Saturday Open Thread [2.8.14]
In a bit of good news for freedom of speech, Beau Biden’s office has withdrawn its subpoena to find out who Peaceful Rioters for Wilmington, Delaware is. The relevant bit:
“They decided it wasn’t essential to the investigation and that’s a good thing,’’ MacRae said. “They have to be very discriminatory when they seek private information like that.’’
Joseph S. Grubb, the chief New Castle County prosecutor, said Biden’s top supervisors decided this week to withdraw the subpoena because the information would not further the criminal case – not because of criticism or opposition.
“The investigation kind of took a turn,’’ Grubb said. “It’s proven less likely there’s a relevant connection’’ between the creators of Peaceful Rioters and the Hockessin-area missives about top county officials.
Translation: We got caught in a fishing expedition and we’re trying to put a good face on our backing out of this strategy.
Today’s WTF? The Colonial School District is adding 10 minutes of time to the school day (5 minutes at the beginning of the day and 5 minutes at the end of the day) to try to make up for the snow days that closed the schools. Does this make any sense to anyone, because this looks like the school district has decided to make up the *time* missed and not the instruction. What am I missing?
Today in Chris Christie news! That scathing memo he sent out about how awful Wildstein was as a kid? Governor Christie’s people now claim that the Governor never saw that letter before it was sent. 🙄 The bad part of this walk back is that I don’t think that there is anyone out there who doesn’t think that Christie isn’t NJ’s Chief Bullying Officer.
“The memo from Gov. Chris Christie’s office attacking former appointee David Wildstein’s credibility landed with a thud. It was a striking and deeply personal broadside coming from a chief executive of a state, and even his allies called it a mistake,” Politico reports.
“But one important person hadn’t seen the missive ahead of time: the governor himself.”
As if.
OK, so here is one more WTF? Medicare is overpaying for penis pumps. Seriously:
The inspector general found that from 2006-2011, the government spent $172.4 million on 473,620 claims for these penis pumps, and saw the claims spike during the six-year period. Taxpayers would have saved $14.4 million, and beneficiaries would have saved $3.6 million, during each of those six years if Medicare was paying standard rates.
So that’s $364 each one and apparently these can be had much cheaper. But what I want to know is where is Mike Huckabee reminding men that if they could control their libidos they wouldn’t need Uncle Sugar to buy them penis pumps?
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