It’s been tried before
- The Berlin Wall
- The fugitive slave act
Democrats just can’t think of any other way to keep their slaves on the plantation.
Communism
Property Tax Waste
The debate over property taxes continues. The left claims that property taxes are necessary for things like the fire department and schools, but it’s hard to make that case while local governments are using those taxes to help people break the law…
Anti American left
Buy Some More Ammo
Watch this video, then buy more ammo.
She says that ICE is going to stage an attack to justify martial law, so leftists need to get “Second Amendment thingamajigs” to fight back. I thought it was impossible to fight the government without F-35s and nukes…
My hat is off to Donald Trump, who has gotten the left to admit that they aren’t opposed to people owning guns, they are opposed to people who disagree with their opinions owning guns, thus demonstrating that gun control is about control, not guns.
Criminals
Cop Is Right
Check this out. A woman is caught doing 104 miles per hour in a 65 zone, and the cop I thought was pretty professional here.
She is swerving through traffic, passing in every lane, including the emergency lane, and flashing her lights at people to get them to move out of her way, all while doing 40 miles per hour over the speed limit. She deserves to get arrested, because it is a crime in Florida to go over 100 miles per hour, especially when driving like that. I would go a step further and say driving like she was should get your car permanently impounded.
I have cut far too many dead bodies out of cars because of people like this. This is no different than standing in the middle of downtown with a firearm having target practice in the middle of the street. It’s reckless behavior and needs to be stopped.
Insanity
Crazy People Do Crazy Things
A therapist in Orlando was stabbed to death by one of her patients. The other therapists in the area are all freaking out.
What ever happened to the whole “police need to deescalate” or the “just give them what they want” theory? Is it possible that some people are so crazy or so evil that the only thing stopping them is the use of force?
One of the therapists talks about putting cameras in her office (at 1:11), but worries that it will breach confidentiality. I have a couple of thoughts on that:
- If you are in possession of the camera and the recording, just how does that breach confidentiality?
- You are talking about potentially filming someone as they murder you. Is confidentiality really your top concern?
- Cameras only work as a deterrent if the person being filmed is concerned with consequences and is mentally stable enough to consider the possibility that they will be caught. How does that deter someone who is mentally unstable?
The same woman goes on to ask if she should have “mace” on her person, which I assume means pepper spray, but whatever. Honey, that woman was STABBED to death. Are you going to trust that a table condiment will stop a person armed with a deadly weapon who is intent on killing you? What if it doesn’t work? What is plan b? You going to talk to him and ‘deescalate’ them?
You would think that a mental health therapist would be smarter than this. If someone is trying to kill me, I would rather put a few freedom seeds into his chest cavity. It’s a lot harder to stab me to death when you are trying to remain conscious after receiving a sucking chest wound and a huge hole in your aorta.
Oh, you don’t think you can kill someone? Then perhaps dealing with homicidal mental patients without either a weapon or a security guard isn’t where you should be working, because they can sure kill you, as evidenced by your deceased colleague.
This is why women don’t deal with violent psychos very well. Their nurturing side and soft approach is seen as weakness by the truly violent.
War on the Right
Who Cares?
Democrats have caused another government shutdown, meaning that vital things like the Air Force Museum are closed. They claim it will remain so unless ICE is disbanded.
Do the leftists really think that most people give a rat’s ass about that?
Taxes
Taxes Done (Mostly)
My taxes are all done, with the exception of my broker’s statement from my stock broker. For the 2025 tax year, I owe more than $3,000 to the IRS in April of this year. In total, I paid more than $47,000 in Federal taxes. On top of that, I paid over $7,000 in property taxes, thousands in sales taxes, and who knows how much in use taxes (like gasoline), tolls, and other miscellaneous fees and taxes. Call it more than $60,000 in total taxes for the year.
Don’t tell me that I don’t pay my fair share.
Me
Sabotage
Two weeks ago, I applied for a PRN position. Three days later on Saturday, I received an email from the company asking when I would be available for an interview. The only day I had last week was Friday, so I had an interview.
They loved me, and called me even before I got home and told me HR would be calling by Monday to offer me the job. They were wrong, I didn’t get the call until Tuesday. Still, it was 9 days from application to interview (with the delay being my schedule, not theirs) and four days from interview to formal job offer.
On a related note, a friend of mine who works in the admin office told me that the reason I was having trouble finding a job was my ED director was deliberately sabotaging my reputation with other hospitals. According to this friend, my current manager was telling potential employers that I was a constant problem and she wouldn’t recommend hiring me. All the while, she was telling me what a valued member of the team I was.
I had told my manager I was interested in a management spot for the new offsite ED we are opening, but she told me that they were going to run it without a manager. I found out later that the very next week, she offered that manager’s position to a nurse with only an associate’s degree, fewer certifications, and less experience than I have. That was the same week I received discipline for being “too slow” in performing my duties, discipline which was placed in my file, making me ineligible for promotion or transfer for 12 months.
The reason this is relevant is during the interview for the job I just got, the interviewing manager told me that I have leadership coming out of my pores. She said that she couldn’t understand what my current manager was talking about, then told me that she understands the politics and favoritism that happens at my current employer, because she used to work there. Then she told me that she was opening another FSED in 2027, and would need a manager for it. She understands that all I am looking for is a PRN spot and some time traveling with my wife, but when the time comes, would I consider running the new place?
I told her the truth: I would consider any offer, and we would see what the offer was when we got there. That was apparently good enough, because I got the job.
How about that bitch of an old manager? She doesn’t know what’s coming her way. I have timecards and paycheck stubs to prove that she has been altering time cards to steal wages and run her department at lower cost. That shit is going down. I’m close enough to retirement that I don’t care what it does to my reputation. I am all out of fucks to give.
I have three more days working at the old place. My last day is next week, and I haven’t immediately stormed out for two reasons:
- I want the three weeks of PTO that I still have banked there. I don’t want to walk away from $5000.
- I also don’t want a bad manager to get me to do something foolish like a ‘no rehire’ status from HR. Bad managers with an axe to grind come and go, HR black marks are forever. Since there are only a handful of hospital chains in Florida, burning bridges is never done lightly.
Anyhow, orientation begins soon at the new place, then I can schedule some PRN shifts.
Guns
Range Day
Took a couple of guns to the range: a Smith and Wesson 10mm M&P pistol shooting Underwood 180 grain XTP bullets, and the 300 Blackout pistol that I jut built, shooting 200 grain subsonic ammunition through a Dead Air Sandman 2 suppressor.
The 300 Blackout was basically a bolt action rifle. It failed to feed nearly every single round. I am thinking that, since the rounds were subsonic and there was a suppressor involved, I either need a lighter buffer or a gas block with a larger port. I will work on that. The gun was very quiet. Accuracy was great, with every single round punching the bullseye at 50 yards. I put a chronograph on 10 of the rounds in two-five round strings:
String 1: 200 grains, 896 feet per second average speed, with a spread of 40 feet per second and a standard deviation of 14 feet per second. Minimum was 876 fps, maximum 916 fps.
String 2: 200 grains, 904 feet per second average speed, with a spread of 54.6 feet per second and a standard deviation of 20 feet per second. Minimum was 879 fps, maximum 934 fps.
The 10mm did well. Recoil was snappy, as usual. Accuracy was good, with 17 of my 20 rounds impacting within the ‘down zero’ ring at 20 yards. Of the other three shots, 2 were in the ‘down one’ ring, and the last was one I pulled, only striking the bottom of the ‘down two’ zone. I think I anticipated that one a bit. I measured a 5 shot string on the chronograph and got:
180 grain bullets, 1264 feet per second average speed, with a spread of 36 feet per second and a standard deviation of 13 feet per second. Minimum was 1243 fps, maximum 1278 fps. That gives us an average kinetic energy of 638 foot pounds. Underwood lists that load at 1300 fps and 676 ft-lb, so I am right there with expected performance from a 4 inch barrel.
and yes, I was practicing with full power defense loads. I try to shoot a box of full power loads at least once a quarter, even if it is more expensive than the range ammo I usually use.
It was too cold for the outdoor range, so there was no possibility of shooting any gelatin. Still, that load for the 10mm is giving an IPSC power factor of 227.5. There aren’t many autoloaders giving that kind of power. For common defensive pistols, on the .357 and .44 Magnums do better, and they are limited to six rounds with slow reloads. I have a 4 inch .357 Magnum, but I don’t yet have a .44. Maybe one day.
Me
Day of Rest
It snowed here last night, and bottomed out at around 21 degF. That’s much colder than we’ve had in years. The snow was just flurries, so it didn’t stick. One of the people on my street left their lawn sprinklers on last night. The street in front of his house and his lawn were icy this morning. We didn’t break above freezing until after noon.
I am taking it easy today and sitting in my warm house playing video games. I’m not even looking at Social Media or the news today.
I bought a pair of Meta Quest 2 VR goggles and used them to fly DCS for the first time today. All I can say is –
BIG DIFFERENCE
It’s like you are really flying a plane. All I did today was start up, taxi, take off, fly about 20 miles out, then go back to base and land. Trying to get used to flying with them on. My landing was much smoother and easier than it has been. It’s a tiny bit disorienting, but I will get used to it.
I recommend VR goggles. It’s only a matter of time before someone invents VR porn, if they haven’t already. This is some real looking video.
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