Australian Farmer Opens Brothel To Support his Paralyzed Wife

Fox News - The day after Rachel Rohrlach and her soon-to-be-husband, farmer Chris Rohrlach, announced they were expecting their first child, Rachel suffered a debilitating stroke that left her a quadriplegic. Rachel was just 21. Her son was born while she was in a coma. Fast forward several years later and the rigors of an Australian drought, raising their teenage son and the addition of a new baby proved to be a great financial burden, so Chris and two friends came up with the controversial solution to build and manage a brothel. “At some point we all have to ask ourselves – what will I do for love? What am I prepared to do for the love of a friend, a husband, a wife, a lover, a parent, a child, a beloved pet?”  Another question the film then ponders is whether one can be a successful pimp, while at the same time maintaining the status-quo of a happy, healthy husband and father. “Chris entered the brothel business all gung ho. He thought the hard part was building the brothel and after that it would just run itself. But Chris had no experience in the sex industry and as a result, once the brothel opened he was completely out of his depth,” Uberoi explained. “Even in Australia, where sex work is legal, the sex industry is still very problematic. Chris was a nice man who thought he could just run a 'nice' brothel. But it just wasn't that simple!”

Question answered, Pimpin' aint easy...even legal pimpin' in laid back Australia. 

Husband of the year right here folks, life throws you a paralyzed wife, you don't up and leave her, you stand by her side and open a brothel in her name and honor in order to support her and your new born infant son. When push comes to shove your family is your family. Safe to say this guy is more of a man than just about anyone on earth, taking care of his responsibilities the only way he knows how, through the sex business. 

Smart man too, picked pretty much the only recession proof industry in the world. The other farmers in his community may be publicly outraged, but I can gaurantee you when they're bored at night and the sheep and goats and shit have all fallen asleep, you can bet your ass they're thankful there's a brothel right down the drive for some late night entertainment.

Happy 20th Anniversary Rodney King: Arrested for DUI...Again

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Rodney King has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in Southern California. The Moreno Valley Police Department said officers pulled King over Tuesday after seeing him commit several alleged traffic violations. He was booked into jail for investigation of DUI, and bail was set at $2,500. King was the black motorist whose beating by four white police officers in 1991 exposed racial wounds and led to a devastating riot in Los Angeles. He has struggled with sobriety publicly and appeared on television's "Celebrity Rehab."

Good to see someone is memorializing the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King beating and the ensuing LA Riots...Also good to see that Rodney is still a fine upstanding citizen...I mean it's been like 3 years since he was last in the news for drug or alcohol related driving offenses. That's a new personal record, congrats Rodney!

Note: This is in no way condoning the beating of Rodney King, just mere commentary that this man has proven again and again that he's the scum of the earth, driving on PCP, driving drunk, running over girlfriends (no proof of dui there), driving drunk into a house, claiming to have been sprayed with a shotgun (I have no idea what this means), and now driving drunk again....Just saying it's not quite a coincidence he was the guy getting his ass beat.

The Biggest Office Scam of All Time: The Salaried Worker

Can someone explain to me how corporations get away with this scam? Can't believe I ever fell for it, granted I was younger and dumber, but still...THEM: "hey kid, we're willing to pay you the same amount no matter what, so if you work 35 hours instead of 40, no problem you're still getting paid." ME: "Golly that seems like a swell deal, where do I sign!?" So naive.

Sure maybe it works in the favor of employees during a great economy, with enough co-workers to spread the work around and everyone getting out right at 5 PM sharp. But in this economy? Completely dog shit. I can't even remember the last time I didn't get to work early, didn't work at my desk through lunch and didn't stay late.  All for the grand total of $0 extra dollars...safe to say Salaried employee is just corporate speak for: Sucker We're Ass Raping Via Paycheck.

I've honestly calculated it out the past few weeks, on a per hour basis I'm making slightly more than the average new person just in out of college still getting paid OT.  Right around when you hit 45-46 hours per week they hit a break even point with me.  It's infuriating, this is what I worked for? This is what all that sucking up and bullshitting my way to the middle was for? A decent raise that now barely offsets the affects of increased overtime?  Dogshit, dogshit, dogshit, and I am not happy.

UPDATE: Those Gold US Dollar Coins No One Wants? Here's a Brilliant New Use, Frequent Flier Miles!

Get me this paper weight now!

NPR - We recently reported on the the government's failed effort to persuade Americans to use dollar coins. But the coins have found at least one group of fans: Travel enthusiasts who buy thousands of dollar coins with credit cards that award frequent-flier miles for purchases. Once in possession of the coins — shipped to them by the government for free — they can deposit them into their bank accounts and pay off the credit card bills. The result: a free ticket to anywhere. "We've used them to go on trips around the world," says Jane Liaw, a 35-year-old public health researcher and science writer in San Francisco. Liaw says she and her husband, who use a variety of tricks for earning miles, are planning trips to Greece and Turkey, "all on miles and points." Liaw says she spends some of the coins at the local farmer's market and stores. The problem is that even if so-called "travel hackers" like Liaw put some of the coins in circulation, their purchases from the Mint contribute to a huge and growing buildup of one-dollar coins in Federal Reserve vaults....The mountain of coins is the unintended result of a 2005 act of Congress. The law requires that more and more coins be minted, despite a lack of demand by the public. (For more, see our story "$1 Billion That Nobody Wants.") The Mint's direct-ship program is aimed at getting the coins into everyday circulation. Officials there first noticed something amiss in summer 2008, when they saw that a small number of customers were repeatedly ordering large numbers of one dollar coins. The top 20 customers bought between $219,000 and $696,000 worth, says Mint spokesman Tom Jurkowsky. Another clue the hackers left was that dollar coins were arriving in banks still clad in their U.S. Mint packaging. "Do we feel a little bit violated? Yes, and that's why we aggressively sought measures to eliminate what we called an abuse," says Jurkowsky. Jurkowsky said the Mint sent letters to the top abusers and imposed a limit of 1,000 coins every ten days. "It's not illegal," he said, "But it's an abuse of the system. That's not what the system was set up to do. The system was set up to promote the use of dollar coins and we are simply trying to do the right thing here."

Is CW trying this tonight? YUP!  Just last week The Alt-Tab commented on the mockery of the US Government, spending millions on producing billions of dollars worth of unused gold coins...some how a light never clicked on for us that we could put that surplus to work for us...Well if passively making fun of people for their incompetence is fun, actively joining in on the scam has to be a blast.  

How do miles work anyway? To be completely honest I've never changed in my rewards miles, wouldn't even know what to do, I've always been boggled by them. How is it that I need like 500,000 rewards miles to travel 1,000 by air? Something doesn't add up, its funny money.  Shouldn't we just move to a system where 1 mile = 1 mile? Or is that too obvious.  I only ask because I'm wondering if that $1,000 per week figure is going to throw a cramp in my style, like am I going to be getting enough miles for a grand per week to fly wherever I want in a few months? Or is this just another pyramid scheme like the time I sent out $11 dollars to some guy who claimed I'd become rich in months and that he'd been on Oprah?

How Will Raising the Debt Ceiling Affect You?

Admit it, you fell asleep just watching that video huh? Yeah, me too. You wanna know how  the debt ceiling being raised would affect me? I'd get to go one fucking day without hearing about the goddamn debt ceiling.

Don't get me wrong, I understand this is a very important issue, its just hard to take it seriously when you're just drowning in talking heads and outrageous headlines left and right. Hey guys, update me when something actually changes, until then please, I'm begging you, cover something else. You're like the boys who cried wolf at this point, keep talking about this impending date of doom for the US economy and the deadline keeps moving back. It comes across as complete bullshit.

The coverage of this thing has gotten so outlandish, I'm frankly shocked that I haven't seen one of those hysterically stereotypical news cartoons from South Korea or Taiwan, or wherever those are from. 

Man Charged With Shoplifting for Taking, Drinking Beer....Yup, At Walmart

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- A Walmart is no bar. Police in South Dakota charge Perry Arpan popped open a beer in a Walmart and downed it. Rapid City police say Arpan tried to put the empty beer can back in the case. Store security stopped Arpan as he was leaving the Walmart. He's now charged with shoplifting. A police spokeswoman tells the Rapid City Journal that Arpan takes "beer theft to a whole new level."

Oh sure, you can eat as many grapes as you want, but you shotgun one little beer and you're accused of shoplifting...dude was just making sure it wasn't skunked, a valid concern given that Walmart isn't exactly known as a purveyor of fine beers. I'm sure if everyone just relaxed a second they would have seen he had every intention of buying the other 11 once he knew that first one was fine.  We need to formally iron out what you can and can't eat while food shopping once and for all so that blatant miscarriages of justice like this are no longer present in our society.