Friday, April 20, 2012
We'll Forgive the Speling
Thursday, April 19, 2012
At the Helm
Levon Helm the highly respected drummer and songwriter of The Band died at age 71 today. He was a music legend that influenced countless musicians in the last 40+ years. It's a sad day for rock 'n' roll. Rabble-B
Read more here.
Read more here.
Monday, April 16, 2012
The Ongoing Chronicles of Hobo Family Band
I saw Hobo Family Band on BART again tonight. We were treated to two songs and they've branched out from just Beatles songs. They jammed out Ben E. King's Stand By Me and then back to classic Beatles Penny Lane. They've upped the ante too with a pair of kazoos. It was awesome. We gave them a dollar. Unrabble-B
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Senior Junior
Anybody ever notice that mothers never name their daughters after themselves? I can't think of one person I've met where that's the case. But fathers? All the time!
Why are we so fucking vain? Seriously, it's really arrogant and vain man. Unless you're the president, or Chuck Yeager or Nelson Mandela then it's really just not cool.
And I'm not talking naming your boy after your beloved great grandfather or giving him a family middle name, in fact that's good for family bonds and identity but come on, you couldn't come up with a better name than "Billy Jr"? That's just plain lazy. I mean pick up magazine and just give him the first male name you read and that would be better than Norm Jr or Norm IV. We use roman numerals to designate the difference between family members. Dammit man, why are we so vain?! Rabble-B
Why are we so fucking vain? Seriously, it's really arrogant and vain man. Unless you're the president, or Chuck Yeager or Nelson Mandela then it's really just not cool.
And I'm not talking naming your boy after your beloved great grandfather or giving him a family middle name, in fact that's good for family bonds and identity but come on, you couldn't come up with a better name than "Billy Jr"? That's just plain lazy. I mean pick up magazine and just give him the first male name you read and that would be better than Norm Jr or Norm IV. We use roman numerals to designate the difference between family members. Dammit man, why are we so vain?! Rabble-B
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Angioplasty in a Pizza
http://www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/deep-fried-pizza-restaurant-la-montanara
Go to this website and then cry because deep fried pizza is not available in your city. Then, petition your city council to initiate a publicly funded deep fried pizza joint in your town. If that doesn't work start your own pizzaria and make millions. If you don't have the start up capital, make it at home. It's deep fried pizza for heaven's sake people. It's heaven. In your mouth. Make it happen. For me! Chomp! Unrabble-B
Go to this website and then cry because deep fried pizza is not available in your city. Then, petition your city council to initiate a publicly funded deep fried pizza joint in your town. If that doesn't work start your own pizzaria and make millions. If you don't have the start up capital, make it at home. It's deep fried pizza for heaven's sake people. It's heaven. In your mouth. Make it happen. For me! Chomp! Unrabble-B
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
BOA Constrictor
Other than looking like he's having serious problems pinching one off, or a 30 foot long snake is wrapped around his lower body forcing all his blood to his head, what's wrong with this picture? Or, rather what's wrong with this statement?
BOA stock tanked, they have some of the worst customer service in the nation and they're still struggling with their debacles in the housing market and this asshole gets a ginormous raise?! Man, I'm in the wrong business. Rabble-B
Bank of America CEO got sixfold raise last year
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Brian T. Moynihan, the CEO of Bank of America was paid $7.5 million last year - six times what he got in 2010. That's according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing out Wednesday March 28,2012.
(03-28) 10:19 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) --
The CEO of Bank of America was paid $7.5 million last year — six times what he got in 2010. That's according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing out Wednesday.
The bank says Brian Moynihan's pay package for 2011 included a salary of $950,000, a $6.1 million stock award and about $420,000 worth of use of company aircraft and tax and financial advice.
It happened in a year when Bank of America stock plunged 58 percent. The bank struggled with lawsuits from investors who had bought securities backed by problematic mortgage loans.
The AP uses a calculation that isolates the value a company's board places on the CEO's total pay package. The figure includes salary, bonus, incentives, perks and the estimated value of stock options and awards.
The CEO of Bank of America was paid $7.5 million last year — six times what he got in 2010. That's according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing out Wednesday.
The bank says Brian Moynihan's pay package for 2011 included a salary of $950,000, a $6.1 million stock award and about $420,000 worth of use of company aircraft and tax and financial advice.
It happened in a year when Bank of America stock plunged 58 percent. The bank struggled with lawsuits from investors who had bought securities backed by problematic mortgage loans.
The AP uses a calculation that isolates the value a company's board places on the CEO's total pay package. The figure includes salary, bonus, incentives, perks and the estimated value of stock options and awards.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/28/national/a101904D10.DTL#ixzz1qRXeucJL
Monday, April 2, 2012
Censor This
Oh Arizona, what the fuck? You can't censor the American people and you can't censor the internet. How many free speech cases do we have to go through before the FCC, corporations like Clear Channel or groups like the American Family Association get the point?! In the United States you can't censor what people say or or think.
So, in light of that, I am fully against bullying, harassment or intimidation of any kind. Shit, I don't even like people I don't know talking to me. But, I don't support blanket, indiscriminate laws or regulations applying to such subjects when it's a clear violation of free speech. Even if that free speech is complete bullshit.
John Stuart Mill said,
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
In other words, even if some says or thinks something so incredibly stupid that no one else holds that opinion, it's still not acceptable to silence that person. Even if it's just to reinforce the reality that the opposite opinions or actions are correct and right. And that asshole has no more right to do it to you!
So I pray that Arizona House Bill 2549 does not pass, or the kind of government that all the conservatives think is being imposed on us by the Obama administration will actually begin to be imposed on us by those same conservatives. Hmm... Rabble-B
The state of Arizona could find itself in the company of countries like China and Syria for censoring the Internet if the state's governor signs a bill recently passed by the legislature.
Arizona House Bill 2549, which is now on Gov. Jan Brewer's desk for signature, was created to counter bullying and stalking. The law would make it a crime to use any electronic or digital device to communicate using "obscene, lewd or profane language" or to suggest a lewd or lascivious act, if done with the intent to "terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend."
First Amendment rights group Media Coalition, which represents the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, the Association of American Publishers and other related groups, says the bill is not only a violation of the First Amendment, but is so far-ranging as to be preposterous.
In a letter to the governor, the coalition said while government can criminalize speech "that rises to the level of harassment, and many states have laws that do so," Arizona's legislation:
H.B. 2549 "would apply to the Internet as a whole, thus criminalizing all manner of writing, cartoons, and other protected material the state finds offensive or annoying," Media Coalition says on its website -- at least for now, until what it says is found to be offensive or annoying by those in Arizona.
So, in light of that, I am fully against bullying, harassment or intimidation of any kind. Shit, I don't even like people I don't know talking to me. But, I don't support blanket, indiscriminate laws or regulations applying to such subjects when it's a clear violation of free speech. Even if that free speech is complete bullshit.
John Stuart Mill said,
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
In other words, even if some says or thinks something so incredibly stupid that no one else holds that opinion, it's still not acceptable to silence that person. Even if it's just to reinforce the reality that the opposite opinions or actions are correct and right. And that asshole has no more right to do it to you!
So I pray that Arizona House Bill 2549 does not pass, or the kind of government that all the conservatives think is being imposed on us by the Obama administration will actually begin to be imposed on us by those same conservatives. Hmm... Rabble-B
Arizona law would censor the Internet
State of Arizona
Arizona House Bill 2549, which is now on Gov. Jan Brewer's desk for signature, was created to counter bullying and stalking. The law would make it a crime to use any electronic or digital device to communicate using "obscene, lewd or profane language" or to suggest a lewd or lascivious act, if done with the intent to "terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend."
First Amendment rights group Media Coalition, which represents the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, the Association of American Publishers and other related groups, says the bill is not only a violation of the First Amendment, but is so far-ranging as to be preposterous.
In a letter to the governor, the coalition said while government can criminalize speech "that rises to the level of harassment, and many states have laws that do so," Arizona's legislation:
This bill isn't the first the legislature has tackled when it comes to regulating what's said -- or seen -- electronically. Another, Senate Bill 1219, would let parents see the text messages on the phones of their children, if they're under the age of 18. That legislation remains in committee.... takes a law meant to address irritating phone calls and applies it to communication on web sites, blogs, listserves and other Internet communication. H.B. 2549 is not limited to a one to one conversation between two specific people. The communication does not need to be repetitive or even unwanted. There is no requirement that the recipient or subject of the speech actually feel offended, annoyed or scared. Nor does the legislation make clear that the communication must be intended to offend or annoy the reader, the subject or even any specific person.
H.B. 2549 "would apply to the Internet as a whole, thus criminalizing all manner of writing, cartoons, and other protected material the state finds offensive or annoying," Media Coalition says on its website -- at least for now, until what it says is found to be offensive or annoying by those in Arizona.
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