“Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has accused a conservative super PAC of darkening her skin in a television ad meant to slam Illinois’ Democrat Governor J.B. Pritzker,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, August 24, 2022 (read story and see video of ad here). T[...]
Archive for August, 2022
Why Republicans think voting fraud is rampant
I suspect people who go around sawing off catalytic converters probably install protective shields on their own cars because they’re afraid theirs will be stolen, too. Abraham Hamadeh, 31, is the GOP candidate for Arizona attorney general. He doesn’t trust elections, and for a perfectly [...]
August 23rd, 2022 - 11:52 pm § in Misc.
World class whiner
Busted for driving on a suspended license under a — get this — fake name and phony ID, this dude gave the cops a song and dance. Warning: This video is very tedious. If you get through the entire 11 minutes of nonstop pleading and whining, I commend you! I couldn’t take it and skip[...]
August 23rd, 2022 - 6:26 pm § in Law and Courts
Another guilty plea in Lynnwood skinhead assault case
Randy Aaron Smith, 42, of Eugene, Oregon, pleaded guilty on Tuesday, August 23, 2022, to federal charges for participating in a skinhead gang’s brutal beating of a black disc jockey in 2018 at a Lynnwood, Washington bar (read story here). He was one of a group of at least 16 belligerent white [...]
August 23rd, 2022 - 5:45 pm § in Politics
Vote first, ask questions later
A South Carolina GOP state legislator claims he’s been losing sleeping after being told by a doctor the fetal heartbeat bill he voted for could’ve killed a teenage girl. Sounds like he has more conscience than most Republicans, but wouldn’t it have been better to consider the conse[...]
Paul Pelosi isn’t above the law
Paul Pelosi, 82, a wealthy San Francisco real estate investor and husband of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is paying a price for driving impaired and injuring another driver. Pelosi crashed his late-model Porsche into an SUV while driving after dark in California’s wine country on May 28, 2[...]
August 22nd, 2022 - 5:59 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
They want him to be president again?
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Technically, nobody is too stupid to be a U.S. senator
Seriously, the only qualifications to be a U.S. senator are you must “have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and … when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State …” (U.S. Const., Art. I, §3). The Framers intentionally gave[...]
August 22nd, 2022 - 6:57 am § in Russia
Russia “solves” car bombing mystery
Darya Dugina, like her father, was an implacable enemy of Ukraine. She was killed by a car bomb on Saturday, August 20, 2022. The following day, the efficient Moscow police and FSB, the state security agency, solved the crime. Here’s what they say happened: “It has been established that [...]