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Crimmins, How does it feel to wake up next to this?

Shamu — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:34:18 +0000

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?

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[AP News] Apparently dePressed

BJohnson — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:36:54 +0000

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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.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.

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Prediction

Chris — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:59:54 +0000

Bank robberies will increase dramatically. Everyone will be wearing a mask and it will be an easy get-away.

Mr. Jefferson

Chris — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:32:45 +0000

Safety and Security are now at your Fingertips!

Citizen Joe — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:40:13 +0000

Holder’s Tough Questions You Won’t Hear

Chris — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:51:34 +0000

There are three questions I didn’t hear anyone ask Eric Holder, Nominee for Attorney General today.

1. Why he signed a brief denying that individuals have the right to own guns?
2. Why he recommended that fugitive financier Mark Rich be pardoned?
3. Why he didnt think that the Justice Department needed a court order before storming the home of Elian Gonzalez?

Flooding Caused by Cooling

Chris — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:20:50 +0000

Last 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.

Life in an Obamanation

Chris — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:40:03 +0000

Thomas Sowell exposes Obama and the press in Obama’s latest stunt. He wrote the Secretary of Defense and asked “What changes will you make to provide our soldiers in theater with real access to mental health care?” He was referring to the statistic that said suicide rates of soldiers has gone up. While this may be true, it is still much less than the general population back home for the same demographics. The same is true about violent crime. Returning soldiers commit less crime than their civilian counterparts.

The New York Times led the way in making homicides committed by returning military veterans a front page story, blaming this on “combat trauma and the stress of deployment.” Yet the New York Post showed that the homicide rate among returning veterans is a fraction of the homicide rate among demographically comparable civilians.

Obama is one slick dude whose minions are easily exploiting the ignorant with the help of the media. Don’t be fooled.

Read Cocky Ignorance From The Freshman Senator

Drowning in bills – water too.

Chris — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:04:55 +0000

The 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 Chicken or the Egg or Simply Roadkill – Redux

Redux — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:59:41 +0000

One year ago today spiritofpublicus said:

Jeff Holmquist’s latest contemplation in The New Richmond Newspaper [Holmquist is editor of the paper] illustrates the confliction and ignorance that decays an otherwise normal brain at birth. Holmquist ponders whether the New Richmond City Council’s move to lower certain fees for construction is good or bad. see opinion

In his opinion piece Jeff admits that growth in residential and commercial construction has slowed precipitously. Huh? Almost two months ago, this same person was beating the drum for the passage of the biggest referendum in Wisconsin state history. Why? Because of the exploding growth that New Richmond was experiencing. So which is it; dramatic slowing of growth [no growth would be more accurate] or exploding growth? It seems the City Council, members who also supported the big referendum, confirmed what the socialists were denying; growth in this little part of the world has come to a standstill. Of course anyone with eyesight and the penchant for truthful observation was well aware of the reality of the situation. The question that should be put forward is not whether the City should lower construction fees, but why did members of the Council, the school board and administrators, prominent citizens in the community, and Jeff Holmquist fabricate the growth scenario?

Concerning directly the matter of lowering fees and taxes and how such actions might impact future growth, the City Council overlooked several important steps. First, even though fees may have some effect on the decision to build in one area over another, the reason for building is to meet the demands of individuals. A house built when there are no buyers is an empty house and wasted capital; a business built without profit is a business headed for bankruptcy. The lowering of certain construction fees does not alter one bit certain overriding facts; first, the state of Wisconsin is the seventh highest ranked state in overall tax burden with more increases on the horizon. Secondly, New Richmond just passed the largest school referendum in the state, which is the seventh highest ranked state in overall tax burden, with more increases on the horizon. Added together, New Richmond now has the distinction of being one of the most heavily tax-burdened communities anywhere.

The convoluted logic [if that term is even applicable here] of the City Council, Jeff Holmquist, and et al is bewildering. They pressed for the passage of a huge tax increase to meet the demands of exploding area growth, so they said. Part of their argument concerning the referendum was that the tax increases would not affect the growth. However they now see fit to cut certain fees as a way to spur the growth, which is presently non-existent that would not be impacted by an increase in taxes. Therefore, raising taxes has no impact on growth, but cutting taxes do. Meanwhile, living in the seventh highest tax-burdened state is not even considered a factor since taxes have no bearing on where people live, unless you cut taxes to make your area more attractive for people to live.

The only thing left to say is, “will the last one out turn the lights off!”

Original with comments here…

The Ignorance of the Press

spiritofpublicus — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:42:35 +0000

An 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.

Torching Reason

On a related front, the news this week contains stories about bans on food exports and inadequate food supplies being experienced by the citizens of some countries. The press is apparently coming to the conclusion that the cause of all this is ethanol. A little understanding of the most basic economic tenet, the scarcity of resources, should have made this obvious years ago when the foolishness of burning our food supplies first gained traction.

Starving

The biggest threat to our liberty is a press that can no longer reason.

Good ole Boy’s Just Protecting the Boys

Chris — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:50:34 +0000

Will 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…

Flashy — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:01:20 +0000

Gov. 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

Absolutely Anonymous — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:26:02 +0000

Charges 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.

It is this writer’s opinion the level of incompetence shown and actions taken by the Hudson Police Department at the time of this incident is nothing less than breath-taking. Many have wondered why there has been such a turnover at the position of Chief lately. It could be argued the problem hasn’t been at the Chief’s position – the problem is with an incompetent Police and Fire Commission to rid the department of below grade officers incapable of acting up to professional standards. The officer(s) who allowed Ms. Bear to leave the scene and return home without being administered a breath test should have been immediately placed on administrative leave for failure to perform a proper accident investigation. It’s just that simple.

Victoria Bear is no stranger to local law enforcement. She’s developed a rather interesting rap sheet over the last few years. Here is a review of just the traffic violations:

07-08-2005: Case 2005TR004575 Violation Date: 06-29-2005
Operating While under Influence (1st) — Guilty Fine: $690.00

07-08-2005: Case 2005TR004576 Violation Date: 06-29-2005
Drink Open Intoxicants in MV-Driver — Dismissed on Prosecutor’s Motion

07-08-2005: Case 2005TR004577 Violation Date: 06-29-2005
Operating Left of Center Line — Dismissed on Prosecutor’s Motion

07-25-2005: Case 2005TR004877 Violation Date: 06-29-2005
Operating with PAC .10 or More (1st) — Dismissed on Prosecutor’s Motion

Bear filed a “Not Guilty” plea and the court process lasted until she pleaded “Guilty” to the OWI charge. The court ordered a restitution fine and revocation of her license on 12-09-2005. She failed to pay the fine by the court ordered time resulting in her license not being reinstated until 05-17-2006.

During this time period, she had 2 more charges filed against her in January of 2006 for writing worthless checks. One was dismissed, the other she was found guilty of.

In March of 2006, she was served with an eviction notice and a judgment amount for over $1,800.

Next on 01-02-2007 she was stopped by Hudson PD and charged with Operating After Revocation. It would be curious to hear what exactly was the reason for the stop, but undoubtedly during the license check it was learned Bear was driving without a valid drivers license. She was stopped again for an unknown reason by the North Hudson PD on 05-22-2007 and charged again with OAR (1st – Rev. due to OWI/PAC). Bear was required to post a $1,000 bond and the case ended with her pleading guilty to “Operating w/o Carrying License” and the case was settled on August 1, 2007, just 54 days before killing Stauch.

Which then brings us to the Sunday evening of September 23rd 2007 at around 6:00, when Bear, allegedly leaving the bowling ally, drives her vehicle out from a stop sign turning east and into the path of Stauch’s westbound motorcycle causing his fatal injuries.

Imagine for a moment you being the first officer responding to the scene. Your first and foremost order of business would be to do whatever possible to assist and aid those injured. Next would be to control the scene followed by beginning an investigation in collecting the names of everyone involved. In the meantime, other officers and emergency personnel most likely are arriving on scene.

In the very short minutes following the crash, authorities fully realized Stauch was in critical condition calling to have him airlifted from the scene and taken directly to Regions trauma center in St. Paul. This had to have taken at least 20 to 30 minutes from the time of the collision till the med-flight arrived.

During this time you’d think police officers would’ve identified the drivers and have radioed dispatch for license checks and priors. (They do for at least 75% of all the other license checks called in.) You’d also think there would be a pretty intensive and extensive line of questioning done at the scene especially with the only remaining driver able to talk. Wouldn’t you?? Wouldn’t you think, given how gun-ho some cops can be charging people with DWI, how if even the slightest hint of alcohol is detected anytime there is a serious crash with personal injuries – wouldn’t you’d THINK one of the first actions taken would be to have all drivers blow into the tube for a test? Especially someone who has just recently been picked up twice for driving without a valid license due to a drunk driving conviction. IS THAT ABOVE COMMON SENSE???!!

But nooo…. not here, not in Hudson!! Here the officer drives the one most likely to be charged with some sort of moving violation – home! Unbelievable. Then!! Roughly 40 minutes later!! Officers come back to her home, take her to the hospital and find her BAC at a 0.116!! And now…, now the District Attorney isn’t sure whether to bring charges because the officers at the scene failed to do their job properly!! Amazing!!

And yet, many in this city think more taxes should be raised and wasted on this group protecting a number of these misfits. Hopefully when the new mayor takes office, he’ll dismiss everyone sitting on the Police and Fire Commission and assign all new members who will then clean house in the police department.

In the meantime – it would be interesting to hear why the District Attorney hasn’t brought charges against at least one officer for aiding and abetting. Victoria Bear was given a pass and an investigation should be held into her connections with the officer at the scene who gave her the ride home to begin with.

That will be the real story here…….

Influence

Chris — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:40:54 +0000

Steve 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?

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