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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Foreign Policy
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: SEC, an incompetent regulator
Friday, April 23, 2010http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2010/04/23/sec-incompetence/
SEC Incompetence
Posted by Mark A. Calabria
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But the porn charges are the least of the SEC’s worries. Also released was the IG’s report on the SEC’s failure to stop the Stanford Ponzi scheme. The report shows a clear pattern of incompetence at the SEC. Given the SEC’s failure to act on the Madoff scheme, and the repeated warnings about Stanford, one has to wonder how good SEC investogators are at discovering fraud if they don’t even pursue the clear-cut cases brought to them.
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Government is ALWAYS ineffective and inefficient.
This is a classic example of that.
So, why should we even have an SEC?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: The TSA is absurd
Tuesday, April 20, 2010http://cbs2.com/local/Woman.Accused.Of.2.1643774.html
Apr 20, 2010 5:50 am US/Pacific
Woman Accused Of Hitting TSA Agent Over Applesauce
Rita Garcia
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CAMARILLO, Calif. (CBS) ― A Camarillo woman is facing a trial for allegedly assaulting a Transportation Security Administration agent at Burbank airport. But the confrontation didn’t involve a gun or a bomb. CBS 2/KCAL 9 has video of the incident.
Nadine Hays is accused of hitting a TSA agent who allegedly tried to take away her elderly mother’s applesauce.
“I just said I am not going to plead guilty to something I did not do,” Hays said.
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Why do the Sheeple put up with this nonsense?
It’s already demonstrated by more competent experts that this is all “security theater”.
So why do the congresscritters allow this infringement to continue? It allows them to get the Sheeple used to having their rights infringed.
And, they wonder why people regard flying as just above a trip to the dentist?
Wish I was on this woman’s jury. Wish I was on any jury. FIJA anyone.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: When you file your return … …
Thursday, April 15, 2010http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=137225
INVASION USA
Illegals bilk taxpayers in $13 million fraud ring ‘This is an extraordinarily serious, large case’
Posted: April 06, 2010 9:24 pm Eastern
By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
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McDonald told the newspaper that two tax preparation companies, Seguros Internacionales, in Spartanburg and Forest City, N.C., and Poz Servicios Para Hispanos, in Boiling Springs, and associated individuals filed at least 10,000 federal income tax returns and claimed more than $22 million in refunds. The two firms are said to have been shut down.
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“The fraud can go undetected for years – until the child looks for a job as a teenager,” he explained.
Rubenstein adds that the ACTC is even available to illegals without Social Security numbers. They simply use an Income Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN, which he says the “IRS is only too happy to provide.”
According to the report, the General Accounting Office has reported that the IRS estimates between 27 and 32 percent of EITC dollars are collected fraudulently.
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Yeah, when you file your return, think about the EITC and get mad.
The whole income tax fiasco should make you mad anyway, but this should just send you off the deep end!
It does me.
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: FDA blows off concerns
Tuesday, April 13, 2010Scientist: FDA suppressed imaging safety concerns
Associated Press
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“A former Food and Drug Administration scientist said yesterday that his job was eliminated after he raised concerns about the risks of radiation exposure from high-grade medical scanning. Dr. Julian Nicholas said at a public hearing that he and other FDA staffers ‘were pressured to change their scientific opinion,’ after they opposed the approval of a CAT scanner for routine colon cancer screening. Nicholas said that he objected to exposing otherwise healthy patients to the cancer risks of radiation. After FDA officials pushed ahead with plans to clear the device, Nicholas, now a physician at the Scripps Clinic in San Diego, said he and eight other staffers raised their concerns with the division’s top director, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, last September. The device apparently is still under review.” (03/31/10)
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Can anyone spell “regulatory capture”?
Never hear such about Underwriters’ Laboratory or Consumers’ Reports.
Why is that?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Where Is Christopher Mauriello?
Thursday, April 8, 2010http://weblogs.wpix.com/news/helpmehoward/2010/03/where_is_christopher_mauriello_1.html
Where Is Christopher Mauriello?
6:34PM | March 24, 2010
A Father’s Son is Spirited Out of the Country by his Ex-Wife and Disappears.
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Someone is missing from the Mauriello table tonight.
14 year old Christopher Mauriello is in Bosnia with his mother.
He was supposed to have returned home from Christmas vacation on January 3rd. But Christopher and his mother had other plans.
His father, Thomas Mauriello, who has physical custody of Christopher was at the end of his rope when he called Help Me Howard.
As he told Howard: “My reaction was one of shock! It was unimaginable that she could do something like this!”
Tom is the Vice President for college advancement at Manhattan College. His ex-wife Tara Bray Afanasiev works for the United Nations Development Programme, also known as UNDP.
Tom was awarded physical custody of Christopher back in 2006, but he and Tara had a legal agreement that allowed her to take Christopher overseas for holidays and summer vacations.
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Tom immediately called his attorney, police issued an arrest warrant and Tom called Tara’s employers at the United Nations Development Fund.
According to Tom, the United Nations told him that “it was a personal matter and they didn’t get involved in these sorts of things.”
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Howard reached out to the UNDP that employs Tara and they had this to say:
“We are aware of this particular case involving a staff member, Ms. Tara Bray, who is currently on leave without pay. It is a personal issue between Ms. Bray and her former husband regarding the custody of their child. We very much hope this case is resolved in the best interest of the child. According to our staff rules, all UNDP staff member have an obligation to abide by their private legal obligations. UNDP has reminded Ms. Bray of that requirement. UNDP has been in touch with the US authorities to ensure that they are fully appraised of the steps we have taken in this matter.”
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So much for the “Rule of Law”!
Children are so easily manipulated.
And, why do we still have the UN? It’s a corrupt useless organization that costs us a fortune.
Argh!
Perhaps, if everyone gets on their congresscritter, we can get Christopher home and out of the UN?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Homeland Security couldn’t secure its own butt!
Thursday, March 25, 2010http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/03/bringing_lots_o.html
Schneier on Security
A blog covering security and security technology.
March 19, 2010
Bringing Lots of Liquids on a Plane at Schiphol
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5. Department of Homeland Security Theater calls an emergency meeting with the National Security Council, after which it is decided that all bottle-shaped objects (and all Dutch reporters) should be banned from flights.
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From the blog that coined the phrase “Security Theater”, here’s a funny extension. Despite the fact that the incident occurred overseas, it couldn’t happen here in the USA. Right!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Zero-Day School Weeks
Wednesday, March 24, 2010http://cbs2chicago.com/local/four.day.school.2.1583104.html
Mar 23, 2010 6:27 pm US/Central
4-Day School Weeks Might Be Coming In Illinois
State House Has Passed Bill Allowing School Districts To Set Up Shorter Weeks; Mayor Daley Has Doubts
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) ―
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Add an entire school day to the chopping block. State lawmakers want to move financially struggling schools to four day weeks. They say it will save money, and it won’t affect classroom time.
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Kids would still have to complete the same number of hours per school year, so switching to four-day school weeks would mean longer school days or shorter summer vacations.
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I have an idea that will save a lot of money.
Close the youth indoctrination centers completely and forever!
It’s immoral to make people pay for things that they did not agree to pay for. Parent had ’em. Parents feed, clothe, and shelter them. They should educate them too.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: End employer-provided health care now
Monday, March 22, 2010http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/03/a_common_sense_idea_regarding.html
March 21, 2010
A common sense idea regarding health insurance
John Conlin
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End employer-provided health care now. Don’t tax it, end it. Company paid health insurance was never a planned policy. It was a response to temporary and artificial restrictions on wages during World War II. Wage controls were in place and companies discovered another method to compete for employees – company paid health insurance. This was deductible by the business as normal operating expenses, something not offered to the individual. We have lived with this monstrosity ever since.
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Sounds like a good idea.
Think about it like “life insurance”.
It’s cheap, easy, and lightly regulated to prevent fraud. Even car insurance is better than what we have now. And, my favorite “pet health insurance”.
It’ll become available form credit unions, fraternal organizations, and yes even the AARP!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “health care” slavery
Sunday, March 21, 2010http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031901470.html
Is health-care reform constitutional?
By Randy E. Barnett
Sunday, March 21, 2010
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But making you buy insurance merely because you are alive is a claim of power from which many Americans instinctively shrink. Senate Republicans made this objection, and it was defeated on a party-line vote, but it will return.
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This “health care” bill makes us slaves. Even more of a slave than we already are?
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