Divemedic

Hoard and cache

The ATF is going to ban 80 percent firearms and the entire hobby of Personally Made Firearms. There is also likely going to be a new assault weapons ban. I would also say that the likelihood of a civil war is higher now than it has been in over a century.

The only thing that makes sense as a response to all of the above is to buy as many 80 percent receivers as you can, make as many of them into firearms as you can before a ban goes into effect, and then make yourself caches of weapons that are hidden in your AO in areas where you can reach them.

An ideal cache would be a homemade AR, 5 magazines, 150 rounds of ammo, and five one ounce silver coins, all wiped free of prints, all sealed in PVC pipe with desiccant and buried in a location that is in your AO where it likely won’t be accidentally found, but not on your property. I remember when such a setup cost less than $500 total per copy. Hopefully, you took advantage of that. Three or four of those in the area will ensure that you can always access one if needed.

You never know…

By Divemedic, ago

Indoctrinating children

There is a camp calling itself the “Orlando Girls Rock Camp” but it is not what it seems. They claim that it “provides a safe and inclusive space for girls, trans and gender non-binary youth ages 8 to 17 who want to learn about music.” Note that anyone who doesn’t want to make claim that they are a male is invited.

The director of the camp says “The world is kind of unfolding right in front of our students and our campers and they’re kind of seeing the political discourse that’s happening and they’re participating in it to some degree and it’s important for them to have spaces to be themselves. There might be situations where campers can’t be themselves at home or at school and camp provides a place where they can not only learn about who they are and be themselves, but also meet other campers who are like-minded as well.”

The key word? “Like minded” This camp is, in my opinion, being run by sexual deviants who are setting up a camp where they can perform their perverted acts and push their fucked up lifestyle on children. This group is, in my opinion, a perfect setup for child molesting.

This is some sick fucking shit. There is no other way to call it. Not only are they attempting to convert people into their weird sex games, this is a political movement with political aims. From the website of their parent organization:

Mission

The Girls Rock Camp Alliance is an international membership network of youth-centered arts and social justice organizations. We provide resources and space for community building to our membership in order to build a strong movement for collective liberation.

(emphasis added)

Not just for perving on kids, this is using a nonprofit organization as a front for political activity.

By Divemedic, ago

Criminal History

The NFAC member who shot the cop? His family wants answers. They claim that he was sitting there minding his own business when a cop harassed him for no reason, and that the critter was just defending himself.

In cases like this, I like to look at the criminal history of those involved, so I took myself to the website of the Volusia county clerk to see if I could find a criminal history for the NFAC member. His name is Othal Wallace, and…

In Volusia county alone, he has a criminal history going back 8 years. I would note that his criminal history certainly goes much further back in history, since the earliest charge I could find for him was in 2013, and is listed as his 8th offense for driving with knowledge that is license is suspended or revoked.

Even so, Volusia county’s court records state that he has 5 felony arrests for aggravated battery with a firearm, domestic violence, being a habitual offender of driving on a suspended license, resisting arrest, and fleeing and eluding police.

He also has 14 misdemeanor arrests. Most of those are for punching women, driving with a suspended license, crashing into other vehicles while driving with a suspended license, running from the cops while driving with a suspended license, and crashing into other vehicles while running from the cops while driving with a suspended license. For many of these charges, he was also arrested because he didn’t bother coming to court to face any of the above charges.

Also, he has at least three different children with two different women (both of whom he has battered).

In short, he is a violent criminal who has no regard for the law, other people, or in fact anyone other than himself. He then blames white people for his situation and standing in life, because systemic racism or something.

He has convictions for domestic violence and for felonies. This makes him a prohibited person. The fact that he is pictured with firearms as a part of the NFAC and that he shot a cop should mean Federal firearms charges, but we all know it won’t. Instead, the FBI is all concentrating on investigating people for non violent crimes like trespassing in the capitol and raiding the wrong house while looking for Nancy Pelosi’s missing laptop.

By Divemedic, ago

FEMA isn’t magic

This post began as a comment over at Miguel’s place and quickly grew large enough to be a post on its own.

Many people see FEMA as some sort of large Federal organization that responds to emergencies. They aren’t. What FEMA is, is a guy with a Rolodex (Remember those? If you don’t, ask your parents, snowflake.) and a checkbook. There isn’t some magical team of Federal Employees sitting around, waiting for “the big one” so they can swoop in and save everyone. That isn’t how it works.

No, this FEMA guy’s phonebook is filled with the contact information of local and state resources that can be called in an emergency. Those resources respond, tracking expenses and man hours used, and the FEMA guy then breaks out the checkbook to reimburse the states involved. The Governor doesn’t call out FEMA for shit. If you want to get technical, FEMA can’t do a thing unless the President tells them to. (Didn’t Trump catch hell for that recently?) FEMA’s largest contribution is writing the check to pay for it all.

After 9/11, the US government came up with the concept of Urban Search and Rescue Teams. They follow a set of guidelines in equipment and training, so that all of them nationwide operate on a similar set of procedures. This makes them interoperable across state lines: a person qualified for one could easily fit into any of the others. A USAR is equipped with everything from power generators to food trailers and rescue equipment. They have medical supplies, fuel, and all other equipment needed to fulfill their mission. Each USAR maintains over 5,000 pieces of equipment and has 140 or so assigned personnel. They can operate independently for 2 weeks, longer with resupply of fuel, food, and other consumables.

While there are some variations in the mission for each team (a team in Florida doesn’t need to be equipped for blizzards, for example) the teams are remarkably similar in training and equipment.

Florida doesn’t need FEMA resources for a building collapse. The state has eight Urban Search and Rescue Teams, all of whom are trained and equipped for that. Each one is centered on a large city, and draws its personnel from surrounding first responders. These first responders volunteer for the team, are sent to special training, and then become qualified for the team. Specialists are trained in HAZMAT, trench rescue, building collapse, confined space, water rescue, dive rescue, high angle, and vehicle and machinery rescue. Every member is certified as an EMT or Paramedic. It takes 2 to 3 years of training to fully qualify for a USAR team, on top of the extra training that they do on a constant basis. Most USAR members are the best of what their employing agencies have to offer. They are the most motivated and able of emergency responders.

Miami Dade is home to Florida’s TF1 (task force 1)
Miami has TF 2.
Tampa has TF 3.
Orlando is the center for TF 4.
Jacksonville has TF 5.
Fort Meyers has TF 6.
Tallahassee has TF 7, and
TF 8 is from Ocala and Gainesville.

Those eight task forces are comprised of about 2,000 of the state’s emergency services personnel. Before I retired, I deployed more than a couple of times with one of those teams. The most notable was to Mississippi for Hurricane Katrina.

Elements from six different USAR teams are in Surfside right now, along with a team from Mexico and another from Israel. They have more people and equipment than they can use right now- last I heard there were over 500 USAR team members there.

The issue is that a building collapse isn’t the type of disaster that is solved by throwing people at it. Even though miracles can happen and the occasional survivor is found days later, a building collapse is likely fatal for nearly everyone. Most of the survivors are found nearly immediately, survivors days later are miracles no matter how many rescuers are present.

The people in that building, with a few exceptions, were dead as soon as that building began to fall. No amount of handwringing is or could have changed that.

To be honest, I loved deployments. Not because deployments meant people were suffering. No, mostly it was because they were a test of all that you had learned. That, and a FEMA deployment usually pays pretty well. I was deployed to Katrina for 12 days and was paid more than $5,000. You want people who bring years of expertise and thousands of hours of training to come save you? You want people willing to live on 3 hours’ sleep a night without bathing while shitting in a bucket and eating old MRE’s for two weeks? It’s gonna cost ya. That kind of expertise and dedication isn’t cheap.

By Divemedic, ago

Hosting

Time to remind people about censorship and the ability to blog. If you have seen this offer before, or if you aren’t interested in blogging, don’t bother reading this.

The left not just going after blogs and social media- they are going after podcasts as well. The powers that be intend to shut down all media that is not state approved. See this report here.

I was trying to listen to conservative talk radio on Sirius and on Blaze TV, but the hosts are refusing to admit that the election was bogus, but saying “we will get them next time.” Conservative talk has been brought to heel and has been told what they can and cannot say. Alternative media like bloggers are all that is left of the free press.

There is still room to share this server. The cost to host a blog on this server is $25 $15 per month, billed quarterly. My IT support team charges a small fee to import the contents of your blog to this server. I will import blogger or WordPress to this site for the cost of the software license. (it isn’t much) I have domains that are included in the price, or we can get you a custom domain. The only rule that I have is: no porn sites. I am not interested in having porn on my site for two reasons: they are resource hogs (both storage space and bandwidth) and I don’t feel like having to expend my own time and energy defending porn distributors.

Even if you don’t contact me, find an alternative server now, or your blogs and podcasts may be gone forever. An XML backup is no longer sufficient, as Blogger and WordPress no longer support migration by XML. If your blog is cancelled, there may be no way to recover it.

If interested in having your blog hosted here, the email is Divemedic@sectorocho.com

By Divemedic, ago

Reading what isn’t there

Whenever a shooting suspect is described in the press, you can tell a lot about what happened by what they DON’T say. If the event is barely mentioned in the press, the shooter is always described as a “man” or a “teen” with no further details. This invariably means the shooter was black.

If the shooter is white, it is a national news story for weeks and is accompanied by nearly universal calls for gun control.

By Divemedic, ago

Predatory victory

The point of society is to protect the future for its weaker members. Like any herd, the members of society, even society itself, is there to defend the weaker members, who are usually children and females. Predators don’t attack the strong, they attack the weak, the ones less likely to effectively defend themselves.

SCOTUS today refused to hear a case involving same sex bathroom use. In effect, people are now free to use whatever bathroom that they feel most closely reflects their gender at any given moment.

I want all of you to think about the implications for a moment. I am a 50 something year old man. The law as it is now says that it is discriminatory under Federal law to prohibit me from entering whatever bathroom I feel like matches my chosen gender identity. Were I still a teacher, I could walk into the girl’s bathroom, whip out my penis in full view, and take a leak. Sorry girls, some of us have a penis. Not all women have vaginas. Sick, right?

Child molesters, teenage boys who want to see naked teenaged girls, and any other pervert who wishes to can now use whatever bathroom tickles their fancy.

This law favors the strong while placing weaker individuals at risk. Children, girls, and women are now officially at the mercy of grown men who would use this as an excuse to gain access to the targets of their sick urges in a private location. This is a complete failure of society in protecting its weaker members.

Use the same law to your own advantage. Escort your young children and your women to the bathroom. This law also says that they can’t keep you out either, should you suddenly decide that you feel like you are a woman for the next few minutes. If your woman is older, teach her to defend herself. If she is younger, protect her like the defenseless cub she is.

Pepper spray the fuck out of any predator who even looks at your little girl while she is in the bathroom. Then get the fuck out of there. Don’t stick around so the fucking pervert can claim to be the victim when the cops arrive. It is up to you to defend your weaker loved ones, because society is failing.

The predators are now permitted access to the watering hole. Don’t let your loved ones be a gazelle at the mercy of those who would feed on them.

By Divemedic, ago

Plumber bill

The plumber came out while I was at work on Sunday. Big Ruckus D called it– my snake wasn’t big enough (stop laughing). My wife met with him when he came over, he was here less than 30 minutes.

It turns out that the professionals use a larger snake, and cleaned out the pipes quickly with his larger tool.

As I type this, I realize that there are many, many jokes that can be made out of the plumber using his larger snake to clean out my wife’s pipes while I was at work. At any rate, the bill was $165 and I can again use my toilet. The best part? My in laws and wife spent the rest of the day cleaning the house, so when I got home everything was already cleaned up.

I don’t think that this was related to the mystery that is the pipes not working when the wind blows out of the north. I think that this was a different problem.

By Divemedic, ago

Oathkeepers

The press calls them a militia group intent on overthrowing the government, claiming that they organized a coup on January 6. The ADL says that they are “a large but loosely organized collection of right-wing anti-government extremists who are part of the militia movement, which believes that the federal government has been coopted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights.” The Southern Poverty Law Center says that the Oathkeepers are “one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the U.S. today.”

They are none of those things. I wrote about them in 2010, long before they were in the national spotlight. As a patriot and a first responder who has taken the oath multiple times, the basis for the Oathkeepers was one I could support:

  • We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.
  • We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people
  • We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants” or to subject them to military tribunal.
  • We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.
  • We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
  • We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.
  • We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.
  • We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to “keep the peace” or to “maintain control.”
  • We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.
  • We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

So to those on the left: Which of the preceding points do you disagree? What makes those the goals of a right wing terrorist organization?

By Divemedic, ago

Weekends and holidays

So my wife and I were getting ready to attend an awards banquet, where my Father in Law is receiving an award for his volunteer work in assisting veterans. First, the toilet quit working. Then the shower backed up. So did the guest bathroom. We can’t do without plumbing, so I told my wife to go to the banquet without me.

I opened the cleanout and ran a 25 foot snake into it. Nothing. So I went into the master shower and removed the grate on the drain, which was under an inch or so of shower water. That turns out to have been a mistake. I realized that once copious amounts of shit, toilet paper, and water gushed out of the drain, flooded the bathroom, and got the carpet in the master bedroom wet.

So now I build a cofferdam of old towels and break out the shopvac to suck up the water. Then I bring a bucket to sit on into the shower, and run the snake down that drain. Nothing. Just as I go to get up, the bucket collapses, dropping me into the shit filled water. So now I am covered in shit. I can’t even wash up, because no showers or drains. I wind up hosing off in the yard using dish soap and a garden hose.

I then decided that the clog was between the guest bathroom and the sewage connection, so I remove the guest toilet and run the snake down there. Again, nothing.

At this point, I decide that I have done all that I can do and raise the white flag. I have to work in the morning, so the wife and Father in Law will have to meet with the plumber when he arrives at 11am.

I don’t know if this is related to the ongoing problems that I have had with the plumbing, but this stuff always seems to happen on weekends and holidays.

April of 2021, we had a lightning strike. Christmas of 2020, our heat pump failed and required a compressor replacement. On Christmas day. In May 2020, we had an electrical fire. July 2019, we had a lightning strike. July 2018, Lightning strike. Then there was Hurricane Irma in 2017.

Home ownership.

By Divemedic, ago