Election foul ups
I didn’t know you had to mark all the boxes when you were picking ONE candidate? Apparently a badly trained Kentucky election worker didn’t either because he physically tossed a voter out of a polling station in Louisville on Election Day because he hadn’t marked all the offices on his ballot.
Then there’s the case of a voter in Allentown, Pa., was arrested after he suddenly erupted in the voting booth and began pounding the machine with a paperweight. He must have thought it was a vending machine that didn’t give him his goods?
Wow how could this happen? In elections for sheriff, Chris Abril was elected in Polk County, N.C., despite his arrest in August on years-old charges of statutory rape, which Abril said he would straighten out as one of his first orders of business. Yeah, probably to have the charges dismissed.
Then there’s, Rick Magnuson who was soundly defeated for sheriff of Aspen, Colo., after “all of my skeletons (were) exposed,” he said, in the course of the campaign. Among the skeletons was a stint in alcohol rehab; his unauthorized use of a criminal database; his onetime letters to Osama bin Laden as part of an “art project.”
Why is it that people that dedicate their lives to helping others or rescuing animals often live in conditions that are worse than the ones that they are rescuing others from? And that they often have their rescuee’s living with them in horrid conditions? That’s no rescue to me:
An investigation by a state agency is under way in Revere, Mass., of a residence condemned by local officials as, according to a neighbor, “worse than any Stephen King movie” because it reeked of garbage, feces and cockroaches.
It is the home of Andrea Watson, a child-rights advocate who lived there until the condemnation with her two children and two grandchildren. Watson’s colleagues told the Boston Herald that she is a tireless activist for children who put her “heart and soul” into Parents for Residential Reform.
After shooting video undercover in 10 Army recruiting offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, ABC News released in November an episode of recruiters telling a prospect that no one is going to Iraq anymore. “No, we’re bringing people back,” he said, and his partner followed with, “We’re not at war. War ended a long time ago.”
In a separate on-camera interview, Col. Robert Manning, who is in charge of Army recruiting in the Northeast, generously told ABC News that he disagreed with the recruiters. “We are a nation and Army at war still.”
Jesse Hale, a music major at Austin peay State university says that she’s “always had the desire to play the cello naked”.
She’s a member of the CJ boyd Sexxxtet of nude cellists who play their experimental chantlike songs in concert around the country.
Hale, who says she’s been playing naked since sixth grade, explained to Austin Peay’s newspaper in September that cellists “make full-body contact with their instrument,” so that “it just feels natural.”
Wow, I wonder what her father or brothers thought of her playing the cello naked in their home as a teenager?
