Wednesday

No, I didn't forget about the blog!

t has been a busy week. Fire practice on Monday nights pretty much takes it out of the blog day.

We practiced some confined space rescue, Andy, our guy that passes out where ever he feels like it, passed out in a crawl space under a hospital. We had to crawl in there, wrap him up and drag him out. We did it effectively, gotta practice the training.

Tuesday, blah, I didn't feel like doing anything. Basically watched a lot of TV.

Today was busy, I got to work and had settled into checking a whole pile of emails. I was on the third one when a boss came up behind me and proceeded to give me shit. She said I shared something with another office. I said, "I did, when?' I checked through my 'sent' emails and could not find what she was looking for. She said I chatted with the guy a lot. Didn't I know I wasn't supposed to......now don't leave a question like that hanging out there hanging like that. "No, I didn't, is there an email?" She stormed off and interrogated someone else.

Later there was a teleconference with Ottawa (head office is there, so to speak). Slam dunk in the conference. I was on a roll.

The third meeting today was a bust, I represent the Fire Department at it. It appears that they want to hear from the EMS and RCMP but not Fire, we have all the cool stuff though. Other than being recorder I wonder why we are there.

Its is Wings Night, having a plate of hot and some beers. I am reading a flyer on the Full House Lottery (a hospital fund raiser). In the flyer is a 5600 square foot house, who needs that. The description is something else.
'The Bristol is a ravine property s o grand it deserves its very own showhome parade. Enjoy the comforts of a master bedroom as large as a downtown condo where you can enjoy your very own cappuccino bar. Or throw a VIP party around a curved bar with a martini shaped sink then show off your latest moves on a disco dance floor featuring leather tiled flooring.' The pics are at fullhouse.ca

Sarcasm time, a bunch of gay guys should get together and buy tickets for this thing, to fully utilize the dance floor and the cappuccino bar. Just saying.

Speaking of gay stuff, you knew i'd get to this. NOM which is an organization that is trying to ban gay marriage appears to have acting inappropriately, or as Church Lady would say 'as non-Christians' They were trying to start a war between African Americans and gays.

In California a court case is going forward forward to have health insurance pay for a same sex partner's medical costs. To any straight people reading this, this is what the fight is about. People that are in a relationship for a long time are not afforded the same rights as married people. Whats worse is the estranged family shows up to claim the estate of a dead person in a same sex relationship AND they have more rights that their surviving partner.

Finally, Trayvon Martin. The case has hit critical mass. The friend of George Zimmerman was demolished on Lawrence O'Donnell's show and today, George Zimmerman's defense completely fell apart. ABC News showed the video of George with his broken bloody nose and head wounds going into the Sanford Police Station. The problem, no blood, no bruises. He is related to a retired judge named Zimmerman.

In my job I have to deal with high profile or contentious cases, it would appear that some of the cops knew that this was one of those cases. So they deferred to the wiseness of the higher ups. The Florida Attorney General decided not to go ahead with charging Zimmerman. The cops are now left holding the bag. And the bag is disintegrating. I hate it when people in a higher pay grade slough off their responsibility and expect the plebs to do the needful. Poor cops, time to expose the whole thing.

The law that is being referred to in the case is the Stand Your Ground law. It would appear that the legislators in Florida were too busy to write this law. They bought a pre-written law, written by the National Rifle Association. It's like they bought an APP and didn't read the fucking manual before they put it into operation. It's legality is in question. Trayvon, you may have had some issues with figures of authority, but you did not deserve to die, for your issues. George, you are not a cop, you now will never be one. Time for you to go and confess to the whole thing and make it right. Life sucks sometimes, but for the good of your country, you have to man up.


president Obama, it looks like you may have taken a chance, it appears the chance was on the right side. Trayvon is not a Rodney King, the circumstances are not the same, in this case it looks like Trayvon was profiled and killed. The United States has to learn from this mistake and make Trayvon's life worth something.