RANT: Katrina fraud likely to balloon past $1B

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

http://interdictor.livejournal.com/114704.html

Katrina fraud likely to balloon past $1B

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WASHINGTON – The tally for Hurricane Katrina waste could top $2 billion next year because half of the lucrative government contracts valued at $500,000 or greater for cleanup work are being awarded without little competition. Federal investigators have already determined the Bush administration squandered $1 billion on fraudulent disaster aid to individuals after the 2005 storm. Now they are shifting their attention to the multimillion dollar contracts to politically connected firms that critics have long said are a prime area for abuse.

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“I’m from the gooferment. And, I’m here to help you.”

Arghhh!

Ahh Socialist Amerika. The gooferment doesn’t do levees right. Disaster. The gooferment goes into “rescue” people. They die. Corporations send trucks of relief to the stricken area. The gooferment turns them back. The displaced need “stuff”. The gooferment gives out debit cards which are used at strip clubs. Houses are destroyed. The gooferment is defrauded of a billion bucks.

If this wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.

Why aren’t you laughing citizen?

Let’s assume that the 300M people in the US all share the 1B$ equally, (we know that’s not true. neither the rich nor the poor pay taxes.), so that’s about $3 each.

So “your” Federal slave masters robbed you of $3 to literally throw it out the window in NOLA.

What would you have done with that $3? I could have stopped on my way to work and bought a cup of coffee.

I’d have enjoyed that coffee more than this joke.

We need cheaper “jokes”!

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RANT: over-the-counter meth laws claim an early innocent

Sunday, December 24, 2006

http://reason.com/blog/show/117494.html

Man Arrested for Allergies
Radley Balko | December 24, 2006, 9:06am

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Those stupid over-the-counter meth laws claim an early innocent victim

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If this wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.

It makes no sense. Makes criminals out of good people. Kills children through “ad drugs” and collateral damage. AND, it takes away all our rights.

Let’s let the drug dealers compete with WalMart. Let everyone worry about their own problems. Get the gooferment out of our medicine chests. Prohibition of Alcohol didn’t work! It only took less than a decade for the people to recognize it.

End the “Drug War” now! It’s a bad joke.

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RANT: Yes, by all means, preserve the ”dignity and decorum” of the House

Saturday, December 23, 2006

http://www.elpasotimes.com/election/ci_4887745

Pelosi says no to C-SPAN request on floor proceedings
Associated Press
Article Launched: 12/22/2006 04:38:28 PM MST

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WASHINGTON — Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi cited the need to preserve the ”dignity and decorum” of the House as she rejected a request Friday that C-SPAN operate its own cameras in covering the chamber.

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Yea, we wouldn’t want to see the bozos oggling the young girls and boys. Or, sell themselves like the whores they are. And, that is really insulting all the whores out there. No politicians make used car salesmen look like the paragons of honesty.

This is a joke!

The serfs have no right to see their “elected” representatives in action!

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RANT: Thus, I too no longer fly commercial.

Saturday, December 23, 2006

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/
2006/12/20/racial_profiling

http://tinyurl.com/ykr3vz

Racial profiling
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Dr. Williams serves on the faculty of George Mason University as John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and is the author of More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well.

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You say, “Williams, are you justifying religious and racial profiling?” No. I’m not justifying anything any more than I’d try to justify Einstein’s special law of relativity. I’m trying to explain a phenomenon. By the way, I think some of the airport screening is grossly stupid, but I’m at peace with the Transportation Security Administration. They have their rules, and I have mine. One of mine is to minimize my association with idiocy. Thus, I no longer fly commercial.

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Neither do I! It’s “security theater”! When the airlines come to their senses, (they welcomed all this security because it prevented resale of the tickets; most notably the frequent flyer awards!), and stand up to the government, (“err, Dear TSA, we don’t want your stinkin’ security. We’ll do our own”, Arm the pilots. Screen the employees, airport workers, baggage, and cargo.), then I’ll consider it. Till then, a plague on all their houses.

[And, on an editorial note, I’m glad to get back to where I can agree with Professor Williams. The last two disagreements with an esteemed authority, made me think “could I be wrong?”, but I came to my senses and said “of course not”! A “know it all” wrong? Unthinkable!]

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RANT: What important and what’s not!

Friday, December 22, 2006

http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah3204.shtml

Trump To Rosie: You’re Sued!

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NEW YORK, NY (December 20, 2006) — Donald Trump is set to sue “The View” host Rosie O’Donnell, Access Hollywood can reveal.

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Who cares?

Here imho are two people that don’t deserve serious consideration.

Rosie earned her way onto my “don’t care” list when she showed that the “Queen of Nice” was all an act. She put herself out in her morning show as an ordinary person, with some liberal politics, doing good for ordinary folks. When she was finished, she demonstrated that it was all an act. She was not an authentic person! Anyway, as Gandhi said “one can not do wrong in one department of life”.

Donald also earned his way on to that list with several actions. His perversion of the eminent domain laws to displace those AC families for “his” underpass violated my sense of fair play on several levels. So, I won’t patronize his efforts voluntarily.

So, like Jane Fonda, Barbara Striesand, and many politicians, I choose to ignore them and urge you to do the same.

This isn’t “news”. Our boys and girls dying in Iraq, while “our” politicians spend a quiet Christmas at home, that’s news! The Federal Reserve inflating us to poverty, that’s news. The socialist education system dumbing us down as a nation, that’s news. And, the alleged “wars” (i.e., terrorism, drugs, etc. etc.) reducing us to slaves, that’s news.

Rosie and Donald ain’t news!

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RANT: Gubamint skool want to “go in a new direction”. How about out of business?

Thursday, December 21, 2006

http://pacpub.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17620494&BRD=1091&PAG=461&dept_id=425716&rfi=6

http://tinyurl.com/yhsuz6

District fires grid coach
New direction sought for team
By: Bill Greenwood, Staff Writer
12/21/2006

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Mark Prelewicz, head coach of the South Brunswick High School football team, will not be returning to the sidelines next year.

Athletic Director Elaine McGrath said Wednesday the school decided to “go in a new direction” and seek a new head coach for the 2007 season. Mr. Prelewicz was informed of the decision Monday, she said.

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Doesn’t anyone see a problem in the government running a school; let alone a school’s football program?

First, my earnings are stolen by taxes to support this activity in which I get to pay but have no voice in. Maybe Coach Mark was a terrible coach. But where does the Athletic Director get to say in my name, and all the taxpayers, that “we” want to go in a new direction. Maybe we don’t care if the team wins or loses, but maybe we value if the children are having fun, learning something, and safe.

Second, government schools are a queer activity in terms of Constitutional limits. Where does the authority for this odd creation come from? Certainly, no one has ever asked me. Students, teachers, and coaches are dealing with the government and then have all the associated rights when one deals with the government. It just becomes too confusing. What happened to the coach’s right to due process.

Third, and probably most important, it’s not fair to expect teachers and coaches to work in this new version of the “company store”. We don’t have the marketplace to supply the discipline to ensure that everyone is maximizing their service to their fellow human beings. The government, its schools, and all its undertakings have no marketplace to tell it when it is doing something good, something bad, or in this case something very confusing.

//Signed//
alibertarianin08824

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RANT: Clean needles are a poor solution for the “drug war”!

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Never let is be said that mommy government does care about you. Guv Corzine now has regally allowed for needle exchange. Sheesh! How about getting out of the drug war business completely. Let the marketplace give “addicts” and patients access to what ever they need when they need it. The marketplace will make it very inexpensive. Perhaps they could even hold down a job while supporting their habit, regardless if it is nicotine, alcohol, or other drugs. Get the government out of our medicine chest!

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RANT: PA opens more “racinos”

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Doesn’t anyone think that Government is a joke when it comes to gambling. Don’t get me wrong, I gamble. I just think that anything is ok as long as they get taxes, can hold up developers for campaign contributions, and the unions get work. It’s all part of the intellectual dishonesty around the “vice” crimes. Gambling, drinking, drugs, and prostitution are all “terrible” unless the government can make a buck out of it. Anyone who thinks that the gubamint’s “laws” actually prevent or stop anything is sadly deluded. Not only that, but they don’t really want it to go away. It keeps them in power.

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RANT: Are government workers “special”

Monday, December 18, 2006

… or at least are they allowed to flaunt the law?

Yesterday, in NYC, I traveled my usual route, and on this one block with a firehouse, the block was wall to wall cars. Cars on the sidewalk. Cards double parked for the length of a long block. It was tight just to get through. I had to wait while some one was dropped off.

It was “obviously” the fire house’s holiday party.

If you or I did that, cars would get towed.

So are government workers above the law?

Silly serf, obviously yes!

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RANT: No plus sign gmail

Sunday, December 17, 2006

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