by News Staff | Jun 29, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Last week one of our website comments equated intelligent thought processes with Liberalism. Since when have important brain functions become political? Good grief. That’s dangerous. That’s the way both political parties seem to operate – take money...
by News Staff | Jun 25, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
Get this headline – “Welfare Aid Cards Valid at Casinos”!!!! Are they crazy? According to the LA Times, California welfare recipients are able to use state-issued debit cards to withdraw cash on gaming floors in more than half of the casinos in the...
by News Staff | Jun 22, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
So, a kind of head shop in Ocean Beach near San Diego is selling stickers that say, “Welcome to Ocean Beach, Please Don’t Feed our Bums.” Tacky, certainly, but worse than that it seems they have kind of ripped off Steve Searles original stickers...
by News Staff | Jun 18, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
A history of weakness and caving in continues in Inyo County where this week the Supervisors talked about maybe disbanding the Inyo Water Commission. Officials said it’s a do-nothing commission. Yeah. We know. Why don’t Inyo Supervisors put the...
by News Staff | Jun 15, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
At the U.S. Postal Service forever apparently doesn’t mean forever. A friend of Bureaucrat Beat recently ordered some “Forever” stamps. Instead, the USPS sent him stamps that featured the cartoon characters, The Simpsons, with the note “Sorry,...
by News Staff | Jun 11, 2010 | Bureaucrat Beat
We like to start out Bureaucrat Beat with the ridiculous. It sets the tone for what will follow. So, here it is. In the news this week, the Elvis Presley estate signed a deal Hasbro Inc. and PPW Toys to release an Elvis version of (are you ready for this?) Mr. Potato...