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Sunday, March 21, 2010

House Democrats On Brink Of Health Bill Victory

Abortion agreement puts Dems over 216 vote threshold to pass overhaul

WASHINGTON
- Triumph in their grasp, President Barack Obama and House Democrats demonstrated command of the votes needed to pass landmark health care legislation Sunday night, a climactic chapter in a century-long quest for near universal coverage.

The House argued its way through a thicket of Republican objections toward a late-evening vote on the bill to extend coverage to 32 million Americans who lack it, ban insurers from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions and cut deficits by an estimated $138 billion over a decade.

"Today is the day that is going to rank with the day we passed the civil rights bill in 1964," said Rep. John Dingell of Michigan, a member of Congress since 1955. "Today we're doing something that ranks with what we did with Social Security or Medicare. This is a day of which we can all be proud if we vote for that legislation."

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Impeach This Nut Case Now

The new American Dream: Work, invest, save a little nest egg, have Pelosi take it and redistribute it because you saved too much!

LET'S IMPEACH HER NOW BEFORE SHE DOES FURTHER DAMAGE!! WHAT AN IDIOT!!
IF YOU DON'T AGREE JUST DELETE--IF YOU DO--PASS IT ON!! WHERE DO WE GET THESE MORONS'


Windfall Tax on Retirement Income

Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so darn stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below.................

Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this..

Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds! Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

This woman is frightening.
She quotes...' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this?), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.' (I am not rich, are you?)

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.'
(Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.) 'Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it'.

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RICH COLBURN IS NOW PRAISING AND PUSHING PORK IN ANNAPOLIS

You had to see it to believe it, and if you had watched the Maryland PBS program “State Circle” recently you would have.

In a report on the annual feeding frenzy in the General Assembly for special State funding of local pet projects, Sen. Colburn was one of the members interviewed about the concept of funding pork during a period of fiscal crisis in the State’s budget.

The report opened with Norm Conway (known in the Statehouse as “the king of pork”) shilling for special state funding for the Salisbury Zoo. Who can forget that Conway once hauled in several hundred thousand of State dollars for kitchen equipment for the “boy scout camp” that the Rotary Club built in masonry and concrete on Riverside Drive near Shad Point.

After several other legislators spoke about how special funding was appropriate for local groups or projects in their district, Rich Colburn appeared. I felt that he was going to blast the spending on local goodies in the current economic climate. Boy, was I ever wrong.

Instead, Colburn admitted the he was one of the hogs at the public trough and tried to explain why in his normal convoluted language. Apparently, it’s OK for Rich – the quintessential opponent of government spending – to request and get pork for his district because everyone else in the General Assembly is doing likewise.

That’s like telling the trooper who stops you for speeding that you shouldn’t be penalized because everyone speeds. And Rich said it with a grin that made you think of the kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar. Make that both hands.

LOVE THOSE CHURCH LADIES

They're Back! Those wonderful Church Bulletins! Thank heavens for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences (with all the BLOOPERS) actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services:
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The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals..
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The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water.' The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.'
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Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.
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Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community.. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say 'Hell' to someone who doesn't care much about you.
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Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.
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Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation...
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For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
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Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
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Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
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A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall.. Music will follow.
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At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice ..
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Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
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Scouts are saving aluminum cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.
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Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.
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The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.
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Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow..
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The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
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This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin..
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Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B. S. Is done.
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The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
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Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM.... Please use the back door.
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The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
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Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church Please use large double door at the side entrance.
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The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: 'I Upped My Pledge - Up Yours

Team Harris Lower Shore Organizational Meeting

Are you TIRED of Nancy Pelosi controlling Congress
and your family’s future?


Are you TIRED of Congress stripping away America’s Identity?
If so, it’s time to take action!!!


It’s time to invest in your future by becoming an active volunteer for
State Senator Andy Harris


Say NO to Nancy Pelosi by saying YES to Dr. Andy Harris for Congress!


Come Join
Harris for Congress Campaign Chairman


The Honorable Ellen R. Sauerbrey
Saturday, April 10th to see how you can help Andy WIN back the 1st Congressional District seat and take back our Congress!


Who: Lower Eastern Shore Volunteers
What: Grassroots Meeting
When: Sat April 10 @ 11 AM
Where: Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce
144 East Main Street
Salisbury, MD 21803
RSVP: Pat Daly 240-925-7462 / pat@andyharris.com

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KUHNER: Impeach The President?

The Democrats are assaulting the very pillars of our democracy. As the debate on Obamacare reaches the long, painful end, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is confronting a political nightmare. She may not have the 216 votes necessary to pass the Senate's health care bill in the House.

Hence, Mrs. Pelosi and her congressional Democratic allies are seriously considering using a procedural ruse to circumvent the traditional constitutional process. Led by Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, New York Democrat and chairman of the House Rules Committee, the new plan - called the "Slaughter Solution" - is not to pass the Senate version on an up-or-down vote. Rather, it is to have the House "deem" that the legislation was passed and then have members vote directly on a series of "sidecar" amendments to fix the things it does not like.

This would enable House Democrats to avoid going on the record voting for provisions in the Senate bill - the "Cornhusker Kickback," the "Louisiana Purchase," the tax on high-cost so-called "Cadillac" insurance plans - that are reviled by the public or labor-union bosses. If the reconciliation fixes pass, the House can send the Senate bill to President Obama for his signature without ever having had a formal up-or-down vote on the underlying legislation.

Many Democrats could claim they opposed the Senate bill while allowing it to pass. This would be an unprecedented violation of our democratic norms and procedures, established since the inception of the republic. Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution stipulates that for any bill to become a law, it must pass both the House of Representatives and the Senate. That is, not be "deemed" to have passed, but actually be voted on with the support of the required majority. The bill must contain the exact same language in both chambers - and in the version signed by the president - to be a legitimate law. This is why the House and Senate have a conference committee to iron out differences of competing versions. This is Civics 101.

The Slaughter Solution is a dagger aimed at the heart of our system of checks and balances. It would enable the Democrats to establish an ominous precedent: The lawmaking process can be rigged to ensure the passage of any legislation without democratic accountability or even a congressional majority. It is the road to a soft tyranny. James Madison must be turning in his grave.

Mr. Obama is imposing a leftist revolution. Since coming to office, he has behaved without any constitutional restraints. The power of the federal government has exploded. He has de facto nationalized key sectors of American life - the big banks, financial institutions, the automakers, large tracts of energy-rich land from Montana to New Mexico. His cap-and-trade proposal, along with a newly empowered Environmental Protection Agency, seeks to impose massive new taxes and regulations upon industry. It is a form of green socialism: Much of the economy would fall under a command-and-control bureaucratic corporatist state. Mr. Obama even wants the government to take over student loans.

Yet his primary goal has always been to gobble up the health care system. The most troubling aspect of the Obamacare debate, however, is not the measure's sweeping and radical aims - the transformation of one-sixth of the U.S. economy, crippling tax increases, higher premiums, state-sanctioned rationing, longer waiting lines, the erosion of the quality of medical care and the creation of a huge, permanent administrative bureaucracy. Rather, the most alarming aspect is the lengths to which the Democrats are willing to go to achieve their progressive, anti-capitalist agenda.

Obamacare is opposed by nearly two-thirds of the public, more than 60 percent of independents and almost all Republicans and conservatives. It has badly fractured the country, dangerously polarizing it along ideological and racial lines. Even a majority of Democrats in the House are deeply reluctant to support it.

Numerous states - from Idaho to Virginia to Texas - have said they will sue the federal government should Obamacare become law. They will declare themselves exempt from its provisions, tying up the legislation in the courts for years to come.

Mr. Obama is willing to devour his presidency, his party's congressional majority and - most disturbing - our democratic institutional safeguards to enact it. He is a reckless ideologue who is willing to sacrifice the country's stability in pursuit of a socialist utopia.

The Slaughter Solution is a poisoned chalice. By drinking from it, the Democrats would not only commit political suicide. They would guarantee that any bill signed by Mr. Obama is illegitimate, illegal and blatantly unconstitutional. It would be worse than a strategic blunder; it would be a crime - a moral crime against the American people and a direct abrogation of the Constitution and our very democracy.

It would open Mr. Obama, as well as key congressional leaders such as Mrs. Pelosi, to impeachment. The Slaughter Solution would replace the rule of law with arbitrary one-party rule. It violates the entire basis of our constitutional government - meeting the threshold of "high crimes and misdemeanors." If it's enacted, Republicans should campaign for the November elections not only on repealing Obamacare, but on removing Mr. Obama and his gang of leftist thugs from office.

It is time Americans drew a line in the sand. Mr. Obama crosses it at his peril.

The Washington Times

Dancing With The Stars Fundraiser TODAY At Market Street Inn


This Sunday, (TODAY) we are doing a major fund raiser for Dawn Gershenfeld who is one of the dancers for the Wellness Community. We are donating 15% of the net sales from 10AM to 9PM to the Wellness Community in Dawn’s name. She will be running around here doing some raffles while her husband Mike (Senior Vice-President of Lankford Sysco) will be busing tables in his Team Brooke Shirt. Their will be free Sundays for all the kids.

Now the big thing is in the bar from 2PM to 5PM will be Alex Wersen, Dick Morris and his daughters playing live music. Then we have guest bartenders: Fred Lankford (correct Fred Lankford himself), his wife Pam, Michael & Maryln James (running for Senate), Ed McGuire (TEMCO), Jeff DeShield (TEMCO).

Rob

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Fruitland Easter Parade & Easter Egg Hunt

The Fruitland Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Easter Parade will be held on Saturday, March 27, 2010 starting at 10:00 a.m. Fruitland City Manager, John McDonnell will be the Grand Marshall. Some of the entries include: classic cars, Boy Scout troops, Sammy the Seagull from Salisbury University, motor cycle clubs and many, many more. After the parade, the fun moves to the sports complex for an Easter egg hunt!! This has always been a great event for the City of Fruitland and enjoyed by all. No rain date has been scheduled so come out rain or shine.

Local MMA Fighters Prepare For Battle

Primal Fighting Systems in Delmar, MD is proud to announce three of its amateur Mixed Martial Arts fighters will be in action this Saturday March 20th. Justin Esposito, Logan Estep, and Jacob Estep will all be fighting as part of Sibling Rivalry Promotions Presents: First State Fights "Hostile Intentions" at Delaware State University. Justin Esposito is a last minute replacement on the card and will be making his MMA debut stepping up in weight to take on fellow newcomer Neil Roy from Elite Jiu Jitsu in Newark, DE. Jacob Estep will be making his fourth appearance in the cage as he takes on 1-0 Wayne Ridgeway from Team Viper in Dover. This fight should prove to be a fight of the night candidate as both fighters are looking to "stand and bang." In the Co-Main Event Logan Estep will be defending his First State Fights 175 lb. Title vs. Frank Lauro Jr. This fight has fireworks written all over it. Both fighters bring a wealth of experience to the cage, and are both prepared to do whatever it takes to leave Saturday night Champion. Please Check out www.firststatefights.com for more information.

Saturday night is just the start of a big couple of months for Primal Fighting Systems. March 27th Team Primal 145 lb. fighter Steven Baker will be fighting at the First Mariner Arena in Baltimore in Shogun Fights 2. Then on April 24th Primal Fights returns to the Delaware State Fairgrounds. Primal Fights is Delmarva's #1 amateur MMA promotion and is brought to you by Professional MMA fighter and Delmar resident Brad Pole. Finally, May 30th Brad Pole returns to the cage in Pittsburgh, PA in Caged Kumite as he takes on tough MMA fighter and Pittsburgh resident Joe Demore. This will be a rematch of a fight that happened one year ago, where Demore handed Pole his first Professional MMA loss, now Brad is determined to go into Demore's hometown and take his loss back. For more information on any fighters, fights, MMA Training, or Self Defense training contact (410) 603-3961.

MSP Press Release

LOCATION: Boundary St.

CASE NUMBER: 10-54-002824

CRIME:
1. Possession of Marijuana
2. Possession Paraphernalia
3. DUI

VICTIM: State of Maryland

ACCUSED: Charles Alfred Taylor, Kipling Ave., Salisbury, MD, 56 YOA

BRIEF RESUME: On the above date and time, a trooper from the Salisbury Barrack was investigating a suspicious vehicle parked on the side of the road on Boundary Street. Further investigation revealed the driver was intoxicated and was placed under arrest for DUI. During the course of the investigation the trooper learned the driver was in possession of two small bags of marijuana. Kipling was transported to Wicomico County Detention Center where he is awaiting disposition before a district commissioner.

MSP Press Release

LOCATION: E. Ruark Drive Salisbury Wicomico County, Maryland

BRIEF RESUME:

On 03-20-2010 at approximately 1117 hours, Tfc. Bean of the Salisbury Barrack stopped a vehicle at the above location for a traffic violation. A probable cause search was initiated after a k-9 scan alerted to a positive presence for controlled dangerous substances. During that search a quantity of suspected marihuana was recovered. The suspect was placed under arrest and transported to the Wicomico County Detention Center for a hearing in front of a District Court Commissioner.
Arrested:

1. Salvador Padilla-Valdez jr. h/m age 23 of Salisbury, Maryland

The suspect was charged with: Possession of C.D.S. marihuana and possession of C.D.S. paraphernalia

MSP Press Release

LOCATION: Mt. Hermon Rd/Crestwood Circle

CASE NUMBER: 10-54-002812

CRIME:
1. Possession of Marijuana
2. Possession not Marijuana-Oxycontin
3. Possession of Paraphernalia

VICTIM: State of Maryland

ACCUSED: John Price Phillips Jr., Lower Millstone Ln., Salisbury, MD, 30YOA

BRIEF RESUME: On the above date and time, troopers from the Salisbury Barrack responded to the area of Mt. Hermon Rd. and Crestwood Circle, in reference to an individual stopped on the side of the road and not responsive. When troopers arrived they made contact with the driver Phillips. Troopers observed and smelled raw marijuana inside the vehicle. Phillips was subsequently placed under arrest and charged accordingly. Phillips was transported to Wicomico County Detention Center where he is awaiting disposition before a district commissioner.