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…the dude, easily twice my size, who decided it was okay to cut ahead of me as I waited in the car line to drop off Lugnut this morning.  Not a big deal, in the grand scheme of things, but highly irritating.  Of course, it didn’t help matters that I called the guy out on it, and that he stopped his car, got out, and yelled at me.  Lug, fascinated by the exchange, said, “That dude in trouble.”

I should have just left it alone, ’cause I don’t want to be making trouble at the preschool.

So, not only do they rush to executing Saddam Hussein before even trying him for gassing all those Kurds (they could have killed him twice!), but I understand that Fox and CNN are viewing the video?

Really?

American news channels are freely showing a video of a prisoner, found guilty by the people who captured him, hung until death for all to see?

How very Al-Jazeera.

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.

Yes, folks, its official, Youtube has been neutered.  Sure, you can still post the video of your little nephew’s bar mitzvah, but anything that may smell like copyrighted material is persona non grata. 

It all started the other day when Google came out of nowhere to buy Youtube in a massive stock offering that made everybody in a 5 county radius filthy rich.  Well, no, it really started when the RIAA started snarling like an inbred hillbilly when a suitor comes for his sister at the thought that Youtube was hosting music videos of artists, because, by damn, they’re going to make you pay to watch advertisements for their music. 

Well, the other day I got notifications that the videos upped for GAC’s post about the best intros for TV shows were ‘in violation’ of some sort of copyright thing, and so the fun begins.  This morning, I was perusing Youtube for a clip from a TV show to show ol’ Nodbob, who’s been having a rough morning, and lo and behold, nothing is there.

Yes, if you want to make a video of any other inane kind of dumbness, its all about Youtube.  However, if you want to try to watch a TV show on the grainy, poor, 400 X nothing resolution, well, you’re in violation.

Now, I’ve got an idea, but I’m sure it won’t go over, but seems to me that allowing uninhibited use of any kind of video at a profit free place like Youtube (sure, they make a profit, but you don’t pay anything to watch the video) would do nothing but help people who create content.  Otherwise, well, we all go back to bit torrent, perfect quality picture and sound, and downloading for free. 

Which is what they deserve anyway, for doing this to Youtube when I was just getting to like it.  Grumble.

Somewhat old news, but news nonetheless, Laura Mallory is appealing a decision handed by the Gwinnett County school board in Georgia that Harry Potter can stay in their public schools. Says Mallory:

They’re not educationally suitable and have been shown to be harmful to some kids.”

Indeed. While not quoting her, the MSM sources reporting this say that she is convinced that Potter books lead to school shootings, pagan worship, and evil in general, and that these problems wouldn’t happen if schools had children read the bible instead.

What if you got her, and the guy who wanted to remove “under God” from the pledge of allegiance together in a room for a free for all, no holds barred, wacko extremist contest? Better yet, pit her against somebody else with weird fascio-theological tendancies, like Islamic insurgents or something?

I’ll bring the beer.