Second year I missed it!

I didn't go this year to my preferred Van Wert Fair excursion in Van Wert, Ohio. There (4-H and other groups have 1 week there) on the campgrounds. I have only ever been there on the weekend, but there are side games, critters galore, farm stuff and horse races, as well as fair rides, food, crafts (for display and for sale), where some youths are recognized for their raising of crops, livestock or even art.

In all, I like this place, for -- I can be entertained for no expense, except for parking $5. I could buy refreshments -- lemon shake up, ice cream, lamb, gyros, brats, burgers, chicken, peanuts -- "rat's smorgosboard"+, but could be equally entertained by seeing livestock I never normally see, including rabbits, piglets, sheep, lamb, calves, goats, burrows, ponies, mink, roosters, wild turkeys (not the drinks), etc. It's on a very large fair grounds, including a full-size horse derby track, where they do race. The grounds are about (maybe) twice that of good ol' Allen County's'.

It was always the signal, the shift from summer to fall for me. I hate not being there. When I did attend school, there was the first four days of school, then Labor Day weekend -- where family and I would go. My neices have been there and liked it -- for the critter menagerie also. They were equally keen on the over-priced, but carnival-only food. My one bad experience with the food was a soup that was served at around 150 degrees Fahrenheit. Why would anyone serve soup that hot? Hint -- if it melts container and/or plasticwear -- it's too blinkin' hot!

+ Charlotte's Web

Novelty saves it's life

Cute little four-legged chicken is marveled by owners, who have decided to keep it as a pet.
"I'm a freak ... I freak! I'm strange -- I wanna die!"
Relax Wilbur, you're "I wanna die" speech would come moments before the "I wanna live" speech. Do you know what happens to chickens?

No.
They're beheaded, plucked of feathers, gutted then cooked and eaten.
"I wanna live!"
Okay, okay, now Wilbur. We don't need a spider in the corner to tell them you're SOME CHICKEN. Thankfully you have four legs to prove that! You're gonna be okay. You'll live up to the ripe old age of 7, then be buried and dug up by raccoons or oppossums and devoured in partial rigor mortis.

You might, by chance, be mated repeatedly with potential mutant roosters, for more "unique" or "freaky" poultry of your calibur. You'll be an X-chicken egg-laying fool, but loved.

so friggin' funny

Man! This guy makes me look smart! I think, however, I'd be a slightly better stunt co-ordinator. He's just a testosterone fool -- wanting, desperately to show manliness. I did this kind of stuff when a teen, with NO witnesses. It's a fool kind of thing. Wise men say ...

More news

Sex offender back before jury again

Alleged victim is impaired, won’t testify By Dionne Waugh The Journal Gazette

Jurors began hearing testimony Tuesday during a trial for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman with developmental disabilities who a judge said does not have to testify. Todd L. Anderson, 31, of the 4600 block of Weisser Park Avenue, is charged with attempted criminal deviate conduct, attempted rape, sexual battery and being a habitual offender. Anderson, a twice-convicted child molester, is accused of touching a 26-year-old woman sexually and trying to have sex with her as she waited for her aunt to pick her up Aug. 28, 2005.

During the first day of a scheduled two-day trial, Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards said the victim had the mind of a child in the body of an adult. “She does kindergarten-level math. Her reading and writing is like a first-grader. She functions as a 6- or 7-year-old child level,” Richards said. “She is, for all intents and purposes, a child.”

The woman, who has an IQ of 52, also suffers from cerebral palsy, which causes her speech to be slurred. A judge ruled that because of her mental state, the woman is a protected person and does not have to testify. The woman cannot understand something as abstract as an oath, Richards said. Richards said the evidence will show that Anderson, who’d known the victim for a long time, lured her into a backyard about 9 p.m. where he partly undressed her and tried to assault her.

“But for the fact that they were interrupted, he would’ve had sex with her,” Richards said.

Someone flipped on a backyard light, she said, which caused Anderson to run away. Defense attorney Mitch Hicks told the jury that Anderson, who has a ninth-grade education, knew the woman well enough to understand her gestures. Anderson told police he did not know she was legally disabled, Hicks said.

“He knew she had problems, but he didn’t know she could not give consent,” Hicks said

Anderson pleaded guilty in Allen Superior Court in November 2003 to child molesting for fondling an 8-year-old girl in December 1999. He was originally convicted in that case in May 2002 of child molesting and being a habitual offender, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. However, the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned the conviction because there were no other witnesses or medical evidence to corroborate the girl’s testimony.

In 1992, Anderson was convicted of criminal sexual conduct in White Pigeon, Mich., that involved a 6-year-old girl.

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Thankfully they got this guy who preys on children. His claim of "didn't know" might pan out to 9th grade jurors, but I hope that the jury consists of other persons as well. I will, however, note that Mitch Hicks (his attorney) clearly has run afoul, with a get-my-client-out-of-responsiblity-any-way-I-can attitude, really should be charged with aiding known felon. As for his client -- may his hell start now!

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Give That Man a Prize

If confessed murderer Daryl Keith Holton gets his way, on Tuesday he will become the first prisoner to die in Tennessee’s electric chair in 46 years. Holton, who confessed to murdering his three young sons and his ex-wife’s daughter within hours of shooting them to death with a semiautomatic assault rifle, is scheduled to be executed because he quit appealing his death sentence. He also chose the electric chair over the state’s preferred method of lethal injection.

+ When I use the phrase, "Give that man a prize", it is for, albeit late, suicide. I despise his crime, but applaud his way out -- though self-hanging in jail or stabbing himself would reallycheapen his death. I'd get him a guillotine, if I thought he'd use it.

Happy to be Wrong

Woman was reuinited with kidnapped daughter. The apprehension of the perpetrator was aided by a sister-in-law, who was right enough to stop the crime from continuing. For her efforts, I'm sure the mother will be eternally grateful. The abductor, was as many suspected -- distraught woman who (as thought barron) recently miscarried. This might, and I mean might, lead researchers into chemical aid to women suffering post-partem depression, as this can be a wicked experience with varying degrees and duration. It was, thankfully unsuccessfully, tried as a reason that a Texas woman drowned her four/five children, dragging one screaming to his death. My remark simply there, notpost-partem depression, but rather evil wrapped in "insanity".

Gosh -- I'm so insane, I'll have to live a reasonably sane life, never seek counseling and raise all these kids. I'm very smart and can ... wait a moment, I've an IQ of about 94 with some education. I'm not clever at all. Hey, you gotta believe me, I'm mad and hid it well!

Anyway, I guess this will lead to nothing, but perhaps, with enough crime cases shown, society will about burst with crap and decide that enough is friggin' enough! If you see crime -- stop it! That should be the new policy.