Kiki had just gone out to her mail box to check her mail but inadvertently had gotten surrounded and absorbed by a group of Ferguson protesters who were then arrested and subsequently taken off to a holding cell. Kiki, a little claustrophobic, was pretty sure the cell was not meant to hold that many folks–it was really close quarters.
Snuffy (The Wonder Dog) had thought to give politics a try, so he went to the local party office to sign up as a candidate for the Bridge and Drainage Commission, only to be told he was too young, still wet behind the ears. In dog years he was approaching 40 . . .
For months on end, Bubba’s girlfriend had talked non-stop about the campaigns of endless politicians–and she had firm opinions on all of them. He thought with the election over, there might be a little peace and quiet, but no, now she moved into the tabloid world of actors and actresses, musicians, who knows who they all were. He just wanted some quiet . . .
After a thorough drubbing in the midterms, a number of former candidates were looking for a quiet place to lick their wounds without the stinking paparazzi sticking a camera in their face or some news goon doing the same thing with the microphone, asking for comments. Though the location they found was off the beaten path, there was some question if room service would be up to the standards they had come to expect while on the campaign trail . . .
After being exposed to a “minor radiation leak” at the Hanford Nuclear site, the girl(s) had been monitored and studied for years and finally released just in time to vote in the 2014 midterm elections. As the radiation exposure had caused some physical changes, they had been quite worried about voter ID at the poll, but it turned out there was no problem–they were told to go to the South side of Chicago–and to vote early and vote often
While taking questions after a Rose Garden speech, the president was asked by the new Washington Post correspondent, “Is it true that every fifth word on your teleprompter is ummm . . .?”
