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Archive for the 'Your Tax Dollars In Action' Category

Create a Wishlist and Get Sued By A-Holes

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Insider

An Open Letter to Channel Intelligence:
In conflict to your patent, Independent Sources has created a wishlist:

1. Patent Reform to stop idiots like you from abusing a broken process.
2. Tax Reform so I don’t have to have a Phd to fill out my tax forms.
3. Personal responsibility to return to our society.
4. “Get Smart” DVD.

Well, that’s […]

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HelloRocky on Dodd

Monday, July 7th, 2008 by Insider

The folks behind the always funny HelloRocky.com have adopted an investigative journalism slant and hit a bulls-eye with this piece on Senator Dodd and the “Friends of Angelo”:
The pompous dunderbutt just crafted a bill to provide $300 billion in taxpayer loan guarantees to Countrywide Financial Corp. and others. While this was going on it […]

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Math sucks, so let’s make math students hate their lives

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 by Chad

Yeah, that’ll help em learn. At least that seems to be the theory of Social Justice Math.
Dedicated to integrating issues of social and economic justice into math instruction with questions like:
Using the data in the following table calculate the average number of monthly casualties in Iraq as if you were a pentagon spokesman. […]

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King/Drew Sequel; Woman Dies on Floor While Janitor Sweeps Around Her

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 by Insider

King/Drew supporter Maxine Waters

Two years ago we wrote about the fiscal and medical disaster called King/Drew hospital:

In the latest inspection of the hospital, federal officials cited several major medical errors, including a patient who waited to be seen in King/Drew’s emergency room for more than 13 hours without a medical screening. He later died of […]

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Woman responsible for “providing personal, social and academic support” to high school students arrested in $2.6 million fraud

Thursday, May 31st, 2007 by Insider

Sabrina Walker, 37, is a high school counselor and whose job is to help kids navigate the difficult choices they have to make in life. It is hard to imagine a less qualified individual as she possesses the deadly combination of being incredibly stupid and morally corrupt.
In March, due to a clerical error, Walker received […]

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Don’t think we need legal reform? Dry Cleaning “Suit” Should Change Your Mind

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 by Insider

Man files $67 million lawsuit for a lost pair of pants. Targets Korean Immigrants Just Trying to Make a Living.
The really, really scary thing is that the lunatic plaintiff in this non-case is a judge. Yes, he’s the person that is supposed to protect society from this type of lawsuit abuse. He is either […]

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“Elected” official receives zero votes and “wins”; The people have spoken

Sunday, April 8th, 2007 by Insider

I can see getting just one vote, but to run for office and fail to even get your own vote?
Joe Selle was running unopposed for City Council of Ward 3, Missouri, but Selle and Ward 3’s other 34 registered voters all forgot that Tuesday was election day. No one voted for anyone. […]

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Then Murdered His Roomate

Saturday, March 17th, 2007 by Insider

Forcing psychotics to take drugs against their will is not a great plan, however it’s better than the alternative of letting clearly delusional and dangerous individuals become human time bombs inside institutions and on the streets. So why don’t we drug them? Ask the California Supreme Court which felt that coercive administration of medication could […]

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Why yes, we do need tort reform

Thursday, March 1st, 2007 by Insider

From Marginal Revolution:

In Race, Poverty and American Tort Awards (and here), Eric Helland and I show that tort awards increase strongly with county poverty rates especially with minority poverty. A 1% increase in black poverty rates, for example, can increase tort awards by 3-10 percent with a similar increase in Hispanic poverty rates. […]

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San Bernardino’s Losing Fight Against Award-Winning Strip Club

Monday, February 26th, 2007 by Insider

San Bernardino, a city perhaps best known for meth labs and the Hells Angeles, has been bleeding money for over a decade in its “tilting against windmills” fight against the Flesh Club, which bills itself as “Southern California’s Ultimate Showgirl Experience.” [Also, according to their website they were “Voted #1 in Nude Lap Dances,” no […]

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I knew there was a reason to support stem cell research

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007 by Chad

I also knew there was a reason California voters approved that multi-billion dollar stem cell initiative and it had nothing to do with curing Parkinson’s disease.
And here it is:
Stem cell technique helps women grow their own implants
Women have grown their own breast implants through pioneering stem cell treatment, it emerged yesterday.
Scientists harvested the stem cells […]

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NASA-Style Fatal Attraction; Love-sick psychotic spacewoman flips out on “rival”

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 by Insider

Pop Quiz: Which one of the gals below is a NASA astronaut and which one is a love-sick, psychotic b*tch from hell?

It was a trick question: they’re both psychotic nut cases and if you are a man you are best to stay clear unless you want to find your pet rabbit in the cooker or […]

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Apparently this is true; apparently someone needs their legal asses kicked

Friday, February 2nd, 2007 by Insider

From the Kentucky Herald-Leader:
Three Death Row inmates say the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for executions and want a federal judge to issue an injunction to stop the state from using the drugs until it complies with federal drug laws.
Not a joke and not […]

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Why it’s called “Internal Affairs”

Thursday, December 14th, 2006 by Insider

Officer Michael Berkow

Would you want to see this man walking around
in pajama bottoms at work? Neither would we.
Latest LAPD hijinx involves the above-pictured senior Internal Affairs officer trading promotions and other forms of preferential treatment for hot, steamy, nasty-ass sex (okay we’ve thrown in a few adjectives to make good copy).
In a lawsuit filed […]

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Don’t even get me started about my town’s mayor…Captain Merrill Stubing!

Monday, December 4th, 2006 by Insider

Okay, he’s an “honorary” mayor. But Captain Stubing is my town’s mayor. Shouldn’t I have some sort of say in this? I guess he beats the previous guy…the always-zany Steve Guttenberg.

In fact, looking at all of the previous ‘mayors’ of Pacific Palisades one sees a ‘who’s who’ of bad actors (with a few exceptions):

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