- To no one’s surprise, Bloomberg’s anti-freedom efforts are top-down, autocratic, and authoritarian. So writes a disgruntled volunteer. Such has always been the case with anti-gun organizations. Bloomberg just makes it personal.
- You’ve probably seen the story of the Utah nurse arrested for doing her job (and upholding a Supreme Court decision that every cop knows). But she is so good and the thugs so bad that I’d be remiss not to post this. I hope every cop involved gets fired. I hope the nurse gets a bonus.
- Oh Brad, you are so right. In the tech world “1984” has morphed into 1984.
- Sometimes even the NYT publishes a sensible op-ed. Three cheers for Bari Weiss and “Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation.”
- The WaPo succumbs to the sudden outbreak of common sense in Marc A. Thiessen’s “Yes, Antifa is the Moral Equivalent of Neo-Nazis.”
- Does all this uncommon sense from the MSM signal the beginning of The Alpacalypse? 🙂
- And lest we begin to become too hopeful of a revival of American brainpower, there were also all those numb-wit authoritarian articles and interviews about how the flooding in Houston was caused by the city’s lack of zoning laws. (Reason answers.)
- Juicero — they of the infamous $400 juicer that worked slightly less well than squeezing juice by hand — has gone bust.
- If you want to buy any of the authentic Hollywood props at this auction, you’d better have a lot of mithril in your wallet.
- If you’re going to be arrested, it would probably be a good idea not to be wearing one of these tee-shirts.
The nurse in Utah could become very rich as a result of the police action; the two police officers could not only lose their jobs but also spend some time in jail. Poor babies!
Three cheers for Bari Weiss and “Three Cheers for Cultural Appropriation.”
Back when I was growing up, America as a melting pot was in vogue and we appropriated pizza and pasta from Italian immigrants, kielbasa and perogies from Polish immigrant, General Tso’s Chicken and egg rolls from Chinese immigrants, but we were all American’s first.
Rich is not the issue.
Such tension in me since first seeing the nurse video. She yelled, “Help me,” and I wondered why nobody did. I know it would be hell to pay to lay a hand on a cop, but for just a moment, it would have been worth it.
I’ve had two cops very close to that point of aggression at two different times, one wanting me to do something against hospital policy, the other attempting to mistreat a prisoner-patient (already admitted to a hospital bed) that would have harmed the patient more. Both backed off, thank God – but I felt I was on duty again while watching the video, I was actually in her skin for a few seconds.
They both argued that police/law enforcement issues take precedence over hospital/health issues, and my response was, “Not in the hospital; once they’re here, they belong to us.” I debated another cop on this issue, citing hospital chapter and verse, as well as logic, for over an hour one night until his replacement came on duty and sent him home.
The arrogance of Authority is sickening.
I’m welcome the Alpacalypse. I don’t fear it in the least. In fact, the thought makes me smile. (I won’t scoop up after them, though.)
And every day I wonder even more how good people can still support cops in any way (they can’t, but pretend they can..
RE: Nurse Arrested
Lost in the story is why the police were trying to draw blood from the patient in the first place.
From the Desert News article:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865687903/Stop-I7ve-done-nothing-wrong-Nurse-shares-police-video-of-crazy-arrest-by-SL-officer.html
The incident began when a truck driver was severely burned in a head-on crash with a vehicle that was fleeing from police in Cache County and crossed into on-coming traffic. The driver of the fleeing vehicle was killed.
The truck driver was sedated and in a comatose state when he arrived at the hospital.
Payne, a veteran Salt Lake police officer, was sent to the hospital by another police agency to get vials of blood for the investigation. But because the patient was not a suspect in the crash nor faced potential criminal charges, because he was unconscious and unable to give consent, and because the officer did not have a warrant, Wubbels — one of the supervisors that night — did not allow him to draw blood.
“If they needed blood, then they needed to go through to proper channels to take it,” she said.
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I don’t know if this is true, but a comment by Kendra Jowers to the WaPo story Claire linked to may give insight why officer Payne was so determined to draw the blood:
“This wasn’t about some rogue, hot-headed cop doing the wrong thing. His orders to get that blood came straight from the top, and that is why he wasn’t immediately placed on leave.”
“The cops engaged in a dangerous, unnecessary high speed chase. The suspect careened into the innocent trucker, who was severely burned in the accident. The cops needed to get his blood to hopefully find some sort of controlled or prescription substance that would limit their liability for having conducted the chase that led to the crash. They needed to pin the accident (at least partially) on the trucker to reduce their liability comparatively; otherwise, they could potentially be on the hook for an enormous amount in damages.”
The cops engaged in a dangerous, unnecessary high speed chase. The suspect careened into the innocent trucker, who was severely burned in the accident. The cops needed to get his blood to hopefully find some sort of controlled or prescription substance that would limit their liability for having conducted the chase that led to the crash. They needed to pin the accident (at least partially) on the trucker to reduce their liability comparatively; otherwise, they could potentially be on the hook for an enormous amount in damages.”
Bingo. And all the more reason why every cop involved and not just Payne should soon be without a job — or worse.
I wonder how that trucker’s doing now. Poor guy.
From all I’ve read there’s one detail that isn’t included in the “Harvey flooding is government’s fault” articles. AFAIK, unlike most of Texas, Houston’s government is as blue as they come. They’re the ones who for 18 years have sent Sheila Jackson Lee to Congress.
you’d better have a lot of mithril in your wallet.
[nerd] Um. What good would armor or weapons do in my wallet? [/nerd]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithril
[nerd] Um. What good would armor or weapons do in my wallet? [/nerd]
Ahem. Nothing says mithril can’t be used as coin. Or as a trade good. Nothing says it hasn’t been so used. And hey, it’s mined by dwarves, and those guys know a thing or two about getting value out of raw materials.
Making little mithril coats and decorated gates. Pshaw. Surely they’d do better than that.
‘Eere now, Oi ‘eard where summa the younger Trolls is been havin’ tattoes done in that. Corporal Nobbs down by Small Gods says even ole Crysoprase ‘as one, an’ Sgt. Detritus got one of ‘is missus right below where they chiseled ‘is badge on. Lady Vimes’s even got a mithril fragment vest for when one’a them little dragons o’ hers should explode like they do, an’ Mister Simnel an’ Mister von Lipwig both say nothin’ beats mithril f’r high-temperature hinges an’ latches an’ couplins and that, for the railway like. Wonderful stuff is mithril, the Century Of The Fruitbat practically runs on the stuff!
One thing in the nurse story to consider… the fact that the hospital admin. and supervisors backed her up is crucial. It isn’t always that way, trust me. I quit at one hospital after being ignored completely when I reported a seriously unsafe situation/policy, something that could have exposed the hospital to legal problems even if nobody was injured. I told a local news reporter about it, and he published the story. Nothing came of it, naturally. The hospital admin. and the city government were very cozy and it got covered up. But nurses who still worked there told me nothing had changed. Many of them left after that.
Politics, not patient or staff safety was the bottom line there.
Cop vs Cop! It turns out the truck driver/patient is also a police officer himself:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/349072-police-department-thanks-heroic-utah-nurse-for-defending-cop-patient
“the Century Of The Fruitbat practically runs on the stuff!”
I see Tolkein’s dwarves have found a way to reach a new trading partner. Or more likely the entrepreneurs of Ankh-Morepork have figured out how to reach Middle Earth. (Ohhhh, the possibilities!)
Oh aye, Ramtop treacle an’ chocolate to Edoras an’ The Shire an’ all, Rohirrim horses to Quirm an’ Klatch, I even hear Commander Vimes is bringin’ in some ‘obbit Sherriffs t’teach The Watch all ’bout rural policein’. An’ you should see what our Ankh-Morpork goblins an’ trolls an’ all did t’them Orc lads when they tried settin’ fire to the railway down Smeagols Pass way! Hah! After the Grags an’ their little games, them Orcs weren’t half innit, not half.
I see a raise and a letter of commendation in Officer Payne’s future, once the furor dies down.
If he’d raped her in the back of the squad car on camera, then he MIGHT get punished, maybe. But for a simple Constitutional violation? Hell, violating rights is what separates the good cops from the great cops.
Up-to-date on the nurse arrest. The top (Fox) video is a repeat from another day.
Below the text is a video of the hospital’s press conference stating changes in contact between the police and nursing staff, and the hospital’s policy changes toward the police department.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/05/utah-hospital-restricts-police-access-after-nurses-arrest.html
Also the cop was fired from his part-time paramedic job by the ambulance service.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/05/utah-detective-who-dragged-nurse-fired-from-paramedic-job.html