Just had a family member get misdiagnosed with “delusional parasitosis” . It was a months long ordeal to get properly treated. Of course their history of drug and alcohol abuse and other mental health issues fit the profile for delusion and clouded the judgement of the physician, so it’s almost understandable but eventually, after massive infection even the doctor could see first hand proper treatment was rendered. Cysts surgically removed and antiparasitic medications administered so all clear now. Thank God.
The Daily Beast was a fictional newspaper in hyper conservative author Evelyn Waugh’s satirical 1938 book “Scoop” which ridiculed sensationalist journalism. I read it because he wrote it. It’s a good story by a great writer.
I can’t imagine whoever named themselves after it ever read the book, or understood it if they did. They beclowned themselves by doing so.
Regulatory agencies can become parasitic growths who suffer mission creep. That they levy fines and impose penalties, without recourse to appeal, all to justify their continued growth to the point they become a hazard to the public is undeniable. Illegal things should be illegal but require prosecution and adjudication. It gets also gets politically weaponized.
The EPA, under Obama destroyed the Gibson guitar company because they had a piece of forbidden wood. Maybe they had done, or not done something the administration didn’t like. “Reward your friends and punish your enemies. That’s the Chicago way.” And yet Capone was a celebrity. The Comintern adopted all the mob tactics because they work. They’re called Democrats now but we know what they are. Mobster commies. They’ve run amok. Nihilistic nominalists, as if that makes more sense. Big money funds them to propel “creative destruction” against the interests of those just trying to live right and succeed. It’s only too obvious to anyone willing to see the naked emperor.
My neighbor in Montrose trimmed a live oak tree without a permit (a “protected species”) and got fined $100,000 and there was nobody to appeal to. They apparently meant to take his house. Soviet?
A man in Newport Beach rented out a guesthouse in his property. His ad said “Perfect for young couple” but a “watchdog” group that scans want ads for profit turned him in to the appropriate regulatory agency for “excluding potential tenants with children”. His existing tenant had a child. It wasn’t an issue. They fined him and insisted he attend “landlord classes”. He fought it. I think he just refused to pay. I hope he won. It was years ago and I don’t know the final outcome, but I followed it back then. Or, maybe the penalties and interest allowed the state to confiscate his property. How could anyone not love that?
Oh, and smog is nothing like what it was before catalytic converters. That Los Angeles, and the surrounding valleys suffer from very specific localized geographic features that trap the smog shouldn’t ever have caused every car made anywhere to have all the emissions control stuff, and yearly inspections for them as well, but wether if you’re in the Dakotas or Pasadena, you’ve got the risk of some teenage dumbass crawling under your car with a sawzall to get your catalytic converter! Ah, life. If it’s not hoodlums it’s lions and tigers and bears. And snakes…. All the best to you. May you always fly beneath the radar.
Not for nothing 153 is the 17th triangular number and the number of fish in the net in John 21. I had to investigate why that specific number some years ago. Now I can relate what I found to confirm, as much as possible your observation. That chapter is directly related to your topic. A whole multitude of fish nobody expected but contained within the net without tearing it. We collectively belong to The Church Militant, it literally means we the living believers here on earth. “Fight Fight Fight”
Hitler tried the windmill thing. Didn’t work for him either.