Gun bans are always followed by the loss of other rights.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free speech. pic.twitter.com/O8jQMtNs55
— illuminatibot (@iluminatibot) September 19, 2023
I just upgraded the server here. Things should be a bit faster. In total, we are seeing about 14,000 visitors a day. This blog alone is getting about 6,000 of those. The extra traffic was causing a bit of a slowdown, so we did a few upgrades. More memory, a different set of IP’s, and a larger CPU. If you people keep wanting to share my server, I will just expand again.
Keep helping us preserve the First Amendment.
I got an email asking about this, so here is my take:
Whenever a person is about to die, let’s say that they are brain dead but on life support, the hospital will evaluate the patient’s record to see if they are an organ donor. Whether they are or not, the organ donation people will be contacted. That organization will then determine if the person is a candidate for donating organs (not everyone is medically capable of donating their organs.)
If the person has previously agreed to be an organ donor, the person will immediately be screened to see if they are a match for anyone on the recipient list. The transplant team in the recipient’s hospital will be contacted, and they hop on a plane to harvest the organ.
If the person hasn’t indicated either way, the organization will contact the next of kin and attempt to gain consent for organ donation.
No one is taking anyone’s organs without consent. All the organization is doing is acting as a coordinator for the process. If you don’t want to be an organ donor, make sure that you indicate your wishes in your will or living will and make sure that your next of kin is aware of your desires. It’s up to you.
With that being said: No, the hospital doesn’t change your care if you are or are not an organ donor, other than keeping a person that is brain dead on life support a bit longer before “pulling the plug” so as to preserve some of the more sensitive organs like heart or liver. No, it isn’t like signing a DNR.
They aren’t less likely to try and save you for increased profits or anything like that. Chances are, the recipient of your donated organ is hundreds of miles away in another state. As an ED nurse, I work a lot of codes. I do not know, nor do I care, what your organ donation status is before I call your code.
The only thing this is for is to save lives by giving people with defective organs a shot.
A great example of this: A guy comes into the ED by EMS and is brain dead due to some sort of accident. He isn’t savable, his brain is gone, but he is otherwise young and healthy. Why leave his organs to rot when so many people need donations? So the organ donation people get a call, and those people review the record to see if he is an organ donor. If he isn’t, they will try to gain consent of the next of kin. Either way, once they gain consent, they will send out the notifications to the appropriate recipient teams.
Nothing nefarious. It’s all consensual, and it doesn’t change the potential donor’s care one whit.
When we last spoke about my property taxes, the tax assessor’s office was dragging their feet on my property valuation. The deadline for filing a hearing request with the Value Adjustment Board (the county magistrate that sets property values) was fast approaching, so I filed for a hearing.
This morning, I got a phone call from the director of the tax assessor’s office. They tried telling me that the sale price I would sell the house for is not the same thing as the market value. Then they said that the value as set by the appraiser that I hired was not the same thing, and besides (they said) the appraisal wasn’t the cleanest one, and that they would be attacking it in court.
The carrot:
Then they asked me if there was a value that I would be willing to drop my case for. I gave them a number, and they weren’t happy with it. Still, we aren’t that far apart, and I can defend the number I’m asking for. There isn’t a single property in this area that has sold below that in the past two years.
The stick
Then they said that they know I own multiple properties, and they would be making sure that, if I were to win my case, my non-homesteaded properties would be increased in value as well, which would increase my taxes. I took copious notes. If that shit happens, there will be a lawsuit. You can’t single me out for retribution because I exercised my rights under the law.
They told me that there are property owners who think that the market values in the area are too high, which is making taxes high. I pointed out that increasing property values wouldn’t hurt residents because the SOH tax credit limits increases to 3% per year. They responded by saying that there are some commercial property owners in the area that don’t want to see valuations go up because taxes on rental properties in the area will go up. They (the tax office) isn’t willing to take on the big companies, so they are going to oppose my request.
Translated: We the tax office are owned by the large companies, and we will fight you tooth and nail, even to the detriment of the taxpayers we are supposed to represent.
Chicago will be opening city owned, tax payer funded grocery stores. It will be a commie style bread line. Because grocery chains are fleeing the city due to crime and theft as a result of the fact that no one gets arrested anymore, unless they are protesting Democrat communist rule.
Pennsylvania will now automatically register Pennsylvanians to vote when they obtain or renew identification cards and driver licenses. Twenty-three mostly Democrat run states and Washington, DC have enacted some form of automatic voter registration. That won’t ever be abused or used to affect an election. Biden had this to say:
To be fair, it was his PR team that said that. What Biden actually said was along the lines of:
And the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are â why can’t the experts say we know that this is, in fact â is going to be â or, excuse me â we know why all the voters are temporarily approved, but my son Beau. That’s underway, too. I expect that to occur quickly as I used to work at the DMV in a black neighborhood. Don’t see that coming, did you, Jack?
Yesterday, Ray Epps was charged with disorderly conduct for entering a restricted area on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. He wasn’t arrested, nor did he see his house raided by a score of agents armed like a Marine heavy weapons platoon. Instead, they filed the charges in âanticipation of entry of a guilty plea.â
Less than 24 hours later, Epps pled guilty to the charge. The MSM is saying:
Michael Teter, an attorney representing Epps in the defamation case, said Eppsâ plea agreement is âpowerful evidence of the absurdity of Fox Newsâ and Tucker Carlsonâs lies that sought to turn Ray into a scapegoat for January 6.â
This is Kabuki theater. They are charging Epps with a bullshit misdemeanor, for which he will not see a single day in jail. This is being done so they can discredit the critics of all of the J6 investigations. This story doesn’t change my mind, it actually makes me even more convinced that he is working with the Feds.
Democrats and the MSM (but I repeat myself) are worried about Biden’s ability to continue as President:
Biden, 80, has even since lamented aloud that he might be dead before his sonâs case would be resolved, according to another source close to the Bidens.Â
So how do they do this? There is no way that Kamala Harris can be President. She is an empty headed moron. They can’t kick her out of office, though. That would destroy the party that claims to be the friend of blacks. They need to replace Biden with someone who is more popular than he is, but who isn’t seen as taking away a black woman’s job.
Since we all know that the election is rigged, no Republican will win. It just isn’t going to happen. Trump will be in jail, and none of the other Republicans have the juice to overcome a Democrat fix.
The problem is that you have a few Democrat frontrunners for President, and selecting any of them to be President would cause power struggles in the party. The Democrats need to pick someone who won’t cause Democrat power struggles, and will also cement support from the all important non-partisan middle. Who can do that? The list is short at this point.
Taking all of the above into consideration, there are a few obvious choices.
A black woman who isn’t Oprah or Kamala Harris, who can unite the Party without pissing off the various factions.
Enter Big Mike.
Ted Cruz has said as much, just in the past couple of days:
âHereâs the scenario that I think is perhaps the most likely and most dangerous, âIn August of 2024, the Democrat kingmakers jettison Joe Biden and parachute in Michelle Obama.â
âMichelle Obama â number one, you donât infuriate African-American women which is a critical part of the constituency the Democrats are relying on to win. Number 2 â If you pick from any of the four, the other three are pissed. Because theyâre all to some extent, peers, theyâre rivals, all jabbing knives at each other. Michelle Obama because she was the first lady has the ability to parachute in above all four and say hey, weâre not picking among any of you.â
We have talked about how you should never talk to the cops. In the video at the end of this post, a heroin addict who is under arrest because he was found near the scene of a robbery conducts a master class in applying this tactic:
They took him back to his cell, but questioned him again two hours later, and this time they brought him sodas. Still he didn’t talk.
The video talks about cops using the Reid technique. It is a trick used by cops, especially the FBI, to trick people into confessing. This technique is a form of psychological manipulation that is designed to trick people into agreeing to a set of facts that is a confession.
The best way to avoid this technique is not to say anything beyond:
That’s it. I’m guessing that psychological games and manipulation are why the J6 supporters are being held in the deplorable conditions that they are. A person who has been denied nutrition, sleep, and social interaction is easier to manipulate. At this point, they are political prisoners or even POWs.
Anyhow, the video is below:
In this case, an online predator has tricked a child into taking nude pictures of herself. The father understandably calls the cops, thinking that the cops would protect a child from an online predator. Instead, the cops arrived and threatened to arrest the child for producing child porn. Of course, they were going to do no such thing, because getting such a charge past prosecutors, a judge, and a jury is not going to happen. What this statement was really intended to do was send the message that the cops weren’t going to do anything.
In the old days before organized law enforcement, someone would molest a child or steal a horse, and the members of the community would form a posse, then ride out to find the criminal. The posse would often return without the criminal, but with the stolen object. The issue with this is that these vigilante law enforcers frequently got the wrong person.
Police departments were created to ensure that people accused of crimes receive a fair trial. The cops are nominally there to protect the right of the accused. At some point, they became corrupted into being the enforcers of government edicts, then morphed again into lazy cowards who are sucking at the public teat while doing as little as possible. Normally, it would make me happy that the cops weren’t out there arresting people on trumped up charges, or tossing grenades into baby cribs while searching for weed.
This isn’t the first time we have heard of children facing child porn charges for taking pictures of themselves. In 2015, a pair of children were charged as adults for producing child porn. The act that got them into the adult legal system? Taking nude pictures of children: themselves. So they were simultaneously adult criminals and juvenile victims. Twisted logic, to be sure.
This entire situation just sent a clear message to the father: his child is not going to be protected by the legal system that his is paying taxes to support. There is only one inescapable conclusion to this situation- the father is either going to have to do it himself, or he will have to let this go and accept the fact that his daughter is the sexual plaything of both a sexual predator and the cops who are supposed to arrest freaks like that. In my opinion, an appropriate response would be to duct tape the molester to a fence, cut his genitals off with a dull knife, then leave him there to bleed out.
The lesson that I take from this? A society that can’t protect its most vulnerable members (11 year old children) has already failed. Don’t call the cops. They are as useful as a football bat.
In a blog first, I offered to let my police readers do a guest post, defending this sort of behavior from the cops. I got exactly one response, and it appeared on this blog this morning. His issue was more with my made up on the spot number of 90% of cops being bad ones than any substantive disagreement with the behavior of cops. He was correct as far as that bit of hyperbole goes, but my main point remains- cops who allow this sort of behavior to exist without doing anything to put a stop to it are not good cops.