Is There Nothing That Obama Can't Do?

Kinda like encouraging your neighbour to build a fence - helping him draw up the plans and buy the materials - and then suing him for blocking the view.

This is what happens when bureaucrats get too much power.

So can these guys sue for breach of contract???

So can these guys sue for breach of contract???

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent.

The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.

An aside,as I consume a few pops: The joint reaction to an obvious Zimmerman aquital/release?, combined with the continuing OWS, could prove for a very explose autumn of 2012.

Interior Health authority may supply heroin addicts with Narcan:

"Narcan, known as naloxone in its generic form, works to counteract depression of the central nervous system and lungs in overdose situations.

ASK Wellness executive director Bob Hughes said Friday there is no chance for the drug to be abused. If injected, it quickly brings opiate users to a sober state of withdrawal by blocking receptor sites in the body.

Hughes said if a user is showing potential signs of overdose, a mention of Narcan will quickly determine how real is the danger.

“You tell them, ‘I will jam you full of Narcan.’ That person will bounce off the floor and say, ‘Don’t do that.’ ”

Corneil compared the availability of Narcan for addicts to people with food allergies, for example, who carry epi-pens.

While epinephrine carries “significant risk” in its use, Corneil called Narcan “an incredibly safe drug.”

http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20120622/KAMLOOPS0101/120629909/-1/kamloops01/ih-may-supply-heroin-addicts-with-narcan

Although Narcon itself can't be abused, it will provide a false sense of security to those using opiates leading to higher doses being injected or taken orally-the use of Narcon assumes there will be someone there who is not also overdosing to inject the drug. Hard to say if it will kill more addicts than it will save.

I think the amount of royalties NAV payed EPA is covered by executive privilege.

north@2:05:
Thanks for the Pournelle. He's onto something important about institutions, but misstates the contrast. The second class---the managers---do not "work for the institution". They subvert the institution by substituting managers' goals for the institution's goals. They turn the institution toward their own interests, and away from the interests the institution is meant to serve.

This is readily apparent in politics, health care, universities, and so on. It's among the reasons those institutions are failing us.

Think this is bad? Wait until the EPA - the jackbooted socialist enforcers of the anti-capitalist obama regime - kick off cap/trade. That will put the final nail in the US manufacturing sector. There won't be any return for US jobs from that road.

Romney'st first job as POTUS, after burying obamacare, is to work with congress to defund this rabidly anti-progress monstrosity by ay least 50% in Year 1, with dissolution as the final goal.

mhb23re

Trust me there's a lot more to this story than meets the eye. Those navistar engines are a joke anyways. They put something like 40% of the exhaust back in the engine, and have a rats nest of exhaust coolers.

@Justthinkin
In the US you can't sue the government unless they let you.

When you elect a Muslim Extremist as President, what do you expect.

The effort to reduce oxides of nitrogen in Diesel exhaust is total waste, anyway. Yes, they are a component of photochemical smog, but except in those few areas where temperature inversions allow the smog to build up, e.g. the Los Angeles Basin, nitrogen oxides are not a problem. What do you get from every lightning bolt? Nitrogen oxides, that's what. The stuff occurs naturally in the atmosphere. It dissolves in rainwater, forming very dilute acids, and becomes an available source of nitrogen to plants when the rain falls. Ditto for the oxides of nitrogen generated in internal combustion engines. It's a non-problem.

Shakedown.

The Chicago way.