Sept 2005 Archived from Current News page

Sept. 30 am No updates until the paper gets out this afternoon.

Sept. 30 am  As my wife and I are approaching our 63rd and 65th birthdays, respectively, we scheduled our annual medical examination the same day so we could travel together.  After my examination, the doctor said: "You appear to be in good  health. Do you have any medical concerns that you would like to discuss  with me?"  "In fact, I do," I said. "After I have sex with my wife the first time, I am usually hot and sweaty. And then, after I have sex with my wife the second time, I am usually cold and chilly."   "This is very interesting," replied the doctor. "Let me do some research and get back to you."   After examining my wife, the doctor said: "Everything appears to be fine. Do you have any medical concerns that you would like to discuss with me?"  She replied that she had no questions nor concerns. The doctor than asked: "Your husband had an unusual concern. He claims that he is usually hot and sweaty after having sex the first time with you and cold and chilly after the second time: "Do you know why?"   "Oh that old turd" she replied. "That's because the first time is usually in July and the second time is usually in December."

Sept. 29 am  A blonde pushes her BMW into a gas station. She tells the mechanic it died.  After he works on it for a few minutes, it is idling smoothly.   She says, "What's the story?"  He replies, "Just crap in the carburetor"  She asks, "How often do I have to do that?"

Sept. 29 am We're going into typing mode for Friday's edition of the Communicator. No new posts except for emergency stuff like a politician saying stupid stuff.

Sept. 29 am With Richard Cummings found not guilty of shooting Tommy Young Sr, that's the last of the charges stemming from last Fall's Murder Mountain shoot out. Lots of indictments and charges but no convictions.

Sept. 29 am Something else from court land Wednesday.

Sept. 29 am  Local attorney Barbara Schamberger was charged with obstructing an officer after telling a client to leave the Courthouse while Deputy Belt looked for a arrest warrant. Her trial was set for August but at her request, was delayed until yesterday at 2pm. With a Special Prosecutor on hand and out of county Magistrate too, Schamberger was a no show. 2pm came  2:30    3:00 came   Magistrate Wolfe called the hearing to order around 3:15 with no Schamb in sight. Although the Prosecutor motioned for a pick up capias, Ms Wolfe from Gilmer County, decided to give Ms Schamberger one more chance before being picked up and sent to Central Regional Jail (CRJ). Schamberger lucked out this time but based on the expression on Magistrate Wolfe's face, one more no show and the nice part will be over.

Sept. 29 am Look at your credit cards. Over due? Past due 30 days or more?  Don't feel like the  Lone Ranger. Past due credit card debt is at an all time high. "Credit card companies are increasingly addicted to their fees," said Daniel Ray, editor-in-chief at Bankrate.com, an online financial service. "Six years ago, all fees — including late fees — contributed only a minor portion to overall revenue. Today it accounts for more than 30 percent." Click here for more debt news.

Sept. 29 am  Friday evening there is a big Chili Cook and Doowop Music fundraiser at WYAP in Two Run. The folks are trying to raise some $ to send the 2005 Apple Festival Chili Cookoff champ to Omaha for the National Competition. Even if you don't like chile, seeing Lisa Slack try her hand at DJing on the radio should be worth the trip!

Sept. 29 am  Some new definitions:

Sept. 29 am  Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. "I dunno, ask Rick. He's our alpha geek."

Sept. 29 am  Arssmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the

boss rather than working hard.

Sept. 29 am Beepilepsy - The brief seizure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.

Sept. 29 am  Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who  was responsible.

Sept. 29 am Glazing - Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early morning meetings. "Didn't he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?"

Sept. 29 am  Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on some people's computer keyboards.

Sept. 29 am  Mouse Potato - The online generation's answer to the couch potato.

Sept. 29 am  Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you've just made a terrible error.

Sept. 29 am See you after we get the paper to bed sometime Friday afternoon.

Sept. 28 pm   It didn't take a Clay County jury but 32 minutes to find Richard Cummings NOT GUILTY in the shooting of Tommy Young Sr. The case stemmed from an Oct. 6th incident on Oil Field Road in Ovapa commonly referred to as Murder Mountain.  Cummings is Tommy Young Sr's brother in law.

Sept. 28 pm   Jurors heard four witnesses testify that Richard Cummings never left his Little Italy residence the day Tommy Sr was shot in the leg with a 12 gauge shotgun. Testimony came that Cummings was peeling potatoes when Sr was shot.   During closing remarks, big cheese Charleston attorney Bill Lester suggested that Tommy Sr had been shot that day by his own son while blasting away with a box of ammo.  Lester went on to speculate that Sr fabricated the Cummings part  as a pay back for an earlier incident.

Sept. 28 pm Why?  Just  a few days earlier, Young Sr had been charged with shooting Mr. Cummings 9 times with an assault weapon. During Tuesday testimony, Cummings took the stand and said he wouldn't have used a shotgun loaded with bird shot to kill Sr. . Cummings said he would have used a high powered rifle. While on the stand, Cummings said the shotgun allegedly used to shoot Sr was a junk gun. That, if he had owned it, he would have "hacked" the barrel down  to 18 1/4 inches.

Sept. 28 pm Lets see now, Tommy Sr was accused of shooting Cummings and that case was dropped. Richard Cummings was accused of shooting Sr and a jury found him innocent today. Several years back, Tommy Sr was charged with killing a Haufman subject (from Clendenin) and a jury found him not guilty in that case.

Sept. 28 pm With nobody found guilty of anything, all those shots heard by neighbors last fall must have been firecrackers or something of the like. Only the squirrels on Murder Mountain knew the truth and they've all died from lead poisoning!

Sept. 28 pm Full details on the State vs Richard Cummings trial in Friday's Communicator.

Sept. 28 pm But Wait!! There's more!!!    Well sort of

Sept. 28 pm  Charleston Newspapers reported this morning of a routine traffic stop on I 79 near Elkview where the body of a Clorissa Fields was found in the back of a van. Stabbed 6 times, Ms Fields bleed to death. There appears to be a Clayberry connection.

Sept. 28 pm Green Shirts secured a search warrant for " a residence being a red single sorry wooded structure at 1033 Big Otter Highway in Clayberry. The Badges were looking for knives, scissors, box cutters, chisels or anything bloody that could have been used to kill Ms Fields.

Sept. 28 pm We understand that Chlorissa got in a fight with another lady in the front yard of that home. The other lady stabbed Fields twice in the side and four times in the back with unknown object.

Sept. 28 pm The search warrant was executed Tuesday and a box of pot was found as far as we can tell.

Sept. 28 am  The Communicator comes out this Friday. Deadline for ads, community events, classifieds is Wednesday evening.

Sept. 28 am  It's mid week and time for a jury to make a decision on Richard Cummings. Yesterday the State vs Cummings trial was heard before Judge Facemire and jury of his peers. Today at 11 am, closing arguments will begin and the jury will make a decision.

Sept. 28 am We'll post when the verdict is made.

Sept. 28 am  the Northern end of the county is all up in arms over Sheriff Dept. actions Monday night.  Neighbors found the corpse of Earnie Sirk and called 911. After it was determined that Sirk had passed, the Sheriff's Dept. started removing items from the small trailer.  Eyewitnesses said Badges removed a coin collection, a couple guns plus a bolted to the wall safe. While some items were removed, presumably for safe keeping, other expensive items were left behind.

Sept. 28 am Has anybody ever heard of law enforcement removing personal items from a private home while the body was still there?  Speculation is rampant. We'll try to get quotes from the Sheriff and post in Friday's Communicator.

Sept. 28 am  The 57 year old Earnie Sirk leaves quite a legacy. His craftiness left many madder than H or with a good belly laugh. Sirk was one of those word smiths that could bend and massage the truth into a lie and versa visa. He was in a class second to none.  He would often sit for hours hatching a plan and then work tirelessly setting it into motion.   A few  years back he orchestrated the removal of an elementary school principal. One time he worked a campaign for  a lady with no chance of beating the incumbent Assessor and garnered the lady over 700 votes.  He engineered a coup of the Clay Development Crop (CDC) Chair which netted Sirk the Chairmanship only to be removed by the oft outraged CDC family clan.

Sept. 28 am  More recently Sirk won three court cases where Judicial decree put him back on the CDC membership committee. After each decision and re-admittance to the CDC, he would get kicked off  again. At the time of his passing, Wide Glide was working another case thru  the court system to get back on the county's most troubled social service provider's committee.

Sept. 28 am Earnie's efforts, and misdeeds for that matter, added true color to our patchwork of life.

Sept. 28 am We understand the body will be cremated and no service is planned. How sad.

Sept. 27 pm For many, person of color indicates a skin pigment. In Clayberry, our colorful people are white. Earnie Sirk was one of those colorful people.

Sept. 27 pm  Whether we called Sirk, Mayor Sirk, Osama bin Sirk, or Wide Glide, Sirk earned his handles.

Sept. 27 pm Sirk was a politician that employed every trick, many dirty and underhanded, he could think of. Sitting on his broke down couch, Wide Glide had the time to come up with novel ways to turn an election. In addition to the usual tearing down of signs and vote buying, Sirk would manufacture notorious lapel buttons. He would falsify a candidates name with the wrong political party, he would come up with some off color slogan and worse to affect an outcome. On occasion, he would support or act like he was supporting one candidate only to go behind their backs and work against them. Many times he would come up with some twisted lie and start it thru the rumor mill.

Sept. 27 pm One thing was different with Earnie Sirk. YEar after year, before election time, he would call up this ace cub reporter and say, " Election is coming so don't believe one thing I do or say for the next 12 months!.

Sept. 27 pm Late Monday afternoon, Mr. Sirk was found dead  on his couch of choice. Sheriff Holcomb said he had spoken with Wide Glide a few days earlier and reported Earnie feeling reaaaaal bad and unable to eat anything.

Sept. 27 pm The coming Fall colors cannot replace the color Earnie gave to the county of Clay.

Sept. 27 am Want to buy some cheap Clay County dirt? How about help find a missing puppy? See CLASSIFIED page now. The ADVISORY page has the Christmas give away from Multi Cap. Better read that page too.

Sept. 27 am Tonight at 7pm tune in to 101.7 FM or on the internet at www.clayfm.com to hear Bill Triplett's first ever, live, radio show.

Sept. 27 am  Today's State vs Larry Thomas murder trial has been delayed. Defense attorney John Mitchell Sr is sick.

Sept. 27 am What is up for court action today is the State vs Richard Cummings. Almost one year ago to the day, Murder Mountain broke out in a hail of gunfire leaving Tommy Young and Richard Cummings shot and bleeding. Both stood accused of shooting the other in two separate incidents during a three week period last fall.

Sept. 27 am Charges against Young Sr  were dropped when Cummings refused to testify.  Tit for tat you think? Something else must be up the Prosecutor's sleeve. Trial starts this morning at 9 am.

Sept. 27 am Our regular clickers know how our elected and appointed leaders act, what they say, what they don't do, and the generally nuts way we do business in Clayberry. Last night's Clendenin Council meeting was just as crazy.

Sept. 27 am We know.. we know.. Clendenin isn't in Clayberry proper...... BUT, several of the key players are from Clay and what happens in Clendenin directly affects our citizenry.

Sept. 27 am Last night, the community hall building was packed. Before the meeting opened, a process server served the latest lawsuit on Council members, Gary Bledsoe, TJ Edmonds, Tim Hopkins, and Ron Deel plus Town Recorder, Jean Mitchell. The document contains 36 allegations and seeks the removal of all five. The suit  was brought by 3 local Clendeninonians, Luther Smith, Robert S Evans, and David E Ross. Don't think a pro se case can't go somewhere. Just ask Llyn Drake and Lucy Cruickshanks who worked thier own cases this month and won against veteran attorney Wayne King here in Clayberry.

Sept. 27 am Suits are nothing new for that small town. Police and Municipal Judge misactions netted 18 suits against the town. Three weeks ago Mayor Ore went to court and served a Writ of Prohibition against against four of the council persons.

Sept. 27 am Last night, bitterness and open hostilities were everywhere. The warring sides spewed venom at each opportunity.  Something new was added last night. Many of the attendees came in support of Mayor Ore trying to make changes in the land of dissent. Several times Ore received applause and ovation. No not from one of the opposing sides but from the people that elected him to office in the first place.    Behind the rift are those that want Bob Ore out of office and previous Mayor Donna Gillenwater back in office. Gillenwater was in attendance with her supporters very vocal.

Sept. 27 am With Council stunned by the most recent suit, with Ore saying that his choice for Town Attorney (Barbara Schamberger) was no longer fired from duty, Ore's choice for Police Chief still on the payroll, and with Ore firmly taking charge of the last night's proceedings, Gillenwater was peed big time.

Sept. 27 am After the meeting, the acidic Gillenwater with bitterness oooooozing from her pores and those vertical age lines pulled tight around her lips, Gillenwater made it a  point to tell that ace cub reporter, he had no business being there, he was a trouble maker, just causing trouble and "You're tearing our town down!!!!"

Sept. 27 am The Mel Gibson look alikes response to ex Mayor Gillenwater, " I was just thinking the same thing about you." Gillenwater moved away saying something about that reporter being a short little.....

Sept. 27 am Full write up in this Friday's Communicator.

Sept. 26 pm When will high gas prices, increases in utilities affect Clay?  Last week  Town and Country Restaurant in downtown Clay bit the dust and closed up for good. Today BnA produce on Main Street called it quitsville.

Sept. 26 pm  In the last edition of the Communicator came a story on our Southern border colony, Clendenin. If you think Clayberry is screwy, read that Cledenin segment. Since that last edition, more can be added. The quagmire is a fight between the ousted from Mayorship, Donna Gillenwater and her left over supporters and newly installed by the voters, Ore. During that June 2005 election, Ore won by a landslide. The still smartin from defeat Gillenwater Gang want Ore out in the worst way. Ore used to live on Elhurst road in Clay County before moving South to Clendenin.

Sept. 26 pm  Last week, a little tabloid down in Clendenin printed a front page smear on Clendenin Mayor Bob Ore owing back taxes on property  owned 10 years ago in Connecticut. Amount due: $800.  Although owing vehicle license taxes is bad, the Charleston Gazette trumped the tabloid's effort. On Sept. 22nd, The Gazette published back taxes owed in Kanawha County. That list included tossed from power, Donna Gillenwater's  $1422.02 debt.

Sept. 26 pm  Tonight at 7, Clendenin Town Council meets in regular session in the community center. If you're looking for some fun, head down South.

Sept. 26 am  It's the last week of the month. Where did it go?

Sept. 26 am  In the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, natural gas prices could jump 50 percent or more this winter, with propane climbing 40 percent and heating oil rising 31 percent, according to forecasts from the Energy Information Administration. Click full report for more.

Sept. 26 am   Several helicopters have crashed in Afghanistan this year, including two US military Chinooks. Here's the latest on our military chopper down.

Sept. 26 am  Here's a place where education really works. It ain't here clickers.

Sept. 26 am More as it happens.

Sept. 25 am Looking back over the last seven days, there's been ups and down

Sept. 25 am  Dubbya continues to fight two Gulf wars.   There have been 2,104 coalition troop deaths, 1,909 Americans, 96 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 26 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of September 22, 2005.   Former Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says the worst days in Iraq may be ahead for US soldiers.

Sept. 25 am 150,000 protested Dubbya's oil war in DC.

Sept. 25 am   Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., was updated several times about his investments in blind trusts during 2002, the last time two weeks before he publicly denied any knowledge of what was in the accounts.

Sept. 25 am Horror stories are growing from the first 5 days of Hurrican Katrina. Like prison guards turned tail and ran leaving 100s of first floor prisoners without food or care as water rose 6 feet deep. They were trapped. Some died.

Sept. 25 am As the week opened, the Golden Delicious Festival was closing down. The 32nd  edition came and went without any major snafus. The crowds were big and the money flowed in Clayberry

Sept. 25 am With hurricane Rita looming, we got scared and made a run on the gas stations. Who would have thunk we would have stood in line to pay high prices for fuel?

Sept. 25 am By mid week, word was out, County Clerk Judy Moore was resigning from office to take care of family health matters. 34+ years at the Courthouse, 11+ years as Clerk,  and the person in charge of keeping the COunty Commission in line, Judy Moore will be missed.

Sept. 25 am  Thursday's Clay County PSD meeting  was short one Board member. Homer Triplett was off the Board.

Sept. 25 am  At week's end, locals from the Summer Fork area came to the CCC meeting to be heard. Doris Summers and Jean Happney lead the charge. Their issue was flooding in their neighborhood. They demanded action. In the end and after talking to State Road folks in Charleston, an investigation will be performed and a report completed in 30 days.

Sept. 25 am  The Panthers took it on the nose Friday night. Even with a 45 yard and  85 yard touchdown runs, ditto for Clay Middle, 18 to 22 going down to defeat.

Sept. 25 am With gas prices high and home utility bills predicted to raise 50% or more this winter, many Americans including a bunch of Clayberrians are filing for bankruptcy protection before changes toughen bankruptcy protections.

Sept. 25 am  Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.    Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny.  If you see him without an erection... ....make him a sandwich!    Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet... ...and they won't bother you for weeks.

Sept. 24 pm  All of a sudden, lots of people are showing up and making demands of our elected officials.

Sept. 24 pm County Commission met yesterday. 10 or more Summers Fork residents showed Friday and demanded something be done about flooding in their neighborhood. Public safety was the call for the day. Speakers put the finger on property owner Frank Murphy as the guy who installed a creek crossing culvert in the early 90's. That culvert appears to be the reason for the creek backing up and flooding homes and vehicles during every major rain fall.

Sept. 24 pm As the CCC tried to slink away from the issue, calls of "DON'T PASS THE BUCK" rang out. The locals were in no mood for side stepping.

Sept. 24 pm During the meeting calls went out to Frank Murphy ( not at home) and State Road officials in Charleston. According to Commissioner King, the State Road folks showed an interest in the flooding since the process could be damaging the county road.

Sept. 24 pm  And with reluctance, the County Commission accepted the resignation of County Clerk Judy Moore. Connie Workman will assume those duties Oct 17th until a new Clerk is elected.

Sept. 24 pm It tough to win ball games when opponents score 111 points against you in the last two contests. Such was the case last night as the Panthers ventured into Herbert Hoover land for a thumping, 61 to 14.

Sept. 24 pm You missing a Gold colored SUV with trailer hitch and side running boards? Top Badge Holcomb and Unit 4 located such a vehicle in the Lizemore area off R 16 blocking a mining road. Ahhhhh it's burnt, totaled, and from the Beckley area of WV according to scanner traffic.

Sept. 24 pm

Sept. 24 am   And for Wayne King.......   A seven-year-old boy was at the center of a courtroom drama today  when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The  boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulations requiring that family unity be maintained to the degree possible.  The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her.

 When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried out that they also beat him. After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the  judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him.
        After two recesses to check legal references and confer with child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the West Virginia University  Mountaineers, football department, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.

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Sept. 23 am Our web host is switching around some equipment over the next 48 hours. That means this site may go to H  or at the very least, a bunch of  weird stuff may happen.  Keep your fingers crossed, the mess and all the old files should  be back to good in a couple days

Sept. 23 am   Clay County Commission meets this morning at 10 am. Come out and enjoy a public meeting.Sept. 23 am For those that can view this site during propagation, tonight the CCHS Panthers take on Herbert Hoover in away game action. WYAP will be broadcasting the play by play locally on 101.7 FM and  around the globe on the web.  Click Webcast to find out how to listen worldwide.

Sept. 23 am Thursday evening, local Badges busted David Stone and Jennifer Dwier on meth lab charges. The lab was  discovered on Twistabout Road in the Procious neighborhood of Clayberry. Around 8:45pm Thursday, response crews  were called in from Charleston for the clean up operation.

Sept. 23 am Note: Remember all the pictures of  Badges using white latex gloves while around meth and meth gear? Turns  out those latex gloves offer no protection from the hazards.

Sept. 23 am On Wed we posted info from the Clay Development Corp (CDC) bus wreck on Ovapa Cut Off Road. 911 dispatch reported the bus as a "Multi Cap" van. Multi Cap pulled their funding from CDC several years back during one  of the CDC overthrows of the Board and currently, has nothing to do with CDC.

Sept. 23  am With the back end and fiberglass roof extension crushed, many feel the bus is a total loss.

Sept. 23 am   To qualify as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane intensity scale, maximum sustained winds must exceed 155 mph (135 kt). Through 2005, only 27 Atlantic storms have reached this intensity, and only 9 were  of category 5 strength at time of landfall.   Here's link on those 27 big storms this century.

Sept. 22 pm    IMPORTANT   IMPORTANT  IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Two weeks ago our web host server  blew up. A  bunch of our web files were lost. Since then, we've been rebuilding the site manually.

Sept. 22 pm Today around 3pm, our host, WireFire, called and said they had rebuilt their old server and retrieved all our  old files including pictures, Obits, Archived Communicators, and past news.

Sept. 22 pm Today around 3:30pm the propagation begins. That process can take as long as 48 hours.

Sept. 22 pm TRANSLATION: No updates until the migration is complete. We'll be back and hopefully, with all the old  files in  place.

Sept. 22 pm Thanks for your patience.

Sept. 22 am I was seepy last night. Post coming after the noon time Clay County PSD meeting.

Sept. 22 am  Clay Elem school raised more than $1300 for Gulf coast relief and sent to the Salvation Army.

Sept. 22am We had a chance to look at the Clay Development Corp van that wrecked Wed afternoon. Looked like it rolled backwards down a hill and found sudden impact with a tree or pole. Big time damage to the rear doors and  bumper. We understand the 3 occupants were only slightly injured.

Sept. 22 am   More after lunch today

Sept. 21 pm  Just before 3pm today, all emergency service crews in the area were called out to respond to a vehicle wreck. According to scanner traffic, a Multi Cap Senior Citizen bus wrecked. With sirens and lights flashing, crews headed to  Ovapa short cut road.

Sept. 21 pm  Around 3:12 Badges called for power company crews to come and disconnect the electric lines laying across  the van. Health Net was canceled at 3:15 after the first ambulance crew arrived on scene. A second crew ambulance crew  was called into action but there was a problem. The keys to the second unit were missing. Delay time, short. Just the  normal FUBARD.

Sept. 21pm By 3:46pm, over the airwaves, "all three are out and 10-4".  Ambulances transferred the occupants to CAMC.

Sept. 21 am   $1.27 billion stolen from Iraq rebuilding funds.

Sept. 21 am At least 43 members of Congress are against judge Roberts for Chief Justice. If only a few more will step forward.

Sept. 21 am   How are we doing in  Afghanistan? Over there, the US backed Prez wants us out.

Sept. 21 am We had quite a response from that link to Goggle Earth, the web based satellite mapping site. Here it is again for those that didn't book mark the first time around. NOTE: you have to have high sped to get it to work right and some  of the images could be as old as 3 years. Still fun and a great way to waste work time.

Sept. 21 am Already some are saying Judy Moore's sudden resignation from the County Clerk's job is political.

Sept. 21 am  Look at it this way. If she wanted it political, she could have waited until May when her successor wouldn't  have had to run for office in 2006. With jobs and politics what they are in Clayberry, watch for bunches to run for office.

Sept. 21 am Monday was Motion Day in Circuit Court land. Marina Lanham wound up in jail yesterday. After ordering a  pee test and her unable to whiz, Lanham was given  a bunch of water to drink. Shortly thereafter she barfed all over the place.

Sept. 20 pm We use to call the County Commissioners, the Three Blind Mice. How do the County Commissioners manage  to make it thru the day? Who reads them all the important stuff? Who ties their shoes? For that matter, who wipes their   butts?   The answer is County Clerk Judy Moore.

Sept. 20 pm  Today around noon, Clerk Judy Moore resigned from office. The letter says her reason for leaving is to take care of family matters.

Sept. 20 pm The CCC will accept her resignation this Friday during a rescheduled meeting of the group, 10 am. Her last day on the job will be Oct. 17th. After 34 + years on the job including 11 as County Clerk, Moore will be missed greatly.

Sept. 20 pm  If Commissioners Triplett, Sams, and King have any sense, look for Connie Workman to be appointed to  the position. Ms Moore's 6 year term does not end until 2010.

Sept. 20 pm With Moore leaving before the 06 Primary election, there will be a race to fill the unexpired term in May. Watch for a  gob of folks to run for the $36,000 a year position.

Sept. 20 pm If someone sees Triplett or Sams walking around with their pants unzipped or King with  buttons  unbuttoned, tell em about it since Judy won't be around to handle the duties.

Sept. 20 am Are there undercover Badges working the county of Clay? Are the residents of Dille peed big time? There's  only one source for news and views in these parts and that's the near award winning Communicator. Clay County's  newspaper hit the news  stands Monday afternoon around 4pm. five pages of Apple Festival pictures too.

Sept. 20 am Clay County PSD meets this Thursday at high noon in their Main Street Clay digs.

Sept. 20 am The new tourism road maps are out. This years version includes all the new 911 road name changes. Pick one  up at any distributor of The Communicator.

Sept. 20 am  Corruption at the White House? Indictments? You bet ! Read all about right here

Sept. 20 am  Ever hear of Club for Growth? The pro Republicat group just got in hot water over spending $21 m on Wubbya's last campaign.

Sept. 20 am  Lets talk stupid. Great Britain sent over thousands of pounds of food for Katrina victims. Those NATO  approved and used by American troops in Iraq meals are being sent to the incinerator. Tons of food is being kept from needy victims. Pitiful!

Sept. 19 pm   Rev. William R. (Bob) Neal, 69, of Indore, see FUNERAL page

Sept. 19 am  Happy Monday morning. While we're typing and getting today's edition of the Communicator to bed, no  new web updates.

Sept. 19 am That near award winning newspaper should be on the news stands around 4pm. 24 pages of juice including some pictures from the just completed Golden Delicious Festival.

Sept. 17 pm Psst Pssssst.. Don't let anybody know but.....  today is Lindy Myers' Birthday.

Sept. 17 pm Over the last 7 days we've seen the best and worst of small town America.

Sept. 17 pm  Down in our Southern border colony, Clendenin, the bitterness was overflowing as those tossed from power during the June election worked to undermine the new administration. The old  guard still feeling the smarts from the people's mandate have yet to understand, the old ways were bad, the old ways left them the embarrassment of that county, and the old ways, the old administration, is already gone and they don't even know it. What's next for Clendenin? Faced with extinction, it's time for them to try more backdoor, underhanded tricks. Some people are slow learners.

Sept. 17 pm County Commission met this past week and did what they were elected to do, take charge. During the mid  week meeting, Triplett and company voted in a new county vehicle policy designed to reduce liability. With policy in  place, county vehicles are to be parked when not on official business and family members are not allowed as tag alongs. It's a start!

Sept. 17 pm  Confronted with out of control thugery, the tiny community of Dille showed up in force during the CCC gathering to express their thoughts. Those folks, mostly senior citizens, made it clear, they ain't taking it any more. They want the druggies and thugs off their streets and out of the neighborhood. One fellow sounded like he was ready to load his shotgun and take care of the problem himself. Sheriff Holcomb advised against vigilantism and said his department  would increase efforts in Dille.

Sept. 17 pm This was Apple Week in Clayberry. The grand daddy of them all, the Clay County Golden Delicious Festival.  For 11 1/2 months, a small band of volunteers worked to organize the four day event. Their labors paid off as thousands attended this year's offering.

Sept. 17 pm  Music, crafts, story telling, marching bands, apple pie contests, skillet flinging and more all came off without a glitch. It was small town America at its best. Little kids had fun until their dropped from exhaustion.  The Festival  served as a reunion for long time residents and those that left for greener pastures. Hand shakes, smiles, and back slaps were everywhere.

Sept. 17 pm  This year's big apple came off without reports of vandalism, tire slitting, or windshield bashing. Maybe seven month's worth of stepped up law enforcement paid off during this year's 32 Anniversary of the Golden Delicious fun.

Sept. 17 pm Labor Day is the traditional end of Summer for most of the country. Here in Clayberry, Summer ends with  the Apple Festival. Other than the Fall Foliage Saturday in Oct., it time to cut firewood, put plastic over drafty windows and check the stove pipe for rust. Winter is right around the corner

Sept. 17 pm For our Panther football team, Calhoun County did something they rarely do at Bradley/Schoonover Field. They sneaked past us 50 to 7 Friday night.

Sept. 17 am   No update this morning , just  couple of notes.

Sept. 17 am This is the last day of the Golden Delicious Festival. Have some fun and enjoy

Sept. 17 am  Subject:  Roe vs Wade      Q: What is George W. Bush's position on Roe vs Wade?    A: He really doesn't care how people get out of New Orleans.

Sept. 17 am   You know you are getting old when everything  either dries up or leaks

Sept. 17 am  Two women met for the first time since graduating from high school.  One asked the other, "You were always so organized in school,  Did you manage to live a well planned life? " " Yes," said her friend. "My first marriage was to a millionaire;  my second marriage was to an actor;  my third marriage was to a preacher; and now I'm married to an undertaker." Her friend asked,  "What do those marriages have to do with a well planned life?" "One for the money,  two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go."

Sept. 17 am Update coming soon

Sept. 16 am It didn't go so well for the Clay Panthers last night. Calhoun sneaked by our home team 50 to

Sept. 16 am Didn't go so well for two High School teens Thursday night after being escorted out of the Bradley/Schoonover Field stands during the Clay Middle School game.  Seems the youngsters were drunk

Sept. 16 am Lookin for The Communicator? We're holding off until Monday. If you have classifieds, event notices, anniversaries, etc... Email them over now for the next edition.

Sept. 16 am Today is the biggie day for the Golden Delicious Festival. From 9 am to well after dark, there's something to do, see or eat their entire time. Come out and have some. Don't forget Solomon's Secret tonight beginning at 8pm.

Sept. 16 am In years' past, thugs have busted windshields, slit tires, got into fights, used blow guns to induce pain, and more. Even with a full moon last night, no acts of vandalism reported as of 11pm Friday night.

Sept. 15 am It is Apple Festival time in full force. Come out and have some fun.

Sept. 15 am  A week ago today, our web host Wirefire fried a server and this site went down. Some of the files have been located and uploaded. A few more coming. Some folks are having trouble viewing Clayberry since the blow out. Tell em to delete their old favorite of bookmark link and type in www.clayberry.org and bookmark the new link.

Sept. 15 am  Update coming ASAP.

Sept. 14 am  Happy 12th Birthday to Southern Belle PAIGE HOLCOMB

Sept. 14 am Belated birthday wishes to County Clerk Judy More.  Happy 9th Anniversary to Miles and Lisa Slack.

Sept. 14 am This is Apple Eve in the land of Clay. The stage is set up. Vendors are wiring up their food booths. the  carny's have a couple rides ready to whirl. Traffic is already backing up. It time for the Golden Delicious Festival. Schedule is over on the EVENTS page and more on the ADVISORY page.   With warm dry weather predicted, it open season on having fun. Now if they can keep the locals from stealing Darlene's golf cart this year and keep the fireworks  under lock and key!

Sept. 14 am  Here's a cutey. In Magistrate Court land, without aid of an attorney, Llyn Drake won a civil case against  veteran attorney, Wayne King. At issue was a landlord who tossed out $1600 of a renters personal property.

Sept. 14 am  During their regular meeting, County Commission voted in a new county ban on using taxpayer paid for vehicles to haul family members, do non government business, and stopping after hours use of county vehicles. The ban  came just days after Deputy Belt wrecked a cruiser while off duty and carrying his family to a ball game.

Sept. 14 am  Over 20 Dille W Va residents attended the County Commission meeting and voiced their outrage over, out of control gun, toting felons and druggies taking over their community. Some spoke on the rash of breakins while others  told the CCC and Sheriff Holcomb: thugs are riding 4 wheelers at high speed and without regard to citizen safety; senior citizen's are being robbed on a  regular basis, and Badges are rarely seen in their rural community.

Sept. 14 am One lady told a horror story where thugs broke into her home in search of drugs while she lay in bed. So brazen was the low life, he didn't immediately leave after searching for Rx drugs, but came into her bedroom and  flashlighted her.

Sept. 14 am And then And then.....

Sept. 14 am  Bud Knight told Commision and the Sheriff of a recent episode where he asked for police help and received none. According to Mr Knight, local law informed him , "they" were driving too many miles and there wasn't enough $  to pay for gas!  They? Mr Knight identified the officer as Deputy Belt.

Sept. 14 am Sheriff Holcomb said it was the first he had heard of that, his department still had $8000 in the fuel budget, and if those statements were true, he would straighten up the mess. Knight didn't care for the part about "if" his statements were correct. Knight might it very clear that Belt didn't come to investigate the break in and the part about not having the $ for gas was true as well.

Sept. 14 am It didn't go over too good when Holcomb said he had just spent $3000 to re-carpet and paint the office area.

Sept. 14 am Lets see now.... Not enough gas to investigate thugery but plenty of gas to take the family to a ball game. More on the meeting later. In the mean time, a great big Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Sept. 14 am After the bloodiest day since Sadamn was captured, here's the inside scoop on how we're losing the Dubbya's  oil war. Click locals take back their land.

Sept. 14 am  With Court orders in  hand, photographers are now capturing images of the dead in New Orleans. Be warned, this link is very graphic.

Sept. 14 am Something sure to get your blood flowing... A Federal Judge ruled the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.

Sept. 14 pm   Daniel Wheeler, 77, of Nebo,  see FUNERAL page

Sept. 14 am County Commission meets this morning at 10 am. Sure to be a good one. Two page agenda should keep us entertained for quite some time

Sept. 14 am  Sister's Place restaurant down at Procious is changing. Starting this Saturday it'll be Betty's Place with a  1950's theme. Saturday specials include hot dogs 2 for a buck.

Sept. 14 am Last Friday there was a fire at Clay High. Some in the community are raising concerns over fire alarms not going off.

Sept. 14 am Lets get your blood stirred up.

Sept. 14 am   The Red Cross did not and is not distributing food supplies in New Orleans. Did you know that? Did you know six of their Board of Directors donated big time to the Dubya campaign? Did you know the Red Cross is exempt  from Freedom of Information Act laws? Do you remember when they diverted 9/11 funds?  Get you cup of coffee and   read the straight poop.

Sept. 14 am  Now that W has lost the Iraq war, it's time to move on to Iran. Finally Senator Byrd has made it clear, it's  time to bring the troops home.

Sept. 14 am Now that we've lost the war on terror, it's time to give up more civil rights here in the homeland. Here's a  glimpse of our military telling the media they can't report on what they see in New Orleans. Don't miss the part about  clean up workers peeing on the tattered houses. Click, no pictures, no stories.

Sept. 14 am So what do you do with all the bodies in New Orleans? Who handles the corpses? They hired the one outfit  that is known to hide, conceal, and dump bodies in open fields for wild game to eat. True. They just settled a $100 m  lawsuit for those actions. Click: scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family.

Sept. 14 am There! How's that for a mid week blast? Here's the local scoop....

Sept. 14 am   Remember Bob Ore? Ore ran against Commissioner Sams four years back and lost. Ore later served on the Ambulance Authority during its twilight time. Long time Elk Valley resident Ore moved to Clendenin and wound up as Mayor during the June 05 election. Won big time too! 180 something to 100 defeating lawsuit prone Donna Gillenwater.

Sept. 14 am  Almost as soon as getting elected, Bob Ore got in the grease with  small fish in an even smaller pond. Get this, Ore took charge of the out of control municipality by installing a Chief of Police and removing the Police Commissioner. Stepping on toes all along the way, Ore then hired Clay County attorney Barbara Schamberger. Schamberger ran against Commissioner Sams and came a gnats arss of beating Sams in the Nov. general election. She   later sued the county over actions of the CCC during a bid for the Prosecutor's spot.

Sept. 14 am Clendenin Council met Monday night. Talk about bad karma! You could feel the tension with every motion and vote. It appears there are three warring factions down there. The outgoing administration trying to regain control of the small pond while another group, an economic development group is pulling for the Ore camp.

Sept. 14 am  The third group was way in the back, the Clay County Camp. Yelp. There was Clay County Commissioner  Jimmy Sams and family. His son use to be a Clendenin badge. One time Procious and Clay Roane PSD member Garrett Samples (also moved to Clendenin) and family was also over in that corner.  His son use to be  a Clendenin badge too.   Samples is Sams' father in law. Any time Mayor Ore made a suggestion, the Clay Corner would grown and sneer. When  the split Council voted to do something contrary to good judgment or reason (that would be Ore), the Clay Camp would  laugh. That band of underlings grew a pee ant newspaper that claims to spread sunshine.

Sept. 14 am Instead of sunshine, the fledgling rag worked hard to keep the past administration and smear the current one.  With Ore winning by a land slide, seems their little smear campaign didn't work too well.  Sept. 14 am Remember our last Asst Prosecutor TJ Drake?  He's was in attendance too. Drake is representing four of the Council men who are being sued over the out of control police department tactics and municipal court in power prior to  the new Mayor taking over, three months back.

Sept. 14 am And then there's yet another Clay County connection in our Southern border colony, Barbara Schamberger. Ore hired Shamberger as municipal attorney. Ore's attorney hire peed off Council as much as when he hired the Chief of Police of his choice. Monday night, two Council members TJ Edmonds and Gary Bledsoe got the Town Recorder, Jean  Mitchell, to change her vote three times to garner a majority and remove Schamberger as attorney. The Clay Camp  grinned with pride. They and the other small fish knew, getting rid of Schamb would weaken Ore and get them one step  closer to regaining control of the politics in Clendenin.

Sept. 14 am   Not sure what is behind all this but with Sams and Samples involved, it has to be $. Maybe one or both want  jobs for family members. Just a guess.   In a nutshell, it's a mess down there and not getting any better. Those lawsuits  could cost the municipality $1000. The dirty politics could cost them even more. The underbelly scourge is out to topple  Bob Ore. Monday night, they came one step closer to their dream.

Sept. 13 am  Last Halloween, Jordan Varney made it out for Trick or Treat night. Aided as he went around  the  downtown area, Jordan had a sparkle in his eye. He ended the night with a bag full of goodies. He was having fun.

Sept. 13 am  Sadly we report, Jordan Varney, see FUNERAL page.

Sept. 13 am  Instead of up dating the site we spent late last night with a new gizmo called google earth. The program  allows the clicker to zoom around the world and see satellite imagery of earth. Type in your own address and watch what  happens as it zooms down. Type in New Orleans and see for yourself the flood damage. Head over to Iraq for a first hand  look.

Sept. 13 am Here's the link to the new toy.  Note: you have to have high speed for this to work.

Sept. 13 am Last night our Southern border colony Clendenin held a Town Council meeting. Full details later today.

Sept. 13 am  Over on the EVENTS page are the details for Sunday's Apple Festival Fishing Tournament at the Clay pool.

Sept. 12 am  This is a big week in the land of Clay. This is Apple Festival week. The Festival opens Thursday evening. The Schedule is posted on the EVENTS page. Saturday, travel down Main Street will be all but impossible. For the many, non profit , venders trying to raise $, a good apple week can make a big difference. For the rest of us, it's time to have some  fun, the last hurrah before cold weather sets in. Parades, fireworks, crafts, games for the rug rats, and music galore.

Sept. 12 am  Before Apple time, on Wed, the County Commission will convene. The two page agenda includes a couple good juicy items.

Sept. 12 am The Commissioners have on their plate a vote to stop after hour, while off duty, use of county vehicles. Ah ... that would include Badge vehicles. The agenda makes absolute the resolution to ban carrying family members in county vehicles while off duty. In recent times, local Badges have been allowed to make costly trips delivering family members to  their job sites and return trips. The 10 miles to a gallon is expensive, but the liability part is darn right out of sight.

Sept. 12 am  Also planned for Wednesday morning is Fola Coal not coughing up $ while enjoying Ambulance Service rights.  Rules call for coal operators to either man their own ambulance service or pay a pre man fee to the county. Our good Corporate neighbor, Fola Coal, ain't paying up and hasn't for a long time. Looks like the CCC may issue a nasty gram.

Sept. 12 am So how did Dubbya blow the Katrina disaster? Here's the latest from NewsWeek. Pretty good reading.

Sept. 12 am "We divided the hospital's patients into three categories: Those who were traumatized but medically fit enough to survive, those who needed urgent care, and the dying."    Those in the last category were given massive doses of  morphine and "put  down". Those words came from a New Orleans Doctor.

Sept. 12 am Does the name Halliburton ring a bell? The Government Accounting Office (GAO) is already investigating their clean up work in New Orleans.

Sept. 11 am One quick look at the past week before we get into Apple Festival mode.

Sept. 11 am  Even the strongest Dubbya supporters have a hard time confirming he has a brain. Fortunately, even those  supporters are coming to understand the lies he told to justify a costly war. For the first time in the Newsweek Poll, more  Americans disapprove of Bush's handling of terrorism and homeland security (48%). And almost half (49%) of all those  polled say taking military action against Iraq two years ago was not the right thing to do

Sept. 11 am  There have been 2,087 coalition troop deaths, 1,893 Americans, 95 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, one Dane, two  Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 26 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11   Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of September 9, 2005

Sept. 11 am  W's short comings came thru loud and clear this week during the Katrina recovery efforts down South.  Under his stewardship and the political hired pay back hacks, our country suffered once again. But now we know why he has such little understanding and compassion for the common man. It's his Mother! Yelp. Mother Barbara commented on the Katrina victims: "They didn't have much of anything anyway."

Sept. 11 am  Closer to home from the last seven days.....

Sept. 11 am  Clay County's source for instant news, this site, blew up leaving 1000's of news junkies without their fix. The  web host of this site, Wirefire let us down when their server fried. Not until Tuesday night late did any part of this site  re-emerge from cyber meltdown. Many archived sections of this site remain lost.

Sept. 11 am During a Town Council meeting, leaders thought it was unsightly for locals to hold yard sales and employed the Mayor to go talk the offender entrepreneurs. The town was unable to pay their bills. No discussion was held on setting up a money making, Municipal Court.

Sept. 11 am CAEZ held their annual meeting where  congratulatory accolades were exchanged profusely. Of course, Clayberry is still waiting for the first non government job to be created by the 10 year old CAEZ in this county of little.

Sept. 11 am Since the demise of the Clay County Ambulance Authority a couple years back, we've been hearing how much better the ambulance service is doing and how much better the place is being operated. Without the Authority to  keep us entertained in a public setting, figuring out what is really going on is a lot tougher. Wasn't so tough this past week.  On Thursday, a Calhoun County  ambulance had to respond to our needs when three of our trucks were broke  down and the fourth was on a run. Director King commented Friday afternoon the three units were being serviced. In reality, all three were broke down with faulty or wore out brake systems.  King said all three would be back operational Friday. Saturday morning, a Kanawha County ambulance and paramedic were called into action when Clayberry could  not handle the needs of our citizenry.

Sept. 11 am Another snafu this week when a Deputy Sheriff wrecked a cruiser while off duty and carrying his family to a ball game. Not so long ago, the Sheriff himself used his cruiser as an ambulance when a family member needed a quick trip to the emergency room in Charleston.

Sept. 11 am Thursday night, the Clay Roane PSD paid little attention to the just completed and released annual audit. The financial document revealed the financial decay and dismal state of management and oversight in the county's largest water provider.

Sept. 11 am Just when you think Badges are getting a handle on the crime in Clayberry, think again. The new hot spot for thievery is the Southern end of county around Bomont where 3 four wheelers, guns, micro waves, frigs, powered wood splitters and fuel have been stolen over the last few days. Another four wheeler was swiped from the old Coon Hunter's  camp near the top of Dundon Hill.

Sept. 11 am When you think things are bad here, just look at our Southern border colony, Clendenin. Down there, one  time Clayonian and now Clendenin Mayor, Bob Ore went to Court to stop warring Town Council members. With the  town covered up with 18 lawsuits against their police department and municipal court (prior administration), Ore hired a new police chief and the locals went wild. Ore's Writ of Prohibition went over like poop in a punch bowel. On the Council  are leftovers from the last administration who sure don't like a newbee coming into power and making changes.

Sept. 11 am Over in Court land, the biggie of the week, the State vs Larry Thomas murder trial was put on the back burner until Badge Wiles gets back from Guard duty in Louisiana.

Sept. 11 am And on this Sunday morning, we reflect on 9/11 four years back. Most of us can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing. Four years ago, this ace cub reporter was sitting in a County Commission meeting when the  news came the planes had struck the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The meeting was short and solemn with all thoughts elsewhere. Our nation was under attack and we knew it before the news guys ever said it. With the meeting over,  many headed to the historic Henry Clay Hotel. There all eyes were on the above the beer cooler mounted tube. We watched the Towers fall and watched a confused looking Prez hide.  The place was quiet. Pain filled the county of Clay.

NOTE NOTE  Web host blew up. Data lost Sept 1 thru Sept 10  2005   Sorry

Sept. 1 am     Put away those white shoes. Fall is here and it feels like too! Last call for events, community notices, classifieds. Communicator deadline is high noon today. We're in typing mode getting the rag together. No new posts until we get it to bed sometime Friday afternoon.

Sept. 1 am  For those lookin for something to do, head over to the Courthouse. At 9 is a hearing with Richard Cummings, charged with shooting Tommy Young Sr. followed by the pre trial for charged with murder, Larry Thomas. If your looking for a dry spot, the court room is the place. They replaced the roof last Spring.

Sept 1 am Don't forget, today is the Red Cross Blood Drive. See EVENTS page for details

Sept. 1 am At 5pm today is the regular meeting of the Business Development Authority(BDA). According to the agenda, they've got someone interested in the industrial site ( Filcon) near Ovapa.

Sept. 1 am In the State vs Gerald Thompson Jr. trial, the jury has heard all they're going to hear in the way of evidence. Both sides rested Wed evening around 5:45pm  The case stems from a "shots fired" 911 call from April 13 2004. Once there, badges found a meth lab. Or did they? The defendant and family say nope, it wasn't a meth lab. Instead, they claim each of the ingredients found were actually common stuff found in most households Rock salt? Used it last winter to melt the ice. The acid?  Use it to clean stonework. The mason jars? Well, they can a lot of stuff.  Coleman fuel? Well, they didn't have electricity and had two coleman lanterns for night time light. Jury should get the case before lunch Thursday. If the decision comes before midnight Thursday, we'll have in Friday's paper.

Sept. 1 am  Yesterday morning, during a special session of the BDA, the group voted to become a certified business community.  The county has sought the designation for the last 8 years with little success. Only 7 other counties in W Va are without the status. Not hind tit but close!

Sept 1 am Remember Jim Paxton? The guy that ran for Sheriff last May.  He's back in uniform. Went to work as a  Deputy Monday replacing Chad Sizemore who skidaddled Aug 25th for greener pastures.

Sept. 1 am      A drunken man walks into a biker bar, sits down at the bar and orders a drink. Looking around, he sees three men sitting at a corner table. He gets up, staggers to the table, leans over, looks the biggest, meanest, biker in the face and says:   "I went by your grandma's house today and I saw her in the hallway buck naked. Man, she is one fine looking woman!"  The biker looks at him and doesn't say a word. His buddies are confused, because he is one bad biker  and would fight at the drop of a hat.    The  drunk leans on the table again and says: "I got it on with your grandma and she  is good, the best I ever had!" The biker's buddies are starting to get  really mad but the biker still says nothing.   The drunk leans on the table one more time and says, "I'll tell you something else, boy, your grandma liked it!"

    At this point the biker stands up, takes the drunk by the shoulders looks him square in the eyes and  says, "Grandpa,....... Go home, you're drunk."