DAILY NEWS – JANUARY 31st, 2011

DAILY NEWS – JANUARY 31st, 2011

DATELINE: ROLLING IN GOLD IN THE MONEY VAULT – It’s Monday, so let’s speak of people getting fucked over… how the hell does it feel to know that Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, has seen a 42% boost in his bonus this year…. as well as seeing his salary tripled. In case there is ANYONE out there who has not suffered from the economic downturn, I should remind you that the bank itself saw profits fall 38% in the last year, but somehow, some way, they managed to bump this fucking asshole’s pay from $600,000 a year to a nice round $2M… why the fuck screw around with those uneven numbers! He was also awarded $12.9M in shares, almost doubling what his bonus was last year. You see, it seems that those fucking bankers consider a $600,000 to be too low for a yearly income. So thinks Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, who also got a $1,749,999 raise this year. At what point did they become worth even one fucking cent more than everyone else in the world, especially since the rest of the population didn’t get a nice bailout from the government? It’s long overdue that these fucking assholes be held to account… because we all known god damned well whose tables were robbed to fatten these already fat fat-cats.


DATELINE: LIVING IN A DISPOSABLE WORLD – That’s what it feels like these days, even, apparently, when it comes to our own children if you are Julie K Schenecker of Tampa, Florida. She was taking her 13 year old son Beau to soccer practice, something mom’s have been doing every day for a long time. She however, decided to shoot him enroute. What? She keeps a fucking gun in her car in case the kid gets mouthy? She plugged him, drove home, and parked the fuckin vehicle in the garage while she went upstairs to shoot her 16 year old daughter Calyx as she worked on her computer in her bedroom. Schenecker then went and sat on the back steps, covered in the blood of her babies. Her mother says she is depressed. When the fuck did that become acceptable? When the hell did it even remotely become excusable that we just pick up a fucking gun and pop a hole in our own children? They were mouthy? Find me a fucking teen who is NOT mouthy! If this woman had medical issues that might contribute to her not being able to make sound decisions, what the fuck was she doing in the same house with her kids? If there were issues as to stability, who the hell gave her a fucking gun? Someone has to be held to account for this – those two stolen lives demand that.

DATELINE: HIDING BEHIND THE LAW – I love that I live in a country that recognizes that people have the right of due process when accused of a crime. I hate how those rights are fucked with and twisted. In the wake of the fall of the Tunisian government under Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali, his big brother Belhassen Trabelsi has come running to Canada to seek refuge. The billionaire had already secured permanent residency status in Canada, and when the walls came tumbling down in the country he and his brother had already fucked up, he came running here with his wife, children and nanny. Tunisia considers him a criminal, wants him back to stand trial, as he should. Canada, however, has said that now he is here, he is entitled to the full process of the law, he is entitled to present and plead his case for asylum here, and that should he be found to be returnable, we will extradite him… in about ten years when he has exhausted his legal options and appeals. Here is the part that fucking burns my ass… here he is entitled to due process. I, however, am not if I happen to have one drink with my dinner, or have someone in my vehicle who had a drink, and we get stopped. Don’t get me wrong – I in no way advocate drinking and driving in ANY way, but I do embrace the fact that all of us have the right of due process, because, well… let’s face it, our cops here are definitely NOT a paragon of virtues and sound judgments. Just the smell of alcohol is enough to allow the police to impound my vehicle and take my drivers license for up to 90 days, without me having any recourse. I have no option of a court appearance, no option of fighting it, no way to get the ruling overturned… it is one hundred percent arbitrarily decided by the cop on the side of the road and what the hell his mood might be at the time. You gotta love a country that busts its fucking ass and spends millions of dollars protecting the rights of wanted criminals, while totally fucking over the rest of us. I guess someone has to pay for these fucking assholes to hide here though.

DATELINE: IN A CLOUDBURST OF CANNIBIS – Picture it; standing there in sunny Arizona, admiring the cactuses and lizards, when something slams into the back of your head. You turn around, look down, and find a fucking bale of weed at your feet, the ultimate pain killer for that pounding headache you now have. Only a fairy tale, you say? Hell no, not anymore. Forsaking the passé drug mule, planes and boats, traffickers in Sonora, Mexico have now returned to basics, using catapults to fling their drugs over the border into the US. They have built them on trailers, so they are totally mobile systems, allowing them to shoot 2 kilos of grass at a time. Can bigger versions of this delivery system be far behind? Perhaps we should expect circus cannons to line the borders next, offering affordable flights to the Promised Land? One has to wonder if the same would work in colder climates, perhaps sending washed-up reality television stars cum tea grannies from Alaska to Russia.