MISSING MINI BEAGLE $100 REWARD

PLEASE HELP US FIND OUR MINI BEAGLE. Turk is about 1 year old. Mostly black with and orange collar and a white tip tail.

He is very kind and will come to "Treat" for sure.

He ran away today around 10:00 when the Shorebirds fireworks went off near Old Ocean City Rd and Beaglin.

PLEASE PLEASE CALL FOR ANY HELP TO FIND HIM 443 350 5936

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Worcester County Bureau Of Investigation

Date & Time: 08/07/2010 @ 0935 Case#: 10-0168
Location Occurred: 11909 Sinepuxent Road,Berlin, Maryland
Incident: Death Investigation
Victim: Harry Henry Jr, B/M 11/26/1964 8361 Stottlemyer Rd, Waynesboro, PA

Narrative: On the above listed date and time, the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation was called to assist the Worcester County Sheriff’s Office to investigate an electrocution of a plumber who was working under a house trailer in Berlin. Further investigation revealed that the victim was doing housework for his father at 11909 Sinepuxent Road in Berlin, Maryland. At that time, investigators believe that the victim was electrocuted by a live wire underneath the trailer.

Emergency medical personnel attempted to resuscitate the victim on the way to hospital but had negative results. The victim was pronounced dead by the Medical Examiner at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, Maryland. The victim was transported to the Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy to be completed later. Investigation is continuing.

Gutierrez: Republicans 'Attacking' Unborn With Citizenship Concerns

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), chairman of the Democratic Caucus Immigration Task Force, accused Republicans who want to study the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship of "attacking" unborn children.

Appearing on CNN Friday, Gutierrez said talk of holding hearings on the amendment was an effort to "demonize children in the wombs of their mothers."

"These are the people that are for the sanctity of life," Gutierrez said. "And, yet, they're going to attack an unborn child and say, if that child is born, we will get rid of it from this country immediately."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told The Hill on Monday that Congress “ought to take a look at” changing the 14th Amendment, which gives the children of illegal immigrants a right to U.S. citizenship.

McConnell’s statement signals growing support within the GOP for the controversial idea, which has also recently been touted by Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

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GOP Rep: Obama's 'In Deep Doo-Doo'

Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) said Friday that "a lot of people want to jump off" and follow Christina Romer out of the Obama administration.

"When you see a ship starting to sink, a lot of people want to jump off," the congressman said on Fox Business Network. "And she is one."

Romer, chairwoman of the president's council of economic advisers, announced Thursday that she was leaving Washington and returning to an economics teaching job at the University of California at Berkeley.

"This president is in deep doo-doo and I think a lot of people are saying, 'Hey, we've got to get out of here before we all look bad,'" Burton said.

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Palestinian Authority Has Neither Desire Nor Ability To Finalize Agreement With Israel

While the Palestinians debate whether to enter direct negotiations with Israel, we would do well to again ask the following question: Are their peace intentions genuine?

The State of Israel had a golden opportunity to scrutinize the frankness of their intentions to finalize a future peace agreement during Operation Fortress in 2002. Security forces uncovered the most guarded secrets of Arafat and his men in the PLO’s Ramallah archive, which contained thousands of security and political documents of unprecedented quality.

However, one document was conspicuously absent; a document that could have shed genuine light on the Palestinian Authority’s attitude to a future peace deal with Israel.

In the few historical junctions where the Palestinian national movement was called upon to make a decision regarding a possible historic compromise with the Zionist movement, the Palestinian leadership’s reply was unequivocally firm and determined: There would be no compromise because we, the Arabs, view the entire territory as belonging to the Arab Palestinian people.

The passing years have turned Palestinian rejectionism into a sanctified notion, one which current-day Palestinians address with the kind of reverence reserved for things that are greater than life.

Those holding their breath ahead of Ramallah’s next moves should be aware of another important detail. Even the formulation of an agreed-upon Palestinian agenda is an impossible mission over there. The PA cannot close ranks even ahead of the possibility of make-believe direct talks.

What our troops did find in the PLO archive, in large quantities, were numerous documents showing that the Palestinians are drawing immense benefits from the transitional status of “being less than a state” – which explains why they fell in love with the “peace process.” A peace activist recently told me that he tried to voluntarily bring hundreds of donated computers to PA children. “How much do I get for mediating this?” wondered a senior Fatah figure asked to offer his assistance.

Over the years, the PA’s leadership adopted techniques and skills that enable it to fully exploit its situation to its economic benefit. This transitional political situation, a twilight-zone government facing no scrutiny, is a political heaven for them made up of bottomless barrels of money. Who needs an actual state that would get into trouble sooner or later and be declared a failed state?

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US Cuts Funding For Israeli Defense Systems

The United States has cut funding for Israel’s defense systems, even though a one-time grant appears to have raised the aid allocation.

The 2011 budget approved by Congress for the Arrow 3 program totaled $108.8 million. This included a White House request for $50.8 million, combined with another $58 million tacked on by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.

Last year’s allocation was considerably higher, the Globes business news service points out. The White House had budgeted $60 million, and Congress had added another $97.4 million, bringing the total appropriation for the program to $157.4 million.

A $205 million grant intended to fund a 10-unit battery of the Iron Dome system to protect Israel’s southern flank against short-range Kassam rocket attacks was announced by the White House in May, pushing up the total amount of defense aid received by the Jewish State.

The generous aid package, however, is predicted to be a one-time grant, while the Arrow 3 funding cuts may be permanent.

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Washington Times: Obamas Live The High Life While America Suffers

The Obama family has been working hard to show their indifference to the plight of middle America. Whether it's the president's golfing fetish, private air transportation for family dog Bo to a Maine vacation, or Michelle Obama's taxpayer subsidized trip to the Spanish Riviera, the gulf between the White House leisure class and the American middle class has grown to unprecedented proportions.

Everyone is entitled to some R & R, though Mrs. Obama's jaunt is her eighth holiday this summer. Tone-deaf White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defended vacation numero ocho by saying, "The first lady is on a private trip. She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip. And I think I'd leave it at that." Note to the flack: Most private citizens don't have access to $150,000 in taxpayer funds and exclusive use of a jumbo jet.

The Riviera Romp coincided with a dose of bad news on the economic front. The economy shed 131,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate remained stuck at 9.5 percent. This is a continuing source of embarrassment for the O Force because the White House promised the almost $900 billion stimulus package would cap unemployment at 8 percent. The rate of growth in U.S. gross domestic product has declined two quarters in a row.

Two-thirds of the way through what Vice President Joe Biden loudly billed as "Recovery Summer," the recovery is faltering and a majority of voters sees the administration as the problem, not the solution.

Christina Romer, stimulus architect and chairman of Mr. Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, is leaving her job to return to the ivory tower at Berkeley. That can be taken as an admission of defeat. Details continue to emerge of frivolousness in stimulus spending, such as a study of monkeys on crack and $1 billion to the FutureGen Alliance in tiny Mattoon, Ill., to work on a planned carbon-dioxide containment system.

The administration seems unconcerned about the perception that it's looting the public treasury and running up record amounts of debt, but the electorate has noticed. Mr. Obama's Gallup weekly approval rating has dipped to 45 percent, and key traditional voting blocs - independents, those with middle income, married, over 50 and those who attend church regularly - rate the president from 44 percent to 35 percent. The Democracy Corps poll revealed that voters prefer Republicans to Democrats on economic issues by a 13-point margin. And according to a July Quinnipiac University poll pitting Mr. Obama against an unnamed Republican challenger, if an election were held today, the president would be a private citizen just like his wife.

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Unanimous Senate OKs $600M For Border

The Senate on Thursday voted to hire 1,000 more U.S. Border Patrol agents as part of a $600 million border-security bill, acting swiftly in the hours before they left to face constituents during their five-week summer vacation.

Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, who is spearheading his party's immigration-reform efforts, said the money shows Congress is committed to border security as a down payment on eventually legalizing illegal immigrants.

"I'm for comprehensive immigration reform. I think that's the way to go. And I'm continuing to work on it," Mr. Schumer said. "But we've always said we should do border security first. This is border security first."

The money would come from charging higher fees on worker visas for companies whose staffs are made up of mostly foreign workers.

Republicans, led by Sen. John McCain, had offered their own proposals, which would deploy more agents to the border and expand detention of illegal border crossers, but Mr. McCain said Mr. Schumer's bill was "a significant step forward."

President Obama's original budget request for the upcoming fiscal year actually called for cutting the number of Border Patrol agents, but facing pressure from Democrats and Republicans, he requested the $600 million in new spending, including the new agents. Mr. Obama has also begun to deploy up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the border to help in the interim, while the new agents are being hired.

[We shall see whether this gets any farther than a funding bill being passed-- remember the 'fence?'-- Editor]

Michelle Obama Criticized As "Modern-day Marie Antoinette" Over Spain Vacation

Andrea Tantaros has penned a scorching editorial for the New York Daily News deeming First Lady Michelle Obama a "modern-day Marie Antoinette" for her vacation in Spain with her daughter.

"The First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her 'closest friends,'" Tantaros writes, pointing to a CNN report that Michelle Obama and her group are expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms. "Not exactly what one would call cutting back in troubled times."

Tantaros goes on to criticize the first lady for traveling abroad instead of within the United States, something that would help the U.S. economy.

"Michelle Obama seems more like a modern-day Marie Antoinette - the French queen who spent extravagantly on clothes and jewels without a thought for her subjects' plight - than an average mother of two," she writes. "... I don't begrudge anyone rest and relaxation when they work hard. We all need downtime - the First Family included. It's the extravagance of Michelle Obama's trip and glitzy destination contrasted with President Obama's demonization of the rich that smacks of hypocrisy and perpetuates a disconnect between the country and its leaders."

According to the White House, Mrs. Obama is traveling with minimal staff and a small group of family friends for a mother daughter trip long in the works.

The FIrst Lady's press office referred to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' statement at the White House briefing yesterday that "the First Lady is on a private trip."

"She is a private citizen and is the mother of a daughter on a private trip," he said. "And I think I'd leave it at that."

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MSP Press Release

DATE & TIME: 08/07/2010 @ 1628 hours
LOCATION: Sharptown, MD 21861
CASE NUMBER: 1054007101
Incident: Stolen 2004Yamaha YZ125 Blue Dirt Bike

BRIEF RESUME: On 08/07/2010, at 1628 hours, a Trooper from the Salisbury Barrack responded to a residence in Sharptown, MD for a stolen dirt bike. The dirt bike is described as 2004 Blue Yamaha Yz125 Dirt Bike Vin: JYACE13C14A001759. Dirt bike has racing numbers (199) on front of bike. The dirt bike may possibly still be in the Sharptown/San Domingo area. If any knows the whereabouts please contact Maryland State Police Salisbury (410) 749-3101.

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'Mater Mania Tomato Festival Brings SoBo’s to the Table

‘Mater Mania, the annual celebration of locally grown, organic, and heirloom tomatoes, is set for Sunday, August 22 from 3-7 PM at Cedar Hill Marina & Park in Bivalve, Maryland.

This year, SoBo’s Wine Beerstro, of Salisbury, is joining the festivities. Executive Chef Patrick Fanning will use the local tomatoes and locally sourced ingredients to prepare a menu of seasonal dishes for the festival. The final dishes will be determined by which ingredients are at their freshest that weekend, but Cherokee Purple ice cream made with local cream and milk is rumored to be on the menu. Rise Up Coffee, St. Michael’s and Salisbury’s independent coffee shop serving fair trade, organic coffee, will also be on hand.

Popular features from past festivals return, including the tomato tasting table. Here’s a chance to taste tomato varieties never found in grocery stores: Cherokee Purple, Brandywine, Green Zebra, Black Prince, Valley Girl, Sophie's Choice, Barne's Mountain Orange and more. Live music, including blues from Slim DeNunn and the High Rollers, a silent auction, local produce sales, and a range of kids’ activities fill out the day’s schedule.

‘Mater Mania benefits the Local Eastern Shore Sustainable Organic Network (LESSON) and the Medora Harvest Fund, which provides fresh, organic vegetables to families in need. The fund honors the memory of Medora Cockey, an organic farming enthusiast who died of autoimmune hepatitis at the age of 24. It is managed by LESSON, a 501(3)c, non-profit organization which promotes sustainable farming practices and a regional food system.

“"We celebrate tomatoes because they underscore the essence of local, sustainable agriculture.

This event brings together our local family farmers, the restaurants committed to serving produce grown in our community and the consumers who simply love 'maters. There's nothing better than an organic Eastern Shore tomato!" says Shawn McEntee, president of LESSON’s board of directors

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Admission to ‘Mater Mania is $20 per person over the age of 12, which includes the SoBo’s foods, and the tomato tasting table. Tickets must be purchased in advance and will be sold by RiseUp Coffee in St. Michaels and Salisbury, SoBos in Salisbury, Ocean City Organics in West Ocean City.

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Police Investigate Apparent Inmate Suicide

JESSUP, Md. (AP) - Howard County police are investigating the apparent suicide of an inmate at a county detention facility who was recently charged with sex abuse of a minor.

Forty-three-year-old Thomas Edward Brookhyser died Friday night at a local hospital. Bowie resident Brookhyser was found on the floor of his Howard County Central Booking cell around 7:30 p.m. Friday. Police say Brookhyser appeared to have hung himself by linking his shirt to a handicap bar near the cell's toilet.

According to police, the preliminary investigation shows correctional staff performed a suicide screening and did not see any indicators for suicide. They also say there does not appear to be any evidence of foul play at this time.

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SHOREBIRDS BLAST LEGENDS 9-1 TO END LOSING STREAK

Largest Crowd of Season Flocks to Perdue Stadium

Salisbury, Md. – The Shorebirds exploded for eight runs between the sixth and eighth innings to sprint past the Lexington Legends, 9-1, in game two of the series from Arthur W. Perdue Stadium on Saturday. The largest crowd of the season, 8,993, witnessed the drubbing. Kenny Moreland earned his seventh win with the Shorebirds and ninth overall (two with Frederick), which is the most in the Orioles farm system.

The Legends jumped out to an early lead in the first. Grant Hogue was hit by a pitch to open the game. Two batters later, Jimmy Paredes singled to advance Hogue to second. After a wild pitch moved Hogue to third, he scored on a ground out to first baseman Mike Flacco by Jake Goebbert.

The Shorebirds leveled the contest in the bottom of the first inning. T.J. Baxter was issued a lead off walk. He moved to second on a wild pitch. Later in the frame, Ty Kelly hit a sharp single to left field to score Baxter.

The score remained tied at 1-1 until the sixth inning. Gary Helmick reached on a hit-by-pitch. Then, Ty Kelly hit a sinking liner to left center that got behind the diving center fielder Hogue for a triple and an RBI. With Kelly at third, Kieron Pope hit a hard two hopper towards short to give the ‘Birds a 3-1 edge.

In the seventh, the Shorebirds exploded for four runs. Flacco drew a lead off walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Then, on a grounder to short by Justin Dalles, Jiovanni Mier sailed the throw into the dugout to force in Flacco. Garabez Rosa followed with a single. With two aboard, Helmick hit a three-run homer to left field to vault the ‘Birds to a 7-1 lead. It was his first home run since April 14.

In the eighth, the Shorebirds tacked on two more runs. Pope singled to open the frame. Then, Carolus belted a two-run homer inside the foul pole in left field to lift the ‘Birds to a 9-1 lead. Carolus has three homers in his last four games.

Moreland earned the win in seven stellar innings. He allowed just two hits. The right-hander finished the seventh inning for a fourth time this season.

Left-hander Will Startup, who was promoted from Aberdeen, made his debut. He tossed two scoreless innings to close out the game.

The Shorebirds and Legends meet for game three of the series on Sunday night at 5:05 p.m.

Police Officer Indicted For Videotaping Teen Girl

NORTH LAUREL, Md. (AP) - A Laurel city police corporal has been indicted on charges that he secretly videotaped his girlfriend's teenage daughter in her bedroom.

Charging documents say 37-year-old Edward Charles Schmitt hid a video camera in the girl's bedroom closet and taped her from August 2009 to February 2010. He is also accused of photographing himself performing a lewd act

Schmitt is charged with one count of sexual abuse of a minor, two counts of visual surveillance and one count of camera surveillance.

Laurel police said in a statement Friday that Schmitt had been suspended since Howard County officers began investigating the case in May.

Information from: The Baltimore Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com

Daily Times Electricity Article

Joe,

Last Tuesday & Wednesday, The Daily Times ran articles about high electricity costs. I commented on both. stating that people do have a choice as to who they buy their electricity from & that they can lock into a fixed supply rate that would save them money. I also emailed The Daily Times with the same information. Thursday morning, they call me to interview me about my information. Today, the ran an article "Utilities market to Shore households," quoting me ( http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100807/NEWS01/8070333/Utilities-market-to-Shore-households). I'm grateful that they ran the article but I find it odd that they didn't give my contact information so people wouldn't have to call long distance to Ellicot City (the location of Allied Power Services) to have questions answered.

Certainly, I could be wrong with my thinking. However, I just think that if you're going to print an article that offers options to help the community, then you should also include the information that provides the easiest way to have questions answered. I left 2 comments with the online article giving my contact information, but BOTH were deleted, with the statement that my comments "violated" their policy. I just don't get it.

At any rate, if people would like to contact me concerning the opportunity of saving on their electricity bill. They can do so at the information listed below. I market for Washington Gas & Energy Services. But they are a few other companies that have residential programs such as Constellation Energy, Dominion Power, etc. As I've stated before, people need to know this information, do the research themselves & then make an educated decision. The important thing is to know that you DO have a choice when it comes to your electricity supply.

Best Wishes,George "Wookie" KreinerResidential Electricity ConsultantAllied Power Services
gkreiner@comcast.net 410-430-1401

Man Shot Behind Wheel In Arundel County

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating an incident in which a man was shot while behind the wheel of a vehicle, causing him to crash.

Last night at about 10:20 p.m., Severn, Md., resident Calvin Chi Man Yeung, 40, was shot in the chest while sitting at a traffic light. After he was shot, his vehicle passed through the intersection and over the southbound lanes of Telegraph Road and struck a support wall along the Route 100 overpass. Yeung was rushed to the Baltimore Washington Medical Center but died from injuries he sustained.

It is not clear at this time whether he died from the gunshot or the automobile crash.

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SHOREBIRDS GAME NOTES: 8/7 vs. Lexington

PREVIEW: The Shorebirds try to level the series in game two and also end a season long seven-game losing streak. The ‘Birds have dropped 11 of their last 12 games. The Shorebirds have just two wins in their 19 games. With the 9-6 loss last night, the Birds fell 9.5 games out of first place with 29 games left.

LAST STARTER TO WIN: The last Shorebirds starter to earn a win was Kenny Moreland on July 21 when he beat Hickory. A ‘Birds starter has not won in 16 straight games.

CAROLUS HEATING UP: Levi Carolus has five hits, five runs, two home runs and two RBIs in his last five games played. Carolus had only five hits in 11 games played in the entire month of July.

CASAMAYOR HITLESS: Shorebirds second baseman Omar Casamayor is hitless in his last 13 at-bats (four games). The Palmira, Venezuela native is 2-for-20 in the month of August.

ROSA PLAYING WELL: Since July 24, Garabez Rosa is 19-for-53 (.358) at the plate. His batting average has jumped from .232 to .250 during the stretch.

STAMPONE PLAYING AGAIN: After injuring his left hand on June 27, Tyler Stampone is now rehabbing with the GCL Orioles. He played the last two nights and went 0-for-8.

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The Propaganda Of Incompetents

IBD editorials Newsletter: August 06, 2010 issue

Economy: As the "recovery summer" turns into a nightmare, one thing has become painfully clear: This is the most economically incompetent administration since the Great Depression.

Two years into the Obama era, when the U.S. should be enjoying a booming recovery from the 2007-08 meltdown, with millions of new jobs and higher incomes for all, all we see is economic wreckage from the unbelievably foolish policies pursued by the White House and the Democrat-controlled Congress.

Whether it's the $862 billion "stimulus" that turned into a welfare program for bankrupt states and public unions, or the $700 billion TARP program that became a giant dish of pork for Democrats and their supporters, or the job-killing duo of health care and financial reform, Obama, Pelosi, Reid et al. seem oblivious to the deep and lasting damage they're doing to America's economy.

Friday's frightening jobs report was only the latest in a series of releases indicating the "recovery" is faltering. Unemployment in July was unchanged at 9.5%, but a net 131,000 jobs were lost on top of 97,000 more than first accounted for in May and June.

"Recovery summer"? Time for another sobriquet.

The White House response? On Friday, after release of the jobs report, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis touted the economy's "turnaround" and credited "strong and immediate action" President Obama took after entering office. The only real problem, she hinted, was Republicans who refuse to support a $26 billion bailout for state and local governments and their pampered unions.

"There is no room for partisan roadblocks when Americans are depending on their government's action and the stakes are so high," Solis said. In this White House, economic recovery is always just one massive stimulus or bailout bill away.

Solis also repeated — with the stock market selling off 100 points as she spoke — the bogus claim made by the White House and uncritically parroted by its media pals that timely action "saved or created more than 2.5 million American jobs."

As we've said, this is utter nonsense. Completely made up. And, by the way, the official who made it up — Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Christina Romer — quit on Friday to return to academia, her reputation for accuracy in tatters.

Here's the real record: America has lost 4.1 million jobs since Obama took office and 7.7 million since the recession began in December 2007. So most of the jobs lost have been under this administration. Whatever else you might call Obamanomics, "successful" isn't it.