Going even more woke

CBS will require 50% of casts of unscripted programs to be non-White next season in response to complaints that shows on the network are not “diverse” enough. 

This is pure horse hockey. According to the US census, the population of the United States is 76.3% white. One of the shows mentioned in the article is Big Brother. Here is this season’s cast:

So a total of 16 cast members. There is a black man and a black woman. Again, according to the census, blacks make up 13.4% of the US population, which would mean that 2 blacks out of 16 cast members would be representative of the US population. The cast seems to be fairly even. That isn’t good enough. 

I guess fair isn’t woke enough. This is why I don’t watch TV shows.

Democracy is a civil war prevention mechanism

 This is a great post about evidence. Let me give you a couple of quotes:

Now, let’s be clear here about what the word “evidence” actually means. It doesn’t mean “proof”. When a defendant is found not guilty, all the evidence against them doesn’t cease to exist; it is still evidence against them, which has been weighed and found not damning.

But the best quote of the entire post:

democracy is not primarily a decision-making mechanism. I mean, really, if you were setting out to design a good way of making good decisions, would you come up with democracy? Of course not. Because it’s laughably useless.

However, democracy is a very very good civil-war-prevention mechanism.

Truer words were never spoken. Once a people have decided that their vote doesn’t matter, they will resort to the only recourse left to them.
Read the whole thing, it is worth your time. For the last word of this post, I leave you with the words of John F Kennedy: 

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. 

Caching in

 When nuclear weapons were first invented, militaries all over the world had to adopt new tactics. When it became possible for a single bomb to destroy large amounts of military firepower, it became imperative for militaries to spread their forces over large areas, so that a single nuclear strike to destroy them all. 

The same tactic applies to individuals who are into preparedness. You don’t want one single event to destroy all of your preparations. Events like a hurricane, fire, riot, or government action may limit your access to (or destroy) certain supplies that you may have stockpiled. 

Now might be a good time to review how and where you store supplies. Maybe you can have backup storage locations where some of your stuff is hidden. Some of it can be on property you have access to. Maybe some can be cached in PVC and buried on public land that you can relocate in an emergency. If you DO decide to cache supplies on public land, make sure that they are either “ghost supplies” that have no serial number or finger prints on them, make sure that they are “off paper” supplies, or use some other method to ensure that the cache cannot be traced back to you in the event that someone else finds them. 

We are now being hunted

 It isn’t paranoia if someone really IS out to get you. There are Democrats who are compiling lists of Republicans to use as an enemies list. They are saying the list will be used to identify people who will be killed, jailed, sent to reeducation camps, or simply denied employment or other participation in society.

This isn’t just a few crackpots- the people participating in this include a sitting member of Congress, prominent members of the press, and other people in positions of power. This has advanced to the point where it is reminiscent of other government takeovers. 

Weeks ago, I did a three part series on insurgencies and how they are carried out. This one has so far followed the official CIA insurgency manual nearly to the letter. So closely in fact, that it is scary. If you didn’t see it, here is part one, here is part two, and here is part three. You might want to give it a read. 

I am afraid that the door to door disappearances are about to begin. The time is nearing for this blog to end. 

People think we are all getting a raise

Graybeard comments on the post about Florida’s new minimum wage. He points out that there are many people who currently earn less than $15 an hour who are going to suddenly find themselves making minimum wage. I have been writing about this stupidity for over 

In 2016, the Miami Dade school system was looking for people with a 4 year STEM degree to teach STEM classes for $14.58 an hour.  

Starting pay for a paramedic who was not a firefighter was $14 an hour in 2002, when minimum wage was $5.15. By 2012, paramedics were starting at $13.25 an hour, but minimum wage was $7.79. Even though minimum wage had increased by $2.64 in the previous ten years, paramedic wages had fallen by $0.75. Those who support minimum wage increases mistakenly believe that a $2 increase in the minimum wage will mean that everyone else gets a $2 an hour raise. It doesn’t work like that.  The term for that is called “pay compression.”

To become an EMT, you have to attend EMT school, which usually is a 12 week course with 110 hours of classroom training and another 32 hours of internship. You must pass the National Certification exam for EMTs. 

To attend paramedic school, you must first be an EMT. The school lasts a year, requiring 1,200 hours of classroom training and 400 hours of internship. There is also a two part exam that must be passed with an 80 percent or higher.

Those paramedics are not going to be happy to discover that their wages are not going to rise anywhere near $2 an hour. How are you going to convince people to attend school and accept more responsibility when they won’t be paid for their efforts?