A Day When Some Bad Shit Happened

42 years ago, April 4, 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was gunned down in Memphis, Tennessee.





The text of the entire speech.

1968 was a pretty nasty year.

If You Work for the Talx Corporation: You Work for Evil.

You should consider funding a more humane job, such as working as a killer in a slaughterhouse, or you should off yourself. It doesn't matter which you do, not to me. For you work for a company that makes its money by fucking over unemployed people on behalf of scum-sucking corporations such as Wal-Mart.

Here is how it works: If you were employed by a company that retains the Talx Corporation, they will contest every unemployment claim that a fired employee of those companies file. They will do it without having any reasons for such a contest. When the hearing officer rules against Talx, they will appeal.

The idea is to grind people down and get them to withdraw their unemployment claims by just wearing them down. Even when those former employees finally prevail, they have been even more financially crippled because they have gone for months without any unemployment compensation. Which doesn't bother the evil fuckers at Talx not one bit, for it is all in a day's work to them.

Talx is a subsidiary of Equifax. Just so you know that even demons can be wholly owned by vultures.

Let's Fucking Do This

"As I listen to health care opponents talking about rising up and revolution, I guess my one thought is: Bring it on. Let's fucking do this. I'm kind of sick of their shit. We have guns, too." -- Wyatt Cenac

Go about 5:50 into this:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Health Care Slime Machine
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Reform

I'm not advocating that folks arm themselves, slap Obama bumper stickers on their car and go trolling for Teabaggers such as this clown. That would be wrong.

(Go about 7:05 into it for Aasif Mandvi's solution.)

Thanks Be to Blogger

For it went down for a bit. Otherwise, you would have been treated to my unalloyed reaction to this one:

A senior Vatican priest speaking at a Good Friday service compared the uproar over sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church — which have included reports about Pope Benedict XVI’s oversight role in two cases — to the persecution of the Jews, sharply raising the volume in the Vatican’s counterattack.
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Benedict sat looking downward when the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, who holds the office of preacher of the papal household, delivered his remarks in the traditional prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica. Wearing the brown cassock of a Franciscan, Father Cantalamessa took note that Easter and Passover were falling during the same week this year, saying he was led to think of the Jews. “They know from experience what it means to be victims of collective violence and also because of this they are quick to recognize the recurring symptoms,” he said.

The very idea that a Vatican official sees a moral equivalence between the murdering of millions of Jews on the one hand and criticizing the Catholic Church for decades of covering up the acts of the child molesters within its clergy on the other hand just boggles my mind.

Now Can We Beat These Guys With Tire Irons?

The price of oil and gasoline is going up. Not because of increased demand or because of shortages in production or refining capability. The rise in price is due to speculation.

So, when you go to the gas station to fill up your car or when you have a delivery truck fill up your heating oil tank and you notice that you're paying more than last time, you can thank the greedy bastards on Wall Street for reaching into your wallet yet again.

Bill O'Reilly Did Something Nice

He really did.

When the hateful fuckers of the Westboro Baptist Church protested at the funeral of a Marine who was killed in Iraq, the father of the dead Marine sued those miserable sacks of protoplasm. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the father to pay the legal fees of the air-breathing asshats. Bill O'Reilly heard about it and stepped in to pay those fees.

Good for you, Bill-O.

(H/T)

Our Creeping Police State

The town of Tiburon, California is placing license plate cameras on the roads into the town to monitor every vehicle entering or leaving the town. The cops claim that they will only keep the data for 30 days.

Yeah, as if I believe that. Data storage is pretty cheap.

This, by the way, is the leading company who sells those fucking things. The uses of those cameras are going to mushroom. Companies will put them in their employee parking lots. Shopping centers will put them at their entrances and exits. More and more municipalities and and states will put them alongside roads. Elsag is pushing them as Big-Brother cams, though they don't exactly call them that.

We could stop it, of course. But we won't, for the people who now say that they are so concerned about freedom and liberty are only worried about "socialized medicine". They've never been worried before about increased police surveillance and they aren't about to start now.

zOMG!!1!!!11! That Island's Gonna Capsize!!

I know I am late to this story today, but one thing is clear: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Georgia) has to be one exceptionally stupid individual if he is afraid that the island of Midway might capsize.

Now I know that the Constitution only says that to be elected to the House of Representatives, one only has to be (a) age 25 or older (b) been a citizen for seven years and (c) reside in the state he is elected from. There is no requirement that a person elected to Congress be livelier than Karen Quinlan. But damn, Rep. Johnson is pushing the envelope if he thinks an island could capsize.

He's about dumb enough to be a member of the Palin clan.

Pegging the Ol' Irony Meter

You might recall the "Hutaree Militia" members who were arrested a few days ago. They were allegedly planning to kill a bunch of cops in order to spark an insurrection against the government, which they hate.

They've requested that they be represented by public defenders. So they are asking the very same government which they despise to defend them against the charges.


Which is not a hell of a lot different from the Teabaggers who were demanding that the government not provide health insurance and to "keep your hands off my Medicare."

(H/T)

The Hilary Davidson Flash Fiction Initiative

Can be found here, with the seeder story.

This time, I opted to play.