18 Year Old Southern Illinois Student Michael Wiechmann Missing Since April 18, 2011

18 year old Michael Wiechmann, a student at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL has been missing since Monday, April 18, 2011. According to his parents, they received a letter fr0m their son postmarked from Anna, Il on April 18, stating that he said school wasn’t for him. Although police believe he has not met with foul play; however his hereabouts are unknown. It is presumed that the missing SIUC student left school and maybe be at Mark Twain National Forest. Computer searches shod he was researching it prior to his disappearance. Also, Wiechmann left his computer, cell phone and residence hall room keys in his dorm room, and he is believed to be riding his blue mountain bike.

Sigler stated that Wiechmann emptied his bank accounts and rented or purchased camping equipment. A roommate told police Wiechmann had been researching areas of the Mark Twain National Forest and survival techniques in the wild on his computer.

According to a Southern Illinois student newspaper, The Saluki Times, Wiechmann was living in Steagall Hall at Thompson Point.

Michael Wiechmann Description:

• 5 feet, 9 inches tall
• weighs about 135 pounds
• has wavy reddish-brown hair
• brown eyes.

If anyone has  any information regarding Michael Wiechmann, please contact the SIUC Department of Public Safety at 618-453-3771 or via email at info@dps.siu.edu.

Lindsay Lohan Sentenced to 120 Days in Jail for Violation of her Probation

Maybe this will finally teach her a lesson …

Actress Lindsay Lohan has been sentenced to jail for 120 days by Judge Stephanie Sautner for violating her her probation. According to TMZ, Lohan was also ordered  ordered to complete 480 hours of community service, 360 of those hours must be performed at the Downtown Women’s Center. Will this finally teach Lohan a life lesson or will this out of control Hollywood actress continue to spiral out of control?

Lohan was also ordered to complete 480 hours of community service — 360 of those hours must be performed at the Downtown Women’s Center, so Lindsay can see how needy women have to live.  The remaining 120 hours will be served at the L.A. County morgue.

Judge Sautner explained that Lindsay should have called the store and notified the owners about the necklace sooner.  She waited several weeks and returned the necklace after finding out the cops were about to raid her house.

Judge Sautner also ruled  that the necklace theft case against Lohan will go forward to trial; however, the felony charge was reduced to a misdemeanor. Even though the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor, the troubled actress could face up to a year in prison if convicted.  Lohan was taken into custody following today’s court hearing in her necklace theft case. She is expected to post a $75,000 bond and be freed. Her court date is set for June 3, 2011. Will this finally be a wake up call for Lindsay Lohan?

Before delivering the good news to Lohan about the reduction of the charge, the judge addressed her much-publicized misbehavior.

“She thumbs her nose at the court,” Sautner said, referring to an incident with another judge last year. “She walks into court with ‘F U’ on her fingernails. I don’t know what that means unless it has ‘I am’ before it.”

The So Called Eco-Friendly President Barack “GREEN” Obama Celebrates Earth Day by Burning 53,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel

HEY BARACK … IT AIN’T EASY BEING GREEN. Especially when one doesn’t even try. The Obama hypocrisy continues.

President Barack Obama celebrated Earth Day why burning 53,000 gallons of jet fuel while telling us “little people” that we must sacrifice and be “green”. However, the do as I say, not as I do President tells us all to get fuel efficient hybrids and electric cars so that he can fly around on our dime. Its not as though Barack Obama was flying to see the US troops or conducting business of the United States, Obama burned this fuel so that he could conduct fund raising. What are the odds that Obama will be buying some carbon credits for All Gore? Of course he could not be reached for comment, rumor has it he was on his private jet as well.

President Obama declared today’s 41st annual Earth Day proof of America’s ecological and conservation spirit—then completed a three-day campaign-style trip logging 10,666 miles on Air Force One, eating up some 53,300 gallons at a cost of about $180,000. And that doesn’t include the fuel consumption of his helicopter, limo, or the 29 other vehicles that travel with that car.

“Green” is for thee, not for me. if it is not bad enough that Obama made no effort to conserve anything on earth day, including the hot air from his mouth by having the audacity to preach to the peons about Earth Day. Of course Obama’s stewardship and sacrifice was what exactly?

Obama proclaimed: “For over 40 years, our nation has come together on Earth Day to appreciate and raise awareness about our environment, natural heritage, and the resources upon which generations of Americans have depended. Healthy land and clean water and air are essential to the health of our communities and wildlife. Earth Day is an opportunity to renew America’s commitment to preserving and protecting the state of our environment through community service and responsible stewardship.”

Over at Michelle Malkin.com, they remind us of just how concerned Obama was with “Earth Day” with pics of litter from his 2009 inauguration. Aptly stated by Jammie Wearing Fool, let’s hope that we can make Obama’s words come to fruition about trading in gas guzzling, inefficient, burdens, namely Barack Obama in 2012.

Wait it gets better, not to be outdone by her jet fuel guzzling husband, Michelle Obama cancelled her Earth Day event due to a light drizzle. Oh those crazy ”GREEN” Obama’s. I wonder if she would have cancelled a vacation for the same reason?

Barack Obama Explains His Low Poll Numbers Due to High Gas Prices

Speaking at a fund raiser in California, President Barack Obama suggested that his low and falling poll numbers are a result of the rising gas prices. Hmm, did Obama just admit that he had low job approval polling numbers?  As reported at The Hill:

Speaking to supporters at his sixth fundraising event in California, Obama conceded that gas prices are having an effect on how people view his administration, but indicated he is prepared to weather the storm.

“My poll numbers go up and down depending on the latest crisis and right now gas prices are weighing heavily on people,” he told a gathering of backers at a Los Angeles restaurant, according to a pool report.

Really Mr. President, you think your low poll numbers are just because of gas prices? if that is the case, wait until they spike to $5 and $6 nationally. Of course Americans pain at the pump have a direct affect on people’s mood;  however, it is more than just that. Gasoline was not an issue when the Democrats took a shellacking in the 2010 midterm elections.  Polling numbers are not just a result of crisis, they are a result of policies, agenda and how you handle a crisis. Or in Obama’s case, a multitude of crisis’s he created. Libya comes to mind.

JOBS & GAS PRICES WILL WEIGH ON OBAMA FROM NOW UNTIL 2012.

This President has done little to improve either. In fact his policies and liberal agenda have most likely made the job recovery worse and his “green” or nothing energy policy has become a fiasco. Barack Obama is finally learning that there will be know one else to blame except himself in 2012. Obama will not be able to say what he plans to do to solve the problems as he has had 4 years to do so and has done nothing but exacerbate the issues.

CBS News/New York Times Poll: 63% Oppose Raising Debt Ceiling

An overwhelming majority of American people want Obama and the federal government to get their act in gear, spend within their means, reduce the deficit and stop spending like drunken sailors.

According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, 63% of Americans oppose raising the debt limit while only a meager 27% support raising it. 83% of Republicans oppose raising the debt limit; however, more importantly to Barack Obama and Democrats, 64% of independents oppose the continued irresponsible spending of the powers that be. As stated at Hot Air, after months of Obama minions going out on to talk shows and communicating to We the People ala Chicken Little that t the sky is falling … they are either failing or the people are not buying it.

Despite Obama administration warnings that failing to do so would devastate the economy, a clear majority of Americans say they oppose raising the debt limit, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows.

Just 27 percent of Americans support raising the debt limit, while 63 percent oppose raising it.

Eighty-three percent of Republicans oppose raising the limit, along with 64 percent of independents and 48 percent of Democrats. Support for raising the debt limit is just 36 percent among Democrats, and only 14 percent among Republicans.

Obama, the Dems and Libs cannot say that the poll is skewed, because this is a partisan Rasmussen poll against raising the debt ceiling. Take a good look … a CBS News/New York Times poll. Although, speaking of Rasmussen, only 22% of Americans think the country is headed in the right direction. Yikes! What will come of this standoff. However, as Patterico Pontifications points out, will the GOP have the guts to actually make a stand and do the right thing for the people and future generations to come? The answer probably is not, if the past means anything. When will this party ever get a spine? How many elections must go by before “We the People” flush the party of the useless Republicans?

Barack Obama Misery Index … Americans Mood At Lowest Level in 2 Years

Welcome to more “Hope & Change” from President Barack Obama … The Obama “MISERY” index.

As Barack Obama is out on the west coast hob-knobbing with libs and Hollywood types in full campaign mode blaming the previous administration for all the ills of the United States, America’s mood is at the lowest level in two years. However, Obama has yet to take responsibility for his failed policies and agenda of the past 2+ years of his presidency. There is no one else to blame but Obama for the rising gas prices, the out of control spending, the continued lack of jobs being created and the record federal deficit. The buck stops with him and he will be held accountable in 2012.

Americans are more pessimistic about the nation’s economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama’s first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Amid rising gas prices, stubborn unemployment and a cacophonous debate in Washington over the federal government’s ability to meet its future obligations, the poll presents stark evidence that the slow, if unsteady, gains in public confidence earlier this year that a recovery was under way are now all but gone.

Under Obama the United States has developed an entirely new type of “misery index”.  One that Americans are feeling on a personal level with foreclosures, bankruptcies, unemployment and pain at the gas pump. All of these economic issues have caused Americans to be pessimistic about Barack Obama. As the Gateway Pundit emphasizes, “Disapproval of Mr. Obama’s handling of the economy has never been worse, up to 57 percent of Americans.”

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Daily Commentary – Friday, April 22nd, 2011 – The Kennedys

• The show is being run on the History channel in Canada, but in the States it was excluded for historical inaccuracies.

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Barack Obama Touts Illegal Immigration at Campaign Speech … Whether You Came to US Legally or Illegally, “We are Connected”

Unbelievable, at a campaign speech in San Francisco, California Barack Obama sang the praises of illegal immigrants. Who knew that the President of the United States was not supposed to be about upholding the rule of law. So much for borders. So those individuals that came to the United States and followed the rules are the same as those that illegally crossed the Rio Grande and the US/Mexican border.

Watch the VIDEO at Real Clear Politics.

“No matter who you are. No matter where you can came from. No matter what you look like. No matter whether your ancestors landed here on Ellis Island or came here on slave ships or came across the Rio Grande, we are all connected. We will rise and fall together. That’s the vision of America I’ve got, that’s the idea of the heart of America,” President Obama said at a fundraiser in San Francisco.

“That’s the idea of the heart of our campaign,” Obama added.

Once again Obama is pandering to the LEFT while an overwhelming majority of Americans believe that border control is the top immigration priority. Also 61% of Americans believe that a child born to illegal parents should not be given US citizenship. But that’s irrelevant to Obama which I guess this is why the FEDS have told border patrol not to make arrests.

Barack Obama Falling in the Polls … Just in Time for Larry Sabato’s First 2012 Electoral Map

Can Obama get to 270 electoral votes with record unemployment and gas prices heading toward $5 and $6 a gallon? It’s 18 months away …

Larry Sabato takes his Crystal Ball and presents the first electoral map of the 2012 Presidential election.  Although it is a bit soon, it is a good baseline to start. There are so many GOP candidates that will toss their hat or scarf in the ring for the 2012 election. Much will change along the way and a better picture will come into focus as we get closer to a GOP nominee and general election campaign. However, much has changed since 2008. You can make the calculations from the map below, 270 electoral votes are needed to win.

With 18 months to go until November 2012, there is exactly one use for a current projection of the 2012 Electoral College results. This is merely a baseline from which we can judge more reliable projections made closer to the election. Where did we start–before we knew the identity of the Republican nominee for president, the state of the economy in fall 2012 and many other critical facts?

However, it seems like a lifetime since the 2008 election that saw Barack Hussein Obama win the US Presidency over John McCain. Much has changed since 2008 and none of it for the good. Obama finds his present polling data falling fast. Almost as fast as gasoline prices are rising. His average job approval polling average from Real Clear Politics is presently at 45.4% approve, 50% disapprove. These are hardly the numbers that an incumbent president wants to see as an economy continues to sputter, jobs continue to grow at a snails pace, unemployment rate still high and voters are about to feel a pain at the gas pump as they have never experienced. All polls now have Obama underwater.

Gallup: 43% – 49%  (-6)
Rasmussen Reports: 46% – 53%  (-7)
ABC News/Wash Post: 47% – 50%  (-3)
McClatchy/Marist: 44% – 49%  (-5)
Democracy Corps(D): 44% – 50%  (-6)
CNN/Opinion Research: 48% – 50% (-2)
Reuters/Ipsos: 46% – 49% (-3)

Sabato’s above 2012 initial electoral map hardly looks like the one from 2008 where Obama/Biden beat McCain/Palin, 365 – 173. There certainly is a lack of blue on the 2012 electoral map as compared to the mood of the country in 2008. Does any one think that states like New Hampshire, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida will be Obama wins? America will finally get a chance to show Barack Obama just exactly what they think of Obamacare, Obamanomics, his policies, agenda and a “Hope & Change” that America could have done without.

Then there is the 2010 Electorial Map as pointed out by Protein Wisdom where “The One” must worry that pretty much all toss up states in 2010 went RED to the GOP. Thus one would expect a

Barack Obama will have defend his last four years as President, no cute slogans or catch phrases … unless its,  No Jobs You can Believe In. There is a long way to go until 2012; however, Obama also has an up hill climb and he cannot fall back on any fallacy that he is a DC outsider.

The Body of 17 Year Old Phylicia Barnes Found in Susquehanna River in Maryland, Missing Since December 28, 2010

17 year old Phylicia Simone Barnes has been missing since December 28, 2010. She disappeared while visiting her sister in Baltimore, MD. Phylicia Barnes,  a senior at Union Academy in Monroe, North Carolina, was visiting her half-sister and other relatives in Baltimore on her Christmas vacation. 

WCNC: Phylicia Simone Barnes pic

Two bodies were discovered the other day in the Susquehanna River in Maryland. Sadly, one of them  has been identified as Phylicia  Barnes, the missing North Carolina honors student. Dental records were used in the ID. The other body located was that of a man. Autopsies are supposed to be completed Thursday; however, is is not clear from police reports whether there is a connection between the two bobies found.

The body of a 17-year-old honor student from North Carolina — missing since December — has been found in a Maryland river, her father said Thursday.

Russel Barnes said that a female body found Wednesday in the Susquehanna River in Maryland is that of his daughter, Phylicia Barnes. The father said he’d learned as much after talking with authorities.

Say a prayer for the family and firnds of Phylicia Barnes … Rest in Peace.