I saw Kevin McCarthy standing next to Nancy Pelosi holding a hammer and was disappointed to see this:Instead of this:

Sorry for the Facebook video. I could not find another version.

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McThag posted about this experience in the VA regarding a vitamin D deficiency. I chuckled because I had a similar experience with a former private doctor.

Doc: You have a low-level of vitamin D. I am going to give you a supplement.
Me: Cool, thanks.
Doc: I wonder why is it so low.
Me: 10 years working nights and I don’t do sunlight.
Doc: Well you should. A nice 30 minute walk every day will help you with that and to lose weight.
Me: You did read my medical history, right? Family history of  basal carcinoma, I already had it (I point at my nose) and fractured vertebrae? Or do you think I walk with a cane because it makes me look cool?
Doc: <mumbles something and changes subject. >

I have respect for good doctors, but zero when it comes to servile admiration for any doctor. It comes from having peeked many years behind the curtains and knowing how many times they actually wing it and fuck it up royally.

I read the Real Clear Investigations article in Miguel’s post and picked up on something much scarier than the predicable outcome of the blue wall of silence and corrupt, self serving bureaucracy.

There will me more shootings in Broward County Schools.

Fla.: The Sheriff, the Sheriff’s Son, and the ‘Coward of Broward’

The 2013 agreement, known generally as the PROMISE program, was designed to reduce school-based arrests for minor  offenses and stop the so-called “school-to-prison pipeline” disproportionately affecting minorities. 

“We can only measure our success by the kids we keep out of jail, not the kids we put in jail,” Sheriff Israel said at the  November 2013 signing ceremony. “Our kids need to be in schools, not jails.”

That right there is the problem.  Using that metric, the most successful they could be is if they didn’t put a single student in jail.  That’s an easy success to attain, just don’t arrest an students, regardless of the crimes committed.

Despite misgivings expressed by police and prosecutors behind closed doors, as student arrests plummeted in 2016, Israel  boasted, “We have drastically cut down on juvenile arrests” by giving school criminals who under previous rules would  have  been arrested “second, third chances.”

See.

This is a common tactic used by corrupt law enforcement in single party politics towns.  New York City is notorious for this.

NYPD report confirms manipulation of crime stats

and

NYPD captain claims some cops are fudging crime stats to advance their careers, igniting police investigation

Anybody who has followed this blog for a while knows we have covered the abuse of gravity knife laws in New York City, where the police regularly arrest workmen, electricians, general contractors, and laborers for carrying the kinds of lock back pocketknives working people carry for work (even box cutters) as a way to boost arrest numbers and generate revenue from fines making it look like they are taking violent criminals off the streets but are really just harassing blue collar New Yorkers who don’t have the money to hire a lawyer and sue.

All told, “BCPS documented nearly 70 incidents involving Cruz in its incident computer system,” according to a  draft report  of  the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. “BCPS disciplinary referral system also contained  nearly  55 school incidents involving Cruz.”

“Administrators were made aware of multiple felonies — including death threats and weapons possession – but they did nothing about it because of the discipline policies,” Manhattan Institute senior fellow Max Eden told RealClearInvestigations. Eden has co-authored a forthcoming book on the tragedy, “Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies that Created the Parkland Shooter and Endangered America’s Students.”

Cruz kept getting breaks under the PROMISE program (Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Support & Education). It allowed even  chronic offenders, including Cruz, to “reset” their discipline records to zero infractions at the end of each school year, making them appear like  first-time offenders.

And until 17 kids were killed, this was all gravy for the school district and Sheriff’s Office.  The looked good on paper, got raises, promotions, and reelected.

The embattled Sheriff Israel, who has been the subject of no fewer than 10 formal complaints (mostly involving public charges of excessive use of police force, all dismissed), has come under  mounting pressure to resign. His critics include not only parents whose children were killed but the police union that represents  Broward’s 1,400 deputies, as well as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies  Association has formally called for his resignation.

Even longtime boosters in the local media have turned against him.

But he knows that the majority of people in Broward would rather get shot than vote Republican, so unless the Governor unseats him, he’ll get reelected again.  That’s one party politics for you.

Israel, who after the school massacre touted his own “amazing leadership,” said he has “no plans to resign.” Elected to a second term in 2016, Israel has been called the most powerful Democrat in Florida’s most Democratic county. He plans to run for another four-year term, but he may not make it to the 2020 election. It’s widely believed that Florida Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis, a Republican, will remove Israel from office after the Jan. 8 inauguration and before the anniversary of the Feb. 14 massacre in Parkland.

What did I just say.

I doubt DeSantis will remove Sheriff Israel from his office.  All that will do is give the Broward Democrats a martyr.  They can’t admit to his failures so they will say the removal is a political witch hunt.  Maybe I am being an asshole but the people of Broward should have the option of voting him out of office.  If they don’t, whatever happens next is all on them.

As Runcie pioneered the most lenient discipline policies in the nation, the administration pumped millions of dollars in education grants into his district. More than 50 other large school districts adopted similar programs as the administration opened race-bias investigations and threatened funding cuts for those who failed to comply with the lower disciplinary standards.

When success is measured by kids not in jail and not a decrease in crime in school, it pays to turn a blind eye to problems and avoid arresting kids for petty things like… attempted forcible sodomy with a foreign object.

Last month, the Trump administration revoked the Obama policy, formalized in a January 2014 guidance letter to all public school districts, arguing it has led to increased violence in schools.

Boy howdy, has it done that.

The Florida state safety commission’s draft report also revealed that the Broward district has been systematically underreporting crimes committed on campus since revising its  discipline policies, helping it appear that the PROMISE program and its required “restorative justice” counseling  sessions were  working to reduce the number of students who reoffend and control overall crime on campus.

A bureaucracy lying on paper to get more money, say it isn’t so.

Officials at Stoneman Douglas, for example, failed to report  dozens of instances of violence, bullying, theft, robbery and trespassing in the  2016-2017 school year, making the school look much safer than it was prior to the shooting.  

And you wondered how a kid with a rifle could walk past so many people who failed to call a code red.  Not a single one of those coaches, teachers, or hall monitors wanted to be the asshole who risked a school pay increase by having a recordable arrest on campus.

This is the law of perverse incentive.  The school was breeding cobras for money and 17 kids got bit.

New Renaissance  Middle School in Miramar, Fla., reported no cases of bullying in 2015-2016, even though coed Jayla Cofer successfully sued Broward schools in 2016 after she was sent to the emergency room by a gang of violent girls, none of whom was arrested. Her attackers were d diverted to the PROMISE program, where they received counseling.

My cousin worked as a career counselor in Broward public schools.  She left the school system and now does the same thing for incoming freshmen at the local community college.  She could tell you stories that would make your hair stand on end about the beatings that occurred in the schools.  It was not uncommon for teachers to get beaten by students with the students knowing that at worst, they would get an in-school suspension.

This from November of 2018:

Boyd Anderson Teacher Says Student Attacked Him in Class

A teacher at a Broward County high school says he was left badly bruised after a student attacked him with a desk during class.

“He took the desk, raised it over his head, completely over his head and then threw it at me,” Lipscomb said in an exclusive interview with NBC 6. “Damaged the ceiling above me, struck me in the leg, in the thigh, caused me to fall down and injure my other leg as well.”

“He threw another desk before I was able to go and just restrain him until security came,” Lipscomb said.

n a statement Friday, the school district said they take all matters involving student and staff safety seriously and that school administration and the school resource officer responded to the incident immediately and followed all proper protocols.

“The student involved was removed from the classroom and taken into custody by law enforcement. The teacher was also immediately relieved from the classroom and advised to seek medical attention,” the district’s statement read, in part. “The administration reported the incident to the District’s Risk Management Department. The student involved in this incident is receiving the appropriate school disciplinary measures in accordance with the District’s Code Book for Student Conduct.“

All the kid did was throw a couple of desks at a teacher, disabling him.  It’s not like it’s assault with a deadly weapon… oh yeah, it is.  Have no fear, the student will get a whole hour’s worth of detention to teach him not to throw furniture at a teacher.

Now back to the RCI report.

Arreaza charged in a complaint filed Dec. 21 in Broward County court that school officials have pressured teachers and staff not to  report crimes committed by students like Cruz.

It’s just a kid walking around campus with a rifle, no reason to call that in and ruin a good thing for everyone.

In an interview with RealClearInvestigations, he said they also routinely pressured Peterson and other school resource officers to “downgrade” serious  crimes, including violent felonies.

When you make it a choice between potentially saving lives and guaranteeing a good pension, the pension wins out and 17 kids get killed.

Just weeks before the Stoneman Douglas massacre, for example, a sophomore band member at the high school was violently  attacked by another student, Arreaza said. The assailant broke his nose, but he wasn’t arrested for assault. Instead, school  officials assigned him to a diversionary program where he received counseling.

“The crime was actually an aggravated assault, which is a felony, but it was reduced to a misdemeanor,” said Arreaza, who  represents the victim. When the boy’s parents complained, “Deputy Peterson told the parents he isn’t allowed to arrest  anyone.”

Why is he even there?

Other sources confirmed that arrests are discouraged across the board by the administration. 

But the numbers they send to Washington look great!

One longtime deputy assigned to Broward schools, who insisted on anonymity, said that a top official in the superintendent’s office “asked us not to arrest students for felonies in addition to misdemeanors,” even though the 2013 agreement explicitly emphasized that police had final discretion and that felonies would not qualify under the no-arrest plan.

There was nothing they couldn’t sweep under the rug for money until 17 kids were killed in a mass shooting.

Within two years of adopting the discipline reforms, Broward’s juvenile recidivism rate surged higher than the Florida state average.  The negative trends continued through 2017, the most recent juvenile  crime data show.

Who, with a brain not rotted by Progressivism and the Iron Law of Bureaucracy, didn’t see this coming?

Cruz wasn’t the only dangerous threat who avoided referral to the juvenile justice system.

The district also previously diverted other boys, who brought guns to school and threatened to go on shooting rampages, from the criminal justice system and into alternative programs. In October 2016,  for instance, a would-be teen shooter at Coral  Springs High School was sent to counseling and was not charged with a  crime.

There will be more shootings in Broward.

Nobody who created the situation that facilitated Cruz’s rampage has been fired.  Most still have their jobs.  They can’t admit that they were wrong at the very core, which is the problem.  They might make minor reforms but the essential failures will still be there.

The safety commission found that Broward public schools average two threat assessments per day. In just the first half of 2018, the district had  completed approximately 390 behavioral threat assessments.

Broward County parents should just pull their kids out of the public school system and send them to private schools or home school them.

More deaths will happen because it is in the financial interests of the school administration and Sheriff’s Office to continue to put in place policies that make it easier for deaths to happen.

This is happening all over the country.

Every time a cop turns a blind eye to some junkie shooting up or shitting on the streets of San Francisco or in a park in Brooklyn they make the city more dangerous.  Ever time a cop is told not to arrest a guy who just smashed his way into a tourists car because a broken window is not sufficient evidence for a felony charge, they make the city more dangerous.  Every time Portland, Berkeley, or Seattle police pull back when Antifa control the streets and hit people with bike locks, they make the cities more dangerous.

Every time school administrators and SRO’s send a kid who takes a gun to school or caves in the face of another student to a counselor instead of a jail cell, they make the school more dangerous.

This attitude is a breeding ground for the worst kind of criminally.

Until the people who think this way are out of office, the risk that there will be more blood is all too real.

Reader CJ sent me this article. I remember reading about the accusation in a very light way back then, but I admit I did not mind much nor I followed up since we were buried in an avalanche of crap back then.  I guess we assumed Sheriff Israel allowed Deputy Peterson to retire so fast and fully benefited as a way to keep him quiet and cover up for the deadly and cowardly screw up. But this article points out in the direction that Peterson cashed a huge chip to avoid a lengthy wiping in the media and other places.

Some now think they have found the answer in a single incident that occurred in 2014. A police report shows that’s when Israel’s then-17-year-old son, Brett, was accused of participating in a sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas  High School.

The case was investigated by Scot Peterson — the armed deputy who took cover while children and staff were shot last February. Using the Obama-era guidelines, Peterson’s recommendation helped his boss’s son receive just a three-day suspension.

Fla.: The Sheriff, the Sheriff’s Son, and the ‘Coward of Broward’

And we are not talking about giving a wedgie to somebody:

According to the four-page report filed by Peterson, the victim, who was a freshman at the time, alleged that Israel, then the school’s starting quarterback, held him  down while another senior kicked him, grabbed his genitals and rammed a  baseball bat between his buttocks, simulating rape.

That is way beyond simple bullying even way back to my High School years. Maybe it was the Hispanic thing, but if you touched somebody’s ass, you better be ready to have some blood leakage out of your face.

People familiar with the case say Peterson could have referred Israel for felony charges, but reduced the crime to “simple  battery,” making him eligible for a leniency program requiring no arrest. “The school district’s disciplinary matrix requires no law  enforcement action required regarding the incident,” the deputy wrote.

BSO had history of manipulating crime reports to make it look like crime goes down and it is solved faster than with any other agency. That is how they convinced many towns in Broward to use them as their LEO agency. IIRC, this was published in the Miami Herald some years back I think when they were about to absorb Fire department responsibilities too.

“A child was sexually assaulted and Peterson reduced the charges to fit a matrix and report it as information. This allowed the  deputy to put it away and not do anything,” said Arreaza, who is suing both Israel and Peterson on behalf of Anthony Borges, a  Stoneman Douglas student who survived the massacre, despite being shot five times.

Arreaza said that the same lax disciplinary culture meant Cruz was never expelled or sent to the juvenile justice system despite committing  multiple offenses every year throughout middle and high school. Peterson was warned at least twice of the threat Cruz posed  as an active shooter,  but failed to investigate the matter. Peterson had an office on the Stoneman Douglas campus, where he’d been posted for nine years.

This matrix is still up and running in many school districts. You may have forgotten another case where an alleged angel mowed down by a furious redneck was not quite the angelic figure, but his crimes were toned down or “disappeared” in order to make the school look good: Trayvon Martin.

Let us not forget that Trayvon was going to school here in Miami-Dade but was sent up north to his dad because his mom could not control him.  But by looking at his school report, you would swear he was almost a teen version of an apostle.

I really do not expect changes, new governor or not. Unless there is a nice multi-million dollar retirement package ready for Israel,  he won’t be leaving. In fact there is a verbal faction demanding he be left alone because only the voters can remove him from office since he was elected and they would get their chance in 200. Kinda ironic because it is coming from the same people demanding the impeachment and removal from offices of President Trump.

Oh well.

Yesterday was the very first day of business of the 116th Congress of the United States of America.

This Congress is in office until January 3rd, 2021.

I’m not so sure America will make it until then.

On the very first day of official business Congressman Brad Sherman of California introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump.

Here is his official statement, it’s a doozy.

I am pleased that Congressman Al Green (D-TX) has joined me in filing Articles of Impeachment against Donald J. Trump. We now begin the effort to force the House Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on Obstruction of Justice and Russian interference in our election.

Recent disclosures by Donald Trump Jr. indicate that Trump’s campaign was eager to receive assistance from Russia. It now seems likely that the President had something to hide when he tried to curtail the investigation of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and the wider Russian probe. I believe his conversations with, and subsequent firing of, FBI Director James Comey constitute Obstruction of Justice.

Every day Democrats, Republicans, and the entire world are shocked by the latest example of America’s amateur President. Ignorance accompanied by a refusal to learn. Lack of impulse control, accompanied by a refusal to have his staff control his impulses. We’re no longer surprised by any action, no matter how far below the dignity of the office—and no matter how dangerous to the country.

But the Constitution does not provide for the removal of a President for impulsive, ignorant incompetence. It does provide for the removal of a President for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

As the investigations move forward, additional evidence supporting additional Articles of Impeachment may emerge. However, as to Obstruction of Justice, as defined in 18 U.S.C. § 1512 (b)(3), the evidence we have is sufficient to move forward now. And the national interest requires that we do so.

Introducing Articles of Impeachment will have two possible outcomes. First, I have slight hope it will inspire an ‘intervention’ in the White House. If Impeachment is real, if they actually see Articles, perhaps we will see incompetency replaced by care. Perhaps uncontrollable impulses will be controlled. And perhaps the danger our nation faces will be ameliorated.

Second, and more likely, filing Articles of Impeachment is the first step on a very long road. But if the impulsive incompetency continues, then eventually—many, many months from now—Republicans will join the impeachment effort.

I author Articles of Impeachment not to change our national policy. I served with Mike Pence in Congress for twelve years and I disagree with him on just about everything. I never dreamed I would author a measure that would put him in the White House. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment to begin a long process to protect our country from abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and impulsive, ignorant incompetence.”​

That is the most nakedly partisan diatribe I’ve ever read.  He admits to have no evidence but hates Trump and Pence and is just letting it all hang out.

Not to be outdone in monumental stupidity, Congressman Steve Cohen released two drafts of Constitutional Amendments aimed at eliminating the electoral college and the other to explicitly target Trump saying “Presidents should not pardon themselves, their families, their administration or campaign staff” which is something he hasn’t done but paranoid and spiteful Democrats think he might do.

Cohen is a Representative of Tennessee, which has only nine Congressional seats and is the kind of low population density state that the Founding Fathers thought of when they created the electoral college to empower smaller and more rural states against the bullying of larger, more populous and affluent ones.  This shows, clear as day, that Cohen doesn’t think of himself as a Representative of Tennessee but a Democrat at Large, whatever is best for his party as a whole is what he does rather than be concerned about the needs of his constituents and state as a whole.

*On a side note.  After reading these news stories, I told my wife that if Mo Brooks ever runs for Senate (like half of AL wants him to) or decides not to run for reelection, I’m going to run for Congress just to prove that not all Jews are radical Left wing democratic socialists.

Lastly, we have these little gem from inside of the halls of Congress.

Someone has already made a slight alteration to the map that hangs in Rashida Tlaib’s new congressional office. pic.twitter.com/mwyshIog4r

— Hannah Allam (@HannahAllam) January 3, 2019

I know some people have mocked this picture because the arrow is pointing too Egypt, not Israel, but that misses the entire point.

This is a very transparent statement about the genocide of the Jewish people in Israel.  Maps in Palestinian, Arab, and Iranian schools often show the whole area of Israel and the West Bank as Palestine, which goes along with the motto “from the river to the sea.”  Hamas, the official government of Palestine, claims all of Israel is Palestinian territory and that they will “drive the Jews into the sea.”

The United States Congresswoman who represents Detroit has taken the Hamas position on Israel and Democrats and Lefties think it’s a cute zinger.

With radical partisan unseriousness and support for a genocidal terrorist position on the very first day, what can we expect from this Congress except utter dog shit.

Frankly, I’m not sure if we’re going to make it to 2021 at this rate.  I need to increase my monthly ammo budget.

YUMA, Ariz. – A woman was killed and three people were injured in what deputies said was a home invasion in the 3800 block of East County 18 1/2 Street early Thursday morning.

Yuma County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies responded to reports of a home invasion at the 3800 block of East County 18th 1/2 Street at about 1:38 a.m. Upon arrival, deputies discovered that the home occupants were woken up by noises outside their home and unknown individuals were trying to enter the home. The individuals entered the home and during the home invasion, one of the home’s occupants fired several rounds, hitting all four of the individuals.

Woman dead and three injured in home invasion

Home Invasions are scary, but even more so if you get to live where you cannot defend yourself. I bring this case with a happy ending because I recently heard of two cases in two countries and I want to share them with you.

My mom has a set of regular calls she makes to family in two hemispheres (Thank God for VoIP) and one of them is a cousin that lives in Argentina. she called her I think on the 26th for the usual Holiday cheers and as good old ladies, they ended up talking about everything. One of the things was a Home Invasion that happened next door to mom’s cousin and there were people injured. The poor woman apparently heard the commotion as it happened and was still terrified like only a defenseless octogenarian could be.

On January second, mom called the daughter of a dear friend and neighbor from Venezuela who has been living with her family in Spain for years now. They were the recipient of a home invasion right before Christmas by some whacked out junkie probably looking for some loot to pawn. Nobody got hurt as the asshole ran away when confronted, but there was property damage and the kids were scared shitless and traumatized.

It is with this story that I got a chuckle from mom. The sweet little lady made the following comment to the young woman in Spain:

“You know? Here they break in and we get to shoot the hijos de puta.”

My mom, the woman who taught me for many years that violence does not solve anything (Won’t blame her, that was the culture we all grew up in) went all “Get Off My Lawn” in her old age. It has been quite a change in lifestyle for her. Before she lived behind 10 foot walls and spikes topped with razor wire, steel doors and barred windows. Now her only separation at night from the outside is the pane of glass of her window.

And she sleeps rather well for her age.