From Daily Mail (here): “A terminally-ill university lecturer who mooned a speed camera for his bucket list has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing …. Darrell Meekcom, 55, was arrested in the garden of his home in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, by several officers after dropping his [...]
Archive for August, 2022
August 2nd, 2022 - 12:24 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
Only 60 days in jail for threatening to kill kids wearing BLM tee-shirts
Steven L. Cibotti, 57, of San Francisco was intoxicated when he did it, but that doesn’t excuse him. In June 2020, during the height of the George Floyd protests, he was at a restaurant when he spotted a family with young kids wearing BLM tee-shirts. Without any prompting or provocation, Cibot[...]
August 2nd, 2022 - 10:51 am § in Misc.
The Queen of North America
Romana Didulo (photo), a Phillippines-born resident of British Columbia, has decided to replace the Canadian and U.S. governments with a monarchy (see story here). Didulo has proclaimed herself queen (see her website here). As a potentate with absolute power, she’s fashioning her government vi[...]
August 2nd, 2022 - 10:00 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Dead voters in Arizona
You may recall after Fox News called Arizona for Biden an angry mob of Trumpers threatened to storm the Maricopa County elections office (story here). Weeks later, they called GOP Gov. Ducey a “traitor” for certifying the election (story here). Even after Biden took office, disgruntled A[...]
What if both candidates are wrong?
Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) represents much of Orange County, once one of California’s most Republican areas. This year her GOP opponent is Scott Baugh, a former Orange County party chairman who served a relatively brief stint in California’s legislature over 20 years ago. She easily beat h[...]
August 1st, 2022 - 4:24 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Gun-toting Capitol rioter gets 7 years 3 months
Guy Reffitt is a high-profile Capitol riot defendant who threatened to kill his own family if they turned him in. He was a militia recruiter; and on the day of the riot, had a gun with him on the Capitol steps, and brazenly spoke about committing physical violence against leaders of Congress. Convic[...]
August 1st, 2022 - 2:46 pm § in Donald Trump, Science
Eating hotdogs makes you stupid
A study conducted in Brazil showed people who eat a lot of junk food experience faster mental decline, CNN reported on Monday, August 1, 2022 (see story here). Specifically, study subjects who ate the most “ultraprocessed foods” had a 28% faster rate of global cognitive decline and a 25%[...]
August 1st, 2022 - 11:45 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Do polls show GOP voters coming to their senses? Not really
It’s too early to say that. Polls show a growing number of grassroots Republicans don’t want Trump to run again in 2024, but mostly for the wrong reason: They’re afraid he’d lose. In mid-July, Forbes reported only “20% of Republicans believe Trump’s behavior on Januar[...]