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Thank God a Georgia college student had the good sense to save his friends lives. 

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/19365762/detail.html

 How much you wanna bet this NEVER get’s a mention in any major newscast or newspaper?  The only way this would be newsworthy to the MSM is if the kid DIDN’T have a gun and the thugs massacred the students. Then it would fit the medias’ anti 2nd ammendment agenda.

Instead, the good guys win, so it’s no news here, move along, nothing to see here. But Barry and Joe are gettin’ a cheeseburger, let’s send out a news crew!!!

Frickin’ pathetic.

Tim Zank

I’ve been watching the developments in Nebraska regarding their absolutely ridiculous safe-haven law allowing parents to abandon their children at state hospitals. Can you imagine being a self-consumed shiftless parent that dumps your kid at some hospital as they cry hysterically and plead with you not to leave them?

IMHO, this only gives lazy-ass parents the ability to *dump* their children on a porch-step only to escape the God-given responsibility of raising their kids. Granted, some people should not be charged with raising a goldfish or a lizard. Can you imagine the trauma and stress placed on a child as they’re told, “I cannot handle you and I’m abandoning you?”

Fortunately Nebraska, realizing their error today placed a 30-day age limit on the provision permitting children to be legally abandoned at hospitals. The law approved in July set no age limit and as a result more than 34 children, some as old as 17 were dumped at hospitals. Of those were nine of 10 children an Omaha man left after his wife died. How convenient.

Now comes this piece of Indiana human debris.

Why Wabash County mom abandoned 8-year-old in Nebraska“I don’t want Indiana to have custody of him.”

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“I took him there where I knew he would be safe because I didn’t trust the welfare system in Indiana and I didn’t want him to go through what I went through when I was growing up through the welfare system in Indiana,” she said. “So I felt like it would be the best thing to do would be to take him there where he would be safe.”

Mote would not say how Indiana’s system failed her, but a friend told The Indianapolis Star that Mote feels Indiana’s system failed her when she was abused as a child.

“She didn’t abandon him. She just wanted to get him help. She didn’t feel he’d get the help he needed in the state of Indiana,” said Rhonda Shea, who shares a Wabash County home with Mote and was acting as her spokeswoman.

Bullshit.
Shiftless – lazy – irresponsible.

The father of Mote’s son had custody of the boy after the couple separated more than two years ago, but the child moved in with Mote in April after Miami County authorities arrested the father for failing to register as a sex offender. The father had been convicted of child molesting in 1988. Mote divorced the father in September.

Shea said the boy’s behavior overwhelmed his mother. Although he’s 8, he’s not fully toilet-trained, and can be destructive, such as clawing paint off the walls and intentionally clogging the toilet, she said.

I’m pretty angry posting this. She actually let the child live with a convicted child molester?

There has to be other options.

AWB

Here is a full list of the butchers in Northeast Indiana that will take in deer for processing at no charge for donation to Community Harvest Food Bank.

Ansteads Meat
7245 N 925 E
Fremont IN
260-495-7632

DC Meat
1711 Lincoln Way W
Osceola, IN
574-674-2333

D & D Meats
0505 CR 32
Corunna, IN
260-541-0356

Feders Meats
16619 Lima Rd
Huntertown, IN
260-385-4551

Lengerich
3095 W Van Horn
Zanesville, IN
260-638-4123

Kain Deer Proc.
10434 W 575 N
Orland, IN
260-668-2160

I Q Meats
6188 CR 36
Butler, IN
260-868-1370

Krider’s Meat
735 W Market St
Columbia City, IN
260-248-8315

Lengacher Meat
13601 Antwerp
Grabill, IN
260-627-8060

For more information:

Debra K. Treesh
Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry
260-541-0365
www.fhfhin6.org

Claudia Johnson
Community Harvest Food Bank
260-447-3696 X311
cljohnson@feedingamerica.org

Murphy USA – $1.88
Fort Wayne Tue
7:15 AM

7504 Southtown Crossing Blvd & US-27 & Tillman

BP – $1.88
Fort Wayne Tue
5:31 AM

411 E Paulding Rd & Lafayette St & Avondale Dr

Lowest in state:

Kroger – $1.74
Crawfordsville Tue
3:31 AM

1660 Crawfordville square dr

Hi All:

Well the signs are coming off the walls and the Victory Center is closing down, not all the races went the way we wanted them but at least Allen County voted Right.

The victories that we had in Allen County was due to the hard work of the Candidates, but more importantly the very hard work of our volunteers and the support of our sponsors. I would like to personally thank Northeast Indiana PAC, Bill Bean, Indiana Republican Party under Murray Clark – Chairman, and the My Man Mitch campaign for supplying capital, space, staff and support to carry out the most effective grass root campaign in Allen County in the past 14 or so years.

I cannot go without mentioning some the great workers we had here, Jenna Knepper, Bobby Delong, Joe Knepper, Paul Morrison, Andy Mapps, Katie Ryan, Bill Browne, Generation Joshua, Debbie MacPherson, Andrew Newkirk, with the Indiana State GOP, many local Elected Officials, Candidates, Precinct Committeemen and many, many more that I just do not have room to mention.

One person that brought us a number of volunteers was Governor Sarah Palin, and I must thank Indiana State GOP and Congressman Souder’s Campaign for bringing her to Fort Wayne. Governor Palin did energize the volunteers, and we appreciate that. I also need to thank the Allen County GOP for letting us use their building to pass out the tickets, it made it a little easier to handle the crowd.

To give you an idea what the volunteers accomplished at the Victory Center; by the end of August the Victory Center had completed more that 29,000 phone calls and over 1000 door walks. In the last 10 days, we completed 1548 door knocks and 69,222 phone calls with 13,040 calls being completed on Election Day, this does not include the calls completed by Precinct Committeemen. Without the Victory Center these numbers would never have been achieves and the out come in Allen County might have been very different. Elections are won by grass root work, identifying the voter and getting them out on Election Day, that is what our volunteers did and for that I am very grateful as should be a number of our candidates.

I would like to urge all of the volunteers that helped at the Victory Center to get involved in the Allen County Republican Party, there are many committees to get active in and help rebuild the local Party.

Again, thanks for the help and support, without you, this would of never of been a Right County.

Sincerely;

Ab

Flavor of Fall

November 6th, Baker Street Train Station, 4-7pm

The Brenda Hanchar Foundation (BHF) announces their annual fundraising event the “Flavor of Fall” (www.flavoroffall.com) on Thursday, November 6, 2008. The “Flavor of Fall” will be held at the Baker Street Train Station, 221 West Baker Street in downtown Fort Wayne from 4pm to 7pm. It will feature a variety of soups, chili, chowders, and gumbos prepared by Fort Wayne notables and, several finer restaurant chefs.
Chefs for the 2008 “Flavor of Fall” include: Michael Packnett, President and CEO Parkview Hospital; Donna Packnett, wife of Michael Packnett; Jane Avery, Community Harvest Food Bank; Richard Stevenson, Wayne Township Trustee; Father Tom Shoemaker, Pastor St. Jude Catholic Church; Amy Huser, Wellington House; John Clendenen, Leo Town Council President; The Fort Wayne Derby Girls; and Famous Ron Tipton. Restaurants participating are: Sycamore Hills Country Club; Summit Club; Opus 24; Aboite Grill; Hall’s Restaurants; Bourbon Street Hideaway; Orchard Ridge Country Club; Oyster Bar; Fort Wayne Country Club, Anastasia’s Café, and L’Asiatique. Also, in attendance will be Fort Wayne’s Mayor Tom Henry to proclaim November 6th “Brenda Hanchar Foundation Day.”

Admission to the “Flavor of Fall” is free, although a free will donation is accepted at the door. Attendees have the opportunity to sample and vote for their favorite “Flavor of Fall” with their dollars. Each dollar will count as one vote; $20 counts as 20 votes, etc. The soup with the greatest amount of money collected will be named the “Favorite Flavor of Fall.”

The fundraiser will also feature a silent auction and music provided by the University of Saint Francis Jazz Ensemble. The silent auction will feature fine restaurant gift certificates, rounds of golf, artwork, a holiday carriage ride, and more.

One hundred percent of the money raised goes towards the Brenda Hanchar Foundation. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organization incorporated in 2006, created by Brenda’s husband Thomas J. Hanchar. The Foundation is named after a local compassionate nurse, Brenda Hanchar. Some have said she was an angel. Brenda was diagnosed in August of 2003 and succumbed to the ravages of cancer within 4 months. The Brenda Hanchar Foundation is staffed entirely by volunteers; all donations and sponsorships go directly to the cleaning, repair and purchasing of needed equipment.

It is the mission of the Brenda Hanchar Foundation to help those who are unable to afford physician directed medical equipment (hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, etc.), medical supplies or prescription assisted medication to enhance and maintain a reasonable quality of life. BHF does this by providing to individuals who cannot afford medical insurance and meet income guidelines based on the Federal Poverty Level. The medical equipment is provided for free on a loan basis by the financial support from the community.

It is estimated that up to 30% of the population is without medical insurance either public or private in Allen County alone. Recent surveys of various Allen County hospital discharge planners finds that approximately 150 to 200 people are sent home from the hospital monthly without the means to purchase prescribed medications or medical equipment. You can learn more about the Brenda Hanchar Foundation by visiting the website at www.brendahancharfoundation.org.

If you have any further questions or are in need of medical equipment please call the Brenda Hanchar Foundation at 432-0400.
Thanks in advance for your consideration,

Cindy Cornwell
Executive Director
Brenda Hanchar Foundation
260-804-6344

11:44 AM Friday:

Sam’s Club Fort Wayne
6736 Lima Rd & Ludwig Rd
$2.18 per gallon

Source: IndianaGasPrices.com

It’s all a republican plot, I tell ya.

AWB

Millionaire hedge fund boss thanks ‘idiot’ traders and retires at 37

The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged “idiots” and thanking “stupid” traders for making him rich.

Andrew Lahde’s $80m Los Angeles-based firm Lahde Capital Management in Los Angeles made a huge return last year by betting against subprime mortgages.

Yesterday the 37-year-old told his clients that he had hated the business and had only been in it for the money. And after declaring he would no longer manage money for other people, because he had enough of his own, Lahde said that instead he intended to repair his stress-damaged health; he made it clear he would not miss the financial world.

“The low-hanging fruit, ie idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking,” he wrote. “These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government,” he said.

At least someone’s coming out on top.

AWB