Another Comes Home To Rest
Originally posted by Hondo at This Ain't Hell. He wrote it so well it is worth reposting.*****SSgt. David R. Kittredge, 450th Bomber Squadron, 322nd Bomber Group, Medium, 9th Air Force, US Army Air...
View ArticleThe lesson we are not leaning from Ferguson
The lesson not learned from the events in Ferguson MO is simple: All police should have body cameras! All Police Cars should have "dash-cams"!Ferguson HAS them but has not deployed them.More after the...
View ArticleWater Main Broke today
The water main in our street broke Monday afternoon, water all over, traffic blocked, and no one in the neighborhood has running water (in the house, some have it in the front yard headed into their...
View ArticleIs Grimes trying to lose?
Over the last several days Grimes has been doing her best to drive away democrats from her campaign. In the May primary She faced three unknown opponents and they got 23% of the vote, the biggest...
View ArticleReport from the Front Lines of "Obama-Care" (long)
As I've written in the past about my very antidotal point of view on what is going on in my city since "Obamacare" (better known as ACA) has come into effect. We are half way through the year now and...
View ArticleAnother School Shooting, Another better term for solutions.
Today, just a few miles from my home, a 16 year old shot one of his classmates. Of course the pro-gun types were "blame the shooter not the gun". No one is blaming the gun, they blame the shooter and...
View ArticleYou're invited to join my one person effort to fight gun crime.
A school shooting took place a few miles from my home on tuesday. That evening another man was shot and killed. The next day an 18 year old was arrested after robbing a store with a gun, and another...
View ArticleRepublicans Hate The Military...Not the Military Industrial Complex
Under the "with friends like this" heading comes Senator Tommy Coburn (R-Chevron), who gets mad that some retired military are "triple dipping"! The Senator who never met a corporation he did not take...
View ArticleI'm voting in KY for the first time Tuesday.
Having for years been a registered voter in New York (even when I was not living there due to military service) I ended up in a strange situation of living in Ohio not on Active Duty. Ohio allows you...
View ArticleFirst General Election vote in KY
I did it, managed to get to the polls and fill in the bubbles on paper. (I kind of miss the old New York machines, they had levers and a big red handle that pulled a curtain closed and then back again...
View ArticleA Veteran Thanks this Nation.
I want to give a public thank you to the people of this nation and to the institutions of this nation for allowing me to serve for so many years.I have been honored by the privilege of serving the...
View ArticleFour more of our Lost have returned
The following MIA have been accounted for.Cpl. Leland F. Smith, U.S. Army, Company K, 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, was lost Nov. 28, 1950, in North Korea. He was accounted for Nov....
View ArticleVets are about to be screwed
Thanks to our Democratic leadership playing politics instead of putting the needs of the Veterans first.Through dirty tricks and refusing to make reasonable accommodations to disabled vets, Rep Corrine...
View ArticleAnother gun death in Ferguson
Well, in St. Louis to be correct.It seams that a Becca Campbell, 26, and her unnamed boyfriend, bought a gun because they were worried about violence in Ferguson. So, like all "responsible gun owners"...
View ArticleThe tide may be turning on Gun Owner Responsibility
Over the past several months more news reports have been coming out about "responsible" gun owners who used their guns to stop crime, and what the gun toter thought was crime, being challenged in the...
View ArticleThat Gun Just is not Safe
Remington is recalling one of its popular "boom-sticks", the Model 887 shotgun. The reason? It was made with defective parts that can get damaged by regular use and cause it to fire when you're...
View ArticleThat Gun is just not safe...again!
Remington has been in the news a lot for recalls, but now they insist that even though they will replace the trigger of the Model 700 rifle - on every one ever made, over 7.8 million - they are not...
View ArticleThat Bullet just ain't safe!
This might just turn into an ongoing series.In the last five months six guns have been recalled (well five and one "we are not recalling but we will fix the problem we denied exists"). Now we can add...
View Article"Obama-care" a front line view
I'm a Paramedic for a mid sized metro area, about 1.1 million people in the metro area in the day, which the Metro Gov provides between 16 to 24 ambulances for 911 service through out the day. This is...
View ArticleGun Nuts win another case :-(
The NRA is excited now that they have won in the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which unanimously ruled that the federal ban on gun ownership for anyone who has been “adjudicated as a mental...
View ArticleThe Second Amendment does not apply to minorities
At least in the mind of many "responsible gun owners". This was made clear yesterday when 43-year-old vigilante Michael Foster saw a black man put a handgun in his holster and decided that there was...
View Article"Obama-care" from the front lines
Another in a single persons view of how the Health Care system is dealing with the first year of "Obamacare" (aka ACA).We saw a very large increase in Calls For Service. In 2013 we saw just under...
View ArticleSingle payer in steps
While I am glad that 13 to 14 million uninsured people now have insurance (out of the 42 million in 2012), I have not been happy with what is out there now.I work full time in EMS (Emergency Medical...
View Article"Doing something" about ISIS = Dead US Troops
No sugar coating it. All those people who want the President to "Do Something" about ISIS/ISIL/IS/what-ever, are saying they want US troops to be killed.Now, guess what! Soldiers understand this.They...
View Article$45 for a Tylenol?
My partner at work was complaining about the bill his spouse got from going to the Emergency Department a month ago. We have a great health insurance plan, as long as you don't use it. Which is weird...
View ArticleAs a pure concept: RFRA's
Religious Freedom Restoration Act's as a pure concept should not be that controversial.No, really.As a concept they should be very simple acts, "If the government imposes a rule or law that restricts...
View ArticleCorporal Lindsey C Lockett Comes Home
In 1950, 24-year-old Army Corporal Lindsey C. Lockett was captured by Chinese troops in Korea. Word came that he died in captivity. Now, 65 years later, the Department of Defense informed his family...
View ArticleRational Survivalist and Prudent Preppers Group
Why would someone on Daily Kos make a group like this?Simple, disasters happen. No amount of wishing and hoping is going to stop that. Until we can control the weather, Hurricanes, Tornados, Ice...
View ArticleBrelo's defense
Interesting defense: "You can't say my bullets were the ones that killed the unarmed trapped citizens in that car, just because I climbed on top of the hood and fired at point blank range into the...
View ArticleThe "Magic" Gun Theory
With the NRA pushing stories of people using guns to protect their lives and homes in social media, we are seeing comments from the peanut gallery (or gunnut gallery?) on crime stories stating that...
View Article"But Criminals won't follow Gun Laws!"
I'm tired. 16 hour shifts on the street in a wave of violence. On top of the Heart and Lung problems people have in a place with 45% smokers and the "emergencies" that are not. (sorry, having a low...
View ArticleDealing with Fireworks and PTS
Ok, here is my take on the whole "please be nice, I have PTS" signs some "vets" are putting up. (and it will either offend you or not, it is my view)Man UP. You are a Veteran! Not a Victim!Use that...
View ArticlePlease stop talking about Davis' divorces...it is a trap!
Just about every time I see a post or hear a "debate" on the issue of KY's Clerk who is now in jail, someone on the good side loves to drag out her failed marriages and try to make that an issue. You...
View ArticleGun violence : The hidden effects
In the world of gun violence everyone is aware of the death toll. But most don't hear about the survivors of gun violence or how illegal guns have destroyed their lives. It is not just the deaths.I...
View ArticleACA - "Obamacare" from the front line workers
I doubt many will be shocked to find out ACA is working. But here is one more point of proof from the front lines of Health Care.HIPPA is going to require a change in the billing codes for health care...
View ArticleKY Gov race - spam mail report
I live in a middle class neighborhood that judging by yard signs and bumper stickers is slightly leaning to the the left. Very few renters and a lot of first time home owners mixed with a fair portion...
View ArticleAnother diary on the recent shooting, please read I think it is worth it.
I hope to provide some sanity to the discussions on the recent killings and shootings we have sadly (again) experienced.I'm a gun owner, I'm a Paramedic in a mid-sized city and see gun violence...
View ArticleCame home from work and voted
Now to bed till I have to go back to work.I work the 1800 to 1000 shift as a paramedic, so when I came home i stopped by the polling place (because KY does not allow mail in voting like Ohio dose)....
View ArticleWhat ACA means to me two/three years later. (long)
I work the front lines of medical care, I’m a paramedic for a mid-sized metro area in Northern Kentucky. I started with the EMS system in 2013 just as the Affordable Care Act — “Obamacare” started to...
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$400 to go three miles to the Hospital? You Ambulance Drivers are crooks!
This is long, Sorry, but all complex things in the world can’t be summed up into sound bites. (that is how we get Trump and other problems) Not to long ago, I gave a front line view of what ACA has...
View ArticleWill you really save money with Single Payer? Ball Park Math for me. (long)
Since I work in the Army Reserves, Mid-sized city EMS, come from a multi-generation military family on one side and a dairy farm family of 8 generations (1792 they were farming) on the other, I have a...
View ArticleGOP has killed another Pension system...with help from the President.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter (Obama appointed last year) has sided with the GOP in their efforts to further harm the US Military by removing the pension of Service Members (SM).The reason is...
View ArticleSomething strange in NY
I left New York in 2003 due to a deployment, and made a change of residency in 2005 when I had no job to return to. (They went bankrupt and reformed as a much smaller company) In 2006 I voted in...
View ArticleWhy can't we (the US) be like the UK when it comes to elections?
I read on my Facebook page a post by a really cool comic book creator how bad the US looks with all the support Trump is getting and all the money pouring into the races. That the United Kingdom “does...
View ArticleVoted For Sanders Today in KY
When I got home from work today (I work 6 pm to 10 am), I stopped by the polling place to cast my vote. Normally when I show up at this time, i’m behind one or two people and am in the low 70 or 80’s...
View ArticleEasing fear of co-workers on the new Over time rules
My civilian employment requires a bit of smarts to effectively do and not kill people. We area also mostly paid by the hour because no sane person would work the 50 and 70 hour work weeks we do...
View ArticleU.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Donald W. Bruch, Jr., Welcome home Brother.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with...
View ArticleStolen Valor Thief Endorses Trump and gets an RNC invite to speak in support...
Tall Tail teller, Kathryn Gates-Skipper, who loves to lie to people about her other wise honorable military career, has been invited to speak at the RNC’s convention in support of her “hero” Trump....
View ArticleMilitary Coup, Could it happen here in the US?
The Turkey Military (or parts of it) has declared it is taking over that nation to “preserve democracy” by overthrowing the elected president and majority government. First lets grant that just...
View ArticleBeing able to vote my beliefs.
I am very lucky to live in a state that will allow me to vote for a true progressive instead of a wall street crony or a bigoted wall street crony.I know, the knee jerk reaction is “a vote for Stein is...
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