OK, If You Won't Give Me Five, Let Me Give You One Of These!

This Is Just Ironic!

Ladies & Gentlemen:

If it wasn't for Joseph Gidjunis, you would have never heard about "any" of this! Two days ago I sent Joe a pretty harsh letter explaining how I felt The Daily Times was covering up stories and again misleading people. I expressed how Joe Carmean allowed a so called quote from me supposedly stating I had said the information on the Blogs could not be trusted and in some cases were untrue. I responded with a letter to the editor clearly explaining that I made that statement about "comments," not posts from the Blog Site Owners.

In Sunday's paper the Editorial Board once again, (even after I wrote a letter to the editor) claimed that I had stated the stories on the Blogs were not true. So I drafted a letter to Joe stating I did not appreciate that as well as their lack of coverage about the graffiti.

Joe immediately replied and asked me to call him right away and I did. We spoke about the graffiti and he couldn't believe it was that serious around town. When he got the time to actually look, (4 days later) it was time to write an article.

Now perhaps I should have kept my mouth shut and let the Daily Times lose out on a VERY serious article, or would it be better for "everyone possible" to see what was happening to the City of Salisbury under Chief Webster & Barrie Tilghman's leadership? I chose the latter.

It shouldn't be a war between who is better when it comes to reporting and "crime." There are certain issues that must be exposed and if the Daily Times choses to cover things up, (which has happened many times with Barrie Tilghman's involvement) it's the people that pay for the paper who really lose out.

Think about if "YOU" were Mayor right now. Wouldn't you be out there asking for all the help you could get to make sure this comes to an immediate end? You're not seeing the leader of this City do anything but hide and wait till it all goes away. That's how rotten politicians work Folks. I'd be out there sitting on the rooftop with a hot cup of coffee at night and wait for these SOB's to show up and nail their a**es!

I have been told flat out by the Police Department that 4 years ago they used to patrol the Plaza ON FOOT! I was also told they used to sit on the rooftops at night and wait for things to happen. The Plaza was a much safer place back then and IMO it's the next Old Salisbury Mall. They don't want that area to do well. They want it to fail so prices go down, nobody will want it and Barrie and her friends will buy it all up for 10 cent on a dollar and again act like they saved the City!

Getting back to The Daily Times though. Your title alone, (the graffiti happened last Thursday night) is 5 DAYS LATE! "Ignoring it will only make the problems worse downtown." If it weren't for Joe G, you planned on ignoring it the whole time and instead used the information you had on hand for an article that was supposed to come out in another 2 weeks and filled today's paper up with what you had. A fortunate situation that you had already been researching this information but sadly 5 days too late.

This is what gets me about The Daily Times as well. Why should it take 5 days to expose a story? There's no real legal ramifications to this story. IMO, this is why the Blogs are doing so well. Anyhow, my thanks got out to Joe G. at the Times and for the Editorial Board, you're all full of sh*t. Nice try though.

If "any" of those Editorial Board Members would like to do some community service and help clean things up, well, you wrote the information, you know who to contact then. My guess is that they'll all sit back and write about it. Till then, I'm not cleaning the mess up. I'll let the City do it for me. I'm a writer too now. LMAO!

One last note. IMO, I would have had Police Officers on the roofs of these buildings immdiately, as in last night for sure. We were fortunate the two days before we had rain. Last night there was a full moon and it would have helped. Nevertheless, driving around during the daytime, (as I produced photos of Chief Webster driving around during the daytime in his black cruiser in an earlier post today) isn't going to cut it Chief! Yeah, going home to Ocean City and the thought of returning TO DO YOUR JOB would cut out of your FUN TIME at Seacrets. Mike Lewis would have done things differently, is my point. Oh, and his Wife would have understood why he wasn't home!

Pinehurst Elementary School Gets Hit With Graffiti Too

Oh Barrie, Barrie, Barrie,

What are the Citizens who elected you to do? Your Chief is failing while the new Sheriff is turning things upside down in the County. Bubba says he wants to run again but look at these photos and see what "progress" has happened under their command! Even the children aren't safe any more. It's no wonder you're in hiding. Do I hear a recall petition coming on?

OSHA Anyone?

There's A Party, (Inspection) At This Man's Rental House Toady!

There will be an inspection inside 428 W. College at 2:00 today. Doug Church peddled his way around the direct questions from the Board yesterday and refused to answer them with any credibility, (IMO). Anyhow, you're welcome to watch the entire Board walk through this home in question at 2:00 today. More on this matter later.

Chief Webster Is Forced To Do His Job!

Based on the high Graffiti volume this past weekend, Chief Webster was forced to get off his a** and patrolled Downtown to see the damage. I personally caught him driving through the Plaza area twice, I gave him a wave and a NICE BIG SMILE, just like I said I would.

Last evening while I was patrolling the Plaza on foot, along come Vic on his bike. A day late and a dollar short, I'd say.

Nevertheless, the Press has exposed the graffiti for the residents to see. It's not easy to see all of it at one time, that's for sure. I spent 14 hours down there over a two day period looking and finding it all. Chief Webster can sit in his car and drive around all he wants, he's NOT going to find it all that way and he only sees about 60% of it all that way.

I offered my services to everyone ONE TIME so they could see it all and get it over with in a much shorter period of time. Rick Pollitt was the only one who took me up on it. It's a funny thing Folks, I've done a better and more thorough job than the Chief of Police. Maybe I should shave my head, drive around in my black crown victoria and "act" like I'm an important man too? So you know, I truly do have a black crown vic, former detective's vehicle.

I Asked Several City Executives To Join Me Yesterday To Review The Graffiti Downtown...

Only one would join me and he works for the County. I confronted Barrie Tilghman who REFUSED to respond at all and just walked past me, IDIOT! John Pick sent me a very nice letter explaining his being busy that morning. Tom Stevenson started out with an agreement to join us, then he was going to send one of his officers with us, then he was told by the powers to be, (BARRIE TILGHMAN) NOT to have anything to do with me at all. I hope they spray paint YOUR house Barrie. Nevertheless, thanks Rick, you're a real gentleman.

Are There Elections Going on I wasn't Aware Of?

Give Me Five!

Please be my friend, I have no more friends. Please give me five in front of Joe and make it look like someone likes me, please?

She thinks to herself, NOT!

Did You Know The Wicomico River Was Sponsored By Gardner Signs?

Is There An Actual Health Department In Salisbury?

For Those Of You Just Returning To This Blog.....

Over this past weekend the City of Salisbury was bombarded with graffiti all over Downtown Salisbury. Because I knew I would be loading a ton of 2006 photos I chose to cut back the visible posts to only three days because for many it would take up too much space and time to let the Blog load up on some computers.

That being said, you'll need to go into the archives and look at the last two days of December to see "ALL" the devastating damage around town. I'm sorry for the inconvenience but I do hope you enjoy the 2006 photos.

I Wouldn't Pay To Remove My Trash Either!

I see our readers are following my advise and putting their trash into City trash cans for FREE pickup. Smart move! As you can also see, regular parking isn't the style these days as many residents on the Plaza choose to park illegally, as usual. So you know, there were no tickets on the windows of these vehicles.

Perhaps There's A Good Reason Why No One Eats At This Restaurant On Main Street, Except The Rats?

How Do You Keep Your Winsows In Place?

Good Old Downtown Salisbury!

No Boat, No Problem!

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Downtown Salisbury Is Falling Apart

This Main Street building is simply a disgrace! Another FOB? How can the City let something like this go on? There are pieces of glass in windows that could fly out of there in a heartbeat. That Witch wants to go after Von Siggers and then let a building like this go scott free? I DON'T THINK SO!

Wind Turbine Troubles By Dr. Jimmy Tragle, Part VI

Developers tend to use jobs and money to promote the turbines to local elected officials.

They make claims about the number of jobs the construction and operation of turbines will bring to communities and offer monetary promises to counties. Tucker County, W VA should stand as an example of what these promises are. Empty. During construction workers were imported as the assembly of the turbines isn’t a skill most everyone has. Monitoring of the facilities provides little more than a few low skill security jobs. I think the project in Tucker County has about 5 full timers on it.

Balanced with what is potentially lost in tourism jobs it appears to be a losing situation.

Tucker County was also promised yearly payments from the developer. Shortly after the plant was operational it was sold off to Florida Power and Light. In came the lawyers and out went the agreement. Tucker County has received a fraction of what was promised.

In addition the taxes levied by local governments tend to be very lenient for the projects. A typical generation facility will have taxes levied at a rate figured against 60% of the facility’s value. Wind plants use a figure of about 5% of value.

Coupled with potential revenue losses secondary to the placement of turbines the tax revenues for such entities have the potential to create shortfalls in state and county budgets.

The tax subsidies that are in place to make wind plants quite profitable for the industry were lobbied by Enron during the Clinton administration. Enron having its fingers in it is enough to make one suspicious of any well meaning.

I’d like to thank all who were interested enough to stick with this through the final installment. My apologies for the somewhat rough and disjointed nature this series of articles may have appeared to possess. They’re a result of cobbling them together somewhat hastily after months and months of reading what seems to be an unending supply of articles.

Red Net Alert!

Mr. Tim Spies will be on the Bill Reddish Show tomorrow morning at 7:40 a.m.

Where was Barrie & Webster the past two days while the City was under attack?

Where was Dunn, Comegys & Cathcart?

Tim Spies was right on top of things helping the Police collect evidence.

It's time for a change in Salisbury!