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Crimmins, How does it feel to wake up next to this?
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Last week it was divulged that good ole’ happy days star, Scott Baio had called the FBI because of death threats on the internet found in the site called Twitter.com. He had provided a picture of our esteemed President’s wife that didn’t show her in a good light. I’m sure it happens to everyone. The caption read, “How does it feel to wake up next to this…”.Story here.
Now I’m sure we all have had our moments and got caught in the wrong light at times. I know I have.
Now imagine. You belong to a government entity and are in the public eye for hours at a time. You would want to make sure you are at your best, right. Now image that is your wife. Image you work on a government payroll as well. Image you work for the Hudson School District as a liaison officer, someone who hasn’t enough credentials to get a real police job. Imagine your name is Mark Crimmins.
Now image having to wake up next to Cindy every morning. Yes officer Mark Crimmins, how does it feel to wake up next to that?
[AP News] Apparently dePressed
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Below we find the words of the AP.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is raising more speculation about a possible presidential bid with a stop in Iowa during her national book-signing tour.
The Iowa caucuses have traditionally tried to launch the presidential nominating political; season .
Palin’s book – signing tour has been carefully controlled, and she has not spoken to reporters at most events .
Still, her appearance in Iowa is seen as significant.
Veteran Republican activist Tim Albrechtt says politicians don’t just happen to stop in Iowa and Palin must know that her visit is probably seen as a signal she is more than likely considering a run.
Another possible RINO Republican contender, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, also has visited the state recently.
Copyright 2009 The Associated [De]Press[ed]. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
So the AP media can copyright the previous and obvious 6 sentences?
They are also delusional.
Prediction
Posted by: | CommentsBank robberies will increase dramatically. Everyone will be wearing a mask and it will be an easy get-away.
Safety and Security are now at your Fingertips!
Posted by: | CommentsFlooding Caused by Cooling
Posted by: | CommentsLast Tuesday I responded to a commenter when I said
The extreme differences in the nations temperatures mainly due to huge influxes of Canadian air into the reaches of the southern United States has been causing a large number of low pressure systems that have been replacing it with hot and humid air in the east.
This was confirmed in a June 14th Ice Cap article Environmentalists Try to Take Advantage of Natural Disaster – Blame Midwest Floods on Global Warming..
The severe weather and heavy rainfall has been the result of rapid COOLING in the northern tier of the United States and Canada not global warming. The flooding exceeded the floods of 1993 when rapid cooling following the eruption of Pinatubo produced a similar kind of cooling with a strong suppressed jet stream that brought a steady stream of storms and flooding.
It references a Cap Times article saying the flooding is because of global warming which is contrary to all evidence. But what would you expect from the Cap Times.
Drowning in bills – water too.
Posted by: | CommentsThe New Richmond Municipal Water Utility has filed for a rate increase with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.
If approved, the rate adjustment calls for a two-stage bump upward.
The first step would be a 23 percent increase. The second bump would result in a 41 percent hike in the current rate.
Jeff Holmquist doesn’t have to worry. Not only does he not live in New Richmond he doesn’t have to pay their water bills either, kind of like the $93,000,000 Million dollar boondoggle him and his paper pushed.
It was reported that the increases are due to increased operational and maintenance expenses. You would think Jeff Holmquist could have done some journalism and found out whether this is due to increased salaries and benefits to government workers. But you always come to expect the same old reporting, I mean lack thereof.
The Ignorance of the Press
Posted by: | CommentsAn ignorant press serves no one except the con man and the despot.
I am not sure what the curriculum for journalism students is, but I feel certain that the course load does not include subjects that require the ability to reason or acquire some knowledge of scientific law.
The moronic reporting by our local keyboard idiots has been well documented. We have the example of the New Richmond editor who couldnt figure out that he was being duped when he reported the findings of the school superintendent and bond salesman during a campaign for a 90 million dollar referendum. He actually believed the two con artists when they stated that you could double the size of a previous referendum and have no increase in taxes.
In Hudson the superintendent convinced the dunce for the Hudson Star Observer that you could operate a new elementary school for about 20% of the budget that current elementary schools in the district operate for.
A simple math analysis would have brought either of these claims into doubt along with the character of the individuals promoting such ideas.
The inability to reason is not limited to small town journalists. The national press corps plays the bigger fool everyday in stories about economics and science. No issue has illustrated the ignorance of the press more than global warming. Reporters continually echo the claims of the alarmists without ever giving one thought to scientific fact or law.
An example of this mindless reporting appeared last week in a story about the Olympic Flame and the amount of carbon produced jetting it around the world. In the article, global warming hysterics claimed that each gallon of jet fuel burned produces 23.88 pounds of carbon dioxide. What the reporter did not write, either out of ignorance or malice, is that a gallon of jet fuel weighs approximately 6.7 pounds.
I know another Doctor is working out the chemistry of this claim, but the basis of a scientific law does come into play in this story; the law of conservation of mass. Basic translation is that by products of a reaction can weigh no greater than the original mass. In other words 6.7 pounds cannot produce waste three times the original weight.
With a little scientific knowledge, the reporter on this story could have closed their notebook and killed the article. It also should have planted a seed that perhaps the whole global warming agenda is a scam.
Good ole Boy’s Just Protecting the Boys
Posted by: | CommentsWill these Boys get the same punishment as these boys? We will be following this story and once again documenting the “Good Old Boy’s” network going on in this town.
Spitzer out, Paterson in, no change in the weather…
Posted by: | CommentsGov. Paterson admits to sex with other woman for years –
h/t to Drudge (and all of Albany)…
Please note the comments, including one from kilowatt!!
Is that our Kilo??
I can just hear Bill Clinton as he reads all of this…..”Amateurs, rank amateurs”
Victoria Bear Charged with Homicide by Negligent Operation of Vehicle
Posted by: | CommentsCharges have been filed in St. Croix County District Court against Victoria M. Bear, a previous Hudson resident now living in Plain WI, with “Homicide by Negligent Use of a Motor Vehicle”, a Class G felony. For a Class G Felony, the penalty is a fine of up to $25,000, or imprisonment of up to 10 years, or both; however, for a repeat offender, the term of imprisonment may increase up to 2 years with prior misdemeanor convictions, and up to 6 years with a prior felony conviction.
Charges stem from an accident Bear was involved in where she pulled out from a stop sign and into the path of another Hudson resident, Michael Strauch, killing him.
As sad as this story is for the community to lose a beloved family man like Mike Stauch, the hurt only goes deeper when learning the details leading up to the incident, followed then by the actions taken shortly after by local authorities. Read More→
Influence
Posted by: | CommentsSteve over at Runny Eggs has a post about influence. He asks the question, do bloggers influence politics?
I would also be remiss if I didnt mention a basic difference in blogging philosophy between my end of the blogosphere and the liberal end. We, by and large, see blogging as a way to vent our frustrations. The left, by and large, sees blogging as another means to the political end of total domination.
Does the conservative/libertarian blogosphere have any influence?