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Seventeen days after Arrow Trucking Co. suspended operations, stranding drivers, trucks and freight around the country, dozens of drivers — possibly more than a hundred — are missing or unaccounted for, industry officials say.

The family of one Arrow driver, John Eischens, 34, of Mabank, Texas, has filed a missing person’s report with the Anna (Texas) Police Department, police department officers said.

Eischens was last seen Christmas day in Butte, Mont., where he cleaned out his truck, which was out of fuel, and turned over the keys to the manager of the Pilot Truck Stop, officials said.

Eischens had no money because his previous Arrow paychecks bounced, his family said.

Steve Williams, a detective with the Anna Police Department, 30 miles north of Dallas, said the missing person’s report on Eischens was filed Wednesday by Christopher Eischens, the driver’s brother, who lives in Anna.

Neither Christopher Eischens nor his mother, Connie Salik, could be reached for comment.

“He (John Eischens) was seen in Anna the first week in December,” Williams said. “John Eischens’ wife, who lives in Mabank, Texas (30 miles southeast of Dallas), said they’ve had phone conversations in the same time frame — the first week in December and at Christmas.”

Neither his wife, brother or mother has been in contact with Eischens since Christmas, Williams said.

Eischens is 6 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. He is clean-shaven and has no tattoos or scars, Williams said.

Persons with information on Eischens may contact Williams at the Anna

After the missing person’s report was filed, the Montana Department of Justice became involved in the case, said Jennifer Viets, coordinator of the Montana Missing Persons Clearinghouse.

“I will put out a statewide broadcast to every Montana law enforcement agency that we are looking for him (Eischens) on a check of his welfare,” Viets said. “I will attach his photo.”

People with information about Eischens can contact the Montana Missing Persons Clearinghouse at (406) 444-2483.

Arrow’s lender, Transportation Alliance Bank of Ogden, Utah, canceled the company’s fuel credit cards on Dec. 21 after the company’s unpaid bills and debts mounted, drivers, employees and industry officials said.

With no fuel, drivers were forced to abandon their trucks and loads at truck stops and rest areas from Baltimore to Bakersfield, Calif., and from Butte, Mont., to south Texas, drivers and industry officials said.

More than two dozen drivers said their last paychecks from the company bounced, depriving many of the means to get home.

Sandi Soendker, managing editor for 22 years of Land Line Magazine, a publication of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association of Grain Valley, Mo., said the Arrow collapse is the “messiest” she’s witnessed.

“I have seen a lot of companies go under,” Soendker said. “For a big company, you would expect an orderly shutdown. This is the sloppiest I have ever seen.”

Soon after company executives closed its west Tulsa offices and told dozens of employees to go home on Dec. 22, drivers around the country found they were on their own, drivers and officials said.

But with the help of OOIDA, trucker message and bulletin boards, 7,500 people across the country became involved with the effort to bring stranded drivers home, said Lisa Philpot, a volunteer with “Support for Stranded Arrow Trucking Drivers” who lives in Baltimore.

“There were a couple of drivers up here (near Baltimore),” Philpot said by telephone late Thursday. “There are 300 to 460 drivers who are not home or (whose whereabouts) we can’t verify.”

John Eischens is one of them.

story curtesy of:  D.R. STEWART World Staff Writer,  at Tulsa World News

This is just a major tragedy for 4 families. My condolences go out to them, i could not even begin to comprehend the hardship their are going thru.

As the suspect in the ambush execution of four police officers remains on the run, questions are swirling as to how and why Maurice Clemmons — an ex-con who at one time faced more than 100 years behind bars — was allowed to live free.

Clemmons, 37, of Tacoma, Wash., has an extensive, violent criminal history marked by volatile and unstable behavior, according to court records and news reports. His criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington, according to The Seattle Times. He had a lengthy prison sentence commuted in 2000 by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who cited Clemmons’ youth.

Rhonda Sharp, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas Parole Board, said then-Gov. Huckabee commuted Clemmons’ 108-year prison term to a sentence of 47 years, five months and 19 days.

“[Huckabee's commutation] made him eligible for parole at that point,”Clemmons later violated his parole and was returned to prison until his release in 2004. Should he be found to be responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington State.  Huckabee said in a statement issued Sunday. The former governor, who ran for president in 2008 and has been a leading contender in polls for the 2012 Republican nomination, currently hosts a show on Fox News Channel.

Huckabee said the criminal justice system “failed miserably” in Clemmons’ case. “If I could’ve known nine years ago, looked into the future, would I have acted favorably upon the parole board’s recommendation?” Huckabee told Fox News Radio on Monday. “Of course not.” Responding to his critics, Huckabee said, “Politics is the last thing on my mind. It should be the last thing on anybody’s mind. To me it’s repulsive that people are trying to bring something like that up in the midst of what ought to be a concern for these officer’s families.

“The criminal justice is far from perfect and in this case it failed miserably on all sides.” Clemmons is wanted in connection to Sunday’s shooting in a suburban Seattle coffee shop that killed Lakewood Police Sgt. Mark Renninger, 39, and Officers Ronald Owens, 37; Tina Griswold, 40; and Greg Richards, 42. His gun was recovered at the scene, police said.

Clemmons, who was released from custody in Washington just seven days ago, had been jailed in Pierce County on a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child. Using a bail bondsman, Jail Sucks Bail Bonds, Clemmons posted $150,000 — only $15,000 of which was his own money — and secured his release on the pending rape charge.

In 1989, Clemmons, then 18, was convicted for aggravated robbery, burglary, robbery and two counts of theft of property, said Arkansas Department of Correction spokeswoman Dina Tyler. A year later, he was convicted of burglary, theft of property and possession of a firearm, she said.

http://nuttynuttynews.com helped with some of the information for this post

Hello all. I know its been a while but here is just 1 of the many changes that’s happened in the last few months.

Kyle Eugene

born 11-27-209 at 1504

5 Lb 13 oz

19 in

healthy as can be

more to come later

ben

Here is the second installment of “what this country elected”.

This whole Cambridge Professor Gates, and Cambridge police Sergent Crowley incident. Most people forget how this whole incident started. Gates came home from a trip to find his front door hard to open. In trying to get it open a neighbor saw 2 black men trying to get into a house of a known Cambridge professor. After seeing this go on she called the police. Which i would thank this neighbor for at least looking and seeing that something wasn’t right. To keep this background short, both MEN acted in a very UN-professional manner. There are to things about this whole incident and that’s all it is an incident. 1 professor Gates started with the racial card (i will explain) 2 The president got involves.

First of all professor Gates, from what i have read here and there the man is a great professor and wealth of knowledge to his students and anyone that gets to talk to him. As he should know better than to do he started with the racial comments. Gates accused the investigating officer of being a racist and told him he had “no idea who he was messing with,” Gates told the officer that he was being targeted because “I’m a black man in America.” This man should know better to start making  statements of this nature. In the end he made some foolish and border line stupid comments.

Now Cambridge police Sergent Crowley, what i read I agree with up till he had proof from professor Gates. After that the officer was pushing it to far. The officer in my eyes was borderline out of his scope of the law, and probably should not have pushed the situation any further. In the end he made some foolish and border line stupid judgments.

Now the good part, President Obama, What concern is it to him or why is this manner taking up the time of the nations highest elected official. There is a hell of a lot better things that he should be doing than sitting down with these two foolish men. I would like to know how much money this cost you and me as tax paying Americans. As im sitting hear thinking about this foolish situation, maybe this is what we need him to do commit all his time to just flat out stupid things. That way he will leave the rest of us alone to help fix the economy and the state this country is in. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again that boy most of America’s blundering idiots elected is a flipping moron that shouldn’t be running a blender.

ben

Salazar, et al. v. Buono

Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial

Summary of Events The case surrounding the Mojave Desert Veterans Memorial centers around whether or not a privately-erected cross on federal land established to honor fallen soldiers from all wars is unconstitutional on grounds of violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The seven-foot-tall cross was erected in 1934 in the 1.6 million acre Mojave Desert Preserve by a number of World War I veterans to honor the nation’s war dead as other hurting veterans gathered in the desert to heal from the War. Riley Bembry, one of the veterans who erected the memorial, cared for the cross until 1984, when he asked his dear friend, Henry Sandoz, to make sure that someone took care of the memorial after he was gone. Since then, Sandoz has cared for the memorial by repairing it from vandalism and securing it to the rock beneath. In 2001, Frank Buono, a former National Park Services (NPS) employee who lives in Oregon, joined the ACLU to file suit for removal of the memorial claiming it was an Establishment Clause violation. The District Court sided with the ACLU in July 2002 and ruled that it must be removed. Later in 2002, Congress passed legislation designating the memorial and surrounding property as a “national memorial commemorating United States participation in World War I and honoring American veterans of that war.” They also passed a bill ordering the NPS to transfer the one acre upon which the memorial sits to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in exchange for five acres elsewhere in the Mojave Desert Preserve, donated by Sandoz. Upon appeal, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the District Court and ordered the removal of the memorial, which the District Court enforced in 2005. Following the District Court’s enforcement of the injunction against the memorial, the Ninth Circuit ruled that Congress’ motion to transfer the memorial and land would not take away the Establishment Clause violation and that the memorial must be torn down. Veterans’ Memorials at Risk: Would They Really Tear It Down? As a result of the courts’ ruling, the memorial is now covered with a plywood box. Attempts have been made to hew down the cross, but the memorial’s construction is such that it has not been accomplished yet. However, if the Ninth Circuit’s ruling stands, this veterans’ memorial cross will be destroyed, and hundreds, if not thousands, of monuments built to honor our veterans will be threatened. The precedent set by the Ninth Circuit endangers not only crosses, but also veterans’ memorials with any religious imagery. If even one veterans’ memorial is removed, the impact upon veterans, current service members, and future generations, would be tremendous. Not only would we dishonor our veterans, we would dishonor the families of those who proudly sacrificed themselves to preserve the rights of Americans. Liberty Legal Institute Steps In In November 2008, Liberty Legal Institute filed an amicus brief in this case on behalf of five leading veterans groups. The brief argues that religious imagery is such a part of the American military culture that removal would indicate an about-face in military policy, and that the cross is commonly known as a symbol of the courage and sacrifice of veterans. Introduction to Amici Petitioners include Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, The American Legion, The Military Order of the Purple Heart, Inc., Veterans of the Foreign Wars of California, and The American Ex-Prisoners of War. These groups represent more than 4 million of our nation’s veterans. Conclusion The outcome of this case will determine if we can continue to honor and respect our veterans, or if we must wipe their memories from the public square. If not overturned, this case will impact every veterans’ memorial and those they were built to remember. More than 4 million veterans though Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, The American Legion, The Military Order of the Purple Heart, Inc., Veterans of the Foreign Wars of California, and The American Ex-Prisoners of War, hope that the decision handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court will honor those who lost their lives as well as those who have served and who are currently serving the United States of America.

To me this is just sickening to see.  The more and more of this shit i see that so called americans doing just makes me sick. There are just to many people that THINK they know what they are talking about. I would be willing to bet you that a good chunk of this morons are either A. draft dodgers B. treehuggers C. People with a college degree that didn’t learn there as from a hole in the ground.  ECT. I understand that it is hard to understand something that they don’t know but for those of us that know what it means. Leave us the HELL ALONE. This and a good chunk of the others like it were created and cared for by our nations veterans. Just in case you forgot here it is again OUR FOR FATHERS FOUGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS AS AMERICANS AND YES A GREAT DEAL OF THEM LOST THERE LIFE FIGHTING FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED IN. I’m not going to go into detail about every war and what it was for, and how many people lost there life for what they believed in. Statues like this 1 and hundreds more make those of us that are AMERICANS stop and take a second to say thank you and remember those HERO’S of the past and present. I will be not only posting this but im sorry to those of you I have e-mail for, you will be seeing this again and every shred of info i can get on this issue. As i get info on how and who to contact I will be posting it later. Below is a link that i hope all of you go to.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR TROOPS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

http://www.saveourmemorials.com/index.htm

ben

hi there all, I know i havent posted anything big in a while. I just wanted to say i’ve got a couple big peices im working on and that i’m still working on this site

Ingredients

* 2 whole slabs pork baby back ribs

Dry Rub:

* 8 tablespoons light brown sugar, tightly packed
* 3 tablespoons kosher salt
* 1 tablespoon chili powder
* 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon jalapeno seasoning
* 1/2 teaspoon Old Bay Seasoning
* 1/2 teaspoon rubbed thyme
* 1/2 teaspoon onion powder

Braising Liquid:

* 1 cup white wine
* 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
* 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
* 1 tablespoon honey
* 2 cloves garlic, chopped

Directions

Preheat oven to 250 degrees.

In a bowl, combine all dry ingredients and mix well. Place each slab of baby back ribs on a piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil, shiny side down. Sprinkle each side generously with the dry rub. Pat the dry rub into the meat. Refrigerate the ribs for a minimum of 1 hour. In a microwavable container, combine all ingredients for the braising liquid. Microwave on high for 1 minute.

Place the ribs on a baking sheet. Open one end of the foil on each slab and pour half of the braising liquid into each foil packet. Tilt the baking sheet in order to equally distribute the braising liquid. Braise the ribs in the oven for 2 1/2 hours.

Transfer the braising liquid into a medium saucepot. Bring the liquid to a simmer and reduce by half or until of a thick syrup consistency. Brush the glaze onto the ribs. Place under the broiler just until the glaze caramelizes lightly. Slice each slab into 2 rib bone portions. Place the remaining hot glaze into a bowl and toss the rib portions in the glaze.

*This recipe makes several batches of dry rub. If more rub is needed, it can be extended by any amount, as long as the ratio of 8:3:1:1 remains the same.

This rib recipe came from www.foodnetwork.com. This 1 any a few others are delicious. For more information on this article and other recipe’s check out
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/who-loves-ya-baby-back-recipe/index.html

ben

While sitting at home for the weekend and knowing that i am picking up an oversized load. I started looking around for a website and or PDF book of oversized load info for a couple states. I came across Oversized Load Escorts. There is info by state of registered escorts, a link to the individual states online permit page, and the regulations for each state and Canada. I am in the process of copying and pasting the regulations. Then i am printing the pages so i can build a book of each state. Also in most states regulations section there are the main permit office contact info as well as some scale house phone numbers. The registration for this website is free a word all of us truckers love hearing especially in this econmy. I am searching for more of these sites and will be posting reviews and links to these sites

ben

http://oversizeloadescorts.com/index.php

After watching a video about the makers of mayonnaise. Mullins  is
huge, and is owned by 11 brothers and sisters in the Mullins family.
The tour of the plant was hosted by, Jeanne, is the CEO.

Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what  I
learned from a chemist.

The guy who gave us our tour is named Ed. He’s one of the brothers. Ed is a
chemistry expert and is involved in developing most of the  sauce formula.
He’s even developed sauce formula for McDonald’s.

Keep in mind that Ed is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone
asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always
worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed’s answer will surprise  you

Ed said that all commercially-made Mayo is completely safe.

“It doesn’t even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but
it’s not really necessary.” He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at
a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment.  He then
talked about the quaint essential picnic, with the bowl of potato salad
sitting on the table and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone
gets sick.

Ed says that when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials
look for is when the ‘victim’ last ate ONIONS and where those onions came
from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it’s not the mayonnaise (as long as
it’s not homemade Mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It’s probably the
onions, and if  not the onions, it’s the POTATOES. He explained, onions are
a huge magnet for  bacteria, especially uncooked onions.

You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion. He says it’s not
even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.
It’s already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit,
that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you
put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!)

Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you’ll
probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your
sandwich, you’re asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist
potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any
commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

So, how’s that for news? Take it for what you will. I (the author) am going
to be very careful about my onions from now on. For some reason, I see  a
lot of credibility coming from a chemist and a company, that produces
millions of pounds of mayonnaise every year.’

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

Did you know that the ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed and another suit to end prayer from the military completely.  They’re making great progress. The Navy Chaplains can no longer mention Jesus’ name in prayer thanks to the retched ACLU and our new administration.

Prayer chain for our Military… Don’t break it!
Please send this on after a short prayer.. Prayer for our soldiers

Prayer: Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands Protect them as they protect us Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen.’

I’m not what you might call a church’e person but this is just a load of crap. Please take a look at the Army gallery very soon and see some of the pic’s that came with this e-mail. If you would like the whole thing sent to you e-mail be at admin@sconsepts.com and i will be happy to send it to you.

ben