PART 1 of 2: Does this ad represent a "necessary and effective expenditure of public funds" by the Sheriff's Department?

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Is this newspaper advertisement (see photo below) by the Gasconade County Sheriff's Department appropriate?  Does this ad represent a "necessary and effective expenditure of public funds" by the Sheriff's Department?  Give me your comments.  I will return on Monday,10/25 with my own critical analysis and opinion in PART 2 of 2:  "Necessary and effective expenditures of public funds" do not include political ads by public office holders!

Newspaper Ad by Randy Esphorst, Gasconade Courty Sheriff
Appearing on Page 17A of the Wednesday, 10/20/2010 edition of The Hermann
Advertiser-Courier, the Sheriff's display ad was one (1) of twenty-one (21) total
affinity ads "endorsing" the "Halloween Coloring Contest" for children ages 12 and under.


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Song Of The Day - Thursday, 10/21/2010

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It's "Eric Clapton Thursday"!  Here is Eric Clapton performing "Bell Bottom Blues" at the Kanagawa Yokohama Arena in Japan on November 24, 1999.

Photo Of The Day - Thursday, 10/21/2010

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Hermann Hill B&B
(Viewed from Stone Hill Winery)
Hermann, MO
10/4/2010

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Laugh Of The Day - Thursday, 10/21/2010

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"A very joyous week. A week where the whole world was watching a bunch of men trying to climb out of a hole they dug for themselves -- but enough about the Democrats. Lets talk about those Chilean miners."  ~ Bill Maher

Quote Of The Day - Thursday, 10/21/2010

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"I'm proposing jail sites in FIVE Gasconade County communities.  If ONE jail site in the small town of Rosebud is as good an idea as the Sheriff says it is, then think what a great idea it would be to have jails in FIVE of our small communities!  Vote Newman for Commish in 2012!"  ~ A. E. Newman, Candidate for Southern District Associate Commissioner

Bible Verse Of The Day - Thursday, 10/21/2010

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Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too hard for the LORD ? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son.”  ~ Genesis 18:13-14

We think that since people in the Bible were pre-modern, superstitious people that it was easy for them to believe. The Scripture actually paints a different picture. We find Sarah’s laughter to be a nervous reaction to a promise from God that was preposterous. Have a child at her age? Impossible! Yet when Sarah had her child, she named him Isaac – which means “laughter”.

God is in the business of turning our laughter of skepticism to the laughter of joy, because for God, all things are possible. 

Today’s commentary by Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, GraceNYC.org