Incompetence

WA state Senator Mike Carrell of Lakewood is sponsoring a bill to prevent the use of Washington's welfare cash cards from being used

Carrell says an investigation by Seattle TV station KING found that Washington's welfare cash cards are being used at strip clubs, sex shops, tattoo parlors, gun shops and taverns.

The station earlier found that about $2 million in welfare cash was withdrawn in one year at casinos. The Department of Social and Health Services asked casinos to block the use of the cards at their ATMs. Gambling with welfare cash is illegal.

D.A.G. Says: Why the hell didn't they simply design the cards to not work but for food and other necessities? Why rely on retailers.

As part of their new campaign to protect America from the looming threat of disabled children, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) forced a four-year-old boy to remove his leg braces which he needs to walk.

Young Ryan Thomas, with his father, Bob, and mother, Leona, were on their way to Walt Disney World for the boy's fourth birthday. Born 16 weeks prematurely, Ryan's ankles are malformed and his legs have low muscle tone. He had only been walking since the previous March. The custom-fitted, hardened plastic leg braces set off the security system.

The screener, clearly not the brighest of lightbulbs, ordered the parents to take the boy's leg braces off. The dumbfounded parents responded that Ryan could not walk without them on his own. Still not getting it, the screener repeated "He'll need to take them off".

Ryan’s mother offered to walk him through the detector after they removed the braces, but the TSA goon refused even this reasonable request. Fortunately the boy managed to walk through without falling demonstrating that at four years of age, he is ten times the man these TSA morons will ever be.

Meanwhile, mindless terrorist maniacs can sneak explosives onto planes in their pants.

Short yellow light times at intersections have been proven to increase the number of traffic violations and accidents. Conversely, increasing the yellow light duration can dramatically reduce red-light violations at an intersection. Despite this, some local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of longer yellow light time and installed red-light cameras (themselves Orwellian) and shortened yellow light duration all to steal money from the citizens.

The cities caught "red handed" include:

• Chattanooga, TN
• Dallas, TX
• Springfield, MO
• Lubbock, TX
• Nashville, TN
• Union City, CA

D.A.G. says: It is our belief that yellow lights ought to have standardized timing across the city, should be sufficiently long, and even display a countdown timer. If you're ever wondering why such painfully obvious improvements are not made, now you know. Stupidity, incompetence, and greed.

Dr. Santhosh Thomas, his wife, and their daughter Alyssa were on a trip from Cleveland to Minneapolis when an unexpected and shocking development occurred: six-year-old Alyssa was on the dreaded No Fly List, a roster of slime and vermin supposedly reserved for psychopathic terrorists.

While the family was allowed to board the flight, they were admonished to contact Homeland Security to clear the matter up. This did not help. The family received a letter written to young Alyssa from the government notifying her that nothing will be changed and they will not confirm or deny any information they have about her or someone else with the same name.

D.A.G. says: The family is Indian with a western last name. This should be all the proof necessary that you do not need to be Muslim or have an Arabic name to find yourself on the No Fly List.