* Even though it was a conservative, prosperous farm district, the local university made sure that the Democratic party was nuts. So they nominated a radical black lady (in an almost all-white district) who was a political science prof at the local junior college. She went down in flames – got the lowest percentage of any Democratic house candidate in the entire US.
But could she have starred in Play Misty for Me? Well, she was a close friend – some would say overly close – of her Great Dane. As you probably know, male dogs, when in the throes of passion, can get stuck. Trouble ensued. They covered her and the dog ( on the stretcher together) with a blanket as the ambulance carried the star-crossed lover to the hospital, but it was pretty obvious what was going on, and there was talk. Med students make interesting friends.
Ordinary measures did not suffice, and it was the dog that paid the ultimate price.
There’s a lesson here somewhere.
* I don’t want to believe this story, but my sister works in an ER and the stories she tells are not too far off this line. Perverts will get themselves into some weird predicaments and will require professional help to undo their entanglements.
One guy managed to get his wedding ring around the end of his member and then couldn’t get it off. In the ER the doc was pretty flummoxed. Laser cutter? My sister was off duty before they figured it out.
* Flawed exit polling led a lot of people to believe that Hispanics were turning out in droves, but if you actually look at precinct-level data, it doesn’t pan out. Hence the recent NY Times article “There Are a Lot More White Voters Than You Think.”
Even in heavily Hispanic cities like Los Angeles, there are surprisingly few elected Hispanic officials.
Recent immigrant Hispanics have such low turnout that there are farm communities in California’s Central Valley that are 90% Hispanic and yet elect white Republicans to office.
Assimilated Hispanics who have lived here for generations do a lot better than that, but their turnout is still way below the national average.
Hispanics in America view voting the way that white Americans view soccer.
* In Ft Wayne’s congressional district (very red) the Dems are running a homeless guy. Literally, homeless… living in a motel. There’s a good video on YouTube of him being interviewed drinking beer and smoking cigarettes.
* Could it be that the mestizo lower-class Mexicans have such a deeply-held cultural subservient/slave mentality that they’re more comfortable being ruled by light-skinned Europeans (as is the case in Mexico)?
* I once heard from an EMT that truckers get into strange predicaments. I remember one she told me about who had called in for help. After the ambulance arrived, he briefly talked with one of the EMTs, got calmly into the ambulance, didn’t look anyone in the eye, and rode to the hospital with his head down, not saying a word. Turns out he had been playing hide-and-go-seek with a Mickey’s big mouth bottle and it got stuck.
