Delmar Class Of 1971 Held Reunion This Past Weekend

The Delmar Class of 1971 decided last year that instead of getting together once every 5 or 10 years that they would hold their reunion every year from that point forward.

Considering the Hosts of this reunion are very close friends of ours we have been invited each year and quite frankly have had a blast.

Talk about a group of friendly people! Classmates travel in from as far as Australia and Florida to come to this event and believe me, it's worth the trip.

Greg and Carol Tingle, (hosts) get a small group together each month throughout the year to plan for this event. Then, just days before the event they go into high gear to get everything prepared. Cooking a large pig for numerous hours is yet another chore.

In the end it takes good planning and a lot of work but it's well worth it. Great people, good times and great fellowship. You should follow their lead.

P.S., I love my new Delmar Blanket!

What Distinguishes A Superschool From The Rest

As the academic year starts up again, we’ll be hearing a lot about those schools that work miracles in unforgiving places: educational outliers that manage to produce college-bound graduates despite the poverty, crime and drugs that dominate the neighborhoods around them. But what about those schools that start out lucky, full of students from prosperous, educated families? It turns out that these schools have their outliers, too. According to a new study, even among schools that are “demographically similar” in their affluence, a small handful produce superstar students at a much higher-than-expected rate.

The authors of the study, Glenn Ellison and Ashley Swanson of MIT, identified the high-flying schools by analyzing data from the American Mathematics Competition (AMC), an annual contest in which more than 100,000 U.S. high school students participate. In their study of more than 2,000 schools that sent students to the AMC, Ellison and Swanson found “large differences among seemingly similar schools” and concluded that high-achieving students are “very far from evenly distributed.” Four percent of the schools the authors looked at produced top math students at a rate at least three times the average of all schools studied, and two percent boasted a rate five times the average. A very few were churning out math phenoms at a rate 10 times the average.

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Obama: Thanks For Your Service, Just Don't Vote

The administration thanks the troops for their service by failing to comply with a law requiring that it help soldiers deployed overseas cast ballots in their home states.

The administration has taken various states to court to block voter ID laws on the grounds it will disenfranchise voters. But it has no qualms about the disenfranchisement of military voters overseas through its failure to comply with and enforce the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act, passed by Congress in 2009 and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

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Man Who Fell From I-95 Worked As Harford County Officer

A man who fell to his death from Interstate 95 was an off-duty police officer in Harford County, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.

Maryland Transportation Authority police Sgt. Kirk Perez told 11 News that Charles Nelson Armetta, 29, of Joppa, was a K-9 officer for the Aberdeen Police Department. He had been with the department since 2007.

Armetta's death comes just days after a sheriff's deputy died in a crash on Thursday.

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Did Ireton Vote For Or Against God – Or Both – At The DNC (and what about Ms. Mitchell)?

With both Bobbsey Twins in attendance, it’s not surprising that the Democrat circus in Charlotte last week was a reasonable facsimile of a Salisbury City Council meeting. What sealed the deal was adopting an absurd party platform that omitted any reference to God – the first time in a couple decades that the donkey lovers have so openly committed that sacrilege in public.

Although he failed to prevent that debacle, after it made the media the Emperor Obama acted promptly to correct it by ordering his assembled supporters to pay lip service to the Lord. As soon as the convention came to order on Wednesday, one of his lackeys addressed the mob for that purpose, and another debacle ensued.

It is now obvious that many if not most of the Democrats really don’t want God mentioned in their platform.

When the question was called on the motion to restore the reference to “God-given potential” it didn’t go down well with the left-leaning rabble. The voice vote was about even, and the Chair called for another, with the same result, and then another, until finally someone told him to avoid further embarrassment by simple declaring the motion adopted, whereupon the meeting was flooded with boos from the assembled buffoons.

It was impossible to tell how individual delegates voted, although in the case of Laura Mitchell can there be any doubt - she led the effort to kill the Lord’s Prayer at City Council meetings.

The next City Council meeting will be an opportunity for the dynamic duo to tell us whether they voted against God from the get-go or switched position at the command of their leader.

Also, Ireton and Mitchell should disclose the source of funds for their trip to Charlotte last week. And Jimmy should also disclose whether he or the Democrat party paid for the substitute teacher for his classes, not the Board of Education (ie – taxpayers).

Inquiring minds want to know!

When Men Stop Seeking Beauty And Women Care Less About Wealth

Men seek youth and beauty, while women focus on wealth and status — evolutionary psychologists have long claimed that these general preferences in human mating are universal and based on biology. But new research suggests that they may in fact be malleable: as men and women achieve financial equality, in terms of earning power and economic freedom, these mate-seeking preferences by gender tend to wane.

The idea behind the evolutionary theory is simple: biologically, sperm are cheap — men make 1,500 sperm per second on average. In contrast, eggs are expensive; typically, women release just one egg a month and each baby girl is born with her full lifetime’s supply of egg cells. (Yes, this means that the egg from which you sprang was formed inside your maternal grandmother.) What’s more, pregnancy costs a woman nine months, while the initial male contribution to parenthood generally requires no more than a few minutes.

As a result, evolutionary theorists argue, women will be far more selective than men about their sexual partners, and they will tend to seek those with the most resources to invest in their children. Men, on the other hand, can afford to be less choosy. They’ll care far less about a woman’s ability to provide and far more about her basic signs of fertility, such as her youth and the symmetry of her facial features — a characteristic associated with beauty and good health.

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Chicago Teachers To Go On Strike After Talks With District Fail

The Chicago Teachers Union says its members will go on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years.

The union says contract talks with the district failed late Sunday night over issues including benefits and job security.

"We will be on the (picket) line," Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said Sunday night, calling it a difficult decision and one the union hoped could be avoided.

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Johnson Earns 2012 SU Distinguished Faculty Award

Dr. David Johnson, an English professor known locally and nationally for his in-depth work in film studies, is the 2012 Salisbury University Distinguished Faculty Award honoree. “He is truly one of our finest faculty members, a first-rate scholar-teacher and colleague who richly deserves the recognition of this very prestigious award,” said Dr. Maarten Pereboom, dean of SU’s Charles R. and Martha N. Fulton School of Liberal Arts.

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Illegals Not In Health Plan

Getting healthy young people to buy health insurance is key to making President Obama’s health care overhaul work, but his administration is excluding roughly one million illegal immigrant youth allowed to remain in the country from the law’s mandates and benefits.

Officials quietly ruled last week that a new group of young immigrants to whom Mr. Obama has granted temporarily legal status may not partake of the law’s major benefits, nor are they subject to the mandate to buy insurance.

The move appeases Republicans — who have long claimed that the 2010 law will allow those in the country illegally to claim health benefits.

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Startup Maryland Bus To Visit SU Wednesday, Sept. 12

Have a startup business and want it to grow? Get on the bus! Salisbury University hosts the Startup Maryland bus in connection with the organization’s “Pitch Across Maryland” program at noon Wednesday, September 12, in Route 13 Parking Lot B, near Caruthers Hall. Up to 10 qualified entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to step aboard the bus — a traveling television studio — to record a three- to five-minute pitch about their business or innovation. At the conclusion of the tour on Friday, September 28, all videos will be posted online, and Internet users will have the opportunity to vote on the best.

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Schools Using Microchips To Track Students

Some schools are finding a high tech way to track the whereabouts of students.

Radio frequency identification device chips have been used to monitor cattle in Texas, but now school districts in Houston and San Antonio are using the devices to register the movements of students. The chips are embedded in student ID cards.

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News Tip

Joe,

Speed camera set up over by Parkside this morning.

OK Mayor Ireton, Let's Talk About Your Priorities

As ALL of you know, Jim Ireton is all about grandstanding and making every possible attempt to discredit most of the City Council but I truly believe this Post will spell out Ireton's 3.5 years as Mayor of Salisbury.

I know many of you have seen the above picture over and over aging but this time I really want you to take a good hard look at it. Do show me ONE place where Mayor Ireton shows the Salisbury Police and Fire Department as a PRIORITY. He does NOT.

Now all of a sudden Mayor Ireton knows there's more than $2,000,000.00+ being returned to the general fund and guess what, LET'S SPEND IT!

Even though emergency personnel are usually EXEMPT from furloughs, did the Mayor treat them as a priority, absolutely not! He went ahead and furloughed them and never looked back, until now.

Ladies & Gentlemen, this is NOT leadership. This is not someone who should be running your City. This is a man who wanted to only give HIS Office Staff raises and NO ONE ELSE in the City. In fact, this is a man who wanted to RAISE taxes in order to accomplish those raises, yet there's $2,000,000.00+ floating around.

I'm just going to make this statement and hopefully all of you hear me loud and clear. This will not happen under my leadership. I WANT Blogs and Main Stream Media to criticize what I do in Office. I WANT each and every one of them to be invited to each and every Press Conference. I WANT them to receive ALL Press Releases. You see, it's not hard to run this City with an open and honest dialogue.

You don't have to point fingers and place blame everywhere else and again the above image PROVES just how hateful Jim Ireton is towards the Council, yet they did what is right in the end. Jim wants to blame everyone else and make it look like a "Council Of No's" yet when you really look at what Ireton proposes as PRIORITIES, hello, wake up people!

When it came to the Mayor wanting to propose 12 new Firefighters through a FEMA Grant, the Council asked a fair question, how much money do we have left over in surplus. It was what we businessmen call compromise and a damn fair question at that. His reply was, NO. He refused to tell the Council what kind of funding was available and Salisbury News learned the Mayor knew the $2,000,000.00+ was floating around August 23rd. The question was asked by Councilwoman Campbell on the 27th, yet the Mayor refused to answer her question.

Ladies & Gentlemen, this is NOT Jim Ireton's money, it's YOUR money! YOU and the City Council have every right to know where we stand financially, especially when making such serious decisions and commitments. Your Mayor refused to answer a simple question and your Mayor knew the answer the entire time.

"This is not Joe Albero's election to lose, it is the Citizens' election to lose."

Police Motorcyclist in Presidential Motorcade Dies After Florida Accident

A police motorcyclist in President Barack Obama's motorcade died Sunday in Florida following a serious highway accident, the top White House spokesman said.

The officer from the Jupiter, Florida, police department was transported to St. Mary's Medical Center in nearby West Palm Beach after being critically injured in the 5 p.m. crash involving a vehicle not in the motorcade.

About three hours later, after Obama had landed back in Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters the officer, whose name was not immediately released, had succumbed to injuries. Obama was notified of the death, according to Carney, who added that the president said his thoughts and prayers were with the officer's family.

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Taliban reportedly using fake Facebook pages of pretty girls to gather soldiers' secrets

The Taliban is using fake Facebook profiles of cute girls in an attempt to befriend soldiers with the intent of gathering information about operations, the Sunday Telegraph reports.

Australian and coalition troops are being targeted by Taliban insurgents posing as “attractive women” on Facebook, according to the paper, and now troops are being warned about the potential danger.

A review by the Australian government found a false sense of security exists among personnel due to an excessive reliance on privacy settings.

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A Letter To The Editor 9-9-12

How did the Democratic Party, which historically advocated slavery and segregation — and which in 1964 opposed voting rights for African-Americans — become the party of preference for the very people whom it long attempted to suppress? Anyone searching the web for “The DNC’s Bold Lies” will find a detailed article by Jeffrey Lord offering a partial explanation.

On the Democratic National Convention site (www.democrats.org), follow the links “About” to “Our History” and read the first sentence: “For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights, health care, Social Security, workers’ rights and women’s rights.” Follow the link “Issues” to “Civil Rights,” and read the first sentence: “Democrats have a long and proud history of defending civil rights and expanding opportunity for all Americans.” Both statements are demonstrably untrue.

The Democrats advocated slavery in all six party platforms between 1840 and 1860. They advocated racial segregation in most of their party platforms from 1868 to1948. They opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, which officially ended slavery and gave legal and voting rights to black Americans.

Later, in response to increasing violence against blacks by the KKK, Republican congresses and presidents enacted several civil rights laws. These made it a federal crime to prevent blacks from holding office, serving on juries, or voting — and prohibited discrimination against blacks in public accommodations. After gaining control of both Congress and the presidency in 1892, the Democrats repealed all of these laws.

Lincoln’s preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, issued Sept. 22, 1862, was openly opposed by most Democrats. A century later, President Lyndon Johnson received the support of Senate Republicans to break a Democratic filibuster (led by a former KKK leader) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The claim of 200 years of Democratic civil rights leadership completely ignores its “long and proud history” of active racial discrimination. The Democratic Party possibly could have claimed it had learned its lesson in 1964 — and subsequently reformed itself. But the quotations on the DNC site ignore more than a century and a half of its overt racism.

Any argument which begins with lies is almost certainly nothing but propaganda. A party truly championing civil rights would not need to resort to this revision of its history.

Are there similar lies on the RNC site? Find out. Voters should be extremely skeptical about every pronouncement from either party, and they should do as much research as possible to uncover the truth. Political parties lie to hide unpleasant truths and to mislead voters because lies and propaganda are generally effective.

Dave Parker

OBAMANOMICS: 173K NEW FOOD STAMP RECIPIENTS, 96K NEW JOBS

It's like a corrupt media ritual. The moment a Republican enters the Oval Office, America's homeless are suddenly discovered, dragged before news cameras, and used as props to prove how heartless the current administration is. But as soon as a Democrat assumes office, the homeless suddenly disappear – presumably to a place with chocolate rivers and peppermint trees that only Democrat presidents are able to magically manifest as soon as the oath of office is complete.

The media's been even worse with Barack Obama. Not only have the homeless vanished from news coverage, but so have America's poor. But as NBC's David Gregory made clear, if you even try to bring up the record number of food stamp recipients Barack Obama's failed policies have created, you'll be labeled a racist

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11-YEAR-OLD PRO-LIFER CALLED 'STUPID KID'

A longtime pro-abortion activist has publicly berated an 11-year-old girl praying the rosary at the site of a pro-life protest during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.

“You’re just a stupid kid,” the activist told Zoe Griffin, according to her mother, Brice.

The activist, identified as Sunsara Taylor, approached the group, whose members had been placing 3,300 red carnations on the sidewalk outside Time Warner Cable Center, where the DNC is meeting, to represent the estimated 3,300 abortions performed daily across America.

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REAL UNEMPLOYMENT AT 19%

Beneath the surface of Friday's jobs report lies the reality of just how disastrous the Obama economy truly is.

Consider the following 11 economic facts:

1.  When you include the underutilized labor figure with the eight million Americans who have lost hope altogether and stopped looking for a job, real unemployment now stands at just under 19 percent .

2.  If the labor force were the same as when President Obama took office in January 2009, the unemployment rate reported on Friday would be 11.2 percent

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TOO BAD, ACLU! THE BIBLE'S BACK IN SCHOOL

Once upon a time in America, most public school children – including several future presidents – studied, discussed and even learned to read from the Bible.

A pair of landmark Supreme Court cases in the 1960s, however, put the fear of litigation into school principals, and a new era in education began, where advocates for the “separation of church and state” used the courts to push the Bible out of classrooms.

This foundational divide in U.S. history was only highlighted by Barack Obama’s controversial remark in 2006, “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation.”

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