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I found that CT story a bit hard to believe as well, but the again…? I saw a story yesterday somewhere stating that knife stabbing of children in China is such a problem that police are stationed outside of schools where elites take their children.
I have read a few news items about incidents of gangs invading American hospitals.
Only thing I come up with is one from 1910 and one in 1930 in NYC, one from 1990ish in Culver City, one of anti-vaxers trying to get into an ICU in Utah, and of course the plot of a Jean-Claude van Damme movie, and the hitman in “The Godfather”.
One each from Mexico, Thailand, and Nigeria.
The whole thing has a flavor of “The Rolling Stone” Oklahoma hospital farrago.
Meanwhile, in other Woke™ Hospital Violence, the University of Louisville is hosted a seminar on body terrorism on fat LGBTQ§↔↔₳ people.
Alas, we missed it, but next month we can learn about “gender affirming” hormone care, and in November, of course, racism and LGBTQC-47 people.
Break out the Guinness and Jameson. As if the world isn’t ass-backwards enough, my home/birth town of Pittsburgh is celebrating St. Paddy’s Day today.
“Bold, gender neutral lazer show could spell trouble for the Trump presidency while raising awareness for their community”
Something tells me they started with ‘stick laser in anus’ and then went in search of an excuse.
I miss the interesting links.
How can Foo boy miss what he never saw? He certainly has never commented here before, so it is extremely likely that he is that sub-type of The Common Internet Shitgibbon which makes a dishonest drive-by comment on his first and only visit to the blog:
“As a longtime loyal reader, I strongly disapprove of the turn your opinions have recently taken, although they are indistinguishable from the opinions expressed ten years ago.”
“As a longtime Republican, I am frightened by the opinions of [unremarkable conservative candidate] and support the prudent and middle-of-the-road policies espoused by [leftist candidate].”
And so on.
Something tells me they started with ‘stick laser in anus’ and then went in search of an excuse.
It’s a pity that the Zombie blog is inactive, although I suppose we don’t need an endless series of posts whose titles could all be “Mentally Ill Degenerates in San Francisco Did Something Stupid”.
Rapist with long record of violent crime cannot be deported. I can think of some alternate ways of permanently dealing with creatures like him.
I can think of some alternate ways of permanently dealing with creatures like him.
Gender reassignment surgery is wasted on the wrong people.
Gender reassignment surgery is wasted on the wrong people.
Without anesthetic? 🙂 If he survives, put him in a cell and weld the door shut. Permanently. But give him a companion: a randomly selected open borders activist.
Trolling France:
Gender reassignment surgery is wasted on the wrong people.
Case in point. Don’t give these animals prison. Give them death. And then deport their families. Mercy to evil people is cruelty to good people.
Daring speculation: one reason Victorian Britain had a lower murder rate than today is that murderers got a death sentence rather than prison followed by parole.
Family demands answers: a sign of a diseased culture.
I started to read Dune years ago. I enjoyed it up till Paul fell in love, at which time the rest of the plot came to a screeching halt. I never watched the movie.
Lady Cutekitten: A frequent criticism in sf is the bloated/padded novel. Sometimes a fine novelette gets expanded into a too-long novel filled with sub-plots or threads which add little. Sometimes a popular first novel is followed by a long series of sequels which add nothing to the ideas explored in the first. George RR Martin is only the latest.
“Family demands answers”: sorry about the mangled html, David. I thought I had abandoned it by closing the window when I could not get it to look right in preview.
In turn I would expect that a corresponding respect be shown to white culture by not…
wearing European dress.
Knives: from the Antipodes via The Age newspaper this weekend:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/they-ll-pull-knives-on-ya-how-a-teenage-boy-s-night-out-turned-to-tragedy-20210730-p58ekm.html
And the Green-Left want to make things more difficult for licensed gunowners while yobbos can easily get their weapon of choice from their mother’s kitchen – if they haven’t already stolen one from some shop like the New Zealand terrorist did recently while under close surveillance.
Family demands answers
Some human beings seemingly have no capacity for shame. Which is unfortunate.
Or, “Yes, he’s robbin’ y’all. OH WELL.”
I have to call BS on the whole story.
I think that assessment may be a tad precipitous – but then I suppose your point is to suggest I’ve done the same in accepting the veracity of the story.
As she’s a junior doctor (well, if you believe even that), I’m certainly willing to believe that she may well have amalgamated a number of stories and anecdotes from others so that at least part of the account is basically break room hearsay but presented as though these were things she herself may have witnessed.
As to the fact that there have been no other reports on this phenomena: firstly, that, after all, is the stated point of the article.
But secondly, the media in the UK operates somewhat differently than it does in the US.
For instance, in the 1990s in the UK there was a wave of gun crime both in London and across the North, especially Manchester and Leeds.
And while some gun crime incidents were in fact reported during that time, not all were.
I can confirm this because I know personally of two occasions in which whole streets were cordoned off following shooting incidents yet neither one of them was reported until long after the incident and both were buried in the middle pages in extremely vague reports of less than 50 words each.
Similarly, a friend of mine who was working A & E (ER) in the period told me victims of gunshot wounds were being brought in three, four times a week (this is an extraordinary rate in country where firearms are difficult to obtain). Again – this was barely reported on and, if it was reported at all, was likely buried deep down.
Later still, someone I had known at high school was sent to prison after shooting someone to death over an unpaid gambling debt. Sensational as that might sound, I only heard about it from yet another friend who had been present in court at the sentencing. If it was reported anywhere, it would, again, have been a footnote buried in a column of local news.
I’m not sure why the British media is quite like this given that it can hardly be accused of shying away from sensational stories, but there you have it.
Apparently not a parody account.
Starting to think this might be the dumbest generation that ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the Earth.
Thank you for fixing my faulty html, David. I wish I knew exactly how that happened, so as to avoid it in the future.
Apparently not a parody account.
In the event of a communist takeover, she would be among the first to be executed or sent to a destructive labor camp.
Or, “Yes, he’s robbin’ y’all. OH WELL.”
It wasn’t all that long ago that the public response to such statements would be to either lynch the dead thug’s relatives or expel them from the community, on the entirely sensible grounds that folks cannot afford to allow dangerous evil people to live among them. As has been remarked, the police and courts exist in part to protect criminals from the public.
on the entirely sensible grounds that folks cannot afford to allow dangerous evil people to live among them.
What we’ve seen, many times, is almost a kind of collective sociopathy, as illustrated quite vividly here.
Note the dynamic. Once the theft and violation begins – and the Amazon driver can only look on in disbelief, before herself being robbed and gratuitously assaulted – things rapidly escalate. Other predators approach. Passing drivers stop and rush to join in. Not to help the woman being robbed and attacked, of course. They just want to help themselves to someone else’s property. Because they feel entitled.
As noted before, the world is not greatly enriched by the presence of such creatures. Or by the presence of those who would excuse their choices.
As noted before, the world is not greatly enriched by the presence of such creatures. Or by the presence of those who would excuse their choices.
That is now the majority of people. I’ve encountered far, far too many of these apologists and such to believe otherwise. This is why major corporations support BLM and similar. It’s not just the “eat me last” thing. I would even say that is not a very big part of it. Far, far too many of the “grown ups” of all generations have been brainwashed into believing that the sociopathy that we see and is so often documented here is justified. This works so well because “those other people” they see as ripe for picking. It’s not “eat those other people first”, it’s a means of justifying an opportunity to join in with whatever mob to destroy the others and take their stuff.
…but then I suppose your point is to suggest I’ve done the same in accepting the veracity of the story.
Nothing of the kind, the difficulty of these medical sketchy stories (that are proliferating like weeds in The Time Of Covid™) is that the average Joe doesn’t have the background to evaluate without searching often conflicting info on the innarwebs. That is nothing against the average Joe, indeed the average Joe 1 may be well above average in a different field, but there will be an average Joe 2 who has difficulty with Joe 1’s area of expertise.
I mentioned the “Rolling Stones” article which turned out to be a total fabrication, likewise there was a story out of Texas where a doc in tiny town close to Houston was claiming patients were waiting “thousands of minutes” to get into his ER. A quick check showed open beds (ICU and otherwise) in Houston. A couple days ago there was a report of a man from Cullman, AL who was allegedly turned away from 43 hospital ICUs because of the overflow of coof patients. Truth was he needed a cardiac specialist unavailable at the small hospital in Cullman (14K population) and for reasons not at all clear was taken to Meridian, MS (<50 ICU beds), not exactly a hotbed of cardiac specialists, particularly given Huntsville and Birmingham, AL, Nashville and Chattanooga, TN are closer, Atlanta is closer, and Memphis not much farther. The media seem to think that even if an ICU actually is full, it will be so forever, ignoring that people are discharged and other admitted daily, and are too lazy to look up on the HHS site what ICU utilization for any given hospital actually is.
Panic porn sells.
The author of the article claims to be a "junior doctor", whatever that means, and she may well be, but any medical student who has been through a surgery rotation can tell you you don't take h(a)emodynamically unstable patients with known stab wounds to get a CT before you open them up because if they start really to circle the drain in the CT, there isn't much you can do, and you are going to open them up to stop the bleeding anyway.
Except the kitchen knife was a knife used in street fights, not like the average kitchen knife is anywhere near sterile anyway. Arguably the risk might be less for a kitchen knife used in the kitchen then when it was pulled out of someone’s pants, but wound infection is not just from the instrument, but skin, clothes, the ground, etc. etc. Again, third year med school stuff.
We are also supposed to believe that Corn Pop and his gang of 11 Bad Dudes known for being stabby just walk away whistling because two unarmed guards show up.
…she may well have amalgamated a number of stories…
That I can believe, but there is too much flakiness, and too many of these Tales of Medical Woe™ cropping up lately.
A quick check showed open beds (ICU and otherwise) in Houston.
Indeed. As some others on the interwebz know, I volunteer for a Hospital affiliated w/the TMC (That’s Texas Med. Center, Y’all), and as part of my regular duties is to verify data – and what is often reported has only the vaguest allusion to reality (for example, a recent count of MHTW showed that the “hot floors” were at 95%, so of course, the local media spewed “Local hospital nearly overrun by Covid patients – discounting the fact that the other floors and buildings were near empty…).
It’s sad, really, to see the state of media.
pst314: ’ As has been remarked, the police and courts exist in part to protect criminals from the public.’
When seconds count (for the thugs) it seems the police are far too many minutes away…
https://mobile.twitter.com/Stan_VoWales/status/1438241252244340737
Oh dear, how sad. Never mind.
Oh dear, how sad. Never mind.
I saw another tweet about that which said that it was not vigilantes but a rival gang. However, the Evening Standard and the Independent confirm that it was vigilantes. Given how useless the police and courts have become, who can blame citizens for vigilantism? Speaking of which, why is it that “human rights” lawyers are only ever interested in the rights of criminals and not their victims? /rhetorical question
JuliaM: I see that your Twitter account is still suspended. 🙁
Oh dear, how sad. Never mind.
The inevitable consequence of abolishing civic justice will not be social justice, as so many on the left seem to believe, but mob justice. And mob justice, as we can see from that video, is frequently a very unpleasant thing indeed. Still, at least he won’t be re-offending any time soon. So there’s that.
Things you can’t make up – Ford’s Theatre mulls cancelling Lincoln.
@pst314: oh, yes, permanent ban. AmbushPredator is dead. Long live Xenosmilus4! 😉
On the Tower Hamlets event, for ‘rival gang’ read ‘Bangladeshi immigrants fed up with being preyed upon by African immigrants with little or no action by police, and deciding to turn the tables’. All part of the glorious and vibrant diversity that so enriches London.
’ And mob justice, as we can see from that video, is frequently a very unpleasant thing indeed.’
That’s bullfighting for you. Mostly, the man with the red cape wins. Sometimes, he gets the horn. 😉
@JuliaM: Thanks for the Tower Hamlets update. If there was an announcement of your new Xenosmilus4 I missed it, so thank you again.
Nomination for today’s most stupid thread.
Nomination for today’s most stupid thread.
This is what happens if the Lizard People find themselves with too much free time on their hands.
If there was an announcement of your new Xenosmilus4 I missed it,
Julia, put down the gin and tonic, just for a second, and throw a link in the comments.
Truth was he needed a cardiac specialist unavailable at the small hospital in Cullman (14K population)
There seems to be this idea that 1) every hospital contains every medical specialty for every person who walks (or is rolled) through the door 2) and every hospital maintains oodles of empty beds just waiting for any disaster.
When #1 was an ICU RN she worked at the regional medical/trauma hospital. But they had NO cardiac specialists or ward. Anyone presenting in the ER for that would be stabilized and transferred.
Moving patients to different hospitals based on specialized care or available beds is exactly what she does as a CCT RN now. Hospitals network all the time — SOP.
But, as you say, “panic porn” gets the clicks.
Local media loves eyeballs on its stories. Accurate crime reporting is often good for garnering eyeballs – bleeds, leads etc. The media also loves to support “its side”. Accurate crime reporting is almost always bad for the narrative, inasmuch as there’s a strong correlation between ideology of local government and crime rate. As a former resident of the blood soaked hellscape of the People’s Democratic Republic of Chicago, I can assure you that imperative #2 very often outweighs imperative #1.
Julia, put down the gin and tonic, just for a second, and throw a link in the comments.
The link can be deduced from her comment: “twitter.com” suffixed with “/Xenosmilus4”.
In these fraught times, one should never interrupt a lady’s drinking.
Fraught times? Don’t you mean faught?
Dunno. My sinuses were permanently damaged years ago by David’s bar snacks.
That’s your own damn faught. What on earth possessed you to snort them?
Worth every penny of the licence…
I am totally using this on the next web site I deploy.
That’s your own damn faught. What on earth possessed you to snort them?
You don’t remember when David experimented with “spicy” and “extra spicy”? And without warning us? To this day I cannot see a hot sauce bottle without having flashbacks.
Come on, folks: I know the thread’s been superseded, but surely two of you can manage to push the thread to 300? (Would that be a record, David?)
Would that be a record, David?
Not even close.
By hook or by crook I’ll make the nexy page