That BITES!

9 Cops Chase Stolen Doughnut Van

( ONLY NINE!
WTF…
Were the rest of them on vacation? )
9 cops chase stolen doughnut van
By Associated Press
TOLEDO, Iowa – A bevy of officers chased a doughnut delivery van at speeds up to 100 mph before arresting the driver at gunpoint, authorities said.
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It Only Hurts When You Laugh

The men who attached the picture at the bottom of this post to an e-mail as a joke are not sitting in a basement lined with tin foil –

they don’t visit sites like:

CTRL Forums where nobody knows your name

and

they don’t listen to The Conspiracy Channel On Line.

No, the people who passed this picture along via the Internet are NOT sitting in a room with five deadbolts on the door and that door is not monitored by a 24 hour surveillance camera. They are not sleeping on  boxes of sardines in crates and their electricity is not provided by a gasoline generator

They are sitting on the Snohomish City Council in Washington State and from their elected positions they say certainly don’t harbor any ill-feelings towards the Hispanics living in our county.

Really.

Let’s take a look at this ‘joke’…shall we?

Leaving Mexico. Entering MeximericaWelfare Dept. (1/4 MI),

 Social Security (3/4 MI), Free Medical (1 1/4 MI)

 

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Do you know what?

 I beg to differ…

and I would also hazard to say that Snohomish does not deserve the black eye that Councilmen Doug Thorndike and R.C. “Swede” Johnson have given it.

We ALL deserve so much better

LINK to one ( but somewhat anemic story ) HERE:

 

Statement from

 The Diversity Committee of the Snohomish County Democratic Central Committee.

 

The Diversity Committee of the Snohomish County Democratic Central Committee takes a stand against “white privilege” in our county.
Recently two Snohomish City council members used the Internet in an inappropriate manner and must be held accountable for their actions.

      These two members of the council, Council Member Thorndike and Council Member Johnson recently sent an inappropriate email message to another Council Member that was an example of “white privilege”.

      “White privilege is the advantages given freely to white people for no other reason than being born with the “right” skin color. If their skin color had not been white, they would not have been making these jokes. This is no way for an American to treat another American.

      Mr. Thorndike and Mr. Johnson have left question marks with most people about their decision-making process. If either were my employee, this behavior would not be tolerated. As an elected official, I expect a higher standard of leadership than what they displayed.

      It is time that this attitude is removed from our society and the respect of all people be truly adopted.

-Mark Hintz-

Mark is the chair of the Snohomish County Democrats in Washington State. He is also the vice chair of the Washington State Democratic Chairs Organization.

And in the blink of an eye…

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 The explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye….Before it exploded, the star was about 40 times bigger than our sun.

The explosion vaporized any planet nearby.

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Making a smart comment seems petty in the face of an event like this.

I mean in the blink of an eye

my faith in being protected from UV Radiation by smearing sunscreen on my body is gone.

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Funny But True

When I write or study I end up associating songs to specific tasks.

For example

These are songs that pop into my head at Political Meetings:

Viva Las Vegas 

( It’s all a gamble )

Mack the Knife

( an ode to Politics )

This is weird, but when I was studying embalming I used to sing this song  when I was in the Prep Room…you know, with the dead:

And when I get stuck on ” Writer’s Block ”  I listen to this one until my ears bleed:

Funny but true…and silly but it’s fun.