Government

It’s Official

I have seen more than enough of these incidents. Cops only being badasses when they know they can’t lose.

To those who say that this man was interfering- what does the law say? What is the definition of interfering? It looks like he is far enough away to not be interfering, except for the imagination of the cop thinking that he is going to be attacked from 100 feet away.

The sentence that says it all: “Jesus, I thought you guys were supposed to be good.” When you have Joe Sixpack and Suzie Soccermom thinking that you aren’t the good guys, you have lost America.

As I have said before, all settlements and lawsuits for cop misbehavior should be paid directly from the police pension fund. If that means cop pensions get cut, then maybe the cops will clear out the ones who do shit like this. Make them have skin in the game.

By Divemedic, ago

Attacking Female Staff

An illegal immigrant in New York has been attacking female staff members at the city’s emergency rooms.

Edward Johnson, 57, an illegal immigrant believed to be from the Caribbean who came to the United States over a decade ago, has been arrested 23 times on charges that include gun possession, according to sources and records. He has another 42 arrests that have been sealed since he arrived in the US.

He skipped out on supervised release and is on the lam, authorities said — and has a dangerous habit of attacking female healthcare workers who try to treat him.

“Every time he goes to the hospital, he beats up a nurse or a doctor,” said an NYPD source.

Here is a picture of the critter.

Now here is a picture of one of the doctors that he attacked.

This Dr has been attacked twice

I posted about this before. I won’t be anyone’s punching bag. You take a swing at me, and it is ON. The struggle that follows will be as violent as you want to make it. How do you get to do this without being fired? “The patient was violent, deranged, and I was fearful that he would hurt himself or someone else. He had to be restrained for his own, and the staff’s protection.”

With all of that being said, note that this criminal has been arrested for all sorts of violent crime, carrying weapons, and most of the arrest records have been sealed.

Still, in this case, we can see what the issue is.

Leahy said an assistant district attorney working for Clark called her in April 2023 and explained the office wouldn’t take the case to trial because it doesn’t want to “hurt [Johnson’s] immigration status” and believes his eight months served as a detainee was enough.

Odds are, this doctor is a Democrat and voted for the very politicians who are green lighting these attacks. You get the government that you deserve, and until you as a voter demand that this stop, it will continue. The people that the good Doctor voted for have made NY a sanctuary, and they have shown that those people matter to them more than you do.

You have been attacked twice by this guy and gotten a shiner as a result, but at least they are going after Donald Trump, so I guess you have that going for you.

By Divemedic, ago

Stupidity is giving me a headache

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Funny, it’s Congress that has the power. Not the states. Not Colorado. It says so right there, and anyone with a third grade reading comprehension understands that.

No, because Article III doesn’t have anything like the Section 5 that is found in the 14th Amendment, and neither does the 22nd Amendment. The left loves to look at every word and twist it to their advantage, (well-regulated militia) but then ignores words that it finds inconvenient. (“Congress has the power,” “right of the people,” or “reserved to the states”)

The left is made up of petulant children who throw temper tantrums whenever anything doesn’t go their way. You point that out, and they immediately began screaming “J6! J6!”

I know that CW2 would be a disaster, but this slow motion collapse is really beginning to wear on me. The left is playing for all of the marbles.

Let’s just get it on, already. This is one of those days for me. I am just over these assholes.

OK, I have to go do something else, something productive for a while, or I am going to blow a gasket.

By Divemedic, ago

Seattle Cops Taking Sides

Check out this video of Seattle cops slashing the tires of motorists. Remember when I told you that the entire state of Washington was in Zone 5, making it behind enemy lines?

This is an election year. As the year progresses, expect violence and rhetoric to get increasingly worse, more widespread, and more obvious. The time from now until next January will become increasingly dangerous, especially in areas that are Zone 3 or higher.

Areas in zone 5 are areas where the government has ceded or lost all control and/or has openly declared that they cannot and will not provide basic government services like police, fire, and EMS. These areas are completely out of legitimate governmental control and can best be described as being behind enemy lines. Government authority has either effectively or openly sided with the insurgents and is providing them with active support. Anyone who finds themselves in one of these areas is advised to leave immediately, even if this means abandoning property.

By Divemedic, ago

Yet Another Bad Apple

5 days for committing felony battery, and for threatening to arrest the guy under false pretenses? His job is to prevent crime, not commit it. How can you completely violate the purpose of your job and still keep it? Become a cop, then you are above the law. You can even read the arrest reports here. This douchebag cop even tried to find a way to have the guy he punched arrested.

Even better? He is a school resource officer. This unhinged asshole is carrying a firearm around your kids. What happens the next time he loses his cool after a 15 year old kid calls him an asshole?

If I did something like this at work, I would lose my fucking job, and rightfully so. I used to be a HUGE supporter of police. No longer. They, as near as I can tell, are little more than an armed criminal gang with delusions of adequacy. Bolstered in their bravado and tyranny is the fact that cops have qualified immunity and the “thin blue line” bullshit to do whatever they wish and walk away without a concern for legal consequences.

IMO, as soon as he flashed a badge, he was depriving the victim of his rights under color of authority. There should be a law that states any time a city loses a lawsuit or pays a settlement for a cop’s bad behavior, the money to pay it should be deducted from the police pension fund. Then perhaps, with skin in the game, cops will finally clean up their own ranks, instead of covering each other’s asses.

If cops want to change my mind, and the minds of others, they need to clean up their ranks.

By Divemedic, ago

Oregon: “Minorities too stupid to learn”

The state of Oregon says that proving proficiency in reading, writing, or math is no longer required to receive a high school diploma, has required it since 2020, and won’t require it at least through 2029. This makes an Oregon High School diploma completely worthless.

A little over a year ago, I put up a post on what the terms ‘licensure’ and ‘certification’ mean.

Certification is where an entity certifies that a person meets certain standards. The entity issuing the certification can be a private business or a government. The value of the certification lies with the reputation of the entity that issues it.

A diploma is a piece of paper that certifies the person named thereon has met the requirements put in place to receive that certification. It is, in this case, a statement from an Oregon school that the high school graduate has met all of the requirements that the state says need to be met in order to receive the diploma. That way a prospective employer can see that you have graduated from high school, knowing that the person named on that diploma has certain abilities and skills.

In Oregon’s case, just what are those requirements?

Higher rates of students of color, students learning English as a second language and students with disabilities ended up having to take intensive senior-year writing and math classes to prove they deserved a diploma. That denied those students the opportunity to take an elective, despite the lack of evidence the extra academic work helped them in the workplace or at college, they said.

Where is the evidence that a high school diploma helps a graduate in the workplace or college?

Board members underscored that state-mandated standardized tests will still be administered to most Oregon high school students – they just won’t be used to determine whether a student has the skills necessary to graduate.

I know high school students. Make them take an exam that doesn’t count as a grade and isn’t required for graduation, and they will not take it seriously, rushing through it so they can get back to interacting with social media on their cell phones.

Oregon lawmakers, however, have mandated that families be told each year that they can opt their student out of taking state tests – and one third of high school juniors didn’t take the tests last spring, meaning they and their families don’t necessarily know how they measure up against statewide academic standards.

Oh, wait. They don’t even have to take them. That’s how you hide your policy failures- simply stop measuring them. So why are they doing this?

Opponents argued that pausing the requirement devalues an Oregon diploma. Giving students with low academic skills extra instruction in writing and math, which most high schools did in response to the graduation rules, helped them, they have argued.

But leaders at the Oregon Department of Education and members of the state school board said requiring all students to pass one of several standardized tests or create an in-depth assignment their teacher judged as meeting state standards was a harmful hurdle for historically marginalized students, a misuse of state tests and did not translate to meaningful improvements in students’ post high school success.

So they are saying that black and Hispanic students are too stupid to learn reading, writing, and math, but then turn around and claim that those who demand that they learn these things are the racists.

By Divemedic, ago

Workplace Safety

The leftists on Twitter are in an uproar over a 15 year old roofer who fell to his death in Alabama in 2020. They are firing off post after post, claiming that Republicans don’t want to protect children. They are, however, leaving out an important part of the story.

The missing fact? The child laborers who are being injured are illegal immigrants (referred to in this link as “migrants”). The employers in this case are already hiring them illegally and paying them less than minimum wage, so labor laws protecting children really won’t do anything in these cases.

In fact, the $100,000 fine levied against the roofing company for hiring the child labor is peanuts compared to what these companies save by hiring illegals for less than minimum wage. Go to any construction site in the US, and you are likely to find illegal immigrants- what the left euphemistically calls “migrants”- being the majority of the workforce. A roofing company that employs 10 people at $8 an hour is saving a quarter of a million dollars every year that they continue the practice in Florida.

According to salary.com, a roofer in Alabama makes around $30k a year. Now imagine that you are employing illegals for half that. A ten man crew would save you $150,000 a year in salary alone. Then there is unemployment, the Social Security match, benefits, and other costs that you don’t have to pay, even though you are breaking a dozen laws in the process.

But a child labor law will matter.

By Divemedic, ago

Trying to Sound Smart

Watch this video:

No the time it takes to travel a distance is an easy formula. It is derived from the formula for speed, where speed is equal to distance divided by time. To calculate In the video, he draws a curved line to display the relationship, and his is wrong. Displaying that formula as a graph to display how long it takes to travel a known distance looks like this:

EDIT to add: The below graph is not a good representation of my point. You can ignore it, but I am leaving it here as a monument to my error. My point still stands: his claim that driving faster doesn’t make a difference is still false. If you go 70 mph versus 60, you are travelling about 16% faster, so you will get there 16% sooner. If you are travelling 20mph instead of 15mph, you are travelling 33% faster, so you will get there 33% sooner.
He is saying that it doesn’t pay to drive faster, which is false. The benefit to driving faster is directly proportional to the increase in speed.

Note that the graph is a straight line. He is either stupid or deliberately lying. The difference between 5 mph and 10 mph will get you there in half the time, because you are travelling twice as fast. The reason why you only save a few seconds when you drive at 65 versus 60 mph is that 65 is not even ten percent faster than 60.

By Divemedic, ago