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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jul 23 2008, 06:40 AM
You hear a lot about families with troubled kids. Kids dropping out of school, joining up with gangs, doing violent crimes. Eventually someone gets hurt or someone gets killed. Then blame is handed out. There is always a lot of blame. It isn’t very often that the blame takes a full circle and comes back to the parents, though. Usually the parents are blaming everyone else instead.
In Cleveland, Ohio there is a small group of woman who are on the streets trying to be moms. That’s because they’ve lost their real children…killed on the streets. Instead of taking the easy way out and blaming everyone else, they are taking the responsibility. They know their sons were "tearing up the community." They’re telling people it’s time “to take the blinders off.”
These mothers are working against youth violence in Cleveland
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jul 22 2008, 06:50 AM
What makes those who are locked away believe they have the same rights as those who are on the outside? As I finish writing that statement I realize how sad it is in this case...a double edged sword.
Josef Fritzel is the 73 year old Austrian man who is in jail awaiting trial for keeping his daughter prisoner in the cellar for 24 years. While there, he raped her and fathered seven children. Three of the children had never seen the light of day.
This man is pure evil. And he is now locked up and afraid he will be harmed…and he should be afraid.
But get this…the poor guy (I don’t mean that) is a little upset. He’s demanding to be let outside for breaks. He’s going stir-crazy being locked up. All he cares about is himself.
Fritzel has got one 19 year old daughter, who he fathered with his daughter who was kept prisoner, who is dying from organ failure.
I wish there was such a thing as being sentenced to life in a cellar with no windows....
Watch…he’ll plead insanity.
Josef Fritzel Going Stir Crazy In Cell í here
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By Janet Evans
Sunday, Jul 20 2008, 05:32 PM
Duane Keiser
So, there’s a reason we feed our prisoners better that a simple diet of bread and water. Maybe that’s all some of them deserve…especially those who murder, or those who harm children, or those who deal drugs. But we treat prisoners better.
Let’s keep a better eye on the underweight ones now, too.
Yahoo News/AP í here
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jul 9 2008, 06:40 AM
Peer-to-Peer file sharing networks such as LimeWire or Napster allow computer users to share data, music, or movie files between computers. You have to remember, copyrighted material is not legal to share with these programs, which severely limits file sharing.
I would think the average person is going to "file share" from home. First of all, while most computer connections are now faster with cable, it still takes time and bandwidth to do so. Plus you are allowing someone to link to your computer when you "share."
"Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the online file-sharing network LimeWire while using a company computer. In doing so, he inadvertently opened the private files of his firm, Wagner Resource Group, to the public.
That exposed the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of about 2,000 of the firm's clients, including a number of high-powered lawyers and Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer.
The breach was not discovered for nearly six months. A reader of washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog found the information while searching LimeWire in June."
Like I said in my title...I could see a teenager doing this...
Read the article from the Washington Post
Justice Breyer Is Among Victims in Data Breach Caused by File Sharing Justice Breyer
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By Janet Evans
Saturday, Jul 5 2008, 05:30 AM
By Janet Evans
Thursday, Jul 3 2008, 08:01 AM
The heat must be getting to people.
It must be making them dizzy and not thinking straight.
Hallucinating.
So hot that it might make a low life think that something is actually a weapon when it isn’t.
Get a load of this guy….
That’s Gelando Olivieri Jr., and he wants $50….from a beverage store. He’s using a palm frond as his weapon of choice. Way to go Gelando. Not the smartest coconut on the palm tree.
Read the story from the DeLand-Deltona Beacon
Then we move close by where Gregory Praeger, who's been drinking, has an argument with his poor mother.
He’s later arrested on battery charges.
Maybe he didn’t like what she was making him for dinner….
from Fox News
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jul 1 2008, 06:50 AM
I blogged in May about a Naval Reserve Station in LaCrosse, WI that had a 2000 lb. anchor that went missing, most likely at the hands of thieves who turned it in for scrap metal. Who knows how much money that anchor was worth?
With some people tight on funds, instead of picking up cans for recycling for a few extra dollars, the lowest of the low have found a way to make bigger bucks. They’re doing it in none other than cemeteries.
From Chicago to Florida, to Arizona and Texas, they haven’t yet become grave robbers, per se, but they might as well be. They’ve started with ornaments, such as vases. Some just flimsy and decorative, but others more heavy and ornamental.
The stakes are higher in Scottsdale [AZ], according to Jim Welch, director of family services for Green Acres Mortuary & Cemetery.
“While thefts are fewer, stolen bronze vases weigh about 4 pounds and cost $495 apiece. The cemetery foots the bill for replacements.
"We had a theft in January," Welch said. "They took two vases. We haven't had any incidents since then."
Welch said groundskeepers placed replacement vases the same day and families weren't contacted.
"It's very saddening that thieves are preying on cemeteries and grave sites," Welch said. "I don't know what to say that it's come to this, to steal from cemeteries.
We have to put an end to the problem. Police and scrap metal dealers are aware, and we're getting cooperation from them.
"We are open to the public. We can't really close our gates. A cemetery is known to be accessible to families. You don't want to stymie that activity."
View the entire article from Red Orbit
E.V. Scrap Metal Thieves Turn Attention to Robbing Graves
That’s just an example, and it’s happening all across the country. So, what used to be elegant and long-lasting as a monument for loved ones, will soon end up being plastic as another sign of the times. What these thieves don't realize as they make their quick buck is that when a loved one comes back to a cemetery and sees a monument or vase for their loved one missing, they've pillaged part of a heart or memory, too.
I guess that’s why the Egyptians sealed their tombs. But alas, that didn’t work either.
Tomb Robbers!
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Jun 27 2008, 05:40 AM
TUCSON, Arizona — U.S. officials were shocked that a Mexican judge had freed a man imprisoned in connection with the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said.Jesus Navarro Montes was arrested Jan. 22 in northern Mexico in the killing of Agent Luis Aguilar and had also been held over for trial there on migrant smuggling charges. The circumstances of his recent release from a Mexicali prison couldn’t be determined Wednesday.“We are working with a determined Mexican government, and our Department of Justice, to seek swift justice for the Aguilar murder,” Chertoff said in a statement Wednesday. “We have also assured Agent Aguilar’s family that every resource is being called upon in the relentless pursuit of justice.”The attorney general’s office in Baja California, Mexico, confirmed that Navarro had been released but couldn’t provide any details of his case. Officials answering phones at the 12th District Court in Mexicali said no one authorized to speak to the media was available.
Aguilar was run over and killed Jan. 19 as he tried to put down spike strips to stop a drug-filled vehicle and a pickup that were fleeing back to Mexico.
Read the entire article on : FoxNews ç here
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AP Photo
What has just recently happened in Northern Mexico is a prime example of how the Mexican Government fails to abide by the law on their side of the border.
Judges there free murderers of U.S. Border Patrol Agents.
There is no one protecting the United States Border Patrol Agents.
They are virtually on their own down there.
Where is the justice?
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By Janet Evans
Monday, Jun 23 2008, 11:55 AM
Eddie Lynn Keck Pleads GUILTY to two counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle.
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Defendant Eddie Lynn Keck in court with attorney Christopher Hartley. Defendant Eddie Lynn Keck in custody. William J Molitor appeared for the State of Wisconsin. As to counts 1 and 3: Defendant was advised of constitutional rights and maximum penalties, waived all rights, plead GUILTY and was examined as to the plea. Plea Questionnaire/Waiver of Rights and Addendum received and filed. Parties stipulate to the complaint as a factual basis for the plea. Court found defendant guilty as charged in the Information.
As to counts 2 and 4: Pursuant to plea negotiations and on motion of State, Court ordered counts dismissed.
Court will order a PSI and remand the defendant. Defense counsel is also having a sentencing memorandum done by Cedar Creek Counseling. Court orders case adjourned to 7-24-2008 in Branch 38 at 8:15a.m. for SENTENCING. ls Sentencing hearing scheduled for 07-24-2008 at 08:15 am.
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Jun 17 2008, 10:23 PM
So this guy meets his ex-girlfriend at a pub in Genoa, Italy (like the salami), they probably throw back a few glasses of Chianti and he takes her back to his place.
Trouble is…it sounds like she might not have wanted to go to his place. It sounds like she was forced to go there. Not only that, when she gets there, it sounds like she was forced to do a couple other things against her will, too.
It’s horrific enough to be kidnapped. But this isn’t your ordinary kidnapper. This must have been your metrosexual kidnapper.
Ð here
Italian man accused of kidnapping ex-girlfriend
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Jun 4 2008, 06:50 AM
Why?
How?
Senseless!
Photo / AP
15 minutes into the bike race near the US-Mexico border
A drunk and a car ....
Photo / AP
28-year old Juan Campos, of Brownsville, TX is accused of killing
one and injuring 10 cyclists in Matamoros, Mexico.
Read the story in the Sun-Sentinel í here
AP Photos í here
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By Janet Evans
Saturday, May 24 2008, 08:24 PM
"The illegal immigrants, most from Guatemala, filed into the courtrooms in groups of 10, their hands and feet shackled. " That resulting from the raid at the Agriprocessors Inc. plant in Iowa.
What happened next?
297 of the illegal immigrants pleaded guilty after “admitting they had taken jobs using fraudulent Social Security cards or immigration documents.”
270 of them received prison sentences of five months, with immediate deportation after the sentence is completed.
Too harsh?
Do any of you feel that way?
I hope not.
Illegals
Some criminals spend more time than that in jail waiting for a speedy trial.
The raid just happened on May 12th.
More importantly, let their families talk.
Let them know the United States is finally going to begin to take a stance.
But wait, there's so much more.
You see, this is so much larger than the illegals alone in cases like this.
What about the businesses hiring the illegals….
“In Postville, workers from the plant, still feeling aftershocks from the raid, said conditions there were often harsh. In interviews, they said they were often required to work overtime and night shifts, sometimes up to 14 hours a day, but were not consistently paid for the overtime. “
"We knew what time we would start work but we did not know what time we would finish," said Élida, 29, a Guatemalan who was arrested in the raid and then released to care for her two children. She asked that her last name not be published because she is in this country illegally.
“A 16-year-old Guatemalan girl, who asked to be identified only as G.O. because she is illegal and a minor and was not involved in the raid, said she had been working the night shift plucking chickens. "When you start, you can't stay awake," she said. "But after a while you get used to it."
16-year olds working the night shift plucking chickens?
Who else should be in prison here, and longer than 5 months!
Read the story from World Bulletin à here
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, May 14 2008, 06:45 AM
"Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament.
They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them. The $1,000 a night girls sensing something up played "Halo" on the Xbox with the kids, instead of selling their sexual services. Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician."
Read the story
13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers × here
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That's right...it sounds like it came out of the movie Risky Business
Ralph has too much time on his hands....playing games.
Maybe he needs some quality time with his parent's.
A politician?
He might want to consider moving to New York to begin his political career.
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Apr 30 2008, 11:49 AM
Well, this makes sense.
Teachers should be dressing more appropriately in school.
They would command more respect from students if they did.
But if they stuck to one specific color as the police department in Springfield, Mass. is going to do, well, that would put fear into the students and help put an end to violence, don’t you think?
Read about it on Fox News í here
It's interesting to note that the former police commissioner in Springfield, Ed Flynn, is the new police chief in Milwaukee...He's the one who wanted to "soften the image." That should be refreshing for Milwaukee.
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Apr 18 2008, 06:45 AM
Don’t you just love cotton candy?
We know most kids do.
Or any other pink type of powdered candy.
The trouble with the candy in this picture is that it isn’t….
Candy, that is….
It’s cocaine…flavored cocaine.
The newest rage in California….strawberry, coconut, lemon, cinnamon.
And even though this laced cocaine was originally meant to mask the drug,
Who do you think will now be the target for this fruity concoction?
Just like flavored cigarettes or drug laced stickers, we know who’s going to want to try this drug.
Once again, we have drug dealers specifically targeting the young.
Read the article from NBC News
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Apr 16 2008, 05:45 PM
Felix Barrett / Revolution Newspaper
My story was going to start one way, and totally shifted after I did some investigating when I was downloading a photo from the original story I’l be linking. You see, the date of the photo didn’t correspond with the story, so it got me wondering. I did some searching and found that the photo, along with the one above, was from November of 2007. But first, back to why I was originally blogging about this story.
Philadelphia Daily News writer, Will Bunch, had the opportunity to ask Barack Obama if his administration would take on the former Bush administration for the fact that they supposedly allowed "torture."
Here is an excerpt from Bunch's article:
Tonight I had an opportunity to ask Barack Obama a question that is on the minds of many Americans, yet rarely rises to the surface in the great ruckus of the 2008 presidential race -- and that is whether an Obama administration would seek to prosecute officials of a former Bush administration on the revelations that they greenlighted torture, or for other potential crimes that took place in the White House.
Obama said that as president he would indeed ask his new Attorney General and his deputies to "immediately review the information that's already there" and determine if an inquiry is warranted -- but he also tread carefully on the issue, in line with his reputation for seeking to bridge the partisan divide. He worried that such a probe could be spun as "a partisan witch hunt." However, he said that equation changes if there was willful criminality, because "nobody is above the law."
The question was inspired by a recent report by ABC News, confirmed by the Associated Press, that high-level officials including Vice President Dick Cheney and former Cabinet secretaries Colin Powell, John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld, among others, met in the White House and discussed the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques on terrorism suspects.
And the complete article ê here
Obama would ask his AG to "immediately review" potential of crimes in Bush White House
Let's all remember, we've waterboarded a couple terrorists....and we haven't seen a terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9-11....
So, now back to the picture.
Here we see a demonstration of waterboarding.
That got me a bit interested.
A "demonstration?"
Why do we need a demonstration of "torture?"
If waterboarding is indeed "torture," who in their right mind is going to demonstrate the procedure, especially if it is so bad?
Would you demonstrate attaching electrical wires to someone and firing them up?
Mutilating someone?
I checked these photos out and found that this "demonstration" was at none other than UC Berkeley!
Well, go figure.
People want war crime trials against the former Bush administration - Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and Powell - for discussing waterboarding?
How about these liberal Berkeley students demonstrating ...no, correction....actually performing waterboarding?
How about prosecuting these men for performing "torture" on a fellow U.S. citizen?
Let's check out the entire "demonstration" at Berkeley ç here
Is there ever any police presence in Berkeley?
Oh, wait, I do recall seeing some when Code Pink was blocking the doors of the Marine recruiting center illegally.
They just let it go on.
So I guess the answer is no, there really isn't any police presence in Berkeley
There are just liberals.
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By Janet Evans
Tuesday, Apr 8 2008, 11:48 AM
Rumors have been floating around that Michael Vick has the position of quarterback on the the Leavenworth football team when he isn't washing pots and pans for 12 cents an hour.
But the truth is he plays on "both sides " just to keep in shape.
He says he's learned a lesson in all this.
No talk of "finding Jesus" yet.
Read an article from the Daily Press
Falcons Boss Tells of Vick's Life In Prison í here
and ESPN - NFL
Vick Not Playing Organized Football in Prison í here
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By Janet Evans
Monday, Apr 7 2008, 06:15 AM
That’s right…the Franklin Common Council gets the BIGGEST yawn ever...
I attended the meeting of the common council on January 8, 2008 where I heard the following regarding the Buckhorn investigation:
Mayor Tom Taylor said "Something needs to be done. If it's Franklin that starts it; then it's Franklin that starts it."
The Mayor said the family commended our Police and Fire departments.
He said he would consider going with Orville to the bars on 27th Street.
But we have to follow "due process."
That was the theme for the rest of the discussion.
Alderman Sohns said "we must follow due process."
"Hear the facts".
"We are not ready to judge yet."
"We need to be educated."
"We can't rush to judgment; rush to error."
"The bartenders are an important issue."
"It turned his stomach to read the police report."
Alderman Kosovich said "The incident happened in my District."
He wishes we could "shut the bar down tomorrow. But we can't...we have to follow due process."
Alderman Kosovich made the formal motion to investigate the incident, which was seconded, and approved.
Alderman Solomon said he "was upset when he received the call that night from the Mayor".
"We are the judge and jury on this case."
"We have to follow due process."
Alderman Hammelman said "we are used to things happening quickly."
"But we have to follow due process when you serve as an elected official."
He's on the Licensing Committee and at first he thought it was s "pretty lame committee."
He has "trust in his cohorts." "Justice will be served."
Alderman Olson first commended the Police and Fire officers saying "Franklin has the finest."
He will use all of his past experience and knowledge regarding the bar industry to
help follow "due process."
Alderman Skowronski said we must "follow due process" with the authority of Council.
Alderman Kosovich spoke again saying "in the future ALL bars are going to be watched more
closely in order to keep something like this from happening again."
There you have it.
Due process...
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At the February 18, 2008 Common Council meeting, a Special Counsel was authorized to investigate possible proceedings with relation to the Buckhorn Tavern. In the minutes, it states:
BUCKHORN TAVERN G-12
Alderman Sohns moved to appoint Attorney Roger C. Pyzyk, as special counsel to be retained at the rate of $150.00 per hour, with all fees and expenses not to exceed $5,000 to investigate allegations in State of Wisconsin vs. Eddie Lynn Keck, Milwaukee County Circuit Court Case No. 2007CF006262, pertaining to the Buckhorn Tavern or an operator therein dispensing or serving alcohol beverages to a person who is intoxicated, in cooperation with the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office as may be appropriate, and to undertake such actions or make such recommendations as may be warranted as a result of such investigation. Seconded by Alderman Hammelman. All voted Aye; motion carried.
"Yawn." What's taking so long?
Especially with the seemingly unnecessary investigation with a "Special Counsel"...when, as it was pointed out back on February 19th by Scott Thinnes, in a comment on Kevin Fischer's blog, that we just need to follow Wisconsin State Statute Chapter 125 in order to revoke or suspend a license.
On January 8th I recall hearing how our Police Department did everything by the book when it was at the scene. They were thorough. We should have no problems on that end.
I'm not trying to make light of this serious situation.
I'm just trying to make a point.
Is the Common Council taking this seriously?
Why does the Buckhorn still have their license?
Where is the due process?
Concerned citizens would like to know.....
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By Janet Evans
Friday, Mar 28 2008, 06:30 PM
Hopefully, being the good parent that you are, you know where your teen is spending his or her evenings.
And you know his or her friends and their parents.
And, like most parents, you would never host an underage drinking party at your home.
But, what if your teen ends up at a home where a parent allows such a party?
A group of teens obtained alcohol somewhere, somehow, and brought it home, and the parent allows it.
What if your teen, arrives at this home, sees what is going on, knows s/he should leave, makes the wrong choice and decides to stay?
After all, so and so’s parent is there…
Your teen stays, drinks too much, and leaves, driving drunk.
Your teen has an accident and hurts, or unimaginably, kills someone.
Your teen made the decision to drink and drive.
That parent knew your child had alcohol, but didn’t know your teen was intoxicated or driving drunk.
Well, guess what?
“Wisconsin adults who allow underage drinking parties on their properties cannot be held liable if guests later get into drunken driving accidents, the state Supreme Court ruled.”
Now, this law is specifically in regards to adults who are not providing/serving alcohol to the minor. Wisconsin does have a law regarding responsibility in that case. This law was imposed regarding minors who brought the alcohol into the home where the parent did not know the minor left the home intoxicated. It also would apply if the parent was out of town and a minor held a party on the property.
What do you think about this?
Fair?
Especially if you are away and the teen throws a party?
Or, dead wrong?
It’s still your house, your kid, you are responsible for what goes on there. And, where there is alcohol and teens, there will be intoxication…it’s just a fact.
What say you?
Read about the case and the ruling on TwinCities.com
Supreme Court ruling prevents extension of alcohol liability å here
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By Janet Evans
Wednesday, Mar 26 2008, 06:10 PM
After reading the story I am going to link you to, I know from past experience there will be differing views among my readers.
So be it.
I’m clear on my views.
This is a story about government surveillance.
It begins off the coast of Washington State, near the city of Bellingham, where federal agents are monitoring terrorist activity that could possibly come in off of ferry runs.
But this is off of an interstate highway, and they are monitoring the area for nuclear “dirty bombs.”
The article doesn’t say so, but for them to be monitoring specifically for this activity, you would think there has to have been some tip-off somewhere along the line….but back to the story.
They are monitoring activity using highly sensitive radiation detectors.
On this day, in the article, a car goes by at 70 miles per hour and the detector goes off with a warning.
They chase the driver, pull over the car, do questioning, do a search, and what do the find?
They find radiation, alright….but as my title suggests, it is a pet.
The owner's cat had cancer and had undergone radiation treatment several days earlier.
Now, I think….how cool is that...we could detect radiation from a cancer treatment? In a cat?
Look what we can do!
The article states something to that degree, also.
I say, keep it up and do what you have to do to prevent terrorism in the U.S.
We have already caught two terrorists on our soil, before they did the damage they intended to do, which you will also read about.
The writer will end his article with a quote from a Washington, San Juan County Councilman, Kevin Ranker, who says “I think it’s fair to say many people up here have been left wondering just what kind of country it is they’ re living in.”
Well, Kevin Ranker…I think we are living in a wonderful country.
And I would like to keep it that way.
I know it would be an inconvenience to be stopped by an FBI agent because I had radiation in my car.
I’m sure most people would be scared and angry about it at first.
But later, I’m sure you would feel reassured that if that had been a “dirty bomb” heading to San Juan, you would be safe.
God Bless America.
Here’s the story from the Seattle Times
ø Watch out, you’re being watched ÷ here
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