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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Eric's Barber Shop Jammed Packed All Day

Today my Grandson and I went to Eric's Barber Shop on the Downtown Plaza and waited for more than an hour before we could get our haircut. People kept returning during that hour we were there as they had been in earlier today and were returning because the line was so long. It didn't matter what time you walked through his door, there were at least 10 to 15 people ahead of you. Eric closes at 3 PM on Saturdays but we already know he was there well past 4 PM.

Advertising on Salisbury News pays off in a very big way. I know, I know, it sounds like we're trying to solicit advertisers, but we're not. We appreciate every single business that advertises with us and we love paying those advertising dollars forward for those in need.

The Downtown Plaza is NOT a bad place to start a business. Advertise in the right place and people will come. Just ask Pani Pizza or Eric (the Barber) Ludwig! We have an advertiser here that swears they ran ads for years with the Daily Times and never had a customer walk through their door stating they came to that business because of an ad they saw in the DT's. However, they get customers walking in every day saying they saw their ad on Salisbury News.

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Big Day Tomorrow


If you're looking for some great Sunday morning reading, be sure to come by Salisbury News as we will have some really informative local reading for you to enjoy.

Yesterday, (Friday) turned out to be a record setting Friday for Salisbury News. We have never seen so much traffic for a Friday since we started Salisbury News. We thank you for visiting and commenting.

If you have a property you'd like to sell, here's some great news. Within a very short period of time, (a few days) serious qualified people have already visited and walked through the building we put up for sale on the Downtown Plaza. Each one of them called and said they had seen it on Salisbury News.

While many Realtors stated there was just too much on the market, I believe it's a matter of people seeing what's available and Salisbury News delivers that traffic. We can put up residential and commercial properties and get you results.

If you're interested in listing your property here, contact me at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com. Save tens of thousands of dollars by doing so.

Wicomico County Education Budget Venting

Hi Joe,
 
I just wanted to drop a note to let you know about something that is going on with the County's Kindergarten registration process. Both my wife and I work and will not be able to get off work on the day that we can register our 5 year old for Kindergarten. When we called WBOE to see if they had any extended hours for parents that have to work, they said no because it isn't in our budget.  However, if you visit the County's website, you will see that the budget is going to hire Haitian Creole and Spanish Interpreters to be there every day.  So as for the people paying for the interpreter services with their tax dollars, there are no accommodations, other than the option to schedule a separate appointment, which means you would still have to leave your job to do take care of it either way. For the people who are living off or our tax dollars, we can accommodate them with interpreters.  Are we the only ones here that are sick of this hidden government form of welfare?  Please feel free to post for comments.

State Police Investigating Fatal Crash

Location
  • Stockley Road (CR 280) East of Cool Springs Road (CR 290) W/O Lewes, Delaware
 
DATE and TIME:  
  • Saturday March 26, 2011 2:00 a.m.
 
Operator/Victim/Vehicle:
  • Frank Sapienza-27 Georgetown, De
  • 1992 Volkswagen Jetta
 
Resume:
Lewes-Early Saturday morning Delaware State Police and emergency medical crews responded to a serious motor vehicle crash on Stockley Road W/O Lewes.  The single vehicle crash happened around 2 a.m. March 26, 2011.
 
A State Police investigation revealed that a 1992 Volkswagen Jetta was traveling westbound on Stockley Road E/O Cool Springs Road Lewes Delaware and was driven by Frank Sapienza-27 of Georgetown.  Sapienza was rounding a sharp bend in the roadway when he lost control of his Volkswagen Jetta.   
 
Sapienza’s vehicle exited the south edge of the roadway striking several mailboxes, then upon re-entering Stockley Road continued off the north edge of the roadway striking a utility pole.  Sapienza after striking the utility pole was thrown from his vehicle. 
 
Sapienza was taken to Beebe Hospital where he died from injuries sustained in the crash. 
 
Delaware State Police are continuing their investigation and request anyone with information concerning this crash to contact the Collision Reconstruction Unit at 302-644-5020 ext. 118
 
Alcohol involvement is unknown

Daily Times Charging Online Readers

Joe,

Have you noticed that the Daily Times is charging to read articles?  I discovered it today.  I saw your post about the Sinepuxent Receipts cookbook.  I went to his link to read more and saw there had been an article in the DT.

So I did a search on their site for Sinepuxent Receipts which took me to the page.  You have your choice of reading a preview for Free, the whole article without pictures for $3.95, or the whole article as it appeared in the paper for $124.95!  Do they really think people will pay to read old news?

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delmarvanow/results.html?st=basic&QryTxt=Sinepuxent Receipts

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delmarvanow/offers.html?url=%2Fdelmarvanow%2Faccess%2F2265088081.html%3FFMT%3DFT%26FMTS%3DABS%3AFT%26date%3DFeb%2B10%252C%2B2011%26author%3DBrice%2BStump%26pub%3DDaily%2BTimes%26edition%3D%26startpage%3Dn%252Fa%26desc%3DThe%2B%252480%252C000%2Bcookbook

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delmarvanow/item.html?pp_date=20110210&author=Brice+Stump&doc_title=The+%2480%2C000+cookbook&edition=&pub_page=n%2Fa&pptl=results

Senate GOP Demand Balanced Budget Amendment For Raising Debt Ceiling

The Senate Republicans are preparing to tell President Obama that they want a Balanced Budget Amendment (BBA) to the Constitution passed in Congress in exchange for raising the statuary debt ceiling above $14.2 trillion.

“My hope is that we would force a vote on a Balanced Budget Amendment as a condition to voting on the debt ceiling,” Sen. John Cornyn (R.-Tex.) told HUMAN EVENTS.  “By next week, or shortly thereafter, we will have all 47 Republicans unified behind the effort, and then begin to reach out to our Democratic colleagues.”

A BBA would force the federal government to balance the federal spending to incoming revenue each year and cap spending at 18% of the gross domestic product (GDP).  For the current Fiscal Year (FY 2011), the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that government spending will be $1.4 trillion more than revenue and account for almost 25% of the GDP.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) is planning to roll out the details of the new version of the BBA in the next two weeks.  McConnell’s plan is to to build public support and pressure on the Democrats to vote for it before the debt ceiling is hit, which is estimated to happen between mid-April and the end of May.

“We will have a genuine rollout so the American people can know what we’re doing and they can call, and e-mail, and fax, and demand their senators and congressmen support it and create a true grassroots effort,” said Cornyn of the leadership strategy.

So far, the Republicans have at least 33 members supporting the new BBA.  Cornyn said that he and others are making calls this week to line up the others to support it.  He expects to have all 47 Republicans in support by next week, and then will start outreach to the Senate Democrats.

“This is something that should have a bipartisan appeal, but we need to get unified behind it first before reaching out,” said Cornyn.

According to Article V of the Constitution, an amendment must get a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate and be ratified by three-quarters of the states.  So in the Democrat-majority Senate, the amendment would need all 47 Republicans votes plus 20 Democrats for passage.

The last time that the Senate voted on a Balanced Budget Amendment was in 1997.  The amendment, sponsored by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah) failed by only one vote.

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National Border Patrol Council: Napolitano Giving False Sense Of Security

The law enforcement-based union that represents all 17,500 non-supervisory U.S. Border Patrol agents says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comments this week reassuring Americans that the U.S. border is safe and open for business are “wrong and give citizens a false sense of security.”

“It is time for the political games to stop for fear of insulting the government of Mexico,” the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) said in a statement. “U.S. citizens are being kidnapped and killed while our Border Patrol agents fight a war at home that no one will allow them to win.

“Not one more Border Patrol agent should fall or citizen be victimized because our government fails to act,” the NBPC said. “Mexico is hemorrhaging violence and we are being hit with the splatter.”

Ms. Napolitano told border-area mayors and business leaders in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday that the U.S.-Mexico border is safer than ever, adding that perceptions that the border area is at its most dangerous right now are false.

“If the border was better now than it ever has been, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry would not have been brutally murdered by heavily-armed Mexican criminals operating over 13 miles inside the United States,” the NBPC said.

“In some countries, that is construed as an act of war, but here we get words not deeds.

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ACLU vs. Religious Liberty

Irony is defined as “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.” The term doublespeak means “evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse.”
There is perhaps no greater example of ironic doublespeak than the inclusion of the phrase “civil liberties” within the inapt designation: “American Civil Liberties Union.”

Indeed, few leftist organizations in existence today can compete with the ACLU in terms of demonstrated hostility toward what the Declaration of Independence describes as “certain unalienable rights” with which Americans are “endowed by their Creator.”

Consider the doublespeak inherent throughout the “progressive” Goliath’s flowery self-representation:
The ACLU is our nation’s guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.
Now contrast that depiction with ACLU founder Roger Baldwin’s candid vision:
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself . . . I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
Ironic, isn’t it? So much for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” By combining straightforward segments from each ACLU rendering we arrive with an accurate portrayal. One that cuts through the doublespeak:
The ACLU is . . . working daily in courts, legislatures and communities. Communism is the goal.
In 1931, just eleven years after the ACLU’s inception, the U.S. Congress convened a Special House Committee to Investigate Communist Activities. On the ACLU it reported:
The American Civil Liberties Union is closely affiliated with the communist movement in the United States, and fully 90 percent of its efforts are on behalf of communists who have come into conflict with the law. It claims to stand for free speech, free press and free assembly, but it is quite apparent that the main function of the ACLU is an attempt to protect the communists.
To be sure, the “main function of the ACLU” is entirely counter-constitutional.
A shared objective between both Communism generally and the ACLU specifically is the suppression of religious liberty; principally, the free exercise of Christianity.

Karl Marx, high priest of the ACLU’s beloved cult of Communism, once said: “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”

Even the ACLU’s own promotional materials overtly advocate religious discrimination:
“The message of the Establishment Clause is that religious activities must be treated differently from other activities to ensure against governmental support for religion.”
Utter hokum.

The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause — a mere 10 words — says nothing of the sort. Its message is abundantly clear, requiring severe distortion to stuff it within the ACLU’s Marxist parameters.

It merely states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…”

That’s it.

More 'Fees', More Money For MD Employees And Teachers

The House of Delegates gave initial approval Wednesday for a $14.6 billion state spending plan that closes a yawning deficit without raising taxes but would have Marylanders paying tens of millions more in extra fees.

The plan would put a stronger emphasis on education than Gov. Martin O'Malley's initial proposal by restoring nearly $60 million the governor chopped from schools. And it is slightly more generous to localities in aid for road maintenance and other funding.

But the plan could mean higher bus and train fares, as well as increasing fees for titling cars, using vanity license plates, recording property and registering birth records. The plan, for the budget year that begins July 1, rolls back an O'Malley proposal to fine bad drivers.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Norman Conway said the spending plan — which could be approved by the House as early as Thursday before moving to the Senate — was "the most difficult" of his eight years leading the House budget committee. "We are proud that great progress has been made toward financial stability," he said.

But members of the House Republican caucus, which grew by six this year, disagreed. During the House debate, several noted that the House plan cuts only a net of $6.5 million from O'Malley's initial proposal.

"Another way of looking at it is four ten-thousandths of a percent," said Del. Andrew A. Serafini, a Washington County Republican.

House Republicans cried foul when Democrats said that the spending plan does not rely on new taxes. The Republicans recalled O'Malley's 2010 campaign attacks on his GOP opponent for attempting to distinguish between taxes and fees.

"If it comes out of my pocket, it is a tax," said Michael D. Smigiel, parroting an O'Malley campaign ad.

House Republicans used the budget bill to discuss deeper policy issues, offering amendments to cut state funding for abortions and stem cell research.

They also tried to ignite a debate on the controversial issue of allowing illegal immigrants to pay discounted rates at state colleges and universities, by offering an amendment prohibiting the practice.

But the Republican effort failed, which will likely encourage advocates on the immigrant issue. A bill allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition passed in the Senate, but some had been concerned that it might not clear the House.

Republicans also offered changes plucked from their alternative budget proposal, including a measure to cap state salaries at $1 below the governor's pay; to withdraw the planned $750 bonus to state workers; and to eliminate state funding for the horse racing industry. All of the amendments were rejected.

The House plan is more generous to state employees, rolling back one of the deeper cuts O'Malley proposed to retiree health benefits. Under the House plan, retirees would have a $1,000 annual out-of-pocket cap on paying for prescription drugs. (Couples would have a $1,500 cap.)

O'Malley had suggested a $4,500 cap for individuals and $9,100 for couples, angering retirees who said that the cost could eat up much of their monthly pension checks.

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Holder Ignores Demands For NAACP-Influence Data

A lawsuit has been filed against President Obama's Justice Department for refusing to release details about how agency officials decided to abandon a voter intimidation case that staff members had brought – and won – against members of the New Black Panther Party.

The lawsuit was filed by Judicial Watch, the public interest organization that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, over a refusal by the federal agency to provide information about the decision.

At issue in the case is whether the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "improperly influenced" the Justice Department, the nation's highest law enforcement agency, "to drop a lawsuit against members of the Black Panthers who allegedly threatened and intimidated white voters outside a polling station during the 2008 election."

Because Kristen Clark, of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, reportedly met with Justice Department officials to discuss the case just before the agency announced plans to dismiss the action, questions arose about the influence that may have been exerted.

Judicial Watch in November 2010 filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records of communications between the agency's Civil Rights Division and the NAACP. Under federal requirements, Attorney General Eric Holder's agency was supposed to have responded by Dec. 3, 2010.

"However, to date, no documents have been produced," the Judicial Watch announcement said.

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Taste of the Eastern Shore

Come and get a taste of the Eastern Shore today at Shore Appliance in Twilley Center.

Tom Clarke will be hosting a tasting of recipes from his cookbook, Sinepuxent Receipts.  The tasting will run from 3PM – 5PM.  All profits from the sale of Tom’s cookbook will go to replace the organ console at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.

The cost of the event is $10.  Cookbooks, signed by the author, may also be purchased.  Cookbooks may also be purchased online at Sinepuxent.com