Our favorite suggestion of the week. Here it is – Take the first 535 people who walk out of Vons and put them in Congress. They would do a better job than the guys who are there. Hey, no joke. They would, that is, until they were bought off by special interests. Much has been [...]
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Bureaucrat Beat: microchips, golden sax and G
Some scary news these days – right out of George Orwell kind of scary. Okay. We know it’s probably a good thing to have microchips imbedded in your pets so if they run away someone can bring them home, but there’s something about the phrase “mandatory microchipping of pets” that gives us in the Bureaucrat [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: Greedy guys, Pizza and DWP, and bad omen
Have you seen the HBO show, “Too Big to Fail”? Gotta see it to feel the depth of the total self absorption and reptilian lack of care for the rest of the country on the part of all of the heads of big banks. The show unfolds the story of how they all pushed our [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: Devil’s T-shirts, helpless and house arrests
We saw the devil the other day. He was wearing an Anthem Blue Cross Insurance T-shirt. That was on Monday. The rest of the week he wears the black T-shirt that merely sports the words “Wall Street” with flames that leap up from below. The devil likes the cliche – been there, done that, bought [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: Respect, puppets, and Pelley
Okay. We in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom wish to quote Winston Churchill today. He said, “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” This from the man who helped bring down Hitler. We just want to say without revealing the source or the exact situation that bureaucrats can make things good for the [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: Divide and conquer, Robot talk, and middle finger
When will Inyo people get wise. Folks, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power uses the tactic of divide and conquer. They have used it in the 36 years the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom has operated and likely before that. Latest tactical move? A secret source spelled it out. For years, DWP did not keep [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: CEO salaries, War $$, and sacred cows
How do you feel when you read news stories about the salaries of health insurance and big oil CEOs? Somewhere between nausea and rage? The latest – “Blue Shield CEO earns $4.6 million”. Nice. But, really, the next bit of news is kind of nice. Seems that California has a law and the insurance commissioner [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: Ho-hum, Bronzeville and meet the mayors
No surprise here. Last week, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shot out their annual operations plan for the Owens Valley. In spite of Inyo’s request that they pump 68,500 acre feet of groundwater, DWP insists on 91,000 acre feet. DWP’s rationale? That the well ON/OFF provisions of the Water Agreement allow DWP [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: Rogue bureaucracy, spinning gold, and hybrid
We will start today with a voicemail message from a “concerned citizen”. The man said that a video we showed on TV33 on ranching, branding, etc. was abuse to animals and should not have been on TV. The caller said this will teach our children bad things about how to relate to animals. Branding and [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: Channeling, Shakespeare, and lions
We in the Bureaucrat Beat Newsroom felt somewhat gobsmacked, British slang for shocked, when we read the Friday press Channeling through the ether to the Owens Valley? release from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. The DWIP clearly hoped the release would dazzle Owens Valleyites before they socked it to us with more [...]
Bureucrat Beat: Bumper stickers, conflicts, and dog square
Driving around the Eastern Sierra today I noticed some bumper stickers. One said MyBillofRights.org. It’s a group that wants to get back to the Bill of Rights, which amounts to the first ten amendments to the Constitution. The group has gone to work to display the Bill of Rights in public buildings. As this group [...]
Bureaucrat Beat: First Amendment Champ, hope and swan song
Note to citizens of the Eastern Sierra: You can have more control over local issues if you push to get your item on a public agenda – Town Council, City Council or Board of Supervisors. A public comment does not cut it. The elected officials can’t even really answer you. Unhappy about things in your [...]
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