Please keep Dori in your prayers as well.

Dori is in great discomfort much of the time and can’t do the many thigs she wants to do. She is not at a point that she needs to go the hospital, but she does spend most her days on the couch or in bed. We will be deciding whether or not she wants to keep doing chemotherapy. On the one hand she has tried every single thing available and it has gotten her this far, but on the other hand she is completely worn out and is ready to free herself from the side affects of treatment. It is a delicate issue and one that we will think long and hard about. It is important to keep in mind that if she does decide to end treatment-it is not a single of defeat or giving up, it is simply dealing with reality and making the most of life.

Please take a moment tonight and pray for Priscilla,

My niece is not yet 40 years old and has been told she is in the final stages of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. She was told to stay with her father or have to be put involuntarily into a hospice because she was and is so weak she is unable to care for herself. She has tried so hard to maintain her independence, but has finally given in and realized she cannot take care of herself properly.

Colorado officials can’t find records of evaluations for more than 1,200 convicted sex offenders, so all the offenders must be studied to determine if any are sexually violent predators.

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When someone is designated a sexually violent predator, his or her photo and background is posted on a state Web site, and law officers can call neighbohood meetings to warn people the predators may be living near them.

The evaluations are required by a state law enacted in 2001, but either weren’t done or can’t be found.

Records never created cannot be lost. It’s nice to know that Colorado authorites are on the ball when it comes to sex offenders. How long will it take them to realize that “not knowing if they were done” and “lost” are two completely different things?

The state court system reported Friday it can’t find records of evaluations for 337 sex offenders convicted since May 30, 2001, and who are now on probation, according to Gerald Marroney, state court administrator.

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Colorado Attorney General John Suthers gave the court system’s list of 337 sex offenders Friday to the state’s district attorneys, instructing them to file motions asking judges to order evaluations for everyone on the list.

All the sex offenders who are to be evaluated are either in prison or on intensively supervised probation.

And exactly how do they know that all of the sex offenders are being intensively supervised? Heck, they aren’t sure if some of their records even existed, why should we believe them?

They also are listed on sex-offender registries maintained by local law enforcement agencies, which people can view to find out where the sex offenders are.

“It’s not like there was this huge pool of sexually violent predators that snuck through entirely,” Suthers said.

Well, apparently there was some huge pool of something that snuck through entirely, and it sure does stink.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Sunday that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney should apologize for the actions of their aides in the CIA leak case.

Reid, D-Nev., also said Bush should pledge not to pardon any aides convicted as a result of the investigation into the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity.

“There has not been an apology to the American people for this obvious problem in the White House,” Reid said. He said Bush and Cheney “should come clean with the American public.”

Reid added, “This has gotten way out of hand, and the American people deserve better than this.”

I agree. This has gotten way out of hand. We do deserve better than this. We, especially the people of Nevada, deserve senators who understand that in our legal system, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

President Bush and Vice-President Cheney have nothing to apologize for, and Senator Reid should apologize for attempting to mislead the American people into thinking Scooter Libby has already been found guilty of the charges against him.

Reid also said that Karl Rove, the president’s closest political adviser, should step down. Rove has not been charged with a crime.

The closest the indictment comes to Rove is its discussion of an unnamed senior White House official who talked to columnist Robert Novak about Plame and discussed the matter with Libby. That could describe Rove.

I think Harry Reid should step down. I know, he has not been charged with a crime either, but I if he can talk out of his ass, so can I.

Reid said he was disappointed that Bush and Cheney expressed support for Libby in their public statements.

That’s because Democrats, like Harry Reid, have no idea what it means to stand by or support anyone. Of course, that brings us back to the “Democrats have no backbone” argument, and that’s a conversation for another day.

As backyard barbecue season winds down, it’s time to say goodbye to daylight-saving time.

In most of the United States, that meant shifting the clocks back one hour to standard time at 2 a.m. Sunday, local time.

Daylight-saving time returns April 2.

Congress has voted to extend daylight-saving time, but that does not take effect until 2007. The new dates will be from the second Sunday in March top the first Sunday in November.

[Source: Yahoo! News]

The Federal Election Commission said today that Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney must pay a 33-thousand dollar fine and reimburse as much as 72-thousand dollars to political donors after accepting excessive contributions in the 2002 election.

The fine alone exceeds the total amount in McKinney’s campaign account through September 30th. It was part of a conciliation agreement between the Georgia Democrat and the FEC.

The alleged illegal activity stems from McKinney’s 2002 re-election campaign, which she lost in the Democratic primary to Denise Majette. McKinney was out of Congress for two years before winning the seat back in 2004 when Majette left to run for Senate.

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The eight-page agreement, signed by McKinney’s campaign treasurer, Joan Christian, says there were 106-thousand-425 dollars in excessive contributions in 2002 — $42,950 for the primary and 63-thousand-475 dollars for the general. Because McKinney lost the primary election, all money collected for the general must be reimbursed.

Keywords: Cynthia McKinney, illegal activity. Got it? Good. Remember it.

She proves once again that people don’t always know what they are doing in the voting booth.

So… I took this little quiz today…

JUDGE EDITH HOLLAN JONES
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit,
appointed by Reagan, born 1949
A Texan! Nearly nominated to Souter’s seat by
G.H.W. Bush. You’re hoping the son follows
through! Jones is considered radioactive by
Democrats, which you (and the administration)
might consider a plus!

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The SloboPoll question this week is:

Will the Republicans maintain control of Congress after the 2006 mid-term elections?

The choices are:

Yes
Only The House
Only The Senate
No

This post is open for comments on the SloboPoll, if you so desire.

The question was:

Who, if anyone, will be indicted in the CIA leak investigation?

There were a total of 687 votes which breakdown like this:

No One (240 votes) [34.9%]
Both Of Them (168 votes) [24.5%]
Karl Rove (137 votes) [19.9%]
Scooter Libby (137 votes) [19.9%]
Someone Else (5 votes) [0.8%]

Check out the new questions each week here on Slobokan’s Site O’ Schtuff.