Things Must Be Dull In Cambridge, Mn.
This is what passes for "fun" there. 
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Cambridge woman charged in threats to grandma.
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A 21-year-old woman is facing felony charges after allegedly prank-calling her 69-year-old grandmother 45 times in one day, threatening to kill her.
Angel Marie Rawls, of Cambridge, faces five felony counts including harassment. A criminal complaint says she told police she was "bored" and "wanted to have some fun."
Rawls and a 20-year-old friend, also facing charges, allegedly called the older woman on Feb. 5 and said "I'm gonna kill you," "You're going to die" and "I'm watching you."
Police officers answered some calls for the grandmother and heard a female caller make threats.
The criminal complaint says Rawls told investigators she wanted to scare her grandmother but didn't want her dead. She said she knew it was wrong but not illegal.
Posted by: KevindF on 7/03/2009 at 5:48 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Flood Buyouts
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20. 3618 River Drive S., Charles and Gail Poynter, $419,400, 3,606
This was the same gadfly that was yammering on the radio and in print about the proposed flood wall blocking his view of the river!
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/245523/
Posted by: KevindF on 7/02/2009 at 9:51 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
Blue on blue: Helen Thomas hammers Gibbs on Obama’s phony town hall
Wow, when Chip Reid and Helen Thomas turn against you; watch out! 
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Phony, that is, in the sense that the White House knows in advance the questions that’ll be asked, which makes the questioners de facto plants of the most transparent administration evah. I have no big problem with The One putting on a pageant — that’s standard presidential stagecraft in a television age — but I do have a problem with the NYT taking care to note the “orchestration” when Bush pulled this while neglecting to mention it this time. It’s in keeping with the media’s narratives about Dubya and Obama, though, the former shifty and stupid and therefore dependent on softballs, the latter “open” and ingenious and no longer required to prove his ability to handle tough questions. Also, and needless to say, while Thomas’s and Chip Reid’s effort is appreciated, O doesn’t need to shut out the press in order to “control” it. That’s what Rahm’s mad manipulation skillz are for, and what Rahm (and Axelrod) can’t control, old-fashioned liberal bias can be trusted to take care of. As lefty rag Vanity Fair admitted early last month:
They have been handed a most remarkable historical moment—in which they get to remake the media in their own image. They have the power and they are the subject. These people in this White House are in greater control of the media than any administration before them.
Frankly, with ABC holding infomercials for Obama in prime time, it seems almost petty to get exercised about a phony town hall. Exit question: How seriously should we take concerns that Obama’s not facing enough tough questions when voiced by a woman known to wonder why the White House considers Iran a threat?
Posted by: KevindF on 7/01/2009 at 7:48 PM | Comments (5) | Permalink
Ex-Tenn. prof gets 4 years for passing military data to student researchers from China, Iran
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Ex-Tenn. prof gets 4 years for passing military data to student researchers from China, Iran
The greedy pointy head should have received the firing squad! 
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A retired University of Tennessee professor has been sentenced to four years in prison for passing sensitive information from a U.S. Air Force contract to two research assistants from China and Iran.J. Reece Roth, a plasma physics expert at the school in Knoxville, Tenn., was found guilty in September on all 18 counts of conspiracy, fraud and violating the Arms Export Control Act.
Prosecutors said the case marked the first time the government used the export control act to crack down on the distribution of restricted data, not hardware, to foreigners in a university setting.
Roth allowed the graduate students to see sensitive information while they researched a plasma-guidance system for unmanned aircraft.
The 71-year-old is appealing his conviction.
Posted by: KevindF on 7/01/2009 at 12:08 PM | Comments (2) | Permalink
Police: Man sprayed smoking wife with hose
This is a bit of overkill. A guy I knew once, had a wife who would light up a cigarette every time the phone rang. He bought one of those plant mister bottles and sprayed her cigarette out every time she did it to break her of the habit! 
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JENSEN BEACH, Fla., June 30 (UPI) -- Police said a Florida man
charged with domestic battery allegedly sprayed his wife with a garden hose for smoking in the house.
The police report of the incident said the victim arrived at her Jensen Beach home Saturday evening while smoking a cigarette. Her husband, John Murray, 51, yelled at her about smoking in the house and sprayed her with a hose, TCPalm.com reported Tuesday.
The report said the victim attempted to call a friend, but Murray tried to wrestle the phone from her because he thought she was trying to call police. During the struggle, Murray allegedly hit the victim in the mouth with his elbow, the report said.
Murray told police he did not intend to spray his wife with the hose, and the water that reached her was merely "over spray."
Posted by: KevindF on 6/30/2009 at 5:25 PM | Comments (0) | Permalink
