These kinds of headlines just crack my ass up

'Sheriff of the Year' Busted in Meth-Sex Ring
By Stephanie Rabiner on December 1, 2011 5:58 AM | No TrackBacks

Pregnancy discrimination

Pregnancy Discrimination Still a Problem
By Stephanie Rabiner on November 23, 2011 3:02 PM

When my boss and co-worker found out I was pregnant all of the sudden I was helpless. It was amusing to me. I did physical work and one day I could do it and the next they felt the need to help me. I'm not quite sure how to add this, so I'll just throw it in there. One of my co-workers will always have a special place in my heart because he helped me lose my irrational fear of black men. He was the cook and a kind and gentle soul who would ask me "What are we feeding the baby this morning?" and fix me whatever I wanted for breakfast. I'll always be grateful for that sweet, shy man who was kind to me and my baby.

Soon I was not getting any assignments and had to look for something else, and the next company didn't have any problem with me hauling my ass up a ladder to bring down boxes as large as I was. Until I started to show, that is, then it was unemployment again, which was fine actually because I was sick of trying to hide my pregnancy, and disability paid a little bit.

The child's father started pushing me to go back to work 2 weeks after the child was born and I had to tell him that the doctors all said that 6 weeks was necessary to to heal enough to be up and on my feet all day. He had agreed to pay the rent, but he never could on time even though he cleared three times the rent and he was paid monthly, which I learned years later. My job was to cover everything else except 1/2 the childcare, which he also never paid on time, so I did. I knew that I couldn't stay with that narcissistic asshole when he complained that his meal was too small. I shot back that if he paid his half of the childcare that his meals would be bigger. I cleared $150 a week and the childcare was $95 a week. I left him when the kid was 4 months old and never even considered living with his selfish ass again.

The kid is just finishing up the last few classes for a bachelor's degree. You would think that some things had changed in all that time.

Hmmmm.

The Global Occupy Movement Challenges the Transnational Corporate Class Propaganda Machine

Daily Censored Nov 19, 2011

Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan Asked To Sit Out Supreme Court Health Care Case

I can't believe the nerve, the gall, the chutzpah of "conservat­ives" in service to business and banking interests in this country.



They better have really good securtity because I know I'm not the only only one who has had it with this CRAP.
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The Stream - Thanksgiving Day or "ThanksTaking" Day?

I watched "Black Robe" again yesterday. My mother was showing me old family photos years ago and I asked her who the indian woman was? She told me to watch that movie. Then she said something about my great grandfather getting in trouble with his wife for spending too much time trying to help the local indians on their reservation. Who the hell knows?

Shootings, pepper-spray attack mar Wal-Mart Black Friday sales

November 25, 2011 | 6:39 am

Wow. Just wow.

And some good news:

AT&T braces for T-Mobile deal collapse

Why haven't other Amish communities confronted Mullet?

Hate Crime: Feds Charge Amish Beard-Cutting Suspects With Civil Rights Violations

Bergholz Amish Bishop Arrested by FBI

The revolution will not be won by soothing women with honeyed voices.

And that includes these two

Arianna Huffington
Pepper-Spraying Occupy: An Assault on Our Democracy
Posted: 11/21/11 08:23 PM ET

Linda P.B. Katehi

I think they should both go back to their patriarchal train wreck and do what they do best; soothe, but fight? Negotiate? Don't make me laugh.

Greek Uprising Shaped California Educator in Pepper-Spray Storm
November 22, 2011, 12:16 PM EST Bloomberg Businessweek.

Guess what's missing from the above article?
Greek military junta of 1967–1974 oy hint, hint


Amazon Warrior Women

Occupy protests will change the dialogue. The 1% cannot hide their use of thugs any more

AlterNet / By Joshua Holland
Caught on Camera: 10 Shockingly Violent Police Assaults on Occupy Protesters
Probably 97 percent of police act professionally toward protesters. But the other 3 percent are armed and dangerous, and know that they're unlikely to be held accountable.

A Children’s Treasury of American Cops Brutally Attacking Citizens
By KEN LAYNE (Wonkette)
1:38 PM NOVEMBER 19, 2011
How did America’s heavily militarized security guards for the 1% spend the work week?


This Is What Revolution Looks Like

Posted on Nov 15, 2011

AP / Seth Wenig
Occupy Wall Street protesters rally in a small park on Canal Street in New York on Tuesday.
By Chris Hedges

Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis

The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For

"...You would think that a former partner at the investment bank Solomon Brothers, which originated mortgage-b­acked securities­, a man who then partnered with Merrill Lynch in the high-speed computeriz­ed trading that has led to so much financial manipulati­on, would have some sense of his own culpabilit­y...."



Umm, no I woudn't think that. Certainly not after finding out that many wealthy and powerful people are friggin sociopaths­!

http://pre­view.tinyu­rl.com/7up­vla4
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Europe in the grip of drug-resistant superbugs

By Reuters
Thursday, November 17, 2011

"...K. pneumoniae is a common cause of pneumonia, urinary tract, and bloodstream infections in hospital patients. The superbug form is resistant even to a class of medicines called carbapenems, the most powerful known antibiotics, which are usually reserved by doctors as a last line of defense...."

Shit. Didn't smallpox from Europeans friggin wipe out a huge portion of Native Americans a few hundred years ago?

Wall Street is Just an Address

opednews.com

by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo

exclusive for OpedNews.com

Justices Scalia, Thomas Dine With Firm Arguing Against Health Care Law In Supreme Court Case

Wow, Scalia and Thomas are corrupt. Surprise surprise.N­OT
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How neoliberalism created an age of activism

Decades of neoliberal economic policies have concentrated wealth and are now spurring a global backlash.
Juan Cole Last Modified: 15 Nov 2011 13:21

"...Whether in Egypt or the United States, young rebels are reacting to a single stunning worldwide development: the extreme concentration of wealth in a few hands thanks to neoliberal policies of deregulation and union busting..."

I got nuthin' but Tbogg cracked me up with this

It’s A 300 World After All
By: TBogg Saturday November 12, 2011 10:15 am

"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake" :

The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN
by Greg Palast
November 10, 2011
"I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level.
Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant:
Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. . . . In fact, the plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earth- quake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could "completely and utterly fail" during an earthquake.

"Utterly fail during an earthquake." And here in Japan was the quake and here is the utter failure.

The warning was in what the investigations team called The Notebook, which I'm not supposed to have. Good thing I've kept a copy anyway, because the file cabinets went down with my office building ....

WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWER 1, FIFTY-SECOND FLOOR
NEW YORK, 1986

[This is an excerpt in FreePress.org from Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Fraudsters, to be released this Monday. Click here to get the videos and the book.] ..."

Debunking The Right-Wing Meme That The Obama Administration Is Anti-Business

Some men do the most amazingly stupid things

PA Man Injected Semen Into Co-Workers Yogurt, Gets 2 Years in Prison
By Stephanie Rabiner on November 9, 2011 5:44 AM | No TrackBacks

Frankly, I think that men who seem to be thrilled with the infamous cum shot on the face should have it done to them before they are allowed to do it to someone else. It shows disdain, and a lack of respect, but it's nothing compared to putting it in someone's food, and I'm glad these disgusting pieces of shit went to jail.

Duggar Family Expecting 20th Child: '19 Kids And Counting' Mom Pregnant

There are 7 billion people on the planet now, and without huge amounts of cheap energy supplies the earth can support around a billion and a half.

If each of the Duggars' children grows up and has familes HALF the size of the one they grew up in that means the Duggar grandchild­ren wil number 200. And if the next generation cuts their family sizes in half again there will still be 1000 great-gran­dchildren.

Hmmmm.
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Iran's Nuclear Ambitions And America's Misguidedly Dismissed Countervailing Option

"...As for "the threat of a belligeren­t Iran", very precise interests - sections of the industrial­-military complex, the Republican party as a whole, the Israel lobby, the majority of corporate media - have been cheerleadi­ng for a strike on Iran for years...."

The Pentagon-A­rab Spring love story

By Pepe Escobar

Nov 2, 2011http://www­.atimes.co­m/atimes/M­iddle_East­/MK02Ak01.­html
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Charges dropped against first reporter arrested at Occupy Wall Street

NOVEMBER 4, 2011 11:17 AM
Columbia Journalism Review

Multiple Missteps Led To Drone Killing U.S. Troops In Afghanistan

Do you really think the people who make money selling these drones care about a few casualties­?

Northrop Grumman profit up nearly 50 percent

April 23rd, 2009

http://www­.armybase.­us/2009/04­/northrop-­grumman-pr­ofit-up-ne­arly-50-pe­rcent/
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Yeah, so who took over these Bozo's jobs?

Top Farc rebel leader Alfonso Cano killed in Colombia
SATURDAY 5.11.2011 | 14:25

The Irish Times - Saturday, November 5, 2011
How the 'merchant of death' was snared

Stiglitz nails it again

The Globalization of Protest
Joseph E. Stiglitz
2011-11-04

"NEW YORK – The protest movement that began in Tunisia in January, subsequently spreading to Egypt, and then to Spain, has now become global, with the protests engulfing Wall Street and cities across America....

...The rise in inequality is the product of a vicious spiral: the rich rent-seekers use their wealth to shape legislation in order to protect and increase their wealth – and their influence...."

So what happened in Oakland yesterday?

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Occupy Oakland General Strike Nov. 2, 2011

Busted! Occupy Oakland police infiltrators exposed on video.
OCTOBER 30, 2011 BY JEREMY BLOOM

Michael Moore To Visit #OccupyDenver Thursday Afternoon (VIDEO)

WOOOOOT!
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New shoes

Yup, I got new dirty-filthy-hippy-commie-liberal socialist shoes.

Winter time in San Diego just means I have to wear socks with my Birkenstocks.

My favorite thing about Birks might be that they call a wide shoe "normal", "for normal, sturdy feet" (kind of funny because an arch as high as mine is not "sturdy," it needs support, and those silly foam arch supports you can buy to put in other shoes are a fucking joke if you have feet like mine.

Birkenstock calls what is normally a women's width (a B is a normal women's width) "narrow", "for slim, slender feet," which totally makes me giggle since some asshole shoe salesman told me he "might have some boxes in the back" that would fit me. The fucker, as if I hadn't endured enough torture finding shoes that fit a EE width with a high instep and arch and and a decidedly NOT wide heel. My swim coach used to call me "paddle-foot," nice if you are a duck, but humliating for a teenaged girl.

I wear a boys size and boys shoes are crap for women's feet. Eeek, women's shoes are crap for women's feet, which sort of helped me to give up on women's shoes, the painful, ridiculous things. I made the mistake as a young adult of buying a pair of women's work shoes that were too narrow and after 2 days they pinched a nerve and it took six months for the feeling to come back in two toes. When a shoe salesman says to me, "Oh, they'll stretch," they get a murderous look and a good talking to from me. They usually walk away, hanging their head in shame.

I bought my first pair of Birks 28 years ago, and I have one pair that is 13 years old and has been re-soled 3 times and I have 2 pairs that have had the footbed liner replaced. My other shoes haven't been outside their boxes in years.

Why isn't this toad completely irrelevant?

Rove Misses Security Experts' Assessments Of Climate Change

I saw these and I just couldn't resist using them this morning. I saw the video of Rove and thought of this one:



And some of the commenters at Huffington Post really need to be sprayed:

Sons of Anarchy

Yep, I watch it. I really wanted to not watch it, and I thought the main characters were reprehensible creatures for the first six shows I watched. I almost gave up, but then I grew to care about the characters and now I watch it, albeit a year behind because I refuse to pay for basic or extended cable.

I might not even have noticed the articles on the Hells Angels deaths if I didn't watch it. I may be a bit rough in my speech patterns and use vulgar language in my blogposts, but biker gangs scare the crap out of me now and they always did. No doubt that the good people who helped me as a teenager (a gazillion freaking years ago) had secrets from their distant past that we all want to stay buried, then and now. Now, now, I said secrets, not bodies.

Goldman Sachs and Occupy Wall Street's bank: the real story

When Goldman got huffy at a credit union honouring OWS and pulled its anniversary dinner funding, much more was at stake

(Greg Palast on Democracy Now since blogger felt the need to NOT display my other post, this one links to the Guardian UK.)