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 Andrea Eichhorn, 36, was fired Dec. 4 from the Casselberry police dept. by Police Chief John Pavlis. She appealed that decision, and today Casselberry City Manager Barbara Lipscomb denied the appeal.  Eichhorn went to the home of one-year-old Joey Cosmillo Jan. 9, 2007.  The boy had fallen into the backyard pool, and his mother dragged him out and called 911.

While watching rescuers work Eichhorn slipped in a puddle caused by his rescue, fell and broke a kneecap.  The city or its insurer paid all her medical bills and she did not lose a single day of pay, she sued the child's grandparents, who own the home where the accident happened, accusing them of being negligent.  The child was moved into a group home for the profoundly disabled.  He suffered severe brain damage that day.

News of that suit prompted hundreds of people from across the country to voice their outrage.  Casselberry's City Hall and police department were inundated with complaints.

I for one hope she NEVER gets a job on any police force again.  She seem to be no better than a gold digger that marries for money, only to have it back fire on her.  It is officers like her that give all police a black eye and help foster the mis-trust of the public. 

Do we really want Hillary in the White House ?

 the facts set forth are public and well documented public record.

Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified candidate for president based on her 'record,' which she says includes her eight years in the White House as First Lady - or 'co-president' - and her seven years in the Senate.  Here is a reminder of what that record includes:

As First Lady, Hillary assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill Bradley and Patrick Moynihan, key votes needed to pass her legislation, that she would 'demonize' anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she couldn't even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party. (And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and Senate.)

Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General. Her first two recommendations, Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, were forced to withdraw their names from consideration. She then chose Janet Reno. Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as 'my worst mistake.'

Hillary recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights Commission. When Guanier's radical views became known, her name had to be withdrawn.

Hillary recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster, and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign.

Hillary also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig Livingstone, for the position of director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI files of enemies and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him. FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1996,  both the drug use and Hillary's involvement in hiring Livingstone.  After that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven presidents for over thirty years.

In order to open slots in the White House for her friends the Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be awarded) Hillary had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office fired; they were reported to the FBI for 'gross mismanagement' and their reputations ruined. After a thirty-month investigation, only one, Billy Dale, was charged with a crime - mixing personal money with White House funds when he cashed checks. The jury acquitted him in less than two hours.


---- She urged her husband not to settle the Paula Jones lawsuit.

She refused to release the Whitewater documents, which led to the appointment of Ken Starr as Special Prosecutor. After $80 million dollars of taxpayer money was spent, Starr's investigation led to Monica Lewinsky, which led to Bill lying about and later admitting his affairs.

Then they had to settle with Paula Jones after all.  Bill lost his law license for lying to the grand jury And Bill was impeached by the House.

Hillary almost got herself indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice --she avoided it mostly because she repeated, 'I do not recall,' 'I have no recollection,' and 'I don't know' 56 times under oath).

Hillary decided to seek election to the Senate in a state she had never lived in. Her husband pardoned FALN terrorists in order to get Latino support and the New Square Hassidim to get Jewish support. Hillary also had Bill pardon her brother's clients, for a small fee, to get financial support.

Then Hillary left the White House, but later had to return $200,000 in White House furniture, china, and artwork she had stolen.

In the campaign for the Senate, Hillary played the 'woman card' by portraying her opponent (Lazio) as a bully picking on her.  Hillary's husband further protected her by asking the National Archives to withhold from the public until 2012 many records of their time in the White House, including much of Hillary's correspondence and her calendars. There are ongoing lawsuits to force the release of those records.)

As the junior Senator from New York , Hillary has passed no major legislation. She has deferred to the senior Senator (Schumer) to tend to the needs of New Yorkers, even on the hot issue of medical problems of workers involved in the cleanup of Ground Zero after 9/11.

Hillary's one notable vote; supporting the plan to invade "on" Iraq , she has since disavowed.

Quite a resume. Sounds more like an organized crime family rap sheet.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton    http://www.answers.com/topic/hillary-rodham-clinton

 An off-duty Miami-Dade Police Officer, Jeffrey Janish, was in police uniform and driving his police cruiser when he was pulled over and arrested Monday, Dec. 17, for driving under the influence.  He was speeding and swerving from lane to lane on the Florida Turnpike.  According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office booking center, Janish's blood alcohol level was about three times the legal limit.  A Miami-Dade police spokesman said Janish has been relieved of duty with pay pending the investigation.

  I can not read these reports of officers like this without wondering what possessed  him  to  get into this  circumstance.  It only takes one officer to screw up to make his or her entire unit look bad in the eyes of the people he has sworn to " Protect and Serve."

President Hugo Chavez on Friday wrapped up his campaign to push through   69 constitutional changes with a broadside attack against adversaries at home and abroad -- including a threat to cut off oil exports to the United States. Chavez told a crowd gathered in the center of Caracas that if the referendum was approved and the result was questioned -- "if the 'yes' vote wins on Sunday and the Venezuelan oligarchy, playing the [U.S.] empire's game, comes with their little stories of fraud" -- then he would order oil shipments to the United States halted Monday.

Chavez, 53, warmed the crowd up by serenading them with holiday "gaitas" and other traditional songs before turning his attention to a litany of enemies and perceived enemies: internal critics, the United States, Spain's King Juan Carlos, Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe and domestic and international media.

"We're not really confronting those peons of imperialism," Chavez said, alluding to his Venezuelan opponents. "Our true enemy is called the North American empire, and ... we're going to give another knockout to Bush." He renewed his harsh criticisms of Juan Carlos and Uribe, with whom he has had recent high-profile disputes, and threatened to take independent Venezuela television network Globovision off the air if it broadcast partial results during the voting. He also threatened to take action against international networks, accusing CNN in particular of overstating the strength of the opposition's numbers.

At stake in Sunday's vote is whether the leftist leader should have full authority over the now autonomous Central Bank and with it the nation's economic policy, changes Chavez has said he needs to move the economy further toward socialism.

The most controversial amendment would do away with term limits, allowing Chavez, who has served almost eight years in power, to hold his post indefinitely as long as he is re-elected. Chavez, a former paratrooper, said the majority of the country's 26 million people back him. He has garnered overwhelming support from the country's poorer neighborhoods, who have benefited from his policies -- paid for by skyrocketing oil prices. Oil accounts for roughly 90 percent of the country's export earnings.

Despite the animosity that Chavez routinely aims at the United States, the two countries remain closely tied economically -- the United States is Venezuela's biggest oil customer and one of the few countries that can refine its low-quality crude. Venezuela accounts for up to 15 percent of U.S. crude imports.

Congressional Quarterly TODAY – APPROPRIATIONS: TRANSPORTATION-HUD
Sept. 10, 2007 – 4:34 p.m.

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002581201.html


Senate Amendment Would Bar Funds for Mexican Truck Pilot Program

The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to prohibit long-haul Mexican trucks from crossing into the United States, as part of the debate on a fiscal 2008 spending bill.

The amendment to the $104.6 billion Transportation-HUD measure (HR 3074) would bar funds from being used for a controversial Transportation Department pilot program allowing up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United States beyond a 25-mile radius of the border.

The administration ordered the pilot program early this year, but Congress blocked it with a rider on the fiscal 2007 Iraq War supplemental bill (PL 110-28), pending a report by the Department of Transportation’s inspector general and a department response to that report.

The department issued that report Sept. 6 and triggered the program one hour later, said Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, D-N.D., who offered the amendment.

Dorgan said the department’s move ignored the inspector general’s finding that Mexican databases were insufficient to provide information about vehicle inspections, accident reports and driver records — “the entire guts of what you need to know if you’re going to ensure the safety of the American public,” Dorgan said.

The House adopted a similar amendment to its version of the Transportation-HUD measure before passing it July 24.

Republicans objected to a vote Monday on the Dorgan amendment, and it was not clear whether they would also seek to block action Tuesday.

14 REASONS TO DEPORT - or at least change what we're doing now!!!

I hope these 14 reasons are posted over and over again until they are read by the majority of Americans. Then they will have something to yell at their U.S. Congress members.

     
    1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
     http://tinyurl.com/zob77
    
    2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
     http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
    
    3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
     http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
    
    4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.ht
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    5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
     http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h
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  6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.
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    7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
     http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h
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    8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
      http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
    
    9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
    caused by the illegal aliens.
     http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h
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    10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
     http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.h
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    11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
    that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
    Homeland Security Report:  http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
    
    12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass
    deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost
    of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
     http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.
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    13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
    their countries of origin. <http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
    
    14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes
    Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".
     http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
    
    So using the LOWEST estimates, the annual cost OF ILLEGAL
    ALIENS is $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR! So if deporting
    them costs between $206 and $230 BILLION DOLLARS, Hey
    get rid of em', We'll be ahead after the 1st year!!!
     Please pass this on . Americans need to wake up !
     When it comes time to vote remember which politicians support the illegal aliens , keep them out of office. . . . 

What ever happened to responsible reporting ? This area of the news has greatly changed over the years. Not many years ago reporters  informed the public of crimes and ways to avoid becoming a victim, now these people take it one step further by explaining and often times showing how the crime is committed.
Television, Radio, Newspapers and often Judges are too eager to blame video games and ineffective parenting as the cause of increased youth violence and crimes against the general public. Many days watching the news on television there are segments that show and explain how some criminals perpetrate and often get away with their trade.