Hold the phone. A challenger arises.
That’s awesome. Just awesome.
Ha! Sounds like all the idiot had to do was keep his mouth shut and the seat would have been his. I don’t know what Gilchrist’s chances are, but that would be sweet if she wins.
And best of all, Eryn Gilchrist filed her papers to run against him as a Democrat, so now *she’s *running unopposed.
ETA: Well, fuck, she isn’t. But even so, it’s not a one horse race anymore.
Michael Flynn is campaigning for California Congressional Candidate.
He’s being welcomed quite warmly by those in attendance. I just can’t even believe this. I feel like I’m living in bizarro world.
Exactly my situation!
Hmmmmm…
I don’t feel all that ancient.
Who smashed Gibson?
Gonzalez smashed Gibson.
Alabama sheriff pockets $750,000 in “excess” food funds from county jail
If Etowah County, Alabama sounds familiar, it is Judge Roy Moore’s old stomping grounds. Nice folks down there.
You put this in the stupid republican idea thread, not the evil republican idea thread, but, since we apparently don’t have one of those.
It’s smart, really. Here’s money that can either be used to feed prisoners, or buy me a new boat. Can you really tell me that you’d rather feed prisoners than have the better part of a million dollars?
What is stupid is that this is allowed. If prisoners are too cushy in their diet, and it is decided to cut back o the expense of feeding them, then that money should stay in the taxpayer’s wallets (or go to roads or bridges or something). If you personally profit from reducing the quality of someone else’s life, then what are you going to do?
We actually do (“malicious” is the same as “evil”), but it has not been getting much action. I think most of want to give them at least some BotD – and really, the end result of stupidity is barely distinguishable from the end result of malice.
Good gravy!
I first read that as $250,000, but it’s three times that!
Hanlon’s razor (updated for the 20-teens): “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity… unless there is a long and broad history of malice.”
You have to realize that this is a LEO running a pokey. If he lets that get used out in the community, life will get cushier for the citizens, which means there will be less crime, which means the budget for his Metal Motel will get reduced, leaving him with less money for him to embezzle. For his own personal interest, he did exactly the right thing. Except for the being found out part.
I’m not so sure that in today’s GOP, this is bad for him. On the contrary, it could make him the one man in America who could succeed Trump!
I mean, what’s not to like for the real kingmakers–the Kochs et al? The guy has demonstrated that he’ll go along to get along and that he’s motivated by cash, and utterly unencumbered by scruples.
He’s their dream candidate.
Evil is greed untempered by empathy.
Evil is characterized by pursuit of power (which is closely related to greed). Without some form of power over others, evil is not possible, so it must be the crucial factor.
We don’t put criminals in prison to reform them, we put them there because we hate them. We don’t even pray for them, because we figure Jesus hates them too.
That does seem to be the case. And then we find more ways of criminalizing behaviors and people, to throw more people into prison for us to hate.
And there’s money to be made. Win Win!