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I have suspected for a while that there was something wrong with Nichole Kidman, as in physically and/or mentally wrong with her, that screws her up in some way. Her parents were political kooks, so that also is a possibility.
When it comes to election shenanigans, Chicago has been accused of just about everything.
But invisible ink?
Twenty voters at a Far North Side precinct who found their ink pens not working were told by election judges not to worry.
It's invisible ink, officials said. The scanner will count it.
But their votes weren't recorded after all.
"Part of me was thinking it does sound stupid enough to be true,'' said Amy Carlton, who had serious doubts but went ahead and voted anyway.
As it turns out, Carlton was one of 20 voters at the precinct who were given the wrong pen to use. They were also then told, apparently by a misinformed judge, that the pens have invisible ink, elections officials said.
As a result, the votes were not counted. But officials insisted there were no dirty tricks involved.
"This one defies logic,'' said Jim Allen, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections. "You try to anticipate everything. But certain things just ... they go beyond any kind of planning you can perform.''
By late afternoon, five voters had been contacted and told to come back to the polling place to vote again. And elections staff had left messages at the homes of the rest, Allen said.
Carlton and Angela Burkhardt, another voter who was told the same invisible ink story, spent a good part of the day calling and e-mailing the Board of Elections to get answers.
"I am furious and devastated and I just feel stupid,'' Carlton said. "I feel so angry.''
Both women agreed that this election meant a lot. They had spent a good deal of time researching candidates.
"I have been voting since I was 18,'' said Carlton, 38. "This is the most important election of my life so far.''
Burkhardt planned to go back to vote late Tuesday. She worried about those who might not be able to return.
"I worry about the other people who were there,'' she said. "Maybe [they] can't get off work. I am a person of privilege. I can go back. What if you couldn't?"
Actually, lady, you kinda sound like an...asshole.
I guess "privleged" don't necessarily mean "smart". Probably why it was so easy to pull Ye Olde Invisible Ink Trick on you.
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Isn't it amazing how Iraqis with limited experience in the process with the aid of soldiers and Marines, were able to do in a very short period of time under far more perilous circumstances that the old political machines back home haven't accomplished in many lifetimes - a clean election.
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/engage stereotypometer/"gotta ask'how many were blondes?'
/disengage stereotypometer/
personal disclaimer: blonde grand-daughter led astray by her evil uncle who, in response to her comment regarding the apparent non-working white crayon on a white sheet of paper, told her that the batteries were low and go see her mother (his sister) for replacements.
fireworks were priceless!!!
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Not to worry, Man cannot cheat fate. At the same time those shenanigans where taking place, bad weather in the states of the opposing candidate was causing havoc! Symmetry, balance, the ying-yang of time and unforeseen occurrence!
As if anyone needs another glimpse into the lunacy that is Britney Spears's life (and that of her assorted footmen and paparazzi cohorts), the singer's mother has filed a court declaration purporting to describe how her troubled daughter came under the sway of a manipulative manager who drugged the pop star and drove her further from reality. In a Los Angeles Superior Court filing, Lynne Spears describes a series of increasingly bizarre episodes at her daughter's Los Angeles home, where the performer was regularly in the company of businessman Osama (Sam) Lutfi. The declaration, a copy of which you'll find below, was filed by the elder Spears in support of a temporary restraining order application against Lutfi. That request was granted last week by an L.A. court commissioner who ordered Lutfi to stay away from Spears, who is now confined to a psychiatric ward at the UCLA Medical Center. In a court form accompanying her declaration, Lynne Spears, 52, alleges that Lutfi "drugged Britney. He has cut Britney's home phone line and removed her cell phone chargers. He yells at her. He claims to control everything--Britney's business manager, her attorneys and the security guards at the gate." The court declaration--itself brimming with the kind of Spears-brand crazy that has filled tabloids for months--portrays the 26-year-old performer as manic, agitated, and delusional. But you knew that already.
Well waddaya know. Osama. Now it all makes sense. Right? :-)
#1
Is ma saying that people are being slipped mickys by convert pushers?
I -doubt- britney needed the help (to get high from him with all her other friends) but have often wondered that myself. "You stay here and think about what is important to you, and I'll go make some more coffee" plop plop fizz fizz.
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Whoa - from Osama defeating + the Soviets in AFghanistan, to 9-11, to Britney, Mom, and a psychiatric ward.....? > THAT SOUND YOU'RE HEARING IS OLIVER STONE EXPLODING IN SHEER HOLLYWOOD DELIGHT/GLEE.
How's this for true grit? Marine Corps Sergeant Jeremy F. Boutwell was an MK-19 machine gunner deployed in Anbar province, Iraq on March 14, 2004, when he was wounded so badly by an enemy attack that he lost consciousness and had to be evacuated by helicopter. He was transferred to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, then to the National Naval Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md., then to Brooke Army Medical Center, in San Antonio, where he stayed for two years and underwent 18 surgeries.
A dispatch yesterday from the government's American Forces Press Service tells the rest of the story, in Sergeant Boutwell's own words. "I didn't want to get out of the Marine Corps, and I wanted to go back to Iraq," he said. "Headquarters tried to retire me from the Corps when I was stuck down in Texas for my surgeries. But I didn't want to get out, so I fought the decision." Finally, the Marine brass agreed to allow him to return to Iraq, this time as an intelligence specialist rather than a machine gunner. He's now at Camp Lejeune, N.C., getting ready to redeploy.
"I feel good about going back to Iraq," Sergeant Boutwell, 23, said. "I've been trying to go back for almost four years. 'I'm going to be happy to see the differences from the way it was. The last time I was there, we were in the middle of a firefight every day, and now it's a lot calmer." It's a story to remember the next time the Democrats claim we are losing the Battle of Iraq. One reason we are winning is the exceptional efforts of American soldiers, sailors, and Marines like Sergeant Boutwell.
Texas icon Willie Nelson said on a nationally syndicated radio show this week that he questions the official story of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City. "I certainly do," Nelson said Monday when asked by talk show host Alex Jones if he questions the official story.
"I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas, there's too much similarities between the two. And I saw the building fall that didn't get hit by nothing," the singer-songwriter said. "So, how naive are we, you know, what do they think we'll go for?" . . .
Red-faced with embaressment at his employer's conduct, Nelson's publicist wept silentlylogged on to careerbuilder.com to look for a new gig would not comment on the remarks.
Jones, an Austin-based talk show host on the Burnsville, Minn., Genesis Communications Network, is sometimes described as a flaming whackjobferverent Kucinich supporter "conspiracy theorist." He regularly rails against globalism, the United Nations and World Bank on satellite and Internet radio.
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Watched him during Super Bowl pre-game show. Sounded awful, stumbled over words to "Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be Cowboys", looked terrible. I'd pick him to top my dead pool if I did those.
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Nah. Willie's looked like that for at least thirty years. Weed might rot your brain but I think it preserves everything else.
And who cares what Willie thinks anyways...
#7
At my old apartment I had plaster fall every time a large lumber or wheat truck sped by. So I guess shaking ground does not destroy buildings in Texas or Bumsville but it does in California, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Japan, etc.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
As if anyone needs another glimpse into the lunacy that is Britney Spears's life (and that of her assorted footmen and paparazzi cohorts), the singer's mother has filed a court declaration purporting to describe how her troubled daughter came under the sway of a manipulative manager who drugged the pop star and drove her further from reality. In a Los Angeles Superior Court filing, Lynne Spears describes a series of increasingly bizarre episodes at her daughter's Los Angeles home, where the performer was regularly in the company of businessman Osama (Sam) Lutfi. The declaration, a copy of which you'll find below, was filed by the elder Spears in support of a temporary restraining order application against Lutfi. That request was granted last week by an L.A. court commissioner who ordered Lutfi to stay away from Spears, who is now confined to a psychiatric ward at the UCLA Medical Center. In a court form accompanying her declaration, Lynne Spears, 52, alleges that Lutfi "drugged Britney. He has cut Britney's home phone line and removed her cell phone chargers. He yells at her. He claims to control everything--Britney's business manager, her attorneys and the security guards at the gate." The court declaration--itself brimming with the kind of Spears-brand crazy that has filled tabloids for months--portrays the 26-year-old performer as manic, agitated, and delusional. But you knew that already.
