Atomictumor

So, as Netmom has pointed out, apparently the embargo placed on this fine website, Atomic City Talk, Netmom’s place, and Bull Moose’s page by the powers that run the Anderson County government internet filtering system has now been lifted.

Now, I’m not sure who’s in charge over there regarding this, and I really don’t care. I’m sure, knowing IT, the order was placed by some administrative assistant, somebody in a sad little job, always a bridesmaid, never a bride, trying as hard as possible to please those amazingly charismatic and powerful individuals who’ve been vested power over a WHOLE COUNTY.

I’m sure they popped it in there to block websites that don’t necessarily follow the party line, critical of the good old boy system, or maybe just critical of goverment and government figures in general. People who expect, however unreasonably, a county government that is transparent, benevolent, and respondent to the needs of its constituency. People who, with this expectation, have found electronic avenues to speak this belief, and, for whatever reason, trouble the brows of certain people in this government, whom this lowly, desperate, sad little administrative assistant wishes so desperately to please.

Heres a message for you:

Ready?

You suck.

Thank you,

Atomictumor

Man, this news about blew my mind. To think little ol’ Tennessee, bring up the rear in damn near any survey of the 50 states, is manning up to the .gov, and telling em to stick the Real Id where the sun don’t shine. This is news that just reaffirms my faith in state goverment, man.

Real ID, for those who haven’t been around, was hidden in the back of a government war appropriations bill as a rider about 2 or 3 years ago, and by the time anybody noticed it, the bill passed (I mean, who’s gonna vote down a war appropriations bill, right? Not in this country). It says that all states must contribute to a national database by Dec 2009, essentially setting up a national ID card. The costs are passed down to the states, and the Real ID card would be required for passports, driving, and essentially all other identification in the country, bringing us further away from the whole “govern by state” thing that Washington (the dude, not the town) was all cool with (except that he was a federalist, so he probably wasn’t as cool as, say, Jefferson, or somebody like that. whatever)

Anyway, I’m proud to say I’m from Tennessee because of this, and lemme tell you, thats not usually the first thing I’m proud to say.

(here I am… strangely compelled to write more…)

The boys and I did the Walmart thing (well, it started out being the kmart thing as I don’t generally like Walmart, but they didn’t have anything I was looking for) last night and bought some Christmas presents for neices and nephews.  Did a damn good job, too.  They’ll be some slap happy neices and nephews, unless they piss me off, and then I’ll burn the presents right in front of them for spite.

Yes, I am spiteful.  I am the LORD of SPITE.

I digress.

Right, so Walmart.  Spent about a bill.  I check the thing this morning, to see how many pennies we have left, and I’m a zero or so above what I thought I’d be.

Turns out Uncle Sam dropped a present down my banks chimney, or something like that.  The SS money has already started coming in.

Roger, thats a woot.

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I sent MastaG to school, and then emailed work saying that I can’t work today.

I don’t think I’m getting into why right now.  Suffice to say, the grief isn’t here, but the numbness has hit critical “giving a shit” parts of my brain, and if I clocked in, I’d damn well not do any work, but I’d just sit around and try not to get phone calls.  I don’t think that’d be doing them any favors, so they’re better off not paying me if I’m not going to work.

Yes, I’m an upright and moral LORD of SPITE.

So, point is, I sent G to school, despite his calling out how unfair it was that I’m slacking and he’s not (he was joking, but had a point).  So, I called the school a little while ago to get him out early.  We’ll have a Daddy and G day today.

I’m looking forward to it!

Radar Online has an excellent list of the 10 dumbest Congressmen.

Thrill to lines like “Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, ‘Thank God I’m still alive.’ But of course those who died, their lives will never be the same again,” or “I myself have educated myself about the severity of the Articles of Impeachment, and I want to share with my colleagues and the American people some of the thoughts that I have learned.”

Good stuff.

Knoxnews reports that a drug and slack crackdown at the Molten Salt Reactor here in town cost at least two people their jobs.

Apparently, according to the paper, Bechtel Jacob’s ballbuster squad inspected a ‘break trailer’ where they found employees watching TV, sleeping, and playing cards.  They then decided to check the place for pot, calling in Roane County 5-0, and by golly they found “residue” in the trailer.

They then spread out, searched the cars in the parking lot and pee tested all 50 employees.  Pot was found in one car, and one employee refused to submit to the test, so both of those peoples were fired.  Four employees were found to be “non-negative”, and apparently they’re going to some sort of secret tribunal
Man, what happened to the day when people fought this kind of crap?  I know, I know “But AT, marijuana is baaad, and its not legal, mkay?”, and I agree, whoever was smoking up at the office needs to go.  However, theres no reason to fire somebody based on the possibility that they may have smoked it in the past 30 days at home, or in Amsterdam, or somewhere else completely unrelated to the job.

Seems like complacancy has dropped down on the American worker, and the corporate world is now capable of unreasonable search and seizure of your wee-wee provided that they give you a paycheck.  This is still completely unacceptable to me, whether or not the position is a government job.

For me, tho, the best part is the last paragraph:

Most nuclear work at the Molten Salt Reactor has been suspended for several months because of a fluorine leak earlier this year. The cleanup plan called for additional training this fall and restart of fuel-removal tasks in November. It was not immediately clear if the latest incident would alter that schedule.

OK.  So, what we have here appears to be employees with nothing to do but sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube.   All the sudden, the jackbooted Bechtel Jacobs thugs swarm the trailer, the break trailer, and get pissy that people aren’t being productive?   So they accuse all of them of being doped on the job?

Screw that.  Hell with Bechtel Jacobs, and DOE, and this whole damn mess.