Apologies for the late update, as my DCYF saga continues. In Part 1, I put in a Right To Know requesting the volume and locations of DCYF abuse and neglect reports being made. The RTK payload (w/out the boilerplate) was rather simple.
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Forcible Medication of Suspected Illness
Would you find it troubling if your state legislature were considering a bill allowing government officials to “detain or remove” individuals they deem a risk to public health? Is this a problem? How is that different from forced sterilization? Is it different from organ harvesting? Or maybe it is those things.
UNAIDS and The Economist: COVID Political Response Hits Children and AIDS Patients Hard
The ruling class loves to project dangerous outcomes when fear advances their policy objectives. If we don’t do this some number of persons will experience harm. In the case of the recent flu we’ve heard so much about, it’s hard to find evidence that the action does more harm, but we’ve found some.
As In Any Good Utopia, Culture Matters
In San Francisco, as in any good utopia, culture matters. It’s the cost that does not seem to matter. Whether the show goes on or not; the paychecks continue to go out. The taxpayers get to foot the bill… whether or not they receive value.
Abuse of Power
Our NH Constitution is the foundation of our republic, without it, we would have no state government. Part I of this fundamental document speaks not about the government, but of the rights reserved to the people which are not necessary to the operation of a government.
All The FISA Bills Are Bad
We have not unraveled what happened in 2016. It has not been made public. No one has been held accountable. The agencies involved have the whitewash buckets and brushes out. We know to a mathematical certainty that in 2016 the FISA system was abused.
IG Investigation of Alleged FISA Abuse is Complete
DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has given his draft report to the attorney general. The report delves into alleged FISA abuse by the department and the FBI. The abuses took place as part of the Trump-Russia investigation. The announcement The IG sent a letter sent to multiple congressional committees in both chambers. Horowitz announced Friday his … Read more
We Now Know Which Nashua Democrat Tried to Shut Down GraniteGrok (And Failed)
So our hosting company coughed up the email complaint against GraniteGrok as requested. Much surprise as to who it was – not.
Congressional Oversight, or Abuse of Power?
You’ve got to hand it to Jerry Nadler and the Democrats. They know just how to sound righteous, patriotic, and even noble when they want to. For two years, they posed as champions of democracy, railing about treason at the highest levels of government. “America deserves better,” they proclaimed. And today when they’re pontificating about … Read more
“It’s OK for husbands, fathers and brothers to beat disobedient women”
Imagine if a ranking member of the Israeli government said something like, “It’s OK for husbands, fathers, and brothers to beat disobedient women.” How about if Trump said it? What if a ranking member of the Palestinian government said it? While [a] campaign was running and teaching that it is never acceptable to hit women, Abbas’ advisor Mahmoud … Read more
Democrat Lawmaker Created Intimidating and Abusive Environment
The New Hampshire House recently releases some documents in which was a redacted complaint filed earlier this year by a NH House staffer. The staffer alleges that a particular New Hampshire House Rep. “made frequent derogatory comments to or about the employee, and engaged in “a long pattern of behavior” that created a “hostile work environment.”
Mark Steyn’s Take is (naturally) Better on Eric Schneiderman
Yesterday I reported on the abrupt demise of #MeToo New York AG Eric Schneiderman. Mark Steyn had some thoughts on this as well, and being Mark Steyn, they are excellent. The piece, titled ‘Your Friendly Neighborhood Schneiderman,’ begins like this. It was a busy news day in America, with primary races in four states and … Read more
Fighting Class Action Lawsuit Abuse
Lawrence Schonbrun joins me to discuss Class Action Lawsuit abuse in the form of massive payouts to law firms at the expense of those they claim were “injured.”
IRS As Political Hammer, Not the First Time, Nor the Last, Unless…
Sometimes blogging is about creative commentary and piquing the other side while, hopefully, providing a different perspective. Other times, it’s just about spreading information. This is one of those times. I initially dressed this up with all sorts of semi-wittiness (heavy on the “semi”) reminiscent of a tired comic strip, but the length of the blog was inordinately long, so I trimmed it down, but if it’s still too long, I urge you to at least read the brief IRS history of abuse further below.
“Can’t Keep Up…” – You and me both Steve
As Steve alluded to yesterday, the beast is so swollen, engorged on coercive bureaucratic fat, that it finally burst, raining juicy Big Gov abuse stories all over the land. Though the forecast predicted the fallout, I didn’t think so many would hit in one week. (The cynical side of me thinks that many of these stories would serve as a nice smoke screen distraction to redirect attention from Benghazi, but that’s just my cynical side.)
Big Gov can’t help itself. The chemistry for abuse is intrinsic to the beast and pushes through its swollen veins, suffusing every crevice. Hubris and power and a naked zeal to do as one pleases is the toxic cocktail that explodes when mixed in vast, opaque, honey combed cubicles and goes unchecked. This is the nature of the ginormous beast and it is impossible to oversee and manage. There are going to be abuses. There is going to be waist and inefficiencies. It happens in every entity that grows beyond itself whether it’s a company, a corporation, a code base (sorry for the nerd out), or with government. The difference is that with government, it has the power of the state. The power to seize, coerce and apply violence to do so. The power to acquire individual information, property, and throw down demands that the individual must labor to meet in order to “qualify”.
And this is the result.
Quick take on the biggies:
Mule Trading
Curtis & Leroy saw an ad in the Starkville Daily in Starkville , MS. and bought a mule for $100.
The farmer agreed to deliver the mule the next day.
The next morning the farmer drove up and said,”Sorry, fellows, I have some bad news, the mule died last night.”
Curtis & Leroy replied,”Well, then just give us our money back.”
The farmer said,”Can’t do that. I went and spent it already.”
They said, “OK then, just bring us the dead mule.”
The farmer asked, “What in the world ya’ll gonna do with a dead mule?”