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SWEET HOME HOUSE YIELDS DRUG STASH
May 14, 2010Sweet Home Police arrested four adults and took three children into DHS protection during a drug raid Wednesday morning. Chief Bob Burford said the raid on 1155 Elm Street yielded numerous pre-packaged bags of methamphetamine, prescription drugs, scales, drug records, two pistols and a shotgun. The same house had been raided in January after a burglary at a local funeral home. Arrested on various drug and child neglect charges were 33-year old Jonathon Keil, and 28-year old Catherine Denton. They were taken to jail. 25-year old Christina Marr and 63-year old George Drexler were arrested for frequenting the place. They were cited and released.
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MAKING A BULLY SQUEAL
May 14, 2010A 23-year old Oregon City man broke down and blubbered like a three year old in court as he was sentenced to 26 years in prison for the brutal scalding and near-drowning of a three year old boy. Derek Piskorski exibited ‘sadism’ and took no responsibility for the torture, according to the Clackamas County judge who handed down the sentence. Police say Piskorski began dating the boy’s mother about six months before his January arrest. The mom pleaded guilty to reduced charges for failing to stop the abuse.
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How Obama Won the Election
May 13, 2010–From a teacher in the Nashville area
“We are worried about ‘The Cow’ when it is all about the ‘Ice Cream.’
The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year…
The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.
I decided we would have an election for a class president.We would choose our nominees.. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.
To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.
We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.
We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.
The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids.
I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support.
I had never seen Olivia’s mother.
The day arrived when they were to make their speeches.
Jamie went first.
He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better
place. He ended by promising to do his very best.Everyone applauded and he sat down.
Now is was Olivia’s turn to speak.
Her speech was concise. She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down.
The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.”
She surely would say more. She did not have to.
A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure.
Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it… She didn’t know.
The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was ice cream..
Jamie was forgotten.. Olivia won by a landslide.
Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds.
They want ice cream.
The other 48 percent know they’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.”
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U OF O PREZ: “GIMME A BILLION”
May 12, 2010The new University of Oregon president wants the legislature to let him issue a billion dollars worth of bonds. He says the bond issue would be the first of its kind in the nation. It would be designed to assure that the U of O is well-funded even if Oregonians go through another recession and have to cut back. Richard Lariviere’s plan didn’t sit well with lawmakers–even Liberal ones. House Speaker Dave Hunt compared the idea to giving his kids a 30-year advance on their allowance.
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MERKLEY GOES AFTER MORTGAGE INDUSTRY
May 12, 2010Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley has joined Chuck Schumer, Olympia Snowe, Barbara Boxer, Christopher Dodd, and new Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown in going after lenders and mortgage brokers who receive hidden payments for steering home buyers to certain loan originators. Their ammendment to the Wall Street regulation bill would also require that lenders make sure that borrowers have the ability to pay back their loans. Critics say it was Congress that urged lenders to loosen loan standards in the early 2000’s.
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Think About This
May 10, 2010Think about this:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——
COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——
THE CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq … Why don’t we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we’re not using it anymore.———— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——— ——
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments posted in a government building is this –you cannot post ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’ ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery’ and ‘Thou Shall Not Lie’ in a building full of politicians …. it creates a hostile work environment.
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BIG RIGS–STEER CLEAR OF HARRISBURG THIS WEEK
May 10, 2010Trucks over 10,000 pounds GVW are banned from the highway 99E bridge in Harrisburg this week, while repair work is done. Damage from a May 3rd incident in which a boom truck hit the bridge was worse than initial estimates. So this week, only cars and pickups will be allowed to use the bridge…heavier trucks will be detoured around Harrisburg. The bridge may close completely tomorrow night and Wednesday night. Repairs should be completed this weekend.
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BPA MATH–LOW SNOWPACK=HIGHER RATES
May 10, 2010The Bonneville Power Administration says Spring wasn’t snowy enough to make up for a dry Winter in the Cascades. A low snowpack means less surplus power to put on the market at reduced rates later this year. A BPA spokesman says Northwest hydro dams don’t store much water…it has to be stored over the winter as snow to make for a good year with abundant low-cost hydro power.
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SHOULD HUNTER ORANGE BE MANDATORY??
May 7, 2010The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is considering whether to make hunters wear orange. A staff spokesman says there have been 20 hunter deaths in the last 20 years caused by poor visibility–odds that might be improved by making everyone wear orange. But, he says many hunters don’t like being told what to wear. More information is at the ODFW website….just Google ODFW.
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IT’S STILL NOT SPRING–THROUGH THE PASSES
May 7, 2010A lucky Salem man survived a 300-foot dive in his SUV from snowy, icy Highway 20 Near Santiam Pass yesterday. Troopers say Peter Chamberlain’s GMC Yukon crashed through the guardrail and slid down a ravine the day before his 51st birthday. Another motorist saw the accident, notified OSP, and got down to him to stabilize him while paramedics were enroute. He received only non-life threatening injuries, which is a good thing–because Deschutes county rescuers took three hours to get him out of the rig and up to the roadway.
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Darwin Award
May 4, 2010Finally, THE WINNER!!!: (Arkansas Democrat Gazette):
Two local men were injured when their pickup truck left the road and struck a tree near Cotton Patch on State Highway 38 early Monday. Woodruff County deputy Dovey Snyder reported the accident shortly after midnight Monday. Thurston Poole, 33, of Des Arc, and Billy Ray Wallis, 38, of Little Rock, were returning to Des Arc after a frog catching trip. On an overcast Sunday night, Poole’s pickup truck headlights malfunctioned. The two men concluded that the headlight fuse on the older-model truck had burned out. As a replacement fuse was not available, Wallis noticed that the 22 caliber bullets from his pistol fit perfectly into the fuse box next to the steering wheel column. Upon inserting the bullet, the headlights again began to operate properly, and the two men proceeded on eastbound toward the White River Bridge.
After traveling approximately 20 miles, and just before crossing the river, the bullet apparently overheated, discharged, and struck Poole in the testicles. The vehicle swerved sharply right, exiting the pavement, and striking a tree. Poole suffered only minor cuts and abrasions from the accident, but will require extensive surgery to repair the damage to his testicles, which will never operate as intended. Wallis sustained a broken clavicle and was treated and released. “Thank God we weren’t on that bridge when Thurston shot his n**s off, or we might both be dead,” stated Wallis.
“I’ve been a trooper for 10 years in this part of the world, but this is a first for me. I can’t believe that those two would admit how this accident happened,” said Snyder.
Upon being notified of the wreck, Lavinia ( Poole’s wife), asked how many frogs the boys had caught and did anyone get them from the truck. Priorities, after all!!
Though Poole and Wallis did not die as a result of their misadventure as normally required by Darwin Award Official Rules, it can be argued that Poole did, in fact, effectively remove himself from the gene pool.
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OREGON KIDS–HEALTHIEST IN THE U.S???
May 4, 2010A new nationwide study says about one in every six kids from age 10 to 17 is obese. But Oregon came in with the lowest rate of childhood obesity of any state in the Union. National health officials say Oregon kids could still use some excercise–one in ten of them is obese. Still, Oregon was the only state where childhood obesity declined from 2003 to 2007.
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MURDER-SUICIDE–1971/2010???
May 4, 2010DNA technology may have solved a 1971 Klamath County murder this month. But the suspect killed himself. OSP says the now-64-year old man took his own life after officers showed up at his house with a warrant for his DNA. 19-year old Joyce Cross was raped and her skull crushed in 1971. Semen samples from her clothing were saved, so a cold-case unit began looking into the killing anew in 2008. In 2009, an OSP detective saw an old man open a bag of peanuts with his teeth at a baseball game. He was a 1971 suspect. The DNA on that peanut bag matched the 1971 evidence. Murder, 1971–Suicide, 2010???
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VIDEO RENTAL STORES CLOSE
May 3, 2010Hollywood Video has hit the ‘erase’ button. The chain of video and game rental stores is closing. The parent company says video rental stores are no longer profitable. Industry analysts say Blockbuster may be next. Hollywood Video still hopes to emerge from Chapter 11 bankrupcy with a new business model.
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CHECK YOUR MEDICINE CABINET
May 3, 2010The company that makes liquid Tylenol, Tylenol Plus, Motrin, Zyrtec, and Benedryl for infants and children has turned itself in to the FDA for defects and is mounting a massive recall. McNeil company spokespeople say some of the medicines are more powerful than indicated on the label, and in some cases, the bottles contain foreign substances. For more information call 1-888-222-6036.
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Nail Gun Art
May 3, 2010
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