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Monday, September 29, 2014
Five Reasons Why You’re Too Dumb to Vote
Reason 1: You get your politics from Lena Dunham.
If you would like to be filled with despair for the prospects of democracy, spend a few minutes attempting to decipher the psephological musings of Lena Dunham, the distinctly unappealing actress commissioned by Planned Parenthood to share with her presumably illiterate following “5 Reasons Why I Vote (and You Should, Too).” That’s 21st-centuryU.S. politics in miniature: a half-assed listicle penned by a half-bright celebrity and published by a gang of abortion profiteers.
It is an excellent fit, if you think about it: Our national commitment to permanent, asinine, incontinent juvenility, which results in, among other things, a million or so abortions a year, is not entirely unrelated to the cultural debasement that is the only possible explanation for the career of Lena Dunham. A people mature enough to manage the relationship between procreative input and procreative output without recourse to the surgical dismemberment of living human organisms probably would not find much of interest in the work of Miss Dunham. But we are a nation of adult children so horrified by the prospect of actual children that we put one in five of them to death for such excellent reasons as the desire to fit nicely into a prom dress.
It’s not for nothing that, on the precipice of 30, Miss Dunham is famous for a television series called Girls rather than one called Women. She might have gone one better and called it Thumbsuckers. (The more appropriate title Diapers would terrify her demographic.)
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If you would like to be filled with despair for the prospects of democracy, spend a few minutes attempting to decipher the psephological musings of Lena Dunham, the distinctly unappealing actress commissioned by Planned Parenthood to share with her presumably illiterate following “5 Reasons Why I Vote (and You Should, Too).” That’s 21st-centuryU.S. politics in miniature: a half-assed listicle penned by a half-bright celebrity and published by a gang of abortion profiteers.
It is an excellent fit, if you think about it: Our national commitment to permanent, asinine, incontinent juvenility, which results in, among other things, a million or so abortions a year, is not entirely unrelated to the cultural debasement that is the only possible explanation for the career of Lena Dunham. A people mature enough to manage the relationship between procreative input and procreative output without recourse to the surgical dismemberment of living human organisms probably would not find much of interest in the work of Miss Dunham. But we are a nation of adult children so horrified by the prospect of actual children that we put one in five of them to death for such excellent reasons as the desire to fit nicely into a prom dress.
It’s not for nothing that, on the precipice of 30, Miss Dunham is famous for a television series called Girls rather than one called Women. She might have gone one better and called it Thumbsuckers. (The more appropriate title Diapers would terrify her demographic.)
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Local Pastor Arming People With Better Ways To Communicate With Officers
In the meantime, the parents of Michael Brown paid a visit to Baltimore.
Rochelle Ritchie has more on a local pastor’s effort to protect citizens from unwarranted police attacks.
Michael Brown’s parents did not speak Sunday at the Empowerment Temple, but Pastor Jamal Bryant says incidents like this play out too often in the black community. He is looking at ways to arm people with better ways of communicating with police officers.
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Dad Of 2 Missing Md. Toddlers Pleads For Amber Alert
Troy Turner of Clarksburg sent a letter to O’Malley on Monday morning saying he’s seen no evidence ruling out that his children may be alive and believes an Amber Alert would help find them. He asks the governor to intercede with Maryland State Police and have the agency issue an Amber Alert for 3-year-old Sarah Hoggle and 2-year-old Jacob Hoggle.
Montgomery County police have said they believe the children are dead and were pursuing a homicide case against their mother, 27-year-old Catherine Hoggle.
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PUT YOUR SEAT BELTS ON AGAIN SALISBURY, SBYNEWS TO BREAK ANOTHER MAJOR STORY TOMORROW
Actually, we might have a couple of big stories tomorrow. All I'll say at this point is, well, just imagine Jim Ireton's foot very deep in his mouth.
Another American exposed to Ebola
The latest American exposed to Ebola has arrived at the National Institutes of Health. The patient, who remains unnamed, is a physician who volunteered in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone. The agency is taking precautionary measures. The patient has been admitted to the NIH Clinical Center's special clinical studies unit. It is specifically designed to provide high-level isolation capabilities, and is staffed by infectious disease and critical care specialists.
Huh? New White House Barrier For ‘Construction,’ Secret Service Cop Says
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Asked Monday about the new waist-high barriers outside the White House, a uniformed Secret Service officer outside 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. told The Daily Caller that the temporary fencing was placed there for an unspecified construction project.
“The extra fence was there as a safety precaution because of construction,” the officer told TheDC near the White House’s northern fence.
It’s not because of previous security concerns, like the White House intruder?
“No, it is a safety precaution,” the officer replied.
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Rand Paul’s NSA lawsuit put on hold
Paul (R-Ky.) and the conservative group Freedomworks filed the suit in February
Sen. Rand Paul’s lawsuit over National Security Agency surveillance was put on hold Monday, pending an appeals court ruling on a parallel case brought before the senator’s.
Judge Richard Leon did not explain the rationale for his ruling but granted a Justice Department motion to halt the case while the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit considers the NSA surveillance issue in separate lawsuits brought by conservative activist Larry Klayman.
Paul (R-Ky.) and the conservative group Freedomworks filed the suit in February. Some critics derided the move as a publicity stunt, since Leon already ruled the surveillance likely unconstitutional in the other suits.
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Sen. Rand Paul’s lawsuit over National Security Agency surveillance was put on hold Monday, pending an appeals court ruling on a parallel case brought before the senator’s.
Judge Richard Leon did not explain the rationale for his ruling but granted a Justice Department motion to halt the case while the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit considers the NSA surveillance issue in separate lawsuits brought by conservative activist Larry Klayman.
Paul (R-Ky.) and the conservative group Freedomworks filed the suit in February. Some critics derided the move as a publicity stunt, since Leon already ruled the surveillance likely unconstitutional in the other suits.
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What if All the Illegal Aliens Left the U.S.?
Here are some statistics for you:
In the original 2012 post by someone named Tommy Ester, the following statistics were revealed:
California
In California, there are an estimated 3.5 million illegal aliens. If they were all to leave, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons.
Colorado
In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and grand children would move back across the border. That would save Colorado an estimated $2 to $7 billion annually in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration costs. 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone. Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens.
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Some Useful FACTS About Global Warming and Climate Change
Thanks to Sunday’s Climate March in New York and Tuesday’s Climate Summit at the United Nations, Americans and others will have been deluged with the lies that have been told to sustain this greatest of all hoaxes.
Here are the known facts. Use them to protect yourself against the Green assault the truth:
Both the Earth and the Sun pass through natural cycles. The Sun is currently in a cycle of lower radiation as signaled by fewer sunspots representing magnetic storms.
There is currently no global warming. The Earth has been in a cooling cycle for 19 years. No child who has passed through K-12 classes in school has experienced a single day of “global warming.”
Not one computer model that predicted increased warming has been accurate.
Carbon dioxide, (CO2) blamed for global warming, is not a “pollutant” despite a Supreme Court decision stating this. Our exhaled breath contains about 4% of CO2.
How can carbon dioxide be called a “pollutant” when it is directly responsible for the growth of all vegetation on the planet? Without CO2 there would not be a single blade of grass or a redwood tree. Or the animal life that depends on vegetation; wheat and rice, for example, as food.
There is zero evidence that carbon dioxide generated by human activities is causing catastrophic climate change. Climate is measured in centuries or shorter periods of many decades in order to determine its cycles. The weather is what is occurring where you reside and it changes every day.
At 78% nitrogen is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is an essential building block of amino acids present in all proteins. It is a very stable, unreactive gas. Oxygen is the second most abundant gas-of-life in the atmosphere at 21%. Water vapor is the third most abundant gas-of-life in the atmosphere; it varies up to 5%, It reduces incoming solar radiation by day and reduces surface cooling at night. Carbon dioxide is the least abundant gas in the atmosphere at 0.04%.
The assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is man-made and an urgent problem is a fiction. In May Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, cited the Zimmerman/Doran survey in which, out of 3,146 respondents, only 79 listed climate science as an area of expertise. Hardly 97%. “Surveys of meteorologists repeatedly find a majority oppose the alleged consensus,” noted Bast.
Here are the known facts. Use them to protect yourself against the Green assault the truth:
Both the Earth and the Sun pass through natural cycles. The Sun is currently in a cycle of lower radiation as signaled by fewer sunspots representing magnetic storms.
There is currently no global warming. The Earth has been in a cooling cycle for 19 years. No child who has passed through K-12 classes in school has experienced a single day of “global warming.”
Not one computer model that predicted increased warming has been accurate.
Carbon dioxide, (CO2) blamed for global warming, is not a “pollutant” despite a Supreme Court decision stating this. Our exhaled breath contains about 4% of CO2.
How can carbon dioxide be called a “pollutant” when it is directly responsible for the growth of all vegetation on the planet? Without CO2 there would not be a single blade of grass or a redwood tree. Or the animal life that depends on vegetation; wheat and rice, for example, as food.
There is zero evidence that carbon dioxide generated by human activities is causing catastrophic climate change. Climate is measured in centuries or shorter periods of many decades in order to determine its cycles. The weather is what is occurring where you reside and it changes every day.
At 78% nitrogen is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is an essential building block of amino acids present in all proteins. It is a very stable, unreactive gas. Oxygen is the second most abundant gas-of-life in the atmosphere at 21%. Water vapor is the third most abundant gas-of-life in the atmosphere; it varies up to 5%, It reduces incoming solar radiation by day and reduces surface cooling at night. Carbon dioxide is the least abundant gas in the atmosphere at 0.04%.
The assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is man-made and an urgent problem is a fiction. In May Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, cited the Zimmerman/Doran survey in which, out of 3,146 respondents, only 79 listed climate science as an area of expertise. Hardly 97%. “Surveys of meteorologists repeatedly find a majority oppose the alleged consensus,” noted Bast.
Ben Carson: 2016 election may not happen
There may not even be a 2016 president election, according to one man who is a likely contender.
“I hope that that is not going to be the case. But certainly there is the potential,” said Dr. Ben Carson, who was director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and became famous for his groundbreaking work in separating conjoined twins. He is now firmly established as a superstar among conservatives across America.
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Rand Paul: 'Constitution Requires' Congressional Authorization for Obama to Attack ISIS
(Breitbart) – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said in a statement Tuesday that he supports military actions against ISIS—like the airstrikes President Obama just launched—but that the Constitution requires Obama to obtain congressional approval for such action.
“I support military action against ISIS but continue to believe the Constitution requires the President to receive Congressional authorization,” Paul said in a statement provided to Breitbart News.
President Obama did not seek congressional authorization for the strikes, which launched late Monday evening, a fact especially significant since he had sought — and obtained — authorization to arm Syrian rebels. Fox News’ Wendell Goler reported that in addition to the Middle East nations already involved in the strikes, Obama is heading to the United Nations on Tuesday to seek to add to the coalition.
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“I support military action against ISIS but continue to believe the Constitution requires the President to receive Congressional authorization,” Paul said in a statement provided to Breitbart News.
President Obama did not seek congressional authorization for the strikes, which launched late Monday evening, a fact especially significant since he had sought — and obtained — authorization to arm Syrian rebels. Fox News’ Wendell Goler reported that in addition to the Middle East nations already involved in the strikes, Obama is heading to the United Nations on Tuesday to seek to add to the coalition.
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HUNGER ACTION MONTH ENDS WITH OFFICIAL WEIGH-INS
Maryland State Police and Department of Transportation to close out month-long effort encouraging Marylanders to donate food
BALTIMORE, MD – Representatives from the Maryland State Police and the Maryland Department of Transportation will assemble Tuesday at Maryland Food Bank sites across the state to officially weigh food donations collected statewide throughout Hunger Action Month.
During September, all Maryland State Police barracks as well as select State Highway Administration buildings, Motor Vehicle Administration offices and inspection stations, Maryland Transportation Authority toll plazas, and sites including BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport and the Port of Baltimore, all participated in the statewide food drive. In addition to these locations, Marylanders were able to donate food through the food bank’s new virtual food drive platform at https://fooddrive.mdfoodbank.org.
Maryland State Troopers and other allied law enforcement agencies, assisted by personnel from the State Highway Administration, will caravan the food donations to one of three regional food bank locations on Tuesday. Representatives from the organizations will be on site for photos while donations are unloaded and officially weighed. Results are expected to be announced later in the afternoon.
WHAT:
Hunger Action Month 2014 Final Food Donation Weigh-In
WHEN:
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 – 2:00 p.m.
WHERE
& WHO:
Maryland Food Bank – 2200 Halethorpe Farms Road, Baltimore, MD 21227
- Colonel Marcus L. Brown, Superintendent, Maryland State Police
- Melinda B. Peters, Administrator, State Highway Administration
- John May, Senior Vice President of Operations, Maryland Food Bank
Eastern Shore:
Maryland Food Bank – Eastern Shore: 28500 Owens Branch Road, Salisbury, MD 21801
- Captain Ron Lewis, Eastern Troop Commander, Maryland State Police
- Donnie Drewer, State Highway Administration, District Engineer
- Jennifer Small, Managing Director, Maryland Food Bank
Western Maryland:
Maryland Food Bank – Western Branch: 220 McRand Court, Hagerstown, MD 21740
- Captain Ira Click, Western Troop Commander, Maryland State Police
- Anthony Crawford & Mark Crampton, State Highway Administration, District Engineers
- Matt Thompson, Managing Director, Maryland Food Bank
BALTIMORE, MD – Representatives from the Maryland State Police and the Maryland Department of Transportation will assemble Tuesday at Maryland Food Bank sites across the state to officially weigh food donations collected statewide throughout Hunger Action Month.
During September, all Maryland State Police barracks as well as select State Highway Administration buildings, Motor Vehicle Administration offices and inspection stations, Maryland Transportation Authority toll plazas, and sites including BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport and the Port of Baltimore, all participated in the statewide food drive. In addition to these locations, Marylanders were able to donate food through the food bank’s new virtual food drive platform at https://fooddrive.mdfoodbank.org.
Maryland State Troopers and other allied law enforcement agencies, assisted by personnel from the State Highway Administration, will caravan the food donations to one of three regional food bank locations on Tuesday. Representatives from the organizations will be on site for photos while donations are unloaded and officially weighed. Results are expected to be announced later in the afternoon.
WHAT:
Hunger Action Month 2014 Final Food Donation Weigh-In
WHEN:
Tuesday, September 30, 2014 – 2:00 p.m.
WHERE
& WHO:
Maryland Food Bank – 2200 Halethorpe Farms Road, Baltimore, MD 21227
- Colonel Marcus L. Brown, Superintendent, Maryland State Police
- Melinda B. Peters, Administrator, State Highway Administration
- John May, Senior Vice President of Operations, Maryland Food Bank
Eastern Shore:
Maryland Food Bank – Eastern Shore: 28500 Owens Branch Road, Salisbury, MD 21801
- Captain Ron Lewis, Eastern Troop Commander, Maryland State Police
- Donnie Drewer, State Highway Administration, District Engineer
- Jennifer Small, Managing Director, Maryland Food Bank
Western Maryland:
Maryland Food Bank – Western Branch: 220 McRand Court, Hagerstown, MD 21740
- Captain Ira Click, Western Troop Commander, Maryland State Police
- Anthony Crawford & Mark Crampton, State Highway Administration, District Engineers
- Matt Thompson, Managing Director, Maryland Food Bank
Top Things To Know About New Laws In Maryland
MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION
The possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana will be a civil offense rather than a criminal one. Civil penalties include $100 for a first offense, $250 for a second offense and $500 for a third offense. The law requires teen offenders to be evaluated for treatment.
TRANSGENDER DISCRIMINATION
Transgender residents will have protection against discrimination on matters relating to housing, employment, credit and use of public accommodations. The law defines gender identity as the gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior of a person, regardless of the person’s assigned sex at birth. The law says gender identity is demonstrated as “consistent and uniform assertion of the person’s gender identity or any other evidence that the gender identity is sincerely held as part of the person’s core identity.”
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5 U.S. Banks Each Have More Than 40 Trillion Dollars In Exposure To Derivatives
When is the U.S. banking system going to crash? I can sum it up in three words. Watch the derivatives.
When is the U.S. banking system going to crash? I can sum it up in three words. Watch the derivatives. It used to be only four, but now there are five “too big to fail” banks in the United States that each have more than 40 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives. Today, the U.S. national debt is sitting at a grand total of about 17.7 trillion dollars, so when we are talking about 40 trillion dollars we are talking about an amount of money that is almost unimaginable. And unlike stocks and bonds, these derivatives do not represent “investments” in anything. They can be incredibly complex, but essentially they are just paper wagers about what will happen in the future. The truth is that derivatives trading is not too different from betting on baseball or football games. Trading in derivatives is basically just a form of legalized gambling, and the “too big to fail” banks have transformed Wall Street into the largest casino in the history of the planet. When this derivatives bubble bursts (and as surely as I am writing this it will), the pain that it will cause the global economy will be greater than words can describe.
If derivatives trading is so risky, then why do our big banks do it?
The answer to that question comes down to just one thing.
Greed.
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When is the U.S. banking system going to crash? I can sum it up in three words. Watch the derivatives. It used to be only four, but now there are five “too big to fail” banks in the United States that each have more than 40 trillion dollars in exposure to derivatives. Today, the U.S. national debt is sitting at a grand total of about 17.7 trillion dollars, so when we are talking about 40 trillion dollars we are talking about an amount of money that is almost unimaginable. And unlike stocks and bonds, these derivatives do not represent “investments” in anything. They can be incredibly complex, but essentially they are just paper wagers about what will happen in the future. The truth is that derivatives trading is not too different from betting on baseball or football games. Trading in derivatives is basically just a form of legalized gambling, and the “too big to fail” banks have transformed Wall Street into the largest casino in the history of the planet. When this derivatives bubble bursts (and as surely as I am writing this it will), the pain that it will cause the global economy will be greater than words can describe.
If derivatives trading is so risky, then why do our big banks do it?
The answer to that question comes down to just one thing.
Greed.
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Halloween 5K Dash for United Way!
Salisbury University
Student United Way Presents ...
The Halloween 5K Dash!
Are you ready to brave the "ZOMBIE-INFESTED"
5K Course at Salisbury University?
Open to the entire community:
Open to the entire community:
A competitive, officially-timed 5K, 1 Mile Walk, Costume Contest, DJ, door prizes, and spooky fun for all!
(Not too spooky, families, kids, & strollers are welcome!)
Newark Historical Society Hosts Humanities Talk on History of Railroads in Delaware Sept. 30
The Newark Historical Society is hosting a Delaware Humanities Forum talk, “Rails of Delaware.” Railroads were once an important link to the outside world for many Delawareans and the local depot was the center of the community, a place to catch a train and learn the news of the day. As tracks spread throughout the state, growth followed the lines. In this slide illustrated talk historian Mike Dixon traces the social history of trains in the First State, from the beginning of the railroad age to the present. .
When: Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: Newark Municipal Building, 220 S. Main Street, Newark, DE 19711
Cost: Free
Source
When: Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Where: Newark Municipal Building, 220 S. Main Street, Newark, DE 19711
Cost: Free
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Peter Morici: Zeke Emanuel Echoes Nazis With Life-Cutoff Talk
Obamacare architect Dr. Zeke Emanuel's jolting proclamation that 75 years is long enough for a person to live smacks of the twisted ideology of Nazi Germany, economist Peter Morici believes.
"I can think of other figures in history that had similar views of human life," Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland, told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"To talk about the optimal age to die, it's basically saying once you're past 75, you're costing too much to keep around and maybe you should just let go.
"The next step from that's going to be we'll help you let go. This sounds like Germany in the 1930s."
During an appearance Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Emanuel explained why he believed 75 years was long enough for a person to live, saying that's about the time health began to decline.
"I picked 75, when you think about the combination of physical decline, the rise of Alzheimer's, the loss of creativity. And I really say you need to think about what you're going to leave your children, your family, your community, the country," Emanuel said.
Morici is appalled.
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"I can think of other figures in history that had similar views of human life," Morici, a professor at the University of Maryland, told "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.
"To talk about the optimal age to die, it's basically saying once you're past 75, you're costing too much to keep around and maybe you should just let go.
"The next step from that's going to be we'll help you let go. This sounds like Germany in the 1930s."
During an appearance Monday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Emanuel explained why he believed 75 years was long enough for a person to live, saying that's about the time health began to decline.
"I picked 75, when you think about the combination of physical decline, the rise of Alzheimer's, the loss of creativity. And I really say you need to think about what you're going to leave your children, your family, your community, the country," Emanuel said.
Morici is appalled.
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SFD Calls For Service 9-28-14
- Sunday September, 28 2014 @ 23:25Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
- Sunday September, 28 2014 @ 21:35Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
- Sunday September, 28 2014 @ 20:49Nature: Medical EmergencyCity:Salisbury
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