Divemedic

The police aren’t coming

In Minnesota, a Democratic candidate for state representative openly stated that he will target whites for assasination and would burn their neighborhood down. I am going to quote exactly what he said, because I feel that his statement is so inflammatory and insulting that the only way to truly understand how despicable this man is, is to read exactly what he said:

Black skin I’m in! I’m a Black man being terrorized by this fucking Klansman right here! We are terrorized by the Grand Wizard! You got the Grand Wizard living in your goddamn neighborhood! All the Klan exist in Hugo, Minnesota! And it’s right here! Don’t run now! Don’t run now, racist white people! I’m here! Oh yeah, we pull up! We pulled the fuck up! Over here! Come on over get your blue eyes medicine! Blue eyes ain’t shit! And if people in Hugo don’t support Black people, fuck Hugo, Minnesota!

Peaceful protest? I didn’t come here to be peaceful. Why the fuck is we so peaceful in this faggot-assed neighborhood? Fuck your motherfucking peace, white racist motherfuckerers! Blue lives don’t mean shit to black people. Fuck Hugo, Minnesota! This whole godamn state burned down for $20 goddamn dollars, you think we give a fuck about burning Hugo down? 

So now you have a Democrat who will likely be elected to the state legislature, and is being endorsed by the current Governor, saying that he wants to burn down neighborhoods and “kill white motherfuckers.”

What do you do when a hostile crowd is standing in front of your house, with their spokesman shouting at you with a loudspeaker that he wants to kill you and your family? Calling the police won’t help- they have been neutered and are not coming. Of course, if you defend yourself, your home, and your property, you will go to jail and lose everything you have ever worked for. Why because he is now a part of a hostile government with the open support of a hostile governor.

Once the people begin to believe that the government is actively trying to kill them, that government is no longer seen as being legitimate. What happens then?

By Divemedic, ago

It’s complicated

I keep seeing those on both sides of the COVID debate continuing to go back and forth about reopening schools. At this point, the debate has become more about politics than it does about actual infection control. Everyone is trying to condense this COVID thing down into a 3 second soundbite or tagline so they can get in a cheap zinger, this reducing a complex issue into monkey poop flinging.

I am torn. I can see valid reasons for either decision. Let me explain:

– Our society can’t seem to decide. In Florida, the Republicans claim that the disease is such a threat that bars must remain closed, while restaurants and movie theaters can only open at 50 percent capacity. Sporting events are cancelled because gatherings of more than 50 people are prohibited. Unless that gathering is a high school sporting event, because reasons. Either open it all up, or cloase it all down. Stop trying to pick winners and losers.

Schools themselves are not taking this seriously, but at the same time, they are. For example:

– we are being told that schools are going to remain safe through a campaign of social distancing and mask wearing. Class sizes remain at the same size as they always have. I teach 6 periods a day. Periods one through five have an average of 22 students per class(1). There is no way for me to ‘socially distance’ 23 people who are all in the same room. If we can’t socially distance, everyone is required to wear masks. How successful do you think we are going to be in getting 1300 teens to stay away from each other and wear masks all day? We can’t keep them apart and from trying to copulate during the best of times.

– My school claims that the teachers will be sanitizing their classrooms in the 5 minutes we have between classes. That is impossible, because the school hasn’t provided any supplies for doing so- no sanitizer, no spray bottles, no supplies of any kind. In fact, all we have been given so far for COVID supplies are 3 disposable ear loop masks, and an 8 ounce bottle of alcohol based hand sanitizer.

– My school also claims that our rooms were thoroughly cleaned and sanitized by our janitorial staff while we were locked out. When we returned, the desks still had eraser shavings on them.

If the eraser shavings are still there, the desks have obviously not even been wiped down, much less sanitized. In fact, the bathroom on my floor still has dried urine in one of the corners from when a student decided to piss on the wall a year ago.

Florida is currently seeing thousands of new cases of COVID per day, with dozens of deaths each day. Whether or not you think those numbers are reliable (I don’t) the fact remains that the illness is worse than it was back in March when the schools were originally shut down. Every teacher that I know is convinced that we are going to eventually shut down. There is even a pool going on how long. My pick is ten school days after the students resume classes. The guess that has the longest pick is October 1.

That creates a problem for teachers. What made the spring shut down so difficult was that teachers had 48 hours from when the shutdown was announced to have their classes back up and running online. We had such silly restrictions that the online classes of the spring were a joke. Each of us is determined that online classes in the next shutdown will be of higher quality and that we will not be caught by surprise.

1- My sixth class is an online class to accommodate those students who are attending virtually. It has 45 students in it. 48 teachers in my school are teaching online courses. The courses are large. It creates a large workload on teachers. I have a total of 160 students, all of whom must have their papers graded. I have to make lessons, study materials, and assignments available to all of my students- the ones who are face to face get papers, the ones who are online get electronic. On top of that, I have to figure out how to do tests and quizzes online while making the playing field even between the online kids who can and will cheat, and the kids who are physically in my class.

By Divemedic, ago

Racist press publishes official discrimination policy against whites

The Associated Press has a webpage dedicated to explaining their racial bias in reporting. They explain why they capitalize racial descriptors.

AP’s style is now to capitalize Black in a racial, ethnic or cultural sense, conveying an essential and shared sense of history, identity and community among people who identify as Black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa. The lowercase black is a color, not a person. AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic and cultural senses.

People of African descent share a common history, identity and community? A black man shitting in the street in Freeport, Jamaica, a black woman living in Babanusa, Sudan (where onions cost $45), and a black man living in New Orleans all have a shared history, identity, and community? At the same time, whites in Australia, England, and South Africa do not?

The AP then goes on to explain why ‘white’ doesn’t get capitalized:

White people generally do not share the same history and culture, or the experience of being discriminated against because of skin color.

Whites don’t experience discrimination due to skin color? Multnomah County, Oregon didn’t create ‘safe spaces’ where white employees were forbidden to enter? Wake Forest didn’t have staff meetings where white staff members were excluded?

Anyone who has ever been to Hawaii knows that the many of the natives do not like white people. In fact, my life lived in Hawaii for two years and she loved it. She tells me that she had only two problems there: it was expensive to live there, and being white, it was very tough to fit in.

The mayoral race for Savannah, GA didn’t have a ‘blacks only- no white reporters allowed’ meeting?

We have all seen this lately.

According to the AP, if you capitalize ‘white’ it means that you are a white supremacist.

We agree that white people’s skin color plays into systemic inequalities and injustices, and we want our journalism to robustly explore those problems. But capitalizing the term white, as is done by white supremacists, risks subtly conveying legitimacy to such beliefs.

Only by refusing to capitalize white while capitalizing all other racial groups can you overcome white supremacy and prove that you are not a racist.

I am calling this what it is: Whites in this country are now the only racial group where it is not only legal to attack and discriminate against them, it is socially acceptable, and perhaps even encouraged. This is why I cannot believe anything coming from the MSM as being close to anything resembling truth or fact.

By Divemedic, ago

You don’t support free speech unless you support speech you disagree with

Remember how all of the sports leagues said that they support the free speech rights of their employees who want to kneel during the national anthem? The NBA went one step further and allowed BLM phrases on player jerseys. Apparently, free speech is only allowed if that speech happens to align with certain viewpoints, since the NBA decided to fire an employee for exercising his own free speech. 

By Divemedic, ago

ALERT: Protests continue in Orlando

Protesters have been blocking traffic in south Orlando, then moved into the Florida Mall. I believe in the right to protest. With that being said, blocking traffic and interrupting business while on private property isn’t a protest, it is violence. You are using force (or the threat of it) to inconvenience people.

Let’s hope that it doesn’t turn into a riot.

Luckily, Orlando is 45 minutes from where I live. Still, let’s hope the insurgency hasn’t come to my backyard.

By Divemedic, ago

How did it happen?

The recent 9th circuit decision striking down California’s magazine ban caught many by surprise. One person asked me:

How did the 9th pass this? It is not their style.

I will tell you how. While the Democrats were busy with the sham impeachment, Trump was busy appointing two associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 53 judges for the United States courts of appeals, 146 judges for the United States district courts, and two judges for the United States Court of International Trade.

The circuit courts actually affect US law and its application far more than the Supreme Court. 98 percent of appellate cases are decided at the circuit level, with SCOTUS only hearing 2 percent of appellate cases.

There are only 179 circuit court judges. Trump appointed 50 of them. Thirty percent of the appeals judges were appointed by Trump. The Ninth Circuit has 47 judges. the two who came to this decision were Callahan and Lee, one a Trump appointee, the other by GHW Bush. In fact, of the entire court:

2 were appointed by President Nixon
3 were appointed by President Carter.
3 were appointed by President Reagan
2 were appointed by GHW Bush
13 were appointed by President Clinton.
7 were appointed by President GW Bush
7 were appointed by President Reagan.
7 were appointed by President Obama
10 were appointed by President Trump.

You can see that the most influential President on the Ninth Circuit is Clinton. The youngest of the Clinton appointees is 66 years old. The judiciary is getting older, with the oldest member of the circuit judiciary being 97 years old and sixteen of them are over the age of 75. In fact, the average age of the judges in the 9th circuit is 68 years old.

With Trump being the second most influential President and an aging judiciary, the ninth circuit will continue to shift in its politics as its makeup shifts. As long as we can keep him in the White House. This is why elections matter.

By Divemedic, ago

Former SEAL accused of throwing bombs in Portland

On August 8, 2020 at 2:30am, the Portland Police received a 911 call that a man had been throwing explosive devices at the Antifa insurgents. Here is a video of the people who saw what happened:

Note that the person who made the video is claiming that there were 4 devices thrown, and this was a device that didn’t explode. She then claims that this is a bag of gun powder that was stuffed in a ziplock bag.

The bystanders also claim that they saw a man leaving the scene, and when they approached him, he acted in a threatening manner.
 Another video, also shared on Twitter, showed one of the independent journalists at the park pursuing one of those men, carrying what appear to be night-vision goggles, apparently to his car, where he behaved threateningly.

The man recording the incident—Portland videographer Scott Keeler, who said he had observed the man in the park earlier, walking away from the explosions—was using a flashlight, and first asked the man to stop as he walked up to him at a car the man appeared to be using. “Why are you throwing pipe bombs at people?” Keeler asked.
“Look man, I’m not the guy you wanna fuck with,” the man responded. 

The Portland police were able to identify him as a former Navy SEAL, and are now claiming that he is a person of interest. The police do not have the device, nor do they have any witnesses that actually saw the person throw the devices.

If I were Mr. Fernbaugh, I would hire an attorney and have him contact the Portland police to tell them that I do not wish to make any statements, and leave it at that.

They have no witnesses. Even if they get witnesses later, getting them to reliably identify what happened in the dark during a riot is going to be difficult.

They have no physical evidence. The device is nowhere to be found. Even if it is found at this point, it is inadmissible. The woman in the video, unless she is a certified expert, isn’t going to be able to testify that the powder was gun powder, nor can she testify that the pipe is PVC. Even if she IS an expert, she disassembled the device. The only crime that this would establish is that she tampered with evidence.

In other words, the police here have jack and shit. Even if this did happen and isn’t some sort of false flag, there is no difference in this device than in throwing fireworks at people.

By Divemedic, ago

Redesign

My wife was just notified that the school where she works is moving in three years. They are building a new school, which will be 20 minutes further from our house. She wants to move to an area that is closer to her job.

The funny thing is that although this new school is also further from my school, it is a shorter commute.

We won’t have to sell our current house, and will be able to add another rental to our business, one that has no mortgage.

So I am onboard. This will be the first house that I have had built. Ever.

I told her that I would like some design features added to our home. The wife and I are currently discussing adding some features. I want to make the place more secure without making it look like a fortress. Maybe some nice looking planters in front. See if I can get the walls for the master closet made of sturdy enough material to make it a safe room. I am not sure what it will be, but I want to see what we is possible for what we can afford.

We have two years to plan before we have to start construction, so there is plenty of time.

By Divemedic, ago