Benjamin Moore Paint Names are ‘Racially Insensitive’

Progressives Today

A former Benjamin Moore employee named Clinton Tucker is claiming the paint colors “clinton brown” and “tucker chocolate” are named after him and since he’s black, they’re racially insensitive.”

Obviously Named After Our First Black President
Bill Clinton

  NJ.com has the story:

"Tucker, who identifies himself as an African-American man in the lawsuit filed in Essex County court in Newark, said he was hired in June 2011 in the digital marketing department but quickly found himself being discriminated against, according to a write-up of the filing on CourthouseNews.com.

Tucker is seeking damages for discrimination, retaliation and a hostile work environment, according to the suit.

He claimed that when working on the online arm of Benjamin Moore’s campaign for their Williamsburg color collection, he learned of the new color “tucker chocolate,” which the suit called “extremely racially offensive.”

The Williamsburg collection also has colors named tucker orange and tucker gray.

Tucker then learned of the existing color “Clinton Brown,” which a co-worker pointed out to him as a joke.

“Despite [Tucker's] repeated complaints and protestations to BM management about these appallingly racial color names, no action was ever taken by Benjamin Moore to change the names of these colors,” according to the suit.

Tucker also claimed that he was demoted while white co-workers were given promotions, and that his request to take off work on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was ignored."

“Tucker orange” isn’t a target of his lawsuit.

A Good Monday Morning

Why Every Woman Should Arm Themselves

Saturday night after leaving a dinner and a little live New Orleans blues music at one of my favorite Cafe' Bars, my two female companions and I were approached by a man wielding a very large knife in an attempt to persuade us to turn over our purses to him. His nervousness told me he was not a professional at this at all. So I raised my purse and held it out to him at about eye level to block his view as I gently reached under my blouse. As he grabbed the purse, he was met with a bosom holster warmed barrel of my Walther PPK, and in line with his left temple. His expression was classic.

He dropped the knife and purse and said "please don't kill me lady....I'm just dead broke".

One of my sisters in victim hood laughingly said "What do we do with him now.....cut off his (insert your own term here)?" And out of the blue, my other girl friend said as she reached into her purse "You crazy #@%&*, you don't bring a knife to a gunfight", and handed him ten dollars. "NOW TAKE OFF YOUR PANTS!"

He nervously looked at me and I said "Do as the Lady says."

We sent him confused and bewildered on his way with his tail between his legs, and called 911 and reported a half naked man running loose in the area. Had I known he broke my purse mirror when he dropped it, I may have just put one in his foot.

Ladies, learn to defend yourself.

If anyone is interested in a pair of previously own Haggar Khakis, size 38 waist and 34 inseam, drop me a line. 

First Lady Donates Panties to Immigrant Relief

UPDATED 

(MFNS)- Washington - The White House announced today First lady, Michelle Obama will donate a large portion of her personal underwear collection to the call for underwear relief for immigrants flowing over the southern border of the United States.  In the statement released to reporters, Chief of Staff to the First Lady, Tina Tchen, said the First Lady will donate most of her designer delicates collected  since residing in the White House and brought back from overseas travels. 

"Mrs. Obama has a wide range of XXXLG and XXXXLG heavy duty,  gas absorbent undergarments in her designer collection she wishes to donate to this important humanitarian cause, and to the brave immigrants coming to America. Mrs. Obama believes sharing her wealth of undergarments is another way of forwarding her humanitarian agenda and just one more way of doing her part in making America great again."

The statement also requested anyone wanting to join Ms. Obama in donating, please sent your underwear to 1600 Pennsylvanian Ave, Washington DC / ATT. Office of FLOTUS.

Breaking : First truckload of First Lady's relief arrives at border - See Exclusive Pictures Here  

Wooo Hooo! Diogenes Middle Finger Turns 4

This weekend marks the start of the fifth year of Diogenes' Middle Finger/Middle Finger News Service. I can once again say it's been our best year yet. Keeping a blog up and running and interesting isn't an easy thing to do while running a business, traveling and maintaining a social life. But there are people, who, along the way have played a large part in helping it's success. And as stated in an earlier post, I would like to gratefully acknowledge their part.

First and foremost, I'd like to thank Big Fur Hat@iOwnThe World and Doug Ross@Doug Ross Journal, who early on recognized the faux genius of DMF.  Big Fur gave this girl her first exposure at the big boy's table known to us all as iOwnTheWorld, along with a piece of advise I wisely took to heart, and Doug Ross for awarding me my first year for efforts as a 'stumbling in the dark' new blogger, which sent me on my way with much encouragement. 

And I must Gratefully Thank Cardigan, and all the gang at iOwnTheWorld for the generous and frequent linkage and comments at the best site anywhere on the interwebs. 

I would truly be remiss if I didn't acknowledge a Very Special Friend, Comrade and Collaborator, Middle Finger News Ace Correspondent, the incomparable Earl of Taint. 

Earl's unique wit, artistic skills and timely incite into current affairs have brought an extra element of humor to this site I had not conceived. Our on-the-fly, 3 part MFNS report 'The Obama Girls Do Africa' remains second only to 'This is your Life: Barack Obama'  as the most viewed post ever at DMF, with at last glance over 64,000 hits. 

Earl, you ARE the BEST!

To all who come by for the serious stuff, the snark and satire or just to lurk, and to those brave enough to regularly leave comments, namely Odie, MadJack, Grunt, Eugene, Tiger Rag and Broadside Betty, as well as my newly acquired readers at Michelle's Mirror (ya'll don't be shy now, I don't bite) and my fan in the Vatican who comes by to check out the Good Monday Morning post, I Thank You all Very Much for your visits. You all make this endeavorer well worth the time and effort.

Cake and Ice cream for everybody!

 

and from Earl

Fishnet Friday

Softening Up America For The Final Assault

With President Obama authorizing the release of 36,000 illegal immigrants back into the US population, many of who are convicted criminals of violent acts, our border security is in shambles. Border patrol agents told to duck and hide when confronted by well-armed drug cartel members, they are being ordered to allow illegal immigrants to cross as false and rehearsed excuses are used to get into the our country, this as our southern-most military bases are being used as daycare facilities for thousands of illegal immigrant children have been ushered across told that they will be accepted. Now disease epidemics such as measles are on the way to becoming major health risks.

The Obama administration has targeted states that defied their idiotic amnesty policies such as Arizona and Texas where illegal immigrants are being flown to and dropped off in major cities by the thousands with no end in sight. When asked about what the hell is going on, the White House response is, “We will continue to drop off these illegal immigrants in your cities.” The abject lawlessness and ambivalence is shocking. The disregard for the safety of the American legal citizen is outrageous, and yet it goes on unreported by the news media and unchallenged by the Republicans, whose job it is to defy such lawlessness!

 What we have is the equivalent of a softening up operation of chaos and internal compromise designed to completely cause this nation to collapse or succumb. All the signs are there. Every nation that has ever fallen prey to being internally corrupted have been defeated the same way we are seeing America being gradually eroded to the point of no return. All the while the sold out, bought out main stream media either refuses to report what is going on or is handed what they are to broadcast to the American public by White House press releases.

Do not kid yourselves. America is under siege by its own leadership. All branches of government with few heroic exceptions have been compromised and are no longer performing their duties based upon their Constitutional responsibilities. The people have been blinded with lies of narratives and biased news reporting thanks to the Democratic Party. The GOP has stood aside and watched exercising only token resistance.

One need only to look at the heads of the Dept. of Justice, Homeland Security and the National Security Adviser to see the agenda. 

Thanks to the Cloward Piven strategy utilized faithfully by President Obama and his minions, who have rejoiced in the destruction of all institutions of moral and traditionally of the American heritage, the people of this once great nation are allowing it to fall with eyes wide shut!

6.9 Million Multiple Voters on Roles in 28 States

Gaming the System

Some 6.9 million Americans are registered to vote in two or more states, according to a report obtained by Watchdog.org.

“Sensible approaches to roll maintenance are fought tooth and nail by radical special interests who can use the duplicity in the system to their advantage", says Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the election-watch group True The Vote. The cross-check program involves only 28 states and does not include the three largest: California, Texas and Florida.

“Duplicate registration is an open invitation to voting fraud,” said Clara Belle Wheeler, a member of the Election Board in Albemarle County, Va. “This ability to vote more than once dilutes the legal votes and changes the results of elections.” The interstate cross-check program matches first and last names and dates of birth to identify multiple registrations.But the data are not routinely used to purge duplicates.

“Increasingly lax standards in our election process produce increasingly unreliable results,” Engelbrecht asserted.

“The few conversations that are had about how to shore up these weaknesses are immediately seized on by certain politicians and special-interest groups as fuel to further divide American voters based on trumped-up race and class-based narratives...." 

"The vicious cycle can be fixed if citizens wake up, stand up and refuse to settle for a broken system." 

SBE officials, who provided the cross-check data in response to a Freedom of Information Act filing by the Virginia Voters Alliance, did not respond to Wheeler’s assertion. 

Two national voting-rights groups — the League of Women Voters and America Votes — did not respond to Watchdog’s requests for comment.

Our Government in Action.....

Government bureaucrats: that thin, blue-flannel-suit line between civilization and Somalia. The Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, keeps us from having exploding water and headless chickens have done some odd things recently.  Contractors built secret man caves in an EPA warehouse, an employee pretended to work for the CIA to get unlimited vacations and one worker even spent most of his time on the clock looking at pornography. But it appears, however, that a regional office has reached a new low.

Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior.  Eric Katz of the FedBlog tells America that EPA employees ARE POOPING IN THE HALLWAY, and that they are being told to STOP IT.

"In the email, obtained by Government Executive, Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor mentioned “several incidents” in the building. Confounded by what to make of this occurrence, EPA management “consulted” with workplace violence “national expert” John Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in fact a health and safety risk. He added the behavior was “very dangerous” and the individuals responsible would “probably escalate” their actions. 

“Management is taking this situation very seriously and will take whatever actions are necessary to identify and prosecute these individuals" 

He asked for any employees with knowledge of the poop bandit or bandits to notify their supervisor. EPA spokesman Richard Mylott provided the following statement:

“EPA cannot comment on ongoing personnel matters. Our brief consultation with Dr. Nicoletti on this matter, a resource who regularly provides our office with training and expertise on workplace issues, reflects our commitment to securing a safe workplace.”

“Dangerous”? “Escalating”?  Smearing shit around is a time-honored tradition in American government.

Baby Used in Chilling Propaganda From the Religion of Peace

A Crying White Baby = The West is helpless against

Allah and the second coming of the Islamic Caliphate.

“The future must not belong to those who slander the

Prophet of Islam” - Barack Obama