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:
economics
Why Some Are Poor
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.
Crime
Deer Hunters
In a suburb of Chicago, groups of “Teens” display firearms and cash.
I wonder if all of them have an Illinois FOID. The local police have this to say.
The money quote?
While this video is disturbing, there does not appear to be any direct threat to the general public.
I’m guessing the claim here is these “teens” are using these guns for deer hunting and not for criminal gang activity.
EDITED TO ADD:
Law abiding people in these same states freaking out over every sight, mod, stock, or grip because any one of them might turn the **exact** same gun into 5 years in federal prison on 1st offense, with the cops coming over to shoot their kids and pets when they storm the house to arrest them over a barrel that is a quarter inch too short, but these “teens” can literally walk around like this, knowing police do not care in the slightest and won’t do a thing to find or prosecute them. The criminal gang members know those laws exist, they simply do not care because there are no consequences.
Guns
Dropping the Slide on Empty 1911s
Read this post from Nighthawk Custom, a company that provides customized 1911s at a price tag between $4,000 and $6,000 each:
I tried to use and carry 1911s, I really did. They are gorgeous handguns. They are also finicky out of the box. After spending a kilobuck each on four of them, I got some beautiful handguns that looked great in a holster. They were also unreliable safe queens because they couldn’t reliably digest whatever ammo I put through them.
They told me to break the pistol in for 500 rounds and that would fix it. It didn’t. I was accused of “limp wristing” by people who hadn’t even watched me shoot. I was told to change ammo, because some 1911s are finicky. I was told to lube them more, and was also told to lube them less. Other advice was change the springs, get more gunsmithing done, and tons of other things.
Even after you spend $5000 on a custom from one of these high end gunsmiths, you end up with a pistol that still doesn’t work as well as a modern handgun. I was even looking at an Ed Brown. I finally decided that, if I were going to spend thousands of dollars, I might as well get something fun that won’t be a safe queen. Here is my experience from 14 years ago:
So this past weekend, I thought that it had been awhile since I had taken the Pro Carry for a spin, so I took it to the range. I brought 100 rounds with me, and I stopped after firing only 50 rounds because I had already had about 6 failures of the pistol to go into battery. I had the gunsmith there look at it, and he told me that the recoil spring was in need of replacement. It had been replaced at the factory only about 300 rounds before. I pointed that out, and he told me that Kimber 1911s needed new springs about every 500 rounds.
The design of the 1911 is over 100 years old, and firearm technology, metallurgy, and other technologies have come a long way since then. I just can’t trust my life to a firearm that won’t go bang every time you press the trigger, and the only way to reliably get a 1911 that will do that is to spend multiple thousands of dollars, only to wind up with a handgun that is made to such tight tolerances that dropping the slide on an empty chamber will ruin it and require more money to repair.
I have bought M&Ps for less than $500 that haven’t had a single malfunction in more than 10,000 rounds. Not one of my 1911s went more than 500 rounds between malfs, and a couple of them couldn’t get through an entire 50 round box without some sort of issue. They just aren’t reliable without thousands of dollars of custom work.
Instead of spending that kind of money on a handgun because it’s accurate or because you like the trigger, spend less than $1,000 on a decent factory handgun, then spend the rest of that cash on a class, a couple of cases of ammo, and year of taking weekly trips to the range. You will find it more beneficial than buying an unreliable safe queen.
Taxes
Thirteen
My tax notice came through for the year 2026. My property taxes are increasing by thirteen percent over 2025’s taxes, but I am not receiving one single service improvement over last year.
This is why I am voting yes on Amendment 3. The local and city governments are making more and more money each year, all while giving taxpayers like me the finger.
Fake News
Navy Food
There is a lot of press on the Navy and the conditions on its ships. Let’s talk about a few of them:
Water
- An aircraft carrier makes about 400,000 gallons of water per day through distillation. The total amount of water used is not just for personnel use. Water use is prolific.
- Galleys: Preparing roughly 18,000 meals daily, beverages, washing produce, cleaning equipment, and operating dishwashers.
- Laundry: Several thousand people generate an enormous daily laundry load. This includes the main ship’s laundry, uniform washing, linens, towels, and medical laundry.
- Aircraft maintenance: Fresh-water washing removes salt from aircraft and engines to prevent corrosion. The Navy considers this mission-essential even during water restrictions.
- Steam catapults: Roughly 200 gallons’ water-equivalent per launch. One hundred launches would represent about 20,000 gallons.
- Reactor and steam plants: High-purity makeup water replaces losses in the propulsion, electrical-generation, and auxiliary steam systems. Most water circulates repeatedly, but leakage, sampling, maintenance, and steam losses require replacement.
- Medical and dental spaces: Sterilizers, scrub sinks, laboratory work, patient care, and sanitation.
- Ship cleaning and sanitation: Galley decks, berthing, heads, workshops, food-service spaces, and garbage-processing areas.
- Closed-loop machinery systems: Air-conditioning chilled water and other cooling or heating circuits normally recirculate their water, but require makeup water.
- Potable-water-system maintenance: Tank cleaning, flushing repaired piping, testing, leakage, and maintaining tank reserves.
During my six years living on a carrier, we were constantly placed on water restrictions. There were days when we couldn’t shower. We heard a constant round of complaining from the CO that he wanted us to use less than 22 gallons per person, per day.
For that reason, the Navy has special shower heads for enlisted showers that require you to hold down a stiff button to get water. Showers that simply run like the ones in your home are referred to as “Hollywood showers” and are not permitted.
Food
The food on submarines is top notch. While the food on aircraft carriers isn’t as high quality, it’s still plentiful. There were multiple dining facilities. Let me demonstrate:
- There are three dining facilities for officers (called wardrooms) onboard. I never worked or ate in any of them, so I can’t give more details than that.
- The Captain’s mess is for the commanding officer to have private meals with anyone he invites to dine with him.
- There is a similar dining facility called the Admiral’s mess for the embarked Admiral and his invitees.
- There is a chief’s mess for Chief Petty Officers (E-7 through E-9)
- There are three different dining halls for enlisted crew members (E-1 through E-6) called the mess decks: Forward, Aft, and the Bar (which was connected to and adjacent to the Aft mess decks)
The forward mess decks specialized in fast, grab and go items like hamburgers (sliders), hot dogs (rollers), cereal, boiled eggs, sandwiches made of ham, egg, and cheese, and other quick options.
The aft mess decks were for hot meals. There were usually multiple options there- two or more main dishes to choose from, sides, vegetables, bread, and dessert.
The bar was what it sounds like- a buffet option where salads, a taco bar, a baked potato bar were available. Sailors could assemble those items with common toppings.
Here is the schedule for the enlisted dining:
- 0100-0330: The forward mess decks open for “Jet setters,” a meal of boiled eggs, cereal, and egg sandwiches.
- 0400-0800: Breakfast on both the forward and aft mess decks
- 1000-1200 The bar is open
- 1100-1400 Lunch is served on both the forward and aft mess decks. Full lunch aft, sandwiches, burgers, and dogs as well as fries and sometimes pizza forward.
- 1400-1600: The bar is open
- 1600-1900: Forward and Aft mess decks open for dinner
- 2100-0100: Aft mess decks open for “midrats” which is usually composed of leftovers from dinner, as well as cold cuts to make sandwiches.
There were choices, and as you can see, there was somewhere and something to eat 19.5 hours per day. In addition, there were multiple stores for sailors to purchase snacks, chips, candy bars, etc.. The Navy calls that stuff “geedunk” and it is sold onboard. The third deck has the ship’s “mall” where things like soap, uniform items, stationery, geedunk, and other things can be bought. It’s on the 3rd deck, next to the post office. Six floors higher, on the 03 level, there was the “Seven-11” where geedunk was for sale. It was located next to the ship’s barber shop, which offered free haircuts. On the second deck, next to the video arcade between the personnel offices and the aft mess decks, there were half a dozen soda and snack machines.
You could always eat. Now I will say that I didn’t always like the food, but there was always plenty of it. Our mess cooks had a high number of Philipinos, and that caused us to eat a lot of adobo and other foods from that nation. I didn’t like that. I tried not to eat on the forward mess decks because I didn’t want to eat a lot of junk, but sometimes I did because the lines to eat aft were long, especially when the food being served aft was good.
On the nights when there was steak, pizza, spaghetti, lobster, or other popular meals, a person could wait in line for an hour or more to eat. My duties didn’t permit me that kind of time, so I would eat a slider from forward. We would get steak and/or lobster about once per month when deployed.
The food was repetitive sometimes, because the mess cooks would screw up and order too much of something. They would get creative in naming it, in an attempt to make us forget we were eating the same meal every day for a week. First it was steamship round, then Yankee pot roast, Savory Roast beef, Prime rib, beef stew, pepper steak, etc,. We once ate chicken at every meal for 14 days straight. Even for breakfast.
Once we were at sea for 45 days or longer, each Friday we would have pizza and pasta night. During that meal, each sailor who wanted it could have two non-alcoholic beers. The enlisted got O’Douls, the chiefs and officers got Sharp’s.
I was once assigned to a working party that was onloading food at the pier in Norfolk. It sucked, because we were carrying food onboard while it was snowing. Four of us ducked into an electrical load center with a box of donuts and hid in there, snacking. The issue is that we had to get rid of the evidence or we would have been caught. So we ate the entire box. There are 144 donuts in a box. The donuts were lemon filled. Eating 3 dozen donuts made me sick. I couldn’t stand the taste of lemon filling for years after that.
Did we bitch about it? Of course we did. Our command Master Chief (the senior enlisted man onboard) used to say “A bitching sailor is a happy sailor. When they stop complaining and the crew goes silent, that’s when trouble is brewing.” The difference is that today, the sailors have social media and combined with the press looking for any reason to slam the military (and by extension, Trump) the complaints are getting traction in the press.
What should the CO do? Cut off all access to social media for the entire crew. Then have the crew scrub and paint the entire ship until it sparkles, now that they have so much free time. That way, they can’t post videos of mold in the showers or dirty berthing areas because they will be clean.
When I was an E-3, I spent a lot of time needle gunning, painting, buffing and polishing floors, and scrubbing the gadoogin deck edges. In fact, about a third of your workday is spent cleaning things when you are E-3 and below. That’s the real motivation to be promoted- you aren’t a janitor any longer.
Race baiting
Race
Karmelo Anthony is trying to get a new trial. His legal team claims he was going to testify, but ultimately decided against it because he feared prosecutors would introduce potentially damaging evidence from his past. Prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed before trial not to introduce “character evidence” about either Anthony or Metcalf. Austin Metcalf would have liked to have testified, but since Karmelo killed him, he was unavailable. I don’t understand this part of the article:
During hearings on Anthony’s motion for a new trial, jurors were shown previously unseen evidence, including graffiti containing a racial slur that was allegedly linked to Metcalf.
This is an appeals hearing. There is no jury present, because there is no trial being held. I don’t get this part.
This is an attempt to get a new trial where the defense will argue that Austin was racist and deserved to die.
- The attorney in the case testified that his team documented more than 50 incidents dating to 2010 that allegedly involved violent or racially inappropriate behavior connected to the Metcalf twins.
- He argued that evidence was relevant to Anthony’s self-defense claim and portrayed the brothers as having a history of violence and racism, information that jurors never heard during the original trial.
Those points mean nothing, unless they can show in court that Karmelo was aware of them at the time of the incident. Self defense cases are decided on what the person who used force in self defense knew at the time, not on what they found out hours or weeks later. What these are being used for is to secure a new trial, where the defense will do all in its power to get blacks on the jury, because those blacks have already stated they would never vote to put a “brother” in jail.
The ruling comes out today.
Medical News
Drug Administration
A hospital in Nashville recently severely injured several patients when they administered potassium phosphate in place of the anesthetic Polocaine. In order to understand how this happens, it’s important to understand how medications are given in a hospital setting. This is dictated in general terms by the Joint Commission, a U.S. nonprofit organization that sets safety and quality rules for hospitals and medical centers. In order to be certified, one has to conform to the rules and guidelines of the Joint Commission. The commission inspects every hospital every three years, and will also inspect a hospital if they have had sentinel events. Here is generally how medication administration goes:
- When the patient checks in to the facility, they ae identified by multiple identifiers, including name, date of birth, address, and others. This ensures the hospital knows which person they are dealing with. A wrist band with a barcode matching the patient’s record is placed on the patient’s wrist.
- The intake nurse reviews medication allergies, current medications, and medical history with the patient.
- In many cases, a pharmacy representative will repeat the verification process.
- The provider orders the medication that will be given.
- The hospital’s computers check to make sure the medication is proper, and there are no contraindications for the medication. If it finds any, it will alert the provider to the issue, but the provider can override this recommendation.
- A pharmacist reviews the patient’s record and the medication order to ensure the order is proper, the dose is correct, and the patient has nothing that will contraindicate this medication. It’s then released. Sometimes, the medication has to be mixed in the pharmacy. There are complex procedures for doing this as well, with numerous safeguards in place. Still, mistakes DO happen.
- The nurse who will administer the drug pulls the medication from the drug cabinet, which is locked and keyed to the nurse’s fingerprint and the patient’s name. Doctors do not have access to this system, only nurses and the pharmacy can open the cabinet.
- In case of emergency, if the pharmacist hasn’t approved the medication, or a provider hasn’t ordered it, some nurses can override this and pull out a medication that hasn’t been ordered. Sometimes it requires a second nurse to also use their fingerprint to access the medication. Each unit has its own rules as to who can do this. The nurses in the ED, ICU, and other high acuity units have more latitude than do nurses from other units.
- Some medications are marked with brightly colored bands that say “high risk medication” as a visual warning that the drug can be particularly dangerous if given improperly. In those cases, two nurses are required to administer the medication, to further reduce the chance of error.
- The nurse then uses a computer at the patient’s bedside to scan their wristband to positively identify the patient. A prudent nurse will also ask the patient their name, date of birth, and which medications the patient is allergic to.
- Then the nurse scans the barcode on the medication, and at this time, the computer matches what was ordered and approved to what was just scanned. If there is a mismatch, the screen gives a bright red warning overlay, telling the nurse that there is a problem.
- As a final check, the nurse administering the medication is expected to check the medication, dose, route, and other facts to ensure the drug is safe and proper for that patient before they actually administer it.
All of this is designed to minimize the chances of a medication error, but there are numerous places where someone can take shortcuts and the result is a patient getting the wrong drug. In the case of Polocaine, it is administered by a nurse anesthetist or doctor. It can be pushed in manually, or can be given by an automated pump- in both cases directly into the spine.
Although I have no direct knowledge of this specific incident, here is what I suspect happened. The hospital says it was a pharmacy error. In the pharmacy, Pharmacists or certified techs prepare it inside a sterile, laminar-flow hood to ensure complete sterility. The ingredients to be mixed are placed on a table and photographed for later tracking. A second person (usually a licensed pharmacist) then checks the medication to ensure it is correct. They are then mixed, a tracking tag with a barcode are placed on the medication, and it is sent to the point of use. With some medications that are high risk, more than one person is required to sign off on the blend to ensure there were no mistakes.
It seems likely the pharmacist or tech who mixed the drug put the potassium phosphate in the medication instead of the Polocaine, and the person whose job it was to check it just signed off on it without looking. People tend to make these sorts of mistakes when they are overloaded with tasks. I’ve had this mistake happen three times in my career, and each time I caught the error before I gave it to the patient. Once was with half normal saline being confused for normal saline, the second was a unit of packed red blood cells that were not properly matched, and the third was a bag of phenobarbital that was improperly mixed. The mistake with the phenobarbital was unusual, as it was the hospital’s computer that made the error, and a subsequent investigation showed this error was system wide, with hundreds of patients receiving the incorrect medication. I was just the first person to catch it. It seems likely that some patients experienced negative consequences, although no one can really know for sure.
Administering medications is one of the riskiest things a hospital does. A busy hospital gives medications millions of times per year. Every step and precaution is taken, but no policy or procedure is 100% foolproof. This is why medical careers like nursing, pharmacy, doctor, and others have such high barriers to entry and licensure. We could have cheaper healthcare by lowering those barriers and creating more licensed personnel, but we do so at higher risk of errors.
Anti American left
My New Slogan
Watch this:
My new slogan: I support the abortion of trans and black babies.
See if the left still supports abortion.