Attention to all nurses, CNA's, LPN's and anyone who works in a convalescent home and performs nursing type duties: The kitchen staff, those who prepare food for the residents, are not your personal bitches. If you need something insignificant like say sugar, plastic untensils, or coffee creamers, and you see that I'm clearly busy cleaning or preping meals, then do yourself a favor and GET IT YOUR FUCKING SELF!
After all, I have only been working at this particular nursing home for a few months; You, much longer. You should know where everything is in the kitchen because you've worked in that environment longer. That, one of your favorite hobbies is barging into the kitchen during mealtime, while my co-workers and I are busy plating food, and getting in our way. Becuase the actual food is not the most important thing when feeding the residents. NO! They need pepper packets! STAT! Fuck to the fact that there's a shaker on every god damn table in the dinning room!
You also love to congregate in the fucking doorway and have little chatting sessions. When this happens I don't ask you to move, I just stand there with food or dirty dishes in my hand and STARE at you. Because my hypothesis is that if I just stand there and glare at you enough, and show you with my eyes how much contempt I have for your existance, then you'll eventually get the message and move your fat ass out of my way. So far, you've proven my hypothesis to be correct.
Now, I know I shouldn't be too hard on you, especially the CNA's and LPN's. Most of the women in my family are nurses or nurses aides, so I know just how little intellectual ability is actually required to work at the job you currently hold. You don't neet much intellect when all you do is wipe ass, and feed people. LPN's are a little smarter, in that they went to school for a year to learn how to hand out medications. However 'little smarter' does not equal 'smart'. Because if an LPN was smart, then they wouldn't have gone to a school for a full year just to learn how to hand out meds! (Are you reading this Heather!?)
But nurses, licenced RN's and BSN's, are individuals who have an actual degree and not a bullshit certification. They went to a real college, and had to complete a core liberal arts curriculum before they graduated, including a substantial amount of math and science courses, along with thier nursing practicum. They have the basic communication and problem solving abilities that many of the lower ranking staff just don't have.
So with that said, nurses, I'd like to offer you a bit of advice. The next time you see that I'm busy, and you need something small and insignificant, do us both a favor....
GET IT YOUR FUCKING SELF!
.... 5 points to whoever tells me how many times I said the word 'fuck' in this post....
When I read this story on MSNBC I cheered for the lion. I know, I'm sick and deranged. But it's just my belief that anything stupid enough to enter a LION enclosure deserves to be eaten. Including bambi.
Then I actually saw the video. What kind of retarded lion can't keep hold of a baby deer? And how slow do you have to be to be outrun by that same injured animal?
.... Well not really, but I'm at the $1000 mark, which when you think about it is ridiculously easy to take care of. Especially when you make $2000 a month (2 jobs FTW)
Last month I was hired to work part time at a local retirement community as a dietary aide. I prepare and serve meals for the elderly patients who can't take care of themselves any more, and thus live in whats called the health center. It pay's about 9.75 for 25 - 30 hours of work, or about $400 every two weeks.
For the past month and a half, I've been handed a $400 - $600 paycheck every week. And I've given half of them to bank of America, because I was in the red with them by almost $1000! What happened was that two years I signed up for EFT payments for Geico Insurance. That lasted for about a year then I started paying by check again. Six months ago however, Geico decided to start taking EFT's again after I was a couple day's late on a payment. I've been late on a payment before, but they never took it upon themselves to take the money automatically until then. So I went into the red. Then they started tacking on obscene late fees to my account when I couldn't pay the next months installment, because they fucked up my bank account. It also didn't help that I had other EFT's on my account that didn't seem to mind at all that I was in the red.
Then to add insult to injury, they reported me to the State of CT for having lapsed coverage on my car. My coverage didn't lapse, I just switched it to progressive. I had to send 10 pages over to the DMV with my old policy, new policy, a letter explaining that Geico was hellspawn, and copies of my identification.
Anyway, after feeding the ATM monster a few of my paychecks, my account finally came out of the hole. That was Saturday. The moment that happened I went straight to the teller and told them to freeze my account so no more EFT's could be withdrawn. They told me that they couldn't do that, and directed me to a banker who closed my account (and cancelled all automatic payments) and set me up with a new one, complete with a second checking account, in case I wanted to do EFT's in the future. They also gave me overdraft protection, which will take money out of my savings account if I ever go into the red again.
So wow I'm out of the whole. All I have left is a tuition bill from last year for $500 and a small loan from webster for $250. I'm also making scheduled payments on a student loan, and a car loan, but those are actually helping my credit report.
For the most part I'm free and clear. No more phone calls, no more letters in the mail, and no more of my stepfathers bitching. I might actually have a credit report worth looking at now!
Disclaimer: This is not an attack on America. This is an attack on people who are pretentious enough to think that they know what's good for everybody else, and that they have the right to enforce it on other people.
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There's something I've never told anyone on this site before, mostly because I didn't think it would ever need to be said. But before I start with this rant (and it's loooooong!) I need to tell you why I'm so angry.
I'm part Native American. I don't have enough blood in me to belong to a tribe, but my grandmother does. Her grandmother was a Mohawk Indian. And before her, there were other Native Americans that entered the family.
With that said, you can understand why shit like this pisses me off. It's an article by Thomas A Bowden about how Americans should be proud to celebrate Columbus day, despite the atrocities that were committed against Native Americans. Here are some of the Key Parts to Mr. Bowden's article.
People believed that animistic spirits or capricious deities had supernatural powers to cure diseases, grow crops, and guide the hunter’s arrow toward his prey. This pervasive mysticism had practical consequences: festering disease, perpetual poverty, and a desperate quest for survival that made offensive warfare against human beings seem as natural as hunting animals. Such was the plight of America’s Indians before 1492
It was Western philosophers, scientists, statesmen, and businessmen who liberated mankind from mysticism’s grip.
Western civilization’s stress on the value of reason led inexorably to its distinctive individualism.
Basically his point is this: Indians and Black people should be thankful to Americans and Western Europeans because we not only 'liberated' them from thier 'savagery', but we eventually included them in our society as well.
First off Columbus wasn't the first to Discover America. The Vikings beat him too it by little over a hundred years. Get over it.
Second, and most importantly, Western Civilization is not the greatest thing to ever be created on this planet. Don't get me wrong, it's not the worst thing either, but Americans and Western Europeans have no business walking around like thier way of life is God's gift to the human race.
Just because Western Civilization, or America were not the first to come up with the idea's of racism, slavery, disease, and warfare, doesn't mean they're any less responsible for continuing it's propogation. And while Western civilization may have been the first to come up with the idea's of 'reason and individuality' that doesn't mean they were very good at practicing what they preach.
Let's take a look through history.
One of the cornerstones of Western Civilization was Ancient Rome, which was an empire. They conquered other civilizations and forced them to assimilate to Roman culture, this happened even before the fall of the Republic. They visciously persecuted any group of people whom they didn't like or agree with. One of those groups were the early Christians, and many emperors made a sport out of thier persecution.
Eventually Christians took over the empire with the Conversion of Constantine in 312 AD. And you know what they did? They forced everyone to convert! Thus starting little over 1000 years of religious intollerance and persecution, from the Gnostics, the Crusades, the inquisition, to the protestant reformation and the Pogroms of Russia. The first major group of people to colonize America were the Puritans, and they were the most intollerant mother fuckers in Europe. So much for Individuality huh?
By the way, Western Civilization has it's own form of mysticism too. It's called astrology, and it's still ridiculously popular. So much for the triumph of reason.
America herself hasn't had that good of a track record when it comest to reason and individuality. Sure Thomas jefferson and the framers of the constitution gave everyone the freedom of speech and religion. But that freedom was originially granted to a select few. The fact is that this country was founded on the slaughter of natives and the enslavement of Africans. And do you know what Americans justified thier atrocities against those people? By saying it was for thier own good. Look up the 'Curse of Cain'. And while you're at it, look up smallpox blankets, Indian Schools (where native children had the Indian beat out of them) and the Trail of Tears.
So don't give me this shit about how America or Western civilization is a beacon of reason for the rest of the world. We're not. To imply that one civilization has the right to conquer, kidnap, and forcably assimilate the members of another civilization because it's good for them, flies in the face of everything this country is supposed to stand for. We've just recently gotten our shit together and really discovered the importance of individual rights. And even today, there are still many people in our country who are more than in favor of restricting the rights of others for their own unreasonable and dogmatic beliefs.
I'm timestamping this because Obama has recently made speech where he supports extending the school year as a way to compete with foriegn countries. Therefore it's relevent again.
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Arne Duncan, the Cabinet Secretary is looking into extending the academic school year as a way to compete with foriegn nations like China and India, that out score us in Math and Science every year. (SOURCE)
In other words, he's going to make our kids even fatter and more sedantary than they already are. Americans have the fattest children in the world, the last thing we need is to make them sit still for longer periods of time.
"What the hell is this 'summer' you're talking about? Is it a new way to study for our SAT's?"
The fact that our kids have longer summer vacations than other countries is not the reason why they suck academically. The United States has always had an eight to ten week gap between school years. It's only been within the past 30 years that our kids have started to lag behind other countries in terms of math and science. In fact 50 years ago, when our parents and grandparents were in school, we were actually ahead of the world in terms of academic achievement. We were bad ass. We produced a larger percentage of doctors, lawyers, scientists and engineers than any other country. You know why?
Because we had fucking standards back then.
Back then when you went to school, you learned how to actually read. Your teacher taught you the alphabet then showed you that each letter makes a sound, or a couple sounds depending on what other letters followed it. These sounds group together to form words. This was called phonics, and it worked. Now we have this bullshit whole word approch that basically teaches kids to memorize the word, and its meaning instead of learning how to put it together and read a dictionary.
Go up to any 8 year old and ask them to read the following sentence out loud
"The Phonecians used echinacea to cure thier phlem and pnuemonia"
There is nothing funnier.
When you learned to write back then, you learned proper grammar. You learned how to form a simple but complete persuasive essay, consisting of and introduction (complete with a thesis statement), and three body paragraphs full of details that support your point of view. You summed everything up with a conclusion, that restated the thesis. You also wrote your essays in cursive, not some illegible chicken scratch that people can barely read. Now you can write an essay with no format, incorrect grammar and even incorrect facts, and still get a decent score on your SAT's or your states NCLB test. Why? Because administrators 'don't want to curb the students thought process'.
Back then grade school students actually knew who George Washington was. They knew the declaration of independence, as well as the constitution, it's preamble, and its admendments. They knew the separation of powers, and important supreme court cases, and the basis for every major war that the US has ever engaged in. Now half of all college seniors would fail a basic history test.
And finally, when you went to math class, you actually learned how to add, subtract, multiply and divide. You didn't memorize it, you learned it. Why? because those four simple functions are the basis for everything else in mathmatics, like the electrons and protons in an atom. And when you did go onto higher level math, you were taught to understand it, to know the logic behind it. Not just perform the actions like a trained monkey. This 'New Math' shit that they're teaching now is only ensuring that our kids are innumerate as well as illiterate.
You also knew how to balance a damn check book, and calculate the interest and payments on a loan. Funny, I don't remember hearing about any housing crises back then either.
That my friends, is why our kids suck so bad academically. It has nothing to do with the school year itself. It also doesn't have anything to do with dress codes, textbooks, computers, or any other bullshit excuse administrators use to blame it on. No, it has to do with the low standards we now have in the classroom, and the teachers we train specifically to maintain that standard. Teachers today are nothing more than glorified test proctors.
And while we're on this train of thought why are we comparing ourselves to India and China anyway?
India's education system sucks so bad that 70% of thier fifth graders can't subtract.
Currently, 90% China's rural students drop out after 9th grade.
Thats a 54% drop out rate, right there without even factoring in the urban population. Thats twice the US average.
The only reason these countries have higher math scores is because the students who take these tests were the lucky minority that lived in the Urban areas. How much do want to bet that if these countries actually offered skill assessment tests to all thier students, they'd score worse than us?
