Social worker, foster parents charged

http://www.joplinglobe.com/neosho_newton_mcdonald%%20county/local_story_240005334...

By Jeff Lehr

jlehr@joplinglobe.com

GRANBY, Mo. — Two foster parents and a state social worker were accused
Monday of smoking marijuana on multiple occasions in the presence of
children in a Newton County foster home.

The Newton County prosecutor’s office filed misdemeanor charges of child
endangerment against Wayne Anthony O’Neal Sr., 32, and his wife,
Christel J. O’Neal, 29, of Granby, and Nova G. Propes, 44, of rural
Neosho, a caseworker with the Children’s Division of the Missouri
Department of Social Services.

Each was charged Monday in Newton County Circuit Court with two counts
of second-degree child endangerment.

A probable-cause affidavit filed with the court states that the O’Neals
had as many as eight foster children and two of their own children
living with them earlier this month when marijuana allegedly was smoked
in their home at 225 E. Newton St. in Granby.

http://www.armchairsubversive.org/

* Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls
under the age of 16.

* Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found
guilty of fondling underage girls.

* Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for
having sex with a 14-year old boy.

* Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered
to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and
13.

* Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for soliciting
sex from 13-year old girls.

* Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days
in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a six-year
period.

* Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with
molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.

Heart of a lion, these chickenhawks

http://www.suntimes.com/news/roeper/529419,CST-NWS-roep27.article

"That Nugent, he's a man's man. He talks the talk and walks the walk,
right?

Except when it was time to register for the draft during the Vietnam
era. By his own admission, Nugent stopped all forms of personal
hygiene for a month and showed up for his draft board physical in
pants caked with his own urine and feces, winning a deferment... "

--
Yang
a.a.#28

"I can hardly wait for your head to explode when the Repubs hold onto
both houses of Congress this November. And Yang can quote me on that."
-Fred Stone, 6/14/2006

Paul Begala: David Broder Is a Gasbag

Paul Begala, The Huffington Post, April 29, 2007

[Zeppnote: when this showed up in my email, I nearly skipped it. That
David Broder is a gasbag is hardly news. But it was Begala who wrote
the piece...]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-begala/david-broder-is-a-gasbag_b_46923.html

One of the few regrets I have in life is that I allowed Ann Devroy of
the Washington Post to talk me into apologizing for calling David
Broder
"a gasbag" in 1995. My admiration for Devroy trumped my contempt for
Broder. Ann, sadly, is gone, but Broder remains. She was everything
Broder is not: fearless, intellectually honest, scrupulously fair, and
suspicious of power.

Broder, of course, is a gasbag. The Hindenburg of pundits. But my
respect for Ann knew no bounds, and she thought I was being unfair. In
retrospect I was being unfair. To gasbags.

Critic: CPS now taking too many kids from their homes
By HOWARD FISCHER
Capitol Media Services
08/21/2007

http://news.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=156691

PHOENIX -- Arizona is removing too many neglected children from their
homes that would be better left with their parents, according to a
national critic of child welfare policies.

Richard Wexler who runs the National Coalition for Child Protection
Reform, said Arizona has responded to reports in prior years of child
abuse by hiring more caseworkers and putting more children into foster
care. That includes a 2003 change in state law, pushed by Gov. Janet
Napolitano, which specifically deemphasized the goal of Child Protective
Services to preserve the family unit.

But he said there is evidence that, in most cases, children do better
when kept in their homes.

Seriously, what's is up with Republicans and getting caught in public
bathrooms?

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/8/27/171010/590

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport
by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints
in a menÂ’s public restroom, according to an arrest report obtained by
Roll Call Monday afternoon.

--
Yang
a.a.#28

"I can hardly wait for your head to explode when the Repubs hold onto
both houses of Congress this November. And Yang can quote me on that."
-Fred Stone, 6/14/2006

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707R.shtml

Burning the Law in a Riot of Treason
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Columnist

Monday 27 August 2007

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In
both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly
unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change
in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the
darkness.

- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

The departure of Alberto Gonzales from the Attorney General's
Office brings America to a place of definitions, and hanging in the
balance is the very idea of the nation itself. The basic concepts and
fundamental principles of our republic now stand as the only
legitimate considerations going forward, for they have been tested
almost to annihilation already, and will not endure much longer if we
continue on this path.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/world/middleeast/28military.html?hp

Iraq Weapons Are a Focus of Criminal Investigations

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Published: August 28, 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20467072/

[Zeppnote: Gosh! Do you think George will attend the funeral?]
Officer in Bush's motorcade dies in crash
Policeman's motorcycle mangled in incident during presidentÂ’s visit to
N.M.
Image: Germaine Casey
Medics try to save Germaine Casey, 40, after his motorcycle accident
in Albuquerque.
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Updated: 8:55 p.m. ET Aug. 27, 2007

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A police officer died Monday after crashing his
motorcycle while riding in a motorcade as President Bush prepared to
leave the city following a fundraiser for Sen. Pete Domenici.

Rio Rancho Officer Germaine Casey, 40, was rushed to an Albuquerque
hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Gone-Zo!
Goodbye, Fredo! Goodbye, Turd Blossom!
© Bryan Zepp Jamieson
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/Politics/fredo.htm
8/27/07

ThereÂ’s always a temptation, when someone like Karl Rove or Alberto
Gonzales quits their high positions in well-deserved disgrace, to say
something like, “Good riddance, you thieving third-rate lying piece of
shit!”

ItÂ’s not a very nice thing to do, and it could be argued that by
taking such a shot, you are lowering yourself to their level, or at
least only a few hundred feet above their level.

So, with that in mind:

Good riddance, you thieving third-rate lying pieces of shit!

Damn. DidnÂ’t even come within 500 feet of Rove. Missed FredoÂ’s level
by a mile.