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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Lost Dogs UPDATE



Hi Joe,

I need your help by finding our 2 dogs they have been gone for 36 hrs now and I have seen on your website that people normally have good luck when they post it on your blog...they go by Haus and Lucky...we live at 28430 old Quantico Rd ...if anyone has seen them please contact Jennifer at 443-359-4179...

Thanks So Much

BREAKING NEWS: WCDC Inmate Hangs Himself

Paramedics are on their way to the Wicomico County Detention Center for a non breathing inmate who hung himself.

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Why Do You Think 'All My Children' and 'One Life To Life' Got Canceled

In my honest opinion, our Government has forced most people in that age group to work and NOT sit at home watching day time television.

Gone are the days when Dad would go to work and Mom would stay home to raise children. While some may claim this is a victory for equal rights, I say our country has gone down hill ever since. You know how our Government enjoys at least two per household paying taxes instead of one.

However, getting back to the point here, maybe millions of people will now go out and get jobs and get off welfare instead of sitting around the boob tube watching soap operas.

It's unfortunate for those retired people who watch these programs but you'd think a cable company would pick them up and continue these shows. If not, I say, don't let Obama and the First Lady get any ideas to BAIL THEM OUT!

I look forward to your opinion.

Trump's Popularity Leaves Political Analysts Perplexed

Despite being called a 'sideshow' and a 'joke candidate,' Trump surges to the top in GOP presidential polls.

A top adviser for President Obama dismisses him as a "sideshow." Former Bush adviser Karl Rove calls him a "joke candidate."

But that hasn't stopped Donald Trump, who has captured national attention with his outspoken skepticism of Obama's citizenship, from surging in early presidential polls. He leads all potential GOP presidential candidates by nine points in a Public Policy Polling survey released Friday. He trailed only Mitt Romney in a NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released last week.

Fatality On Bypass

There has been a fatal accident on the Bypass just north of St. Lukes Road. More to come.....

UPDATE: This may not have been an accident. while there is broken glass on the scene and Holloway's has been called in, the driver of the tractor trailer may have passed away inside of the vehicle and an Officer may have broken the glass to get in.

I can tell you the Family of the deceased has been contacted.

UPDATE #2: The driver of the tractor trailer was a 41 year old male from Georgia. He had called his mother from his cell phone telling her he didn't feel well. She told him to call 911 but no one knew where he was. They knew he was in Maryland but they didn't know where.

Dayton Throws Out Written Police Exam Scores, Will Rely On Oral Interviews Only

DAYTON, OHIO — The city of Dayton plans to discard the test scores of the 748 people who passed its police recruit exam in November and will instead hire officers based only on a subjective oral interview — a change meant to improve the city’s ability to hire more minorities.

The announcement comes after the U.S. Department of Justice forced the city to lower its passing score to allow for more minorities into the hiring pool as part of a federal discrimination lawsuit the city settled in 2009.

Those scores are no longer relevant and all candidates are now on equal footing. The oral exam will consist of five situation-based questions asked by an expert panel and last 30 minutes per candidate.

Only those who passed the written exams are allowed to take the oral exam.

The move is arguably the most significant change in the city’s hiring process of police and firefighters in decades. It was made based on a recommendation by Fire & Police Selection Inc., based in Folsom, Calif. FPSI was hired by the city for $150,000 to revamp Dayton’s police and fire exams, said Jim Moore, the city’s interim civil service director.

Moore said in previous years, the oral interview was conducted by the police department and would be factored in with the written exam results.

FPSI was contracted because it had experience with federal discrimination lawsuits, Civil Service officials said.

Dayton Police Union President Randy Beane called the change “outrageous.” He said it circumvents the city’s rule of one hiring practice where candidates must be hired one at a time based on a testing score from best to worst.

“There’s not going to be any objectiveness in the process,” he said. “We are checking with our attorney to see if this is legal.”

City Commissioner Dean Lovelace welcomed the change and said an oral exam can sometimes better reflect a candidate’s worthiness. “If this change increases our ability to hire more minorities, I am for it,” he said. “I have maintained the written test shouldn’t be the only weight in the process.”

The city began notifying the 748 who passed the exam by mail this week. Those moving on will have to pass a preliminary background check before participating in the oral interview.

The panel will then score the applicant’s answers and the process will be completed in early June.

Those who pass the oral exam must then pass a polygraph test and psychological and physical exams before being ranked on a hiring list.

Moore disagreed the hiring change was meant to circumvent the city’s hiring rules mandated in its charter. But when asked if this creates more wiggle room to subjectively hire candidates, Moore said, “that might very well be the case. We are reacting to the consent decree which states that we are not to engage in a selection process that has a disparate impact on a certain race,” he said.

The Department of Justice sued Dayton in 2008, claiming its hiring practices for police and fire positions discriminated against minorities, mainly blacks. Dayton has since spent more than $500,000 settling terms of the lawsuit, which included new civil service exams and paying some black applicants who failed the 2006 test that was found to be invalid.

The city last month agreed to lower the passing scores on the two-part written exams to allow 258 additional people into the passing pool after the DOJ rejected the city’s first passing score proposal. Applicants had to correctly answer 58 percent of questions on an 86-question exam and get 63 percent right of 102 questions on the other.

Of the 748 who passed, at least 111 are black, 564 are white and 19 are Hispanic. Some did not declare their race.

The DOJ’s rejection has indefinitely postponed the firefighters exam that was originally scheduled earlier this month and civil service officials said they might not use FPSI to develop the firefighters exam. It is unclear if FPSI’s services will be dropped because of the DOJ’s initial rejection of the test results.

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LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF MARYLAND HAS BEEN DECERTIFIED!

The State Election Board has ruled that there were too few participants in both the Libertarian Party and the Green Party to be classified as political parties under the election code. Both are challenging the Board’s position in a lawsuit that was recently filed in Anne Arundel County.

Muir Boda, who ran in the recent election for seats on the Salisbury City Council, is an official of the Libertarian Party of Maryland according to his website.

The lawsuit is based on recent rulings that the Election Board is improperly striking petition signatures based on legibility, etc. For details about this situation see – http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/MDLP-MGP-Complaint.pdf

This situation shows how the Democrat Party stifles political competition in Maryland, which is controlled by the liberal – “take no prisoners” -- wing of that party. We hope for the best in that lawsuit, but don’t expect a good result given who appoints the judiciary in Maryland.

Super Fresh Closing

Don't close our Super Fresh!!!  What are we going to do!!  I am in shock with the new that Super Fresh in Salisbury is closing, possibly in June!  That is the best grocery store in town!  I am devastated!  Who else is?

Here's The Setup For The Con Of The Decade

I described The Con of the Decade [2]last July (2010). The Con makes me a heretic in the cult religion of Hyperinflation. I consider myself an agnostic about the destruction of the U.S. dollar and hyperinflation (basically the same thing), but my idea that hyperinflation is fundamantally a political process makes me a heretic. I skimmed a few of the dozens of comments posted on Rick's Picks and Zero Hedge after they posted one of my expositions on this dynamic, and didn't see even one comment in favor of this perspective.

The Con is being set up right now, and the outlines are clearly visible. The Con works like this:1. The Financial Elites/Oligarchy raked in billions in private profit from the orgy of leverage, credit expansion, fraud, embezzlement and misrepresentation of risk that resulted in the Housing Bubble.

2. The losses were transferred to the public (Federal government, i.e. The central State) or its proxy, the Federal Reserve (i.e. the central bank), via bailouts, backstops, guarantees, the Fed's purchase of taxic assets, and an open window for the financiers to borrow billions at zero interest (ZIRP) for further speculations.

3. The Treasury now borrows $1.6 trillion every year, fully 11% of the nation's GDP, as the Central State has replaced private demand and credit expansion with its own borrowing and spending.

4. Non-U.S. central banks have largely ceased to support this unprecedented scale of borrowing, so the Federal Reserve now buys most of the Treasury's issuance of debt via QE2 (quantitative easing, the direct purchase of $600 billion in Treasury bonds).

5. Unlike Japan, the U.S. cannot self-fund its own government borrowing: while U.S. investors, banks and insurance companies do own a significant chunk of Treasuries, the U.S. savings rate (capital accumulation) is still abysmally low, around 4%, which is half the historical average savings rate.

This is the result of the Keynesian Cult's One Big Idea, which is to pull demand forward and encourage borrowing and spending now by any means necessary, and thus sacrifice capital formation/saving.

So the basic outline of the Con is that private losses from the financialization of the U.S. economy were shifted to the public. Now to keep the Status Quo and Financial Plutocracy from imploding, the public is on the hook for $1.6 trillion in additional borrowing every year until Doomsday (around 2021 or so).

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Maryland Pro Boxer Found Guilty Of Assault

MITCHELVILLE, Md. (WUSA) -- A professional boxer in Maryland is behind bars Friday night after being found guilty of first-degree assault. Ronald Boyd is convicted of choking and repeatedly punching his wife, 31-year-old Theresa Evans, outside the "My Place" nightclub in Mitchelville last April.

"He caused her to black out. He broke her cheek bone. And then she had to have plastic surgery to correct the damage to her face," said Ushika Evans, the victim's sister.

According to court documents, Boyd choked Evans to the point of "taking her feet off the ground" then punched her twice in the face.

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Pork In The Park Competition Heats Up This Weekend

SALISBURY, Md. (AP) -- If you're done doing your taxes and hungry for barbecue, you might want to head to Salisbury this weekend.

That's where the Pork in the Park BBQ festival is being held at Winterplace Park. Organizers say 142 teams turned out last year to vie for $19,000 in prizes. They say that makes it the second largest festival sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society in the nation.

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Md. Gov. To Make Announcement On Chesapeake Crabs

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- Maryland's governor has scheduled an announcement next week on the Chesapeake Bay's crab fishery.

Details on Tuesday's announcement by Gov. Martin O'Malley were not released, but those who follow the fishery are awaiting the results of the annual winter dredge survey.

The survey conducted by Maryland and Virginia is the most comprehensive look at the bay's crab population. Findings are used to guide management of crabs in the bay.

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Giraffe Dies Under Anesthesia At Baltimore Zoo

BALTIMORE - Officials at the Maryland Zoo say a 16-year-old giraffe has died after being anesthetized for a hoof trimming.

Zoo officials say the giraffe named Zoe died Thursday. Zoo officials say hoof trimming is necessary to prevent growth that can interfere with a giraffe's ability to walk and anesthesia is difficult for giraffes because of their long bodies and large necks.

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Being 30 Days Late On House Payment Can Knock 100 Points Off Credit Score

Usually very closed-mouth about how it calculates scores, FICO released a whole bunch of data about how being late on your mortgage payments affects your credit score. For instance, being 30 days later on a mortgage payment can chop your 780 credit score down to 670. And a short sale or deed-in-lieu of foreclosure will hurt your score just as bad as a foreclosure if the service reports it as having a deficiency amount or an unpaid balance. Yikes! Here's some sexy tables with more details:

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Make The Telemarketer Repeat Themselves A Zillion Times Until They Hang Up

Now this is how you mess with a telemarketer. Reader areaman in the comments on "Annoy Telemarketers Into Leaving You Alone" pointed out this clip of comedian Jim Florentine taking on one of those debt consolidation companies. She keeps trying to read through her pitch and he keeps insisting that there was a part in it he didn't hear and makes her go over it again and again. "No, no, before that," is his constant refrain. She tries to soldier on but eventually hangs up in frustration. Classic.

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House Passes 2012 Budget With Staff Cuts, 3-Year Pay Freeze

The House passed a fiscal year 2012 bill today that targets federal employees' pay and benefits. The proposal cuts the federal workforce by 10 percent through attrition and freezes federal pay through 2015. Feds would also see cuts to retirement benefits. House Republicans say this budget will cut spending by $6 trillion over the next 12 years.  

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Senator DeMint Demands Constitution Be Changed To Ban Federal Debt

Washington - Sen. Jim DeMint, who has wrought chaos in Congress over earmarks, immigration and health care, is preparing to launch a crusade that would make those fights look tame.

DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, is vowing to block any vote on raising the U.S. debt ceiling unless Congress moves to amend the Constitution by banning future federal deficits.

"I will oppose any attempt to vote to raise the limit on our $14 trillion debt until Congress passes the balanced-budget amendment," DeMint told McClatchy.

DeMint's stance puts him on a collision course with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who's warned congressional leaders of cataclysmic consequences if Congress fails to authorize a higher debt limit by mid-May, when he predicts the current $14.3 trillion ceiling will be reached.

"Defaulting on legal obligations of the United States would lead to sharply higher interest rates and borrowing costs, declining home values and reduced retirement savings for Americans," Geithner wrote last week in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

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Beginning Tuesday, Own A Piece Of Transportation History

DMV Officials to Release Limited Number of Five-Digit License Plates

Dover -- Many Delaware residents don't give their assigned license plate number a second thought, but those in the know are always looking for the chance to get a lower number. Low number plates are coveted by Delaware drivers, but they can be hard to come by. The Delaware Department of Transportation's (DelDOT) Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is pleased to announce that beginning, Tuesday, April 19, at all four DMV locations, a limited quantity of five-digit plates will be made available to the public on a first-come, first-serve basis.

In order to receive a five-digit plate, customers will need to purchase, from the DMV location they are visiting, a black and white stainless steel or porcelain reproduction plate manufactured by the Delaware Historic Plate Company. DMV has partnered with the Delaware Historic Plate Company in an effort to provide increased customer service to Delaware citizens, while also raising revenues with 20 percent of the purchase price of the specialty plates going to the DMV. Plate numbers cannot be reserved in advance.

"We are pleased to offer this exciting and rare opportunity to our customers," said DMV Director Jennifer Cohan. "Through this first-time partnership with the Delaware Historic Plate Company, our customers have a chance to place a piece of Delaware history onto their vehicle. Five-digit tags are hard to come by and these plates will become a keepsake for families to cherish for years to come."

Important details to know if you wish to purchase a five-digit stainless steel or porcelain reproduction plate:

- In order to take advantage of the program, customers will be giving up the current license plate number registered to their vehicle.

- Customers must pay applicable transfer fees in addition to the purchase cost of the reproduction plate, currently $100 for either a stainless steel or porcelain plate.

- Customers having title to their vehicles should bring their driver's license, vehicle title, vehicle mileage, and insurance in order to complete the plate switch.

- Customers needing to obtain their title from their lien holder will need to go to the nearest DMV office and put a five-digit plate on hold. They must obtain a MV35 form from DMV and send it to their lien holder to obtain the title. The title will be mailed to DMV, who will contact the customer when it arrives. At that time, the five-digit plate can be put on the vehicle and a reproduction plate can be ordered.

- No telephone or email requests will be taken. All transactions must be completed in person at any of the DMV office locations.

For more information about this rare and exciting opportunity to own a piece of Delaware transportation history, please contact the DMV at 302-744-2503.