I want to share an important message with you today - one that I hope you will share liberally with others. The message is about the potential ripple impacts of texting while driving. Please watch this video (http://www.nd.gov/risk/training/driving-ergonomics/texting-while-driving) which is posted on the State of North Dakota's Risk Management Division's website. Show it to your kids...kids, [...]
Tag: crime
A first person account of animal cruelty…
Today, I woke up to a dog barking outside. The time was just a few minutes shy of 4:30 AM. Mike was already on the phone with the West Fargo Police Department when I got up. Mike called the police because the neighbor behind us (who lives on Sheyenne Court in West Fargo) had put out his [...]
I don’t like this news.
I was really disheartened to hear that the missing Montana high school teacher, Sherry Arnold, was declared dead. I don't like that kind of news. This is North Dakota and while I know we are not crime-free here, we have decidely less violent crimes than most other places. I like that about this place. I don't like [...]
Cruel realitities…
My license plate reads IDEALST, but when it comes to the cruel realities of crime in our society I am very much a realist. I am acutely aware of the heinous things that sick and deviant people will visit upon innocent others - particularly children. That is why I have been labeled by Cheyenne as the meanest [...]
Uh, sorry…there is no texting allowed from jail.
The 19 year old woman (Kayla Carry of Browerville, Minnesota) who was charged with criminal vehicular homicide after killing someone because she was texting and driving entered a guilty plea yesterday. Under the plea agreement she will only serve a year in jail. Carry's car crossed the center line and hit another car head on. Lucille Vogt [...]
Food for the soul…or not.
Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs (who was convicted of sexually assaulting underage female followers) is now in a medically induced coma because he has been fasting for the past few weeks (see the article on InForum here). Jeffs likely is hoping he'll die, but apparently the State of Texas is going to nourish him whether he wants [...]
Next time, do the community a service and get a room.
Sex has an amazing appeal - well, it is after all - sex. Not too many people are down on sex. You never hear folks saying, "Ewww...sex...no way, not my cup of tea." Or at least I never hear folks say that. Of course when it comes to the actual act of sex we tend to [...]
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