Thursday, May 13, 2010

Gasconade County Jail Poll

Pubished by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

Not to be outdone by our competitors in the local news media, Hermann Hearsay announced today that it has contracted with the highly respected Pooh Research Center to conduct a county-wide survey on the question "Should Gasconade County build and operate its own jail or detention center?" 

By the way, we don't even understand why this question is being proferred, since the county doesn't seem to be able to afford pay raises for its employees, new vehicles for its employees, white rock for our its washed out roads nor money for maintenance and preservation of our stately old courthouse.  Is this another pie-in-the-sky idea being "floated" by Southern District Commissioner Jerry Lairmore?  Recall that Commissioner Lairmore was the one who originally floated the idea of increasing our sales tax 1/2 cents in order to begin chip and sealing all county roads.  And where are we on that one, Jerry?

Representatives of Pooh Research Center will be conducting their telephone survey on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  We will publish the results of their survey (N = 1,000) next week.

Another unidentified online news outlet recently completed a survey on this very same question.  Their sample size was N = 111.  We will sample N = 1,000.  Their sampling approach was to ask for a response to a poll from the readers of their website.  This sampling approach is defective in that the only people sampled were people who just happen to read their website.  Additionally respondents were not qualified in any way whatsoever.  For example, were the respondents to their survey even Gasconade County registered voters?  Were the respondents "representative" of the entire county or do they represent a vary narrow community in the northern end of the county?  In our survey, the Pooh people will call out to randomly selected registered voters all throughout the county.  If they're not a registered voter in the county, they will not be allowed to participate in the poll.  Yes, we are taking this poll very seriously my friend!

Here at Hermann Hearsay, we will never be out-done, out-worked or out-polled by the competition!

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Hermann Hearsay's 'Name The Mascot Contest'


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We are searching for the perfect name for our 'Hermann Hearsay' mascot.  You can help us out.  Please comment with your favorite name choice from among those listed below:
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  2. Hank
  3. Hans
  4. Harlan
  5. Harold
  6. Hearsay
  7. Hector
  8. Hee-Haw
  9. Herbert
  10. Herkimer
  11. Herman
  12. Hermie
  13. Hickey
  14. Hickory
  15. Horace
  16. Hubert
  17. Huey
The winner of our 'Name the Mascot Contest' will receive two free passes to A. E. Newman's Mid-Missouri Mule Rides, and will be featured prominently in an upcoming article.  You must be 18 years old to enter the contest.

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BREAKING NEWS - County Employees Chow Down On Matt Penning's Famous German Potato Salad


Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor


County employees are celebrating Employee Appreciation Day at the Gasconade County Courthouse today.  Our sources inside the courthouse tell us that Northern District Commissioner Matt Penning made up a large batch of his famous German potato salad for the luncheon festivities.  Aaaaaaah!  At times like this, I'm tempted to run for a county office.  Hmmmmm?  County Collector might be a nice job!

No information is available on what dishes Presiding Commissioner Ron Jost or Southern District Commissioner Jerry Lairmore prepared for the county employees.  If someone knows, please contact us so we can update our report.

For more information regarding Matt Penning's Famous (and Secret Recipe) German Potato Salad, go to our earlier report by clicking on the following link:

http://hermannhearsay.blogspot.com/2010/04/matt-pennings-german-potato-salad.html

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'Supreme Court Faces Mecca' by Ann Coulter

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

Sometimes we just don't have enough local controversy to report on here in Hermann.  When those occasional lulls in the news cycle occur, you can always count on Hermann Hearsay to stir the pot in other ways. 

Today we are copying and pasting an article written by one of our favorites ladies.  In the interest of full and complete disclosure, we also like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Ronald Reagan.  Now, the mere mention of these names may cause a handful of you to cancel your FREE Subscriptions and leave us forever.  If you do decide to leave us, don't let the screen door hit you in the ass!

Yes, we're right-wing, neocon, Bible-thumpin', gun-totin' conservatives here at Hermann Hearsay.  If you linguine-wristed, liberal, pro-abortion Democratic Socialists don't like it here, go read www.CountyNewsLIVE.com instead.  Afterall, that's one site which could really use the additional readership.  Aren't they the ones who hold subscriber telethons to solicit PAID subscribers and bake sales to earn extra cash to pay their utility bills?

Supreme Court Faces Mecca

by Ann Coulter

Posted on World Net Daily
May 12, 2010

Americans can thank the Supreme Court for the attempted car bombing of Times Square, as well as any future terrorist attacks that might be less "amateurish" and which our commander in chief will be unable to "thwart" unless the bomb fizzles.

Over blistering dissents by Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, five Supreme Court justices have repeatedly voted to treat jihadists like turnstile jumpers. (Thanks, Justice Kennedy!)

That's worked so well that Obama's own attorney general is now talking about making massive exceptions to the Miranda warnings – exceptions that will apply to all criminal suspects, by the way – in order to deal with terrorists having to be read their rights as a bomb is about to go off.

Let's be clear: When Eric Holder thinks we're being too easy on terrorists, we are being too easy on terrorists.

Either the five liberal justices demanding constitutional rights for terrorists are out of their minds, or the religious worship of President Franklin D. Roosevelt has got to stop. According to liberal logic in the war on terrorism, FDR was a bloodthirsty war criminal.

When six Germans and two Americans were suspected of plotting an attack on U.S. munitions plants during World War II, FDR immediately ordered them arrested and tried in a secret military tribunal held behind closed doors at the Department of Justice.

Within weeks, all were found guilty. Six of the eight, including one U.S. citizen, were given the electric chair. One German was sentenced to life in prison and the other American citizen – who had turned himself in and revealed the plot to the FBI – got 30 years.

The Supreme Court upheld the secret trial, but didn't get around to writing the opinion until after Old Sparky had rendered its own verdict.

Consider that the eight saboteurs never actually did anything other than enter the country illegally, which I gather is considered a constitutional right these days (except in my future home state of Arizona).
Still, FDR had them executed or imprisoned after trial in a secret military tribunal.

How many future car bombers would be discouraged if Faisal Shahzad were tried by military tribunal and executed by, say, the end of the month? What if Army doctor Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had already gotten the chair?

But we can't do that because, according to five Supreme Court justices who aren't "progressive" enough for American liberals, terrorists waging war on U.S. soil get full constitutional protections.

So, instead, we're left arguing about whether an exception should be made to Miranda rights in the case of a terrorist who plotted with foreign agents to plant a car bomb in Times Square. ("You have the right to remain violent ...")

We are at war. The Supreme Court has no right to stick its fat, unelected nose into the commander in chief's constitutional war powers, particularly in a war against savages whose only reason for not nuking us yet is that they don't have the technology. (The New York Times hasn't gotten around to printing it.)

The reason Democrats are obsessed with controlling the courts is that unelected judges issuing final edicts is the only way liberals can attain their insane policy agenda. No group of Americans outside of Nancy Pelosi's district would vote for politicians who enacted laws similar to the phony "constitutional rights" liberal justices proclaim from the Supreme Court.

President Obama would rather surrender his authority as commander in chief to the Supreme Court than get blamed for deciding to treat terrorists as if they're Paris Hilton facing a drunk driving charge. Let the court do it.

(Recall that Obama's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the 9/11 attack, in a civilian court in New York was even less popular with the American people than Jay Leno at 10 p.m.)

Meanwhile, elected Democrats in Congress are also happy to yield their lawmaking authority to the court, so they don't have to be the ones voting for laws mandating late-term abortions; hard-core pornography on the Internet; government-sanctioned race discrimination; forced cross-district busing; confiscatory property-tax hikes to fund socially engineered school-desegregation plans; bans on the public observation of religious traditions shared by most Americans; free education, health care and welfare benefits for illegal immigrants; and a redefinition of the 2,000-year-old institution of marriage against the express wishes of voters in every state to vote on it.

(Note: This is only a partial list.)

The Supreme Court has become a Blue Ribbon Commission for Lunatics, issuing binding edicts in 5-4 votes that Americans would never in a million years vote for. Distinguishing between Elena Kagan and any other Democratic nominee is like distinguishing between Hannibal Lecter and Vlad the Impaler.

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Ann Coulter, well-known for her TV appearances as a political analyst, is an attorney and author.

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Photo Of The Day - Thursday, 5/13/2010

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Elmer Fudd's horse, 'Gabby'

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Quote Of The Day - Thursday, 5/13/2010

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"That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms."  ~ Samuel Adams 

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Joke Of The Day - Thursday, 5/13/2010

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"I can't do journalism anymore because, as it turns out, there are two things that will get you locked up in journalism. One is malice; the other is reckless disregard for the truth -- these are my hobbies."  ~ Rick Harris

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