What Qualifications?

What are the qualifications for serving in the United States Congress?  50% of the vote plus 1.

Shouldn't they be a little higher?  Case in point, US Representative Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) who believes that Dutch slaverholders existed in Brooklyn in 1898

That would be Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.

Add to that, Steven Colbert posed the theoretic question about using a time machine to go back in time to 1898 and what would Ms. Clarke have to say to the people of Brooklyn. Apparently, Ms. Clarke is not a big fan of science fiction as she was unclear on the concept of taking modern knowledge into the past and applying it for some benefit.

Once the whole concept of time travel was mostly cleared up, and the Dutch slave holding menace of 1898 had been hashed through, she was given another shot at suggesting a message that she would carry to the people of Brooklyn in 1898.

Her best shot?  Brooklyn is a great place.

The Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918?  She didn't see any reason to warn people about it.

The crash on Wall Street of 1929?  She thinks history should take its course unimpeded.

The sinking of the Titanic?  Let it happen.

Adolf Hitler?  Nope....well on second thought, there might be a reason to let folks know what is in their future.

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It seems like every party has more than their fair share of under-qualified candidates.  And they get elected!

Calling All The Balls And Strikes

As some of my 3.2 regular readers know, I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh.  A lot.  But my daily schedule changed.  And my tastes changed.

I moved on.

I recently happened across a Facebook page called "Rush Babes for America".  I thought "Che cosa è questo?"

What indeed.....

You might think that such a page might feature "babes" in some small way.  This is Facebook after all, so one shouldn't expect too much, assuming that this is an area where one might have "expectations".  Perhaps I should say no more.

After all, it was one Robert Stacy McCain, no relation to the more widely known Senator, that once observed in his glorious treatise regarding the accumulation of visits to one's site that periodic paeans in appreciation of the distaff tend to generate the requisite amount of web traffic.  Were I that sort of whore, then you might have been treated to far more bikini shots.

But I'm not.  Lucky you. 

They call it "Rule #5" in the industry.

So what did I find on this Facebook page that is theoretically devoted to "babes" that are fans of the self-proclaimed Doctor of Democracy?   Were there photos of these "babes"?  Links?  Allusions?  Illusions?

Nope.  It is nothing but a gutless attempt at self promotion with nary a woman in sight.