Divemedic

We Hate You. Give Us Money

A California family was injured at a luxury resort in Hawaii in a racially motivated attack by as many as 20 locals. The ringleader said:

We’re going to beat up the haole boys.

Haole (pronounced ‘howly’) is the native Hawaiian term for people who aren’t from Hawaii and is used mainly as a reference to whites. My wife lived there in Hawaii for several years, and told me the disdain for whites is pervasive, especially for white women. The native Hawaiian girls feel like white women are “stealing their men” and it’s tough to fit in to society there as a white person.

We visited the island state in 2016. One of the things that I saw when we were on Oahu was a large number of signs declaring that haole should leave, “Tourist go home,” or “We have enough hotels.” Signs of that nature. There are a large number of ‘native’ people who believe that Hawaii was some sort of peaceful paradise until Europeans arrived, and they think secession will return them to the ‘good old days.’ Hawaii residents still think that they are entitled to payment from the mainland.

More than 1,000 people are missing or dead from the Maui fires three years ago – many of them children- after police would not allow them to flee the advancing flames. People get the government that they vote for. That’s why I don’t feel sorry for the residents of Hawaii. They voted for a Democrat governor, Senators, Representatives, and have voted for Democrat Presidents for decades.

Hawaiians: This is YOUR fault. Remember that on election day, assuming that it isn’t too late for your votes to matter.

By Divemedic, ago

Arts and Crafts

FN sells semi auto M-249 Squad Automatic weapons, but they are pricey at over $10,000 each. A Mark 48 is pretty much unobtanium, but who doesn’t want a 7.62x51mm belt fed light machine gun? Still, there are ways you can get close.

You can contact the boys over at CryoStructure and get a belt fed 7.62 upper for about $6,000, and have your self a semi auto belt fed support weapon for about 40% of the cost of that SAW.

If you don’t like the weight or are on a budget, you can get yourself a 5.56mm version and build an M249 for half that much. If you look around the website, you can see that they have belt fed 80% lowers, nutsacks, and all of the associated pieces and parts you need.

If firepower is what you need, you can get a “Trigger Kicker.” This is the third FRT developed by the great Mr Hoffman. In this case, the device replaces your disconnector and turns an AR platform into a SAFE/FRT type semiautomatic rifle. Since each shot is a separate squeeze of the trigger, they are legal for now. I know the website says “sold out,” but if you check them every morning, you will notice that they are available early, before that day’s stock sells out. They appear to be going like hotcakes.

The disclaimer: I don’t advertise, and receive nothing for my reviews or articles. I have no relationship with any products, companies, or vendors that I review here, other than being a customer. If I ever *DO* have a financial interest, I will disclose it. Otherwise, I pay what you would pay. No discounts or other incentives here. I only post these things because I think that my readers would be interested.

By Divemedic, ago

Choosing Sides

I believe that the government agents: cops, firefighters, bureaucrats, whatever, all fall into one of three camps.

  • They are siding with the commies
  • They are siding with traditional America
  • They side with whoever they need to side with in order to keep their pensions and pay

Case in point:

In Augusta, Maine on October 18, 2025 there was a No Kings rally on the Memorial Bridge. A man shows up dressed in an American Flag costume with a BYRNA pepper ball gun (which is legal to possess in Maine) to counter-protest. The lefty protesters call 911 screaming “HE’S GOT A GUN.”

The cops immediately handcuff the man and place him under arrest. They refuse to tell him why he is being arrested, only saying that he will find out what the charges were when he gets to the police station. As soon as they arrive at the station, the police simply release the cuffs and tell him he is free to go, no charges.

The officers later admitted they removed him in handcuffs to prevent the mob from becoming violent.

To those officers who read this blog, especially those who have criticism for what I have to say: Is this something you support? Would you silence one side, violating their constitutional rights and your own oath, simply to prevent the mob from becoming violent? If the answers to either of those questions are yes, then we know where the police stand.

Read about the encounter here:

By Divemedic, ago

More Profligate Spending

We keep hearing about how cutting Florida property taxes is going to cause cities and counties to cut the budgets of the vital services like police and fire. The police and fire unions have come out against the tax cuts, because of course they have. Let’s take a look at what that means.

In another installment of “government is spending money like a kid who found dad’s credit cards” we look at the Kissimmee Fire Department. Let’s take a look at their budget and see how money is being spent:

Then for the following fiscal year, the department’s budget ballooned to $24.71 million, despite the fact that they didn’t run an increased call volume, having run 14,837 calls, and then for the year after that, the budget climbed again to $31.2 million. So what changed that necessitated such a drastic increase in budget?

The difference between FY23-24 and FY25-26 is a 56% increase in the fire department’s budget in just two years. A big part of that is in staffing costs. The fire department went from a 3 shift model, where firefighters work 24 hours on and get 48 hours off, to a 4 shift model, where firefighters work 24 hours and get 72 hours off. Despite the fact that firefighters are working 25% less, they are being paid the same amount. This does absolutely nothing to increase the quality of service, but the firefighters get a lot more time off for the same money, so there is that. On an hourly basis, firefighters just received a 34% raise.

That’s not the only increase in costs. Administration costs climbed from $3.5 million to $5 million ( 42% increase) in the same time span. In short, the city is simply throwing money around to the detriment of the taxpayer. How did the city get the money? They raised taxes, of course.

These localities in Florida are spending money left and right. It’s time to rein in this ridiculous spending spree. Fire services can afford some cuts, and so can the rest of government.

By Divemedic, ago

Above the Law

A police officer was caught using his lights and sirens to get to work while driving at speeds up to 124 miles per hour, all because he was late for work. The internal affairs investigation used the GPS tracker in his patrol car to verify his speed. He was caught when other officers saw him driving by with his emergency lights on. I applaud those officers for trying to be good cops.

I want you to consider that the new law in Florida declares a person to be a “super speeder” for going 50 mph or more over the limit or traveling at 100 mph or more. “Super speeding” is a criminal offense.

In the end, the cop in question was given a slap on the wrist when he received a three-day unpaid suspension, lost his take-home police vehicle for 30 days and was placed on six months of employment probation. I’m sure he also was given a good, stern talking to. The police chief said GPS can’t be used to establish speed, therefore they couldn’t do anything more.

Under Florida Statute § 316.2398, the unauthorized or improper display of emergency red warning lights by a volunteer firefighter on a private vehicle is a nonmoving traffic violation, and results in mandatory dismissal from their firefighting organization.

Why aren’t cops held at least to the standard that volunteer firefighters have to follow?

By Divemedic, ago

Weaponized Migration

A memo released late Friday from the files of the Biden administration reveals an insidious plan to use Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to inundate the nation with 3.1 million immigrants by abusing the President’s power to issue TPS. Then, as the plan went, to use bureaucratic and judicial stonewalling to stymie any Trump efforts to reverse what was done.

Senator Eric Schmitt (a Republican from Missouri) obtained the memo from the Archivist of the United States (Edward Forst) through his authority as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution.

“The most disturbing part, Biden’s ‘Senior Advisors’ recommended he create 2.1 million NEW TPS designees in the last few weeks of his presidency, despite admitting TPS applications take 6 months,” Schmitt added.

No, that isn’t the most disturbing part. The most disturbing part is the use of immigration as a weapon against an incoming President. The Democrats are lusting after power to the point they are willing to deliberately undermine and damage this nation for their own personal gain. This memo is, in my opinion, the tip of the iceberg. The entire time of Biden’s administration, they imported as many immigrants as they could. Remember when the Border Patrol was doing everything they could to help people illegally enter the country, including lifting up Texas border fences with heavy machinery?

How about the time Federal Agents went to court to defend their practice of cutting Texas border fences?

The Pew Research center says that there are 11 to 14 million illegal immigrants in the US, while at the same time claiming 11 million illegals entered the US during the four years of the Biden administration. In total, the Pew Research center estimates there are 52 million immigrants in the US, while at the same time admitting there is no way to know if this number is close to accurate, or how many of them are here illegally. Still, if Pew’s numbers are to be believed, as many as 1 in 3 immigrants are here illegally.

It’s entirely possible there are more than 60 million immigrants in the US, with as many as half of them being here illegally through Visa overstays, sneaking into the country, or simply gaming the system with Democrat support.

By Divemedic, ago

Flocking Around

A deputy sheriff in Sumter county, Florida was arrested and fired yesterday for using police tools to cyber stalk her husband’s ex-wife. Detective Almany created official electronic records that falsely represented the searches as legitimate Sheriff’s Office investigations so she could access:

  • Comprehensive Case Information System (CCIS)
  • Flock Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR), and
  • Driver and Vehicle Information Database (DAVID) 

The maintenance of these databases, and the uncontrolled access to them that begs for misuse is a clear violation of the rights of the people. Their existence in their current form is purely a 4th Amendment issue that needs to be addressed. Having an electronic dossier on every American, their whereabouts, and a real time database of their movements is simply egregious.

Not just that, but police need more oversight and less unfettered deference. Qualified immunity needs to go, and police should be forced to obtain malpractice insurance, just like most other businesses do. Medical professionals, accountants, and even travel agents are required to carry insurance against mistakes made in the course of their jobs. I don’t see why police are any different. These databases should require a warrant for access, and any misuse should result in criminal charges, termination, and liability to the person whose rights were violated- to be paid personally from the offending cop or his insurance.

There are people here who would say posts like this reflect a bias against cops. I disagree. These posts instead reflect a lack of bias towards cops, in that I don’t think police are any more righteous than the average person and special care needs to be taken in preventing people from abusing police powers.

By Divemedic, ago

Speech

A woman in Minnesota was just convicted for calling a Somalian immigrant a “nigger.” The Constitution won’t be rewritten, it will just be ignored.

Hendrix was sentenced to supervised probation, 200 hours of community work service, and a $1,000 fine.

and with that, free speech is dead. Say goodbye to the First Amendment.

By Divemedic, ago

Daycare

Opponents of Florida’s ballot initiative to greatly cut property taxes, both Republicans and Democrats, have been scaremongering voters with predictions of the bad things that will happen once they aren’t stealing your money. The latest is telling parents how localities won’t be able to afford sponsoring summer camp, and this is bad because poor parents rely on summer camp as a free daycare program.

Why am I forced to pay for daycare for someone else’s crotch fruit? Get your sperms donor to pay his child support.

By Divemedic, ago