More On Enrichment

More on the critter who randomly fired into a crowd celebrating Halloween in Orlando: He had a felony record for grand theft auto from last December. There is a record of him attending elementary and middle school, but no record of high school, meaning that he was a dropout. We don’t have much else to go on, because juvenile records are sealed in Florida.

This is an example of the absolute waste of DNA that has become a large segment of our nation. I am reminded of the quote from Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, comparing raising children to housebreaking dogs:

“Mr. Dubois, you have to! You scold him so that he knows he’s in trouble, you rub his nose in it so that he will know what trouble you mean, you paddle him so that he darn well won’t do it again — and you have to do it right away! It doesn’t do a bit of good to punish him later; you’ll just confuse him. Even so, he won’t learn from one lesson, so you watch and catch him again and paddle him still harder. Pretty soon he learns. But it’s a waste of breath just to scold him.” Then I added, “I guess you’ve never raised pups.”

These children were often caught; police arrested batches each day. Were they scolded? Yes, often scathingly. Were their noses rubbed in it? Rarely. News organs and officials usually kept their names secret – in many places the law so required for criminals under eighteen. Were they spanked? Indeed not! Many had never been spanked even as small children; there was a widespread belief that spanking, or any punishment involving pain, did a child permanent psychic damage.

These juvenile criminals hit a low level. Born with only the instinct for survival, the highest morality they achieved was a shaky loyalty to a peer group, a street gang. But the do-gooders attempted to ‘appeal to their better natures,’ to ‘reach them,’ to ‘spark their moral sense.’ Tosh! They had no ‘better natures’; experience taught them that what they were doing was the way to survive. The puppy never got his spanking; therefore what he did with pleasure and success must be ‘moral.’

Shenanigans

Police cut off voting at 1345, when it was supposed to go until 1630. Why isn’t the press going nuts over this? Because its Quakertown, PA. The city is 94% White, mostly Trump voters.

I want to point out that the woman in this video isn’t an election official. She is a Democrat who is posing as one. Look at her badge very closely.

Similar stories are playing out all over Pennsylvania- in areas containing white, mostly Trump voters, the voters are being turned away from the polls. Election officials are excusing it by saying those being turned away can apply to receive a mail in ballot.

“We are aware that, due to a miscommunication, individuals in line to apply for an on-demand mail-in ballot were briefly told they could not be accommodated. In fact, these voters were given the opportunity to submit mail-in ballot applications today.”

Applications. Will those applications be approved, ballots filled out, and mailed in time to arrive for election day, 5 days from now? Of course they won’t be. That’s why they are doing this.

Let Republicans demand ID in order to vote, and the communists scream that voters are being disenfranchised. Let the left cut off voting three hours early and turn voters away, and it’s a long and grueling process.

The left, as well as the Federal bureaucracy, cannot and will not let Trump become President. They are terrified of what he will do if he regains power. The cheat, the fix, is in.

Still, there is a chance that I could be wrong, and you miss 100% of the shots that you don’t take. I am going to vote this morning.

The Timing is Beautiful

After this week’s post where a fellow nurse reported my so-called (in her opinion) poor patient care, I got a surprise email telling me that I am being promoted, effective Saturday. This was a huge surprise, being that I was just promoted in August. While I am sure that this was not related in any way to my argument, it just feels like icing on the cake.

I am waiting to see what kind of raise comes with this.

No, it isn’t a management position, but it does mean more money and prestige.

Frustrated

A comedian at the NY Trump rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. The left is going nuts, calling the comment, and by extension the entire rally, “racist.”

  • Puerto Rican isn’t a race.
  • Puerto Rico IS an island of garbage. I have been there- and it is indistinguishable from a third world shithole. That has nothing to do with the race or ethnicity of the people there. They could be as white as Norwegians, and I would still say that the place looking like that would still look like a shithole floating island of garbage.

From my post of 2022:

Puerto Rico is a socialist disaster of a state, and if we are being honest, the entire island more closely represents a third world shithole than it does the US. I’m talking politically and visually. The tax rates are high, with a corporate rate of 37.5%, a personal income tax at 33%, and 11.5% sales taxes. On top of all of that, residents also pay US Social Security taxes, but not Federal Income taxes. In exchange, the US pays about $40 billion a year to Puerto Rico. In all, the government of Puerto Rico takes in about $12 billion in taxes, plus the $40 billion in US Federal money for a population of about 3.6 million, or about $14,400 per capita.

I would like to see the place get cut loose to become its own country. I just don’t see the benefit that the island gives the US.

Trivia fact: 1 in every 4 people who reside in Florida are originally from New York, Puerto Rico, or are illegals from Central and South America. As Wilkow says: “You can’t bring there to here without here becoming there.”

I am frustrated listening to, and arguing with, morons.

Just a Criminal Gang at This Point

In April of 2023, a Kissimmee Police officer illegally and without a warrant entered the home of a man. The cop claims that he saw the man push his father, so the cop attempted to arrest the man, using force by kneeing the man in the face and shooting him with a Taser more than 7 times. The force used did extensive damage to the man’s face, breaking his nose and requiring dental work.

When questioned about the incident, the chief of police had this to say:

The video was surprising because the knee spikes went against training. However, she said the repeated use of the taser was within what’s considered proper use to gain compliance.

“I couldn’t see it on the video, but I will take Officer Baseggio’s word that he saw what he thought was a battery,” Holland said. “And so with that being said, he doesn’t know if he was going to go arm himself.”

As a result, the cop got an 8 hour suspension. That is the end of it. Or so it seems. It turns out that there was much more to the story.

It turns out that the cop lied on his incident report, as well as intimidating witnesses to tell the story of the incident in a way that was favorable to the officer and his actions. As a result of that, he was indicted by a grand jury on charges of felony battery, misdemeanor battery, official misconduct, solicitation for perjury and two counts of tampering with a witness. He was fired as a result.

Still, that isn’t the entire story. It turns out that while the AG’s office was investigating the rogue cop, they were questioning his fellow officers, and 11 of them lied in official statements in order to protect and cover for him. Those 11 cops were also indicted, and as a result both the chief and deputy chief of police were terminated.

As I have said before, the bad cops lie, abuse their power, cheat, and steal. The so-called “good” cops will lie and cover for them, which makes them all bad cops. At this point, the only difference between most police and a criminal gang is that the cops have badges and immunity.

I repeat what I have said before- we as citizens need to demand one of two things:

  • Eliminate qualified immunity and force police to get malpractice insurance
  • Pass a law that any lawsuit against police for unlawful behavior against citizens be paid directly from the police pension fund.

Make cops have skin in the game.

Not the Same

An NFL player gave an interview while wearing a MAGA hat. Now the left is losing it:

The problem isn’t that Kaepernick was presenting a political opinion. What he did was take a knee during the National Anthem, thereby disrespecting the flag, and by extension, the country. When called on it, all he and his followers had to say was “It’s just a piece of cloth. Get over it.”

Well, it isn’t just a piece of cloth. Until you understand nuance and see that there is a difference between disagreement and disrespect, you don’t have the ability to engage in a productive discussion on this. So instead, you resort to throwing down the race card. I refuse to play that stupid game.

Mailbag

This week in comments and in email responses to this blog, I have received no fewer than 12 threats to my career, my life, or other rants about how they are going to “get me.”

I’ve been called a “boomer halfwit,” despite the fact that I am not a boomer. You see, to everyone that is currently under 25 years old, everyone over the age of 30 is a boomer, because they are too ignorant to understand that boomer is a slang term for “baby boomer,” which is the term for the generation of people born between 1946 and 1964.

  • The greatest generation was the one who won WW2. They were born from 1901- 1924.
  • The silent generation were those born between 1925 and 1945.
  • Gen X (for the tenth generation, from the Roman numeral X. Kids, ask your parents) were born from 1965 to 1980.
  • Millenials are those born from 1981 to 1996.
  • You babies who were born from 1997 to 2012 are called Gen Z, because this generation spent more time learning about trannies than they did Roman numerals.

Who is the halfwit? The person who claims I was raised by a member of the greatest generation? Or the dumbass who doesn’t know how wrong they are?

About half of the attackers called me a coward for blogging under a pseudonym, even though they posted their screed without even using a screen name. I use a pseudonym because you little asshats are constantly trying to find my employer in an attempt to get me fired, writing my registrar trying to have me deplatformed, or sending me death threats. See the skank that tried to do that last year who then complained that I doxxed her and threatened to sue me.

On the death threats front. This blog gets a death threat from a lefty about once a month. I’m armed everywhere I go. That’s all I have to say on that front.

I don’t approve such comments. Not because they disagree with my opinion, but because they violate rules 2 and 3 of this blog.

Permissive Hypertension

I am going to take this time to explain how strokes are treated in the hospital. I am going to make this understandable to the layman, so there will be some things that get simplified, or even omitted to make this easier to understand.

Strokes are the fifth leading cause of death in the US, so treating them is an absolute must. When people have signs of a stroke in the Emergency Department, the rules say that we have to get them a head CT within 10 minutes. The CT is looking for bleeding in the brain, which is called a hemorrhagic stroke. About one in eight strokes is caused by bleeding in the brain. The other seven are called ischemic strokes and are caused by blood clots.

Immediately after the CT scan is done (the patient is still in the CT imaging room), they are interviewed by a neurologist to see if they are showing signs of an ischemic stroke, meaning one caused by a blood clot cutting off oxygen to the brain. The nurse does the evaluation at the same time, and each of them come up with what is called an NIH score. They then compare scores and, if different, they discuss why. The idea is to give the score that is most advantageous to the patient. An NIH score measures the likelihood and severity of a stroke through a score that ranges from 0 to 42. The higher the score, the more severe is the stroke. A score of eight or higher means that the patient gets screened to see if they are a candidate for TPA administration.

TPA is a miracle drug. It breaks up blood clots, and allows blood to again flow, saving brain tissue from death. If administered within the first 4.5 hours of a stroke first beginning, the patient frequently leaves the hospital with no permanent disability. Sadly, many people with stroke symptoms wait too long to come in and are not candidates for this therapy.

If they are having a stroke, but are outside of that 4.5 hour window, they are admitted and we see just how much brain function they have lost. Then they are discharged to be rehabilitated and taught to live with their new disability.

In 84% of cases, patients who have just had a stroke will see their blood pressures greatly increase as the body tries to use this pressure to force blood past the clot that is cutting off blood to the brain. This process actually reduces the amount of damaged brain tissue in an ischemic stroke, reduces the amount of permanent disability, and decreases patient mortality due to ischemic brain tissue.

The risk of this is that the large increase in blood pressure greatly increases the chances that a blood vessel will rupture, causing a second, hemorrhagic stroke, and that second one is often fatal. I believe that a hemorrhagic stroke is what killed my mother last year.

Since 2019, the American Stroke Association and the American Heart Association both recommend that a patient with an ischemic stroke that isn’t a candidate for TPA administration be permitted to have high blood pressure for the first 24-72 hours after the stroke while being closely monitored. The only high blood pressure to be treated in these cases is a blood pressure higher than 220/120. In those cases, the patient should be medicated to reduce blood pressure by 15%. This is called permissive hypertension and is the current way that hypertension in stroke patients is being treated.

The problem is that this is not received well by older medical professionals, who have spent their lives thinking that “high blood pressure is bad” and want to reduce blood pressure no matter what. They just haven’t remained current in their clinical knowledge, and secure in their ignorance, will violently defend what they have always done, even when that has been shown to be the wrong thing to do.

I recently had a stroke patient with a BP of 263/152 and had formed a plan in conjunction with the doctor to lower her BP slightly to 220/110 using medication. Another nurse (who used to be a charge nurse) came over and started a loud shouting match, telling me that I was being dangerously lazy in not controlling the patient’s blood pressure. She accused me of being a shitty nurse and reported me for poor patient care.

I produced all sorts of studies showing that I was right, so I won’t be getting in trouble, even though the QA department agreed with her, trying to tell me that blood pressures of over 200 are too dangerous. They pointed out that the units on the floor have a policy of not accepting patients with a blood pressure that high. I told them that maybe the policy should be revisited in light of current literature.

Why? Because medicine is evidence based, and the evidence and current literature is on my side. I presented my nursing plan and the current literature to my department head, and she agreed that my treatment was in keeping with current AHA and ASA guidelines.

That required me writing a long dissertation to support my position. It wound up being a 460 word essay, complete with references to the AHA and ASA guidelines, as well as referencing multiple studies carried out since 2020, showing that patient outcomes are better under these guidelines.

It’s cases like this that show why good nurses make a lot of money for the level of education that they have. I’m probably going to present my case to the hospital’s clinical standards council (one of whom already spoke with me and thinks its a great idea) and try to get the policy changed. It’s a stupid policy that is likely killing people. The bonus is that, if I am successful in forcing the change, I get a raise and I also get published.