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Reminder: Bureaucracy is a machine; do not be deceived by the fact that it appears to consiste of human beings. At times, it can be a very dumb machine, but by its nature it has no heart.

This creeps me out.

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In the old days it was called “Gestapo”.

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Apparently $150k a year is all it takes. Who knew?

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Nothing uncertain about these times; if you want to buy a gun, better do it before Barack becomes President.

George Will takes a look at Democrats and education. “Leave no pot of money undipped.”

Washington is having a Willie Sutton Moment. Such moments occur when government, finding its revenue insufficient for its agenda, glimpses some money it does not control but would like to.

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One of my big complaints with the law making process is that there’s no built-in process to make sure a law actually does what it’s intended to do. Thanks to the law of unintended consequences, quite frequently, laws do plenty of other stuff, but do little to accomplish their stated purpose. Since politicians just want to pass laws so they can tell voters about the laws they passed, there’s no real review process. So, as long as a Congress member can claim “I helped build houses/protect children/save jobs/etc.,” because of a law that is called the Build Houses Act/Protect Kids Act/Save Jobs Act, they’re happy — even if the law did nothing to actually build houses, protect kids or save jobs.

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OK, the stage is set for an epic confrontation: the libertarian medical wingnuts of Arizona against the New Age psychological moonbats of California, with Barack Obama in the middle of it all. Can the robocalls be far behind? News at 11:00.

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On September 18, we released a report in Caracas that shows how President Hugo Chávez has undermined human rights guarantees in Venezuela. That night, we returned to our hotel and found around twenty Venezuelan security agents, some armed and in military uniform, awaiting us outside our rooms. They were accompanied by a man who announced—with no apparent sense of irony—that he was a government “human rights” official and that we were being expelled from the country.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

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Of course — that’s what Marxist dictators do.

Steve Sailer is on the case.

Bush and Rove bought Latino votes in 2004 with Other People’s Money. Bush’s Housing Bubble was, more than anything else, a Hispanic Housing Bubble, with total mortgage dollars for Hispanic homebuyers going up an incredible 691% from 1999 to 2006. And all that cash flowing for home loans and home equity loans, whether to Hispanics or others, paid for a lot of Hispanic construction and home improvement workers.

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Throw them to the lions! Oh, wait….

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Amazing how leftoids can get away with this shit. Oh, right, the media are on their side. I almost forgot.

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Which, considering the history of the U.N., is sufficient reason to vote for The Other Guy.

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The NannyStaters strike again.

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

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Popular mythology to the contrary notwithstanding.

Any discussion of reforming America’s federal tax system should begin with the recognition that it is already highly progressive. According to the latest Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data, the top 1 percent of income earners paid nearly 40 percent of federal individual income taxes in 2006, compared to roughly 19 percent in 1980. Between 1980 and 2006, the share of federal income taxes paid by the top 5 percent jumped from under 37 percent to over 60 percent. During that same period, the share paid by the top 10 percent went from around 49 percent to almost 71 percent.

But Barack thinks that the wealth isn’t being shared enough.

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Well, I warned you.

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The ban follows a spate of cases of lorries becoming wedged between steep banks or stuck under low bridges after drivers trusted directions on their satnav devices.

Highways officials at Gloucestershire County Council had also begun to notice surfaces on country roads never designed for lorries being worn down by extra traffic.

We have the technology.

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Well, what can you expect from somebody named “Jackie”?

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Reminds me of a card I saw once: “Congratulations on getting your charge reduced to simple assault.”

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Just another guy from Mr Obama’s neighborhood.

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

Dogs….

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If McCain were to be a close associate of a white suprmacist neo-Nazi, how would the dinosaur media respond? And yet Obama gets a pass for hobnobbing with Ayers.

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I know why. Now it’s your turn.

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What is it like to get paid — and paid well — for not thinking? I want that job.

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The United Nations, with a headquarters staff of approximately 15,500, is apparently relying on a battalion of retirees to fill important vacancies. The cost of keeping codgers on its payroll to do jobs that full-time employees apparently cannot handle has soared from $33 million in 2004-2005 to $50 million in 2006-2007.

In the process, the world organization appears to have been violating its own limits on how much retirees are allowed to earn after they take a U.N. pension, and how long they can be kept on the job. Those rules were seemingly designed to prevent double-dipping by former workers, or the filling of jobs that might otherwise go to full-time staff.

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

And you’re paying for all of this. Aren’t you proud?

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Oh, say it ain’t so….

McNeil Nutritionals, which markets Splenda, has rejected the study, pointing out that it was part-funded by the Sugar Association  –  which is involved in a U.S. lawsuit critical of Splenda’s marketing claims. The association initially took action against McNeil regarding Splenda’s old slogan of ‘Made like sugar, so it tastes like sugar’.

Well, that’s all right then.

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I was wondering how long it would take them to fix that.

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It remains an explosively flammable gas. I, for one, ain’t ridin’ around with a tank of that under the seat.

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Barack Obama got an unexpected greeting from a voter at the Cape Fear BBQ and Chicken.

“Socialist, socialist, socialist — get out of here!” 54-year-old Diane Fanning yelled when the Democratic presidential nominee made a surprise visit to the restaurant.

Presumably the next few days will reveal that Diane’s name isn’t realy Diane, and she doesn’t actually have a license to address a semi-black Presidential candidate.

Fanning, who works a nearby Sam’s Club, said she’d heard Colin Powell had endorsed Obama but that “Colin Powell is a RINO, R-I-N-O, Republican In Name Only,” she said upset that Obama and his entourage had interrupted her meal.

“This is my one day off,” she muttered.

A famous Republican once said, “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

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The seven-month-old program, one of the most ambitious in the nation, seems to have been derailed by two factors: shortfalls in the state budget, and families dropping private insurance to enroll their children in state-subsidized coverage.

Boy, there’s a shocker — what did they expect would happen?

The major problem with “progressives” is that they’re distributionists — somehow somebody somewhere is going to produce all this wealth that they’re busy “spreading around”. Comes from never having held a real job, I suppose.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

Can’t wait for the movie. Should sell a lot of popcorn.

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Well, submarines are just as easy to find and a lot slower. I think they’ll find that this isn’t a winning strategy.

Brad DeLong captures the essence.

The Bush administration, having entered office as social conservatives, leaves office as conservative socialists, proprietors of the most sudden large expansion of the state’s role in the US economy since mobilisation for the second world war.

As I’ve always sayd – W is just Nixon without the 5-o’clock shadow.

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Change you can believe it.

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Surely they can find another Duke of Parma.

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I can’t say he’s wrong.

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Brian Hubbard has regularly cut and weeded the small patch of grass outside his three-bedroom home since he moved in four years ago.

He also picks up any litter, rakes the leaves and cleans up after the council contractors have left their grass cuttings.

But he has received a letter accusing him of “encroaching” on council land and been told that he must stop tending to the grass and “return the area to its original state within 28 days” or the work would be carried out at his expense.

Well, that’s government for you.

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Ian Carter, 39, was in bed with the girl, 15, when her father walked in on them.

A court heard Carter denied there was anything going on between them even though he had no clothes on

Modern times.

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They prefer Obama, of course.

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God forbid that somebody providing a service should charge more than the insurance company — or the government — thinks is proper.

But several challenges have cropped up in court, from hospitals and docs who say the agency doesn’t have the right to intervene. “We believe our legal authority to protect consumers from balance billing is clear, and we believe our moral authority is even more clear,” the department chief told the LAT.

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And if you believe that one they’ll tell you another one.