Airfares Soon to Increase

Having solved all of this nation’s problems, the Executive decides to fix the problem of handicapped restroom access on aircraft:

Prepare to see airfares increase to cover the cost of retrofitting all of the aircraft with handicapped restrooms. Now I know that many of you will say “I don’t fly, anyhow” but that isn’t the point. The point here is that the limousine liberals of the left want to be the only ones who can afford to travel, eat at nice restaurants, and go on vacations. They can’t stand the fact that poor people have access to the things that they have. It isn’t that they are really concerned about the environment or about carbon emissions. No, they want to make sure that the elites are the only ones who have access to luxuries like getting on an airplane. After all, you can’t be an elite if just anyone can fly off to Bali or the French Riviera.

Andrew Wilkow has a theory that the only reason why the left is opposed to capitalism and rich people is because they can’t stand knowing that ordinary people have access to luxuries that only the important people should have. After all, what’s the point of being a VIP if anyone could do what you do or have what you have? He calls this theory his “Everyman a King” theory.

Up To… As Much As

The biggest annoyance to all of my Internet provider nonsense is the idea that I am paying for speeds of “up to” 800 MB/s. The problem is that I speedtest it, and have not gotten more than 75. When I called them on it, I got the “we promise as much as 800, but the time of day and conditions sometimes affect your speeds.”

Here is the thing: I only work 3 days a week. When I do work, I work a 12 hour day. I get home at midnight, one in the morning, sometimes (when I work the 15-03 shift) I don’t get home until 4 am. What all of that means is that I speed test all hours of the day or night, on many different days of the week.

This reminds me of the days when cell phone providers did the same thing. I was a customer of Sprint back when they were Nextel. My relationship with that company ended with me filing a lawsuit when I cancelled service after my phone service failed after 2004’s Hurricane Charley. I wanted to cancel my service because the number of missed and dropped calls was ridiculous. They claimed that they didn’t guarantee cell service in any particular location or at any particular time. As long as their phone service worked somewhere and sometimes, they were fulfilling their end of the deal. They told me that either I could stay with them or pay the $600 cancellation fee.

I paid the fee to avoid the hit to my credit and then sued them. I won the lawsuit, and was refunded my fees plus some additional my time and trouble. I remained on the Sprint shit list for over a decade.

Drugs

During the first few weeks of my new ED experience, I can tell you that the community of this new hospital has a larger drug problem than the last. At least a third of my patients have been on Meth or Tranq. Every patient that I have ordered a tox screen for has been positive for one or more of the following: opioids, Benzodiazepines, cannabis, or methamphetamines- in one case, even an 80 year old woman who came in unresponsive and wound up dying- she tested positive for benzodiazepines and cannabis.

In one day alone, I had four different patients come in that were combative because they were on Meth. One of them required 4 nurses, 2 paramedics, and 8 security guards to hold down. We wrestled with him for almost 45 minutes and had to give him 6mg of Ativan, 50 mg of Benadryl, and 10mg of Haldol before he took a nap.

He Isn’t Your Problem

A guy got arrested for attempted murder because he found the man in bed with his wife. The guy you gave the beating to? He isn’t your problem. There are millions of dudes out there that will do your wife. It is your wife that made the promise to you, to always have your back. Your problem is that your wife has no respect or love for you, or she wouldn’t be lying in bed with other men. Whether sex actually took place or not, no one who respects and loves the person that they are married to would engage in an act of disrespect like this.

the victim told deputies that he and a coworker had gone out for drinks prior to coming back to the apartment, which was rented as an Airbnb.

She is your problem. How do you deal with it? You don’t. Even if it were legal to beat her, what would it solve? Not a thing. You can’t make someone love or respect you. Once your spouse is alone in an AirBnb, lying in bed with someone else, your marriage is over and all that is left is the paperwork. The only thing that you can do is walk away and salvage what you can.

Once you know, don’t say a word. Act like everything is normal while you empty the bank accounts. Spend the money so that it is unrecoverable (at least on paper). Wait a month or two, then divorce the bitch. If you don’t already have kids, make damned sure that you don’t get her pregnant on the way out.

Wrong

When I was a teacher, I layered the security for my classroom and my students. First, I installed a Nightlock on my door.

I have Level IV body armor that I kept in my classroom. It had a blowout kit, 4 TQ’s, a huge label on it that said “PARAMEDIC” and a sewn on badge with my blood type. The file cabinet between the door and the blind corner where I planned to shelter my students in the event of a shooter had been modified by me. It has a 1/4″ aluminum plate lining the inside of the sides of the cabinet. With us behind the cabinet, the bullet would have to go through the cabinet, through the first plate, through whatever was in the cabinet, then through the second plate, and the backside of the cabinet.

Dude, use your head.

AMA and BMI

I wrote a paper that discussed why body mass index wasn’t an accurate measurement of anything.

To get an idea of why I feel this way, let’s use some professional athletes to illustrate why BMI is not an accurate measurement of obesity:
This is a link to the roster of the Tampa Bay Lightning, a professional hockey team made up of athletes from all over the world, most of whom are also on their country’s respective Olympic teams. They are provided, as part of the team, with a full time nutritionist, the best medical care available, and they each work out 6-8 hours a day, every day. In other words, they are in the 99.9th percentile of health and fitness. According to Body Mass Index, every one of them has a BMI higher than 25, meaning that all of them are overweight.

In science, if you can prove that a hypothesis isn’t always correct, then it must be rewritten or discarded. BMI isn’t correct.

Now the American Medical Association now agrees that BMI isn’t accurate. Not because of its inherent issues, but now because they claim it is racist.

Sister

Back in April, you will recall that my sister had a meeting where she was going to have to face a parent that was, I suspected, going to accuse her of racism. Now that the school year is over, we can close the books on that.

During the meeting, the school would not allow her to have union representation. The representative was there, but the school said that since the meeting was not going to include discipline, the union could not be there. As soon as the meeting began, the parent began with the racism accusations.

The good news here is that the parent was hated by administration, because she keeps complaining and demanding a new teacher for her little hell spawn. This is the fourth teacher that this parent has made racism complaints against. This time, it didn’t work. My sister finally wound up not getting in trouble.