What Do You Remember About August 15th

Hope this makes you smile.

It is 100% real. The chunk of grass was gotten by Dorothy Sexton who "jumped
the fence" and actually got close to the boys in the band. She wasn't sure but
her thought that Ringo or John walked on it.

Ben In Salisbury

You Cannot Get Past The Albero Downtown Webcams

Mayor Barrie Tilghman boldly tries to get past the eagle eyes of Salisbury News and cannot do so. At least she wasn't wearing shorts. I must say, you look great all dressed up for once Mayor. Now go home and make me a samich.

Wicomico Farm & Home Show

Ladies & Gentlemen, if you're looking for something fun to do this weekend, go to the Farm & Home Show at the Winterplace Park.

This is their 72nd year putting on this Show and there's plenty to do, especially for the kids. They have animals you can see up close, food, music and all sorts of other activities.

What I found most interesting is this. Somerset County, Worcester County and Pocomoke completely support their Farm Shows. Wicomico County actually charges these people $2,135.00 to rent the space for this event. I mean, come on now! The County Executives Office said, No one remembers a time when the county has contributed $ to the F & H Show. They go on to say, The F & H show is run under the auspices of the County Extension Agent which comes under the Dept. of Ag.

I think it's high time that Wicomico County do something to work with the people who made this County what it is today! Forgetting where you came from because of progress is pretty messed up. You wouldn't have progress without these Farmers either.

Getting back to the good stuff. Tonight there's an antique tractor pull at 6:30. Live music at 7:00 and the show closes at 9:00 Pm. However, tomorrow brings on a ton of great stuff. There's a Horse Show at 8:00 AM tomorrow. A Car Show at 10:00. If you want to be IN the Car Show you need to register at 9:30. The Lone Ranger of Delmarva will be there at 10:00. Jousting from 12:00 to 2:00. A Model Horse Show from 12:00 to 3:00. From 1 to 4 "Moonstruck Duo" strolling minstrels. At 4:30 there's a Fashion Show. At 2:00 there's a Watermelon slices & seed spitting contest! At 4:00 there's some sort of 4H Olympics. At 5:00 there's a benefit auction, I believe done by Marshall Auctions. At 7:30 they'll have their award presentation and the show closes at 8:30 PM.

Pop in tonight and see this event. I went last night and it really is a lot to see and enjoy. The call your County Executive and County Council and tell them to pony up the $2,135.00 it cost these guys to put off this show.

Best Gas Prices In Town!

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The Shell on College Ave and Snow Hill Road, $3.53 per gallon. Gordy's prices went UP from yesterday to today. Oh, for those of you who asked me to take a picture of the LINES at the Gordy Marts, here you go Idiot! Pictures don't lie!

Lori Brewster To Take Oath As Wicomico County Health Officer

WICOMICO COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER TO TAKE OATH OF OFFICE ON AUGUST 20TH

August 15, 2008

Salisbury, MD

Lori Brewster, M.S., APRN/BC, LCADC will take the oath of office as Wicomico County’s Health Officer on Wednesday, August 20th at 2:00 P.M. in the City/County Council Chambers of the Government Office Building in Salisbury.

Ms. Brewster was confirmed as County Health Officer by the State of Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene last April. She had been the Acting Health Officer since July, 2007.

The public is invited to the ceremony.

Governor O'Malley Visits James M. Bennett High School

This morning Governor O'Malley came to Salisbury this morning to visit the new construction going on for the new Bennett High School.

He was joined by County Executive Rick Pollitt, Norm Conway, Jim Mathias and County Council Members.

"Protecting our investment in public education and school construction is critical to providing Maryland's students with the best education and the best equipment," said O'Malley. "The new construction of James M. Bennett High School will help address the growing student population, while also minimally impacting the environment with sustainable design features."

"I am delighted that Governor O'Malley took the time to visit the site of our newest and most ambitious school construction project," said County Executive Rick Pollitt. "Our community will be stronger for his efforts."

There are 1,400 students in grades nine through twelve. Construction began in June of 2008 and is scheduled to be complete in September of 2011. Mr. Pollitt also expanded by stating the new school will provide air conditioning, Energy Star Roofing and around 600 wells for a geothermal heating and colling system, and ultra-low flow plumbing.

I know, how do you do it all Joe. LOL

Extreme Makeover: Kratovil Edition

Kratovil will do or say anything to get elected

Annapolis - In his first television ad, Frank Kratovil has had an extreme makeover showing he will do or say anything to get elected.

"Either Kratovil has a short-term memory, or he is intentionally misleading the voters in the first district." said Campaign Manager Chris Meekins. "The reason Kratovil is trying to have an extreme makeover in his first ad is because he knows voters in the first district won't embrace his radical liberal Washington agenda."

Kratovil makes numerous misleading statements in his first campaign ad. See examples below:

Wasteful Spending
Claim: "decrease wasteful spending"

Fact: In an interview with WYPR, Kratovil stated he supports earmarks. Earmarks lead to billions of dollars in wasteful spending like the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska, and to corruption in government. (Source: Transcript of Kratovil Interview on WYPR in Salisbury on 6/13/2008)

Illegal Immigration
Claim: "Crack down on illegal immigration"

Fact: At a debate in January, Kratovil stated he would have supported the "Amnesty" bill before Congress last year. Supporting Amnesty is not cracking down on illegal immigration. (Source: Star Democrat 1/13/2008)

Energy
Claim: "Decrease our dependence on Middle East Oil"

Fact: By refusing to support off-shore drilling, the United States economy will not be able to stop buying oil from the Middle East. Expanding domestic oil production is necessary to decreasing our dependence on foreign oil. (Source: Transcript of Kratovil Interview on WYPR in Salisbury on 6/13/2008)

Representation
Claim: "Independent. On Our Side"

Fact: Frank Kratovil has registered as a Democrat for Congress not as an independent. He has stated, "I want to be an ally of the Governor (Martin O'Malley) in Washington." Being an ally does not mean you are independent, it means Kratovil wants to go to Washington to be on Martin O'Malley's side, not ours. (Source: Maryland State Board of Elections and the Star Democrat 6/5/2007)

Senator, Tell Me Obama's Accomplishments?

This is a MUST SEE Folks!

Is Lore' Chambers Saying Something here?

Perhaps it was a LONG night for someone and Lore' was poking fun at it? NO COMMENT!

Yard Sales

Click on the link below for this week's posting of yard sales.


http://salisburynewsyardsales.blogspot.com/

Lead Based Paint Goes Directly Into The Wicomico River?

Joe,

I was driving down Rt.13 north last night right at dusk. Between College Avenue and Carroll Street the paint had been removed from all the fire hydrants. I’m assuming they’re about to be re-painted. No big deal right? Wrong! The paint was stripped off and all the chips were left in the gutter. I have two questions. Do the gutters and storm drains lead to the Wicomico River? Secondly… Is the paint used on the fire hydrants non-toxic? I can’t imagine all the paint chips that will end up in the river will be beneficial to the life in the water that’s already struggling to survive in human waste. I only regret that I my cell phone was dead and I couldn’t take a picture. By the time I went home and got my camera it was raining. Keep your eyes open as I’m sure this is an on-going project and they’ll do it again.

Dear Mrs. Comegys II?

"Joe,
you are a pathetic excuse for a human at best. If you were the father of a child who the mother would not let you see your child..WOULD YOU PAY CHILD SUPPORT? HELL NO!! Did you bother to ask Gary what the circumstances were before you post this dumb shit on your worthless..half of the truth blog? HELL NO!! Many men do this so that they will be taken to court in hopes of seeing their child. Also in the mean time the mother tells the child how horrible the father is for not giving her a dime and he does not support them. Well Joe..if you do not know that part of supporting them is helping to raise them and having quality time with them as well in which many times Gary was not afforded that opportunity. Maybe that is why the CHILD was in trouble to start with. Now explain what your daughter/stepdaughter has done to be awarded MOTHER OF THE YEAR asshole! Let us talk about your skeleton bones now..We would all love to hear about that. I heard she was acrack whore! Does she pay you any child support?"

I'll start with this. I am extremely familiar with the troubles of NOT being able to see my own children for the 15 years I paid $2,759.58 a MONTH for my children. That's right, I paid that amount per month for that long. My ex wife NEVER had to wait at the mailbox looking for her monthly check!

So don't go preaching to me about the why's! I don't give a rats a$$ what excuse you want to represent, those children HAD TO EAT EVERY MONTH! You fight your battle in Court and you do NOT make everyone else suffer along the way. That's just my opinion and I believe I handled my child support like an honorable and responsible man/father.

Oh, my ex played the old, your Father is a piece of sh!t for all these years as well but my children grew up and fully 100% respect me while one of them hasn't spoken to their Mother for 2 years now because of it. Oh, I'll add, I encourage my Son to please talk to her each and every time I talk to him. I hold no hatred towards my ex and as they say, "the best revenge is to live a good life." I have done just that and she no longer had access to the checkbook.

I'll say this for the very last time too. I do NOT have a step daughter or a daughter, period. So obviously the information you are receiving has NO CREDIBILITY whatsoever, especially if you can't even get that part right.

I don't care what YOU and or Gary Comegys thinks about this factual information I posted earlier. I am 100% right and ANY Judge would agree with me 100%. You have a child, you are responsible for that child, no matter if the mother allows you to see them or not. One day that child will grow up enough to find the real truth and that is life.

So take your "half of the truth" and shove it. I firmly disagree with you and any of your remarks. The TRUTH is, he failed to be a responsible Father and I'll add, he declared bankruptcy as well, proving he's not a very responsible individual and shame on the Taxpayers for voting him into Office, period.

I'll not even go into your trash mouth other than to say, you must be really close with the Mayor.

Dr. Nolte Provides A Valuable Service To This Town

"I personally thank all of you for probably running the only affordable veterinary option out of town. Thank you so much!

Dr. Nolte provides a service to this town and that's an affordable solution to the outrageous prices the other vet's in town charge. That's his niche and that's what he does. I'm sorry if you didn't do your research first and took your dog/cat to Nolte for a major operation. If you did that and something went wrong, don't blame anybody but yourself. All you had to do was simply ask around town and you would have found out very quickly what Nolte is good for and what he's not.

What he is good for is if you already have an idea what's wrong with your pet and you need some medicine for it (ear infection, etc). Or if you need to get rabies shots or any other frequent shots/medicine. He's good for yearly check-ups and good for minor injuries.

What he's not good for (and I thought this was very well known) is essentially anything major. Major injuries/breaks, large open wounds, major operations, things like that.

I have two cats and two dogs and I honestly don't know if I'll be able to afford them if I'm forced to go to any of the other vets in town as they are all grossly overpriced. Now, imagine all the other people in my same boat. Low-income families, elderly pet owners, families with many pets, etc... Think of all the people who will now have trouble affording vet care. Thank of all the animals who will now probably go untreated.

Thanks SO much for "exposing" him (when anybody with a right mind already knew this about him for years in the first place) and probably running him out of town. Are you going to help pay for me to take my animals to one of the other vets now?"

Well, Sir:

Allow me to start by saying, how come the President of the Zoo Commission wasn't aware of this? How come Jim Rapp AND Joel Hamilton were never made aware of this? How come the the Director of Public works Jim Caldwell or even Mayor Barrie Tilghman wasn't aware of this? Or perhaps I'm wrong? Perhaps they did know about this. That Housewife thing comes to mind when I think about this, (no disrespect to Housewives).

Sir, does it say that in his Yellow Page Ad? I only do shots and minor stuff with animals, please don't bring an injured animal into my Office because that's not what I'm good at.

While my Wife and I have been fighting for many years referencing the welfare of the animals at the Salisbury Zoo and the extremely poor management and leadership in the past there, what choice have the animals had?

All of a sudden people are hearing about HOUSEHOLD PETS and again, they're forgetting about the Zoo Animals. These animals are CAGED and on display for your entertainment, yet they get the worst care of any animal I've ever heard of.

Get ready Folks because I'm about to go off! Let's look at what you have with this Dr. Nolte and the protocol of the Salisbury Zoo. You see, that piece of sh!t Ron Alessi insists, wait a minute, let's even go so far as DEMANDS that the Salisbury Zoo WILL take in injured animals, period!

Why do YOU think this is the case Ladies & Gentlemen? Because IF they do so, the AZA demands that they build a $2,000,000.00 new Animal Services Building to care for those animals. HOWEVER, what you don't know is, Dr. Nolte only visits the Zoo 2 hours every other week. So let's say he comes in on Wednesday at noon. If he leaves at 2:00, they won't see him again for two weeks. At 4:00 PM an injured animal comes into the Zoo from DNR. Yep, it sits there for weeks waiting for Nolte to come back and more than likely dies.

So these animals are caged up, sick, in desperate need of full time attention and because they're FREE the Zoo thinks it's a great idea to collect them. However, if it's a song bird or a baby squirrel they simply snap its neck and kill it because they're not going to waste their time trying to rehab one of these animals.

Getting back to the point, you suckers are being drawn into a multi million dollar building simply because the AZA and Ron Alessi want it. Is it necessary? Hell No! Maybe that's the building that will house Mayor Barrie Tilghman's name on it, or perhaps Ron Alessi's name? No matter what, you're being suckered into something the Zoo does not need.

In the mean time, the animals suffer at the Zoo and the taxpayers get screwed along the way. Now Joe, if you think I'm to blame for Dr. Nolte running out of Town, well, he's the one running then, not me. I'm standing up for the animals, NOT THE ZOO STAFF, NOT THE MAYOR AND CERTAINLY NOT THE ZOO COMMISSION.

American Legion Baseball Mid-Atlantic Region

Joe, could you please put up a notice for anyone interested:
American Legion Baseball Mid-Atlantic Region can be heard via webcast at:
www.terrysisisky.com
Even though our local team was eliminated in the State tournament, Maryland is
still being represented in these games and can end up going to the American
Legion World Series! I think MD plays the 2nd game tomorrow morning (Fri)

PS: my nephew is pitching on the WV team, (they lost tonight, but I have
confidence they will do well).
Thanks!
Chris Martin

The Landfill Cases Move Forward

While Kenneth Townsend is expected to win his request this morning in Court to have the venue changed out of Wicomico County, Lewis & Merritt have been postponed and will be heard another day.

You heard it here first Folks.

Last Nights Storm In Sharptown

Our friend Sean delivered this photo of the storm that passed through Sharptown. Unbelievable shot Sean. Thanks for sharing!

The Prez with a Buzz

Gold and Oil go down the dollar goes up for a few days. The President heads the Olympics and falls off the wagon, and Cheney stays home and starts WWIII with Russia.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

To read the full article go here http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/08/14.html

Answer To Delmarva Oil

REAL ESTATE IS GOING DOWN

"Joe:

I'm telling you . . . .the local real estate market is going down.

You can take my word on this. There are going to be a lot and I mean a lot of foreclosures and property ownership transfers in the very near future. IT HAS NOW OFFICIALLY BEGUN.

Market conditions are continuing to deteriorate as I write this email. I have this information at the highest levels.

My advise. . . hunker down."

I don't disagree and I have been saying this for years now. Joe

Wag the Dog: How to Conceal Massive Economic Collapse

"I’m in show business, why come to me?"

"War is show business, that’s why we’re here."
– "Wag the Dog" (1997 film)

Read Ellen Browns Article on How the Big Boys are trying to make us feel better about the coming disaster. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9828

What's the Deal? Is She Getting Paid for this Plug, or is Shep Shutting Her Up?

Question of the Day, Fri 8/15

We have another 2 interesting things today.

Today is:

Best Friends Day - Do you have a best friend? For how long? Are you still friends with your best friend from school?

Today is also:

National Relaxation Day - What do you do to relax? How often? What would be your ultimate day of relaxation consist of?

A Thing Of Beauty?

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For what it's worth, I love taking shots like this one. It stores a piece of history and shows what time does to any thing and anyone. Now if they had built this on the Moon with no gravity, it would probably last forever?

Nonetheless, there are all sorts of buildings like this on the Eastern Shore. Do you have one/some you'd like to share? If so, send it to alberobutzo@wmconnect.com

Recent Raise Of BC/BS Rates For County Employees

Why has the county raised the cost of health insurance for county employees? BC/BS has not increased the rate for county employees, but the county has raised what an employee must pay for insurance. Is this another way for the county to save money at the expense of their employees? This very question has been asked of County Exec. Rick Pollitt with no response. Human Resources only response was that their costs have increased which is not true. Please someone enlighten me.

What Does Bobby Labonte, Carl Edwards, Herschel Walker & Joe Albero Have In Common?

You're going to find out even more in September but get ready Folks because there's going to be a total of 14 Celebrities in this event, many of which will be NASCAR Drivers.

And Least We Forget

One of two things is going to happen when Bubba sees this Post. One, he's going to get pissed. Two, he's going to blow it off because he simply doesn't give a damn. My guess would be that he doesn't give a damn. Remember this when he anounces he's going to run for Mayor Folks!

Recemtly Passed

Cheryl Lynne Chatman:

Born in Milford, De April 28th 1962. Beloved daughter of Faye Barnett Robbins and the late Richard Davis, Sr.

Cheryl was very skilled in aiding her husband with his guide service on Weiss Lake.

Mrs. Chatman is survived by her husband, James Chatman and his son Jamie.

Other survivors include her brother Richard, Jr(Susan) , nephews Trey, Kyle, and R.J. stepson Steve(Jody) and children, and Step-father Lindsey Robbins.

She was predeceased by her father, brother ( Denny), and first husband Steve Pope.

Funeral services were held August 14th in Centre, Alabama