Sad

For my money the greatest American actor ever and by all accounts an all-around great guy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_newman

Nothing will ever make up for what that poor baby went through.

But a 26 year sentence doesn't seem like nearly enough punishment for what was done to poor Tayvon Evans. It still makes me sick to my stomach to think about what that little boy went through in his last days on earth.

The UT is once again at the center of a gambling charge. This time around it is focused on Sammy Villegas who has been charged  with one count of conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery. This follows on the footsteps of the charges filed against Harvey "Scooter" McDougle last year on similar charges while playing for the UT Rockets football team.

I clicked on the link this morning for ToledoTalk.com and had no problem, but now when I click, I get a whole completely different site.

Did I miss a memo?

Quoting Scripture banned in library community room

Not a list we what to be in the top 4!
Maybe we should build another refinery in the area...maybe on the East Side!

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/environment/2008-05-28-c...

Kilpatrick: Ousting me would be danger to city
Mayor meets with county leaders at morning summit

BY KATHLEEN GRAY • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • April 18, 2008

UPDATED AT 7:05 P.M.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said today that he should remain in office because the alternative would put a city and state in economic turmoil even more at risk.

Breast Cancer Vaccine Works Against Deadlier Form of Disease
Sunday, April 13, 2008; 12:00 AM

SUNDAY, April 13 (HealthDay News) -- A breast cancer vaccine significantly reduced the risk of recurrence for patients who have a high expression of the protein HER2-neu.

Sean Levert son of Eddie Levert of the O'Jays is dead at the age of 39. No details available at this time. I knew Eddie Levert before he became the O'Jays and my heart goes out to this family. Sean's brother Gerald died in November 2006. How sad.

From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon.

Not the 90,000 Iraqi civilians or the 4,200 US and UK troops killed since 2003. Some big winners are the money men who have made billions. The fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq comes up next Thursday. Who are the winners and who are the losers? Follow the money and politics.

Due to the Passage of the Oregon School Property Tax Levy. The Oregon Ohio Weather Station and Weather WebSite can no longer afford to be free. An E-Mail from the Owner stated.

This also affects the NorthWest Ohio Weather WebSite and the internet broadcast of Toledo's NOAA Weather Radio over the internet.

As of Thursday March 6th. There will be a fee to view these sites!

A couple of people have told me that the city, or an organization employed by the city, has begun to call people about the 3/4% tax renewal. Since I haven't personally received a call what is said in the call? Are they asking your views on the renewal and if you'll vote for it? Or, are they push polling by saying the police and fire staff will be laid if you don't vote for the renewal?

The Toledo Public School’s special board meeting was an exercise in political posturing. President Steel laid the groundwork for the selecting of the next board member who will take the place of Robert Torres. It was a political love-fest.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says torture (aggressive interrogation, in his words) is o.k., such as "stick[ing] something under the fingernail, smack[ing] him in the face". The London interview concluded with Scalia saying that he is not really a "tough guy". "I'm very tender," he said.

I know we hash out this topic every few months, but I can't help but think these are related.

Voter ID law going before high court
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080107/LOCAL19/8010...

Reading what this woman had to go through to be allowed to vote in Indiana can be helped at all by this:

There isn't a legal punishment that can do justice for poor Tayvon.

I suppose I'm a little disappointed to see that the mom can only get up to 10 years for her role in the toddler's death. If the abuse happened over the course of a few days, then surely she had opportunity to stop it from happening.

Michigan and Ohio have some of the nation's highest rates of foreclosed homes and delinquent mortgages. Fannie Mae's report shows the Midwest in general is suffering the largest loan losses. Of the top seven states, five are in the Midwest, with Minnesota ranked third, Indiana fourth and Illinois seventh. California and Florida are ranked fifth and sixth, respectively.

Evel Knievel is dead. If you're under fifty years old, you may not remember Evel, who hailed from the mines of Butte, Montana and grew into an American legend during the 1960s and 70s.