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31 July 2018

Road rage turned up to eleven

July is done and dusted for 2018 - or is it? Actually no, because the Sick Phoque Club is to grow by one, and this month it's Jeffrey Whitman. Whitman, a white man who was the owner of Uriah’s Heating and Cooling, verbally assaulted Charles Lovett during an angry confrontation on a local road in Ohio. Instead of just leaving the road rage at the intersection, Whitman followed Lovett two miles to his home to continue his racist rant. But Lovett was smart enough to capture it all on video. “Is there a reason you just followed me to my house?” he asks Whitman, who sits in his company van at the end of Lovett’s driveway. “I just want to let you know what a n—– you are,” Whitman says in the now viral video. “You wanna let me know how much of a n—er I am?” asked Lovett, as he patiently continued to film. “Yeah, I want to let you personally know how much of a n—er you are,” Whitman fires back. “So I’m a n—– because you can’t read street signs?” he asks Whitman. “Because you’re a rude n—er … You cut me off in my lane,” Whitman said. He then adds, “You cut me off because you feel entitled — because you get everything for free.” To which Lovett replies, “You feel entitled because I’m black.” “So, thank you for calling me a n—– and showing me how stupid you are,” Lovett says. “Have a good day, sir. Enjoy your life.” Now Whitman is crying the blues for being out of a job after being the racist antagonist. “I’m out of business, I’m completely out, I’m done, I’ll never work in Columbus again,” he says. “This has completely and thoroughly ruined my life.” It bloody well should. THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T CALL BLACK PEOPLE THAT WORD. IF YOU DO, YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE.

29 July 2018

Heaping on the autism one shot at a time

Two years ago Aussie doctor Rachel Heap penned a few words to promote the importance of vaccinating children. Dr Heap, an intensive care specialist from NSW, is a fierce pro-vaccination campaigner who spends a lot of her spare time working to correct "misinformation" spread by anti-vaxxers. She shared the words she penned on the Northern Rivers Vaccination Supporters website, a group she helped establish. Her words were subsequently picked up, framed, and posted in a Colorado doctor's office:

 

That's all well and good, but how do you justify vaccinations to your autistic child?

26 July 2018

Self-checkout pros and cons:

The main con:

 

The pros:
  • If the supermarket in question charges for plastic bags, you can just type in 0 when it asks how many you need regardless of how many you're taking.
  • Sometimes, a product that was damaged on its way to the shelf or nearing its expiry date will be "reduced to clear", and will have a sticker with a cheaper price covering the barcode. One of my money-saving hacks is to scan the reduced price item but put a full-priced item in the bagging area. If you do this, please buy the lower-priced item as well so that it doesn't look as suspicious.
  • More coming when I can think of them.

23 July 2018

Snapshots of poverty circa TWO THOUSAND AND FRIGGEN EIGH

 
 

New Zealand families are sleeping on mattresses in their living rooms and leaving the oven door open to stay warm this winter. Results from a nationwide survey commissioned by the Salvation Army illustrated the tough choices people were making during the colder months. The survey of over 1000 Kiwis showed 45 per cent of respondents had gone without heating in the last year due to cost and 44 per cent didn't go to the doctor when they needed to because they couldn't afford it. Manager for The Salvation Army's welfare services, Jono Bell, said his initial response to the figures was disbelief. "But on reflection, I thought, actually the numbers are not too dissimilar from what we are seeing on the frontlines," Bell said. "It's not just beneficiaries but people in our community who are working are still not making ends meet and are being forced to choose. It is a widespread problem." Of course it's a widespread problem. And the blame lies squarely at the feet of the 1% and their lackeys in Government.

18 July 2018

MADIBA@100



Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own Light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.