Bank's Blogger Silenced, Sues JP Morgan

New York Post -  A banker by day and blogger by night claims she was fired by JPMorgan Chase for her online activities.  Business analyst Marilyn Tagocon, 50, of Piscataway, NJ, was canned after telling her bosses about her spare-time blogging and self-publishing of historical fiction, a lawsuit alleges. When a coworker told her the company's code of conduct restricted employees from posting personal political speech, Tagocon went to the Human Resources Department to make sure she wasn't doing anything wrong. The department gave her a choice: her job or her writing. When Tagocon refused to take down her blog and stop marketing her novel, both of which she writes under a pen name, she was fired, she claims in a Manhattan Supreme Court suit.  

Well, now you'll know what happened if this blog ever goes dark.  Just assume that if my company ever told me I could work for them and get paid a salary, or work for my own blog and have 0 income I'd choose being able to eat and drink and have a place to sleep, just seems like common sense.  

This isn't normal right?  Like what kind of historical fiction could this woman possibly have been spouting off on that the company was legit worried about their reputation?  Had to be some seriously slanderous stuff right?  I'm guessing "Historical Fiction" is code for "Smut/Erotic History."  Probably blogging on and on about lewd and salacious revisions of hedonistic Democratic National Conventions, and 3 ways involving the Bush Boys and Palin.  

PS: I hope Marilyn wins big.  If that's the case I'll march write down to my HR and dare them to give me an ultimatum. 

NY Sanitation Dept Saves Life, Restore Standing in Community

(NewsCore) - A despondent man took a leap out of the ninth-floor window of his NYC apartment Sunday afternoon but was saved when he landed on a huge pile of garbage that had gone uncollected since New York’s devastating post-Christmas blizzard, officials said. The man apparently attempted his death leap at 12:04pm local time from West 45th street, police said. The man, in his 30s, landed on his back and was taken to the Bellevue Hospital A worker at the building said the man was a resident who lived on the ninth floor. “I can’t believe the garbage broke his fall,” said astounded neighbor Ingrid Suprock, 26, who lives next door. “I guess the trash saved the guy,” she added. Trash has been piling up around the city as sanitation workers try to catch up with snow removal that has bogged down the city since the day after Christmas.

Good for the NY City Trashmen, restoring their standing with the citizens of New York after last weeks snow storm tow truck disaster, these guys needed some good plublicity. Sure the good news came because of their perpetual slacking and lack of work ethic (seriously, the snow stopped last Monday, that's 1 week exactly, you're telling me you haven't had time to collect trash yet?).  And sure this can only lead to more jokes about NY being a dump or trash pit, but at the end of the day, a mans life was saved.

And if this guy does decide he wants to live he'll have one hell of a story to tell.  If he doesn't?  I suggested he wait until Spring when the lazy ass $70K plus paid garbage men of New York get off their asses and clean up the dump.  

Dead Birds Falling From the Sky; This Can't Be A Good Sign

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BEEBE, Ark. — Environmental service worker on Sunday finished picking up the carcasses of about 2,000 red-winged blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in a central Arkansas town.

Mike Robertson, the mayor in Beebe, told The Associated Press the last dead bird was removed about 11 a.m. in the town about 40 miles northeast of Little Rock. He said 12 to 15 workers, hired by the city to do the cleanup, wore environmental-protection suits for the task. The birds had fallen Friday night over a 1-mile area of Beebe, and an aerial survey indicated that no other dead birds were found outside of that area. The workers from U.S. Environmental Services started the cleanup Saturday.

Look I'm guessing this town of people never saw ABC's FlashForward prior to its cancellation.  Because if they had, they be fleeing that town as quickly as possible.  Gaggle's of birds don't just drop dead from the sky unless some seriously bad shit is about to go down in your town.  Like apocalyptic type stuff.  We'd probably have a better understanding of whats to come if ABC hadn't pulled the plug prematurely on the show.  Thanks alot ABC, now not only does your programming suck, but you've ruined the only chance this world has at being saved.  Nice job.

No coincidence either that this happened in some backwoods area in Arkansas.  Those people will believe anything you tell them in those kinds of places, perfect cover up a conspiracy.  These types of things never happen modern city type areas for a reason.  That's just reason number 1,875 why I won't move too far away from any major cities.  I don't need to wake up one morning and start pissing my pants in fear over why there are a dozen dead birds just composting and fertilizing my lawn, while Betty-Jean and Billy-Bob Hillbilly from across the street perform religious services in their backyard while simultaneously defending themselves with shotguns.  I'm all set with that.

Now will someone call up the former writers of Flashforward and find out what the hell is going to happen next?