Monthly Archives: December 2009

Evangelical Minister Rick Warren is Begging for Money

December 31, 2009
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This from an AP article in The New York Times. Evangelical pastor Rick Warren who gave the invocation at Obama’s inauguration is begging parishioners at his Southern California megachurch to cough up $900,000 before Jan. 1 to keep the parish out of the red… … He asks parishioners to donate before the new year...

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John Hicks Emotional Speech at his Rose Bowl Hall of Fame Induction

December 31, 2009
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John Hicks is an Ohio State football legend. It is often forgotten by many just how great of a college football player he was during the early seventies. He finished second in the Heisman Trophy balloting. The last lineman to do so. He won the Lombardi Award, the Outland Trophy, and was a first...

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Columbus Public Health Offers Free H1N1 Vaccine for Everyone

December 30, 2009
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CPH H1N1 Flu Clinics – By Appointment Thru 311 Columbus Public Health is offering appointments for the following clinics (held in CPH auditorium): Tues., Jan. 5 from 4 – 7 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 7 from 9 a.m. – Noon and 1:15 – 4 p.m. Appointments for CPH clinics are made by calling 311 (or...

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Mt. Vernon Teacher John Freshwater Continues to Lie

December 30, 2009
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Today, former science teacher John Freshwater was caught in another lie. Type “Freshwater” in the search box to view posts about some of his other lies. Freshwater is the teacher fired by the Mt. Vernon school district for teaching creationism and burning crosses into students arms. By state law he is entitled to a...

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Petition Against Michael Vick Winning the Ed Block Courage Award

December 30, 2009
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I recently posted here about Philadelphia Eagle Michael Vick winning the NFL’s Ed Block Courage Award. I thought it was an insult to the award. Today, I received this email from Maria, the Outreach & Communications Coordinator at Change.org. She saw my post on Vick being given the Courage Award and pointed me to...

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My Last Furlough Day. Citizens of Columbus, Your Welcome

December 24, 2009
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Even though it’s Christmas Eve, I would normally be working at this time of day. But I am being forced to take a furlough. Which is a nice way to say I am sitting at home writing this post while losing a days pay of work. My city decided I should take five days...

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What! Michael Vick Wins a Courage Award

December 24, 2009
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Eagles player Michael Vick was voted the Ed Block Courage Award by his Philadelphia teammates despite the fact that he maimed and killed thousands of dogs. Just because he was allowed to play football again and make millions after serving a prison term does not make him courageous. It makes him lucky. All 32...

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Garfunkel & Oates Video on Medical Marijuana

December 19, 2009
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I was turned on to Garfunkel and Oates by a Pho post which I can’t find on his site. If you’ve read this blog at all you know I’m a Social Worker with a scope of practice that includes addiction. One of the arguments for smoking marijuana that makes me laugh the hardest is...

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Columbus Wants to Give Back Money to Clean Up Casino Site

December 17, 2009
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There have been rumblings by Central Ohio politicians regarding the “constitutional” casino and it’s placement in the Arena District. Now it looks like the rumblings are growing stronger. The city of Columbus stopped talking the anti-casino talk and started walking the anti-casino walk this week when it decided to stop payment of state-approved Clean...

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Freshwater, Mt. Vernon Teacher Lies Again

December 11, 2009
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Freshwater, Mt. Vernon Teacher Lies Again

Today in a hearing to try and save his job, John Freshwater finally testified. Freshwater is the Mt. Vernon Ohio science teacher accused of using a device to burn crosses into students arms, of having religious materials in his classroom, and of promoting Christianity while criticizing other religions. Freshawater was fired by the board,...

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The Madrigal Maniac

A Central Ohio Social Worker striving to bring justice to the City of Columbus and the State of Ohio through respectful conversation.

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  • Police investigate death on the Hilltop
    Police haven’t determined what caused the death of a man who was found by a woman in her Hilltop home this morning, but the investigation will continue. Sgt. Christ Holzhauser, a Columbus police homicide detective, said the man was staying temporarily at the woman’s home at 69 S. Ogden Ave., but she didn’t know him very well. She called police at about 10:30 […]
  • Sheriff's office searches for suspects in Marysville abduction, rape
    The Union County sheriff’s office is searching for two suspects after a woman said she was abducted and sexually assaulted following a fake traffic stop. […]
  • Komen’s reversal on Planned Parenthood irks some
    When the leaders of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced yesterday that they were reversing their decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, some donors who had been angry said all was forgiven. […]
  • Into the crossfire
    Laura Robinson said she no longer will jaywalk across Morse Road. The North Side resident watched a man die Thursday night after he darted across the busy roadway near Kingshill Drive and was struck by three vehicles. […]
  • Police ID pedestrian hit, killed Thursday on North Side
    Police this morning identified a man who was struck and killed Thursday while crossing a busy road on the North Side. Rene Antonio Deras, 44, of El Salvador, was crossing Morse Road near the intersection of Kingshill Drive at about 10:30 p.m. when witnesses said he was hit by at least two vehicles, one of which fled the scene. […]

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