Poking society in the eye with a sharp pointy stick
Steve Dunleavy one of a kind reporter:
I’ve mentioned Pete Gleason before over on craigscrimelist. He’s the New York City based attorney who is also trying to get the Village Voice Media owned backpage.com to do something about their human trafficking problem.
It turns out he also writes a monthly column for the Irish Central and this month his column is about former New York, by way of Australia, reporter Steve Dunleavy.
We could use more journalists like Mr. Dunleavy today.
For those of you who are boycotting BP because of what was basically a natural disaster I have some news for you.
If you think that your boycott will effect the CEO in any way shape or form you’re dead wrong. CEOs are so well protected in matters like this the worst thing that will happen to him is that he’ll resign with a multi-million dollar severance package.
Meanwhile do you know who the boycott would really effect? The men and women who work at your local BP station who work hard to try and feed their families. Being currently unemployed I know how scary that prospect can be.
Not to mention as I’ve posted on my Facebook this is not the worst oil spill in the history of the known universe let alone the Gulf of Mexico. That would be the 1979 oil spill and the Gulf was not ruined forever. But since so many people today have been brainwashed by the ‘oil is bad’ tree hugging types we’re all up in arms now. And let’s not forget all the cute duckies and fishies. We’re top of the food chain baby. I’m more concerned how I’m going to keep the roof over my families head than a bunch of oily critters.
Do you not know that if drilling for oil is stopped not only would we not have the most efficient and cheap way to fuel our cars but where do you think plastic comes from? Like that laptop or iPad that you’re using. Yeah, kiss that goodbye if oil production is stopped. And don’t give me any shit about electric cars either. They suck. They’re inefficient. And where the hell do you think electricity comes from, rainbows and unicorn farts? It comes from coal and nuclear. How’s that for your eco-friendly ideas?
So boycott BP if you want. I’ll be supporting the local BP workers so hopefully they can keep their jobs and feed their families.
As always it was your pleasure. Let me know if you have any other outrage I can piss on for you.
Yemeni child bride dies of internal bleeding:
I’m posting this story on my personal blog because unfortunately no official crime has been committed. A crime against humanity and children but not by the laws of the country.
As you can tell by the headlines a 12-year-old girl from Yemen died of internal injuries after her honeymoon because of the ‘sex’ they had. The man is twice her age.
Some in the Yemeni government are trying to set a minimum age for marriage however they are being opposed by conservative parliamentarians. And by conservative parliamentarians they must mean pedophiles.
What makes this even more disgusting is that the parents of the girl probably allowed this.
In a day and age of the modern technology we have why are outdated and dangerous traditions like this still clung to when they serve no purpose?
Thanks to my lovely and talented wife Jade for the tip.
Nevermore? Mystery visitor misses Poe’s birthday:
Notice how I avoided the cliche?
Anyway for the first time in 60 years the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe has come and gone without a mysterious cloaked figure leaving roses and cognac at Poe’s grave in Baltimore.
Not that I’m a huge fan of Poe but I was always fascinated by this tradition and I am saddened to see it come to a possible end.
Personally if the mysterious man decided to hang up his cloak I wouldn’t blame him. In recent years some people have tried to find out the true identity of the toaster when he made his visit to Poe’s grave.
Some mysteries deserve never to be revealed.
Ok kids. Today Good Ol’ Uncle Trench is going to learn you about PIN numbers. Yes, I do know that is redundant. Personal Identification Number I stress the number part because in my real job I have to ask people for their PINs all day. I am even explicit about because I ask people for their 6 to 8 digit PIN. You would think that with the N and the word digits people would realize that their PIN contains only numbers. Not so. I am constantly bombarded with words instead of numbers.
I swear that some cell phones make people stupid.
The other thing is since I say 6 to 8 digits people are constantly giving me numbers like 1234. That’s 4 digits in case you can’t count.
When PINs are first created we tell our clients to not make them something obvious. Do you know how many people have 12345678 as their PIN?
Another thing is stop using your kids’ birthdays as PINs. If I was an actual identity thief it wouldn’t be hard to figure out your PIN.
I almost forgot that today is my 12th anniversary of my presence on the net. I’ve been around longer than Google and I have no plans on quitting anytime soon.
Yeah, so after 8 months of unemployment I finally got a new job a couple of weeks ago. The pay sucks but its close to home and it appears there is a ton of room for advancement. They even have a covered smoking area.
So anyway we’re in training right now. We had a substitute trainer the other night and he didn’t really feel like training so he dumped us out on the floor to watch the already trained employees. Now this is all desk work so it’s really boring to just watch someone and we were out there for four hours.
Being the 40-year-old man that I am I started to feel myself nod off. I did everything I could think of to stay awake but it still didn’t stop the occasional head jerk. I even tried standing figuring I couldn’t fall asleep while standing. Guess what. I did fall asleep while standing. I caught myself just in time where I didn’t actually fall over.
One of the times I nodded off I got caught by a manager. She isn’t much older than me but I look much younger than I am. So she asks me “Are you with us?” I thought she was just another grunt so I said “Barely but I’m trying my best.” Some time later she catches me again and demands to see my badge and asks for my first and last name. And she didn’t ask politely. The word bitchy comes to mind.
I guess she honestly though that I was purposely trying to catch some sleep out on the floor. I realize that the company is staffed mostly by kids in their early 20s but I’m not some punk off the streets and I’ve been doing this longer than most of the employees have been alive. So don’t treat me like I’m some punk ass kid fresh of the street who took this as their first job.
I’ve already begun looking for a new line of work.
So I’ve had this idea for a new band in my head for a while now. For heavy metal bands one of the mist used cliches is to either be satanic or bitch about Christianity. The last person to do this successfully was Marilyn Manson. My idea is to be equally controversial but in reverse.
The name of the band would be something like Inquisitor or Opus Dei or something along those lines. Their gimmick would be that they would claim that they are a hardcore group of Christians. Kind of like how GWAR claims to be from Antarctica. And when I say hardcore I mean 15th century hardcore. They would have songs like “Burn the Witches”, “Ode to Torquemada” and “Convert the Heathens”.
In today’s politically correct and easily offended society it would be sure to cause controversy and controversy sells.
Let me preface this by saying I wish no ill will to the hikers being held in Iran and I hope for their families that the government of Iran releases them.
However I have to question their actions. I mean who goes hiking in a war torn country (Iraq)? And if you’re that skilled of a hiker how do you get that lost that you end up in Iran.
The whole situation makes me wonder if it was all some sort of misguided protest against the recent elections in Iran.
I hope they come home soon and that it doesn’t take 444 days.
Look. I get it. You need my financial support. If I had the money I would give it. But I think you’re marketing technique for soliciting donations could use some work.
So please stop showing abused animals on your commercials. I know that animals are being abused but your commercials just make me want to change the channel because I hate seeing any kind of animal in distress.
BTW, that’s my cat Ducksauce. She’s treated very well.
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