So let's simplify things first of all. Paint everything all apples and peaches for a sec. Remember when you were in grade school, sitting down at lunch, when you took your plastic knife and shived the guy sitting next to you; then afterwards got off scott free since technically the rules covering assault with a deadly weapon didn't cover plastic restaurant knives as a deadly weapon? Fuck no! I got detention for even having a plastic knife. That's not the point. I'm talking about a Miss. Jamie Leigh Jones. If you haven't googled her name already, (Bing it if you're that much of a wuss. I, however, like to be hardcore and yahoo all my shit while strangling a buck with one arm and towing a bus full of children with the other.) then you should know that Miss. Jones, back in 2005, was raped by her co-workers at Halliburton/KBR located in Baghdad. Oh, it doesn't end there. Afterwards she was held in a shipping container without supplies for a day, just to keep her mouth shut and to make it clear that if she left Iraq to press charges, she'd be fired. Now my analogy kicks in with a small clause in her contract, which I was too lazy to look up or read or whatever, (I had a late night last night. Gimme a break.) that stated all assault or harassment would be settled in "private arbitration"
Now it's a given fact and simply an over all human understanding that there are certain things that just can't be signed off in a contract. Yeah, sorry Satan, looks like you've gotta come up with yet another hair-brained scheme. You're right to be... not raped is one of them. Yet every time she fought for her day in court, KBR kept on throwing that shit back in her face over and over again like a gawddamn chimp. (Those things could play big league ball if they didn't love their ass boogers so much)
That is why, Minnesota Senator, Al Franken (Democrat), shot out an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations bill, that would stop signing defense contracts to companies like KBR which would prevent their employees from having their cases heard in court. Fucking awesome! Of course every would sign on that shit right away, right?
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... Oh you silly republicans and your bipartisan nay-say. Now the bill was passed, so you don't have to hold your breath there, but get this. It passed with 68 votes for and 30 votes against it. Now about 20% to 30% of the supporting votes were republican. Guess what majority of the opposing votes were democratic?
Give up?
OMG you were right! (probably)
0%
Which means all thirty of the opposing votes were republican. LMAO! Now I'm not saying that those hefty politicians enjoy the good ol' gang rape now and then, but the only logical reason would be that they simply voted against it because it was a Democratic proposal. I mean that's like... I can't think of an analogy dumb enough.
If you can't please post one post haste, coz you can't make this shit up!
This has been the first of "Gray's Fantastic Daily Blog". The source of all of my info on the subject was
Fark and
Think Progress.
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