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GOP congressman bumped from military flight by Democrat horse
When you’re rich, you can have all sorts of things ordinary folks only dream about, like a fancy horse and country estate to keep it at. The gal in the photo is Jacqueline Kennedy, and the horse is Sardar, gifted to her by Pakistan’s president during her goodwill tour of that country in [...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Screw the HOA
Everyone seems to hate HOAs. They’re the grist of YouTube videos, lawsuits like this and this, and battles over yard ornaments (like this one, photo at left). Now imagine you’re surrounded by HOAs, but not in one, and they try to make you toe their line. That’s what happened to a[...]
PHOTOGRAPHY: Political sign
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Who brings you Whidbey Island Ice Cream?
The Freeland, Washington, boutique maker of highly rated ice cream was started in 2008 by Ron Hecker but he retired and sold the business to the Rosens (pictured at left) in 2017 (article here), who were already involved in pizza and sushi businesses. At six bucks a pint in local groceries, their [...]
Politician evicted, library cat stays
The video below is from 2016. That’s when the city council of a Fort Worth suburb voted 2-1 to evict a cat that had been living in the public library for 6 years. Well, that didn’t go over well. The cat, named “Browser,” has his own Wikipedia page (here); the councilman who w[...]
June 23rd, 2024 - 6:23 pm § in Humor, Law and Courts
Never too old for prison
A federal judge sentenced Steven Whitecloud (photo, left), 88, of Billing, Montana, to prison last week for bank robbery, NBC News reported on Sunday, June 23, 2024 (read story here). Whitecloud put his grandson up to robbing banks and was the getaway driver. They pulled off two bank robberies in Au[...]
Florida’s gunning for “Cocaine Bear”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “signed a bill on Friday that makes it legal for people to kill ‘crack bears’ in self-defense,” News Nation reported on Sunday, June 23, 2024 (read story here). The story continues, “The bill was dubbed ‘the cocaine bear bill’ on so[...]
President Bernie?
Not Bernie Sanders, President “Weekend At Bernie’s” Trump. “Former President Donald Trump failed … a room full of top CEOs … at the Business Roundtable’s quarterly meeting, multiple attendees told CNBC. ‘Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about,R[...]
Cat masters and their human slaves
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