Seriously?

Prince William to get 2 weeks of paternity leave

William is the first senior royal to receive statutory paternity leave.

By Associated_Pres

He gets two paid weeks off?  From what?  What does he do?

He's a Royal Airforce search and rescue pilot.  Sure he is.  You think the next King of England is really allowed to put his life at risk rescuing commoners?  Doubtful.  He has a lifetime of paid time off, he's a prince and will be KING OF ENGLAND soon enough.

We waste and insane amount of money on truly dumb shit in our country but this definitely takes the cake. Rabble-B

Worse than golf? Yes.

There's not many sports or activities worse that golf but competition sailing has it all over golf for lowest rung.  The America's Cup is being held in San Francisco Bay this year and all it's gonna be is a pain in the ass, just like the qualifying rounds they raced last year.  It snarls traffic, costs a shit ton of money (and doesn't really bring in as much as they say) and takes precedent over normal use of publicly owned parks like Crissy Field and fucks up ferry and ship traffic in the biggest waterway on the west coast.

Worse yet, it has to be the whitest, richest and most elitist sport in the world.  The sponsors range from Oracle to Prada and there's hardly even any boats competing.  What does Prada have to do with water sports?  It's not like the Indy 500, in the Louis Vitton Cup, a sub race under the America's Cup banner, only three boats are competing in the entire thing!  How is that fun?  How does that actually feel like competition?  I mean run it three times and you'll probably win once.

Even better, the Cup organizers actually advertised Alcatraz as a viewing spot with a media center for the races biggest sponsors.  Arrogant as that is, apparently they forgot to ask the National Park Service if that would be okay when it was brought to NPS they said no.  Hah!  Fuck you America's Cup pricks.  You can't just impose your will on what the rest of us own.

Now host your stupid race and get out of my town!  I hope all the boats sink.  Rabble-B

So, I saw a dead body today

It was covered with a yellow, police tarp but was most definitely a dead human. 

Apparently, very early this morning person was walking or standing on the University street overpass in Berkeley (there is no sidewalk) and was hit and run by a vehicle.  The police drove by and found the body at 5:10am.  How long had it been there?  Did anyone witness the incident?  Was it intentional or an accident?  Uh, dunno.  But yeah, that's really awful and just crazy!  Brossif really ran someone over and just took off?! 

But, why care, right?  It won't do any good.  If they every find the dickwad that did it he'll get off anyway.  Rabbletown USA-B 

"post script in crooked lines"

I really want to believe in the freedom and fairness of our country and our justice system but yesterday's verdict in the Zimmerman case is just the latest example of miscarriage of justice in our country.  The system doesn't work and has failed countless times.

I don't know why everyone is so shocked.  It's horrible and tragic and we kind of expected this to happen.  Justice in such high profile cases (and plenty of ones you never hear about) is so rare.  Remember Casey Anthony?  That was only a year ago.

Moral of the story?  Do whatever the fuck you want.  If you're truly a big enough asshole you'll probably get away with it.  Rabble-B

Sharknado

Um, movie of the year?  Decidedly yes!  I want to see it!  Unrabble-B

My hood

I have so much to rabble about but for some reason can't post on a regular basis like the good ol' days.  But I'm trying anyway...

Here's what's happened in my hood recently:

-777 crash lands at SFO causing the first jet liner fatalities in the US in 12 years.  Many victims rushed to SFGH where my wife works.  Chaos.
-BART went on strike for five days and made my life and half a million other people's lives pure suffering.  I want everyone to get paid what they deserve and be respected by their employers.  BART employees some of whom sit in a chair and read magazines all day get paid $60K base salary including a pension they pay nothing into (who has a pension anymore?) and healthcare for as many dependents as they want for $96 a month.  And they want a 22% pay raise?  Ppppffffffff!!!!!!!!!  The strike cost the Bay Area economy $70 million a day.  They struck a temporary deal for a month and are at the bargaining table now with the union threatening a "bloody" strike worse than the 70's if their demands aren't met. Seriously,  you're gonna get violent?  Fuck off and get back to driving trains!
-After BART resumed service a male/female couple had a third person film them having sex on BART and posted it online.  I wish I could say I'm shocked but I'd just call it Thursday on BART.
-Today a man robbed a jewelry store and shot and killed two women and shot at police before surrendering.  Oh, this all took place a few blocks from my work. 
-The Giants are sucking ass.

Rabble-B