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"Jedadiah Cross has left a new comment on your post "Slow Morning":

My Christmas wish would be Joe and Chief See ringing together anywhere. In the spirit of the season, it would be nice to see them work together for a good cause. I bet the Chief would do fine if he just let his defense down and tried to get along. It would be a sight to behold and a real message of cooperation and fellowship. Can this be arranged ?"

Mr. Cross:

In the spirit the Holidays, I would be more than happy to stand with not only Chief See for two hours ringing a bell for the Salvation Army, I will also extend that same offer to Chief Webster from the Salisbury Police Department.

I believe I have proven time and time again that I am willing to put personal issues aside and do what is best for the cause, hence the Humane Society as just one example.

So, that being said, you have my word in writing on this Blog and if ANY one of you want to make that arrangement, just tell me the time and place and I will be there. I'll even go so far as to say, "any time, any place." It's the right thing to do and my guess is that we would raise more money than anyone has ever raised locally in the past for two hours worth of bell ringing.

Black Friday

While it's been a long day for many of us, I for one did absolutely no shopping whatsoever today and never planned on it.

However, it's not all about me and what I choose to do.

Did you go shopping today?

Did you find any really good deals?

Was it worth getting up at 4:00 AM?

Were the lines out of this world?

Were people in nasty moods?

You're welcome to answer one or all if you like.

Don't Forget Tomorrow's Main Post

HISTORICAL MOMENTS BY GEORGE CHEVALLIER

Berlin Fall Arts Night Tonight!!

Come on out to Berlin tonight for the Annual Berlin Fall ARTS Night.
It is Berlins version of Black Friday. All stores will be open late and hosting Open Houses. There will be entertainers in the streets, and in the shops.
Food, Wine and other Holiday beverages will be served.
Tonight also marks the lighting of the Berlin Town Christmas Tree in front of the Atlantic Hotel.
Artists will displaying their works in different shops throughout the town as well as doing demonstrations of their creations.
The Worcester County Arts Council will be having a Silent Auction of Holiday Wreaths that have been decorated and donated to the Arts Council by local Artists and Merchants to be sold in support of the Councils Annual Scholarship Fund that assists graduating seniors to persue their dreams in college.
Additionally, the Worcester County Arts Council in conjunction with Carraba's Italian Restaurant will be selling raffle tickets to win a lunch at the restaurant for you and 11 of your best friends for just $10.00 !!!!
The Worcester County Arts Council's Gallery will be open tonight as well as our new Art and Education Center at #6 Jefferson Street, just behind MRDUCKS and the Atlantic Hotel. Wine, beer and light appetizers will be served all evening, so come on out and join the fun!
Festivities begin at 6PM!

Slow Morning

Posts will be slow this morning as I will be out ringing the Bell for the Salvation Army. I have volunteered for a few terms this Holiday Season and look forward to doing so.

I have received calls and messages from friends telling me they got involved as well once they saw our Post last week on this.

If you have the time, (2 hours at a time) to volunteer please contact the Salvation Army. Thanks for understanding and I'll be back to Posting later this morning.

To reserve a bell ringing time slot, please call The Salvation Army at 410-749-7771, extension 100 or email kkundell@uss,salvationarmy.org.

A Little American History

It was the first day of a school in the USA

and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade.

The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American History.

Who said 'Give me Liberty , or give me Death'?"

She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up:

'Patrick Henry, 1775' he said.

'Very good!'

Who said 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?'

Again, no response except from Chandrasekhar.

'Abraham Lincoln, 1863' said Chandrasekhar.

The teacher snapped at the class, '

Class, you should be ashamed.

Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country,

knows more about its history than you do.'

She heard a loud whisper: 'F*ck the Indians,'

'Who said that?' she demanded. Chandrasekhar put his hand up.

'General Custer, 1862.' At that point, a student in the back said,

'I'm gonna puke.' The teacher glares around and asks

'All right! Now, who said that?'

Again, Chandrasekhar says, 'George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.'

Now furious, another student yells,

'Oh yeah? Suck this!'

Chandrasekhar jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher ,

'Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!'

Now with almost mob hysteria someone said

'You little ****. If you say anything else, I'll kill you.'

Chandrasekhar frantically yells at the top of his voice,

'Michael Jackson to the child witnesses testifying against him- 2004.'

The teacher fainted.

And as the class gathered around the teacher on the floor,

someone said, 'Oh sh!t, we're screwed!'

And Chandrasekhar said quietlly,

"I think it was the American people,

November 4, 2008."

Coded message From Bin Laden

After numerous rounds of 'We don't even know if Osama is still alive', Barrack Hussein Obama has now been telling everyone he will capture Osama Bin Laden when elected.'

So, Osama himself decided to send Barrack Hussein Obama a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game.

Obama opened the letter and it contained a single line of coded message:

370H-SSV-0773H

Obama was baffled, so he e-mailed it to Howard Dean.

Dean and the DNC and his aides had no clue either, so they sent it to Joe Biden.

Joe Biden could not solve so it was sent to the FBI and the CIA.

Eventually they asked Rush Limbaugh to look at it.

And within a few minutes Limbaugh's Staff e-mailed Obama with this reply: 'Tell Obama he's holding the message upside down'.

A Reader Sends In This Message

How much do you think this event is costing Salisbury Taxpayers? I believe this is the second time they hosted this Business After Hours. With the economy as bad as it is we should not be wasting tax dollars to show off our $12 million dollar McMansion.

Networking Opportunity

Business After Hours:

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Hosted by Firestation No. 16, located at
325 Cypress Street, Salisbury from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Please R.S.V.P. to the Chamber for this event.

http://www.salisburyarea.com/News%20&%20Notes/129a.pdf

Salisbury Police Department Press Releases

On November 24, 2008 at approximately 1:10 pm, Officers of the Salisbury Police Department received a call to respond to the Food Lion food store for the report of a shoplifter. Upon arrival, the officers were advised by store employees that the below listed suspect had been observed attempting to take items from the store without making any attempts at payment. The items were recovered and returned to the store.

ARRESTED: Dwayne Lee Miles, 21 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

CHARGES: Theft (under $ 100)

DISPOSITION: Released to Central Booking CC # 200800043189

On November 25, 2008 at approximately 4:13 am, Officers of the Salisbury Police Department received a call to respond to an apartment on Fairground Drive for the report of a domestic assault. Upon arrival the officers were advised by the female victim that the below listed suspect had struck her in the face and head several times and had choked her during an argument. The suspect was taken into custody without incident.

ARRESTED: Frankie Dwayne Long, 40 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

CHARGES: Second degree assault

DISPOSITION: Released to Central Booking CC # 200800043256

Campbell's Campaign Website Designed By Visually Impared

Campbell Campaign Site www.Campbell4Council.net Designed for Access by the Visually Impaired

Debbie Campbell, candidate for reelection to her district 2 Salisbury City Council Seat, has announced incorporating technology innovations into her campaign website www.Campbell4Council.net to accommodate the visually impaired.

We have made every effort to make the site accessible for the visually impaired by accommodating screen readers on our pages. There are other many other features that visitors are enjoying such as icons that allow the type size to be changed, a public opinion poll to gauge public sentiment on various issues affecting the city, the ability for supporters to make contributions or volunteer on line, and was built with Joomla, an open source developer tool, which is free to everyone.

Campbell adds that not everyone is Internet savvy or even likes the idea of using a computer. This is just one way of reaching constituents, but I am especially proud that we have been able to present a site that has been designed according to Section 508 guidelines so we can be inclusive of visually impaired citizens.

Campbell learned more about how screen readers work and how her site performs during a tour of Blind Industries’ facility in Salisbury’s industrial park. Danielle Earl, Blind Industries rehabilitation specialist, clicked through the site like the master she is, checking links and demonstrating how the test is read aloud for the visually impaired. Ms. Earl called the site “very well created” and was especially impressed that the site has text to accompany most images and that the menu and tool bar were especially easy to navigate.

Blind Industries will have sales from its two Salisbury facilities that total in excess of $79 million this year. For additional photos and video clips of the plant tour and site demo visit www.Campbell4Council.net

The Three Stooges Play Robo Cops This Morning

It's Black Friday and See, Gordy and Hoppes, (The Three Stooges) are running around Salisbury giving people crap for parking in Fire Lanes at the Mall and Shopping Centers. They don't do it any other time of the year, only when it's the busiest day of the shopping season.

Now don't be alarmed. They cannot do anything to you but act like tough guys and while I agree, you should NOT ever park your vehicle in these lanes, the Three Stooges should be out enforcing this all year round rather than sitting on their fat asses doing nothing, especially See. See is about as useless as a sh!t flavored lollipop.

Hey, Three Stooges, You've Been Blogged!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

You need to click on the pumpkin pie.....

I hope you enjoy it!!!!!

PUMPKIN PIE

Ireton Should Sue The Daily Times

Considering I dropped my subscription to the Daily Times a month or so ago, I thought the article about 10 Reasons to Elect Jim Ireton Salisbury's Mayor (David Letterman Style) was a joke.

However, someone just sent in the link to the actual article HERE and I truly could not believe my eyes. Are you F/N kidding me?

How ANY one of you can still continue to keep your subscription to this piece of crap newspaper is beyond me. Your message should be LOUD AND CLEAR, you're sick and tired of this leadership in Salisbury and their main spokes people, the Daily Times.

How many of you have had enough?

Executive Order from Republican President #16

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore.

Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

Special Holiday Wishes From Gordy

"Gordy has left a new comment:

Joe, I hope you and your family die a painful, fiery death this holiday season. I can assure you we won't respond."

Here's my response. Gas is 10 cents a gallon cheaper at Sam's Club. Happy Thanksgiving Folks!

FIREWOOD!

I have readers regularly asking if I know of anyone who sells seasoned firewood. With 7.5 acres of land here and many more wooded acres next to me, firewood is not an issue for us. However, it's my understanding for others they're having a difficult time finding someone who sells and delivers cords of wood.

That being said, if YOU know of someone reliable and reasonable, please leave their name and number on this Post.

Teach your children about Thanksgiving

How to Teach Children the Meaning of Thanksgiving
By eHow Relationships & Family Editor


Many countries throughout the world have a harvest festival of some kind. In North America, Thanksgiving is the most common autumn celebration, but what does it really mean, and how should you explain it to your children?


Many countries throughout the world have a harvest festival of some kind. In North America, Thanksgiving is the most common autumn celebration, but what does it really mean, and how should you explain it to your children?


Explain the ancient origins of the harvest festival to your children. In ancient times, people of many cultures (including the ancient Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Egyptians and Chinese) gave thanks to their god or gods for a successful harvest, and some of the traditions associated with modern Thanksgiving celebrations have their roots in these ancient festivals.


Discuss the roots of the American Thanksgiving celebration. In 1621, near the end of the Plymouth colony's first year in America, the settlers gave thanks for a plentiful first harvest. The pilgrims and the natives celebrated together (they had arranged a peace treaty), and everyone feasted on geese, ducks, deer, corn, oysters, fish and berries.

Discuss Native American issues surrounding Thanksgiving. Despite the harmonious relations that may have existed between natives and pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving feast, many subsequent American Thanksgivings involved settlers giving thanks for victories over the natives. Ask your children how they feel about this, and discuss the recent efforts that have been made by the American government and people to apologize for past discrimination and violence.


Explain when ' and why ' Thanksgiving became an official holiday. In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that Thanksgiving should be a national observance. To some degree, this was a way to brighten the spirits of the American people, who were dealing with a great deal of difficulty and deprivation.

Explain that one aspect of Thanksgiving involves gratitude for having enough food to eat, and encourage your children to help you buy groceries for the food bank, or make a donation to a local soup kitchen.

Happy Thanksgiving

. . . just in case you have your mother-in-law over for dinner and you need to smile . . . .

One Hot Turkey

48 Years Old and No Foot Print!

The American People Want to Know, Who Sent You?

Obama has lived for 48 years without leaving any footprints -- none! There is no Obama documentation -- no records -- no paper trail -- none -- this can't be an accident.

Original, vault copy birth certificate -- Not released
Certificate of Live Birth -- Released -- Counterfeit
Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro adoption records -- Not released
Fransiskus Assisi School School application -- Released
Punahou School records -- Not released
Selective Service Registration -- Released -- Counterfeit
Occidental College records -- Not released
Passport (Pakistan) -- Not released
Columbia College records -- Not released
Columbia thesis -- Not released
Harvard College records -- Not released
Harvard Law Review articles -- None (maybe 1, unsigned?)
Baptism certificate -- None
Medical records -- Not released
Illinois State Senate records -- None
Illinois State Senate schedule -- Lost
Law practice client list -- Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None