Speaking of Fiscal Irresponsibility…
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Administrative
This is what the media used to be good for: Patrick Dostie, the state’s nuclear safety inspector, has been coming to work every day to a job he’s held since 1989 even though the position was eliminated in 2005 by the Legislature. Lawmakers were set again this year to eliminate the job, along with the [...]
Tags: fiscal irresponsibility, government theft
Another Dangerous Precedent
Posted by Mad Rocket Scientist | Filed under Guest Authors, Idiot Legislation
Recently this bill was brought to my attention, H.R. 5872, because it passed the house with only 8 people voting NO. Overall, this bill is pretty harmless. What it does is it directs the Treasury to issue 350,000 commemorative US $1 dollar silver coins to honor the US Boy Scouts first 100 years. Big whoop, [...]
Tags: fiscal irresponsibility, government theft
No Nutz For You
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Buttinskis
For pity’s sake. Robb posted about this nonsense some weeks ago, when a Washington state delegate proposed a ban of those ever-idiotic rubber testicles some geniuses choose to dangle from the trailer hitch of their pickup trucks. Florida, not to be out-stupided, is now doing the same in the state Senate: The Florida Senate today [...]
Tags: decency, government theft, use your head
I Just Sent This
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Buttinskis, Liberating Liberty, Litigious World
This letter is one of many I am writing tonight. I am sending different versions of this letter to several talk-radio hosts, New Mexico lawmakers, and the Governor of New Mexico. Feel free to use this letter as a basis for letters of your own. Justice is running afoul of common sense and common decency [...]
Tags: calling all picadors, government theft, hype-no-tized
Sir, I Vote Nay
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Decision Eh, UN-Brand Compost
Barack Obama, in a desperate bid for actual accomplishment, is sponsoring this ludicrous bit of legislation: A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. [...]
Tags: government theft, robber barons
Crime Scene – Do Not Cross
Posted by Robb Allen | Filed under Guest Authors, Social Un-Services
(Guest blogger: Robb Allen from Sharp as a Marble) The one thing that the government does well is punish criminals. The one thing they screw up more than anything is accurately define “crime” Police in San Mateo County, California apparently first spent months investigating the small-stakes poker game. From this firsthand account, it looks like [...]
Tags: gambling, government theft, poker, SWAT
