Divemedic

The Florida model

Remember when I explained how Florida got burned once, and changed the way that they handle forestry and wildland fires? California doesn’t do that. The people in forestry are trying to do an experiment to see if it will work, but lefty environmentalists are suing to prevent it.

The forest service plans to use prescribed burns, forest thinning, and herbicides as part of the massive fuel reduction project. It’s designed to protect communities in Plumas and Butte Counties from future wildfires…Josh Hart, a spokesman for Feather River Action explained the group’s concerns. The lawsuit plaintiffs are environmental groups including Feather River Action, Plumas Forest Project John Muir Project. Hart said his group refers to the plan as the forest devastation project. “What the forest service is proposing is only going to make the situation worse,”

They are pretending that fires don’t naturally occur, which of course reduces the availability of fuel that makes wildfires larger. You see, it’s better to have smaller fires every couple of years than it is to suppress that until the fuel is so prevalent that the fire is impossible to put out.

This is the problem with the left- they are morons who deserve to see their homes burn down due to their stupid voting habits.

You get what you vote for.

By Divemedic, ago

Anchor Babies

Donald Trump is claiming that he will end the practice where a pregnant woman illegally enters the US then presents herself to an Emergency Room while in labor, the hospital delivers the baby as required by EMTALA, and the baby is subsequently declared to be a US citizen. The left then claims that it is unfair to separate a child from the rest of the family, thereby making the child an ‘anchor baby’ shoehorning in half a dozen illegals. This practice is called birthright citizenship.

The left claims that Trump can’t stop this because of the 14th Amendment, which reads (in pertinent part):

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. 

It isn’t quite as easy as the left would have you believe. The Supreme Court decided this in 1873, and I would think that the court in 1873, a mere 5 years after the passage of the 14th Amendment would have a bit of firsthand knowledge of what the Amendment was for. This is what they had to say in the case of Elk v. Wilkins (1873):

This section contemplates two sources of citizenship, and two sources only: birth and naturalization. The persons declared to be citizens are “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” The evident meaning of these last words is not merely subject in some respect or degree to the jurisdiction of the United States, but completely subject to their political jurisdiction and owing them direct and immediate allegiance.

Meaning, of course, that it isn’t as simple as “where were you born” but indicating that there are more limits to be explored here. Furthermore, SCOTUS ruled in 1872 that the purpose of the 14th Amendment was:

The first clause of the fourteenth article was primarily intended to confer citizenship on the negro race, and secondly to give definitions of citizenship of the United States and citizenship of the States, and it recognizes the distinction between citizenship of a State and citizenship of the United States by those definitions.

The question isn’t as cut and dried as the left would have us believe. This one is going to SCOTUS, I think. This shows that Trump is not the ignorant buffoon that the left wants us to think that he is.

By Divemedic, ago

Intermission

A brief slowing of the speed with which we are headed off the cliff as the corrupt Biden regime ends.

Now about the pardons for Fauci, Milley, et al: A pardon isn’t a pass to avoid all consequences for your past actions. There are many, many people who lost loved ones and couldn’t even say goodbye or attend a funeral due to COVID. All you have to do is release all of the evidence that Fauci was complicit. Then release the addresses of his home, work, and other places he is likely to be. Heck, have Elon host a live tracker of his location. That will sort itself out.

Then recall Milley back to active duty. A pardon can only insulate you for prosecution for past crimes, not future ones. If he refuses to return, court martial him for desertion. When he DOES return, send him to the base in Antartica. Or better yet, let it be known that he assisted the Chinese in the COVID pandemic and send him on an accompanied fact finding tour to areas hard hit by the disease.

Still, there has been very little heat, light, or noise from the left. They haven’t given up, so I just wonder what is coming…

By Divemedic, ago

Executive Orders

Executive orders are orders written by the chief executive, instructing executive branch employees in how they are to carry out their duties. In the case of the Federal government, the chief executive is the President, of course.

I have long been highly critical of how Executive orders have been used. They cannot be used to create laws out of whole cloth, as that is the job of the legislature. What EOs can be used for, however, is to instruct federal employees in how they will carry out the duties that have been assigned to them by law, in my opinion.

So that brings us to our current problem- there are state and local governments that are refusing to abide by or even comply with the enforcement of Federal law. Namely, there are cities who are refusing to comply with ICE in removing illegal immigrants from our country. I would wholeheartedly approve of an EO instructing Federal employees to refuse to issue or approve ANY grants or Federal funding to any local government who declares itself to be a sanctuary city. That would also include providing access to Federal programs like the NCIC or any other crime related database to any police department who refuses to comply with Federal law.

The entire Federal grant system is based upon Presidential Executive Order No. 12372, which was issued by President Reagan in July of 1982. That EO allows states to establish a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) to review proposed federal financial assistance. So Trump could simply modify that EO to make this happen.

The Feds have been tying funding to their edicts for decades. It’s how 21 became the national drinking age nationwide– it’s time that the Trump team begin playing the game.

By Divemedic, ago

Immunity

The left wants to know why Congress and the President are not supposed to be arrested while enroute to or in the midst of carrying out their mandated duties? This is why:

That’s Georgia State Senator Colton Moore being arrested for attempting to enter the Georgia State House chamber to attend the Governor’s State of the State address. He was banned by the Georgia Speaker of the House for daring to call the previous Speaker corrupt.

This is pure tyranny. He is a state Senator who is attempting to carry out his official duties and being denied that. Don’t tell me that you are protecting Democracy when the elected representatives of the people are being denied access to Legislative functions.

Don’t forget that it was Fulton County, Georgia that was so instrumental in the rigging of the 2020 election. This is where the supposed water main break allowed Democrats to add boxes of ballots to the vote tally virtually unobserved. It also gave iPads to Democrat attorneys from the ACLU, with those iPads having the ability to delete ballots without a record of the deletion.

Fulton County is also where the Grand Jury was empaneled that indicted Trump on election interference. It’s also where Giuliani was charged with similar crimes, and where he lost his defamation lawsuit against election workers.

Fulton County is the center of the leftwing communist movement in the South.

By Divemedic, ago

Milking It

Being a female dominated profession, nursing has quite a few new mothers. A couple of them are abusing the law to their advantage. The PUMP Act states that women must be permitted breaks so that they can be milked like a cow, and boy are some of them milking it.

While at work, I was instructed to cover one of these women’s patients while she went to go pump. She was gone for 2 hours. When she returned, she was only back for half an hour before she took a lunch break. After returning from that, she went to go pump again for another hour and a half. In all, she was off the floor for over 5 hours out of her 12 hour shift. When we told her that we thought she was taking too long, with even another woman telling her that it doesn’t take that long to pump, she replied that she can go as often and for as long as she deems necessary.

So we went to supervision to complain. They explained to us that there is nothing that they can do. Apparently, they had spoken to her about it, only to get a phone call from her lawyer the next day. So hands off. It’s so bad, that they are now afraid of her:

Last week, while I was covering her patients, I walked into the room of one of them to find a woman covered in blood, with large blood clots on the bed. She had a pulse of 120 and was complaining of belly pain. She had been lying there for over 2 hours like that. I intervened and went to the doctor. Turns out it was coming from her bladder, and I measured more than a liter of blood loss.

I got the patient straightened out before the nurse returned. About an hour later, I noticed on the telemetry board that the patient had a blood pressure of 80/50 and a heart rate of 120. I spoke to her and she told me that the patient would be fine. I went over her head to the charge nurse. Yeah, I dropped a dime on her.

The woman was taken to emergency surgery. The nurse? Nothing happened to her.

The very next day, same nurse had placed a patient on 2 liters of oxygen. The patient was in obvious distress with an O2 saturation of 78%. Another nurse saw this, took over care, called respiratory, and had the patient placed on BiPAP. Again, no repercussions for nurse slacker’s complete lack of anything competent.

I have told the charge nurse that I will not be placing my name anywhere on that nurse’s chart and refuse to watch over her patients while she is off the floor. 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, especially when I already have 3 or 4 patients of my own.

By Divemedic, ago

Social Credit and Lynch Mobs

If you are on social media, you have likely seen the video of the Philadelphia Eagles fan confronting a woman wearing Packers gear. He called a woman a cunt on video, seemingly because she was a fan of the opposing team.

Taken at face value, what the guy did and said was crass and deserved punishment. having been to sporting events with Philly fans, I can tell you that no matter what the sport, the fans from that city are just like this guy. The woman’s husband, had he done something, would have gotten his ass kicked by the rest of the nearby Philly fans.

Still, Internet lynch mobs are a thing, and this guy was soon identified by Social Media busybodies. The league banned him from all future NFL events, and I really feel that justice was served at that point. The punishment fit the crime, so to speak.

Still, that isn’t enough to satisfy the Internet busybodies. They don’t stop until a person has been destroyed. They also identified his employer and went after his career, successfully, I might add.

It also turns out that there is likely much more to this story. It seems that the woman and her soon to be husband who were the target of this verbal abuse are so-called “influencers.” The pair specialize in starting conflict and then filming the resulting chaos.

Fans have discovered that the fiance of the woman abused by Caldwell, Alexander Basara, is actually a content creator with close to 60,000 subscribers on YouTube.

And to add to the suspicion, Basara and his other half only attended Sunday’s game after he created a GoFundMe page asking for donations to help get him there – despite claiming to live an hour away from Lincoln Financial Field.

Knowing this, it is entirely possible that the guy and his woman provoked Caldwell so they could get his reaction on film.

That’s the issue with cancel culture- the Internet lynch mobs gather and destroy people’s lives without a thought as to whether or not they should. This very blog was targeted by a Cancel Culture warrior who wanted to get me fired and deplatformed. It was my readers who shot back and got her fired.

It shouldn’t be like that. It sucks that making a comment completely unrelated to work can result in the Internet gang looking to dox you so they can have you fired. Those are the rules we are being forced to live under, even if they do suck.

By Divemedic, ago