Opportunities to Support Our Students and Schools

Saturday, Sept. 13

Bingomania 69 to Benefit the Mardela Middle and High School Bands

Wicomico Youth & Civic Center

Bingomania, the Eastern Shore’s largest bingo cash prize event, returns to the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center on Saturday, Sept. 13. Doors open at 5 p.m. for early bird games and regular games begin at 7:30 p.m. Admission to Bingomania includes all regular and special games, including the Jumbo Jackpot Game. Regular game payouts are $500 while special games will pay out $1,000. The Jumbo Jackpot Game pays a maximum of $10,000 depending upon attendance. Increase your chances of winning and help a local food bank at the same time by bringing three non-perishable food items. Those who do will receive three additional cards for the first early bird game. 

Tickets are $45 per person in advance and $55 per person at the door (fees may apply to ticket prices). Tickets are on sale now at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center Box Office (500 Glen Ave., Salisbury, MD; M-F, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.), online at www.WicomicoCivicCenter.org, and by phone at 410-548-4911. All proceeds benefit the Mardela Middle and High School Bands. For more information contact the Mardela Band-Aides at 410-677-5170.

Saturday, Sept. 20

Parkside High Club Showcase Day & Fundraiser for Auto Technology

Parkside High School

Please come to Parkside High School on Saturday, Sept. 20 for a fun-filled day to benefit the Parkside High Class of 2016 and the Auto Technology program of Parkside CTE. From 10 a.m.- 2 p.m., Sherwood Ford of Salisbury will exhibit its newest and hottest models, allowing community members to view and test drive these state-of-the-art vehicles. The Salisbury Fire Department will conduct demonstrations all day and Whitey’s Barbecue will be on hand to sell hom- cooked seafood and barbecue meals. There will be activities for children, including child care provided by the Early Childcare Program at Parkside CTE.  Also on hand will be representatives from many of Parkside’s sports teams and clubs, showcasing all of the wonderful things happening at the school. With a car wash taking place, coupled with a complimentary car safety inspection, parents can drop off their kids, have their car washed and checked, go for a test drive, grab some food, retrieve their kids, and enjoy their Saturday with a great deal accomplished all in one place. 410-677-5144 or 410-677-5143.

Saturday, Oct. 4

5^th annual Mardela Middle and High AYCE Crab & Chicken Feast

Sharptown Memorial Building

The Mardela Middle and High School PTA will host the 5th annual All-You-Can-Eat Crab & Chicken Feast Saturday, Oct. 4. at the Sharptown Memorial Building. This is the PTA’s only fundraiser of the school year on behalf of Mardela Middle and High, and all proceeds benefit the school. Dinner will be from 6-8 p.m., featuring all-you-can-eat crabs, fried chicken, clam strips, corn and desserts. There will be silent and loud auctions from 6-9 p.m. and the Bad Mojo Band from 9-11 p.m. Attendees must be 21 and older. BYOB and BYOCKAM – bring your own crab knife and mallet (some mallets will be for sale). Tickets $35 or $125 for four tickets if purchased together. Purchase tickets from any PTA officer or call Mrs. Tayman in the school office at 410-677-5142.

Guilty As Charged

Dem Senate Candidate Dodges Questions About Ties to Communist Group

The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Montana last month dodged questions about her ties to a group that explicitly advocates the abolition of capitalism in the United States.

“That sounds like contemporary communism,” said Montana Public Radio reporter Edward O’Brien of the Industrial Workers of the World, a labor group for which Montana legislator Amanda Curtis’ husband is a representative.

Her ties to the group have come under scrutiny since she won the Democratic nomination for Senate. She replaced disgraced Sen. John Walsh (D.) on the ticket after it was revealed that he plagiarized his final paper at the Army War College.

Curtis laughed when asked about her ties to IWW in a Friday interview and dodged two questions about those ties.

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Ladies Night for Delmarva Zoological Society!

Supporting Delmarva Zoological Society...

Tuesday, September 16th at 6:30pm

Wear ANIMAL PRINT attire and get ready to ROAR!

Our "Women Gone Wild" theme was a hit last year...

Call before it sells out... 410.219.1117

$45 per person (plus tax & tip) 

SPECIAL EVENT MENU:

Field of Greens' Chopped Salad - Zonin PROSECCO

Short Rib Sliders & Tiger Slaw-ALLIGATOR APPLE MARTINI

Seafood & Wild Game Paella - Chateau ST.Jean Pinto Noir

Sweet Monkey Salad - CHUNKY MONKEY COCKTAIL

Favors and Loot for Sale

At a July fundraising event in Chicago, Mrs. Michelle Obama remarked, "So, yeah, there's too much money in politics. There's (sic) special interests that have too much influence."

Sen. John McCain has been complaining for years that "there is too much money washing around political campaigns today." According to a 2012 Reuters poll, "Seventy-five percent of Americans feel there is too much money in politics." Let's think about money in politics, but first a few facts.

During the 2012 presidential campaign, Barack Obama raised a little over $1 billion, while Mitt Romney raised a little under $1 billion. Congressional candidates raised over $3.5 billion. In 2013, there were 12,341 registered lobbyists and $3.2 billion was spent on lobbying. During the years the Clintons have been in national politics, they've received at least $1.4 billion in contributions, according to Time magazine and the Center for Responsive Politics, making them "The First Family of Fundraising."

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Under Armour & Maryland Announce Renewal Of Partnership

Baltimore, Md. – The University of Maryland and Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE:UA) today announced a 10-year partnership extension that designates Under Armour as the official outfitter of its varsity intercollegiate athletic programs.

Under Armour, the global leader in performance footwear and apparel, will continue to design and supply the footwear, apparel, and equipment for training and game-day uniforms for the University of Maryland’s men’s and women’s varsity athletic teams. In addition to outfitting the Terrapin athletic department, the comprehensive partnership also includes integration into the brand’s marketing, social media, in-store, and grassroots activations.

“The University of Maryland is an integral part of Under Armour’s history, culture and identity,” said Matt Mirchin, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing, Under Armour. “We look forward to continuing this remarkable partnership over the next decade and beyond, outfitting the Terrapin student-athletes and fans in the most innovative performance gear in the market.”

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Gambia passes bill imposing life sentences for 'aggravated homosexuality' - which includes having AIDS or being HIV positive

Lawmakers in Gambia have passed a bill imposing life sentences for some homosexual acts, officials have said this week.

The bill amending the criminal code was passed last month and brings life imprisonment for 'aggravated homosexuality', a charge which includes people living with HIV/AIDS, minority leader Samba Jallow told The Associated Press.

Under Gambian law, amended in 2005 to apply to women as well as men, homosexual acts were already punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

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In North Carolina, More Children Homeschool Than Attend Private Schools

That statistic may seem shocking if you’ve been a stranger to the growth of the homeschooling movement

In North Carolina, the number of homeschoolers has now surpassed the number of students attending private schools.

That statistic may seem shocking if you’ve been a stranger to the growth of the homeschooling movement, which has rapidly increased in recent decades.

In 1973, there were approximately 13,000 children, ages 5 to 17, being homeschooled in the United States. But according to the National Center for Education Statistics, as of the 2011-2012 school year, that number has grown to almost 1.8 million or approximately 3.4 percent of the school age population. Other sources report numbers well over 2 million.

In the Tar Heel state alone, homeschooling has increased by 27 percent over the past two years.

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NBC News producer is charged for 'secretly taping himself having sex with his girlfriend on Valentine's day and posting it on a porn website'

An NBC producer was charged today after he allegedly made a sex tape with his unsuspecting girlfriend and then posted the video on a porn website.

Carlo Dellaverson, 30, who is an NBC News digital producer, allegedly filmed the couple having sex on Valentine's Day on a hidden camera in their shared New York City apartment.

He then later posted the clip of his girlfriend on XTube, a police source told the New York Post.

The 30-year-old's deception was only discovered when his girlfriend found the sex tape on September 4 on his computer.

She promptly moved out of the apartment after ending their relationship.

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County Seeks State Probe Of Liquor Wholesaler; Comptroller Asked To Investigate Unfair Trade Practices

SNOW HILL — In the latest chapter of the county’s ongoing and longtime liquor distribution history, Worcester County has requested a state investigation into alleged unfair trade practices by a major wholesaler.

According to a letter sent to Field Enforcement Division Director Jeffrey A. Kelly, county attorney Sonny Bloxom is requesting an investigation into what the county’s Department of Liquor Control (DLC) believes was an unfair trade practice and false advertising by wholesaler Reliable-Churchill in relation to a rather large purchase of Captain Morgan rum at a deeply discounted price in advance of the summer season. According to the letter, the DLC purchased 400 cases of Captain Morgan at an advertised sale price of $12.79 per bottle in April based on the representation by Reliable-Churchill that the sale price would be locked in until October.

However, in July, Reliable-Churchill issued another sale flier advertising Captain Morgan at a sale price of $9.99 per bottle, or nearly $3 less than what the county purchased its 400 cases in April under the assumption the price was fixed until October. As a result, the county alleges it overpaid for the 400 cases by over $8,300 and sought a rebate from Reliable-Churchill, which the company tacitly denied by failing to respond to the request.

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Lynn officials: Illegal immigrant children are stressing city services

LYNN, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) -- Lynn is a municipality on the brink. Key department officials say a recent influx of illegal immigrant children and families in the city is stressing almost every service from trash collection to healthcare.

"We have been aware of the unaccompanied children issue for quite a while, and we were able to absorb a lot of these children early on," said Lynn Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy. "But now it's gotten to the point where the school system is overwhelmed, our health department is overwhelmed, the city's budget is being sustainably altered in order of accommodate all of these admissions in the school department."

Flanagan Kennedy says the first contact for immigrant arrivals in the city is the school system.

The amount of new foreign born student admissions has nearly doubled in the last two years. This school year alone saw more than 600 new admissions. Among those students, 248 were from Guatemala. Flanagan Kennedy says of those 248 children, 126 were illegal, undocumented minors.

"They are not literate in any language, so they do need some skills. And I assume they are enrolling in school to receive those skills," said Catherine Latham, Lynn's superintendent of schools .

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12-Year-Old In Wheelchair Beaten, Robbed By Teens In Delaware

NEWARK, Del. (CBS) — Police in Delaware are searching for two juveniles who attacked and robbed a 12-year-old confined to a wheelchair.

Twelve-year-old LeQuan Mackey is bravely talking about his attack Monday in hopes police will find the two boys he says have been picking on him for months.

Officers with the New Castle County Police Department responded to Buchanan Circle in Newark at about 2:45 p.m. Monday.

According to investigators, Mackey was outside exercising in his wheelchair when two suspects, as young as 12-years-old, approached him from behind.

“These kids pushed me into a sewer grate thing and my wheel got stuck and he started punching me. And I put my hand up to block the punch and then he grabbed my lanyard, twisted it, put it back around my neck again and started to pull it,” he said.

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Georgetown Fest

GEORGETOWN FESTS BLEND ARTISTS, FARMERS & FOODIES

The 2014 Historic Georgetown Art Crawl will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2014 from 10:00 am -4:00 pm in downtown Georgetown, along with the 5th Annual Farmer & Foodie Festival. This is a rain or shine art & foodie event, and will feature artists & artisans and farmers & foodies from throughout the Sussex County region.

Georgetown’s inaugural Art Crawl was a great success last year, with hundreds of people visiting downtown Georgetown and The Circle to see the artists’ exhibits. Dozens of artists and artisans will display their fine art, pottery, woodworking, mixed medium sculptures, jewelry creations and much more along the downtown streets of Georgetown and at The Circle this year also.

Like last year, the Historic Georgetown Art Crawl will be held in conjunction with the Annual Farmer & Foodie Festival on The Circle, which celebrates our local farmers and their farm fresh foods. Attendance at the Farmer & Foodie fest has grown over its 4 years, and nearly one thousand people were estimated to have enjoyed the event, according to Lynn Lester, who is both owner of The Brick Hotel and started the event. The festival features cooking demos, beer tastings from 16 Mile Brewery, carriage & tractor rides, live entertainment, pumpkin decorating for the kids, and backyard barbeque contests.
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Justin Amash: Time for Republicans to Stop Listening to Dick Cheney

Former Vice President Dick Cheney met with House Republicans Tuesday morning after returning from their August recess, warning lawmakers about how grave the threat of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists is.

But some anti-interventionist Republicans were not thrilled about Cheney’s foreign policy views returning to prominence in the party.

Rep. Justin Amash, R-MI, fresh off of his victory of a contentious Republican primary, was one of them.

Asked by the Washington Post’s Robert Costa whether it was time for Republicans to stop listening to Cheney, Amash replied “Yeah … Because Republicans don’t agree with him … they don’t agree with him on foreign policy.”

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Maryland Angler's Log - Share Your Catch!

Salisbury Park Snakehead

Type: Tidal
Region: Eastern
Location: Salisbury Park

Seth caught this 22inch, 3.5 pound snakehead at Salisbury Park below the white footbridge on a top water hollow body frog.

Murder of Catholic Nuns Shocks World

The triple murder of three elderly Italian religious sisters in Burundi has their religious family and the local community reeling. The Italian Foreign Ministry has confirmed Monday’s death of a third missionary, Sister Bernadette Boggian, who wasdecapitated, according to a senior official of the local police. Boggian's name is added to the those of Sisters Lucia Pulici and Olga Raschietti, who were killed on Sunday.

Initial reports expressed the theory that the killings were the result of an attemptedrobbery gone wrong, but it now appears that more was afoot here. Fr. Mario Pulcini, superior of the Xaverian Missionaries in Burundi, reported the death of the three and expressed his opinion on Vatican Radio that given the brutality of the attack, it seems like some sort of vendetta or something more personal.

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Report: Virginia Taxpayers Will Pay $20,000 Per Undocumented Student

RICHMOND, Va.— Virginia classrooms this school year will include as many as 2,800 new undocumented children, who will cost state taxpayers $54 million.

The cost for school-eligible children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and have been released in Virginia—often to extended family members—is among the highest per-capita in the nation, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. FAIR, a research group opposed to illegal immigration, said the feds reimburse the state and localities about 10 percent.

That works out to nearly $20,000 per student—as opposed to about $11,000 per student the state averages overall.

Why so high?

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Five Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain’s Chemistry

Finally revealed: What ambassador in Benghazi was really doing

Operating under orders of Obama, Hillary Clinton on secret mission

The U.S. special mission in Benghazi and the nearby CIA annex were utilized in part to coordinate arms shipments to the jihadist rebels fighting the Syrian regime, with Ambassador Christopher Stevens playing a central role, documents an explosive new book released today.

The activities, which included a separate, unprecedented multi-million-dollar weapons collection effort from Libyan militias who did not want to give up their weapons, may have prompted the Sept. 11, 2012, attack, charges the new book.

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The Luby's Cafeteria Massacre: A Brutal Reminder to Restaurants Telling Customers "No Guns"

Yesterday Panera Bread became another restaurant establishment asking customers to leave their guns at home, joining eateries like Chilis, Starbucks and stores like Target after pressure from anti-gun groups. Like other restaurant chains, Panera's official policy hasn't changed to an outright ban, but they've made clear customers carrying firearms for self-defense aren't welcome.

This "please leave your guns at home" policy is catching on, but as more restaurants join Panera and others like it, it's important to remind them of the horrifying Luby's Cafeteria massacre.

In 1991 Texas residents were banned by law from bringing firearms into restaurants. That same year, a mad man with an intent to kill as many people as possible, crashed his truck into a Lubys Cafeteria in Killeen. The man got out of his vehicle and shot 50 people, killing 23 of them. One of the survivors, Dr. Susan Gratia-Hupp, had left her gun in the parking lot and watched as her parents were executed in front of her. She was following the rules and obeying the law by leaving her gun in the car, right where the killer knew it would be. As Hupp describes in her own words, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. Everyone was defenseless.

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Study: Teens Who Smoke Weed Daily Are 60% Less Likely To Complete High School Than Those Who Never Use

Teenagers who smoke marijuana daily are over 60 percent less likely to complete high school than those who never use. They're also 60 percent less likely to graduate college and seven times more likely to attempt suicide. Those are the startling conclusions of a new study of adolescent cannabis use out today in The Lancet Psychiatry, a British journal of health research.

Researchers gathered data on the frequency of cannabis use among 3,725 students from Australian and New Zealand, and then looked at the students' developmental outcomes up to the age of 30. They found "clear and consistent associations between frequency of cannabis use during adolescence and most young adult outcomes investigated, even after controlling for 53 potential confounding factors including age, sex, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, use of other drugs, and mental illness."

Significantly, they found that the risks for negative outcomes increased with the frequency of cannabis use. In a conference call, study co-author Edmund Sillins said that the relationship between cannabis use and negative outcomes is significant even at low levels of use (e.g., less than monthly), and that "the results suggest that there may not be a threshold where use can be deemed safe" for teens.

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Highlighted Events in Wicomico Schools This Week and Next Week

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Sept. 10, 11, 15

Registration for Evening High School

Wicomico High School, Building E

 Fall registration for Evening High School will be held from 4-7 p.m. Sept. 10, 11 and 15 in Building E of Wicomico High School, off Glen Avenue. Evening High School is designed to help students who are enrolled in other Wicomico County high schools and who need to take classes to “stay on track” for graduation. It also serves anyone ages 16-21 who wishes to return to school to complete the requirements to earn a Maryland High School Diploma. Classes begin Sept. 17. To register, bring in a birth certificate, Social Security card, immunization records and transcript (copies of all of these are available at the last school attended) and proof of residency (any utility bill or rent/mortgage statement). Students already attending a Wicomico County high school during the day and wishing to attend Evening High School at night must bring to registration a blue form completed by the high school guidance counselor. 410-677-4537

Thursday, Sept. 11

Programs for National Day of Service and Remembrance/Patriot Day

Wicomico High, North Salisbury Elementary

 Wicomico High School will welcome guests for the dedication of its newly refurbished memorial garden. The community is invited to attend. Guests may begin arriving at 8:45 a.m., and the JROTC at Wicomico High School will guide visitors to the memorial garden and lead a dedication program starting at 9 a.m. Birdhouses with plaques for deceased members of the Wicomico High family will be placed in the garden. Over the past several weeks, Wicomico High and JROTC, with support from Foundation for Human Potential, Salisbury’s Promise and ShoreCorps/PALS AmeriCorps, have cleaned and weeded the garden, laid stone, improved walkways, installed rain barrels, built birdhouses, and made other improvements to the memorial garden as an environmental stewardship project. Thursday’s ceremony will include the dedication of the memorial garden and the laying of a memorial wreath. 410-677-5146

North Salisbury will welcome the Salisbury Fire Department for a Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance program for all NSS students, grades 3-5. The fire department will bring two ladder trucks, four ambulances, 25 firefighters and a bagpiper to join in the observance. The program will begin at 9:10 a.m. Thursday. The theme this year is “Peace in our Community and Peace in our World, Peace Begins with Us.” Students from 5^th Grade will share a PowerPoint presentation including the timeline of events that took place on the morning of September 11^th, and a wonderful illustrated book written by A.B. Curtiss called “The Little Chapel that Stood.” (The book tells the story of a little chapel beside the World Trade Center. On 9/11, the chapel served as a staging area for firefighters and police: “Oh, what gallant men we did lose/Who never came back to get their shoes.”) The 4^th grade students will sing a patriotic selection.

All NSS students will be writing a wish for our world on white ribbons, and parents and students will begin typing the ribbons to the fence outside the school starting at 7:10 a.m., to serve as a gentle reminder of the significance of the day. Each class will go outside to tie them on the fence located in the front of the school.  The morning’s activities will conclude on the playground with a dove release by White Wings of Eden. 410-677-5807

Friday, Sept. 12

Deadline to register for Oct. 11 SAT administration. Juniors and seniors should visit the guidance office to information.

THE IRS INQUIRY

The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn't paying proper wages to his deckhand and sent an agent to investigate him.

IRS AUDITOR: "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them".

Boat Owner: "Well, there's Clarence, my deckhand, he's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week plus free room and board.

Then there's the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of the work around here.

He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Bacardi rum and a dozen Budweisers every Saturday night so he can cope with life.

He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally".

IRS AUDITOR: "That's the guy I want to talk to - the mentally challenged one".

Boat Owner: "That would be me. What would you like to know"?

Letter from Rochester: Another dead cop. Black on white crime

Colin,

Didn’t know if you had heard about the murder of a (white) policeman here in Rochester last week by a black man. Daryl Pierson was just 32 years old and just returned to the job on Tuesday after rehabbing for several month from a workplace injury.

He leaves a wife, 4 year old son and and infant daughter. This was the first Rochester policeman killed on duty since 1959.The guy (black) who shot him was just out of prison and had jumped parole. This occurred in one of the many violent neighborhoods in the city of Rochester.

Turns out this guy had a long rap sheet which included armed robbery, for which the victim couldn’t understand why he wasn’t contacted to testify. Because of a plea bargain, the perp was out on the street and able to kill this policeman, rather than serving his rightful debt to society (see his interview here) : http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S3551793.shtmlHere’s a link to the numerous newspaper articles on this terrible event: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/search/daryl%20pierson/What they didn’t say much about, but I saw it on the twitter feeds from the police scanner transmissions, was that at the time this occurred, there was a big crowd of residents gathering, no doubt to pounce on the cop who they suspected was brutalizing one of their own.

One local radio host said he must have missed the candle light vigil for the officer in that neighborhood (there was none) as there are numerous such vigils since there are many murders in this area of Rochester (mostly black on black).

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Nuclear Nightmare: As Terror Fears Spike, Power Plant Near Nation’s Capital Sits Practically Unguarded

LUSBY, Md. — About 50 miles outside Washington D.C. is a nuclear power plant that sits on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. It’s the sort of place the government has warned is vulnerable to a terrorist attack.

But an investigation conducted by The Daily Caller found that anybody can enter the property of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, drive through the front gates, park not far from a nuclear reactor and have no contact of any kind with security.

A reporter and videographer drove from the nation’s capital last Friday to Calvert Cliffs and twice accessed the power plant site. No one stopped or even seemed to notice them.

TheDC was able to proceed through an unmanned security checkpoint — the guard booth was empty and padlocked — and, minutes later, enter a parking lot about 550 feet away from one of the plant’s two nuclear reactors.

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Rubber Band Babies (I Bet This Will Make You Laugh)

Members of Minneapolis Mosque "Actively Recruiting For ISIS"

Dinesh D’Souza Prosecutor Accused Of Failing To Enforce Anti-Discrimination Court Order

The Obama donor prosecuting conservative writer Dinesh D’Souza is being accused of “fostering disrespect for the rule of law” for allegedly failing to enforce a housing desegregation ruling.

Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is an Obama donor and prospective Attorney General in a Hillary Clinton administration. But his career ambitions might face some opposition from the left.

The New York-based group ERASE Racism joined with the Equal Justice Society and the local housing group Enhanced Section 8 Outreach Program to accuse Bharara of failing to enforce a desegregation court order issued in 2009 against New York’s Westchester County.

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We’ll Take Free Speech, Thank You

Senate Democrats are on the precipice of voting to repeal the First Amendment.

That extraordinary fact is a result of the increasingly authoritarian efforts of Democrats, notably Senate majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada, to suppress criticism of themselves and the government, and to suffocate any political discourse that they cannot control.

The Supreme Court in recent years has twice struck down Democratic efforts to legally suppress inconvenient speech, citing the free-speech protections of the First Amendment in both cases. Senator Reid’s solution is to nullify the first item on the Bill of Rights.

The Democrats are not calling this a repeal of the First Amendment, though that is precisely what it is. Instead, they are describing the proposed constitutional amendment as a campaign-finance measure. But it would invest Congress with blanket authority to censor newspapers and television reports, ban books and films, and imprison people for expressing their opinions. So long as two criteria are met — the spending of money and intending to influence an election — the First Amendment would no longer apply.

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‘Hold On, They Got a White Dude’ in Memphis

“Hold on, they got a white dude.” And it sure seemed like fun — if the laughing and shrieking on this latest video of black mob violence is any indication.

This racial mayhem happenedSaturday night in Memphis at a Kroger’s department store. WMCA Channel 5 out of Jackson, Mississippi picks up the story, all of it except the central organizing feature of the violence: All of the hundreds of people involved in the mayhem and violence are black. Except the victims. They are white:

“Three people were jumped by a large group of teenagers who were chanting ‘fam mob.’” The group, who came from CiCi’s Pizza, reportedly attacked a 25-year-old customer as he left his car to enter Kroger. Two employees, ages 17 and 18, were attacked while trying to stop the fight. Both were “struck several times in the head and face, while being knocked to the ground.” The victims say large pumpkins were thrown at their heads. They both eventually were knocked unconscious.”

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NAACP TO HOLD 9th ANNUAL FREEDOM FUND BANQUET

Salisbury, MD… Wicomico County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will host its ninth annual Freedom Fund Banquet at 12:00 P.M., Saturday, October 4th at the First Baptist Church Family Life and Cultural Center located on the corner of Booth Street and 528 Delaware Avenue, Salisbury, MD.

The keynote speaker, Donald L. Cash, will speak to the theme, “Moving Forward from the Past to the Future: The next 100 Years.” Mr. Cash currently serves as president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union’s Minority Coalition. He is also a founding member and current president of “Faces of Our Children,” a non-profit organization he created to raise awareness, support and funding for the fight against sickle cell disease.

For more than 40 years, Mr. Cash has been a champion of worker and civil rights. He belongs to numerous community action groups and works tirelessly to promote justice and equity in the workplace and the wider community. In 2001, Mr. Cash was awarded the prestigious Benjamin Hooks “Keeper of the Flame Award” by the National NAACP.

The Wicomico County Branch will also honor several individuals and organizations. Individuals receiving recognition at the Freedom Banquet are: Delegate Rudolph Cane, Marion and Judge Norma Lee Barkley, Sandy Fitzgerald-Angello, Fred Mason, and Bishop Leon Wilson. Three organizations being recognized are the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore, Stop the Violence in Wicomico County, and the Salisbury High School Association.

Tickets are $35.00 for adults and $25.00 for youth, age 12 and under. All tickets must be purchased in advance: no tickets will be sold at the door. For more information, contact Mary Ashanti at 410-543-4187.

The ‘Shocking’ Action a Small Business Owner Said a Florida City Is Demanding He Take: ‘This Is a Shock. Honestly, I Feel Like This Is Russia’

A Florida small business owner said Monday the city of Ocala has threatened to fine him if he does not immediately take down a Gadsden flag currently displayed outside his store.

Gear Barrel owner Keith Greenberg told TheBlaze that the city said he was permitted to fly the American flag outside his store, but prohibited from displaying anything else outside his business which specializes in selling knives.

“This is a shock,” he said. “Honestly, I feel like this is Russia. I’ve been around the world … this is what you expect in really closed countries where there is no freedom of expression. Not here — so it’s shocking.”

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Serve and Protect is Now "Search and Destroy"

Anyone who has been paying attention is aware that we have a growing domestic terrorism problem here in America.

And by domestic terrorism, I mean our militarized police departments.

Here’s how the FBI defines domestic terrorism, from their website:

“Domestic terrorism” means activities with the following three characteristics:
Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.

Indeed, uniformed thugs police officers kill more Americans every year than terrorists do. In fact, we are eight times more likely to be killed by a cop than by a “terrorist.”

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Teacher pleads guilty to giving middle schooler ‘full contact’ lap dance during class

ALDINE, Texas – A middle school teacher has pleaded guilty to giving a student a “full contact” lap dance during class while students looked on.

Felicia Smith, a teacher at Stovall Middle School near Houston, was busted after cell phone video of incident surfaced. She “will spend three years on probation after admitting to the felony of having an improper relationship with a student,” according to the Houston Chronicle.

She reportedly is still licensed to teach in the state of Texas, though that is “currently under review.”

The circumstances of the case are shocking. The Smoking Gun reports:

When the boy entered her classroom, Smith “grabbed a chair and placed it next to her desk,” investigators reported. With music playing, Smith sat on the teen’s lap “with her buttocks making contact with his penis while she began to move back and forth.” Smith also “fondled him with her hands by touching him all over his body.” Cops noted that the assorted contact caused the boy to “have an erected penis.”

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Most Analysts See GOP Winning Senate

Many independent analysts now predict that Republicans will take over the Senate in the midterm elections, but not by a huge margin.

Recent predictions from analysts who study congressional elections put the GOP gain at either six or seven seats. It would take six wins to give the Republicans a 51-seat majority.

(At 50 seats, Vice President Joe Biden would cast a deciding vote for the Democrats.)

Here's a look at the predictions, from lowest to highest:

• The Washington Post's Election Lab gives Republicans a 52 percent chance of taking over the Senate, which would require a gain of six seats.

• Huffington Post gives Republicans a 52 percent chance of taking control of the Senate.

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Milk Costs Most Ever to Signal Higher Prices for Pizza

Milk futures rose to a record as exports by the U.S. climbed amid shrinking inventories of cheese and butter, signaling higher costs for pizza and pastries.

The U.S. shipped a record 17 percent of milk production in the first half, according to Alan Levitt, a spokesman at the U.S. Dairy Export Council. Cheese stockpiles in July dropped 8 percent from a year earlier, and butter supplies tumbled 42 percent, the Department of Agriculture said last month. U.S. dairy costs are higher than world prices, signaling imports will increase, said Jon Spainhour, a partner at Rice Dairy LLC.

“Usually, we use the first six months of the year to build the inventory we’re going to sell in the last six months,” Spainhour said in a telephone interview from Chicago. “People are saying that ‘I know those imports are coming in, but in the meantime, I’ve got to make sure I’ve got enough to get on the supermarket shelf.’ ”

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Prince George's County official: Family violence is killing us

"Fifty percent of our homicides this year have been related to family violence."

That's the stark reality that Prince George's County State's Attorney Angela Alsobrooks says her office is seeing. From the case of now-former Ravens football player Ray Rice to the recent deaths of two toddlers -- allegedly killed by their mother -- Alsobrooks says family violence is "is killing us, literally killing us."

Weeks after she stood in the neighborhood where a 3-year-old was killed by her own father as he fled from police, and announced an effort to involve the faith-based community in working with families, Alsobrooks has renewed a call for a more comprehensive approach to domestic and family violence.

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Ebola Spreading 'Exponentially' as Patients Seek Beds in Liberia

The Ebola virus is spreading exponentially across Liberia as patients fill taxis in a fruitless search for medical care, the World Health Organization said Monday.

In Sierra Leone, a doctor working for WHO tested positive and was preparing to be evacuated from the country. Meanwhile, the newest U.S. patient, a doctor infected in Liberia, was feeling a little better and could even eat a little, doctors treating him in Nebraska said.

The various reports illustrated in the clearest possible way the disparities driving the epidemic in West Africa, where there’s almost no medical system structure. The three patients evacuated to the United States have all begun to recover quickly once they get good supportive care, which includes around-the-clock nursing care and good nutrition.

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Obama’s Untruth, Inc.

Let us count the ways: bald lies, lies of omission, mythography, amnesia, redaction . . .

We can usefully view the Obama administration’s chronic untruthfulness as a sort of multifaceted corporation of untruth, with all sorts of subsidiaries.

THE BALD LIES OF POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY

Remember the al-Qaeda-is-on-the-run 2012-election talking point? It was mostly a lie. The administration deliberately released to sympathetic journalists only those documents from the so-called Osama bin Laden trove that revealed worry and dissension among the terrorists. Then it nourished essays by pet journalists trumpeting the decline of al-Qaeda. Disturbing memos that confounded that narrative, as Weekly Standard journalist Steven F. Hayes recently noted, were kept back. “On the run” was dropped after the 2012 election, when events on the ground made such an assertion absurd.

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Md. Planning Third Cumberland-Area Prison

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) -- The Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services is proposing a third state prison near Cumberland.

The Cumberland Times-News reported Monday that Secretary Gregg Hershberger outlined the $15 million project in an email to local state legislators.

Hershberger says the 140-bed, minimum-security facility would be built between North Branch Correctional Institution and Western Correctional Institution in Crespatown, south of Cumberland. Each of those maximum-security prisons houses more than 1,300 inmates.
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Americans fret about mystery virus and illegal kids

Limbaugh: Is illness tied to Obama's release of immigrant children all over U.S.?

Just weeks after the Obama administration let more than 37,000 illegal-alien children into the U.S. without health screening, more than 1,000 kids across 10 states have been stricken with a respiratory virus – prompting widespread concerns about a major outbreak sweeping across the nation.

On his Monday show, talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh explored the possibility of a link between the flood of illegal aliens and the spread of a severe and rare respiratory virus known as Enterovirus D68, or EV-D68.

“Obama will not tell anybody where all of the children that have crossed the border in the last four months have been relocated to,” Limbaugh said.

“There are a bunch of people who want to know. We had these kids cross the border from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, wherever they came from in Central America, and they were processed real quickly. They were gotten in, gotten out, and they’ve been distributed all over the country. And Obama won’t tell anybody where he put ‘em. … The regime will not announce where they are.”

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Research Day And Innovation Showcase

Salisbury University is excited to announce the second annual Research Day and Innovation showcase on Friday October 3, 2014 in Perdue Hall. The theme of the event is “Creating Connections” –connections within the campus community and between the campus and our local community.

The Schedule for the day includes:

10a.m.: Showcase Begins
A showcase to highlight SU’s faculty labs, academic units, service units and centers, galleries…everyone! It is a great opportunity to learn how local business can connect with SU.

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Politically Correct Farming

by Delegate Mike McDermott

I was so delighted to see that LT. Governor Brown found his way to the Eastern Shore today to have a “Round Table Discussion” with some farmers. Perhaps the most interesting item on the agenda was the one that did not get listed.

There was no discussion from Brown about the pending Phosphorus Management Tool (PMT) that hangs over the Eastern Shore economy like a looming sledge hammer. Oh there was plenty of talk about government subsidies that are doled out to “encourage” (I think the word should be “force”) our farmers to comply with a host of new regulations heaped upon them by the O’Malley-Brown administration during the past 8 years.

It comes as no surprise that Brown does not wish to discuss the implementation of a tool that will eliminate vast swaths of land from receiving poultry litter. He would not want to face questions about forcing farmers to spend tens of thousands of dollars on chemical fertilizers and thousands more to truck away natures organic fertilizer (no one really knows the “where’s or what’s” of that plan let alone the price tag).

I guess the destruction of the economy of the Eastern Shore is simply not that important for Maryland’s number two man to address.

Farmer’s have always been the first conservationists, even though they are often the last one to get called to a “Round Table Discussion” when policy is being crafted. Those “Round Tables” are reserved for election years. Ask any farmer about fixing the Bay and they will first point to the Conowingo Dam. The next point will be to the metro core area septic plants. They would also point out that the farming community is way ahead of the mandated time lines already placed upon them by the government.

The fact is, we do not need any further mandates on the shore. We need action in the areas that are creating the problem! The areas of the Bay which receive the best environmental scores are those adjacent to the Eastern Shore; and they rest next to the shore county (Somerset) that has the highest number of poultry operations in Maryland. Go figure!

Our water does not travel from lower shore rivers into the upper Bay regions, rather it moves toward the Atlantic. In spite of the obvious, farmers are an easy lot to blame; and politicians often do so with food in their mouths.

The lead scientist, Dr. Joshua McGrath, who was studying phosphorus and was preparing to make PMT recommendations made it clear to me that they were not sure whether phosphorus was bound up in the soil or how fast it moved. He advised me that it could take 50 years for any phosphorus to migrate from a farm field into a waterway. If that is so, any phosphorus we are dealing with today in the Bay was being introduced in the 1950’s and 60’s. This was long before the poultry industry would grow to what it is today. Farming back then does not look like it does today.

Dr. McGrath wanted more time to complete his study before making recommendations. He was sharply rebuked for discussing the need for more time with elected officials, and some of his comments and preliminary findings on phosphorus movement in the soil were not well received by those who would prefer to apply political science when it comes to agriculture.

The State of Delaware has been more prudent in this regard giving themselves over twice as much time to complete the needed study before suggesting any changes to the application of poultry litter on their fields. Maryland is on the fast track and those regulations will be implemented before 2015 arrives.

Wise Dr. McGrath made a quick exit from the scene shortly after the candid discussions he had with myself, Senator Colburn, Delegate Conway, and Delegate Otto in Annapolis. In his case, the grass was greener in another university system far removed from Maryland politics. Just a crazy coincidence I’m sure.

There is a reason the former Soviet Union had political officers embedded in all of their military units and in every aspect of government provided services. The party line and political agenda trumped everything else.

It is high time we gave the boot to the political officers that occupy every branch of Maryland State government. We must demand legitimate, vetted science be the purpose and reason behind any changes to our policies as they relate to agriculture and our environment. We need leaders who will not base their decisions on political science or crony capitalism.

These types of changes have support in the House of Delegates, but they were rejected in the Senate.

It is time to plow the hardpan ground we call “Annapolis” and sow better seed for our future.

Marylanders...Take Back Your State!

Small Business Ownership In America Is At An All-Time

According to the Federal Reserve, the percentage of American families that own a small business is at the lowest level that has ever been recorded. In a report that was just released entitled “Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2010 to 2013: Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances“, the Federal Reserve revealed that small business ownership in America “fell substantially” between 2010 and 2013. Even in the midst of this so-called “economic recovery”, small business ownership in America has now fallen to an all-time low. If the economy truly was healthy, this would not be happening. And it isn’t as if Americans are flooding the labor market either. As I detailed yesterday, the labor force participation rate in this country is at a 36 year low. That would not be happening if the economy was actually healthy either. The truth is that the middle class in America is dying, and this new report from the Federal Reserve is more evidence of this very harsh reality.

In order to build wealth, middle class Americans either need to have their own businesses or they need good jobs. Sadly, the percentage of Americans that own a business continues to decline steadily. In the report that I mentioned above, the Federal Reserve says that the proportion of U.S. families that have an ownership interest in a small business fell from 13.3 percent in 2010 to a brand new all-time low of 11.7 percent in 2013.

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Armed Citizen Stops Attempted Burglary Outside Kroger in Moms Demand Action's Backyard

On September 8 an armed citizen shot and killed a man he claimed was trying to rob him outside an Indianapolis Kroger store.

The allegedly robbery took place at the corner of West Michigan Street and North Holmes Avenue "just before 6:20 a.m."

According to FOX 59, the suspect was armed and "was found next to an ATM" when police arrived. Indianapolis Metropolitan police West District Headquarters are located across the street, and officers ran toward the shooting when they heard sound of gunfire outside the headquarters.

Police found a white pickup truck in the Kroger parking lot "with the window shot out." The vehicle "was still running," which means the alleged robbery could have begun with a carjacking attempt. But police are still investigating.

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Public Invited To Weigh In On Hazard Mitigation Plan Update October 7

The Worcester County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing Tuesday, October 7, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. in the Worcester County Government Center in Snow Hill to receive public comment on the 2014 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update.

All interested citizens are encouraged to attend the hearing and express their views on these matters. Copies of the draft 2014 Hazard Mitigation Plan Update are available for viewing on the County website at www.co.worcester.md.us/EmergencyServices/emerservindex prior to the hearing.

The Hazard Mitigation Plan, originally adopted in 2006, is designed to evaluate and provide proactive strategies to potential natural hazards that endanger the lives and properties of area residents and visitors. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) mandate that each local jurisdiction prepare and adopt a hazard mitigation plan. The Town of Ocean City, which adopts its own plan, is not included in the draft 2014 Hazard Mitigation Plan. 

The Hazard Mitigation Plan is only a planning document and does not obligate the County to fund projects included therein.
For additional information, contact Kim Moses, public information officer, at (410) 632-1194

Tuesday Funnies

Ron Paul: Nixon's Vindication

Forty years ago many Americans celebrated the demise of the imperial presidency with the resignation of Richard Nixon. Today it is clear they celebrated too soon. Nixon’s view of presidential powers, summed up in his infamous statement that, “when the president does it that means it is not illegal,” is embraced by the majority of the political class. In fact, the last two presidents have abused their power in ways that would have made Nixon blush.

For example, Nixon’s abuse of the Internal Revenue Service to persecute his political opponents was the subject of one of the articles of impeachment passed by the US House of Representatives. As bad as Nixon’s abuse of the IRS was, he was hardly the first president to use the IRS this way, and the present administration seems to be continuing this tradition. The targeting of Tea Party groups has received the most attention, but it is not the only instance of the IRS harassing President Barack Obama’s political opponents. For example, the IRS has demanded that one of my organizations, Campaign for Liberty, hand over information regarding its major donors.

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SFD Calls For Service 9-8-14

• Monday September, 8 2014 @ 23:40Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
• Monday September, 8 2014 @ 18:17Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
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Precious Parker Fights White People Moving into Building at Gunpoint

Isn’t that just precious?

Precious Parker, 30, and Sabrina James, 23, knocked on the door of an apartment building on Ocean Ave. near Newkirk Ave. in Flatbush at 9:30 p.m. on Thursday and held a 34-year-old man, a 37-year-old man, and a 25-year-old woman at gunpoint demanding they move out or be killed, police said.

The source added the trio may have been targeted because of their race, as one of the women said she didn’t like “that white people were moving into the area,” the police source said.

The women then stole $800, an iPhone and personal information from the tenants, police said.

Precious Parker, 30, allegedly forced the three roommates who lived in the Flatbush apartment to the floor at gunpoint on Sept. 4, and after robbing them said, “If you call the police or management company, I’ll pick five people of​f​ each of your phones and kill them and if you’re not out of here in 24 hours, five guys will come back and kill you all,” according to court papers.

“There was a dispute over who was supposed to be renting that apartment,” Parker defense attorney Danielle Korotzer said at the Brooklyn criminal court arraignment.

“My client did not believe the complainants should be in the apartment.”

I assume Holder will be down shortly to protect her civil rights.

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Senate Advances Constitutional Amendment On Campaign Finance

The Senate voted Monday to begin debate on an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would grant Congress and the states the power to regulate campaign finance.

The measure cleared a procedural hurdle by a vote of 79-18. It was authored by Democrats, who had anticipated it would be blocked by GOP opposition. But Republicans voted to move ahead with debate, turning what was supposed to be a Democratic messaging bill against the Democrats.

Now, the Senate will face hours of debate on a measure that will likely make it harder for Democrats to take up other important measures in the few days left of the session. Republicans will likely vote against final passage, which would require a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes. Democrats control 55 votes.

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Healthcare Spending Is About to Soar

The bill is coming due for Obamacare and it's a whopper. According to Medicare's own actuaries, U.S. healthcare spending is about to rocket.

Federal meddling in what was once the finest and most cost-effective healthcare system on the planet is nothing new.

Back in the 1960s, many Americans paid for doctor and hospital services out of pocket or through modestly priced private insurance. Healthcare spending was approximately 6 percent of GDP.

Enter President Johnson and Medicare. He bought millions of votes by giving seniors free healthcare that they never paid for through payroll taxes during their working years. Although insidious, he helped lay the foundations for the entitlement state with Medicaid. The latter, first conceived to help poor children, has been gradually expanded to include many working families.

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Virus hitting Midwest may be 'tip of iceberg'

(CNN) -- A respiratory virus is sending hundreds of children to hospitals throughout the Midwest and beyond, health officials say.

The unusually high number of hospitalizations reported could be "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," said Mark Pallansch, a virologist and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Viral Diseases.

Twelve states have contacted the CDC for assistance in investigating clusters of enterovirus: Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Utah. Four -- Colorado, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa -- have confirmed cases of Enterovirus D68, also known as EV-D68.

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Corrupt ex-New Orleans mayor is jailed for 10 years for living large on laundered money as city suffered in wake of Hurricane Katrina

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has reported to a federal prison in Texarkana, Texas, to begin serving a 10-year sentence for corruption during the years when the city was struggling to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.

Nagin arrived at the facility shortly before noon Monday. New Orleans television stations showed images of Nagin hugging family members in a parking lot before he entered the lockup.

Nagin, a Democrat, was thrust into the national spotlight in 2005, when Katrina overwhelmed levees and flooded 80 percent of New Orleans, killing 1,500 people and causing some $80 billion in damage.

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Substance Abuse Community Center Receives Grant

September 2, 2014–The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore awarded a $1,750 grant to the Salisbury Substance Abuse Community Center (SSACC) to provide laptops for the staff.

Pictured (l to r) are: Katarina Ennerfelt, President, SSACC; Linda Hutchinson, SSACC Board Member; Bob Cook, SSACC Board Member; Katie Kissinger, SSACC staff member, BJ Summers, Director, Development & Philanthropic Services, Community Foundation, Tracy Gregory and Betty Hartman, SSACC staff members and Doug Wilson, President & CEO, Community Foundation.

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'Peace corps worker' who features in the campaign advert for the Pennsylvania Democrat running for governor revealed as star of 'torture porn' films

Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf has had to pull a campaign ad after it emerged that the actor vouching for his stint in the Peace Corps also appeared in a cannibal fetish film.

Democrat Tom Wolf's advertisement featured Alan Benyak, 50, sitting on the hood of a Jeep and talking about Wolf's time in India.

Benyak has many strings in his bow - he's an attorney who was a Democratic candidate for judge in Washington County, he served in the U.S. Army - and he's something of an actor.

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Unemployed More Likely to Go Shopping on Average Day Than Look for Job

On the average day, an unemployed American is more likely to be shopping than to be looking for a new job

On the average day, an unemployed American is more likely to be shopping—for things other than groceries and gas—than to be looking for a new job, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Only 18.9 percent of Americans who were unemployed (in surveys conducted from 2009 through 2013) spent time in job search and interviewing activities on an average day, according to BLS. Yet 40.8 percent of the unemployed did some kind of shopping on the average day–either in a store, by telephone, or on the Internet. 22.5 percent of the unemployed, according to BLS, were shopping for items other than groceries, food and gas.

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Missing Teen In Salisbury

Missing Juvenile:Sarlina Qwaviya Joseph 16 yoa, 5’3” 126 lbs, blue sweatshirt /pants, no suspicious circumstances. 

UPDATE:  
Salisbury Police Department
Cancel Missing Person: Juvenile Sarlina Joseph showed up at school this morning.

How Empires End

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” – Thomas Jefferson

Histories are generally written by academics. They, quite naturally, tend to focus on the main events: the wars and the struggles between leaders and their opponents (both external and internal). Whilst these are interesting stories to read, academics, by their very nature, often overlook the underlying causes for an empire’s decline.

Today, as in any era, most people are primarily interested in the “news”—the daily information regarding the world’s political leaders and their struggles with one another to obtain, retain, and expand their power. When the history is written about the era we are passing through, it will reflect, in large measure, a rehash of the news. As the media of the day tend to overlook the fact that present events are merely symptoms of an overall decline, so historians tend to focus on major events, rather than the “slow operations” that have been the underlying causes.

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Dem Congressman’s Nonprofits Funneled Secret Repayments to Illegal Campaign Loan

Two nonprofits founded by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa) have been linked to the repayment of an illegal $1 million loan to Fattah’s unsuccessful campaign for Philadelphia mayor in 2007.

Fattah’s former aide, Gregory Naylor, haspleaded guilty in federal court to concealing the loan. Details from his plea deal claim that Fattah’s nonprofits were used to repay the loan.

The congressman has not been charged in the case, and said last week he was never involved in any illegal activities during his time in office.

Fattah has extensively supported the two nonprofits and used taxpayer money to fund them. Their spending has been subject to scrutiny in the past. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer:

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Candidates Discuss Ways To End Hunger In Delaware

MILFORD — A Food Bank-sponsored candidate forum designed to enlighten voters turned into a teaching lesson when audience members asked poignant questions.

This is not a debate, said Patricia Beebe, Food Bank of Delaware president and CEO, this is a conversation meant to spark dialogue and questions that will help end hunger.

The discussion was held at the food advocacy organization's Milford location, and began with each candidate speaking for three minutes on food issues facing the state.

Candidates agreed that hunger among the state's seniors and adolescents is a bigger issue than the general public realizes and that something needs to be done about it.

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McDonald's Posts Worst Sales Decline In 10 Years

McDonald's global sales at stores open at least a year declined 3.7% in August.

That the worst same-store sales decline that the fast food giant has reported since March 2003, when global sales also fell 3.7%. It also marks the fourth straight month of comparable sales declines in the U.S., which accounts for about 32% of McDonald's revenue.

Same-store sales at U.S. stores were down 2.8% and in the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa region they dropped 14.5%.

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