In case you were wondering why today’s youth complain about the high cost of living…
Spending money on their idea of LOOKING rich for one night.
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I Slept
It’s one of the occupational hazards of being a nurse. I seem to have caught one of the respiratory infections that’s been going around. I had a dry cough on Thursday and Friday. It developed from there to body aches and extreme fatigue. I couldn’t get out of bed for the entire weekend. I just slept for two days.
Still feel a bit tired, but at least I feel like I am on the backside of this. Posting resumes with the post about property taxes in Tampa.
Taxes
Circus
We keep being told how eliminating property taxes will mean roads, the fire department, and schools will be unfunded. They tell you so because everyone wants those services, but here is a great example of where property taxes go.
That’s right- Hillsboro county is going to use a billion dollars of taxpayer funds to build a new stadium for the Tamp Bay Rays. That works out to nearly $2,000 per household. They powers that be claim no one will notice, because the billion will come from county reserves. See, you won’t notice how we stole a bunch of money from you so we could pay a bunch of grown men a hundred million apiece to play a child’s game.
Incidentally, the team is worth $1.7 billion, but the taxpayers are expected to build half of the $2.8 billion stadium they will play in. How about instead, we let the taxpayers keep their money, and the team can charge what the traffic will bear for tickets instead of forcing taxpayers to fund your business?
EDITED TO ADD:
If the new field lasts as long as the old one, the stadium will cost $80 million for each year it’s used, or about $1 million per game. There are 25,000 seats in the stadium, meaning the team would have to add $40 to the price of each and every ticket to pay for the stadium themselves. That seems reasonable to me, and if people won’t pay it, then does Tampa really need baseball?
Me
Homeless
I don’t talk about it a lot. I’ve mentioned it now and again, the fact that I have twice been homeless. Let me explain to you what it’s like.
The Lead Up
I was newly divorced. I divorced my wife because I was working two jobs- for the Fire Department, and as the maintenance director for a steel mill, and she wouldn’t work. Originally, she wasn’t working because the kids were too young and it cost more for daycare than she would make. I was working two jobs to make it happen, then I would come home from work and my wife would tell me it was time for me to mow the lawn. Dinner wouldn’t even be on the table. The house wasn’t clean. She hadn’t done shit all day but watch TV. I got pissed one morning, put the TV on parental lock, and left her a note saying that once the house was clean, she could call me and I would give her the PIN to unlock the TV. That caused a HUGE fight.
Then there came the day that both kids had started school. I told my wife that she could get a part time job during the day. She refused, and said the whole reason she got married was so she wouldn’t have to work. I started feeling like a walking ATM, and told her so. More fights.
Then our female friends started telling the both of us that I was working too hard. After a year of this, during one of my shifts, a woman who worked at the fire department offered me her couch. I never went home again. Two months later, I filed for divorce and got an apartment. My wife accused me of leaving her for the other woman, but didn’t even consider the reasons why I left, even though I told her so.
Losing a Job
While the divorce was pending, the steel mill went into bankruptcy. I was laid off, along with 80% of the rest of the manufacturing division. That hurt, because that job was paying me almost $30k a year, more than I made at the fire department. I did get quite a bit of money out of them later, but that is a story for a later day. Either way, half of my income was now gone.
I was making $1000 every two weeks at the Fire Department. I lost $280 in taxes, leaving me $720 every two weeks. Following the state law formula, the court ordered that I pay $348 to my ex wife, nominally for child support, leaving me with $720 per month to live on. The support was taken from my check before I even saw it, so I wouldn’t be a ‘deadbeat dad.’ The rent on my apartment was $600, then there was electric.
Life Being Homeless
Within two months, I was homeless: I slept on friends’ couches for a couple of weeks. I had been forced to break my lease- I just didn’t have the money. Their wives/girlfriends didn’t like it, they were kinda funny and all, and now my friends were funny, too. (Those of you who get that reference are old, just saying)
So I started living in my car. I got a second job, picking up garbage after the Shamu show at Sea World. That paid less than $7 an hour. I bought a car at a “buy here, pay here.” I wasn’t eating much, I couldn’t afford it. I showered at work. As a perk of the job, the city allowed us to use the gym at the civic center for $20 per month. I joined so I could take showers at the gym. I worked out a lot because the gym was air conditioned.
My meals were wieners and mac n’ cheese. Sometimes I had 7-11 chili dogs, They were cheap. Once a week I treated myself to a drive thru burger. I lost almost 30 pounds that summer, but I was in great shape. I was running the combat challenge in just over three and a half minutes. Not world record time, but respectable. (The standard is 7 minutes or less. At the time, the men’s world record was 1:20, and the women’s was just under 4 minutes, IIRC) Here is what it looks like:
I lived in that car for about three months. I finally found a couple of roommates. There were three of us living in that 3 bedroom apartment: Two men and a woman. I worked two jobs: Fire department and janitor at Sea World. I also went to college at night, so I could make more money.
The point of this story is that I didn’t give up. I didn’t complain about how things were unaffordable. I didn’t stand on the corner and beg for money, nor did I accept charity. I didn’t scream for the government to give me handouts or any of that nonsense.
Today’s bitching and complaining is some weak assed bull crap.
Self Defense
Punches Are Not Lethal Force
There appears to be a group of men who are either afraid of the law being used against them, or are using the law as a fig leaf to avoid getting in a fight. From multiple comments on the delivery of a punch to someone that is sexually assaulting your wife:
If that haymaker kills or disables the drunk, how well can you take care of your wife from prison. He could have backed up the drunk verbally, then if the drunk throws a punch, now it’s self defense.
The claim is that a punch becomes “Deadly Force” if someone dies. It’s a question that comes up often in discussions about self-defense:
If you throw a punch to defend yourself and the other person unexpectedly dies, does that automatically turn your action into “deadly force”?
The answer is simple: No it does not, at least not in Florida. What matters is the force applied, not the outcome of the force used. If the punch was lawful at the time it was delivered, the fact that the person who was punched later died is immaterial. Florida courts have been clear on this point:
Whether force is considered “deadly” depends on the nature of the force used at the time—not the result. In other words, the legal system doesn’t start from a lethal outcome and then work backward from to label the level of force used. Instead, it asks:
Was the force used likely to cause death or great bodily harm when it was applied?
A single punch, in most situations, is not considered deadly force even if, in a tragic and unforeseen way, it leads to death. One of the key controlling court cases in this matter is Hosnedl v. State 126 So.3d 400 (2013). In this case, the defendant was involved in a physical altercation. He used his hands/fists (no weapon), and the person who was punched unfortunately died. The legal dispute wasn’t just what happened, but how the jury should evaluate the level of force used.
The jury was given the stricter self-defense rules for the use of lethal force since the had person died. The defense argued this was wrong because the force used (punching) was not necessarily deadly force. The defense was overruled by the trial court. The defense then filed an appeal. The appellate court agreed with the defense and made an important clarification:
Whether force is “deadly” depends on the nature of the force used—not the result.
As a result of this case:
- Fists are not automatically deadly force
- Even if serious injury (or death) occurs, that doesn’t automatically make the force “deadly”
- The jury should decide whether the force used was:
- Likely to cause great bodily harm or death (deadly), or
- Not likely to do so (non-deadly)
How Florida Law Defines Force
Florida’s self-defense law separates force into two categories:
- Non-deadly force: Force not likely to cause death or serious bodily harm
- Deadly force: Force likely to cause death or great bodily harm
This distinction is critical because different legal standards apply to each. You’re generally allowed to use non-deadly force to stop an imminent threat, but deadly force is only justified under much stricter circumstances.
Under Florida law, a person is justified in using force—including deadly force if necessary—to prevent an imminent sexual battery. That means:
- A punch used to stop a sexual assault will almost always be viewed as justified force
- The legal question becomes: Was the force reasonably necessary to stop the attack?
So now that we have cleared that hurdle, is it legal to punch someone for groping your wife?
Under Florida law (Fla. Stat. § 794.011):
Sexual battery = oral, anal, or vaginal penetration OR union with the sexual organ of another
“Union” means any contact, not just penetration
Courts interpret “sexual organ” to include buttocks in certain contexts involving lewd touching, especially when tied to sexual intent. See Richards v. State (Florida 4th District Court of Appeal, 1999) and also Gordon v. State, as well as State v. Hearns.
Now we have established that a person grabbing a woman’s hips and stroking her buttocks without her consent is sexual battery. Since it was done without her consent and using physical force, that makes it a forcible felony. This isn’t even an attempted or imminent battery- the mere touching of her buttocks without consent means that the battery is ongoing and in progress. All of the elements are in place, this is a crime.
Considering these circumstances, if the husband deemed it reasonably necessary, he would be authorized to use deadly force to stop this attack. However, that isn’t what he did, as we showed above, a punch IS NOT DEADLY FORCE under Florida law.
Under Florida Statute § 776.012, a person may use force—including even deadly force—if they reasonably believe it’s necessary to prevent an imminent forcible felony (which includes sexual battery). So the real legal question isn’t “Was a punch allowed?” The actual question is “Was that level of force reasonably necessary to stop what was happening right then?”
Short answer: Yes—using a punch to stop that kind of unwanted groping would very likely be seen as reasonable under Florida law, assuming the force stops once the crime ends.
A court would typically look at:
- Was this non-consensual sexual contact?
- Was it happening in the moment (imminent)?
- Did the woman (or a third party) reasonably perceive it as a sexual assault or escalation risk?
If the answer is yes, then a single punch to break contact or stop the assault is very likely to be viewed as:
- Non-deadly force
- Proportionate
- Reasonably necessary
Antigun
Stupidity
I mean, yeah. That’s how we got rid of street drugs like meth, marijuana, and heroin. We just passed a law with harsh sentences and prison. Now that’s solved, let’s move on to obesity.
The lockpicking lawyer? Why pick the lock when I can just cut the case open with a Sawzall? Do these incel retards even know how to use tools?
Revoke all carry permits? Yeah, OK.
Government buybacks? What happens if I don’t want to sell?
I don’t need to rent a shooting range. Once they start confiscations, I can call 911 and a target will be delivered to my location in 10 minutes or less.
Uncategorized
Rooftop Korean
Tony Moon is THE rooftop Korean from the 1992 Rodney King riots. Here is what he had to say:
If you don’t defend your own family, who is going to do it? The cops?
Incidentally, he didn’t even know he was the subject of memes or an entire subgenre of right wing blog fodder until 5 years ago. The left absolutely hates his ass. He has been implicated in several events that have the left’s tits in a sling:
- January 6th Capitol riots
- Protests at LA city hall over masks and the vax mandate Despite the Proud boys being supposedly racist, he fought along side of them
- He clocked a dude who was attacking him at a protest against Trannies using the girls’ locker room, using a water bottle as his weapon. The sound of that bottle hitting that tranny’s head is awesome
- He also was present at a protest over fags and trannies in girls’ bathrooms at LA schools
This dude is getting it done. Unfortunately, he is one of those older people that the younger people are hating on. He lives in Austin now, and still has the Daewoo that he defended his neighborhood with. He was recently on the Unsubscribe podcast. Good watch, even if it is a bit long.
There are still some men who are willing to step up.
Crime
Teens
About 1,000 ‘teens’ rushed in and ‘took over’ an Orlando attraction. They rushed ICON Park on International Drive, which is in the heart of Orlando’s tourist area just down the street from the Orlando Convention center. I used to go to the area a lot- there is a lot to do there, and the restaurants are pretty good. ICON park has a large Ferris wheel called the Orlando Eye.
What did these ‘teens’ do when they got there? Why, they started fights, ran off paying customers, and punched the cops who responded. Nine of them were arrested and two cops were injured. The ‘teens’ were exactly what you would expect them to be. Damned Norwegians and Amish people cause trouble wherever they go.
Anyhow, the families of these poor victims of systemic racism are complaining and threatening to sue. This is why I stay far away from Orlando these days. It used to be that teens stayed in their part of town. Now that isn’t the case any longer.