Now Boston, MA Based Evergreen Solar Announces Its Move To China

No sooner than BP Solar - Frederick, Maryland based solar manufacturer - announces its closure now Boston, Massachusetts solar manufacturer - Evergreen Solar - announces it is also moving its solar manufacturing to China.

If this is the new wave of America's newly found 'Green' Industry then someone ought to ask our Whitehouse cabinet officials - What Gives?

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Update To Vehicle Crash On S/B U.S. Rte 13 Bypass

LOCATION: Southbound Route 13 Bypass @ Centre at Salisbury


***********UPDATE**********

Adam Kondziola, the driver of the 2005 Mazda, was pronounced dead at 0507 hours at PRMC. The crash is still being investigated by troopers and further details will be forthcoming at a later date as to the cause of the crash.

BRIEF RESUME:

On Saturday April 3, 2010 at 12:17 am, troopers from the Salisbury Barrack of the Maryland State Police, responded to a single vehicle crash on the Salisbury Bypass near Business Rt. 13/Centre at Salisbury. Through investigation, Troopers learned that a 2005 Mazda was coming off of the ramp from southbound Business Rt. 13 to enter south on the Rt. 13 Bypass when the driver lost control of the vehicle and overturned several times into the center median of the Bypass, partially ejecting the driver. The driver of the vehicle, later identified as Adam Kondziola, 28, of Salisbury, was transported to PRMC with serious injuries. A passenger in the vehicle, Linda Kay Rogers, 46, of Salisbury was transported to PRMC with non-life threatening injuries. Troopers are continuing with their investigation into this case.

Can We Continue Paying for the Government Trough?

Driving through Newport News Thursday night I grabbed a copy of my old hometown paper – the Daily Press (affectionately known during my youth as the Daily Mullet Wrapper).  I almost fell out of my seat when I read an editorial calling for restraint in the pay of government employees and drastic reform in their benefit packages.

When a newspaper published in an area dominated by the federal government calls for curbing the federal trough, you know things have really gotten bad.

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HOW TO SAVE THE AIRLINES?

Dump the male flight attendants. No one wanted them in the first place.

Replace all the female flight attendants with good-looking strippers! What the hell, they don't even serve food anymore, so what's the loss?

The strippers would at least triple the alcohol sales and get a 'party atmosphere' going in the cabin. And, of course, every businessman in this country would start flying again, hoping to see naked women.

Because of the tips, female flight attendants wouldn't need a salary, thus saving even more money. I suspect tips would be so good that we could charge the women for working the plane and have them kick back 20% of the tips, including lap dances and 'special services.'

Muslims would be afraid to get on the planes for fear of seeing naked women. Hijackings would come to a screeching halt, and the airline industry would see record revenues.

This is definitely a win-win situation if we handle it right -- a golden opportunity to turn a liability into an asset.

Why didn't Obama think of this? Why do I still have to do everything myself?

Sincerely,
Tiger Woods

Many Departments Eliminating Speed "Cushion"

The recession may be claiming a new victim: the 5-10-mph “cushion” police and state troopers across the USA have routinely given motorists exceeding the speed limit. As cities and states scramble to fill budget gaps with revenue from traffic citations, “not only are the (speeding) tolerances much lower, but the frequency of a warning instead of a ticket is way down,” says James Baxter, president of the National Motorists Association, a Wisconsin-based drivers’ rights group that helps its members fight speeding tickets.

“Most people, if they’re stopped now, are getting a ticket even if it’s only a minor violation of a few miles per hour,” Baxter says. He cites anecdotal evidence of drivers being pulled over at slower speeds.

Tim Davenport, 42, of Kansas City, Mo., was recently stopped on 15th Street in Blue Springs, Mo., and ticketed for going 40 mph in a 35-mph zone — although the police officer initially ticketed him for 40 in a 25, he says. “I drove down that road again, and the posted limit was 35,” he says. “I figured the judge wouldn’t accept that, since I was over the speed limit, and would still charge me with it. So I went ahead and paid” the $60 ticket.

Ivan Sever, 60, of Boston was stopped on the Massachusetts Turnpike for doing 55 in a 45-mph speed zone. “I had just passed into the section where the speed limit is 45,” says Sever, who teaches recording techniques at Berklee College of Music in Boston. “I saw the (trooper) and slowed down. I passed him carefully. He pulled me over, said I was doing 55.”

The Governors Highway Safety Association, which represents state highway safety offices, issued a report in 2005 stating that police in 42 states routinely let drivers exceed speed limits. GHSA said the practice hampered efforts to reduce speeding.

“It’s still done in some places but not in others,” says Jonathan Adkins of GHSA. In places where police no longer allow the cushion, it might be because speed limits are creeping up around the country, he says.

He notes that Virginia’s maximum speed limit will rise from 65 to 70 mph in July. Last year, Ohio raised the maximum speed limit for trucks on rural and suburban interstates from 55 to 65 mph. Texas, Iowa and Indiana have all raised their maximum speed limits since the GHSA study.

A study published last year in the Journal of Law and Economics found that police issue more traffic citations during recessions. From 1990 to 2003, counties in North Carolina issued significantly more tickets in the year following a decline in general tax revenue.

Researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the University of Arkansas-Little Rock found that a 10% decrease in revenue growth caused a 6.4% increase the following year in the growth rate of traffic tickets.

Troy Green, national spokesman for auto club AAA, says he’s unaware of increasing complaints from members about being stopped at slower speeds.

Sgt. Michael Edes, chairman of the National Troopers Coalition, which represents 45,000 troopers, says there is no lower tolerance for speeding among state troopers. “I think you’ll find (enforcement is) actually the opposite,” he says. “A lot of states have cut (trooper) positions or frozen positions. Several states have grounded their aviation unit, so they’re not doing as many speed details.”

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Democrats Put Medicare, TRICARE Patients At Risk

Republican Study Committee Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement as Democrats in charge allowed a 21% reimbursement cut to take effect today for physicians providing care to Medicare and TRICARE patients.

“Democrats in power in Congress are treating elderly and military patients and their physicians with reckless disregard by allowing this draconian reimbursement cut to take effect,” said Chairman Price. “The deeply flawed Medicare reimbursement formula already doesn’t cover the cost of treating these patients for many medical practices. Cutting reimbursements even further will regrettably force innumerable physicians to stop seeing Medicare and TRICARE patients altogether. You’d be hard pressed to find a more effective method for Washington to take away Americans’ access to health care.

“Today marks the second time this year that Democrats have played chicken with seniors’ and military families’ health care. Reckless politicians have used this issue as a cynical bargaining chip for far too long. It’s time to enact a permanent fix to this flawed reimbursement formula that does not add to Washington’s already unsustainable deficits.

“This 21 percent reimbursement cut also highlights the sheer folly of the Democrats’ health care plan. If Congress acts to rescind these cuts, it will add hundreds of billions of dollars to the cost of their health care takeover. If the cuts remain in effect, the Democrats will be responsible for leaving millions of seniors and military families without access to a physician.

“All the more frustrating is that Americans know there are positive solutions that embrace fundamental principles that would accelerate quality health care instead of destroying the very foundation of trust in medicine.”

Note: The Republican Study Committee has presented a fully paid for, permanent fix to the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula in H.R. 3400, the Empowering Patients First Act. This bill provides proper reimbursement for physicians and keeps control of the system in the hands of patients and their doctors, without adding to the deficit.

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Ehrlich For Governor Campaign Announcement

Save the Date – Ehrlich for Governor Campaign Announcement

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

*ARRIVE EARLY FOR BOTH EVENTS*

10:00 a.m. Ehrlich for Governor Campaign Kick Off
Rockville Town Center
E. Middle Lane and Maryland Avenue
Rockville, Maryland 20850

6:00 p.m. Evening Campaign Kick Off
American Legion
1610 Old Sulphur Spring Road
Halethorpe, MD 21227

Fatal Motor Vehicle Crash

Location: SR24 & Carey’s Camp Rd. (CR421); 4mi. W/O Millsboro, Sussex County, DE

Date of Occurrence: Friday April 2, 2010 at 3:05 p.m.

Vehicle – 1 1998 Dodge Caravan
Operator – 1 David K. Edwards, 53, Lewes, DE
Vehicle -2 2004 Chrysler Sebring
Operator – 2 Kathleen Persinger, 53, Delmar, DE

Victim – Passenger in vehicle – 1
Ernest L. Dorey, 77, Millsboro,DE

Resume:

Delaware State Police are investigating a two vehicle crash that killed a Millsboro man. The crash happened on Friday on SR 24 at Carey’s Camp Rd west of Millsboro.

A 1998 Dodge Caravan, operated by David K. Edwards was westbound on SR24 approaching the intersection of Carey’s Camp Road (CR421). At the same time a 2004 Chrysler Sebring, operated by Kathleen Persinger, 53 was southbound on Carey’s Camp Road, approaching the intersection of SR 24. Persinger failed to stop for the posted stop sign and pulled directly into the intersection in front of the Caravan. As a result, the front of the Sebring struck the right front side of Caravan resulting in the crash.

Edwards, who was wearing his seatbelt, was flown from the scene to Peninsula Regional Medical Center and was admitted in serious condition with multiple injuries. Dorey, who was wearing his seatbelt in the front right passenger seat, was pronounced dead at the scene. Persinger who was wearing her seatbelt, was flown to Christiana Medical Center and was admitted in serious condition with multiple injuries.

The investigation is continuing and no charges have been filed at this time.

The roadway was closed for 4 hours.

TROOPERS INVESTIGATE CRASH ON SALISBURY BYPASS

On Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 12:17 am, Troopers from the Salisbury Barrack of the Maryland State Police responded to a single vehicle crash on the Salisbury Bypass near Business Rt. 13/Centre at Salisbury. Through investigation, Troopers learned that a 2005 Mazda was coming off of the ramp from south bound Business Rt. 13 to enter south on the Rt. 13 Bypass when the driver lost control of the vehicle and overturned several times into the center median of the Bypass, partially ejecting the driver. The driver of the vehicle, later identified as Adam Kondziola, 28, of Salisbury, was transported to PRMC with serious injuries. A passenger in the vehicle, Linda Kay Rogers, 46, of Salisbury was transported to PRMC with non-life threatening injuries. Troopers are continuing their investigation into this case.

Governors Task Force Makes Significant Drug Arrest

Incident Location: Unit block of Chaucer Drive, Newark, Delaware, New Castle County

Date of Occurrence: Thursday, April 1, 2010, at approximately 9:30 p.m.

Involved Parties: Johanna Garcia, 28, of Chaucer Drive, Newark, Delaware

Resume: Last evening, members of the DSP Governor’s Task Force responded to a home along the unit block of Chaucer Drive in Newark to conduct a Probation Compliance Check.

Officers arrived at the home and contacted probationer Johanna Garcia. During the course of this investigation, the following items were recovered from inside the home: suspected crack cocaine, suspected powder cocaine, suspected heroin, unused hypodermic needles, prescription narcotics, heroin packaging materials, other associated paraphernalia, a handgun and ammunition. Also, several thousand dollars in suspect drug money was also seized.

Ms. Garcia was transported back to Troop 2 where she was formally charged with the following felony offenses: Trafficking Cocaine, two counts of Possession with the Intent to Deliver Cocaine, Manufacturing a Narcotic Schedule II Controlled Substance (Crack Cocaine), Possession with the Intent to Deliver a Narcotic Schedule II Controlled Substance, Possession with the Intent to Deliver Heroin, Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited, Possession of Ammunition by a Person Prohibited, Maintaining a Dwelling for Keeping Narcotics, Maintaining a Vehicle for Keeping Narcotics, Conspiracy 2nd, Possession of a Narcotic Schedule II Controlled Substance (Misdemeanor) and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (misdemeanor).

Johanna Garcia was arraigned and committed to the Baylor Women’s Correctional Institute in lieu of a $656,500.00 secured bond.

Should We Heckle Obama?

Harken back to the 2010 State of the Union Address:

President Obama attacked the Supreme Court with them sitting before him.  I wonder how Obama would feel if a GOP Congressional majority booed him at the 2011 State of the Union?  Yes I know, two wrongs don’t make a right.

This is was National Review had to say about Chief Justice John Robert’s remarks on the matter:

Chief Justice John Roberts, belatedly responding to the president’s State of the Union address, said it was “troubling” for the justices to be surrounded by hooting and hollering critics of their campaign-finance decision without being able to respond. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said it was the Court’s decision that was troubling. (Translation: Democrats think they have found a winning issue.) Roberts was right. Next year, the justices should stay home.

Chief Justice Roberts is right.  So is the NR, the Justices should stay home.

from Delmarva Dealings

More Evidence That ObamaCare is Socialized Medicine

I never thought of it this way before, but the National Review is dead on:

The Senate can pass only one reconciliation bill per year, which is why the Democrats—who seem to intuit that they won’t be so numerous next year—want to combine the healthcare reconciliation bill with legislation that would make the government the direct provider of most student loans. The combination is poetic: American college-loan policy offers an illustration of how the government can absorb an activity incrementally, claiming to cherish the benefits the private sector provides until the bait has worked and it’s time for the switch. Government support for student loans began in the form of subsidies for private loans, much as the Democrats’ health-care bill would succor the insurance industry by subsidizing its product while forcing people to buy it. In the 1990s,  Democrats added a “public option”—making government the direct provider of some student loans—with the Clinton administration claiming that “students and schools are served by healthy competition” between the private sector and the government. This is the same rhetoric Obama used when he tried to sell us a public option for health care. And now we see how quickly Democrats dispense with the rhetoric of competition when a government takeover seems viable: The new student-loan bill would make the public option the only option, thus completing the absorption of the activity. In a similar way, the current health-care legislation isn’t the endgame.

The left’s response will always be that the government can do it cheaper and / or better.

from Delmarva Dealings

BREAKING NEWS: PLANE CRASH, ONE DEAD, ONE CRITICAL CONDITION

Troopers on the Scene of Plane Crash; One Person Dead One person Critical Condition

Location: Lore Wood Grove Road, Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Date of Occurrence: Friday, April 02, 2010 at approximately 6:35 p.m.

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Delaware State Police are currently on the scene of a single engine plane that has crashed off of Lore Wood Grove Road approximately 1 mile east of RT 896 approximately 5 miles north of Middletown

Preliminary reports indicate that a male has been pronounced dead at the scene and a female is in critical condition and has been flown to Christiana Hospital near Newark.

The investigation is still on going and Lore Wood Grove Road is closed in the area of the crash.

More information will be released as it becomes avalible.

The Secret Is Out – Democrats Don’t Care About the Constitution

“I don’t worry about the Constitution.”  That’s a direct quote from Rep. Phil Hare (D-IL).

It’s bad enough that this guy thinks that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are the same thing.  It’s bad enough that he doesn’t worry about little things like our Constitution.  Here is the oath of office Rep. Hare took in January of 2007 AND 2009:

I, NAME, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

It seems that Phil Hare is one of those domestic enemies.  At least local lefty Mike Pretl makes a pretense of adhering to the Constitution in claiming that ObamaCare is a good thing.

from Delmarva Dealings

STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR MARTIN O’MALLEY ON THE PASSING OF TOM WISNER

ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 2, 2010) – Governor Martin O’Malley issued this statement today following the passing of Tom Wisner, singer, songwriter, and educator devoted to raising awareness of the spirit and beauty of the Chesapeake Bay. Wisner was the co-founder of the non-profit Chestory, devoted to lifting the story of the Chesapeake Bay region up through the arts.

“Tom truly was the Bard of the Chesapeake, Chesapeake Born and Chesapeake Free.

“His life's work and his life's hope was to bring about a new era in our relationship to the land and the waters of the Bay. He challenged all of us to participate in the great work of restoring the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland will miss his heart, his voice, his poetry, his love and his passion for the beauty of creation.

“The river moves on, and bids us to follow her.”

The Doctor Orders A Little Reality Therapy

A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care "elsewhere."

"I'm not turning anybody away — that would be unethical," Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. "But if they read the sign and turn the other way, so be it."

The sign reads: "If you voted for Obama … seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years."

Estella Chatman, 67, of Eustis, whose daughter snapped a photo of the typewritten sign, sent the picture to U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, the Orlando Democrat who riled Republicans last year when he characterized the GOP's idea of health care as, "If you get sick, America … Die quickly."

Chatman said she heard about the sign from a friend referred to Cassell after his physician recently died. She said her friend did not want to speak to a reporter but was dismayed by Cassell's sign.

"He's going to find another doctor," she said.

Cassell may be walking a thin line between his right to free speech and his professional obligation, said William Allen, professor of bioethics, law and medical professionalism at the University of Florida's College of Medicine.

Allen said doctors cannot refuse patients on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation or disability, but political preference is not one of the legally protected categories specified in civil-rights law. By insisting he does not quiz his patients about their politics and has not turned away patients based on their vote, the doctor is "trying to hold onto the nub of his ethical obligation," Allen said.

Left vs Right

An observation of the white old man kicking the crap out of the young black dude.

A Day Late, Sorry

Remembering the Pacific War
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the invasion of Okinawa.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online

Sixty-five years ago, on April 1, 1945, the United States Marines, Army, and Navy invaded Okinawa. The ensuing three months of combat resulted in the complete defeat and near destruction of imperial Japanese forces on the island, just 340 miles from the mainland.

The victory proved the most costly American campaign in the Pacific. Some 50,000 Americans were killed, went missing, or were wounded. The incredible carnage would help persuade the American government to drop atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in hopes of avoiding an even more horrific invasion of the mainland.

Okinawa and the war in the Pacific are back in the news these days with the airing of a ten-part HBO series, The Pacific — a companion story to the 2001 series Band of Brothers, which was about the American advance from Normandy across the Rhine into Germany.

But recently, while hyping The Pacific’s upcoming broadcast, the actor Tom Hanks, co-producer of the fine new series, made some unfortunate — and ahistorical — remarks.

“Back in World War II,” Hanks said, “we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different.”

The Pacific war was about far more than being “different.”

Indeed, before and after the war, race was not a determining factor in American and Japanese relations. In World War I, the two nations were partners against the Germans and Austrians. And during World War II itself, we joined Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, and other Asians to stop Japanese aggression — often fueled by the country’s own particular notion of Japanese racial superiority. In the aftermath of World War II, the Americans helped rebuild Japan and once more were allied with it against the Communist Soviet Union.

And despite the deplorable internment of Japanese nationals and American citizens of Japanese descent during the war, racial difference still does not in itself account for the horror in the Pacific — or why we were there in the first place.

We entered the war, of course, because of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, which angered Americans even more than Hitler’s aggression in Europe. More than two years of Nazi barbarity had still not provoked the United States to enter the war — none of our own territory had been attacked, much less in surprise fashion at a time of peace.

Conditions on the battlefield in the Pacific most certainly account for the horror of the war there.

For starters, Japanese militarists had updated the old samurai code of Bushido and grafted it onto a modern, industrial military dictatorship — brainwashing millions into thinking individual surrender on the battlefield was tantamount to national disgrace. Italian and even fanatical German forces might give up when surrounded, but campaigns in the Pacific ended only when the vast majority of Japanese soldiers were killed or severely wounded.

Logistics for the American force were also strained, given the vast distances across the Pacific. Tropical diseases were like nothing encountered in Europe. While most Americans had heard of Sicily, Italy, and France, most did not know what — much less where — a distant Guadalcanal, Peleliu, or Iwo Jima was.

The invasion fleet off Normandy Beach did not have to worry about airborne Nazi suicide bombers, but Kamikaze attacks off Okinawa killed thousands of American seamen.

American tactical bombing, massive artillery barrages, and armor thrusts were often less successful in the Pacific than in Europe, given the dense jungle, rough terrain, and nature of island fighting.

The result was often that combat was reduced to hand-to-hand and small-arms fighting between U.S. Marines and crack Japanese imperial troops, hardened from brutal service in China during the prior decade.

Given all these obstacles, it now seems incredible that an America that was half-armed in 1941 defeated Japan and utterly destroyed the idea of Japanese militarism in less than four years — a feat attributable in large part to the amazing courage and expertise of American soldiers.

The war in the Pacific was not about racism or due to the Japanese’s being “different,” nor even due to two nations’ having equally justifiable grievances against each other.

Instead, the brutal Pacific war was about ending an expansionary Japanese fascism that sought to destroy all democratic obstacles in its path. And we are indebted today to the relatively few Americans who once stopped it in horrific places like Okinawa — some 65 years ago this week.

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THANG GOD ITS FRIDAY

What Will You Be Doing This Easter

And Good Friday Weekend?

DELMAR POLICE DEPARTMENT PRESS RELEASE

Incident: Warrant Service
Location: Delmar Police Department
Date: March 31, 2010
Arrested: Roxanne E. Barger White female, 19 Laurel DE

On 03/31/2010 Barger was extradited from Wicomico county Maryland to Delmar Delaware in reference to a warrant being held by Delmar police. Barger was served with her warrant and held on $3100 bond. Barger was turned over to Delaware State Police in reference to two additional warrants they had for Barger.

Charges:
Assault Second Degree Recklessly or Intentionally Causes Phys. Injury Weapon
Terroristic Threatening
Reckless Endangering Second degree
Menacing
Criminal Mischief under $1000
Criminal Trespass Second Degree