There is now enough credible information related to Western NC on what's going on with the various "organs of government."

I've written about a lot of this in the past; zero of what FEEEBLA (FEMA) has done surprises me.  Show up a week late, rent up all the nice places outside of the damage zone at $500/nt for your "people", fuck the locals who have nothing because it was destroyed, walk around with clipboards, clear a tree with a chain of people passing logs around and take photos to post on media which anyone with more than a shoe-sized IQ knows is fucking stupid because anyone with a brain would pull a side-by-side or small pickup in there, toss the logs in and drive it the 200' which is 100x faster and more efficient if the goal was to actually clear the downed trees and then, once you harass people and act like strutting peacocks leave, fuck all the people who got hosed.

Oh by the way we spend billions a year on this horseshit and should ruin them all.

But the latest is much-worse than preening and doing nothing: Its at the county level and is active obstruction imposing misery on top of what nature did and is exactly what you get when you let state and local government have too much power rather than give them a reminder from time to time who actually is in charge (not them.)

Specifically they're forcing people out of temporary structures built by volunteers because "they don't meet code."  Among the things the CUNTY cites are lack of insulation and lack of a permanent and permitted foundation.  The former is a "who fucking cares, its cold and a wall to stop the cold air is better than none" and the latter, in the present tense, is a physical impossibility because (1) the former foundation at the site is either gone or buried under 6' of mud and unusable, (2) wouldn't align with the temporary structure anyway thus can't be tied to in a code-compliant way and (3) the permitting and soil engineering analysis required to put up a new one is unreasonable under the circumstances.

Yeah, I get it -- if there is severe weather again without that the temporary structure may be destroyed but guess what -- so will be a tent and in the meantime its a hell of a lot warmer and better than a tent.

It appears the only "legal" option other than a tent for these folks is an RV which isn't a structure and thus fuck those government goons but, when it comes to the FEMA ones they won't let the people use them (and yes, FEMA has a couple thousand of them) because most of the sites are in fact in a flood plain as was just proved in spades by the event (duh), that's prohibited use by FEMA and thus fuck you no place to live for you.

Oh and I'm sure there are some assholes in the county who will be around next to tell you that an RV is not a legitimate "living unit" either if used for more than some period of time (e.g. a week or two) on a given piece of property.  You know, because a fucking tent beat something with walls?

There are times that one thinks that perhaps the correct answer to "government" is in fact to say no to all of it except for a Navy at the federal level, run them all out of town by whatever means are necessary and accept that (1) this means you have to shoot your own intruders, thieves, rapists and similar and (2) take the risk of food poisoning in a restaurant and such, along with the risk of a fire in a motel or other structure because there are no inspectors and such and thus nobody to police it all.

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TIMES.

Now we have Dr. Oz and of course RFK "on deck" for CMS and HHS, respectively.

There are many changes that must be made but let me highlight one that must be made on an administrative basis on the first day and then coded into Statute through Congress so it can never be changed in any government-funded medical or health program again by any future adminsitration.

No payment can ever be made on an "incentive" basis except for documented, measurable and quantified success, irrespective of circumstances.

Specifically, what was done during Covid where hospitals were paid for procedures rather than results must be absolutely barred as this perversion almost-certainly led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, specifically by paying hospitals for ICU use, ventilator use, Remdesivir use and finally, a bonus for those who died which is ethically identical to paying someone who commits homicide.

In addition those "incentive payments" were a monstrous budgetary boondoggle while at the same time wildly enriching many hospitals, including the one in my county which cashed in to the tune of millions beyond their ordinary and customary charges for treating persons in those programs.

There is no way to "protect Medicare and Medicaid", as Senator Fetterman says is his condition for supporting Dr. Oz as the head of CMS, other than by collapsing the cost of medical care generally.  It simply cannot be done any other way because roughly four dollars in five spent in that program are not backed by a tax receipt and there no reasonable way to expect that expanding taxation for those programs by a factor of five could be sustained either politically or economically.

I have for more than a decade, and indeed all the way back to when I was running MCSNet in the 1990s, identified that the expansion of CMS as a percentage of GDP, in that the programs were established with the premise of about a 4% overall health care spend in the economy that has now reached 20%, simply cannot continue.

But additional cost-shifting into the private sector, which is rampant in Medicaid and is exploited among Medicare providers, cannot be sustained either.  This is choking the economy and driving uneconomic acts across the board including deficit spending, bubbles in the economy all over the place and inflation that cannot be hidden any longer or sustained.

Fixing that is not (directly) within the purview of either HHS or CMS except as relates to both agency's mandate, under statute generally, to not permit criminal acts of those it contracts with to be ignored.  Specifically, in the context of both Medicare and Medicaid payments made from firms for "compliance" with vaccine and other schedules are, legally, a kickback, explicitly barred under law and such conduct carries felony criminal penalties.  All such acts, including any other act constituting a kickback either form or substance must be prosecuted.

CMS can materially impact cost by, for example, paying bonuses for those people who successfully bring their blood sugar and body mass under control through the use of non-pharmaceutical approaches such as, for example, getting both seed oils and fast carbohydrates out of one's diet.  Objective proof in the form of lack of prescription drug use and documented metabolic results in the form of body mass reduction, glucose control, fasting insulin, hsCRP and blood pressure are all trivially and, with the exception of minor blood draws or finger-sticks for testing able to be shown on a non-intrusive and near-zero-cost basis.

Surprisingly Fox has come out with an article by a physician who echoes much of this.  Where he's wrong is on the statins; the lipid hypothesis has, at this point, been disproved and his adherence to that "religion" is likely why he has insulin resistance problems.  Simply put the problem is systemic inflammation, not cholesterol.  Getting seed oils out of what you eat makes a huge difference -- if you think not pay $200 for a Garmin Instinct that can do overnight HRV and check the impact on HRV yourself when you eat or do not eat them.  Note that it is basically impossible to avoid them in a restaurant so to do this test you must cook at home or be extremely careful if eating out; you can, for example, eat a steak but you cannot have a salad with dressing, virtually any bread or breaded thing or any sort of "butter", fried or grilled anything other than a fatty meat because all restaurants will use these oils rather than tallow, lard or butter for baking and cooking purposes because they're cheaper.  For the huge percentage of people, perhaps everyone, the amount you can consume of these substances without serious negative impact is zero and, incidentally, yes that includes infants and if you really want to freak out look at any bottle of packaged infant formula.  Enfamil and Similac, two common brands by means of example both have listed as their third ingredient seed oils; the amount that an infant, absent their use, would consume and that any mammal has consumed through history other than by our intervention is in fact ZERO.

Further, if drug use is permitted as a means of mitigation then all expense as a consequence of adverse events that have a legitimate risk in the use of said drugs and all costs occasioned by them including the drug itself and all expense due to adverse events or monitoring for same must be directly counted against any such results.  If this was done then statins, for example, would almost-certainly be off the recommendation list because they are a known cause of Type II diabetes and the cost of that, if and when it occurs, is more than the rather-dubious (known at this point) "benefit" from their use.  While punishing a provider for prescribing them is likely unwise if the provider is incented to do whatever works, where "works" is defined objectively both in terms of outcomes AND COST, said providers now have a reason to find and promote that which is cheaper and works rather than simply be paid to "do things."

Many of these changes can -- and must -- be made administratively but they then must also be codified into Statute so that physicians, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies cannot lobby this or a future administration to reverse these rules and screw people for money as occurred in size, and which put into stark relief exactly how prevalent and death-causing it was during Covid.

When you get down to it, all of this -- and much more -- is related to something we don't want to discuss.

The issue with "migrants" in Germany deciding that ordinary revelry, which Germans have partaken in without incident for a long time -- suddenly becomes an invitation to rape.

The same sort of problems occur in England, with the same source.

And Laken is dead for the precise same reason.

You see, we're not all the same.

In fact, Anglo-Saxon White People, like it or not, are rather unique -- and a serious minority in the world.  It's a cultural difference that may or may not be bred into us, but its real and those nations that have ignored it have paid the price -- in blood.

Simply put, it's this: Different cultures have a wildly-different view of the value of human life.

You cannot let people into your nation and society who do not share your view of human life, or allow other things to have a higher valuation (like their desire for sex) than you place on life yourself.  If you do your society is doomed because you will be forced to either degrade your view to match those you admit or they will abuse and kill you.

Laken (and many others) are dead because we did not adhere to this basic principle when it comes to who we let into our nation which, in fact, up to the 1960s, was based on exactly this.  Multiple "immigrant" sexually-abusive monsters who allegedly raped children are in Massachusetts for the same reason.  Our abandonment beginning with Hart-Celler and wildly expanded and abused in the decades since, was defective in the first instance because it ignored the basic fact that our cultural standards in this regard are incompatible with many others.

We're not the only ones; most of Europe has done the same foolish things -- and gotten the same results.  You could claim a one-off was "random chance" but not when it happens repeatedly, as it has in France, England, Germany, Sweden and elsewhere.

The facts are that most of the planet's cultures simply do not share Anglo-Saxon values in this regard.

Yes, there is a distribution of these beliefs in individuals across all cultures, but the distribution is not the same between cultures and people, just as is the case that not all Pit Bulls will eat your child.  But the odds of a Pit Bull doing so, irrespective of training, are much higher than that of a Lab doing the exact same thing.  The distribution between those breeds, although both are dogs, is wildly different.

We are nowhere near perfect -- but we are different, and if the choice is to either have that high-level respect for human life or not -- I chose to have it, because while there are those who are nuts in any population there is a difference in the baseline, and its not small.

Laken and many others are dead because we refused to respect that.

We must return to what was.

Hart-Celler and what followed after it, especially the Reagan Amnesty and what has followed since, was a monstrous mistake we must reverse.

It starts, if Trump means what he says, with indictments and prosecutions under 8 USC 1324, a long-standing law that mandates a term up to life in prison for each and every person who provided assistance to Iberra -- including the landlord who rented him an apartment, the entity who paid for him to reocate to GA from NY and everyone else involved including State and Local government officials, none of whom are immune from Federal prosecution and all of whom facially violated that law.  If this does not happen on the first day Trump is not serious and the choices before us become much more-stark as it then becomes clear we cannot vote our way out of this problem.

Tell me again why, when a government agency ignores a ruling out of the highest court of jurisdiction, anyone else should obey any other law?

Yet the critical question is which votes should be counted? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled before the election that mail ballots lacking formally required signatures or dates should not be included in official results. However, Democratic officials in Philadelphia and surrounding Bucks, Centre and Montgomery counties are ignoring that court order. 

"I think we all know that precedent by a court doesn’t matter anymore in this country," Bucks County Commissioner Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, said Thursday as she and other Democrats voted to reject a GOP-led challenge to ballots that should be disqualified. 

Then just last night the State Supreme Court said "by the way, yes we did rule now cut that shit out!"

By Diane's standard she can be raped by anyone at any time because precedent doesn't matter anymore in this country and neither do laws and court rulings and thus from the perspective of the dude that's not rape, its "oh, I wanted sex and you had a proper hole, so here you go like it or not."

Right Diane?

This is how the civil society dies -- people deciding that the law matters not, when they challenge it (which you have a right to do) and lose then you just ignore the ruling, and yet everyone else should do what you say.

Uh, no.

Diane needs to be summarily frog-marched out in handcuffs as does anyone else who is counting ballots the State Judiciary, in a final ruling at the highest court of competent jurisdiction, has disqualified -- twice.

Further, that has disqualified the recount because the ballot pool is now likely polluted and impossible to remove the ballots back out because the secrecy of the ballot has to be maintained, which in turn means the last non-corrupted count has to stand, which of course is the one they don't like.  If they violated that in the process then everyone involved must be executed, right here and right now because secrecy of the ballot is indeed a core requirement for fair elections and anything that deliberately destroys THAT deserves the death penalty.

Too bad, so sad but that's how it has to be because you deliberately did this; it was not happenstance and you must not be rewarded for it.

Will any of that happen?

It had better or Diane and everyone else involved has no room to complain when the law is violated in a way that personally or financially screws her, even if that comes at the cost of great bodily injury to her -- or worse.

And finally, where is the Governor who I remind you has Presidential aspirations for next term.  Well Shapiro, as far as I'm concerned if you and the SoS in PA don't stop this shit, including by having the state cops drag these jackasses into jail and frog-march them out of their "offices" then that very same standard of "fuck the law when it comes to you and anything done to you" should be applied to you too.

When you set the standard, and have a legal duty to follow the law as a steward of same in a given jurisdiction you have no room to complain when that very examples comes back at you and goes straight up your ass, whether figuratively or literally.

Enough of this crap.