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Must Reads For The Week 11/17/18

November 18, 2018

 

THE ANOINTED FORCE THEIR WORLD VIEW ON THE MASSES

Airbnb Made D.C. Affordable For Tourists. the City Council Just Voted To Rein It In, by Mark McDaniel, at reason.com. Here is an example of local government interfering into the voluntary exchanges made by individuals.

Kansas City Health Department Pours Bleach On Food Meant For Homeless People, at fox32chicago .com. Here is an excerpt from the article: “The Health Department said the group did not have a permit and was putting people at risk. “E. coli or salmonella or listeria can grow in the food,” department director Rex Archer said. “And then you give that to homeless people who are more vulnerable, they will end up in the ER and even die from that exposure.”

In the words of John McEnroe, “You Can NOT Be serious.”

So let me get this straight. There is a lower risk of death and disease from lack of food, than the risk of eating food prepared by individuals who eat the food they prepare for themselves everyday?

Bureaucrats Consider Shutting Down Informal Play School For 2-Year-Olds Because It’s Too Safe, by Lenore Skenazy, at reason.com. Bureaucrats stick their nose into every aspect of our life.

The Postal Service Lost $3.9 Billion Last Year, by Eric Boehm, at reason.com. Bureaucrats keep propping up a failing business model because they are not funding it with their own money. They are using tax payer dollars. This is what “investment” by government looks like.

School Punishes Male Teacher For Refusing To Watch A Naked Girl, by Joy Pullmann, at thefederalist.com. To protect a transgender female dressing in the male locker room this school “ordered a male P.E. teacher to supervise the potentially undressed girl in the locker room“. Understanding our new world of #MeToo, he refused. Administrators want to put him on administrative leave. This seems insane to people outside of a bureaucracy. But it makes perfect sense to bureaucrats.

NYC Councilman Wants To Spy On Bar Patrons In Order To Stop Sexual Harassment, by Elizabeth Nolan Brown, at reason.com. These insane bureaucrats want to centrally plan every aspect of our lives. Excerpts from the article: “Intent on leaving no space unmoderated by peeping bureaucrats, New York city councilman Rafael L. Espinal Jr. is advocating for sophisticated surveillance cameras in all nightlife establishments, mandatory sexual-harassment intervention training for their staff, and fines for establishments that don’t display signs telling patrons that they’re in a “harassment free zone” and “consent is mandatory”.

Chicago Expelled A Male Student 4 Days Before Graduation Because His Ex Made A Dubious Sexual Violence Claim, by Robby Soave, at reason.com. When are college bureaucrats going to realize it is above their pay grade to investigate these matters. These matters should be turned over to police investigators and the legal system. But bureaucrats have enough hubris to think they are smart enough to do a job that requires specialized knowledge. And their hubris comes at a high cost when they get sued for their ignorance.

Progressives Zero-In On Exit-Tax On Illinois Wealth, at zerohedge.com. Bureaucrats want to build what would essentially be a wall around Illinois to keep people from escaping their State.

San Francisco Forces Large Corporations To Pay “Homeless Tax”, at zerohedge.com. The people voted this in! This is like playing Russian roulette with 6 bullets in the revolver.

Red Flag Gun Laws: Yet Another Government Weapon For Compliance and Control, by John Whitehead, at zerohedge.com. Anyone can bring ‘concerns’, made up or not, to authorities and they will be glad to take guns away from individuals without due process. This is incremental gun confiscation.

Dem Congressman Wants To Force Gun Owners To Get Rid Of ‘Assault’ Weapons, by David Grey, at nbcnews.com. Most bureaucrats have tried to hide gun confiscation under the guise of ‘common sense gun legislation”. But it looks like they are taking their masks off.

The UK’s “Knife Crime Epidemic” Is Proof Bans Don’t Ever Work, at zerohedge.com. UK’s knife crime epidemic proves the point that guns and knives don’t commit crimes. People commit crimes.

Climate Scientists Admit To Major Math Error After Global Warming Study Debunked, at zerohedge.com. Even the scientific community can be taken over by bureaucrats. Was this an honest mistake? Their track record says no.

 

SATIRICAL HEADLINES

Citing Need To ‘Believe All Women,’ Avenatti Immediately Pleads Guilty To Domestic Violence Charges, at babylonbee.com.

Outrageous: Thousands Of Russian Trolls Are Taking Jobs Away From Hard-Working American Trolls, at babylonbee.com.

Press Uneasy As Trump Asks Them to Stand On Giant Target Painted On Floor, at babylonbee.com.

Nancy Pelosi Planning To Reenergize House By Injecting Self With Blood Of Young Representatives, at theonion.com

Embarrassed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Can Only Afford American Flag Pin With 19 Stars, at theonion.com.

Hillary Launches Campaign To Raise $100 Million Or Else She’ll Run For President, at theonion.com.

 

CARTOONS

from theburningplatform.com.

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Political Cartoons by Bob Gorrell

Avenatti deserves due process even though he didn’t afford it to Kavanaugh. But we can have a laugh at his expense.

Political Cartoons by Tom Stiglich

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