Divemedic

Make This Make Sense

The Ninth Circuit made this ruling on so called “sensitive places” where states can prohibit firearms:

  • Parks, athletic facilities and similar areas. Gun bans there are likely constitutional.
  • Playgrounds and youth centers. Gun bans there are likely constitutional.
  • Bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. Gun bans there are likely constitutional.
  • Places of amusement, including casinos, stadiums, amusement parks, zoos, museums and libraries. Gun bans there are likely constitutional.
  • Parking areas connected to certain sensitive places. Gun bans there are likely constitutional.
  • The private-property default rule. Hawaii’s rule banning guns on private property unless the owner gives consent orally, in writing or on a sign is likely constitutional.
  • Places of worship. State-mandated gun bans there are likely unconstitutional, but nothing prevents the owner or operator from banning firearms.
  • Gatherings that require a permit. Gun bans there are likely unconstitutional.
  • Financial institutions. State-mandated gun bans there are likely unconstitutional, but nothing prevents the owner or operator from banning firearms.
  • Hospitals and other medical facilities. State-mandated gun bans there are likely unconstitutional, but nothing prevents the owner or operator from banning firearms.
  • Public transit. A broad ban on carrying guns on public transit is likely unconstitutional, but a narrower law allowing the carrying of unloaded and secured firearms would likely be constitutional.

It’s a Mish mash. It isn’t even consistent. Where in the Constitution is this even found? Where in the history and tradition of the country was there a ban on weapons in bard? Casinos? But not hospitals, churches, or banks?

If you argue that schools are sensitive places and rights can be suspended to protect children, then why not suspend the First Amendment there and disallow faggotry?

Our courts are just as partisan and divided as the citizens. It’s long past time to admit that this nation is too large and varied for one set of rules to work for everyone.

By Divemedic, ago

Rights Watch Tab Clearing

Getting rid of a bunch of tabs that expose infringements on our rights, but that I just didn’t get time to write a post on:

By Divemedic, ago

Work

The hospital laid off 25 nurses from the emergency department last month, and are simultaneously complaining that we are working too much overtime. As I point out the next paragraph, keep in mind the company refusing to pay overtime that was worked by their employees due to their mandatory training.

The mandatory training this month is for ethics in the workplace. Here is the company’s official definition of ethics:

Ethical conduct means acting in a way that follows company values and the law.

What? Since when are laws or company policies ethical? It was the law in Germany to kill Jews. Segregation was the law. Your company policy mandates that we do this gay-assed training, even though you will try to get out of paying us for it.

As a thought exercise, they ask what you would do if you discovered 10 extra vacation days in your account. Would you tell HR, or would you take the vacation? Let me flip that- let’s say that you forced your employees to work an extra 12 hours on mandatory training, but you were already over budget and the company doesn’t want to pay the expense of overtime? Do you simply erase the hours from employee’s time cards, or do you pay them?

Yes, I am looking for a job. Sure there are lots of nursing jobs, but most of them are in the jobs no one wants to do, like home health care or working in a nursing home. No thanks. It’s the hospital slow season because the snowbirds aren’t here, so there aren’t a lot of good jobs available until winter. So, I may not find a job that I like for another few months yet.

By Divemedic, ago

Need Information

A search for the original claim or story about pets being killed and eaten in Ohio reveals nothing but ‘fact checkers’ calling Trump a liar from the past 48 hours. If anyone knows where the story originated, please place it in comments.

Thank you.

By Divemedic, ago

Hate

There is a scene in the movie Gardens of Stone where they are talking about the Vietnam war. The younger character says that the US can’t lose, because the VC are shooting at helicopters with arrows. The older one replies with, “How do you fight an enemy who is so dedicated that they are willing to fight helicopters with bows and arrows?”

I used to say the same thing about Islamic terrorists. They are willing to send their children into a crowd with a bomb strapped to their backs in the hope that when their child is blown up, several others will be taken out with them. How do you fight someone who is so fanatical that they are willing to sacrifice their child to score a few points?

That’s how I felt when I heard this speech:

You hate the right so much that you wish your child had been killed by a white man instead of by an illegal, just so you can blame those you hate for his death.

There is no way to reason with or negotiate with people who hate you so much that they are willing to sacrifice their children in order to score some PR points.

By Divemedic, ago