Tony Tank At Draw Down

I took these pictures the other day. I'm not sure why Tony Tank is at draw down from Camden to Riverside, but it was neat to see the bottom of the area where I often fish. All of those stumps are submerged at normal water level. I have never seen the lake at this water level and I definately saw some bikes sitting in the mud. Other than that I saw no signs of illegal dumping which was nice. The first picture you can really tell the difference in the change of water level with the exposed dock. I didn't see any construction or future construction like they had on the pond at the end of South Division.

For those of you who missed History 101

For those of you who slept through World History 101 here is a condensed version. Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter.

The two most important events in all of history were:

1. The invention of beer, and
2. The invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer, and the beer to the man.

These facts formed the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:

1. Liberals
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Conservative movement.

Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly BBQ's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men.

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and group hugs, the evolution of the Hollywood actor, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide all the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years, Conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most liberal women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, firemen, lumberjacks, construction workers, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get more for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history.

It should be noted that a liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers, and to more liberals...just to piss them off. :

The Infamous Louise Smith Letter

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Can You Stand It?

It was a year ago when gas prices were through the roof and everyone wondered just how we were going to afford it. One year later it's jumped almost $2.00 per gallon!

I'm sure the Federal Government is doing polls right now asking Americans at what price will people start to kill one and other and start a Revolution and they believe it will be somewhere around $10.00 a gallon!

Just like cigarettes, everyone became dependent on it and once you're addicted, you have no choice. Americans are very stupid. We're like robots and the Government we grew up proud of and loving has become our enemy. We're doing the things Russia was accused of doing. We're torturing prisoners. We're being told what we can and can't do every day. If you're a local Student and a 21 year old Police Officer thinks you're too loud, they slap you in Jail, period! Heck, we're now paying more for gas than those other Countries we used to laugh at and or sit there in awe.

America is no longer the land of the free. It's run by crooks at the local and federal level and quite frankly, I've seen enough. Even our very own Mayor and Police Chief want to sue me to shut me up from my freedom of speech rights. When I was a kid, I loved America and what it stood for. Now, I think it sucks and if there was another Country I could go to and feel safe, I'd take all my American Dollars, pack my things and get the hell out of here. It's not worth it any more. The Mexicans are smart. It's no wonder they make their money here and send it elsewhere.

One Year Ago Today

It was one year ago today I was getting phone call after phone call telling me that A.S.A.P. owned by Mr. Ray Lewis was out in this field allegedly pumping sewage into this tank and allegedly spreading it into this field.

To this day I have friends that swear on their children's eyes that's what they saw. Now look at where Mr. Lewis sits one year later? Things that make you go, hmmmmm?

If You're On Dial Up, Blognetnews Is Not For You!

Blognetnews is a unique site that offers a multitude of Bloggers on one site, making it convenient to see who's got what that day.

However, Blognetnews has pop up ads and other flashy annoying ads that slows everything down quite a bit but mainly, when you're on dial up, the first time you go there for the day it freezes your computer up completely.

Yep, the next thing you know you're hitting the old control, alt, delete buttons to get out of their site and restart your on line access all over again. I've warned them of this in the past and they sent me a letter stating they corrected it, NOT!

Dial Up sucks but when you're in the country, it's all we've got. Blognetnews needs to get rid of the BS Pop Up Ads, period! Does ANYONE ever click on them anyway?

Local Blogger Booted From WMDT

Anti Albero Blogger Joe Perdue, (tan jacket in photo) was dropped by WMDT last week based on harsh attacks and articles of no real substance. All of the attacks were against me personally.

WMDT had made it very clear. If you're not going to be a news worthy site, you're history. Joe Perdue is a Salisbury Firefighter who created a Blog that spent most of his time attacking me. Sure does make you wonder who he was in bed with?

Always known as an anti Mayor, See & Gordy individual, all of a sudden out of nowhere came Joe Perdue, the guy that now supports them to no end? Oh, she's got her people out there doing what she had hoped to be damage control but they only get a hand full of visitors and very few comments, so although she may feel better, it didn't work.

Saturdays are the slowest day of the week but I'd expect to hit more than 6,000 visitors today and that's a FACT! Not bad for a Saturday. How high can you hold your head now Joe Perdue? Just like Wayne Barrall, another Bully who got suspended. However, in Joe's case, expelled.

Louise Smith Can't Stand Being Held Accountable

Predictably, after her tell-it-like-it-is comments at the end of the city council meeting Monday night, Donna Ennis got a "Dot Truitt Letter" from council president Louise Smith. (Dot Truitt, you'll recall, was the grandmotherly lady who took city attorney Paul Wilber to task for "letting us down" on the Hearn annexation. Oh, that was SO MEAN of her! Take a shawl and whip her!)

Let's look at the letter Louise Smith sent Donna:

1. Smith quotes extensively "according to the tape." Wow. Is this how Louise Smith spends her time? Listening to tapes so she can send scolding, even threatening letters to citizens, instead of watching your tax dollars? Smith's mentor, the mayor, is known spend time quoting tapes and writing nasty letters to citizens. Or did Smith squander staff time to listen to the tape and transcribe it for her? (It's a question, Louise, not an accusation.)

2. Yep. Donna Ennis said all that. Except that last line was much later, specific to Smith and her campaign lies, as Ennis talked about how she stood out in the cold campaigning for Smith on the basis of her campaign promises.

3. Smith said: "Including this President in accusatory statements that Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Cohen were involved with this recent recall or people dissatisfied with the elections bears no truth at all. This was confirmed yesterday by the reporter that wrote the article, Greg Latshaw."

Awww, c'mon, Louise. You stopped just a gnat's behind from out and out accusing Campbell and Cohen. The innuendo was strong enough when Greg Latshaw reported you saying: "'I would hope the petition is not a concentrated attack (on one part of the council) because I'm trying to do something completely opposite and bring all sides together,' Smith said." It was plugged right in with the stronger innuendo from your underlings, Comegys and Shields.

Why would you worry about sides, Louise, if casting the shadow of blame on the other side wasn't the intent? If you were really interested in bringing "sides" together, you could have just asked Campbell and Cohen if they were involved. In fact, Cohen had already publicly stated that she hadn't approached the college student. You could have said something unifying, but fed the fires of divisiveness instead. Please, enlighten us. Just what have you done to bring "all" sides together?

4. Smith said to Ennis: "Continuing at the podium with, 'you lied to us all along..." is unacceptable.'

Why is it unacceptable, Louise? Because it was directed specifically to you? Check your record. You told people that you weren't aligned with anybody but the taxpayer. Then in your first few months in office, you voted for a tax hike and a water rate hike, even before attempting to get the facts.

You promised government in the sunshine, but you have cut meetings and speakers short. You've asked few questions and none were of any light-shining quality. You even got upset in the newspaper with Campbell and Cohen for doing outreach to constituents about open government.

You promised fiscal responsibility and accountability. You're "woodshed talks" with the mayor over the audit are as meaningful as her saying, "I take full responsibility." You campaigned on the same principles as Campbell and Cohen practice, but your performance has been the exact opposite. (Not to beat up the Recall Kid too much, but this is much like Jordan Reisman who is touting those same principles, but started out inciting SU students to riot over tough noise ordinances and neighborhood housing laws. Funny thing is, if Reisman went after you seriously, you'd be the easiest to recall.)

Tell us again, Louise, what's unacceptable about Ennis saying you lied all along?

5. Smith said: "To use a public forum for disrespectful discourse...."

Louise, is the Daily Times a public forum? Answer: Yes. Is falsely insinuating that two of your council colleagues are in cahoots with the Recall Kid disrespectful? Answer: Yes.

6. Smith then goes through all her old emails from Ennis to draw out some peppery phrases that basically say Louise lied and is a tool of the mayor. Again, THIS is how your council president spends her time, Salisbury, while the administration overspends account budgets containing your money?

Ennis, a veteran of the military and of 18 years on the road as a trucker, picked up a few colorful turns of phrase, but there are no obscenities. She wasn't out of control at the podium. As discussed above, there's no slander here, either. In fact, Louise, you came a lot closer to slander with your innuendo about Cohen and Campbell in Latshaw's hatchet piece on the recall.

By the way, Louise, did you write a similar scolding letter to that paragon of virtue supporter of the zoo who stood at the podium last year at budget time and said Campbell and Cohen had sold their souls to the devil for 30 pieces of silver? No? Well, why not?

Alas, the Empress Smith has no clothes. (I gave her a promotion from "princess," as G.A. Harrison used to call her.) Her letter to Donna Ennis reads more like an effort to intimidate than it does a call for civility. Donna Ennis' only "crime" was that she told it like she sees it, in plain-speaking words, to hold Louise Smith accountable for her very own words and deeds. "Accountability." Remember that term, Louise?

All just my opinion, of course. I wouldn't want to get a nasty letter or anything.