A spoonful of sugar won’t help this medicine go down

No longer a conspiracy theory type of item, Reuters is reporting that the U.S. government is in the practice of drugging people against their will with psychotropic drugs whether or not there is medical justification. From the original WaPo article:

The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who have been drugged.

The government’s forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have no history of mental illness, includes dozens of cases in which the “pre-flight cocktail,” as a document calls it, had such a potent effect that federal guards needed a wheelchair to move the slumped deportee onto an airplane.

Not worried? It’s just the damned illegal “ferners” being deported, right? Wrong. The government has what is supposed to be a guideline for situations that might require medical sedation but, naturally, it doesn’t follow its own rules. Will you finally cry out when it’s Americans detained after some real or made up emergency according to the MCA of 2006? Or will you be too drugged to cry out? After all, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” is not a phrase known in many languages for nothing and we’ve not been governed by our just consent for a very long time.

The latest in the Texas kidnapping case

Yes, I’m talking about the FLDS fiasco in Texas that seems to have stemmed from a hoax phone call. Now it turns out that in their excitement to save children who may or may not have needed saving, CPS agents detained an adult.

SAN ANGELO, Texas — State child welfare officials are conceding that a newborn’s mother, who belongs to a polygamous sect and has been held in foster care as a minor, is an adult.

A Child Protective Services attorney told state District Judge Barbara Walther on Tuesday that the mother of a boy born April 29 is not a minor. She had been held with underage girls since CPS moved more than 400 children from the sect’s ranch to shelters across the state.

I guess that’s a big oopsie, ain’t it? Never mind that CPS got it wrong over and over again, they still plan to keep custody of the young woman’s newborn son.

I know that some will think that I’m weird for calling this CPS fiasco a kidnapping and will be writing to demand that I think of the children. Guess what, I am. That the state can come in and take children based on hysteria over a religious group being outside the mainstream should make every parent cringe. If, in fact, you are a parent who thinks this raid was justified, just wait until you are the parent on the “wrong” public opinion side of a religious, diet, exercise, education, immunization or clothing fad and CPS comes to steal your children. You’ll be certain to understand then that the only persons who should be in charge of thinking of your children are those within your family or friend spheres whom actually care about them.

Money Decides: After the Barr Announcement

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Latest Entries in TPW LP Photoshop Dissathon - Both by anonymous. No editorial comment here, just passing ‘em along.

None are intended as a serious attack on any of the candidates.

If I were a terrorist

Here’s something to chew on:

Alrighty, I’m back…

Small town life agrees with me much and I’ve found myself not wanting to interrupt my bike rides, gym time, family dinner time, etc. with things like this:

Hell, after seing that my local newspaper has a police reports section like this and after witnessing two cops HELPING someone instead of arresting him, it seemed easy to stop being a pissed off blogging cunt. I mean, even though there are some bullshit drug possession charges, a good many of charges in my area are for theft and assault and the records seem sort of transparent. It’s hard to bitch about that kind of thing.

But, here I’m am expanding my geographical horizon and asking WTF??? I’ve been in Shreveport, LA twice in the last 5 days; once on my way to visit the kiddos and grandbabies and the other time to deposit a few dollars into the local gambling industry. Normal procedure to turn off the camera when a suspect refuses to take a DWI test?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to leave it on to document the suspect’s “out of control to the point of falling on two fists” drunkedness?

Steve Kubby addresses Wisconsin Libertarians in absentia

Thought I tied up the loose ends and found a few more

You guys know that I moved to Small Town, USA happily and freely, but I didn’t realize that I’d miss any people from my old ‘hood so soon.

I’m finally at my new home in Longview, TX after getting my Richardson home cleaned out. I’ve not left behind a single memory of 3216 Summerfield Drive even though I did leave some people behind. Little Bit is a person left behind- she needs to finish her semester but dammit if I’m not just a wee bit worried for her. The doc and I have many friends in Dallas and I’m worried that I’m too old and set in my ways to find people here who would tolerate me long enough to know me enough to spend more than one uncomfortable evening. I found out that the “cranky bitch” across the street from my old house is probably my sister.

Unfortunately, we realize what we have when it’s gone from our everyday lives. I’d like to think that I’m lucky-I know that there will be a part missing from my heart before most. I’m unlucky because I’ll recognize the pain earlier.

Fuck Catch 22s.

The move is nearly over

I’m not sure whether or not I should be grateful for having no Internet or cable service for the last week but I’m playing catch up with news right now. The move is nearly over and I’m in Dallas tying up loose ends with our old house. Last night, however, I cooked a fabulous meal in my new kitchen. Hell, with a kitchen like this, the doc and I might get fat…

The kiddo knows how to make a point

via reason hit & run:

Police in Wisconsin broke up a kegger last week. A root beer kegger. Wisconsin high school senior Dustin Zebro was irked that some of his friends were kicked off varsity sports teams after school officials spotted Facebook photos of them drinking from red cups. So to show that red plastic ups don’t always mean beer (he’s right, I remember putting mixed drinks in them, too), he threw a root beer kegger in the hopes of triggering more suspensions, then making school officials look silly. Turns out, the cops were called in on the gag, too.

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Best YouTube comment:
chuckmaddox3 (2 days ago)
Spam Quarter-barrel of 1919 Classic American Draft ROOT Beer: $29.95
Deposit for Tapper/Barrel [Refundable]: $7.95
200 Red Plastic Dixie Cups: $6.97.

Sticking it to the man on videotape and putting it on YouTube: PRICELESS!

There are some things in life that money can’t buy. Making narrow-minded people look foolish is something that requires a modest amount of considered thought. It’s good to see young people having fun in a safe way. You’ll remember this night for a long time. Well played.

Fingerprints for food

I’ve been bitching about the commercials that make cash seem like an antiquated idea but the following vid takes the cake:

Nope, money shouldn’t slow you down long enough to think about what you’re spending. Soon, even those who dare be “off the grid” will find themselves cut off from the basics of life.