Thanks to the bullshit stunt the powers that be at work pulled last week I’ve been running my ass off to get freight worked and out to meet appointment times. Today my hard work earned me a pulled muscle in my lower back. Thankfully not a slipped disc or I’d be completely boned, but it’s plenty painful enough to make the rest of the workday, well, interesting. I’m gonna be laid up all weekend I fuckin’ know it…
Ya know, it’s not until you really wrench your lower back that you realize just how many muscles down there are involved in pooping.
Any support for, agreement with or sympathy for those who commit torturous acts gives societies a green light on barbarous behavior. This, in turn, would surely lead to more brutal behavior by police and other law enforcement officials. It will force the innocent to lie to avoid abuse and guarantee punishment whether a suspect is guilty or not. It’s globally rejected and morally deplorable, period.
In all honesty I’m not surprised AmeriKKKa is the modern world’s last bastion for torture. We justify it by glancing over details. We say, “well whatever was done, [enter potential tragedy here] was avoided”. We say the “slippery slope” argument is a bunch of crap when there’s really no other situation in which it’s more applicable and accurate. We regularly sanction the death penalty and then tell ourselves that if something like government sanctioned killing can be OK then we’re really just weighing the risk of said potential tragedy against the temporary discomfort of an alleged criminal and that’s not really so bad… is it?
Yes. Yes it is…
I work for the capitalist reincarnation of Nazi fucking Germany. Well, these people are too stupid to function with that level of sophistication so maybe it’s more like working for, I don’t know, a really shitty fast American freight company. Seriously, I’ve studied my history. I watch the History Channel and there are striking similarities here. Ineffectual and mostly incompetent people put into leading positions who can barely get their shoes tied in the morning let alone manage a warehouse. Operations spread to distant facilities run by people with little to no prior managerial experience coupled with a complete lack of oversight. All these so called managers want to do is be left alone by the powers that be which only makes them inclined to do as little as they possibly can to avoid a nasty email or verbal finger-wagging over a crappy, company provided cell phone.
Anyone below the esteemed position of manager are treated like complete crap. Managers are pressured to (and then subsequently rewarded for) keeping their P&L reports well into the black. The problem is that they accomplish this by cutting as deep into payroll as they dare go without causing people to quit. Employees are routinely told to come in late since the work has to be done by a set time anyway. It’s easy just to cut out any kind of breathing room the workers might have in order to shave an extra hour or two per day off of their next paycheck.
The last stunt (and it will be the last) pulled by the most notorious of these rogue managers was a surprisingly ingenious plan to permanently lower his division’s payroll. He tells his crew that they can hang out after everything is done to get a little extra time knowing they would do exactly that. Then, when they do what they were explicitly told was OK, the conversation in which the permission was given is denied to have happened and the event is used to fire an employee of his choosing. We’re not stupid, nor are we going to stand idly by while this piece of shit company sets worker’s rights back 50 years. Hours are cut, taking earned vacation time is out of the question all while promised reviews and raises are continually denied. All so these arrogant, incompetent fucks can get a fatter bonus.
I don’t know about you, but I’m gonna have me a fat little Capitalist for my X-Mas dinner.
C|NET said last week that Apple over-hyped the launch of two rather mediocre products in the grand scheme of things. Wow! Newsflash! I said the same thing the day before this article ran. Nice to see I’m not the only one who can see through the hype.
To be completely fair Apple didn’t send this one out press-release style as they usually do, but if it wasn’t intended to be a normal high-profile affair it shouldn’t have been held in the Apple Town Hall in Cupertino, California, where the iPod was first unleashed. They also shouldn’t have had Steve Jobs’ doing the unveiling of what amounted to faster, shinier bits of the same ol’ Apple fare and a ghetto-blaster for your iPod.
There’s no way anyone can change my opinion that recruits to our armed services, Army, Navy, Marines, are being systematically brainwashed. I just had a heated discussion with a guy I know who received a CD of these ‘march chants’ from an Army recruiter. Odd thing was they were on a Memorex CD-R disc. Made me think that it’s an under-the-table last resort hand-out to appeal to those who would actually be drawn to the prospect of some mindless violence and senseless killing. Certainly worked in this case…
Now, I’m far from sensitive to your typical violent imagery, but these were some of the most abhorrently violent things I have ever heard, and now after reading what they consisted of I can’t get their fucking lyrics out of my head. Imagine every day exercising to the point of exhaustion, sleeping the bare minimum possible, and chanting about murdering women, children, civilians, etc. There is no way a human being can go through that and not be turned into a sick, twisted, brainwashed, killing-machine.
