Berto Day

Yes, it's that time of the week. It's time for Berto to take his evil carcass up to Capitol Hill and "testify" before Senators. Now that I think about it, it's probably why traffic was so bad going down North Capitol St this morning. If you don't have access to a TV or anything of that nature, The Blue State is doing a Live Blogging of the events as they unfold.

So far there has already been some amusing events, like Hatch from Utah thinking he was out on the mall and playing softball with Berto. I mean seriously, I've heard tougher questions on the Red Carpet at the Nickelodeon Kid Choice Awards. The star so far this morning has to be Diane Feinstein from my home state of California. She continually grilled Berto on The Patriot Act and Carol Lam, both times contradicting himself and proving what a useless lump he really is. Congress sent her letters, that's right Berto, letters of commendation you jackass.

In sadder news, one of my favorites was kicked off last night on ANTM. Of course she didn't do good in a TV commercial, have you heard her voice? It sounds like she gargles with sand every morning and twice at dinner. That leaves Britney as the only person on the show that I care about in any way. Dionne is...well let's just say that's cool that's cool. Rene is double talking emo, Natasha is a Russian Mail Order Bride and Jaslene does nothing for me. All I can hope for is that while in Australia they are attacked by some giant poisonous animal.

Wow, that's classic. I would have had my deputy AG MORE involved in the firings. Yes, of course, that way he is even a bigger human shield then he already was. It's going to be a long day in that of bullshit coming out of someone's mouth.

Of course I'm confident, I'm a seven foot juggernaut!

I know I haven't updated much this week, a few bits and pieces here and there, but hey this is completely not my fault and for once I can't blame none other then Red Herring. Sadly work has gotten in the way this week, and tomorrow is going to suck more goat balls then Mister Rickus from Wanted.

You see, tomorrow I get to come into work two hours early. Not only do I get that pleasure but I also get to attend a meeting...training session...I don't know what it is but it is a complete waste of my bloody time. Let's see, I am an IT Monkey but I only have the ability to work magic in an office when I have rights to those machines. Tomorrow I get to go to this schindig in case something goes wrong with the laptop...which is not ours. So in that sense I am there to go fetch another IT person in case something isn't working correctly. Also, since I'm already going to be there I get the pleasure of turning on and off of the Dictator Device (a recorder peons) to record this lovely meeting.

Yes, I get to sit in a room for lord knows how long and basically just be there with a thumb up my ass. Of course the person who is running this function also has about as much sense as a dog who was hit by a truck and lived. The frosting is that someone from our office will be in there, taking notes, but I guess they deem pushing record on a machine too much for him to handle and thus I am given that duty. Needless to say I will have a book or twelve to help me cope with this cluster fuck.

Absolutely Disgusting

Via Shakespeare's Sister:

TAMPA - First, police say, a 21-year-old woman was raped at Gasparilla. Then, she was handcuffed and jailed - for two nights and two days.

A jail worker with religious objections blocked her from ingesting a morning-after pill to prevent pregnancy, her attorney says, keeping her from taking the required second dose for more than 24 hours longer than recommended.

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The premedical student attended Saturday's Gasparilla parade and veered off from her friends shortly before 1:30 p.m., police said. The Times is not naming her because police say she is a victim of a sexual crime.

As she walked north on Howard Avenue at Swann Avenue, she was grabbed by a man with crooked teeth and raped behind a building, McElroy said.

After the assault, the man ran off. The woman walked to her car, which was parked on the University of Tampa campus. At 3:40 p.m., after finding her vehicle, she called police.

As police assisted her, taking her to a nurse examiner's clinic, and processing her report, an officer found two outstanding warrants for the woman in Sarasota County.

Attorney Virlyn "Vic" Moore III of Venice said his client was seated in the front seat of the police cruiser, on her way to the scene of her attack when the officer learned of the warrant, cuffed her and placed her in the back seat.

"To stop the rape investigation and instead victimize her again," Moore said. "I'm aghast, astonished and outraged. I have never, ever heard of this happening."

The officer arrested the woman at a sergeant's instruction, McElroy said.

The student had failed to pay $4,585 restitution after a 2003 juvenile arrest, McElroy said. Moore said his client is convinced that she paid the fine and that the warrant was probably the result of a clerical error.

I have no words at the anger that is flowing in me right now. This is down right disgusting and ridiculous. I understand arresting the woman, but to not finish a rape kit or continue the investigation because she MIGHT owe some money is down right criminal. This makes me wish Batman or Punisher was real, nothing like that would ever go down on their watch. Sadly it isn't so and we must live with a monster like the "nurse".