I spent a lot of my recent rail trip listening to Chumbawamba’s ABCDEFG, which contains the delightful track Pickle; unless I completely missed the point of the album, it’s about restrictive copyright.
preserved and safe on a high up shelf
where soiled little fingers can’t mess
cataloged labeled and rarely played
polished and pure and possessed
aaaahhh
that’s not music
that’s a pickle
What kind of person who claims to care about children can be so selfish as to deliberately leach money out of the paychecks of teachers actually teaching? I’d like to think that poor incompetent loser Shirley is just being taken advantage of by a crooked lawyer and some greedy children, but it sounds like she’s just another selfish sleaze feeding at the public trough, right alongside her friend-in-evil Roque Burio.
You have to be a special kind of cold-hearted to be able to live with yourself, stealing from children.
A Seattle jury gave Karen Hulley a pass on her mistreatment of a gay couple. From her own lawyer’s closing statements, it sounds like a clear cut case of discrimination, validated by a pathetic bunch of homophobic jurors. If you were on that jury, you should be just as ashamed of yourself as the bigot Karen Hulley. You let your personal small minded hate rule you, and you are a lesser person for it. I hope someday you get treated with the love and respect you denied others, and that it opens your mind to just how terrible you have behaved. If you have Karen Hulley for a nurse, I would worry about your safety. Someone willing to put her own hate above the care of a dieing patient isn’t someone you should trust your life to. I wouldn’t trust Karen Hulley with a bag of shit.
The seemingly corrupt US District Court Judge John C. Coughenour should be ashamed. He was faced with a father and son duo that had been convicted of stealing thousands from the 401k of their employees, and instead of giving them the jail time recommended by prosecution, has given them a slap on the wrist probation sentence, with a fine less than a third of what they had stolen.
Dishonorable John, thanks for making the problem worse, you waste of judicial space. I look forward to seeing your obituary, so an honest man can be appointed to replace you. If you had any semblance of human decency, you’d resign your position in shame, but I’m not holding my breath.
Someone was smart enough to write up a system that inserts an extra flyer in every new county library card, that goes to a city resident, to let them know that they won’t be allowed to make book hold requests. In a library system with 45+ branches over hundreds of miles, that’s basically saying, “this card is useless to you, unless you can afford to drive all over the place”.
They weren’t smart enough to make that a prominent notice during the on the online application form, once you give them a Seattle residence.
Cost of inserting an extra piece of paper in a mailing? more than zero times number-of-new-cards.
Cost of inserting an extra piece of html in the application webpage? more than zero, but only once.
Add in the chances that some of the cards you mailed out will never be used because of the policy.
Add in the costs of fulfilling interlibrary loan requests from the city library. The library that will charge the same patron $5. I’m sure they’ll send on some of that money, but seems like a whole lotta waste when the county library could just charge the fee themselves, saving wear and tear on the poor book, if nothing else.
I blame Tim Eyman, just like I blame him for the way Olympic Security guards stood by and watched a 15 year old girl get kicked in the head, after she came up to them begging for help. They were chosen because they are cheaper, because they aren’t paid to intervene, only watch. They replaced effective guards that were too expensive after Tim cut transportation taxes.
Oh Blizzard.
It’s not enough to make millions off the masses of weed smoking college students wasting away their education, no you have to help track down low level pot dealers who’ve fled to Canada. I’m willing to let you do most anything you want with my $45/month, but not that.
I’ve got plenty of books to catch up on reading anyways.
It takes a special kind of loser to be proud of your success in denying children healthcare.
Then I find out they’ve already successfully fought emergency helicopter flights to the existing hospital. These people deliberately endangered children, so they could sleep better at night.
I hope they have nightmares all night long.
The world is full of families that would literally kill to be that close to any hospital, much less one that focuses on children. The world would be a better place if these losers would move out and let decent human beings move in.
Several years ago, I was driving the non-interstate route from Seattle to Vegas, by way of Reno, out of nostalgia. At some point in the trip, I remember seeing a sign, which I wasn’t fast enough with the camera to capture, that said
“Liquor Legal 24 hr
Gambling Legal 24 hr
Prostitution Legal 24 hr
Lobsters NOT LEGAL”.
I always wondered what that was about, now I know.
It’s always sad to find out that a performer you really liked is actually a racist moron, who is so stupid she can actually call Obama a socialist, while praising GWB’s billions wasted killing innocent people.
Victoria, we do have freedom of speech, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have to hear from people who think what you’re saying is not well hidden racism on your part; talk about a lack of facts, pot meet kettle. I certainly won’t ever purchase one of your CD’s now.
Maybe if you spent some time being poor, you might grow a soul and a brain, but I doubt it. I sleep well knowing you’re terrified that the black man is going to get’ya. That fear and doubt you feel is all your own, and you deserve every bit of discomfort it gives you.
I’m watching the end of Fox News’ election coverage, waiting for the local news to start up, and they are interviewing Ralph Nader. The fox anchor brings up a statement Ralph made to someone else earlier, that it remained to be seen if Obama would turn out to be all americans have hoped for, or “just an Uncle Tom for big business”. It seemed pretty obvious that the fox guy thought Ralph had just mis-spoken, and tried to give him a chance to reword his worries in a little less offensive manner, but Ralph was having none of it, and really making a total ass of himself. I can understand once again, how my friend who used to work with Ralph back in the ’70s, could have such a low opinion of the man. It was pretty obvious that his pride was more important than the message he’d intended to send. It DOES remain to be seen how well Obama will turn out in practice. George W said a lot of stuff about uniting the country in his acceptance speech too.
But everyone knows, you won’t get anyone to listen that far into your statement, if you start it off with racist shit like that.