McDonald's employee rejected for worker's comp after getting shot defending customer

I dunno, I guess you can make the argument that getting shot three times defending a customer isn't covered by your insurance company's plan, but isn't this one of those ones where if you're running an insurance firm, you just cave and give the guy the worker's comp, if for no other reason than the bad PR a rejection brings?  The insurance firm is using this as their excuse,

As part of the denial, the insurer included a page that details expectations of employees during orientation.  In a robbery situation it tells employees not to do anything that would put themselves or anyone else in danger.  Wilson asserts that clause does not apply in this incident.

Anyone who has worked in fast food or retail at least once in their lives has seen this clause, but this clearly wasn't a robbery, this was an attack, there is a difference, and if this is the best the insurers have got, I hope they get taken to the cleaners.

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Speaking of lube

I bring you a Public Service Announcement:  Boy killed anally when office chair explodes.

Hey, I care about you degenerates and I don't want this to happen to you.

(Note:  people are calling shenanigans on the story but I'm not about to let pesky things like facts and accuracy get in the way of a good joke)

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The worst sitcom line-up since the Great Depression

The shows the networks have ordered up so far aren't exactly filled with hopenchange*.

*I'm speaking of the campaign season hopenchange.  The dire synopses are perfectly in line with presidential hopenchange (a.k.a despair).

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Is she still just considered a "candidate's child"?

In Meghan McCain's world, every Republican (and everything Republican) sucks.  Except dear old dad of course.  He's the model conservative. 

She's following in daddy's footsteps, she is.

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Weep for the future

Rich Lowry has a good but depressing column on my home state and Der Governator today:

If the future happens in California, we all should tremble at its ever-expanding debt, falling credit ratings, crushing pension obligations, suffocating regulation, and rising taxes — with environmentally preening, ill-considered restrictions on carbon emissions thrown on top. California Democrats are only slightly ahead of national Democrats, so the country’s fiscal future may be in preview in Sacramento.

Read the whole thing, and pray that Lowry is wrong about the shape of things to come for the rest of you. (Although it's probably too late for that.)

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In Honor of the Spendulous Bill

The long-await and, I'm sure, much anticipated face-cocking of the Fresh Prez of Bill Ayers:

Congratulations, shit-stain.  You've earned it.  When I have to explain the story of the economic collapse of the greatest nation on Earth to my daughter, I'll be sure to show her this picture.

She'll probably be too busy working three jobs to support all the crack-whore illegal immigrant murderer single mothers with their gold houses and rocket cars to listen anyway.

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There Are Many Places You Can Place Your Man-Junk

But a meat grinder shouldn't be one of them.

It is understood the 23-year-old was working in Northgate when he was injured just after 2pm.

A Department of Emergency Services spokeswoman could not identify the type of grinder that had injured the man or detail how he came in contact with the device.

Although the extent of his injuries is not known, paramedics who treated the man at the scene were able to stem the bleeding.

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This can't be right

B-but, I thought the stimulus was supposed to fix everything...

Doubts that the government's stimulus and bank bailout programs can stop the global economic freefall dragged Wall Street to within a fraction of a point of its lowest close in 5 1/2 years Tuesday.

Why, it's like the markets aren't reacting to the passage of the bill very well at all. But that's just crazy, right?

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Is there anyone worse than Debbie Schlussel?

At least Kathleen Parker provides us with some comedy gold every once in a while.  Today she frets that Gov. Palin didn't throw Bristol's pregnant ass out to the curb, amongst other things.  Ladies and gentlemen, the conservative Maureen Dowd:

Not only does she not believe in abstinence, but she doesn’t believe in marriage either, apparently, since it’s been almost a year since she learned she was pregnant and almost two months since she had the kid. And yet, she’s still a baby mama. Hilarious that people call her mother–who enabled this baby mamahood and continues to put a roof over it–the “conservative of the year.” Simply hilarious. Not only has America become socialist under Obama, but conservatives have abandoned any sense of family values. In this one family–the new template for America’s conservative movement–you have a Mr. Mom, teenage pregnancy, single motherhood, and opposition to abstinence teaching. Awesome.

Todd's a Mr. Mom?  I didn't know he was allowed to work on the North Slope oil fields from his home in Wasilla. 

I'd question what solution Ms. Schlussel would have for this situation, but we know that she wouldn't have any.  Well, apart from Gov. Palin quitting her job to be a stay at home mom (NTTAWWT) and fitting all the kids with chastity belts. 

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Volcano! Earthquake! Tsunami! Oh my!

Popular Mechanics has an article up on 5 natural disasters that will hit the US.

Now, my love and glee for such a topic is well known.  New Madrid ftw!  But that's not why I'm linking.  Go.  Take a look at the comments.  There's some weapons grade crazy over there.  Seriously. 

You know, whenever I feel that I may be inching out into black helicopter land, I read stuff like that and realize that there's a whole universe of insane still to explore. 

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A President's Day Carol

And there's only a little bit of Bush bashing!

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Nice To See Japanese Politicians Are Following The Kennedy Example

But at least this guy hasn't crashed a car into the river.

Nakagawa was speaking to reporters in Tokyo today after meeting with Prime Minister Taro Aso. Aso called on Nakagawa to remain in his post, the finance chief said.

Nakagawa earlier told lawmakers he had slurred his speech because he had taken double the prescribed dose of medicine at a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers on Feb. 14. The minister appeared to have difficulty understanding questions when addressing reporters after the gathering.

“I took a little more medicine than prescribed,” Nakagawa said at parliament, adding that he had “a sip” of wine earlier at a luncheon. He told reporters outside his home earlier today he “wouldn’t drink before a G-7 meeting” in remarks broadcast by Asahi Television.

Opposition lawmakers will table a motion for Nakagawa to resign as soon as tomorrow, Kyodo News reported, without citing where it obtained the information.

“He has been doing an incredibly good job, and I am grateful for that,” Aso told reporters today. “I told him to take good care of himself.”

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Great Moments In Air Travel

Courtesy of this lady.

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MOTHERFUCKING DUMBASS

I don't know why this irritates me so much but if I had to summarize what is wrong with the Obama Presidency, it is his childish need to keep his Blackberry and his administrations need for private e-mail and instant messaging.

This isn't fucking freshman year at college.  This is the governance of the most powerful nation on EARTH.  You fucking put your bullshit toys away.

And now every fucking hacker on Earth has a new goal and, as the man in the story says, there are hackers sophisticated enough to hack a Blackberry.  I don't care if the NSA gave you their 512 bit encryption.  Any person who chooses to ignore that fact fundamentally misunderstands the importance of the job.

10.... 9.... 8... 7....

Update: Hermit Dave originates some fun for the weekend.  Sample Obama Text Messages!  Here's mine:

To GOP:

I 1 n00bz.  Now r0x0r my $.

Put yours in the comments.

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Emergency!

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Still haven't found a Valentine's Day gift for that special someone?

Well, how about one of these?

Oh, right.  Because the prospect of sleeping on the couch every night for the rest of your life is none too appealing.

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I May Be Cheap, But I Will Never Go In For "Free Surgery"

Especially from a state-run health clinic.

Health Minister Anant Kumar Singh said initial reports suggested they may have gone blind from infections caused by contaminated eye drops used during surgery.

The case marks the second time in three months that mass blindness has been reported after free government surgeries in the impoverished state of Uttar Pradesh. Nine people went blind after treatment in December.

The latest affected group, most of them between 60 to 70 years old, complained of blurred vision, swelling and itching in their eyes within days of surgery, said I.S. Srivastava, a senior health official in Uttar Pradesh.

He said most also had difficulty seeing in their second eye and it was possible that "all of them have lost their eye sight permanently." All of the patients were sent to a government hospital in the northern city of Lucknow Tuesday night, he said.

Doctors at the state clinic have been ordered not to conduct any more surgeries until the inquiry is complete, Srivastava said.

The state's top elected official, Mayawati, who uses just one name, has suspended two doctors who carried out the surgeries.

Nine patients lost their eyesight in December after undergoing cataract surgery at a state-owned eye hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur district.

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Protests in Kentucky

Well, let's see what's in the news:

Liquor industry officials criticized proposed alcohol and cigarette tax increases

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

at a Frankfort rally Tuesday that culminated in protesters dumping bottles of bourbon on the Capitol steps.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111eleventy

If this is what they meant by Change, I want none of it.

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WTF Is Wrong With Wisconsin: #93923220

Right in my back yard. 

Ick.

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Disturbing license plate of the day

I just went out to run an errand, and the SUV in the parking space next to mine had a personalized license plate with only five letters: NSDAP. If you're not sure as to why that's disturbing, click here.

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