The door maker contacted me to ask why, and I told him I wanted a right hand door, but received a left handed one.
I had some things going on, including having to take a trip to Maine, so I waited a month to reorder the door. Again, the maker of the door contacted me. I told him that this time, I wanted to make sure we were on the same page. I sent him a picture of the fucking door I was replacing. I also said “I want the door that, when you are facing the door and it swings towards you, the hinges are on your left. I want a right handed door” Here was the picture of the door I sent them:
The door came today, and it is still the wrong cut. Here is the door I got:
I am now having to take a second trip to Lowes in order to return this door because those retards can’t cut a fucking door even when you send them a picture of the door.
This is the person who refuses to share voter data with the DOJ and is spending 20 million dollars to protect illegals from deportation. And she can't believe 6,600 of them were registered to vote in 2023. Wanna bet that's just the beginning? pic.twitter.com/ZKmwkiC1Sd
She is admitting that there were at least 6600 illegal immigrants who were registered to vote in her state. They are blaming “a software error” from before she was governor that allowed this to happen. So we have arrived at the “that’s not my fault” stage.
EDITED TO ADD:
This gets more interesting. The company that provides NJ’s ID software says the registrations were not due to software error, but were forwarded to them from NJ’s division of elections.
A MANPAD alert was issued at LaGuardia airport last night. Listen to ATC traffic:
So, you’re flying into LaGuardia, on final…and you get a MANPAD alert? I mean, I’ve had them in the Middle East and Bosnia but…New York? WTF are we doing? pic.twitter.com/Omfei20qsN
When a threat or attack from Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) is determined to be real, notify and advise aircraft as follows:
Do not withhold landing clearance. To the extent possible, issue information on MANPADS threats, confirmed attacks, or post-event activities in time for it to be useful to the pilot. The pilot or parent company will determine the pilot’s actions.
MANPADS information will be disseminated via the ATIS and/or controller‐to‐pilot transmissions.
Disseminate via controller‐to‐pilot transmission until the appropriate MANPADS information is broadcast via the ATIS and pilots indicate they have received the appropriate ATIS code. MANPADS information will include nature and location of threat or incident, whether reported or observed and by whom, time (if known), and when transmitting to an individual aircraft, a request for pilot’s intentions.PHRASEOLOGY-ATTENTION (aircraft identification), MANPADS ALERT. EXERCISE EXTREME CAUTION. MANPADS THREAT/ATTACK/POST-EVENT ACTIVITY OBSERVED/ REPORTED BY (reporting agency) (location) AT (time, if known). (When transmitting to an individual aircraft) SAY INTENTIONS.EXAMPLE-“Attention Jet Blue Four Seventeen, MANPADS alert. Exercise extreme caution. MANPADS threat reported by TSA, LaGuardia vicinity. Say intentions.” “Attention all aircraft, MANPADS alert. Exercise extreme caution. MANPADS post‐event activity observed by tower south of airport at two‐one‐zero‐zero Zulu.”
Report MANPADS threat/attack/post–event activity via the ATIS and/or controller‐to‐pilot transmissions until notified otherwise by the Domestic Events Network (DEN) Air Traffic Security Coordinator (ATSC).REFERENCE-FAA Order JO 7110.65, Para 2-9-3, Content. FAA Order JO 7210.3, Para 2-1-10, Handling MANPADS Incidents. FAA Order JO 7610.4, Para 3-1-3, Responsibilities.
Scientific knowledge evolves. As mankind discovers more information, the view of our world and how it works changes as well. The use of tourniquets, which I have discussed at length a couple of times on this very blog, are a great example. We were once taught that, once a tourniquet goes on, it stays on unless the patient is in the room with a trauma surgeon. That turns out to be only partially correct.
At the end of the day, trauma is a surgical emergency. What a trauma patient needs is access to that trauma surgeon. Getting a patient to the hospital within a rapid timeframe, often referred to as “the golden hour” greatly increases the patient’s chances of survival. Remember that serious trauma is first and foremost a surgical emergency. Trauma patients don’t need a tricked out first aid kit- they need a trauma surgeon. All they need you to do in the field is keep them alive and prevent them from furthering their injury until they can get on the operating table.
For that reason, tourniquet training for most Americans has followed simple, strict guidance: apply one high and tight to limbs to stop life-threatening bleeding, and leave removalto advanced medical care personnel. That is no longer the case.
So what changed? The war in Ukraine. In the US, and in US controlled battlefields, people who receive gunshot wounds are one helicopter ride away from a trauma surgeon, and the vast majority of the patients make it to the surgeon’s operating table within that hour and have good results. In Ukraine, the nature of the war there is such that almost no one gets a helicopter ride, and with killer drones circling everywhere, very few of those injured are transported by ground in anything resembling even the “golden day or two” and, if they are wearing a tourniquet, wind up wearing it for days. Casualty evacuation in Ukraine often exceeds 6 hours, and the liberal use of limb tourniquets may have increased morbidity.
That sets up a whole list of new problems.
Leaving a tourniquet on for hours or even days causes other issues. Once a tourniquet is in place, it stops blood from flowing to the affected limb. Once deprived of their blood supply, those cells begin taking measures to protect themselves, and after a period of time, those cells die. As they die, they release their contents into the surrounding tissue. When the tourniquet is removed, those contents make it to the kidneys and clog them up with all of that debris. The condition is called rhabdomyolysis. The longer a limb tourniquet is in place, the higher the risk of compartment syndrome, vascular thrombosis, rhabdomyolysis, and irreversible myonecrosis resulting in major tissue loss and often necessitating limb amputation, kidney failure, and death.
If bleeding is controlled with a tourniquet, attempts to remove the tourniquet as early as possible to avoid the negative consequences are essential. However, if the removal is not done correctly, there is a risk the bleeding that the tourniquet was supposed to stop will also kill the patient. The act of removing a tourniquet (called ‘tourniquet conversion’) is now changing the training being put out to US special forces troops, and is especially important to preppers here in the US.
What this means for you
In the US, we are usually a quick helicopter ride away from a trauma surgeon, but that may not always be the case. In a disaster or TEOTWAWKI situation, those helicopters aren’t coming. At the same time, a tourniquet left on for more than 2 hours can itself be a hazard. Before attempting this, please review my post on treating gunshot wounds that you can find here.
Important: Never attempt tourniquet conversion if the patient is in shock, the wound cannot be continuously monitored for re-bleeding, or if the tourniquet is applied above a traumatic amputation.
Shock being defined here as the loss of consciousness, or a blood pressure less than 90/xx.
The Conversion Steps (The “Plus-1” Method)
Prepare: Place a second, loose tourniquet on the bare limb just above the first one, but do not tighten it yet.
Pack: Firmly pack the wound cavity with hemostatic gauze (if available) or standard rolled gauze, maintaining direct digital pressure for at least 3 minutes.
Dress: Apply a pressure dressing securely over the packed wound.
Release: Slowly loosen the original tourniquet (over at least 1 minute) while meticulously observing the wound for bleeding.
Monitor: If bleeding is controlled, leave the primary tourniquet in place but fully loosened in case bleeding recurs.
Optimal conversion should be attempted within 2 hours of the initial application when conditions are safe and stable. If bleeding restarts upon release, re-tighten the primary tourniquet or utilize the newly placed backup tourniquet.
A couple of examples of people being shady and not doing honest business on a handshake. The first is:
Because I am no longer a full time employee, there are benefits I no longer receive. One of them is insurance, so I just bought life insurance on my own. We don’t have a lot of debt, so two months ago, I got a small policy: $100,000 of insurance. I applied and got several offers from different companies. One of them came up with a quote for $1300 per year and received a letter that I would be covered for $25,000 until my physical exam, after which it would be increased to $100,000 unless issues were discovered. I paid the first year in advance, lump sum. This morning I found a letter in my mailbox, dated two months ago on the face of the letter, but postmarked three days ago. It said that due to my diabetes, they can insure me, but at a higher rate, and they would bill me for the increased rate. I disclosed the diabetes in my application, and I still haven’t had the physical exam.
Maybe the fine print gives the company the legal right to do this. That isn’t my point. My point is that the company knew about my diabetes when it quoted the price, accepted my payment, and told me the rate could change if the physical uncovered a problem. No physical ever took place, and no new problem was discovered. Changing the price under those circumstances feels less like underwriting and more like bait-and-switch. The problem is insurance policies are long, complex legal documents backed by a large insurance company with tons of lawyers on staff. You take what they give you, and don’t fight. Any fight will be long, expensive, and will involve some sort of legal exemption buried in the 40 page legalese of the policy. They are free to screw you as they see fit.
The second involves my employer. First, an explanation of how nursing scheduling works. This is how it works at every hospital I have ever worked at: The schedule comes out for 6 weeks at a time. When the new schedule opens for bidding, nurses can begin bidding for days on the schedule, full time first, then part time, then PRN. You can place bids for available to work, want off, PTO.
That is, for two weeks, full time employees get to ask for schedule changes. Let’s say you are a full time and normally work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, but your kid has a dentist appointment on Thursday, so you request M-T-W this week. You would put in a bid for available to work Wednesday, request off for Thursday. As long as there is a spot, you get it. Alternatively, you could request PTO for that day, but that’s burning vacation for nothing.
Then for a week, the part time nurses bid for days that are left. Finally, the PRN nurses do the same for a week. After the four weeks of bidding are done, the schedule closes. The scheduler spends a week balancing and filling slots, then the schedule is posted. Once the schedule closes, no more requests are allowed. If you are assigned to work a day and can’t work, you either have to call in sick or find someone to swap shifts, which almost never happens.
Alright, so that’s the background.
You also know that recently, we haven’t had enough staff. It’s a regional problem- three different ED’s in the area that are part of the same hospital chain are critically short of nurses. They started offering bonuses for working extra shifts. I piled them on, and wound up working eleven bonus shifts in a single schedule. I collected nearly $5,000 in bonus money for picking up extra shifts.
When bidding began on the new schedule, I signed up for a total of eighteen extra shifts in a six week schedule- that’s 24 days of work in six weeks. One week, I am working five 12 hour shifts. Hey, I figured the bonuses wouldn’t last forever, and my wife is back to school as a teacher by then, might as well make some extra money. That would wind up being more than $23,000 in a six week period.
The day after the schedule was closed, my employer made an announcement: No more bonuses until you’ve worked 36 hours in a week. In other words, any full time employees get bonuses for every extra shifts, but part time and PRN dont get any unless picking up multiple extra shifts.
Whatever, I knew bonuses wouldn’t last forever. The prolem is the schedule is closed, so you still have to work the days you signed up for, but aren’t eligible for the bonuses that made you take them in the first place. Here is the closing of the email we got:
If you are interested in increasing your hours or exploring full-time opportunities, please reach out to management to discuss available options. Thank you for your continued dedication to our patients, your teammates, and our community. We are grateful for your commitment and the important role you play in delivering exceptional care every day.
I don’t care that the bonuses went away. We all knew they would eventually. What makes it shady was removing the bonuses AFTER people had volunteered to pick up the slack and telling them they can’t cancel the extra shifts. I value time off enough that I’m not interested in full time. I’m mercenary like that.
It’s enough of a “screw you” to anger everyone, but not enough of one to make you quit. What it does mean is that I won’t take one hour of extra shift unless I already have the details in writing, lest the deal get changed.
The part time and PRN nurses are all of the opinion that management deliberately waited until the schedule’s bidding process was closed. That locks the nurses into extra shifts for the last two weeks of the current schedule and the entirety of the next six week schedule, but without the employer having to pay the promised (and now retracted) bonus money. Eight weeks of nurses picking up extra shifts for a fraction of what it would cost to pay the promised bonuses.
Dishonest. Unethical.
OK, you got me. I am not going to quit over this, it’s not that big of a deal, as I still get my regular and overtime pay for it. However, it also means that I am highly unlikely to do you any favors in the future.
And don’t call us a team, because teamwork is a two-way street. Your employer isn’t your friend, they aren’t your buddy. This is a business arrangement, and I don’t come here because we are friends. I’m here for the money.
Both organizations made representations designed to influence my decision. After I relied on those representations, in one case by paying the premium, and committing to extra shifts in the other, they changed the terms while treating my commitment as irrevocable. Maybe their paperwork allows it. Our legal system means the fight is harder than the reward justifies. That does not make it honest. Nor does it make you ethical.
This is just how business is done nowadays. Get money however you can, and screw the other guy if he doesn’t like it. That’s his fault for being a gullible rube and trusting you at your word.
I’m sure most of you have heard about the contaminated vegetables. The culprit is likely lettuce from Taylor farms thats contaminated with a parasite. The parasite is present in feces and spreads via the fecal-oral route.
in other words, some lettuce picker who had ot took a shit in the field, and now 10,000 people share in their misery.
I have to say that I agree with what I recently heard a politician say. I wish I could remember who said it or find the video. What he said was essentially “the Republicans need to stop worrying about election fraud. No matter the fraud or absence of fraud, the Republicans won the last election. They now run the House, the Senate, the Presidency, AND the Supreme Court. What have they done with all of that power? Not much. Not nearly enough.”
To an extent, he is correct. I mean, Trump started a war in Iran with no clear objective and no end in sight. The Iranians are looking to keep the war going until at least November, so they can be the spoiler in that election. The Republicans managed to get rid of Roe, and are making serious inroads into getting rid of many gun control laws, but that is a function of SCOTUS and is fallout from the 2016 election. The result of the most recent 2024 election is somewhere between Jack and Shit, which is what the Republicans have managed to do so far.
If there aren’t some serious changes in the next couple of years, I think I am going to sit out most of the next election. I will vote in local and some state races, but I don’t think I can hold my nose and vote for the stupid do-nothing party. I can’t vote for a communist, Democrat, but that doesn’t mean I have to vote for a Republican who isn’t going to do anything but line his own pockets, either.
Why is it that the left can make so much progress on their agenda when they are in power, but the Republicans can’t seem to do anything? It’s almost like their stated agenda is just something they say so they can gain power, but we all know that would never be true. /sarc
There are people who comment on this site that Flock cameras are simply filming you in a public place, and they don’t have a problem with it. OK, so then why do cops have a problem with you filming them in a public place, to the point where they will approach you with a threat of arrest while off duty?
If cameras aren’t a threat, then why are these cops taking action?
Again, cameras aren’t the issue. A person filming me isn’t a threat to me, as long as he is doing it in public. What’s the issue is what is being done with that footage. Are government officials building a database? That’s an issue.
Is the guy filming the cops just posting the videos online? Not an issue.
Is the guy filming using that footage to threaten or harm cops or anyone else? Then it is an issue, but you have to have more evidence to arrest or even detain than “guy is filming.” That’s why the standard is “reasonable articulable suspicion.”
A school in Colorado is the first one that I know of that has these things in place. Wait until some Kindergarten student is blinded when she catches a stray flash bang in the eye from a drone strafing run. Then watch as these systems gain prominence in other venues. Gonna be difficult to shoot a drone moving at 100 mph.
