Here's Where We Stand As Of Today On Sex Offender Bills 622 & 254

Yesterday the Senate met until 5:30 PM last night. The House Leaders Frosh and Valerio sent Bills 254 and 622 back to the Senate with a reduction to Bill 622 with a minimum sentence reduced down to 15 years, instead of 20 years.

ALL Senators amended the Bill and sent it back to the House back to 20 years. Mind you Folks, BOTH Bills could have passed yesterday if the Senate would have simply agreed to the 15 years. Currently the Bill is a 5 year minimum sentence, so 15 years would have been a great start and compromise.

HOWEVER, being that this is an election year, no Senator was willing to go on the record as reducing a Sex Offender Bill by 5 years. While I can sympathize with their position, what's more important?????

While I have been told they may have a way to compromise a resolution on Monday, the chances are pretty much slim to none and the Bills could simply get thrown out as if they never existed and this is something we cannot afford.

That being said, I'm heading to Annapolis Monday morning and plan on spending the entire day there to stand up for the legislation presented and hopefully talk some sense into the powers to be to come to a settlement agreement at 15 years.

If YOU are interested in joining me please contact me at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349. If enough people join us I will pull out the Motor Coach and take as many as I can. Remember Folks, this could be an ALL DAY event and could possibly go as late as midnight. We will leave Salisbury at 8:00 AM.

Sarah Foxwell will not have passed in vein. Please go to THIS POST and make contact with our Senators if you cannot attend.

'Professor' Obama? Title Never Granted

Barack, Michelle not licensed to practice law

Are attorneys Barack and Michelle Obama currently licensed to practice law?

Was Barack Obama ever a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago?

In recent days, these questions have once again gone viral on the Internet.

WND has traced the current controversy to Doug Ross and a March 1 posting on his DirectorBlue.blogspot.com asserting the Obamas are no longer lawyers registered to practice law in Illinois and that claims President Obama was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago are "a sham."

This current round of the controversy harkens back to the 2008 presidential campaign when Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton made nearly the same charges in a March 25, 2008, "Hillary for President" press release entitled "Just Embellished Words: Senator Obama's Record of Exaggerations & Misstatements."

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Congress Is Derelict On Black Panther Case

In the matter of a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party, it's long past time for Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees to start protecting the institutional powers of Congress and of independent agencies.

Eleven months ago, the Justice Department suddenly and surprisingly dropped its case against three defendants and accepted a weak injunction against a fourth, stemming from the incident in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008 in which Black Panthers disrupted a neighborhood polling place. Since then, the Justice Department has stonewalled multiple requests for information from news organizations, a number of congressmen and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

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Nice Column

Along with “Anything worth doing is worth over-doing” and “No bad idea is unworthy of duplication,” another don’t-bet-against-it TV expectation has arisen:

On commercial TV, anything reliable, practical and useful can’t last; it eventually will be turned to junk.

The Weather Channel, since two years ago, when it was purchased by NBC/Universal, has only nominally served as The Weather Channel or as a weather channel. Previously a steady, friendly and credible network through which to learn local and national conditions and forecasts and to track storms, TWC has steadily become less.

Instead of weather conditions, you’re now as likely to see programs about catastrophes, from hurricanes to lava flows. Run for your life!

Last Sunday, what began as a report about the weather expected this past week at the Masters was the preface to an NBC News report about the social climate Tiger Woods could expect.
The curious part of all this is that many cable systems now carry the Weather Channel’s adjunct station, Weatherscan, a no-frills deliverer of local weather. Weatherscan largely serves as TWC once did.

For what it’s worth, in my household TWC now is tuned to as a matter of old habit, but then quickly changed to Weatherscan, which has become our weather channel. Soon, when we’re interested in the weather, we’ll know to avoid, of all networks, the Weather Channel.
And in time, I suspect, the Weather Channel will be replaced with NBGN, the Nothing But Garbage Network. Another one, as if there’s a shortage.

How many times have you watched an old or aging movie and wondered the name of an actor, or forgotten the name of an actress, or argued with a friend as to the name of some long ago character actor, from Arnold Stang to Guy Kibbee?

So you wait it out, wait for the movie’s end to view the credits. But the station or network can’t wait to sell upside-down tomato planters, thus, for crying out loud, it eliminates the credits.

That’s where Turner Classic Movies never lets anyone down. If TCM is primarily aimed at movie buffs, movie buffs are treated as movie buffs — right down to the final credit within the final credits.

That brings to mind the line about how “TV is called a medium because when it’s well done it’s rare.”

'LIFE' THOUGHTS

I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with 'Guess' on it. So I said 'Implants?'
She hit me.

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and over fifty for Miss America?

Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants.

I signed up for an exercise class and was told to wear loose fitting clothing. If I HAD any loose fitting clothing, I wouldn't have signed up in the first place!

When I was young we used to go 'skinny dipping,' now I just 'chunky dunk.'

Don't argue with an idiot! People watching may not be able to tell the difference.
Wouldn't it be nice if whenever we messed up our life we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over? AMEN, AMEN!!

Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?
Wouldn't you know it...

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but FAT cells live forever.

Why do I have to swear on the Bible in court when the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed outside?

Bumper sticker of the year: 'If you can read this, thank a teacher -and, since it's in English, thank a soldier'

And remember: life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

College Students Wear Gun Holsters To Protest Bans On Concealed Carry

College students across America have been strapping on empty gun holsters this week to protest laws and policies prohibiting licensed concealed carry on college campuses.

The week-long protests are sponsored by Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, or SCCC, a grass-roots organization of more than 44,000 college students, faculty members and citizens who support the right to self-defense on campus. The group has members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The group formed shortly after the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007, in which a gunman brutally murdered 32 students and faculty members and injured 17 more before killing himself.

"Recent high-profile shootings and armed abductions on college campuses clearly demonstrate that 'gun-free zones' serve to disarm only those law-abiding citizens who might otherwise be able to protect themselves," the SCCC website states.

SCCC lists 24 states that expressly prohibit concealed carry on college campuses by those with valid concealed handgun licenses and permits: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming. Texas specifically prohibits concealed firearms on campus but allows individual colleges to "opt out" of the law.

An additional 15 states "right-to-carry" states – Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia – let colleges decide whether to allow concealed carry on campus. Licensed individuals who are caught with firearms on campus may not be held criminally liable, but they may be expelled or fired by the colleges.

According to the group, colleges have not only discriminated against concealed carry permit holders, they often censor students who disagree by ignoring or attempting to stop students from discussing the issue of concealed carry.

SCCC member Christine Brashier reported being banned from handing out fliers about the group by a Pennsylvania college that purportedly told her, "You may want to discuss this topic but the college does not, and you cannot make us."

"Colleges aren't content to ban the right of self-defense anymore," said SCCC spokesman David Burnett. "Now they're trying to suspend the right to freedom of speech. They want to silence us and hope we'll go away. It's outrageous and our membership cares too much about self-defense to remain silent."

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Steele: 'I've Made Mistakes'

In damage control mode, GOP national chairman Michael Steele on Saturday sought to quell the furor over his management of the Republican National Committee by acknowledging errors and vowing to learn from them.

"I'm the first here to admit that I've made mistakes, and it's been incumbent on me to take responsibility to shoulder that burden, make the necessary changes and move on," Steele told GOP activists and party leaders in New Orleans, drawing a standing ovation.

"The one mistake we cannot make this November is to lose," he added, and the crowd cheered in agreement.

Saturday's speech to the Southern Republican Leadership Conference was Steele's first public appearance since the disclosure of questionable spending — including a $2,000 tab at a sex-themed California night club — resulted in top advisers cutting ties with him and North Carolina's state party chief calling for his resignation.

Normally a bombastic showman, Steele struck a contrite tone before the supportive audience in the half-full hotel ballroom. He did not address the specific complaints. And even though he acknowledged his errors, he also blamed others.

"We can't coast into the majority, nor can we assume it's a sure thing. The liberal media are looking for any possible alternative narrative to tell," Steele said. "They are looking for those distractions, and Lord knows I've provided a few." He added: "The Democrats also know that they have some explaining to do, and they'd love nothing more than for us to keep pointing fingers."

Outspoken and brassy, Steele is not a traditional buttoned-down GOP chairman and he's been a target of criticism since he was elected last year. The complaints reached a fever pitch over the past week, causing both embarrassment and distraction for a GOP looking to take advantage of a troubling political environment for Democrats ahead of this fall's midterm elections.

Still, for all the angst in the GOP over Steele, it's unlikely he will be fired. Ousting a chairman is a complicated, messy process that requires votes of two-thirds of the 168-member RNC. And, while there are both hard-core Steele opponents and fierce Steele allies, several Republican officials at the New Orleans conference said that most committee members and party chairman simply seem to want to move on from the controversy so Republicans can focus on November.

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Rep. Pence Vows GOP Will Repeal Obamacare

Indiana Rep. Mike Pence has vowed that House Republicans will repeal President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law "lock, stock and barrel."

In a fiery speech before the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, Pence noted that Obama recently dared the GOP to try to repeal the law. Pence says his response to Obama is, "count on it."

A conservative Republican with a growing but limited presence on the national political stage, Pence is considered by GOP leaders to be a potential 2012 presidential candidate.

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AFP-Maryland Encourages Citizens To Attend “Tax Day” TEA Parties

-Tens of thousands expected to attend 13 rallies around the state to protest outrageous government growth-

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland chapter of Americans for Prosperity is urging all citizens to have their voice heard at “Tax Day” TEA parties being held in 13 locations across the state. Beginning today in Solomon’s Island and ending next Saturday in Ocean City, TEA parties will be occurring throughout the week of April 15th – the last day individuals can legally send in their tax returns without penalty. As a form of peaceful protest to the wild growth of government, thousands of Marylanders are expected to coalesce and let their representatives know that enough is enough.

“With the government take over of our health care at the federal level and the gross mismanagement of the state budget, citizens are concerned about the direction of our country,” said Maryland state director Dave Schwartz. “This year, the TEA parties are a message to our elected officials: November is coming and if you don’t vote the right way, we will vote you out. I expect to see thousand of new activists at the rallies all week.”

One year ago, Marylanders from Oakland to Ocean City reacted to corporate bailouts, a pork-laden Stimulus package and the possibility of a mortgage bailout by organizing local TEA party protests. Since then the movement has grown exponentially. AFP is one organization of many in Maryland who help to organize rallies and protests.

For more information and specific TEA Party locations and times, please go to our website: www.MarylandTaxDayTEAParty.com. AFP has also started a petition to alert representatives that if they vote ‘YES’ on freedom-killing legislation, we will vote ‘NO’ on election day. Over 360,000 people have signed the petition thus far at www.NOvemberIsComing.com.

WBI Press Release

INCIDENT: Death Investigation
DATE: April 9, 2010
LOCATION: Wicomico County Detention Center

NARRATIVE: At approximately 0830 hours on April 9, 2010, Detectives from the The Wicomico Bureau of Investigation responded to the Wicomico County Detention Center in reference to the death of an inmate. The deceased has been identified as John Daye, DOB 08/21/1967. The victim was taken to PRMC where he was pronounced dead. There is no foul play suspected. The victim has been taken the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy to determine the cause of death which is believed to be either natural or accidental.

DISPOSITION: Investigation continuing pending autopsy results.

Wicomico Bureau of Investigation

Interesting Watch

Folks this is a very concise power point of what many believe is really going on. It's very good, and may even convince some of your liberal friends!

http://apathetic-usa.com/

JOIN THE Media Blackout May 10th – May 16th 2010

Now IS THE TIME For the TEA PARTY

TO GET EVEN

The media has stopped watching out for the TEA PARTY; so we will stop watching them!!!
For one week in May let's make their ratings zero and not watch or support the liberal media. Traditionally, May is considered a ratings month for TV networks. For their "sweeps" week let's BOYCOTT the LIBERAL Media.
Just stop watching them!

Instead of just complaining about the news, let your families and neighbors know we can do something about it. Join the Facebook page, send to everyone you know, and then
we're simply asking you to BOYCOTT any news programs offered by NBC, CBS, ABC and MSNBC the 2nd week of May.

If you are contacted by the Nielsen Company concerning rating surveys by all means participate but please watch and report responsibly and tune out the Network news. Together they will get the message loud and clear or face an audience of zero.


If you have that feeling in your gut that what the News is doing is just wrong, please forward this to everyone you know regardless of political persuasion.


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Lewes Man Arrested For Sexual Assaulting A Teen

Location: Savannah Road, Lewes, Sussex County, DE
Date of Occurrence: 2006 to April 8, 2010
Suspect: Thomas Ott, 39, Lewes, DE

Resume:

Delaware State Police have arrested a Lewes man for the sexual assault of the 16 year-old girl.

Troopers were called to the 1000 block of Savannah Road last evening after they received a call about a possible sexual assault. When troopers arrived they made contact with Ott and later arrested him after they discovered evidence linking him to the repeated assaults of a 16 year-old girl.

Ott was taken into custody and transported to Troop 7 where he was charged with 4 counts of Rape 2nd, 2 counts of Rape 4th, 1 count of Unlawful Sexual Contact 1st, 4 counts of Unlawful Sexual Contact 2nd, 1 count of Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child and Unlawful Imprisonment.

He was committed to the Department of Correction in default of $128,500 bail.

Alternative Energy Workshop

WET and ESA to Hold Alternative Energy Workshop for Homeowners and Businesses

SALISBURY – Wicomico Environmental Trust (WET) and Salisbury University’s Environmental Student Association (ESA), in partnership with the City of Salisbury, the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce, Salisbury University ShoreENERGY, the Sierra Club, and Wicomico County, will hold an Alternative Energy Workshop at Salisbury University on Saturday, April 24, 2010 to provide homeowners and small businesses with practical information regarding alternative energy systems. The workshop will be held in Henson Hall, Room 103 from 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and will address the installation and financing of small-scale solar, wind and geothermal systems.

Information on tax incentives, funding opportunities, and net metering and interconnection policies will also be provided. Homeowners and businesses will be given the opportunity to ask industry experts questions. Experts will include representatives from the solar, wind, and geothermal industries, including companies such as Astrum Solar, EarthLinked Technologies, Fluharty Electric, Gipe Associates, Green Energy Design, and groSolar. The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Dan Ervin, Director of Salisbury University ShoreENERGY.

Jim Ireton, Mayor of Salisbury says, "The City of Salisbury is proud to be a part of this workshop.  As we move forward in our own Green Revolution, we hope to engage residents and business partners in the effort.  Our LED streetlights, LEED guidelines for development, ENERGY grants that will reduce lighting costs and increase efficiency, along with our renewed commitment to the restoration of the Wicomico River, are examples of our commitment to the environment.  I encourage residents and businesses to take advantage of the opportunities that will be offered at the Alternative Energy Workshop at SU."

WET endeavors to advocate for wise environmental stewardship by working with allied organizations, agencies of government, and responsible businesses to address issues of water and air pollution, appropriate land use planning, regulation and legislation, to the mutual betterment of the environment of the County.

Contact: Jessie Cocci 410-713-8986 

A Sample Of A Letter Sent To Our Senators

Senators:

It is imperative that bill 622 be passed in this legislative session. Sarah Foxwell, found murdered by a sex offender on Christmas Day, was a friend of our family.

Please:

Change Bill 622 to 15 years and pass this new legislation.