Newt Gingrich may be the underdog in Tuesday night's Florida primary, but he shouldn't be able to use Rocky Balboa's music at campaign events, lawyers for the composer of "Eye of the Tiger" say in a federal lawsuit filed Monday in Chicago.
After months of attempting to deal with Gingrich's campaign, a Palatine-based music publishing company owned by Survivor lead guitarist Frankie Sullivan has filed suit seeking damages and an injunction to block the Republican contender from using the song at appearances and in campaign videos.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
A Comment Worthy Of A Post 2-1-12
Dear Joe,
Whoever said the WCBOE is a sham is correct. Our kid spent 3 years working toward a degree in education and then spent an additional semester working as a student teacher - which incidentally he had to pay for as if he were actually taking up a seat at UMES. It wasn't until we spent a fortune in educational costs was he exposed in his final semester to the real inner workings of the educational system and the fact that all integrity and the best interest of the children is thrown in the trash can in the name of state and federal funding. The damage done and the elimination of educational opportunities to those students who actually can learn is astronomical. All in the name of money. The education or our youth is being compromised by the desire for more money by an appointed BOE and the hand licking administration starting with Fredericksen. Start at the top. We need an elected school board. We need more local control over our childrens educations. We need to learn to live within our means, and we need to get rid of Fredericksen. The hand lickers will fall in line in much the same way they've fallen in line with the current administration. We need to start this now. The elected BOE has been diluted and then put on the back burner. Let's get it moving again. We need a meeting with our county council. Then we need a seperate meeting with our delegates. We need to get this thing to referendum if we have to and get the delegates to support our position on the state level.
Whoever said the WCBOE is a sham is correct. Our kid spent 3 years working toward a degree in education and then spent an additional semester working as a student teacher - which incidentally he had to pay for as if he were actually taking up a seat at UMES. It wasn't until we spent a fortune in educational costs was he exposed in his final semester to the real inner workings of the educational system and the fact that all integrity and the best interest of the children is thrown in the trash can in the name of state and federal funding. The damage done and the elimination of educational opportunities to those students who actually can learn is astronomical. All in the name of money. The education or our youth is being compromised by the desire for more money by an appointed BOE and the hand licking administration starting with Fredericksen. Start at the top. We need an elected school board. We need more local control over our childrens educations. We need to learn to live within our means, and we need to get rid of Fredericksen. The hand lickers will fall in line in much the same way they've fallen in line with the current administration. We need to start this now. The elected BOE has been diluted and then put on the back burner. Let's get it moving again. We need a meeting with our county council. Then we need a seperate meeting with our delegates. We need to get this thing to referendum if we have to and get the delegates to support our position on the state level.
Who Says Raising Boys Is Easier?
(CNN) -- My son had barely taken his first breath when the people in the hospital started telling me how lucky I was. Not because he was healthy, mind you, but because he was a he. "It's easier to raise boys," I was told.
And for a while I actually believed them.
Then I started paying attention.
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Maryland's Economy & Unemployment - The Real Truth
A few days ago the Maryland Board of Revenue Estimates released its Estimated Maryland Revenue projections for Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013. This report is available online.Contrary to what the Federal & State governments have been reporting to the american public regarding increased employment - their own reports refute these claims. In fact - on page 2 of the Maryland Board of Revenue Estimates report it states;
'The unemployment rate fell to 8.6% in November, the lowest level since March 2009. Although employment increased by 120,000 jobs, the drop in the unemployment rate was largely due to discouraged workers leaving the work force, which is not necessarily a positive development - in fact, over the past year, the number of Americans not in the labor force is growing faster than the net number of jobs created.'
Also - it is interesting to note in that report it anticipates a reduction in the number of Maryland federal jobs - 5000 in 2013, 12,000 in 2014, and 12,700 in 2015 as a result of the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction being unable to come to an agreement on $1.5 trillion in budgetary savings over a ten year period - thus automatic spending cuts of $1.2 trillion are now required.
It speaks about how Maryland's housing prices continued to fall even as sales volumne increased - 4.2% drop in the median price marks the fourth consecutive year of decline. It shows how Marylanders Real Property Tax revenue is anticipated to spiral downward until 2013 - as a result of reduced property values due to a sluggish economy.
So as a word of caution before you sit down to listen to the Governor's optimistic State of State speech tonight - make sure you keep one eye on the tube - and the other eye on your pocketbook.
California Family Notified 9 Months After Missing Woman Remains Identified
Tracy Melton's family is still in shock days after learning that the remains of the California woman who went missing 14 years ago were discovered and identified last spring in a case that "fell through the cracks."
Melton was last seen May 6, 1998, in Stockton, Calif. She was 32. Evidence pointed to "Speed Freak Killers" Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog as suspects. Melton disappeared a few months before the disappearance of Cyndi Vanderheiden, who was killed by the duo, and investigators have never ruled out the pair in Melton's case.
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Melton was last seen May 6, 1998, in Stockton, Calif. She was 32. Evidence pointed to "Speed Freak Killers" Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog as suspects. Melton disappeared a few months before the disappearance of Cyndi Vanderheiden, who was killed by the duo, and investigators have never ruled out the pair in Melton's case.
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Troopers Search For Escapee
Location: Snowden Cottage, Delaware Youth and Family Center, 1825 Faulkland Road, Wilmington, DE
Date of Occurrence: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 6:15 p.m.
Suspect and Charge:
Quamyr Seals, 14, Wilmington, DE
Black male, 5’02” tall, 130 lbs, black hair and brown eyes.
Escape 2nd Degree
Resume:
Wilmington, DE- The Delaware State Police are currently searching for a subject who walked away from the grounds of the Delaware Youth and Family Center last night.
Troopers are looking for Quamyr Seals, 14, after he fled from the facility located in the 1800 block of Faulkland Road in Wilmington at approximately 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Seals, who had been committed to the Snowden Cottages portion of the facility since November of 2011, fled on foot after returning from a medical appointment at the Ferris School. Responding Troopers searched the area with the assistance of a K-9 unit as well as Delaware State Police helicopter Trooper 4, but were unable to locate him.
Quamyr Seals is described as a black male, 5’02” tall and 130 lbs with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue sweatshirt, blue t-shirt, blue sweatpants, and sneakers. He is known to frequent the Riverside area of Wilmington.
The Delaware State Police are asking anyone who may have any information in reference to this incident to contact the 9-1-1 call center immediately. Citizens may also provide a tip by texting keyword “DSP” plus your message to 274637 (CRIMES). Tipsters may also provide information through lines maintained by Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333. Callers can also submit information via the internet at www.tipsubmit.com.
DECEASED THEFT SUSPECT IDENTFIED AS SEARCH CONTINUES FOR FOUR OTHERS IN CECIL CO.
(NORTH EAST, MD) – Maryland State Police are continuing their search for four suspects who were involved in the theft of a lawn tractor and a subsequent traffic crash as they fled that left one of their fellow suspects dead yesterday in Cecil County.
The deceased suspect is identified as David L. Roland, 35, of Elkton, Md. He was flown from the crash scene by Maryland State Police helicopter to Christiana Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The driver of a 2000 Oldsmobile Integra who was eastbound on Rt. 40, just west of Rt. 272, and collided with the suspects’ stolen vehicle when it pulled in front of him, is identified as Stephen H. Kiszenia, 34, of Chesapeake City, Md. He sustained minor injuries and was treated and released at Union Hospital in Elkton.
The investigation has revealed that shortly after 4:30 p.m. yesterday, an employee at the newly constructed and not yet opened Lowe’s store on Rt. 272 at Rt. 40, saw five individuals in dark, hooded sweatshirts loading a John Deere lawn tractor into the back of a pickup. They were in a fenced area at the back of the store where inventory was being kept. The suspects used pallets as a ramp to load the tractor into the pickup.
The store employee ran and closed the gate to the fenced area before calling 911. The suspects spotted the gate being closed and immediately attempted to flee. The driver rammed the gate several times before being able to push it up and drive under it. As the truck passed under the fence, the mower was dislodged and fell off. The truck, with four suspects in the cab and one, later identified as Roland, in the truck bed, sped down an access road behind the shopping center toward Rt. 40.
Upon reaching eastbound Rt. 40, the driver of the truck failed to yield the right of way and drove directly into the path of Kiszenia’s Oldsmobile. The force of the crash ejected Roland from the truck bed and projected him across the eastbound lanes, the median, and the westbound lanes, to where his body came to rest in the ditch.
When troopers arrived at the crash scene, all four of the remaining suspects had fled. An extensive search of the area was conducted throughout the night, but the suspects were not located.
State Police investigators are reviewing surveillance tapes from area businesses and interviewing witnesses today as they compile information concerning the identity of the remaining suspects. Investigators have determined the pickup truck the suspects were using had been stolen from a North East residence where it had been left by the owner, also from North East, to have mechanical work done.
The truck and the lawn mower were taken into custody by State Police investigators. Crime scene technicians processed them both for evidence.
Anyone who may have witnessed the crash or has any information concerning the identity of the remaining four suspects is urged to contact Maryland State Police at the North East Barrack at 410-996-7800. Callers may remain confidential.
The deceased suspect is identified as David L. Roland, 35, of Elkton, Md. He was flown from the crash scene by Maryland State Police helicopter to Christiana Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The driver of a 2000 Oldsmobile Integra who was eastbound on Rt. 40, just west of Rt. 272, and collided with the suspects’ stolen vehicle when it pulled in front of him, is identified as Stephen H. Kiszenia, 34, of Chesapeake City, Md. He sustained minor injuries and was treated and released at Union Hospital in Elkton.
The investigation has revealed that shortly after 4:30 p.m. yesterday, an employee at the newly constructed and not yet opened Lowe’s store on Rt. 272 at Rt. 40, saw five individuals in dark, hooded sweatshirts loading a John Deere lawn tractor into the back of a pickup. They were in a fenced area at the back of the store where inventory was being kept. The suspects used pallets as a ramp to load the tractor into the pickup.
The store employee ran and closed the gate to the fenced area before calling 911. The suspects spotted the gate being closed and immediately attempted to flee. The driver rammed the gate several times before being able to push it up and drive under it. As the truck passed under the fence, the mower was dislodged and fell off. The truck, with four suspects in the cab and one, later identified as Roland, in the truck bed, sped down an access road behind the shopping center toward Rt. 40.
Upon reaching eastbound Rt. 40, the driver of the truck failed to yield the right of way and drove directly into the path of Kiszenia’s Oldsmobile. The force of the crash ejected Roland from the truck bed and projected him across the eastbound lanes, the median, and the westbound lanes, to where his body came to rest in the ditch.
When troopers arrived at the crash scene, all four of the remaining suspects had fled. An extensive search of the area was conducted throughout the night, but the suspects were not located.
State Police investigators are reviewing surveillance tapes from area businesses and interviewing witnesses today as they compile information concerning the identity of the remaining suspects. Investigators have determined the pickup truck the suspects were using had been stolen from a North East residence where it had been left by the owner, also from North East, to have mechanical work done.
The truck and the lawn mower were taken into custody by State Police investigators. Crime scene technicians processed them both for evidence.
Anyone who may have witnessed the crash or has any information concerning the identity of the remaining four suspects is urged to contact Maryland State Police at the North East Barrack at 410-996-7800. Callers may remain confidential.
Report Proposes Dividing Great Lakes, Mississippi
Groups representing states and cities in the Great Lakes region on Tuesday proposed spending up to $9.5 billion on a massive engineering project to separate the lakes from the Mississippi River watershed in the Chicago area, describing it as the only sure way to protect both aquatic systems from invasions by destructive species such as Asian carp.
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Highlighted Events This Week In Wicomico Schools
Thursday, Feb. 2, at noon
New playground opens
Northwestern Elementary
Northwestern Elementary is excited to be opening its new playground for students at noon Thursday, Feb. 2. The playground for Northwestern, a National Blue Ribbon School, was a true community effort, with the school and its PTA each contributing $8,500 and the Board of Education funding approximately $10,000 to make the playground possible. Installation started last Monday and has been done by Facility Services, with two parent volunteers helping out. Northwestern students also got to enjoy moving back into the last of its renovated classrooms last month, as a systemic renovation project that upgraded HVAC for Northwestern was completed. 410-677-5808
Thursday, Feb. 2
2nd annual Family Read In
Wicomico Middle School
Wicomico Middle School will have its 2nd annual Family Read In from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2. Families will enjoy pizza, apples and hot cocoa, as well as reading activities for all ages. There will be videos by students about the importance of Read 20/20 (an initiative to encourage 20 minutes of reading at school, 20 minutes of reading at home every day). 410-677-5145
New playground opens
Northwestern Elementary
Northwestern Elementary is excited to be opening its new playground for students at noon Thursday, Feb. 2. The playground for Northwestern, a National Blue Ribbon School, was a true community effort, with the school and its PTA each contributing $8,500 and the Board of Education funding approximately $10,000 to make the playground possible. Installation started last Monday and has been done by Facility Services, with two parent volunteers helping out. Northwestern students also got to enjoy moving back into the last of its renovated classrooms last month, as a systemic renovation project that upgraded HVAC for Northwestern was completed. 410-677-5808
Thursday, Feb. 2
2nd annual Family Read In
Wicomico Middle School
Wicomico Middle School will have its 2nd annual Family Read In from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2. Families will enjoy pizza, apples and hot cocoa, as well as reading activities for all ages. There will be videos by students about the importance of Read 20/20 (an initiative to encourage 20 minutes of reading at school, 20 minutes of reading at home every day). 410-677-5145
Drought Dries Up Mexico's Marijuana Crop
Drug growers in Mexico are feeling the heat, but not from enhanced government security. A harsh drought has reduced their crops of marijuana and opium poppies and is forcing cartels to ramp of their production of other, synthetic drugs.
One effect of the lack of rains is that drug planting has "declined considerably," said Gen. Pedro Gurrola, commander of army forces in the state of Sinaloa, the cradle of the drug cartel by the same name.
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13 American Gangs That Are Keeping The FBI Up At Night
More than 1.4 million Americans are wearing the colors of more than 33,000 gangs across the country, according to a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Based on evidence from federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement, the FBI says gangs commit 48% of violent crime, and are only becoming more dangerous. Some even source weapons from the military.
While many of these groups are regional and only loosely organized, many gangs are expanding their ranks and establishing themselves at international levels.
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Based on evidence from federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement, the FBI says gangs commit 48% of violent crime, and are only becoming more dangerous. Some even source weapons from the military.
While many of these groups are regional and only loosely organized, many gangs are expanding their ranks and establishing themselves at international levels.
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Mitt Romney Helps Bail Out Tim Pawlenty
Mitt Romney, his family, staff and supporters donated a combined $66,000 to help Tim Pawlenty retire the debt left over from his presidential campaign.
Romney, his wife, five sons and brother, as well as his associates from Bain Capital were among those cutting maximum checks to Pawlenty, according to a POLITICO analysis of campaign filings released Tuesday.
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Failed Fed Policies Prolong The Agony
The Federal Reserve's interest rate price-setting board, the FOMC, met last week. They will continue to set the federal funds rate at well below 1%, and plan to keep it low until the end of 2014. That's a year and a half longer than they planned when they met just last month. Chairman Bernanke says they are keeping interest rates so low for so long because the economic outlook warrants it.
The fallacies in their reasoning would be amusing if they weren't so dangerous. The Fed wants to keep the price of money at essentially zero – in other words "free" – to boost the economy. But the boost they are attempting won't get here for another three years. That's not a recovery. And we've already tried this tactic. That's how we got into this mess in the first place: with interest rates artificially low for a very long time. Free money doesn't stimulate growth, as Japan's two lost decades clearly show. Artificially low interest rates only serve to punish saving, distort market signals and cause further malinvestment. They also do nothing to address the only real solution to our economic woes: liquidation of the bad debt that hangs around the neck of the world's economy, preventing recovery. Artificially low interest rates merely ensure that we remain a debt-financed consumer economy guaranteed to end up with a weaker economy and higher prices.
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The fallacies in their reasoning would be amusing if they weren't so dangerous. The Fed wants to keep the price of money at essentially zero – in other words "free" – to boost the economy. But the boost they are attempting won't get here for another three years. That's not a recovery. And we've already tried this tactic. That's how we got into this mess in the first place: with interest rates artificially low for a very long time. Free money doesn't stimulate growth, as Japan's two lost decades clearly show. Artificially low interest rates only serve to punish saving, distort market signals and cause further malinvestment. They also do nothing to address the only real solution to our economic woes: liquidation of the bad debt that hangs around the neck of the world's economy, preventing recovery. Artificially low interest rates merely ensure that we remain a debt-financed consumer economy guaranteed to end up with a weaker economy and higher prices.
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Counterfeit Money, Counterfeit Policy
What is the difference between printing money and counterfeiting? There is none.
Counterfeiting is illegal because it is the false creation of value. The counterfeiter takes low-value paper and turns it into high-value money, which is fundamentally a claim on the real productive value of the economy that issues the currency and recognizes it as a proxy means of exchanging that productive value.
Counterfeiting is illegal because the counterfeiter creates no additional value--he creates only the proxy for value. Creating real value--adding meaningful goods or services to the economy--is tedious, hard work. How much easier to simply transform near-worthless paper into a claim on actual goods and services.
If this is illegal, then would somebody please arrest the Board of the Federal Reserve for counterfeiting? The Fed has blatantly printed money without creating any real value to back up their added claims on productive value. Hence they are counterfeiting, pure and simple. A government based on rule of law would arrest these fraudsters and cons at the earliest possible convenience.
And while you're drawing up the indictment, can you also charge them with counterfeiting competence and policy, as they have demonstrated the Peter Principle par excellence: the Board has risen to its highest level of incompetence. Their counterfeit policies have wreaked incomparable damage on the real productive economy.
The essence of counterfeit policy--a fake policy that claims to be something it is not--is "extend and pretend." And the sole goal of "extend and pretend" is self-preservation and the preservation of the Financial Elite which has tightened its grip on the nation's throat as a direct consequence of Federal Reserve policies--notably "extend and pretend."
"Extend and pretend" extends the "too big to fail" Financial Sector's licence to mask its insolvency and its licence to continue issuing debt, leverage and derivatives under false pretences, i.e. that the risk and market value of these instruments are transparent. They are not.
In effect, the banks are also counterfeiters, as they are issuing debt--a claim on future productive value--without adding any actual value to the economy
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Counterfeiting is illegal because it is the false creation of value. The counterfeiter takes low-value paper and turns it into high-value money, which is fundamentally a claim on the real productive value of the economy that issues the currency and recognizes it as a proxy means of exchanging that productive value.
Counterfeiting is illegal because the counterfeiter creates no additional value--he creates only the proxy for value. Creating real value--adding meaningful goods or services to the economy--is tedious, hard work. How much easier to simply transform near-worthless paper into a claim on actual goods and services.
If this is illegal, then would somebody please arrest the Board of the Federal Reserve for counterfeiting? The Fed has blatantly printed money without creating any real value to back up their added claims on productive value. Hence they are counterfeiting, pure and simple. A government based on rule of law would arrest these fraudsters and cons at the earliest possible convenience.
And while you're drawing up the indictment, can you also charge them with counterfeiting competence and policy, as they have demonstrated the Peter Principle par excellence: the Board has risen to its highest level of incompetence. Their counterfeit policies have wreaked incomparable damage on the real productive economy.
The essence of counterfeit policy--a fake policy that claims to be something it is not--is "extend and pretend." And the sole goal of "extend and pretend" is self-preservation and the preservation of the Financial Elite which has tightened its grip on the nation's throat as a direct consequence of Federal Reserve policies--notably "extend and pretend."
"Extend and pretend" extends the "too big to fail" Financial Sector's licence to mask its insolvency and its licence to continue issuing debt, leverage and derivatives under false pretences, i.e. that the risk and market value of these instruments are transparent. They are not.
In effect, the banks are also counterfeiters, as they are issuing debt--a claim on future productive value--without adding any actual value to the economy
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PayPal Co-Founders Fund Pro-Paul Super PAC
(Reuters) - Co-founders of online U.S. payment service PayPal, now owned by eBay Inc, donated to the Super PAC funding group supporting Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the group Endorse Liberty disclosed on Tuesday.
PayPal co-founders Peter Thiel and Luke Nosek and Scott Banister, an early adviser and board member, put their support behind the Endorse Liberty Super PAC, alongside Internet advertising veteran Stephen Oskoui and entrepreneur Jeffrey Harmon, who founded Endorse Liberty in November.
BREAKING NEWS: ‘Soul Train’ Creator Don Cornelius Killed By Gunshot
Producer Don Cornelius, creator of the '70s TV dance show 'Soul Train,' has died from a gunshot wound to the head, Los Angeles police say.
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Purchase Girl Scout Cookies At All Rommel’s Locations
Fruitland, MD –Those shopping for a shovel, ice scraper or home tools can get a special treat at 8 of Rommel’s ACE Home Centers across the Delmarva region.
On consecutive Saturdays, Feb. 11 and 18, Girl Scouts from across the region will be selling those delectable Trefoils, Samoas, Thin Mints and all of the yummy cookie types from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Pick up your winter home needs at ACE and help support your local Girl Scouts.
On consecutive Saturdays, Feb. 11 and 18, Girl Scouts from across the region will be selling those delectable Trefoils, Samoas, Thin Mints and all of the yummy cookie types from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. Pick up your winter home needs at ACE and help support your local Girl Scouts.
Issa Threatens Contempt Proceeding Against Holder If Justice Fails To Comply With Fast And Furious Subpoenas
The head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is threatening to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if he fails to comply with congressional subpoenas for documents.
Holder has until Feb. 9 to comply.
In a four-page letter to Holder, Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., claims the Department of Justice has "misrepresented facts and misled Congress," which began its investigation of Operation Fast and Furious one year ago.
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