Lindsay, CA- A library aide was fired after viewing a patron allegedly viewing child pornography on a library computer.  Brenda Biesterfeld, the only employee of the library in the 11,000 citizen community of Lindsay, has gotten large amounts of support from moral organizations.

By Biesterfeld’s account, the uproar started Feb. 28, when she saw Chrisler staring at photos of naked, blond boys. She was sickened, she said, and called her supervisor, Judi Hill. According to Biesterfeld, Hill told her to give the man a note ordering him to stop. When Biesterfeld suggested calling the police, Hill told her not to do it, her attorneys said.  But the next day Biesterfeld, nagged by doubts, used her lunch hour to visit the police station next door. She was told to contact the station if the same thing happened again, said Mathew Staver, one of her attorneys. “She was doing the moral and legal thing that anyone would do,” he said. “When you see someone viewing child pornography, you report it to the proper authorities.”

This is such a shame.  Our public library would have no issue calling the police if this issue existed.   I would have no issue myself!  It is both disgusting and dangerous, our library had a 13 year old RAPE a 7 year old girl…it was tragic.  They are VERY vigilant of what goes on, sadly, California has just not caught on.

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“Quite honestly, we’re really baffled,” said Scott Staska, superintendent of the Rocori School District.  Of 33 people treated at St. Cloud Hospital, 15 were kept overnight “as a precaution,” said Dr. Tom Schrup. The rest, including four students taken to the hospital in Paynesville, Minn., were treated and released.  The patients had symptoms such as coughing or burning eyes and nasal passages, Schrup said.

No one was seriously ill, required mechanical ventilation or was expected to have long-term symptoms. “It’s becoming clear that most people here were very minimally affected,” Schrup said.  At 1:40 p.m. a student had trouble breathing and the number of victims grew quickly, said Stearns County Chief Deputy Bruce Bechtold.

Students were swimming laps when “a big vapor cloud” emerged from vents in the pool, said Cold Spring Mayor Doug Schmitz, who responded to the school in his role as assistant fire chief.  Before the class, the school’s custodial staff had shut off the pool’s water to work on a water line, Staska said. He said the work was routine, didn’t involve chlorine and the water was back on before class.

A state chemical assessment team based in St. Cloud tested the air at 3:09 p.m. and found no trace of chlorine or other chemicals, said Greg Newinski, the team’s battalion chief.  “We’re a little perplexed,” he said. “But two hours had passed since the exposure, and they’ve got a ventilation system running, so it could be that things dissipated.”  By 4 p.m., officials pronounced the school safe, and students and faculty were allowed back into the building.  Although “every agency we’ve talked to says the pool is safe,” Staska said, the district cancelled Wednesday night swim classes. Although the school will open as usual this morning, the pool will remain closed.

Wow!  These kids are lucky as chlorine can be some very volatile stuff.  They used it as poison in world wars.  Inhaling enough can kill you!  Thank goodness for the trained emergency responders and that it was only a minor leak!

Pictured above: Herb Peterson

A Southern California McDonald’s restaurants official says Egg McMuffin inventor Herb Peterson has died in Santa Barbara at age 89.

Monte Fraker, vice president of operations for McDonald’s restaurants in Santa Barbara, said Peterson died peacefully at his home on Tuesday.  Peterson came up with idea for the signature McDonald’s breakfast item in 1972.  He began his career with McDonald’s as vice president of the company’s advertising firm, D’Arcy Advertising, in Chicago. He wrote McDonald’s first national advertising slogan, “Where Quality Starts Fresh Every Day,” and eventually became a franchisee.

Herb Peterson, rest in peace.  You have changed the American breakfast forever.  You are TRULY an American hero.

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However, Branson has much more. There is shopping at at least five different major shopping centers, golf, and family activities. Branson was made to be a family town! It has three miniature golf courses, go karts and museums galore. If you cannot find something to do in Branson, I think you probably are having a hard time finding anything good to do at your home! It is easy, cheap and convenient to get to Branson too. Heck, if I didn’t have my summer already planned out, I might of headed down to Branson myself for a few days!

TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2008

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH GRANTS PARDONS AND COMMUTATION

WASHINGTON – On March 24, 2008, President George W. Bush granted pardons to 15 individuals and a commutation of sentence to one individual. The individuals are listed below:

PARDONS:

William L. Baker Spokane, Washington
Offense: Distribution of a controlled substance, 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 841(b)(2); falsifying records, 21 U.S.C. §§ 827(a)(3), 843(a)(4).
Sentence: July 15, 1980; District of Wyoming; 24 months imprisonment, one year special parole.

George Francis Bauckham Oak Ridge, New Jersey
Offense: Unlawful detention, delay and secretion of mail by postal employee; 18 U.S.C. § 1703(a).
Sentence: May 16, 1958; District of New Jersey; five years probation and $100 fine.

Kenneth Charles Britt White City, Kansas
Offense: Conspiracy to violate federal and state fish and wildlife laws; 18 U.S.C. § 371.
Sentence: November 12, 1998; District of Kansas; three years probation and restitution of $8,250.

William Bruce Butt London, Kentucky
Offense: Bank embezzlement; 18 U.S.C. § 656.
Sentence: June 20, 1990; Eastern District of Kentucky; three years probation.

Mariano Garza Caballero Brownsville, Texas
Offense: Dealing in firearms without a federal firearms license; 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a)(1) and (2).
Sentence: November 1, 1984; Southern District of Texas; 34 days imprisonment, four years probation, and a $1,000 fine.

Anthony C. Foglio, Santee, California aka Tony Foley
Offense: Distribution of marijuana; 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1).
Sentence: October 15, 1996; Northern District of West Virginia; three years probation.

Marvin Robert Foster Boca Raton, Florida
Offense: False statement in connection with a Federal Housing Administration loan; 18 U.S.C. § 1010.
Sentence: January 19, 1968; District of Rhode Island; one year probation and a $3,500 fine.

Carl Harry Hachmeister Denton, Texas
Offense: Conspiracy (to commit wire and mail fraud); 18 U.S.C. § 371.
Sentence: January 22, 1985; District of Utah; three years probation and $39,330 restitution.

William Marcus McDonald Wetumpka, Alabama
Offense: Distribution of cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, use of cocaine, possession of cocaine, use of marijuana; Article 134, U.C.M.J.
Sentence: May 2, 1984; U.S. Air Force general court-martial convened at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia; four years confinement at hard labor, forfeiture of $300 pay per month for four years, reduction in rank to basic airman, and a bad conduct discharge.

Robert Michael Milroy Cinnaminson, New Jersey
Offense: Importation of heroin; 21 U.S.C. §§ 960(a)(1), 952(a), and 843(b).
Sentence: April 2, 1975; Eastern District of Virginia; seven and one-half years imprisonment, six years special parole, and three years probation.

Jerry Lynn Moldenhauer Colorado Springs, Colorado
Offense: Knowingly selling migratory bird parts in violation of Migratory Bird Treaty Act; 16 U.S.C. §§ 703 and 707(b).
Sentence: September 19, 1994; District of Colorado; three years probation and $1,000 fine.

Thomas Donald Moldenhauer Colorado Springs, Colorado
Offense: Knowingly selling migratory bird parts in violation of Migratory Bird Treaty Act; 16 U.S.C. §§ 703 and 707(b).
Sentence: September 19, 1994; District of Colorado; three years probation and $1,000 fine.

Richard James Putney, Woodbridge, Virginia
aka Richard James Putney Jr.
Offense: Aiding and abetting the escape of a prisoner; 18 U.S.C. §§ 752(a) and 2.
Sentence: September 16, 1996; Northern District of West Virginia; one year of probation and a $100 fine.

Timothy Alfred Thone Woodbury, Minnesota
Offense: Making a false statement to the Department of Housing and Urban Development to obtain a mortgage loan; 18 U.S.C. § 1010.
Sentence: September 18, 1987; District of Minnesota; two years probation, $1,500 fine.

Lonnie Edward Two Eagle Sr. Parmelee, South Dakota
Offense: Simple assault committed on an Indian reservation (misdemeanor); 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153 and 113(e), now 18 U.S.C. § 113(a)(5), as re-numbered and amended.
Sentence: October 6, 1976; District of South Dakota; two years probation.
COMMUTATION:
Patricia Beckford Portsmouth, Virginia
Offense: Conspiracy and attempt to distribute in excess of 50 grams of crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1), 853, 855; unauthorized use of food coupons, 7 U.S.C. § 2024(b).
Sentence: April 27, 1992; Eastern District of Virginia; 276 months imprisonment; five years supervised release; $10,000 fine.
Terms of commutation: Sentence of imprisonment to expire on July 24, 2008; term of supervised release left intact and in effect with all its conditions.