1852 - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)
1948 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
“Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.”
-- Havelock Ellis
FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:
a) Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Or in this case, four women scorned
Four women have been charged with murder for the stabbing death of a man on the South Side early Sunday.
Tiffany Cox, 25, of the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue; Carmelita Hall, 25, of the 8100 block of South Drexel; Roslind Ball, 23, of the 1000 block of East 79th Street; and Miesha Nelson, 25, of the 7900 block of South Wabash Avenue were charged with one count each of first degree murder for the fatal stabbing of man in the 8100 block of South Drexel Avenue, according to police News Affairs.
About 2 a.m., officers responded to a call of women chasing a man with knives. Blood spots were found on snow and pavement outside a South Side home and led police to the body of a man who had been stabbed to death, News Affairs said.
Morris Wilson, 30, of the 500 block of East 80th Street, was pronounced dead on the scene on the 8100 block of South Drexel Avenue, the Cook County Medical Examiner's office said. An autopsy performed Sunday determined he died of multiple stab and incised wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.
http://www.suntimes.com/...
Somehow the mental image of four women armed with knives, chasing after a man, should be enough to put men on their best behavior.
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B) Your employer is betting on your death.
They're known as "dead peasant" policies — secret life insurance policies taken out on unwitting employees — and they've ignited a forest fire of litigation that won't die down.
Since emerging several years ago, dead-peasant policies have landed numerous employers in court, accused of profiting off the deaths of rank-and-file employees. More recently, the insurance industry and banks have been dragged into the legal morass, both accused of illegally benefiting off these policies, formally known as corporate-owned life insurance policies (COLI).
In Oklahoma, a federal judge recently ruled that employees have legal grounds to sue an insurance company for selling and maintaining secret life insurance policies on their lives. The plaintiffs claim that the insurance company unlawfully misused their names, Social Security numbers and other personal information to market and sell their product. Havenstrite v. Hartford Life Ins. Co., No. 4:2008cv00410 (N.D. Okla.).
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202427898741
The next time your boss tells you to drop dead, they may really mean it.
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c) Humana to increase profits by screwing its elderly insureds
Humana Inc., the second-biggest provider of U.S.-funded health insurance, beat analysts’ estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and said higher prices for elderly customers will help it meet its 2009 profit forecast.
Revenue climbed 18 percent from a year earlier to $7.49 billion because of higher enrollment in health plans, the Louisville, Kentucky-based company said today in a statement. That compares with an average $7.35 billion in a Bloomberg survey of a dozen analysts.
Humana said it expects to earn $5.90 to $6.10 a share this year, helped by a 64 percent increase in average premiums for its biggest U.S. Medicare-backed drug plans for the elderly. In 2008, drug plans derailed Humana’s profit goals because a larger number of sicker people joined the plans and generated higher-than- anticipated claims. The company raised premiums, a move that the Humana says may drive away 1.2 million more expensive customers.
http://www.bloomberg.com/...
That's the ticket. Just when the insurance lobbyists start their scare tactics against a national health program, they decide that their profits aren't high enough in this wonderful, strong, growing business environment. Let's hit the elderly!
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d) Big Business on war path against unions
Intensifying the polarized rhetoric surrounding the Employee Free Choice Act, a top Forbes magazine editor called the bill "anti-free choice" and "pro-slavery" on Fox News Saturday.
http://rawstory.com/...
Unions are pro-slavery? At will employers can fire you for no reason. They can cut your benefits. They can even insure and profit from your death. But, join a union? That's BAD!
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e) Are LDS elders on LSD?
The mormon elders lied when they claimed they only spent around $2000 in opposition to California's Prop 8. They actually spent $190,000.
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f) Sneed watch - day 5! Five whole days that Chicago's worst gossip columnist has failed to mention her secret love, Sarah Palin!
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"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin