- Riot
Watch! Riot Watch! It’s on in Paris, where thousands of doctors, nurses and
other hospital personnel are demonstrating in the center of the City of lights
to protest planned working-hours changes they say will result in more burnout
and worse patient care. In other words,
they're being asked to work more and drink wine while nibbling on cheese and
croissants while debating the latest fashion trends less and they are NOT happy
about it. The protest itself was fairly lame, as technicians in white lab coats
and nurses wearing green scrubs gathered in the street outside the headquarters
of Paris' regional hospital authority, which oversees 95,000 employees and 38
hospitals. They rocked banners with slogans like "Taking away our rights
never made the economy grow" and showed their French might by lining the
roadway near the city's Renaissance-style city hall. Why would the powers that be dare ask these
medical professionals to work more? Money, of course. The reform aims to save
20 million euros ($22 million) annually by renegotiating hospital staffs'
working-hours agreements, but protester Sabrina Benmesbah, a cardiac nurse at
Lariboisiere hospital, was having none
of it. She claimed the reform would
result in less time off for staff and worse care for patients. She may actually
be correct on both accounts because if you try to rip time off from doctors and
nurses and force them to work more to earn their lavish salaries, they're going
to be pissed and angry people typically do not provide the best patient care to
the hurting, suffering and seriously ill who come their way…………
- Former
Chicago Bears defensive end Ray McDonald has a new profession. His NFL career
is over because he's a bonafide bad guy with rage issues and abusive
tendencies, but he seems to have found his new calling. The bad news is that
his new line of work doesn’t pay well, comes with severe living restrictions and
doesn’t offer a lot of chances for upward growth. McDonald was introduced to
his new profession when he was arrested
at 5:35 p.m. local time by the Santa Clara Police Department for violating a restraining order, marking
his second arrest in less than 72 hours. McDonald's felonious week began Monday
when authorities charged him with domestic violence and child endangerment as a
result of an early morning altercation with his former fiancée and mother of his
child. Following the incident, police located McDonald at the home of former
teammate Justin Smith and placed him under arrest, after which the Bears
released a player they never should have signed, given that McDonald was
accused in August of domestic violence by the ex-fiancee, but the district attorney
in that case decided to not press charges. He's now been arrested four times in
the past year and cut by two teams. . The restraining order he is accused of
violating was issued as a result of Monday's domestic violence and child
endangerment charges and it ended with him being found McDonald at a local restaurant where he
was arrested without incident. His defense, according to his attorney, is that McDonald
was never served with a restraining order and that before going to the house,
McDonald was told his fiancée would not be there. At this point, there is no
way any NFL team is signing him and he'll be fortunate if he avoids serious
prison time……..
- It's
time, ass hats of Westboro Baptist Church. It's time for you to start
administering an IQ test to would-be members to your little Kansas cauldron of
unjustified, zealous hate that gives the entire world the mistaken impression
that everyone calling themselves a Christian is a bile-spewing, intolerant
hatemonger who doesn’t understand a word of what the Bible actually says. The
easy solution would be to actually stand for what Christianity is supposed to
be about, but we all know that ain't happening. In lieu of that, the church
best known for picketing the funerals of U.S soldiers and trying to claim that
their deaths of God's punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality would
do well to ensure that it doesn’t look like jingoistic, ignorant fools who don’t
bother to do a shred of actual research before staging one of their regrettable
demonstrations. Their latest f*ck-up came when Ireland voted to legalize gay
marriage and the Westboro numb nuts took
to the streets to picket Emerald Isle's historic same-sex marriage referendum. With
their patented “God Hates Fags” rhetoric, they shouted and displayed the
orange, white and green flag that we all know represents….the Ivory Coast? Yup.
See, Ireland the Ivory Coast have the same three colors on their flag, but
their rectangles are shaped and oriented differently. So instead of being
hateful and spiteful toward the white, ginger-haired residents of Ireland, the
West-bozos were actually hating on Ivory Coast, whose biggest crime of late has
been ending up as the most perennially disappointing African nation on the
international soccer scene. Desperately trying to cover their own hypocritical
asses, the West-tools later made up the bogus story that they intentionally
flipped the tri-color flag to suggest a country in distress. Nice try, suckas………
- Who
are Big Talk? It's unclear,
but the band is hoping to change that and they want to do it with bubble baths.
It sounds bizarre, but Ronnie Vannucci has announced that his band will release
their second album on direct-to-fan platform Pledgemusic via Little Oil
Records. The album will drop July 24 and it will be titled "Straight In No
Kissin," with The Killers drummer leading the charge. According to
Vannucci, he wants to release something "a little bit more toothy"
than the band's self-titled debut. "I wanted to cut live punk rock songs,
but I wanted to put something in there for the ladies as well," Vannucci
said. "This way, there’s a nice pop
sensibility, but you can tell that there are men playing, not machines. I
wanted to give it some f*cking strength." An album with "f*cking
strength" doesn’t come cheap or easy and to make ends meet, Big Talk are
trying to offer perks and benefits to those willing to pay for them to make an
album they will then use to make money. There's an acoustic show at your house
($2,500), Vannucci's microphone ($3,900) and the chance to share a bubble bath
with a member of Big Talk ($500). Hopefully one of those incentives sounds good
and you'll want to jump on a chance to invest in an album that was recorded at The Killers' Battle Born
Studios in Las Vegas and Vannucci's home studio in Sonoma County. This whole
trend of financing bands' albums for them just seems a bit wrong, especially
when you can just let some other sucker do it and then pirate the music once it
drops……….
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