Why Is Rick Santorum Doing a Blaze Interview From the Cowboy Cheerleaders Locker Room?

The Blaze may have made broadcast history today when Editor-in-Chief Scott Baker caught former presidential candidate Rick Santorum in the  Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader locker room.  The Pennsylvania senator was on his way to prepare for the Restoring Love pre-show on TheBlaze TV/GBTV.

Santorum made no hesitation in mentioning the interview location straight away: “I’m in the Dallas Cowboy cheerleader locker room!” he announced.

Baker, cheekily surprised, warned the Senator about the precarious situation: “I just think the mainstream media just found its magic moment.  I don’t know what they’re going to do with this but you’re going to be in trouble.”

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Explorers Find Downed German U-Boat off Massachusetts Nearly 70 Years After It Sank

Divers have discovered a World War II-era German submarine nearly 70 years after it sank under withering U.S. attack in waters off Nantucket.

The U-550 was found Monday by a privately funded group organized by New Jersey lawyer Joe Mazraani. It was the second trip in two years to the site by the team, some of whom had been searching for the lost U-boat for two decades.

Using side-scan sonar, the seven-man team located the wreck listing to its side in deep water about 70 miles south of Nantucket.

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Researchers Show How Easy it Is for Toddlers to Open a Gun Safe

Gun owners, especially those with small children, are wise to keep their firearms in a safe under lock and key. But in a blog post Friday, Marc Tobias, a physical security specialist, posted videos showing that toddlers could crack safes simply by dropping them on the floor a couple times.

In Forbes, Tobias writes “You should know how unsafe these gun safes are.” He writes that Security Labs was asked to review the designs of three leading brands of gun safes made by Stack-on, GunVault and Bulldog, after the death of a 3-year-old in Vancouver, Wash., a couple years ago:

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NBC Criticized for Cutting 'Victims Tribute' From Olympics Opening Ceremony

NEW YORK -- NBC has come under fire in the British press for editing out a performance during the London Olympics opening ceremony that has been interpreted by some as a tribute to victims of the "7/7" terrorist attacks that rocked that city in 2005.

The network, which has exclusive U.S. broadcast rights to the London games, cut instead to a taped interview between Ryan Seacrest and gold-medalist swimmer Michael Phelps.

The Daily Mail scoffed that NBC replaced a "tribute to 7/7 victims with bland Michael Phelps interview."

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O'Malley Calls Special Session For Next Month

For the second time, since the legislative session ended in April, Governor Martin O'Malley is calling state lawmakers back to Annapolis for a special session.

The session which will begin on August 9, and  will deal with the issue of expanded gambling.


Lawmakers will consider a bill to add table games, and a sixth casino in Prince George's County, most likely at the National Harbor Resort.

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Government Motors Still Owes Taxpayers $42 Billion

President Obama and his supporters have been more than happy to tout his bailout of the auto industry, but General Motors still owes taxpayers $42 billion according to an Inspector General's report and the company's stock has hit an all time low.


GM owes $27 billion on the nearly $50 billion it received from the auto bailout and Ally Bank, the company’s lending arm, owes $14.7 billion of the $17.2 billion taxpayer-funded bailout it received.

GM’s stock has plummeted in recent months after stagnant development in overseas markets. It hit a new low on Wednesday, falling to $18.80, a 52 percent drop from its January 2011 high of $38.90.

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Md. Man Calling Himself 'A Joker' Accused of Workplace Shooting Threat

PALMER PARK, Md. -
Calling himself "a joker," a Maryland man with an arsenal of guns threatened to shoot up a business he was being fired from, and was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do" when police confronted him, authorities said Friday.

The 28-year-old man, identified in a search warrant as Neil E. Prescott, told a supervisor at software and mailroom supplier Pitney Bowes that he wanted to see his boss' "brain splatter all over the sidewalk," according to a search warrant.

"I'm a joker and I'm gonna load my guns and blow everybody up," Prescott said, according to the warrant. 

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Gun Carrying Man Stops Stabbing Spree in Utah

Another Second Amendment success story: A man carrying a gun in a Utah grocery store stopped a man that went on a stabbing spree after purchasing the knife in the store.

Espinoza says, the knife wielding man seriously injured two people. "There is blood all over. One got stabbed in the stomach and got stabbed in the head and held his hands and got stabbed all over the arms."

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Government Playbook: Rename a Previously Rejected Tax, a ‘Green Fee’, and Try Again

When government and its agencies are running deficits they will pull out all the tricks to get their hands on your money. Today’s example comes from New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is considering adding on a 'green fee' on each new MetroCard to encourage riders to recycle their cards.

The proposal for the $1 surcharge was contained in the agency's preliminary budget for next year.

The aim is to reduce the number of cards that are printed and discarded.

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Catholic Business Owners Score Win Against ObamaCare Mandate

The Catholic family that owns a Colorado-based company won a court victory in their battle to stop the Obama administration from requiring them to provide insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, a mandate they say violates their religious beliefs and First Amendment rights.

Hercules Industries, a Denver-based heating ventilation and air conditioning manufacturer that employs nearly 300 full-time workers, got an injunction in federal court which stops enforcement of the controversial ObamaCare mandate. The company's lawyers said they needed the injunction immediately because if the mandate is enforced, it must begin immediately making changes to its health plan, which renews on Nov. 1.

The case is similar to ones brought by Catholic-based colleges that have refused to provide employee insurance with such coverage, except this time, it is a secular corporation.

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U.N. Small-Arms Treaty Fizziles

Negotiations to produce a United Nations agreement on a small-arms trade treaty – a move seen by many Second Amendment defenders as an assault on U.S. gun rights – have ended with barely a whimper.

According to a statement from the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, “the Conference on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty has broken down and will not report a draft treaty to the member nations.”

“This is a big victory for American gun owners, and the NRA is being widely credited for killing the U.N. ATT,” the NRA-ILA statement said.

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Why Dogs Chase Laser Beams (And Why It Can Drive Them Nuts)

When a wiggly little bead of light catches a dog's eye, nothing in the world matters more than capturing it. Unfortunately, "it" is just an ungraspable bundle of massless photons. The lack of closure in laser-beam chasing could be messing with your dog's head.

Dogs (and some cats) instinctively chase these bright-red dots simply because the dots move, said Nicholas Dodman, a professor of animal behavior at Tufts University's Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Movement automatically stimulates their innate prey drive, which explains why lower-on-the-food-chain animals such as rodents and rabbits often freeze in place as a survival strategy. Although dogs aren't so discerning when it comes to color, their eyes contain a high preponderance of light-sensitive cells called rods for top-notch motion detection.

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Reality Bites

The thing that I disdain more than anything else with regard to the government bureaucrats and Central Planners, is the inexplicable and unjustified confidence they have in their abilities. As much as I bash Wall Street, I would rather have a good investor (not a crony, government welfare baby investor like Warren Buffett, but a legitimate one), in a leadership position rather than the lifetime academics and politicians (lawyers) that are running things today. Why? Because anyone that has worked in the real world of investing has made so many mistakes it is impossible to count. I want to make clear that none of this applies to the TBTF banks, which absolutely couldn’t make a dime without government handouts and bailouts, or the buy-side firms that are in bed with the government (you know who you are), but legitimate “eat what you kill” investors and traders that have no help and must be right more than wrong to survive. These folks are consistently humbled, week after week and year after year by the market and forces beyond their control. They are constantly reminded that failure is just around the corner. In many cases, folks do fail and then they have to pick themselves up off the ground, shake away the dirt and fight to win another day. This of course doesn’t merely apply to investors and traders, but to all those out there in the private workforce trying to create a new business, climb the ladder from line cook to store manager at McDonalds or Wal-Mart, or those spending hours upon hours in a garage or lab trying to discover the next game changing invention. The people it does not apply to are the people running the planet at the moment, which is why there is no doubt they will run the entire global economy straight into the ground.

We need to understand that there is a war raging outside. A war between the parasite class and the productive human. The parasites have total control of all levers of power at the moment, and they intend on using the ultimate implosion of the system to further consolidate their gains in order to create a neo-feudalist society where productive humans will become serfs that exist merely to produce for the pleasure of the parasites with no hope of escape for themselves or their children or grandchildren. We cannot allow this to happen, which is why the most important thing is to inform as many people as possible of the game plan ahead of time so that they are unable to manipulate humanity to acquiesce to its own bondage in the middle of a crisis.

The most dangerous people on the planet are the lifetime academics and these are the folks in charge of the most powerful institutions in the world today, the Central Banks. These lifetime academics have been coddled their whole lives within the “prestigious” institutions that define the paradigm that we live under. In rising high up in academia, these folks never really experienced failure. Sure, they may have received a B+ on a paper once instead of an A, but they have never experienced that crushing failure that only the real world can deliver. As I mentioned earlier, I would put all of the leaders of TBTF banks/brokers in the same category. They have been bailed out at the taxpayer’s expense so many times that they do not live in reality either. When they fail they get bailed out, when they succeed they take all the gains and then buy everyone else off around them. This is not a novel point, but it is extremely important to fully internalize because these are the people (academics and TBTF executives) that are in total control of all economic, social and political policy in the Western world today. It is because of them that we are in the situation we are in and it will be because of them that we will crash and burn.

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OUR JOB IS TO SHOOT PEOPLE

Anaheim Police Chief John Welter: ‘Look, Our Job Is To Shoot People’

ANAHEIM, CA—As protests over a pair of fatal weekend shootings by Anaheim Police entered their fifth day, law enforcement officials continued Thursday to ignore calls for a stricter departmental gun-use policy, claiming such rules would prevent officers from executing their essential task of shooting people. “Our job is to shoot bullets at dangerous individuals posing a threat to life and property, and we’re certainly not going to respond to a request that we stop doing our job,” said Anaheim police chief John Welter, who pointed out that all officers are required to carry guns, and that guns are for shooting people. “A policeman who fails to discharge his service revolver on a regular basis is failing to serve his community, pure and simple.” Welter added that anyone who knows anything about the history of law enforcement in Southern California should be well aware of that fact by now.

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Just In Case I'm Gone Tomorrow

One day a woman's husband died, and on that clear, cold morning, in the warmth of their bedroom, the wife was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't "anymore".

No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat, no more "just one minute."

Sometimes, what we care about the most gets all used up and goes away, never to return before we can say good-bye, say "I love you."

So while we have it, it's best we love it, care for it, fix it when it's broken and heal it when it's sick.

This is true for marriage.....And old cars... And children with bad report cards, and dogs with bad hips, and aging parents and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it.

Some things we keep -- like a best friend who moved away or a sister-in-law after divorce. There are just some things that make us happy, no matter what.

Life is important, like people we know who are special.. And so, we keep them close!

Suppose one morning you never wake up, do all your friends know you love them? Important thing is to let every one of your friends know you love them, even if you think they don't love you back.

And just in case I'm gone tomorrow, please vote against Obama!

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Mayor And Media Attack City Council

The continued saga and saber-rattling by Salisbury Mayor Jim Ireton and his cohorts concerning downtown revitalization remains filled with mistruths and unfair representations. We have the mayor and media attacking specific council members for not supporting the mayor's attempt to correct this issue. The mayor continues to label City Council President Terry Cohen, Council Vice President Debbie Campbell and Councilman Tim Spies as impediments to progress. This is absolutely ridiculous and is pure political theater.

Previous councils and mayors over the years have obviously failed to re-establish the downtown area. The problems with downtown existed prior to this council's term in office; however, it is easier to attack this council. Let's analyze several attempts at revitalization.

Urban Salisbury began as a volunteer organization created to accelerate and assist with the downtown revitalization. When this organization was slated for defunding, Urban Salisbury cited impediments to its success, including funding issues. So the council stepped in and was specific in directing city funding to events. However, Urban Salisbury sent a letter informing the council that it was returning the money and its doors would close. The council continued to provide funding for events through alternate avenues.

The council continues to support Urban Salisbury's proposed streetscape plan and vision. Do we blame the current council for trying to assist this organization, and for Urban Salisbury's lack of success?

The council was told all downtown space up to code is fully occupied and space that is not in compliance remains an impediment to revitalization. Over the past three years, this administration promised inspections would be conducted and all noncompliant properties would be brought to code; this has not been accomplished. Is this the current council's fault? Is this council responsible for this broken promise?

The revolving loan fund guidelines for downtown were changed to make the loan limit much smaller, at the request of the mayor. Then the diminished loan fund was identified by the mayor and council as an impediment. The council agreed to the concept of increasing the loan size again. Since then, the administration has failed to advance new guidelines. Is this the current council's fault?

The answer to all these questions is no.

This council, along with previous councils, supports downtown revitalization. Its decision to not support the mayor's plan was based purely on not meeting the criteria for success for redevelopment of the downtown area. The mayor is presenting a poor plan for downtown revitalization that is unrealistic. The council -- correctly -- will not support this.

l applaud the council on its courage and diligence, along with its consistent performance and on behalf of the taxpayers and citizens of Salisbury.

Bruce W. Webster

Another Daily Times' Screw-Up

RE: "Laurel hardware store closes its doors," July 15

I am writing in response to an article in the business section of the Sunday edition of The Daily Times. The story contained no less than 12 errors or omissions. If we did not know better, we would think co-owner Chris Johnson wrote this himself.

Two things in the story are completely untrue and are troubling to me as co-owner of the store. One of the statements in the story read: "Shortly after Johnson close the doors for the last time at the original location." If anyone was asked, they would refute that statement, as Johnson left the day-to-day operations of the business in April. He resigned the president's position in January. I continued the day-to-day operations and worked with lawyers and the auctioneer to close the store. Johnson -- or the writer --claimed I was no longer associated with the store. That statement, as well as several more, was especially troubling, as I stayed through the complete closing of the store.

My association with the store goes back before Johnson's, something that also was not mentioned in the story. In fact, the story makes it appear as if I came along later.

Why weren't the 13 former employees, or at least some of them, interviewed for a story like this?

My dad and I have heard from several people who said it was not a story, but an endorsement for Johnson's new business.

There are more troubling statements in the story; however, we choose not to discuss them at this time. We hope a fair and accurate can be written.

Michael P. Murphy

John P. Murphy

Laurel

Md. Housing Department Audit Finds Late Paperwork, Misplaced Funds

The Housing and Community Development Department filed reports on escrow accounts six months late and $194,000 supposed to go to housing was sent to the wrong state agency by a bank without efforts to recover it, state auditors found. Similar audits in past years had found the same problems with the escrow accounts.

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