Yelling at the Radio

Yep, that's what I was doing this morning.  Normally my drive to work's too short to bother paying attention to the radio personalities but I got hooked this morning on a call-in portion about the Obama-care decision by the SCOTUS.  Now, my wookie suit is fine and glossy, but it takes a bit to make me rattle the bowcaster.  However, when the twit calling in said that everything would be fixed by voting for Romney, I *might* have scared surrounding traffic with my vocal frustrations.  No, no, no! 

Becoming President isn't a carte blanche.  The President can't make or repeal laws so changing who's in the the big white house with fancy furnishings isn't going to get the ball rolling. So why are you focused on the President, look at Congress!  They served up this fetid mess of spew, so they, or their successors, are the ones that have to undo it.  It's their elections you should be concerned about and putting your effort into.  Obama and Romney are a shit covered coin toss, no matter which side lands up, your money's still covered in shit.  It's the Senators and Reps. that could make a difference - from local up to national.  Look at who's *making* the laws & vote for better representation.



*sigh* it's going to be a long year.

Discrimination

Courtesy of the Russian Times, I found this interesting article:

On Tuesday twelve members of the Buffalo's firefighter squad were rewarded $2.7 million for emotional distress after a judge ruled that the city of Buffalo racially discriminated white men.

According to the lawsuit filed back in 2007, the city overlooked the twelve individuals and promoted black firefighters instead.  "This never should have happened,” said the plaintiffs’ attorney Andrew P. Fleming to BuffaloNews.com.

I'm shocked this made it to court and that they found in favor of the firefighters.  I'm sure they could have taken a payout without much fuss along the way.  Bravo for pushing it to be called discrimination; four years is a long time to fight for vindication.  I don't quite get the 'emotional distress' part of the case, but I'm not a lawyer.

Sad that I couldn't find the story on Fox News, etc.  I find myself using www.rt.com to get a more balanced view of the news.  Seems slightly counter-intuitive to use a foreign news source to find out what's going on in your own country. O_o

That about covers it....

Doesn't it?