Please do tell us who has the best environment for horses? Nevertheless, "OUR" horses were out this weekend having a blast in their very own pond. Hope you had an enjoyable weekend as well.
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Monday, November 06, 2006
Here's To Barrie Tilghman & Chief Webster
Please do tell us who has the best environment for horses? Nevertheless, "OUR" horses were out this weekend having a blast in their very own pond. Hope you had an enjoyable weekend as well.
Trends In News Distribution
Has anyone else noticed how the main stream media sources are almost begging for news tips, story idea's, and newsworthy photographs?
Just take a look at the front page of the disgrace and you'll see an item called "Contact Us" which is nothing more than a request for you to send in any juicy story or tip. No credit, no pay, no free paper, nothing.
Then you have WMDT TV47 with their "Newswatcher" banner at the top of their website and 30 second TV ads. Their motto is "See it, shoot it, send it in"!
And finally WBOC.com with a dedicated menu item on their website called "Your Story Idea's"
All of these ploys are meant to get the best possible, breaking news stories to the news outlet in a timely fashion simply so they can "run" with it as if it were their own staff and hard work bringing you the latest. You might say "What's wrong with that, don't you even ask for people to call you with their tips?" And I can only say there is one BIG difference between the local blog sites and the media sources mentioned above. They are out to make a PROFIT with your free contribution. The sell advertising space and in the case of the disgrace they even have the nerve to sell the rag they call daily news.
The face of news as we know will change in the near future. Blog sites are fast becoming a reliable means of legitimate news and is able to distribute the information in a fast and efficient manner.
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Breaking The Law
Yesterday Jennifer and I took a stroll around our property in Willards and came upon a brand new deer stand directly on our property, completely illegal. As we were tearing down the stand, three 4-wheelers came racing across the field next to our property and while they were riding in our direction all we could hear them saying was, "OH SH*T!"
It had to kill these people to watch us tear down this brand new stand and walk away with it but you know what, tough sh*t! I must have posted a hundred no hunting no trespassing signs around this property. They just don't listen! I've read articles about people getting snagged all over the Eastern Shore for illegally hunting and I simply thought it might not have been as wide spread as I had originally thought but I just can't keep people off my property.
Now I'll call in DNR and hopefully they make a few arrests and some of these people will learn? Have you seen or heard of similar problems where you're from?
The Former City Council Work Session In October
Along with the agreement of all present (the flying monkeys) to remove the ability of councilpersons to request information from council meeting audience members, and the miserable solution to the mounted patrol mounts, the firetrucks came back to haunt. Last month, with only a bid of $600 for the 1981 American LaFrance pumper (probably $150,000 purchase price, with over $120,000 in improvements), the council looked to investigate selling the vehicle on eBay. A similar truck was selling at the time (not the final price) for over $6000. At Monday's work session, the finance officer came to the meeting to tell them, after a month of opportunity, that she didn't know how much it would cost to sell the vehicle, or how many city employee man-hours would be necessary to carry out the sale. She delivered this information in kind of a whiny and nervous voice, which indicated to me that she hadn't made any effort at all to do the investigation, which would have taken her about 20 minutes on the eBay site, or, worse yet, was instructed by someone either not to even try or to supress her findings if she did. Having had rather extensive experience myself with selling on eBay (I've actually made mortgage payments with profits from selling mostly junk on eBay,) I can, with assurance, relate that the listing cost for the truck would be under $100, that eBay would take as a selling fee 6% or so of the final selling price, and that a totally unexperienced seller could list an item, with pictures and description, in under two hours. An experienced user could do it in 20 minutes. I attempted to relate this information to the council, but you know how it is: I was gaveled down, and after the meeting, dissed by Dunn. The more probable truth behind the matter is that the council (minus Mrs. Campbell) wants to give the truck away to the Fairmount Volunteer FD! Gary Comegys led the discussion on this one, and remarked (like it came to them as a pleasant surprise) that it would build a good relationship with Fairmount via a goodwill effort. What *%##^@# goodwill do we have to build with Fairmount, I have to *^#@&&*# ask??! Here we are with a major budget deficit looking us square in the eye, the mayor and council giving more away every time they meet, and we choose to dispose of a valuable piece of property for what will amount only to boosting Gary Comegys' reputation within the Maryland fire community? Oh, yeah, you can bet that his plate at the muskrat and 'coon dinner down there will be forever gratis. And the presentation of the piece will undoubtedly be by Gary, representing the City among a large gathering of redneck voters, followed by a big spread in the Times, with pictures, of course, and these will be framed for the wall of the Fairmount VFD. The PR will follow Gary, but it won't follow the City. Frankly, if Fairmount wants the engine, let them bid for it. $6000 and more can be had quite handily through both fundraising and State and even Federal grants held and requested by Fairmount. Gary can show them how, he being the all-things-fire-station knowledgeable fellow that he is.
As for the second truck, the SFD has requested to keep it for parts, as they have a very similar, if not identical engine in service. This will no doubt grace a bay in the new $12M and climbing firehouse on the bog until it is a skeleton and only worth pennies per hundredweight. Actually, I like this idea of recycling this engine, as the cost of body and other parts for these is astronomical. I wish that they'd thought about this before they first offered it for sale.
As an update, as of late October, straight from the horse's mouth, the SFD has decided not to keep the second engine, stating that it would be more of a bother to keep it than not.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
City Of Salisbury Horse Auction
To All Those Concerned:
After several meetings Jennifer and I came to learn from several different people that Chief Webster and Barrie Tilghman were absolutely NOT going to allow Jennifer and I to own and or even purchase "any" of these horses. "I don't care if Albero offers a million dollars for each horse, he's not getting them."
Bill & Judy Hearne respectfully asked us to step aside and not place any bid on the horses as it would simply do no good at all. We have respected that request as I wouldn't want the Chief or Pam visiting our home and seeing just how the other side lives anyway. (LOL)
It is funny to see and know they'll go to all these extremes and expenses just to keep Jennifer & I out of the Zoo, (Grandparents Membership) purchase land and even horses now from the City. That's OK Barrie, you'll be out of Office soon enough and we'll all make sure a proper Mayor replaces you.
More importantly Folks, I trust the Hearne Family and I believe these horses will in fact go to good homes. As soon as I know more information I'll let you know.
Mathias & Conway Are Off To The Races
Today at Ocean Downs Race Track they were holding/broadcasting the World Series of Horse Racing, (The Breeders Cup). Mathias & Conway knew exactly where to be as they made very sure that all the gamblers in the Club House were greeted with smiles, brochures, handshake, hugs and everything they wanted to hear from these two candidates. It was heard throughout the Club House, "WE WANT SLOT MACHINES, WE WANT SLOT MACHINES!" Well, what you want and what you're going to get are two different things!
Since I used to live in Ocean City I thought I'd throw out some information 99% of you weren't aware of. Did you know that every Sunsations Store has an electrical outlet in the floor every 8 to 10 feet apart? I wondered why these people were buying out these locations like there was no tomorrow and building these grand stores for tee shirts? I finally asked someone who was helping build out many of the locations and he replied, they're doing it because they're banking on Slots coming to Ocean City and they want to be 100% prepared ahead of time.
That also explains why the current owner of Ocean Downs bought back the Race Track that was failing and then invested so much money rebuilding the main building. It was always well known that Jim Mathias was dead set against Slots coming into Ocean City. However, things have changed now that he's no longer there. Could he know something we don't? Could it be that Slots may be just around the corner but not under his watch as Mayor?
On the other side of the coin, could this be why he's running elsewhere because he wants to help prevent such a thing from happening? Oh, the game of politics, isn't it just grand?
County Executive Hopeful Charles Jannace & Son Worked The Salisbury WalMart Today
As Charles Jannace would hand out campaign pamphlets they'd sometimes find themselves all over the ground in WalMart and or directly in the trash can. I'm confident some actually stayed in the posession of some voters but when I asked one of the employees inside WalMart what their thoughts were they said, we've been picking these things up off the floor all day long as well as emptying the trash cans because their so full. You gotta hand it to the guy though, he's out there giving it his best. Could it still be a day late and a dollar short though? We'll see on Tuesday. Little Charles was testing the enter/exit doors as he'd run in and out of them making sure they worked properly.
Friday, November 03, 2006
Welcome To The Salisbury Lowe's
Obviously the Chief Of Police is doing a MUCH better job with Crime and Gangs in the City!Let's see, we started out only months ago where the Chief actually said there were no Gangs in Salisbury and now he's admitting things with Gangs are actually pretty serious.
Rather than Gangs slowing down and getting a grip on things, more graffiti is showing up in areas we hoped would never be exposed.
So please, do tell us Chief, why shouldn't we join forces with a County Wide Police Department when we have daily proof you're behind the 8-Ball every day. Oh, maybe you just don't see all this crime and my Blog Site has made your job even easier? You don't have to go anywhere as I'll deliver the photos and locations so you don't have to do anything!
I'm sad for the Officers trying to hold their heads high while their Boss sits in Ocean City in a complete other County while they clean up your mess as best as possible.
Sorry Chief, you're a nice guy and all but you know what, it's getting pretty bad in Salisbury and it's getting far worse under your watch, like it or not. Blame it on transient criminals all you want, they're coming here for a reason and I'd say it's because Salisbury is an easy target and the Chief of Police is asleep behind the wheel.
Enough is enough and it's time for immediate changes.
Do You Think The City Of Salisbury WWTP Can Sell The Coast Guard Human Feces From Their Sludge Pit????
Landfill gas to heat shipyard in $3 million, 15-year deal
By Brent Jones
Sun Reporter
November 1, 2006
It's praised as a win-win deal for everyone: The U.S. Coast Guard gets a cheap supply of energy, cash-hungry Baltimore receives a total of $3 million, and tons of landfill gas laden with methane are prevented from leaking into the atmosphere.
Under an agreement scheduled to be announced today, the Coast Guard will pay the city $200,000 annually for 15 years for the methane, which will come from the city's Quarantine Road Landfill, where it accumulates naturally as solid waste decays.
The gas will be piped about a mile to the Coast Guard shipyard in Curtis Bay, where a methane-powered co-generation plant will generate electricity and produce enough steam to heat the shipyard during the winter.
Construction of the plant is expected to begin next summer and to be completed by the spring of 2008. The city will begin receiving payments for the gas after the pipeline is completed and the plant begins to operate.
Methane is the primary component of natural gas, but it is more cost-effective when derived from landfill gas. Coast Guard officials say the new system will eventually result in saving millions of dollars in utility costs. But those savings will not appear for 15 years after the Coast Guard pays for the plant and pipeline.
Cmdr. John Slaughter, facilities engineer for the shipyard, said the use of methane to generate electricity and thermal energy will enable the Coast Guard to satisfy a federal mandate requiring agencies to become more energy-efficient.
"We will be pumping 30,000 pounds of steam per hour," Slaughter said.
The deal is part of a broader national push by businesses and governments to generate electricity or steam from decomposing garbage buried in landfills. The shift allows for federal tax breaks and gives an alternative to rising natural gas prices.
Last week, the city signed a contract with a Milwaukee-based company to use methane produced by the Back River sewage treatment plant to generate electricity. Officials expect the deal to save the city $1.4 million a year in energy costs while improving air quality.
"Public works has been on a course to reduce energy and protect the environment through a number of projects," said George L. Winfield, the city's public works director. "The bottom line is, this is something else the city is doing to protect the environment."
Environmentalists point out that methane is a potent greenhouse gas and is 23 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, the gas most closely associated with global warming.
Government officials in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties have embarked on similar plans to sell landfill gas.
The Quarantine Road landfill opened in 1985, holds about 10 million tons of waste and averages about 35,000 tons of rubbish every month. It is one of five public solid waste disposal sites in the city, resting on 126 acres.
Landfills are also the largest source of methane emissions created by man in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
City officials expect an overflow of gas from the Quarantine Road landfill and plan to sell off gas rights beyond the needs of the shipyard.
"I think that is a very viable option," Winfield said. "We don't have definitive information on how much methane gas will be generated. But we continue to add materials to landfills. We just know there are going to be an opportunities for other non-governmental entities."
Link to the article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.methane01nov01,0,6842256.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
By Brent Jones
Sun Reporter
November 1, 2006
It's praised as a win-win deal for everyone: The U.S. Coast Guard gets a cheap supply of energy, cash-hungry Baltimore receives a total of $3 million, and tons of landfill gas laden with methane are prevented from leaking into the atmosphere.
Under an agreement scheduled to be announced today, the Coast Guard will pay the city $200,000 annually for 15 years for the methane, which will come from the city's Quarantine Road Landfill, where it accumulates naturally as solid waste decays.
The gas will be piped about a mile to the Coast Guard shipyard in Curtis Bay, where a methane-powered co-generation plant will generate electricity and produce enough steam to heat the shipyard during the winter.
Construction of the plant is expected to begin next summer and to be completed by the spring of 2008. The city will begin receiving payments for the gas after the pipeline is completed and the plant begins to operate.
Methane is the primary component of natural gas, but it is more cost-effective when derived from landfill gas. Coast Guard officials say the new system will eventually result in saving millions of dollars in utility costs. But those savings will not appear for 15 years after the Coast Guard pays for the plant and pipeline.
Cmdr. John Slaughter, facilities engineer for the shipyard, said the use of methane to generate electricity and thermal energy will enable the Coast Guard to satisfy a federal mandate requiring agencies to become more energy-efficient.
"We will be pumping 30,000 pounds of steam per hour," Slaughter said.
The deal is part of a broader national push by businesses and governments to generate electricity or steam from decomposing garbage buried in landfills. The shift allows for federal tax breaks and gives an alternative to rising natural gas prices.
Last week, the city signed a contract with a Milwaukee-based company to use methane produced by the Back River sewage treatment plant to generate electricity. Officials expect the deal to save the city $1.4 million a year in energy costs while improving air quality.
"Public works has been on a course to reduce energy and protect the environment through a number of projects," said George L. Winfield, the city's public works director. "The bottom line is, this is something else the city is doing to protect the environment."
Environmentalists point out that methane is a potent greenhouse gas and is 23 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, the gas most closely associated with global warming.
Government officials in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties have embarked on similar plans to sell landfill gas.
The Quarantine Road landfill opened in 1985, holds about 10 million tons of waste and averages about 35,000 tons of rubbish every month. It is one of five public solid waste disposal sites in the city, resting on 126 acres.
Landfills are also the largest source of methane emissions created by man in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
City officials expect an overflow of gas from the Quarantine Road landfill and plan to sell off gas rights beyond the needs of the shipyard.
"I think that is a very viable option," Winfield said. "We don't have definitive information on how much methane gas will be generated. But we continue to add materials to landfills. We just know there are going to be an opportunities for other non-governmental entities."
Link to the article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.methane01nov01,0,6842256.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
Nemo's Championship Photo Is In
Don't forget the Dog Show in Salisbury sponsored by the Salisbury Kennel Club on November 10th, 11th & 12th. (Friday, Saturday & Sunday)We have Renoir entered in that show as well. There's not enough dogs in his class to possibly win a Major but the more points the better.
GO CASSANDRA WILLIAMS!
SALISBURY CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION AGENDA
NOVEMBER 6, 2006
4:30 p.m.
CONFERENCE ROOM 305
GOVERNMENT OFFICE BUILDING
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pipe stem annexations – Paul Wilber
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Discussion and outline of proposed amendments to Planned Development Districts (PDD) – Jack Lenox/Paul Wilber
5:30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. Ordinance – amendment to the rental license ordinance to allow the license to be withdrawn if a nuisance violation – Chief Allan Webster
5:50 p.m. – 6:20 p.m. Review of annexation incentive policy – John Pick
6:20 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. General discussion/upcoming agendas
4:30 p.m.
CONFERENCE ROOM 305
GOVERNMENT OFFICE BUILDING
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Pipe stem annexations – Paul Wilber
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Discussion and outline of proposed amendments to Planned Development Districts (PDD) – Jack Lenox/Paul Wilber
5:30 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. Ordinance – amendment to the rental license ordinance to allow the license to be withdrawn if a nuisance violation – Chief Allan Webster
5:50 p.m. – 6:20 p.m. Review of annexation incentive policy – John Pick
6:20 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. General discussion/upcoming agendas
Westside Wisdom Has An Excellent Article On Mike Lewis
http://westsidewisdom.blogspot.com/2006/11/mike-lewis-for-sheriff-part-2.html
Friday, November 03, 2006
Mike Lewis For Sheriff! Part 2-TheRoache Saga!
I'm sure if Mike reads this at some point in time he'll realize who I am. I however feel compelled to speak regarding the "racial profiling" issues Mr. Roache has brought up. I had the privilege to ride along with Mike many times during a season of drug interdiction on the Rt. 13 By-Pass and found his stops to involve every type of race on the globe who had violated the motor vehicle/traffic laws of the State of Maryland. He never even implied stopping someone because they were black. Also if you're are dumb enough to be speeding,80 mph in a 65 mph zone,in a rental car,without a valid drivers liscense,without your name on the rental contract,without any consistent story between individuals as to where,why or what you're doing and you have a Cheech & Chong attitude about the whole event along with a joint or bag of pot in plain sight. Read this carefully YOU NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!!!!! These are facts not something I read in the New York Times! How dare Joel Roache blatantly throw out half truths against anyone in law enforcement who has watched his close friend die on the shoulder of Route 13,has had to make a split second decision to preserve lives by taking a life and then be drug into civil court to defend himself and be labeld a racist. You Mr. Roache are not suited to even put your name on the same page as the name Mike Lewis. I could go on for page after page here,but I won't I'll end with this, as a life long resident of the Salisbury/Wicomico County area I wished we had a building full of Mike Lewis type individuals on Naylor Mill Rd. so I could put my guns away,leave my doors unlocked again and not worry abouth the safety of my family anytime I'm not with them to protect them!!! I hope I've made myself clear on this subject and MIKE LEWIS FOR SHERIFF!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friday, November 03, 2006
Mike Lewis For Sheriff! Part 2-TheRoache Saga!
I'm sure if Mike reads this at some point in time he'll realize who I am. I however feel compelled to speak regarding the "racial profiling" issues Mr. Roache has brought up. I had the privilege to ride along with Mike many times during a season of drug interdiction on the Rt. 13 By-Pass and found his stops to involve every type of race on the globe who had violated the motor vehicle/traffic laws of the State of Maryland. He never even implied stopping someone because they were black. Also if you're are dumb enough to be speeding,80 mph in a 65 mph zone,in a rental car,without a valid drivers liscense,without your name on the rental contract,without any consistent story between individuals as to where,why or what you're doing and you have a Cheech & Chong attitude about the whole event along with a joint or bag of pot in plain sight. Read this carefully YOU NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!!!!! These are facts not something I read in the New York Times! How dare Joel Roache blatantly throw out half truths against anyone in law enforcement who has watched his close friend die on the shoulder of Route 13,has had to make a split second decision to preserve lives by taking a life and then be drug into civil court to defend himself and be labeld a racist. You Mr. Roache are not suited to even put your name on the same page as the name Mike Lewis. I could go on for page after page here,but I won't I'll end with this, as a life long resident of the Salisbury/Wicomico County area I wished we had a building full of Mike Lewis type individuals on Naylor Mill Rd. so I could put my guns away,leave my doors unlocked again and not worry abouth the safety of my family anytime I'm not with them to protect them!!! I hope I've made myself clear on this subject and MIKE LEWIS FOR SHERIFF!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, November 02, 2006
O' THOSE "MISCHIEVOUS MOSLEMS"
WHAT A BUNCH OF MERRY PRANKSTERS!
By Don Feder
10-28-06
I should seriously write a book called, The Idiots Guide To Not Thinking Seriously About Islam.
It's hard to find a subject where mushy thinking is more in vogue -- where political correctness conquers reality more thoroughly. People actually are afraid to think seriously on the subject, because the logical conclusions are too frightening for many to contemplate.
And so, there's no place where comfortable clichés are more readily deployed.
Probably the most glaring illustration of inanity here were recent comments by his Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the 14th earthly incarnation of Larry, Moe and Curly.
On leaving a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, the leader of Tibetan Buddhists told reporters that we can't hold all Muslims responsible for the misdeeds of a few.
The Lama: "Nowadays, I often express that due to a few mischievous Muslims' acts we should not consider all Muslims as something bad. That is very unfair."
Expanding on this dazzling analysis, the Dalai Lama continued: "A few mischievous people you can find from all religions -- among Muslims and Christians and Jews and Buddhists. To generalize is not correct."
O.K., now I know this will get me scratched from the invite list for Richard Gere's New Year's Eve party, but I just gotta ask: When was the last time a bald guy in a saffron robe threatened to kill someone he believed had insulted the Buddha?
While we're at it, when was the last time a gang of Talmudic scholars tried to blow up anything? Did the Vatican put out a fatwah on "DaVinci Code" author Dan Brown? The last holy war committed in the name of Christianity was over 800 years ago. If Hindus behead hostages, I've somehow managed to miss it.
"A few mischievous Muslims" makes kidnapping, torture, beheadings, bomb plots, mass murder and death threats sound like schoolboy pranks. It's September 11, 2001, and some high-spirited Muslim merrymakers just crashed two planes into the World Trade Center, slaughtering 3,000 innocents. What a lark!
Here are some recent examples of Muslim high-jinks:
· In Iraq, Father Paulis Iskander, a Syrian-Orthodox priest, was kidnapped by a few Muslim pranksters. After good-naturedly torturing him, they beheaded the priest. This was in retaliation for Pope Benedict XVI's quote of a 14th century Byzantine emperor. Jihadists apparently missed the Catholic-Orthodox schism (1054 AD) -- or maybe all Crusaders look the same to them.
· There are 1 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq -- but not for long. They've been targeted by every side in the civil war. On September 24th, two bombs exploded in St. Mary's Cathedral in Baghdad. Earlier, a church was bombed in Basra.
· Muslims celebrated their holy month of Ramadan by racking up an impressive body count -- more than 1,600 dead in 280 separate terror attacks in 17 countries. As I recall, for my bar mitzvah, I didn't kill anyone. But I did hurt someone's feelings on Passover, once.
· In a recent column, former New York Mayor Ed Koch reports on a meeting he had with Pope John Paul II in the early 1990s. Forthright fellow that he is, Koch asked the Pope why the Vatican didn't recognize Israel (it did a few years later), Koch says John Paul II replied: "It will happen someday, but it can't happen now. I have a responsibility to the Catholics who live in Koranic lands and who would be in danger if we recognized Israel." This wasn't paranoia. John Paul knew exactly what happens when Muslims get testy.
· In Germany, the government is starting to crack down on an estimated 5,000 Islamist websites that are "spreading hatred" and "hawking terror." I see, those few mischievous Muslims must all be web-site designers and computer geeks.
· Then again, perhaps they're all involved in mass communications. The American-Muslim TV network, broadcasting in six states to a potential audience of two million, says its mission is "to improve the image of Muslims in the United States." Recent programming included the broadcast of an anti-Semitic/anti-Christian sermon, with the supplication: "May God destroy them."
· In Atlanta, Ethiopian immigrant Khalid Adem is on trial for circumcising his then-two-year-old daughter. Female genital mutilation is all the rage among African Muslims.
· Islamic funsters tend to be particularly hard on the ladies. There are as many as 300,000 runaway girls in happenin' Iran, some as young as 9. It's estimated that 86% of the runaways were rejected by their families after they were raped. In Prophet-land, rape is shameful -- for the victim.
· Islam's rhetorical war against the hated Zionist entity continues. In Karachi, Pakistan, a few mischievous Muslims -- well, 6,000 to be exact -- marched through the streets shouting "Death to Israel! Death America." That's how Muslim merrymakers celebrate Al-Qods Day (or Jerusalem Day).
· His Naziness Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (president of 68 million waggish Iranians) continues to assure us that Israel will be "wiped from the map," the Holocaust is a "myth," and any nation that sides with the Jewish state will face the "boiling wrath" of adherents to the religion of peace.
· On October 24, the Taliban announced it was planning attacks on civilian targets in Europe, in revenge for the invasion of Afghanistan that resulted in toppling its regime. A Taliban commander observed on Sky News television: "It's acceptable to kill ordinary people in Europe because these are the people who have voted in the government.... We will kill them and laugh over them." Like the Dalai Lama said, these guys have a sense of humor.
· As noted earlier, there is no freedom of conscience in Islam (or freedom of anything else). In Ethiopia, in July, a mischievous Muslim mob attacked a group of Christians in the city of Henno. The victims included two prominent Christians who had converted from Islam. The Muslim scamps used knives, stones and metal bars to reinforce the point that -- like the Syndicate -- there's only one way out of this organization.
· The Afghans who kidnapped Italian journalist Gabriele Torsello have offered to exchange him for Abdul Rahman, a Christian convert forced to flee the country. His own family wants Rahman dead. Bring back Rahman so we may instruct him in the finer points of Sharia, the abductors of Torsello plead.
· In Britain, there are veiled threats over the suggestion by Tony Blair and others, that some Muslim chicks stop dressing like they just stepped off a camel caravan (full face veil).
· Perhaps the Brits are thinking that if their homegrown Sons and Daughters of Allah were more assimilated, they wouldn't be subjected to high-spirited pranks like the 2005 London transit bombings (52 commuters dead) or the foiled August plot to blow up 10 U.S.-bound jetliners (with a potential death toll exceeding 9/11)
· Across the Channel, Robert Redeker (a French high-school philosophy teacher) is a marked man, since the publication of his September 19 piece in Le Figaro, wherein he called the Koran "a book of extraordinary violence" (Hello, Dalai!) and observed that Mohammed was "a pitiless warlord, pillager , massacrer of Jews and polygamist" -- in other words, a 7th century Arabian rascal. E-mail death threats started pouring in the day the article ran. One naughty website published a map showing the exact location of his home, along with photos of Redeker and his workplace. (An e-mail amusingly informed the teacher: "You will never feel secure on this earth. One billion, three hundred million Muslims are ready to kill you.")
· All it took was one guy named Mohammed to murder Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004, for making a movie about the treatment of women in the wacky world of Islam. Van Gogh was shot, stabbed and had his throat slashed. A note by the killer, pinned to his body, read, "I did what I did purely out of my beliefs."
· A spokesman for a French police union says Muslim youths are waging a "civil war" against the gendarmes. The Gallic intifada that started last November never really stopped. At one point last year, disaffected "youth," as the French press discretely calls them, were torching 1,300 cars a night, to cries of "Allahu Akbar." Rioting spread to 300 French cities and spilled over into Belgium and Germany. Now, whenever French cops go to housing projects they are assaulted with everything from stones to guns to Molotov cocktails. Nearly 2,500 officers have been injured this year.
To return to the Dalai Lama's daft observation, while it is undoubtedly true that most Muslims don't want to jihad us -- there are enough who do. In a 2005 survey by The Daily Telegraph, one quarter of British Muslims said they had at least some sympathy with their coreligionists who murdered 52 random Brits in the July commuter bombings. One-quarter of a million is more than "a few."
Add to this number the minions of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Jihad-this, and Army of God-that, the mobs in Tehran, Karachi and Dar es Saalam etc., the ayatollahs, imams, sheiks, mullahs, their blind followers and rabid supporters -- not to mention the Saudis funding radical mosques and madrassahs from Queens to Calcutta and beyond. It all adds up to a whole lot of Muslim mischief-making.
And let's not forget the millions (tens of millions? hundreds of millions?) of Muslims who aren't actually killing anyone, or condoning the killing of anyone (except Jews, of course), who nevertheless think it would be swell if the whole world lived under Islamic law -- with honor-killings and genital-mutilation for all.
Now, here's the really scary part: As Mark Steyn points out in his book America Alone: The End of The World As We Know It, between 1970 and 2000, while the share of the world's population represented by industrialized nations fell from just under 30% to just over 20%, the mischievous nations (whose principal manufactured products are jihad and general theological nuttiness) went from 15% to around 20%.
What nations have the highest fertility rates? So sorry you asked. (and you will be too when you see the answer) -- Niger (7.46 children per woman), Mali (7.42), Somalia (6.76), Afghanistan (6.69) and Yemen (6.58). Says Steyn: "Notice what they have in common? Starts with an I, ends with a slam."
For comparison, the fertility rate in the U.S. is 2.11, about replacement level. That's high next to Canada (1.5), Germany (1.3), Russia and Italy (1.2) and Spain (1.1). Of the 10 nations with the lowest birthrates, 9 are in Europe.
It gets worse. Consider the percentage of population currently under 15 years of age -- a harbinger of future demographic growth -- Spain and Germany (14%), the U.K. (18%), the U.S. (21%), Saudi Arabia (39%), Pakistan (40%) and Yemen (47%).
We're told that Muslims are 10% of the population of France. But of "Frenchmen" under 20, 30% are mischievous. In the U.K. there are more Moslems in mosque each week than Christians attending Church of England services.
Forget suicide bombs; they're detonating population bombs.
Should we "consider all Muslims as something bad"? Of course not. Should we consider Islam as something bad? That's an entirely different question -- one which politicians, Lamas and the mainstream media studiously avoid -- when they're not babbling about the "religion of peace."
And if Islam itself is "something bad" -- if a faith embraced by 1.3 billion people contains within it the seeds of the evil we see all around us (requiring only the right conditions to germinate) -- what does that say for the future of a world where Islam is the fastest growing religion?
Some of us live on comfortable estates in India, writing books about inner-peace and harmony, while contemplating the sound of one hand clapping. Others of us live in the real world.
By Don Feder
10-28-06
I should seriously write a book called, The Idiots Guide To Not Thinking Seriously About Islam.
It's hard to find a subject where mushy thinking is more in vogue -- where political correctness conquers reality more thoroughly. People actually are afraid to think seriously on the subject, because the logical conclusions are too frightening for many to contemplate.
And so, there's no place where comfortable clichés are more readily deployed.
Probably the most glaring illustration of inanity here were recent comments by his Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the 14th earthly incarnation of Larry, Moe and Curly.
On leaving a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, the leader of Tibetan Buddhists told reporters that we can't hold all Muslims responsible for the misdeeds of a few.
The Lama: "Nowadays, I often express that due to a few mischievous Muslims' acts we should not consider all Muslims as something bad. That is very unfair."
Expanding on this dazzling analysis, the Dalai Lama continued: "A few mischievous people you can find from all religions -- among Muslims and Christians and Jews and Buddhists. To generalize is not correct."
O.K., now I know this will get me scratched from the invite list for Richard Gere's New Year's Eve party, but I just gotta ask: When was the last time a bald guy in a saffron robe threatened to kill someone he believed had insulted the Buddha?
While we're at it, when was the last time a gang of Talmudic scholars tried to blow up anything? Did the Vatican put out a fatwah on "DaVinci Code" author Dan Brown? The last holy war committed in the name of Christianity was over 800 years ago. If Hindus behead hostages, I've somehow managed to miss it.
"A few mischievous Muslims" makes kidnapping, torture, beheadings, bomb plots, mass murder and death threats sound like schoolboy pranks. It's September 11, 2001, and some high-spirited Muslim merrymakers just crashed two planes into the World Trade Center, slaughtering 3,000 innocents. What a lark!
Here are some recent examples of Muslim high-jinks:
· In Iraq, Father Paulis Iskander, a Syrian-Orthodox priest, was kidnapped by a few Muslim pranksters. After good-naturedly torturing him, they beheaded the priest. This was in retaliation for Pope Benedict XVI's quote of a 14th century Byzantine emperor. Jihadists apparently missed the Catholic-Orthodox schism (1054 AD) -- or maybe all Crusaders look the same to them.
· There are 1 million Assyrian Christians in Iraq -- but not for long. They've been targeted by every side in the civil war. On September 24th, two bombs exploded in St. Mary's Cathedral in Baghdad. Earlier, a church was bombed in Basra.
· Muslims celebrated their holy month of Ramadan by racking up an impressive body count -- more than 1,600 dead in 280 separate terror attacks in 17 countries. As I recall, for my bar mitzvah, I didn't kill anyone. But I did hurt someone's feelings on Passover, once.
· In a recent column, former New York Mayor Ed Koch reports on a meeting he had with Pope John Paul II in the early 1990s. Forthright fellow that he is, Koch asked the Pope why the Vatican didn't recognize Israel (it did a few years later), Koch says John Paul II replied: "It will happen someday, but it can't happen now. I have a responsibility to the Catholics who live in Koranic lands and who would be in danger if we recognized Israel." This wasn't paranoia. John Paul knew exactly what happens when Muslims get testy.
· In Germany, the government is starting to crack down on an estimated 5,000 Islamist websites that are "spreading hatred" and "hawking terror." I see, those few mischievous Muslims must all be web-site designers and computer geeks.
· Then again, perhaps they're all involved in mass communications. The American-Muslim TV network, broadcasting in six states to a potential audience of two million, says its mission is "to improve the image of Muslims in the United States." Recent programming included the broadcast of an anti-Semitic/anti-Christian sermon, with the supplication: "May God destroy them."
· In Atlanta, Ethiopian immigrant Khalid Adem is on trial for circumcising his then-two-year-old daughter. Female genital mutilation is all the rage among African Muslims.
· Islamic funsters tend to be particularly hard on the ladies. There are as many as 300,000 runaway girls in happenin' Iran, some as young as 9. It's estimated that 86% of the runaways were rejected by their families after they were raped. In Prophet-land, rape is shameful -- for the victim.
· Islam's rhetorical war against the hated Zionist entity continues. In Karachi, Pakistan, a few mischievous Muslims -- well, 6,000 to be exact -- marched through the streets shouting "Death to Israel! Death America." That's how Muslim merrymakers celebrate Al-Qods Day (or Jerusalem Day).
· His Naziness Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (president of 68 million waggish Iranians) continues to assure us that Israel will be "wiped from the map," the Holocaust is a "myth," and any nation that sides with the Jewish state will face the "boiling wrath" of adherents to the religion of peace.
· On October 24, the Taliban announced it was planning attacks on civilian targets in Europe, in revenge for the invasion of Afghanistan that resulted in toppling its regime. A Taliban commander observed on Sky News television: "It's acceptable to kill ordinary people in Europe because these are the people who have voted in the government.... We will kill them and laugh over them." Like the Dalai Lama said, these guys have a sense of humor.
· As noted earlier, there is no freedom of conscience in Islam (or freedom of anything else). In Ethiopia, in July, a mischievous Muslim mob attacked a group of Christians in the city of Henno. The victims included two prominent Christians who had converted from Islam. The Muslim scamps used knives, stones and metal bars to reinforce the point that -- like the Syndicate -- there's only one way out of this organization.
· The Afghans who kidnapped Italian journalist Gabriele Torsello have offered to exchange him for Abdul Rahman, a Christian convert forced to flee the country. His own family wants Rahman dead. Bring back Rahman so we may instruct him in the finer points of Sharia, the abductors of Torsello plead.
· In Britain, there are veiled threats over the suggestion by Tony Blair and others, that some Muslim chicks stop dressing like they just stepped off a camel caravan (full face veil).
· Perhaps the Brits are thinking that if their homegrown Sons and Daughters of Allah were more assimilated, they wouldn't be subjected to high-spirited pranks like the 2005 London transit bombings (52 commuters dead) or the foiled August plot to blow up 10 U.S.-bound jetliners (with a potential death toll exceeding 9/11)
· Across the Channel, Robert Redeker (a French high-school philosophy teacher) is a marked man, since the publication of his September 19 piece in Le Figaro, wherein he called the Koran "a book of extraordinary violence" (Hello, Dalai!) and observed that Mohammed was "a pitiless warlord, pillager , massacrer of Jews and polygamist" -- in other words, a 7th century Arabian rascal. E-mail death threats started pouring in the day the article ran. One naughty website published a map showing the exact location of his home, along with photos of Redeker and his workplace. (An e-mail amusingly informed the teacher: "You will never feel secure on this earth. One billion, three hundred million Muslims are ready to kill you.")
· All it took was one guy named Mohammed to murder Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004, for making a movie about the treatment of women in the wacky world of Islam. Van Gogh was shot, stabbed and had his throat slashed. A note by the killer, pinned to his body, read, "I did what I did purely out of my beliefs."
· A spokesman for a French police union says Muslim youths are waging a "civil war" against the gendarmes. The Gallic intifada that started last November never really stopped. At one point last year, disaffected "youth," as the French press discretely calls them, were torching 1,300 cars a night, to cries of "Allahu Akbar." Rioting spread to 300 French cities and spilled over into Belgium and Germany. Now, whenever French cops go to housing projects they are assaulted with everything from stones to guns to Molotov cocktails. Nearly 2,500 officers have been injured this year.
To return to the Dalai Lama's daft observation, while it is undoubtedly true that most Muslims don't want to jihad us -- there are enough who do. In a 2005 survey by The Daily Telegraph, one quarter of British Muslims said they had at least some sympathy with their coreligionists who murdered 52 random Brits in the July commuter bombings. One-quarter of a million is more than "a few."
Add to this number the minions of al-Qaeda, Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Jihad-this, and Army of God-that, the mobs in Tehran, Karachi and Dar es Saalam etc., the ayatollahs, imams, sheiks, mullahs, their blind followers and rabid supporters -- not to mention the Saudis funding radical mosques and madrassahs from Queens to Calcutta and beyond. It all adds up to a whole lot of Muslim mischief-making.
And let's not forget the millions (tens of millions? hundreds of millions?) of Muslims who aren't actually killing anyone, or condoning the killing of anyone (except Jews, of course), who nevertheless think it would be swell if the whole world lived under Islamic law -- with honor-killings and genital-mutilation for all.
Now, here's the really scary part: As Mark Steyn points out in his book America Alone: The End of The World As We Know It, between 1970 and 2000, while the share of the world's population represented by industrialized nations fell from just under 30% to just over 20%, the mischievous nations (whose principal manufactured products are jihad and general theological nuttiness) went from 15% to around 20%.
What nations have the highest fertility rates? So sorry you asked. (and you will be too when you see the answer) -- Niger (7.46 children per woman), Mali (7.42), Somalia (6.76), Afghanistan (6.69) and Yemen (6.58). Says Steyn: "Notice what they have in common? Starts with an I, ends with a slam."
For comparison, the fertility rate in the U.S. is 2.11, about replacement level. That's high next to Canada (1.5), Germany (1.3), Russia and Italy (1.2) and Spain (1.1). Of the 10 nations with the lowest birthrates, 9 are in Europe.
It gets worse. Consider the percentage of population currently under 15 years of age -- a harbinger of future demographic growth -- Spain and Germany (14%), the U.K. (18%), the U.S. (21%), Saudi Arabia (39%), Pakistan (40%) and Yemen (47%).
We're told that Muslims are 10% of the population of France. But of "Frenchmen" under 20, 30% are mischievous. In the U.K. there are more Moslems in mosque each week than Christians attending Church of England services.
Forget suicide bombs; they're detonating population bombs.
Should we "consider all Muslims as something bad"? Of course not. Should we consider Islam as something bad? That's an entirely different question -- one which politicians, Lamas and the mainstream media studiously avoid -- when they're not babbling about the "religion of peace."
And if Islam itself is "something bad" -- if a faith embraced by 1.3 billion people contains within it the seeds of the evil we see all around us (requiring only the right conditions to germinate) -- what does that say for the future of a world where Islam is the fastest growing religion?
Some of us live on comfortable estates in India, writing books about inner-peace and harmony, while contemplating the sound of one hand clapping. Others of us live in the real world.
False Promisses From Sam's Club
I remember back in the day when Sam's Club and the City of Salisbury were telling everyone the reason they were adding the gas pumps was because they were going to keep the "other" Gas Stations honest and Sam's Club would offer gasoline at $.05 cent per gallon less than the competition.As I traveled around Salisbury today, most everyone was at the same price as Sam's Club and as a LOYAL Customer of Sam's, I don't believe what the Mayor and Sam's Club promised is true. Oh, they keep coming back saying they're keeping everyone else honest. The competition be out of business if that were true.
Then you drive into Cambridge and gas is $1.95 a gallon the past two weeks! I even remember a few years ago the Mayor of Salisbury feeding everyone this line of BS stating the City of Salisbury require additional additives to their gasoline, making it more expensive than Ocean City gas. Dee, Dee, Deeeee!
Lower the gas prices and stop ripping everyone off, period! Do you want people to move to Cambridge?
Oh, Barrie, Tell them to fix their damn sign! They're in violation and this photo is proof.
It Only Took A Month For The MSM To Admit Tony Bruce Committed Suicide
In today's Daily Times they finally told the truth about Tony Bruce, news in which I delivered almost a month ago.
What cracked me up about the MSM is that Channel 16 said, "They're not sure if he took it by accident or on purpose." Dee, Dee, Deeeee!
When is the last time any of you saw someone swallow Rat Poison by accident? IDIOTS!
Also notice how Duvall and Jannace refuse to report anything about this man as he was a fellow lawyer. Careful what you eat Fellas!
What cracked me up about the MSM is that Channel 16 said, "They're not sure if he took it by accident or on purpose." Dee, Dee, Deeeee!
When is the last time any of you saw someone swallow Rat Poison by accident? IDIOTS!
Also notice how Duvall and Jannace refuse to report anything about this man as he was a fellow lawyer. Careful what you eat Fellas!
Last Night At Break Time Billiards
I'm telling you Folks, there's a great time to be had at Break Time Billiards and last night was yet another example of such a thing. I slammed a Burger there last night that would knock your sox off! I ordered this 1/2 pounder with extra cheese, mushrooms, onions, LTM & catsup and OMG! I also asked for no cholesterol and only got a great big smile in return.
I must have dropped the 9-ball on the break at least three time last night too. As a matter of fact, I won three games straight with only 4 shots! Tina kept kicking my butt and I had to tell her it was time for her to go home and go to bed. LOL
Maybe we'll see more of you next Wednesday?
Hunter Nelms Steps Aside And Respectfully Puts Major Doris Schonbrunner In Charge
Rumors are simply a horrible thing. The original word that was out earlier this morning was that Hunter Nelms resigned and stepped down. This is simply NOT true!
Respectfully, Hunter Nelms has many loose ends that need to be cleared up before he steps down and considering he is swamped with numerous responsibilities he simply doesn't have the time to "direct" the Sheriff's Department.
That being said he has assigned Major Doris Schonbrunner to be the "Go To" person for the time being for all Officers to answer to. IMO, it's a VERY honorable thing to do as the Citizens and Officers come first.
I have personally spoken to Hunter and I trust and believe everything he has told me. Some may try to twist things, similar to what I was first told this morning. Some had even said he was doing so in order to spend full time supporting Kirk Daugherty for Sheriff and that's just not true at all. As a matter of fact, when I mentioned that to Hunter he laughed and said, "Joe, it didn't work for Doris, what makes people think my support is going to help Kirk? What you've been told is a lie, it's just not true."
Debbie Campbell's House ROCKED For Halloween!
Ladies & Gentlemen, Camden Avenue was the place to be last night! The homes were decorated to the hilt and the best candy was given out in this neighborhood. I watched van loads of vehicles dropping off children left and right, it was simply a mad house on Camden Avenue. However, Debbie & Bill Campbell went over the top this year and every kid in School had to be bragging about it today. Blogger has been giving everyone a hard time posting pictures but I think you'll see it was worth the wait. More to come.......
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