I was told that this is an insurrection when the Republicans did it. Coordinating opposition to the sitting President is grounds for a lifetime ban on serving in office, I have been told.
Tranny Insanity
Free Speech
A pair of fathers were banned from their daughters’ school soccer games because they were wearing pink wristbands with ‘XX’ printed on them, as a silent protest against males being permitted to play in girls’ sports. They sued.
The Federal judges ruled that the school was within their rights to kick the fathers out of the game.
I don’t want to hear shit from the left about free speech. This will mean the end of women’s and girls’ sports.
Uncategorized
Antifa Is Still at It
Antifa in Portland posted flyers around the city stating that if you don’t wear a mask you are being “violent,” and suggesting that they have the right to attack you in “self-defense.”
Crime
Ghetto Lottery
After spending a couple of days talking about how I try to show people compassion, some idiots go and validate a stereotype and test my empathy. Of course I can’t be empathic to a guy and his family when they stab someone for telling him he was in the wrong seat, but this gets even worse.
The kid and his family used this as a fundraising opportunity and raised over $400k from gullible morons who hate white people. They also got a racist black judge to agree with them, and lowered the murderer’s bond from $1 million down to $250k. So the father decided to quit his job and use the money was a windfall and have decided to spend it on a new house. He is claiming that the case has caused the family to need a new house because of racist threats.
George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse would like to comment on this.
The trial hasn’t even started yet, and they are back to not having a pot to piss in, but at least they now own a window to throw it out of. If I were the dead victim’s family, I would already be filing a wrongful death lawsuit and taking that shit.
Anti American left
Let’s Keep Our Money
Harvard is claiming that the Trump administration is attempting to force it to give up its constitutional rights when they tie Federal funding to conditions and accuse the administration of trying to “control teaching and learning at Harvard.” That is false. Where in the Constitution does it say that a college has a Constitutional right to the public treasury? I think that it is obscene that the US government is giving taxpayer dollars to an elite school that despises most of the people who are paying the taxes that make that very funding possible.
Harvard got $820 million last year. The list goes on. Columbia got more than $1.5 billion. All told, the eight colleges of the Ivy League received more than $6 billion in government handouts last year, despite the fact that they collectively are sitting on $185 billion in endowment funds.
The Harvard college has the largest endowment of any school in the world- to the tune of more than $53 billion dollars. They spend most of their money and time supporting leftist causes like David Hogg, who is now the vice chairman of the DNC. That is influence peddling of the highest order. Five of our last eight Presidents attended either Yale or Harvard.
I say that the Ivy league doesn’t need our money, and I think we should keep it.
Me
It’s Complicated
My own moral code is somewhat complicated. As all of you know, I am not a believer in any sort of deity. I guess that’s odd, being that I grew up in a Catholic household and was sent to a Christian private school for three years. My parents were hoping that the experience would help. It didn’t. All my experiences with organized religion did was make me believe that the people in the churches were mostly lying hypocrites. There is a joke I once heard that goes like this:
When I was a kid, I wanted to pray for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work like that. So I stole a bike and then prayed for forgiveness.
My experiences really turned me away from religion, but I also knew that I needed to develop my own moral and ethical code. That was when I discovered Robert A Heinlein. In more than a couple of his stories, his characters remarked on the importance of developing one for yourself, and that is exactly what I did.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.- RAH
In doing this, I looked at many different philosophies. For example, there are some cultures that don’t believe in owning property. To outsiders, they don’t believe that taking something that you want is stealing, since no one actually owns property. Still other cultures believe that objects belong to the maker. I discarded those and kept looking.
I think that it’s fair to say that most of my personal ethics and morals are a close parallel to Christian beliefs. So even though I don’t claim to believe in the spiritual and mythological parts of Christianity, I do align quite closely with its tenets on most things. I guess you can say that I am Christian adjacent. I guess, growing up on Heinlein novels, a lot of my outlook is close to his. Why did L. Ron Hubbard become the prophet for a religion, but RAH was not the founder of a political party? Puzzling.
Force and Violence
My first and most important one is that it is always morally wrong to initiate violence or force against another. That doesn’t mean that you have to wait for the other guy to throw the first punch- quite the contrary. Force to me doesn’t just mean that you are physically striking someone. I can use force against you in various ways- shouting in your ear with a megaphone, shining a laser in your eyes, or even sitting at the end of your driveway so that you cannot leave your house without running me over are all uses of force. Taking something of yours while daring you to do something about it is still force. I think this part of my philosophy came from that time when I was a child and my dad told me that I wasn’t allowed to start a fight. So I just forced the other kid to throw the first punch by being a royal asshole. Now that I am an adult, I know that there are more ways to start a fight than merely hitting someone, and I recognize it to be wrong.
Still, anyone who attempts to use force against me will have a fight on their hands. That fight might be a physical one, a legal one, or some other pushback.
Stealing and Fraud
We all trade our time in order to secure property. Whether we make the object, or trade our labor for money in order to buy the object, everything we own represents a slice of our limited lifetime. Stealing an object is no different than stealing time from another’s life or making them your slave. On the contrary, gift giving is indirectly giving someone some of your life, whether the gift is an object or your time, it still represents something.
It’s also wrong to use deception to take things from others. Lying to someone and telling them that this car has never had mechanical problems when you know damned well that it needs a new transmission is still stealing, it’s just stealing by fraud. It’s wrong.
I have no problem with charging all that the traffic will bear- an eager seller and a willing buyer is fine with me- as long as both are honest about what is being traded. I won’t sell you a broken car, you don’t pay me with a counterfeit bill.
Taxes and Charity
Taxes for the public good aren’t stealing as long as everyone gets the same benefit. So a tax that pays for police, courts, streets, or fire service can be a good thing, while a tax that takes money to hand out to people simply because they are poor is nothing more than theft.
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”- RAH
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.- Also RAH
Defending the Helpless
I also believe that we have a duty here in this life to defend those who are unable to defend themselves. I will always fight for what I think is right- even at great personal cost. In fact, the times in my life that got me in the most trouble were the times that I stood my ground and defended my principles.
There are plenty of things that I believe, and I suspect that many who claim to be Christians would find that our beliefs are actually quite closely aligned.
Limited Government:
I believe in a government that primarily focuses on internal police, courts, and external defense. Other matters should be handled by individuals and private organizations.
That we were slaves I had known all my life—and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren’t bought and sold—but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.- RAH
Individual Liberty:
I stand behind individual freedom, including freedom of speech, thought, and expression. Censorship and any attempt to control people’s knowledge or beliefs is wrong. That’s why I run this blog.
Distrust of Authority:
I have a great deal of skepticism towards authority, particularly government authority, but also authority of organized religion. How the pope can tell us we need to donate to the poor while he is taking a crap on a solid gold toilet just smacks of hypocrisy. It is far too easy for power to be abused. That is where the founders were so very wise in keeping government of limited power. That was destroyed from the Civil war on.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.- RAH
Still, we need government. Why? Because true anarchy can’t exist, because someone with a yearning for power will always take it, by force if necessary. That’s why police morally exist- to protect the rights of those who are accused of crimes to receive a fair trial. The problem is that people don’t monitor their government to ensure that the powers aren’t being abused. Too much effort? No, it’s that people are good at wanting to use government power to force others to follow their own beliefs.
There must be a yearning deep in the human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.- RAH
Importance of Education and Critical Thinking:
Education and critical thinking are tools for individuals to resist tyranny and make informed decisions. However, education institutions can twist education to be a tool for ignorance, tyranny, and actually increase ignorance. That’s what we are seeing now. See my post tomorrow about Harvard.
I just do my absolute best to be worthy of being treated the way that I treat others. How would I feel if someone treated me or my loved ones the way that I am treating you? That doesn’t mean that I will be a doormat, and it doesn’t make me a Saint- after all, I sometimes fall short of my goal. I am far from perfect, even in meeting my own standards. We are all a work in progress.
I have committed transgressions against others, because I am not perfect. Some of the things that I did and said in my youth truly shame me when I think about them. I hope that those I hurt or offended through my faults have forgiven me. I am not that person any longer.
Does that make me Christian adjacent? I don’t know, but that’s my code. Parts of it, anyhow. It is what enables me to look myself in the eye in that mirror in the morning. I think that RAH and myself would have gotten along quite well.
Me
Nope. Not Messing with That
My last day at work, I was the response nurse. In that position, you are the nurse that isn’t assigned to any patients, and instead spending your day helping the other nurses in the ED with anything that happens requiring a spare set of skilled hands. You spend your day getting difficult IVs, helping with complicated drug administration, and assisting with difficult patients. As it turns out, it was one of those days where a lot of weird stuff happens.
- We had three cardiac arrests. One of them was REALLY ill when he came in. He was completely out of his head, and would only yell his sister’s name (he lived with her) and that we were trying to kill him. He had a Lactic Acid of 15, a Hemoglobin of 5.2, Troponin of 500, and a rectal temperature of 91.5f. Two hours later, he was dead. When I notified his sister, she was hysterical, telling me that he was all she had left in the world. She was heart broken that he had been calling for her and she wasn’t there. Heart wrenching.
- Then there were the two heart attacks that went directly to the cath lab. One of them died on the operating table.
- The woman who was being arrested for her 19th felony and started complaining of chest pain. A clear case of incarceritis.. She was agitated and combative. I wanted to give her Ativan, but there is a nationwide shortage. Ten milligrams of Valium later, she took a nap. When she woke up, she went to jail.
- A woman who has been coming in for weeks complaining that she keeps falling, but we can never find anything. Right after she got in the ED, her blood pressure dropped to 72/42. Problem found.
- A list of other alerts: Sepsis, Respiratory, Seizures, and a couple of falls with associated broken hips.
The oddest one was a Baker Act that came in. It was a young woman who would talk completely normally for a while. Then she began speaking Latin in a very low pitched, gravelly voice. Then she would switch back to her normal voice, and claim to not remember a thing about what just happened. The family told me that this was odd, because she doesn’t know Latin. The girl’s family asked me what she was saying. It took a bit, because my Latin is not very good. We eventually figured it out. What she was saying was that “The girl is gone. I am Satan.” While she was acting like that, she would look at you with the creepiest expression on her face. Bone chilling.
That is some freaky shit. Her head CT showed a rather large tumor in her brain. Still, I am not playing with that shit, even though I am not religious in the least. That was some next level, spooky stuff.
She got sent to a mental health facility. It was an emotionally draining day, and I am sleeping in. I am typing this and going to back to bed. I didn’t sleep well after that horrible trainwreck of a shift.
Military
Article 88
Colonel Sheyla Baez Ramirez. Ramirez assumed command of the Fort McCoy Garrison in Wisconsin in 2024. Ramirez is a left wing political activist who refuses to display the official photographs of the Secretary of Defense, President, and the Vice President.
There is a growing movement in the US military of Commissioned officers who are refusing to display the photos of the President, Vice President, and SecDef. Many of them are being relieved of command. The left is claiming that the Free Speech rights of these officers is being violated to soothe Trump’s ego.
They are wrong. Military personnel are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Article 88 has this to say:
Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
This is important, because the US military MUST be subservient to civilian control. Allowing officers to oppose that civilian control carries with it a large risk of military coup. Seldom is it seen for Generals to engage in military coups. Usually, it is colonels who do those sorts of things.
- olonel Reza Khan’s 1921 coup that brought the Pahlavi dynasty to power in Iran
- The 1931 coup attempts by the Japanese Army (led by Lieutenant Colonel Kingoro Hashimoto)
- The 1967 coup by a group of colonels in Greece that established the military junta
- The 1969 Libyan coup d’état in which Colonel Muammar Gaddafi took power
- The successful coup in Mali by Colonel Assimi Goita
Generals are inherently political creatures, and they are therefore close to the existing power structure the coup intends to overthrow. They got their position through connections, potentially through patronage, and they themselves enjoy powers of patronage and influence. In this case, many of the officers who oppose Trump are there because Biden put them there through DEI programs. They remain loyal to the left.
An example needs to be made of a couple of these mutinous assholes. Start an Article 31 investigation and court martial a couple of them. Reduce them in rank to the lowest you can get away with, toss them in jail for a year or so, and give them a BCD.
Blog News
New Feature
I have decided to begin doing some testing of ammo and posting my results here at Sector Ocho. I have recently procured a Garmin Xero C1 Pro chronograph. I will start doing some real world testing at the range, using actual EDC handguns to obtain muzzle velocity and bullet data, as well as shooting into ballistic gelatin to measure terminal performance.
This just tickles my data driven side. I love data, and this will give me plenty of it.
The chrono uses radar to measure bullet speed, and I am looking forward to playing with it. Expect an article on defense ammo to be coming soon. I am thinking that this will spark some interesting caliber/brand wars.
Just let me pass those boards first.