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After all, priorities are priorities.

Your Tax Dollars At Work

Our first exposure to the folks from FEMA was a few days after Hurricane Sandy, which devastated our neighborhood on Long Island Sound. A platoon of FEMA agents, readily identifiable by their official-looking jackets with “FEMA” emblazoned on the back, spread out across the neighborhood offering the distraught residents oodles of sympathy—oodles—and plenty of forms to fill out and web sites to visit.

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Yesterday I spoke to, let’s see, eight, maybe nine different FEMA agents. Each one was there to help. Each was polite, sympathetic. Oodles of sympathy. Almost all had a form for me to fill out, a web site to visit. Each of the long, long line of people who came to see these agents went away with forms to fill out, web sites to visit.

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You then talked to one nice person after the next. There was this form, and that form, and a web site you could visit, and handbook you could read. At one stop I was given, for free!, a longish pamphlet explaining what I could do to make my property less liable to flood damage: “Mitigation Ideas For Reducing Flood Loss” it said on its cover. After a flood, it told me, a house needs to be dried out and cleaned. “Move things you want to save to a safe dry place.” Noted. “The longer they sit in water, the more damaged they become.” I was glad to know that.

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After all, what could be more fair than sticking America’s taxpayers with the tab for cleaning up New York?

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

As New Jersey residents without heat try to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, new federal energy standards regarding furnaces will force them to pay thousands of dollars more to buy furnaces that are compliant.

The new rules require those purchasing furnaces after May 1 must buy “energy-efficient natural gas furnaces,” which will cost residents in New Jersey thousands of dollars; in addition to the cost of the furnace, it “must be vented directly to an outside wall rather than through the chimney, which can increase installation costs dramatically,” according to home contractors.

And the Blue States discover that the chickens do eventually come home to roost.

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In America today, an expanding network of surveillance cameras tracks our bank deposits, our shopping expeditions, and our workplace trysts in the supply closet. When we venture online, hundreds of companies diligently note the websites we consume, the files we download, and the comments we make. Our smartphones are even worse stool pigeons than our computers, constantly keeping tabs on our precise geographic coordinates. If you grow weary of such oppressive attention, if you long for a little Waldenesque solitude outside the crosshairs of our panoptic culture, there is still one place you can go to get away from it all: the borderlands of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

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Only one of 479 DHS employees surveyed by the inspector general’s office was actually able to use the common channel, according to the report. Most of those surveyed—72 percent—didn’t even know the common channel existed. Another 25 percent knew the channel existed but weren’t able to find it; 3 percent were able to find an older common channel, but not the current one.

The investigators also found that more than half of the radios did not have the settings for the common channel programmed into them. Only 20 percent of radios tested had all the correct settings.

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Of course, as we all know, the real problem is that taxes are too low.

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Just in time for the Thanksgiving travel rush, the Boston Globe has a news article about a surplus store that resells items surrendered by passengers at airport security checkpoints….

The first thing I thought of was the SS troops assigned to pull the gold fillings out of the teeth of the gassed Jews before they went into the crematoria. But that’s me.

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And they’ll get it, I have no doubt.

As John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, always says: ‘Get a government job!’

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 The US has made its boldest public intervention in the Syrian civil war by demanding a major shake-up of the rebel leadership.

Yeah, that’s pretty bold, all right. We expect action on that right away, yup, first thing.

Our government is in the hands of morons … incompetent morons….

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Government, doing for law enforcement what they did for education….

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Really, why do people continue to put up with this bullshit?

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Thanks to federal incentives, it was revealed recently, New York’s education department at one point had forty school lunch specialists compared with one specialist in science education. The lunches kept getting worse, too, or so I observed as a New York public school parent. Now they’re moving on to federally funded school breakfast, weekend, and summer feeding. We can’t all afford to escape these dismal mandates by fleeing to private school, but as Baylen has pointed out, most of us can afford to pack bag and box lunches. Policy recommendation? Get ready to fight the inevitable attempts to restrict food sent from home.

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The reputation of possibly America’s least-favorite fondlers, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), has taken yet another hit with the discovery that its shoddy security allows passengers in its PreCheck system to pick their own security status.

PreCheck allows some frequent fliers willing to pay $100 for a background check to skip some of the onerous security checks, like taking off shoes and unpacking laptops or toiletries. PreCheck customers are still subject to more intensive searches on a randomized basis, however.

Aviation blogger John Butler discovered that the barcode information used for the boarding passes of Precheck fliers wasn’t encoded, and could be read by a simple smartphone app. It contained the flier’s name, flight details, and a number, either a one or a three, with the latter confirming the passenger was cleared for lesser screening.

It would be a relatively simple job to scan the issued boarding pass, decode it, and then change the security setting if you are planning to bring something naughty aboard, or even change the name on the ticket to match a fake ID. After putting the new information into a barcode, and a couple of minutes of cut and paste, the new boarding pass would work as normal, Butler explained.

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 The United States had an unmanned Predator drone over its consulate in Benghazi during the attack that slaughtered four Americans — which should have led to a quicker military response, it was revealed yesterday.

“They stood, and they watched, and our people died,” former CIA commander Gary Berntsen told CBS News.

The anarchists who want us not to have any government at all may be getting their wish. No wonder they all support Obama.

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The Des Moines Register reports that for five years ending in February 2011, the Iowa Civil Rights Commission shook down landlords for “voluntary contributions” in exchange for dropping discrimination complaints. The Register obtained copies of 27 settlement agreements involving about $20,000 in contributions. Unlike money from fines, which end up in the state’s general fund, the donations went directly to the commission, creating “the impression that justice is for sale,” as state court administrator David Boyd puts it. The commission ended the practice after Winterset attorney Mark Smith questioned its propriety.

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Understaffed food stamp fraud prevention units and lax anti-fraud security on Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards have created a thriving underground market where food stamp recipients illegally sell and trade their taxpayer-funded benefits, often using online websites like Backpage.com, Craigslist, or social media.

That is one of the findings of a new report by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) examining how the poverty industry has become a massive profit center for politically-connected corporations like JP Morgan, who have made at least $560,492,596 since 2004 to process the EBT cards of food stamp recipients in 24 states and two U.S. territories.

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

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Ron Gissendaner, a manager at Sprague’s Sports in Yuma and a federal firearm licensed gun dealer, told the RGJ it was because the federal prosecutors wouldn’t take the ATF’s cases. He and his staff worked well with the ATF to make sure guns were sold to good guys, not bad guys.

The Yuma ATF was having a positive impact on the town and stopped gun trafficking across the border. Since the prosecutors wouldn’t take these cases, the agents quit. Mr. Gissendaner said one agent quit and is working at a local law enforcement agency in another state. He also said that it’s tough to report suspicious activity in the area. Now people have to travel to Phoenix to report criminal activity, which is three hours away.

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Well, his dad was rich, and that helped.

And he went to Harvard, and that helped.

And he’s been paid by the taxpayers all his life, and that helped.

And he got in on the ground floor of the Global Warming scam, and that helped a lot.

Genuine supporters of clean energy ought to be as irked at these sorts of stories as climate-change skeptics are, because when a company’s competitive advantage is “early warning from the Obama team,” the companies whose competitive advantage is better technology rather than better relations with the Obama administration are the ones that get left behind.

Hey, it’s all in who you know — and what party you belong to.

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Michelle Dunaj says screeners checked under bandages from recent surgeries and refused to give her a private search when she requested one.

Dunaj, who is dying of leukemia, carried a large amount of prescription drugs through Sea-Tac to head to Hawaii for what would be one of the last trips of her life.

Of course, they wouldn’t dare do that to somebody wearing a burqa.

A machine couldn’t get a reading on her saline bags, so a TSA agent forced one open, contaminating the fluid she needs to survive.

She says agents also made her lift up her shirt and pull back the bandages holding feeding tubes in place. Dunaj needs those tubes because of organ  failure.

Yet another reason not to fly until they get rid of this shit.

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The USDA is now touting “government-approved” school lunches as a “model” for the family dinner menu. The Obama administration is informing Americans, yet again, that the government knows what is best, and we probably can’t serve a decent meal when left to our own devices. So, the USDA will help us out by moving in with the idea that dinner should be modeled after the “healthy” food the government is already serving for lunch in the public institutions we call school.

This is the same ‘progressive’ fascist mindset that moved government teachers to punish Indian kids for speaking their own language rather than English — all for their own good, you understand.

Indeed, if this were being done to any ethnic group other than Middle-Class White Kids, the government would be the first to go all multi-culti Civil-Rights-suit on their asses.

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Perhaps I need a new category: Why Big Business Is Perfectly Comfortable In Bed With Big Government.

While some may be glad that a private company—not a government agency—is tasked with EBT transactions, the GAI report reveals that JP Morgan does not use the same fraud detection systems commonly used by today’s credit card companies.  In fact, federal and state agencies—not EBT processors—are the ones tasked with policing food stamp fraud.

And why would they care? It’s just ‘government money’; they get their cut, whatever happens.

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No institution is more responsible for the recent explosion of patent litigation in the software industry, the rise of patent trolls, and the proliferation of patent thickets than the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The patent court’s thirtieth birthday this week is a good time to ask whether it was a mistake to give the nation’s most patent-friendly appeals court such broad authority over the patent system.

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The new school year is only a few weeks old, but it’s already becoming clear that the federal government’s new school lunch guidelines are about as popular as the NFL’s replacement referees.

After EAGnews.org published a recent article about how the Obama administration’s new calorie limitations for school lunches are leaving many American students hungry (especially high school athletes), a concerned food service worker from a western Montana school district contacted us with news about how the guidelines are impacting her students.

She only agreed to an interview on the condition of anonymity.

According to our source, the new federal guidelines require vegetables to comprise the largest portion of a student’s lunch, while the entrée is now being treated as a side dish. That means a lot more of the stuff most kids don’t eat and just a tiny portion of the palatable item.

“It’s completely flip-flopped in terms of portion size,” our source says. “I’m appalled at the serving sizes we’re required to give high school students.”

Even though some kids may be leaving the lunch room hungry, the new Obama-imposed rules prohibit students from receiving additional helpings, even when there’s food left over.

“We’re told we cannot serve seconds, that we cannot save leftover food for the next day. We must throw it away,” our source says. “What a waste for hungry kids who aren’t getting enough to eat to begin with.”

Hey, wasting money is what government does best.

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But the sad secret is that streetcars of all descriptions and vintages are at best modestly successful transportation projects, at worst expensive objets d’art that very few people use. Demand for the vehicles is driven not by the public but by the dreams of land-use planners and downtown boosters who imagine that aesthetically pleasing vehicles lumbering in slow circles through walkable areas will somehow prompt a boom in economic activity. Streetcar booster Gloria Ohland has often written that streetcars should be considered “economic development projects with transportation benefits.”

Yet the fantasy that people will travel or move to a particular location purely for the pleasure of tootling around in a trolley has consistently failed to materialize. Because the urban circulator is not tailored to the needs of modern city dwellers who use mass transit to get around, there is no natural constituency to ride them. The result: Many communities get stuck with an eternal loop of empty, expensive white elephants.

And yet the people who tout these attempts to revert to the way things were in the 19th century invariably think of themselves as ‘progressives’. What’s up with that?

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Do you feel more secure? I sure feel more secure.

TSA: Bringing Third-World corruption to a First-World neighborhood near you, all at the expense of the American taxpayer.

Aren’t you proud?

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A draft report by the Virginia State Crime Commission, quotes a Virginia State Police Officer suggesting that cigarette bootlegging is now more profitable than trade in cocaine, heroin, pot, or guns.

You’d think that the whole Prohibition era had never happened.

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These guys are paid $174,000 a year. I guess that’s not enough to persuade them to do their jobs.

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Add former Maine Governor and current Independent candidate for Senate Angus King to the long list of Obama administration cronies who have personally made money off the $800 billion Obama Stimulus program. King’s personal bailout came in the form of a $407,000 “success fee” he received in 2011 from a wind energy project that remains in business today only because it received a $102 million federal loan King played a major role in securing.

Sometimes it is good to be the King.

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Well, that didn’t work out so well.

We cast aside Hosni Mubarak on a moment’s notice without taking steps to give non-Islamist parties a timetable to organize an effective transition; we overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, teaching tyrants the lesson that giving up nuclear ambitions is a deadly mistake, and then promptly departed leaving chaos; and we have isolated Israel among a sea of Islamist radicals as it seeks to stop the Iranian’s march towards nuclear weapon capability.

And all the while, our own government places blame on some previously unknown guy for making some previously unknown film which might be real or not, which people who hated us before the film take as an insult to Islam.

We’ve even sent out federal law enforcement to locate and report on someone who committed no crime.

Yes, our government even issued apologies over and sympathies for the hurt feelings of those burning our embassies and killing our Ambassador, while condemning the resulting violence.  We are, once again, hostage to the hurt feelings of those with perpetually hurt feelings, and we will sympathize with them so long as they don’t go that last step and actually pull the trigger.

The major message this administration is sending to people around the world is that the United States will throw you under the bus at the slightest indication that you are losing your grip on power.

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The number of food stamp recipients in New York has grown to 3.1 million from 1.8 million over the last five years.

You’d think the state would be looking to help people get off food stamps. Instead, it’s spending millions of dollars on “outreach” aimed at enrolling even more beneficiaries into the program. Among the non-profits receiving grants for food stamp “outreach” are the United Way of New York City, which got $4.5 million, Year Up, Inc., which got $1.5 million, and Project Hospitality, Inc., which got $1.5 million.

That’s because the government sees nothing wrong with people being on food stamps; in fact, they encourage it, because it makes more voters dependent on them spending taxpayers’ money, and spending taxpayers’ money (in exchange for votes, which everyone involved has the good grace not to mention) is what they’re all about.

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Just after the Chicago Teachers Union released a statement on its website declaring their intent to strike Monday morning, the union published a solidarity statement from feminist and honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America Gloria Steinem as the top item on their website.

Well, that’s good enough for me.

The Chicago schools had been offering the CTU a 2 percent raise every year for four years. In response, the union had demanded a 30 percent raise over two years followed by a 25 percent raise over two years. One week ago, the union revised its demands to a 19 percent raise in the first year of the contract.

Such oppression! No wonder they decided to sacrifice the children they’re supposedly in the business of educating. Prediction: The kids won’t notice the difference between the teacher being there and the teacher not being there — they are, after all, government schools, the primary purpose of which is to hire and pay government workers, and if they can squeeze in a little education on the side, well, that’s gravy.

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Members of the Department of Justice’s secretive Community Relations Service or CRS were spotted on the ground this morning in Charlotte North Carolina at the Democratic National Convention by Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak.

Last week, Breibart News’ Jeremy Segal–a.k.a. Rebel Pundit–posted a video showing CRS members assisting anarchist onto a bus after a protest. Segal and other witnesses also saw a CRS member high-fiving one of the protesters.

Looks like Eric Holder has his own little covert operations team.

The CRS made headlines a few months ago when it was used in Sanford Florida to aid protesters and oust the local sheriff in the wake of controversy over the death of teenager Trayvon Martin. According to sources in Sanford, a CRS member is still stationed there.

Well, well.

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A public university in Colorado may have violated state law by offering students course credit if they volunteered with President Obama’s re-election campaign. A blog post on the Adams State University website billed the opportunity as a “12 week long organizing internship for the Obama Campaign.”

Of course, no one would even dream of offering course credit for a Republican campaign. Perish the thought.

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With a shortage of doctors in the U.S. already and millions of new patients set to gain coverage under President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, American medical schools are struggling to close the gap.

One major reason: The residency programs to train new doctors are largely paid for by the federal government, and the number of students accepted into such programs has been capped at the same level for 15 years. Medical schools are holding back on further expansion because the number of applicants for residencies already exceeds the available positions, according to the National Resident Matching Program, a 60-year-old Washington-based nonprofit that oversees the program.

If there’s a shortage, government is behind it.

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There is a two-year college in California with a graduation rate of 72 percent. That’s a remarkable number. California’s community college graduation rate is a horrifyingly awful 25.3 percent.

Pacific College, though, isn’t a public school. It’s one of those for-profit schools that the Obama administration has tried blame for rising college debt and loan defaults. It’s a nursing school, too, so it’s a good bet those graduates are able to get jobs.

Funny how that works. People who are paying for their own education, as opposed to the drones who are leeching off of the taxpayers, tend to want to study something useful. Gender Studies and Queer Theory need not apply.

California’s community college system is a disaster. It’s heavily subsidized and cheap with no entry barriers. This may sound like a dream to those with no knowledge of economics (and those folks are certainly in abundance), but the reality is that California’s declining revenue has made it impossible for the state to keep up with demand, resulting in lengthy waiting lists for training for high-demand fields.

Waiting lists? For something the government provides for free? Who would have thought that would happen?

Then there are the thousands of folks who simply lack the aptitude for higher education, and we all get to subsidize this journey of unfortunate self-discovery.

Lucky us.

The Other McCain blows the whistle.

The Labor Department paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal stimulus funds to a public relations firm to run more than 100 commercials touting the Obama administration’s “green training” job efforts on two MSNBC cable shows, records show.

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Federal regulators evidently believe that Americans are irrationally choosing to spend hundreds of billions more on energy than they should. Consequently, benevolent bureaucrats have imposed regulations to guide hapless consumers toward making the proper energy saving choices when it comes to purchasing cars, air conditioners, clothes dryers, refrigerators, and light bulbs. A new study finds that the regulators are, in fact, the ones being irrational.

Jonathan Adler chips in:

 While most of the fuel standards were adopted in the name of the environmental protection, many are actually the result of special interest pleading. Producers of various products, ethanol in particular, sought fuel content mandates or performance requirements that would benefit their particular product. (I detailed part of this history in “Clean Fuels, Dirty Air,” in Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (Greve & Smith eds. 1992).) Worse, some of the content requirements are irrelevant for new cars due to modern pollution control equipment. Federally imposed boutique fuel requirements have outlived whatever usefulness they ever had.

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This is what government is all about. Forget roads, mass murder through warfare, or locking people up for their consumption choices: it’s making sure that no one gives out water without a permit.

The only thing that saves us is that we don’t get all the government we pay for.

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With the first full school year of data available, the NYCLU (whose lawsuit is still pending) analyzed the data released through the law to find that the NYPD’s “School Safety Division” arrested an average of four students a day and handing out about seven citations a day. According to the NYCLU, upward of 95 percent of the arrests were of black or Hispanic students, 74 percent were boys, and a full 20 percent were between the ages of 11 and 14, meaning at least 165 students arrested last year were 14 or younger.

The NYCLU points out there are more than 5,000 police officers in the New York City school system, more than the total amount of guidance counselors and social workers combined and notes a full 64 percent of summonses issued in the school year were for “disorderly conduct.”

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Well, on the job might be a bit generous given that some reports are now saying that the USDA has spent $20 million tax payer dollars to inspect zero fish and is on track to spend a jaw dropping $150 million over the next ten years.

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In what may contradict testimony by Obama administration officials under oath and may be a violation of federal law, The Daily Caller obtained emails that show Timothy Geithner’s Treasury Department “was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 salaried retirees at the Delphi auto parts manufacturing company,” and the move, according to The Daily Caller, “appears to have been made solely because those retirees were not members of labor unions.”

My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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If they find out that you’re actually in the country legally, do they strip you of your credits and kick you out in disgrace?

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For fans of raw milk and those who, like me—a non-consumer of either raw or pasteurized dairy milk—fight for food freedom in all its forms, the past year or two have been notable for several setbacks on the unpasteurized dairy front.

The FDA has increased pressure on states to crack down on raw milk within their own borders. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently stepped up its efforts against raw milk after the agency claimed its recent analysis “found that the incidence of dairy-associated disease outbreaks caused by nonpasteurized dairy products was 150 times greater per unit consumed than that from pasteurized products.”

So what? Relative incidence isn’t significant unless the absolute numbers of incidents are significant, and there’s no evidence that they are. Neither is there any evidence that these diseases are communicable, failing which it’s difficult to see what business it is of the CDC — or the FDA, so long as the products are clearly labelled (and you can just bet that the FDA would see to that).

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After more than a year of applying body-scanning technology without government oversight, the TSA may have to establish some formal rules and procedures for using the machines.

The infamous full-body scanners are used at 19 airports across the country. In 2010 the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of body scanners. The Court of Appeals in the D.C. Circuit ruled the following year that the TSA needed to create some comprehensive rules for body scanner use. And of course the TSA promptly ignored it.

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A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit filed by a woman who claims her employer discriminated against her because of her disabilities.

Oh, the employer? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. agency that enforces federal employment discrimination laws.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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The 2012 House farm bill has been advertised as a $35 billion spending cut. But what is not advertised is that the 2012 bill will end up costing taxpayers 59 percent more than the 2008 farm bill. So how can this be a cut? It isn’t.

The farm bill was projected to cost nearly $1 trillion. So when the House farm bill — which spends slightly less than the Senate-passed bill — was scored by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to cost $35 billion less than expected, it was cheered as a spending cut. In reality, however, the 2012 House farm bill spends nearly 60% more than our current inefficient farm and food programs. The 2008 farm bill that is currently in law was projected to cost $604 billion, while the 2012 House bill came in at $959 billion. This is not a spending cut.

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On Friday, George Will wrote a harrowing column about the Justice Department’s prosecution — courtesy of the Environmental Crimes Division — of Nancy Black, a marine biologist. Black captains a whale watching ship. Finding herself under investigation for “harassment” of a marine mammal, the alleged harassment consisting of whistling at whales to keep them near the ship for a while, she submitted a tape of the incident. Black edited the tape slightly to highlight the whistling, according to Will. The feds found no harassment, but indicted Black for editing the tape, calling this a “material false statement” to federal investigators.

They also charged Black with feeding killer whales. But, according to Will, what Black actually did was photograph the killer whales eating a whale they had already killed. Her only contribution to the feast was to cut a hole in one of the floating slabs of blubber and, through the hole, attach a rope to stabilize the slab while a camera on a pole recorded the whales’ underwater eating.

Will notes that the federal persecution of Black has crippled her scientific career, cost her more than $100,000 in legal fees so far, and might see her sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

The Justice Department’s internal watchdog said Thursday that eight current or former officials at one of its divisions steered jobs to children and other relatives, violating laws and regulations that forbid nepotism.

He said that the eight executives made the violations by “improperly manipulating the hiring process to ensure that their own children or the children of other JMD employees were appointed to DOJ positions. In at least one case, we found that two senior officials simultaneously attempted to assist each other’s relative in securing DOJ employment.”

The Children of the Crust shall never lack for bread.

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Amtrak wants six tracks dedicated to high-speed rail that would shorten the time it takes to get from Washington, D.C. to New York City’s Penn Station by an hour. The proposed first phase of the project, which would take place between 2013 and 2017, would, according to the plan, cost $200 million to $300 million.

But as the Post notes, “Amtrak and its partners have said little about how to raise the $6.5 billion to $7.5 billion it estimates the upgrades would cost.” There has even been some talk of taxing various economic activity at Union Station to raise funds to fund the expansion project.

Amtrak is mostly used by people wanting to move between the Other Left Coast power-centers of Boston/New York/Philadelphia/Washington without subjecting themselves to the TSA. Can’t say that I blame them. Unfortunately, many of them are Functionaries of the Crust and have no problem having the rest of us pay for their convenience.

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Dina Frank, 7, has cerebral palsy and needs leg braces and crutches to walk. So she couldn’t go through the metal detector when her family tried to fly out of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. Instead, Transportation Security Administration agents searched her. Her parents say they warned agents that Dina is also developmentally disabled and frightened by the procedure but the agents still handled her aggressively. After searching Dina and allowing the family through security, a supervisor later told them that agents hadn’t followed proper procedure and forced the girl to be searched again, making the family miss their flight.

I’m wondering how much the sheeple will keep putting up with this shit.