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Monday, December 08, 2014
Hillary Clinton under fire after saying America should 'empathize' and 'show respect' to its enemies
Hillary Clinton has come under fire after saying that America should 'empathize'' with its enemies.
Speaking at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. to promote female leadership, the former U.S. Secretary of State also said the country should show 'respect' to those fighting against it.
Using an approach she dubs 'smart power' - which women are apparently uniquely positioned to deploy - she urged Americans to use 'every possible tool and partner' to advance peace.
This approach means 'showing respect, even for one's enemies; trying to understand and, insofar as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view,' she said.
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Speaking at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. to promote female leadership, the former U.S. Secretary of State also said the country should show 'respect' to those fighting against it.
Using an approach she dubs 'smart power' - which women are apparently uniquely positioned to deploy - she urged Americans to use 'every possible tool and partner' to advance peace.
This approach means 'showing respect, even for one's enemies; trying to understand and, insofar as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view,' she said.
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Sunday, December 07, 2014
Delmar Enjoys Peaceful Christmas Parade
Hundreds of children lined the streets as a multitude of participants walked, rode and drove through the Parade. A very nice time had by all.
Six Guantanamo Detainees Transfer to Uruguay
Release No: NR-609-14
December 07, 2014
Detainee Transfer Announced
The Department of Defense announced today the transfer of Ahmed Adnan Ahjam, Ali Hussain Shaabaan, Omar Mahmoud Faraj, Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy, Mohammed Tahanmatan, and Jihad Diyab from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Government of Uruguay.
As directed by the president's Jan. 22, 2009, executive order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of this case. As a result of that review, which examined a number of factors, including security issues, these men were unanimously approved for transfer by the six departments and agencies comprising the task force.
In accordance with statutory requirements, the secretary of defense informed Congress of the United States’ intent to transfer these individuals and of his determination that this transfer meets the statutory standard.
The United States is grateful to the Government of Uruguay for its willingness to support ongoing U.S. efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. The United States coordinated with the Government of Uruguay to ensure these transfers took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures.
Today, 136 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay.
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SFD Calls For Service 12-6-14
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- Saturday December, 6 2014 @ 23:55Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
- Saturday December, 6 2014 @ 23:28 Nature: Vehicle Accident w/InjuriesAddress: Riverside Dr & Mill St Salisbury, MD 21801
- Saturday December, 6 2014 @ 21:46 Nature: Vehicle FireAddress: 113 Parker Rd Salisbury, MD 21801
- Saturday December, 6 2014 @ 20:41Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
- Saturday December, 6 2014 @ 20:17Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
50 Protesters In Downtown Salisbury
It was only a matter of time before the LOOK AT ME's of Salisbury weighed in on the Ferguson shooting/incident.
By the way people, they proved that the "Hands Up" was a load of crap.
UMES BLACKOUT (Updated to include video)
Umes Naacp
1 College Backbone Rd, Princess Anne, Maryland 21853
We are all filled with frustration,disbelief, and anger over this decision that the officer who shot and KILLED an UNARMED BLACK MAN with his hands in the air remain free! We will not allow this to be another Sanford, Florida. We will not allow the justice system to let us down once more. Take action today, for Michael, and for all of our sons. Join the NAACP on Tuesday 12-2-14 @7pm in the SSC Courtyard "Wear black"
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NAACP CONDEMNS GRAND JURY DECISION
This is the second time within weeks that a Grand Jury has refused to indict police officers in the death of an African American.
Recently, a Grand Jury in Ferguson, Missouri declined to indict a police officer in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year old teenager. His death has prompted demonstrations around the nation and the world.
We strongly condemn the decision of the Grand Jury in its decision not to indict police officers who were captured on videotape choking Eric Gardner, who kept screaming, “I can’t breathe”, said Mary Ashanti, President of Wicomico County Branch of the
NAACP.
She further stated, “this decision only serves to further erode the confidence of the community in its criminal justice system. It is our fervent hope that local law officials here in Wicomico County will join President Obama in his efforts to restore trust in minority
communities throughout America.”
“The NAACP, which is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States has sought to improve relations with the Wicomico County law-enforcement agencies in light of local and national concerns regarding police conduct.
“The NAACP does not believe that all police officers are bad, however, we believe that unless the good police officers restore trust and confidence in law-enforcement, we will see an erosion of goodwill. This is something that no one wants to see happen”, said Mrs. Ashanti.
The Eastern Shore NAACP Branches joined by The WATCHMEN with One Voice Ministerial Alliance, will hold a press conference and vigil to inspire hope and peace throughout Wicomico County, the Eastern Shore and the nation. The WATCHMEN with One Voice Ministerial Alliance is chaired by Reverend Dr. Lewis N. Watson, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Salisbury, Maryland
County Executive Culver Speaks Out On West Salisbury Elementary School "A"
After the discussion that took place during the public comment portion of the County Council meeting on December 2nd regarding the removal of the West Salisbury Elementary School (WSE) project from the Bond Issue, I feel it is important to correct misinformation that was brought forward.
The impression has been given, and is passionately believed by some, that the County Government has deferred action on the replacement or upgrade of WSE for many years. Having served on the County Council for the past four years, I was troubled by that assertion since I did not recall any such deferral on the part of the County Executive or the County Council. Nonetheless, having heard testimony from the public and members of the Board of Education (BOE) that this had gone on “for years”, I immediately
researched Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) requests from the BOE regarding West Salisbury Elementary School for the past six years.
What I learned about WSE when reviewing the Board of Education’s top 20 priority lists is as follows:
2009 WSE not included
2010 WSE not included
2011 WSE not included
2012 WSE #12 priority - $95,000 for feasibility study
2013 WSE not included
2014 WSE #2 priority - $200,000 for initial architecture and engineering
2015 WSE #8 priority - $24,000 for HVAC study
2016 WSE #2 priority - $6.5M total replacement — first phase of a total $41.9 million project
Interestingly, while the County funded the Board’s $24,000 request in FY2015, the State of Maryland reiected the Board of Education’s request for their associated share. I then also reviewed the November 18, 2014 letter from Dr. David R. Lever, Executive Director of Maryland Public School Construction Program, wherein the State indicated that they were not prepared to propose funding the WSE request, citing outstanding issues and questions that needed to be resolved.
That history coupled with my discussion with Governor-Elect Hogan regarding the availability of State funding going forward, caused me to come to the conclusion that a fiscally responsible course of action was to pause on committing funding until such times as further facts and developments unfold.
It is important for the public to understand that the CIP is a critically important multi-year planning document. The County Executive and the County Council in their deliberations regarding appropriation of limited funding to cover many needs across the county rely upon departments to have a very clear and consistent forward planning vision. It is difficult for me to understand why a school that had not been considered a significant priority until 2014 has reached a point two years later, where renovations and improvements cannot be considered, and a complete tear down and replacement is deemed necessary.
I believe that much of the testimony heard at the County Council meeting on December 2nd misled the public regarding the County Government’s actions and deflected any responsibility for the deteriorating condition of the school, which now may necessitate a complete school replacement, from the BOE.
The administration of the Board of Education as well as appointed members of the Board, both past and present, have had 50 years to monitor WSE and provide needed maintenance and upgrades. At a
minimum, the taxpayers have a right to expect that their tax dollars are spent on proper maintenance of our schools. The BOE will argue that there isn’t enough money to go around. To their point, when it comes to spending, it is all about priorities. So it begs the question, why has it taken almost 50 years for the BOE to address the needs of WSE in a significant way?
I understand and appreciate the outrage of the WSE supporters. As I stated at the Council Meeting, I visited the school just days before being sworn in to office. Please don’t mistake a postponement of
funding as a lack of concern or understanding. I reiterate my promise to have a skilled team evaluate the current condition of WSE and to chart an appropriate course of action.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Bob Culver
Wicomico County Executive
Originally published at 2:59 PM
GO HERE to see the official release.
2010 WSE not included
2011 WSE not included
2012 WSE #12 priority - $95,000 for feasibility study
2013 WSE not included
2014 WSE #2 priority - $200,000 for initial architecture and engineering
2015 WSE #8 priority - $24,000 for HVAC study
2016 WSE #2 priority - $6.5M total replacement — first phase of a total $41.9 million project
Interestingly, while the County funded the Board’s $24,000 request in FY2015, the State of Maryland reiected the Board of Education’s request for their associated share. I then also reviewed the November 18, 2014 letter from Dr. David R. Lever, Executive Director of Maryland Public School Construction Program, wherein the State indicated that they were not prepared to propose funding the WSE request, citing outstanding issues and questions that needed to be resolved.
That history coupled with my discussion with Governor-Elect Hogan regarding the availability of State funding going forward, caused me to come to the conclusion that a fiscally responsible course of action was to pause on committing funding until such times as further facts and developments unfold.
It is important for the public to understand that the CIP is a critically important multi-year planning document. The County Executive and the County Council in their deliberations regarding appropriation of limited funding to cover many needs across the county rely upon departments to have a very clear and consistent forward planning vision. It is difficult for me to understand why a school that had not been considered a significant priority until 2014 has reached a point two years later, where renovations and improvements cannot be considered, and a complete tear down and replacement is deemed necessary.
I believe that much of the testimony heard at the County Council meeting on December 2nd misled the public regarding the County Government’s actions and deflected any responsibility for the deteriorating condition of the school, which now may necessitate a complete school replacement, from the BOE.
The administration of the Board of Education as well as appointed members of the Board, both past and present, have had 50 years to monitor WSE and provide needed maintenance and upgrades. At a
minimum, the taxpayers have a right to expect that their tax dollars are spent on proper maintenance of our schools. The BOE will argue that there isn’t enough money to go around. To their point, when it comes to spending, it is all about priorities. So it begs the question, why has it taken almost 50 years for the BOE to address the needs of WSE in a significant way?
I understand and appreciate the outrage of the WSE supporters. As I stated at the Council Meeting, I visited the school just days before being sworn in to office. Please don’t mistake a postponement of
funding as a lack of concern or understanding. I reiterate my promise to have a skilled team evaluate the current condition of WSE and to chart an appropriate course of action.
Thank you for your time and attention,
Bob Culver
Wicomico County Executive
Originally published at 2:59 PM
GO HERE to see the official release.
Wicomico PIO Position ELIMINATED
Local EMS/Firefighter Crosses The Line Again!
What is most troubling is that one of our taxpayer-paid emergency workers, took it upon himself to photograph the interior of this troubled mans home and supplied it to WMDT. We do not understand what the purpose of this action was, but find it to be a horribly disgusting action. And this person should be fired.
With much grace, reporter David Caldwell, saw past the sensationalism, and produced a story touching on a much loved neighbor, his struggles with alcohol and hoarding.
To the EMS worker, who took it upon himself to breach a dead mans privacy with the purpose of humiliating him - I hope you lose your job and live in the shame you tried to bestow upon another. You are ignorant and narrow minded.
Our neighbor, with all his faults, was a kind, gentle and generous soul. He has, without any expectation of reward, helped many of us with his many talents in home repair, auto repair, and lawn mower repair He has kept us all laughing with his wit and humor. This close knit neighborhood will not be the same, and he will be forever missed by the many of us, who were blessed to live in his neighborhood.
Abusing Chickens We Eat
If you buy a Perdue chicken in the grocery store, you might think it had lived a comfortable avian middle-class existence.
“Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely,” Jim Perdue, the company’s chairman, says in a promotional video. The company’s labels carry a seal of approval from the Department of Agriculture asserting that the bird was “raised cage free,” and sometimes “humanely raised,” although it says it is phasing that one out.
Customers approve. Most of us are meat-eaters who still want animals treated humanely, and one survey found that 85 percent of consumers would prefer to buy chicken with a cage-free “humanely raised” label like Perdue’s.
Enter Craig Watts, 48, a North Carolina farmer who says he raises about 720,000 chickens each year for Perdue. He watched the video of Jim Perdue and had an attack of conscience. “My jaw just dropped,” he said. “It couldn’t get any further from the truth.”
So Watts opened his four chicken barns to show how a Perdue chicken lives. It’s a hellish sight.
“Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely,” Jim Perdue, the company’s chairman, says in a promotional video. The company’s labels carry a seal of approval from the Department of Agriculture asserting that the bird was “raised cage free,” and sometimes “humanely raised,” although it says it is phasing that one out.
Customers approve. Most of us are meat-eaters who still want animals treated humanely, and one survey found that 85 percent of consumers would prefer to buy chicken with a cage-free “humanely raised” label like Perdue’s.
Enter Craig Watts, 48, a North Carolina farmer who says he raises about 720,000 chickens each year for Perdue. He watched the video of Jim Perdue and had an attack of conscience. “My jaw just dropped,” he said. “It couldn’t get any further from the truth.”
So Watts opened his four chicken barns to show how a Perdue chicken lives. It’s a hellish sight.
Tests For Obama After Complaints Of Sore Throat
White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Obama's physician, Dr. Ronny Jackson, suggested that some diagnostic tests be done Saturday afternoon since the president had free time in his schedule. He said Obama has been complaining of a sore throat.
The situation was not urgent, Earnest said, and Obama's motorcade made the half-hour crawl in rainy weather to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, just outside Washington.
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Police Shoot 137 Times Into Car After Chase, Killing Unarmed Couple
The phenomenon is common enough that there’s a name for it: High-Speed Pursuit Syndrome. It’s the “condition” police officers sometimes suffer from during a high-speed chase, when, as an ACLU spokesman once put it, they “get so angry and pumped up, and the adrenaline rush is such that … you see violence visited on suspects at the end of a pursuit.”
Rodney King was a prime example, but it happens all the time, and it rarely makes the national news. Take the Nov. 29 shooting deaths of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams in Cleveland: After leading police on a 25-minute chase through city streets, Russell found himself surrounded in a dead-end in East Cleveland. Police have said that they opened fire when Russell tried to run one of them over. That version may eventually be tested in court, but what is undisputed is that 13 officers unloaded a total of 137 bullets into Russell’s 1979 Chevy Malibu, killing both him and Williams.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Williams’s uncle, Walter Jackson, said that 24 bullets had been removed from her body and the damage to her face and torso was extensive. Williams’s mother, Martha Mae Williams, said, “I’m not going to let them close her casket … They’re going to have to look at what the police did to my child.”
High-speed police pursuits have been under increasing scrutiny in recent years: according to a 2010 FBI report, someone dies every day as a result of a police pursuit, and the majority of those pursuits begin with a stop for a traffic violation. The same report found that innocent bystanders constitute 42 percent of those killed or injured in police pursuits.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "50 Protesters In Downtown Salisbury":
First off, I am white. I was raised in an upper middle class, white neighborhood. I have never been arrested, though I did a TON of stuff as a kid that I should have been arrested. As I am sure most everyone here has. Never violent, but certainly illegal.
I won't argue that Michael Brown was behaving as a thug. But he was a kid.
What many of you, who are "people like me" do not understand is that we do not really understand what low income African Americans face with law enforcement and the penal system. Even your hero Rand Paul agrees!
It is easy, and extremely hypocritical, to argue "don't break the law" and you won't have any problems. Because we all, or most, do stupid things in their youth. It is part of growing up.
Take a black kid and a white kid who are both the same age. Pick your crime - minor theft, drug possession, fighting, vandalism, you name it. Let's go with simple possession or small time sales of a controlled substance. Both kids are doing the same thing.
The black kid is more likely to get noticed by police and in a position where they will find the drugs. The black kid, if caught with small possession, is more likely to be arrested vs given a warning. And the black kid will most likely receive a stiffer sentence.
Too many people throw around stats that show African Americans commit more crimes. What they don't realize or mention is that African Americans are more likely to get arrested, so a white guy who gets let go or gets a better deal doesn't fall into the stat. Who knows the reality.
I am in so way speaking poorly about our local cops. I have a number of friends on the force and all are upstanding people.
These protests area about the larger issues. It is because of experience that people don't take the grand jury, with all of its abnormalities, at face value. The Brown case may be the catalyst but that's not what it is all about. And now here we have the NY one with no indictment. Let's see what happens in Cleveland.
Everyone should support free speech protests, and the like so long as it is done peacefully. That is America! If law enforcement in MO hadn't been so pathetic, the rioting could have been avoided. Somehow NYC didn't burn last night...
So feel free to live in your nice Caucasian ignorance and convince yourselves that your animosity is devoid of racism. Let's see how that helps to bring together our fractured society.
First off, I am white. I was raised in an upper middle class, white neighborhood. I have never been arrested, though I did a TON of stuff as a kid that I should have been arrested. As I am sure most everyone here has. Never violent, but certainly illegal.
I won't argue that Michael Brown was behaving as a thug. But he was a kid.
What many of you, who are "people like me" do not understand is that we do not really understand what low income African Americans face with law enforcement and the penal system. Even your hero Rand Paul agrees!
It is easy, and extremely hypocritical, to argue "don't break the law" and you won't have any problems. Because we all, or most, do stupid things in their youth. It is part of growing up.
Take a black kid and a white kid who are both the same age. Pick your crime - minor theft, drug possession, fighting, vandalism, you name it. Let's go with simple possession or small time sales of a controlled substance. Both kids are doing the same thing.
The black kid is more likely to get noticed by police and in a position where they will find the drugs. The black kid, if caught with small possession, is more likely to be arrested vs given a warning. And the black kid will most likely receive a stiffer sentence.
Too many people throw around stats that show African Americans commit more crimes. What they don't realize or mention is that African Americans are more likely to get arrested, so a white guy who gets let go or gets a better deal doesn't fall into the stat. Who knows the reality.
I am in so way speaking poorly about our local cops. I have a number of friends on the force and all are upstanding people.
These protests area about the larger issues. It is because of experience that people don't take the grand jury, with all of its abnormalities, at face value. The Brown case may be the catalyst but that's not what it is all about. And now here we have the NY one with no indictment. Let's see what happens in Cleveland.
Everyone should support free speech protests, and the like so long as it is done peacefully. That is America! If law enforcement in MO hadn't been so pathetic, the rioting could have been avoided. Somehow NYC didn't burn last night...
So feel free to live in your nice Caucasian ignorance and convince yourselves that your animosity is devoid of racism. Let's see how that helps to bring together our fractured society.
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