Yeah, that’s it. 
The most insane thing to me is that a guy in a MERCEDES BENZ tries to rob a couple of day workers.
I guess inflation has really raised the cost of monocle polish, and folks are getting desperate.
Yeah, that’s a far cry from “I rob banks because that’s where the money is”
I don’t know. While the parents might be a little harder to pet, the Scottish Highland breed produces some of the most pettable (if that is a word) calves.
The buffalo (African Buffalo, an unrelated species - Syncerus caffer) - we get in my part of the world are not nearly so cuddly. They take on attacking lions. I would not even attempt to go close enough to kick one, unless I was I was cunningly camoflaged with a full suit Kevlar armour outfit covered with grass.
And a diaper.
(emphasis added)
So, you’d prefer it trying to eat you?
She has the look of a heavy drinker. Which might explain the ill-conceived late night texting.
I could have made a tactical error there.
I should have chosen browser camoflage over grazer camoflage.
Tactical diaper, though… is indispensable.
Just, not the Bills. That would get the herd too riled up.
Restaurants and vendors who paid hundreds or thousands of dollars for booths at the “Ottawa Intetnational Food and Book Expo” are out their money and hopping mad after the expo turned out to be a fake event organized half-assedly by a Canadian alt-right party, with a series of speakers on such topics as UFOs, covid/antivax conspiracies, Dianetics, and speed dating for stoners, vegans, and cougars.
It’s like they said “hold my beer” to the AI Willy Wonka guy.
Hey, that’s just one shelf at the old Thunderbird bookstore in Carmel, California.
Try it to the theme song from Are You Being Served?
Ground floor, UFOs,
Antivax conspiracies,
Dianetics, speed dating,
Stoners, vegans, cougars,
Going up!
First floor, tourism,
Embassy of Mexico,
PBS affiliate,
Former music VJ,
Going up!
Top floor, expo,
URL for festival,
QR code and vouchers,
Oysters and Eventbrite,
Going down!
We used to have a place like that in Seattle. It was also the headquarters of a fringe Communist cult whose leader was one of the leaders of the Weather Underground whose lackeys usually show up at left-wing protests dressed all in black and going around smashing shit.
The bookstore did not survive the pandemic. I wandered in there once assuming it was a normal independent bookstore in Pioneer Square, thought it was pretty cool that they had so many Howard Zinn books on display, then gradually started realizing what I’d wandered into and excused myself before anyone noticed me.
Sorry, my brain insists on trying to set it to “We Didn’t Start The Fire”.
Yep, another republican gets sentenced for election fraud. (Link is to AOL.)
A former Milwaukee election official was ordered to serve one year of probation and pay a $3,000 fine Thursday afternoon for ordering three military absentee ballots under fake names ahead of the 2022 midterm elections and having them sent to a state legislator known for embracing conspiracy theories.
I do love the bit about the state legislator, too. I wonder who that could’ve been and how lame their excuse is.
She told investigators that she sent the military ballots to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen to highlight a real gap in the election system.
But, hey, it’s all worth it, right, when you trust Sir Shitzinpants! She lost her cush government job, too.
She was fired from her job at the city after officials there learned of her actions.
Say what you will about the magaflatearthers, they are committed to proving election fraud!
I’ve been following this one on and off. My question is, ignoring the case for a moment, if you were in her position, that is, you found a glaring hole in the absentee ballot process that made it easy for someone to cast fraudulent votes, you’ve notified your superiors multiple times and otherwise exhausted every way you can think of to get someone to listen to you, what do you do? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you should commit election fraud to make your point, but what do you do? The only thing I’ve been able to think of are to either ignore it (I told them, they didn’t care, oh well) or get the media involved.
I liked the statement I read in the local paper that said something to the effect of “SHE was the one that was supposed to be catching this stuff”. And, keep in mind, like so many other fraud cases, it could easily be argued that she didn’t expose a security gap, she proved that someone attempting to exploit that gap will get caught.
I saw that story - must’ve been one hot mess of a “festival”.
There’s gotta be sweet income involved in roping exhibitors into such events. If you want to make money, concentrate on selling space rather than selling goods (sort of like franchise operations, where selling franchises is much more lucrative than owning and operating them).
Ontario appears to be ground zero for “holistic health fairs”.* You wonder who’s more exploited, exhibitors or their would-be clients.
I’ll have to look into those magic bracelets. Sometimes I forget to breathe and start turning blue, so Mrs. J. has to give me a painful whack as a reminder to inhale.
*…a trip to the fair
but nobody was there
- Renaissance
Emphasis added. This. This was an effective option available to her.
Let’s see: you think you’ve got genuine election fraud risk; your superiors say that you don’t. Three choices: ignore it; get the media involved; or commit election fraud yourself.
Sorry, but to me that’s an utter no-brainer. Get the media involved.
(Of course, there’s a fourth choice: consider the possibility that your superiors are right. But I’ll grant that it’s at least theoretically possible that, having given that serious consideration, you might conclude that they’re wrong.)
“The media??? The Enemies of Real American People™?? Why would I, a good Republican, go to them?”
Come on, if you’re gonna go making up things like Good Republicans, the rest of us have the right to posit the existence of Responsible, Fact-Based Media.