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Sunday, April 17, 2011

A NEW ENTRANCE TO OCEAN PINES – KING RICHARD ROAD?


At its last meeting, Worcester County’s Planning Commission reviewed plans by developers of proposed projects on vacant land between Ocean Pines and Gum Point Road to build a new road from MD Route 589 – "Racetrack Road" for access to their projects and also to Ocean Pines, where the road would connect to King Richard Drive and serve as a new entrance to the entire subdivision from Route 589. King Richard Road, a low level neighborhood street – narrow and without any possibility of widening without devastating the homeowners who live there – would become a major thoroughfare, carrying as much if not even more traffic as now uses either of the two entrances to the Pines at the North Gate and South Gate.

We understand that the Ocean Pines Association supports this plan – too bad if you live on Kind Richard Road or elsewhere in the Sherwood Forest section of Ocean Pines. But, if you do, look at the bright side: you will be seeing your fellow residents who live elsewhere in the Pines much more often – and they will be smiling as they drive by!

According to published reports, the Planning Commission will decide this matter at its next meeting, this Thursday, April 21.


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Weekends Now Look Like Week Days

What used to be a minimum drop in traffic on weekends by at least 50% is now running neck and neck with week day traffic.

Over the past few weekends we've notice a much higher volume of traffic on weekends. Perhaps most stayed at home this weekend but let me assure you, with these kind of numbers its a whole lot more than that.

Pork in the Park must have been a pretty big flop this weekend because everyone I talked to said they either stopped by and left because of disappointment or they simply didn't go at all. I'm one of those people who didn't go at all.

I have always been disappointed in the fact that those competing aren't necessarily serving their award winning food there, so what's the point. We went to Game Zone again Friday night, it was consistent and very enjoyable. The crowd keeps growing every week. Like most, I did a lot of yard work yesterday and will continue to do so today.

Unfortunately, Bike Week will be upon us again this year and without Harley Davidson being involved, expect this event start flopping as well. As much money that is brought into the county each year for these events you'd think they could hire someone to market them to be just as big as other Bike Week events throughout the country. This year will  be the last shot at doing so. We'll have to see what happens.

By the way, I saw one of the pork competitors heading north on Rt. 13 yesterday afternoon. When I used to do trade shows in the past, if you packed up early you'd get a massive fine. They should do the same for sore losers.

Harassment Complaint Filed Against Jesse Jackson


Detailed accusations of gay harassment by the Rev Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition came to light Thursday.

The claims, published in the Windy City Times, are by a former coalition employee who says he was mistreated, and eventually fired, because he is gay.

Tommy Bennett is a gay man who worked for Chicago`s Rainbow PUSH Coalition for roughly 2 and a half years.

During that time, he had a job in community affairs that he loved, according to the Windy City Times, and later a job he did not as the Rev. Jesse Jackson`s travel assistant.

In a formal complaint Bennett claims he had to escort women to Jackson`s room and clean up his room after sexual intercourse with women.

He claims he had to do it because of his sexual orientation.

In the detailed complaint, the former PUSH employee says there was more.

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FEC Investigators Digging Into Obama's 2008 Campaign

Barack Obama raised a record-shattering $750 million on his way to winning the 2008 presidential election. But that stunning flood of cash has triggered an investigation by the Federal Election Commission, which is taking a detailed look at the campaign's records and transactions.

According to Roll Call, the audit of Obama's financial records began two years ago. It was not required by law, since the Obama campaign did not accept federal matching funds and funded itself entirely with private donations. But allegations of improper contributions, coupled with the FEC's suspicions of certain transactions, led to the probe.

Obama recently officially launched his 2012 campaign effort, and a representative there admitted to Roll Call that a review was under way.

"The FEC is conducting a routine review — as is true with the McCain campaign, the Romney campaign and many others — to determine if they have any questions with the information reported," Katie Hogan, deputy press secretary for Obama's re-election campaign, told Roll Call. "Given that there was an historic number of contributors and contributions — nearly 4 million and over 9 million, respectively — this takes time."

In October 2008, Newsmax's Ken Timmerman reported that questions about the source of Obama's amazing fundraising were already swirling around. He reaped a stunning $150 million in campaign donations in September of that year, bringing his total at the time to more than $600 million.

As Timmerman reported:

By Obama’s own admission, more than half of his contributions have come from small donors giving $200 or less. But unlike John McCain’s campaign, Obama won’t release the names of these donors.

A Newsmax canvass of disclosed Obama campaign donors shows worrisome anomalies, including outright violations of federal election laws.

For example, Obama has numerous donors who have contributed well over the $4,600 federal election limit.

Many of these donors have never been contacted by the Obama campaign to refund the excess amounts to them.

And more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency.

Read more on Newsmax
Barack Obama raised a record-shattering $750 million on his way to winning the 2008 presidential election. But that stunning flood of cash has triggered an investigation by the Federal Election Commission, which is taking a detailed look at the campaign's records and transactions.

According to Roll Call, the audit of Obama's financial records began two years ago. It was not required by law, since the Obama campaign did not accept federal matching funds and funded itself entirely with private donations. But allegations of improper contributions, coupled with the FEC's suspicions of certain transactions, led to the probe.

Obama recently officially launched his 2012 campaign effort, and a representative there admitted to Roll Call that a review was under way.

"The FEC is conducting a routine review — as is true with the McCain campaign, the Romney campaign and many others — to determine if they have any questions with the information reported," Katie Hogan, deputy press secretary for Obama's re-election campaign, told Roll Call. "Given that there was an historic number of contributors and contributions — nearly 4 million and over 9 million, respectively — this takes time."

In October 2008, Newsmax's Ken Timmerman reported that questions about the source of Obama's amazing fundraising were already swirling around. He reaped a stunning $150 million in campaign donations in September of that year, bringing his total at the time to more than $600 million.

As Timmerman reported:

By Obama’s own admission, more than half of his contributions have come from small donors giving $200 or less. But unlike John McCain’s campaign, Obama won’t release the names of these donors.

A Newsmax canvass of disclosed Obama campaign donors shows worrisome anomalies, including outright violations of federal election laws.

For example, Obama has numerous donors who have contributed well over the $4,600 federal election limit.

Many of these donors have never been contacted by the Obama campaign to refund the excess amounts to them.

And more than 37,000 Obama donations appear to be conversions of foreign currency.

Read more on Newsmax

Rate For Employed Males In US Hits New Low

Only 66.8 percent of American men had jobs in 2010, the lowest percentage on record. And overall, just 45.4 percent of Americans held a job last year, posing a serious challenge for financing the nation’s social programs.

The overall employment figure of 45.4 percent is the lowest level since 1983, when women began entering the workforce in large numbers, according to a USA Today analysis.

The bulk of Americans who are not working has shifted from children to adults. In 2000, the nation had about the same number of children and non-working adults. Since then, however, the number of non-working adults has grown by 27 million, while the country added only 3 million children under age 18.

Several factors are contributing to the low employment percentages. Men are dropping out of the workforce as jobs in construction and manufacturing disappear. Until the 1960s, more than 80 percent of men had jobs. The percentage of women with jobs, which had been steadily rising, leveled off between 1995 and 2010, when it was 56 percent.

Also, 77 million Baby Boomers are beginning to move from the workforce into retirement.

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House Republicans Turn From Dissent To Unity In Budget Votes

For House Republicans, what a difference a day makes.

On Thursday, 59 members of the GOP conference broke with leadership to oppose a 2011 spending compromise, ignoring pleas for support from Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).

Twenty-four hours later, the party turned to the 2012 budget blueprint and won a near-unanimous endorsement from rank-and-file Republican on a proposal to slash nearly $6 trillion over the next decade. All but four GOP lawmakers backed the plan, with just one member of the feisty freshman class, Rep. David McKinley (W.Va.), opposed it. (Every Democrat opposed the bill.)

Afterward, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was crowing.

“The budgets are the hardest [bills] to pass in Congress, we’re always told. Look at what’s transpired,” he told reporters off the House floor.

The vote was a needed victory for McCarthy, who, according to a congressional source, was forced to ask his Democratic counterpart, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.), for help assuring passage of the 2011 spending agreement.

In 2009 by contrast, 20 Democrats voted against their party’s budget blueprint. House Democrats didn’t even attempt a full budget in 2010, knowing it would not have the votes to pass in the Senate.

Top Democrats in the Senate have said that the GOP's 2012 budget is dead on arrival.

The Republican majority held strong despite heavy pressure from Democrats, who warned that the budget authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would be a top campaign issue in 2012. President Obama issued a harsh condemnation of the GOP proposal on Wednesday, calling it a “deeply pessimistic” plan that “would lead to a fundamentally different America than the one we’ve known.”

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SIMPLY AMAZING

Isn't it amazing that, within only one week of Tiger Woods crashing his Escalade, the press found every woman with whom Tiger has had an affair during the last few years? And, they even uncovered photos, text messages, recorded phone calls, etc.! Furthermore, they not only know the cause of the family fight, but they even know it was a wedge from his golf bag that his wife used to break out the windows in the Escalade. Not only that, they know which wedge! And, each & every day, they were able to continue to provide America with updates on Tiger's sex rehab stay, his wife's plans for divorce, as well as the dates & tournaments in which he will play.

Now, Barack Hussein Obama has been in office for two years, yet this very same press:

·     Cannot find any of his childhood friends or neighbors;

·     Or find any of Obama's high school or college classmates;

·     Or locate any of his college papers or grades;

·     Or determine how he paid for both a Columbia & a Harvard education;

·     Or discover which country issued his visa to travel to Pakistan in the 1980's;

·     Or even find Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis on racism.

They just can't seem to uncover any of this.

Yet, the public still trusts that same press to give them the whole truth!

Simply amazing, isn't it?

Delmarva's News Leader????? Where's The LOCAL News?????

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Montgomery County May Cut School Police Program

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Montgomery County council members and the county's school leaders are at odds over how nine reaming school resource officer positions should be funded.
 
The nine law enforcement officers are assigned to 24 highs schools. The council members say the school system should put up the money to pay the officers in they are to remain in place next year, according to the Gazette.
 
County Executive Isiah Legget has recommended eliminating the positions, saving about $1 million.

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Don't Fall For These Gas Saving Myths

The economic hardship brought on by gas price increases is a spawning ground for silly, ineffective conventional wisdom on how to cut down on fuel use. It's important to distinguish between genuine gas-saving maneuvers and moronic wastes of time and effort.

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House Approves Ryan Plan, GOP's Budget Blueprint

Washington - The House of Representatives, on a largely party line vote, Friday approved a Republican vision of America's future that would change how seniors and lower income people get health coverage, lower taxes for the wealthy and dramatically cut federal spending.

The vote for the plan was 235 to 193. All the yes votes were Republican, but four GOP lawmakers joined 189 Democrats in opposition. The budget now goes to the Democratic-run Senate, where it's expected to go nowhere.

The budget blueprint will survive, though, as the GOP's chief line in the fiscal sand as the 2012 political campaign unfolds. This budget, most Republican lawmakers said with their votes, is where we stand, and it's a sharp contrast to vision offered by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats.

The Republican plan would cut $4.4 trillion from anticipated deficits over 10 years. Obama would cut $4 trillion over 12 years.

Both sides touted their views as politically beneficial — and, they said, devastating to their opponents.

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Media Activists Join Forces To Preach Beyond The Choir

Editor's Note: The country's largest media reform conference, the National Conference on Media Reform 2011, was held in Boston on April 8-11, bringing together journalists, activists, educators and policy-makers.

Don't let the forces of regression dominate the media - support brave, independent reporting today by making a contribution to Truthout.

Over three days, more than 2,000 people explored the future of journalism and public media, considered how technology is changing the media landscape, looked at the policies and politics which shape media and discussed strategies to build a better media.

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