Monday Morning Posts

Monday morning will explode with unbelievable pictures from Dancing With The Delmarva Stars, the new Skate Park Fundraiser and all sorts of additional stories.

As I'm sure many of you could tell, I took some time off this weekend so I could get out to many of these events and then find some Albero Time away from the Blog, which is something I rarely do.

However, once you see the pictures I'll be delivering tomorrow morning you'll see it was well worth the time away.

Republicans Salute Obama's Military Tack

Even as congressional Democrats feuded last week with the CIA in what at times seemed to be a throwback to the 1970s, President Obama was headed in the other direction in what may have been his most active week yet as commander in chief.

He pushed through the House a spending bill to finance the war in Afghanistan and reversed himself, deciding to fight the release of photos purportedly showing humiliating treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr. Obama also announced he would have some detainees at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, tried by military commissions, putting him at odds with much of his liberal political base, but winning striking praise from Republicans who contrasted his sober decisions against the accusations of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the CIA has lied to her and Congress continually.

GO HERE to rad more.

Panda News

Once again, spring has arrived. With this, the National Zoo is keeping a 24 hr watch on the female panda for a possible birth. She's started nesting over the weekend which is a positive sign.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/

Update - Milton Robbery - Suspect Arrested

Milton - The Delaware State Police have made an arrest in the Robbery that occurred on May 12.

Troopers assigned to the Governor's Task Force (GTF) out of Troop 4, located and arrested Chevelle D. Morris, 45 of Millsboro early last evening. Morris was wanted in connection to the Robbery that occurred on Cool Springs Road on May 12. She was brought back to Troop 4 where she was formally charged with Robbery 1st degree and Burglary 2nd degree and later committed to Sussex Correctional Institute in Georgetown on $25,000.00 cash bail.

FORMER SU LAX PLAYER HELPS TO DEFEAT SEA GULLS!

Really, I thought that this only happened in pro sports.

In this week’s NCAA tournament game, and in two other games this year with Stevenson, a former Sea Gull player, Brett Yoder, played big for his new team and against the Gulls. This week he scored 3 goals for Stevenson, which won 11 to 9. Two weeks ago, when SU won, 13 to 5, he had 1 goal. In the first game, in early April, he had an assist and played aggressively on ground balls, also causing several turnovers in Stevenson’s 12–8 win.

During the years he played for the Sea Gulls, 2005 to 2007, Yoder had 30 goals and 55 assists and played on two national champion teams. This year he may play for another national champion, but on a different team. That’s how the ball bounces these days.

There may be a bit of rivalry with Kylor Berkman of SU, who was a first team All-American midfielder in 2007, when Yoder was an honorable mention A-A at that position. Berkman was again selected on the first team last year.

Does anyone know why Yoder left SU (apparently after the 2007 season)?

Another Incident In Multiple DUI Offender Arrest – Seventh Offense DUI

Milton – The Delaware State Police have arrested a 45 year old Milford Man for a seventh offense of Driving under the Influence after he was observed driving erratically by a Delaware State Trooper on Cedar Creek Road in Milton yesterday at approximately 4:00 pm.

The trooper was on patrol when he observed a pick-up truck traveling in front of his patrol vehicle begin to drive across the center line of the roadway. This occurred several times and then the pick-up began to drive off the right shoulder of the road.

The trooper conducted a traffic stop and encountered Jeffrey H. Salevan, 45 of Milford as the operator. In the passenger seat was a 10 year old Milford girl that was the daughter of a friend of his. The trooper immediately detected a strong odor of alcohol and observed in plain view of the truck several open beer cans including one in the center console.

A standard DUI investigation ensued and Mr. Salevan failed field sobriety tests. A computer check of his license status revealed his drivers license was suspended an that he had six prior DUI convictions on 03/16/02, 07/01/97, 03/01/96, 02/03/92, 05/30/89 and 02/05/88.

He was taken into custody without incident and arrested for Felony DUI, Endangering the Welfare of a Child, Drinking while Driving, Driving on a Suspended Driver’s License, Failure to Drive within Lane Markings and Possession of a Suspended Driver’s License. He was incarcerated at the Sussex Correctional Institute in lieu of a $5000.00 cash only bail.

More On The West O.C. Pedestrian Death

From the WBOC website:

"Witnesses say the pedestrian ran across the westbound lanes, entered the median and fell into the path of a 2008 Jeep Wrangler driven by Luis A. Rodriguez, 29, of Massapequa Park, N.Y.
The teen was transported by Ocean City EMS and pronounced deceased at Atlantic General Hospital.
Authorities say both directions of Route 50 were shut down for four hours.
According to detectives, through field sobriety tests it was found that Rodriguez was intoxicated.
Rodriguez was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving under the influence of alcohol perse and driving while impaired. He was taken before the District Court Commissioner and held on $5,000 bond."

WICOMICO PAYING STEEP PRICE FOR NOT DIVERSIFYING INDUSTRY

Wicomico County has become increasingly vulnerable to economic downturns as a result of non-diversity in industry types. Listed on MACO - (Maryland Association of Counties) - Wicomico is the only County out of 24 Maryland jurisdictions that list Education as its primary industry.

http://www.mdcounties.org//counties/demographics.cfm

Despite what you hear about Agriculture or Poultry, Wicomico County's largest employer is in the Education Department.

So it should come as no surprise that when the revenue streams start to dry-up on news of any economic downturn in the US economy, that the Educational Industry will also follow suit. The only exception to this scenario is the Federal Government located in and around St. Mary's County or Southern Maryland. In that area they can just print more money and raise their debt limit masking the real economic realities. That's what helped to spawn the tea party rebellions held across America just a few weeks ago.

During economic downturns most all other Industries throughout our Country try to downsize, cut overhead, shave benefits, and that should be the same technique being considered here in Wicomico. What happened the other night with the BOE voting to increase their health care benefit package in the midst of the greatest recession since 1929 - has got to have ramifications for those of us that are primarily on the paying end - the Taxpayers. Moreover, the audacity to raise these benefits is discriminatory against the minions of other government agencies ranked in the system that are already having to make similar and even larger sacrifices.

A civilized society cannot exist by exempting certain groups based upon a system that ignores the economic realities of our Free Enterprise System. It didn't work when the British tried to imposed their will by imposing tax on the Colonies and it ought not work now.

So stay tuned Delmarva as we enter 2009 and prepare the budgets for 2010. I do not see any immediate economic relief in sight for the near future. Just this past week we saw Chrysler announce additional closures with GM following suit. Next week it is likely GM will file for bankruptcy protection. We've now seen failures of Citcorp, AIG, Bears Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddy Mac, among many other industry giants. Oil is starting to rise again and the economic storm winds are starting to brew yet again. We now have a President that is assigning new Corporate salaries while simultaneously replacing CEOs. Socialism is on every channel - (exception CNN, NBC) - while GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, is trying to cash-in for his supporting of Obama by riding on the administration's coat tails.

And just this morning it was announced that the Federal Governments stake in GM could be as large as 70%. That's right you heard it, the Federal Government will have a 70% stake in one of America's largest private industries. Now if that is not fitting the precise definition of Socialism I don't know what is.

Beezer

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One Year Ago Today

Two Salisbury University LAX Players were arrested for destroying property in the Camden area.