I have little patience for bullshit, but most of you out there probably already know that. Today was a humdinger when it came to reading about so many various ways we the people are being forced to accept the worst situations and like it while the rich toil around in cars that cost more than I can even hope to have one day, and I for one, have had it. Can we please have some rational thought and discussion where religious beliefs are thrown back into the closet where they belong, where people take responsibility for their own actions and the good of the country is put ahead of petty greed? The answer today was a powerful FUCK NO!
Let's start with the worst offender and definitive cock sucker of the week: Hostess CEO Greg Rayburn. Workers went on strike this week at 33 Hostess factories to get better wages. Rayburn responded by liquidating the company and now, no more Twinkies for anyone. The message boards are livid against the "awful" unions for allowing this to happen. The naysayers have complained, " We haven't got a raise in ages, why should you." So instead of bitching to your boss that you haven't gotten a raise since Ford was in office, the douchebags out there are whining about people who deserve theirs and are fighting for it.
Here's the other problem with the above statement: It's not true. None of it. Just like the other rich fuckwads this week like Papa John CEO John Shnatter or energy boss Robert Murray, who instead of taking pay cuts to their bloated salaries, laid off workers, cut salaries and stopped pensions, the executives at Hostess have taken HUGE raises while the company was going under. The strike was called when Hostess imposed cuts to employee's pension plans while giving the CEO a 300% raise, from $750,000 to $2,550,00. They also gave at least nine executives massive pay increases doubling their salaries. Has anyone EVER working as a low level employee gotten a raise that doubled their salary? Unlikely. All this while Hostess was $2 billion in debt. Shouldn't CEO pay be the first thing to get cut? Not in today's "me first" mentality.
Worse, many of the closings where already going to happen in places like St. Louis, as verified by the mayor who was told the plant would close months ago. The CEO is using the strike as cover for shut downs that were already in play. What an ass. As many as twelve other plants were also scheduled to be shuttered. What has happened here is a perfectly legal way to Union bust. They liquidate the company, have some white knight come in and buy up the product under a new charter, and voila, no more unions at Hostess. They will hire some back at a fraction of the original salary, like the auto unions did, and the economy will fall even further as people have less and less money to spend. Only now is the average worker starting to see the China type of employee protection we get.
This is why we need unions and why all those out there complaining about them need to get a clue and see how quick your job can be in jeopardy. They may have not been able to protect the workers at Hostess from a ruthless CEO, but a lot do and they can't fire all of us lest they want to see rich people's head on a stick. Someone should really be looking for Mr. Rayburn and explain to him in the same ruthless terms over how unhappy they are with their severance package. I'd serve his back to him with a spiked dildo, some motor oil and a funnel.
Back in my column for a record third time is Scott DesJarlais who could quite be the most despicable person to somehow win re-election. It has come out that Mr. Family Value's Man from Tennessee is even more a dirt bag than was previously known. Turns out that the violently anti-abortion Representative not only forced his mistress to have one, but his wife at the time to have two. Not only that, he appears to be serial philanderer with many of his patients coming forward to claim they slept with each other. Oh and he's a drug dealer who uses his probably soon to be revoked medical license to give pills to his lovers. Yet, all this was known and he still won by double digits over his democratic opponent. That's is some true stupidity in Tennessee that may be the most backward hick state we have. My friend Heather thinks so since moving down there who calls the locals a bunch of one toothed hill billies with one brain cell between them. Considering they voted for this ass AGAIN, I'm inclined to believe her.
Mitt Romney is getting raked over the coals for his statement that Obama won because he promised big gifts to blacks, Hispanics and young people. Some GOP leaders were not happy with that statement as it seems to blame the public for his loss and not his staggering incompetence. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal lashed out at Romney and McCain for making dumb statements and some pundits like Bill Kristol are starting to wonder what is going on with the GOP. By the way McCain is in trouble for statements made about Susan Rice and the Benghazi nonsense that no one cares about. Shit happens, move on.
As all this crap occurs here, along with the salacious Real Housewives of the Pentagon playing out, Gaza is in flames as war has broken out in region where bad things can occur. Egypt is poised to enter, Hezbollah waits for orders and Israel is mobilizing troops and hardware on the Gaza border. Fun. Hamas brought this on themselves by firing rockets into Israel instead of, I don't know, negotiating a fucking peace already. Hamas has a lot in common with the GOP. Neither is willing to compromise one iota and is willing to burn the country down as result. A full scale war looks imminent.
Hamas is showing pictures of dead kids and fat people. Boo Hoo. Don't put rocket launchers in school yards and stuff like that won't happen. They are trying to play to public sentiment which is not going to work. Israel will defend itself and the fact they haven't killed every man and women and child in Gaza yet is a testament to their dedication. The problem here isn't Hamas which is woefully undermatched, but countries like Lebanon or Egypt getting involved which could tip the scales and the chances for a greater war. Jordan won't intervene and Syria has it's own problems right now so at least Israel doesn't have to worry about them right now.
Rockets are falling in Tel Aviv and even Jerusalem as I write this. Do not forget that one man could do something stupid at this point and start a world war, like Gavic Princip did by assassinating Archduke Ferdinand. He was just some flunky who happened to be at the right place and the right time and by killing one man, two world wars started and changed the course of human history. All the pieces are in place for that to happen again. Let us hope it doesn't because the next world war will also most likely be our last.
We need to start fighting back against our CEO overlords who wield way too much power over us. We need to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. We need an end to right to work laws. We need rich people to start forking over some money from their bloated salaries. We need media to do their job. We need people to get involved. I am doing my part here. The question is dear readers, what are you doing to change the world, where ever you might be? If you don't start soon, it won't matter anymore.
Let's start with the worst offender and definitive cock sucker of the week: Hostess CEO Greg Rayburn. Workers went on strike this week at 33 Hostess factories to get better wages. Rayburn responded by liquidating the company and now, no more Twinkies for anyone. The message boards are livid against the "awful" unions for allowing this to happen. The naysayers have complained, " We haven't got a raise in ages, why should you." So instead of bitching to your boss that you haven't gotten a raise since Ford was in office, the douchebags out there are whining about people who deserve theirs and are fighting for it.
Here's the other problem with the above statement: It's not true. None of it. Just like the other rich fuckwads this week like Papa John CEO John Shnatter or energy boss Robert Murray, who instead of taking pay cuts to their bloated salaries, laid off workers, cut salaries and stopped pensions, the executives at Hostess have taken HUGE raises while the company was going under. The strike was called when Hostess imposed cuts to employee's pension plans while giving the CEO a 300% raise, from $750,000 to $2,550,00. They also gave at least nine executives massive pay increases doubling their salaries. Has anyone EVER working as a low level employee gotten a raise that doubled their salary? Unlikely. All this while Hostess was $2 billion in debt. Shouldn't CEO pay be the first thing to get cut? Not in today's "me first" mentality.
Worse, many of the closings where already going to happen in places like St. Louis, as verified by the mayor who was told the plant would close months ago. The CEO is using the strike as cover for shut downs that were already in play. What an ass. As many as twelve other plants were also scheduled to be shuttered. What has happened here is a perfectly legal way to Union bust. They liquidate the company, have some white knight come in and buy up the product under a new charter, and voila, no more unions at Hostess. They will hire some back at a fraction of the original salary, like the auto unions did, and the economy will fall even further as people have less and less money to spend. Only now is the average worker starting to see the China type of employee protection we get.
This is why we need unions and why all those out there complaining about them need to get a clue and see how quick your job can be in jeopardy. They may have not been able to protect the workers at Hostess from a ruthless CEO, but a lot do and they can't fire all of us lest they want to see rich people's head on a stick. Someone should really be looking for Mr. Rayburn and explain to him in the same ruthless terms over how unhappy they are with their severance package. I'd serve his back to him with a spiked dildo, some motor oil and a funnel.
Back in my column for a record third time is Scott DesJarlais who could quite be the most despicable person to somehow win re-election. It has come out that Mr. Family Value's Man from Tennessee is even more a dirt bag than was previously known. Turns out that the violently anti-abortion Representative not only forced his mistress to have one, but his wife at the time to have two. Not only that, he appears to be serial philanderer with many of his patients coming forward to claim they slept with each other. Oh and he's a drug dealer who uses his probably soon to be revoked medical license to give pills to his lovers. Yet, all this was known and he still won by double digits over his democratic opponent. That's is some true stupidity in Tennessee that may be the most backward hick state we have. My friend Heather thinks so since moving down there who calls the locals a bunch of one toothed hill billies with one brain cell between them. Considering they voted for this ass AGAIN, I'm inclined to believe her.
Mitt Romney is getting raked over the coals for his statement that Obama won because he promised big gifts to blacks, Hispanics and young people. Some GOP leaders were not happy with that statement as it seems to blame the public for his loss and not his staggering incompetence. Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal lashed out at Romney and McCain for making dumb statements and some pundits like Bill Kristol are starting to wonder what is going on with the GOP. By the way McCain is in trouble for statements made about Susan Rice and the Benghazi nonsense that no one cares about. Shit happens, move on.
As all this crap occurs here, along with the salacious Real Housewives of the Pentagon playing out, Gaza is in flames as war has broken out in region where bad things can occur. Egypt is poised to enter, Hezbollah waits for orders and Israel is mobilizing troops and hardware on the Gaza border. Fun. Hamas brought this on themselves by firing rockets into Israel instead of, I don't know, negotiating a fucking peace already. Hamas has a lot in common with the GOP. Neither is willing to compromise one iota and is willing to burn the country down as result. A full scale war looks imminent.
Hamas is showing pictures of dead kids and fat people. Boo Hoo. Don't put rocket launchers in school yards and stuff like that won't happen. They are trying to play to public sentiment which is not going to work. Israel will defend itself and the fact they haven't killed every man and women and child in Gaza yet is a testament to their dedication. The problem here isn't Hamas which is woefully undermatched, but countries like Lebanon or Egypt getting involved which could tip the scales and the chances for a greater war. Jordan won't intervene and Syria has it's own problems right now so at least Israel doesn't have to worry about them right now.
Rockets are falling in Tel Aviv and even Jerusalem as I write this. Do not forget that one man could do something stupid at this point and start a world war, like Gavic Princip did by assassinating Archduke Ferdinand. He was just some flunky who happened to be at the right place and the right time and by killing one man, two world wars started and changed the course of human history. All the pieces are in place for that to happen again. Let us hope it doesn't because the next world war will also most likely be our last.
We need to start fighting back against our CEO overlords who wield way too much power over us. We need to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. We need an end to right to work laws. We need rich people to start forking over some money from their bloated salaries. We need media to do their job. We need people to get involved. I am doing my part here. The question is dear readers, what are you doing to change the world, where ever you might be? If you don't start soon, it won't matter anymore.
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