Category Archives: Safety

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

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Not exactly the way it’s supposed to work…most of the time. There is an exception. If I am going to use a self-defense ploy, then I am admitting to the crime. Often times, it is admitting to the killing or assault of someone. I don’t think saying, I didn’t kill anyone. However if I did it was to protect myself.” I don’t think that would work.

My freedom after the trial depends on my proving that my life or another is in danger. For instance, “Sure I shot him. He was pointing a shotgun at me.” In this example, it is sort of obvious. In some cases, it can be a knife, a baseball bat or even a fist. That’s right. If a 250 lb man is about to hit a 100 lb woman, she can be completely justified in putting a couple of bullet holes in the man.

In simple words, we call it self-defense. I would guess most states call it justifiable homicide. Whatever it is called, it is a very important part of the laws, I’d guess in all states. Indeed, I suspect it is a worldwide concept, maybe even in China. Otherwise, all of us would be susceptible to violence on a whim. If I cannot protect myself from the man with a club, I am subject to being killed by any man with a sling and a rock.

Incidentally, anything of the proper size and weight can be used as a club. It need not be, per se, a baseball bat. Even a crutch can be a lethal weapon.

I spent a lot of words telling you what you already know.

Now I will write something you may or may not know. The young man, Rittenhouse was going to speak at University of Memphis. I heard about it on the news.

Apparently, the students did not believe he should have the freedom of speech, so they planned ways of keeping him from speaking. Apparently, they were even willing to buy out all available tickets.

Now, that’s weird. I guess the theory is to keep others from hearing him. Don’t know about Rittenhouse, but I wouldn’t mind giving a speech in an empty theater for a stack of cash.

Second, it’s a display of fear. Indeed they are afraid of what might he might tell the world. Finally, the man, in a court, proved before a jury, his justification in defending himself, in spite of those who were determined to hang him regardless of any and all evidence.

Those students who judged him guilty and wanted to take away his platform weren’t angry at him for killing the men but rather that he, as others, refuse to swallow the garbage that they want us to swallow. I am sure he would find far more friends in the ranks of the student body should he decide to drop his beliefs and pick up the banner of the politically correct.

They Finally Admit It

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Since years before 2016 the dems and the news media have refused to admit that there is a border crisis. Now finally they admit it but often try blame Trump. I find that interesting. Trump did not take office until well after the crisis began.

Moreover, it was not until near the end of Trump’s term that the traffic was reduced to a trickle. Then, of course, obviously, Old Joe undid what Trump did; and the crisis resumed worse than before Trump.

Now, finally I see CBS has the headline across the screen, that’s right, BORDER CRISIS. Don’t know, but I suspect the other networks also have similar declarations. Maybe it is an admission they were wrong. Certainly, we’ll never see an outright acceptance of guilt from them.

However, it is something of a step in the right direction. Don’t expect them to start affixing the blame where it belongs… Obama, the dems and the rinos. Already, it is clear they want to place it on Trump and us followers.

Either way, much of the damage is done. We likely have 18 million illegal aliens in the country, many of them criminals, some potential terrorists and who knows how many foreign agents. To be sure, we have already suffered the onslaught of murders and robberies. The education and medical facilities have been stretched to their limits.

PTA meetings are now a joke in many schools because of the number of languages they are held in. Even now, when I had cable, I noticed there were dozens of foreign language channels. The hope of ever establishing English as the standard language is now hopeless. Worse, the American flag no longer seems to even be the the standard standard.

The only hope we have is to put an end to this run on our country by the dems, the rinos and their communists comrades.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

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We used to go to see the Chicks regularly. For those unaware, the Chicks was a semi-abrieviation for Chickasaws, the Memphis AA league ball team.

We loved it. Sometimes, we put 8 in the car, between friends and us. Most of the time, it was just the 4 of us. Admittedly, the park wasn’t that great, especially as compared to the current stadium.

However, it was accessable. After paying for parking at the current park, we have to each give up a hot dog and soda. Worse, it takes far more time to drive to and locate a place to park.

We no longer have children at home. My wife does really enjoy a pro game, but not that much. We’ll likely stay closer to home this year.

There are many beautiful Little League fields nearby and there is no cost. Let’s us buy more “peanuts & Cracker Jacks.” Also, there are high schools around. I suppose we will be more wecomed there than in downtown Memphis.

If they made it more convenient, we might risk the hazzards of going downtown to see a game now and then, but apparently, those in the Redbird management don’t value our business. It’s a shame. As near as I can tell, the players deserve more than that. Those actually working in the stadium deserve more too.

How-some-ever, that Redbirds stadium is so much nicer. It just is they had to plop that thing down in the worst part of Memphis… and about the most difficult place to park.

I can’t say anyting about how unsafe parking is. I have no recent 1st hand experience. However, I do believe it is a place the wise avoid.

The Door

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In my book, “The Secret of the Ring, ” I write about how amazing doors are. Few ever think about them. We build walls about us to keep us safe.

Then, of course, the simplest way to get through the wall is by going through a door. I think life would be more difficult if we had walls and no doors.

And so it is that we build walls for shelter from animals, thieves and weather. However, without the doors, we might not be able to enter or exit.

I am not an expert on doors, but I know outside doors should have some basic requirements. We should be able to secure, or lock it. Depending on the neighborhood, we may want it to be strong and difficult to enter without the key. We might even want bars on it.

Oddly some folks like windows in the door. That sort of confuses me. After all, glass is easily broken. Also, it doesn’t provide much privacy.

When younger, I was told to remember to close the door. In some cases it was to keep the flies and insects out. In other cases, it was to keep the warmth in. In still other cases, we left the doors wide open to let fresh air in.

Much is said about doors and windows in literature. Certainly, most of us have heard that when God closes a door, then, somewhere He opens a window.

I suppose in a way, it implies that we can go in and out windows too. That would be particularly true when escaping fire.

However, homes are not the only thing to have doors. Barns, storage sheds, planes all have doors. So do ships but when I was in the Marines, I was encouraged to call them hatches. In many cases, such doors are designed more for keeping things in.

To be sure, life would be more difficult without doors…or gates.

One piece of advice, especially about car doors. I was trying to close the car door for my wife as she pulled it firmly closed. That hurt.

Apparently, that is one thing those engineers got right. As much pain as it caused, there was no permanent problem.

Word to the wise. Don’t get your fingers between the door and the car. It was close to half an hour before the feeling returned to my fingers.

Would you believe she had the nerve to laugh about it.

Watch out for those doors or hatches, or windows or whatever you call them.

As an aside. The warning given to Scott in my my book…”Never open a door until you know who is on the other side.”

The Well Trained Staff

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We had gone to Huey’s on Goodman in Southaven. We had the shrimp and fries. When they first arrived, we could warm our hands from the heat coming off of our dinner. The waiter cautioned us. It was a needless gesture. I had burnt my tongue on the food there before. Still, it was a good idea. I mean McDonald’s did get sued over the hot coffee.

When I had just taken my last bite and I still had a full mouth, the waiter asked if we wanted a Diet Coke to take home. Now that is how you tell a well trained waiter. I know the man was off to the side waiting for me to have too much food in my mouth to reply and then, in that instant, he jumped out and asked me that question.

They practice that, you know. It is a well honed ability and it does not come natural.

Well, of course the food was good and the last bite of fries were still warm. I paid the bill and left a tip. I would have left more, but as I have said so many times before, we are basically living off Social Security. He understood. I would have explained but he knew us and he has heard the explanation before.

Now. If I could just figure out how they make those fries so good and hot.

As an aside, you want to wait for your food, go to McDonald’s. On the other hand, you will rarely do much waiting at Huey’s unless they are really busy. I suspect, if they maid Big Macs, it would not take them 15 minutes to get it to you.

The Alternative

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As I drive my Nissan electric car, I do find it enjoyable. The other day, I had turned off the radio and for got about it. I had gone several miles before I realized it. Other than the slight whisper of air coming from the vents, there was no sound at all.

Well, I guess there was a little. You don’t normally notice such things in most cars, but, believe it or not, tires do make noise, especially at higher speeds. There is also the wisp of air going by. I never really paid attention to that sort of thing before.

I did turn my sound system on. I do have an AM/FM radio and a USB drive hooked up. Those folks at Sirius keep trying to get me to subscribe, but they are more of a bother than the noise made by my precious car.

The thing is, before I turned the sound system back on, I drove several miles and listened to the quiet. I guess I could say was listening to the silence, but someone already came up with that idea. The thing is a person really does not know the benefit of silence until they don’t hear it.

However, there is an alternative to the use of any kind of battery to produce electricity. It’s called a fuel cell. Unlike my current electric car, cars that run on fuel cells need not be charged. The have a tank in which you store hydrogen. Some versions also have oxygen tanks. The fuel cells are extremely efficient and they don’t make any noise either.

When I first heard of the idea fuel cells, I was very concerned about the hydrogen. Let’s face it. I don’t think there is anything in this world more volatile than hydrogen. And when it burns, it burns hot and fast. You might even say it explodes.

It would mean that there safety factors would have to be designed into the car. The tank would have to be strong and double lined. If the car was involved in an accident, you would not want it to catch fire. Indeed, perhaps, a reason they have not already gone to fuel cells is the possible hazards.

My first thought was, what if you have a leak. Actually, it would be a problem to the pocket book, but not safety. Hydrogen is the very lightest element. It would float away so fast it would likely not catch fire.

I must admit, the accident problem is a real one. As remote as the chances might be, should the tank somehow get set aflame, it would cause danger for, perhaps hundreds of feet around.

However, these batteries we are using now are pretty dangerous too. Some even suggest charging them some distance from your house. If a car with the lithium batteries were to be involved in an accident, the flames just might be almost as bad as the hydrogen.

I’m not an expert. However, now and then I hear about stuff. A few months ago, a cargo ship caught fire. The ship was carrying electric cars, and from what I understand, the flames were sudden and large. If a car was at fault, it was just sitting there. It was not even in an accident.

By the way, there are two more big benefits with fuel cells and hydrogen. First, the exhaust is water so pure you just might be able to drink it. If I remember right, it just simply drips from a pipe and onto the road. Also, it is plentiful. Though mostly it is combined with oxygen, it is the most available element on this earth. We would not have to go digging big holes in the ground to get it. Moreover, no one nation or person could have any monopoly on it.

Now let me see. What did I do with that deed to that old hydrogen mine have.

Practice Makes Perfect

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From my early youth, I have heard the expression. Yet, today I can attest to one and all that it is not completely true. How many times do you suppose an infielder, since his days in Little League practiced the throw to first base. Then, even in the pros, he throws one so high the first base man can’t reach it. Maybe practice makes a person good at something, but even then, only if it is practiced properly. Invariably, one thing many have trouble with is to unlearn the bad habits, both in baseball and in life, which they learn in their youth. And, by the way, the bad habits are well practiced.

One of the things we learned in the Marines on the rifle range was to practice, practice, practice. However, every second, they had a PMI standing over me correcting me the instant I started to practice something wrong.

I used the rifle range example for two reasons. A bad practice can mean missing the target, but a bad safety habit can lead to wounds or even death. It might seem a simple thing, but the first thing I was taught was to keep my rifle pointed downrange. That way, even if I should make the mistake of not following some other safety rule, no one will get hurt.

It is a practice that I hold to this day over all these years, even though it was years since I left the Marines. If I never point a weapon where it might hurt someone, then it won’t hurt anyone should it go off. Well, it mostly works. I can tell of examples where it didn’t. That is why they have other safety rules, like don’t play fast draw with a gun, loaded or not.

Actually, I have gotten way off of my intended subject. It was a subject that was brought to mind today as I saw a woman, likely a little older than me, coughing like crazy. I watched to make sure she recovered. In a while she was okay and back to normal.

However, it did remind me. The woman had likely swallowed and choked. We all do it. I do, and I have had an awful lot of practice. I have been swallowing for 73 years and it seems I get it wrong more frequently now than when I was 40.

It is something we don’t think about much, but we all swallow no telling how many times a day. Certainly we swallow our food. However, from time to time we swallow just because we feel a need to. We have all practiced it so much that we do it without thinking. Then, when we mess up and do it wrong, we are reminded that we need to do it right. Maybe, from time to time, we need to remind ourselves to, not only practice, but practice it right, especially while eating.

Now that I am done with this, I need to go out and practice some more… the battle with the weeds.

Remembering When

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I remember when they started coming out with minor emergency facilities. I cut my knee one time and went to one. Ten minutes after I arrived, the doctor was sewing up the cut. If I remember right, it took 8 stitches.

On the other hand, I could have gone to a regular ER and, by time someone got around to stitching it, it would have already healed over.

You might have guessed by now that I am one of those in favor of minor emergency facilities. However, those big hospitals threw a fit. And, by the way, those big hospitals have the power to really throw fits. In this particular case, the little emergency outfits were eating into the profits of the big emergency rooms and the big hospitals didn’t like it.

It seemed odd to me at the time. If I heard one ad, I heard a thousand. If all you have is a stuffy nose, don’t clog the emergency rooms with your problem. Just go to your GP. (Back then they called themselves general practitioners. Now, they are internists.) At any rate, sometimes, a stuffy nose can seem to us non physicians a real emergency. You know, we have all sort of gotten used to breathing.

At any rate, it seemed to me that the minor emergency clinics were serving a good function. They kept the crowding in the real ERs down and people could be seen by a doctor when they needed one, instead of having to wait for an appointment. Also, those who had real emergencies could be seen by doctors more quickly in the real ERs.

It might seem odd to some but most doctors can sew up a cut pretty well. It is kind of one of those things required in the start of medical school. Most doctors can tell when someone has tonsillitis, though I have seen a couple who couldn’t… in an ER. My son almost died as a result. He had a very difficult time breathing.

My best guess, the hospitals threw their fit because they were losing money, a lot of it. It was doing exactly what the hospitals were asking the patients to do, decrease the overcrowding of the ERs. It seems that was not actually what they wanted.

Now, after a few decades, the term minor emergency does not seem to be allowed. It seems we patients do not understand the difference between a minor emergency and a heart attack. Odd. Aren’t most heart patients taken into the ER by ambulances. To be sure, we are told, to call an ambulance when suffering chest pains.

At any rate, I got a first hand look at what the elimination of minor emergency rooms has done. When I took my wife into the local hospital, we had to wait 7 hours. I found out later, some waited almost 10.

Sort of looks to me that we could use a few minor emergency facilities again. It is quite apparent the hospitals can’t deal with all the major stuff and the minor stuff too.

What’s worse, I think if you ask how long it will be, they will put you at the end of line, or at least part way. They don’t have any answers to things like that and they get angry when you ask. My suggestion, don’t ask, no matter how tempting.

My brief aside, most hospitals would not be so crowded if we closed off the border, a long time ago.

In the Air We Breathe

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News flash- University of Washington have found traces of drugs in the Washington & Oregon transit systems air and surfaces. If there, then where else?

I guess this means that if the degeration continues, we might need to go back to wearing masks again whenever we go out in public. Even more we also need to wear gloves and carefully discard both after they are removed. It will likely be good to change clothing. Thar stuff can be absorbed through skin.

Keeping that Mexican border open is and was a bad idea. Now, even more important, we need to send good strong signals to China and the cartels. If we don’t, we might need to wear space suits every time we leave our homes.

The worst part is that the party in power does not care one iota. Ask them about the drug problem and all you’ll hear is crickets, that is, unless the insects start getting high too.

New Shot for the Virus

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Recently heard about another booster shot for the China virus. If you ask me if I’m going to take it, that would be a no!

Don’t mind taking a shot or two when the effectiveness has not be proven, but this is ridiculous. After, what two or three years, not only can’t they prove it has any effectiveness, it seems obvious that the only effect it has is negative. People have died from that shot, you know. Yet, it seems it will not even slow the effect of the disease. Since I have had the shot, I have had the virus twice. I don’t think the shot works. I’d much rather take the Hydroxycloroquine. It has better proven results than the dumb shots. More important, I know it won’t kill me, as the shot might.

It is another reason I call the old man Joe. He tried to force the men in the armed forces to take an experimental drug. Those who refused to take it, he made them leave the armed forces. That’s not just nuts. That is crazy nuts. It’s one more thing he will not be able to explain to Jesus when he sees Jesus face-to-face. My best guess, from his appearances, form his mannerisms, that does not seem to be much into the future.