News You Just Won’t Believe

Like in Norway - at one businesses, in a country seemingly obsessed with toilet time, women on their period have to wear red bracelets so the boss knows why you might be using the restroom a lot more than is usual (allowed?).
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Or the speedy train appropriated $900 million by Congress from Nowhere to the Middle of Nowhere in CA to get a D elected in the Central Valley who was going to win anyway.

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Or Boston siting a business for having an unsafe building after one of the city tow-trucks plowed into said building and made it unsafe!
“Whoops, sorry about that, but I’m going to have to site you. Get these bricks cleaned up in 24 hours!!”
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Or what about the basics? Here’s a question? If the government cuts taxes and there is a deadline in order to get the tax cut passed, then isn’t it a tax increase if the tax cut is allowed to expire?
But really the “news you won’t believe” in this story is this quote:

A good plan would acknowledge that the recent health reform law represents the best shot at curbing the inexorable rise in health costs and deficits, and that repealing or obstructing the law, as Republicans aim to do, is antithetical to deficit reduction.

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And finally – David Ignatius seems completely surprised that with Congress and the public hollering about detentions at Gitmo that instead the new weapon of choice seems to be the unmanned drone at 10,000 feet that doesn’t allow for any interrogations or chance to prove innocence or to run or fight back. AND that people don’t seem to care.
When was 1984 written again? Wasn’t Ingatius alive?

What a world.