Divemedic

Sucked In

In the ED where I work, I am one of only 18 nurses who work there. Two of those 18 nurses are PRN (I am one of them). Of those 18, two of them just got transferred to a different location, one just took a job in another department, and two quit. Doing the math, we just lost a quarter of our nursing staff. That tends to happen with nursing- it’s difficult to find good nurses, and competitors try to hire them away.

They are trying to hire more and have had a few interviews, but no one who has been offered the job has accepted. I’m guessing it’s because nursing pay in the area has climbed again and my employer is offering less than the candidates are being offered elsewhere. They will be forced to raise starting pay again, which is the only way to get a raise- about every two years, change jobs for more money.

At any rate, we still need to staff the place, and to do that, management has declared a critical need. When they do that, the bonuses come out. For the months of July and August, any shift you pick up in addition to your contract gets you a bonus: $33.33 per hour ($400 for a shift) on weekdays, $41.67 per hour ($500 for a shift) on weekends. Since I am PRN, I am only contracted to work one day per week, meaning that I get that bonus for every day that I work in a week beyond that first one. Even if I only work full time hours, I get $800-$1000 per week in bonuses.

The best part is that it is the slow season for emergency departments around the state, so our workload is low. High pay and low work? Of course I jumped on it. I am working a bunch this July, but I am going to make about $20,000 this month alone. When the August schedule gets done, I will try to do the same.

That just adds to the retirement fund. I will be busy, but still working less and making more than I would if I were full time.

By Divemedic, ago

New York Insurrection

It’s time to declare New York City to be in a state of rebellion.

Trump should:

  • Demand the Governor of New York bring her wayward city under control
  • If she fails to do so, declare the entire state of New York to be in a state of rebellion
  • Declare all New York congressional seats to therefore be vacant
  • Declare martial law in the states under rebellion and suspend habias corpus.
  • Ask the other sanctuary states if they would like to continue on their path

It won’t be the first time a Republican President did so.

Either that, or once the 2026 election has been lost (as it likely will be) states like Florida should simply declare Federal law to not be enforceable within their borders. Machine guns and missiles for everyone.

By Divemedic, ago

Rationalizing

First, there is the desired outcome.

Then, mental gymnastics.

Then the camps.

Elon Musk exposed the waste, fraud and abuse of USAID. It was cut.

Now the left says people are starving and dying as a result, making Musk- you guessed it- literally as bad as Hitler.

It’s the only insult they have. Still, make no mistake, they are coming for all of us. You have two and a half years to prepare.

By Divemedic, ago

Not Buying It

The gaslighting is real. This guy, part of an Antifa terror cell and a wanna-be killer tranny Bradford “Meagan” Morris says, well, I will let you read it:

“The original intent was just to show solidarity with the detainees who hopefully lift their spirits with a fun fireworks display and go home,” she told KERA. “If the officer got shot by someone, that person was acting alone. But they want to punish all of us.”

A fun fireworks display? That’s what you are calling that? They had a planning meeting. Conducted recon. Did a weapons check over the radio. Then tossed fireworks into the detention center to lure the ICE agents out. Then they shot a cop, and would have shot more, but Antifa tranny fags can’t shoot for shit.

I remember 2020. You assholes were tossing fireworks as makeshift anti-personnel rounds. That’s called constructive possession and throwing of a destructive device. We haven’t forgotten that, and I don’t believe for a second you were doing this as a crowd pleasing display. Fuck you- rot in there. The only better outcome would have been if the cops had smoked your shit.

I call it like I see it, and that’s how I am calling this one.

By Divemedic, ago

Aww, who’s a Sad Clown?

Some little Antifa twerp is angry because his pals got some serious time for ambushing ICE agents, shooting one of them in the neck. It was a coordinated ambush. The eight convicts got a combined 470 years in prison.

Too bad.

By Divemedic, ago

Rules again

From time to time, we have people that come here and don’t want to be polite and we have to post these rules to remind them of the rules here. It happens about once a year or so, we get someone who comes here and decides they can’t engage in subjects without taking them personally and resorting to personal attacks. This is the first time in two years someone has gotten banned and we’ve had to remind people of the rules here.

It’s just rude to use your second or third comment here to be a personal attack on someone, especially the blog owner.

The overriding concept here is that I am paying for this server, the software that runs it, and providing the content. Since I am the one paying for it, that makes it mine. Some people have a problem with this and begin shouting about free speech. Free speech doesn’t apply here on my property. Want free speech? Pay for your own blog. I will even rent you some server space. You can say whatever you want on there, including calling me names. There are a few people who rent space from me, and not all of us see eye to eye. Your space, your rules.

I allow comments here because I enjoy the back and forth of a good debate. However, commenting here is the virtual equivalent of talking to me while sitting in my living room.

Debate is a good thing. A well reasoned debate changes minds and can influence the opinions of others. If you make a good case for your opinion, you can win over the opinions of others by presenting them with a perspective or situation that may not have occurred to them. Name calling and shouting at people does not change the opinions of others, generates hard feelings, and is nothing more than chimps shouting at each other inside of the money house.

If you and some of my acquaintances are sitting in my living room having a conversation, there are things that you wouldn’t say without expecting either a punch in the mouth, being asked to leave and never return, or both. Try to think of comments here as a face to face conversation, and don’t type a comment here that you would not say to someone’s face.

So with that out of the way, here are the rules for commenting on this blog:

  1. The owner of this blog (me) has the final say on what you can and cannot post. It’s my house, I make the rules. Content here is moderated, and I will not be approving any comments that I find, in my sole judgement, to be unworthy. If you make a comment here and it doesn’t appear within a few hours, it likely wasn’t approved for some reason. Or it wound up in the SPAM filter for some reason. You can always drop me an email and ask.
  2. Deliberately posting statements that are aimed at insulting the blog owner (me) will probably get your comment tossed in the trash. Feel free to disagree with me, just don’t call names or impugn my character. If I wanted someone to purposely insult me, I don’t need to pay for a blog server, I can just go to my ex-wife’s house for free.
  3. Don’t deliberately insult others. No personal attacks. Feel free to attack ideas. Heap scorn on silly or illogical opinions, just don’t make it personal. If your counter argument is weak enough that you must resort to personal attacks to gain leverage, perhaps your argument needs work or is simply wrong.
  4. If you are making a comment about one of my posts, it should be made on the post that you are commenting on, not on another, unrelated post. Offending posts may be deleted or disallowed, purely at my discretion. This is an attempt to both maintain readability and to reduce trolls.
  5. No spam. If you come on here to sell your product or website, that isn’t going to be allowed. This is an ad free site, because I hate all of the ads on the Internet. I don’t make money on this Blog, and no one else does, either. Including you.
  6. If you demand that anyone provide evidence for an assertion that they are making, then you must hold yourself to the same standard when making a counterargument. It takes time and effort to research sources, and replying with “Nuh, uh, I refuse to believe that” while not providing sources of your own to refute them is how an 8 year old debates. If you make an assertion, it is your responsibility to prove it. None of this crap of making a point then when asked for proof responding with “google it.” It was your point, it’s your responsibility to back it up with at least SOME form of evidence.
  7. Usually, I just don’t approve comments that are out of bounds. If you are close to the line, I may approve it with a warning. If repeated out of bounds comments become tiresome, I will warn you.
  8. If warnings don’t work and you keep at it, I will ban you from ever posting on this site again. I know that you can pull tricks like IP spoofing, changing your name, etc. So don’t think doing that is going to earn you “I’m so clever” points. It doesn’t make you clever, it makes you an ass. People have done that before, and it really isn’t a new idea.
  9. Too many people using those tricks to circumvent the rules is what got us full time moderation, which is a major pain in my ass, and a major time waster for me.
  10. When in doubt, please refer to rule #1. These rules can change with no notice, and rules may or may not apply retroactively. That’s up to me. See rule #1.

Those are the rules. They seem rather easy to follow. I am resisting the use of registered accounts for the reason that I don’t like registering anything. However, if too many people violate these rules, I will be forced to have accounts. Please don’t force me to do that.

My readers are fairly well behaved. This blog gets about 3 million hits per year, and we have well over a thousand unique commenters, but an exact count is impossible since we don’t have accounts. Out of the more than 40,000 approved comments here, there have only been 40 people on the ban list, and the vast majority of them were people spamming the blog. There are less than 10 people who have been banned for misbehavior.

By Divemedic, ago