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Monday, November 16, 2009

Troopers Are Investigating A Single Car Crash That Killed A Lewes Woman


Location: Bay Farm Road south of Trinity Road at the entrance to the Peninsula Development, 5 miles east of Millsboro, Sussex County, DE

Date of Occurrence: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 11:47 a.m.

Resume:

Delaware State Police State Police are investigating a single car crash that killed a 72 year-old Lewes woman.

The crash happened when the woman was operating a 2001 Nissan Altima southbound on Bay Farm Road when for unknown reasons the vehicle drifted off the right shoulder then off the roadway. The vehicle continued south traveling parallel to the roadway and crossed Trinity Road. The Altima then struck a 4’ cement pillar head-on.

The driver was flown to Christiana Hospital near Newark where she later died at 2:30 p.m. today.

The investigation is on going and the woman was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash. Alcohol is not suspected.

Bay Farm Road in the area of Trinity Road was closed for approximately a half hour.

The name of the woman is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Obama Admin Slashed 60,000 Jobs From Recent Stimulus Report


Office of Management & Budget Document: 12 Stimulus Recipients Reported 'Unrealistic Job Data'

The Obama administration, under fire for inflating job growth from the $787 billion stimulus plan, slashed over 60,000 jobs from its most recent report on the program because the reporting outlets had submitted "unrealistic data," according to a document obtained by ABC News.


The Office of Management and Budget document shows that before an Oct. 30 progress report on the program the administration asked the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board to remove information from 12 stimulus recipients that contained "unrealistic data," including "unrealistic job data." (Read the document here.)


One recipient – Talladega County of Alabama – claimed that 5,000 jobs had been saved or created from only $42,000 in stimulus funds.


GO HERE to read more from ABC.

Wicomico County Sheriff's Office Press Release


Incident: Possession of a Handgun and CDS
Date of Incident: 12 November 2009
Location: Salisbury Blvd at Baptist Street, Salisbury, MD
Suspect:
1. Stefon A. Smith, 33, Salisbury, MD
2. Christopher L. Singletary, 31, Salisbury, MD

Narrative: On 12 November 2009
at 10:20 PM, a deputy from the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office stopped a vehicle operated by Stefon Smith for speeding. During the traffic stop, a WCSO Drug K9 team arrived to scan the vehicle for the presence of the odor of illegal drugs, during which the dog alerted positively to that odor. Both Smith and his passenger, Christopher Singletary, were asked to exit the vehicle so it could be searched. Upon exit from the vehicle, Singletary was discovered to have a .380 caliber handgun hidden in his waistband. The deputies also discovered a Glock .40 handgun on the front seat of the vehicle.

Both Smith and Singletary were placed under arrest for the possession of the handguns in the vehicle. The deputies also discovered that .380 caliber handgun had previously been reported stolen. Both handguns were loaded with hollow point ammunition.

Also the deputies located what they recognized as cocaine in the possession of Smith and Singletary. Upon checking their records, it was discovered that both Smith and Singletary were prohibited from possessing firearms due to previous criminal convictions.

Both Smith and Singletary were transported to the Central Booking Unit where they were processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. After an initial appearance, both were detained in the Detention Center by the Commissioner in lieu of $150,000.00 bond each.

Charges: Transport handgun in a vehicle, Possession of a Handgun, Possession of a regulated Firearm by a Prohibited Firearm, Possession of a Stolen Handgun, Possession of Cocaine

The Competition Just Can't Let Go.


SALISBURY NEWS: Quick business start-up session offered - 2:38 pm

SALISBURY NEWS: SU presents holiday concert series - 2:33 pm

SALISBURY NEWS: Police calls for Nov. 15

SALISBURY NEWS: Police calls for Nov. 14

SALISBURY NEWS: Police calls for Nov. 13

SALISBURY NEWS: SU awarded Senior Olympics service award

SALISBURY NEWS: Tickets on sale for legendary gospel performance

SALISBURY NEWS: Local shipyard to expand, create jobs

They must have had a REALLY bad week and needed the additional hits.

It Kills Me To Shop Here!

The owner of this Hearse almost died when he saw the gas prices but Sam's Club was just too far away. Word has it Exon will also be selling caskets to compete with WalMart. The idea is, they have so many people dropping dead of heart attacks right on their lots, why not cash in and charge it on the customer's credit card.



Exon, your final destination One Stop Shop.

Salvation Army Bell Ringing Starts This FRIDAY






Here's the most recent update Folks. I truly want to thank those individuals and businesses who have stepped up to the plate and are donating their time for such a great cause.

Now let me say this. While I don't mind getting out there and ringing the bell, quite frankly I enjoy it quite a bit. However, the more I have to ring the bell, the less content Salisbury News will provide.

We need your help to make this a success Folks.

To volunteer contact the Salvation Army. Call the Kettle Campaign headquarters at 410-749-RING (7464). or send an email ringabell4tsa@verizon.net

Thank You and we'll see you out there this Friday.

Tracy Sparpaglione - Conviction Overturned


Tracy Ross Sparpaglione, was charged in the Circuit Court with 2nd degree rape, 3rd degree sex offense, 4th degree sex offense, misconduct in office, 1st and 3rd degree burglary. Following a bench trial, he was convicted of misconduct in office and acquitted on the remaining charges. The court sentenced him to one year in jail.

Upon filing an appeal the the conviction has been reversed and all costs are to be paid by Wicomico County.

Upon reading the opinion of the court there are questions raised.

Will he be reinstated in his job at the Salisbury Police Department?

Will he now file a claim against all involved?

Read the opinion Here

Italian Pregnancy

An 18 year old Italian girl tells her Mom that she has missed her period for 2 months.

Very worried, the mother goes to the drugstore and buys a pregnancy kit.

The test result shows that the girl is pregnant.

Shouting, cursing, crying, the mother says, 'Who was the pig that did this to you? I want to know!'

The girl picks up the phone and makes a call.

Half an hour later, a Ferrari stops in front of their house.

A mature and distinguished man with grey hair and impeccably dressed in an Armani suit steps out of a Ferrari and enters the house.

He sits in the living room with the father, mother, and the girl and tells them:

'Good morning, your daughter has informed me of the problem.

I can't marry her because of my personal family situation but I'll take charge.

I will pay all costs and provide for your daughter for the rest of her life.

Additionally, if a girl is born, I will bequeath a Ferrari, 2 retail stores, a townhouse, a beach front villa, and a $2,000,000 bank account.

If a boy is born, my legacy will be a couple of factories and a $4,000,000 bank account. If twins, they will receive a factory and $2,000,000 each.

However, if there is a miscarriage, what do you suggest I do?'

At this point, the father, who had remained silent holding a shot gun, places a hand firmly on the man's shoulder and tells him ..

'You gonna try again.

Pittsville Town Commissioner Caught Speeding


Joe,

I find it amazing that the President of the Pittsville Town Commissioners, (equivalent to a Mayor) Denver Moore got caught speeding in his own town after all the complaining he does to the sheriff's office about speeders.

Yes, he has complained at several town meetings about speeders through Pittsville and he gets caught doing 74mph in a posted 30 mph zone. That's 44 miles per hour OVER the posted speed! 1 1/2 times the posted speed limit! WOW! I'll bet it will be a long time before he complains about speeders again. $530.00 fine and five points!


Check this out!

http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/inquiry/inquiryDetail.jiscaseId=000000FR32820&loc=8&detailLoc=DSTRAF

When will politicians stop thinking they are better than everyone else.

Concerned Citizen.

PHEW!

PHEW! I'm so glad that the unstable Muslim guy who killed 13 and wounded 30 after contacting Al Qaeda, spewing Jihadist remarks via e-mail, and clearing out his apartment (save for some coins and prescription meds) ISN'T a terrorist. I feel much better now! Thank you Obama, for setting me straight. Maybe your next speech can shed some light on this whole Santa Claus thing.

Louise Smith Takes Away 1st Amendment Right


The above video is from the Salisbury City Council Meeting Nov 9, 2009.


One week ago I stood in front of the Salisbury City Council and shared my opinion in reference to Police Chief Webster and Fire Chief Hoppes. Louise Smith decided this was personal so she gaveled me down and asked me to take my seat.

I did call Louise last week and she returned my call telling me that at her discretion she felt these were personal attacks. I tried to explain they were not personal attacks, they were my opinion. I went on to explain that Mr. Hoppes does not have a Masters Degree, therefore he is not qualified, (according to their own requirements) to become Fire Chief.

When I mentioned a lawsuit in the video and was cut off, my purpose for mentioning that was that I felt the "third" person who was qualified for the job and got bumped so that Mr. Hoppes could be bumped back into the final three could file a lawsuit against the City. It had nothing to do with me.

As for Chief Webster, I most certainly do feel, (especially through comments) that most citizens are fed up with the crime in Salisbury and every single person, (with exceptions to one) speaking that night expressed their concern towards crime and disgust towards Chief Webster's inability to protect the City.

So what do YOU think. Did Louise Smith violate my First Amendment Rights/Freedom of Speech?

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Target's Reality Vortex Expands To Walgreens

Stephanie sent us this photo from her local Walgreens. Have they been taking lessons in pricing from Target? Sure, MSRP is is merely a suggestion, but this is a rather obvious case.

Source

Charges Dropped Against Former WBOC Weekend Sports Anchor


DEWEY BEACH, Del.- The charges of trespassing, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest were dismissed on Nov. 5 by a Delaware court for former WBOC Weekend Sports Anchor Yianni Kourakis, the state Attorney General's Office has confirmed.

Dewey Beach police arrested Kourakis on Sept. 6, after officers say he refused to vacate a motel room when ordered to do so.

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Today's Survey Quiestion

Do You Think 9/11 Terrorists Should Be Tried In NYC?

Got A Cell Phone? I'll E-Mail You Money


My BusinessWeek colleague, Amy Feldman, wrote in this week’s issue about a service that will soon be available in the U.S.: emailing money to friends and family.

In Japan, the service has been around since mid-2008. The first was launched by KDDI, the telco that runs au and Japan’s second-biggest mobile operator. Its Jibun Ginko (My Bank) service, which started in July 2008, requires that mobile phone subscribers open an account and deposit money, as they would at an ordinary bank.

How common is it to email money from phones? KDDI says 750,000 people have opened accounts so far. But only about 10% are regular users, so it’s mostly early adopters who are taking advantage of the service.

Actually, no money is sent from phone to phone. The email message is just a proxy for the transaction, which takes place between banks over a secure network.

The money transfer service is free when it’s between Jibun Ginko account holders. There’s also no charge if money is sent to a Mitsubishi UFJ Bank account. For all others, it’s 170 yen ($1.90) if the amount is less than 30,000 yen ($330)—about what you would pay for pulling out cash from a convenience store ATM in Japan—or 270 yen ($3) if the amount is 30,000 yen or more.

How much can you send using your cell phone? 10 million yen, or about $110,000. That’s because KDDI’s Jibun Ginko operates as a bank, so the usual money transfer limits apply.

Back in July, NTT DoCoMo, the country's biggest wireless carrier, introduced its own service, called DoCoMo Keitai Sokin (DoCoMo Cell Phone Money Transfers). But unlike KDDI’s service, DoCoMo relies on Mizuho Bank to process the transactions. DoCoMo says the service was conceived as a “fast and easy way to take care of money matters with friends and acquaintances”--when splitting the bill after a dinner with colleagues or family, for instance.

Which explains why DoCoMo limits how much users can send to another DoCoMo user’s cell phone number: 20,000 yen ($220).

Both parties have to be DoCoMo subscribers. But there’s no need to register or open a bank account with DoCoMo. And since DoCoMo (which is teaming up with Mizuho Bank) acts as the go-between, there’s no need to exchange bank account information--bank branch, account number, name--which is what you would need if you were wiring money from one bank to another. The recipient gets an email on his phone and has the option of depositing the money in a Japanese bank account or having the money credited to his monthly phone bill. The most anyone can receive is 200,000 yen ($2,200) per month. DoCoMo charges the sender 105 yen ($1.16) and the recipient 65 yen ($0.72). The charge is waived for the recipient if he deposits the money into a Mizuho Bank account or credits it to his monthly phone bill.

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Small Cities Lose Luster In Downturn

WASHINGTON — America's small cities are losing some of their traditional appeal to upwardly mobile families seeking wholesome neighborhoods, a stable economy and affordable living.

A review of newly released census data shows, for example, that cities of between 20,000 and 50,000 residents have lagged behind their larger counterparts in attracting higher-educated residents in this decade.

In 2000, small cities, which include remote towns and the distant suburbs known as "exurbs," ranked at the top in the share of people with college diplomas. They slipped to No. 2 last year with 30 percent holding degrees -- in between medium-sized cities, which had 31 percent, and big cities, at 29.8 percent.

Poverty is growing in the small cities, fueled partly by population growth, although average median income of $60,294 in those communities is still higher than other places.

Small cities looking more and more like bigger cities over the decade ranged from places like Hobart, Ind., and Mount Pleasant, Mich., to Anniston, Ala., and Greenville, Miss. Compared with previous years, they had smaller incomes, higher housing costs, longer commutes, more poverty and more single-parent families.

Demographers attributed some of the shifts to the housing downturn and a spike in gasoline prices, which has hit residents in the far-flung exurbs harder. Many families in smaller towns also are looking for jobs in larger cities because of the current recession and are rethinking the wisdom of a lengthy commute to work.

Some small cities may have become victims of their own success. As their local economies boomed mid-decade, many places grew rapidly and attracted lower-income residents needed to build roads, schools and other public works projects. Some of these areas have shot up in size and are now medium-sized communities.

"Small towns have a certain appeal to people, and their quality of life there is backed up by the data," said Mark Mather, associate vice president of the nonprofit Population Reference Bureau. "But as more people move in, small towns start to lose the qualities that attracted people there in the first place."

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Health Bill Could Hurt Delaware

"Sen. Tom Carper, a member of the Finance Committee, voted to pass the bill Oct. 13. Though the Delaware Democrat worked extensively on shaping the legislation, he did not propose an amendment to address what he now describes as "a basic inequity."

"I don't think it was on my radar screen," he said Friday."He helped "shape the legislation", but didn't read or comprehend that intentionally obfuscated language? Maryland is also one of the "expansion" states.

Proposal in Senate would make state pay bigger share of Medicaid

WASHINGTON -- Before health care reform dominated debate on Capitol Hill, Delaware and several other states worked aggressively to increase the number of low-income residents covered by Medicaid, the federal-state insurance program for the poor.

Now, those efforts could hurt them, sticking them with an uneven share of the bill for expanding Medicaid under one reform proposal.

The health care bill the Senate Finance Committee approved last month would expand Medicaid coverage to people earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. But states such as Delaware that already have significantly increased eligibility for Medicaid would get less financial help from the federal government than states that haven't.

Under the Finance Committee bill, "expansion states" that already cover people earning at least 100 percent of the poverty level ($22,050 for a family of four), would start off in 2014 getting 10 percent less in federal assistance than other states. The differential would narrow over five years and disappear in 2019.

The 18,000 new Medicaid recipients would cost the state an additional $21 million in fiscal 2014, according to state estimates.

At a time when state governments are facing budget shortfalls, some say their states shouldn't be penalized for being progressive.

"We feel it's unfair to the states that have really gone out on a limb and expanded Medicaid coverage to more individuals," said Rosanne Mahaney, acting director of the Delaware Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance. "It's almost punishing the states that have gone beyond what's required."

GO HERE to read more.

Drug Makers Raise Prices Ahead Of Reform

Industry aims to set higher price base before legislation passes, critics say

Even as drug makers promise to support Washington’s health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation’s drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.

In the last year, the industry has raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. That will add more than $10 billion to the nation’s drug bill, which is on track to exceed $300 billion this year. By at least one analysis, it is the highest annual rate of inflation for drug prices since 1992.

The drug trend is distinctly at odds with the direction of the Consumer Price Index, which has fallen by 1.3 percent in the last year.

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With Few Strong Cases, Government Rushes Toward Plea Deals For Guantanamo Detainees


As the United States moves to prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others accused of being conspirators behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, federal and military prosecutors are racing each other to strike plea deals with at least a dozen additional Guantanamo detainees whose testimony could be used against some of the most notorious prisoners.

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Americans For Prosperity Meeting this Thursday 7pm Adamas Ribs in Fruitland



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AFP Wicomico County AFP Meeting This Thursday 11/19 7pm - Adams Ribs, Route 13, Fruitland
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Dear You,

Thank you to everyone who has come out recently in all ways to stand up for limited government, lower taxes, and fiscal responsibility. Special thanks to those of you who volunteered and helped to communicate and turn folks out for recent events. You are true patriots. I and your country thank you. It certainly has been a busy, interesting, and very importantant time in our country. We can not let up! We are gaining ground and the 2010 election cycle is just around the corner.

AFP Wicomico November Meeting - Thursday November 19th at 7pm
Adams Ribs Route 13 South Fruitland

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Please put this on your calendar and bring your friends and neighbors out as we gear up for a fight on Cap and Trade and the Senate Health Care vote. Additionally we have a very serious issue with Wicomico Counties Budget, Click here to learn more. You need to be informed about what's going on behind the scenes. Also note; the 2010 election season is coming just around the corner. We have strategies to help as well as some great guests and speakers at Thursdays' meeting. We plan on having experts on energy, Cap and Trade, and the Wicomico County budget problem that should be good armor to get you through until our January meeting.

We look forward to seeing you at the AFP Meeting This Thursday at 7pm.

Thanks again for all you do. You inspire me!

For Prosperity,

Julie

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Obama Revives Talk Of U.N. Gun Control

NRA guests warn international treaty would strip 2nd Amendment rights

Gun rights supporters are up in arms over a pair of moves the White House made last month to reverse longstanding U.S. policy and begin negotiating a gun control treaty with the United Nations.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton first announced on Oct. 14 that the U.S. had changed its stance and would support negotiations of an Arms Trade Treaty to regulate international gun trafficking, a measure the Bush administration and, notably, former Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations John Bolton opposed for years.

Two weeks ago, in another reversal of policy, the U.S. joined a nearly unanimous 153-1 U.N. vote to adopt a resolution setting out a timetable on the proposed Arms Trade Treaty, including a U.N. conference to produce a final accord in 2012.

"Conventional arms transfers are a crucial national security concern for the United States, and we have always supported effective action to control the international transfer of arms," Clinton said in a statement. "The United States is prepared to work hard for a strong international standard in this area."

Gun rights advocates, however, are calling the reversal both a dangerous submission of America's Constitution to international governance and an attempt by the Obama administration to sneak into effect private gun control laws it couldn't pass through Congress.

'Shooting Back' tells of lives saved from attackers. Learn the Bible's defense of bearing arms from a man who defended his church from terrorists

Bolton, for example, told Ginny Simone, managing editor of the National Rifle Association's NRA News and host of the NRA's Daily News program, "The administration is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there's no doubt – as was the case back over a decade ago – that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control."

He continued, "There's never been any doubt when these groups talk about saying they only want to prohibit illicit international trafficking in small arms and light weapons, it begs the whole question of what's legal and what's not legal. And many of the implications of these treaty negotiations are very much in their domestic application. So, whatever the appearance on the surface, there's no doubt that domestic firearm control is right at the top of their agenda."

GO HERE to read more.

Libtalker Montel Williams: Potential Ft Hood Reaction Equal To WWII Internment Camps

Terrorists Strike U.S. Infrastructure

Despite billions spent on homeland security, the Obama Administration is Bush-league when it comes to defending America’s vital power grid from home-grown terrorists. Known to experts as Sciurus carolinensis, these sly, suicidal saboteurs infiltrate transformer stations at will, denying thousands of loyal Americans their God-given right to power up their Chinese-made flat-screen TVs.

October 24, 2009, Fulton, MO: “”Squirrel causes power failure in Fulton on Saturday,” Fulton Sun.

October 19, 2009, Ogdensburg, NY: “Squirrel causes 8-hour outage,” Watertown Daily Times.

October 10, 2009, Chico CA: “Squirrel causes power outage,” Chico Enterprise-Record.

October 7, 2009, Anderson IN: “Squirrel blamed for power outage to southwest Anderson,” The Herald Bulletin.

October 7, 2009, Fredericksburg VA: “Squirrel Sparks Power Outage,” University of Mary Washington Bullet.

October 2, 2009, Glendale, CA: “Squirrel causes power outage,” Glendale News Press

September 30, 2009, Pekin, IL: “Squirrel causes power outage,” Pekin Daily Times.

September 29, 2009, Flint MI: “Power outage forces Flint hospital to outsource surgery Monday night,” MLive.com

September 17, 2009, Westfield, IN : “Squirrel causes power failure at Westfield substation,” Westfield Star.

September 15, 2009, Oak Ridge, TN: “”Squirrel causes Oak Ridge power outage,” Knoxville News Sentinel.

September 14 2009, Dickinson ND: “Power outage affects 828 MDU customers: Squirrel gets caught in electrical equipment.” Dickinson Press

September 3, 2009, Fort Gordon [Augusta], GA: “Squirrel causes post power outage, fire,” The Signal. (This U.S. Army base is “the largest communications-electronics facility in the free world”)

August 8, 2009, East Lansing, MI: “Squirrel deemed culprit in local power outages,” MSU State News.

June 13, 2009. Los Angeles (Hollywood!), CA: “Squirrel knocks out power to thousands,” L.A. Now.

June 1, 2009, Wilmington, NC: “”Squirrel gets blame for Wilmington power failure,” Wilmington Star News.

May 11, 2009, Erie Township, OH: “Erie Township power failure is blamed on a squirrel,” Toledo Blade.

March 25, 2009, Scappoose, OR: “Squirrel Disregards Electrical Safety, Causes Outage in Scappoose,” Columbia River PUD Newsletter

These anonymous terrorists have no respect for our flag or our traditions. They even stopped the NASDAQ Stock Exchange. What drives them? What is their motivation? We will probably never understand. But we have plenty of tactical and intellegence information on these home-grown monsters, and we certainly know what to do with them.

All we lack is the political will.

Are you listening, Mr. President, or has the power gone out at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?

KARYN BENGERMINO JONES HEADED TO VEGAS!


In January, 2009, Karyn Bengermino Jones, 41, of Salisbury began training to participate in women's fitness/figure competitions under the guidance of her personal trainer Jason Burton of Olympia Gym who first sparked her interest in the competitions. She also trains with Charles of Olympia Gym who is known for his hard core training.

Through hard work and determination, including training 90 minutes or more 5 days a week, Karyn sculpted her body and began entering area competitions. Starting with her first competition in May, she placed 4th in Eastern Regionals, 1st in the novice category in Wilmington competition, 1st in the open category in Dover Tristate competition and 1st in the Masters at the Charm City Classic in Baltimore on October 17th.

On Wednesday she is headed to Las Vegas to compete in the 2009 Fitness America Weekend. Approximately 500 men and women from around the country participate - and so far, Karyn is the only woman competing from Maryland.

Her goal is to obtain her pro card at the Yorton Cup in Washington, D. C. in November, 2010.

This is something unique for the Salisbury area. I know all of Karyn's friends wish her great success as she tackles her next challenge

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Let's Read Between The Lines

Napolitano Announces Obama Administration Plan to Give Amnesty to Illegal Aliens

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the Obama administration will push for “immigration reform” by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally a “fair pathway to earned legal status.”

Napolitano said the Obama administration is working to end the recession and put Americans back to work but said giving legal status to illegal aliens will “strengthen our economy.”

“As labor leaders have made clear to me, immigration reform will be a boon to American workers... Think about it: unions will never achieve the best terms for workers when a large part of the workforce is illegal and operates in a shadow economy,” Napolitano said.

(So here's the real deal-- union membership is down, and bringing illegals 'out of the shadows' will be a boon to union membership.
Imagine the look on Pedro's face when the union guy shows up and explains how much he could be making if they vote to go union!
In an economy where the real unemployment rate is nearly 22%, this is what we need-- more competition for the few available jobs, and a big spike in prices and labor costs as unions organize newly-legalized workers.)


Read more here...

DOES CONGRESS LIE?

Everyone understands that the TERRORISTS being transferred from Gitmo to New York for trial, will enjoy the same Constitutional protections of an American citizen. This protection is provided by the XIV Amendment, Section 1, known as the "Equal Protection Clause." The Terrorists are clearly NOT United States citizens.

Now certain members of Congress, advocating health care reform legislation, tell us "Illegal aliens" would NOT be covered by their proposed legislation. While the Supreme Court has not directly ruled on this issue, it has ruled on cases that might give an indication of how they will ultimately rule. In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, they ruled, separate but equal, is not constitutional.

Brown v. Board of education only came into being, because public education existed. It is logical to conclude that if Public Health care comes into being, Illegal aliens could NOT be excluded. Illegal alien children can not now be excluded from public education. It is hard to believe the proponents of public health care, that also claim it would not cover Illegal's are not aware of this.

Joel

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Corruption Lands Ex-Louisiana Congressman 13 Years

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Prosecutors called a former Louisiana congressman's corruption the most extensive in the history of Congress. His punishment delivered a similar message.

William Jefferson, who famously hid $90,000 cash in his freezer, was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for taking bribes, the longest term ever imposed on a congressman for bribery.

The Democrat who represented parts of New Orleans for nearly 20 years was convicted in August of taking about $500,000 in bribes and seeking millions more in exchange for using his influence to broker business deals in Africa. Jefferson is appealing the conviction.

U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said public corruption was "a cancer on the body politic."

"There must be some sort of greed virus that attacks those in power," said Ellis, who lamented that so many other congressmen have been convicted on similar charges.

But the other punishments weren't quite as severe. For example, former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., was sentenced to more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty in 2005 to taking $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. Former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for taking bribes from lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and ex-Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, served a 7-year sentence after being convicted in a 2002 trial of bribery and racketeering.

Defense attorneys were counting on those cases when they asked for less than 10 years; prosecutors wanted Jefferson, who is 62, to serve 27 years.

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Female Robber Sought


Location: Happy Harrys, 1120 Pulaski Highway, Bear, Delaware, New Castle County

Date of Occurrence: Sunday, November 15, 2009, at 5:00 a.m.

Suspect(s): Black female, 25 – 35 years old, 180 – 190 pounds, large build, wearing a dark colored coat, jeans and a bandanna covering her hair. This subject was last seen fleeing the scene in a gray colored SUV.

Resume: Early this morning, Troopers responded to the Glendale Plaza Happy Harrys in reference to a robbery investigation.

Officers learned that at about 5:00 a.m. this morning, a black female entered the store, responded to the check out counter and asked to buy a pack of cigarettes. The clerk advised that after removing the pack of cigarettes from under the counter he started to ring up the sale. He said the suspect stated in a low voice, "This is a stick up and I have a gun in my pocket.”

The suspect then demanded cash and the clerk complied. The bandit took the loot and placed the money in her pocket. She then, very calmly, walked out of the store and got into a gray in color SUV. The SUV headed to eastbound Route 40 and a performed left turn to northbound Route 7.

There is no surveillance video in this case to disseminate as of yet. Anyone who may have information pertaining to this robbery is asked to call Troop 2 at 302-834-2630 ext. 6 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-Tip-3333.

How To Wake Up Your Partner In The Morning

Lockheed

During WW II

Lockheed During W.W.II (unbelievable 1940s pictures). This is a version of special effects during the 1940's. I have never seen these pictures or knew that we had gone this far to protect ourselves.

During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a possible Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.

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The person I received this from said she got back an interesting story about someone's mother who worked at Lockheed, and she as a younger child, remembers all this. And to this day, it is the first pictures of it she's seen. Another person who lived in the area talked about as being a boy, watching it all be set up like a movie studio production.. They had fake houses, trees, etc. and moved parked cars around so it looked like a residential area from the skies overhead.

"Bo" The Dog

This would be funny if it weren't so true!!!


My father-in-law had prostate surgery. We brought him to the hospital at 7:30 a.m., and he was operated on at eight. We were amazed when the hospital called at noon to tell us he could go home.

Two months later our beagle, Bo also had prostate surgery. When I brought him in, I asked the veterinarian what time I should pick him up. The vet told me Bo would remain overnight.


"Overnight?" I said."My father-in-law came home the same day."


The vet looked at me and said, "Bo's not on Medicare!"

Sacrificing Americans

by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner


Many in the media are arguing there is nothing more to the Major Hasan mass murder than derangement and the various personal "issues" that "set him off."

But there are two considerations that argue against such an interpretation. First, we look for patterns in all cases of individuals' shooting others on a mass scale. Hasan gave every indication that he was channeling his own personal sense of frustration into a larger Islamic writ against the West — as have some 20 other killers since 9/11 who have shot, stabbed, or run over innocents at malls, airline counters, military facilities, and Jewish-affiliated centers.

If we once focused on postal conditions and security at post-office installations when workers (between 1986 and 1997) snapped under the thematic pretense of job stress, and if we investigated the nexus of video games, drugs, cults, and counter-culture alienation when suburban youths went on shooting sprees, then it seems legitimate to look for commonalities when someone self-identifies as a rather radical Muslim and shouts "Allahu Akbar!" as he fires — in the same manner that the mad driver in North Carolina, or the killer in Seattle, or the homicidal driver in San Francisco afterwards said they were acting out of Islamic religious fervor against Jews or Westerners.

Second, if we counted up the number of "lone wolf" incidents and added it to the number of Islamist terrorist plots that have been foiled since 9/11, we would arrive at more than 40 incidents of terrorist killings or efforts to kill on a wide scale. If anyone could find a comparable series of anti-abortion terrorist acts, backlash attacks on Muslims, anti-Semitic attacks perpetrated by non-Muslims, Jewish attacks on Middle Easterners, or radical environmentalist killings, then one could argue that the public was unduly focusing on Islam.

It seems, instead, that about every three to four months, either a single Muslim male will shoot or run over somebody and tie the violence to some sort of jihadist theme, or a group of Muslim males will be caught trying to blow up something or shoot someone, usually on a mass scale.

The general conclusions I would draw, based on the statements of the authorities, those in the military, the media, and the general public, are something like the following:

(1) Most people do not wish to be smeared as bigots, racists, or anti-Muslim, and therefore they will resist suggesting that such violence fits a pattern involving radical Islamic hatred.

(2) Most people assume either that the authorities will break up the plot before it reaches 9/11 proportions, or that the lone-wolf attacker will kill someone else far away, and therefore conclude that they are safe enough and it is a tolerable problem.

(3) Most also accept that (a) most Muslims in the U.S. are not violent, and therefore (b) we have no way in a free society to pick out in advance possible bad actors, and (c) the most likely preemptive strategies — screening imams, infiltrating "charities," monitoring hate literature, reporting radicals at work, and screening web postings — are all fraught with civil-liberties and political-correctness land mines, and are as likely to boomerang on the authorities or well-intended citizens as they are to produce firm evidence that deters an Islamist killer before he acts.

Bottom line: The society at large, driven by the sermonizing of its elites, has come to an unstated conclusion that, unfortunately, a few Americans will have to be sacrificed from time to time, for the larger goal of establishing the fact that Americans in no way think Muslims are any more likely than any others to commit either random or premeditated terrorist violence. I think that is the initial lesson of Fort Hood. (I remember something similar from the 1980s and 1990s, when we accepted that to be a diplomat or a soldier stationed in the Middle East or Africa or anywhere in the Muslim world meant that there was some chance that your barracks, camp, hotel, embassy, or ship would be attacked — and very little chance that the U.S. government would do much in response other than launch an occasional ineffectual cruise missile or offer a bombastic "this will not stand" speech.)

If the lone-wolf incidents start happening ten times a year, rather than three or four, and if one or two terrorist plots succeed and result in several hundred killed, then attitudes may change (at least for a while).

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Click It Or Ticket News Release


Maryland State Police Launches Click It or Ticket To Help Save Lives

During 2007, more than 14,000 people in passenger vehicles died in crashes while unbelted. About half of these lives could have been saved if they had been wearing seat belts at the time of the crash. As sad as this statistic is, the numbers are even worse at night than during the day, according to new figures released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Nationwide in 2007, 14,464 passenger vehicle occupants died in highway crashes during evening and night-time hours (6 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), and fully 63 percent of those killed in crashes (8,319) were not wearing their seat belts. By contrast, during daylight hours, 45 percent (5,917) of those killed were not wearing seat belts.

That’s why the Maryland State Police Salisbury Barrack is joining state and local law enforcement agencies and highway safety groups in supporting an aggressive national Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement campaign from November 16-29, 2009. Police will be ticketing unbelted vehicle occupants around the clock—night and day.

Seat belts are the single most effective piece of safety equipment in a vehicle, yet NHTSA observational studies show that nearly one out of five Americans still fails to wear a seat belt when driving or riding in a motor vehicle.

Stepped-up law enforcement activities will be conducted during the 2009 Click It or Ticket mobilization period from November 16-29, 2009. The mobilization is being supported by an $8 million national paid advertising campaign, which, along with additional state advertising, will encourage every driver and passenger to buckle up, especially at night.

For more information, please visit http://www.nhtsa.gov

WOMAN'S PERFECT BREAKFAST

She's sitting at the table with her gourmet coffee.

Her son is on the cover of the Wheaties box.

Her daughter is on the cover of Business Week.

Her boyfriend is on the cover of Playgirl.

And her husband is on the back of the milk carton

Maryland State Police Berlin Barracks


Location: 10328 Tudor Road, Ocean City, Worcester County, MD
Crime: Second degree assault (Domestic Assault)
Victim: Maria Hernandez
Accused: Francisco Hernandez

Narrative: On above date and time, Troopers from the MSP Berlin Barracks responded to the above address for a domestic assault. Upon arrival they made contact with the victim Maria Hernandez who advised that she was assaulted by the above suspect her husband Francisco Hernandez. Troopers observed that the victim had bruising and swelling under her left eye. She also had a chunk of her hair pulled out during the altercation. The suspect was extremely intoxicated and was placed under arrest and charged with second degree assault.
Disposition: Taken before the Worcester County Commissioner.

NEW KFC DINNER

We all remember the "Hillary Meal"---

small breasts and big thighs.

Now, KFC has announced an

addition to their chicken dinners.

It's called the Obama Cabinet Bucket.---

It consists of nothing but

left wings and a$$holes.

Obama’s “Bush Did It” Narrative

An Interview with VDH
by Jamie Glazov
Fontpage Magazine


I’d like to talk to you today about radical Islam and the Obama administration’s ability and inclination, or lack thereof, to confront it.

What’s the best way to begin this discussion?

Hanson: Thanks Jamie.

The paradigm of discussing radical Islam is entirely different after January 20. Jihad has been institutionalized now as a benign personal odyssey rather than explicatory of the sort of murderous attacks we have seen since 1979 directed at the West, most recently with the four Islamic plots to kill Americans by radical Islamists since Obama has taken office.

Obama’s interview with Al Arabiya and his Cairo speech had two clear themes: his own personal heritage makes him uniquely qualified to undo the Bush damage; and we in the West have been equally culpable for the strained relations.

This sort of moral equivalence is little concerned with any redress of pathologies that in fact led to 9/11: Western appeasement of, or indifference to, radical Islam, whose extremism was the natural dividend of a region torn by enormous oil wealth, and age old statism, tribalism, gender intolerance, and dictatorship. In the era of Obama, radical Islam and the West merely have different narratives, rather than a fascistic creed trying to destroy the notion of Western freedom and tolerance.

Abroad as both sides refocus on the Afghanistan theater, somehow Obama is more demoralized by our victory in Iraq than the Islamists are by their defeat; and we have forgotten in the Bush ‘reset’ button rhetoric that support for bin Laden and suicide bombing — given the terrible dividends they earned — had plummeted in polls in the Middle East. In addition, in the “Bush did it” Obama narrative there was no mention of the arrest of Dr. Khan, the Syrian exit from Lebanon, the surrender of the Libyan WMD stockpiles, or the absence of another 9/11.

The result is that many in the radical Islamic world — especially after Obama’s serial trashing of the Bush-era security protocols like retaps, intercepts, and Guantanamo — may well be emboldened to think that either America questions its successful efforts at thwarting another attack since 9/11, or in some strange way sympathizes with some of the writs against itself.

FP: What explains the Obama administration’s behavior and viewpoint in this context?

Hanson: a) Obama is a product of his education and early life, in which America being culpable for a variety of sins was the gospel , as we see from his associates like Ayers, to his minister like Wright, to the general force of his community organizing in Chicago, to his most partisan voting record in the Senate;

b) Obama, like many elites on the left who thrived in the academic and organizing/grant-giving world, understood that his exotic name, his mixed heritage, his father’s Muslim roots could all be combined to present some sort of revolutionary aura within the confines of the university that would pay career dividends, and then among the general public, if packaged with a charismatic and conciliatory persona, could make one feel comfortable and good about one’s supposed liberality; he thrived on being a ‘revolutionary’ lite figure in a non-threatening manner, and it’s hard to give up a winning hand at this late stage;

c) Obama has almost no real experience with an America outside the victim politics of Chicago and the melodramas of the university. He has never run a business, never worked hard with his hands, never had to meet a budget, never understood how money is made, but instead essentially pleaded his cause to win fellowships and grants, dispensed someone else’s money as a board member, made claims against government (”organizing”), and written his autobiographies at a young age.

Life, in other words, was pretty easy, as the path from Harvard Review to Nobel Prize Winner was characterized by soothing rhetoric and a host of people who, for a host of psychological reasons of their own, wished to give him something for something he didn’t earn. Now he oddly seems surprised that not all those abroad are as wowed as the 2008 American electorate.

FP: What is at stake if Obama continues along this path?

Hanson: We have an eerie resemblance to Carterism circa 1977: the sermons, the apologies, the trashing of predecessors, the moralizing, the transnational utopianism — all manifested in naiveté about Khomeini, the selling out of the Shah, the downplaying of a communist threat, which, in 1-2 year’s time (it takes a while for others to size up an American president), earned communist expansion in Central America, the Soviets in Afghanistan, the hostage taking in Teheran, uncertainty in Korea, the rise of radical Islam and a weakened U.S. military.

In Obama’s terms that would mean earning a nuclear Iran, a Russia convinced that we will not object to corrections in its regional map, a China eyeing opportunities everywhere, South America reverting back to a sixties credo, Europe oddly remorseful that it got what it wanted (a soft-power, Europeanized America), Israel without an ally, and many in the Mideast convinced that America is now sympathetic to its expansive and non-ending grievances. We may well see a new era of nuclear proliferation as never before.

FP: How would you compare Obama to Clinton and Carter in terms of damaging American and Western security?

Hanson: It is still early, but the two are instructive. Carter’s self-righteousness ended in disaster and was corrected by Reagan. Clinton, for all his appeasement of radical Islam, the defense cuts, Mogadishu, Haiti, and dithering in the Balkans, at the end became finally somewhat Trumanesque: he removed Milosevic without a lot of bipartisan support, he enforced the no-fly-zones and called for regime change in Iraq, and he tried to project a centrist bipartisan foreign policy, albeit replete with the normal apologies and liberal flourishes. But he was not Jimmy Carter.

Obama? He has a choice; he can correct as Clinton did domestically in 1995 and save his presidency, or he can go the finger-wagging, sanctimonious route blaming the public and the “right” for not appreciating his moral genius. That will lead to political oblivion in 2012. It’s his choice at this point, and predicated on how large the midterm correction and what will be his attitude to political rebuke.

FP: And the American people stand where?

Hanson: Us in the meantime? The people will have to go through a period of national uncertainty and hope that the prior strength of the United States still offers a deterrent to would-be aggressors. I omit the foreign policy effects of borrowing $2 trillion per year to dispense on constituents, but when we hit $20 trillion in aggregate debt at a 8-10% service fee, the U.S. then will have very few options at home or abroad. So, let us hope that either Obama or the voters, get wisdom in the meantime.

FP: Victor Davis Hanson, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.

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"The Joe Albero Show"

"WHO LOVES YOU BABY" - Kojak

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Music from "Kojak". I thought it was appropriate for this Show, wouldn't you agree?

We know the sound quality isn't that great and we promise to have everything changed very soon, hopefully by the next Show. The important part, (IMHO) is the content. Enjoy.