PRESS RELEASE:

LIBERTY COUNTY JUVENILE PROBATION’S

2010 COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND DRUG PREVENTION SEMINAR

COMMUNITY-WIDE EVENT

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

CLEVELAND, Texas- (August 21, 2010)- Anthony Scott, Liberty County Chief Juvenile Probation Officer/Director and the Juvenile Probation Department will sponsor a FREE Community Awareness and Drug Prevention Seminar. This is an important educational seminar that will raise the community and parents’ awareness of the trends of adolescent drug use as well as other unhealthy behaviors that affect the positive growth and development of adolescents. Our hope is that the knowledge of prevention theories and strategies offered at this seminar will strengthen individuals, families, community leaders, and support systems. Seminar will target parents; guardians; and children and teens ages 10 and up.

The seminar is scheduled for Saturday, August 21, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Southside Primary School, 303 Fort Worth, Cleveland, Texas 77327. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. A light breakfast and afternoon snack will be provided.

Several representatives from law enforcement; probation; and local, state, and federal agencies will provide educational presentations. The presentations will focus on topics such as, but not limited to:

Cyper-Bullying, Social Networks/Media, Sexting, and Harassment - Common Drugs Used Among Teens - Substance Abuse Prevention – Educational Resources – Colleges to Careers/College & Career Advisement - Community Services – Decision Making – Teen Violence and Teen Pregnancy – Self-Esteem and Gang Involvement

Contact Information:

For more information, please contact Kelly Semien, Liberty County Juvenile Probation, at (936) 336-4550 or semienkelly@aol.com

Dr. Anita Wright, Inspiring Hope Education and Training, at (832) 527-0154 or anita.wright@sbcglobal.net

Event in collaboration with Inspiring Hope Education and Training.

Event location made possible by the Cleveland Independent School District.

COMING: Candidate background files

Liberty County Judge, 75th Judicial District Court...
Will the real Judge, Carol "Rusty" Hight please stand up!

Liberty County Judge, County Judge Presiding...
Smoke and mirrors!

Liberty County Judge, County Court at Law...
Indignant entitlement!

Yes, where there is smoke, there is FIRE...

Your Loyal Opposition

Dear Editor,

I am writing this to Whom It May Concern among the local Democratic Party faithful and sending this cry for help to your conservative website because quite frankly our party has turned into a leaderless party that is just sitting around waiting for the sky to fall the rest of the way. I know a lot of us read your site. I know those who have helped us in the past have become an embarrassment and seem to be preparing to jump ship and start acting like they were open to a Republican dominated local government from the beginning.

Here is the deal. Just when I thought we had found our savior, things went bad. No I am not talking about Barack Obama. I mean a local savior, not the one we have in Washington D.C. I mean Elizabeth Beausoliel. Just when Beausoliel, the former Liberty County Democratic Party County Chairman and Campaign guru in Rusty Hight’s election to the 75th District Court Judgeship was, in my mind, primed and ready to rid our party of the neutering and embarrassing leadership of John and Nancy Archer, she gets caught stealing mail in the courthouse, etc. and embarrasses us all over again. So much for the Beausoliels.

We have now had ten years of a handful of local Republicans slowly and methodically taking advantage of our own inept leadership. Ten years ago they had nothing but some people talking about change. We should have ignored them as courteously as we could. Instead our leadership has been big on trying to use their power to try and destroy these people and not big at all at doing the right thing. We don’t need any more strong arm type leaders. We don’t need any more spinmeisters. We need a good honest smart thick-skinned Democrat to replace the leadership we have now. We need someone to promote what our party is all about.

So as bizarre as it may seem I am hoping you will allow me to put the word out on your website. A good strong two party system makes this country strong and it will make this county strong too.


Thanks for any fair treatment you are able to find your way to give me,

Your Loyal Opposition

Liberty County, 75th District Court- Let's make a deal Wednesdays...

Most people here in Liberty County don’t know it, but the cat will now be out of the bag for anyone reading this article. On Wednesdays in the Liberty County courthouse if you are interested you can watch a live alternate version of the popular game show “Let’s Make A Deal”. Yes, it is true- the devil is in the details...

There are several differences in the Liberty County version however. First thing anyone who chooses to go will notice that the deals are made in the 75th District Court rather than a studio in Burbank, California. The second thing any longtime fan of the original show will notice is that instead of the iconic Monty Hall, Liberty County has Rusty Hight cutting the deals.

But the difference in the host and the location is not what makes Wednesdays worth noting. Observers will notice that the deals are cut on much different terms when Hight is in charge. First this deal making skips the three doors. There is no excitement for the audience. No cheering for door number one or door number three. No trading door number two for a big box that ends up having three flat tires in it. The deals are cut behind closed doors. And they are all wonderful. What 75th District Court Judge Rusty Hight gives away is just as toe tingling and just as worthy of a loud whooping jump up and down scream to some of the people appearing in orange jumpsuits and shackles before him as all of the clowns that dressed up to get on Monty Hall’s television show. You see what Hight is giving away doesn’t come from money generated by a television show. On Wednesdays, the days when the least people are in the courtroom, Hight gives away bargain basement sentences.

Hight gives away light sentences and he has even been known to suspend someone’s probation after sentencing them the day before in front of a much larger crowd in the courtroom on Tuesday.

You see Wednesdays are days that Rusty Hight gets to play Monty Hall, or some might say Santa Claus or even God. We encourage people that are at home on Wednesday mornings to turn their televisions off and go watch child molesters and drug dealers receive whatever door Judge Hight has chosen to give them.

Be sure and note who the attorneys for the criminals are so that you can follow the money in future stories. And if you get a chance to come on other days be sure and notice how on rare occasions, Hight does his version of Judge Roy Bean and tries to hang one of his political or personal enemies with a tough judgment against them.

The things that have gone on in this courtroom during Hight’s tenure would make an interesting reality show. Unfortunately, the reality of this Judge’s decisions leave us all vulnerable. People are subject to not only his willingness to use the law to punish innocent people, we are subject to the criminals he let’s back out on the streets.

Obama's Focus: Bowling and Golf, then the Economy Stupid?

By all accounts Barack Obama is probably the worst bowler to live in the White House in the last fifty years (President's wives and children excluded). His reaction to the public reporting of his lack of bowling ability was to practice, practice, practice – until it is reported that he is now an average bowler. And then the press was encouraged to emphasize his basketball skills.

At that point all Americans should have hoped that the President focused on the nation’s business during work hours and his family during off hours. That is not what has happened, but you would have to hunt to find out the truth. The liberal media has chosen to report that Obama has “vacationed” less than half as much as President Bush, which is a scandalous deception in itself. President Bush’s trips to Texas were to a ranch that was equipped to carry on business as usual. The media’s surveillance of the Bush ranch and all reports from insiders indicate that, with the exception of occasional bike rides or brush clearing, Bush was all about the people’s business while at the ranch.

On the other hand, the liberal media has chosen not to count nearly fifty day trips by Obama to go golfing. Barack Obama has played a remarkable number of rounds of golf since becoming president, easily outpacing his predecessor and headed for what could be an unbeatable record. With the excursions lasting on average at least five hours, the president has devoted a total of more than 200 hours to golf, not counting time spent on the White House putting green. That’s the equivalent of twenty five eight-hour work days, or five work weeks spent smacking golf balls around.

Of course with Bush the reports of his golf outings were used to help deride him as a callow and lazy rich boy. We now know it did not take Bush long to decide it was not appropriate for him to play golf when people’s children were fighting overseas in a war he was responsible for prosecuting. So he didn’t play again.

With Obama however, it is best to remember the bowling disability we all learned about early in his administration. Unfortunately, Obama’s lack of golfing skills are taking longer to overcome. And despite wars he is responsible for prosecuting and the tragedy in the gulf, the three putting and the slicing continue. Perhaps it would all stop if the media would report his daily activities the same as they reported his predecessor’s.

Since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 rig workers and started the Gulf oil spill, Obama has teed up seven times, according to White House Dossier’s count. This includes back to back sessions April 23 and 24 while on vacation at the Grove Park Resort & Spa in Asheville, NC, just days after the crisis began.

From a period stretching from April 3 to May 22 of this year, the president went golfing eight of nine weekends. WOULD YOUR WIFE LET YOU DO THAT?? WOULD YOU LET YOUR HUSBAND? Michelle, what gives?

While on the course, Obama, for the most part, likes to keep it nice and light, often playing with a youngish crowd. No deep discussions of policy on the links. Emphatically not invited for the most part are members of Congress or senior White House aides. In other words, it ain’t no work trip…

Perhaps in order to make him earn his paycheck, we should bite the bullet and hire Tiger Woods to help him get his golf game up to the level of his bowling. Perhaps then both men could quit behaving like spoiled brats and join the grown up world.