Author: 4YourConsideration

 

Note from Burr: So how can voters find this confusing?
“Gravity pulls the ballot down, and that’s how it stays in the box.”

From WBAL TV-Baltimore:

Partial transcript:

There’s a visor here, a little flap. You just put the ballot in there like this.

Now sometimes, when this is open, people mistake that for paint. It’s not. Just stick the ballot in there. It’s that simple.

Additional note 4 Your Consideration:
If I put the ballot in there, how can I be sure it doesn’t disappear into a portal leading to a cold vast empty nether dimension?
Better ask the reporter who normally covers the legislature.

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From a couple of weeks ago.
Never gets old.
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Then this:

 

From The Roanoke Times:

Why would a legislator file a bill to do something he doesn’t want done?

With all of the talk about taking down statues, Walker decided to file his bill about Byrd. He acknowledged it was more tit-for-tat rather than about a statue memorializing Byrd, who is well-known for his painful role in Virginia’s history.

Byrd is considered the architect of Massive Resistance, a set of policies that aggressively pushed back against racial integration of public schools following the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

“If we’re going to do this, then I’m going to request to remove the Harry Byrd statue,” Walker said. “He was a Democrat and advocated for Massive Resistance.”

Quite a few Democrats said they looked forward to voting for Walker’s bill.

“I’d love to vote for the bill,” said Del. Mark Sickles, D-Fairfax.

Walker didn’t want the Byrd statue taken down, so he requested that it no longer be considered by the legislature.

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From Rachel Aiello at the Ottawa News Bureau:

OTTAWA — He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake. No, it’s not the head of the country’s spy agency, but another all-knowing Canadian: Santa Claus.

That’s right, according to various government departments and agencies, Good Ol’ Saint Nicholas is a Canadian citizen who lives, and pays taxes here.

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From wild inventer Mark Rober:

Summary from Mark Rober:

I got upset that my package was stolen so I made a glitter bomb revenge package.

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From The New York Times:

An article on deception and the new trade policy of President Trump

Skip to the correction:

Correction: March 6, 2018

Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your “Millennials to Snake People” extension when copying and pasting.)

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From Reductress:

Despite her best efforts, including not buying her daily coffee, 25-year-old Tyra Manning is still dealing with the effects of intergenerational poverty.

“I don’t know what I’m doing wrong,” said Tyra. “I stopped buying my daily $3 coffee from the cafe on my block and I’m still poor.”

Tyra, whose family descended from American slaves, decided to quit buying her very inexpensive daily coffee after hearing the advice of many pundits and baby boomers.

“There were so many articles and outlets reporting that skipping your little daily expenses was the path to overcoming decades of familial economic insecurity,” she said. “So I tried it. I even started bringing my lunch to work every day. Unfortunately, I’m still deciding which bills to pay!”

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From Sean O’Neal at A.V. Club:

Yesterday, we reported that a passel of grotesque Dickensian caricatures gathered in the House of Representatives to vote, by a margin of 217-213, to let poor people die and to punish women for the blasphemy of having a vagina, effectively putting some 24 million Americans at the perpetual risk of poverty should they fall victim to accident or debilitating disease—a monstrous display of selfishness that, by their own admission, many of them performed solely out of adherence to partisan dogma and unabashed spite, and a ghoulish, symbolic bloodletting ritual that they then commemorated by drinking Bud Light. However, we have now learned that they did not, in fact, drink Bud Light.

We hereby offer this retraction.

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Heartwarming Christmas Ad for a Polish Auction Site
 

 
From John Scalzi at Whatever:

Yesterday I wrote here:

If Trump’s administration indulges in the racism, sexism and religious and other bigotries that Trump and his people have already promised to engage in, we can assume it’s because his voters are just fine with that racism, sexism and religious and other bigotries — even if they claim to have voted for him for other reasons entirely. After all, Trump didn’t hide these things about himself, or try to sneak these plans in by a side door. They were in full view this entire time. If you vote for a bigot who has bigoted plans, you need to be aware of what that says about you, and your complicity in those plans.

I also last night tweeted this:

And wouldn’t you know, because of both, I’ve gotten comments and emails and tweets from people upset that I pointed out that voting for a public racist with clear racist policies means that one is abetting racism. I assume that they know for sure that they’re not racist, and wouldn’t be racist, so being accused of racism stings. They didn’t vote for racism! They voted to make America great again!

Well, so, okay. Let me give you an analogy here.

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