Holy Nostradamus, Batman! That was like 30 years ago and they pretty much nailed the era of "alternative facts."
Yeah, I heard them referred to more than once as just "Kansas," and not Kansas City. For people who think there's a state in Milwaukee called Ohiowa, its' no surprise that they might think Kansas City might be in the state with the same name. Then again, it's quite naff if you fink driving from Margate to East Grinstead is an easy drive until you've tried it.
The phrase is jerry-built, not jerry-rigged, and it has nothing to do with Germans. The main wars going on in the era when this phrase appeared were the Crimean War and the American Civil War. And, and taosjohn pointed out way back, jury-rigging has to do with the rigging of a ship, not with rigging court cases.
I’ll take one for the team guys. We can merge MO and KS...and Kansas City, MO and Kansas City KS in the process. Hell, throw in Arkansas too since it ends with “Kansas”. We can make the Senate great again by exploiting Trump’s lack of geographic knowledge.
Remember last week when Mike Pompeo lied about Mary Louise Kelly's ability to find Ukraine on a map? A lady who went to Harvard and Cambridge and worked for the BBC news. Trump however... Good times.
Just following the law that he made up. it’s hard to pay any debt when you’re in jail. He’ll have lots of company when Trump has finished with the ACA. Dad in Kansas Jailed Over Medical Debt from Son’s Leukemia Treatments and Wife’s Seizures Tres Biggs went to jail due to strict debt collection laws in his hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas By Julie Mazziotta February 11, 2020 09:00 AM FBTwitter Heather and her son Lane Biggs just needed medical care. A few years ago, Lane was getting treated for leukemia, which he was diagnosed with at age 5, and at the same time, his mom Heather developed seizures from Lyme disease. That left the family with piles of medical debt that they couldn’t afford. They didn’t make enough to afford health insurance, but they made too much to qualify for Medicaid. “We had so many multiple health issues in our family at the same time, it put us in a bracket that made insurance unattainable,” Heather told CBS News. “It made no sense. We would’ve had to have not eaten, not had a home.” Her husband, Tres, was working two jobs in their hometown of Coffeyville, Kansas, where the poverty rate is twice the national average, but it wasn’t nearly enough to pay off the debt, which hit $70,000. After he missed a court appearance about his unpaid bills and was unable to get the money for the $500 bail, Tres was sent to jail. “You wouldn’t think you’d go to jail over a medical bill,” he said. “[It was] scary. I was scared to death, because, you know, I’m a country kid. I had to strip down, get hosed and put a jumpsuit on.” In Coffeyville, attorneys have taken advantage of the growing medical debtsin low-income households. One lawyer interviewed by CBS News, Michael Hassenplug, pushed the local judge to establish a law that requires people with unpaid medical bills — even ones as low as $28 — to come to court every three months and say that they are too poor to afford their bills, called a “debtor’s exam.” And if they miss two of those court appearances, an arrest warrant goes out for contempt of court with a $500 bail. Tres said that when it happened to him, they had “maybe $50 to $100” in the bank — not the $500 needed to make bail. “I’m just doing my job,” Hassenplug argued. “They want the money collected, and I’m trying to do my job as best I can by following the law.”
Well technically, he was jailed for missing his court appointment, right? I don't think one can be jailed for being in debt.
Yeah, that’s true but the guy, Hassenplug is the guy who promoted the law for jail time. Then prosecutes on it. Then it’s hard to pay off any debts while you’re in jail. Chain gangs anyone.
Donut boy. Kansas Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop taunted officer with ‘Donut boy’ insult, was drunk in police chase, police say - The Washington Post
Not laughable but damm... This story is 100 million times more insane than the headline suggests.https://t.co/M21AZRTmR9— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 1, 2021