Keith Walendowski is charged with shooting a lawn mower.A 57-year-old south side man, who might have been struggling with a hangover, is charged today with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun."I'll tell you the truth," a criminal complaint quotes an apparently inebriated Keith Walendowski. "I got pissed because my lawn mower wouldn't start, so I got my shotgun and shot it."I can do that. It's my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want," Walendowski told police.Ignorance of the law, however, is not a legal defense.Walendowski is charged with a felony count of possessing a short-barreled shotgun and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct while armed. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to six years and nine months in prison.The shooting occurred Wednesday at a home Walendowski shares with his mother in the 3500 block of S. Austin St.According to the complaint, Walendowski had been drinking all morning. Around 9:30 a.m., he attempted to start his 21-inch Lawn-Boy - unsuccessfully.After shooting the mower, he went in his basement, where he was arrested by police, the complaint says.Police recovered the shotgun, shells, a handgun, rounds for the handgun and a stun gun.Dick Wagner of Wagner's Garden Mart, 6075 N. Green Bay Ave., said shooting the mower didn't help Walendowski's odds of getting it repaired."Anything not factory recommended would void the warranty," he said.
Thanks for reading and thanks for not passing judgment on Wisconsin because of this. I have been upset at my lawnmower before and so have you...admit it.
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I just hope I look half as good as this guy when I am 57 years old. I only have 29 years left to work on it. I hope you all let me know how I am doing on my efforts.
Thanks,
Kyle O.
I just wanted to throw this out there to see what kind of muck it will stir up.
Planned Parenthood. This sounds like a responsible phrase and something that everyone should do, right? After all I after heard the cliché “If you fail to plan, the plan to fail” ever since planning a car wash in elementary school. However, the term itself would be more appropriately named the right to decide to end the life of my unborn child due to lack of planning and irresponsibility. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that people choose to end a life because it is inconvenient for them to have a baby right now. How is it that this is even legal that abortion in it’s cruelest forms are allowed to be done every day in the United States that promises justice for all; unless you do not yet have a voice. You can have a heartbeat but not have the right to live because you cannot say “do not kill me,” which in itself is a fallacy because seconds after birth death by any means other than natural would be considered murder. On the other hand, a physician can pull a baby out half way out and then he shoves a tool like a hand blender into the baby’s brain and whips it until death, then he suctions the brains out. Once this is done the ‘fetus’ can be fully removed and either disposed of or body parts taken for other uses.
On the opposite side of this gruesome scene let us look at the only viable reason why a woman should have an abortion. According to the New York Time “Rape and Incest: Just 1% of All Abortions.” Recent figures that I have read show a bit lower than 1% but even at 1%, this is hardly a nation wide state of emergency compensating for the approximate 1 million abortions done yearly. While considering these statistics which have not changed much since 1989, Life Site News says this:
Furthermore, in the Elliot Institute's survey of 192 women who became pregnant through rape or incest, nearly 80 percent of the woman who had abortions said that they strongly regretted the abortion, with most saying it had caused far more harm than good in their lives. Among women who gave birth to their children, the consensus against abortion was even stronger. (LifeSiteNews, 2006)
If this isn’t the reason why pro-choice is doing so many abortion then what is? Just 1% would never be the basis for a nation wide cause as large as the pro-choice movement. “In 1927 Margaret Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in Geneva. In 1942, after several organizational mergers and name changes, Planned Parenthood Federation came into being.” (About.Com, 2004) Mrs. Sanger also has this to say:
Negro participation in Planned Parenthood means democratic participation in a democratic idea. Like other democratic ideas, Planned Parenthood places greater value on human life and the dignity of each person. Without planning at birth, the life of Negroes as a whole in a democratic world cannot be planned. (Sanger, 1924)
Recently uncovered documents from the Clinton Presidential Library shed new light on the modern motivations of those who pushed the Clinton Administration to expedite bringing RU-486, often called the "morning after pill," into the American marketplace. Mincing no words, one document quotes a leading abortion and birth control advocate who told President Elect Bill Clinton that he should "start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of the country." Ron Weddington, the man who successfully helped argue the 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion in America, made that statement.
Pointedly advocating the legal distribution of RU-486, Weddington wrote in a cover note to Clinton advisor Betsy Wright, "Something's got to be done very quickly. Twenty-six million food stamp recipients is more than the economy can stand." In the attached letter, Weddington urged the future president to use his powers of persuasion to push for new birth control policies. He said President Clinton could begin "reforming our country" by "start[ing] immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of the country... Our survival depends upon our developing a population where everyone contributes. We don't need more cannon fodder. We don't need more parishioners. We don't need more cheap labor. We don't need more poor babies." (Park, 2006)
I would have to say after taking a deep look at the beginning of the abortion option there is much more to it then even I realized before beginning this paper myself. The sad thing is that nothing is changing in our society. The need to get rid of the welfare recipient seem to be an ever present issue that will be dealt with in probably more ways that just the birth control pill.
Planned Parenthood’s beginning seems to be one with a lot of controversy as I have notice in my research. With the founding mother Margaret Sanger who was quoted as saying things like: “How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden for children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.” (Sanger, 1924, p111) Sanger had written earlier in one of her books; “Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.” (Sanger, 1923, p229)
With statements like this from its founder, what is the focus of this organization? Abortions are great way to raise money if nothing else. In 2004 this organization had revenues of nearly $95million dollars. That’s big business. What ever the true source is of the Planned Parenthood association, it is not what anyone thinks it is without any research at all. Thinking that Planned Parenthood had it’s focus on woman’s liberation has got to be one of our nation biggest fallacies ever.
Ok, I have to go now. BYE. Ken J
Is there a way to post in the main blog section or just as comments to topics that are already posted by the blog creator (Shane Meyer)?
where is shane...is he dead?
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