http://wordpress.com/tag/star-tribune/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "star-tribune" Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:58:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/tags/ en http://scarletraven.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/meet-lois-feldman-or-a-woman-who-enjoys-a-good-time-but-not-the-consequences-thereafter/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:11:06 +0000 nmhood http://scarletraven.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/meet-lois-feldman-or-a-woman-who-enjoys-a-good-time-but-not-the-consequences-thereafter/ Meet Lois Feldman. She probably had an awkward Thanksgiving this year. NOTE: For a very personal meeting, I recommend slumming around Metrodome handicap bathroom stalls.

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Lois Feldman, 38, and Ross Walsh, 26 were ticketed for indecent conduct after they were reportedly caught engaging in sexual activity in a Metrodome men’s restroom handicapped stall … more than a dozen people in the restroom were cheering by the time authorities arrived. If you haven’t heard; here is a run-down on the chain of events.

Feldman lives in Sarah Palin’s America: an America with wholesome small-town Christian family values. This former-nursing home administrator’s life is in turmoil. Who would have thought that poor decision-making would lead to destructive consequences? Of course, why should Feldman blame herself? As she put it, “I would never ever do that. My kids are my life. I go to church every Sunday.” Oh, you go to church! This changes everything! I guess we should just drop the charges then, eh?

This is America, and we are not responsible for the consequences of our own action

Examples of Feldman scapegoating and blame shifting:

1. Although Feldman chose to drink (mixing wine and beer) in an unfamiliar place and knowingly had consensual sexual intercourse contrary to her church-going, small-town morals, she shouldn’t be held responsible because alcohol limited her inhabitations [ link].
2. Her husband is to blame, as she claims that he should have escorted her to the bathroom [ link]. What’s next? “Honey, I had to go use the bathroom and I accidentally fell into the handicap stall in the Men’s Restroom … while naked.” That must have been a very awkward car ride home.
3. As Feldman puts it, “Everybody thinks something got put in my drink.” However, in a different interview she stated that she drank only with friends at their home in Minneapolis [ link], and then went to the game with her husband. So, was it her friends or husband who spiked her drink?

Her statements are contrary to that of the Police Office, who stated in an interview, “All I can say is the actions went on for some period of time with many witnesses on hand and no one reported either party was objecting.”

To make matters worse, she unwisely decided to initially give police officers a false name. It was only after having an interrogation and refusal to take a breathalyzer that he husband identified her. After being embarrassingly identified by her husband, she sprinted away and did not return back to their hotel until about 11pm that evening.

Thankfully, in the state of Minnesota, intoxication is not a valid excuse for neglecting the law.

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The biggest question is, what is it about Minnesota public restrooms that make people go crazy? And, I am curious to know if they happened to use a condom?

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UPDATE: Meet the man that she will probably try to push unfounded rape charges against: MySpace and … well, a webpage that was dedicated to Mr. Walsh by his lovely soon-to-be ex-girlfriend.

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Omer said the guy in the chef’s coat said he could do whatever he wanted.

James Robinson, a manager at the New Calhoun Grill, formerly located on Lake Street, said that his information was secondhand but that he understood his co-worker was “in the building, not in the front door” of Hell’s Kitchen. Robinson said that he was not working when Omer paid a visit to the New Calhoun Grill, but that restaurant staffers will not continue to solicit Hell’s Kitchen diners.

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A Minnesota GOP operative close to Bachmann casts the congresswoman’s love for the camera in a less positive light.

“I think that she’s a media hound first and foremost,” said the operative. “That has been her biggest goal from Day One: to be in the media spotlight, to be a representative who is the spokesman for the Republican Party — and she’s made that a very concerted effort, to be in the spotlight as much as possible.

“Why would Larry King or Chris Matthews want to have her on? Precisely because of what happened on Friday.”

Ms. Bachmann has already captured the Elmira Gulch Award for most energetic spinning; now she’s just trying to run up the score.

- Austin

Photo credit: Star-Tribune

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Newspaper in Minneapolis Halts Debt Payments [New York Times]

Financial Downturn Futher Hurts Newspaper Publishers [WSJ]

For Newspapers, the Storm Gets More Perfect [Forbes]

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