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The Obama-haters' mindless enmity

The Obama-haters' mindless enmity

 

A perpetually fact-challenged writer from Silver Spring is asserting that Obama's re-election would be a disaster ("Obama's re-election in 2012 would be a disaster," June 9).

I got the same sort of mindless screed against President Obama from friends in a chain email last week. One of my challenges to these sort of folks is, who they would suggest as an alternative?

Mitt Romney, whose health insurance plan in Massachusetts is basically Obamacare? And who wanted to go it alone invading Libya without NATO or the African Union — which would mean the U.S. pays for a third war when we can't afford the other two?

The thrice-married Rudolph Giuliani or Newt Gingrich? Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman (who is against public transit because it is "European")?

Both women's appeal seems limited to high-testosterone, low-information conservatives.

I've never seen such a bunch of losers vying for the most important political office on the planet. Do any of your rightist readers seriously believe that any of these candidates wouldn't be toast debating President Obama?

I am far from an optimist or an ardent Obama supporter. But the only thing that looks likely to derail President Obama's re-election at this point is the unemployment rate.

Maybe if enough Obama-haters stopped working for six months to create a statistical anomaly, they might get one of their goons in.

There are certainly enough of them around to do so.

Paul R. Schlitz Jr., Baltimore

 

The Baltimore Sun

 

 

COPY OF LETTER CITED

 

Obama re-election in 2012 would be a disaster

8:45 AM EDT, June 9, 2011

 

President Obama is bragging he will raise $1 billion for his reelection campaign in 2012. Here are just some of the reasons Mr. Obama should not be reelected.

While Americans struggle to survive in this bleak economy, President Obama is deliberately bringing the economy to its knees. His actions have driven up gas prices, and he is supporting amnesty for millions of illegal Immigrants.

He is trying to force health care on us against our needs and created a huge stimulus plan that so far has failed.

He is supporting a government takeover of private industry and is trying to punish businesses that create jobs. He stuffed the courts with liberal judges and socialist Ideologues, and he is trying to create new gun control measures. He also wants to take over the Internet and conservative talk radio.

Given all the damage Mr. Obama has inflicted on Americans the last two years, his reelection would be a disaster.

 

 

Al Eisner

Silver Spring, Md

Baltimore Sun

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Escaped prisoner caught after knocking on wrong door

Washington state prison escapee caught near Forks

An escaped convict was caught following a day on the loose after he knocked on the door of a cabin in the woods - only to find out the man renting the lodge was an off-duty guard at the prison he just fled.

DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP

Associated Press

 

 

SEATTLE —

An escaped convict was caught following a day on the loose after he knocked on the door of a cabin in the woods - only to find out the man renting the lodge was an off-duty guard at the prison he just fled.

Authorities said 39-year-old James Edward Russell took off from the Olympic Corrections Center near Forks on Tuesday morning. Early the next morning, Russell - still wearing his prison uniform - went to the cabin, knocked on the door and asked to use the phone, said Department of Corrections spokesman Chad Lewis.

The guard recognized the red, prison-issue shirt, a scuffle ensued and Russell took off again, Lewis said Thursday. The guard, whose name being withheld by the Department of Corrections, reported the incident and Russell was caught later Wednesday morning by other corrections officers about from the facility near Forks, on the Olympic Peninsula.

Russell was serving his fourth prison term since 1993 and had been transferred to the minimum security work camp just a day before he ran off, authorities said.

His earliest release date was scheduled for March 2014 - but that could be about to change.

If convicted for the escape, Russell faces at least another year in prison to be served after his current sentence for theft and forgery in Lewis County. And it would most likely be at a higher security facility.

"Assuming he is found guilty of escape, he's not likely to be put in a work camp, because he becomes an escape risk," Lewis said.

Russell has been moved to the Stafford Creek Corrections Center near Aberdeen and is spending 24 hours a day in his cell as officials investigate the escape, Lewis said.

Jefferson County deputy prosecutor Chris Ashcraft said his office does not yet have the case.

It is unclear whether Russell has an attorney and the inmate was not available for comment on Thursday.

It was the first escape from the Olympic Corrections Center since 2006.

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Rat bites police officer in squad car

Rat bites Baltimore City police officer after hiding in cruiser

Officers kill rodent with umbrella after brief struggle

 

Peter Hermann

The Baltimore Sun

7:55 PM EDT, June 16, 2011

 

Rats are brazen neighbors in many a Baltimore neighborhood.

A city police officer discovered just how brazen they are when one furry scavenger turned criminal and broke into a squad car. The rodent apparently gnawed on some wires and waited.

It chose a less-than-perfect moment to emerge from hiding early Wednesday and climb up the back of a sergeant as his partner drove to a robbery call in South Baltimore.

Thinking his colleague was playing a joke by tickling his neck, Sgt. Marc J. Camarote took a swipe with his arm. The angry rodent bit the officer on the palm and thumb of his right hand, according to a police spokesman.

The rat and officer battled, and Camarote was able to roll down his window and throw the rodent onto the side of the road on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge. With his sergeant bleeding, the driver sped to Harbor Hospital, and was promptly told the rat needed to be found and tested for disease.

The officers returned to the bridge, where a well-placed police source said they found a rat limping along Hanover Street. Another struggle ensued, with the police prevailing. Not with a gun or an espantoon.

An officer beat the rat to death with an umbrella.

Police bagged the dead rodent, and it's being tested. The sergeant is out recovering for a few days.

Details, including the sergeant's name, came from the police source, but the incident was confirmed by the Baltimore Police Department's chief spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi.

Robert F. Cherry, the police union president, said officers from their first days in patrol know that running into alleys and onto streets means not only watching out for broken glass and drug needles, "but also rats."

Camarote can take comfort in knowing that he's not the first officer bitten by an animal other than a dog. Back in 1996, Officer Drew Dorbert was bitten by an 3-foot-long Ornate Nile monitor lizard near Patterson Park.

Getting bitten by a rat will most certainly earn Camarote a bit of unwanted fame and ribbing from his colleagues. His only mention in the newspaper before now was in 2004 — a one-line mention in the police blotter for arresting a drug dealer.

 

LINK TO VIDEO:

 http://www.baltimoresun.com/videobeta/b7ecac59-125a-4777-8799-a6af01e15bdd/News/Rat-bites-cop

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Infant left alone with blind man

Cops: Mom left 3-week-old in hotel with blind man

 

Alexis Stevens

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 

The mother of a 3-week-old baby is accused of leaving her son alone in a Motel 6 room with a blind man.

 
Cobb County Sheriff's Office
Christina Nichole Tilton
 
 
Cobb County Sheriff's Office
Carol Louise Burns
 
Instead of being with the baby, Christina Nichole Tilton allegedly was digging through trash cans at another Acworth hotel down the road, according to arrest warrants obtained by the AJC. Tilton, 29, also had multiple syringes and admitted to using drugs when searched, police said.

"The infant was left unattended on a bed across the room from the blind male, who was unaware of where the infant was," the warrant states.

A woman who was supposed to be caring for the child, Carolyn Louise Burns, 41, told police she'd administered methamphetamines by injection throughout the night, the warrant states. In the hotel room, police found meth inside an empty beer can on the bathroom floor.

Both women were arrested early Sunday and transported to the Cobb County jail. The infant was taken into protective custody, the warrant states.

Tilton, of Dallas, was charged with cruelty to children and has a probation violation. She is being held without bond. Burns, of Kennesaw, faces two felony drug charges. Her bond was set at $10,000, jail records show.

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High school year books recalled after child porn is displayed

Details emerge about ‘child pornography’ yearbook photo [Updated]

LA Times
June 16, 2011 |  1:35 pm

An inappropriate "child pornography" picture published in a Big Bear High School yearbook depicts a 17-year-old male student with his hand inside the clothing of a 15-year-old female student, officials said Thursday.

Cindy Bachman, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, said the students appear in the background of the photo and "are not the intended focus of the photograph." The picture was taken at a school dance.

However, authorities said they were concerned enough about the picture that they demanded that all Big Bear High School students return their 2011 yearbooks to the school so that the photo can be removed or covered up. They also warned that those possessing the photograph risk criminal charges involving the possession of child pornography.

The school has offered to reimburse students who do not want their yearbooks back.

The picture was brought to the attention of school officials after the yearbook was distributed last week, and they notified the Big Bear Sheriff's Station, which is conducting an investigation.

A detective has contacted both of the students in the photograph, Bachman said.

[Updated at 2:30 p.m., June 16: Bear Valley Unified School District officials released a statement saying that after learning about the photograph, administrators "immediately stopped distribution and issued a recall of all yearbooks that had been dispersed," and that a replacement page has been ordered.

Officials from both the school and district are investigating the matter, the statement said, and will "take appropriate action based on their findings."]

 

LINK TO COPY OF LETTER SENT HOME: 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/06/details-emerge-about-child-pornography-yearbook-photo.html?lanow

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Parents arrested for letting 1-year-old girl ingest meth

Parents accused of letting 1-year-old girl ingest meth

 

6:19 AM, Jun. 16, 2011
 
KIMBALL BENNION
 
 

Two Great Falls parents were arrested for criminal endangerment after allegedly letting their 1-year-old daughter drink methamphetamine-laced orange juice.

Court documents state that a social worker with the Department of Public Health and Human Services, who visited the home as part of an investigation, reported Angela Rose Haas, 23, and Lee Edwin Haas, 29, to the police Tuesday, saying the couple's daughter had tested positive for high levels of the drug. The couple appeared in court on felony criminal endangerment charges Wednesday.

Angela Haas told the social worker that the child drank orange juice that had been left out after a party in their home at 802 5th Ave. S., court documents state. Angela Haas gave the child the orange juice, she told police, but she said she didn't know the drug was in the drink. Someone later told her that it had an unknown amount of meth in it.

Both parents told police that they did not know the orange juice was laced with the drug, but prosecutors allege that the parents did not take the child to the emergency room once they found out what the baby drank.

Lee Haas told police that he noticed the girl was acting strange and would not sleep. The baby then began showing symptoms of meth withdrawal, which lasted for close to a day.

Both Lee and Angela Haas allegedly told police they didn't want to take their daughter to the emergency room because they were afraid of getting in trouble.

The parents were held at the Cascade County Jail as of Wednesday evening. Lee Haas was held on a $5,000 bond and Angela Haas was held on a bond of $5,285. The extra amount for Angela Haas' bond was because of an unrelated misdemeanor warrant that was served at the time of her arrest.

Felony criminal endangerment carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Lee Haas

Lee Haas

Angela Haas

Angela Haas

 

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MTA driver suspended again for using bus to meet ladies

MTA driver suspended for the 15th time after using express bus as private meeting room with gal pal

Pete Donohue and Kerry Wills
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Thursday, June 16th 2011, 4:00 AM

MTA driver Edward Meehan, 45, was suspended for the 15th time for allegedly using his express bus to meet up privately with a woman in Staten Island.
 
Kerry Wills/News
 
MTA driver Edward Meehan, 45, was suspended for the 15th time for allegedly using his express bus to meet up privately with a woman in Staten Island.
 
A bungling bus driver with a disciplinary record a mile long used his express bus as a private lounge to meet a lady friend while on duty, an investigation has found.

Edward Meehan - who had racked up 14 suspensions for speeding, running red lights and other infractions - was suspended for the 15th time last week for the unauthorized get-togethers, authorities said.

The New Jersey man was supposed to steer his express bus to his assigned MTA depot in Staten Island after dropping off commuters in Manhattan.

Investigators say Meehan, 45, made a detour in April - more than once. He parked his passengerless coach on a quiet, treelined avenue in Staten Island - where his gal pal boarded the big rig, an investigative report says.

"He claims they were just talking," said a source familiar with the investigation by Metropolitan Transportation Authority Inspector General Barry Kluger's office. "He said he was going through a hard time and she's a friend."

After two of the rendezvous on the X22 bus, Meehan claimed he was delayed about an hour by traffic - and even filed for overtime at his Charleston Depot. There was at least one other onboard session, but Meehan didn't seek the higher pay for it, the report states.

The NYC Transit division suspended Meehan without pay last week, officials said.

From his condo in Howell, N.J., Meehan denied any hanky-panky on his vehicle and called the incidents "a misunderstanding."

"I was just talking to a friend for a little while," he said. "I'm happily married."

The agency is moving to fire him.

NYC Transit hired Meehan in 1999, but he resigned the following year after being questioned about his absenteeism, the agency said yesterday.

Meehan took another bus operator's exam in 2002 and was hired several years later off a Civil Service list, the agency said. A transit official said the agency's ability to reject Meehan's application was hampered by Civil Service rules.

Until last week, Meehan had been suspended 14 times but managed to stay on the payroll, the report states. Bosses in October 2008 charged him with speeding and "gross misconduct." They tried to fire him, but a contract arbitrator on appeal reduced the penalty to a 25-day suspension, authorities said.

Kluger's office launched an investigation after a Staten Island tipster reported seeing bus No. 4314 on North Gannon Ave., between Ingram and Warwick Aves., on April 12, 19 and 22.

Each time, the same woman left after at least 20 or 30 minutes onboard, walked to a car and drove off, according to the report.

"We believe, based on all the facts, he should be terminated," Kluger told the Daily News. "This is an example of why people should come to this office with information whether they think it's big or small, important or not important. As you can see from this, there can be significant results."

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