Apparently the new thing in the politics is for the mayors to become crime waves.

R. Scott Silverthorne, he is the mayor of Fairfax, Virginia. He also maintained a tube in which he offered methamphetamine to men willing to have sex with him and some other men.

Silverthorne, 50, indicated that he could provide methamphetamine for sexual encounters and undercover detectives agreed to meet for a group sexual encounter in exchange for methamphetamine, police said. Silverthorne arranged to bring methamphetamine and other men, police said.

Detectives met Silverthorne at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in McLean on Thursday and he was arrested after he gave them methamphetamine, police said.

When you are an American, you are not allowed to have methamphetamine, when you have sex with the men.

Neither are you permitted to get naked with the minors and load them up on alcohol. That is why Anthony Silva, mayor of Stockton, California, he was put in the pokey. It seems that, when not mayoring, Silva runs himself a "youth camp," where he whips out the liquor and then invites the young people to join him in a game of strip poker. Suffering from some sort of Nixon disease, Silva decided to tape these encounters, and now Mean Police, they have the tapes, and Silva, he is in Trouble.

Previously Silva had some Trouble when a 19-year-old woman accused him of sexual battery, the city manager charged him with secretly taping their conversations (more Nixon disease), and there occurred a fracas in a limousine, which caused police to handcuff the mayor while a woman ululated that Silva had inappropriately gone Clenis on her. Silva also had a firearm that got itself stolen; the gun then fired into a house, before killing a 13-year-old boy who was standing in his driveway. The cop people are claiming that Silva is declining to provide information in the homicide investigation, apparently because he doesn't Feel Like It.

Released on bail, Silverthorne and Silva united to form the Meth & Minors party, with which they now seek to become the president, and vice-president, respectively. They have already seriously redrawn the electoral map, as political analysts expect the Meth & Minors party to prevail this November in at least West Virginia, where four years ago some 41% of the Democrats voted for a Texas prison inmate, rather than cast ballots for The Kenyan.

Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread. So grab something to drink and to munch on and sit a spell and let us know what is going on in your life. This is my first time back in 2 months after getting knocked down and into the hospital with pneumonia. Since I am now at 1,051 recipes in my original recipes books I thought maybe I should share a few with people. I am making Cajun Red Beans and Rice with Andouille Sausage for dinner tonight.

I'm currently reading "A Start in Life", a 1970 novel by one of my favorite authors, Alan Sillitoe. His books have tough Northern England types who get by on "cunning" and are brutally honest. In the spirit of that...

Good Morning 99%'ers. Today's Open Thread topic in another in the series on neo-liberalism. For those who may be interested in previous essays on this subject, here are the links to those essays.

Other people here have already written similar sentiments in regards to how Hillary's supporters keep trying to guilt us into stopping the Trumpenstein monster the Clintons and their allies in the media built to give her something she could beat to begin with, but I feel the need to take it a few steps further.