If you thought it was fake news that Batgirl lives in Delaware - think again.
This Batgirl is all grown up. Her true identity isn’t Barbara Gordon. It’s Tonya Case, 42, and she’s a mother of two.
Case’s origin story as Batgirl began in April. It all started, she said, when she inadvertently bought a real Batmobile.
In desperate need of a car, Case said she decided to shop on Facebook Marketplace, Facebook’s version of Craigslist. She saw a listing for a ’94 Volvo that had been transformed into a makeshift Batmobile.
What wasn’t funny, Case said, were the cluster of problems she was having with her car late last year.
“There was something smoking under the hood and it kept leaking antifreeze for some reason, even when I wasn’t running the AC,” Batgirl said.
On top of that, the Batmobile didn’t have heat. Although Case knew that when she bought it in April, she said it didn’t become a problem until the weather starting getting cold.
Eventually, Case said, the Batmobile broke down while she was on the road and she had to get it towed home.
With all of her car problems too expensive for her to repair, Batgirl said she had no choice but to retire.
There's more (adorable, quaint, local-ness) to the tale in the whole article.
Now I kinda wish I'd bought a black vehicle, I'd take up the bat-mantle so to speak. Even though I'm on an anti-bat kick lately.
Oh man. Did SOMETHING happen in Delaware while we weren't looking. Though it's purely local politics. It is, as you will see, definitely in line with what has happened (is happening) across the nation thanks to the emboldened election of a certain oranged thing.
The Chairman for the New Castle County Republican Party said something nasty on Facebook. He was angry because Facebutt wouldn't let anyone post a video of that Good Guy with a Gun as he plugged the Bad Guy with a Gun - because we all know Facebutt is so liberal and can't stand anything that runs contrary to the liberal agenda of dearming everyone and everything that has arms.
Now being a jackbooted nut job conspiracy theorist isn't against the law, and technically, neither is the specific language he used. And, as one could also deduce from my introduction, simply using unguarded and unkind language simply isn't the end for some people. He had the laughable audacity to double extra down on the usage in another Facebutt post. (copied in full and pasted here to preserve some folks sanity and internet browser cookies)
AND AS IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH. He wasn't the only person to get unhinged over the holidays!
The Vice Chair for the Sussex County Republican Committee posted on her Facebutt:
Quote:
“What amazes me the most in these theatrical Congress hearings, is to see how many Jews ‘In Name Only’ lend themselves to be in the hoaks (sic) of the pure made up story of Impeachment that the Democrats have woven as spiders catching flies and bugs.
“These jews (sic) have been enrolled to come and testify, to come and interrogate and to be involved in anything that the Democrats enlist them to do to try to look credible to the people of this country.”
In response to a comment from one of her friends, she writes:
“Only God knows whether this kind of Jews [sic] are really believers in God or do they believe in the same God that many Democrats believe in ‘the father of all lies.’”
Now here's where everything gets VERY interesting. You ready to have your melon twisted?
Can you believe that? Republican accountability in this day and age!?
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