Creating Jobs, Government Style

We in New York are always hearing how the government needs to create more jobs. That's what government is for, right? Forget all this protection of liberty and crap-- we want jobs! The government has no problem whatsoever fulfilling this crying need. As a matter of fact, the government is only TOO happy to create more jobs. More GOVERNMENT JOBS.

Federal, state and local governments are hiring new workers at the fastest pace in six years, helping offset job losses in the private sector.

Governments added 76,800 jobs in the first three months of 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports.

That's the biggest jump in first-quarter hiring since a boom in 2002 that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks. By contrast, private companies collectively shed 286,000 workers in the first three months of 2008. That job loss has led many economists to declare the country is in a recession.

Think: these are taxpayer-funded salaries. Boys and girls, who pays the salaries of these new workers? Taxpayers, yes! So if the government is creating more and more jobs for itself, how are we taxpayers going to pay for all these new and increasing salaries? Why, with more and higher taxes!

But the real stinker is: HOW are we going to pay for all these new and higher taxes, especially if the private sector jobs are not growing at the same rate (and they are not, trust me)?

The USA has nearly 88,000 units of government, mostly local, that employ 22 million. Hiring has been strong at every level, from new CIA spies to preschool teachers. Some of what's happening:

•The federal government increased its workforce by 13,800 in the first three months of 2008. Local governments added 47,000 and states 16,000.

•The Rochester, N.Y., school system added 289 teachers while the school population shrank by 1,300 students. It's part of a state-funded effort to reduce class size. New York City is adding 1,300 teachers. Florida and Texas are also hiring to reduce class size.

Why is the government doing this?

Big Bully Brother

How can the government justify taking children from their mothers, placing the mothers in foster care, and harvest the DNA of all family members. No one has been arrested and no has been charged, although there is a warrant for a sex offender who left the "compound" years ago.

Isn't all that the government is doing illegal?

What is the Secret of the Soylent Green?

Is truth really stranger than fiction? I find it peculiar that the old cultish 70s movie, Soylent Green, was recalled with the death of Charleston Heston last week. The secret ingredient in the Soylent Green-- the ingredient that gave "life" to the starving masses-- was people.

It's so uncanny to read headlines like what I saw today:


In Lean Times, BioTech Grains are Less Taboo

Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.

In Japan and South Korea, some manufacturers for the first time have begun buying genetically engineered corn for use in soft drinks, snacks and other foods. Until now, to avoid consumer backlash, the companies have paid extra to buy conventionally grown corn. But with prices having tripled in two years, it has become too expensive to be so finicky.

I don't quite get the connect as to why genetically modified grains can help the food shortage. Isn't the food shortage caused by government-induced energy problems, and subsidies that reward farmers to grow less of one thing in favor of another (the ethanol crock, etc)?

But here's the ringer:

In the United States, wheat growers and marketers, once hesitant about adopting biotechnology because they feared losing export sales, are now warming to it as a way to bolster supplies. Genetically modified crops contain genes from other organisms to make the plants resistance to insects, herbicides or disease.

They use that antiseptic word "organisms," but what it really means is "people," among other living things. The scientists are mixing PEOPLE genes in with grains like rice.

Opponents continue to worry that such crops have not been studied enough and that they might pose risks to health and the environment.

"I think it's pretty clear that price and supply concerns have people thinking a little bit differently today," said Steve Mercer, a spokesman for U.S. Wheat Associates, a federally supported cooperative that promotes American wheat abroad.

Well, Mr. U.S. Wheat Associate, I'd like to see some polls. How about it, American people? Are you OK with eating people's genes in your food?

Too bizarre, just too bizarre. And it sheds new light on why the governments are hell-bent on wrecking the food and energy economies.

Maybe YOU'RE the One Who's Brainwashed

I've heard a lot about the "polygamist" "compound" "raid" these days. I haven't followed the story very much. I don't watch television. However, I do read online news and I do browse weblogs (for Entrecards) on occasion. I have found it very puzzling that so many are calling these Mormons "brainwashed," in particular, the women Mormons.

These people who believe that Joseph Smith heard from an angel and buried some Golden Tablets, and believe that Jesus is actually the archangel Michael and Satan's twin are very, very wrong in their beliefs. And if they have been engaging in perverted antics, they deserve the hand of the law to come down on them. But I am also seeing an interesting pattern amongst, most notably, women bloggers. Particularly women bloggers who watch television. These bloggers (and others, including men!) are sharply critical of the dress, hairstyles, and speech of the women of this cult. It's very odd, and frankly, very bigoted.

Let me ask you a few questions.

1) Who do you find more "brainwashed," those who watch no television or those who watch "American Idol" or "Survivor"? Why?

2) Who do you find more "brainwashed," those who dress like Britney Spears (rather, UNdress like her) or those Mormon women?

3) Who do you find more "brainwashed," those who speak slowly and enunciate all their words, or those who use "whatEVER" and "like" every other word spoken?

4) Who do you find more "brainwashed," children who respect their elders and who are well-spoken, or porn-surfing teens who threaten their mothers?

If you made any choice-- and be honest now-- then you are brainwashed. You have been conditioned by the culture-- especially the media-- to cast a judgmental, bigoted eye on those who don't meet YOUR qualifications of what they should wear, how they should speak, etc. You are just as conditioned as they. There is no difference, except that more people are conditioned YOUR way than THEIR way. You are critical of them because they are not like you. Or, more accurately, because they are not like the media says how people should be.

I recommend you take a good cold hard look at yourself before you judge others. These Mormons are cultish-- absolutely-- and perverted. But how many of you practice "virtual" polygamy? Why do you judge you to be OK and they are not? Maybe YOU are the one who is brainwashed.

The Real Reason

"[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social
structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations."
-- Rowan Gaither, 1954
[Horace Rowan Gaither, Jr.] (1909-1961) Attorney, investment banker, President of the Ford Foundation (1953-1956)

Swabbing the Other Cheek

No, I haven't had my cheek swabbed. But here's hoping none of us gets a traffic violation. Because the Feds are absolutely desperate to own every part of you, especially your DNA.

Using authority granted by Congress, the government also plans to collect DNA samples from foreigners who are detained, whether they have been charged or not. The DNA would be collected through a cheek swab, Justice Department spokesman Erik Ablin said Wednesday. That would be a departure from current practice, which limits DNA collection to convicted felons.

Expanding the DNA database, known as CODIS, raises civil liberties questions about the potential for misuse of such personal information, such as family ties and genetic conditions.

"Civil liberties" nothing! What the blasted @*&!^ happened to the Fourth Amendment in this country?!?! Congress cannot grant anybody the right to infringe our Fourth Amendment!

Gov-Induced Food Crisis

I watch with amazement:

The U.S. is wrestling with the worst food inflation in 17 years, and analysts expect new data due on Wednesday to show it's getting worse. That's putting the squeeze on poor families and forcing bakeries, bagel shops and delis to explain price increases to their customers.

U.S. food prices rose 4 percent in 2007, compared with an average 2.5 percent annual rise for the last 15 years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And the agency says 2008 could be worse, with a rise of as much as 4.5 percent.

Higher prices for food and energy are again expected to play a leading role in pushing the government's consumer price index higher for March.

This is a government-induced problem. THAT's what the headline really should be. The U.S. government and, interestingly enough, several other governments of the world, are literally producing crises in energy and food.

1. Why is the media so reluctant to say that?

2. Why are the governments doing it?

USDA economist Ephraim Leibtag explained the jumps in a recent presentation to the Food Marketing Institute, starting with the factors everyone knows about: sharply higher commodity costs for wheat, corn, soybeans and milk, plus higher energy and transportation costs.

The other reasons are more complex. Rapid economic growth in China and India has increased demand for meat there, and exports of U.S. products, such as corn, have set records as the weak dollar has made them cheaper. That's lowered the supply of corn available for sale in the U.S., raising prices here. Ethanol production has also diverted corn from dinner tables and into fuel tanks.

That's not an explanation. The high gas prices, caused by demand for corn-fuel, are making the cost of corn higher. And because of things like the Farm Bill, farmers are given incentives to plant less corn. That's circular reasoning, and is meant to "put us off" from the issue. Go back to your sports games and Desperate Housewives, America. Everything is under control.

Obviously. Things are very much controlled.

AK Fed Court: No Jail For ID Refusal

I have respect for the police departments in this country. They are in the line of fire every day. but they have no right to manhandle citizens or to take the law into their own hands. It was such an encouragement to read this news article:

LITTLE ROCK - A police officer does not have the authority to arrest someone for refusing to identify himself when he is not suspected of committing a crime, a federal appeals panel ruled Friday.

The decision by a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis reversed an Arkansas federal judge's ruling and ordered a new hearing in a Benton County man's lawsuit challenging his arrest for refusing to show his identification during a traffic stop.

"It is amazing how many times I have had people convicted for doing the same thing," said Rogers attorney Doug Norwood. "You have to have a reasonable suspicion that the individual person is either committing a crime or about to."

The police apparently stopped the driver for no real reason. No citation was given the driver. But the police officer demanded to see the driver's ID. The driver, aware of his rights as an American citizen, refused.

The police officer marched back to his car, requested backup, handcuffed the driver and put him in jail, charged with "obstructing governmental operations." Uh huh. Isn't it amazing that suddenly the will of the officer became "government." Scary, actually.

The case was dismissed in district court, but the driver (named Mr. Shufflebeam), still very well aware of his rights and the repercussions of such actions, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit.

U.S. District Court Judge Jimm Hendren dismissed the lawsuit, ruling the trooper had qualified immunity as a police officer and that Stufflebeam failed to state a claim. Stufflebeam appealed to the 8th Circuit.

In its ruling Friday, the federal court panel referenced a 2004 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that "an officer may not arrest a suspect for failure to identify himself if the request for identification is not reasonably related to the circumstances justifying the stop."

There was no evidence Stufflebeam was trying to obstruct justice when he refused to identify himself, the appeals court said.

"Thus, the primary question ... is whether Arkansas law permits a police officer to arrest a person for refusing to identify himself when he is not suspected of other criminal activity and his identification is not needed to protect officer safety or to resolve whatever reasonable suspicions prompted the officer to initiate an ongoing traffic stop. We conclude it does not," the court said.

The court also said the state trooper did not have qualified immunity from the lawsuit under state statute.

Qualified immunity protects public officials "from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have," the court said, adding that the trooper "acted contrary to the plain meaning" of the state statute.

Justice triumphs again. It's a pity that our fourth amendments rights have to be constantly defended against such ignorance and bully-tactics. No governmental officer is above the law.

Points to Ponder

"No taxation without representation."
-- Jonathan Mayhew
(1720-1766) Founding Father, clergyman, minister

"Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive,
for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice
in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote
for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation."
-- Karl Marx, Father of Communism, Author of the 'Communist Manifesto'

"Taxation with representation ain't so hot either."
-- Gerald Barzan, humorist

"Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system."
-- James A. Traficant, Jr.
(1941- ) U.S. Representative from Ohio

What Constitution?

Ron Paul talks tough. I cannot believe that these generals are not run out of town. Then again, I can't believe that most of Congress, the president, and the cabinet are not run out of town. Whatever happened to our Constitution being the law of the land?

In the video, General Petraeus is questioned whether he would ever support a "pre-emptive" strike on Iran without congressional approval (aka constitutional approval). And the general softshoes around the issue, saying all he knows about is Iraq right now! Ron Paul lambastes the dunces.

What Is It With Murderers and Jesus?

Why do murderers and other sordid criminals always have to include Jesus in their deeds? Why can't they ever say that Joseph Smith or Darwin or Zoroaster "caused" them to commit their crimes? Oh yeah, it's it's not like the murderers are ever responsible for their crimes. That's Jesus' fault. Here:

UTICA —A 19-year-old Clinton youth admitted Thursday in Oneida County Court that bizarre delusions in January caused him to believe he had to kill his grandfather Edward Bogan in order to save himself.

“During that time, I thought I was Jesus, and that if I killed my grandfather I would be in prison and unable to be crucified,” Kevin Adams told Judge Michael L. Dwyer moments before pleading insanity in Bogan’s death.

Although Adams was charged with second-degree murder for killing 80-year-old Bogan, Adams was allowed to plead “not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect.” As a result, Adams will be committed to a psychiatric facility for further mental treatment instead of serving prison time.

Oh yeah. Like, Mr. Judge Sir, like, I was temporarily "insane," for, like, you know, a couple of hours. I was watching movies, and like, totally lost my responsibility. So, like, you know, I'm sorry. OK? Jesus made me do it. That *$@^#&^$ Jesus-- it's all HIS fault, you know? Can I go home now? I've got some friends coming over and we don't wanna miss our DVD carnival. You agree with me? You, like, totally hate Jesus too? OK, great. So we're cool. Well, thanks, man!

Memo to heathen teen: Jesus didn't kill anybody. Not even to save Himself. Maybe you ought to skip the Jamie Foxx movies and see Ben Hur or The Gospel of John next time.

Sacred Honor

Man is either governed by his own laws -- freedom -- or the laws of another -- slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life, and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures. It is incontestable that Americans are entitled to freedom. -Alexander Hamilton

Scientists Are Too Darn Serious

Ever hear that expression said to rebuff someone overly excited, "He practically had a cow!"

Science guys, we weren't being serious!!

Hey, uh, ever hear that old folk song "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep"?

One of these nights about twelve o'clock, this old world's gonna reel and rock

Pharoah's army got drownded. Oh, Mary don't you weep.

God gave Noah the rainbow sign, "No more water, but fire next time!"

Pharoah's army got drownded. Oh, Mary don't you weep.

Ya Think?

Surprise! That "foreign" wiretapping bill to "monitor" "terrorists" and NEVER to be used as a means to "spy" on the "American" "people" is being used to spy on the American people.

It all depends on what:

foreign is
monitor is
terrorist is
spy is
American is
people is

Those definitions are up for grabs a lot these days.

And John McCain is bellyaching that Americans are "cynical." YA THINK!?

P.S. How does he know this?

If She Was a Preacher, They'd Have Nailed Her Long Ago

Sexual pervert and a preacher? DIE DIE DIE.

Sexual pervert and a teacher? Say I'm sorry and get back to work.

This puts the lame excuse "it's for the children" in a new and horrifying light.

An Oswego woman-- a 42-year old teacher and cheerleading coach-- was finally arrested after a history of sexual misconduct with one of her students. Apparently, Jennifer Dempsey has been doing this for a few months now (at least, that's what school officials said). When they first caught wind, they gave her a "letter of reprimand" and made her promise she would be very, very good. Oh, and her salary was reduced, too. I'm sure Oswego residents noticed the dramatic drop in tax charges when that happened. And still, students flowed in and out of the halls of learning. Yep, they were all learning stuff...

Well, Dempsey kept her promise. For a week or two. Then she was back at it. A snoopy mother (darn those interfering parents with their old-fashioned value systems!) found improper text messages in her son's phone. The whole story of sexual perversion and favors from teacher came spilling out. Not that it was a great big secret anyway. Half the school and some other adults suspected it.

So, what I'd like to know is, how many parents pulled their kids out of the schools after hearing this?

P.S. The teacher is on administrative leave and IS STILL GETTING HER PAY.

Remember, "it's for the children."

A PR Firm for a School?

I was not surprised to hear it, but rather to hear them admit it in the open: a school in my area has hired a PR firm to pump up favor for a "capital project vote."

So... indoctrinating the kids to nag the taxpayers isn't working anymore?

Kids These Days, Sheesh

News tonight reporting 11-year olds planning to murder their teacher. They even brought weapons from home to do the deed, and had one kid specifically assigned to mop up teacher's blood.

Where do you think these kids got this idea from?

Dastardly Deeds

It comes as no surprise that the government would have its very own public relations department. And it is now no surprise that they unabashedly have a propaganda department. Joseph Goebels' style.

Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers'

A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested "clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers."

Since the start of the Iraq war, there's been a raucous debate in military circles over how to handle blogs -- and the servicemembers who want to keep them. One faction sees blogs as security risks, and a collective waste of troops' time. The other (which includes top officers, like Gen. David Petraeus and Lt. Gen. William Caldwell) considers blogs to be a valuable source of information, and a way for ordinary troops to shape opinions, both at home and abroad.

They've already got the media and the talk-show hosts. Now they want the blogosphere. Well, this blogger is not for hire, and I don't expect to be paying much attention to those who are patsies. But this is quite foreboding:

In her 2006 paper, Denning warns that blogs can and will be used by America's enemies. These sites, she argues, can also be used to serve U.S. government interests.

...Also, taking down a site that is known to pass enemy EEIs (essential elements of information) and that gives us their key messages denies us a valuable information source. This is not to say that once the information passed becomes redundant or is superseded by a better source that the site should be taken down.

At that point the enemy blog might be used covertly as a vehicle for friendly information operations. Hacking the site and subtly changing the messages and data—merely a few words or phrases—may be sufficient to begin destroying the blogger’s credibility with the audience. (emphasis mine)

Better yet, if the blogger happens to be passing enemy communications and logistics data, the information content could be corrupted. If the messages are subtly tweaked and the data corrupted in the right way, the enemy may reason that the blogger in question has betrayed them and either take down the site (and the blogger) themselves, or by threatening such action, give the U.S. an opportunity to offer the individual amnesty in exchange for information.

[stunned silence]

Hamburger and a Hair Cut, Two Bits

An $81 dollar hamburger in New York City.

The west side restaurant Tuesday turned the favorite American classic into a Japanese luxury when it unveiled its 18-ounce $81 burger, made from the highest grade of Japanese Kobe Wagyu.

Each burger is made with 14 ounces of the high-end Japanese beef and 4 ounces of barely-seared sirloin Wagyu medallion tucked inside. It comes with Executive Chef Oscar Martinez's own sake onion ketchup, miso and ginger aioli, and a side of tater tots.

Sherry, who owns the restaurant with his brother Marc, came up with the idea for the burger last year when they decided they wanted to create "the most decadent food item of 2008." While Marc came up with the idea for the Kobe burger, Greg says he decided adding the s medallion into the center would take it to perfection.

What kind of people would patronize this restaurant and pay such prices? Who do you think of instantly? Celebrities? Yeah. Who else? Politicians! We've all heard of their penchant for luxury. What a disgrace that politicians would even think of such excessive waste, but it's become their norm and speaks volumes of how they govern the country. Well, this ought to go well with their $5,000 haircuts and $20,000 jet-fuel costs.