Crabby Blogging Lady

If you don’t think we’ve entered some kind of wacko police state, read this:

Girl, 6, Handcuffed, Committed Because Of Classroom Behavior

A Port St. Lucie first-grade student was handcuffed and committed to a mental health facility because of her classroom behavior, and her parents are furious that the school took such extreme measures.

…Deputies said his daughter, Haley, got upset and stormed out her classroom when her teacher asked her to do something. The report said it then escalated into a temper tantrum in the principal’s office.

According to the incident report, a deputy said Haley was out of control. It said she “kicked the wall, went over to the desk and threw the calculator, electric pencil sharpener, telephone, container of writing utensils and other objects across the desk.”

She was then handcuffed. …Even worse is what happened the next day, Haley’s parents said.

A deputy was called to the school again after Haley had another tantrum in the classroom and principal’s office.

The sheriff’s report said she was yelling, throwing things and hit the principal, who is eight months pregnant. This time, she wasn’t handcuffed. She was committed to a mental facility.

The kid had a TEMPER TANTRUM. Isn’t handcuffing the poor girl and shipping her off to an insane asylum a LITTLE too harsh?! What the heck is happening in this country? If they’re not dosing the kids with sleeping pills anti-tantrum meds, then they are sending them to mental looneybins!!

Anyone remember the story of Helen Keller? She was blind and deaf at 18 months, from a sickness. Her parents coddled her out of pity and spoiled the kid rotten. By the age of 6, she was a frustrated, raving, holy terror. Back then, a hundred years ago now, adults realized that young children needed GUIDANCE, needed DISCIPLINE. Not handcuffs, a not tasing, not mental health drugs. Thank God a devoted teacher (Annie Sullivan) with some backbone helped Helen.

I feel so sorry for kids today, because they live in such a selfish, violent society where, if they survive the saline solution from Planned Parenthood and Chester the ******* down the street, they are thrown in brick-sided dungeons where police patrol the halls. No one cares for them, no one understands.

Saw this at Makes You Laugh.

Hilarious!

Makes ya wonder what the success rate is on scams like these. Enough to make the scammer keep trying again and again, eh?

New York is discovering this. The latest news to come down the pike is that New York State, nearly bankrupt and desperate for money, is going to have to slash it’s state-funded “Anti-Smoking” program.

ALBANY — New York’s fiscal crisis is now expected to have to take another $10 million from the anti-tobacco program to help balance the state budget. Anti-smoking forces believe the proposal would end a TV ad campaign and eventually cost more in health care costs.

“That means a tremendous fall off of service,” said Russ Sciandra, the director of the Center for a Tobacco Free New York. He said the latest cut is about three times the reduction most other state programs have faced, cutting funding to about $58 million this year from about $85 million a year ago.

Good riddance, said Audrey Silk of New York City Citizens Lobbying Against Smoker Harassment.

“That department should be eliminated completely,” she said. “While they report they have been effective, their reports are based on surveys of people reporting their own smoking habits. In a climate where you are so stigmatized and demonized for being a smoker, who will answer honestly?”

Here here! I’m not a smoker and I really dislike the stench of cigarettes, but this demonizing of smokers has GOT to go. It’s become, like, the Eleventh Commandment in our culture. THOU SHALT NOT SMOKE. Oh sure, people can fornicate like rabbits, but YOU’RE GOING TO HEEEELLLLL if you smoke a cigarette!
What has our culture come to?

Anyway, I don’t think government should be bankrolling ANYTHING like an anti-smoking program, or an anti-obesity program, or netbooks-for-disadvantaged-homeless-people or any kind of goofy social-engineering program! For one, it’s none of the government’s business, and two, it’s costing taxpayers an arm and a leg!

That Nanny State business sure is pricey, isn’t it? Maybe New York should slash ALL such idiotic programs. We’d all be a lot happier, healthier, and wiser. Because while I may not smoke or use cell phones for fear of New York State’s Social Engineering Gestapo, I’m about to blow an artery from all the stress, trying to keep up to pay all these taxes to stop people from smoking and using cell phones! Give me a break!

Here’s another one for the idiot box, people:

80,000 Mailers Sent Out With Recipients’ Social Security Numbers In Plain View
Universal American Action Network Says Printing Error To Blame

You knuckleheads at UAAN can blame your printers for the “error” all you want, but it wasn’t the printer that programmed the numbers to appear on the postcard!

Right on the front of the piece of mail, in plain view, is the recipient’s Social Security number. Tens of thousands of Medicare recipients may be at risk.

…Universal American told News 8 that the Social Security numbers were on the postcards because of a printing error. And Universal claims it immediately terminated its contract with the printing service.

“There’s no reason for it to be out for the public to see,” Delores said.

The big question is — how did this company get the Social Security numbers? Well, in many cases, Medicare account numbers are your Social Security number. Universal American said it will send a letter to those who received the postcards notifying them of this problem and offer to provide free credit monitoring for a year. In the meantime, anyone with any questions can contact Universal American at 1 (877) 697-6228.

The problem with these kinds of “errors” is that banks and companies take these things SO lightly. SO lightly. I’ve ranted before about the ridiculously low security measures at banking websites and their weak passwords encryptions; and here’s a story about a bank employee sending SSN and bank account information to the wrong email address here. RIDICULOUS!! Plus, there are all the numerous stories about banks and federal bureaus storing OUR information on THEIR laptops, and taking the laptops to coffee shops and zoos, where they are stolen.

DUHHHHHHHHH!!!

They treat our information– life changing information– so very, very lightly. When is it going to stop?! Plus, they should even be USING our SSNs for such things. You can’t even get motorhome insurance or check out a library book or get a grocery store shopping card without divulging your SSN!! It’s just criminal, how many dunderheads and dunderheaded companies have our sensitive information and account numbers. And we are supposed to just *trust* that they will take care of us?! My eye!

P.S. And all this is not even mentioning that the Social Security Numbers were never supposed to be counted as identification numbers! It’s so enraging.

“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the state of Virginia, 1782

Boy oh boy, we are ALWAYS hearing that “separation of church and state” crap that Jefferson said (which, by the way, has NOTHING to do with what liberals say it does), but how about these juicy words by the founder, huh huh huh?!?! Let me repeat it for good measure (and for the government spies who check out my measly little blog):

“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.” –Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the state of Virginia, 1782

The GODS have spoken. That is, the GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS. Don’t they rule over us like kings, now? Look at this! Unbelievable!

Today, the Federal Trade Commission made good on its threat promise to change the way it regulates endorsements from bloggers by releasing its final revisions to the guidance it gives advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act. Last May, we reviewed the proposed FTC guidelines that will now change the disclosure rules around paid endorsements and testimonials, and thus how brands use online endorsements in their marketing, advertising, and communications programs.

As a result of the evolving level of influence inherent in the social Web, and web in general, the notice incorporates several amendments to the FTC?s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in advertising and blogging, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. Fines for violating the new rule will run up to $11,000 per incident.

Even though the FTC Guides refer to blogging, advertising, and celebrity endorsement specifically, Twitter and other social networks will not be overlooked. Pay-per-Tweet services such as Ad.ly, Izea, and Twittad are providing networks for brands to engage with the audiences of real celebrities as well as the communities of people who follow the Internet famous. Disclosure is also required in these new mediums. It should also be noted that these companies are working with the FTC and Twitter to help create a fair set of standards around disclosure, as well as the technology framework to effectively disclose sponsored Tweets.

However, in the eyes of the FTC, a paid endorsement is no longer limited to monetary compensation and this is why things will get interesting moving forward.

I’ll bet they’ll “get interesting.”

This is just strong-arming the Internet, particularly the non-regulated part of the Internet– the blogs. Bloggers are independent thinkers, and we don’t want government-sponsored “uniformity.” And how the heck is the FTC going to figure out what IS sponsored and what is NOT?!?! I do a lot of my own reviews, just because I LIKE doing reviews of stuff. How can the FTC enforce this idiotic law?!? How can I prove a negative, that I am NOT getting paid for a review?? It’s so dumb, it’s unconscionable.

AND IT MAKES ME NUCLEAR-BOMB-PROPORTION CRABBY!!!! GAHHHHHHH!

I have an idea. If government REALLY wants truth in advertising, I say THEY should obey their own laws. How about we start with this one: On the day that the government discloses THEIR “sponsored” legislation, we bloggers will, too! Because I see a heck of a lot of crap coming from those hallowed halls that’s all been BOUGHT and PAID FOR by special interest groups.

Those Nazis!!!!!!!!!!

… LOTS and LOTS of jobs….

for the government bureaucracies, that is.

This is the official Organizational Chart of the House Democrats’ Health Plan! Doesn’t this look like they are going to micro-manage everything?! From what muesli you need to eat, what best weight loss pill you need to pop, how may hours on the exercise bike, what kind of surgery you should get?? The ONLY thing coming out of this is MORE bloated, out-of-control government administration.

Jobs that we average slaves are going to be stuck paying for…

Who are the idiots who vote for politicians to “create jobs” for us? Cuz THESE are the kinds of jobs we get– government jobs that WE have to pay for! Idjits…

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. C. S. Lewis