President Obama said Thursday that the Affordable Care Act is working, but he acknowledged that “growing pains” are causing some Americans to be hurt by escalating insurance prices in marketplaces created under the law.

Obama says the Affordable Care Act works but has affordability ‘growing pains’ – Washington Post

Maybe if you define growing pains as as prison gang rape.

After watching this video and getting all misty and proud about the actions of Officer Chase Miller, I got pissed. Why weren’t the parents perform CPR?
I understand that it was a stressful situation, but that is why you train, certificate and re-certificate. But I also know that CPR and Heimlich are no longer “cool” techniques to know and in fact a great segment of the population don’t care for them. It is a mixture of fear of contagion, fear of (unfounded) legal repercussions, the thought that 911 is the only appropriate answer and simply not caring for another human being.

At my last job and after having a couple of incidents with people having cardiovascular events, I pushed for having our section trained for CPR/Heimlich which did not win me any brownie points (apparently they frowned on overtime.) But once I opened that particular door, the company stood to lose big time in a lawsuit if somebody would have had a heart attack, nobody knew how to assist and then come out that somebody requested training and was ignored.

So we got the training and the promise of a key chain CPR shield. But when the training came, I could tell that all but two people in my section were disinterested about the process with one alleging religion as not to even try to learn (I found later on that he was bullshitting and he simply got the cooties.) It stunned me that people simply did not give a shit about somebody dying in front of them when it did not need to happen because they refused to learn what to do. Let’s say that after that day, I re-shaped my strategies at work with the knowledge that I would not have any help if something happened to me.

This is not about being a hero, but being human. Check with your local Red Cross or your fire department for training as I am sure they have classes every month if not more often. And you can be bold and go further with C.E.R.T. (Community Emergency Response Team) training which is offered by FEMA but will take you several days to complete. Trust me, just the materials and knowledge you get are worth the effort.

So the question now will be, Can you live with the thought that a 3-year-old kid died because you were too lazy/ignorant/uncaring to learn something so basic as CPR?

Saw this over Peter Grant’s blog and I thought it could very well help those pesky “peaceful” protesters change their minds and allow you safe passage.

Just an idea… 😀

Prepper Press was kind enough to send me this book for review a while back (sorry guys!) and I finally was able to get into it yesterday.  And you know something? Mr. Markwith did a great job with this book because it is mostly about one thing missing nowadays: Common Sense.

If you have experience with firearms and good training, there might not be much in the book for you and you probably already experienced the troubles and the fixes mentioned in the book. But if you have friends that are beginning with guns or basic self-defense, you may want to give him/her this book and save them some years’ worth of experimentation and failure. From buying a gun to the proper storage, training and ancillary equipment, Mr. Markwith does not buy into the latest and coolest toy, but gives you the guidelines: It has to be proven, tested and survived Real Life. Maybe the option you need is not the brand new $2,500 plastic fantastic AR recommended by the gun store sales person (because, that is what the SEALs use in Iraq) but the $400 used Mossberg pump you found in a pawn shop.

And that is just plain common sense.

Again, if you are new or recently into the gun culture, you should buy this book. If you have more advanced training and experience, buy it, check it out and give that friend you have that you know needs it.

You can buy it via Amazon, in Kindle or Survival Mode (paperback) 😀