Posts categoriezed as Class Issues
Welcome to the 99 % You Dirtbags
Oh the sweet, sweet irony of it all. The latest members to join the ranks of method acting are the charming folks from mortgage mill Steven J. Baum, who last month gave us all the shits when it was revealed that the previous year they had used Halloween to make fun of all those home-owners they turfed out into the street.
Not only are they all about to join the jobless, but it seems that their classist antics had something to do with their downfall, at least that’s what Big Boss Baum himself seems to be saying in an email sent to the NY Times writer who broke the story….
“You have destroyed everything and everyone related to Steven J. Baum PC”
Apparently the firm was dropped by huge clients  Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – great names for junk food chains but rather goofy for folks dealing in mortgages and the like – and this in turn led to a downturn in business so great that the callous little turds now find themselves adrift in the sewers of unemployment, which is great news for the rest of us but bad news for New York’s sewage workers.
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A Hot Tub Misadventure
Criminalizing Dumbassery
Last month, wannabe model Rebecca Leigh Crimmins got on the piss and decided to do something a judge later referred to as “disgusting and abhorrent.”
So what did the blonde inebriate do? Did she take a dump on a nun? Did she feed Amy Winehouse’s carcass to the Queen’s corgis? No, she wetted a tampon in cordial, then – I can barely bring myself to describe it – repeatedly dabbed a McDonald’s worker on the hand while claiming she had found it in her fries!
This unprecedented atrocity resulted in a charge of common assault and sixty days of community service, presumably checking boxes of fries for stray tampons. There was a time – a saner time – when a mere apology would do, but not now. Now you can actually go to jail for such actions. How anyone can see such a harmless prank as an assault is beyond my simple intellect. No harm was done, the tampon wasn’t wet from blood so the grossout factor is greatly minimized and the potential for infection is non-existent, yet this could have landed the poor cow in jail. One has to wonder if the obviously smart people who make the laws truly believe such actions constitute assault, or if they are simply trying – successfully – to create a society where everyone is walking around on eggshells, scared shitless to do any of the thousands of things that could land you in jail these days.
In my view such draconian zeal when it comes to these harmless “crimes” is for the most part an attempt to quash dissent before it even arises. After all, if a stupid joke can land you in jail, should you even think of joining a protest when the government has told you not to? Shit, no – that could get you a lot worse than some community service, and that’s if you survive the arrest.
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American Firm’s Not So Hidden Contempt for the Poor
Think the lawyers who foreclose on people’s homes are just a bunch of otherwise decent folks doing an unpleasant job? Think again.
According to a former employee, last year the soulless slimebags at New York law firm Steven J Baum decided that for Halloween they would get their jollies by dressing up as their victims. Amongst the delights to be had were mockups of foreclosed homes, improvised shelters, a coffin bearing the name of a lawyer who dared to take exception to their apparently psychopathic way of doing business, and various assholes wearing outfits which they no doubt obtained by beating the crap out of that guy who lives in the dumpster behind their offices.
My fave is the cow in the photo – don’t you just love the way she further mocks the people whose lives she has ruined by implying that they can’t spell even the simplest of words? I am also amused by the irony of her doing so, given that she herself has apparently failed to learn even the simplest of moral principles…
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