Divemedic

I wonder what it would cost to install ground surveillance radar at your bug out location?

Why do people go to school? What is the purpose? Nominally, it is for the student to learn certain things, as defined by the objectives of the course. When I was a student in public school, I found the actual learning process to be boring. I would seldom do homework, and I usually put my head down and slept in class. Yet with all of that, at exam time, I would get A’s. Students and teachers alike would complain that I wasn’t doing the work. I pointed out that the point of the class was not to do homework, but to master the course objectives, which I had done, as evidenced by the fact that I had passed the exam.

So teachers began making the completion of homework a substantial portion of the course grade. One of the things that I remember from a 7th grade world history class was that we were given assignments every day, and we were required to complete these assignments and place them in a notebook. This notebook would be collected at the end of the semester, and would be graded. The grade for this notebook would be 60% of the overall grade for the course. I remember one of those assignments. It was a line drawing of a Roman Gladiator, and the assignment was to color in the picture. I felt it was a waste of time, and I didn’t do it. I scored 90% plus on every exam, and I failed the class. The girl who sat next to me failed every exam, turned in a stellar coloring book, and got an A in the class.

This is why we are turning out educated idiots. The focus in school is on obedience, not education. That is why I don’t criticize this mom, who is under fire because her daughter didn’t turn in her homework.

If I had to do it all over again, I would drop out of school as soon as I was able, and take the GED. Then I could attend a community college for an associate’s degree. Public school is a waste of time.

So as Hugo Chavez, the Socialist leader of Venezuela, sees his lead in polls cut from thirteen percent to only five percent in only six weeks ahead of the October 7 election for his third term, the civilian ownership of guns is now outlawed. Socialism is such a good idea, that it has to be mandatory and backed by a monopoly of government force.

Hugo Chavez’s government says the ultimate aim is to disarm all
civilians, but his opponents say the police and government may not have
the capacity or the will to enforce the new law.
Criminal violence is set to be a major issue in presidential elections later in the year.
Campaign group The Venezuela Violence Observatory said last
year that violence has risen steadily since Mr Chavez took office in
1999.

Do you think that this was a manufactured crisis, just like Fast and Furious? The past decade has seen a consolidation of power by Chavez. Him being declared president for life is just around the corner.

Gun confiscation will be followed by dictatorship.

So today, I read about an 11 year old that is pregnant because she was at a sleepover, and the 36 year old man who lives there, while high on Lortabs and Xanny bars, mistook her for his wife and had his way with her.

Then I read about the Canadian 14 year old that is on her third pregnancy with her 35 year old boyfriend. Where are the parents in all this?

Before I was retired, I held the record for medics in the area, by transporting a 12 year old girl to the hospital who was in active labor. I just can’t understand this sort of thing.

One thing I do  wonder, is why are girls hitting menarche earlier and earlier?

Got in a debate on Facebook with a couple of anti gunners today. It began with this post:

anti 1: According to the Center for Disease Control(CDC)
In the year 2007
Homicide with a firearm: 12,129 (33 a day)
Suicide with a firearm: 17,348 (47.5 a day)
Death by accidental discharge of firearm: 721 (just over 2 a day)

I reply: 

That is the motto displayed at the TSA’s air marshal training center. They appear to be living up to that motto, with their unconstitutional searches being expanded to city buses, highways, and shopping malls.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee praised these violations of her
constituents’ rights with an explanation asinine even by congressional
standards:

“We’re looking to make sure that the lady I
saw walking with a cane … knows that Metro cares as much about her as
we do about building the light rail.”

See, if you
don’t support the random harassment of ordinary people riding the bus to
work, you’re a callous bastard who doesn’t care about little old
ladies. 

In 1960, social welfare benefits made up approximately 10 percent of all salaries and wages. In the year 2000, social welfare benefits made up approximately 21 percent of all salaries and wages. In 2011, social welfare benefits made up approximately 35 percent of all salaries and wages. Read more here.
While it is true that economic conditions are slightly better now than they were 5 years ago, they are by no means good, and much of the improvement purely exists on paper. The improvement is due in large part to the $5 trillion in bailout and stimulus money that has been dumped into the economy. Even so, foreclosures are beginning to climb, housing prices continue to fall, and the only reason why the dollar is stronger now than it was 3 months ago, is that the Euro is falling apart at a slightly faster rate than the dollar. However, we will soon join the Europeans, as the U.S. already has more government debt per capita than Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland or Spain.
When Barack Obama took office, there were 32 million Americans on food stamps.  Now, there are more than 46 million Americans on food stamps.
During fiscal 2011, the U.S. government spent over 454 billion dollars just on interest on the national debt.
But just like we are seeing in Europe, if confidence in U.S.
government debt starts to disappear the U.S. government could end up
facing much higher interest rates to borrow money. If the average rate on U.S. government debt only rose to 7 percent, the U.S.
government would be spending about 1.1 trillion dollars a year just on
interest on the national debt.
During fiscal year 2011, the U.S. government spent 3.7 trillion dollars but it only brought in about 2.4 trillion dollars. So if we were spending 1.1 trillion dollars just on interest, that
would be close to half of all the revenue the federal government brings
in.
Right now, the Federal Reserve
is manipulating the system in a desperate attempt to keep interest
rates down.  During 2011, the Federal Reserve bought up approximately 61 percent of all government debt issued by the U.S. Treasury Department. Where does this go? The Fed monetizes that debt. They turn it into cash, which causes inflation.

From Infowars:

Check out the following excerpt from a report that was just released by LEAP/E2020….
 Over the next four years, the country will be subjected to
political, economic, financial and social upheaval such as it has not
known since the end of the Civil War which, by an accident of history,
started exactly 150 years ago in 1861. During this period, the US will
be simultaneously insolvent and ungovernable, turning that which was the
“flagship” of the world in recent decades into a “drunken boat”. 

How do you think governments react when the country becomes ‘ungovernable’?

At least, that is how it appears to me. Ryan Young, a Safeway employee, saw Quyen Van Tran beating his pregnant girlfriend, and told him to stop. When he didn’t, Young pushed Tran away from the woman. The man was arrested, pled out, and was sentenced to three years’ probation.

Young was told at the time of the incident that his job was safe, but was then suspended without pay for several weeks, during which the police sent a letter to the company praising Young’s actions, and protesters managed to get a petition with 180,000 signatures sent to the company, after which the union was able to get him back to work at a different Safeway store.

It shouldn’t take a petition, daily protests, and union representation for a company to know that employees should not tolerate men beating on pregnant women.

Sergeant Matthew Corrigan called the National Veterans Crisis Hotline for advice on sleeping because of
nightmares from his year training Iraqi soldiers to look for IEDs in
Fallujah. The operator, Beth, called 911 and reported Sgt. Corrigan “has a gun and wants to kill himself.”  He claims that he never threatened suicide.

In any case, what resulted was a SWAT standoff, where he was taken to the hospital for evaluation.The police then conducted a warrantless search of his home, causing extensive damage. The search revealed unregistered firearms.

Even if one assumes that he is lying, and did threaten suicide, once the sergeant had surrendered and was in custody, there was absolutely no valid reason for police to enter the home without a search warrant. Maybe there needs to be a law that bars anyone who is found in court to have violated a citizen’s constitutional rights from ever again holding a government job. Maybe that will stop some of the abuses.