Government Force on Children

You will do as you are told or there will be consequences.

Children that are 8 or 9 years old do not fit in handcuffs. So how do you put handcuffs on a child? Put their arms behind them and use the handcuffs above the elbow.

What could cause a child so young to be treated as such?

• Screaming in class
• Trying to leave an isolation room
• Not doing as you're told

Obey the state or suffer the consequences.

More Climate Change : the Other Side of the Argument

Even after this presentation one of the politicians still argues that since there are so many scientists that think climate change is a problem caused by man it must be true. He went into this with a closed mind.

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Burt Rutan on Global Warming

Bad-ass aerospace engineer Burt Rutan goes over his research into the data of global warming/climate change. Awesome presentation of the good of increased CO₂ and destroying the consensus myth.

I support the police but...

The stupidity is incredible. Just incredible.

Here is the set of information that the Court and the police had:

• The police were receiving online threats coming from a specific IP address
• The IP address belongs to a 68 year old woman's wifi network
• The woman's wifi network is unprotected
• Two houses down from the woman is a man with a history of making threats against the police

What happened next?

A U.S. Circuit Judge recommended waiting a day or two to get a better understanding of whom was responsible.

What happened next?

The day after the court's recommendation the police sent in an 11 man SWAT team knocking down a door and throwing two flash bang grenades through an open window at, guess who's house? That right. The 68 year old woman's house.

The 68 year old woman and her 18 year old daughter, yes, the story says 18 year old daughter, were put in handcuffs and interrogated. After it was obvious they were not involved they were released.

What happened next?

The next day the police asked the other suspect, yes, asked, to come in for questioning.

The police justified the first assault because they thought there might be someone armed and dangerous inside the home.

Seriously. WTF?

Apocalypse? NO!

Since the new Obama regulations on climate change were revealed today I figured I should start posting some of my favorite videos showing you information the press will not tell you about on the subject. Enjoy!

MoveOn.org tries to bailout Greece

This is just amusing and silly. MoveOn.org on their front page has a link to make donations to bail out Greece.

Does a non-profit organization think they have the support size to bail out a country? Are they so in the bag for socialism that they believe having a sound economic policy is a threat to their ideals?

This is just plain silliness.

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Catch 22 Healthcare

A new Nebraska hospital sued the Department of Health and Human Services over the accreditation process for Medicare.

Forty physicians unhappy with the local hospital made their own. However, the ACA delayed them for 18 months due to waiting for a study on the effects of physician-owned hospitals.

Next they were reviewed to see if they could get approved for Medicare. They were denied because during the review they had no Medicare inpatients and yet they can't take in Medicare inpatients without getting accredited.

Seriously. Who writes these freaking rules?

Road Rage

Roads and transportation are just a rich subject right now. Line one from a blog post at transportation.gov has just set me off.

Today, our Nation's investment in transportation lags behind the rest of the world.

I would like a citation on "lags behind the rest of the world." Do we lag behind the three poorest countries: Malawi, Burundi, or Central African Republic?

The Secretary of U.S. Department of Transportation must not be aware of the internet. I did a quick search to see if there was a ranked list of expenditures on roads by countries and one popped up from 2013. Surprise, surprise. Guess who spends the most on roads? Here's the list:

Country	$ in Millions
United States	$74,164
Canada	$20,109
Australia	$18,417
France	$15,860
Germany	$15,503
Russia	$11,235
Poland	$11,108
Spain	$7,893
Turkey	$6,918
United Kingdom	$6,872
Mexico	$5,223
Romania	$4,383
Norway	$3,637
Netherlands	$3,053
Azerbaijan	$2,085
Czech Republic	$1,727
Finland	$1,244
New Zealand	$1,121
Ireland	$618
Slovakia	$576
Bulgaria	$459
Lithuania	$457
Serbia	$452
Latvia	$299
Luxembourg	$293
Georgia	$288
Albania	$280
Estonia	$210

I've recently posted how broken gas taxes and green car subsidies are. I just finished how California built a road at $130,000 per foot!

We are wasting money on roads left and right through bad policies and inefficiencies. Politicians just make blanket assertions about falling behind the world to squeeze more money out of us. We are only falling behind in smart spending.

This is like a social justice movement that has achieved its goals will say "we have come a long way, but there is much more to accomplish" without laying out what needs to be done or lies through statistics to make it look like they actually have not been successful.

We have been taxed too much. Stop lying to us to justify taxing us more. Spend the money wisely or start privatizing things we can privatize!

It's like they are no longer trying to hide their lies.

$130,000 per foot

What is $130,000 per foot? A new stretch of road in California.

DOT has put up a blog post announcing the completion of a $1.1 billion project for 1.6 miles of road. The Presidio Parkway website says it is 1.5 miles. The $130,000 figure ($130,208.33 to be exact) uses the 1.6 mile figure for the best case scenario in dollars spent per foot.

What's even worse is the subtitle of DOT's post is the following:

Federally funded project exemplifies transportation investment nation needs, officials say

Exemplifies transportation investment? Let's do a little math.

What if we want to build one road that connects one side of the nation to the other? We will use google maps and plot from San Diego, California to Bangor, Maine. That is 3,229 miles.

How much would that cost at $130,000 per foot?

$2,216,385,600,000! Take a quick screen capture of usdebtclock.org and that road would be about one ninth of the national debt. That one road is more than four times as large as the federal deficit!

Exemplifies transportation investment? I think we need to find a way to privatize roads. We can not afford the federal method.

Sending In The Problem To Solve The Problem?

Today's blog post from the Department of State is about a global partnership to combat violent extremism (terrorism). It is mostly a bunch of flowery language making assertions about the goals and idealism that are pretty much counter to observed behavior of the administration. I'm not going to comment on that because it is just talk.

However, there is noted in the post something that just makes my head hurt. Here is the nuttery:

Third, we expanded where we focus our efforts -- from areas on the periphery of active conflicts to prisons in our own countries where inmates can be radicalized. In Italy, where this week’s conference gathers, the Ministry of Justice recently launched a program to have 15 imams and 40 cultural mediators work with prisoners. The initiative has been so successful, they are already looking to scale it up.

There is radicalization happening in jails so they are sending imams to the jail. Really? Am I the only one that sees this might be a problem? Well it says that the program is successful. As of this writing I could not find references to this program so no stats on success. Maybe my search skills are not good enough because I could only find articles about imams being put in jail.

If you can find an article or study about the success of the program please post in the comments.