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Stories like this make it hard to maintain the illusion that government employees are public servants, except in the sense that cowboys are servants to cattle.


Observation: When people are ordered to 'take care of this thing' and there is no 'thing' they'll find one.

I say thing because the supposed target vary. Everything from restaurants serving alcohol to minors. The FBI looking for terrorist, to drug dealers.


Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a thousand times, well, what choice do I really have anyway?


I know it's so 90s to bash neither the current nor the last POTUS but I can't resist

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again. - G.W.Bush




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