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Pres. Obama Takes Historic Step To Get America Off Oil & Tackle Global Warming Through Cleaner Cars

Washington, D.C.—President Obama today announced the outline of proposed clean car standards that by 2030 will cut annual gasoline use nationally by as much as 23 billion gallons, reduce annual emissions of global warming pollution by as much as 280 million metric tons, and save Americans over $80 billion at the gas pump annually.* 

The standards will cover cars and light trucks in model years 2017-2025, and are expected to require that these vehicles meet a global warming pollution standard equivalent to a 54.5 miles-per-gallon fleet-wide average by 2025.    

Foster Hardiman, Federal Field Organizer with Environment Maryland, issued the following statement in response to the announcement:

“Oil is America’s Achilles heel, holding us back from protecting our environment and growing our economy.  But today’s clean cars proposal is the single biggest step this country has ever taken to end our addiction to oil—and tackle global warming—and the Obama administration should be loudly applauded for taking it.  By ensuring that the cars of tomorrow are much cleaner and more fuel-efficient than the cars of today, we will reap huge global warming pollution reductions and oil savings.  Cleaner cars will benefit Maryland’s environment and our families’ health, while saving Maryland residents money at the gas pump and helping to protect our national security.

“We will work with the administration to further strengthen several elements of this proposal, as the problems of global warming and our addiction to oil demand that we make the final standards as strong as possible.  We can do this by putting American ingenuity to work and avoiding loopholes that will mean lost oil savings and pollution reductions. 

“We again applaud the Obama administration for this historic step forward that will benefit Maryland’s environment, our health, our economy and our national security, and we look forward to working with the administration to strengthen this proposal moving forward.”

Boonies Celebrates 10 Years This Sunday

Four Years Ago Today

I depositions, the above statements were made referencing the Jaguar escaping from his exhibit at the Salisbury Zoo.

Ron Alessi and Jim Rapp made claims that they did in fact have the proper narcotics on premises to sedate the animal. The Daily Times was told this was not true but they went ahead and published what Alessi a Rapp stated.

The above documents prove just what happened that day. A bus load of children had just left that area when the Jag got out. The Zookeeper "Ann" was heroic, (IMHO) by risking her own life to call the animal back into the exhibit.

The event happened much longer than 4 years ago today but we published this information at that time.

3 Years Ago Today

Candidate Andy Harris stops into Salisbury News Headquarters at 300 W. Main Street.

Two Years Ago Today

Former Police Chiefy Webster held a Press Conference outside the Salisbury Police Station because the new Mayor insisted Joe Albero be allowed to be present.

Since Webster couldn't stand me, he held the conference outside in the extreme heat just to prove his point.

Well, where are we today. Webster is history and still searching the Help Wanted Ads after a devastating loss in Somerset County as he tried to run for Sheriff and lost by a landslide.

THIS COUNTRY DEFAULTED LONG AGO

The final collapse of our credit expansion boom approaches. We have a choice over the next week. We could voluntarily abandon further credit expansion by voting for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution or we can raise the debt ceiling, pretend to cut spending far in the future, and allow our currency system to experience a catastrophic final collapse.

We’ll take what’s behind door #2 Johnny. The vested interests in Washington DC and Wall Street only care about power and wealth. They will never abandon credit expansion. It’s their drug. They must have it. They are addicted to it. They will keep injecting it into our system until they overdose America.

The mainstream media acts as if not raising the debt ceiling by next Tuesday will result in America defaulting. This is a crock. America chose to proceed on a path to default decades ago. We are just finally reaching our destination. Below are the choices we made as a people and a country to default on our obligations and eventually destroy our country:

• The enactment of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913 allowing the government to impose a tax on your income, thereby opening Pandora’s Box to a 60,000 page tax code and allowing politicians to sell their votes to the highest bidder.
• The signing into law of the Federal Reserve Act by Woodrow Wilson in 1913, transferring control of our currency system to Wall Street banks. The man made inflation created by the Federal Reserve has reduced the purchasing power of the USD by 97% since 1913 and has allowed politicians to promise $100 trillion of benefits to Americans, that can never be delivered.
• The Social Security Act signed into law by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1935, supposedly to help widows and orphans, morphed into a giant ponzi scheme used by politicians to make Americans think it was a retirement plan and the money was in a lockbox. The scam continues, but ponzi schemes always collapse.
• Fannie Mae was created in 1938 as a government agency and Freddie Mac was created in 1970 as a quasi-government agency. By promoting home ownership and subsidizing loans to people who should have never gotten loans these agencies caused hundreds of billions in mal-investment. As tools of politicians, they were used to push social agendas. The result will be in excess of $300 billion in losses to the American taxpayer.
• The Korean War set a precedent where the President did not need to seek Congress to declare war as required under the Constitution. This has allowed the President the freedom to fight undeclared wars around the world for decades, while spending trillions, with no approval from Congress.
• LBJ’s Great Society programs such as Medicare and Medicaid were sold to Americans as cost saving programs that would improve healthcare for all Americans. We now spend 17% of our GDP on healthcare and these two programs have an unfunded liability of almost $100 trillion.

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Grandparenting Classes Teach New Rules To Older Generation

'We learned that whatever we did with our kids, to do the opposite'

Congratulations! You’re going to be a parent. And, congratulations again! The grandparents-to-be are equally overjoyed – which bodes well for future babysitting.

Except that it’s been years since your mom took care of a newborn. And your mother-in-law is promising to move in a week before your due date, so she can “help you out,” and your dear old dad just doesn’t get this whole car seat business. Back in his day, they held their little angels on their laps, dang it, and you kids turned out OK.

Maybe it’s time to send grandma and grandpa back to school. Many hospitals now offer grandparenting classes, which cover everything from current trends in childbirth to updated standards on infant care.

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Thieves Rob Fire House During Call

A handful of teenagers are accused of breaking into a fire station in Southeast Washington.

According to the Washington Examiner, thieves ransacked the fire station along Atlantic Street on Tuesday while crews were fighting the flames along Savannah Street.

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MEMO TO PRESIDENT

Dear Mr. President, I heard you say you will not guarantee SS checks if the debt ceiling isn't raised.

Why is it the scare always has to do with SS, Medicare, & our Soldiers pay?

Why not stop your pay, your staff, or Congress and the Senate to save more money for our country?

Why use Seniors, Soldiers, & our Needy as examples?

Take the money from those who take no risks and reap the benefits!!

Instead of threatening to withhold Social Security, VA and disability payments of people who really need the money....

Lets hold the paychecks of all house & senate members, then see how fast they resolve the debt ceiling crisis !!!!!

Conservatives, Let's Remember Who Our Political Enemy Is

by David Limbaugh

I hope that as we conservatives traverse these very difficult roads, we will always remember who the political enemy is. Our internecine fighting of late has given President Obama a bit of needed cover for his primary culpability in our nation's budget crisis.

Conservatives seem to be evenly divided on whether or not to support House Speaker John Boehner's budgetary plan to avoid a debt ceiling impasse. But the level of vitriol back and forth is increasing, with one side calling the other "crazy" and the other shouting back "RINOs," or Republicans in name only.

I believe both sides are acting honorably; they mostly agree on goals and disagree on tactics. But it's a bit more complicated than that. They also differ somewhat in their operating assumptions.

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Thefts From Motor Vehicles

The Summer season in Salisbury has traditionally shown an increase in crime throughout the city, particularly thefts from motor vehicles. During this summer we have found that many vehicles are parked and left unsecured with their windows down and tops down- if the vehicle is a convertible. These vehicles become easy prey if property is left in plain view. Residents are reminded to secure the vehicles, even if left only for a short time. Drivers are advised to secure and store all property out of sight, preferably in the trunk, or better-out of the vehicle. Drivers are also reminded to park in well lighted and populated areas.

Additional tips can be found on the Police Department’s website, http://www.salisburypd.com/. On the lower right side of the page is a link to a crime prevention tips page. On that page there are a number of additional links for personal safety tips.


Any questions can be directed to the Salisbury Police Department Community Affairs Division at 410-548-3165.

The Boehner Plan is the Best Deal for the Country That Our Divided Govt. Can Deliver

By Howard J. Warner

As we wait for the vote on the Boehner Debt Bill, some wonder what is the best way to handle the debt crisis? The crisis was created by our President and the Democrats in Congress. For two years the President had a Democratic majority in both Houses and could pass an increase in the debt limit authority. They chose not to do this as it might be viewed negatively by the populace. Now we are on the brink of creating another market collapse as the President has heightened the stakes by repeatedly addressing the public on this issue while ignoring any real compromise and using this crisis as a means to get another tax increase.

The legislation passed recently by the House sets the correct tone by limiting spending, requiring balanced budgets, and capping the growth. However, it will never become law as the balanced budget amendment cannot ever pass enough states as there are many that will fear the loss of federal funds in the future. Yet, this is a worthy goal and one that the TEA Party supporters favor. I find it analogous to the attempt years ago to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.

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On Weasels And The Removal Thereof Through Unified Action

After shocking even myself one day several years ago, I decided I needed to settle on a word to use when referring to politicians, leaders, and the other special interest groups who work so hard to sell the sovereign countries of the world down the road for personal gain, all the while espousing their good intentions for the "general welfare" of the people. Not that there aren't innumerable choice terms for these treacherous busy-bodies already. However, vocalizing any of them in public usually results in a rapid change to my complexion – a facial state I've generally tried to avoid since middle school PE classes. Nevertheless, I admit to using most of them at one point or another in recent times and many of them quite often, albeit in private. I really just needed a word I could do more than mutter disgustedly under my breath in public. Ultimately, I settled upon the term "weasel". I'm not sure who first applied this word to humans as a descriptor for acting in a cunning and/or deceitful fashion to achieve desired ends, but I'm willing to bet a politician was involved somewhere.

Most of us know (or have known) a weasel or two in our lifetimes. Some of us know more than a few, and a few of us are unlucky enough to be surrounded by them. Escaping real life encounters with weasels is a fortunate state of affairs indeed. Nevertheless, you will undoubtedly be assaulted by proxy either through media or legislative mandates. Pick up any form of print media and their visages smile up at you with a plastic intensity matched only by the accompanying pontificating on their plans for maintaining and expanding the status-quo controls on your life. I challenge you to find a news channel where you won't hear those same plans (or worse ones) regurgitated through flashy, cutesy sound bytes on the hour by more (or the same) plasticine personas. Our nation's capital seethes with them. Their offices overflow with favored crony lobbyists, and their legislative droppings have spread over the land burying our Republic in the stink of rotten tyranny. Yes, weasels are rampant on the Hill. So much so that one might wonder whether D.C. suffered an invasion of the weasel-pod-people one fine night while the country slept. Of course we have been asleep for quite a long time, so perhaps it shouldn't surprise us to find that our house has been overrun by weasels, the clean up of which – to borrow a favored weasel phrase – is a "shovel ready job". This one, however, would actually be of more than temporary benefit to America.


The weasels would like us all to accept that their infestation is not only normal, but "just the way things are". At which point they expect us all to go back to sleep, so the merry-go-round of fraud and plunder can continue spinning money out of our pockets and into theirs. Since that proposed state of affairs has been a long-standing given, it's not surprising that they can't recognize the winds of change, even after the gusts carried a good number of them out of office this past November. Some are beginning to get a clue, but they have yet to realize that the people mean serious business this time. The dysphoria hanging over the land is not just a temporary phase easily placated with business as usual platitudes mouthed blithely out of one side of their faces or the other. Too many Americans caught a glimpse of the underlying decay exposed to sunlight during the 2008 debates by the sheer strength of honest words voiced by a man of impeccable integrity. If as Justice Louis Brandeis stated (and Obama so blithely quoted out of one side of his face) "sunlight is the greatest disinfectant," then Ron Paul – who simply wiped away years of grimy obfuscation with a few clarifying statements – is the mightiest cleaning agent since the advent of Clorox

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Salisbury City Council Members Targeted

Between the dates of July 28 and July 29, 2011, two (2) members of the Salisbury City Council became victims of a malicious destruction of property.

In the early morning of July 29, 2011, Officers responded to a residence on the four hundred (400) block of Virginia Avenue. Upon arrival the officers found that an unknown suspect had thrown an object through the rear window of the residence, destroying the window. The scene was processed and resulted in the recovery of suspect evidence.

On the same date, a short time later, Officers received a call to respond to a residence on the eight hundred (800) block of Camden Avenue for the report of damage to a motor vehicle. Upon arrival the officers found that an unknown suspect had broken the window of the vehicle. Additional suspect and witness evidence was collected at this location.

Both locations are the residential properties of two (2) members of the Salisbury City Council. These incidents are under investigation.

If anyone has any information regarding these incidents they are asked to contact the Salisbury Police Department at 410-548-3165 or to contact Crime Solvers at 410-548-1776. Information may be left at both locations anonymously.

PUBLISHERS NOTES: As of this moment there is a $750.00 REWARD for the arrest and conviction for the individual/individuals who committed these crimes.

Work to Begin on OC Convention Center Expansion

OCEAN CITY, MD - Construction of the long-discussed expansion of the Ocean City convention center is expected to begin next week.

Convention Center Director Rick Hamilton and Mayor Rick Meehan went to Annapolis Wednesday to receive the final approval from the state Board of Public Works on the construction contract. The state, through the Maryland Stadium Authority, is a partner in the facility, so it must approve all contracts.

“It’s already been negotiated, so I think it will be a formality,” Hamilton said of the state approval.

Once the approval is in hand, construction can begin. Hamilton said the contractor is “waiting to start” on Monday.

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Support the Fruitland Police Department K-9 Unit

Bad Boy, Bad Boy, Whatch Gonna Do When They Come For You...

The Ocean City Police Department isn't playing games when it comes to illegal 3 wheeled vehicles roaming the streets of that City.

There is only ONE 3 wheel vehicle permitted to travel in just that City alone. They are NOT permitted anywhere else in Maryland, regardless of what some people might say.

Hence the little red thingamabopper no longer seen roaming the streets of Salisbury. Besides, a 14 year old isn't permitted to drive, period.

A Swamp Monster Disses Ron Paul

TIME Magazine columnist Michael Scherer, who writes a column called Swampland, is out with one of the most distorted attacks on Ron Paul since, well, the beginning of Time.

I guess there will be more of this from the establishment as Dr. Paul climbs in the polls, but this one runs Congressman Paul's views through a distortion mirror at least a dozen times and comes out with these conclusions:

[Ron Paul]argues that this [a default] will mean, as the President, Wall Street and the Treasury Secretary argue, an increase in interest rates, not just for the government, but for regular Americans. The cost of car loans would go up. The cost of house loans would go up (and the values would probably come down), as would the monthly payments for people with adjustable rate mortgages. The amount small businesses pay to get loans to expand their business would go up....

So to summarize, here is what Ron Paul, who may yet win the biggest GOP polling test of 2011, is advocating: Less short term employment, slower economic growth, and higher costs for things that Americans buy regularly.

Nowhere does Ron Paul say that defaulting on the U.S. debt will result in higher interest rates in the private sector. In fact, getting the government out of the debt market will increase by trillions the amount that is available from the markets for the private sector.

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Philly Utility Goes The Distance So Your Car Doesn't Blow Up

Claude has a cool story about how Philadelphia Gas Works went the extra mile to make sure his girlfriend's car wouldn't explode after a gas leak started nearby.

Claude writes:

My girlfriend is out of the country for the month, and I was in charge of her car. This past Saturday, I left Philadelphia for California where I would be meeting with my girlfriend for a wedding and a short vacation. She had very limited internet access, and received two emails from a PGW employee asking her to move her car because of a gas leak where she was parked. What was remarkable about the emails is who they came from.

The first email was from a current tenant at her old apartment — PGW looked up her tags, called the old landlord, and then got the tenants information who then emailed my girlfriend. The second email came from the president of a small organization she volunteers for; the PGW employee had seen several flyers in the back seat of the car, and called that number as well.

Unfortunately, we weren't able to call them in time, and I assumed the car was towed and we would have to deal with it when we got back. I emailed the PGW employee to ask what to do, and he wrote back saying they were able to move some cars that were parked behind my girlfriend's and they just pushed her car back. No car towing. No hassle, and an appreciated effort from our end!

Hey! Something in Philly works! Awesome! No, really, it's pretty cool how they got all private detective and tried to track Claude's girlfriend down. Of course most of it is that they didn't want a four-wheeled box full of gasoline sitting around a possible gas leak, but they were also pretty cool by just pushing her car out of the way. Maybe there's something magic in that melted Cheese Whiz after all, like a little squirt of kindness.

from Ben Popken @ The Consumerist