1)Disability Fraud Perps- I live with someone who is mentally disabled. She is incapable of much social interaction without help. She could talk with a sales clerk for example but dealing with a boss who may yell harshly at her would send her to pieces. It makes arguments fun let me tell you which is why I try my best to keep my temper in check at all times. As I am Irish, let me tell you, it ain't easy. But when I see people NOT disabled defrauding the system it makes mad, especially when they are police and firefighters. This past week, over 100 were arrested in NYC for exactly that, some of which collected up to $500,000 for their troubles, which didn't exist. Bastards. This gives me even more reasons to hate the NYPD and look down in shame at the firefighters who did the same because they should know better. Even worse, four people, retired officer Joseph Esposito, 64; John Minerva, 61, a disability consultant with the detective's union; lawyer Raymond LaVallee, 83; and a benefits consultant Thomas Hale, 89, were all arrested for encouraging this behavior and actively aiding in the fraud, all for kickbacks of course. WTF? They actually taught people how to act mentally deficient, such as suffering from PTSD, and how to fail memory tests without looking like you are throwing it. Of the people arrested, almost 90% were former cops. Stunner. I hope these assholes serve some serious jail time in a place where they may meet people they put away.
2)Dennis Rodman- They don't call him the worm for nothing. This week, this giant douchebag actually sang Happy Birthday to Kim Jung Un, and then proceeded to play a game with former NBA players against a North Korean team to which they understandably lost. No sense spending any time in jail for not doing as you are told. When Rodman returned home, he defended his visit on CNN by spouting a long litany of unintelligible words and sounds that didn't resemble any known language, except maybe Drunkenese. Can we let North Korea just keep this waste of space already?
3)Obamacare Insurance ads- Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that both government and private industry are employing people of sub par intelligence, comes this latest round of incompetency. A new set of ads that are trying to get young people to sign up for Obamacare are racist, demeaning, sexist and just plain stupid. One makes young women look slutty and only caring about not getting pregnant or an STD. Here's the copy from it: "OMG, he's hot! Let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control. My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers." Another has three frat boys doing a keg stand as if that applied to all young men and not the ones that will eventually become CEO's and politicians. They are all also very, very white. What, no outreach to Blacks, Hispanics or Asians? No ads touting what happens when you get sick and have no insurance? These ads suck and so does everything involved with our health care system. Still.
4)CGI Federal- Speaking of incompetence, these brainpowers finally got fired this week from the federal government as they have been highly unsuccessful fixing anything. MA and RI have not only stopped payment for the design of our still not working health web sites, but are demanding back pay of over $5 million for the work they already did. These guys are screwed. It doubly sucks for me because my health care plan is getting rid of half of their options for reasons unknown (it had nothing to do with Obamacare) and now have to find a new one. As the website is garbage, I may to have go with a more expensive plan with the same company until they get their act together. They raised their rates a whopping $50 a month just a few months back and may now have to pay even more. Yeah Obamacare is awesome so far if you like sky-high premiums and less choices. Can we please have a single payer plan already where at least the costs won't be bankrupting us all?
5)A-Rod- This douchebag was suspended for the entire season of 2014, while he continued to belly ache, Armstrong style, that he was innocent and the huge amount of evidence against him was wrong. WAAAAAAA! You cheated, you dick, just like Lance. You both deserve our scorn and ridicule. As A-Rod is 38, this may mean the end of his career. Good.
6)Anti-pot crusaders- The legalization in Colorado has been a huge success. In just the last ten days, the state raised over a million dollars in taxes. All the crime and problems predicted didn't happen. Turns out stoners are not the lazy losers living in their parent's basement but upstanding people like doctors and lawyers. There has been no uptick in pot in schools and why would it, they already had access to it? I went to Catholic school a hundred years ago and I could have found pot if I wanted it. Today, it's even easier. But some are still determined to prove the substance evil against all the facts that it isn't. You know them as Republicans. This week during a hearing, Kentucky Rep. Robert Benvenuti said this from Hemp news:
"I do not believe in the recreational use of marijuana and I could likewise fill this committee room with first responders, law enforcement officers and parents of dead children based on the effects of marijuana." The assembled crowd was having trouble believing that a public official could make such an outlandish statement in a legislative hearing. As a protest started to spontaneously erupt from the crowd that marijuana is not a deadly substance, Rep. Benvenuti forged ahead. "In driving intoxicated, in child abuse, we've already heard today from folks who talk about intoxicants and its role in child fatality and child abuse," he said. "So we need no more recreational drugs in Kentucky."
Nevermind the fact that in the history or mankind, not one person has ever died from weed. As for driving while intoxicated, again, not one attributed death worldwide of anyone just high, and not some concoction of alcohol and/or cocaine. Recent Dutch studies, taken over a twenty year period, show the exact opposite that stoned drivers are less likely to crash than those drunk or even sober. Stoned drivers are more likely to drive slower and much more cautious the study found. Yet we still hear about how these people are the scourge of society causing more imaginary deaths that Nerf, shaving cream and cotton balls all combined.
Even worse was Ted Cruz who apparently believes rich people don't need to pay for anything while poor people better have a receipt for everything. He latest bon mot was one in which he decried Obama for not locking up pot users in Colorado for breaking Federal law. This is the same guy championing state rights when it comes to abortion and anti-gay laws but feels it is fine to go after pot users because he doesn't like them? What a fascist and a hypocrite! Anyone voting for this moron is dumber than he is.
7)West Virginia and Freedom Industries- This week, hundreds of thousands of people lost their drinking water for God's knows how long after a chemical spill made it undrinkable. First off, what idiot builds a chemical plant upstream of your water supply? The chemical, 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol, is extremely toxic and will cause issues if even gotten on the skin. As a result, no can use the water for anything other that flushing toilets and putting out fires. That's it. Schools are closed, as are many businesses, as water has become a hot commodity all of a sudden. Over 700 people are sick so far from it and no one knows how long it will be before safe water is back. This is our future people. This is the "free market" in action. Without regulations, companies have no incentive to protect anything but their profits. The end result is sickness and death. Enjoy.
8)Chris Christie- No one had a worse week than the NJ fatman and blowhard. It seems after the last election, his office closed down several lanes on the GWB, which for anyone who has ever gone across it, is the seventh circle of hell on a good day. Apparently, the Fort Lee mayor didn't approve of him for Governor so his staff decided petty revenge was the best idea. Nevermind the fact that Christie won by 24 points, his staff was determined to end their careers for vengeance. Really? When it all came out, Christie fell apart. So far, he has denied any wrong doing and no conclusive evidence had contracted him. However, there is no right answer here. If he didn't know what was going on, he's a fool. If he did, he's an even bigger one. A email to his chief of staff was uncovered that looks incriminating but no one knows if she read it or not. Again, if she didn't, why not? This scandal will dog him for some time and expect rivals to bring it up during the debates if he survives that long. So for now, congratulations Chris Christie, you are indeed douchebag of the week.
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