“Sorry, Iranians, but you will simply have to die. I won’t vote for the one person who won’t bomb you, the one person in public life who has done more to cultivate international understanding than all our other ‘public servants’ put together, because I believe — quite…
this isn’t news… it’s not what ron paul wouldn’t do to foreigners, it’s what he would do to us that’s terrifying. weed and war: sensible; economy, civil rights, coherent society: run-for-your-fucking-lives insane.
Remember our blog-sitter Raven? She and I are FB friends (natch) and she posted this awesome picture of her taken by the Pro-Life Action League. She does clinic escorting to help people get healthcare without being harassed by these pro-forced-birth advocates. You can’t see it exactly, but she is definitely flipping them off through her mitten. That is so Raven.
-Jess
I know, I know, I said I was done with you, Raven. I am, after this.
When I did clinic escort work we were taught:
— to explain to our clients that they did not need and really shouldn’t try to speak to the anti-choice “sidewalk counselors;”
— about the FACE Act, so that we could spot when the anti-choice zealots violated the law;
— never to interact with the anti-choicers in any way, shape, or form if humanly possible.
Flipping-off these nut jobs — who’ve murdered doctors and bombed clinics — is something you do not do. But given your lack of control online, Raven, I’m not surprised that you lack it offline as well.
You have the gall to criticize me for my behavior? Your history of attacking and provoking men online is bad enough, but here you were potentially jeopardizing the safety of clients and the clinic. You of all people should know how unstable some of those “pro-lifers” are.
I’ve emailed this link and will fax a hard copy of this post to the Family Planning Medical Group’s Chicago Loop office, with the recommendation that you be dismissed as a volunteer; you simply have too much hatred and anger in you to be trusted. — Ryking
@ryking you might also want to mention in your complaint that she also has her toes curled inside her shoes so that only the middle toe is extended, saying “fuck you with my foot, too, bitches.” and nor did she bleach her behind this month, so she gives a quiet brown-eye to the pro-lifers, too. just thought maybe you could add that to your report as well. and btw, could you shut the fuck up and get back to fetching me the fucking news already. thanks, everybodyontumblr
Employment Rate for Young Adults Lowest in 60 Years
Thank you, minimum wage (among other things).
Are you young and looking for work? You’re in good company.
Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24…
no offense, but your inability to “make sense” of shit is my point—critical thinking, not your strong suit. but again, this ain’t news.
Thank you, minimum wage (among other things).
Are you young and looking for work? You’re in good company.
Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 currently have jobs, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. That’s the lowest employment rate for this age group since the government began keeping track in 1948. And it’s a sharp drop from the 62 percent who had jobs in 2007 — suggesting the recession is crippling career prospects for a broad swath of young people who were still in high school or college when the downturn began.
“They had the misfortune to be born at a time that would dump them into this labor market as young people,” said Heidi Shierholz, a labor market economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “If we stay on the track that we’re on, this cohort is not going to outpace their parents.”
this ain’t news… it’s been beef-a-roni for three fucking years now. and “minimum wage” ? are you fucking retarded?? 40 hour week x 50 weeks x $7.25 = $14,500 per year.
but if you cut that minimum wage in half, you could hire two people for the same price and cut the unemployment in half!!! yippeee!! now you have two people raking in over $7,000 each for a years labor—not bad if you live in angola. but hey “unemployment“‘s down and that’s all that matters. problem solved.
power button sticky, no remote, can’t turn the damn thing off— just throw a brick through your tv. problem solved!!! jesus christ.
I’ve spent a lot of time on my blog devoted to the minimum wage. You seem like a new URL so I wont hold it against you that you’re ignorant of the matter, but minimum wage laws don’t affect big rich fat cats as much as they do low-skilled, young workers. Minimum wage laws are especially detrimental to younger minorities:
Minimum wage laws by definition, like every other price control, result in a surplus of labor. The demand for labor does not meet the supply because wages are kept artificially high. The people who are left out of the equation are those that have few skills, and those people tend to be the poor and younger workers just beginning their life in the workforce. This is why unemployment for teenagers is high.
you’ve spent “alot of time on my blog devoted to the minimum wage.” that’s fucking great. a dog could spend it’s whole life locked in a room with a calculus book, doesn’t change the fact that it’s incapable of understanding a fucking word of it. good luck in life, willy.
Thank you, minimum wage (among other things).
Are you young and looking for work? You’re in good company.
Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 currently have jobs, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. That’s the lowest employment rate for this age group since the government began keeping track in 1948. And it’s a sharp drop from the 62 percent who had jobs in 2007 — suggesting the recession is crippling career prospects for a broad swath of young people who were still in high school or college when the downturn began.
“They had the misfortune to be born at a time that would dump them into this labor market as young people,” said Heidi Shierholz, a labor market economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “If we stay on the track that we’re on, this cohort is not going to outpace their parents.”
this ain’t news… it’s been beef-a-roni for three fucking years now. and “minimum wage” ? are you fucking retarded?? 40 hour week x 50 weeks x $7.25 = $14,500 per year.
but if you cut that minimum wage in half, you could hire two people for the same price and cut the unemployment in half!!! yippeee!! now you have two people raking in over $7,000 each for a years labor—not bad if you live in angola. but hey “unemployment“‘s down and that’s all that matters. problem solved.
power button sticky, no remote, can’t turn the damn thing off— just throw a brick through your tv. problem solved!!! jesus christ.
You do realize that when you force businesses to pay entry-level workers MORE for entry-level jobs, they have no choice but to fire other workers so they don’t lose money? Therefore, unemployment continues to rise because businesses can’t afford to pay entry-level workers above a certain wage.
Entry-level jobs aren’t meant to be life-long. They’re not meant to be high-paying, cushy careers. Which is why so many young people tend to do them, for gas and pocket money, until they find a better-paying job after getting sufficient experience in the workplace.
stop the fucking presses. so, $14 grand a year is a “high-paying, cushy-career” now?? this is news.
well I guess it would be if you were 12, but there are laws against that—but, you’re right, education is a privilege, so let’s get rid of those pesky child-labor laws while we’re at it. and $290 for a 40 hour work-week is pretty steep. if we eliminated the 40 hour work week and the minimum wage, we could get two 12 year olds working twice the hours for the same price. eliminate the 40 hour work-week cap and shit, we could just have kids encamped in the work-building. I love it. ignorant, feral little kids stocking shelves, and washing dishes, awesome, they’d be like little work pets. I think you guys are on to something.
NOW THIS IS SOME FUCKING NEWS!!! 2012 TO 1860 HERE WE COME!!!
let me be clear, I understand you come to these conclusions by way of your “libertarian” ideology — the only problem with that, is that it is stupefyingly short-sighted, and willfully blind to the long-term consequences. we didn’t start out with child-labor laws, we saw the injustice, the social-ills and enacted them to correct a horrible situation. we didn’t start with a 40 hour work week or a minimum wage either, people were indentured slaves, and organized themselves out of a life of pure misery—by enacting those particular laws. this “organizing” may be an affront to your “freedom” to indenture or enslave those you are capable of doing so to, but fuck you, this process of righting wrongs and creating a better, healthier, society is freedom in action. you can convince yourself that you are being oppressed from having the opportunity to oppress others, but that’s precisely why you can’t get more than 10% of any libertarian vote, because that’s the percentage of people who are either cruel, retarded, or naive combined. nobody wants your version of “freedom” because it’s dystopian and terrible, sorry. ”but you won’t know until you try it.” bullshit, we were there 150 years ago, and guess what, it doesn’t work. unregulated markets result in monopolies, cartels, and cruel living conditions for the masses—innocent bystanders at the whim of those few with massive unyielding power. it’s an abomination. you can yap about freedom all you want, but you’re critical thinking obviously stops well short of the reality of such policies. it’s evident in your argument above, forcing businesses to pay a base-line pay for entry-level work will cause you to FIRE more skilled positions?? nobody fires the people who actually make their business money, and that’s anybody other than entry-level employees. have you ever run a business?? do you know the first thing about it? obviously not. at worst, your argument could be, with a minimum wage you are limited to the number of entry-level positions your business can have. true, but then we’ve come full-circle, anything less than the current minimum $290/week isn’t employment it’s slavery… where in america can you actually live off that? in a fucking tent city walking distance to your work-camp that’s where. short-sighted, but hey at least the unemployment numbers look better, right.
Thank you, minimum wage (among other things).
Are you young and looking for work? You’re in good company.
Just 54 percent of Americans ages 18 to 24 currently have jobs, according to a study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. That’s the lowest employment rate for this age group since the government began keeping track in 1948. And it’s a sharp drop from the 62 percent who had jobs in 2007 — suggesting the recession is crippling career prospects for a broad swath of young people who were still in high school or college when the downturn began.
“They had the misfortune to be born at a time that would dump them into this labor market as young people,” said Heidi Shierholz, a labor market economist at the Economic Policy Institute. “If we stay on the track that we’re on, this cohort is not going to outpace their parents.”
this ain’t news… it’s been beef-a-roni for three fucking years now. and “minimum wage” ? are you fucking retarded?? 40 hour week x 50 weeks x $7.25 = $14,500 per year.
but if you cut that minimum wage in half, you could hire two people for the same price and cut the unemployment in half!!! yippeee!! now you have two people raking in over $7,000 each for a years labor—not bad if you live in angola. but hey “unemployment“‘s down and that’s all that matters. problem solved.
power button sticky, no remote, can’t turn the damn thing off— just throw a brick through your tv. problem solved!!! jesus christ.
The Iranian Cyber Police published new rules on Wednesday designed to allow officials to know exactly who is visiting what Web sites. Before they can log on, Iranians are required to provide their name, father’s name, address, telephone number and national ID, according to an Iranian media report cited by Radio Free Europe. Cafe owners will be required to install security cameras and to keep all data on Web surfers, including browsing history, for six months.
The rules, which come as the country prepares for parliamentary elections in March, are a deterrent to activists who might want to use the Internet cafes to organize protests. Calls to boycott elections distributed via social networks or e-mail will be treated as national security crimes, the Iranian judiciary announced last week, according to a report today in the Wall Street Journal. Government officials claim they need to control access to the Internet to counter what they say is a “soft” cultural war being waged by Western countries to influence the morals of Iranians.
Monitoring Web surfers is an interim measure until the government is done building out its own domestic intranet that is “halal,” or pure. Initially, the Iran intranet will run in tandem with the Internet before the global Web is shut off to the 23 million Internet users in Iran, according to reports. Payam Karbasi, spokesman for Iran professional union Corporate Computer Systems, told Iranian media that the domestic network, which was announced last March, would be launched in coming weeks, the WSJ reported.
Iranians have reported that during the intranet tests this week, Internet connections have slowed down and Web sites have been blocked. Access to VPNs (virtual private networks) Iranians use to access sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have also been affected, reports said.
Widespread protests over purported fraud in the 2009 election, which brought President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad back to office, prompted the Iranian government to cut off access to opposition Web sites and mobile telephone networks. But protesters flocked to Twitter and Facebook to skirt the communications crackdown, to spread videos and news and to organize demonstrations. Tor and other tools were then used to get around government shutdowns of those sites.
Some of the extreme censorship measures adopted by Iran have also been used in Libya and in China, which deploys the “Great Firewall” to keep objectionable content out of the country. China also requires identification to use Internet cafes in Beijing, and has a history of shutting down blogs as well as allegedly meddling with Gmail and targeting activists with cyber attacks.
how is this news to us? as the american govt aggressively pursues sopa and other internet censoring legislation, are we to wag our finger in disapproval, really? iran is a theocracy openly run by a few mullahs. understandably measures would be taken to secure their illegitimate power. the us however, is supposedly a free nation, run by democratically elected officials who are implementing legislation to mimic oligarchies, dictatorships, theocracies, etc. we should be ashamed of our nation for mimicking the very despots we posture to despise.
Republicans have understood that for decades now, and that’s why the federal bench — including the Supreme Court — is almost unrecognizable to Democrats today.
this is not news. nobody cares about any of that shit. we all just want to do unto others as we’d have done unto us.. and stuff. and make sure that big corporations aren’t prevented by the government from making as much money as possible even if means raping me in my big fat ass. get it boys, get it. get that republican ass, isn’t it good. I love it too, cause I’m inside out. I’m not a real human being either. do unto me!!!! fuck all y’all retardicans. right in your inside out ass.
In the middle of a tense standoff between Iran and the United States, the crew of an American destroyer patrolling the North Arabian Sea rescued 13 Iranian fishermen who had been taken hostage by Somali pirates more than a month ago, the Pentagon announced on Friday.
In a conference call with reporters, Rear Adm. Craig S. Faller, the commander of an American carrier strike group that was threatened by Iran’s navy on Tuesday, explained that the U.S.S. Kidd, an American destroyer, intercepted the Iranian-flagged Mulahi on Thursday after receiving a distress call. After a show of force from the destroyer, 15 pirates on board were convinced to lay down their weapons and surrender to a boarding party from the Kidd.
Our colleague C.J. Chivers, who is reporting on the carrier group’s work, was taken on board the fishing boat after the pirates surrendered. His complete report on the rescue will be published soon, but he sent us a note saying that the Iranians “greeted the American sailors with wide-eyed relief.”
“It is like you were sent by God,” said one of the rescued fishermen, Fazel Ur Rehman, 28, huddled under a blanket in the vessel’s stern as sailors from the Kidd’s boarding team watched over the deflated pirates on the deck of the pitching bow. “Every night we prayed for God to rescue us. And now you are here.”I look forward to C.J. Chivers report. He’s a solid reporter. It will be interesting to see if this story helps defuse tensions at all. I would bet no.
My favorite story of the day.
this is not news. common enemies make friends out of enemies.. until the pirates are all dead. we don’t fly the skull and crossbones we fly the “give us your mother fucking oil or else.” we’re the good guys, honest. <motherfuckin sarcasm font>
NBC Nightly News: “Record heat in January.”
this is not news.. this is outside. retardicans rejoice, to hell in a handbasket and short sleeves.
