Yeah, there are no standards for ‘security’ personnel in the US, and few enough standards for law enforcement. The ‘get tough on crime’ and ‘they had it coming’ morons never even consider that they might be on the wrong side of problem, because they don’t break the law [well, hardly ever, and then just little laws… everyone cheats on their taxes… no one strictly obeys traffic laws… it was just laying there with no one around…]

All of the ‘restrictions’ placed on police behavior are the result of egregious conduct by police officers that ended up in the Supreme Court. None of them ever bothered me, I just followed them and won my cases. Trials were much shorter because the defense attorneys didn’t have the opportunity to complain about the evidence, in fact, the majority were settled with a plea bargain. Warrants are easy to get in most jurisdictions, and people will talk to you even after you tell them they don’t have to, if you know what you are doing.

The jerks make life miserable for the people who are really trying to do their job. The problem is that the jerks are always looking for a shortcut so they don’t actually have to do any real work. That is the real reason that the Shrubbery embraced torture – it was going to get the job done much quicker and cheaper. Alas, there is no cure for stupid and lazy.

The only reason I had to *please explain* to a Judge is that we will give a security license to just about anyone who can pay the fees (for *training* and the license itself). Over the past decade in particular, thanks to *big brother* camera’s all over the place, and mobile phone cam’s, too many *security personnel* at major venues have been videoed beating or kicking the crap out of some poor slob while the other security morons watched and laughed. Before it got too embarrassing for the Politicians, we never had to explain anything, unless it was too blatant.

We have always been able to get away with murder here if you are smart. I was told by a Police Sargent in Sydney in the 80’s that he told his friends (during a spate of burglaries) to keep a shotgun ready and if someone tried to break in, just shoot them. You only have to ensure a) they are on your property, and b) they have some kind of weapon, if they don’t, give them one. 🙂

People here are the same as pretty much everywhere. They only take a dim view of violence when it affects them. For anyone else… well, they probably deserved it.

So, yeah… civilized. Has a nice sound to it at least. Never seen it personally, and I have traveled extensively. Wherever I have seen it, it usually ended up just being a facade. *shrug*

See, in Florida you simply say ‘I was afraid for my life’ and you can gun down anyone, anywhere. It doesn’t make any difference about size, or firepower, in Florida you pull out your gun and shoot them, so they can never steal that parking place from anyone, ever again.

When they were talking about the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law, the prosecutors told the state legislature it sucked, the cops said it sucked, even defense attorneys said it sucked, but they passed it anyway because the National Rifle Association wanted it, and a bunch of paranoids with concealed weapons permits wanted it.

We are left with the reality that you can’t arrest gang members for murdering members of rival gangs, because ‘I was afraid for my life, so I shot him’ and local ‘neighborhood watch’ activists can gun down unarmed teenagers without being arrested. See, things are much simpler in Florida. You can murder anyone you don’t like, and not worry about the consequences because there aren’t any.

Your problem is that you live in a civilized country where people still take a dim view of violence.

Yeah… weather sux. So what’s new? 😉 Same all over now. *shrug* Farms just up Nth of us are already flooded. I actually had a little frog find it’s way into my little unit the other day! LOL Everything’s wet here… but it’s been humid also! Reminded me of the tropics. I don’t remember ever having that kind of weather this far Sth. But… There. Is. Nothing. Wrong. With. The. Weather. It. Is. All. Just. A. Big. Scam. By. The. Libruls! Right?

Glad to see you still here. 🙂

Well… It’s late (or early, depending on how one looks at it), and I have a day in Court to prepare for. I almost killed a guy a couple weeks ago, but managed to stop myself and only severely dislocated his shoulder and bruised a kidney. He was an ex-Army moronic grunt trying to show how tough he was cuz he was in de Army, ya know? He took a swing at my friend and I reacted. I guess he learned that 2+ years of advanced training + actual combat trumps 6 weeks basic, even if his was much more recent & he’s 20 years my junior. *shrug* So, I have to explain myself. It’s part of having a security license. Have to explain everything. *sigh* Anyway, the guy is lucky to be alive (and knows it! I made sure of that!) Turns out he was given a dishonorable for being trouble, so I (and my lawyer) don’t expect any problems when the judge compares records etc. 😉

Morons are everywhere. *shrug*

We should still be around when you can get back on the ‘Net with some regularity – climate change won’t get my town for a few years yet, but DSL will be gone before then because they have the local switch about 4 feet above sea level.

The main reason I haven’t shifted to satellite yet is the restriction on data transfer. I don’t watch much in the way of video, but when software gets upgraded, it really eats up the bandwidth. Five gigabytes per month sounds like a lot until you start looking at the M$ updates you have to load every month.

Yeah, I’m still alive *shrug*

I’ve survived 2 golden staph infections in my life. Both a gift from a hospital (though to be fair, the first was a field hospital in Cambodia after I was shot), the 2nd was about 14 years ago. It almost got me, took three attempts with different antibiotic cocktails to kill it. Pretty much every time I got into a Hospital, I end up coming out with some illness I didn’t have before (usually a lousy cold or something like that. I got a bad cold last year because I was in a small, cramped, waiting room for over two hours while all around were people coughing and sneezing, I actually asked the triage nurse for a face mask as I knew I’d get a cold, and was told that they’d have to give one to everyone and didn’t have enough! Some people there were mothers with young babies! They should have all sued the Hospital. I actually suggested it, and just got a few smiles or shrugs. Apathy is everywhere and why the Hospitals get away with murder, literally!

Curiously, A friend told me last week that a friend of her’s is a Doctor who went to the USA a couple years ago and came back. She said her friend stated that the biggest problem with the US health system is that Doctors and other medical *professionals* there are way over paid! Much higher than anywhere else.

So.. on my personal front, I’ve been really busy, and sometimes unwell. I also don’t have Internet due to various issues. I’m using a WiFi stick, but it only has 5GB/mth data. Anyway, I’ll try to stop by more often, but no promises. 🙂

I hope you all are doing well, and your families also.

Cheers! 🙂

They claim that the market will take care of the problems without regulation, then they systematically destroy all of the forces that the market has used in the past to punish bad practices, through things like ‘tort reform’ to keep injured parties from imposing penalties for bad behavior. There is no capitalism without risk.

Of course, that was back when you were a youngster sitting in the back of spook gooses listening to Reds jabbering, and I was happily scribbling in coloring books with crayons, so… sigh.

Seems we’re going backwards in far too many important measures because of this whole anti-government austerity thing that has been pushed ever since the Reaganauts came to power.

I’ve seen guys injected with morphine ampules right through their uniforms, and IVs started on a stretcher in the mud, but I don’t ever remember anything like that happening in the field.

The guys who headed out didn’t wash uniforms when they got back, they burned them, boots included. because of the mold and mud after a couple of weeks, so I know that it doesn’t take much to keep things under control, but you have to make the effort.

My oldest friend down here got himself in deep trouble jumping barefoot into the water in his boat house. One of his feet got sliced up by oyster shells and had a hell of an infection. They called in a specialist, and the first thing the guy did was get him out of the hospital. He flat told my friend that the average motel room was more sanitary than that hospital, and it was highly unlikely his house would have the infectious possibilities of the emergency room.

During a two week stay my Mother had in the hospital, neither she nor I saw anyone mop a floor, or wipe down anything. If she had stayed longer, I think she would have had her cleaning lady do her thing in the hospital room, rather than her house.

Main reason my mother retired from nursing was that she was tired of making patients sick. That wasn’t what she’d signed up for, and complaints to regulators about understaffing and reuse of steriles and etc. went nowhere, so (shrug). She had in her years, so she retired.