Seriously, this is just plain wrong

Two Texas lunch ladies are fired after taking home leftovers from the school cafeteria.

Federal Law requires that workers throw away food that isn't consumed by students.

DFW CBS

In another Texas incident, this time in Killeen, a 15 year old middle school student was suspended for leaving the classroom.  The circumstance?  A girl in the class was having an asthma attack and the teacher had emailed the nurse and was awaiting a reply.  When the girl fell out of her seat and onto the floor the student said "F--- This", picked her up, and carried her to the nurses office.

USA Today 

 What the heck ever happened to common sense in this country?

Common Sense

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil;  in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.

Of the origin and Design of Government

What struck me most upon reading this was the first line about confounding society with government, which I have seen amply demonstrated even here. So what do you think? Do we confound society and government?

Death of Common Sense is Killing America

Why is common sense so uncommon in government?

Candy Crowly, one of the few serious jouralists left in America besides Jake Tapper, pressed Janet Napoleonitano about the naked porn scanners in a recent interview.  Big Sis admitted that they have no idea what impact the contraptions have on potential terrorists.

“What we know is that you can’t measure [how] the devices … are deterring [terrorists] from going on a plane,” Napolitano said.

“Just people who just are discouraged, thinking they’d be found out,” said Crowley.

“Exactly,” said Napolitano. (Politico)

How convenient. A multimillion dollar scheme whose effectiveness cannot be measured.  How can I get a job like that?  No way to tell if I'm doing my job, so you just have to keep paying me!  This borders on criminal.  Roger Simon at politico puts the icing on the cake…

In which case, we do not need machines that cost upward of $130,000 each.

All we need are archways made out of $30 or $40 worth of sheet metal that are labeled: “Official Destructo Machine — If You Are a Terrorist, This Machine Will Not Only Zap You, but Put a Picture of Your Private Parts on YouTube.”

That ought to do it. (Politico)

You know the government stench is growing foul when even the press begins making remarks about it.

Union Leaches Kept NY City Buried in Snow

The NY Post says the New York City Sanitation Department’s slow cleanup was a budget protest. Businesses lost millions and people died as a result.

The solution to this one is easy. Fire every last one of those selfish bastards and contract it out.

Write into the contract that if the incumbent company tries this crap they will be immediately terminated and replaced by a company that actually wants to do the work.