Divemedic

Racism of the Left

Leftist pundit Stephen Smith on Trump:

“The way that the Trump administration is handling it—’we want the most qualified, we want the smartest’—what you’re really saying is we want White dominance again. That’s what you’re really saying. You want White dominance!”

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible to be a racist if you aren’t white. In this case, Smith is racist against his own race. This type of self loathing is the end result of decades of Democrat policies telling blacks that they can’t possibly make it unless they are given an affirmative action boost.

Also in the same clip, Chuckie Schumer has the audacity to call out President Trump:

“For [the President of the United States] to throw out idle speculation while bodies are still being recovered and families still being notified.”

Like you and your party have done after EVERY SINGLE MASS SHOOTING over the past three decades? Ass.

By Divemedic, ago

This is Why

I was asked why I hadn’t posted any stories on the DC plane crash. I replied that there weren’t yet enough facts, but I bowed to pressure from my readers and went ahead and posted a couple of stories.

It turns out that there are still more stories coming out about the pilot who was the apparent cause of the crash. Let me post a collage picture that shows you what I mean.

What do you know- a DEI hire because she hit the checkboxes for the Biden Administration- a lesbian LGTBQ activist.

This statement from her family reinforces that position:

Her sexuality wasn’t a factor in the crash, but her lack of experience was, and she was in the Whitehouse because of that sexuality. Once an Army officer is favored by the President, they tend to be promoted to and given opportunities that they are otherwise unqualified for. That certainly WAS a factor in the crash.

Sure enough, there are people who read this blog that are jumping to defend her because they don’t like to see me call out the military. One commenter said “It is enough time to know what you are doing, and he was an evaluator, which means his command thought he was experienced.”

So the commander of the helicopter squadron that has been responsible for transporting Democrat bigwigs all over the DC area would never bow to DEI pressure from the Whitehouse, I am sure. After all, we know that President Poopy Pants was in full command of his faculties, and there was absolutely no shenanigans from the lefties who were really running the show.

By Divemedic, ago

Solar Report

It’s been a bit since I updated the news on our Solar system. December went well. We generated 1121 kWh, and consumed 912 kWh, meaning that we sent an excess of 204 kWh back to the grid for credit. Our lowest power generated was December 6, with 12.6 kWh. Our best day was 54.1 kWh on December 2. That makes December the month where we generated the least amount of power of any month so far. Not surprising, since December has less daylight than any other month.

Temperatures for December were mild, so we spent most days with the windows open and the HVAC turned off, so we didn’t use a lot of power, which contributed to an excess. At the end of December, we had a total credit of 1121 kWh in case we ever use more than we generate, and it turns out that we needed it for January.

January was rough. There was a lot more cloudy days than there have been, and this month had the lowest average temperatures for any month in more than a decade. All of this contributed to our shortfall. There was a stretch of days from the 13th to the 23rd where 6 of those 10 days saw us generate less than 10kWh each day. We generated 1190 kWh for the month, still more than December, but we used 1238 kWh. Our highest use day was January 22 at 63 kWh. That was the day that the big snowstorm hit the state, and our temperatures dropped below freezing here, although it didn’t snow.

According to my weather station, the average temperature was only 54 degrees for the month. Since we maintain an average inside temperature of 70 degrees during the winter (68 at night, 72 during the day), the HVAC was warming the house against a 16 degree gradient.

Our bill didn’t change, thanks to our banked power that we have sold to the grid.

One small problem with our system has required a call to our installer, who put in a work ticket to Tesla. Our control system has been exercising the batteries by running them down to zero. It’s supposed to do that every 90 days, but it’s been doing it every 20 days. We are waiting for more word on why it is doing that.

By Divemedic, ago

Not A Conspiracy

There are many people who want to make the place crash in DC into some sort of deliberate attack. There is a saying- Don’t ascribe to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by incompetence. There is a video that I will embed below, where an instructor pilot explains how easily it would be to have such an accident with a relatively inexperienced pilot in crowded airspace. Some of the items he discusses are:

Her 500 hours of flight experience is laughably low. He points out that 500 hours is long enough for a pilot to THINK they know enough to handle everything, even when they don’t. I know from my own experience as a SCUBA diver that this is the case. There is a point, right around 40 to 50 logged dives, that a diver becomes confident in their abilities, but that usually comes to an end when the diver gets themselves into a situation that they shouldn’t have been in because they were overconfident in their abilities. That is where accidents happen. I think that was the case here.

Military people don’t have as much experience as their civilian counterparts. For example, the Captain of the last cruise ship I was on had been sailing as an officer for 45 years, and had been a captain for 25 of them. How many Navy captains have that level of experience? Zero, that’s how many. The same goes for pilots- the captain of a commercial airplane has thousands of hours as a copilot before taking command, then has thousands more as a captain. Your average airline pilot with 5 years’ experience will have between 3,000 and 5,000 hours of flight time.

He also says that the helicopter was going too fast for the conditions. When a helicopter is moving quickly, it is tilted forward, and in the UH60, this limits visibility of aircraft that are in front of you and at your same altitude.

He points out that the altimeter may have been set incorrectly, which an inexperienced pilot may easily forget to do, and this could account for the incorrect altitude.

It was a cascade of minor errors that an inexperienced pilot would make, and doesn’t require a conspiracy or a deliberate attack. I know that the video is half an hour long, but it is worth watching if you find this sort of thing at all interesting.

By Divemedic, ago

Blackhawk Pilot

The pilot of the Blackhawk that collided with a passenger aircraft over the Potomac has been identified: Captain Rebecca Lobach.

She graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2019. She began her Army career in July of that year. She was assigned to the White House to be a party planner, officially called a “White House Military Social Aide,” whose job was supporting high-profile events such as the Medal of Honor and Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremonies. She was a sexual harassment/assault response and prevention victim advocate.

As far as her skills as a pilot, she had 450 hours of logged flight time in the Blackhawk. According to a friend of mine who flies that same helicopter, a pilot is required to fly 96 hours per year MINIMUM in order to remain certified to fly it. That works out to 8 hours per month. 450 hours would mean that she has been a UH60 pilot for about 56 months. The Captain has been in the Army for 5 and a half years, or about 65 months. So this means that accounting for flight school, she was only doing the bare minimum to maintain certification in the aircraft.

Appears like she was a DEI hire.

By Divemedic, ago

Cyberstalking Cops

From wirecutter, we see that a man saw cops doing donuts in a local parking lot and posted video to the Internet. The local police union has begun posting videos and pictures of the man, along with his identifying information. I was going to comment over there, but my thoughts became too wordy for a comment.

The cops get caught by a citizen doing something that they would ticket others for, and a citizen posts video of it. The cops get in trouble, and a social media war ensues. Here is the issue. You, as a public servant, are driving around in a highly visible vehicle that has a huge billboard painted on it. We had things like this happen to the fire department when I worked there. You know that you are being watched, you can expect to be in the spotlight, and you act accordingly.

At most, the officer involved would get a talking to about “don’t do that again.” That wasn’t what happened here. The police union decided to up the ante by posting in a public forum what amounts to public threats against the citizen who did the reporting. At best, the actions of the union are poor optics, discouraging citizens from reporting crimes for fear of retaliation. At worst, the posts of the man are thinly veiled attempts at intimidating a witness to police’s illegal acts, which makes this witness tampering, a serious crime in itself. Go with cyberstalking or even witness tampering

Cyberstalking is a crime in Texas. Texas law includes provisions that prohibit stalking and harassment through electronic communication. Including email, social media, instant messaging, and other forms of digital communication. Cyberstalking is defined as the use of electronic means to repeatedly harass, alarm, or annoy another person.

Under Texas law, cyberstalking cases can be charged as either a misdemeanor or a felony. Depending on the specific circumstances of the offense. The penalties for cyberstalking in Texas can include fines, imprisonment. As well as a restraining order to prohibit the offender from contacting the victim.

A reasonable person would consider the statements made by the police through their union to be a threat. Here are some of the posts that they made, each of them included videos, photos, and links to the guy who posted the video of the cops:

Never post anything on the internet you don’t want to see on the news… or the internet.

If you are going to ghost ride your car, like Hamon Brown, make sure the doors aren’t locked when you climb on top.

Remember Hamon Brown? The hater that went on the news to run his mouth about police cars in the snow (in a parking lot)? #DontBeAHater #ComingDine #GotEeem

Tag local auto glass repair companies. We’re looking for someone who can help Hamon Brown get his broken windshield repaired. He didn’t get any Crime Stoppers money for s̷n̷i̷t̷c̷h̷i̷n̷g̷ tattling, so we need a good sponsor that can hook him up.

The police union also posted screen shots of the man’s criminal record.

Comments made by police officers to those posts include statements like:

  • I bet there is no weed smell coming from Hamon Brown’s vehicle
  • Throw stones at cops, expect cops to look at your glass house

In my book, that makes the police union (in this instance) a criminal conspiracy. To threaten a member of the public who reported criminal behavior, simply because it was a member of your organization, is no better than the mafia or the South American drug gangs. I hope this man gets a lawyer, and I hope he sues the police union, who by the way do NOT have qualified immunity. The loss in this lawsuit WILL come out of the police officer’s pockets.

By Divemedic, ago

I Refuse

I just did something for the first time in my 35 years as a healthcare worker- I refused to accept a patient. When I got to work, the nurses in one zone were keeping a ratio of 4 to 1. My assignment was to take 3 patients from 3 different nurses, which together with the other nurses arriving at the same time as I would be lowering the zone to a 3 to 1 ratio.

Two of the nurses turned over their patients with no issues. The third nurse was Nurse Slacker, so I took a look at the chart. The patient had been placed in that room an hour and a half earlier, and nothing had been done. No vital signs had been taken, no IV started, no lab work ordered or drawn, and no assessment had been done. I went to the charge nurse and told him that I would not be accepting responsibility for that patient until the nurse actually did her job.

 I will not be placing my name anywhere on that nurse’s chart and refuse to accept her patients unless they are properly cared for and it is properly documented. I am not risking my medical license for that incompetent, lazy slacker of a nurse. You can’t make me assume care for someone else’s patients when that person hasn’t done a single thing for them. The rest of the nurses in the zone won’t assist her because they aren’t willing to do her job for her, either.

When she finally came to me to give me report two hours later, she hadn’t even noticed that the charge nurse had done everything, treated the patient, and discharged her an hour earlier. That’s right, her patient had been gone for an hour and she never even noticed.

The charge nurse had no problem with it, and said that it would help if she wasn’t off the floor half the time. Management needs to do something, but they won’t.

EDITED TO ADD

For those who are asking: She is white. However, she is in a protected class, that of breastfeeding mothers. It’s due to a Federal law called the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act (PUMP Act). The law says that employees who are nursing have the right to reasonable break time and a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view to express breast milk while at work. Sure, it says reasonable, but that is subject to a court’s interpretation. What this means is exactly what the woman has told fellow employees- she can be in the pumping lounge as often and for as long as SHE thinks is reasonable. On of our charge nurses told me that they had a meeting about her, and they have been told that she is untouchable because she has already been to HR with her attorney in tow.

By Divemedic, ago

The Gulag

A long time ago, so long ago that the posts have been lost to time, I warned that we should not grant the powers of the Patriot Act or of the GWOT to the Republicans, lest we see those same powers granted to the left and abused by them. I was shouted down. I know some of those comments were made on the now defunct Packing.org as well as on a couple of progun sites whose names I can no longer remember.

I didn’t take long. Even the Republicans abused them. For example, Sheriff Grady Judd abused the laws in order to shut down the website that made GW look bad. That was the case of Christopher Michael Wilson, who ran a website that allowed people to post nude pictures of women on the site, and it required a credit card to access, so that the Wilson would know that people accessing the site were adults. Military men complained that they could not do so while in Saudi Arabia and Iraq, because the web servers in those countries blocked credit cards from being processed by companies who promoted pornography. Because of this, Wilson allowed members who posted pictures from the war zone to have access to the site. The site became a photo journal that chronicled the Iraq war. It was one of the first sites to publish the Abu Grhaib pictures that so embarrassed former President Bush.

It eventually came to pass that Obama began abusing those same laws, declaring those who dared disagree with his policies.

It is those very laws, the same government policies and personnel, that were unleashed upon the enemies of the left, once Biden took office. I am talking about the way that the J6 rioters were treated. They were tortured, mistreated, and illegally held- despite all of the sturm und drang that was unleashed over the treatment of terrorists at Gitmo. Watch this video:

https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1882841850148700180

The comments to it are enlightening. The leftists on there who say “Well, next time he won’t trespass in the Capitol.” The issue is that Enrique Tarrio wasn’t convicted of being in the Capitol. He never, in fact, entered the building. Somehow, they took a man who was of mixed black/Cuban heritage and made people believe that he was a white supremacist.

I want you to replay every event in your life, especially the ones that can be used to paint you in an unflattering light. Now picture the left’s enforcement arm in the FBI spinning that in the worst way possible, then amplified and embellished by the MSM. Then they use it to toss you in the Gulag. That’s what happened here.

No matter how evil you think our government is, it is much worse than you can possibly imagine. Corrections officers are some of the most sadistic of the entire bunch. I watched a CO torture a man with my own eyes, then saw him lie about it, then watched as his own superiors told me and three other staff members that we didn’t see what we all just saw.

If you think that, just because Trump one an election, that the left has given up, you are sorely mistaken.

By Divemedic, ago

Too Fast To Keep Up

Trump is getting things done so quickly, that it is difficult to keep up. The latest is how the left has its panties in a bunch because the President has ordered the CDC to cease all collaborative work with the WHO, effective immediately.

The left is pointing to possible set backs to work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and monkeypox in Africa. They also point out that health authorities around the world are monitoring bird flu outbreaks among U.S. livestock.

  1. Marburg is a hemorrhagic fever that is not seen outside of Africa. It isn’t our problem- so let the WHO solve it. The only outbreak of Marburg that wasn’t in Africa occurred in Germany in 1967 and was due to lab workers being exposed to African monkeys.
  2. We don’t give a crap about monkeypox. Stop having gay sex. Solved.
  3. The CDC’s job is literally to monitor the US livestock infections. If they can’t handle that without the assistance of the WHO, then maybe we should disband the CDC and the $10 billion a year they get in funding can be better used elsewhere.

Those who oppose withdrawing from the WHO claim that it requires Congressional approval. OK, but that doesn’t require the US continue to provide them with information, workers, and contractors. Find the loopholes. That’s what they did to us for the past four years, so now Trump is using the left’s own tactics against them.

The WHO has an annual budget of 2 to 3 Billion, with nearly half of it coming from the US. Why does the United States, who already has the CDC and USAMRIID, need to fund the World Health Organization? Let the rest of the freeloading countries of the world stop sucking at Uncle Sam’s teat.

It’s time that we spend our money for us, and stop looking at taxpayer dollars as some charity fund for the rest of the world, or as a free money program for useless government employees. Do your job, or learn to code.

I would go one step further- let’s also withdraw from the UN, or at the very least, fund it on a more equitable level and let them establish their headquarters somewhere else.

By Divemedic, ago