Thursday, July 20, 2006
Visit to Mordor
I stopped in DC on my way home from MD/VA to help lobby against the Oman so-called-Free-Trade-Agreement (which is in reality a trade-limiting agreement; all free trade takes is for government to get the hell out of the way). I'm all for free trade and lower tariffs, but this agreement is simply another dictator buyoff in the carrot-and-stick model of American Empire now current.
Pictures of the visit are here, but I posted a few here to outline some of the things I detest about DC specifically, and government in general.
Number 1: Big Brother May Be Watching You. And You Have to Pay For It. No comment neccessary.
Number 2: How pitiful is it that the feds think we need a LAW to give up a seat on the subway to someone older or more crippled than us? And - among the people who would NOT give up their seat - what good will a law do except to make them even more disdainful of the law in general?
Number 3: This headline is priceless, if depressing. The City Council will be raking in overtime pay (or whatever those buzzards get) because of the 'crime wave'. Is it any wonder they sit around dreaming up asinine new laws - like the must-give-up-seat-on-the-subway one above - when we can see that the more stupid laws there are, the more 'crime waves' and thus more job security they have? How f***ed-up is that 'business model'?
Number 4: These cabinets were to be found throughout the House of Reps office buildings. If your job requires the regular presence of 'emergency escape hoods' - not for fire, but in case people want to kill you - then you are not exactly what I would call a 'public servant'. Those schmucks should quit being politicians and take up a useful and respectable trade - like Mike Joyce here in North Carolina, who finally got too disgusted to carry on as a city councilman, and went back to plumbing. 
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I stopped in DC on my way home from MD/VA to help lobby against the Oman so-called-Free-Trade-Agreement (which is in reality a trade-limiting agreement; all free trade takes is for government to get the hell out of the way). I'm all for free trade and lower tariffs, but this agreement is simply another dictator buyoff in the carrot-and-stick model of American Empire now current.Pictures of the visit are here, but I posted a few here to outline some of the things I detest about DC specifically, and government in general.
Number 1: Big Brother May Be Watching You. And You Have to Pay For It. No comment neccessary.
Number 2: How pitiful is it that the feds think we need a LAW to give up a seat on the subway to someone older or more crippled than us? And - among the people who would NOT give up their seat - what good will a law do except to make them even more disdainful of the law in general?
Number 3: This headline is priceless, if depressing. The City Council will be raking in overtime pay (or whatever those buzzards get) because of the 'crime wave'. Is it any wonder they sit around dreaming up asinine new laws - like the must-give-up-seat-on-the-subway one above - when we can see that the more stupid laws there are, the more 'crime waves' and thus more job security they have? How f***ed-up is that 'business model'?
Number 4: These cabinets were to be found throughout the House of Reps office buildings. If your job requires the regular presence of 'emergency escape hoods' - not for fire, but in case people want to kill you - then you are not exactly what I would call a 'public servant'. Those schmucks should quit being politicians and take up a useful and respectable trade - like Mike Joyce here in North Carolina, who finally got too disgusted to carry on as a city councilman, and went back to plumbing.
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