~ “I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: as government expands, liberty contracts.” Ronald Reagan.
Every summer, Justyn Myers and Jake Long organize Philadelphia’s Cedar Street Block Party, a day of fun and festivities for residents in the Olde Richmond neighborhood. Like any good block party, there’s plenty of music and food, but in the middle of a heat wave on the Eastern seaboard they wanted to up the ante with an impromptu pool.
So the organizers rented an old dumpster, cleaned it out, sealed it, put down a tarp on it and filled it with water. Voila! Instant pool for a hot summer block party.
There’s only one problem: Philadelphia bureaucrats.
Yes, this little dumpster pool was highly illegal, according to the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections.
“A building permit is required to put up, even temporarily, any pool that is longer and/or wider than 12 feet and that holds water at a depth greater than two feet,” said Karen Guss, communications director for L&I, to Billy Penn.
Indeed, according to Myers, the day of the pool party, L&I left signs on their soon-to-be-dumpster-pool with the word “permits?” on them.
If that weren’t enough, the city then decided it had been too soft: City Hall issued a statement through Guss that, even if these kinds of pools were technically legal if permitted correctly, they would refuse to issue permits should anyone attempt something similar — and that the Cedar Street block party would not receive any permits, pools or otherwise, to operate in the future[…]
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering running for president as an independent, according to a Saturday report.
The billionaire is frustrated by businessman Donald Trump’s strong support among Republicans as well as Hillary Clinton’s poor polling.
The New York Times reported Saturday morning that former New York City Mayor and Nanny Michael Bloomberg might run for president as an independent. Unfortunately, there’s no Fascist party for him to run on.
He’s not happy about New Yorker Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton’s poor polling against the communist Bernie. He wants to be sure Trump doesn’t win New York.
You can’t make this stuff up.
He will decide by early March, the latest he can throw in his hat, according to the Times and will fund it with $1 billion of his own money.
He has a consultant who will help him get his name on the ballot in all fifty states[…]
The only mayor of New York City despised more than Bill de Blasio is little Hitler, Michael Bloomberg.
Refusing to exit gracefully at the end of his second term, Bloomberg circumvented New York voters by pushing through legislation in the NY City Council extending mayoral term limits to three terms so that he could stay on as mayor.
If Bloomberg were by some fluke to get into the White House, not only will he take our guns, soda pop over 8 ounces, buttered popcorn and put a match to the Bill of Rights, there will have to be a revolution in this country to get this Communist sob out of office.
If we were inclined to give out such an award, Pagedale, Missouri, would be a leading contender for Nanny State of the Year.
In this suburb of St. Louis, residents have been ticketed and fined by the town’s police force for violations that don’t even begin to make rational sense.
FINED: Valerie Whitner has been fined for having chipped paint on the outside of her home and for not having a screen door attached to her back door, among other things. She owes the city more than $2,400. Photo courtesy Institute for Justice
One resident, Valerie Whitner, has been fined for having chipped paint on the outside of her home and for not attaching a screen door to her back door. She’s been told by city officials she must replace her rain gutters, her siding and put up storm windows. They also told her to mend her fence, cut her lawn and seal up cracks in her home’s foundation.
Another plaintiff in the class action suit is Mildred Bryant, an 84-year-old grandmother who has received citations from the city for having mismatched curtains and failing to have blinds in every window. She’s been told to repaint her porch too, according to the lawsuit filed last month.
All towns have some silly rules on the books, but Pagedale sets the bar at a new level. It’s against the law for residents to have a basketball hoop, plastic pool or doghouse in their front yards. Satellite dishes are illegal. So are barbeque grills (though the town does graciously make an exception to that ban on “national holidays”)[…]
Making the lives of Americans hell, one lot at a time. Regulation nation, the intention of which is to fleece the pockets of Americans down to that final speck of lint.
Under the pretext that we are from the government and we are here to help, Scotland is implementing its Children and Young People (Scotland) Act of 2014 aka Named Person scheme.
The named person assigned to children under the age of five will be a health worker after which and through age 19, a schoolteacher would inherit the role.
Guidance on the implementation of the legislation, which was published last week, states that the named person could be involved with families and setting up ‘planning and support’ during the last trimester of pregnancy. The legislation, which is due to come into effect in 2016, covers children from the day they are born up until the age of 18….
Teachers are concerned that they will be overworked and ill prepared for this task as well as the repercussions of failure to meet mandated expectations BUT what about the PARENTS.
According to the Scottish government, “a ‘named person; for every child across Scotland will “make a real difference” to the lives of youngsters.” Translation: Screw the parents.
“every child will have a named person – usually a social worker of teacher – who they can go to for advice, support and help….” Support, assistance, doling out advice. Isn’t that the role of parents? “…The named person would also report suspected abuse in line with the current duty of care that teachers already have….”
The objective is to replace parents with government authorities. Proceed with the indoctrination and fundamental transformation of Scotland’s youth into snitches; namely to spy on family members (parents) and report all finding to the government. (Are you listening, America?)
The organization, No to Named Person (NO2NP), is attempting to block the further unfurling of this system, already implemented in Highland, Edinburgh, Fife Angus and South Ayrshire, Scotland (with a national target date of 2016) in court.
Campaigners fighting the controversial named person proposals have won their request for a fast track appeal after a judge threw out their initial bid to have the named person scheme declared illegal.
At a hearing in Edinburgh on 17 February, Lady Clark granted a motion which means the case could be heard as early as June.
Although the Scottish Government has stated the scheme will not be implemented until next year, ministers have refused to give undertakings not to proceed with the legislation, meaning there is nothing to prevent them bringing it into force at any time.
Clearly, politicians cannot be trusted regardless of what nation they represent.
What about PC and the threat to religious liberty?
Elizabeth Kendal in her blog, points out that the law ripe for abuse can be wielded as a weapon against Christians by ideologues and those with an agenda. H/t Christian Today.
Is a child’s ‘well-being’ threatened by home-schooling; or by parents who are seeking less invasive medical treatment; or by devout parents who teach that Jesus is the only Saviour or that God designed marriage to be between one man and one woman? Are children’s ‘well-being’ at stake if they are set curfews, denied their ‘sexual rights’, and taken to church when they’d rather play football?
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” -President Ronald Reagan
If drones over America, heavily armed law enforcement agencies, and a massive government surveillance web hasn’t yet convinced you that the United States is rapidly moving towards a police state then maybe the following report out of New York will be an eye opener.
Indoctrination centers abound across the land of the free, with high schools now taking a queue from the TSA:
‘A New York high school is the latest in the nation to ban backpacks following several bomb threats, and has even taken extra steps, including sealing up students’ lockers.
For the last two weeks of the school year, students at Wantagh High School — located about 34 miles east of New York City — are being forced to carry their books and belongings in plastic bags, sign in and out to use the bathroom and submit to searches when entering the building. But the sealing up of lockers took school security to a new level.’
Today’s pedagogic institutions are redefining what the word freedom actually means and students are falling right into line:
‘It is an inconvenience, but it’s like an airport really,’ Erik Beuttenmuller, an 11th-grader at the school told Fox 5 New York.’
‘What are we teaching our kids when we send them to prisons for 13 years out of their lives?
Yeah, bad things happen once in a while. But the key here is “once in a while.” They don’t happen often, statistically-speaking, and if we actually gave a damn about what was going on in these schools and excluded the abusive “kids” who are not there to learn but rather want to raise hell and abuse others we wouldn’t be having these problems.
Instead what we do is teach our kids that mass guilt is the response to one person who does an evil thing. Rather than punish bad acts we exercise prior restraint. We teach our kids from the first day that there are no individual consequences and rewards, only collective ones.
And the fact is that none of this actually makes anyone safer.
What it does do is condition our kids to living in a police state.
Congratulations America, because it will be you that gets shoved in the oven.’
Reprinted with permission by Mac Slavo, Website:www.SHTFplan.com.
Uh, oh. A bunch of people are going to have to close not only their noses, but their ears. According to Reuters , scientists at University College London say smokers who turn to e-cigarettes are 60 percent more likely to quit than if they use nicotine products or go cold-turkey. “E-cigarettes could substantially improve public health because of their widespread appeal and the huge health gains associated with stopping smoking,” said Robert West of the college’s epidemiology and public health department. Commenting on the relatively scarce evidence about long-term e-cigarette use, West suggested they’re the lesser of two evils. […]
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