Anti American left

Just the Tip

Read this guy’s perspective on rights:

Ludwig believes that all rights come from government. That’s patently ridiculous. If I were alone on an island, I would have the right to speech. I could keep and bear arms. The only way that I can lose those rights is if someone takes them from me.

That’s why government morally exists- to keep others from taking your rights. This is why we have a Constitution that lays out the powers of government- what that government CAN do, and what it CAN NEVER do.

Not so in Mr. Ludwig’s world. He believes that, unless there is a government present that tells me I may speak, I simply don’t have the right to do so. That’s fundamentally out of line with the ideas of the Founders of this Nation, whose thoughts on this were based upon the philosophies of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes.

This is where the left gets the idea that food, shelter, clothing, and healthcare are human rights. They are not, and they never have been. If I have a human right to any of those things, it follows that I can force someone to provide it to me.

Enter a law forcing someone to pick my cotton, my oranges, build my houses, and perform free healthcare services. Even enacting price controls is a form of slavery, and to claim otherwise is exactly the same thing as saying “if I only put the tip in, it isn’t rape.”

The saddest part of this, is that Mr. Ludwig is an attorney. His college failed him when they failed to teach the basics of the Constitution and its underlying philosophy.

By Divemedic, ago

Walz Wants Your Guns

He claims that Australia and Scotland are “just as free as we are.” Let’s check into that.

Police Scotland has warned the public not to spread misinformation after a 12-year-old girl was charged for brandishing weapons in Dundee when she was being attacked. Police can arrest you for “spreading misinformation.”

In Australia, people who have COVID or have been exposed to COVID were sent to internment camps until late in 2022. If you escape, you were arrested. Democrats in the news media denied this, saying that camps in Australia aren’t technically internment camps because they were only for the quarantine of travelers, even though that’s exactly what the Aussies were calling them. As to the claim that it was a quarantine camp for arriving travellers, well, let’s hear from one of the internees:

Go ahead, Tim. Start sending police to confiscate people’s guns. Light that match and see what happens.

By Divemedic, ago

Not Compassionate

The left was busy mocking Republicans all week, but in the process demonstrated that if it weren’t for double standards, the left would have no standards at all. The mayor of Minneapolis had this to say:

Anybody who is using this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community, or any other community out there, has lost their sense of common humanity.

But proving that they are true assholes, he went on to say this:

Don’t just say that this is about thoughts and prayers right now, these kids were literally praying.

Mocking prayer by saying that it does nothing as children are being shot while praying? That’s a new low.

I have made no secret of the fact that I am an atheist, but I understand the sentiment of “thoughts and prayers.” When someone says that, it’s a statement that you are in their thoughts, and they are wishing you well as they grieve with you. To turn that into an attack on the person’s religion makes you an asshole. To do that almost immediately after demanding that people ignore the shooter and his fucked up mental state is beyond the pale. This is proof that there is just no coexisting with the left. They are simply evil. There is no other way to phrase it.

Isn’t it odd that the left is heaping scorn upon the religions of the world and mocking them, all while calling the other side the “party of hate?”

By Divemedic, ago

NY and GOA: A Larger Issue?

There is a case in NY that is important, where the U.S. Northern District Court ruled in Higbie v. James that New York’s concealed carry laws are violating the Second Amendment rights of nonresidents by making it nearly impossible for nonresidents to obtain a concealed carry license. It was sponsored by Gun Owners of America.

The plaintiffs in this case argued that they each have firearms licenses which permit them to bear arms in public in their respective states “and across most of the country.” They also claimed that New York does not permit them to carry their firearms while they are in New York solely because they are not residents or employees of the State. They argued that New York’s licensing scheme is an extreme outlier among the states because at least 27 states do not even require a permit to carry a concealed firearm in public, while the vast majority that do require permits will issue permits to out-of-state residents. The US District Court agreed, and struck down NY’s complicated and overly onerous regulations as being unconstitutionally designed to deny nonresidents their constitutional rights under the Second Amendment. The court ruled that state lawmakers can not restrict concealed carry licenses to maintaining residency, property ownership, or business interests in the state.

The tyrants of NY government attempted to make the argument that their licensing measures were not entirely prohibitive for non-residential applicants, saying certain guidelines allowed for those who owned habitable property or a business stake in the state to apply for such a license. In essence, they claimed that, because they allowed one nonresident to have a permit, this excused violating the rights of the rest of them. In essence, they are relying on the “token negro” defense. The court rightly called them out on this. 

Look, this case will have no direct impact upon the reality of CCW for nonresidents in New York. We all know that, because those ass clowns will simply find another way to violate the rights of US citizens while bleating loudly about the rights of illegal immigrants to take a dump on New York city streets. Even those residents who have permits nominally have to have criminal background checks, a mental health professional sign off on the permit, and multiple references.

The reality is that New York’s scheme is all about who you know and political payoffs when deciding who gets a permit. I know someone who has a New York carry permit. He also has a state police license plate, which starts with 1SP. He began telling me that the state police union had a series of special plates made, and they are only available through Hamilton county in New York. He claimed that this plate was given to “friends” of the police union, and the lower the number was that followed the 1SP, the more important you were to the cops. He said that this plate routinely gets him out of traffic and parking tickets. Not because he paid for it, nor did he jump through hoops. It’s because he knows someone, or as he puts it, “I’ve got a guy.”

This sounded like a lload of BS to me, so I activated my Google skills. What I found was that handing out special plate numbers is a common practice in New York. and I quote:

To some recipients, special license plates issued by the Saratoga County clerk are a symbol of county pride. For others, they are an inherited treasure passed on by a family member or loved one.
For many who have them — a list that ranges from county workers to state Supreme Court judges — an unwritten rule is that a lower number may indicate a special driver.
Indeed, an examination of the recipients of the special plates, which carry an “SP” prefix, shows they are coveted by a select group of government employees and elected officials, including judges, prosecutors, town supervisors, attorneys and political party leaders. The spouses and children of those people are also among those, estimated to be in the hundreds, who have the plates.

Now the SP prefix goes to Saratoga County. The 1SP prefix, which I can find little about, belongs to the State Police. This is how things are done there, from Concealed Weapons Permits to License plates, corruption and special favors rule the day.

They claim it is for “county pride” but I am sure there are not that many people who believe that. This is a way of announcing to the police that you are politically well connected and should receive special treatment.

The real impact of the Higbie case is that the noose is closing. The era of violating people’s rights to bear arms is closing through the courts. That doesn’t mean the fight os over. Evil, corruption, and man’s quest for power to rule others never ceases. That’s why the fight can’t either.

Donate to the GOA or the FPC. They are doing the work of patriots.

By Divemedic, ago

Class Warfare= Envy

There has been a plethora of stories talking about the privilege possessed by the upper middle class as of late. This article is typical of what the left is trying to do– they are saying that young people no longer have a chance at the American dream because they are being kept down by [insert here: “Boomers,” the upper middle class, banks, landlords, Donald Trump] because of privilege.

The things that supposedly prove that you are blind to your privilege are:

  1. Why don’t you move to a less expensive area, or one where jobs are more plentiful?
  2. I worked hard to make it, you can too.
  3. Money isn’t everything.
  4. We all have the same opportunities to succeed.
  5. I don’t worry about money.
  6. Why don’t they save more?
  7. Everyone should travel.

Numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 are all linked in my mind. It isn’t just about hard work, it’s about choices. The choices that we make directly affect the outcomes that we experience. If you pick a troublesome albatross for a mate, you decide to smoke weed all day instead of hustling to improve, or you waste all of your money on OnlyFans, Starbucks, and Door Dash, you are not making good choices. Your outcome will reflect that.

That isn’t to slam having some vices- I like to gamble, and ordering Door Dash when I am at work instead of clocking out for an hour to go eat is actually more cost effective. The thing is, you can’t be doing those things when you are poor. The importance of understanding when you can give up wants in order to afford your needs is something that many young people struggle with. Everyone, when they first move out of their parents’ house, is used to living a better lifestyle than they themselves can afford. My mother used to call it a “caviar and Champaign taste on a beer and bread budget.” Live within your means, save as much as you can, and then you will later enjoy a better life. Learn that sacrifices when you are young will pay off when you are older.

Once you realize that, you won’t have to worry about money and you will be able to travel. There is no secret to making it- so many people think that there is some magic or secret society to becoming wealthy, but it isn’t a secret and it isn’t magic.

The way to wealth is this:

Own your house. Renting just means that you are paying someone else’s mortgage.

Buy a house, preferably with a 15 year mortgage. Pay it off as quickly as you can- don’t just make the minimum payments. Look at four different choices (using West Orlando prices):

  • Rent a nice 2 bedroom apartment. Ten years ago, it was $1200 per month. Same apartments today are $2300 per month. If you did that for 15 or 30 years, it would cost you between $324,000 and $648,000 and you own nothing. The money is gone.
  • Buy a house with the roughly same square footage in the same area for $140,000 in 2002. A 5% down mortgage would mean a $7,000 down payment and monthly payments of $937 for 30 years. Total cost for 30 years: $344,320. A lot, but you also now own a house that is worth $425,000. Not bad. You are now $728,000 more wealthy than if you had rented.
  • Or buy the same house with a 15 year mortgage. Now the payments are $1281 per month, but you pay it off in half the time. Now the total cost is: $237,580. After 15 years, no payment at all. You are now $835,000 more wealthy than if you had rented.
  • Same 15 year mortgage, but make an extra $200 per month payment against your principal: you pay the house off 3.5 years early, and this saves you another $12,000 in interest payments. You are damned near to being a million bucks ahead of renting.

Don’t pick a spouse/significant other that spends you into the poorhouse.

I know that she (he) is fun- after all, spending money is fun and gives you instant gratification, but at the expense of your future well-being.

Know the difference between wants and needs.

Door Dash, Starbucks, and eating out are great, but you don’t NEED to do that, especially when you are poor. Wait until you can afford it before you waste money on these things. If you don’t own a house, are making extra payments on it, and can’t afford to pay all of your bills plus put at least 10% of your income aside as savings, then you can’t afford to any of those “Wants.” Learn to wait until you can.

Education is the key to financial well being.

That doesn’t necessarily mean college. The lack of a college degree doesn’t mean that you won’t get a good job. There are plenty of trades out there that make good money- welders, for example. I was a fire medic and making a pretty good living.

Having a college degree doesn’t guarantee you a good job. Taking out $200,000 in student loans for a degree in 14th Century French poetry is a bad idea.

The trick is to learn a valuable skill, then be good at it. Work hard, make wise choices. Save. Don’t waste money on stupid bullshit. Then be patient. It will take a while. It took me about 12 years to go from bankrupt to a million in net worth.

That’s my advice. I have learned all of these things the hard way. It wasn’t privilege that got me to be successful- remember, I have been poor and even homeless. It was the school of hard knocks. Doing the things I recommend here is hard. It takes discipline and sacrifice.

Or you can just stay poor and blame your landlord or Donald Trump for it.

By Divemedic, ago

We Wuz Kangs

Kaura Taylor, woman from the US has moved to the woods outside of Edinburgh, Scotland and is now living with a Ghanan man whose real name is Kofi Offeh but goes by the name of King Atehehe. He claims to be the king of a lost African tribe that he alleges was illegally ousted from Scotland in 1590. The entire tribe consists of the “king,” his wife the “queen,” and Kaura, who claims to be the queen’s handmaiden.

Offeh is a 36-year-old former opera singer from Ghana, but claims he is the messiah and a descendant of the biblical King David, with he and his wife referring to each other as King Atehehe and Queen Nandi. They claimed to be living in a mystical kingdom called Kubala, but the reality is that it was a muddy patch of land on the outskirts of Jedburgh, where the “tribe” was living in what is essentially a homeless camp in tents and folding chairs.

They have since been evicted. Social services have since removed Kaura’s (who now goes by the name of Asnat) child from her. What ever happened to the old Scottish and British custom of running Moors through with a sword?

By Divemedic, ago

Approved Discrimination

Proving that discriminating against a straight white male is the only type of discrimination approved of by the left, Uber has just announced their “women only” service, initially to be rolled out in Los Angeles, Detroit, and San Francisco. This service is reportedly being offered in response to a large number of reported sexual assaults that have occurred on ride shares like Uber and Lyft. (Am I the only one noticing that the sexual assaults are all happening in ultra-liberal cities?)

Under this service, female riders have the option of demanding only female drivers. This is discriminatory against male riders AND drivers.

I am sure that Uber is just about to start their new service of “no illegal immigrants,” to be followed by their “no niggers” service. As long as Uber is about to be discriminatory, they might as well go all the way.

No word on what happens when sexual predators simply declare that they are trannies and identify as women before picking up victims women riders and the arguments that ensue. That will shortly be followed by discrimination lawsuits when male drivers file EEOC employment discrimination lawsuits. The fecal material is about to hit Uber’s oscillating air motivation device.

By Divemedic, ago

Karens

This woman is upset that the FHP arrested an illegal who was driving with no license, no insurance, and unregistered tags. She feels that the cops should have just given him a ticket and let him go.

I saw this situation many times, back when I was a fire paramedic. This is what they do- The scam here is that an illegal buys a van with a valid plate from someone who is legal. They leave the tags on the vehicle, because they can’t get new tags or insurance without a valid license. They use the vehicle until it either gets impounded or in an accident. The driver they hit is left holding the bag, unless they have uninsured motorist coverage.

When they get in an accident, they give the fake name. They get a ticket for canceled tags, for the accident, for no insurance and for no driver’s license. The tickets require a court appearance. They don’t show up for the hearing, and an arrest warrant is issued, but they already have a new identity and vehicle. They are never seen again.

I know, because I saw plenty of people fall victim to that scam. It also happened to me once: July 4, 2002. I was rear ended by an illegal, he had no insurance, and he never showed up to court. The new bumper for my truck cost me $1000 that I had to pay myself. That’s why I still carry uninsured motorist coverage to this day.

She is literally defending a criminal.

By Divemedic, ago