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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Can You Believe It's Been A Whole Year Since We Said Goodbye To This Idiot?


The former President of the Salisbury City Council has been gone for an entire year now, Thank God. His replacement, another Idiot. Do you know why I don't worry about making a statement like that? Because by tomorrow Louise Smith will have forgotten anyway. ROTFLMAO!

Who's The Most Popular Man On The Entire Eastern Shore????

THE FINAL 4 TURKEYS SHOULD INCLUDE:
THE BIGGEST TURKEY OF THE YEAR

JIHAD JOEY ALBERO 44.8% 16618

SLICK RICKY POLLITT 26.2% 9717

O'GOVERNOR O'MALLEY 10.2% 3777

GARY "SVENGALI" MACKES 8.9% 3287

LOUWEASEL SMITH 7.9% 2939

THE QUISLING GILCHREST 1% 357

RT.REV. DR. HARRIS 0.9% 327

THE POSTER GIRL LES CALLETTE 0.2% 77

total votes: 37099

Looks like Billy Duvall didn't change his Poll after all. All that matters is that I win. Keep up the good work Billy, you're the man! 37,099, ROTFLMAO! Now you tell me, who's the most popular man on the entire Eastern Shore???????

Looks to me like Duvall is just as stupid as the Mayor pulling Press Conferences over an e-mail and the Daily Times for giving me regular front page news on the lawsuits with the Mayor and Chiefy. It's called marketing, Folks. I win, they lose.

A Response To A Question About What Should Be Done With The Zoo

"Joe...seriously, what would you and Jennifer propose to get this train wreck back on the tracks? I think it's time you guys threw something out there, some type of outline or something on some place to start getting this place back up to speed. I think you guys have some ideas you could offer. The place is an embarrassment and movement of some sort needs to begin sooner rather than later."

First you need a political power change in Salisbury. Upper Management should not have to fear for their jobs solely on their ability to kiss the behind of our beloved Mayor. They should be rewarded for good performance and made held accountable when things take a turn for the worse.

What the Zoo is in desperate need of is some new blood on the Zoo Commission. Ron Alessi has been covering for the problems there long enough. The current crew are as stale as stale gets and so are their ideas and abilities to get things turned around down there. You need some folks with some enthusiasm. You also need to end this, "we have always done things this way and we can't change attitude." Life is about change and compromise not, set in stone policies and closed mind thinking. If the Zoo would be better served financially, as well as safer, by charging an admission fee; do it! Take away the pedophiles easy escape route and make folks comply by the Zoo Rules rather than letting them free flow through two entrances.
And please don't hand me the, "we can't afford a couple of bucks to get in." Take care of that with free days. Every Zoo in the Country that charges has several free days for the folks that can't afford their $10 and up entrance fees.

Most importantly find a Director that has business sense. You don't need a PhD in Zoology to run a great Zoo. As long as you have competent staff and a good veterinary support team, the animal end of the operation should run great. But without a dynamic figure at the helm that can RAISE FUNDS and INTEREST in the Zoo your dead in the water. We've had enough of that in the past, it's time to turn things around.

The City has a new Public Works Director, tell us what made him so qualified to run a Zoo as well? Everything is hushed up and as the taxpayers may not have any say as to who the City hires, in the very least they could tell us more about him and or let us have an open mic evening with him. I doubt anyone would treat him poorly. He seems to be a very nice man but I would like to know a lot more about him.

If we're to consider who just might make a great Zoo Director, find someone locally who has successful experience in raising money. If that can't be accomplished, find someone who has this experience with other Zoo's a pay out a little more to get them. They will pay back the City with the simple funds they raise and take the burden away from the taxpayers fronting every expense there any more. It's a business, treat it like one.

Many don't like the salary Gary Mackes makes with the County but guess what, he's worth his weight in gold in financial returns, like it or not and or agree or not, it's true.

Barrie Tilghman has known first hand just how bad things have been at the Zoo and I can confidently tell you that because I'm the one who personally sat down with her and John Pick and exposed it ALL. Barrie Tilghman covered all the dead animals up at that Zoo and never once admitted there was a problem, even though depositions clearly showed differently as well. This is a woman that cannot be trusted and IMO couldn't care less about the animals there. This was proven by her keeping Rapp, Samis, Alessi and several others on the payroll. They should have been terminated and removed immediately.

Other answers are, IF the entire City, (BY VOTE) chose to keep the Zoo, I'd close the Zoo, wait 2 years and try to regroup. If the interest is still there in two years, find another location and rebuild the Zoo at another location. I don't want to hear, it's always been there crap. It's a horrible location. It wasn't bad for a few animal petting Zoo but we're talking about exotics that are very expensive to purchase and even more expensive to feed, care for and keep healthy.

That Zoo was NOT designed to do what it's currently doing. How many of you agree that the Bison are in a large enough area? I can tell you, (I believe) the law in Maryland is 1 acre per horse if you want to own a few horses. They have had what, 4 Bison in that small area eating sand! There shouldn't be 2 Jags in that exhibit. It's too small for one, yet they kept insisting on having two. The soil at the Zoo is crap! You have had animals pissing and pooping on that soil for more than 50 years now and there's no septic system, respectfully. They complain about chicken farmers, what about the Zoo and the hundreds of pounds of duck chow the Zoo puts out daily attracting the Canada Goose to the river year round. You all know what they leave behind as well.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the soil should have been replaced every year, yet Rapp refused to do so when he got there, even though it had been done yearly in the past. This is why Jennifer and I have been so insistent on Foot Baths. Look, it's so cheap to do so daily and the end result is the control of Avian TB throughout the Zoo. It won't stop what Rapp let get out of control but you can at least control it.

Then there's a true professional Zookeeping Staff. Should everyone choose to rebuild a new Zoo, they need to hire professionals and not former drinking buddies of Jim Rapp. You have lawsuits in the making by hiring 90 pound Zookeepers lifting50 and 100 pound items all the time. Yeah, they might be nice people but damn it, it's a business, treat it like one. You don't put 90 pound football players on a professional football team. In some business, people are built to handle certain jobs and quite frankly this is one area people can get seriously hurt.

Relocate that Zoo, if the interest is still there. I can assure you, IF they chose to do so and follow these guidelines I'd be one of the first people in line making a donation to do so.

I could go on and on about what should and or shouldn't happen at the Zoo. I truly believe the Zoo should be closed down, wait till after the new elections for Mayor are over and let the new Mayor deal with the Zoo's future. It can be a serious part of how people run here. A Presidential Election is run on how they might handle the War, the Country's financial state, blah, blah, blah. Make the Candidates accountable for how they would resolve the bullshit this Mayor has created.

Then if you like the ways things have been done in the past, vote for Barrie Tilghman. If you want change, (in which this is another reason she doesn't want you all to know and be accountable for) you'll vote instantly for a new Mayor who is also qualified to redesign the City and get things back in order. Think about this as well. Do you truly believe a new Mayor would agree to a $10,000,000.00 Fire Station and or a $36,000,000.00 Master Plan for the current Zoo? I DON'T THINK SO! However, that's how Barrie has been running the City and quite frankly she's screwed it up.

In closing, VOTE! Get off your asses and get to the Polls for once and act responsible! Some look at Debbie Campbell and say, she's always complaining. She's always voting against things. WELL, HELLO! How are things working for you now, IDIOTS? Yes, that means the majority of you. You sit back and expect things to change and get better without YOU putting ANY effort into it.

I want to see the Tilghman name disappear from this community. Same goes with Alessi, Rapp, Comegys and many others. The only way things are going to get better is based on accountability, something Louise Smith completely LIED to all of you about. Track records speak volume. Debbie Campbell is out for the best interest of whom? YOU! Just because a guy like Gary Comegys or Ron Alessi speak nice to you doesn't mean they know what the hell their doing! Their TRACK RECORD can tell you who they are. Choose someone in the future with a track record of knowing how to run a business. It's that simple. Hire a Zoo Director that has a TRACK RECORD of raising money!

Finally, do NOT let Barrie Tilghman all of a sudden come to all of you and say everything is fine or everything will get better at the Zoo. NO IT WON'T! The buildings are falling apart, no one there can deny that. There are too many animals, (even though the inventory is only 1/5 of what it used to be) in that Zoo. Close it down and send those animals off to others Zoo's that can professionally care for them. If the will of the citizens are there to open a new one, so be it, I'll help out. Until then, these animals have suffered enough and it's time to close it down.

Sorry for being so repetitive. I get wrapped up in this subject like there's no tomorrow because we truly care. That Zoo is horrible Folks, it truly is.

IN ADDITION:

I have put more thought into this question and there is yet another answer. One that might be more balanced and fair for all parties concerned. I strongly believe the Salisbury Zoo should become a Regional Zoo. Although this Mayor would rather shut something down before she'll lose complete control over it, I think the Zoo should be funded by other municipalities/counties. By doing so, you not only bring together a very large amount of richness in ideas and decision making, you also bring together communities sharing a special interest in one Zoo, everyone's Zoo.

While I believe the Salisbury Zoo should in fact be relocated, IF it were to happen, more people need to be involved and certainly more responsible for the cost of such. This could get exciting, couldn't it?

Thanks To Jim Rapp & John Jacobs, The Salisbury Zoo Will Lose Its Accreditation


The AZA is not going to give the Salisbury Zoo another chance, it's over! So why isn't Barrie Tilghman and the City Council telling any of you so? Because they want to build that $2,000,000.00 quarantine building at taxpayers expense.

There's no Zoo Director and there's no Vet. Tech at the Zoo any longer and the people applying for positions there don't have what it takes at the salary the Zoo is offering.

I'm NOT going to expose how I know this information but I can tell you from 1st party information that the Mayor & Ron Alessi have screwed that Zoo right into the ground and people have been leaving left and right because they knew many months ago the AZA was dumping them, period.

John Jacobs screwed up at the WWTP AND the Salisbury Zoo. Jim Rapp never had a clue what he was doing. Carrie Samis was a paper pusher who was useless without the Rapp connection and Steve Sarro saw the writing on the wall and bolted as fast as he could get out.

So the GEM of the City of Salisbury is screwed, period. I ask again, why haven't you read ANY of this in the Daily Times? Because it's the Tilghman Times!

No matter what the City/Zoo does, there is NOT enough time now to hire a Director and continue with the AZA. Barrie Tilghman absolutely 100% knows this but she's keeping it from the Public because she wants to claim they lost it because they couldn't find a Director.

Let me send this message right to Barrie Tilghman. Do you think people that applied for the job wouldn't contact me and fill me in? So what's the game plan Folks? My guess is typical politics. They'll come out telling everyone they lost their accreditation with the AZA and now we have to spend MILLIONS making the Zoo a better place and get it back. Oh, you'll hear stuff like, the AZA truly wants to continue being a PARTNER with the Zoo, IF we're all willing to bite the bullet and get OUR Zoo back into shape.

BITE ME! The Zoo is in a 100% flood plane zone and when, (NOT IF) the Zoo floods out, most of the animals will die! It's now time to close the Salisbury Zoo Ladies & Gentlemen. They have come out of the wood work to play their rolls on PAC14 whenever they desperately need or want something but let me assure you, at the maximum there are 15 people, (mainly young adults in their early 20's) that actually support the Zoo. You have been tricked into believing the Zoo has the bullshit 300,000 visitors each year and while the counters have been BROKEN for many, many years, they're NOT going to spend the $100.00 to replace it because the numbers are in their favor.

So look what you did Jim Rapp & John Jacobs! The MDE visits were probably the final straw with the AZA and trust me, the AZA was well aware of the lies Jim Rapp stated about the illegal pipes being installed 30 years ago, before his time. That was a HUGE lie as those two exhibits were built while Jim Rapp was the Director of the Zoo. The pipes may have been old but Rapp tapped INTO those pipes and illegally dumped into the Wicomico River and Ron Alessi knew it as well. They flat out LIED to all of you and that's a fact.

So squeeze those cheeks again Ladies & Gentlemen because Barrie Tilghman & Co. will now ONCE AGAIN go into Damage Control Mode because that pesky Albero broke yet another HUGE story and you know the end result way ahead of time.

Tonight Is A HUGE Night For The March Of Dimes!






Black Tie Optional, tonight the March Of Dimes kicks off their Festival Of Trees at the Fountains. If you'd like to attend, (FOR A VERY GOOD CAUSE) it could be the best $100.00 you'll spend all year!

This single event, (get this) raises more than $120,000.00 a year and the sales for tickets this year have been fantastic. The event kicks off at 6:30 PM tonight for a preview party auction. There is what they call a After Glow Party from 10:00 to 12:00 PM. If you're interested in attending you can contact them at 410-546-2241.

Now for the general public, they will be open Sunday from 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM and Monday from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. There is a minimal fee to get in.

The photos above are just a preview, (you won't see in The Daily Times) of more than 100 pre decorated trees available. I'm also told there are more than 100 items also available tonight at auction.

I was also told they will have heavy hor'dourves served this evening. IMO, there's not a better place to spend a hundred bucks all year. Go give it a shot and tell them Charlie sent you. LOL

Sorry Folks, I've had a time of it loading pictures this morning.

Another Disappointing Daily Times Today!



The Official Bell Ringing for the Salvation Army kicked off about 1/4 of a mile from the Daily Times main Office. Were they there? NO! Yes they throw articles all over the place as if they participated. They even went so far as put it in an editorial.

Then there was the successful Christmas three lighting at the GOB at 6:00 PM. Certainly NOT too late to make the press! However, The Daily Times was nowhere to be found. My guess, they were attending the Disney Show at the Civic Center instead.

I don't just make these remarks to go on the attack against the Daily Times regularly. I do so to educate the public that what they are paying for is a joke. Look at how deep into the paper they buried the information about the Jaguar that died at the Zoo! Talk about another huge joke.

I'm sorry but for a Staff of 200 people and salaries being thrown around like there's no tomorrow, this Blog delivers, I don't care what you say! Granted, we don't have an obituary section, no classified section and no sports but that's easy, just reach deep down into that pocket of yours and pay for a Daily Times because that's about all you're going to get any more from them verses what you get here free!

I have been discussing very seriously opening this up into a once a week print newspaper and then continuing to Blog the rest of the week. I'm not in it for the money, so I keep going back to, I'd rather deliver what I see and keep it free for all who visit.

I have yet to really get into today's paper, so I'm sure I'll be back to deliver more. I will say however, I am invited to many events. Most of the time I attend, the Daily Times is not there. Oh, sometimes you'll even see an article even though they weren't even there, (like today's 2 articles) but most of the time The Daily Times tells you their stories simply from Press Releases Salisbury News does not get.

So, without our getting Press Releases, how do you this we're doing anyway? LOL