole reaction. They don’t even close the schools. Hey, we have armored transport to spare.

The beginning of the film, when the Russians shoot down the visually obvious and impressive alien spacecraft as it approached Russian airspace had me go, “Yeah, like their gonna… oh, yeah.

Hat tip to Kenny, who has more.

TZP Column: You Lose

PREVAILING TYRANTS
David Codrea pointed out something very interesting in California’s SB 1327. This is the new law allowing private parties to sue gun dealers and manufacturers.
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One more time: Any person, including an entity, attorney, or law firm, who seeks declaratory or injunctive relief from [any statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or any other type of law that regulates or restricts firearms] shall not be deemed a prevailing party under this section or any other provision of this chapter.
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Who?

Kurt Schlicther asks a very good question. And I have an answer; it’s something I’ve been thinking about lately.

The context is, Who is going to enforce the lefties’ tyrannical edicts?

In that scenario, who exactly is going first through the door? The political police chiefs? The bullies? The guys who just want to do their 20 years, file a fake disability claim for their lumbago, and spend the next few decades fishing for bass?

The ruling caste better figure out who is going to be the sucker who puts his butt on the line for their dreams of a prog-fascist tomorrow because there are millions of patriots who would gladly put their butts on the line to resist serfdom.

Schlichter notes that they’ll need a lot of cops enforcers to do their dirty work. Consider that, amid calls to defund and demonize the police, they still will need overwhelming force to do their masters’ will. In Uvalde, they needed close to four hundred federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel just to deal with one actual criminal. As Schlicther says, the two Boston bombers tied up an entire city. Better yet, the whole country of France — and 90,000 military and police — was tied up by four barely competent terrorists.

Specifically addressing the subject of gun bans and confiscation, I call the HANSOB problem (for “heavily armed, noncompliant SOB”).

So who are the tyrants going to use to enforce their guns bans, social engineering, and green raw deal third world-style communism?

Here’s a hint. Where would you expect to find 1) personnel willing to gun down innocent, unarmed women; and 2) meet all your “diversity” targets, and available in large quantities?

That American population that the Left wants replaced includes police officers disinclined to enforce unconstitutional edicts.

Why some of those illegals might even be out-of-work School of the Americas graduates, perfect for that sort of work.

Watch for departments crying “diversity” to start hiring immigrants as officers. They’ll be fast tracked just like Noor. Then they’ll lower various educational standards to hire more. Then they’ll waive legal residency, and hire actual illegals.