"My bill to interfere with doctors prescribing pain meds

is not intended to interfere with that."
These people truly suck.  Unfortunately, the chances of most journalists actually calling her on this and pinning her down is just about zero.


You're going to be interviewed by a leftist, record it.


Short version of Occasional-Cortex and Comrade Mayor: "Too many of the wrong minority are getting into this school.  And they're practically white anyway.  Standards must be lo- er, adjusted so more of the right people get in."


He now believes the center is “nothing more a than a hollow PR move by the University of California system to gain political cachet in DC.”
Considering the state of 'free speech' in Californicated, anyone surprised?

"We've got to discourage those people from home-schooling!

Their results make the public schools look bad, and the kids don't get indoctrinated properly!"
And the teachers unions, who give all that money, hate school choice and home schooling.

Let us move to another level of stupid combined with 'Giving control of all this over to the experts

will save us from the Global Syndemic!'

What the hell is the Syndemic, you may ask?  Why, it's three connected pandemics that threaten us all:
Climate Change
Obesity
Undernutrition.

And who's behind this evil?  Why, Big Food, of course!

And, as noted above, giving the experts like the international team of more than 40 experts control over our food and all connected with it will save us.

Everyone who reads this piece of crap and thinks "One more excuse for 'elites' to tell all the peasants how to live", raise your hand.

Damn, that created quite a breeze.

The research team – co-chaired by Swinburn and obesity prevention researcher William Dietz from George Washington University – began investigating their project three years ago, initially with a sole mandate to explore the drivers of obesity. 

It was only when they zoomed out on the seemingly intractable nature of the dilemma that the bigger, over-arching issue – The Global Syndemic – came into focus.
You'll notice that there's zero mention that bullshit nutritional science from experts that told us meat and fat were bad and to eat carbohydrates is behind a lot of the obesity problem; they're EXPERTS, and cannot be wrong!

And this prize line from the author:
Of course, not everybody agrees with the villainous characterisation of Big Food's key players; specifically, disagreement comes from their spokespersons.
Yeah, nobody else would have any problem with it, right?

I have no idea who Dockrill is, but I've a pretty good idea what he is.  And there may be a helicopter ride in his future.

Oh, Canada,

you really are screwed.

You could be in violation of the impaired driving laws even two hours after you’ve been driving. Now, the onus is on drivers to prove they weren’t impaired when they were on the road.

“It’s ridiculous, it’s basically criminalizing you having a drink at your kitchen table,” Paul Doroshenko, a Vancouver criminal defence lawyer who specializes in impaired driving cases, told Global News.


“If you start to drink after you get home, the police show up at your door, they can arrest you, detain you, take you back to the (police station) and you can be convicted because your blood alcohol concentration was over 80 milligrams (per 100 millilitres of blood) in the two hours after you drove.”
The politicians behind this need to be hanged.

"At least Obama stood up to Putin!"

Right.


Ah, SuperJews, is there nothing they cannot do!
(or it could be that this is a tectonically active area, and earthquakes happen, but why mention that when you can blame the JOOOOOS! for doing something evil?)


No, slavery wasn't invented in the US.  That a bunch of idiot teachers actually teach this is a testament to either
They are incompetent and ignorant of history,
or
They know they're lying to their students.


Someone mentioned an old prayer: "Lord, make my enemies stupid."  Well, yeah, that works.
When your "He's destroying relations with allies!  He's insulting NATO!" noise is based on "You need to pay what you agreed to for your own defense", you have a problem.

I'm with Michael Z. Williamson: He wasn't my choice, but it's worth having him there for the sake of watching the left absolutely lose their shit whenever he does- well, anything.


Short version of control freak: "This may mean money that we don't know you have, and if we don't know if you have it how can we tax you on it?  Also terrorists and criminals!"

Which reminds me of a law professor wanting to get rid of $50 and $100 bills because 'Criminals use them'. 

Over in New Mexico, the land of roadside anal-cavity searches

and other abuses, someone needs to plant a boot in the asses of Nate Gentry and Daniel Ivey-Soto.
At least two New Mexico lawmakers don't want students to be able to collect a high school diploma unless they have a state-approved post-graduation plan.

To be clear, the students can't simply tell their school counselors what their plans are. The bill—HB23, introduced by Nate Gentry, a Republican, and Daniel Ivey-Soto, a Democrat—gives teens a small menu of approved choices. To get their diplomas, students have to commit to one of the following:

• Attending college (either four-year or two-year)
• Participating in a trade or vocational program
• Getting an internship or apprenticeship
• Military service

Note the gigantic, important option missing: getting a job. The original draft of the legislation did include that among the choices, but it's been crossed out in the current version.
Asshats apparently think the students lives should be under state control as much as possible.  If this crap passes, everyone who votes 'yes' should be removed from office.

Things like this are why someone announcing 'Child Protective Services'

should result in locking the door and calling a lawyer.  Possibly opening fire.

EVERY idiot involved in this, from the cops to the CPS clowns, should be fired.  And the CPS clowns should then be flogged through the town, and then hanged.
“The social workers did not have reasonable cause to believe the children were at risk of serious bodily harm or molestation,” a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit wrote. “Therefore, viewing the record most favorably to the Demarees, the defendants acted unconstitutionally in taking the three children away from home without judicial authorization.”
And just how did that happen?
...Anticipating child exploitation charges to be brought, she decided to take the children into emergency temporary custody. Though she lacked a court order or warrant, her supervisor approved the decision. The two older children were driven to one foster home, the 18-month-old to another, according to court documents. Eventually, they were moved to their grandparents’ house.
Whipping post.  Whip.  Noose.  CPS clowns; some assembly required.

Because someone suffering in severe pain is FAR less important

than "Someone somewhere might misuse this stuff!"
To sum up, thus far, I had to drive across town in rush hour traffic to receive my precious permission slip because, due to federal regulations, doctors cannot simply call in a prescription for narcotics. The first nine pharmacies I went to were out of the drug because they may only receive X amount of narcotics at any given time.

Due to federal regulations, the soonest they could have the drug delivered to them would be three to four business days. And, due to yet more regulations, they cannot disclose over the phone whether or not they have any of the narcotics in stock, so a patient must go, in person, prescription in hand, to the pharmacy to find out if the prescription can even be filled. Once they filled it, in order for me to receive the medicine, I had to present a valid, state-issued photo ID.
I think I mentioned once being in an ER due to a metal rod getting stuck in my arm, and when they started to give me morphine I said "That doesn't work on me."  Nurse looked at me like I'd just asked for my drug of choice and a syringe to self-administer and asked how I knew that.  I explained, she gave it to me anyway.  And then was shocked when it didn't work, and wanted to give me MORE of it...

Yeah, I know some people get drugs for the purpose of getting high; that's not a good reason to keep people in pain from getting what they need.  And damned if we need some bureaucrat or agent at DEA deciding your doctor isn't giving you what/how much they approve of.

Once again, you idiots: 1984 was a WARNING,

not a friggin' 'how-to' guide.
Ontario announced earlier this month that it will become the fourth Canadian government to fund a behavioral modification application that rewards users for making “good choices” in regards to health, finance, and the environment. The Carrot Rewards smartphone app, which will receive $1.5 million from the Ontario government, credits users’ accounts with points toward the reward program of their choice in exchange for reaching step goals, taking quizzes and surveys, and engaging in government-approved messages.
Oh, no, nothing creepy about that at all.  Especially this part:
Carrot Rewards is free to download, and users receive 200 points just by downloading the app and answering a few questions (the answers don’t have to be correct). Sending an invitation code to friends will also gain users points, as the government is happy to track the daily activity of as many citizens as possible — which, by the way, the app can do even when it is not “active.” In order to use the app, users are giving Carrot Insights and the federal government permission to “access and collect information from your mobile device, including but not limited to, geo-location data, accelerometer/gyroscope data, your mobile device’s camera, microphone, contacts, calendar and Bluetooth connectivity in order to operate additional functionalities of the Services.”

The Soviet Union would've freakin' loved this, the PRC is doing something similar, and I'd bet the EUnuchs will be pushing it real soon.

Because it's for your own good, peas- er, citizens.

Well, hell, with crap like this coming to light

why WOULD you trust the system?
A Texas man is battling a court order that mandates he must pay tens of thousands in child support for a child whom he did not biologically father and whom he met only once.
This is utter bullshit.  And the woman should be prosecuted for fraud.  Or perjury.  Possibly both.


From the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey.  With a side note from the People's Republic of Californicated.

New Jersey will consider allowing law enforcement officials to access the state's prescription drug monitoring database without a court order. 

The legislation, which was introduced Tuesday, is meant to combat the opioid crisis, but brings up questions of patient rights to privacy versus the government's ability to investigate so-called doctor shopping.

"Privacy?  What is this word, and why do you want people to die?"  etc.
In California, the Supreme Court ruled recently that the state Medical Board can dig through prescription drug records without a warrant or subpoena.
"Because we're saving you from yourselves, filthy peasants."

"Yes, yes, you need this for pain, but

some people abuse it, so NOBODY should have it."

Which means people who actually need it will suffer, but the nannies will feel very virtuous about themselves, and that's what really counts.

Makes you wonder if the control freaks demanding this have ever been in actual physical pain of high degree.

Following in the steps of (formerly Great)Britain is the PROM:

"Some people have used a glass as a weapon, so WE MUST BAN GLASS GLASSES IN BARS!"


My, how Soviet of them.  Just change 'commissars' to 'Bias Response Teams' so as to disguise things a bit.

Civil rights victory. And, once again, it's a ruling against Chicago.

You'd think they'd get tired of being told "Stop this crap.  NOW."
Chicago’s gun range regulations ban, among other things, anyone younger than 18 from going to a shooting range within city limits. Yesterday’s 7th Circuit opinion in Ezell v. City of Chicago, written by Judge Diane Sykes, joined by Judge Michael Kanne and largely agreed with by Judge Ilana Rovner, struck that down:

Just how bad did Chicago get spanked?
The City staked most of its case on the categorical argument and made little effort to justify prohibiting older adolescents and teens from engaging in supervised target practice at a range. Its rationale rests largely on an argument from “common sense” about public safety and the safety of children. Yet even common sense does not lie with the City.

In what must have come as a surprise to the City, Commissioner Krimbel, the City’s own witness on this subject, actually agreed with the plaintiffs’ attorney that banning anyone under 18 from entering a shooting range goes too far and extends beyond legitimate safety concerns. Here’s a taste: “I will give you this: I believe [the age restriction] is inartfully drafted because it seem[s] clear to me that the purpose of it is to not have kids running around unsupervised.” And this: “[Y]ou might want to draft that a little bit differently” because shooting ranges are a “good place” to teach a youngster “how to fire a rifle.” And this: “In fact, my own son took a shooting class when he was 12, so I’m well aware of the fact it’s okay to teach a young person how to shoot a gun properly.” Commissioner Krimbel also conceded that the City lacked any data or empirical evidence to justify its blanket no-one-under-18 rule.
That's because there is none; this was based on "We do not like it, so it must be banned."  Which isn't exactly a legal argument.

"We're keeping you safe, ungrateful peasants, so shut up

and be healthy while you starve!"


Canada has gone all (formerly Great)Britian:
Jeff McCarthy says for the last 25 years, whenever he is walking the streets of Montreal in his kilt, he also has a Scottish traditional knife protruding from his right sock.
...
But McCarthy ran into trouble on his way to play the bagpipes at McGill University's fall convocation at Place-des-Arts Wednesday. 

He was stopped by Montreal police officers and fined $220 for carrying a knife in public.
Besides the general stupid of this, get the law in question:
McCarthy was ticketed under a municipal bylaw that prohibits anyone from carrying a knife or "similar weapon" in a public place or transit vehicle "without a reasonable excuse.
You need a friggin' EXCUSE to carry a basic tool in Canada?  Screw that.


More wonders of the Venezuelan Socialist Revolution: more dead children.


I'd say 'bully' is a polite word: what leftists really want is to run censorship and control over everyone.

Yuck.  Not just for the election.  It's raining, I'm still sick, and I'd just about kill someone for a big platter of enchiladas.  See you later.

When just about everybody not getting a city paycheck says you're a law-abusing jerk,

you have a problem.
So who is standing in the way. At the top, Mayor Bill de Blasio. Let me lay down a little bit of truth:

When the NY Times, NAACP, ACLU, WSJ, and NRA all come together to hold hands on something and agree that you are being tyrannical asshole, you know you screwed up.

It is hard to be so wrong about something that that the the NY Times, NAACP, ACLU, WSJ, and NRA are simultaneously right in calling you out on it, but de Blasio managed to be that wrong.
Short version: the NYPD has been abusing the definition of a 'gravity knife' to pump up their arrest numbers(i.e. 'pretend we're actually doing something worthwhile'), and throwing a bunch of honest citizens in jail.  Which has led to all kinds of lawsuits, cases being thrown out, etc.  But Comrade Mayor and his CoP can't stand the idea of losing a power to control the commoners and are screaming against any changes.
Oh look… the head of the organization that got caught red handed abusing a law using to unjustifiably arrest tradesmen is telling them what tools they should be using.
Of course.  Because he's a .gov minion, so obviously he knows what's best for everyone, in every way.

Wonderful people, aren't they?

Speaking of nanny-state idiots,

they'll steal your kids lunch if it doesn't meet their 'standards'.  And most of the bureaucrats running the schools don't care.


Since I can't get on Fecesbook, someone needs to pass this along to Michael Z. Williamson:
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Social Democrats, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Social Democrat. And then they realized that all their problems had pretty much been solved, so they stopped coming for people.
-Slavic Nationalist on GAB


Also stolen from Ace,

And this is why it's not just the Stupid Party, but the Backstabber and Treacherous Bastard party:
Take, for instance, McConnell’s botched response to the Orlando terrorist attack this summer. Self-described master-parliamentarian that he is, the Senate majority leader carefully maneuvered legislation so as to allow Blunt and other vulnerable GOP senators to get on record supporting a bipartisan gun control measure while staying loyal to the deep pockets at the NRA.

McConnell first brought up a bill from Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine (F, 10%), prohibiting people on terrorist watch lists from purchasing firearms. This measure was deeply unpopular among conservatives and the gun lobby. Blunt and company voted against it. McConnell then allowed a vote on a bill from Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. (F, 56%), which, because it had no chance of passing, earned a yay vote from the Blunt cohort.

Not only did McConnell succumb to the Left’s pressure to schedule a gun control vote — thus capitulating the election season narrative and forcing conservatives to play defense — but he also did it so that his underling loyalists could go home and campaign on a bipartisan record without ticking off their financial pipelines. This is special interest politics at its worst.
And the bastards can't count on hiding it anymore, or denying it.


From the control freaks in Seattle,
"All types of micro-housing," he writes, "unlock more affordable and small but independent homes for people who want them. They are one more option to serve the broad spectrum of housing needs."

But soon after the trend started, the Seattle government stepped in with a series of rules and regulations designed, presumably, to protect renters. In 2014, Neiman says, a Seattle court ruled that all micro-housing projects had to go through a cumbersome design review process.
And on, until
Neiman says that, as a result, a building that could have accommodated 40 apartments at 175 square feet each that rent for $900 a month can now hold only 21 of the government-mandated larger units, with rents of around $1,400 a month.

"Spread over dozens of proposed small unit development projects, this represents the loss of hundreds of affordable dwellings and a huge increase in average rents," he notes.
So the question is, is it simply control-freak bureaucrats screwing people for their own good, or is there some payoff from people building regular houses and apartments?

Because the FDA is just another bunch of gods-cursed nanny-minded bureaucrats

who want to control everything in life.  For your own good, of course.

There's not enough cherry trees and lampposts in DC for the politicians and bureaucrats both, the decorations will need to extend into the countryside.

In this episode of 'Child Service flunkies who should be flogged',

we have these miserable scuts from Indiana.
In 2005, Jessica Salyer, 14, died from prescription errors. A year and a half later, her parents Roman and Lynnette Finnegan, were arrested on neglect charges -- accused of beating Salyer to death.

Investigators said there were signs of blunt force trauma to Salyer's head and multiple signs of internal bleeding. However, experts testified that the internal bleeding was caused by Salyer's heart medication and that the trauma to the head was a result of an autopsy.
I'll let you reflect on that: lose a child to a bloody prescription problem, and THEN these indescribably-nasty wastes of oxygen do this to you.

But wait!  There's MORE(always more with these)!!
However, DCS would not clear the allegations from the family's file. Over the span of 10 years, attorneys for the Finnegan's said DCS made their life "a living hell." Two of their children were placed in foster care for nine months. They also exhumed Jessica's body after she had been buried.

After the arrest and accusations, Roman Finnegan lost his job. The family also lost their home and possessions.
Because being with DCS means they never stop screwing with you, especially when they already screwed you over.

They've now lost a seriously big lawsuit over this incompetence and viciousness.  And they're appealing, of course.


So, there's been lots of cases of people faking being cops to pull(mostly) women over.  Woman sees lights behind her in a very dark, lonely area, makes signals to show she sees them, drives to well-lighted area and stops.  Officer arrests her for a felony crime of resisting arrest.  Yeah, that's great.  Just brilliant.

The prosecutor has dropped the charges, because "Upon review of the circumstances of the incident as well as information learned after the incident, it was determined that a dismissal of the charges was in the best interests of justice," he said.  Which translates to "We're catching so much crap over this, and EVERYBODY'S pissed at us, so let's make it go away."  They still say the officer did the right thing(of course), but 'we'll let the peasant go on this one.'

That's really great public relations, guys.


A: Read all of this.  The opening covers quite nicely just how screwed-up the FBI is:
The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000.

Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s microscopic hair comparison unit, 26 overstated forensic matches in ways that favored prosecutors in more than 95 percent of the 268 trials reviewed so far, according to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) and the Innocence Project, which are assisting the government with the country’s largest post-conviction review of questioned forensic evidence.

B: How unreliable is this crap?
The FBI is waiting to complete all reviews to assess causes but has acknowledged that hair examiners until 2012 lacked written standards defining scientifically appropriate and erroneous ways to explain results in court. The bureau expects this year to complete similar standards for testimony and lab reports for 19 forensic disciplines.
Really?  You've been using this crap for decades and there's NO WRITTEN STANDARDS?
But these bastards will insist "It's all good now, you can trust us."

"Some speech is too dangerous to allow."

Such as anything arguing with globular warmening.

Wonder what he'll have to say when someone uses the same reasoning to try to shut him up?


And once again reality intrudes on "We deserve $15/hour!"
But Cuomo’s idea of “economic justice” is a long way from the dollars-and-cents reality of running a burger business. If labor costs rise dramatically, White Castle will have to balance its books by raising prices or changing its business model so that it needs less labor.

“Is there any room to raise prices to cover costs?” Richardson muses. “We think we’d need to increase menu prices by something like 50 percent. It’s not something we’ve done before. It’d be catastrophic.”

In fact, Richardson says that White Castle has historically seen its customers react noticeably to even slight increases in menu prices. “Some people think that we can just raise menu prices to cover the increased labor costs,” he says. “But it’s a ripple effect. We’re not the only place to eat, we compete with other restaurants. And people always have ‘L cubed’: Making Leftovers Last Longer.”


'Implied Consent' my ass, it's  "If you want to drive, you'll do anything we say."
Under the first-of-its-kind legislation proposed in New York, drivers involved in accidents would have to submit their phone to roadside testing from a textalyzer to determine whether the driver was using a mobile phone ahead of a crash. In a bid to get around the Fourth Amendment right to privacy, the textalyzer allegedly would keep conversations, contacts, numbers, photos, and application data private. It will solely say whether the phone was in use prior to a motor-vehicle mishap. Further analysis, which might require a warrant, could be necessary to determine whether such usage was via hands-free dashboard technology and to confirm the original finding.

"You can't do that without getting a warrant"

seems like a good thing.  Now there's another question:
The judges also accused Baltimore authorities of misleading the lower-court judge who had approved their use of the device, commonly known as a stingray.
Will said Baltimore authorities pay any price for 'misleading the court'?   The way a plain old citizen would?


I think Fireclean is making a big mistake here, both on general "Why stir up a mess that's not actually a big one?" terms and "You've never heard of the Streisand Effect, have you?"  Because this is going to get them a LOT of publicity, damn little of it good.


This headline brought to you by idiots who've never been hungry.
And their answer is 'we need to have more control over what and how much people eat."  Of course.


That's it for now, see you whenever there's time next.