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It’s okay to humiliate and traumatize innocent citizens? That’s what a recent statement from attorneys representing the New York Police Department are, in effect, saying. According to attorneys representing NYPD officers, a breathalyzer test for them is “humiliating and traumatic”. If that’s so, then why are citizens of the United States subjected to a procedure that is “humiliating and traumatic”?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_re_us/police_shootings_sobriety_tests
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It’s nice to know that our mid-level government employees are traveling in style. The GAO so far has uncovered $146 million in unauthorized or inappropriate air fares in the first half of 2007. The cases involve the breaking of rules such as those requiring federal employees to travel in business-class at $800 and not first-class at $6,000 and so forth, which happened 44,000 times. but the rulebreakers feel they are worth it ‘cuz their work is so important.
http://www.govexec.com/features/0104/0104travel.htm
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No, not Rudy Giuliani, a different Rudy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA2G2IuDz88
‘Nuf said.
Do you know where Rudy Giuliani was when the planes hit the World Trade Center?
It’s interesting to observe that states like Oklahoma and Georgia, that passed laws cracking down on illegal aliens, are noticing a significant drop in tax revenues. Why? Because those people are moving away to other states and taking their tax revenue with them. Another side effect is more houses showing up for sale, also because of illegal aliens moving away. This comes at a rather bad time though because the sub-prime mortgage crisis is already causing distressed houses to come on the market and depress home prices. This is now being aggravated by all the non-distressed homes belonging to illegal aliens that are also coming onto the market.
But in these cases, the system is actually working as the Founders intended. If a state implements foolish laws, people will vote with the feet and that state will get smacked in the pocketbook. It’s working.
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