Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of one's actions coming back to bite them in the ass....

   

Stuart Baker... Never heard of him? He's the voice of Early Cuyler on Cartoon Network's "Squidbillies." Also goes by Unknown Hinson.



Some of his work includes:






So yeah, not what comes to mind when you think celebrity....at least not anymore. Yes yes, you have your freedom of speech but there are consequences sometimes when you call someone like Dolly Parton a "freak titted bimbo" and a "slut" because they support BLM. Stuart, you got what was coming to you pal.

Says the National Association of Letter Carriers... one of the unions that represent mail carriers.

https://www.nalc.org/news/nalc-updates/b...-002-1.pdf

Quote:In 2016, 139 million Americans voted in the general election – and nearly one-fourth (32 million) voted on mailed-out ballots. This year, total turnout could surpass 150 million voters and vote by mail volume could double or more. Although millions of Americans drop off their ballots in person (in drop boxes, at polling places or at voting centers), millions also return their ballots by mail. This has raised questions for some about whether the Postal Service has the capacity to deliver such a high volume of ballots this fall. But even if every American voter returned his or her ballot by mail, the Postal Service has more than enough capacity to deliver the extra volume.

So, why are the Democrats pushing mail in voting? If advocates can march in protest at the P.O.G.s house, then why can't they show up to vote?

If we can go to Walmart, stand in line and punch a little keypad that is shared by everyone and in frequently washed, why can't we go vote, stand-in-line and punch a larger screen...

https://www.independentsentinel.com/most...te-buying/

Quote:“If concern about vote fraud with mail-in ballots is delusional, it is a delusion shared by most of the world,” John Lott, the report’s author, writes.

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Most developed countries ban mail-in ballots unless the citizen is living abroad or require Photo-IDs to obtain those ballots. Even higher percentages of European Union or other European countries ban mail-in ballots for in-country voters.

Among OECD (members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries besides the United States, the report states that 78% of the countries either do not allow mail-in ballots “for people living in the country” or require a photo ID to get a mail-in ballot. In the EU, 85% of countries either bar mail-in ballots for people not living abroad or require a photo ID for such a ballot, according to the report. And every European country that is not a member of the EU has mail-in policies that fall into that category.

In addition, some countries that allow voting by mail for citizens living in the country don’t allow it for everyone. For example, Japan and Poland have limited mail-in voting to those who have special certificates verifying that they are disabled.


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France banned mail-in voting in 1975 because of massive fraud in Corsica, where postal ballots were stolen or bought and voters cast multiple votes. Mail-in ballots were used to cast the votes of dead people. There are many other examples.

Quote:In the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, the $2 trillion relief measure passed in March, Congress gave the Postal Service a $10 billion borrowing authority. After the bill became law, there were negotiations between the Postal Service and the Treasury Department on the terms of the borrowing; a deal was announced in July. The ability to borrow $10 billion, the postmaster general said, would "delay the approaching liquidity crisis."

That was all the aid for the Postal Service in the CARES Act. Completely separately, the bill also gave $400 million to something called the Election Assistance Commission for distribution to states to "prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for the 2020 federal election cycle."

The House HEROES Act would give $25 billion to the Postal Service in what is essentially a bailout. The bill mentions nothing about helping the Postal Service handle the upcoming election or any other election. Indeed, the only stipulation at all placed on the $25 billion is that the Postal Service, "during the coronavirus emergency, shall prioritize the purchase of, and make available to all Postal Service employees and facilities, personal protective equipment, including gloves, masks, and sanitizers, and shall conduct additional cleaning and sanitizing of Postal Service facilities and delivery vehicles." If the House Democrats who wrote and passed the bill intended the money to be spent specifically for elections, they did not say so in the text of the legislation.

Separate from the Postal Service provisions, the bill would give $3.6 billion to the Election Assistance Commission for distribution to states "for contingency planning, preparation, and resilience of elections for federal office." There has been some confusion about that; some discussion of the current controversy has left the impression that Democrats want $3.6 billion for the Postal Service for the election. In fact, the $3.6 billion would be for the states' election use. In neither the CARES Act, which is now law, nor the HEROES Act, which has been passed by the House but not the Senate, is there any money given to the Postal Service specifically for the election. In any event, the Postal Service has the capacity to handle the election and does not need any additional money specifically to do the job.

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There is also the fact that the Postal Service does, on occasion, fail to deliver the mail. In its annual reports, it includes data on "performance outcomes." For example, for first-class mail, which is the type of mail that would be most employed for election purposes, the goal in fiscal year 2019 was to deliver 96% of letters in one to three business days. Its actual performance was 92%. So 8% of first-class letters were not delivered on time. Now, consider that the Postal Service handled 54.9 billion pieces of first-class mail in fiscal year 2019. That is more than 4 billion pieces of first-class mail that were not delivered on time. And that, in a fraught political situation, could be the basis for a lot of anecdotes in news articles.

Many of those anecdotes, by the way, appear to have made it to the media with the help of the Postal Service unions. 

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The paper obtained letters from Postal Service leadership to various states informing them that some of their election deadlines are "incongruous with the Postal Service's delivery standards." The resulting "mismatch," the Postal Service said, "creates a risk that ballots requested near the deadline under state law will not be returned by mail in time to be counted under your laws as we understand them." In other words, several states are not giving the Postal Service long enough to deliver a ballot to a voter and then deliver the filled-in ballot to the state election board. For example, if a state's law allows a voter to request a ballot seven days before the general election but also requires that votes must be received by election day to be counted — that would be a recipe for a lot of votes not being counted. It was an entirely reasonable concern on the part of the Postal Service, and it is a problem more for the states than the Postal Service. Yet media discussion of the story suggested it was just another chapter in what one source in the Washington Post account called "the weaponization of the U.S. Postal Service for the president's electoral purposes."

Hello beautiful people
Here in this thread, i want to talk about my celebrity crush. Feel free for anyone to share your thoughts, the celebrity discussed here can be male and female. Therefore, i want to post a reply in the thread "celebrity crushes round 2" https://gayspeak.com/Thread-Celebrity-Crushes-Round-2 but it has closed long time ago before i join the forum.

For these 4 months, i got crazy about Eddie Peng (彭于晏), a Taiwanese actor. He's so handsome. I have a big crush on him   







These are old photos (circa 2000-2010s) that i got from photobucket.com
I'm still new in this forum, and don't much understand about the steps of uploading picture (from my phone storage) here, so i follow the steps of uploading pics from photobucket.com after visiting this thread https://gayspeak.com/Thread-Uploading-photos. I would be happy if there's someone that would help me how to upload photo  I'll add more pics next time

Ricky, who came out as gay in 2010, is a proud father to his four children — twin boys Matteo and Valentino, daughter Lucia, and son Renn born via surrogate.

Like most celebrities, he also loves to share updates about his life on social media. He often shares photos of himself and his family.

The picture he shared on Instagram on June 30, 2020, shows how happy the acclaimed singer is with his husband, Jwan Yosef, and their four children.



Ricky had not yet come out as gay when Matteo and Valentino were born via a surrogate in August 2008.

The "King of Latin Pop" revealed his sexual orientation in 2010, posting online that he was "proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man."

In an interview, he said that Matteo and Valentino were the main reason for him to be honest with the world.

English poet Edward Lear could not have expected his 1871 work “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” to become a meme nearly 250 years later, but hey, language evolves!

Here’s the excerpt that, apparently, resonates.



“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” a nonsense poem published in Lear’s book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, tells the story of an owl and a cat who fall in love while out to sea and later get married by a turkey after buying a pig’s nose ring for the price of one shilling.

Here’s the full first stanza:

Quote:The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea

In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money,

Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

The Owl looked up to the stars above,

And sang to a small guitar,

“O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,

What a beautiful Pussy you are,

You are,

You are!

What a beautiful Pussy you are!”

Just saw this and so shocking!

This is the performance you should expect of the U.S. Post Office...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/us/po...virus.html

Quote:Three tubs of absentee ballots that never reached voters were discovered in a postal center outside Milwaukee. At least 9,000 absentee ballots requested by voters were never sent, and others recorded as sent were never received. Even when voters did return their completed ballots in the mail, thousands were postmarked too late to count — or not at all.

Quote:In the 2018 elections, 42.4 million ballots were mailed to voters in states that allow, or in some cases require, mail-in voting. Of those, more than a quarter failed, according to the Public Interest Legal Foundation.

Using Election Assistance Commission numbers, the foundation said 1.1 million of those ballots were deemed undeliverable to the addresses where they were sent. More than 430,000 others were rejected by elections officials, and more than 10 million — about a quarter of those sent — were “unaccounted for,” according to the data.

Quote:The 61,000 voters in Adams County who've been waiting on ballots in the mail are waiting no more: the post office said they've been delivered. Though it’s still unclear who should be held accountable for them going missing in the first place.

State and local election officials traded blame with the United States Postal Service on Wednesday as they investigated how an entire truckload of ballots went unaccounted for between Oct. 15 and Oct. 22.

Fifteen XPO Shipping trucks, all carrying ballots printed by K&H Printing near Seattle, arrived at the USPS general mailing facility in Commerce City on Oct. 15. The ballots were set to be delivered to four counties in Colorado, with four full trucks worth of ballots designated for Adams County.
USPS staff accepted the parcels from all but one truck. USPS Colorado spokesperson David Rupert told 9NEWS that the driver lacked sufficient payment documentation that USPS needs to accept the delivery, adding the facility needs to keep track of thousands of pieces of mail per day.

Quote:There are reports that the U.S. Post Office has returned dozens of vote-by-mail ballots cast for the July 7 primary election back to voters, instead of delivering them to the county Board of Elections.

In these cases, voters who have completed their VBM ballot and returned them are finding their own ballots coming back to their homes, according to local election officials.

Postmarked ballots addressed to the county election office are instead being delivered by the post office to the return address of the voter.

The postal service acknowledged the mistakes.

“We are aware that some ballots were inadvertently returned to voters. We have no evidence that these pieces of mail were processed incorrectly. We regret any concern caused by their delay,” said Maureen P. Marion a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.  “We have continued to process and deliver ballots to voters as they are provided by, or on behalf of, Boards of Elections and are not aware of any widespread delays in advance of the July 7th elections.”

This is the latest in a series of postal mishaps involving an election that is being run entirely through mail-in ballots.

In response to the coronavirus pandemic New Jersey switched to all-VBM elections in 33 municipalities across ten counties on May 12, involving about 730,000 voters.

Thousands of ballots were delivered after the May 14 cutoff – hundreds of them postmarked on or before May 12 and hundreds more without any postmark at all, making it impossible for election officials to accept the ballots.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jkx...e-election

Quote:“They need that money in order to make the Post Office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots,” Trump said on Fox Business Thursday morning of the states that are implementing universal mail-in voting ahead of the November election. “But if they don’t get those two items, that means you can’t have universal mail-in voting, because they’re not equipped to have it.”

Yes, you read that right. Only in the US of A do we arrest small children and actually book them.

But hey, it's just a few bad cops, a few bad teachers....That's what conservatives say anyway....

A video of an eight-year-old boy arrested at Gerald Adams Elementary School in Key West, Florida, for allegedly punching a teacher in the chest has recently emerged. The child's arrest occurred in 2018 but has just now become public.
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The video shows police officers Kenneth Waite and Carter Sims asking the boy to turn around and put his hands behind his back in an attempt to handcuff the child. Waite attempted to handcuff the boy, but the handcuffs did not fit on the child because he was so small. The officers walked the boy to an awaiting police cruiser.

The child was eventually arrested on a charge of felony battery, according to a Key West Police Department arrest report.

The boy’s mother said Monday her attorneys plan to file the lawsuit and hold a news conference virtually on Tuesday. She declined to comment about the incident on Monday.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/8/...ny-battery