You read that right- the Seventh Circuit (Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin) court of appeals has just ruled the First Amendment protects an individual’s right to possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using artificial intelligence, if the material does not depict a real person and remains in the home.
Cops
Illegal Alien Gonna Arrest You
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. ICE agents arrested a New Orleans police recruit back in January. He was set to graduate and become a police officer. He had already been issued a gun despite the fact that he could not legally carry a weapon as an illegal alien under Federal law. Larry Temah originally entered the United States legally in 2015 on a visitor visa from Cameroon.
In 2016, he was granted conditional residency after marrying a U.S. citizen. However, in 2022, his application for permanent residency was denied due to fraud. Temah was ordered to appear in immigration court three times but continued to disregard U.S. law by not showing up, resulting in the immigration judge ordering him removed in absentia. He did not have valid work authorization.
It’s a felony for a person who is an illegal alien to possess a firearm or ammunition. Think about that- the cop who is arresting you may just in fact be a felon.
It should come as no surprise- the police chief of New Orleans is a DEI hire herself- she was the police chief of Oakland until 2020, when she got fired. She ran over two people with her car back in 2024. Did I mention she gets paid $340k a year?
This opens a bigger can of worms: When an illegal immigrant cop comes to confiscate your guns and arrest you while themselves committing the felony of unlawful firearms possession, is it legal to resist with force? What about their fellow cops? How many of THEM will side with their illegal immigrant police brethren? Isn’t that an accessory?
Sworn to uphold the law, my ass. However, I am betting when shit does go sideways, these illegal immigrant cops will be loyal to whoever is writing their paychecks.
Cops
Likely Not the Cops
I know I give cops a lot of shit on here when they screw up. This case out of El Paso is not one of those times. Let’s watch the video, then we can discuss it.
Watching the video, it appears like this man is on some sort of drugs. This isn’t a mental health breakdown in my opinion. The cop uses his TASER.
There are some in comments to the above post, claiming the TASER was used too many times and stopped the man’s heart. That’s not the case. A TASER delivers 3 joules of energy. A defibrillator delivers 200-360 joules to an adult heart. There simply isn’t enough energy in a TASER to stop a person’s heart. In the cases of in-custody death that occurred after TASER deployment, it turns out the decedent had cocaine on board nearly every time.
One thing that may have contributed to the death was something called positional asphyxia. When a person is handcuffed with his hands behind his back and is placed in a prone position, the chest can’t fully expand and the person can die as a result. In that case, the cops would have been at fault to at least some extent. A person whose hands are cuffed behind him MUST NOT be placed in a prone position, especially if they are already exerting themselves in an attempt to breathe, such as immediately following an extended wrestling match with arresting officers, as per guidelines from the US Department of Justice.
The cause of most explained in-custody deaths is a little-known phenomenon called positional asphyxia, in which body position interferes with the ability to breathe. Several pre-existing factors are identified that increase an individual’s susceptibility to positional asphyxia, including cocaine-induced frenzied behavior, other drugs and/or alcohol intoxication, violent struggle resulting in restraint of subject, and unresponsiveness during or immediately after struggle. A subject’s pre-existing risk, coupled with their body position when subdued or in transit, can combine to substantially increase their risk of sudden death from positional asphyxia.
This is why I recommend to all paramedics and nurses that they not transport or treat anyone whose hands are cuffed behind their back, especially not in a supine or even prone position. The patient should be sitting up, or can have both hands cuffed to a bed or stretcher. The Joint Commission (TJC) standards outline strict rules and requirements for managing patients in restraints or seclusion, emphasizing that these measures are high-risk emergency interventions.
Hospitals must have explicit written protocols detailing continuous or frequent observation:
- Patients must be monitored continuously or at frequent intervals determined by hospital policy (often documented every 15 minutes)
- Restraining a patient in a prone (face-down) position is highly restricted due to the severe risk of positional asphyxia; patients should typically be kept in a supine position with the head of the bed elevated if aspiration is a risk
- Staff must regularly assess and document the patient’s physical status, including vital signs, skin integrity, circulation in restrained limbs, hygiene, and the offering of nutrition, hydration, and toileting
Still, I think (looking at this video) the base cause here was whatever drugs were in this man’s system.
Medical News
Measles and Lies
The MSM has been making a huge deal out of two measles related deaths in Pennsylvania. Then we find out one of them died of a ruptured spleen and the measles was a coincidental finding.
I’m old enough to remember when a dude died in a motorcycle accident, but he was positive for COVID, so the death went into the books as “COVID related”
Military
Military Experts
I get so sick of people claiming to be experts with firearms because they earned a ribbon in the military. Let be give you a great example of that:
To support his supposed opinion, he makes the appeal to authority, claiming, well…
The Coast Guard pistol qualifier consisted of 30 shots taken from 3 yards out to 15 yards, with every shot worth up to five points. Expert requires the shooter to score 143 points or more, or about 96% of the scored shots earning the maximum of 5 points. So how hard is that? Here is a picture of the Coast Guard target.
The colored zones are worth from 1 to 5 points. The target is 25 inches by 40 inches. The 5 point zone is 8 inches by 14 inches, making the maximum 5 point area much larger than the IDPA 8 inch -0 zone. Here is where the course gets easy. A total of 48 shots are fired, and the best 30 of those shots are the ones that are scored. The rest of them are considered “practice shots” and are essentially scored as mulligans.
| Distance | Total rounds in published sequence |
|---|---|
| 3 yards | 12 |
| 7 yards | 12 |
| 15 yards | 24 |
| Total | 48 |
So to REALLY take a look at what it takes to be a Coast Guard pistol expert, the shooter fires 48 shots. Of those, only 60 percent of them have to hit the center of the target. The shots have to be fired in a certain about of time:
| Distance | String | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 3 yards | Draw and fire 2 | 4 sec |
| 3 yards | Draw and fire 2 | 4 sec |
| 3 yards | Fire 2, reload, fire 2 | 10 sec |
| 3 yards | Draw and fire 4, including a hand transition | 8 sec |
| 7 yards | Same four strings | 4, 4, 10 and 8 sec |
| 15 yards | Draw and fire 2 | 4 sec |
| 15 yards | Draw and fire 2 | 4 sec |
| 15 yards | Draw and fire 4 | 8 sec |
| 15 yards | Fire 4, reload, fire 4 | 20 sec |
| 15 yards | Kneel and fire 8 | 20 sec |
I want you to note that not one of those stages says, “Draw, rack the slide, fire two.” Instead, he uses as an example, a Coastie shooting himself in the leg as his reasoning for not carrying one in the chamber. I pray this one is satire.
Me
Speaking of Employers
After this morning’s post went live (I wrote it last night) I was supposed to go to work. I was scheduled to atart my shift at 10 am. I got a text from the charge nurse at 8 am, telling me I was being pushed back to 1 pm. That cuts a 12 hour shift down to only 9 hours, but since I am PRN, that happens all the time during the slow season (summer), so I have just learned to live with it. I’ve been on my way to work and been pushed back, having to turn around and go back home for a couple of hours. Not personal, just business. Still, the ED is a bit slower than planned on those days and they are saving a few dollars by having less people there.
So, having been rescheduled, I got in the middle of a couple of small projects. At 10:30, I got another text saying never mind, they are now swamped and they want me to head in.
No. I will head in when I am ready.
That is a game that I am not playing. There is a rule in nursing that they want you to call out at least two hours prior to your shift’s scheduled start so they can find coverage. As I said in the first paragraph of this post, I’ve been called off while already on the way. It’s just rude, but I live with it.
However, pushing my 10am shift back at 8am, only to change your mind at 10:30 is bullshit. I don’t want this to become a habit.
I was scheduled to come in at 10am. Then you unilaterally changed that schedule to 1pm. Now because you are suddenly busy, you are asking me to come in earlier than my shift.
So I will teach them a lesson about courtesy. I will let them be in the weeds until I am good and ready to come in. Again, paying me for my services doesn’t mean that you own me. Will they fire me? Of course not. They already don’t have enough nurses, and this is more the charge nurse’s fault for calling me off than it is mine.
If they decide to be irrational and fire me anyhow, I have options. I get at least 10 recruiting emails per week. There are half a dozen emergency rooms hiring within a 45 minute drive of my front door. Therre are also plenty of travel gigs. I don’t need to take abuse. Employers think that, because they can eventually hire someone to replace you, they can treat you as a consumable stock item. Next time you go to call me out so you can save a little money, remember this day when you were swamped without enough help.
Antifa
NY Post
Some accused me of posting a fake and staged video in this post. I am reposting the one from the NY Post.
Me
Employers
I don’t think arresting her for refusing to return the vest goes anywhere. They are arresting her under the claim that she was stealing her company vest. She didn’t steal it, they gave it to her. The easiest way for an employer to get the vest back is to hold her paycheck until it is returned. This is a bullshit charge that goes nowhere. Since they gave her the vest, this is purely a civil matter and not a crime. I am willing to bet the charges don’t ever get filed over this.
Back when I was a firefighter and a much more outspoken person than I am now, I had a job at a theme park on my days off, working as a life guard. I caught the manager altering time cards to eliminate the other lifeguards’ overtime. To be fair, we had a history because I was busy dating my way through the female lifeguard staff, and he was angry because I had been spending some quality time with one of the lifeguards he had been dating. We had a heated discussion, and I told him I was going to HR. He told me that the argument had made me late coming back from my 30 minute lunch, so he was suspending me and wanted my employee ID. I told him “No problem, but the paragraph on the back of the ID says I owe $20 if I lose it, so I want a receipt.”
He refused to give me a receipt, and tried to snatch it from my hand, so I stuck the ID in my wetsuit. I then went to the locker room to retrieve my belongings. He followed me in there, calling for security on the radio and demanding I also turn in the wetsuit. I told him he wasn’t getting the wetsuit because we were forced to pay for it through payroll deduction. (they took the cost of the wetsuit out of our pay in 4 equal payments) He replied that this didn’t matter, because the company logo on the wetsuit meant it was company property. I grabbed my stuff from my locker, including the bag that had my Glock 19 in it.
I laughed at him and turned around to leave, only to see a company security guard standing in front of the exit to the locker room with his arms folded. The guard told me I couldn’t leave without turning in the wetsuit and my ID. I told him to get out of my way, or he would regret it. It was at that moment that the manager jumped on my back. As I tried to get rid of him, the security guard jumped in. So I did what I thought I needed to do while being attacked by two grown men- I drew my handgun and told them to get the fuck off of me. That worked.
As I walked to the exit of the park, security followed me. By the time I got to my car, I could hear the sirens. I locked my gun the car and waited. When the cops showed up, I told them everything. They went to talk to the manager. I was soon called over, and in front of the manager, the Sergeant asked me if I wanted to press charges. The manager couldn’t believe it as the cop explained to him that attacking me for what was obviously a civil matter was illegal. I was honestly surprised I didn’t get arrested.
I didn’t press charges. I was fired. I didn’t care, it was a shitty job anyhow. That manager only lasted another few months, then he left as well. Quit, fired, I don’t know. I still have the wetsuit and it still has the company logo on it. That incident was more than 20 years ago, and the wetsuit no longer fits. Oh, and the lifeguard I was dating? We broke up about that same time. I later found out she spent some time on the wrong side of the law for establishing a fake charity and scamming people out of money.
So yeah, I have had some shitty bosses. Being my boss doesn’t make you my owner, nor does it make you my boss when I am off the clock. I can be a stubborn asshole like that.
Guns
Third Gen Smiths
I’ve had exactly two accidental discharges with firearms. Both involved Smith and Wesson handguns, and the last one happened more than 35 years ago. It’s an interesting story.
My first firearm was a Winchester Model 250, a .22LR lever action with a tube feed. My first handgun was a Smith and Wesson Model 59. It had one dangerous flaw that I discovered once to my dismay- when you dropped it, it could go off. I dropped it once and shot a hole through my dresser and into my wall. That’s how it came to be that, when the Third Generation Smith and Wessons came out, I bought one. My first Third Gen Smith was a 4506. Without looking it up, it was, I think, the heaviest carry pistol I’ve owned. Made out of solid stainless, it was a giant boat anchor. Over the next few years, I accrued a couple of other Third Gen Smiths: a 5906, and a 4566. I ran into an issue with them.
I would take the pistol to the range, flick off the safety, and squeeze the trigger, and
nothing.
The hammer stayed back, the gun didn’t even go click. Each of my Smith and Wesson Third gens did that. I never did find out why. I just couldn’t trust them, and they stopped being carry pieces. I would have nightmares of drawing my handgun to defend my life, and my gun wouldn’t fire. I’m sure Freudians would have a filed day with it, but I think it was a fear instilled in me by three different non-functioning handguns. It was odd- they did it more often when new, they did it rarely, but it would happen every couple of hundred rounds.
Then came the day in 1991 when the 4506 didn’t fire, I pulled the trigger several times, nothing. I turned the pistol 90 degrees clockwise and attempted to see what was going on, and that is when it fired. Into the ceiling of the indoor range. My second ever AD with any firearm.
I bought a Sig Sauer 226, and eventually sold the Smith and Wessons. I didn’t buy or own another S&W for decades after that. In the interim, I owned Taurus, Beretta, Ruger, Glock, and other brands, but I was mainly a Sig Sauer guy for the next 20 years.
Looking back, the Third Gen Smiths were fun to shoot, but I just couldn’t get over the lack of reliability.
Antifa
Attacks
Antifa was attacking people in an LA Starbucks by dumping blue paint on them. They get away with it because they are in California. If you attempt to dump any sort of liquid on me, especially while wearing a disguise or mask, I will award you and your accomplices with a free helicopter ride to the nearest trauma center. This is a forcible felony, and will be met with lethal force.
A masked person unexpectedly pouring an unidentified blue liquid over someone’s head creates a legitimate concern that it could be acid, bleach, poison, an irritant, or another substance capable of causing blindness or permanent injury. The victim need not wait for burning, identify the chemical, or suffer injury before using reasonable force to stop continued exposure.