Today's crankiness has been brought to you by 1) the shoe fashion industry and 2) lying bastard snakeweasel voter registration outfits.
First up is the shoes. I cannot find a pair to go with my wedding dress. What's up with that? Inexplicably, every shop, every designer has decided that shoes should all be narrow, pointy, and very high-heeled. My feet don't do narrow and pointy, and can only take high heels with some support and balance — not the rediculous little stilts they stick on these days.
It's not even like they're particularly attractive, either. They look strangely dated and unsexy, really. What happened to my beloved clunky platform shoes? Don't force me to wear Danskos on my wedding day...
Next up, in ascending order of outrage, comes this news out of Nevada...
Voter registrations may have been trashed
(Oct. 12) — Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day.
The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash. Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.
The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats.
The focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes. The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations. Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.
"We caught her taking Democrats out of my pile, handed them to her assistant and he ripped them up right in front of us. I grabbed some of them out of the garbage and she tells her assisatnt to get those from me," said Eric Russell, former Voters Outreach employee. Eric Russell managed to retrieve a pile of shredded paperwork including signed voter registration forms, all from Democrats. We took them to the Clark County Election Department and confirmed that they had not, in fact, been filed with the county as required by law.
...We attempted to speak to Voters Outreach but found that its office has been rented out to someone else. The landlord says Voters Outreach was evicted for non-payment of rent. Another source said the company has now moved on to Oregon where it is once again registering voters. It's unknown how many registrations may have been tossed out, but another ex-employee told Eyewitness News she had the same suspicions when she worked there...
The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.
For the past couple of months, I've been helping run a voter registration table. We've got Kerry signs and buttons everywhere, but people have still come up and checked "Decline to state", and a few have even registered as Republican. We send every single damn one of those registrations in, because it's the right thing to do. We just hope they'll look at the facts and make the right decision.
The RNC, on the other hand, has basically just come out and admitted that they don't think they can win except unless they prevent some people from voting.
What this group did casts a cloud on us, and everyone who tries to get people to vote.
It makes me want to don a pair of those horrible little spiky witch shoes, just so I can kick the living **** out of them.
