A Charlton mom says her local library crossed the line when they sent police to collect her daughter’s overdue library books.

Her mom says the 5-year-old girl was so afraid that she burst into tears.

Charlton Police Sergeant Dan Dowd stopped by the home of Shannon Benoit to let her know that her daughter had two books several months overdue which needed to be returned or paid for.

“What’cha in for?”

“Murder. What about you, kid?”

“Stuart Little three weeks overdue.”

Here’s a dramatization of the Charlton library cop’s visit to the Benoit home:

On this day as always, in addition to health and happiness for my family, I’m thankful that God let me live in a country where people are free to do what we do here, which is opine, laugh, mock, criticize and yes, on rare occasion, praise, those in positions of power. And I’m especially thankful for those of you who serve or have served in the greatest military in the world who have sacrificed so much to make that possible and continue to fight to keep America the last best hope of mankind.

I’m spending the day with my family and I’ve already got my Lions hat on waiting for kickoff at 12:30. The Packers are a machine this year. If the Lions are firing on all cylinders and keep the mistakes to zero, they’ll have a chance. After that the Cowboys should be able to handle the Dolphins.

I saw this classic WKRP in Cincinnati clip yesterday at Hot Air and can’t help but put it here:

Happy Thanksgiving all!

Here’s a local news interview with a Phoenix man who was rear-ended by an out-of-control SUV which then ran into a utility pole, knocking down power lines.

“Reality hits you hard, bro.” I’ll take that on a t-shirt, please:

If they ever make Tommy Boy II, that guy will be perfect.

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A San Fernando Valley adult entertainment studio began construction this month on what it calls a “post-apocalyptic” underground bunker in anticipation of a global catastrophe rumored to take place in late 2012.

A spokesman for Van Nuys-based Pink Visual said the bunker will be “far more than a mere bomb shelter or subterranean survivalist enclave” with amenities such as multiple fully-stocked bars, an enormous performing stage and a sophisticated content production studio.

“Our goal is nothing less than to survive the apocalypse to come in comfort and luxury,” said Pink Visual spokesman Quentin Boyer.

I think The Onion was the first to propose a similar idea.

Reports say the adult entertainment apocalypse shelter will hold 1,200 to 1,500 people. On the downside, you’ll have to live our your remaining years locked in a bunker watching Charlie Sheen tuck $50 bills into the g-string of a stripper named Gigi Geigercounter.

Nobody Reports: Michael Moore was out in Wisconsin yesterday, demanding that all the rich who are hoarding our money hand it over. And because he is one of the rich, he said he was going to take all his money and make it into a bunch of million- dollar men, made up of hundred dollar bills, to be handed out to all the teachers unions in Wisconsin.

Actually, he didn’t say that, I did, which is why Michael Moore complaining that the rich don’t pay their full share is such a joke.

This is what he DID say on his blog, and how Nobody answered.

Michael: I have nothing more than a high school degree. But back when I was in school, every student had to take one semester of economics in order to graduate. And here’s what I learned: Money doesn’t grow on trees. It grows when we make things. It grows when we have good jobs with good wages that we use to buy the things we need and thus create more jobs.

Nobody: It doesn’t? Don’t tell that to the woman who knew when Obama was elected she would not ever have to pay for rent, or gas for her car ever again. To many people, it comes in the mail for free. So do food stamps. Michael economics 101..Okay…keep going Michael.

Michael: It grows when we provide an outstanding educational system that then grows a new generation of inventers, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists and thinkers who come up with the next great idea for the planet. And that new idea creates new jobs and that creates revenue for the state.

Nobody: America spends more money per student on education than any other country in the world, Michael, and yet, we do not have an outstanding educational system. In parts of Wisconsin, half the kids don’t even graduate high school. And why is that Michael? The unions. By the way, who was your high school economics teacher? Was his name Karl?

Michael: But if those who have the most money don’t pay their fair share of taxes, the state can’t function. Just 400 Americans have more wealth than half of all Americans combined wages,

Nobody: Well hey–I agree with that! Sixty percent of the people pay no taxes at all. Let’s get them to start forking over. And guess what? Even if you took all the money from all 400 rich people, (who I agree, some should be in jail) you would not even make a dent in the deficit. Go back to the chalkboard, cupcake.

Michael: The schools can’t produce the best and the brightest who will go on to create those jobs.

Nobody: Has it ever occurred to you to go back to your first lessons of economics and privatized the schools? Get all that union money and big brother out of it? No, I can see you’re not feeling well.

Michael: If the wealthy get to keep most of their money, we have seen what they will do with it: recklessly gamble it on crazy Wall Street schemes and crash our economy. The crash they created cost us millions of jobs. That too caused a reduction in revenue. And the population ended up suffering because they reduced their taxes,(Nobody says..huh? Where?) reduced our jobs and took wealth out of the system, removing it from circulation.

Nobody: Michael, one of the reasons you are a multimillionaire is because you have stock in all those great big companies you hate. What happened? Did you lose some money in the stock market? Or is this all about your next movie; “Bloviating Socialism in Wisconsin” ?

Michael: They have bought and paid for hundreds of politicians across the country to do their bidding for them. But just in case that doesn’t work, they’ve got their gated communities, and the luxury jet is always fully fueled, the engines running, waiting for that day they hope never comes.

Nobody: Well, here’s the catch. Michael has a point on this. Our big corporations, banks, and politicians, are not separate anymore. Everyone knows it, and Michael is using the pain people are felling right now to guide us all into a communist state. He blames the rich, instead of where the blame should be put: corruption in our government.

Sadly, Michael Moore is the prime example of why our educational system has to be overhauled completely. Look what it did to him.

As our founders reminded us: only an educated people can hold on to a Republic, and it’s up to us to keep fighting the unions.

Now, somebody give that man a wheelchair before he has a heart attack.

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Joyanna Adams sitting in for the Master. Visit me at joyannaadams.wordpress.com