1)Gabriel Gomez and special elections- Anyone not living in the MA area probably has no idea who this guy is. He is the Republican candidate for John Kerry's seat, vacated when he became Secretary of State. His opponent, Ed Markey, is up twenty points in the latest poll, at least any poll that matters. Proving that the GOP has learned nothing these past few years, they are still relying on internal polls that skewer the data something fierce and are never right now matter how much they may wish it. Those polls killed them in the last election and they are still using them. Incredible. Gomez has tried to pander to the largely blue state but still comes across like a dangerous lunatic beholden onto a party line of pure insanity. He has no chance come Tuesday. And as for these special elections, can we please go back to the old way where Governors appointed people until their term was up. I've had it up to here with elections as we seem to have had 27 in the last few years. It has been non stop political ads since 2008. I do not know how much more of this I can take. Thank god it's all over Tuesday and I will get a brief break before next year's election rolled around. Sigh.
2)McDonald's- It's bad enough they pay their workers nothing but now some franchises are paying their worker with fee riddled debit cards. A class action lawsuit has been leveled against a fast food chain franchise owner in PA for illegal practices by paying workers like this. Check out the fees as listed by AOL:
Natalie Gunshannon (the person who instigated the civil suit) reportedly was to be paid $7.44 per hour, a little more than the minimum wage. But as the TimesLeader.com reports, the payroll card had several fees, including $1.50 for ATM withdrawals, $5 for over-the-counter cash withdrawals, $1 per balance inquiry, 75 cents per online bill payment and $15 for lost or stolen card.
This is a violation of state law that says workers can request to be paid by check or cash and is just another case of rich folks screwing people over because they can. Let us hope that this case gets some attention because I can see other companies thinking this would be great idea.
3)Darryl Issa- The Republican House member from NY got spanked this week when he was shown to be the liar he is. After weeks of claiming he had evidence from closed door hearings about Obama's involvement with the IRS "scandal," fellow congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) released the full transcipt from the hearings proving Issa a fibber. Not only does the record contain no comments from anyone linking Obama to the IRS, the guy who started the whole thing is a hard core Republican who took responsibility for the whole thing and said conservative groups were never targeted specifically. That is far cry from treason to nothing happened and Issa knew it. He is a douchebag of the highest order, trying to make a scandal where there was literally nothing. Anyone voting for him in the next election is no better.
4)Right wing groups- After the failure of the IRS scandal, now right wing groups are claiming the EPA is charging them money for FOIA documents while liberals groups are given a free pass. What is not understood from this is that liberal groups make ten times less the documents wanted compared to the overwhelming nature of the Tea Party who have all become arm chair sleuths, and terrible ones at that. If I am getting flooded with the same requests from dozens of Tea Party groups for the same info, yeah, I am going to charge them too. Climate Change is occurring. Get over it.
5)Steve Stockman- Speaking of right wing lunatics comes this gem from the idiot right. Stockman (R-TX) is one of several congressman trying to kill the SNAP program. Paul Ryan wanted to add an amendment to the farm bill (currently dead in the water) that would make it illegal to get food stamps if you have a car worth more than $5,000. Another add on was to drug test recipients, even though that has been found to be unconstitutional in every state in the country. Funny how these guys are so rock hard for the Constitution except when it says something they don't like. Just like the Bible. But now comes this ass who wants to cut $20 billion from food stamps because we give way too much for poor people. Even by his own admission, the average person gets $4.50 per day for food or roughly $28 per week to live off of. He then went on a shopping spree and spent the allotted money on these items:
Two boxes of Honeycomb cereal
Three cans of red beans and rice
Jar of peanut butter
Bottle of grape jelly
Loaf of whole wheat bread
Two cans of refried beans
Box of spaghetti
Large can of pasta sauce
Two liters of root beer
Large box of popsicles
24 servings of Wyler’s fruit drink mix
Eight cups of applesauce
Bag of pinto beans
Bag of rice
Bag of cookies
Gallon milk
Box of instant oatmeal
First off, there are no fruits, vegetables or protein on the list, contributing to the obesity epidemic sweeping out nation. Second, and more importantly, there is no way he spent $28 dollars on that unless he was buying expired food from dollar stores and even that way seems like a stretch. My guess is much like Darryl Issa and most of the Republican party, he's lying. Even more hypocritical, Stockman was homeless for a year in his youth and used the same social programs he is now trying to get rid of. Voters should make him homeless again when he comes up for re-election next year. Or you can starve to death. Your choice.
6)The PRISM program- This program is costing us billions, making us a worldwide pariah and has yet to show one single case that was stopped by these methods. Foreign countries are upset that everything they say or email is being intercepted by the US and with good reason. The information gathered could be used to destroy international markets or expose spy networks. Journalists are reporting that whistleblowers have all but dried up as no one wants to get droned to death by Obama's flying death robots, which is technically what they are. They are doing a full court press for Ed Snowden who is now in Russia as they will NEVER extradite him and is currently seeking asylum in several countries. Nancy Pelosi was booed at a recent town hall meeting for her support of the system and this came from a democratic crowd. Some in the crowd suggested Obama was Bush's fourth term which actually isn't that far off. Those actions prove that the president is more figure head than world leader and someone else behind the scenes is pulling the strings, someone no one elected or even knows about. That is really scary.
7)Donald James Smith- This fuckwad is the lowest of the low, raping and murdering an eight year old girl in Florida. This dirtbag offered to help the mother, obviously poor and struggling, buy a dress at Walmart for her eight year old daughter. At some point he slipped off with the little girl, Charish, while the mom was busy with her other two kids. The worst part is this ass is a registered sex offender who was let out to fill the prisons instead with "worse" people like those who do drugs or have committed some sort of Internet fraud. Nationwide, we are releasing rapists and murders because of mandatory minimums and draconian fraud laws that give huge jail times for minor offences. As long as we keep doing this, stories like will continue.
8)Private Prisons- The support by states for private prisons is ending as study after study show that the cost benefits promised were lies and the endeavor is actually much more expensive than state run ones. Texas, Mississippi and Idaho have all ended contracts with the largest private prison group CAA over allegations of mismanagement, understaffing and use of gangs to control the populations. Food is supposedly even worse than I remember it being (prison food is also given to local colleges and trust me it is inedible) and that is saying something. I survived a year of college on cereal, frozen yogurt and fresh fruit as the cooked food was disgusting. These places cannot go away fast enough.
9)Aaron Hernandez- The tight end for the Patriots did his best OJ Simpson impression this week and is being looked at for the fatal shooting of a guy dating his girlfriend's sister. It didn't help that he is currently under investigation into the shooting of a guy in a Miami nightclub that led to over a million dollars in surgeries. Helpful hint dumbass, if you kill someone linked to you directly, don't dump the body half a block from your house. We had an eerily similar OJ moments when helicopters followed his white SUV all over and ganged up on him when he stopped to get gas. This guy is known for having a violent temper according to inside sources, and few are surprised by the allegations. Way to fuck up your career and your freedom.
10)Connecticut- I fled the state some years back like it was on fire because of rampant corruption from all sides and an ever increasing tax base that was getting ridiculous. Current governor Danial Malloy is following the same program as his predecessors, one of which was jailed for a year for bribery. I know that actually happened because John Rowland's people blackmailed my company for four million dollars and caused it to go belly up as result. Now they are raising taxes, such as a huge hike in the already outrageous car tax program. My friend and I have vehicles from roughly the same year. He paid $225 for his, up $25 dollars from last year, while mine declined to $47. And they wonder why no one stays. Now comes word that due to the idiotic anti-gun laws passed in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, another gun manufacture is leaving, taking 41 jobs with it. Worse, they expect to expand to 100 jobs and these are good paying jobs, not the usual low wage crap we see everywhere. Gun manufacturing has been in CT since the Revolutionary war and every single group is at the very least looking at leaving and with it thousands of good paying jobs. Talk about biting the hands that feed you.
11)The World elite- These guys better be scared because recent events suggest that the world has had it with a small group of douchebags controlling all the wealth while the rest of us starve. Brazil is the latest to erupt into violence after years of tax hikes have finally pissed the middle class off when they realized that their tax dollars were being used against them. The rich play by a separate set of laws that in some places seem to be ending. Italy recently sent fashioners designer Dolce and Gabbana to prison for tax evasion that was over a billion dollars in lost revenue. Whether they will actually see prison is whole other matter as many well connected convicts appeal their conviction over and over till the whole thing goes away. That is much like here where only people like Bernie Madoff go to jail and that's because he ripped off his fellow elites. The world is standing up and saying enough and a world wide revolution is more likely know than at any point in human history. The rich are stealing everything they can from us and it has to stop. If peaceful protests don't work, and they aren't, the alternative is too terrible to contemplate. The elites better stop their fanatical greed and start paying people a livable wage because the other option is a a sharpened guillotine. So congratulation world elite you are indeed douchebag of the week.
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