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calendar   Tuesday - May 14, 2013

They’re All Connected

Today’s Day By Day cartoon


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The so-called “revolving door” between government and media keeps right on spinning. This isn’t even the tip of it, just a teeny tiny piece. When you complete the triangle by adding in those who spend time as PAC consultants, the circle widens enormously.

It’s starting to remind me of one of the plots from Showtime’s The Borgias.

I recall that many years ago I read a bit of history that said New Spain was a failure because of the “Spanish Disease” of nepotism. They couldn’t accomplish anything, but they sure knew how to CYA by keeping it all in the family.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 05/14/2013 at 09:49 AM   
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That IRS Scandal

Who me, a cynic? I have not yet begun to Cyn!

I haven’t written about the latest scandal to come bubbling up out of the DC cesspit. I’m not sure that I want to, because I instinctively feel it’s a set up. A sucker’s bet. Smoke and mirrors, although it doesn’t seem to be throwing the slow-to-awake hound dogs of the media off the Benghazi scent.

But I feel it’s a con. Somehow. That the whole thing will be traced to a small number of mid-level “rogue” employees, amorally doing what they “thought” would “benefit” their Big One. And that’s why the “scandal” broke in the first place. Because all the i’s were dotted and all the t’s crossed and all the records and emails cleansed before this was allowed to be news, so that the chain of evidence goes only so high and does NOT reach the top.

A half dozen or so IRS agents will take the fall. All of them will be near to retirement anyway, and they’ll just step down. Oh, there will be talk, endless talk, of criminal prosecution ... which will go nowhere. And yet somehow, behind the curtain, those agents who are dismissed will somehow be taken care of. Once out of the limelight for a month or so, they’ll get jobs in other departments. Or they’ll find themselves as consultants, earning some ultra fat salary for a year or two in some sinecure job that makes up, more than makes up, for the wages from the old job and any benefits lost. If, and it’s an unlikely if, those that get the axe are stripped of their bennies and retirement accounts. If. Don’t bet on it.

In other words, the fix is in. Before the game even begins.

And even though the running dog media is currently in high dudgeon, red hot and seething that the phone and email records of their brothers over at Associated Press were illegally seized by another branch of the dictatorship, not a single one of them will push. Not really push. Because the truth is out there, somewhere. Somehow. And you know as well as I do that this whole “scandal” was just Business As Usual to this Regime. With their full knowledge and consent. And direction. And approval. All the way to the very top. All the way up to former Secretary of the Treasury “"turbo tax” Tim Geithner, and beyond. You’ll hear “Nixon’s enemies list” half a million times (because no matter how big a Socialist Nixon was, and he advanced the Socialist Agenda at least as much as any other president, the MSM will forever have it in for him because he was the guy who put Alger Hiss away. An actual communist spy, who just happened to be the media’s and society’s darling), but you won’t hear a word about “Obama’s enemies list” even though you yourself can easily find video of him referring to his political opponents AND a vast number of Americans, as his enemies. On multiple occasions to boot. Don’t ever forget that your own government considers you a potential terrorist and a threat and has since the early days of this president’s “rule”. A word he himself used when His Arrogance began the transition from the never-before-seen-in-the-history-of-The-United-States “Office of the President Elect” to his actual inaugural empowerment.

Nor will the press ever recall that Slick Willy Clinton also sicced the IRS on people and organizations he didn’t like. Down the memory hole. Forgotten. Ignore that such a thing shows that harassment by the tax man is SOP to the Left.

The truth? If there is a truth in here somewhere, it’s that any (and every?) branch of the government can be (is?) a running dog apparatchik for the party in power. Assuming that the branch was properly “cleansed” when the party took power, which Evil Booosh never did at State. Or at EPA. Or at Energy. Or at Education. But which Clinton did, so all those branches are filled with Progressive types. And each and every one of those branches has been, and still is, used to further the agenda of the Left. The Far Left. And it never ever is news. At least not until the top players have moved on from their appointed positions and a deep impenetrable moat dug around the godkings at the top.

And some elected-for-an-entire-career DC Dimwit is yaddering away on last night on TV about how this IRS scandal destroys people’s faith and trust in government. HAH!




And now, back to your daily show. Flip on the boob tube, and watch both sides of the aisle in DC get all frumpety, and start blowing the trumpets of righteousness and resentment with every breath, because everyone hates the IRS. Because this is their perfect “me too” moment. And it will go nowhere.

So have a ton of links. It’s a terrible tale, and in an honest world it would result in firings and arrests for the larger part of the upper reaches of an entire branch of government. The same way that Benghazi should be a blood purge over at State. The same way that Fast And Furious should have been a blood purge over at Justice and at Homeland Security. Three out of many, all of which should have resulted in impeachment. And none of them will. Because the fix is in.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/13/irs-scrutiny-went-beyond-tea-party-criteria-broader-than-thought/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-began-targeting-conservatives-in-2010/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/12/irs-targeted-groups-that-criticized-the-government-ig-report-says/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324715704578478851998004528.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/13/us-usa-tax-irs-criteria-idUSBRE94C03N20130513
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/14/irs-timeline-shows-dc-officials-in-loop-on-tea-party-targeting/


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 05/14/2013 at 08:02 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - May 02, 2013

Forget Selective, Now We’ve Got Anti-Enforcement

Colorado Voting Bill Would Guarantee Crooked Elections Forever



Colorado’s Democratic-controlled state legislature is ramming through an election bill that critics say will open the door to voter fraud and intimidation.

The “Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act” is expected to pass the legislature this week. Democrats control both chambers of the legislature, as well as the governor’s mansion, meaning the bill could pass without a single Republican vote.

The bill is under consideration amid accusations that Republicans in other states have tried to suppress the vote by passing laws that require some form of identification in order to vote.

The Colorado law would make mail-in ballots mandatory while eliminating local polling places and allowing people to vote on the same day they register.

Critics of the bill say that these changes could lead to fraud and voter intimidation.

“I want our elections to be easy to vote and tough to cheat, and this ruins that balance,” said Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, a Republican who has been an outspoken opponent of the bill.

Gessler said the two main provisions of the bill are “a recipe for fraud” and have both been proven problematic. Wisconsin and Minnesota both have same day registration, and they have both seen large problems with fraud, Gessler said.

read more at this link.

Once the voting process has been utterly corrupted, the ruling party will always win. No matter what. And gee whiz, too effin’ bad, voting is more than a right it’s a civic duty. So you’ve got to do a bit of work. You’ve actually got to register in advance and be properly and fully vetted. Then you’ve actually got to show up, prove you’re a legitimate voter, and cast your ballot. With our growing population, maybe Election Day is too constraining. Fine. Make it Vote Counting Day and open the polls for an entire month before that. And absentee ballots only to those truly disabled or hospitalized. If you’re out of the country at the time, get to the US Embassy there and cast your vote, but with the same proof of legitimacy. And the foreign polls close a week before Vote Counting Day. And the overseas military vote gets sent in two weeks before it as well. Hardship? Hardly. But when you make it too easy to vote, you open the door to an avalanche of fraud. And that’s no accident, if it’s the Dems who are behind a bill like this. And they are. Always. And against Voter ID. Always. That’s because they’re corrupt. Always.

The bill also strips voters of “the protection of a private voting booth,” Gessler said, which opens up voters to the possibility of intimidation.

Some Colorado voters have already been subject to voter intimidation using mail-in ballots, said Marilyn Marks, who heads the voter watchdog group Citizen Center and has lobbied against the pending bill.

Citizen Center launched a lawsuit alleging a March recall election in Center, Colo., which partially used mail-in ballots, was rife with corruption and voter intimidation. The suit said individuals pressured voters in low income and Hispanic areas to vote for certain individuals by giving them pre-filled ballots dropping off their ballots at the polling place.

These individuals allegedly used children’s participation in the federal education program Head Start as leverage over parents, Marks said. One individual who initially said he had been intimidated will not testify now out of fear of reprisal, she said.

Marks said the mail-in ballots strongly supported the recall while those who voted in a traditional polling location did not.

Gee, that’s a pretty smelly coincidence, ain’t it?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 05/02/2013 at 12:27 PM   
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More Selective Enforcement

That Judge Needs To Make Another Ruling

The judge who gave DHS’s Crappy Nappy a spanking the other day when she said she could selectively enforce the laws needs to make a bigger, more blanket ruling. Or get his bosses in the Supremes to issue a similar edict, ASAP.
Aww heck, just put me in charge for an hour. I’d demand that the voter rolls be purged in every county of the nation, with proof supplied every 60 days hereafter, or else a complete cut off of all federal funding.

ACRU Sues DOJ: Enforce The Law, Clean Up The Voter Rolls In Mississippi



The American Civil Rights Union wants local election officials to clean up voter rolls in Mississippi. Last Friday, the group filed suit against two counties that have more registered voters than the Census says they have voting-eligible citizens.

The ACRU is stepping into the breach left by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department. Under Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez (now nominated to head the U.S. Department of Labor), the division has refused to enforce Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, also known as the Motor Voter law. Section 8 requires states to remove ineligible voters from their registration lists.

Filing the ACRU lawsuits against Jefferson Davis County and Walthall County were three former Justice Department lawyers: Christopher Coates, Christian Adams (the legal editor of PJ Media), and Henry Ross. As the complaints outline, the U.S. Census says Jefferson Davis County has only 9,536 residents of voting age. Yet the county has 10,078 registered voters, giving it a registration rate of 105 percent. (The national average hovers at about 70 percent.)

Walthall County rolls are even more astonishing. The Census counts only 11,368 voting-age residents there, but the county boasts 14,108 registered voters — a 124 percent registration rate.

County officials don’t seem too concerned about it, though. They refused to respond to the ACRU’s request for information on what Walthall County was doing to comply with the Motor Voter requirements.  Section 8 requires states and local election officials to make “a reasonable effort to remove the names of ineligible voters” when they die or move away.

That may seem to be a commonsense requirement, but the radical wing of the civil rights community loathes the provision.

The Obama administration has not filed a single case to enforce Section 8, even though numerous counties in many states have the same disparities between voter rolls and eligible voters as these two Mississippi counties. Their voter registration lists are out-of-date because local officials are not deleting names of those who have died, moved away, or otherwise become ineligible to vote.

acRu, not acLu. Not the same folks, even if you’re Japanese.

Honest government starts at the very bottom, at the very beginning: the election process. If that continues to be rigged, citizens have no reason to believe any other aspect of the government is legitimate or honest. And this government isn’t doing a darn thing to enforce those laws. Hmmm. Thugopoly much?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 05/02/2013 at 12:14 PM   
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calendar   Thursday - April 11, 2013

Missouri Sells Out

Highway patrol gave feds Missouri weapon permits data
AGAIN


Oh, but the police are your friends! My ass.


Missouri’s database of concealed weapon permits was twice given to federal authorities investigating Social Security disability fraud in a move that has enraged lawmakers already angry over potential abuses in a new driver’s licensing system.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Col. Ron Replogle was questioned for nearly an hour this morning by the Senate Appropriations Committee after he revealed to Chairman Kurt Schaefer yesterday that his agency had turned over the data.

The delivery of the information to federal authorities has become a huge issue for lawmakers since they began raising questions about new driver’s licensing procedures. A lawsuit from Stoddard County challenged the procedures that require all supporting documents — including certificates granting concealed weapon privileges — to be scanned and retained.

In November 2011 and again in January, Replogle said, an agent of the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General received discs with the data. Each time, the agent was unable to read the encryption format and destroyed the discs, Replogle said.

“They said no names were retrieved,” Replogle told the committee this morning. “They do not have those names. They did not disseminate that information, and all that information has been destroyed. We have asked for that documentation of what has happened.”

The data was turned over because the Office of Inspector General is a law enforcement agency, Replogle said. It was done by a mid-level supervisor at the patrol. Replogle said he was not informed of the transfer until four weeks ago.

The intention was to cross-check the names on the concealed carry list with the agency’s list of those with disabilities attributed to mental illness to find possible evidence of fraud in the system.

New procedures are being put in place to make sure a similar release of data does not happen again without his approval, Replogle said.


Really? Well fuck him. His approval isn’t worth a dog turd sandwich. It’s against the law. Period.

State law bars the Department of Revenue from implementing the federal Real ID Act. The procedures adopted for Missouri licenses mirror Real ID Act requirements. State law also mandates that concealed weapons permit data is confidential.

Gov. Jay Nixon has denied that concealed weapons permits were turned over to a “magical database” for federal agents to “mess with” Missourians. The requests from Social Security were revealed yesterday in an appropriations committee hearing, and Replogle gave incomplete information to Schaefer yesterday.

“There is nothing magical about the name Real ID,” Schaefer said after this morning’s hearing. “It is the things that go along with it, the giving up of personal data, the subjecting yourself to identity theft without any due process of law before that information is given up.”

For weeks, he said, the department has denied it was implementing Real ID or turning over concealed weapons permit information.

“What we now know is we were lied to about the process, how it is implemented, how it is funded, and we were lied to about the fact that the Department of Motor Vehicles or the state of Missouri did or did not give out a list of concealed carry holders to the federal government,” Schaefer said.

Don’t put your faith in the state government either. Even if they seem steadfast up at the top, somewhere in their pyramid there will be a filthy weasel like this guy. And all it takes is one.

*REMINDER: Missouri is the same state that issued a report naming tea partiers, libertarians, and anyone who flew the military authorized Gadsden Flag as potential domestic terrorists.

More over at RedState; including a taped radio show that gives much more info.

More? http://danaloeschradio.com/exclusive-dhs-plans-backdoor-gun-registration/

Hmm ... what do they call it when the government breaks it’s own laws to enact a policy that the citizens don’t want and nobody ever voted for? Can’t recall right now ... starts with a “c”, sounded like a term for a two door car I think.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 04/11/2013 at 01:15 PM   
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calendar   Wednesday - April 10, 2013

What do you mean ‘your’ child?

I’m conflicted over this. On one hand it’s totally ludicrous; on the other hand, if ‘our’ kid is out-of-line or rude I’m gonna backhand him into next week! Also, ‘Pull up your pants, kid! You’re an embarassment to the community!’


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 04/10/2013 at 06:40 PM   
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calendar   Monday - March 25, 2013

Diabolical Stupidity

Too Stupid To Be Random Chance

Border Patrol Uniforms To Be Made In Mexico



“Ah, so sorry Senor, the machine she got stuck, and made an extra 250,000 uniforms by mistake. Not to worry, we sold them all for cheap to my cousin Pedro to cover expenses.”


(CNSNews.com) - U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has granted uniform contracts to VF Imagewear, Inc., an apparel company that relies on manufacturing sites in Mexico for a “significant percentage” of its occupational garments.

The latest contract with the company was awarded on Dec. 20, 2012, to make “uniform and insignia items” for the CBP at an estimated cost of $6,157,997.57, and a ceiling of $8 million.

The CBP, which is responsible for protecting America’s borders, told CNSNews.com that items from VF Imagewear, a subsidiary of VF Corporation, are manufactured in a number of locations, “including Mexico.”

“There are no domestic preference regulations or statutes applicable to DHS/CBP that would prohibit the manufacture of uniform items in Mexico,” the CBP said.  “In fact, United States obligations under International Agreements require that the Agency accept items manufactured in Mexico.”

Well, there you go. Effed up regulations and treaties we get the short and dirty end of the stick on. But this is wrong. No, it’s far, far beyond wrong. This is past even typical thoughtless pig-headed stupidity. This smacks of “not enforcing laws we don’t like”. Of subverting the system from within, man. This smells almost like treason. It has the same kind of smarmy stench to it.

Sure, NAFTA and other treaties say we have to buy things from those other companies. But you do your research first, and then you award the contract under the Stimulus Plan, putting Americans back to work. And you have a little talk with the owners of the company ahead of time, just to make sure you have an understanding. No outsourcing this one. No offshoring. No importing. Here, you want an import contract? Here’s the shoelaces contract. Go get them from Honduras.

Effing government. It’s like they’re TRYING to fail. To weaken America. To leave us weak and exposed.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/25/2013 at 10:29 AM   
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calendar   Wednesday - March 20, 2013

and in this corner

Be nice to just once be able to see this in our country. Just think, a chance to batter libtards and nobody to call the cops. Gotta love it.
I don’t even know why this fight happened. Do I care?

A serious punch up in Parliament. But not here.


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Posted by peiper   United Kingdom  on 03/20/2013 at 10:51 AM   
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calendar   Tuesday - March 12, 2013

This Can’t Be Right

I read a post at SBPDL today that referenced an article at The Hill, wherein Barbara Lee (D-CA) is almost saying that the Sequester is raaaaacist because it will have the strongest impact on the Black community, because 20% of their workforce works for the government.

That got me thinking. And then I saw last year’s report from The Heritage Foundation that shows that 20% of our entire population is dependent on government handouts, and that does NOT include the people who work for the government.

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Then I looked around a bit, and finally found what seems to be a fair answer to that old chestnut “How many people work for the government?” And the answer, when all is said and done, sub-contractors included, is 40 million people. And this is last year’s answer, m’kay? 40 million. 17% of the labor pool, and since Wikipedia pegs the overall population at a hair under 309 million, that’s also 12.944% of the total population. Do the tiniest bit of rounding up to bring the data up to date, and we’ve got 33% of America either working for, or getting a check from, the government. This includes the federal, state, and local levels.

But still. 33%. A solid third. 103,000,000 people. One in three. 1/3 of the American population, supported by the government in one way or another. Which means the taxes paid by the workforce that represents the other 2/3, plus whatever trillions gets borrowed from the rest of the world.

And, as you’ve heard a hundred times, half the population neither pays taxes nor is represented on a tax return by people who do.

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Don’t forget that all those 40 million government workers are theoretically part of that income tax paying group NOT in the above graph. And it’s a really easy argument to posit that they don’t really pay income taxes except on their investments, since their income is derived from tax redistribution. That makes the bite that much sharper for anyone with a job that actually contributes to a real GNP.

This is all rolled together and called “Spreading the wealth around”. Every two citizens who pay income taxes are supporting a third citizen to a greater or lesser extent.

We are Greece.  Or at least we can see them from our house.


Just something to keep in mind when the Left and the Media tear into Paul Ryan for the next several days for his utter horrible intransigence in delivering a budget plan today that would eventually reel in some amount of excessive government spending. In a few years. And pay off the national debt in another 2 generations.

House Republicans unveiled an ambitious cost-cutting plan Tuesday that would balance the budget in 10 years without raising taxes, while repealing ObamaCare and overhauling entitlements—a document Democrats are sure to reject but could be used as a negotiating tool in talks with President Obama.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, is sticking by controversial proposals, including one to give future Medicare retirees the option of using government payments for private health care plans.

The plan warns of a looming debt crisis, and endeavors to pay off the debt by 2050. 

“We are addressing the most predictable debt crisis in this country’s history,” Ryan said Tuesday. “Our plan will balance the budget and pay off our debts.”

In response, the White House issued a statement complaining that the plan does not include tax increases for top earners and said the president believes it is the “wrong course for America.”

The wrong course for America? Hey butthole, what other course do we have left? Total bankruptcy and complete insolvency?

70% of federal spending is for handouts. Entitlements. Spreading The Wealth Around. A third of that money is borrowed from abroad.

But never mind that, you silly wage earners. It’s time to get out your 1040 forms and Pay Your Fair Share. Too bad you can’t get a deduction for your 103,000,000 dependents.

Here is some more info on the “2014 Ryan Budget”. Yes, he’s keeping Obama’s tax hike. DUH. That’s the only sane way out of this morass. “Take less, spend nothing” works, but it’s too damn drastic. “Take more, spend less” works too, and also raises the value of the money that you have left by reducing the currency supply. This is the only approach that will work, whether it’s “fine tuned” up or down a bit. But if it gets “tuned down” to the zero point, then it’s another pile of worthless crap, and the proverbial can gets kicked down the road again. Problem is, the end of the road is in sight. And it isn’t very far away. If anything, the Ryan budget needs to be made fiercer. Bigger cuts, faster. And then, perhaps in 10 years when there is clear evidence that things are improving, then we can cut the taxes severely. Granted, I would like to see two alternates, one that throws out Obamacare and ALL it’s additional taxes, and another that throws out Obamacare and HALF it’s additional taxes. Run the numbers and see where either one pushes the horizon to. Because it’s going to be hell dealing with a massive tax increase right now.

Which is EXACTLY what the Democrats are planning. Give Obama a nickel, and he’ll cry for a dollar. It’s only your fair share after all, right? That’s happened already. It’s not an anecdote. Too much is never enough for Teh Won.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/12/2013 at 02:50 PM   
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calendar   Wednesday - March 06, 2013

Six Months Too Slow Buttheads

(R) Lawmakers demand access to survivors injured in Benghazi attack



Six months after the Sept. 11 terror attack in Benghazi, Republican lawmakers are fuming that they haven’t been granted access to the survivors – several of whom, Fox News has learned, are still recovering at Walter Reed.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told Fox News on Wednesday that he spoke to a “handful of people” when he visited Libya shortly after the attack but has struggled to gain access to the survivors ever since.

“We want talk to the survivors—they won’t do that. And then the president has the gall to go on television and say ‘oh, we’re providing all the access’? Baloney. Bull-crap. That is not happening.”

Estimates of how many Americans were injured in the Libya assault vary.

Reps. Frank Wolf, R-Va., and Jim Gerlach, R-Pa., claim sources have told them up to 30 were injured, and up to seven may still be at Walter Reed. “Several may have required amputations,” they wrote in a letter to colleagues last week.

A source close to the survivors, though, told Fox News that seven were injured – not 30 – and that at least three are still at Walter Reed. Another may be recovering in California. The source said one of the injured underwent a partial leg amputation. Another is suffering from smoke inhalation and possible brain injury.

Fox News has been told that some of the survivors work in clandestine services and do not want their names made public, though they do wonder why nobody from key committees has called them in for closed hearings to testify on what transpired that night.

You sominabatching morunes. You fargin iceholes. There ought to have been a full blown committee there to meet these guys the day after they came out of surgery. This whole situation is a disgusting catastrophe. And I blame the worthless, comingled* backstabbing Republicans for this entirely. They should have been wailing like air raid sirens, every damn one of them, 24-7, from the moment this fiasco went down. And the truth should have been DRAGGED out of the administration and all the Secret Squirrel alphabet SpyBoy agencies no later than late September. And impeachment hearings begun immediately for the total bullshit story sphinctered out all over the American public. It may have turned the tide of the election.  It ought to have caused a massive pogrom at State. Instead, Boner and his band of knee-pad wearing corksnockers just rolled over on their backs and let the country be lied to and the media allowed to bury the story. And let that lying muslime jizzstain get re-elected.

Worthless bastiges.



* yes, comingled. Like you do with your recycling: several different kinds of worthless garbage mixed together in a dirty dumpster.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 03/06/2013 at 11:47 AM   
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calendar   Monday - March 04, 2013

Help me prepare for an interview…

BMEWSd and BMEWSetts,

Those who have been here for a few years have read of my friend flapjawman. A retired officer, he was recalled to duty after 911. Next week he will be in town and has agreed to set for an interview with me. He is associated with government intelligence. Two rules:

1) all questions to be submitted to me via email. I will then forward them to him. He will decide if he can answer them. Note that he doesn’t even want the questions posted online. The fact that he didn’t answer questions posted online can tell our enemies something. Loose lips… etc.

2) He’s welcoming questions on Syria.

Please send any questions to Radnor@SomethingsRotten.com. Don’t post them online or in comments. You can mention that you sent a question in the comments.


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Posted by Christopher   United States  on 03/04/2013 at 11:02 PM   
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calendar   Saturday - March 02, 2013

Unacceptable!

In which Drew has a small Vizzini Moment at the Post Office, without the benefit either of Princess Buttercup or any iocane powder


Inconceivable!

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Unacceptable!



I got a phone call from one of my employers the other week. “Have you moved again? Why didn’t you give us your new address?”
But, but I have! I moved in the fall, and I still live at 1 _____ Clinton NJ _____-____, just like I told you!
“Well, the Post Office returned the checks we sent you, and marked the envelope undeliverable. So we want to verify your address.”
Yup, that’s me, that’s where I live, and I get mail nearly every day.
“Ok, we’ll try it again.”

This morning I get a phone call from one of the office people at his shop. “We tried again with your paychecks, but they came back. Still undeliverable.”
Ok, just leave them on the counter, I’ll pick them up tonight, and try and get to the bottom of things with the PO on Monday.

So I go down to his office this afternoon, do my work, and pick up the envelope. It was addressed to me, at my address. Proper town, proper Zip Code. But instead of using a “1” in my street address, they wrote out the word “One”. And that was more than the United States Post Office could handle. They could not deliver the letter ... even though somewhere in the postal system, a sorting machine had stamped the base of the envelope “28849 1234 01”, which is my Zip Code, my +4 Code, and my house number. (Ok, I’m making up the numbers to ensure my own privacy, but still.) So even an illiterate postal delivery person could find the proper mailbox, since the +4 system is precise enough to locate a particular part of a particular street anywhere in the country. In theory, a letter addressed to Joe, 12345-1234 should come right to his mailbox, without benefit of his last name, street name, house number, town or state. That’s what the +4 thing is all about. It’s like military GPS, only without satellites. And with fewer targeted nukes.

But no. Not my local Klown posse. Big yellow sticker on the envelope: RETURN TO SENDER NOT DELIVERABLE AS ADDRESSED UNABLE TO FORWARD. And a bunch of coded secret numbers. And a barcode. And a date that’s six days after the post mark; the letter just sat in a bag somewhere for a solid week.

Not deliverable as addressed. Excuse me? You schleps aren’t even trying. Well you are. You’re trying to be a bunch of fuck-ups. And you’re winning.

I guess the folks that try to be classy and put the spelled out house numbers on their homes - “Twenty Seven” for 27, you know what I mean - I guess they never get any mail delivered that’s addressed to 27. That’s too much for the PO. Above their pay grade, outside their reading comprehension level. WTF?

Is this a bit of protest because your bloody moronic business model bleeds billions and you’re all going to lose your Saturday overtime? So let’s screw up because we’re mad? Or maybe the word has come down that with the billions in annual losses your carriers aren’t going to get their annual $10,000 bonuses any longer, for just doing their jobs. (I bowled last summer with a sub-contracted postal delivery person, and he told us that he loved his job so much because he was done working by 11:30am every day, and got a $10K bonus every year without fail. So that’s my source for that.)

Or maybe this is a case of the waiter spitting in the tea when the customer complains that it’s cold? 3 months ago I asked the front desk lady at the local PO to stop delivering the mail for the previous resident at our address, since she had moved out months before that. I had some little form to fill out that said that my wife and I were the only people living at this address. That cured the problem ... for about a week. I still get more mail for the previous resident than I do for myself, and she hasn’t lived here for at least 9 months now. I always leave it in the mailbox, and put up the little flag like I’m supposed to, and about half the time or less that mail gets taken away. Only for some more of it to be left here the day after.

So now I’ve got to waste time and go down there Monday and complain again. Which probably means I won’t get my mail properly delivered for the next several years. Government union employees are entitled to revenge, right? Probably says so right in their contracts. The nerve of us citizens even asking politely that they do the jobs that they’re so well paid for.

But OMG. “One” for “1” and they can’t deliver the letter. OMFG. Inconceivable! Unacceptable! And completely expected.


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calendar   Thursday - February 21, 2013

Our Continuing Adventures Across the 8th Dimension

To really loosely paraphrase Buckaroo Banzai, “No matter where you go, SciFi got there first.”

Vilmar posted on the latest crop of government drones - small as bees, and with the power to kill - and I realized that this was a song and dance I’d heard many years before.

Herman?
Yes Mr. Peabody?
Set the Wayback machine for 1953. We’re looking for Robert Scheckley and his short story Watchbirds.

Thousands of watchbirds, trying to stop countless millions of murders—a hopeless task. But the watchbirds didn’t hope. Without consciousness, they experienced no sense of accomplishment, no fear of failure. Patiently they went about their jobs, obeying each stimulus as it came.

They couldn’t be everywhere at the same time, but it wasn’t necessary to be. People learned quickly what the watchbirds didn’t like and refrained from doing it. It just wasn’t safe. With their high speed and superfast senses, the watchbirds got around quickly.

And now they meant business. In their original directives there had been a provision made for killing a murderer, if all other means failed.

Why spare a murderer?

But Mr. Peabody! All the smart BMEWS readers know that Scheckley borrowed the name from a weekly comic of the era that was used to teach children how to behave!
Of course Herman. And they’ve read about watchbirds here before too.  The great illustrator Munro Leaf ran the comic for decades.

Aww Mr. Peabody, don’t be such a drone!
Don’t make me have to swoop down there and kill you Herman.
Yes Mr. Peabody.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 02/21/2013 at 05:13 PM   
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Another Scam Played On Uncle Sucka

Prisoners Across America Collecting Unemployment Benefits

Raking In $4.9 Billion Per Year Or More



They’re behind bars, but you’re still paying their “salaries.”

State and federal officials say inmates across the country continue to collect millions each year in fraudulent unemployment benefits—often the result of oversight—with the most recent case in Pennsylvania, where more than 1,000 people collected benefits while behind bars.

Pennsylvania officials said this week the fraud occurred in county prisons because they failed to implement a system of cross-checking the Social Security numbers of benefit applicants, like they did with inmates in their state and federal prisons.

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett said his administration is correcting the problem. But the 1,162 inmates had already collected about $334 every week for more than four months, costing taxpayers roughly $7 million.

The state labor department said detecting the fraud is more difficult now that benefit checks—once intercepted in inmates’ mail—have largely been replaced with direct deposits to bank accounts. And the biweekly phone calls to renew benefits can be made by a friend or relative at home.

More difficult? Really? Here’s the SSN from Prisoner #1234. Has he been sent any checks since 1/1/10 when he got here? Yes/No. Here’s the SSN from Prisoner #1235. Has he been sent any checks since 1/2/10 when he got here? Oh yeah, that’s real friggin hard. Even without a script or a macro, a database operator ought to be able to key in 2,000 of these queries a week. And a script ought to give you back 50,000 answers in about 3 seconds. It’s not a matter of snooping through their mail. It’s a matter of looking at your own records.

Overall unemployment fraud is now at 2.85 percent, according to the Labor Department. The agency doesn’t have a specific number for fraud payments but said overall improper payments cost taxpayers $4.9 billion from July 2011 through June 2012, the agency’s most recent reporting period.

The problem is hardly isolated to Pennsylvania. The states with the highest fraud rate over that period were Arizona at 9.21 percent; Mississippi at 9.05 percent; Louisiana at 8.29 percent; South Dakota at 5.95 percent; and Pennsylvania and New Mexico tied at 5.22 percent. The total amount of improper payments was roughly $890 million.

Wait. Stop. Don’t. Run the numbers, and see the CYA BS in the above paragraph. IF an unemployment check is $334, and IF the $4.9 billion is not a BS lowball number (I guarantee you it is, that the real number is double or triple), and IF we are talking a 1 years period ... then this shows that more than 282,000 inmates are improperly receiving unemployment checks. Now if the 6 states listed have the fraud numbers reported, it means ... that they have a whole lot of prisoners in jail. And that’s about all you can do with that, right now.

In Arizona, officials purportedly found 475 inmates collected roughly $1.1 million in 2010 and 2012. To detect the fraud, the state’s Department of Economic Security used the same Social Security cross-referencing that Pennsylvania was using in state and federal prisons since 1997.

Arizona, leading the nation with the highest inmate fraud ... comes up with 475 inmates duping the state out of $1.1 million over a 2 year period. Aye caramba Jefe! That’s a whacking great $22.27 per week per prisoner. What, did they all illegally sign up for milk and newspaper delivery? Puh LEEZ. Arizona is playing CYA like nobody’s bidniz. Even the cheap-ass Sunset State has to pay more than that for unemployment.

Whatever. There’s a damn long way to go before the handout system has clean hands. Prisons are just one tiny part of it. The entire system is chock full of scammers, liars, multiple dippers, dead people still drawing checks years after they’ve died ... you name it. All because the government is FILLED with make-work jobs and button pushers, and no accountability.

I bet that if you trimmed off the fraud and the waste and got the military to buy common items for regular wholesale prices you could cut $300 billion PER YEAR in spending. And if you then went through and started cutting redundant jobs and departments ... well that’s a daydream for another day. That somebody is FINALLY doing something about this one tiny little scam is all the ray of hope you’re allowed to have for today. The stuff is rare, so we’ve got to ration it.
UPDATE: more, via Vilmar’s.


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