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Week-ends (07/25/09)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on July 25, 2009

Week-ends

A look back at the people and events that made news the past week.
Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...


HEROES OF THE WEEK


Milwaukee firefighters John and Joel Rechlitz


The people who arranged this.


Willie Esper


Henry Allingham


Darrell "Shifty" Powers


Tom Watson


Ed Platzer



VILLAINS OF THE WEEK


President Obama for his insult of police officers


Dale Neumann


Unknown perpetrators


Grandmother of the Year


Rosa Toledo



QUOTES OF THE WEEK


“Why, because I'm a black man in America? You don't know who you're messing with. Ya, I'll speak with your momma outside.”
Comments made by Harvard professor Henry Gates to a Cambridge police officer before being arrested for disorderly conduct.


“The Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home.”
President Obama at a news conference referring to arrest of Henry Gates.


“I’ve heard about five different reports. If I’m the president of the United States, I don’t care how much pressure people want to put on it about race, I’m keeping my mouth shut. I was shocked to hear the president making this kind of statement."
Bill Cosby on President Obama's remarks about the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Gates.


"This is not about me or Scott Walker or Tom Ament. I'm not looking at it for advancement for myself.”
Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway calling for the abolishment of the office of County Executive.


"Eliminating a layer of government and consolidating it with other governments is an idea whose time has come. County government largely overlaps municipal and state government. It can and should be consolidated into other areas."
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker calling for reform of county government.


"Everyone expects doctors to be free. People who pay $200 for a haircut are indignant if it costs more than a $20 co-pay to see a doctor."
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter


"The freshly alert and active amongst us still feel very vulnerable and are not digging the thought of their kids, grandkids, or themselves being on the receiving end of an Obama America. They like the old and superior Superbad America that's free, militarily strong, economically viable and at least semi-morally upright-not this rat cage, socialistic, Czar-laden, left of left, Tila Tequila, Liberals Gone Wild swill we're being Jim Jones'd into swallowing by Washingtonians who do not give a rat's backside regarding our nation's original intent. So, these newly awakened conservatives sit and yell at the TV as they watch the Obama gang dismantle America while their BS detectors ping more than the metal detectors at Islamabad International Airport."
Conservative talk show host/columnist Doug Giles



OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK


The Erin Andrews peep show


Also, this.



MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK


Sonia Sotomayor, pushed off the front page by Democrats who couldn't pass their own health care plan, and the arrest of a black professor who refused to cooperate with police.

That's one.  Another:

From findagrave.com:

On the evening of July 18, 1969, she attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island, near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, in honor of the "Boiler Room Girls," a name given to the six young women who had helped the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy during his presidential campaign, and who had closed up his files after his assassination in June 1968. All six of the women were single, and the six men in attendance were all married but present without their wives, and the attendees gathered for a late night party at the Lawrence Cottage, rented by Joe Gargan for the occasion. Late that evening (the exact time is in dispute), Kennedy offered to drive Kopechne back to her hotel at the Katama Shores Motor Inn in Edgartown, and later claimed that he mistakenly took a wrong, right turn onto Dyke Road, a dirt road leading to a beach about a mile down the road, instead of turning left onto the paved Chappaquiddick Road leading to the ferryboat which they would need to use to go to Kopechne's motel. A half-mile down Dyke Road, Kennedy drove off the side of the Dyke, and the car overturned into Poucha Pond. Kennedy got out of the overturned car, but Kopechne failed to exit the car and died. Kopechne's body was recovered later that morning; the diver reporting that Kopechne had positioned herself near the back seat wheel well where an air pocket had formed, and had apparently suffocated rather than drowned. Her parents ruled out an autopsy, so the cause of death was never officially determined. Senator Kennedy later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident after causing injury, for which he received a two-month suspended sentence and one year probation. Kopechne's death and Kennedy's failure to properly deal with the accident, along with numerous discrepancies in his account of what happened, damaged his reputation and is regarded by many as the major reason that he decided to cancel his run for the presidency in 1972 and subsequent years.

The voice of the Democrat Party for 40 years...

Mainstream news media: What 40th anniversary?



MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK


The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Gates. Had he just cooperated with the officer, there is no story.



STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK


YOU'RE FIRED!


Toupee vs. Time Machine


REMEMBER: Your suggestions/nominations for any of these categories every week are welcome, especially for HEROES OF THE WEEK. If you know of anyone in the community deserving of recognition, please e-mail me.