09:20 – More rioting, looting, and burning last night in Ferguson, and some other other cities as well, with more expected tonight. It would seem that enforcing the laws against rioting, looting, and arson is now considered to be “racist”. We cannot allow these low-life scum to define the rules. The rule should be, as it’s always been, “You Loot, We Shoot.”
This kind of crap is happening more often nowadays, and it’s going to become routine if we continue to handcuff our police departments to make their responses to such outrages less and less effective. Treating rioting, looting, and burning as political speech protected by the First Amendment is ridiculous on the face of it, but that’s what we’re doing. These people are not exercising their First Amendment rights; they are violent criminals, and should be treated as such.
This phenomenon is the main reason I want to relocate to a small town, away from population concentrations. The underclass is a serious and increasing threat to decent citizens and their property, and the best solution I can see is to move far away from any underclass concentrations. Small towns in rural North Carolina are usually relatively poor, but most have little underclass presence and what few there are can be dealt with if necessary.
There it is.
“…move far away from any underclass concentrations.”
i.e., large cities. If one does not move away soon, one will find oneself eventually fighting off roving underclass elements who want your stuff and are ready to kill for it.
In my opinion, all that 50 years of the Great Society has accomplished is to turn millions of working poor Americans into the non-working poor with no clue or motivation to change their situation for the better.
It’s made millions of them feel increasingly entitled to be given whatever they want at other people’s expense. And if they don’t get what they demand, they riot and loot. The real problem is that the underclass are economically useless. They have no skills worth paying for, and nearly all of them are too stupid to learn useful skills even if they wanted to do so.
Honestly, the only thing it is doing is causing a bunch of “white folks” sitting in their armchairs in surburbia watching network news to roll their eyes and think, “Oh, look, a bunch of n*****s acting like n*****s.” Who is that helping? If anything these riots do more to hurt race relations in the US than white cops shooting black teens. Do they honestly think that looting and arson help anything at all? All they’re doing is cementing stereotypes into peoples heads and perpetuating a culture of fear where white people don’t want to be near black people and where future juries reach verdicts not based on evidence but based on fear of repercussions.
It’s not even a little rational. Like the DA said, only the members of the Grand Jury have seen all the evidence and heard all the testimony. So, what are all of these rioters upset about? I doubt 99.9% of them could have an intelligent dialog about why Darren Wilson should be indicted.
It’s like a middle school essay on whether man is inherently good or evil. Apparently, we’re evil and all it takes is “safety in numbers” to get us to do all sorts of fucked up things like arson, looting, assault, and so forth.
In the coming months I predict the riots will happen again as the business people exhibit their prejudice by collecting their insurance and/or government restitution and rebuild their businesses in surrounding communities.
These fools are just guaranteeing they will have to travel 10 miles to the nearest Mickey D’s or gas station and even further to the grocery store to buy a loaf of bread.
I wouldn’t blame the entire police force for catching a mystery illness that involves projectile vomiting and diarrhea for a month, followed by their families catching it and requiring them to invoke the FMLA and take another 6 weeks off.
Let the city hire temps by Obuttwad rules from the ranks of those highly qualified, fine law abiding citizens running wild in the streets in Ferguson. The temps will show Washington how unbiased racial gang rule should be enforced in their hometown.
I doubt 99.9% of them could have an intelligent dialog about why Darren Wilson should be indicted.
Chad, considering some of the sound bytes on TV, I doubt 99.9% of them could have an intelligent dialog period.
“…all that 50 years of the Great Society has accomplished…”
It accomplished a lot more rotten evil than just that; one quick example has been the Long March of the neo-Marxists through our institutions, mainly the arts, media, academia, the higher levels of government and the seminaries.
“… whether man is inherently good or evil.”
Man has the potential for either. And “civilization” is a very thin veneer. It doesn’t take much for it to crack and let loose all those little demons from Pandora’s box.
And politically speaking, I think it’s in the interests of the global elites to foment and instigate ethnic, racial and religious tensions, to the point of outright rebellion and war. They’re now calibrating responses to mass civil unrest and rioting; rest assured if it begins to spiral out of control, they’ll crush it forthwith. Right now it serves them to have “…a culture of fear where white people don’t want to be near black people and where future juries reach verdicts not based on evidence but based on fear of repercussions.” And where once the fear has been elevated to a high enough level, they’ll feel free to “loose the dogs of war” and probably declare martial law, which will by then come as a distinct relief to many Murkans.
We can hear it already here and other places; ‘those people are outta control and need to be stomped flat.’ A lot of us apparently dig it when our cops and soldiers light up the landscape. Just remember that just as those folks can be shut down, so can we when it’s our turn.
What did the Great Society supporters think? That after 50 years of watching the less competent get the jobs, the promotions, admittance to schools, professional degrees, etc. that middle class white America would somehow realize that it didn’t matter if their supervisor, doctor, judge was incompetent, it was all for the greater good? The architects of the great society were never middle class white folks, so they had no idea the depth of resentment that affirmative action creates in the middle class, nor the depth of the feeling of entitlement that affirmative action fosters in the recipients of that largess. Both sides of the equation tend to increase, not decrease racial tensions, which, of course, was the alleged purpose behind AF.
People like us may be easy to crush individually, but there are so many of us out there and, as you repeatedly point out, most of us are pretty well-armed, that crushing us in our tens of millions is more than the feds could ever hope to accomplish. They’re afraid of us.
Fred, who knows what to think anymore?
According to one of our Supremes back in April, Justice Sotomayor argued that the decision of the people of Michigan to end racial discrimination is itself an instance of racial discrimination and that the only way to mitigate such racial discrimination is through the mandatory maintenance of racial discrimination.
Apparently, in her mind, the goals of the Great Society can only be reached by means of racial discrimination, and if you wipe out racial discrimination, you are only perpetuating racial discrimination.
Now, to be fair, she was probably just a wee bit ticked off that the voters of Michigan had the unmitigated gall to end discriminatory hiring practices via an amendment to the state’s constitution, rather than allowing the Feds to dictate policy to the state.
And now Obummer is lecturing us on “justified anger” in Ferguson ’cause all the Black folks and mostly Whitey cops. He’s dispatching Holderbama to investigate what happened and what the Feds can do (more imperial action). As a side note, Holderbama has said the investigation of the cop is not done. Get him one way or the other. His life is already over. Have to move to Texas…I mean Northern Mexico.
Apparently, in her mind, the goals of the Great Society can only be reached by means of racial discrimination, and if you wipe out racial discrimination, you are only perpetuating racial discrimination.
Gotsa have Affirmative Action for all the incoming crimmigrants you see. She is defacto declaring Hispanics a “new race” so they can get the full welfare state experience. The Blacks should be in an uproar because all those education grants for AA will also be going to the crimmigrants. A Race War is coming, but not with Whitey. It’ll be the Blacks and the “new race” Hispanics. Viva La Raza!
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/comic/colored/
“The New York Times have published Darren Wilson’s home address. The reporters are Julie Bosman and Campbell Robertson.”
http://gotnews.com/cant-publish-addresses-new-york-times-reporters/
JEP’s thoughts on the origins of the underclass.
At some point the looters and rioters will be inspired to expand their activities into majority-white areas, at which time the fecal material will vigorously impact the airflow-producing device.
If these barbarians come out to the burbs in the Land of Sugar, I am fairly sure that they will not make it to the end of the street. Lots and lots of guns in The Great State of Texas.
“I know my son far too well. He would never do anything like that. He would never provoke anyone to do anything to him and he would never do anything to anybody.”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ferguson-michael-brown-family-speaks-out-on-shooting-officer-wilson-grand-jury-decision/
I am so tired of people like this defending their precious children who are barbarians. I had to deal with with someone like this in junior high. The only solution in the end was a good beating. Unfortunately, I did not get to finish said beating as a teacher broke us up. But he steered clear of me after that.
If these barbarians come out to the burbs in the Land of Sugar, I am fairly sure that they will not make it to the end of the street.
Pretty much the same in my neck of the woods. At least in the less
sissifiedcitified areas. Let ’em get to the middle of the block, demonstrate what a withering crossfire is like, then hose the mess down the sewers and hope they don’t clog up the sewage treatment plant…“…that crushing us in our tens of millions is more than the feds could ever hope to accomplish. They’re afraid of us.”
True, that. They’ll make big examples out of some of us, enough times for the message to sink in; Ruby Ridge and Waco are as nothing to what they’ll do to hang onto power. They know they can’t kill us all but believe they can scare enough of us to make most of the pop docile and submissive. In other regimes it was/is known as State terror.
“… inspired to expand their activities into majority-white areas…”
Not many of them will make it out that far or be able to decisively confront the armed populace out here; what we’ll have to be alert for are semi-pro organized gangs who know their weapons and tactics; renegade vets, soldiers and cops, for example, as we’ve seen down Old Mexico. Some of the most fearsome are ex-special ops guys we trained and were originally in the Mexican armed and police forces until they found they can make tons more money with the narcotrafficantes. It’s not a great leap to figure that they can train otherwise dumbass and inexperienced gangbangers to become basic infantry.
A ragtag band of starving revenants weaving up your street from some big city? No big trick to mowing them down in a hailstorm of ordnance. How about an experienced, hardened squad/company of narcotrafficanate soldiers hitting your ville at O-Dark-Thirty in a combined fire and automatic weapons assault? From multiple directions.
Snowing here now and last word was that yeah, we may get up to a foot here. No problemo, amigos; we ain’t driving anywhere. We can spend tomorrow on last-minute cleanup, cooking stuff in advance, and then kicking back to watch us some football. MIL and Princess will be showing up Friday instead, at which time all I gotta do is throw everything in the oven and on the stovetop and bingo! Of course Mrs. OFD has to drive up to Montreal and back to retrieve Princess and then probably take her back this weekend or next Monday or whatever.
And I gotta drive back down to White River Junction on the 2nd, two hours each way again, for a chest X-ray, simply to rule out any hazard with the dark mass they found in my upper chest (shrapnel working its way around over decades), which will take all of ten minutes. On the 6th I’ll be in Burlap getting certified again in CPR/First Air/First Responder.
I just don’t know about our immediate neighborhood now. In the last year, three of the families on our street have moved out, and between them that accounts for four or five shooters. One of the homes was bought by a guy around my age. I suspect he’d be fine, given that he’s storing food and such for emergencies. The other two homes are now occupied by young families, and I’m not sure if there are any shooters among them.
cooking stuff in advance
Wish I could do that. Last I saw, my turkey was still chasing that bus…
Pumpkin pie, anyone?
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6719808512/hDE2EB4B5/
lol
About a thousand Britons protested outside the United States embassy in London on Wednesday in sympathy with demonstrations across the US over the killing of a black teenager by a white police officer.
Clueless welfare masses.
Double lol
Carly Fiorina mulling 2016 Presidential bid
Definite Redumblican leader.
A protest in support of the Brown family in Ottawa, Ontario requested Caucasians and other non-blacks to stay out of sight. Who’s the racist, now?
http://www.ibtimes.com/ferguson-protests-rally-organizers-canada-urge-non-black-people-stay-background-1729598
Having twice lived in small towns, I really do not think they are somehow ‘safer’ than bigger cities. Helluva lot of crime in Tiny Town. The neighbors just recently succeeded in getting rid of some really out-of-control teens and pre-teens in a house only 3 doors around the corner from me, and I’m sure they were involved in a couple destructive things that happened to my property. Fireman across the street is pretty civic-minded, and has really been a positive influence here, having gotten one-way streets instituted on the narrower ones and the alleys, and that has significantly cut down speeding through these kid-laden thoroughfares.
Just within the last month, the (not obviously) vacant house across the street had the outside air-conditioning unit stripped bare, house 2 doors down had a window broken at night, somebody broke into the fireman’s detached garage and set it on fire (pretty funny that a fireman’s property would be set on fire), a couple of people nearby have had car windows broken, my car was broken into a little over a year ago — and we are just one such neighborhood with problems, AND we are within 6 blocks of the downtown, a straight shot on the street that the police department is on, and the street they travel the most with sirens blaring.
Up in Muncie, a small college town, gang activity abounds. Two teen brothers were viciously beaten with multiple broken bones in their faces, both in serious or critical condition, that is only the latest in a string of similar violence against teens — both black and, in this case, white — in that city.
http://www.wthr.com/story/27473253/2014/11/24/muncie-teen-brothers-brutally-attacked-at-home
If you know your own neighborhood, my feeling is that — unless you can get some inside information about relocating — it is better to stay put where you already know the hazards, than to move to the unknown, which may end up being more dangerous than where you left. That said, I am in the process of relocating (to a bigger town, actually), but I do have inside help with the location where I am headed.
On the Ferguson front (a place I am actually familiar with, as 35 years ago, my much younger sister in-law went to a private school just one town over), for once, I agree with Sharpton that it was an act of complete stupidity to announce the grand jury’s verdict at night. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
The way to deal with “youth” violence if the police won’t take care of it is to visit horrific violence upon the youths.
In Schenectady* when I lived there, someone got tired of misguided youths breaking into cars, hassling people, and so on. This someone ambushed a group of them in the wee hours, beat them severely with a blunt object, drove them out of town, and left them with “Don’t come back” on a note pinned to one. Now I’m not saying I had anything to do with this**, but I thoroughly approve.
* Don’t need to give the state, or the nation; it’s the only Schenectady anywhere.
** Actually, I didn’t. However, I’d been muttering to neighbors and coworkers and such that such a thing needed to be done… and then someone who wasn’t me went and did it. I’m not sure if I’m an inspiration or just a pathetic lazyass who won’t get up and do what needs doing, but let’s go with the first one.
It’s not even a little rational. Like the DA said, only the members of the Grand Jury have seen all the evidence and heard all the testimony. So, what are all of these rioters upset about? I doubt 99.9% of them could have an intelligent dialog about why Darren Wilson should be indicted.
A Grand Jury hearing is not like a trial. The DA intended the outcome from the beginning. . . .prosecutors have so much control over grand juries that they could convince them to “indict a ham sandwich.” New York State chief judge Sol Wachtler quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Bonfire of the Vanities.
If the DA wanted to indict Wilson, he could have. He apparently concluded that it would not serve justice, so he did not. This frequently happens in police shootings. The DA exercises prosecutorial discretion but, rather than taking the heat, hides behind a Grand Jury. The DA controls what evidence the Grand Jury sees and what witnesses testify. With that control, the outcome will be what the DA wants.
Rick in Portland
Our definition of “small” differs. Muncie is something like 70,000 population, which I consider to be a large to very large town. The places I’m considering are more like 1,500 to 2,000.
The Detroit riots of 1967 destroyed many small and medium size businesses that employed local (black) residents. Few of those were rebuilt in the city; either they shut down completely or reopened at new locations in the suburbs. Similar results in Newark NJ and other cities experiencing urban rioting in that era.
The old expression about “not crapping in your own mess kit” comes to mind.
[snip] prosecutors have so much control over grand juries that they could convince them to “indict a ham sandwich” [snip]
And any grand jury which refuses to go along, and actually thinks for its collective self, will quickly find itself being dismissed by the prosecutor.
And possibly be facing charges himself. I’ve never been on a grand jury myself, but I’ve heard from people who were threatened for non-cooperation.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/ferguson-michael-brown-indictment-darren-wilson/ gives statistics on grand jury indictments of police vs non-police.
These folks crap in their own mess kits even when their damn basketball team WINS a championship. Whaddaya do with that frame of mind and behavior?? Major causes? 1.) destruction of the black family and no decent father role models, and 2.) libturd guilt and handing over many hundreds of billions over six decades to little or no positive result. Now we have an “entitled” class, and since then, several other professional victim groups and professional grievance whores and pimps have jumped on that bandwagon. They have powerful neo-Marxist allies now in government, academia, the mainstream media and the churches.
And we are coming to, in light of Mr. Chuck’s Neighborhood revelations, and the Mr. SteveF Notebook, organizing vigilante justice when our cops and courts simply can’t or won’t do it. If a ‘hood or town is continuously being terrorized by whomever, committing all sorts of personal and property mayhem, and the local “law enforcement” authorities won’t deal with it adequately, or at all, then yeah, get a few peeps together and render accordingly. If it’s kidz, ID their parents and pay them a visit, too. 35 years ago I was a small-town cop and most of the B&E’s were organized by high skool kidz telling other kidz when their parents would be gone; next thing ya know, the house has been ransacked. Used to be, back in the horrible evil old days, a kid was sent off to a reformatory, or if of age, invited to enlist in the Marines or go to jail; most took the Corps.
Our village here probably has about a couple of hundred souls, tops. We can see and hear each other’s houses and properties fairly well and there’s regular drive-bys from the town cops, county sheriff deputies, state police, and Border Patrol. The “city” three miles up the road has about 8,000, and there are regular B&E’s, assaults, and dope crimes; every once in a while a body is found. If things get significantly worse, I’d expect goblins to start rambling through here in search of stuff they can rip off; they’ll be in for a shitstorm of lead or get their throats cut. We have another little trailer-type ‘hood a couple of miles north of here off the main shore road and down into a swampy bog/hollow area; another potential source of gremlins. These are all about 99% white folks, by the way. The northern rural version of the underclass.
BTW, I do not know how it is in other communities you guys live in, but the legal community, government folks, and law enforcement here tell me that meth is a huge, huge problem all across east-central Indiana. Every week, there are multiple busts of people running — or trying to run — meth labs, and the number of users busted in drug raids is extraordinary. Occasionally a meth lab blows up, usually setting a house or trailer park on fire and killing or maiming the people involved.
A few weeks back, I was introduced in passing to a woman I judged to be older than me. After she left, I was told she was 28. Sure looked like 75 to me. Meth user who has spent significant time in jail.
IMO, communities of 1,500 to 2,000 are not going to have the infrastructure to support a comfortable life if — as I believe — society does not suffer monumental breakdown, but rather, just speed-bumps of less import than the Great Recession. New Castle is reputed to have a 2010 population of 18,000 (this is impossible, because that is more than the census of 2000, and there is no one here who is going to affirm that there are more people here now than in 2000 — there are FAR fewer and the very significant drop in school enrollment is only one indicating factor), but whatever it is, it is not big enough to support a comfortable life for me as I get closer to retirement age. Aside from travel for work (as a good half of my work is not done at home), I have to go to Muncie or Indianapolis at least once every other week, because there simply are no stores here that service all the needs I have — no office supply or equipment stores, no hardware stores with specialized tools, no electronics stores at all, no furniture stores (since a month ago when the last one closed), no grocery stores with certain items I enjoy, only one good mechanic that everyone waits in line for a week or more in order to get their car repaired, never the cheapest gas (by far), no decent and respected dentist (mine is in Muncie), not the best healthcare in many areas as available in Indianapolis (no dermatologist at all, for example), no ophthalmologist, lots of chain food operations but only the cheap ones (no Chili’s or Outback or Red Lobster, for instance), no locally-owned banks, one movie theater about to close what with their inability to move to digital projection, no well-stocked pharmacies (I recently had a prescription from the dentist for a narcotic pain-killer that none of the 5 pharmacies carried, and I had to go back to Muncie to get it). We do have a wonderful library, because an old-maid schoolteacher died a multimillionaire and left a couple million to the library, so the library here is a palace as a result.
I can see from my own relatives and the guy next door, that when I get to 80+, I am not going to be jumping in the car to rush up to Muncie or over to Indy to get what I need. If I locate in one neighborhood I am looking into, it will only be 6 blocks to 3 grocery stores, half a dozen locally-owned, non-chain restaurants (including that one specializing in steak that I mentioned last week), and only a mile to Walmart, Menards, Lowes, Home Depot, Aldi, local family-owned hardware store still in its original location, several furniture and home stores, an old-time electronics store still going strong, all the cultural events of the university literally within walking distance, and just 3 blocks to the university-owned teaching hospital.
As for a town of around 2,000, that would be nearby Knightstown. Umm, what can I say. One restaurant, one gas station, no hospital, no pharmacy, no grocery store. Two convenience stores and a tiny library that is only open from 10:00am to 4:00pm. Couple antique shops open on weekends, and a funeral home. Close family friend sold the farm there and moved to north Indianapolis, and has never been happier. Bought his dream home with a pool table in the basement rec room. He is the guy who fell off the roof and screwed up his back about 15 years ago, and now he’s within miles of all his doctors and specialists that he used to have to drive an hour to get to.
Not criticizing anyone for doing what they think is wisdom, but if any significant decline in civilization is going to occur, it is going to be after I’m gone, IMO — at least 20 more years. In the meantime, I need to be closer to the things I use and need, not farther away as I get older.
I tend to agree with your decisions/plans, Mr. Chuck, and they seem good for your situation. Hats off to you, sir.
Yep, meth is a problem around here; the users are known as tweakers; they have zero ethics/morals when they’re deep in it. Can be tres dangerous.
“What’s the difference between a crackhead and a tweaker?
The crackhead will steal your shit and bounce–the tweaker will steal your shit and then help you look for it.”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tweaker
OFD, I’m not saying you’re wrong about vigilante justice, but that wouldn’t go far enough. At some point, enough people are going to start wondering just what they’re paying their taxes for, if the federal government pisses it away on endless wars and crony payoffs, the local cops won’t keep order, and the schools spend $10k a year per student and are more interested in brainwashing than in educating.
“indict a ham sandwich”
Before you accuse the prosecutor of steering the grand jury in a certain direction in the Wilson case, you might be well served to review the evidence presented to the grand jury. The major role of a prosecutor in this country is to “see justice is done.” Some prosecutors fail in this regard, some don’t take their oath seriously, but most do. Here,the prosecutor invited the potential defendant to testify, without a grant of immunity. Wilson took advantage of that opportunity, while 99.9% of criminal lawyers would have given him the advice to stay away and exercise his 5th amendment rights.
When you put all the evidence before a grand jury, you are not shaping the case, you are asking the grand jury to weigh the evidence and do justice. It is my impression that that is what happened here. If the prosecutor was trying to whitewash this case, why did he call all three medical examiners? The prosecutor did not just call some of the witnesses, as I understand it, he called every person who claimed to have seen the shooting.
I have some experience in the criminal justice system, and I was impressed with the forthrightness of the prosecutor in his presentation the other night. I doubt seriously that if the Browns’ attorney asked him to call a witness or witnesses the prosecutor would not have readily acquiesced. There would have been no reason not to. As it happenes, the feds had input in this as well, as is evidenced by the testimony of the federally hired medical examiner. I doubt seriously that there will be a federal indictment coming–speaking of indicting a ham sandwich–the usual question asked by the federal prosecutor pertains to what type of bread you want the sandwich on.
Fred articulates my thoughts much better than I ever could.
The bottom line:
‘Such a race “war” would be a spontaneous and simultaneous, though uncoordinated, burning of many cities. Blacks would quickly lose. Whites are much more numerous, food comes not from Safeway but from remote farms belonging to whites, welfare checks do not materialize magically in post-office boxes, and so on. The danger is that blacks, accustomed to intimidating whites, may push too far and find that they have made a very serious mistake.’
Read the whole thing.
Yes, I am familiar with Fred’s line of thought on these matters and generally endorse it; we share many of the same experiences, though his stem from the countrified South and mine from the suburban North.
I also hear Mr. SteveF five by five on vigilante justice not going far enough; I dunno when the mass tipping point will be, but it’s coming.
“The looters and rioters in Ferguson have sent a message: the state is impotent when it comes to protecting life and property. Yet these two protections are basic to the theoretical justification for the state’s possession of a lawful monopoly of violence. The state of Missouri visibly shares this with looters. “Sorry; there is nothing much we can do.” The looters knew this, and they acted accordingly.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/gary-north/looters-and-rioters-send-a-message/
I recently had a prescription from the dentist for a narcotic pain-killer that none of the 5 pharmacies carried, and I had to go back to Muncie to get it
Was it Vicodin? The feds just upclassified it to Schedule 2 from Schedule 3, and it’s getting impossible to get it prescribed, except from pain specialists. It requires special handling in the pharmacy, including a separate locked storage area. (Schedule 2 includes opiates and speed.) It was one of the most frequently prescribed drugs in the US. As a bonus, schedule 2 drugs in Texas require a special 3-part prescription form from the state police. The original is turned in to the pharmacy, one copy is mailed by the doctor to the state police, one copy retained forever by the doctor. Alas, there is a multi-month wait for the forms here in the US. My mom has severe joint pain due to arthritis and ankles that are totally broken down (i.e. bone-on-bone). She now has to use Tramadol, which is not as effective, since her PCP won’t do schedule 2 drugs, and the pain doc in her area only does injection therapies. I guess we need to find a pill mill if Tramadol stops working for her.
I don’t know drugs, but it says Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen 5-325 tab. Is that similar to Vicodin? Did not feel all that strong, but I did take it every 4 hours for 3 days.
A little over a month ago, a tooth I have had problems with for about 45 years, finally broke off the top part after having been drilled practically in half. Of course the bottom and the root had to come out. I suspected because my brother had a very difficult time with extraction of a couple impacted wisdom teeth, that it was not going to be a piece of cake. It wasn’t. Twenty-five minutes of cranking and squeaking later, it was out.
My dentist is very diplomatic. When I asked how bad it was going to be when the numbing wore off, his only reply was that I did not want to miss the first or any of those pill intervals.
That was an understatement. It was the second worse pain of my life, the worst being a pinched nerve in my back when I slipped on some ice and fell in Berlin. I probably described that at the time, so I won’t repeat it now.
I was feeling okay coming out of the dentist office and had 4 hours to get the prescription before the numbing wore off. Drove home to Tiny Town and went to all the pharmacies in town. All but Walmart did not carry that drug at all — ever. Walmart was out and would not have any for another week.
Since the dentist office told me I could get it filled anywhere, “like Walgreens or CVS”, I had no idea it would actually be nearly impossible to get — even at Walgreen’s and CVS. Back to Kroger in Muncie where I had to wait an hour to get the script filled. Popped the first pill about 20 minutes before X – 0. As I say, I have no idea how strong that pill was, but it was not enough.
Like a baby cutting teeth, my nose ran until just a few days ago, so cakewalk it was not. Fortunately only one more session of fillings, and I’m supposed to be good as gold. Last session of fillings last week together with deep root cleaning caused zero pain after the numbing wore off. I do have a good dentist.
Ain’t gettin old fun? I’ve had sort of diffuse symptoms for a few days. Last night (why is it always in the middle of the night?), they crystallized into something I unfortunately recognize all too well: pneumonia.
I first had pneumonia 16-17 years ago, after a nasty bout with the flu. Since then, I have always gotten a flu shot. With one exception, when was it, 4-5 years ago when flu vaccine was running short. There was a public request that healthy should leave the available vaccinations for the elderly and sick? So I did, and wham: flu + pneumonia again.
This time, it’s just totally out of the blue – I haven’t been sick or anything. Anyhow, now that it is clear, I’m killing time until the doc’s office opens at 8:00, then see if they can work me in this morning, else it’s the hospital. Bleah…
Actually, as with many others, after a couple years of being always barefoot, I just do not get sick anymore. When we first moved to Berlin, I was getting sick several times a year, but not any longer. A woman I am acquainted with in the Netherlands, was sick multiple times during winters all of her life. Same as with me, she found that after a few years, she was progressively less sick, until she reached the point where she truly cannot remember when she was last sick. For a long time, she worked in one of those living museums, where she dressed in period costumes and did tasks similar to what was done in a rural Middle Ages setting, so being barefoot at work was actually required.
I’m telling ya, humans were not made to cover their feet. It’s actually bad for ya.
“The danger is that blacks, accustomed to intimidating whites, may push too far and find that they have made a very serious mistake.”:
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It’s what I’ve been saying for many years now, in regard to them, other grievance whore and pimp groups and the State itself; keep on pushing and eventually y’all gon find yerselves in a pissed-off hornet’s nest.