Obama Deception Movie

If you've got two hours to spare, watch this movie. I saved it for this evening so you have the time, perhaps.

COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO DEDICATE NEW WETIPQUIN BRIDGE

Wicomico County Executive Richard M. Pollitt, Jr. announced today that there will be a dedication ceremony marking the recent opening of the new Wetipquin Bridge on Wicomico County’s west side. The event is scheduled for July 28th at 1:30 P.M. at the bridge. The public is welcome. Mr. Pollitt commented, “I am very pleased that we have restored bridge service to this area. It is particularly meaningful in light of the severe cuts that are now in place for funding of our Roads operations.”

The new two-lane span opened to traffic on June 19th. The previous bridge, which was over 50 years old, was closed on June 15, 2008. The replacement cost was $2.1 Million with 80% funded by the federal government.

The new bridge has the same 6-foot navigational clearance at mean high water as did its predecessor. It is 238 feet long and 24 feet wide.

According to Acting Public Works Deputy Director Edwin L. Heatwole, P.E., the new construction was “not without its challenges. We were delayed by about 5 months because of the need for longer piles at selected locations. We are glad that the motorists in that part of the county once again have a bridge.”

Iraqis Restrict US Operations In Baghdad

BAGHDAD – The Iraqi military has turned down requests from American forces to move unescorted through Baghdad and conduct a raid since the transition of responsibility for urban security at the end of last month, an Iraqi military commander said Monday.

U.S. combat troops withdrew from urban areas on June 30 under a security agreement with Iraq that requires all U.S. troops to be out of the country by the end of 2011.

Col. Ali Fadhil, a brigade commander in Baghdad, said the transfer had occurred with minor friction in the capital where violence has dropped dramatically since the sectarian bloodletting and insurgent attacks that swept much of the country in past years.

Fadhil told The Associated Press about two occasions in which Iraqi troops turned down U.S. requests to move around the capital until they had Iraqi escorts, and one instance to conduct a raid, which the Iraqis carried out themselves.

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July Becomes Deadliest Month For US In Afghanistan

KABUL – Four Americans were killed Monday when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said, making July the deadliest month for U.S. troops in this war.

A NATO statement did not give nationalities, but U.S. spokesman Lt. Robert Carr confirmed that all four were Americans. The deaths bring to 55 the number of international service members killed in July, also the deadliest month for NATO forces.

At least 30 U.S. troops have died this month — two more than the toll for June 2008, which had been the deadliest month for the American force in Afghanistan.

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Sony Bids $50 Million For Jackson Rehearsal Film

LOS ANGELES – Sony Corp.'s movie studio has bid $50 million to acquire the worldwide distribution rights to a film based on rehearsal footage for Michael Jackson's "This Is It" comeback concert series, according to a person familiar with the bid.

The person said Monday that the bid came after several studios, including Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., were shown footage starting early last week. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the bidding had not been completed.

The winning studio would produce the film with Jackson's concert promoter, AEG Live, and his estate.

It would go a long way to helping AEG Live recoup some of the $30 million to $32 million it spent producing the concert before Jackson died June 25.

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City Of Salisbury Press Releases

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Yeah, We Just Happened To Slip This 4x4 Vehicle In A Capsule, NOT!

You believers are kidding me, right????????

Did We Actually Land On The Moon 40 Years Ago?

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Michael Steele Calls Obama's Health Care "Socialism"

The chairman of the Republican Party on Monday called President Barack Obama's plan to overhaul health care "socialism," accusing the president of conducting a risky experiment that will hurt the economy and force millions to drop their current coverage.

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TEEN PEDESTRIAN KILLED IN DUI RELATED CRASH

(Keymar, MD) – A Frederick County man is in custody this morning charged with multiple criminal and traffic charges after he was involved in a crash last night that took the life of a Carroll County teenager.

The victim is identified as Katlynn E.Bossler, 15, of the 1100-block of Francis Scott Key Highway, Keymar, Md. Bossler was pronounced dead at the Carroll Hospital Center.

The accused is identified as Kevin P. Smith, 42, of the 11000-block of Whiskey Springs Road, Woodsboro, Md. After consultation with the Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office, troopers charged Smith with negligent manslaughter by automobile, negligent automobile homicide while under the influence, negligent homicide by automobile while impaired, driving a vehicle while under the influence, driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol per se, driving while impaired by alcohol, negligent driving, reckless driving, failure to obey a traffic control device, failure to exercise due care to avoid a pedestrian collision, and consuming an alcoholic beverage in the passenger area of a motor vehicle on a highway.

At about 10:30 p.m. yesterday, Maryland state troopers from the Westminster Barracks and EMS units from the Taneytown Volunteer Fire Department were dispatched to a motor vehicle crash in the 1100-block of Francis Scott Key Highway, Keymar. Arriving troopers found that a 1992 Ford F-150 pickup driven by Smith had struck the victim and a vehicle parked along the shoulder of the roadway. The victim was provided emergency care and transported by ambulance to the Carroll Hospital Center where she was pronounced dead.

Investigators from the Maryland State Police CRASH Team responded and conducted the investigation. The preliminary investigation indicates Bossler was standing outside the driver’s side door of a vehicle parked on the shoulder of the roadway. That vehicle was a 1998 Chevrolet Prizm, driven by Jason R.Wadas, 16, of the 600-block of Whispering Meadows Court, Westminster. Also in the vehicle were three other teenagers aged 15 to 18 years. Wadas had stopped his vehicle on the far side of the northbound shoulder near Bossler’s residence. Bossler was talking with Wadas and the teens in the car.

The investigation indicates Smith was northbound on Francis Scott Key Highway (Rt. 194) when his truck left the roadway and traveled onto the shoulder. His truck struck the driver’s side door of the Chevrolet Prizm, where the victim was standing.

When troopers contacted Smith at the scene, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was detected. After further investigation, troopers arrested Smith at the scene for driving under the influence. Information regarding results of any tests that may have been administered is considered evidentiary and will not be released.

Smith was transported to the Westminster Barracks for processing. He was then taken to the Carroll County Central Booking Center for a bond hearing.

All four individuals in the Chevrolet Prizm were transported to the Carroll Hospital Center by the Taneytown Volunteer Fire Department. Their conditions are not known.

The investigation is continuing.

Nevada High Court To Weigh O.J. Simpson Appeal

He seeks release on bail while his team challenges robbery conviction


LAS VEGAS - Few in Nevada legal circles believe O.J. Simpson has any real chance at freedom when the state's Supreme Court justices consider letting him trade a prison cell in rural northern Nevada for a golf course in Miami while he appeals his conviction in a gunpoint hotel room heist.

What really has them abuzz is that Nevada's only appellate court agreed to schedule oral arguments Aug. 3 to hear Simpson's plea to be allowed to post bond.

"It's unusual. This is a situation where the Nevada Supreme Court might be accused of politics or being star-struck," said Michael Green, a state history author and professor at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. "But this is also a case where they'd want to make sure all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed."

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Obama Approval Ratings Dip In New Poll

(July 20) -- Is the honeymoon over? Six months into his presidency, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll shows approval ratings for President Barack Obama's handling of health care, the economy and the budget deficit sliding.

As he starts a major push for health-care reform legislation, approval for Obama's handling of the issue dropped to 49 percent, down four points from a month ago.
Approval for his handling of the economy fell four points as well, to 52 percent, and his handling of the federal budget deficit was down five points to 43 percent.

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Interesting Letter In The Australian Shooter Magazine This Week.

Quote: "If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops In the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington , DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period. That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in the US
capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the US , than you are in Iraq .

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Wicomico County Sheriff's Office Press Releases

Incident: Assault
Date of Incident: 10 July 2009
Location: 1500 block of S. Salisbury Blvd., Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Jeffery NMN Hudson, 36, Salisbury, MD

Narrative: On 17 July 2009 at 12:46 PM, a deputy from the Sheriff’s Office initiated an investigation into an assault that had occurred the previous week. During the investigation, the deputy met with a victim at Peninsula Regional Medical Center who was there recovering from injuries sustained in that assault. It was not until 17 July that the assailant was identified by the victim as a cohabitant which initiated the investigation by the Sheriff’s Office. The investigating deputy obtained a warrant for the cohabitant, Jeffery Hudson, that charged Hudson with First Degree Assault.

Hudson was located later that day and placed under arrest on the warrant. The deputy transported Hudson to the Central booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. After an initial appearance, Hudson was detained in the Detention Center by the Commissioner without bond.

Charges:
Assault 1st Degree
Assault 2nd Degree
Reckless Endangerment

Incident: Assault
Date of Incident: 18 July 2009
Location: 1800 block of Jersey Road, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Martha M. Fooks, 54, Salisbury, MD

Narrative: On 18 July 2009 at 7:49 PM, a deputy from the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the 1800 block of Jersey Road for a reported altercation. Upon arrival, the deputy met with a male subject who advised he became involved in a verbal altercation with another resident, when that resident began scratching at the male subject’s face. It was also stated that this same subject then took a beer bottle and began striking the male subject’s truck with it, causing dents. While speaking with the male subject, the deputy observed signs of injury consistent with his account.

The deputy located the assailant, identified as Martha Fooks, and placed her under arrest. Fooks was transported to the Central Booking Unit where she was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. After an initial appearance, Fooks was detained by the Commissioner in lieu of $10,000.00 bond.

Charges:
Assault
Malicious Destruction of Property

Incident: Violation of a Protective Order
Date of Incident: 18 July 2009
Location: 4000 block of Joseph Drive, Fruitland, MD
Suspect: Bradley M. Alexander, 22, Salisbury, MD

Narrative: On 18 July 2009 at 11:21 AM, a deputy from the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office responded to investigate the violation of a protective order that allegedly occurred at a residence in the 4000 block of Joseph Drive in Fruitland. Upon arrival, the deputy met with the resident who informed the deputy that Bradley Alexander had come to the residence and knocked on the front door between 08:30 AM and 9:00 AM in an attempt to get the resident to open the door. There is an order in place issued by the District Court that bars Alexander from the property where he was at. During the investigation of this incident, the deputy located Alexander across the street from where this incident took place.

The deputy arrested Alexander for the Violation of the Protective Order and transported him to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. After an initial appearance, Alexander was detained by the Commissioner in the Detention Center in lieu of $5,000.00 bond.

Charges: Violation of a Protective Order

Incident: Possession of Marijuana
Date of Incident: 17 July 2009
Location: Forest Grove Road at Longridge Road, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: James F. Taylor, 33, Parsonsburg, MD

Narrative: On 17 July 2009 at 5:19 PM, Sheriff Mike Lewis stopped a vehicle on Longridge Road in the area of Forest Grove Road. Upon making contact with the operator, James Taylor, Sheriff Lewis discovered that Taylor’s privilege to drive a vehicle in Maryland had been revoked. The Sheriff also discovered that Taylor had concealed an ounce of marijuana underneath the passenger seat of Taylor’s vehicle. Also found in Taylor’s vehicle was a metal smoking device that still contained the residue of burnt marijuana.

Taylor was placed under arrest and transported to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. After an initial appearance, the Commissioner released Taylor on Personal Recognizance.

Charges:
Possession of Marijuana
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia

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State Police Clear Pharmacy Robberies

Dates, times and locations:
May 19, 2009, 6:20 P.M., Walgreens 1323 McKennens Church Road, Wilmington, Delaware
June 18, 2009, 5:04 P.M., Walgreens 4575 New Linden Hill Road, Wilmington, Delaware
July 5, 2009, 5:17 P.M., Rite Aid 17 Polly Drummond Hill Road, Newark, Delaware
July 8, 2009, 2:05 P.M. Rite Aid 1602 Capitol Trail Kirkwood Hwy, Newark, Delaware
July 18, 2009, 4:44 P.M. Parking Lot of Shoppes of Linden Hill in front of Bank Shots, 4573 New Linden Hill Road, Wilmington, Delaware

Def:
Thomas Bacon-29
2600 block of Stephenson Drive
Wilmington, Delaware

Charge Summary:
5 counts of Robbery 1st degree

Robbery Incident Summary:
May 19, 2009 Thomas Bacon entered the Happy Harry’s on McKennens Church Road and contacted store employees. Bacon told the employees he was armed with a knife and gun. Bacon demanded Oxycontin and fled the scene upon obtaining an undisclosed quantity of prescription medication.

June 18, 2009 Bacon entered the Happy Harry’s on New Linden Hill Road and contacted store employees. Bacon told the employees he was armed with a knife and gun. Bacon demanded Oxycontin and fled the scene upon obtaining an undisclosed quantity of prescription medication.

July 5, 2009 Bacon entered the Rite Aid on Polly Drummond Hill Road and handed a note to a Rite Aid employee. The note demanded prescription medication Oxycontin. The note also implied Bacon was armed with a knife and gun. Bacon fled from the establishment after obtaining the Oxycontin.

July 8, 2009 Bacon entered the Rite Aid on Capitol Trail Kirkwood Hwy, Newark handed an employee a demand note for Oxycontin implying he was armed with a gun. Bacon in this incident was displaying a knife. Bacon for an unknown reason fled the establishment without obtaining any prescription medication.

July 18, 2009 On this date Bacon approached two 24 year old males sitting in a car in the parking lot of Bank Shots located at 4573 New Linden Hill Road Wilmington, Delaware. Bacon displayed a knife than held it to the neck of the victim seated in the front passenger seat. Bacon demanded valuables from the both the victims. Bacon obtained prescription medication and an undisclosed amount of cash and fled the area.

Witnesses to the robbery helped identify Thomas Bacon as the suspect involved in the robbery. Delaware State Police responded to Bacon’s residence in the 2600 block of Stephenson Drive Wilmington and took him into custody without further incident.

State Police through surveillance footage and additional leads were able to link Bacon to the four previously mentioned robberies involving the theft of prescription medication.

Bacon was charged with the above listed offense and remanded to Gander Hill Prison in lieu of being able to post $150,000 bond.

On Shearing Sheep

Obama’s economic plans are relentlessly hostile to small business.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online

You don’t produce wool by skinning the sheep. But that seems to be the present strategy to get small businesses to begin hiring, buying, and expanding.

There is apparent surprise among Obamians that unemployment has soared the last six months. The much-anticipated stimulus sputtered, and there is a sense of bewilderment in the administration about why joblessness and economic growth are stagnant after the government injected trillions of dollars into the system.

Perhaps the Obama administration needs to remember the psychology of business. After the shock of the September meltdowns, the natural reaction of anyone whose livelihood relied directly on markets was to conserve, pull in one’s horns, and ride out the mess. To restart the paralyzed economy called not just for printing money, but also for words of encouragement to businesses that their assets would be safe, interest rates would be stable, and their work would lead to greater profits.

Instead, exactly the opposite message was sent in a time of crisis. Take first the “spread the wealth” rhetoric. The impression created in the last half-year is that business is culpable for the new mess, while unions and the general public are victims who need relief from the greedy.

Everyone is angry at the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street, but under Obama ironies abound: Banks and investment houses, whose recklessness largely caused this problem, have been lumped in with the small-business person as the kindred “wealthy” who make over $200,000 a year. The family dentist, neighborhood contractor, and owner of the local insurance firm feel neither wealthy nor culpable in the fashion of AIG or Lehman Brothers. If one wishes to stimulate the economy, it makes no sense to conflate productive small businesses with financial-sector zillionaires as enemies of the people.

Team Obama also talks of taxation as if it was slicing salami — a little slice here for new FICA taxes on income above $250,000 (or is it $200,000 or is it $150,000?), another little piece cut off for new income-tax rates of about 40 percent, an additional chop for a surcharge for health care, and then let the poor states have a go with more whacks for increased sales and income taxes. The result is that though each slice may seem tiny in itself, in the aggregate there is not much salami left. Paying out 50 percent of one’s income in taxes may not be socialism, but paying out 70 percent surely is.

For the wheat farmer, electrical contractor, and 20-person law firm, the strategic calculus now goes something like this: “I think I just lost about 20 percent of next year’s income to pay for more income, health-care, state, sales, and payroll taxes, so I won’t be buying that tractor, doing any more Saturday jobs, or hiring that new litigator.” Worse still, many may add, “I will begin reducing or hiding income, avoiding taxes, and dealing in barter to save my business — rather than paying for vast new dubious entitlements for someone else.” These reactions may be unfounded, even wrong, but they are based on logical conclusions nonetheless, considering the promiscuous rhetoric of taxation that emanates daily from the Democratic Congress and the White House.

Worse still, businesses see long trends ahead that in their reckoning are disturbing. They realize that even though they will soon be paying whopping new taxes, these contributions will neither balance the budget (given the new spending) nor win them any psychosocial satisfaction from “paying their fair share.”

More likely, the president will continue to demonize businesspeople, as if their compliance in paying new taxes is proof that such new taxes were long overdue — and evidence of their ability to pay even more. Remember, impressions, not just reality, are important right now in giving businesses the confidence to once again take risks.

Nor is there any certainty about investment and interest rates. How does one borrow or lend when there is no indication how a $2 trillion deficit, and another $9 trillion in proposed debt, are to be serviced? Will it be by inflation, more taxes still, higher interest rates — or all three? Why would a bank this year lend at 4.8 percent for 30 years when it suspects it may be forced to pay 10 percent on passbook accounts in the near future?

And when small businesses turn to vent their grievances to government, they see almost no one who has ever met a payroll, hired new employees, or purchased equipment. Instead there are plenty of Ivy League technocrats, whose past worlds involve economic theorizing, tenure, lifetime job security, and much experience in regulating productive others.

Had Barack Obama run a Chicago law firm, or had Timothy Geithner created a software company, perhaps they would have some understanding of all the psychological impulses that determine whether businesses gamble or freeze up. It does not help to suggest that those who make above $250,000 are somehow self-indulgent — while our populist first couple flies in cooks, serves $100-a-pound beef, wears $400 tennis shoes, and seems to enjoy the life of the rich and famous as much as they deplore it in others — especially given the past tax hypocrisy of Geithner, Daschle, Solis, and others. We are a long way from the lives of Harry and Bess Truman.

Nor does government accept any blame. One could argue that our Barney Franks and Chris Dodds were as culpable for the Fannie/Freddie meltdown as any Wall Streeter, and, in matters of probity and ethics, as lax — given their compromised positions as simultaneous regulators and donation recipients. Instead, they almost seem to think that if they blame others for the crises, we will forget their culpability. The message is again clear to business: “You made the mistakes; we, the morally superior beings, are here to put you back on the right path — and if you don’t like it, we are the only game in town.”

Then there are all the other random business-bashing efforts. Americans were shocked by the AIG bonuses, but to deny them would have involved potentially violating the workers’ contracts. In the bailout, GM’s creditors soon discovered that traditional rules of risk and exposure did not matter, because the government deemed some creditors more morally worthy than others.

Add in new regulations about charitable donations, and again the message is clear: “You need to be taxed more, regulated more, and preached to.” At no point did the Obama administration warn the American people that they must not spend more on their credit cards than they can pay back, take out mortgages for more house than they can afford, or spend on extraneous things rather than save for essentials like catastrophic health insurance.

The imagery was instead that 280 million Americans had been cheated by banks, gouged by credit-card companies, neglected by government, and held at the mercy of business — innocent children unable to think or act on their own behalf. That demagoguery may win elections, but it turns off businesses and persuades them to sit out the next few years in puzzlement over what the new landscape and rules will be.

So the proper question is not why is unemployment rising, growth stagnant, and the future uncertain — but rather why shouldn’t all this be true, with worse still to come?

CHANGE IN MEETING LOCATION

The Salisbury City Council work session scheduled for today (July 20, 2009) at 4:30 p.m. has been moved from Conference Room 306.

The work session will be held in Council Chambers (Room 301) of the Government Office Building (125 N. Division Street).

Salisbury Police Department Press Releases

On July 15, 2009 at approximately 12:05 pm, Officers of the Salisbury Police received a call to respond to a commercial parking lot at Rt. 50 and Tilghman Road for the report of CDS activity in a vehicle. Upon arrival the officers located the suspect vehicle, which was occupied by below listed suspects # 1 (passenger) and # 2 (driver). Upon approaching the vehicle, the officers observed CDS paraphernalia in possession of the suspects. A witness reported observing the suspects consume CDS while in the vehicle. The officers checked the vehicle and located syringes and related paraphernalia containing suspected oxicodine, a number of oxicodine tablets, suspected methadone, suspected Zanex and suspected Roxicodone. During this investigation, the Salisbury Officers were assisted by Deputies from the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office.

ARRESTED #1: Lane Cameron Brittingham, 18 years of age Willards, Maryland

ARRESTED #2: Juvenile, 17 years of age Pittsville, Maryland

CHARGES (both):
Possession of oxicodine for distribution
Possession of oxicodine
Possession of Roxicodone
Possession of morphine
Possession of Zanax
Possession of CDS/paraphernalia (7 counts)

DISPOSITION:
Suspect # 1 released to Central Booking
Suspect # 2 released to parent
CC # 200900024818

On July 16, 2009 at approximately 5:02 pm, Officers of the Salisbury Police received a call to respond to the Walmart Department Store for the report of a shoplifter. Upon arrival the officers met with store security who advised that employees of the store had observed the below listed suspect take property from the store without making payment. The property was recovered and returned to the store.

ARRESTED: Clarissa Necole Custis, 37 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

CHARGES: Theft (under $ 500)

DISPOSITION: Released to Central Booking
CC # 200900024975

On July 16, 2009 at approximately 11:35, Officers of the Salisbury Police arrested the below listed suspect on an outstanding warrant for an assault that occurred on July 13. On that date the suspect became involved in an altercation with a victim in the parking lot of an apartment complex and entered a vehicle. The suspect threatened the victim then drove the vehicle and struck the victim in the area of the leg. The victim was not seriously injured.

ARRESTED: Hang On Cheng, 45 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

CHARGES:
Second degree assault
Trespassing
Failure to remain at the scene of an accident
Assorted motor vehicle charges related to leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident with an injury

DISPOSITION: Released to Central Booking
CC # 200900025015