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Sunday, August 16, 2020

Will The Wicomico County Council Come Out Of The Dark Ages And Actually Consider A WOMAN For County Executive?

That's right Ladies & Gentleman, Michele Ennis has formally put her hat in the ring to be considered as the next Wicomico County Executive. And why not, she's by far the most qualified and knows everything there is to know about the County after being employed there for almost 18 years.

However, the spite from the men on the County Council makes her a major underdog. Why, because she's more educated and experienced. So a NO from the Council simply means they're extremely afraid of a, get this, WOMAN! 

I say, why not give her a chance. Why not let the taxpayers see if in fact a woman is qualified to do the job. However, what I see is these men running scared of an educated woman who would finish Bob Culver's legacy. The mere fact that Michele applied for the job, (which would pay her far less then she was making and or WAY less in the private sector) simply proves she loves Wicomico County. Did you know she was born and raised here. You may not know a lot about Michele and in fact I just may hold off telling you her total background until after they Council make their appointment because I want to show you just how stupid these men are and how these council members do not have the taxpayers best interest at heart. 

It's time to come out of the dark ages. It's time a qualified woman be considered for such positions. Remember, I said QUALIFIED. Not like Salisbury Mayor Jake Day did by hiring non qualified people in top positions, Michele is qualified and experienced. We now live in an era where woman are starting to be seriously considered and finally respected. That's a good thing. However, there are a lot of "Old School" men in power holding back qualified women and that needs to change, especially locally. 

It should be noted that Delegate Carl Anderton has also put his name in to be considered.

Wicomico County Councilman Joe Holloway Applies For County Executive Position As Well

Well today has been a real surprise! I've known Joe Holloway for a lot of years and when I heard he was interested I was somewhat blown away, for all the wrong reasons. 

In past discussions I had always been under the impression that since he had no interest in becoming Council President that I was pretty sure he wouldn't have any interest in the Executive position. It turns out he didn't want to be President because he didn't want to be involved in that position disagreeing with Bob Culver. 

So today I've come to learn he put his hat in the ring. I can tell you I had attempted to encourage Joe to run against Rick Pollitt back in the day but Joe chose not to.

If there's one thing I know about Joe Holloway, he will surround himself with the best minds in all departments to move the County forward. 

There are some serious contenders in which I truly wouldn't want to be on the County Council but it's time to put their big boy pants on and earn their paychecks. This will be very interesting to watch. I can only hope the Council announces WHY they made the final decision. The vote should be next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Are Second $1,200 Stimulus Checks coming? Here's what we know

Capitol Hill has come to a standstill following heated discussions last week on what to include in the next coronavirus stimulus package.

One thing they did seem to agree on was another set of $1,200 checks to Americans, similar to the payments that went out this spring.

While Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said he wanted to start getting those second checks out this month, that seems more and more unlikely the longer that Congress fails to seal a deal.

"What I would say to people is there is still a pretty good chance that you're going to get these payments," said Howard Gleckman, senior fellow at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. "But it's impossible to know when or how long it's going to take."

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BREAKING: Biden taps Kamala Harris as running mate, setting aside tensions from primary

She makes history as the first Black woman to serve as a major political party’s VP pick

Kamala Harris, the politically shrewd California senator with a law enforcement background that has caused some tensions with the progressive left, was announced Tuesday as Joe Biden’s running mate.

She makes history as the first Black woman to serve as a major political party’s VP pick. The Biden campaign said Biden and Harris will deliver remarks together on Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware.

"I’ve decided that Kamala Harris is the best person to help me take this fight to Donald Trump and Mike Pence and then to lead this nation starting in January 2021," Biden said in an email to supporters.

Biden also tweeted: "I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate."

He added: "Back when Kamala was Attorney General, she worked closely with Beau. I watched as they took on the big banks, lifted up working people, and protected women and kids from abuse. I was proud then, and I'm proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign."

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-chooses-kamala-harris-vp

Herman Cain

He won't have three funerals. He won't be flown all over the United States. He won't lie in state at the Capitol rotunda. He won't get much mention in the news after today. He is a black man who was raised by a mother who was a cleaning woman and domestic worker (read that as a maid), and a father who was a barber and a janitor. The senior Cain later worked three jobs to build a house for his family. Herman Cain rose from nothing to become an astute business man. At 36, he was assigned in the 1980s to analyze and manage 400 Burger King stores in the Philadelphia area. His success at Burger King prompted Pillsbury to appoint him president and CEO of another subsidiary, Godfather's Pizza. In 1988, Cain, Ronald B. Gartlan, and a group of investors bought Godfather's from Pillsbury. After he left Godfather's, he was on the board of directors of Aquila, Inc., Nabisco, Whirlpool, Reader's Digest, and AGCO, Inc. The list goes on and on. There will be no military honor guards. No presidents giving a eulogy. No media coverage for three hours during prime daytime TV. Why? He was black and successful. He was a business genius. BUT..........he was a conservative in a country where a black man, a successful black man, dare not take that path. Rest In Peace, Sir. You mattered to more people than you know.

TRIGGERED: WATCH MIKA BRZEZINSKI GO INSANE ON PRESIDENT TRUMP

Morning Joe co-host’s ravings follow ‘ditzy airhead’ insults from President Trump

Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski went berserk on her MSNBC show Friday morning, lashing out at President Donald Trump after he called her “ditzy” and an “airhead.”

In a classic textbook example of Trump Derangement Syndrome, Brzezinski lost her temper several times throughout the broadcast, going on unhinged rants against Trump throughout various interviews and segments.

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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Tensions linger between Biden and Obama camps throughout 2020 primary campaign: report

“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f--k things up,” one Democrat who spoke to the former president recalled him saying

Despite the best-friend bond Joe Biden touts with former President Obama, tensions have lingered between the two statesmen over their vastly different governing styles, according to a Politico report.

To start, a number of anonymously sourced quotes from Obama leaked out throughout the 2020 Biden campaign where the former president allegedly expressed doubts about his former running mates’ fitness for office.

“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f--k things up,” one Democrat who spoke to the former president recalled him saying.

When lamenting his own diminishing relationship with the current Democratic electorate, particularly in Iowa, Obama reportedly told one 2020 candidate: “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden.”

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-obama-tensions-2020-primary

Why Socialism Is The Pursuit Of Unhappiness

Where are the happy socialists? The socialists I spot are either snarling with anger or shrieking with hubris. In fact, they seem intent on pursuing unhappiness as their misguided dictums controvert nature — human and physical. It's simply hard to be sanguine when going against nature.

For sure, socialism attracts a "fair number of cranks." Indubitably, it shackles the human spirit and foments misery. So what is it about this desperate ideology that's so disparate to nature, and so antithetical to happiness — besides the fact it creates nothing except poverty?

There is much wisdom behind the notion that happiness is a journey, not a destination, so enjoy the ride. An analogy is a ship sailing the seas, seeking temporary refuge in port before embarking on another exciting expedition. There's brief allowance for reveling upon attaining a goal, but then there's another...and another, so don't get too complacent in port.

If we obsess about outcomes, about reaching port, satisfaction and lasting happiness remain elusive. Yet that's what socialists demand — equality of outcomes. Rather than embracing the journey by equipping explorers with equality of opportunity, they're fixated on reaching the port of communism before mutiny festers. Once there, everyone except the dictator's sycophants finds equality, all right — all become equally impoverished. Turns out so-called "equality" is just not everything it's cracked up to be as the proletariat are dictated to — not in some salubrious transition on the way to utopia, but an indefinite dictatorship in dystopia. Rather than an abundance mindset, which grows the pie for all thanks to technological advances, it presumes a zero-sum scarcity reminiscent of the dark ages.

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Nearly A Third Of Americans Had Unpaid Housing Bills In August

Nearly a third of Americans for the fourth consecutive month failed to pay rent or mortgage payments in full. Personal finances of millions of folks have quickly deteriorated through summer. Unpaid housing bills are mounting as the virus-induced downturn continues to unleash the worst employment crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

A new survey via Apartment List, an online rental platform, found 32% of renters (and homeowners) entered August with unpaid housing bills. At least 20% of respondents owed more than $1,000. Among renters with back rent due, 49% have renegotiated lease agreements with their landlords or are doing so.

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Donald Trump Accepts Raucous Endorsement from New York City Police Union

The New York City Police Benevolent Association endorsed President Donald Trump on Friday – a union representing 24,000 police officers in the city.

Trump welcomed a group of enthusiastic New York City officers to his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, for an event to announce the endorsement.

The police union president, Patrick Lynch, gave a passionate speech thanking the president for standing up for law enforcement at a time when many were afraid to do so. Lynch said:

I cannot remember when we’ve ever endorsed for the president of the United States until now. That’s how important this is. …. Mr. President, we’re fighting for our lives out there we don’t want this to spread to the country, we need your strong voice across the country.

Trump delivered a speech warning of the dangers they were facing if former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris won the presidential election.

“As we gather today, our country is suffering from a radical far-left movement,” Trump said, noting that Democrats wanted to “defame, demoralize, defund, dismantle, and dissolve our great police departments.”

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Fact Check: Barack Obama Falsely Claims Seniors Depend on Post Office for Social Security

Barack Obama and a number of other Democrat officials have falsely claimed that senior citizens depend on the United States Postal Service to receive their social security checks.

Claim: “Everyone Depends on the USPS. Seniors for their Social Security,” Obama said in a tweet.

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1,374 Days Later, Hillary Clinton Complains to Town Interns About Sexism, Russians in 2016 Election

As President Trump was announcing a peace deal between Israel and United Arab Emirates, Hillary Clinton was lamenting the 2016 election to a group of town interns on Thursday.

Clinton sat with a group of young workers for the city of Greenburgh, New York, and demonstrated she still isn’t over the election that was held 1,374 days ago.

She was asked what the most challenging and rewarding parts were of running for president.

Clinton said it was a “great opportunity” to be “welcomed into the lives of so many of your fellow Americans and citizens.

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Costs from weeks of protests take financial toll on cash-strapped cities across US

Protests following George Floyd's death could become one of the costliest displays of civil disorder in US history

From police injuries to financial losses from looters, the aftermath from weeks of cross-country protests is bringing some cities to their knees.

All told, the unruly demonstrations following the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery could make it one of the costliest displays of civil disorder in U.S. history. In many places, the financial fallout comes as cities and states have drained their coffers trying to fight COVID-19. The end result for these cash-strapped cities could put them millions of dollars in the red and struggling for years to get out.

In Minneapolis, costs related to the protests could hit higher than $500 million. In Portland, Ore., nearly 80 nights of destruction have caused the liberal locale $23 million and counting. In Chicago, a city that's seen soaring crime rates and corruption at the highest levels, the damage done from the protests has not only hit high-end retailers but crippled hundreds of mom-and-pop stores trying to eke out a living.

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/costs-protests-financial-toll-cash-strapped-us-cities

Newt Gingrich: Kamala Harris is an anti-Catholic bigot

This says a lot about the strength of Biden's Catholic background under pressure from the anti-religious left

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s choice as his vice presidential running mate — Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.— is the most openly anti-Catholic bigot to be on a national ticket in modern times.

Harris’ record is perfectly clear. She is openly anti-Catholic in confirming federal judges, wanting to prosecute the Little Sisters of the Poor, closing Catholic Hospitals that don’t join her union allies, and favoring taxpayer-paid abortions up until birth (in fact, she has twice voted against bills that would ensure that babies who lived through abortion procedures get medical care).

In many ways, Harris’ bigotry against Catholics is a perfect example of the modern radical left’s ideology of “intolerant tolerance” that I outline in my latest bestselling book, “Trump and the American Future.”

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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kamala-harris-catholic-newt-gingrich

Ex-FBI Lawyer To Plead Guilty In Durham Probe To Altering Email About Carter Page

A former FBI attorney will plead guilty to making false statements in documents used to obtain a surveillance warrant against former Trump aide Carter Page, his lawyer told the Associated Press Friday.

The guilty plea from Kevin Clinesmith is the first legal action taken in an investigation led by John Durham, a U.S. attorney looking into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe and other intelligence-gathering activities related to the Trump campaign.

Clinesmith’s lawyer, Justin Shur, told the Associated Press that his client will plead guilty to a single false statements charge as part of a cooperation agreement with the government.

The New York Times first reported that Clinesmith was entering the plea deal and would be charged in federal court.

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KELITE FERRERAS SENTENCED TO SEVENTY FIVE YEARS FOR SEX ABUSE OF A MINOR AND RAPE

On August 13, 2020, the Honorable S. James Sarbanes, Administrative Judge of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, sentenced Kelite Ferreras, 36 years of age, formerly of Salisbury, Maryland to seventy five (75) years of incarceration in the Maryland Division of Corrections. A Wicomico County jury found Ferreras guilty of one (1) count each of sex abuse of a minor, rape second degree, sex offense second degree and an additional related charge on January 29, 2020. Ferreras is also required to register as a Tier III sex offender, which is lifetime registration, and will be subject to lifetime supervision by Parole and Probation. 

In October 2016, Ferreras raped and sexually abused a juvenile under the age of 12, who was present in the home at the time. Ferreras then fled the United States for Haiti, where he was apprehended in March of 2019 by the Haitian Police with the assistance of United States Marshals Service and Interpol. Ferreras was extradited back to Wicomico County, Maryland. 

Wicomico County State’s Attorney (SA) Jamie L. Dykes commended the members of Wicomico County Child Advocacy Center (CAC) for their work in the investigation, specifically thanking Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office investigators DFC D. Schultz and DFC C. Kirkpatrick and Salisbury Police investigator Detective M. Rockwell, all assigned or formerly assigned to the CAC. SA Dykes was especially appreciative of the U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force (CARFTF) Salisbury Office, including DFC B. Jones, for their extensive efforts over a two (2) year period to return Ferreras to Wicomico County to face justice. SA Dykes also commended, Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Diane Karsnitz, who prosecuted this case.

U.S-Canadian border shut for another month

WASHINGTON – The U.S.-Canadian border will remain closed to nonessential traffic through Sept. 21, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf announced Friday.

"We continue to work with our Canadian and Mexican partners to slow the spread of #Covid19," Wolf said on Twitter. "Accordingly, we have agreed to extend the limitation of non-essential travel at our shared land ports of entry through September 21."

The decision means the border with Canada, as well as the border with Mexico, will have been largely closed for a full six months. The two nations agreed in March to close the border for a month, and have extended the closure on a monthly basis ever since.

The latest extension of the border closure comes as no surprise. It comes as several U.S. states battle summertime Covid-19 outbreaks.

Meanwhile, Canada has largely contained the spread of the novel coronavirus. That being the case, the Canadian public has shown little interest in reopening the border anytime soon. An Ipsos-Reid poll released in mid-July indicated that 85% of Canadians surveyed want the border closure to continue through the end of the year.

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Judge who halted removal of Columbus statue makes it 'crystal clear that she will not tolerate mob rule'

'A victory for civilized society'

An attorney praised a judge for putting the brakes on the Philadelphia Art Commission's plan to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus from Marconi Plaza, where heated demonstrations have taken place in favor of and against the monument in the wake of George Floyd's death.

Attorney George Bochetto represents a group of South Philadelphia residents fighting to keep the statue in place, and he told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Judge Paula Patrick — who issued a temporary stay — made it "crystal clear that she will not tolerate mob rule or kangaroo tactics."

Bochetto added to the paper that the judge's stay is "not just a victory for the Columbus Statue, [but] a victory for civilized society."

White privilege programs take center stage in pair of school districts — and frustrated board members, parents are pushing back hard

'The book teaches kids not only to defy parents but to hate themselves'

Programs fighting white privilege are taking center stage in a pair of Pennsylvania school districts, and board members and parents are pushing back hard against them.

'The book teaches kids not only to defy parents but to hate themselves'

Gladwyne School in the Lower Merion School District — reportedly one of the richest in the nation — will require fourth and fifth graders to read "Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness," which claims that white people who relate to police officers or don't watch the news are guilty of racism, and kindergartners and first graders will be assigned "A Kid's Book About Racism," the Washington Free Beacon reported.

In response, Elana Yaron Fishbein — a mother of two boys and a doctor of social work — wrote to the district's superintendent, board members, and the school's principal demanding the school remove its "cultural proficiency" curriculum, the paper said.

"The book teaches kids not only to defy parents but to hate themselves," Fishbein told the Free Beacon. "To hate their parents also because they are white. By default, [the kids] are white, and they're privileged, and they're bad. [The school] is teaching this to little kids."

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VIDEO: Illinois kids' lemonade stand robbed at gunpoint, then cops and community rally around the boys

Amazing job turning lemons into lemonade.

In a shocking video, a lemonade stand operated by two young boys in Illinois was robbed at gunpoint. The children were selling lemonade in the East Bluff section of Peoria last Friday afternoon when two "older kids" walked up, one armed with a gun, and snatched the boys' cash drawer, according to the Peoria Journal Star.

Surveillance video from a neighbor caught the armed robbery of the lemonade stand at 4:52 p.m. last Friday. The suspects reportedly stole about $30 before running off. Peoria police spokeswoman Amy Dotson confirmed that one of the suspects had a gun, according to the Pekin Times. Police were investigating the robbery.

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