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Jewish World Review
Government in Action!
By
Chuck Shepherd

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Apparently, not only will there be fewer overall resources for disabled people in Greece (due to government austerity), but the resources will be spread over a larger number of recipients. The Labor Ministry in January expanded the category of eligible "disabled" (with reduced-amount payments) to include pyromaniacs, compulsive gamblers, fetishists, sadomasochists, pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs. The National Confederation of Disabled People said the changes would inevitably reduce funds available for the blind and the crippled and other traditional categories of need. [Associated Press via Washington Post, 1-9-2012]
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Even at a time of schoolteacher layoffs nationally, the Buffalo, N.Y., school system continues to cover all costs for cosmetic surgery for teachers. The benefit was established in the calmer 1970s, and no one, it seems, anticipated the facelift and liposuction crazes that subsequently developed. The annual expense in recent years, for about 500 benefit-takers a year, has been from $5 million to $9 million (equivalent to the average salaries of at least 100 teachers). The teachers' union said it is willing to give up the benefit in a new collective bargaining agreement, but a quirk in New York law lessens the incentive of teachers to negotiate such a contract (in that the current, highly lucrative contract remains in force until replaced). [The Atlantic, 1-18-2012]
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In February, Kenneth Gunn, of the U.K.'s Scottish Borders Council, decried the budget cutbacks that closed down local offices that had previously posted marriage notices. By making it more difficult for the public to be aware of specific marriages, Gunn feared an inevitable increase in incest. "I am aware in my own ward of brothers sitting beside sisters they do not know in primary school." (The problem is more serious in Iceland, whose 300,000 people are far more self-contained. However, a new website containing genealogical data back 1,200 years is expected to help reduce the risk of incest.) [Scottish Daily Record (Glasgow), 2-3-2012] [Global Post via Huffington Post, 2-8-2012]
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Previously:
• Their parents must have hated them; Awesome!
• Least Competent Criminals
• Do names portend the future?; HUH!?
• The Way the World Works
• (Fore)Sight from the Afterlife; No Common Cents. Er, Pence
• The Force Is NOT With You
• Least Competent Criminals
• Looney law?
• Games morons play
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• Inexplicable; 'Dementiaville'
• Oops!; Least Competent Criminals
• Separation of 'church' and reality?; Chutzpah!
• The District of Calamity?
• Respect all cultures!?
• Our %$#$%%$ government!
• Victimized perps
• Medical Marvels?
• That Entrepreneurial Spirit!
• Crooks Not Ready for Prime Time
• A hoo-hoo done it?; Dawn of an idea saved commuters $ 12 million
• Well, it ALMOST worked
• Can't make this stuff up!
• Even More Ironies
• Ironies
• Anti-Theft ID Breakthrough; No 'Individual Mandate'
• Undignified Deaths
• Over-competent criminals; Least Competent Criminals
• Drones even a liberal could love; And you thought American bureaucracy was bad!
• Cliches Come to Life
• Clean living in extreme; deserving of an a(commode)ation?
• A bloody - but holy!? - mess?; No Longer Weird?
• Least Competent Criminals; bang a bong for the boring
• When criminality is stranger than fiction; People with issues
• Shrink, heal thyself; how to get your Destined One to send you to the slammer
• Man bites (eats) . . .; snarky headline should have gone here
• If only the pol had followed her own law; neighbor (belongs in) hell
• If he only hadn't had a brain; defining bureaucracy, painfully
• Australia: Leader in men's rights?; substitute predators found, thankfully
• When women harass; to protect and rape
• Cone (headed) logic for homeland security; Attention Walmart geniuses
• Still weird: Updates, Part II
• Still weird: Updates, Part I
• Tampon tippling now practiced by males?; it ain't just bullet-proof stockings, anymore
• Idiot gets arrested and sued after reenacting urban legend; Choked-up (and out)
• When Tattoos Aren't Nearly Enough; jail birds who aren't
• The Pervo-American Community; locked-up loser
• Undignified Deaths
• Is it the law that an an . . . or the judges --- Lessons in Proportionality
• Pathetic losers
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• Absolutely Least Competent Criminal
• Creme de la Weird
• All cultures are equal!?
• The next time the kids complain about their school …
• Hallucination and delusion competition; Bright Ideas
• Creme de la Weird
• Hey, What's Good News Doing in News of the Weird?
• HUH!?
• Our Animal Overlords
• Wait . . . What!?; Cutting-Edge Science
• Least Competent Criminals
• Our Litigious Society
• Ironies
• Reigning cats and . . . replacing man
• Well, that certainly explains it
• Least Competent Criminals
• Recent Alarming Headlines
• Almost too-good-to-be-true police reports
• Great, ahem, Art!
• Government for the People!?
• Armed and Clumsy (All-New!)
• Bright Ideas
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• Do names portend the future?; Hey, It Could've Happened
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• Inscrutable Asians
• HUH!?
• Questionable Judgments
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• The Entrepreneurial Spirit!
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• Compelling Explanations; Unclear on the Concept
• The Litigious Society
• Oh, the sweet irony!; Least Competent Criminals
• Bureaucrat's Delight; Creme de la Weird
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; (Very) Undignified Death
• Great, ahem, Art!
• Government in Action!
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• Fine Points of the Law
• People Different From Us
• The Continuing Crisis
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• Can't Possibly Be True!
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• People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals
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• HUH!????
• Our Animal Sidekicks
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• For Self-Indulgent Crackpots
• The Pervo-American Community; Least Competent Criminals
• The Continuing Crisis
• Compelling Explanations?
• Ironies
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• Jobs-for-life; Bats' Rights
• Government in Action!
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• Names in the News (For Immature Readers Only, Please!); Pathetic losers
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• The Continuing Crisis
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• THE NERVE!
• Police Blotter
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• Unclear on the Concept
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• Respect all cultures!?; screwed for something he didn't
• Least Competent Criminals; He's full of . . . .
• MORE Questionable Judgments
• Questionable Judgments
• Cultural Diversity
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• Undignified Deaths; Recurring Themes
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• Civilization in Decline: Growing Up Early
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit!
• Life lessons for make-believe world; Armed and Clumsy (all-new!)
• Recurring Themes; Update
• You just had to open that yap of yours, didn't you!?
• Ironies
• Fan-atic$; Unclear on the Concept
• Easily Offended
• Criminals With Chutzpah; Least Competent Non-Criminals
• Almost (Deservedly) Dead in Bed; Gee, whiz genius; They Call it Art!
• More of your Government in Action!
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• The Aristocrats!
• Oops!
• The Continuing Crisis
• Bright Ideas
• OOPS!
• People With Issues
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; Inexplicable
• Can't Possibly Be True!, II
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• T-moo-I!; Unclear on the Concept
• Creme de la Weird; Least Competent Gun-Handling
• HUH!?; Questionable Judgments
• Our screwed-up world
• The Classic Middle Name (all-new!); Unclear on the Concept
• Least Competent Patient; Rights of the Disabled
• Procreation Interventions; Weird Animals
• Who says we're in a recession!?; Navel Observatory
• Fine Points of the Law; Medical Marvels
• How the Saudis hold beauty contests; The Entrepreneurial Spirit!; Noses Know
• Cliche Come to Life; art!?; worse
• I Demand My Rights!; Signs of the Times
• Compelling Explanations; 'Wrong' Impressions
• Ironies
• Least Competent Criminals
• HUH!?
• When government bombs; Bizarre art
• Chutzpah!
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• Least Competent Criminals; Usual consequence for an unqualified student
• Why Unions Are Unpopular; Score One for Death Penalty Advocates
• Those who don't know when to shut their yap
• Overreaching
• Oops!; Wheeee!
• Least Competent Criminals; Last Words
• Inexplicable
• HUH!?
• Can't Possibly Be True!
• Zero Tolerance?; Willing to go to Indonesia to cure for emphysema?
• FANatic; what a putz literally!
• The ultimate loser; chutzpah X2
• Illegals become animals; When grow up! is not just a rebuke
• 'Good Housekeeping' for the bomber set; evolutionary hardiness in American drinkers?
• In case you are getting sentenced; when a best friend betrays
• Clever victim outwits thief
• Do names portend the future?
• Questionable Judgments
• They are definitely not US!
• Smooth Reactions; Least Competent Criminals
• People With Too Much Money
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit: Product Giveaways
• Weird Science
• Whoever said life is fair?
• Creme de la Weird; The Litigious Society
• Ironies
• Least Competent Criminals; Classic weirdness
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; The Weirdo-American Community
• Pathetic creeps
• Government in Action!
• People Different From Us; Least Competent Criminals Not Ready for Prime Time
• Not So Bright Ideas
• No Sense of Shame!
• Yikes!
• Change, the old fashioned way; Another Sovereign Citizen
• Elusive Perps; The Country Afraid of Its Own Shadow
• More Can't Possibly Be True!
• Inexplicable
• Can't Possibly Be True
• Things that make say HUH!?
• Least Competent Criminals; Classic
• SICK! SICK! SICK!
• Questionable Judgments
• All cultures are equal?
• Feeeeeeeh!
• Least Competent Criminals; She's repulsive, they're jealous
• The Entrepreneurial Spirit; Not Your Father's Scotch
• Science on the Cutting Edge
• Privacy v. art; The Continuing Crisis
• Recurring Themes; A News of the Weird Classic
• People With Issues; Least Competent Criminals
• Economics and witchcraft; Ironies
• From victims to tourist attractions; Wacky lawsuit
• Compelling Explanations
• Least Competent Criminals; People Who Ran Over Themselves
• Surprise!; 'That Was Easy!'
• Government in Action!
• Bizarre art
• Getting Old, Young; from the archives
• Undignified Deaths
• Bright Ideas; Least Competent Criminals
• Oops!; Failed to Think It Through
• The Continuing Crisis; Beloved Banker
• The ear has a G-spot
• Respect for All Cultures?
• First Things First
• Questionable State Regulation; Can't Possibly Be True
• Unclear on the Concept; Least Competent Criminals
• Where down is up; Can't Possibly Be True
• Least Competent Criminals; Things that Make You Say: Huh!?
• News That Sounds Like a Joke
• Cultural Diversity; eggs-ellent! (from the archives)
• News from Islam-land; Latest Cutting-Edge Research
• Those Ingenious Western Spies!; Cultural Diversity
• Can't Possibly Be True; Motherly Love
• Least Competent Criminals; Questionable Judgments
• This mafia really are animals; out of control businesses
• Science on the Cutting Edge
• Daring New Products
• Least Competent Criminals; from the archives
• If Life Gives You …
• Their Crimes Fit Their Names; Bright Ideas
• Latest Rights; Compelling Explanations
• One of the world's most bizarre conferences; delicious ironies
• Thinning the herd; Downgrade Cut Short; from the archives
• Cleverest Non-Humans; Medicare In Action
• Oops!; The Weirdo-American Community; Least Competent Criminals
• Life Imitates a Drew Barrymore Movie; Weird Science; Questionable Judgments
• Questionable Judgments; Great, ahem, Art!
• Fine Points of the Law; Thank Goodness for Narcissists
• Cliches Come to Life; First Things First; Fine Points of the Law
• News That Sounds Like a Joke; Suspicions Confirmed; Yikes!
• Do They Know?; Yikes!
• Catch-22 Catches Disabled Veteran; The Continuing Crisis; Best Not to Ask Why
© 2011, Chuck Shepherd. Distributed by Universal Uclick
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