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Joe Paterno Dies In Hospital; Doctors Promise To Tell Their Superiors First Thing Tomorrow

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:15:29 -0500

Joe Paterno Dies In Hospital; Doctors Promise To Tell Their Superiors First Thing Tomorrow

“Where the fuck am I?”

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:12:27 -0500

“Where the fuck am I?”

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:06:47 -0500

This is true. And it is from one of my favorite childhood books,...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:00:37 -0500

This is true. And it is from one of my favorite childhood books, Matilda by Roald Dahl

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:56:16 -0500

Amazing

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:55:56 -0500

Amazing

The Absolutely Insane Life Story of the "Lobster Boy" Grady Stiles

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:54:00 -0500

I checked this story a couple of times, because when I first read it I could not comprehend how it could have possibly been true.

Grady Franklin Stiles Jr. was born as a fourth generation “lobster man”. The medical term for this condition is ectrodactly- the fusing of fingers and toes form claw-like extremities. Grady’s father did what anybody with a deformity did back in the 1800’s, he took his lobster ass on the road with the circus; and as you may have guessed, his son would follow suit.

Stiles used a wheelchair to get around some of the time since he could not walk, but as a result of his disability, he developed incredible upper body strength from dragging himself around (and he did this often, as he drank a lot).

Grady Stiles was married twice- three times specifically as he married wife Maria two separate times. He was father to four children, two of whom were “lobster children” and went on the road with their pop as the “Lobster family”.

Although only half of Stiles’ children were born Lobster babies one thing that was consistent in both of Stiles’ families was his tendency to be a violent, asshole drunk. Stiles was a mean sonofabitch, not the kind of guy who ties one on and merely kicks the neighbor’s cat, but the kind of guy who murders his eldest daughter’s fiance the night before her wedding. Read it again-yeah he did that.

So this story gets even fucking weirder now- at Stiles trial he openly confesses to murdering his daughter’s fiance, because, ‘fuck that guy, that’s why’, and he gets THIRD DEGREE MURDER! He shot the poor bastard, admitted to it, and gets third degree? Wait for it- wait for it- so because of Stiles’ lobster condition- (that didn’t seem to slow him down from making money, procreating, and murdering people) - he was not sent to prison because the facilities were not equipped to handle someone with his condition. (WHAT.THE.FUCK!?) Instead Stiles was sentenced to fifteen years probation.

For a little while Stiles cleaned up his act and stopped drinking, but then he realized he (LITERALLY) got away with murder and started drinking again and being an even MORE violent, repugnant prick. His wife Maria (the one he married twice) contacted her son (from a previous marriage), Harry Glenn Newman Jr, to set up a hit on her (sort of) convicted felon husband. Newman hired- a side show performer (!!!!) by the name of Chris Wyant to kill off his mother’s twice-acquired, lobster husband from hell.

To wrap up, Wyant killed Stiles with three gunshots, and then Wyant, Newman, and Maria were all brought to court for the murder trial. Wyant was convicted of SECOND degree murder and sentenced to 27 years in prison, Newman was sentenced to life a the mastermind behind the murder, and Maria was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder.

Look it up. Unbefuckinglievable

Today is some football shit right?

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:09:18 -0500

I use football purely as an excuse to make junk food and drink heavily.

Bitch, please.

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:03:04 -0500

Bitch, please.

Don’t make me sadDon’t make me crySometimes love is...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:59:56 -0500

Don’t make me sad
Don’t make me cry
Sometimes love is not enough
And the road gets tough I don’t know why

Keep making me laugh
Lets go get high
The road is long we carry on
Try to have fun in the meantime

Come take a walk on the wild side
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain
You like your girls insane

More lyrics: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/l/lana_del_rey/#share

15 of the Deadliest Corporations

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:53:34 -0500

15 of the Deadliest Corporations:

somerset:

stay-human:

These corporations, if they were individual human beings, would be locked up for life. Instead, they continue raking in the big bucks. Human rights abuses, murder, war, eco disasters, and animal exploitation keep these evil companies raking in the green. Prepare to be disgusted.

I don’t think the list is in any particular order. Even if you don’t agree with all of them (eg. the cigarette company) most of them are legit horrible. I’m posting a summary but I recommend reading the full article: http://brainz.org/15-deadliest-us-corporations/

Chevron : (then Texaco) discharged 18 billion gallons of toxic water into the rain forests of Ecuador without any remediation, destroying the livelihoods of local farmers and sickening indigenous populations. Chevron was responsible for the death of several Nigerians who protested the company’s polluting, exploiting presence in the Nigerian Delta. Chevron paid the local militia, known for its human rights abuses, to squash the protests, and even supplied them with choppers and boats. The military opened fire on the protesters, then burned their villages to the ground.

DeBeers : was knowingly funding violent guerrilla movements in Angola, Sierra Nevada, and the Congo with its diamond purchases. In Botswana, DeBeers has been blamed for the “clearing” of land to be mined for diamonds — including the forcible removal of indigenous peoples who had lived there for thousands of years. The government allegedly cut off the tribe’s water supplies, threatened, tortured and even hanged resisters.

Tyson : Even if you don’t care about the horrendous animal abuse that has been documented in Tyson’s factory farms, you have to flinch at Tyson’s appalling environmental abuses and workers’ rights violation- Tyson has allowed e coli tainted beef to enter the food supply. A recent study showed that Tyson’s chickens were the most salmonella-and-campylobactor filled poultry of all the major suppliers and has even been accused of human trafficking to supply themselves with cheap labor.

Smith & Wesson : In a study of the top ten guns involved in crime in the U.S., the first was the Smith & Wesson .38 Special.

Phillip Morris : is the largest manufacturer of cigarettes in the U.S.

Haliburton : is a huge “oilfield services” company, profited big time from the U.S.’s invasion of Iraq when Cheney called in his boys to quell burning oil wells — and to “help” the Iraq oil ministry pump and distribute oil. Haliburton has also been implicated in countless oil spills, including the BP disaster of 2010.

Coca Cola : corporation has wrought devastation in India, where its factories use up to one million liters of water per day, leaving tens of thousands of nearby residents dry during the drought months. Then the factories dispose of the wastewater improperly, contaminating whatever water is left. A lawsuit in 2001 accused Coca Cola of hiring paramilitaries in Columbia which suppressed unionization in the cola plant there through intimidation, torture and murder.

Pfizer : the largest pharmaceutical corporation in the U.S., pleaded guilty in 2009 to the largest health care fraud in U.S. history. Pfizer decided to use Nigerian children as guinea pigs. In 1996, Pfizer traveled to Kano, Nigeria to try out an experimental antibiotic on third-world diseases such as measles, cholera, and bacterial meningitis. They gave trovafloxacin to approximately 200 children. Dozens of them died in the experiment, while many others developed mental and physical deformities. According to the EPA, Pfizer can also proudly claim to be among the top ten companies in America causing the most air pollution.

ExxonMobil : is perhaps best known for the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill which resulted in 11 million gallons of oil contaminating Prince William Sound. But they have also been responsible for a huge oil spill in Brooklyn and for aiding in the decline of Russia’s critically endangered grey whale because of drilling in its habitat. The Political Economy Research Institute ranks ExxonMobil sixth among corporations emitting airborne pollutants in the United States.

Caterpillar : supplies the Israeli army with bulldozers which are used to demolish Palestinian homes — sometimes with the people still inside. In 2003 a Caterpillar bulldozer ran over and killed Rachel Corrie, an American protesting in Gaza who stood in front of the tractor to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Baily : “The Cruelest Show on Earth” is famous for its abuse of wild animals.

Monsanto : Monsanto’s list of evils includes creating the “terminator” seed which creates plants which never fruit or flower so that farmers must purchase them anew yearly, lobbying to have “hormone-free” labels removed from the labels of milk and infant milk replacer (through bovine growth hormone is believed to be a cancer-accelerator) as well as a wide range of environmental and human health violations associated with use of Monsanto’s poisons — most notably “Agent Orange.”

Nestle : crimes against man and nature include massive deforestation in Borneo — the habitat of the critically endangered orangutan — to grow palm oil, and buying milk from farms illegally-seized by a despot in Zimbabwe. Nestle attracted worldwide boycott efforts for urging mothers in third-world countries to use their infant milk replacer instead of breastfeeding, without warning them of the possible negative effects. Supposedly, Nestle hired women to dress as nurses to hand out free infant formula, which was frequently mixed with contaminated water, or the children starved when the formula ran out and their mothers could not afford more and their breast milk had already dried up from disuse.

British Petroleum : Who can forget 2010’s oil rig explosion in the Gulf Coast which killed 11 workers and thousands of birds, sea turtles, dolphins and other animals, effectively destroying the fishing and tourism industry in the region? This was not BP’s first crime against nature. In fact, between January 1997 and March 1998, BP was responsible for a whopping 104 oil spills.

Dyncorp : is best known for its brutality in impoverished countries, for trafficking in child sex slaves, for slaughtering civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for training rebels in Haiti. This privatized military company is often hired by the U.S. government to protect American interests overseas — and so the government can claim no responsibility for Dyncorp’s actions.

So yeah.

IT’S OK EVERYBODY THEY GOT MEGAUPLOAD.

Fiction Recommendation: 11/22/63 by Stephen King

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:17:03 -0500

I just finished 11/22/63- a time-travel novel in which the narrator, Jake Epping discovers a portal to the past. Typically this kind of bizarro sci-fi shit isn’t my cup of tea, but King’s extensive research of the Kennedy Assassination is impressive as is his attention to every detail of life in the late 1950’s-early 60’s. The nostalgia is at times overpowering-only briefly are we reminded of the horrific violence unfolding alongside the civil rights movement, but I enjoyed an escape to a more trusting time.

Albany Bullshit

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:08:40 -0500

http://www.fridaypuppy.com/index.php/2012/01/18/review-the-bar-at-74-state-street/

As a preface, I just wish that Matt Baumgartner would remember when he was one of us. Just like me, Matt used to be nobody. I’m just a fucking bartender, I know that my opinion doesn’t matter. But I’m going to voice it just the same because I am a service industry person, and usually, we take care of each other.

This thing that Matt wrote is not a review, it’s a complaint. It’s someone using their popular reputation to shit on someone else’s business and get other people on board to support their bad behavior.

I’m astonished that someone who has worked in this industry would behave this way publicly and then bash the establishment for responding (appropriately). This is low class, Albany “do you know who I am” bullshit. I thought that Matt Baumgartner was not another DeJohn, and I was sorely mistaken.

I can say that I have definitely behaved like an idiot when drunk, but, afterward, I return with my head down and a hefty tip as well as an apology. We have all been there, and at least we can blame the alcohol and reward the establishment for putting up with us.

I’d be interested to see how Matt would react if someone behaved so disrespectfully in one of his establishments.

And as a final note, tonight the girl that Matt referred to as “Wednesday Adams” came in. She has been a regular customer for awhile, and gave us her side of the story- which I tend to believe is more true since she was dead sober when this incident occurred.

Yeah sure. This is the family leading the “family...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:51 -0500

Yeah sure. This is the family leading the “family values” campaign.

Fashion? Fuck you. Seriously.

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:59:27 -0500

Fashion? Fuck you. Seriously.

Smart Kids End Up Drinking More As Adults

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:52:59 -0500

Smart Kids End Up Drinking More As Adults:

Drinking is the only way to deal with morons: Smart people “booze so we can tolerate everyone else,” says Greg at Food & Wine Blog. When sober, we tend to “take people’s responses at literal face value.” But after a few drinks, “we can relax a bit, stop being so anal with semantics and let comments slide a bit.”

"Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:37:00 -0500

“Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?”

- Racist, bible-thumping nutbag, Rick Santorum

"The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:36:00 -0500

“The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if that person — human life is not a person, then — I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, ‘We’re going to decide who are people and who are not people.’”

- Bigoted (probably closeted) political freakshow Rick Santorum

"I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:35:00 -0500

““I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.””

- Rick “Only black people are on welfare, right?” Santorum

"In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:34:00 -0500

““In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might find they don’t both need to. … What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else — or worse yet, home alone after school between three and six in the afternoon — find themselves more affirmed by society? Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism.””

- Rick “Stop taking our jobs you women are mere baby ovens to me” Santorum