Today I get an actual “Vaccine” as opposed to the COVID Flu Shot

Posted: March 16, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

Jean LaFitte: If your offers’ good it will stand up under fire.

The Buccaneer 1958

Two weeks ago I had a physical and to the shock of my wife who thought my bloodwork was going to show disaster things are pretty much where they were. I’m fatter than my doctor would like and I’ve got some cholesterol and some sugar but not enough to warrant drugs. My doctor remains pleased that I no longer work behind a desk or am the boss as I had been in previous jobs and continue to have to walk and climb ladders in a warehouse. Apparently the lack of promotion for the guy who doesn’t speak Spanish has unexpected health dividends (and spiritual ones too since the lack of having to constantly solve problems or make decisions leaves plenty of time for prayer as I walk and climb but I digress…). Given how pleased my wife was with the results it may be worth it.

Now that I’m getting very close to sixty my doctor did recommend was the new Shingles vaccine, which unlike the old one with one booster provides lifetime protection from this very painful disease. One in ten people get some painful side effects the next day but that’s a small risk for never getting singles again. In fact by the time you’re reading this I will be getting the shot.

My doctor also asked me if I wanted the COVID shot as he noted I never got it. I declined explaining

  1. I already had COVID so I had the antibodies.
  2. The side effects of the Vaccine tend to affect the heart and my family has a history of heart problems
  3. While the risk from the vaccine is small so is the risk from COVID and since you can still get COVID and even die with the vaccine (As my brother demonstrated) why take both risks when I can settle for one?

My doctor didn’t make any fuss concerning it and we went on from there.

And THAT ladies and gentlemen is the difference between what the left calls “anti-vax” and actual reality.

I’m very happy to take a vaccine that provides permanent protection from a painful disease and that has gone though the normal clinical trials and procedures and whose side effects are nominal.

To take a so called “vaccine” that doesn’t provide permanent protection from a disease for which the risk is minimal which has bypassed the normal safeguards and whose side effects can be fatal, particularly to someone like me.

The reality is the COVID Vaccine is pretty much a glorified flu shot. Now there is nothing wrong with having such a shot available and if after weighing the risks and rewards you decide it’s the right choice for you, that’s fine as it’s good to have options, but I submit and suggest that we would all be better off if that was how it was sold rather than redefining what a “vaccine” is and putting people at risk for their careers and livelihoods’ to force it upon folks. In fact if it was as “safe” and “effective” as they said such heavy handed methods, lotteries and mass censorship of opposing views would not have been necessary because their claims would be able to stand up under fire.

If people on the left, or people on social media have a problem with that, I really don’t give a damn.

The last Democrat

Posted: March 15, 2022 by chrisharper in politics
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By Christopher Harper

For the past few months, I’ve been reading biographies of U.S. presidents, starting in chronological order. I’ve made it to Nos. 22 and 24: Grover Cleveland.

That’s right! Cleveland served two terms, but they were interrupted by the election loss in 1888 to his opponent, Benjamin Harrison.

Cleveland, the last conservative Democrat, was a particularly interesting leader. Unfortunately, the Democrats turned toward progressive politics after Cleveland left the White House.

Cleveland served two terms, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897. He won that election in the popular vote in 1888, but he lost in the Electoral College because he angered the corrupt politicians in New York and lost the state. Therefore, Cleveland was the only president to serve two terms that were not consecutive. Furthermore, he and Woodrow Wilson were the only Democrats elected between 1861 and 1933.

The son of a Presbyterian minister, Cleveland was known for his honesty and integrity. In 1881, Cleveland was elected mayor of Buffalo and later governor of New York. He opposed high taxes, imperialism, and government subsidies to businesses, farmers, and veterans. He fought corruption in New York and elsewhere, implementing civil service examinations rather than political patronage.

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Cleveland in 1932, historian Allan Nevins wrote, “[I]n Grover Cleveland, the greatness lies in typical rather than unusual qualities. He had no endowments that thousands of men do not have. He possessed honesty, courage, firmness, independence, and common sense. But he possessed them to a degree other men do not.”

After being elected president in 1884, he faced a distinctly partisan Republican Congress. Keep in mind that the Republicans were much more progressive than the Democrats back then.

Cleveland vetoed dozens of bills passed by Congress; his supporters sustained them. Perhaps his most famous veto occurred when he refused to support $100,000—today’s equivalent of $2.9 million—to buy seed grain for Texas farmers, who had lost their crops during a drought.

In his veto message, he outlined his desire for limited government. “I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering …. The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character.”

Cleveland nailed it. Look at how dependent so many people have become on federal money!

Cleveland often ranks outside of the top 10 of American presidents despite his many accomplishments. To me, he deserves to be near the top of the list right behind Washington and Lincoln.

Five Unpleasant Truths Under the Fedora

Posted: March 15, 2022 by datechguy in Uncategorized

A lot of what is being said on Twitter concerning Ukraine and Russia is all about people trying to feel important and involved on something that they have nothing at all to do with. That self image trumps any other consideration in the world to them.

You don’t start teaching kids about various sexual stuff in school unless you are hoping to have them sexually active young and that people refuse to see this speaks volumes about either their stupidity or complicity in such a goal.

If the choice is admitting idiocy and dealing with reality as it is vs remaining in a painful self affirming fantasy a large chunk of the population will choose the latter regularly.

The last decade but particularly the last year has proved John Adams right about our constitution only being suited for a moral and religious people. The farther that we move from morality and religion (Christianity in particular) the more inadequate it becomes.

There are many wise things my Father taught me. One of them was not to care if someone had more as long as I had what I needed. It’s a lesson that more people could use, but it seems to me that they were taught that it isn’t enough to have more, others must be made to feel that they have less.

Report from Louisiana: Dispatch from the Facebook Hoosgow

Posted: March 14, 2022 by Pat Austin in Uncategorized
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By:  Pat Austin

SHREVEPORT – My husband has made it a whole week without getting tossed into the Facebook hoosgow.

He never wanted to be on the social media platform at all, but years ago, when Facebook was still sort of fun, I made an account for him so he could keep up with friends and family “back home.” He loved it at first because he was connecting with old classmates and distant family members. He joined the Facebook group for his tiny, rural hometown, and they shared old photos and memories. It was all so harmless.

Then politics reared its ugly head and Facebook became the liberal, curated, censored wasteland that it is today. He is adamantly outspoken and incapable of holding back his opinions when it comes to liberal policies and corrupt politics.

And so he has of late been spending time in the Facebook Prison. The first time it was only 24-hours and supervised probation upon his release. He gleefully celebrated his release with yet another post about “Chillary Hinton” and a “chewicide” hotline, in an attempt to get around the evil censors, and he got three days in solitary. Again, supervised probation upon release but a much longer period.

He is unrepentant. He is incensed about gasoline prices, as are we all, and freely sharing his thoughts on the policies of the current administration regarding drilling and energy. He refuses to be silenced and the more the censors threaten him and try to hold him down, he is more and more vocal.

It’s hard not to respect that!

I suggested he give up social media for Lent, even though we aren’t Catholic. He’s a much happier person when he isn’t scrolling through pictures of rising gas prices, pictures of empty grocery shelves, and posts about politics.

It’s only a matter of time until they catch up with him again. His last three posts included accusing MSNBC pundits of taking hallucinogens, a photo of the White House Press Secretary as Pinocchio, and a meme about the Vice-President that said, “…if you gave her a penny for her thoughts, you’ll get change back.”

They’ll get him for those.

Meanwhile, I’ll just be over here minding my own business and posting pictures of my lunch. It’s much safer.

Pat Austin blogs at And So it Goes in Shreveport and at Medium; she is the author of Cane River Bohemia: Cammie Henry and her Circle at Melrose Plantation. Follow her on Instagram @patbecker25 and Twitter @paustin110.

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