Hi, my friends, hope you're all enjoying the nice weather and Easter week. Before I get to the titular topic, I wanted to thank all of you who came out for MOM in Ft. Myers. It was the first time I took part and it was very fulfilling. I did restorative and my better half did patient ambassador. I hope we can do as good a job when MOM comes to S. Fla. in 2021 as they did in Ft. Myers. I suggested to our GAO that we take tons of photos of the most bombed out, diseased patients we treated. These are the same folks who will show up to the govt. run dental settings and they have very serious problems that require very capable clinicians. We need to prepare PPS shows to use in the committee hearings so we can rub their noses in it. I wanna see the DHAT shills tell us these cases can be done by therapists!
The title refers to the way we've been doing our advocacy in Tallahassee and the lack of success we've seen the last few years.
Let's start with this past session, there was one great accomplishment that came out of it-we stopped the DHAT issue (including that BS study) for this year! I know that's something to celebrate, though we also know these folks aren't going away. There are states that have been fighting this crap for 8 years! We can never rest on our laurels and assume we won't be dealing with this again, we will. Now let's look at what we didn't get.
We failed to get loan repayment, which we know is a major part of the true solution to the access to care issue. We also didn't get funding for hiring 2 full time staff to vet and assign Donated Dental Services patients to we who treat them pro bono. In other words, the state won't fork over $150,000 to make it easier for us to give away $2 million in free care, incredibly stupid and very telling as to how much they really wanna solve access to care. I find the language in the last (Sine Die) Capitol Report a bit soft peddle, when it comes to the excuse they gave the useless RPOF. It read
"Due to the tragedy in
Parkland, the Legislature also had to reprioritize initiatives
originally outlined in the budget and place additional
focus on addressing issues surrounding school
safety, mental health and gun regulations...". They didn't HAVE to do this, they CHOSE to, the same way they passed those ridiculous gun laws that won't make anyone any safer but will deprive lawful Floridians of some of their 2A rights. It's pretty pathetic when our elected representatives are so damned spineless that they rush to pass bad public policy to assuage a bunch of whiny teenagers who've been usurped as useful idiots by the anti-gun left! At the same time, look at how fast the lame stream media dropped the school shooting in MD, wanna know why? Because, it doesn't advance their anti-gun narrative, that's why! Unlike the Broward Cowards Dept., this SRO took initiative once notified about the shooter and took the shooter out! The difference was staggering, only 2 students shot, sadly the 16-year-old girl died, but it wasn't 17 dead like Parkland.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/20/us/great-mills-high-school-shooting/index.html
Contrast that to SRO Peterson standing outside of the very building where kids were being gunned down for 4 minutes. He lied when he said he thought the shooter was outside, as 911 audio of his voice proves.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2018/03/09/new-recording-reveals-disgraced-broward-deputy-knew-shooter-was-inside-school-and-told-cops-to-stay-outside-611768#
Maybe these young imbeciles running around DC and elsewhere with the "NRA blood on your hands" signs need a slight edit to read "SRO Scot Peterson, BSO & FBI- Blood on your hands!"
If we look at our failures in the last 3 sessions, it's always something, isn't it? Last year we actually got loan repayment to the finish line, only to be vetoed by our idiot governor, the same one who hastily signed the bad gun bills. The year before that the RPOF, who can't find its own buttocks with both hands and a flashlight, failed to pass a budget, in a state with 1-party control of everything. This year it was "the children", always some excuse or another. Personally, I think we were screwed either way, shooting or not. I say that because the chair of the House committee that would have funded our bill has openly declared his opposition to the concept. I'm glad Rep. Jason Brodeur is termed out this year and hope he does NOT get into the FL Senate.
So, now let's talk about Einstein. I'm sure all of you know the definition, do the same thing over and over but expect to get a different outcome. That's the FDA and dental advocacy and it needs to stop! I know this was easily the nastiest session where a record number of legislators took our PAC $ and used our bills for Charmin. It also means we have no guarantees it won't keep happening. We need to STOP giving a single penny to ANYONE who we've supported and has betrayed us. I want the GAO to publish names, enough pussy footing around! If they don't wanna make a list and indicate it contains the names of the traitors, fine, there's another way to do it. We publish a list that's titled "the following legislators received FDAPAC support this legislative session". Then publish another list right next to it that's titled "the following legislators voted in support of our bills". If anyone whose name appears in column A ain't in column B, we know who they are and what they did. From that day forward, that turncoat doesn't get any more PAC $! The Capitol Report always has various lists for various purposes, these 2 new ones would have a great purpose and save us $ or allow us to give it to true allies.
I was warned about doing this and unintended consequences in the form of members realizing we're ineffective and not contributing. For God's sake, WE ARE INEFFECTIVE and it's no secret! That's why more members don't chip in or only do so in small amounts, who can blame them? I'm not suggesting we discourage members from giving, we just let them know their $ won't be wasted on our enemies. That knowledge, if anything, should encourage more member contributions, not less. If the FDA won't do this, we have no one to blame but ourselves when members clutch their credit cards and we keep getting punked in Tallahassee. Enough, already!
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Sunday, March 4, 2018
"St. Valentine's Day Massacre- A Tale of Identity Politics"
It's been nearly 3 weeks since a monster whose name I will not repeat (I'll call him the shooter) took the lives of 17 innocent people. The original St. Valentine's Day Massacre was in 1929, for those of you with historical curiosity. That event, made famous in many old B&W movies, resulted in gangsters killing 7 rival gangsters, versus the 17 innocent students and faculty killed in Parkland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre
I wanna go over the fallout from this recent event and talk about the many ways it could have and should have been prevented, as well as the ridiculous wrong targeting going on by the clueless on the anti 2A left, who think they finally got the act of barbarism (no, I won't call it a tragedy, that would be plane crash or fire) that's gonna serve their purpose to fulfill their true goal. That goal is the total prohibition of firearms & eventual confiscation of any in existence, a la Australia. I'll explain the identity politics in the title later on, I promise. The Aussie comparison is absurd, they have a much smaller, far more monolithic population than ours. It's not about picking which immigrant group or ethnicity commits more crime, it's purely a numbers deal. Every group has mostly decent, hard working folks who wanna improve their lives, as well as shiftless slackers and criminal vermin who come to new nations to either fleece the welfare systems or commit violent crimes. The US takes in more diverse groups and in higher numbers than any nation, which is why we have so much exposure to the negative parts of those immigrant groups wreaking havoc.
2 of the biggest lies parroted by the idiot students, their parents and the accomplice media are that the NRA is responsible for this shooting and they own Congress. No NRA member has ever committed a mass shooting and the NRA trains cops, has firearm safety programs and helps schools to better protect their structures and students, none of which these drones care one whit about. As for owning Congress, the NRA spent $200 million over 20 years, versus the $1.7 BILLION the lawmakers got last year, alone!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/politics/nra-gun-control-florida.html
Contrary to the lies the left propagates, it is they, via their unions, who wield the big $.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/seven-unions-top-kochs-in-super-pac-spending-and-thats-just-the-money-we-know-about/
Let's start with the obvious, gun control has never stopped gun violence in America, see Chicago & Baltimore. Outlawing a particular firearm or magazine size doesn't work, either. The San Bernardino terrorist couple had pairs of 30-round mags duct taped together in a state that has already outlawed them years ago. Can you think of nations with tighter gun control than the UK, France, Germany & Belgium. There were more gun deaths from mass shootings there in 2015 than in the US during all of Obama's tenure!
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/12/03/facts-shoot-holes-in-obamas-claim-that-us-is-only-host-to-mass-killings.html
Another inconvenient truth is the USA ranks a paltry 11th in gun deaths per capita and most of the nations above us have very tough gun laws.
https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/
I won't go on with more facts, it makes no difference to the ignorant, agenda-driven left. They don't know what they don't know, they don't wanna know and they don't give a damn!
When I first heard the news in Parkland I was sad but not surprised. I figured it was some disgruntled student who should never have gotten that weapon, be it from a careless relative or an actual legal purchase, and I was correct. My sorrow and empathy for those poor students was short lived when I saw how quickly they were being made tools of the anti-gun left and their stupid parents, who should know better, were only too happy to allow it. When Kate Steinle was murdered by a POS who'd been deported 6 times, I don't remember her family making a media circus out of it, they made their appearances with quiet dignity. The same was true of poor little Jessica Lunsford, right here in FL, whose dad was nothing but gracious and polite. Contrast that to the Town Mob CNN (who else?) organized 1 week later. I commend Marco Rubio & Dana Loesch for taking the heat and standing up for common sense and the rule of law, more than I can say for the hapless, bumbling FBI, who were MIA. Those kids were disrespectful little pups and the parents who lost their kids were downright disgraceful, they didn't want any solutions, they just wanted to blame & humiliate those who had no fault in the act. To the father (Fred) who chastised Rubio over the "weapon of choice" (AR-15) I say this. There was a recent massacre in NYC where 12 cyclists in a bike lane were mowed down by an Islamic terrorist who used an SUV, there have been many more of these vehicle attacks with higher loss of life in Europe. Would Fred ban all SUVs? What about that hysterical mom who yelled at Dana Loesch about the fact we only had muskets when the 2A was first ratified? Well, if my math is correct, we had the 1A (which protects free speech) before the 2A. I'm pretty sure Al Gore hadn't gotten around to inventing the internet in 1789 and I'm really sure there were no cell phones, laptops, PCs or social media. Far more kids take their own lives from online bullying every year than die of gunfire, would hysterical mom ban the internet, cell phones and social media?
https://nobullying.com/bullying-suicide-statistics/
Now let's talk about the real causes of this atrocity. Aside from the guiltiest of all, the shooter, this was a massive failure on many fronts.
1) When seconds count, police are minutes away, now add to that a school security cam feed with a 20-minute delay, WTF?!
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-shooting-coral-springs-video-20180222-story.html
My $25 camera in my front desk area is live, includes HD & audio and I can access it with my cell phone, for God's sake.
2) The same Chicago based Promise Program ( thank you Obama & Holder!) that failed to report the theft crimes of Trayvon Martin, who was allowed to travel to Sanford and get shot, was also instrumental in covering for this shooter. He'd been expelled for threatening his girlfriend's new boyfriend with a knife in school. She dumped him because he physically abused her. Had his record been made public, he would never have passed the background check to buy the rifle.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/02/27/promise-program-exposed-by-this-show/
3) There were 4 armed BSO officers at the school and they stood back and did nothing, as kids and faculty were getting gunned down! The most spineless of them all, SRO Scot Peterson, used the pathetic excuse that he did no wrong and waited outside the classroom because he believed the gunfire sounds were coming from outside, ridiculous! BTW, if he felt he did no wrong, why did he quickly resign?http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/23/report-four-sheriff-scott-israels-deputies-waited-outside-douglas-high-school-shooting/
4) The hapless FBI ignored or failed to act on a deluge of calls and reports, even from people close to this monster who knew him well and what he was planning to do.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-17/florida-parkland-shooting-fbi-failed-to-act-on-gunman-tip/9457414
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/red-flags-warnings-cries-for-help-how-a-system-built-to-stop-the-parkland-school-shooter-broke-down/2018/02/23/3ccff52c-18d9-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.ebcfd936a1e7
If he'd made any threats on Obama, he woulda been rounded up in a jiffy. Look what happened to that idiot who made that awful online documentary the Dems dishonestly attributed as an excuse for Benghazi.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/hillarys_worst_crime_was_against_the_filmmaker.html
The students and parents were organized and made into useful idiot tools by various left wing, anti-gun groups. Any sympathy they had is long gone and they've become fair game. The idea the left pushes that these kids and their Manchurian parents are grieving and therefore unassailable is total BS, I don't buy it for 1 minute and neither should any fair minded person.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/huge-leftwing-activist-groups-behind-supposed-teen-organized-march-for-gun-control/
Now let's talk about identity politics. I'm referring to the incompetent, lying BSO Sheriff, Scott Israel. He was in charge after the bungled procedures that led to the FLL terror attack in the baggage claim area.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fort-lauderdale-hollywood-airport-shooting/fl-airport-shooting-after-action-release-20170815-story.html
How did this buffoon ever get elected sheriff? The answer is identity politics, you have a district of NY refugee liberals and they elected another NY liberal as their sheriff. You see, my friends, identity politics can occur anywhere with a plurality of like minded people, not just da hood or el barrio.
So, what can we do to prevent or at least minimize future attacks of this kind?
1) Train and deploy armed guards for all our schools. Why is it I go to Whole Foods and see a Coral Gables cop there, aren't our kids more precious than over priced groceries?!
2) Make the school properties more resistant to forced entry. Is that an admission we live in a screwed up society? Yes, let's get over it!
3) Raise the age to buy an AR-15 to 21. I'm hesitant to do this because I know it'll be a precedent and way in the the anti-gun nuts to incrementally erode our gun rights. I would NOT make that age 21 requirement apply for all long weapons as they are not used is mass shootings and millions of Americans aged 18-21 hunt and target shoot with these rifles and shotguns.
4) Enforce existing laws. The govt. (both parties) has only prosecuted 49-50 of 80,000+ cases where someone whose record prohibited them from buying ANY firearm, knowingly tried to do so anyway, by lying on the federal application.
5) Standardize the databases and require all 50 states to report all their data to it. Right now there are still several states that don't.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-fbi-gun-background-check-system-missing-records-20171110-story.html
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/atf-ridiculous-non-searchable-databases-explained/
6) Expand the disqualifying red flags to include school suspension, posting photos or other threatening content online (including animal abuse or mutilation) and membership in or admiration for gangs, terrorist groups or other lawless entities. If our cops and FBI can't round up these nutjobs early and are forced to wait for them to kill innocent people, nothing will change.
7) Repeal the Promise program and build more reform schools, boot camps, etc. There are certain types of kids in our schools that are there only because society has nowhere else to put them. They impede the education of the good students, at best, and commit property crimes, assault and murder at worst.
I find it most ironic that the AR-15 was first introduced to the general public in 1989 and we had no crisis of mass shootings back then. Our course, we also didn't have social media anonymity & isolation, kids online for 5-6 hours a day, bloody, violent video games that are so lifelike they mimic the videos the military uses to prepare troops for war. Let's ask ourselves what's happened to American society and the nuclear family in 30 years?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine%27s_Day_Massacre
I wanna go over the fallout from this recent event and talk about the many ways it could have and should have been prevented, as well as the ridiculous wrong targeting going on by the clueless on the anti 2A left, who think they finally got the act of barbarism (no, I won't call it a tragedy, that would be plane crash or fire) that's gonna serve their purpose to fulfill their true goal. That goal is the total prohibition of firearms & eventual confiscation of any in existence, a la Australia. I'll explain the identity politics in the title later on, I promise. The Aussie comparison is absurd, they have a much smaller, far more monolithic population than ours. It's not about picking which immigrant group or ethnicity commits more crime, it's purely a numbers deal. Every group has mostly decent, hard working folks who wanna improve their lives, as well as shiftless slackers and criminal vermin who come to new nations to either fleece the welfare systems or commit violent crimes. The US takes in more diverse groups and in higher numbers than any nation, which is why we have so much exposure to the negative parts of those immigrant groups wreaking havoc.
2 of the biggest lies parroted by the idiot students, their parents and the accomplice media are that the NRA is responsible for this shooting and they own Congress. No NRA member has ever committed a mass shooting and the NRA trains cops, has firearm safety programs and helps schools to better protect their structures and students, none of which these drones care one whit about. As for owning Congress, the NRA spent $200 million over 20 years, versus the $1.7 BILLION the lawmakers got last year, alone!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/politics/nra-gun-control-florida.html
Contrary to the lies the left propagates, it is they, via their unions, who wield the big $.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/seven-unions-top-kochs-in-super-pac-spending-and-thats-just-the-money-we-know-about/
Let's start with the obvious, gun control has never stopped gun violence in America, see Chicago & Baltimore. Outlawing a particular firearm or magazine size doesn't work, either. The San Bernardino terrorist couple had pairs of 30-round mags duct taped together in a state that has already outlawed them years ago. Can you think of nations with tighter gun control than the UK, France, Germany & Belgium. There were more gun deaths from mass shootings there in 2015 than in the US during all of Obama's tenure!
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/12/03/facts-shoot-holes-in-obamas-claim-that-us-is-only-host-to-mass-killings.html
Another inconvenient truth is the USA ranks a paltry 11th in gun deaths per capita and most of the nations above us have very tough gun laws.
https://crimeresearch.org/2015/06/comparing-death-rates-from-mass-public-shootings-in-the-us-and-europe/
I won't go on with more facts, it makes no difference to the ignorant, agenda-driven left. They don't know what they don't know, they don't wanna know and they don't give a damn!
When I first heard the news in Parkland I was sad but not surprised. I figured it was some disgruntled student who should never have gotten that weapon, be it from a careless relative or an actual legal purchase, and I was correct. My sorrow and empathy for those poor students was short lived when I saw how quickly they were being made tools of the anti-gun left and their stupid parents, who should know better, were only too happy to allow it. When Kate Steinle was murdered by a POS who'd been deported 6 times, I don't remember her family making a media circus out of it, they made their appearances with quiet dignity. The same was true of poor little Jessica Lunsford, right here in FL, whose dad was nothing but gracious and polite. Contrast that to the Town Mob CNN (who else?) organized 1 week later. I commend Marco Rubio & Dana Loesch for taking the heat and standing up for common sense and the rule of law, more than I can say for the hapless, bumbling FBI, who were MIA. Those kids were disrespectful little pups and the parents who lost their kids were downright disgraceful, they didn't want any solutions, they just wanted to blame & humiliate those who had no fault in the act. To the father (Fred) who chastised Rubio over the "weapon of choice" (AR-15) I say this. There was a recent massacre in NYC where 12 cyclists in a bike lane were mowed down by an Islamic terrorist who used an SUV, there have been many more of these vehicle attacks with higher loss of life in Europe. Would Fred ban all SUVs? What about that hysterical mom who yelled at Dana Loesch about the fact we only had muskets when the 2A was first ratified? Well, if my math is correct, we had the 1A (which protects free speech) before the 2A. I'm pretty sure Al Gore hadn't gotten around to inventing the internet in 1789 and I'm really sure there were no cell phones, laptops, PCs or social media. Far more kids take their own lives from online bullying every year than die of gunfire, would hysterical mom ban the internet, cell phones and social media?
https://nobullying.com/bullying-suicide-statistics/
Now let's talk about the real causes of this atrocity. Aside from the guiltiest of all, the shooter, this was a massive failure on many fronts.
1) When seconds count, police are minutes away, now add to that a school security cam feed with a 20-minute delay, WTF?!
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-florida-shooting-coral-springs-video-20180222-story.html
My $25 camera in my front desk area is live, includes HD & audio and I can access it with my cell phone, for God's sake.
2) The same Chicago based Promise Program ( thank you Obama & Holder!) that failed to report the theft crimes of Trayvon Martin, who was allowed to travel to Sanford and get shot, was also instrumental in covering for this shooter. He'd been expelled for threatening his girlfriend's new boyfriend with a knife in school. She dumped him because he physically abused her. Had his record been made public, he would never have passed the background check to buy the rifle.
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/02/27/promise-program-exposed-by-this-show/
3) There were 4 armed BSO officers at the school and they stood back and did nothing, as kids and faculty were getting gunned down! The most spineless of them all, SRO Scot Peterson, used the pathetic excuse that he did no wrong and waited outside the classroom because he believed the gunfire sounds were coming from outside, ridiculous! BTW, if he felt he did no wrong, why did he quickly resign?http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/23/report-four-sheriff-scott-israels-deputies-waited-outside-douglas-high-school-shooting/
4) The hapless FBI ignored or failed to act on a deluge of calls and reports, even from people close to this monster who knew him well and what he was planning to do.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-17/florida-parkland-shooting-fbi-failed-to-act-on-gunman-tip/9457414
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/red-flags-warnings-cries-for-help-how-a-system-built-to-stop-the-parkland-school-shooter-broke-down/2018/02/23/3ccff52c-18d9-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.ebcfd936a1e7
If he'd made any threats on Obama, he woulda been rounded up in a jiffy. Look what happened to that idiot who made that awful online documentary the Dems dishonestly attributed as an excuse for Benghazi.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/hillarys_worst_crime_was_against_the_filmmaker.html
The students and parents were organized and made into useful idiot tools by various left wing, anti-gun groups. Any sympathy they had is long gone and they've become fair game. The idea the left pushes that these kids and their Manchurian parents are grieving and therefore unassailable is total BS, I don't buy it for 1 minute and neither should any fair minded person.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/02/huge-leftwing-activist-groups-behind-supposed-teen-organized-march-for-gun-control/
Now let's talk about identity politics. I'm referring to the incompetent, lying BSO Sheriff, Scott Israel. He was in charge after the bungled procedures that led to the FLL terror attack in the baggage claim area.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fort-lauderdale-hollywood-airport-shooting/fl-airport-shooting-after-action-release-20170815-story.html
How did this buffoon ever get elected sheriff? The answer is identity politics, you have a district of NY refugee liberals and they elected another NY liberal as their sheriff. You see, my friends, identity politics can occur anywhere with a plurality of like minded people, not just da hood or el barrio.
So, what can we do to prevent or at least minimize future attacks of this kind?
1) Train and deploy armed guards for all our schools. Why is it I go to Whole Foods and see a Coral Gables cop there, aren't our kids more precious than over priced groceries?!
2) Make the school properties more resistant to forced entry. Is that an admission we live in a screwed up society? Yes, let's get over it!
3) Raise the age to buy an AR-15 to 21. I'm hesitant to do this because I know it'll be a precedent and way in the the anti-gun nuts to incrementally erode our gun rights. I would NOT make that age 21 requirement apply for all long weapons as they are not used is mass shootings and millions of Americans aged 18-21 hunt and target shoot with these rifles and shotguns.
4) Enforce existing laws. The govt. (both parties) has only prosecuted 49-50 of 80,000+ cases where someone whose record prohibited them from buying ANY firearm, knowingly tried to do so anyway, by lying on the federal application.
5) Standardize the databases and require all 50 states to report all their data to it. Right now there are still several states that don't.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-fbi-gun-background-check-system-missing-records-20171110-story.html
https://www.thetrace.org/2016/08/atf-ridiculous-non-searchable-databases-explained/
6) Expand the disqualifying red flags to include school suspension, posting photos or other threatening content online (including animal abuse or mutilation) and membership in or admiration for gangs, terrorist groups or other lawless entities. If our cops and FBI can't round up these nutjobs early and are forced to wait for them to kill innocent people, nothing will change.
7) Repeal the Promise program and build more reform schools, boot camps, etc. There are certain types of kids in our schools that are there only because society has nowhere else to put them. They impede the education of the good students, at best, and commit property crimes, assault and murder at worst.
I find it most ironic that the AR-15 was first introduced to the general public in 1989 and we had no crisis of mass shootings back then. Our course, we also didn't have social media anonymity & isolation, kids online for 5-6 hours a day, bloody, violent video games that are so lifelike they mimic the videos the military uses to prepare troops for war. Let's ask ourselves what's happened to American society and the nuclear family in 30 years?
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