We are having 2016 flashbacks this evening! Former county commissioner and Frederick County Executive candidate, Blaine Young, has once again found himself on the wrong side of the mug shot camera. An alert reader send us this link this evening:
Domestic Battery!
For comparison’s sake here’s his 2016 arrest mug shot so you can see how far he’s come.
Before sharing this we needed to verify the Busted Newspaper report as it looks a little tabloidish. And according to West Virginia Court records it’s 100% true:
Domestic battery is really stepping it up from “unwittingly” soliciting a cop for sex. We don’t know all the details yet, but we do know this, we dodged a bullet by voting for Jan over this guy back in 2014.
We’ve been waiting for the second batch of mail in ballots to arrive before we put our 2 cents in, so forgive our late reply! If you want to peruse the elections results, click here. But who wants to look at boring numbers when you have our very fine analysis?!
President
Of course both Biden and Trump won, but it tickled the Yokel bone to see that over 3,600 of our local folks voted for Nikki Haley, who dropped out over 2 months ago! We shall see what that means for the law-breaking orange menace when November arrives!
Time to peel away people!
U.S. Senate
Angela Alsobrooks, the County Executive from Prince Georges County, and former Governor Larry Hogan will run off for the open Senate seat. In our county over 4,000 of those votes went to Robin Ficker, which we can imagine are from the people who still refer to Hogan as “Lockdown Larry”. However, no matter what you think of Hogan (you can read here about who recruited him to run), everyone needs to remember that we cannot risk a Republican controlled Senate. Let’s say Trump wins another term and Hogan tips that balance over to the Republicans, can you imagine the laws that we will be subjected to? Don’t count on this guy to protect women’s reproductive rights either. Remember this?
We need to make sure that April Delaney makes the cut this November in order to push that balance back onto the Democratic side. The Republicans have proved time and again these past two years that they cannot handle the responsibility of governing in the House.
School Board Election:
UPDATE: Apple ballot is now in the top 3 spots with Veronica Lowe pulling up to 6th place:
Now it’s time for the results of the election we like to talk about the most. Here’s a handy little chart we made for y’all:
Or if you prefer:
Name
Early Voting
Electio-n Day
Mail In Ballot
Provisi-onal
Total
Perce-ntage
Colt Morningstar Black
1,646
7,682
1,121
NR
10,449
10.83%
Josh Bokee
1,412
6,395
3,010
NR
10,817
11.21%
Jaime Kiersten Brennan
1,818
8,327
1,229
NR
11,374
11.79%
Tabitha McLoughlin
836
4,359
741
NR
5,936
6.15%
Janie Monier
1,438
6,217
3,046
NR
10,701
11.09%
Chad King Wilson, Sr.
1,427
6,233
2,806
NR
10,466
10.85%
Not so fast Beaker!
Do we like that the bigoted, book banner, Moms for Liberty candidate won the most votes in the primary election? Of course not. But this scenario works because in the General Election you choose three. Plus, many independent voters did not come out for the primary so these results don’t include those folks! We’ll have many posts about how Brennan, McLoughlin, and Black would be a nightmare for our board, but that is another post for another day. Just be sure that you tell all of your friends to vote for Bokee, Monier and Wilson! BMW for short!
We are going to try our best to do just that for you today!
On May 14th you have a very important job to do! And that job is pick the most qualified, compassionate, intelligent people to be a part of our BOE. You get to vote for 3 (there’s thankfully many more than 3 to choose from this year) and 6 get to go on to the general election in November. And remember that your lack of party affiliation does not prevent you for voting for these candidates as it is a non partisan election!
We’ve created three categories for you to peruse today. The first category will be our approved candidates. The second will be those that passed the Yokel muster, but didn’t exactly make it to the approved category mostly due to a lack of information or because we felt their stance on the various issues was not well articulated. And finally we have a pile of rejections! Thankfully the approved category vastly outnumbers our rejections this time around.
Your Lady Yokels made our decisions based on a few criteria. First the issues on their websites, in news articles, video interviews, and in-person forums had to match what we thought was important in a candidate. We like to see candidates mention making all students feeling welcome, a support for teachers and paying them what they deserve, a focus on student mental health, inclusion of all kinds of people and events in school libraries and the curriculum, and a commitment to teaching children with scientifically approved methods and not educational fads. If there is any hint of a candidate discriminating against children OR advocating for the removal of accurate history or sexual education, they went immediately into the rejection pile! We know your code words people! They aren’t hard to crack!
Click here to discover how we found all the candidates.
We went in alphabetical order, not by who we liked the most.
Below is our approved list of candidates along with a link to their website so you can see what they have to say for yourself!
Jerry Alexandratos- in our original post we stated we couldn’t find his website, he has since contacted us with a link, and we have since moved him to the approved column!
These 8 would all make great members of the board! It’s so nice to see so many qualified people running this year.
The next set of candidates have a lot of promise, but some of them lacked information about what they would do as school board members. However, we didn’t feel as though they warranted an outright rejection.
Now our tone is going to change folks! The four candidates on this list must be avoided like the plague. We’ll give you some more details with each one for our rejection.
Colt Black, yes the same Colt Black that ran for Congress but now wants to be on the school board. Here’s something on his website that really got to us:
As a parent, you don’t cede your rights to guide and parent your child at the school door. So often times parents are treated as the enemy by teachers and administrators of schools. Spoken down to and disrespected. Enough is enough. It’s past time to ensure parents are respected by teachers and administrators and treated as a partner in their child’s education. Whether you are dealing with a student with special needs and are working to get your student the services they are entitled to or a disciplinary issue which is being taken too far. Or perhaps there is something your student or yourself object to on the basis of religious or philosophical thought which is causing the conscience to be violated and in turn violating your rights, parents need an advocate on the board who will stand up to ensure that every child receives a quality education.
Yeah, we had to read through that a few times as well.
So parents are the enemies of the teachers and administration? And why is that, because the parent doesn’t agree with what is being taught, or their kid misbehaved and actually faced some consequences? And what’s this nonsense about parents being abused?
We’re going to drop this right here for Mr. Black and anyone else who is curious:
2. Jaime Brennan is our Moms For Liberty candidate, she posted a series of videos that explain her position on the issues.
If you are interested in hearing someone bash kids and promote the removal of books from the school libraries (didn’t we already solve this?), go ahead and waste 6 minutes of your life. A friend of the Yokel sent us his rendition of her campaign sign that we think you will enjoy:
This lady tried last time around, and we need to reject her this time around as well. She’s a homeschooling advocate and lists on her website that she’s received the endorsement of an organization called Power 2 Parent, which is just as awful as you can imagine:
UPDATE: In our original post we weren’t able to find a lot of info on Tabitha McLoughlin. After looking at this graphic designer’s nightmare of an attempt at political propaganda we’ve decided to move her to the do not vote for column.
There’s still a few more forums for you to drop in on should you like to hear the candidates for yourself. Check out the League of Women Voters website for more details:
There’s lots to avoid this election season, the orange menace is back, and Dan Cox is trying to get into Congress, but don’t underestimate the importance of these school board elections.
Ever since the birth of this website in 2015, we’ve tried to sound the alarm about the consequences of elections. They have countless unforeseen effects that many folks don’t consider when choosing a candidate. We’ve decided to illustrate this concept through a nice flowchart that hopefully makes it easy to see the connections between elections and their aftermath:
WHOOPS! We forgot that sometimes flowcharts don’t always make sense, especially when you set #kirbydelauter loose with some construction papers and markers! Here’s the right one:
Hopefully this illustrates our point nicely!
We’ve got to be more careful with our government and institutions. Real people are being hurt in our country all because a snake oil (or hideous sneaker) salesman convinced enough people that he actually gave a shit about them. (Spoiler alert: he most certainly does not.) At the Constitutional Convention way back in 1787, folks waited anxiously to find out what type of government would replace the too weak Articles of Confederation. When it was all hashed out a woman approached Ben Franklin to enquire of what path the new country would take. His reply:
The “if you can keep it” part should give us all pause…
In case you’ve isolated yourself with a Netflix subscription and a delivery from Naked Wines (No Judgement!), we need to pull you back into reality. Women’s health is in danger. Women’s self-determination is in danger. Women’s ability to decide when, if, and now how to have a child is in danger. And for those of you who don’t think that’s a big deal, try to imagine if you were stripped of all bodily autonomy. Try to imagine that the one thing that you wanted more than anything else in the world was now blocked from you because people could not be bothered to figure out simple cause and effect relationships work. It isn’t funny or wise to tell over half the country’s population that they can’t make their own major life choices. There is nothing in the Bible or any other ancient religious text that discusses when life begins. The folks who wrote these books had no idea what a sperm, egg, or embryo even was! You would also be hard pressed to find a scientist that says that life begins at conception. It’s all made up!
At the Yokel, we’ve tried to maintain a focus on the local. And of course we still will. However, all politics is local. When the nation declares a war, our local men and women go off to fight. When our nation fails to support our allies against evil we endanger not only ourselves, but the entire world. To illustrate the cause/effect relationship once more, when we don’t take dictators seriously because we want to score political points, we also make self aggrandizing, pompous pieces of shit think it’s okay to normalize dictators and war criminals.
Tucker Carlson bragging that Russia is better than America because groceries are cheaper in the poorer country is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/fDi7HOnEFw
This is really worrisome (and also extremely stupid) because there is a certain segment of the population that will buy into this crap. And they vote!
When women’s personal health choices are taken out of their hands it shows that the government only views us as incubators… at best! It also very stupidly prevents what these ideologues claim to want–people having children. Just look at this poor dear, the “esteemed” Senator from Alabama, struggle to backtrack on the Alabama decision when he finally realizes that IVF treatments actually cause children to be born:
Just stunning…
If you have a friend in Alabama, maybe pass this post along to them, since these rulings seem to have a trickle down effect. Every election, be it at the federal, state, or local level has consequences. Let’s creep back into the local scene and envision a hypothetical situation that could happen here in Frederick County. We’ll stick with a flowchart since we are in a visual aid kind of mood this evening:
What if college doesn’t fix their worldview because they go to a Florida State university and we are stuck with even more generations of this nightmare???
If we’ve learned anything over these last nine years, it’s that you cannot be careless with your vote. You need to pay attention. It matters. We matter. The world, our country, and our county all depend upon the way we vote. Thinking of all the possible consequences is exhausting, but that doesn’t excuse us from doing so.
In the 9 years we’ve been doing this, we’ve tried to keep our focus on the local scene. There’s only so many hours in the day and so much sanity your Lady Yokels can expend, but sometimes we do need to expand our geographic purview. Today we need to talk about some legislation that’s made its way to Annapolis. For as Tip O’Neill liked to say, “All politics is local.”
We’ll start with HB0047, which thankfully (for the second time) was voted unfavorably in committee yesterday. However, just because it was shot down a second time, doesn’t mean that these folks won’t keep coming back. Let’s explore the bill together:
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That may take a couple of readings to really digest. It’s not only a very discriminatory and nasty bill, it’s also an enormous government overreach! Did you notice that this bill applies not only to public schools, but also to private schools and intramural sports?! Which party is supposedly the party of big government again? It’s so amusing to us how situational some people’s values are!
Besides trying to hurt kids, we really aren’t sure!!!
If you follow our Facebook page, you saw the link to this NY Times article we shared this morning:
What kind of world are we living in folks?
The next bill, HB0025 (at least as far as we know as of this morning) has not been voted on just yet. But someone is happy about the prospect of it passing!
Trying to have banned? You were rejected and will continue to be rejected!
Let’s explore the language of this very bad, vague bill!
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Who gets to define sexually explicit materials? Cindy? Here’s the rating system that most of these groups are using these days from the website, https://booklooks.org/ratings-system:
We have never had such a hateful reaction to a chart before! Who defines moderate, explicit, excessive, mild, aberrant, obscene?! Who has the right to tell the rest of us what our children should read? Where’s the evidence of harm in a 3-5 rated book? What studies do they have? What the hell is wrong with these people? Man, we don’t like to get all worked up this early in the morning!
At the bottom of this post we are going to give you a nice list so we can all email our local delegation to make sure they don’t vote for this very bad bill should it come before the entire delegation. Let’s divert, for just a moment, on why it’s so important that kids and adults read books:
See what we highlighted there?
Maybe we should put forth a bill that everyone has to read at least for an hour a day! That’s probably the best way to fix this problem.
Another tradition at the Yokel is a recap of our top 10 posts of the year. If you haven’t checked out our In and Out list ,be sure to take a gander at that as well.
At #10 is our summer lament about the High Sheriff claiming he got tricked, horrible “transparency” groups who seem hell bent on hurting the youngins, and the Reconsideration Committee that had to be formed due to Cindy’s uneducated complaints.
Speaking of that Reconsideration Committee, at #9 we all got an early Christmas present in that we got to see exactly what Cindy and friends wrote and said in their complaints about the so-called offensive books, PLUS the committee’s notes on the books in question. It really is a quite a treat.
At #8 we are sticking with the theme of fighting against the book-banners. In this post you can read all about our suggestions for future book banning complaints.
For #7, we had a little fun with the new flag contest. In our completely scientific poll our flag design won! Be sure to check out the other selections. It’s a stroll down memory lane.
You probably already guessed from the title that this post is about Dan Cox. Remember when he tried to get Jenkins’ co-defendant off by complaining that one of the agents involved in the investigation was of Ukrainian descent? We also had some fun with Cox’s last name.
This town could be a sitcom. If you don’t remember when the bag pipers from Gilead came to our school board meeting be sure to read this post. As we’ve said many times over the almost 8 years we’ve been writing this blog…we couldn’t make this shit up if we tried.
So far we’ve rejected all attempts from these people to infiltrate our school board. But we must not get complacent as one of the two filed candidates for this year’s election is one of these so-called “Joyful Warriors”. Expect them to rebrand soon as a result of some their recent sex scandals.
Our most popular post of the year was about a so-called Joyful Warrior attempting to to ruin the first day of school because she didn’t like a question on a teacher’s “All About Me” form. She was egged on by Cindy Rose, who of course shows nothing resembling joy in her interactions with the school system.
We hope that y’all see a theme here. We really need to be on guard against these book banning, anti-joy people. This year is going to be stressful when it comes to politics, but we will be with you every step of the way!
If you even have a memory of our pre-Covid world, you may remember a contingent of folks who said that Clinton and Trump were the same. We scoffed at that characterization at the time, and NOW we want to make sure that idiotic notion is removed from everyone’s thought process…FOREVER!
A little over a year ago we wrote a post lamenting the dismantling of Roe V. Wade. In the year since that decision, we’ve seen states restrict a woman’s right to control her own body in a variety of Handmaid Tale ways. The hopefully unintended consequences of these laws have been OB/GYNs leaving those states, rape and incest victims being further traumatized, and a variety of other outcomes as outlined in this NIH study.
This week presented us with even more evidence as to how both candidates were not the same! A few days back we saw the court attack affirmative action programs because apparently discrimination is a thing of the past!
Today they took the right to discriminate even further. A web designer, who had never even been asked to create a website for a gay wedding, sued the state of Colorado because she feared that one day she may be asked to do so! Yes you read that right! We also just saw this woman on MSNBC and she said this was a victory for everyone! Because everyone should have the right to make other people’s lives as difficult as possible because they believe you are destined for hell!
(Be sure to read the quote she chose to have displayed behind her. Cognitive dissonance is a real problem in this country!)
Public accommodation laws have been in place since the 1960s. If you chose to open a business that serves the public then you serve the public! So, now let’s think about what’s going to happen as a result of this ruling. We already have a former gubernatorial candidate declaring that taking your kids to a pride festival is child abuse (scroll down to the post he made from a screenshot from Everything Frederick, be sure to read the comments as well). Not to mention we’ve had to deal with Cindy Rose and her new Transparency in Education alliance who wants to equate gay rights with grooming children for sexual abuse. Frederick County Government also did a nice post about the Pride festival and the winning of a lego set and some of our local numbskulls are now using it as an opportunity to show their homophobic nature. This case will embolden these types of people. Don’t be surprised if you start seeing signs that refuse service to LGBTQ+ people. Don’t be surprised when we start to see more violence as well. What a dark day.
Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. Specifically, the Court holds that the First Amendment exempts a websitedesign company from a state law that prohibits the company from denying wedding websites to same-sex couples if the company chooses to sell those websites to the public. The Court also holds that the company has a right to post a notice that says, “‘no [wedding websites] will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages.’”
And….
Now the Court faces a similar test. A business open to the public seeks to deny gay and lesbian customers the full and equal enjoyment of its services based on the owner’s religious belief that same-sex marriages are “false.” The business argues, and a majority of the Court agrees, that because the business offers services that are customized and expressive, the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment shields the business from a generally applicable law that prohibits discrimination in the sale of publicly available goods and services. That is wrong. Profoundly wrong. As I will explain, the law in question targets conduct, not speech, for regulation, and the act of discrimination has never constituted protected expression under the First Amendment. Our Constitution contains no right to refuse service to a disfavored group. I dissent.
And if you don’t think Republicans won’t try to expand restrictions to other groups, we don’t have any words for you, except maybe “Bless Your Heart”. We can’t even get into the loan forgiveness decision because there is just so much we can deal with in a day. But we will say one thing. When one of your Lady Yokels was having her first baby Yokel in the early 2000s, one of her co workers lamented the fact that 6 weeks maternity leave (!) was paid for while they only got 2. And not lamented in a way that progress was made, she thought it was unfair. Therefore, if we go by that logic, and by extension the logic of some of these student loan forgiveness dissenters, nothing should ever change ever because of “fairness”. It’s really amazing that human civilization has evolved as far as it has.
It’s supposed to be a time of relaxation. The kids are out for summer, the weather is nicer, and everyone should be slowing their roll. But alas, tis not the case round these parts!
We all know about the High Sheriff’s indictment, but you may not know that Jenkins is feigning victimhood! According to the Frederick News Post, Jenkins regrets signing the letters, claims he was “duped” into signing them AND because he didn’t receive anything in return, it shouldn’t matter anyway. Is that how the law works….no it is not! According to aforementioned article the government responded to Jenkins’ claim in this fashion:
Finally, the response said Jenkins’ assertion that he didn’t receive anything from Krop in return for the letters didn’t mean that Jenkins was absolved of the crimes or of fraud. Jenkins’ motion argued that there was no evidence Jenkins benefited from the alleged conspiracy, and that there was no fraud.
“The fact that Jenkins did not receive anything of monetary value in return does not speak to [the letters’] falsity,” the response said.
Seems to us that if you are the High Sheriff, there’s certain points of law you should be acquainted with! Dan Cox’s claims, in his poor attempt to throw out the charges against his client, were hilariously refuted by the government as well. We present the following for your viewing pleasure:
“The Government will not address the various inaccurate factual assertions that Krop made in these 44 pages, the erroneous legal arguments he advances in them or the political statements he makes which have nothing to do with either the law or facts in this case,” the response said.
The first point the government pushed back on was Krop’s allegation that he and Jenkins were misrepresented to the grand jury and in the indictment since they were addressed in the past tense. For example, the indictment says Krop was a Frederick County resident, not that he is a Frederick County resident.
The government said this use of past tense was standard practice, and included a citation to the definition of “past tense” in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Cox did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon.
The government then criticized Krop’s references to an ATF agent who is a former Ukrainian resident, calling them unacceptable “personal attacks.”
It also accused him of going on a “fishing expedition” in the grand jury process, despite having no evidence that any wrongdoing occurred.
Several of Krop’s motions asked for certain evidence to be turned over. The government said that everything he was asking for had already been turned over to him, and that he signed a document, like Jenkins, that he would get additional information a week before trial.
Finally, the government pushed back on Krop’s claim that the search and seizure at The Machine Gun Nest was unlawful. It argued that there was probable cause, which stemmed from lawful investigation, and a lawful warrant.
Side note: Read this great editorial of this whole situation by Matt Edens.
To make things even more crazy, today the Frederick News Post reported that Jenkins’ leave of absence isn’t really an absence as he’s still collecting his full salary AND attending meetings.
In a phone interview on Thursday, Jenkins said he attended sheriff’s office budget meetings and has gone back to the office on occasion to do work.
He said the letter about his administrative leave speaks for itself.
“I am still the head of the agency,” he said. “That’s not going to change.”
Jenkins wrote in the letter that Col. David Benjamin would take on day-to-day operations of the sheriff’s office and “perform the duties of the Sheriff.”
Not sure if the High Sheriff understands what a leave of absence is!
In other happenings, we recently shared an article on our Facebook account about who interacts with local government the most. As you may guess it’s the 55 and up crowd. Don’t think for a moment that we are in anyway disparaging the older crowd as we Lady Yokels are practically there ourselves, but they can’t be the only ones giving their feedback.
And those other wheels have opinions too!
Here’s two examples of what we are dealing with around here. First of all, we have this FCPS reconsideration committee that’s examining books that Cindy Rose et al. decided that no kid should be allowed to read. (If you haven’t read it yet, look at our legislative suggestions on how to curb the problem of a handful of people being allowed to potentially ban books.) Her research consisted of going to ratedbooks.com and printing out the most salacious bits. While her opinion may matter, being a local citizen and all, she needs pushback. (Thankfully we’ve all pushed her back from sitting on the school board itself four times now!) Another example of the older crowd attempting to influence the school board is the former Citigroup executive who has taken up the mantle of banning transkids from sports, not allowing these same kids to identify as their gender of choice in school, and has complained on our posts about the imagined teaching of CRT in the public school system. He’s been joined by the likes of Tom Neumark, who likes to write about how horrible FCPS is in the editorial section of the FNP. The formerly mentioned executive claims on his website that he got into this game, despite having no children in FCPS and with no background in education, because of failing scores on tests. However, the only things he’s been vocal about are the same things that national Republican party has used as scare mongering techniques in order to get more votes. If you haven’t seen it, and these folks should take a look as well if they weren’t so allergic to actual journalism, there’s a great article explaining how the American Principles Project needed to find a new social issue to rile up their side and transgender kids is what they landed on. All of this book banning, anti-history, and discriminating against gay and trans people is all part of the Republican strategy to win back votes. We cannot allow it to happen in our neck of the woods. So make sure you check the Board of Education’s agenda, and the county council’s agenda in order to give your feedback. It’s when the majority doesn’t pay attention that these folks and their outdated and harmful ideas sneak in.
There’s sparks of hope that the Trump way of governing is losing its sheen around here. A group that pretends to be non partisan tried to organize a pro-Trump rally on the overpass on Route 15 on Monocacy Blvd. last week. Guess how many people showed up?
Maybe we can all get back to some sense of normalcy soon!
And don’t forget to attend Frederick Pride tomorrow! All the best people will be there.
There’s a whole potpourri of dumb shittery going on in this country. Most of it in Florida, because durh. If you haven’t heard about the firing of a principal because some ignoramus didn’t want their child to look at art, take a look here.
Besides the appalling amount of time someone must have on their hands to complain about a naked statue from the Renaissance, it’s embarrassing to the rest of us. According the above referenced article the statue is getting a lot of visitors lately. And we don’t have to stretch our imaginations too far to imagine many of those visitors are snickering at us prudish Americans. Even though, in reality, a vast majority of us are not bothered by stone figures of men. This Lady Yokel remembers taking my children to the Walters Art gallery to look at art. There were many naked statues and my then preschool-aged daughter asked why one of the boy statues had a tail. Not only did she get a lesson in anatomy, we have a fun family memory that we will never forget! No way I was pulling a John Ashcroft and asking the museum to cover up the stone genitalia.
Florida once again came into the news this week when one parent’s complaint caused a documentary about Ruby Bridges to be removed from a school district while the district reviewed the film. To spread the love around it’s not just Florida, though they do seem to be very special down there. We also have one person (cough, cough Cindy Rose), who has complained about some books we know she hasn’t read. As a result of her complaint a whole bunch of people are on a committee, and do you know what they have to do that Cindy didn’t? READ THE BOOKS!
Reading isn’t boring, people who don’t read are boring.
Dr. Jason Johnson and Randi Weingarten spoke on MSNBC’s Deadline White House yesterday about this very issue. Dr. Johnson made the point that local districts need to pass laws that prevent one person, who may not even live in the district where they are making the complaint, from removing books, movies, or art from schools and libraries. That statement got the old Yokel noggin thinking!
It’s time for some new legislation!
We propose that Frederick County Public Schools and Frederick County Public Libraries adopt the following policies:
In order for a book, film, lesson, or art to come under review 10 community members need to make a complaint.
That complaint should include the following:
A written synopsis of the media or lesson to prove the complainant is familiar with what they are complaining about.
A thorough analysis of the harm found in said media.
Peer reviewed research that backs up the harm claim.
Proof that the person making a complaint is from the local community AND is personally affected (parent, guardian, staff member, student, etc.) by the so called harmful media.
3. If you can’t do what is listed under #2, rethink your life choices. Because maybe you are the fucking problem.
We admit that the local authorities may have to clean the language a bit, but hey it’s a start! We need to fight back against the nutbaggery, because we don’t know about you, but we are tired of their shit.
In case you haven’t heard, there is a contest to redesign Frederick County’s flag. If you are a serious artist, please click here for more details. We are going to have our own Yokel brand of fun with this! Vote for your favorite flag at the bottom of this post!
Choice A: The Black Book. Remember way back yonder when we had the Black Book scandal here in Fredericktowne? Here’s a design to commemorate that period in Frederick’s history.
Choice B: Y’all remember back when Billy Shreve told us that any waterway in Frederick County was safe to drink from? He never took up our challenge to drink from them all, but here’s a design to show the world how safe and pollution free all of our waterways are around here!
Choice C: This comes from a post that Blaine Young was tagged in.(Actual post was deleted, so we found a similar pic for this flag) Yes, the same Blaine Young rumored to be in the Black Book, and the same one in fact arrested for soliciting a prostitute from a website. Such class some of our former politicians have displayed!
Choice D: There was a lot of bellyaching from Billy and Kirby when they had to park in a garage directly across the street from Winchester Hall, and then Billy had the indignity of losing his keys. Let’s take a moment to consider a flag to honor this dark period in Frederick County history.
Choice E: Who could forget our own Frederick County pioneers who braved the overflowing Monocacy River after Hurricane Sandy, armed with a thermos of Whiskey Sours, in order to go shopping at Wal Mart? Let’s salute their bravery and superior common sensical skills with this flag:
Choice F: Oh the time we made national news because of our very own Kirby Delauter. This story was spurred by Kirby telling a reporter that if she ever used his name again, he would sue her! Whew!
Choice G: Kirby made the best flowchart in the history of the world, so why shouldn’t we display that on our flag? I guess he was right about Jessica getting all the money since she was able to run a successful campaign to be County Executive!
Choice H: Of course we are going to self promote and ask for your vote for our logo as the new symbol for our county flag!
Now, it’s time to vote for your favorite!
We can’t wait to see the winning design, though we know some will be very upset over the change! But folks just look at our flag:
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