The MSM has been making a huge deal out of two measles related deaths in Pennsylvania. Then we find out one of them died of a ruptured spleen and the measles was a coincidental finding.
I’m old enough to remember when a dude died in a motorcycle accident, but he was positive for COVID, so the death went into the books as “COVID related”
I get so sick of people claiming to be experts with firearms because they earned a ribbon in the military. Let be give you a great example of that:
To support his supposed opinion, he makes the appeal to authority, claiming, well…
The Coast Guard pistol qualifier consisted of 30 shots taken from 3 yards out to 15 yards, with every shot worth up to five points. Expert requires the shooter to score 143 points or more, or about 96% of the scored shots earning the maximum of 5 points. So how hard is that? Here is a picture of the Coast Guard target.
The colored zones are worth from 1 to 5 points. The target is 25 inches by 40 inches. The 5 point zone is 8 inches by 14 inches, making the maximum 5 point area much larger than the IDPA 8 inch -0 zone. Here is where the course gets easy. A total of 48 shots are fired, and the best 30 of those shots are the ones that are scored. The rest of them are considered “practice shots” and are essentially scored as mulligans.
| Distance | Total rounds in published sequence |
|---|---|
| 3 yards | 12 |
| 7 yards | 12 |
| 15 yards | 24 |
| Total | 48 |
So to REALLY take a look at what it takes to be a Coast Guard pistol expert, the shooter fires 48 shots. Of those, only 60 percent of them have to hit the center of the target. The shots have to be fired in a certain about of time:
| Distance | String | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 3 yards | Draw and fire 2 | 4 sec |
| 3 yards | Draw and fire 2 | 4 sec |
| 3 yards | Fire 2, reload, fire 2 | 10 sec |
| 3 yards | Draw and fire 4, including a hand transition | 8 sec |
| 7 yards | Same four strings | 4, 4, 10 and 8 sec |
| 15 yards | Draw and fire 2 | 4 sec |
| 15 yards | Draw and fire 2 | 4 sec |
| 15 yards | Draw and fire 4 | 8 sec |
| 15 yards | Fire 4, reload, fire 4 | 20 sec |
| 15 yards | Kneel and fire 8 | 20 sec |
I want you to note that not one of those stages says, “Draw, rack the slide, fire two.” Instead, he uses as an example, a Coastie shooting himself in the leg as his reasoning for not carrying one in the chamber. I pray this one is satire.
After this morning’s post went live (I wrote it last night) I was supposed to go to work. I was scheduled to atart my shift at 10 am. I got a text from the charge nurse at 8 am, telling me I was being pushed back to 1 pm. That cuts a 12 hour shift down to only 9 hours, but since I am PRN, that happens all the time during the slow season (summer), so I have just learned to live with it. I’ve been on my way to work and been pushed back, having to turn around and go back home for a couple of hours. Not personal, just business. Still, the ED is a bit slower than planned on those days and they are saving a few dollars by having less people there.
So, having been rescheduled, I got in the middle of a couple of small projects. At 10:30, I got another text saying never mind, they are now swamped and they want me to head in.
No. I will head in when I am ready.
That is a game that I am not playing. There is a rule in nursing that they want you to call out at least two hours prior to your shift’s scheduled start so they can find coverage. As I said in the first paragraph of this post, I’ve been called off while already on the way. It’s just rude, but I live with it.
However, pushing my 10am shift back at 8am, only to change your mind at 10:30 is bullshit. I don’t want this to become a habit.
I was scheduled to come in at 10am. Then you unilaterally changed that schedule to 1pm. Now because you are suddenly busy, you are asking me to come in earlier than my shift.
So I will teach them a lesson about courtesy. I will let them be in the weeds until I am good and ready to come in. Again, paying me for my services doesn’t mean that you own me. Will they fire me? Of course not. They already don’t have enough nurses, and this is more the charge nurse’s fault for calling me off than it is mine.
If they decide to be irrational and fire me anyhow, I have options. I get at least 10 recruiting emails per week. There are half a dozen emergency rooms hiring within a 45 minute drive of my front door. Therre are also plenty of travel gigs. I don’t need to take abuse. Employers think that, because they can eventually hire someone to replace you, they can treat you as a consumable stock item. Next time you go to call me out so you can save a little money, remember this day when you were swamped without enough help.
Some accused me of posting a fake and staged video in this post. I am reposting the one from the NY Post.
I don’t think arresting her for refusing to return the vest goes anywhere. They are arresting her under the claim that she was stealing her company vest. She didn’t steal it, they gave it to her. The easiest way for an employer to get the vest back is to hold her paycheck until it is returned. This is a bullshit charge that goes nowhere. Since they gave her the vest, this is purely a civil matter and not a crime. I am willing to bet the charges don’t ever get filed over this.
Back when I was a firefighter and a much more outspoken person than I am now, I had a job at a theme park on my days off, working as a life guard. I caught the manager altering time cards to eliminate the other lifeguards’ overtime. To be fair, we had a history because I was busy dating my way through the female lifeguard staff, and he was angry because I had been spending some quality time with one of the lifeguards he had been dating. We had a heated discussion, and I told him I was going to HR. He told me that the argument had made me late coming back from my 30 minute lunch, so he was suspending me and wanted my employee ID. I told him “No problem, but the paragraph on the back of the ID says I owe $20 if I lose it, so I want a receipt.”
He refused to give me a receipt, and tried to snatch it from my hand, so I stuck the ID in my wetsuit. I then went to the locker room to retrieve my belongings. He followed me in there, calling for security on the radio and demanding I also turn in the wetsuit. I told him he wasn’t getting the wetsuit because we were forced to pay for it through payroll deduction. (they took the cost of the wetsuit out of our pay in 4 equal payments) He replied that this didn’t matter, because the company logo on the wetsuit meant it was company property. I grabbed my stuff from my locker, including the bag that had my Glock 19 in it.
I laughed at him and turned around to leave, only to see a company security guard standing in front of the exit to the locker room with his arms folded. The guard told me I couldn’t leave without turning in the wetsuit and my ID. I told him to get out of my way, or he would regret it. It was at that moment that the manager jumped on my back. As I tried to get rid of him, the security guard jumped in. So I did what I thought I needed to do while being attacked by two grown men- I drew my handgun and told them to get the fuck off of me. That worked.
As I walked to the exit of the park, security followed me. By the time I got to my car, I could hear the sirens. I locked my gun the car and waited. When the cops showed up, I told them everything. They went to talk to the manager. I was soon called over, and in front of the manager, the Sergeant asked me if I wanted to press charges. The manager couldn’t believe it as the cop explained to him that attacking me for what was obviously a civil matter was illegal. I was honestly surprised I didn’t get arrested.
I didn’t press charges. I was fired. I didn’t care, it was a shitty job anyhow. That manager only lasted another few months, then he left as well. Quit, fired, I don’t know. I still have the wetsuit and it still has the company logo on it. That incident was more than 20 years ago, and the wetsuit no longer fits. Oh, and the lifeguard I was dating? We broke up about that same time. I later found out she spent some time on the wrong side of the law for establishing a fake charity and scamming people out of money.
So yeah, I have had some shitty bosses. Being my boss doesn’t make you my owner, nor does it make you my boss when I am off the clock. I can be a stubborn asshole like that.
I’ve had exactly two accidental discharges with firearms. Both involved Smith and Wesson handguns, and the last one happened more than 35 years ago. It’s an interesting story.
My first firearm was a Winchester Model 250, a .22LR lever action with a tube feed. My first handgun was a Smith and Wesson Model 59. It had one dangerous flaw that I discovered once to my dismay- when you dropped it, it could go off. I dropped it once and shot a hole through my dresser and into my wall. That’s how it came to be that, when the Third Generation Smith and Wessons came out, I bought one. My first Third Gen Smith was a 4506. Without looking it up, it was, I think, the heaviest carry pistol I’ve owned. Made out of solid stainless, it was a giant boat anchor. Over the next few years, I accrued a couple of other Third Gen Smiths: a 5906, and a 4566. I ran into an issue with them.
I would take the pistol to the range, flick off the safety, and squeeze the trigger, and
nothing.
The hammer stayed back, the gun didn’t even go click. Each of my Smith and Wesson Third gens did that. I never did find out why. I just couldn’t trust them, and they stopped being carry pieces. I would have nightmares of drawing my handgun to defend my life, and my gun wouldn’t fire. I’m sure Freudians would have a filed day with it, but I think it was a fear instilled in me by three different non-functioning handguns. It was odd- they did it more often when new, they did it rarely, but it would happen every couple of hundred rounds.
Then came the day in 1991 when the 4506 didn’t fire, I pulled the trigger several times, nothing. I turned the pistol 90 degrees clockwise and attempted to see what was going on, and that is when it fired. Into the ceiling of the indoor range. My second ever AD with any firearm.
I bought a Sig Sauer 226, and eventually sold the Smith and Wessons. I didn’t buy or own another S&W for decades after that. In the interim, I owned Taurus, Beretta, Ruger, Glock, and other brands, but I was mainly a Sig Sauer guy for the next 20 years.
Looking back, the Third Gen Smiths were fun to shoot, but I just couldn’t get over the lack of reliability.
Antifa was attacking people in an LA Starbucks by dumping blue paint on them. They get away with it because they are in California. If you attempt to dump any sort of liquid on me, especially while wearing a disguise or mask, I will award you and your accomplices with a free helicopter ride to the nearest trauma center. This is a forcible felony, and will be met with lethal force.
A masked person unexpectedly pouring an unidentified blue liquid over someone’s head creates a legitimate concern that it could be acid, bleach, poison, an irritant, or another substance capable of causing blindness or permanent injury. The victim need not wait for burning, identify the chemical, or suffer injury before using reasonable force to stop continued exposure.
As a reminder for people who haven’t been here for long. When you comment, the comment goes into the moderation queue and waits for me to approve it. If I am busy, sleeping, or at work, it may be a little while before I get a chance to approve it. You don’t need to post it more than once if you don’t see it right away.
That’s been done here for two reasons:
So wait, if your comment hasn’t been approved within 24 hours, then it was either sucked into the SPAM filter, or it ran afoul of the site rules for comments. You can always ask me.
I’m sure many of my readers found themselves in Facebook jail or suspended from various social media platforms. I remember when some woke whore tried to get me fired by calling hospitals in Central Florida to find out where I worked, all because I said I don’t use made-up personal pronouns. I’ve been suspended from platforms dozens of times for opposing lefty viewpoints. Now watch this and ask why the same isn’t true of this guy:
Some would get $50 million in seed money and turn it into a billion within 20 years. Others get $50 million and are back on welfare within 5.