Supremes weaken home care workers' rights

The Supreme Court issued yet another blow against working Americans today in the case of Harris v. Quinn.

The high court ruled 5 to 4 - with the usual crew of Federalist Society ideologues in the majority - that unions representing home care workers don't have to collect fair share fees from workers they represent who are classed as public workers. This ruling forces union workers to subsidize nonunion labor.

This decision flies in the face of the Constitution's safeguards against uncompensated labor, impairment of contracts, and freedom of association. It even weakens the longstanding Abood v. Detroit Board of Education ruling that protects worker rights. It's almost like having a misnamed "right-to-work" law that applies to public home care employees.

Many folks feared today's ruling would be much broader. Some worried that the court would write a federal "right-to-work" law that would have decimated the rights of all workers - public and private, in all occupations. I am firmly convinced that warnings of nationwide labor protests warded off such a sweeping decision. There was serious talk on some websites of a major pushback by workers if a wider ruling was imposed. Then again, it's not like we shouldn't fight back anyway.

Far Right doesn't respond to "sidewalk counseling"

A Supreme Court ruling this past Thursday opens up a whole new vista in the fight for the 99%.

The Supremes ruled 9 to 0 in the McCullen v. Coakley case that you can't pass a law establishing a "buffer zone" to prohibit protests near abortion clinics. In fairness, I believe it would be the correct ruling if every anti-abortion protester was peaceful. But - in light of violence by the likes of John Salvi III, Eric Rudolph, and other right-wing extremists - I have my doubts.

The ruling resulted from a lawsuit filed by anti-abortion activists who wanted to practice what they call "sidewalk counseling." Fair enough, but you do realize what the ruling means, don't you? McCullen v. Coakley reams a gaping Bazooka hole through any efforts to prohibit Occupy from doing anything Occupy has ever done.

Of course, all of this is lost on the lunatic Right - which has proven itself to be unresponsive to moderation. I had another Facebook brawl with one of their cultists this weekend. Someone on a Facebook forum brang up an important economic issue, and I felt compelled to patiently correct their misunderstandings of labor law. Most peeps responded positively to the information I posted. But one John Luebbers chimed in, spoiling for a fight.

The Lubester began attacking Occupy with false anecdotes - even though no mention of Occupy had been made previously. He claimed Occupy had "rape tents" - which is a lie. (No Occupy supporters have ever been implicated in any rapes.) Of course, there wasn't any provocation for Luebbers's meltdown. He flew off the handle just because that's what unstable maniacs like him do.

This public temper tantrum underscores the notion that we can't afford to play nice with the 1% and their violent mob.

But thanks to McCullen v. Coakley, we now have legal cover to up our game. The Evil Empire's tactics will be copied. Fight fire with fire. I am so over playing nice.

The Far Right doesn't think like we do. They don't understand facts and reasoning - preferring instead to stay stupid. Just about anyone else understands you when you post facts. But not the hateful scoundrels who make up Team Tyranny.

Lawn Chair Quarterback: "I Watched Sesame Street On Tuesday"

Tim laments the downfall of a once-entertaining television program...

Car motor fetishist is rising GOP star

Meet Jordan Haskins of Saginaw, Michigan.

Haskins is a rising Republican star, and he's the GOP nominee for a Michigan House seat. He's volunteered for the campaigns of major Republican candidates, and - as a diehard Tea Party conservative - he testified against a proposed Saginaw antidiscrimination ordinance.

And Haskins has racked up some felony convictions related to a very bizarre sexual fetish he has.

He's served time in Michigan and North Carolina. The charges stem from his habit of breaking into cars and starting them up to facilitate his sexual interest. According to a police report, "Jordan would remove the spark plug wires and sit in the car and masturbate while the motor was sparking and making noises." In a couple of incidents, he broke into county-owned mosquito control vehicles. In a different incident, he admitted to breaking into a city police car and masturbating in it.

Haskins is still on parole, but he says he's running for public office because "I want to be the Republican, the conservative candidate that says, you know, conservatism is for you. Because conservatism, real conservatism, true red-blooded American conservatism is about grit, hard work, loyalty, and traditional values. ... The 3 values that make up my stool of conservatism are faith, family, and freedom."

As for now, the Republican Party is standing by their embattled candidate.

(Source: http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/06/saginaw_republican_running_for.html;
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2014/06/man_with_prison_record_for_sex.html)

Army clears Bergdahl; media silent

Now we know one way to get Fox News to zip its lip.

An anonymous Army official has now confirmed that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has been cleared of desertion. The Army says there is no evidence whatsoever that Bergdahl is guilty of any misconduct.

Naturally, The Media has almost completely ignored this story.

(Source: http://aattp.org/breaking-army-clears-bergdahl-of-any-wrongdoing-while-taliban-hostage)

Lawn Chair Quarterback: "Casey Kasem Was Cool"

Tim pays tribute to a legendary radio and TV personality...

Bergdahl not first victim of chickenhawk smears

In the wake of the right-wing media's swiftboating of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sometimes it's easy to forget that the Far Right's treachery against America is not new. A Korean War POW received the Tea Party treatment 61 years ago - decades before there even was a Tea Party.

In 1953, Army Staff Sgt. Jack Flanary, 21, was released from a prisoner of war camp after almost 3 years. His hometown of Benham, Kentucky, planned a huge welcoming celebration and parade.

But the event was derailed by right-wingers just as it was getting underway. Right-wing windbags had falsely claimed that Flanary had collaborated with Red China during his years in captivity. The celebration's organizers heard of this at the start of the event and decided to call it off. The American Legion revoked a $50 savings bond they had promised to Flanary.

Luckily, the townsfolk didn't believe the right-wingers' lies. They immediately collected $500 in place of the rescinded savings bond. People donated various other items. Thousands of area residents celebrated Flanary's homecoming with a huge party that lasted until the following morning.

Fast forward 61 years. As of today, the fascist Tea Party is continuing to step up its smears against Bergdahl. This is a disgrace. In fact, it's such a disgrace that if the Republican Party doesn't face real, long-lasting political repercussions, maybe it proves Team Tyranny is right about one thing only: government really is the problem. Who needs a government run by the Tea Party?

Northeast mish concludes!

I got home last night from a fact-finding mission in the Northeastern U.S., and there's lots of neet poo to report.

I noticed a plopping on the very first bathroom stop of the trip. Somebody threw an Ohio Lottery ticket in the toilet at the TA gas station in Octa, Ohio.

One LAP bunker blast was detected on this trip. In the hallway at a motel in Brattleboro, Vermont, some guy ripped a trouser sneeze.

Celebrity look-alikes included "Weird Al" Yankovic, Mr. Hooper, and Ron Jeremy. Plus, there was that old lady we thought was Konstantin Chernenko.

Also, at the Longhorn restaurant in St. Clairsville, Ohio, some old man bubbled.

Thad Cochran admits to "indecent things with animals"

Oh. My. Gosh.

Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) is one of these far-right incumbents who has a Tea Party challenger in the primary even though he's already so right-wing that a Tea Party opponent is just redundant. That Tea Party challenger - Chris McDaniel (not to be confused with a local far-right legislator of the same name) - topped Cochran in the recent primary, and now they face a runoff.

McDaniel has had at least a couple scandals during this campaign. First, his campaign operatives snuck into Cochran's wife's room at a nursing home and took photos of her for an attack video. Then, when McDaniel campaigners locked themselves in the Hinds County Courthouse on election night - suspiciously surrounded by ballots - they couldn't get their story straight as to what they were doing there.

Now Cochran has just made this election even more bizarre than it already was. While campaigning in the Hattiesburg area, Cochran said that when he was growing up, he did "all kinds of indecent things with animals."

Oh my.

(Source: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/news/2014/06/10/cochran-goes-offensive/10307329)

Georgiaseein' is Georgiabelievin'

Last month's trek to Georgia yielded 69 (hey Beavis you said 69!) photos. Peep, weep, and oggle-beep...

http://www.angelfire.com/yt2/lastword/roadpics/ga14a.html
http://www.angelfire.com/yt2/lastword/roadpics/ga14b.html
http://www.angelfire.com/yt2/lastword/roadpics/ga14c.html

Cantor loses primary in upset

Here's an electoral development that I just can't believe. But it's true, it's true, it's all true!

The Virginia primary was today, and as if powerful House Majority Leader Eric Cantor wasn't Tea Party enough, he had a Tea Party challenger in the Republican primary: some nobody by the name of Dave Brat. Well, the results are rolling in, and Brat has defeated Cantor in a stunner. A Daily Kos blogger calls it "one of the most shocking primary upsets of all time."

Brat is so extreme that this threatens the Republicans' grip on that seat - and it helps seal the Tea Party's hold on the GOP.

Never saw this one coming, did you?

Have no fear, the June ish is here!

My fellow Americans. The June issue of The Last Word is now pub, but it's only a 4-page affair, thanks to the boredom of the past couple months.

Despite this, I still managed to fit some hilarity into this ish, such as a recent trip to Georgia, an uproarious special report on forfeited baseball games, a person peeing on a slide at a local park, and other important news!

So read The Last Word before it reads you...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/228986156/The-Last-Word-6-2014

Vegas shooters were Tea Party supporters

No surprise here.

The assailants in the deadly shooting in Las Vegas yesterday have now been identified as Jerad and Amanda Miller. Jerad Miller not only railed against Obamacare on his Facebook page but was also a fan of Tea Party groups like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks. He also appeared at Cliven Bundy's ranch to show support for him. Amanda Miller also supported right-wing causes.

How much worse will the Tea Party's war against America get before the government grows the gumption to rein it in?

(Source: http://gawker.com/vegas-shooters-facebook-warnings-i-will-willingly-die-1588078660/all)

Bunker blast update

This evening at an important family gathering, a series of SBD bunker blasts was detected.

Videos of Obama chewing bubble gum were doctored

This is the sad state of the right-wing blogosphere.

Team Tyranny has been on fire today with the emergence of 2 videos that purport to show President Obama chewing gum with all his might during a D-Day anniversary event. They painted the Commander-in-Chief as disrespectful.

Not surprisingly, it turns out both videos were doctored, and even an idiot can see it. In both videos, you can see the people in the background repeating their own motions, so it's clear the wingnutosphere just looped the clips over and over.

How babyish of them.

When the fascist Washington Times reported on this "story", at least one commenter called them out, saying, "Is that the video? The 5-6 second video run of him 'chewing', with the woman in the yellow hat who also appears to be chewing or exhibiting a facial tick, has been looped 5 or six times. Are you people really this nuts?" Yes. They are really this nuts.

The 3 remaining users of far-right website Free Republic have boasted of doctoring the video further. One Freeper suggested, "Somebody should photoshop the picture with him blowing a bubble." At least now if a photo emerges of Obama bubbling at the event, we'll know it was a fake too.

Is this what the conservative movement has become? Instead of coming up with fresh ideas or trying to fix their own broken movement, they spend their time trying to figure out how to make fake photos of the President of the United States blowing bubbles with bubble gum. That's their campaign strategy - when they're not swiftboating newly released POW's.

Lawn Chair Quarterback: "The Purple People Cam"

Tim introduces a new electronic gadget...

Right-wing treachery nothing new

The right-wing firestorm against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has made one thing clear in recent days: The conservative movement as it exists today is not recognizably American or patriotic.

But this disloyalty is not new. I'm old enough to remember the treachery they committed in 1994 during the Michael Fay story. Fay - as oldsters like me may recall - was an American citizen living in Singapore. The right-wing dictatorship in Singapore accused him of vandalism, conducted a show trial, and sentenced him to be flogged with a bamboo cane.

The Far Right went ballistic - not against Singapore, but against America. They flooded newspapers with letters smirking about how the United States should follow Singapore's practice of phony trials and harsh sentences for minor crimes. This despite the fact that they were the first ones to defend far more serious crimes that plagued our region. The people who said I was a nut for demanding that violent neo-Nazi hate groups be prosecuted were the same people who demanded caning for someone accused of a far less serious crime (who may have been innocent anyway).

One local politician even sent fan mail to Singapore's government.

American conservatives displayed more loyalty to a right-wing foreign dictatorship than they did to America. And they had a captive audience too. This was a more conservative area back then, and imagine having to wade through their lies and treachery and having to listen to them running America down because it has "too much freedom" - day after fucking day.

These days - in smearing an American POW and demanding that he be left behind - the Far Right is displaying more loyalty to the right-wing outrage industry than they do to America. That's not patriotism. I'm firmly antiwar, but there's no excuse for the betrayal displayed by the Tea Party and the right-wing media.

If Team Tyranny hates America so much, they should leave. They'll be happier, and we'll be happier.

Another observation: I've already been criticized elsewhere for saying the right-wing thought police should leave the country, because that's supposedly stooping to their level. Something about not "understanding" our enemies. Actually it isn't stooping to their level, because the right-wingers have been unpatriotic - while our side hasn't been. They've been asking for it. Over and over - for years and years. Besides, if not fighting back against them is so effective, ask the Democrats what happened to them at the polls when they kept caving. Why don't you go look at my high school records to see what happened when I didn't fight back?

That changed your tune, huh?

Republicans call POW a deserter

I hate war. I hate the usual reasons given for war, and I hate the destruction and death caused by war.

But there's no excuse for attacking a brave American prisoner of war over his war record. Naturally, the Republicans and the right-wing media are doing exactly that.

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl - the only American soldier to be held as a POW in the Afghanistan conflict - was recently freed when President Obama negotiated a transfer in which 5 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay death camp would also be released. Predictably, the Tea Party threw a temper tantrum about Gitmo inmates being released, and demanded a congressional investigation into the transfer.

The real scandal though was that Gitmo was still open. As one of his first acts in office, Obama signed an executive order to close the facility. So why in the fuck is it still open 5 years later?! Because - among other reasons - Congress blocked the effort to close it.

I guess the Tea Party realized they were looking stupid when they grumbled about the transfer itself, so they decided to up the ante. They've begun painting Bowe Bergdahl as a military deserter. No evidence, of course. Just wild Tea Party speculation.

The military's creed is to leave no soldier behind. In other words, even if Bergdahl was a deserter, that doesn't change the other facts of the story. Was the Obama administration supposed to leave an American POW in captivity forever? Plus, if there's reason to believe that Bergdahl deserted, that's what the Uniform Code of Military Justice is for. That's not what the Tea Party is for.

It gets stupider. Sarah Palin says that by securing Bergdahl's release, Obama is helping Osama bin Laden - even though bin Laden has been dead for 3 years.

The Defense Department has already discredited any claims that Bergdahl is a deserter. In fact, the Army promoted his rank. But the right-wing media has of course run with the ball by amplifying the desertion claims. In doing so, media outlets have even blurted out classified information. Tell me who's really putting the nation's security at risk?

In the meantime, Republicans plan to use this story as an electoral sledgehammer. The GOP itself has called it Obama's "Willie Horton moment." Like their Horton talking point in 1988, this one also appeals primarily to meth-heads. But the GOP chickenhawks may have bitten off more than they can masticate, since it's hard to see how anyone can win votes by assailing a POW's war record. I've criticized John McCain - but not for his war service.

It is downright unpatriotic to be calling a war hero a deserter.

VA backlog started under Bush

Well, well, well, and well. What do we have here?

It seems that yet more evidence has surfaced proving that the Veterans Administration scandal - which the right-wing media tries to blame President Obama for - is actually the fault of George W. Bush.

Even Mother Jones magazine - which has otherwise largely abandoned its progressive legacy - has an article describing how the scandal started under Bush. Bush knew about the backlogs and secret waiting lists but refused to do anything about them.

In essence, Bush deliberately gutted the VA just to "prove" public health care doesn't work - thus advancing his political agenda. We already knew he was trying to push this agenda though, thanks to the 2007 scandal involving the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. That facility was not part of the Veterans Health Administration, but it became the site of severe patient neglect during the Bush years. Among other things, the center experienced infestations by rats and cockroaches.

The latest findings reveal that officials in the Bush regime falsified VA records. During this cover-up, one clinic amassed a backlog of over 3,500 patients.

Blaming the Obama administration for this scandal would be like blaming me when a local media outlet undercut its own coverage of what could have been a bombshell story about corporate wrongdoing. Some people would rather point fingers than find solutions.

Bush's involvement in the VA scandal is just another example of the conservative movement doing what it does best. It complains about government, gets into power, and then abuses government positions.

New Orleans abolishes public schools

Oh, the stupid. It burns.

Several American school districts have used children as pawns in experiments involving the complete privatization of schools - but New Orleans has now become the biggest city to host such a takeover, and it's also the most extensive effort like this yet.

When the upcoming school year starts - which is probably sometime in July, the way things are headed - New Orleans will no longer have public schools. Period. The schools are being replaced by charter schools - which in effect are publicly funded private schools.

There are several serious problems with this. For starts, there's no accountability. And charter schools can and do exclude students. Plus, most teachers in New Orleans are being fired as a result of the switchover. In addition, privatizing an entire school district is unconstitutional - as courts have ruled that children have a right to attend public schools. What if you live in New Orleans and you want your kids to go to a public school? I know public schools have been battered by the right-wing media, which wants to promote private schools instead, but there are many families out there who prefer public schools - urban, suburban, and rural alike. This may surprise media elites, but not everyone wants to conform to the private school mold.

Will New Orleans families who choose public schools be left without schools at all? Imagine going to the local board of education office to enroll your kids and being told there's no public schools for them. Are school officials prepared to pay for transport to another school district?

Meanwhile, some charter schools in New Orleans, Detroit, and Newark are the subject of a federal civil rights complaint, because the schools won't admit blacks. Imagine trying to enroll your kids, and being prevented from it on the basis of race. Why are some charter schools stuck in the Jim Crow era?

I hope folks in New Orleans are insistent on demanding a public education. I know I would be.

(Source: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2014/05/30/public-schools-close-its-all-charters-now.html)

Lawn Chair Quarterback: "Tim's Timer"

Tim takes apart a mechanical timer and is disappointed at the results (not unlike the old Geraldo Rivera special about Al Capone's vault)...

Bert Parks hilarity

Since this is a serious political blog, I know you came here to look at YouTube clips of hilarious things that were on television 40 years ago.

A while back, I told you about an uproarious performance from The Lawrence Welk Show in which Mary Lou Metzger did a ridiculous dance around Richard Maloof as he played a tuba. Now I've found something that's even funnier, if you can imagine that!

It's from the telecast of the 1976 Miss America pageant. In this clip, host Bert Parks performed the Paul McCartney & Wings song "Let 'Em In"...



If you're not rolling on the floor in a helpless fit of guffawing after watching that, your laugh tendons must be broken!

It appears as if Mr. Parks was actually lip-synching, judging by his strange mouth contortions and the apparent mistakes. His dancing is goofy too. He looks like he's about to start breakdancing during the horn solo but just can't find the right rhythm.

There's some speculation that Bert Parks absolutely hated the Beatles - so he intentionally made this performance as ridiculous as possible. His #1 goal in life appears to have been to make anything associated with Paul McCartney look utterly preposterous.

Quite frankly, I don't remember ever seeing Bert Parks hosting a Miss America broadcast, because I was quite young when they canned him. I do remember people talking about him a lot, but I just thought he was some celebrity who happened to have the same name as a Sesame Street character. Which reminds me of something cool I used to do whenever I heard "Let 'Em In" on the radio. I always used to change the line about "Uncle Ernie" to "Bert and Ernie." I remember having a big conversation with some college schoolmates about how hilarious it was to change the lyrics.

Ranks right up there with, "Tryin' hard to look like Mr. Hooper."

Coming soon: the Purple People Cam

Cameras wear out.

I've had the Eyewitness Cam since 2008, and it's provided years of reliable service. The counter on this digital camera is up to 7,148 photos and videos.

Unfortunately, it's becoming a victim of spotted fever - which afflicts many cameras of this particular discontinued model. A huge, round, gray spot now appears on many of my photos. It started about a year ago. I thought I fixed it, but now it's back and it shows no sign of ebbing.

According to photography websites, spotted fever cannot be easily cured. It's caused by dust on the sensor, which requires sending it back to the maker to be repaired.

The Eyewitness Cam also has other, less serious signs of age. The serial number label is peeling off, the battery cover won't close all the way, the rubber protector has fallen off of said cover, and the lens motor makes an ominous clicking sound. The real story is that a precision device - especially a camera - has lasted 6 years without becoming completely inoperable. Most devices these days don't last nearly that long. My experience has been that cameras usually break completely after about 2 or 3 years. If not, they usually become obsolete after about 5 years. I had a very expensive 35mm camera stolen from me after about a year.

So the fact that spotted fever is the most serious problem with the Eyewitness Cam after 6 years is remarkable. Then again, as far as I know, the Action Cam still works fine after 11 years, but that bulky device has been archaic since I got the Eyewitness Cam.

It's unfortunate that spotted fever requires professional treatment. Someone else who reported that their camera was afflicted was met with this response: "Sorry." There is little hope.

Sending it in to be fixed would cost more than a new camera. So I'm buying a new one. It's the same brand, but a different model. It's purple.

Right-wing French mayor wants school uniforms

Sorry, conservos. You own this stance. From now on, you can't say it's "the liberals" who want school uniforms.

Robert Menard is the mayor of the town of Beziers in France. He's backed by the National Front, a far-right party widely accused of being downright fascist. Menard has already issued a youth curfew and prohibited local residents from drying their clothes outdoors. Now he wants to make school uniforms mandatory.

His excuses for requiring uniforms are the same as that used by American fascists. Like America's Far Right, he claims uniforms make everyone equal - even though he hasn't done shit to promote equality in any other regard.

So the next time an American politician or public figure endorses mandatory uniforms, remember that they're mimicking the National Front. Menard represents Europe's counterpart to the Tea Party.

It's also interesting to look at foreign coverage of this story, which says most folks consider uniforms "an authoritarian anachronism." People around the world are laughing at the United States for having uniforms in so many of its public schools.

(Source: http://www.worldbulletin.net/todays-news/137583/far-right-backed-french-mayor-seeks-return-of-school-smocks)

Kentucky GOPer sentenced for drug trafficking

Considering most recent Republican occupants of the White House were drug kingpins, the above headline really shouldn't be surprising - except for the fact that Republicans usually don't get caught.

Ronnie Lane, 74, was a Republican magistrate in Garrard County, Kentucky. But now he's been convicted of felony drug trafficking charges and sentenced to 6 months in jail. Lane had initially been sentenced to a total of 15 years, but that tougher sentence was probated.

Even after receiving the shortened sentence, Lane thought the big, mean world was still being too big and mean with him. So he asked the judge if he could get out of jail for the county fair - just because he's a politician. The judge refused the request.

Another Republican politician disgraced. And it happened in Kentucky!

(Source: http://www.kentucky.com/2014/05/23/3256535/former-garrard-magistrate-sentenced.html)

Georgia better be on your mind!

I went on a fact-finding mission to Georgia over the weekend, and it pibbed the amazing Georgia way like so many other things we know and love. I got home last night.

Several uproarious things occurred. Someone ripped an LAP bunker blast at a QT station in Anderson, South Carolina. Also, I noticed that someone had put a catalog for RV accessories in the toilet at a Pilot station in Caryville, Tennessee.

This morning, at the Bellevue/Dayton Memorial Day parade, some woman was in such a festive mood that she bubbled.

Congress slashed VA funds at start of war

While the far-right blogosphere is trying to find one zillion ways to blame the Obama administration for the Veterans Administration scandal, the facts clearly say otherwise.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow points out that back in 2003 - right when the Iraq War was starting - the Republican-controlled Congress and the Bush regime slashed $13 billion from the VA's budget. This move was especially outrageous because it came at the start of a war, when it was clear that the VA's services would be needed more.

So shut your damn mouths, Repubs.

This isn't surprising though, after a Bush appointee absurdly claimed that PTSD was a hoax made up by war vets to collect benefits.

Garrett defeated too

Jeff Kidwell isn't the only Republican incumbent in Campbell County to lose the primary today.

Commissioner Pete Garrett also lost - and this loss actually imperils the Republicans' tight hold on that seat. That's because Garrett lost to Charlie Coleman, a Tea Party favorite widely considered to be the new Lloyd Rogers.

I guess this means Garrett won't be putting his campaign signs in my yard without permission like he did 4 years ago.

Kidwell loses primary in upset

Ladies and gentlemen, Campbell County's long national nightmare is over.

It's not every century that a Tea Party incumbent loses a Republican primary - but it just happened in Campbell County.

The results are in, and disgraced Sheriff Jeff Kidwell has managed to handily lose his reelection bid. As of now, Kidwell is trailing by 15 percentage points. This comes after the Fraternal Order of Police approved a "no confidence" vote against Kidwell, which was prompted largely by Kidwell falsely claiming to have served 18 years with the sheriff's department.

With this news, the misrule of Campbell County's most bizarre sheriff in modern times will come to a close.

Lawn Chair Quarterback: "Old Yeller"

Tim talks about a local man who yelled a lot...