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Vets will get sex offenders' TVs (MN)
StarTribune ^ | 10/23/09 | MIKE KASZUBA and BOB VON STERNBERG

Posted on 10/23/2009 8:45:17 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

The big screen, flat panel TVs that so recently hung on the walls of the Moose Lake sex offender program will soon be enjoyed by patients at veterans homes across the state.

In a move designed to put an end to an embarrassing episode for a cost-conscious administration, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Friday that at least 14 of the two dozen sets will go to veterans homes in Minneapolis, Fergus Falls, Hastings and Silver Bay.

Jon Skillingstad, the administrator of the veterans home in Fergus Falls, said the new televisions will be a welcome addition.

"We can easily make use of 50-inch TVs in our lounge and public areas ... where people have a hard time seeing," Skillingstad said. "It's a good addition to our program.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: sexoffenders; tvs; veterans
Follow-up to a previous thread....

A much better use of taxpayer's money......

1 posted on 10/23/2009 8:45:18 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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2 posted on 10/23/2009 8:46:24 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“We can easily make use of 50-inch TVs in our lounge and public areas ... where people have a hard time seeing,” Skillingstad said. “It’s a good addition to our program.”

This is good. NOW, what about some programming that isn’t all propaganda all the time.


3 posted on 10/23/2009 8:54:13 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: rockinqsranch

Hopefully, they come with DVD players so there isn’t a reliance on broadcast news tripe....


4 posted on 10/23/2009 8:59:11 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: rockinqsranch
In other news, the state announced that a milking machine seized from a dairy farm caught growing marijuana would be donated to the sex offender's facility to compensate them for the loss of their big screen TV's.
5 posted on 10/23/2009 8:59:34 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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LMAO


6 posted on 10/23/2009 9:11:46 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Sanitize them first.


7 posted on 10/23/2009 10:10:45 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED
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Don’t get this thread pulled.....

;-)


8 posted on 10/23/2009 10:18:11 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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