Thursday, May 27, 2010

Hermann Hearsay Subscriptions Increasing By Leaps And Bounds!

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Our subscriptions reached a total of 350 as of 11:37 p.m Wednesday night!  We now have 328 FREE Subscribers and 22 Premium Subscribers.  It seems like folks like our two-tiered subscriber program.  The FREE Subscribers like the fact that we hide very few articles from their eyes as is more commonly done on other local news websites.  And our Premium Subscribers are just wild about our new
'Herkimer' logo golf caps which are currently available in three colors:  wheat, white and pink.  Our golfers, fishermen, farmers and lady gardeners are raving about the caps!

We never in our wildest imagination thought we would have 350 subscribers at this time in our business start-up.  We have revised our subscription goals accordingly.  We are now shooting for 500 (400 FREE and 100 Premium) subscribers by the end of the year.  I don't know if we're making journalism history or not.  We are too busy to think about it!  We'll just leave that to the historians to figure out.

Thank you, Hermann Hearsay nation!

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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The Streets And Sidewalks Of Hermann - Day Three Of A Five Day Engineering Survey

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

This investigative report is continued from our Monday, 5/10 and Tuesday, 5/11 reports.  We actually conducted this third day of surveying on Wednesday, 5/12, but we must have gotten pre-occupied with something else and didn't publish the results on the same day.  So presented here today is what we found on our third day of walking the streets and sidewalks of Hermann.

After the third day, we were forced to suspend our street and sidewalk survey due to heavy rain, some flooding of streets during the past couple weeks and to be honest some much needed R&R.   We are resuming our survey and more reports will follow.

Yes, I know that we could have hidden this report from the eyes of FREE Subscribers and reserved the report for the eyes of our PREMIUM Subscribers only. We could have done that to "bait" our FREE Subscribers into upgrading their memberships. But we're just not sneaky enough and under-handed enough to pull something like that. Therefore, all five (5) reports (or possibly more) in this series of reports will be available to everyone, even our lowly cheapskate FREE Subscribers who have not yet upgraded their memberships.

On my third day of walking (Wednesday, 5/12), I found the following street and sidewalk conditions:

  1. 1st Street heading west from Gutenberg Street to Schiller Street - Sidewalks on both sides of street in excellent conditon.  Asphaltic street surface in fair condition. Street surface well sealed.
  2. 1st Street heading west from Schiller Street to Market Street - Sidewalks on both sides of street in good condition.  Narrow sidewalk on south side in one spot.  South sidewalks cracked and busted in a few spots but surface has remained relatively even. Asphaltic street surface is patched, cracked and alligatored in a few spots, but still in relatively good condition
  3. 1st Street walking west from Market Street to Mozart Street - Sidewalk exists only on south side of street and it is not in good condition.  Cracked in a few spots.  Asphaltic street surface is patched and alligatored.
  4. Mozart Street walking south from 1st Street to 2nd Street - No sidewalks.  Asphaltic street surface is patched and alligatored.
  5. Mozart Street walking south from 2nd Street to 3rd Street - No sidewalks. Asphaltic street surface is patched and alligatored.
  6. Mozart Street walking south from 3rd Street to 4th Street - No sidewalks. Asphaltic street surface is patched and alligatored.
More street and sidewalk survey results to follow.

Jimmy Oldsun
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BREAKING NEWS - GCCS Schedules Meeting For Thursday Evening

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor


Hermann Hearsay learned at 1 p.m. today that the GCCS (Gasconade County Courthouse Society) is calling a meeting at the Gasconade County Courthouse for this Thursday evening, 5/27.  It was unclear when we learned about it what time the meeting would start, and it was unclear whether this would be a meeting of the Board of Directors or a meeting of the General Membership.  Our source was also unclear who called the meeting.  We understand that Jon Held, former Vice-President and acting President had resigned his position on the Board of Directors some time ago, so we presume that Mr. Held has not called the meeting.  This information was provided to us by one of our sources.  He prefers to remain anonymous.

We called one of Hermann Hearsay's Premium Subscribers who also happens to be a member of the GCCS to see what he might know about the meeting.  Dick Schaefer told us around 2:30 p.m. this afternoon that he had not received notification of the meeting either by cell phone or by email.  As a member, Mr. Schaefer provided his contact information last year when he became a member.

We also attempted to contact Glenn Warnebold, GCCS Treasurer.  We left a message at Oak Glenn Winery, but Glenn has not returned our call as of this report.  We then contacted Sharon Meyer, GCCS Secretary.  Sharon confirmed to us that there will in fact be a Board of Directors meeting at 7 p.m. this Thursday.  The meeting will be conducted in the 2nd floor courtroom and all members are welcome to attend.  Agenda topics are the filling of two vacancies on the board and planning for the 2010 General Membership Meeting.  Sharon also confirmed to us that this will be the first meeting of the GCCS since August of 2009.

Hermann Hearsay will be in attendance Thursday night and will report the outcomes of the meeting on Friday.

UPDATE!  We appreciate that Glenn called back at 7:30 p.m. this evening and confirmed that the meeting is a GCCS Board of Directors meeting at 7 p.m. in the Gasconade County Courthouse.  He confirmed that GCCS members and members of the media are not prohibited from attending the meeting.

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Photo Of The Day - Wednesday, 5/26/2010

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'Herkimer'
Owned by Jethro Bodine

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Laugh Of The Day - Wednesday, 5/26/2010

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"Ex-president George W. Bush blamed BP for the disaster off the coast of Louisiana. Later he recanted saying "I thought BP stood for Black President."  ~ Fred Rubino

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Quote Of The Day - Wednesday, 5/26/2010

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On the subject of journalism .....

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please."  ~ Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)

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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Photo Of The Day - Tuesday, 5/24/2010

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Charlie Farquharson's yawning horse, 'Heathcliff'
Charlie is a Hermann Hearsay Premium Subscriber.
He also does the 'Weekend Weather Report'.

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Laugh Of The Day - Tuesday, 5/25/2010

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"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good."  ~ Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008

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Quote Of The Day - Tuesday, 5/25/2010

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On the subject of journalism .....

"The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business."  ~ Frank Miller

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Monday, May 24, 2010

Photo Of The Day - Monday, 5/24/2010

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Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau
Paris, France
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Laugh Of The Day - Monday, 5/24/2010

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"Is there anyone here from Texas? Yeah?! You can always tell a Texan,...not much, but you can tell em.


Texas, now there’s a state to visit if you have never been. You name it, they got it. You name it, they ain’t got it, you didn’t need it no how!


Down there they got miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles. Everything down there is big.


I seen a flea,…it had 4 dogs on it."  ~ Red Skelton

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Quote Of The Day - Monday, 5/24/2010

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“Matt has got until next Thursday to pay these bills.  You’ve got the chance to man up, Matt. You said at a meeting in Owensville all bills should be collected.”  ~ Gasconade County Southern District Associate Commissioner Jerry Lairmore, as reported by Dave Marner in the Gasconade County Republican on 10/14/2009

"Er uh excuse me, Jerry, but have you been paid for those legal bills yet?"  ~ Jimy Oldsun, Editor of Hermann Hearsay

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Courthouse Cat Burglar Strikes Again!

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

The "Courthouse Cat Burglar" (CCB) has apparently struck again!  When Gasconade County courthouse employees arrived at work this Monday morning, they found new storage shelves in the room which had formerly been used as the Sheriff's Evidence Room.  The room had been vacated by the Sheriff's Department several months ago.

Hermann Hearsay could find no reliable first-hand witnesses.  One guy riding a new Harley-Davidson motorcycle reported that he had heard the high-pitch whine of a rotary wood saw and had seen a mysterious cloud of sawdust and some odd-looking, whirling dirvish of a man.  But he didn't get a good I. D. on the fellow.  No one we talked to seemed to know for sure who had "broken in" and built the storage shelves. 

Speculation is now running rampant!  Some accuse the "Courthouse Cat Burglar".  The CCB was suspected of the 2009 Labor Day Weekend "break-in", but Matt Penning's Citizen Courthouse Volunteers (CCV) were eventually accused of that "break-in" when no hard evidence linking the CCB to the "break-in" could be found.

I contacted Northern District Commissioner Penning to ask if he had been working any of his untrustworthy Citizen Courthouse Volunteers at the courthouse this weekend.  Commissioner Penning told me that he just doesn't bother to work the CCVs at the courthouse anymore, not after the disrespectful way they were treated by certain county officials (read County Collector Schlottach and Southern District Commissioner Lairmore) last September.

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Example of Emails Sent Out By County Official From County Computer During Regular Office Hours

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

This is the third report in what will be a long series of reports regarding the improper use of a county asset (a computer) for inappropriate personal purposes by an elected county official during regular office hours.  You may access our first two reports on this important subject by clicking on the following links:
So that our readers may gain a better appreciation for the type of inappropriate personal and political emails being sent out by the elected county official at the center of our investigative reports, we are copying and pasting the contents of the most recent such email sent out by the county official.  And here it is:

Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 08:18:57 (Subject: Fw: Very, Very, Serious Warning)

WHO THE HELL IS HE ???

Strange, wouldn't you say?

I am not sure who did this research but it is very interesting

Read this....

Why was his law license inactivated in 2002?

Why was Michelle’s law license INACTIVATED by court order?

There is only one Barack Hussein Obama according to the U. S. Census and he has 27 Social Security numbers and over 80 aliases.

The one he uses now originated in Connecticut where he is not ever reported to have lived. No wonder ALL of his 'records' are sealed!!!

It just gets worst….!!!

At least we only have 3 years of this mystery man left before we can replace him.

Was He There?

Who IS He?

I have always wondered why NO ONE ever came forward from Obama's past saying they knew him, attended school with him, was his friend, etc.

NO ONE, not one person has ever come forward from his past.

VERY, VERY STRANGE.

This should really be a cause for great concern.

To those who voted for him, YOU HAVE ELECTED THE BIGGEST UNQUALIFIED FRAUD that America has ever known!

This is very interesting stuff. Sort of adds credence to the idea of The Manchurian Candidate thing having happened here!

Stephanopoulos of ABC news said the same thing during the 08' campaign. He too was a classmate of BO's at Columbia class of 1984. He said he never had ONE class with him.

Was he there?

While he is such a great orator, why doesn't ANYONE in Obama's college class remember him?

Maybe he never attended class!

Maybe he never attended Columbia ?

He won't allow Columbia to release his records either.

Suspicious isn't it???

NOBODY REMEMBERS OBAMA AT COLUMBIA !!!!!!!

Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia University students from the period when Obama claims to have been there, but none remembered him.

Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983.
In 2008, Root says of Obama, "I don't know a SINGLE PERSON at Columbia that knew him, and they all know me.

I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia . EVER! Nobody recalls him.
I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding.

"Root adds that he was also, like Obama, "Class of '83 political science, pre-law" and says, "You don't get more exact or closer than that."

Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him.

At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack!

And five years ago, nobody even knew who he was. The guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him.

Is that not strange? It's VERY strange. "Obama's photograph does NOT appear in the school's 'yearbook' and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia.


NOTE: Root graduated as Valedictorian from his high school, Thornton-Donovan School , then graduated from Columbia University in 1983 as a Political Science major (in the same class as Barack Hussein Obama WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN).

Can it be that BHO is a complete fraud?

More intrigue concerning "The Man who WASN'T there."

I’m sure the truth will be found out, but too bad not soon enough!

Please do not give up on ousting the people at the top.

We must go on, and continue sending these out to everyone.

Pass this on to everyone on your e-list…pass it across America !

And so, Hermann Hearsay readers, let me ask you a few simple questions:
  1. Did you elect your county officials to do the business of the county or did you elect them so they could go to work in their county offices and use county computers to send out personal emails and political emails?
  2. Whether you are a supporter of President Barack Obama or not, do you feel it is appropriate for a Gasconade County elected official (in this case, a Republican) to spend her time reading emails such as this and then forwarding on to her personal distribution list instead of doing the work that the People of Gasconade County elected her to do?
  3. If this elected county official is spending time reading and forwarding personal emails while being paid by the taxpayers to perform the duties of her office, do you suppose she might be short-changing the taxpayers in other ways?
  4. What do you think the Gasconade County Democrats think about a Republican office holder using their office, county assets and county time to disseminate political propaganda?
We will be publishing the contents of more of the personal and political emails sent out by this particular elected county official in future reports.  We are not yet ready to disclose the name, political affiliation and elective office of this county official.  That will be done at a time and place of our choosing.

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Investigative Report Follow-up - Improper Use of County Owned Computers Alleged By Local Man

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

On April 29, Hermann Hearsay ran a report on the improper use of Gasconade County assets.  In that article, we specifically focused on the improper use of county-owned computers to conduct personal business and send out political emails.

For easy reference, you may click on the following link to read what we reported at that time:

http://www.hermannhearsay.blogspot.com/2010/04/investigative-report-improper-use-of.html

At that time, we reported that six (6) personal emails originated by an elected county official and sent from her county-owned computer during regular office hours had been referred to us by an irate citizen and loyal HH subscriber who just happened to receive them when they were forwarded on to him by one of the original recipients of the emails.  Since our first report, an additional email has surfaced and it has been forwarded on to us.  We are now in receipt of a total of seven (7) such personal emails which were sent by the same public official from her county-owned computer during regular office hours.  There could very well be more of these kind of emails, and we are searching to find them.

The list of emails which have come to our attention thus far is reproduced hereinbelow:
  1. Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:29:59 (Subject: Republican Pachyderm Club, Lincoln Day Flier)
  2. Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:56:41 (Subject: Article "Organizing Kids for Barack Obama")
  3. Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:44:18 (Subject: Article "After America , There is No Place to Go")
  4. Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:44:32 (Subject: Article "Barack Obama Has Awakened a Sleeping Nation")
  5. Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:25:21 (Subject: Food Nutrition Chart)
  6. Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:18:11 (Subject: Article "British Press Report on Obama's G-20 Summit Meeting Trip")
  7. Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 08:18:57 (Subject: Fw: Very, Very, Serious Warning)
All of these emails are personal emails (most of a political nature) as opposed to county business emails.  All of these emails were sent during normal office hours at the County Courthouse and were therefore presumably sent from a county-owned computer or computers.  Hermann Hearsay has in our possession copies of the emails and has confirmed that the subject matter of the emails is of a personal and political nature and not of a county business nature  We have confirmed that the email address of the originator is that of a certain elected county official.  We are withholding the name of the county official at this time pending further investigation.
 
There is a lot more to be investigated and checked out with regard to this important story.  A number of questions remain.  For example:
  1. Are there anymore personal emails like this which were originated by this particular county official during regular office hours?  What is the nature of these personal emails?
  2. What other personal business has been conducted over the internet or otherwise during regular office hours by this particular county official?
  3. Are there other county officials who are using county assets (such as telephones, vehicles, etc.) to conduct personal business during regular work hours?   Are county assets being "loaned out" to county officials or employees for their personal use on weekends or at other times?  If so, who is involved?
  4. Do written policies which govern proper and ethical business conduct by our county officials and employees even exist?  If such policies exist either by Missouri state statute or by county policy, are our county officials and employees aware of them?
  5. What does the Missouri Ethics Commission have to say about such personal and political use of public assets by public officials during regular office hours when they should be doing the People's business rather than their own personal business?
  6. If a county official has the time to spend on personal matters and political matters during his/her normal office hours, does this indicate that his/her office may be over-staffed?  Or does it indicate that the county official is negligent or at least inattentive in his/her official duties?
Whereas there are still many open questions to be investigated, and whereas Hermann Hearsay has very limited staff resources and whereas this is a very important story of great public import, we decided to share the information we have thus far gathered with certain friends in the local media.  It is vitally important to get this story right and to report it to the citizens of Gasconade County.  By working together and sharing information among ourselves, we reasoned that we could pursue leads and find the answers to remaining open questions much quicker than we might by working alone.  Unfortunately our offer to share the information we have gathered has been turned down.

Therefore, we will pursue this story independently without collaboration with other crack investigative reporters and at our own slow-as-molasses methodical pace.

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