Some of you may know this as the closing theme to Die Hard. And that’s okay. Die Hard is a Christmas movie, after all.
Vaughn Monroe took this to the top of the charts in late January, 1946, a month after Christmas. This is a live version from a couple of decades later.
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“Oh, but it’ll take so long,” you may say. Hire more kids. Why can’t they work at the same pace as people turn in their votes, or the same pace as envelopes are opened? Unless there’s some suspicious batching going on.
How long do you think it takes minimum-wage poll workers to do a hand recount? Kids are quicker, more motivated, and less partisan, and more likely to get it right in the first place. And we could observe the videotape of their results vote by vote.
Someone posted this diagram, saying it represents a generic Dominion System setup. Of course I’m too lazy to verify that, but assuming it’s accurate:
It doesn’t have to be this complicated. If you’re not going to use a kid with a plus-sign-only calculator, or a chalkboard, at least use the same software that tallies groceries at the supermarket. It’s accurate because it needs to be, and there are tangible consequences if it’s not. Shouldn’t elections be treated the same?
Security Guard Accused of Lighting Firecracker in Men’s Bathroom Toilet of Tacoma Facility.
KOMO Television | September 15, 2020TACOMA, Wash. — A security guard at a downtown Tacoma building is facing charges Tuesday for allegedly lighting a firecracker in a men’s bathroom toilet.
A spokesperson for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department said a fire alarm was activated Sept. 13 just before 3:15 a.m. on the second floor of the County-City Building in downtown Tacoma.
Firefighters entered the building and found smoke coming from the men’s restroom. Investigators said it appeared that a firecracker was throw into a toilet.
Surveillance video revealed one of the security employees using his access card to enter the building at 3:10 a.m. when returning from a break.
The man walked to the second floor men’s restroom and was captured on video entering and exiting the restroom at the time the fire occurred.
Deputies contacted the security guard at his Parkland area residence and arrested him.
The 37-year-old suspect was booked into the Pierce County Jail for arson in the second degree.
Not exactly Ocean’s Eleven. What was the endgame here? And who did he think would be blamed, at 3:15 in the morning?
