Stefanie Woods, who once boasted it was “easy” to swipe money from a Girl Scout selling cookies, was sentenced to six years & five months in state prison for probation violations from a 2009 felony case.

Stefanie Woods, who first became famous in 2008, when at the age of 17, she was busted for stealing $164 from a 9-year-old Girl Scout, is back in the news again. At the time of that incident, when asked if she had any regrets over her actions she famously replied, “I mean, right now, no. I’m kinda pissed because I have charges, and we have to give the money back anyway.”

After a plea agreement stemming from probation violations following a 2009 felony case, the 24-year-old, previously dubbed the “Cookie Monster” will spend about the next four years in jail.

Via WPTV:

“We’re pleased with the result,” he said, after Woods took a plea deal with the State Attorney’s Office. “It could have been much worse.”

As her mother and stepfather looked on, Woods pleaded guilty to violating her six-year probation term for robbery with a firearm and kidnapping charges.

She had faced at least 9-1/2 years in prison had she opted to fight the 20 violations cited by prosecutor Aaron Papero.

“It’s a decent amount of prison time,” he said of the sentence imposed by Palm Beach County Circuit Judge John Kastrenakes.

After years of struggles to comply with her lengthy probation, Woods hopes Friday was the first step toward a crime-free life.

“Stefanie is glad the matter is now behind her and she can focus on her future,” Olson said. “She’s an intelligent and often misunderstood person and I predict success for her in her future.”

Woods was 17 in 2008 when she was nicknamed the “Cookie Monster” after her infamous caper outside a Winn-Dixie in West Boynton. Read More…

Time will tell if prison will “rehabilitate” her, below is an interview with her following the 2008 theft.

Franklin Center Political Cartoon by Mike Shelton

The big-government loving “progressives” are coming after bloggers such as myself and of course the much-more effective and known ones.

Via Breitbart:

As the media prepared to vacate newsrooms for the weekend, Democrats snuck in a last minute proposal that the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) be allowed to heavily regulate political content on internet sites such as Youtube, blogs, and the Drudge Report.

Obama FEC Vice Chairperson Ann M. Ravel announced late on Friday that the FEC was preparing new regulations to give itself control over videos, Internet-based political campaigns, and other content on the web. She insisted that, “A reexamination of the commission’s approach to the internet and other emerging technologies is long overdue.”

This snap decision came after the FEC deadlocked 3-3 over whether or not an anti-Obama Internet campaign in Ohio had violated FEC campaign disclosure rules. The videos were placed for free on Youtube and were not paid advertising, but they also did not disclose who made them.

Until now, videos and other political content that is not posted for a fee are unregulated by the FEC. Only paid advertising is regulated under election rules. It is this that the Democrats want to change.

“FEC Chairman Lee E. Goodman, a Republican, said if regulation extends that far, then anybody who writes a political blog, runs a politically active news site, or even a chat room could be regulated,” the Washington Examiner reported on October 24. Read More…

Wake up America, before it’s too late…

A Homework assignment given to students at Mapleton Junior High School in Utah has brought the school under fire, and rightfully so, after a parent posted it on Facebook complaining. Onika Harris, a concerned mother of a student, also sent a note to the school’s principal and the teacher that issued the questionable assignment.

Students were sent home with a worksheet that instructed them to go to their family medicine cabinet and write down a list of all of its contents, both over-the-counter and prescriptions. The assignment also instructed the students to describe what the medicine is used for, what the directions are for use, whether or not the user follows the directions, whether or not the medicine is still used, and whether or not the medicine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Via KSL-TV:

MAPLETON, Utah County — What’s in your medicine cabinet? It’s a pretty personal question, but that was the assignment students in one health class at Mapleton Junior High School brought home.

Concerns were raised when a copy of the assignment started circulating on social media websites. Nebo School District officials said not only was the assignment a violation of privacy, but also state HIPPA laws.

“This was an innocent mistake,” said Lana Hiskey with Nebo School District. “It was part of a health unit. (The teacher) wanted parents to know how to clean their medicine cabinets.”

At the top of the assignment, it explained how a major reason for drug abuse in Utah County is people aren’t safely disposing of medications.

The instructions then ask students to go home, look in their medicine cabinets and report back medication names, what the medication is being used for and if it’s still being used.

“(Teachers) create their own lesson plans every day, so something like this can slip through without someone else knowing it,” Hiskey said.

Hiskey describes the first-year teacher who assigned the project as someone who teaches with enthusiasm and wanted to send home meaningful homwork. Read More…

There is no doubt in my mind that this “enthusiastic teacher” is a hard-core liberal idiot.

Via The Washington Post:

Recent polling of Americans shows that public concern over Ebola has grown since the first cases arrived in the United States and since the death of the first Ebola patient — with 4 in 10 Americans saying that they are worried about family members contracting Ebola. The symptoms associated with Ebola, such as bleeding and weakness, are frightening, and the death rate in this current outbreak is very high, reaching 70 percent in certain places. Ebola anxiety, while potentially misplaced and harmful, is likely to have an affect on whom Americans trust to handle the disease and what kinds of policies they will support to fight it.

Based on work that we have done on other public health anxieties, such as smallpox and the H1N1 flu, we expect that Ebola anxiety will lead people to seek protection from diseases that may cause harm to them or their family. In seeking protection, we expect that Americans will, at least initially, put their trust in medical experts like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to tell them how to stay safe and will support state powers that may lead to quarantine or other civil liberties restrictions for those suspected of exposure. Read More…

Smells of Cloward–Piven, statists never let an opportunity go to waste…