Divemedic

Petty Tyrants (ABN)

A member of the 21st Waitress Division (Airborne) threatened to have a disabled man pulled from a plane at gunpoint. His crime? Asking the stewardess to follow the law and make sure his wheelchair was on the Jetway, so he could use it to leave the plane.

What’s next for her? Punch a baby for crying and interrupting her during her seatbelt speech? Kick the crutches out from under a disabled child for taking too long to find a seat?

This is what happens when you give people a little power. They become little petty tyrants. When I was in the military, we used to joke around and say “What is the military gonna do? Take away my birthday? Confiscate my name?” I think that is exactly what we should do. Tell them that they are no longer “flight attendants.” You are now “Stewards” and “Stewardesses.” Keep screwing up, and we will start calling you “waitress” and you can work for tips.

Or we can just tell them that the days of threatening to have people arrested for “not complying with the instructions of a flight crew” are over, because they are now subject to being sued personally for violating the law and people’s civil rights under color of authority.

By Divemedic, ago

I’m Not Sure That This is a Good Idea

The Brevard county sheriff paired up with the Brevard Public Schools Chairman to announce a new discipline policy for the county’s schools.

“Not only safe from active shooters, intruders, and other potential threats to our campuses, but also from the clowns who continually disrupt our classrooms and our assemblies with bad behavior, violent acts, and even cellphones, that disrupt class room environments and distract our incredible teachers.”

Look, I am in agreement that there are some kids in school that are out of control. I just don’t like that there are no details of this new policy, and I definitely don’t think that the police are the proper tool for addressing those children. If he is talking about children who are committing big boy crimes, that is one thing, but referring to using police to control a kid who is only disrupting class is another. Read this quote and see what I mean:

“If you are a teacher that is passionate about teaching children and are sick and tired of trying to do it in an environment where you are physically and verbally threatened or subjected to constant childish outbursts, then starting today, your prayers have been answered, because all of us have had enough of this crap as well.

(emphasis added by DM)

In school, childish outbursts are expected. They are CHILDREN, after all. The teachers need to worry about those things, not police. I’m with the Sheriff on things like violence, stealing, and actual crimes. Not on kids simply being kids.

Keep in mind that this is the same school board last year that voted to restrict parents to one minute of speaking time when addressing the school board, and had parents arrested for going over the time limit. The claim was that too many people were speaking for too long, and this was causing school board meetings to last too long.

So excuse me if I don’t trust the school board to say one thing, but use the resulting rules to be petty tyrants.

By Divemedic, ago

Computer

I have been having computer issues. That is, the battery on this laptop never seems to stay charged. I replaced the battery. Nope. New charger. That didn’t do it. I replaced the cable that runs between the motherboard and the charging port. That wasn’t it, either. Nothing I tried seems to work for more than a week or so. I bought this computer in April of 2020, and I have been trying to baby it along for about four months.

I saw a Black Friday ad for a new, higher performance computer, half off. So I pulled the trigger. It will be here on Thursday.

By Divemedic, ago

A Couple from the NY Post

This woman is “raising free range kids,” meaning that she allows them to do anything they want: Shave their heads, eat nothing but ice cream, or simply refuse to go to school. Literally no rules. That isn’t raising kids, that isn’t being a parent. This woman is a “stay at home” mom- meaning that she has no job. The father of her children is her “domestic partner” and earns a living “reselling” (Meaning on Ebay). On other words, they are collecting welfare, which is why they aren’t married. (Single moms get more money).

What this is, is breeding children so that you can collect more welfare money. Hey, I am OK with raising kids like this, as long as you AND your kids are not eligible to vote or to collect any public money in the form of handouts. Why? Because being a part of a society means having to contribute to that society, not be a free range leech.

The second article is the New York law that is coming. It prohibits landlords from performing a criminal background check on prospective tenants. This increases potential liability and risk for landlords, which increases costs. Those increased costs will be passed on to everyone. Congratulations, you get a criminal for a next door neighbor, AND your rent is going up. Again.

By Divemedic, ago

Unless They Do Bad Things

We have been getting screeched at about gender for several years now. People can be whatever gender they claim to be. They can change it on a daily basis. Until they do something that the left doesn’t like. Then gender is definable, it’s just that the left is the one that gets to do the defining.

The shooter at Club Q, the Colorado gay bar, identifies as non-binary. According to the left, that is his decision to make, but the left is saying that he is simply lying. So which is it?

If the shooter says “I’m non-binary,” do we have to respect and accept that? Or can we say, “No, you’re not. You’re clearly a man pretending to be neither male nor female. We trust your biology, not your psychology, and we think you’re lying about who you are.”

The interesting thing here, is that the left may be laying the groundwork for destroying one of the basic tenets of hate crime charges. Leftist legal experts are claiming that someone who is a member of the group being victimized can also be charged with a hate crime. Under this legal theory, one black man screaming “shut up, nigga” before shooting another black man has just committed a hate crime.

They are using this shooting to come after Republicans. The shooter is the grandson of a Republican lawmaker from California. They are already trying to connect the dots from this shooting to the J6 protests, MAGA, and Donald Trump. It will soon be a hate crime to be a Republican.

By Divemedic, ago

More ACLU Idiocy

Here is what the ACLU has to say today:

This is typical of communists. One of the first things to go is land ownership. This is why communists take a run at landlords. That’s right- in order to establish their communist utopia, they must first get rid of the concept of property. Hence, they are making a case that your private property must belong to the workers. There is no need for the concept of property because the workers own everything.

They are instead trying a new spin to an old theme. Instead of communism being the workers’ paradise, it will be a POC paradise. Instead of dividing people into proletariat and bourgeoisie, we are dividing them into white and POC. This system is merely a way to divide us so that the nation can be torn down, with themselves in charge. They are nothing but a propaganda spewing fake news arm at this point.

Instead of calling them the American Civil Liberties Union, let’s call them what they have become: The American Communist Liberation Union. Don’t forget that the ACLU no longer supports free speech. They support only speech that agrees with the left’s positions.

Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed,

The ACLU has stated: Moving forward, when deciding whether to take a free speech case, the organization will consider “factors such as the (present and historical) context of the proposed speech; the potential effect on marginalized communities; the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values; and the structural and power inequalities in the community in which the speech will occur.

The ACLU is the antithesis of a civil rights organization. They have become an organization that supports suppressing and destroying anything counter to their political beliefs.

By Divemedic, ago