Posted on 06/07/2013 4:33:41 PM PDT by neverdem
A few years ago, after one corruption scandal too many, the then Liberal government in Canada announced that, to prevent further outbreaks of malfeasance, it would be hiring 300 new federal auditors plus a bunch of ethics czars, and mandating “integrity provisions” in government contracts, including “prohibitions against paying, offering, demanding or accepting bribes.” There were already plenty of laws against bribery, but one small additional sign on the desk should do the trick: “Please do not attempt to bribe the Minister of the Crown as a refusal may offend. Also: He’s not allowed to bribe you, whatever he says.” A government that requires “integrity provisions” is by definition past...
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The Small Business/Self-Employed Division had boldly gone where no IRS man had gone before — to a conference in Anaheim, where they were put up in $3,500-a-night hotel rooms and entertained by a man who was paid $27,500 to fly in and paint on stage a portrait of Bono. Bono is the veteran Irish rocker knighted by the Queen for his tireless campaign on behalf of debt forgiveness, which doesn’t sound the IRS’s bag at all. But don’t worry, debt forgiveness-wise Bono has Africa in mind, not New Jersey. And, as Matthew Cowart tweeted me the other day, he did have a big hit with “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” which I believe is now the official anthem of the IRS Cincinnati office...
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It may be that the strange synchronicity between the president and the permanent bureaucracy is mere happenstance and not, as it might sound to the casual ear, the sinister merging of party and state. Either way, they need to be pried apart. When the state has the capability to know everything except the difference between right and wrong, it won’t end well.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
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This youtube link works better to hear Maxine bragging about her beloved Obozo’s database on the evil republicans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIA1lQBqH1s
Mark Steyn ping.
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Thanks for the ping neverdem.
Man, lines like that are why I love Steyn.
Again, I say, they had best hope they didn’t overlook nothin when they get to comin roun here.
Half-Brother is Watching You!
He’s right. If you don’t instinctively know it’s wrong to stay in $3,500-a-night hotel rooms at public expense, a revised conference-accommodations-guidelines manual isn’t going to fix the real problem.
Trey
Gowdy
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You have FReepmail about Grahamnasty.
Freedom requires a circle of privacy around each individual citizen. In the absence of a crime and reasonable cause, your communications and your finances should be private. What your assets are, where your money is parked, what your private communications are, how you raise your family, how you educate your kids, all of this should be private and beyond the reach of anyone.
We’ve backed down this road by baby steps and its hard to realize how far we’ve come and how far we need to go to get back to a semblance of a free society.
This isn’t just a legal problem though. Laws don’t restrain lawless men. A surveillance state operated by good men can be bad enough. The same tools in the hands of outlaws are a disaster in the making.
This is the beauty of the Steyn’isms:
Holder had another great contribution to the epitaph of the Republic this week. He went on TV to explain that he didn’t really regard Fox News’s James Rosen as a “co-conspirator” but had to pretend he did to the judge in order to get the judge to cough up the warrant. So rest easy, America! Your chief law officer was telling the truth when he said he hadn’t lied to Congress because in fact he’d been lying when he said he told the truth to the judge.
Absolutely beautiful!!
“When the state has the capability to know everything except the difference between right and wrong, it won’t end well.”
The money quote.
Next to Rush, nobody gets it right and kicks liberal’s asses more effectively than Mark Steyn.
Love this guy.
Thanks for the ping, he never grows old to read and hear!
Exactly, Steyn never gets old.
The preceding should be shouted from the mountaintops, in the streets, in every media outlet, in every conversation from now until it is done.
“Half brother is watching you”
Now, that’s funny right there, it don’t matter who you are, that’s funny.
“According to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, a total of 642,831 people were approved for Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret clearances in FY 2010 alone. ... Even more amazing are the words immediately preceding that: ‘The number of clearances approved could not be obtained for FY 2009.’ So the same government that presumes the right to know my phone calls, my emails and my MasterCard purchases doesn’t know how many security clearances it issued in a given year. The rationale given by defenders of this system over the last few days ... would seem to apply here: When 4 million people have security clearances, and another 1,800 people are getting new security clearances every day, the government doesn’t even have time to comb through them before it lets them comb through you. ... One reason for the citizenry not to entrust its personal information to the government is that the big, bloated, blundering government is stupid enough to entrust it to Edward Snowden, as it was previously stupid enough to entrust it to Bradley Manning (the Wikileaks leaker).” -Mark Steyn
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