Two black men shoot and kill a 66 year-old white man in New Orleans. The handyman was installing a mailbox outside a home. One of them tells cops they just “wanted to kill a white person.” Note that there are no “hate crime” charges pending.
Nope. Nothing to see here.
I hate these kinds of pranks. What if your “killer clown” gets double tapped? I could justify shooting the clown in any one of these scenes. It would be reasonable for the person shooting the clown to be in fear for his life, so no charges there. In fact, the video would be the primary defense exhibit in my trial, followed by the primary exhibit when I sued everyone involved for the emotional distress of forcing me to shoot someone.
Should everyone involved be prosecuted for manslaughter? Why is it funny to make people think that they are about to be murdered?
How do you know that the drug is this vial:
isn’t actually the drug that is in this vial:
The answer? Without trusting that the medication is correctly labelled, you don’t. You trust that the label was correctly applied. OK, so you are a plumber. How can you be sure that this pipe:
Is made from a different material than this pipe:
When you are handloading ammunition, how do you know that the gunpowder you are using is the proper one? What if the one you are using actually creates dangerously high chamber pressures, but is labelled as if it didn’t? How would you know?
How do engineers know that the materials they are using are suitable for a task? It’s called standards. Materials are produced to a standard. Engineers trust that the standard is a good one, and that the certification that a material has met that standard hasn’t been falsified. So what happens if the agency that creates those standards begins to falsify them?
A 19 year old woman gave birth in a bathroom in a hospital, then killed the baby by placing it in a trashcan and covering it with a trashbag. She has been arrested for murder. See the bodycam video here.
The woman (I refuse to use ‘teen’ as a way to deflect responsibility) had earlier come to the facility with back pain and medical professionals told her she was pregnant. After that, Trevizo allegedly locked herself in the bathroom for an extended period of time, gave birth, and placed the newborn in the trash bag.
After months of investigation and the results of an autopsy on March 28, authorities assert that the baby boy was actually born alive and died because he was placed in the bag. Her douchebag defense attorney is trying to blame her deliberate actions on the nursing staff. Defense attorney Gary C. Mitchell called this a “horrific case of a young person who goes for help to the right place — the place in that community she should be at. She went there for help, and this is the result?” the attorney asked.
The defendant’s mother seems more concerned with whether or not her daughter is going to jail than she is about the fact that her granddaughter has been murdered. The entire case is to me about a woman who is thinking that she can avoid the consequences of her poor choices by killing her child. Now at least four lives have been changed forever: the now dead child, the defendant, and the dead child’s grandparents. That doesn’t even mention the psychological impact that trying to save a dead child had on the medical staff and on the housekeeper who found the child.
The cop was very smart here. He didn’t question her, he let mom do it. Since he did not question her, he doesn’t have to advise her of her Miranda rights, yet everything she says while in his presence is still admissible in court.
I’m sorry if this makes me sound like a jerk, but this killer needs to rot in jail. Her poor, selfish decisions ended one life and damaged many others, and she is now compounding it by blaming her deliberate actions on the nursing staff, whose only crime was letting her use the restroom and trusting that she wouldn’t kill her unborn child while she was in there.
When I joined the Navy, I was an idealistic young man who joined for patriotism, and not college money. It was a time when so many were joining because they wanted the GI bill. Not me, I declined it. I wanted to serve.
The military and the way that it works taught me more about life, government, and country than I ever bargained for. You get used to hearing things like: “We don’t care about your family. If the Navy wanted you to have a family, they would have issued you one.”
One of the worst things that happened to me while I was in was an indirect result of the Navy’s beneficial suggestion program. This was a program where a sailor who saw waste, fraud, abuse, or a way that the Navy could save money, could make a report to the chain of command. If the Navy adopted your suggestion and saved money, the sailor making the suggestion would get a percentage of the savings.
In 1989, there was an explosion on the USS Iowa. In the case of the Iowa battleships, there was a flaw in the firing system. The silk making up the 50 pound bags that the gunpowder comes in were famous for leaving embers behind in the chamber of the 16 inch guns. Ramming them into the breech too quickly while those embers were still there was a recipe for explosions. They had been known to cause mishaps in those guns for decades.
However, those cannons were a huge PR point for the Navy, providing tons of photo ops and bragging rights for recruiting commercials. So when the Iowa had an explosion, instead of blaming a faulty process in a 50 year old weapons system and hurting their recruiting tool, they blamed a sailor who they alleged was a jilted gay lover.
The Tailhook scandal broke in 1991. It was such a huge deal that they made everyone in the Navy take sexual sensitivity training. Officers were exempt, which was ironic, since every person involved in the Tailhook scandal was an officer.
Back to the beneficial suggestion program. So the Navy had light fixtures that lit up the runways. These light fixtures were low voltage, with a transformer that stepped the power for that fixture from 120 volts down to 12 volts. The light fixtures would often fill with water, and this would short out the transformer, overheating it. The overheated transformer would then catch fire. I submitted a suggestion with a redesign of the circuit.
I was told that the command could authorize an award of up to $500, and my idea would get me more than that. It was so valuable that they were sending it to Atlantic Fleet command. A month later, I asked the Lieutenant what had happened to my idea, and he told me that LantFleet could only authorize an award of $5,000, and this was worth more than that. They were sending it to Navy Sea Systems, where my award could be as much as a million bucks. Wow!
A year later, we went into the shipyards for a 6 month long repair cycle. While we were in there, I helped the yard workers incorporate my changes into the ship’s runway lighting circuits. I asked why we were performing this change, and where my reward was. They said, “what reward? This was the lieutenant’s idea.” The lieutenant that I had brought my idea to wound up getting a sizeable reward from the beneficial suggestion program.
By the time I got out, I was often heard to say, “Oh, you don’t like my attitude? It’s the one I was issued.” I left the Navy wiser, more cynical, and less trusting of government than I was when I entered as the idealistic, patriotic believer that I was when I entered. I was still patriotic, but I had discovered that my government and the people who worked in it were not.
The CDC has banned the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine and ordered all health care providers to destroy all remaining doses. I will say that I remember when claiming this vaccine was bad for you would get you a ban from social media. I’m betting that the friendly folks at the CDC and in government knew this all along, since they gave themselves AND the vaccine manufacturers complete immunity from all legal liability.
I will begin this by saying that I got the Moderna vaccine. I don’t regret getting it, because no one I know suffered ill effects after receiving it. At this point, I will not suggest that anyone take another dose of any of the COVID vaccines.
All of society, all of civilization, relies on trust. You trust that the person behind you won’t shove you onto the subway tracks. You trust that the cars in the oncoming lane won’t swerve into your path. You trust that the person who just cooked your meal in the restaurant didn’t poison your meal, or that the waiter didn’t spit in it.
Like society, the entire scientific community, the entire medical community relies on trust. You trust that the supplies in the package that says “sterile” actually IS sterile. You trust that the vial labelled as “dopamine” doesn’t contain something else, and that it actually will work for its intended use.
Likewise, when other medical professionals tell you that a vaccine is safe and effective, you have no choice but to believe them, because a failure in that trust means that the entire system will fail.
Believe it or not, nearly every medical professional got into the medical field because they want to make a difference. They want to help people. Only a person that is truly psychotic would deliberately harm someone else, but that is exactly what the CDC and the rest of the government has done.
Not only did they make the choice to deliberately harm people, but they did something that is far, far worse. They damaged the trust that underpinned the medical profession, and by extension, all of civilization. This was a deliberate attack. Not just a biological warfare attack, but an attack on the very fabric of our society.
EDIT: Now that Godwin’s law has shown its head, comments are closed.
Thirty tons of ammonium nitrate has gone missing from a railcar in California.
Ear lobes being attached or not is a genetic, inheritable trait. I used to use it as an example in the Biology class I taught. We are looking at Joe Biden’s right earlobe. Tak a close look at this picture of Joe Biden as a younger man, in 1987.
Here is a picture of Joe Biden receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January of 2017:
Here is a picture of Vice-President Joe Biden from an official White House photo in 2013:
Here he is in a story from September of 2019:
Now take a look at this picture of Joe Biden from two months ago:
Freaky, right? In picture after picture, there is a clear difference. Any picture that I could find from before 2019, he has free earlobes. In any picture from 2019 or later, he doesn’t. What happened?
NBC news does a story about a teacher who had a police report filed against her because she read a book to her fifth grade students. They make it sound like this book was harmless.
“The difference is that I have that love and care for all students, not just a singular student,” she adds. “In regards to the book that was challenged in my classroom, it was a message to the LGBTQ+ community in my room and in my district that they’re ‘less than.’”
No, this book was intended to teach ten and eleven year old kids how to have gay sex. Here is some of the content of that book:
This is entirely inappropriate for children. The book claims that we teach kids about sex at ten years old. No we do not. We teach about reproduction in school, not sex. It’s done in the tenth grade for most students, the eighth grade for advanced students. I taught the class, so I know. The course is about reproduction, but makes no mention of sex. At all. We talk about sperm and egg, how they are made and how they come together to make a child. I don’t mention how the sperm gets there, nor do I give instructions on sex.
In fact, my school ordered teachers to tell students about gay sex back in 2016, and I refused.
When the left boycotts something like Chik Fil A, it’s “expressing an opinion.” When the right does it, they call it a targeted harassment and intimidation campaign.