Now that Governor Scott has declared a state of emergency (pdf warning)exists for the next 30 days in Orange County, Florida as a result of the terrorist attack there, are firearms prohibited in that county?
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Nervous
I woke up this morning to the news of the terrorist attack in Orlando. My son is not gay, and to the best of my knowledge, does not frequent that particular bar. However, he and his live in girlfriend do work in that area as nurses on the night shift, with my son specializing in trauma care. I do not know if they were working last night.
I have tried texting both of them, and they have not responded. I am hoping that the lack of communication is due to them either still working, or they are sleeping off a long and difficult night of treating the injured.
Please keep them in your thoughts today, as I wait on word from them…
EDITED:
My son just contacted me. He and his girlfriend are both working, and are slammed with victims of the attack, as well as the normal influx of patients. For those familiar with triage:
Triage center was in the parking lot of the Einstein’s Bagels.
There was some confusion, as police were bypassing the triage center and taking patients directly to the trauma center two blocks away, rather than triaging them and following the mass casualty plan. This placed a strain on the trauma center, until EMS personnel could get a handle on the cops.
Ballistic vests were issued to EMS and firefighters on the scene.
20 red tags were sent to Orlando Regional Medical center (level one trauma center)
2 Red tags to Florida Hospital Orlando
Yellow and Green tags are going to Florida Hospital East
Other trauma patients not related to the attack are being diverted to Osceola Regional, one of Central Florida’s two level two trauma centers
The entire trauma system of central Florida is being tested with this mass casualty event. There are only three trauma centers in Central Florida. ORMC is the only level one, with Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee and Central Florida Regional Medical Center in Sanford as the two level 2 trauma centers. All three of them are currently slammed with patients.
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Doesn’t count
This man was killed by two young men in The Villages, Florida. He was killed after being punched in the back of the head and subsequently hitting his head on the concrete as he fell.
According to the anti-gunners in the Zimmerman case, Zimmerman should have just “taken his beating like a man,” and they also point out that beating a person’s head on the concrete isn’t deadly force.
Either way, it doesn’t matter to the anti-gun people in this country, because this death isn’t a gun related murder.
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Overrun
A San Jose, California, police chief admitted that he kept his officers in formation instead of protecting Donald Trump supporters during a riot in San Jose last week is a member of La Raza. I have talked about them on this blog for years.
Here is a tweet from the police chief:

This nation is being overrun by foreign powers.
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Only in Florida
Only in Florida, do you see a spaceship and a cruise ship in the same port of call…

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Women and the military
The way that women are treated in the military is a bit unfair. Not the way that women would have you believe that they are being mistreated- in fact, they have a HUGE advantage. The last thing that women REALLY want is equality. Let me explain:
I did six years in the Navy. I was an Electrician’s mate which, according to the Navy, is a sea intensive rating. What this means is that there are not that many shore based billets in comparison to sea based billets, so an EM spends the majority of his service assigned to a seagoing command. In keeping with this reality, the Navy has a sea/shore rotation for EMs that is- shall we say, a bit taxing.
Sailors who are electricians typically are assigned to a sea command immediately following their initial training, which takes up the first 7 months or so of their enlistment. That first sea posting lasts 51 months. This means that the first enlistment and the first year and a half of the second is spent assigned to a seagoing command. Most sea going commands spend about 65-75% of their time at sea. After this posting, that electrician is sent to a shore post for 36 months, and then back to sea duty for 60 months. After that, the rotation is 48 at sea followed by 35 months on shore.
In fact, in a 20 year career, a sailor who is an EM will spend 14 of those years assigned to a seagoing command. No surprise, it’s the Navy, and the Navy is in charge of the sea.
Unless you are a woman. If you are a woman and you get pregnant, you get 18 weeks off WITH PAY after the baby is born. In addition, they are assigned to light duty on shore for the majority of their pregnancy before the baby is born.
Men get only ten days. When I was in, every time a command with women assigned to it was scheduled to deploy, a large percentage of the female crew members would get pregnant. Free time off, and time not being spent away from home. In fact, one in seven female service members are single mothers.
Our military cannot perform its mission if nearly ten percent of its force can’t deploy because they can’t find a baby sitter.
The U.S. Marine Corps announced that it was postponing its self-imposed deadline for women to be held to the same physical fitness standard as men. On January 1, 2014 female Marines would have been required to complete three pull ups on their physical fitness test; the same requirement as male Marines. Over 50 percent of women were unable to complete the new standard.
Therefore, Marines chose to delay the deadline and allow women to pass without meeting the equal standard. With the military so willing to ignore these equal standards, one must wonder, does the military have a double standard when it comes to gender equality?
Equality is the state of being equal, and equal is defined as being of the same measure, quantity, amount or number as another. The same standards, the same treatment, the same physical requirements, regardless of your gender. No political correctness, no ulterior motives. No senior level officers getting to bolster their Officer Evaluation Reports with accolades of leading the integration of females into infantry units.
You want equal? Make it equal. Same haircuts, same uniforms, same duty. If that means that you can’t be a mother while in the service, so be it. Perhaps the time spent on convalescent leave could be added to your enlistment: 18 weeks of maternity leave means 18 more weeks of active duty without reenlistment bonus, or alternatively, enlistment means taking a Depo-Provera shot for the duration of your enlistment.
You are either equal, or you are not.
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Eliminating the competition
Windows 10 may be free, but the program is uninstalling software from Microsoft competitors, without owner permission. Bug, or way for MS to eliminate competition? You decide.
The problems with Windows 8 and 10 are a few of the reasons why I switched to Linux.
The comments to the article are stunning:
it uninstalled Android Studio from my pc —
this f**king s**t removed my antivirus! MY ANTIVIRUS!!! They do it just to force users to use their s**t called Defender…
Win10 not only deleted Speccy, but also Ccleaner. Both worked fine upon reinstallation. This freaks me out and I’m planning on dumping 10 and going back to 7 soon.I’ve also had a problem with Win10 when inserting another drive with a different OS. ++
My roommate bought a Toshiba 2 in 1 laptop at Best Buy a couple weeks ago loaded with 10. After getting all the updates installed for windows, he woke up the next morning to find that it had uninstalled his touch screen, bluetooth and wireless network adapter drivers. He paid microsoft the $25 required for their tech support and they basically told him that Toshiba’s drivers weren’t properly signed/certified and thats why they were being removed and then gave a crappy speech on how he agreed that MS could do this when he agreed to the eula when starting the the machine for the first time and how he needed to get with toshiba instead to fix the issue. He had to take the machine back for a refund.+++
It also appears as if MSFT is uninstalling older versions of their own software, so that they can force you to buy new software:
You do also have to be careful with Office, as the old version may be removed as it has been deemed technically incompatible with 10 for some reason
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Linux
Windows 10 was the last straw. I decided to get away from Windows.
In April, I installed a NAS that was fully redundant. That allowed me to save files across platforms. All of my devices are now working with the same exact files, all of which synchronize with each other. No more thumb drives, and I am always working with the most recent version of any file.
Two weeks later, I tried to change over to Ubuntu. I decided that I didn’t really like it. I then tried Linux Mint. I am running the MATE version of Linux Mint, and it is a great OS. After using a Windows based system since Windows 3.1- which came out in 1992, I have a bit of a learning curve, but I have already gotten the new system to do most of what I need it to do.
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Target lawsuit
There are many people who think that a property owner has the absolute right to control behavior on their property. To those people, I say that this is the logical endpoint of that line of reasoning:
This is why I do not respect ANYONE who would attempt to disarm me. Corporations don’t care about their customers, their employees, the law, or anything else other than profit. Protect yourself, because no one else will.
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Indoctrination
As summer approaches, teachers are all taking their required summer training. For me, this means that I am taking ESOL (English Speakers of Other Langugaes) training. This training is a 60 hour course that all teachers are required to take.
It is filled with blatant propaganda. Here is a film that we are being required to watch. In this film, we are being introduced to Moises, an illegal immigrant who entered the country illegally by climbing over the border fence with his family. The film depicts schools that are ignoring kids that cannot speak English. Watch it to see how people are being manipulated through careful propaganda.
EDITED TO ADD:
Here is the assignment that goes with the film:
Write a response that answers the following questions: (What I want to say is in red, but I can’t say it without losing my job)
What are some of the issues that this video brings to your attention?
Illegal immigrants are sneaking into this country, and using up large amounts of resources that could be utilized to educate the children of people who are actually paying taxes.
What steps could be taken to support Moises in his testing?
Send him and his family back to Mexico, where school is taught in the language he understands.
Why do you think the schools don’t take those steps?
Because resources are limited, and it takes far more of those resources to educate someone who must also be taught the language before the lesson can even begin. This is inefficient, and the school has to teach certain skills. To teach students who aren’t even here legally English leaves fewer resources for the actual skills to be taught.
Do we do anything in our district to help ELLs like Moises?
Sure, we can take scant resources and use them to educate these criminal families (make no mistake the film showed Moises and his mother scaling the border fence to enter the country, thus making them criminals) at the expense of the people whose families are following the law and providing those resources.
Those opinions would get me fired.