Friday, November 09, 2012

Holder Not Sure If He’ll Stick Around For Obama Second Term

Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday he has not yet decided whether to remain in his Cabinet post during President Barack Obama’s second term.

Answering a question during an appearance at the University of Baltimore Law School, Holder said he would discuss the question with the president and with his family before making any decision about how long to remain as attorney general.

Before the election, Holder also said he did not know how long he might continue to serve if the president were to be re-elected.

Shipping Companies Expect Booming Business This Holiday Season

Americans are expected to ship a record number of packages this holiday season, and the good cheer extends to those delivering the goods.

"The Postal Service this year will deliver over 365 million packages this holiday season," the U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe announced in the nation's capital Thursday.

"That's up 20 percent over last year," he says.

Republicans Rage As The Great Burning Arrives

Republicans descend into civil war as Tea Party movement vows to drive party
further to the right ... The Republican Party was last night descending into a civil
war over control of its political future, as recriminations raged about its failure to
oust Barack Obama and take control of the US Senate. Some conservatives
warned colleagues that they risked annihilation by refusing to change and
appeal to the women, younger and ethnically-diverse voters who had stood by
Barack Obama since 2008. Yet many supporters of the Tea Party movement –
whose agenda was rebuked across the US – claimed Mitt Romney had actually
not been conservative enough, vowing to drive the party further to the Right. – UK Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: Republicans are out of touch. Democrats are not. The Tea Party is dead.

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Cancer Benefit This Sat. Nov.10th

Cancer Benefit this Sat. Nov.10th 2012 at 7944 Bethel Road in Willards MD 21874 for Rob I. Hill. Starts at 2pm. Adults $20.00, Ages 16-5 $10.00, and 5 and under FREE. Price includes Whiteys BBQ, Desserts, Drinks, Bouncy houses, Horse and Pony Rides, Face Painting, Firetruck Rides, LIVE BAND,etc. Live and Silent Auctions Shotguns, Hunting gear, Horse items, Home Decor, Gift Certificates etc. Event open to the Public!

Today's Fill In The Blank 11-9-12

The reason Obama won was _____.

QUOTES OF THE DAY 11-9-12

“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”
― Edward Gibbon

“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:

Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;

Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;

Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;

Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;

Increased demand to live off the state.”
― Edward Gibbon

“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.”
― Edward Gibbon

“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.”
― Edward Gibbon

“War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.”

― Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1

“The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.”

― Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Burger King Home Delivery: The Last Nail In The Coffin Of Real Food?

The contrast, in my burger-starved boyhood, between our apartment and the bright lights of Burger King was so stark it was almost cruel. If only Burger King had delivered back then! The chain’s home-delivery experiment, which has been expanding very slowly — first in a few mid-Atlantic states and most recently in southern Florida — is the first by any major restaurant chain that doesn’t have the word “pizza” in its name. There are big logistical issues to work out. But Burger King, which charges a small delivery fee, claims that proprietary new technology will keep the burgers hot and the fries crispy en route. The company has been quietly rolling out the program to make sure it can fulfill the immense demand its delivery service will no doubt unleash.

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How The Gay-Marriage Victories Are (Slowly) Transforming The Notion Of Family

On Wednesday, Colleen Ozolitis, and her wife, Lee Ann Martinson, drove together to their son’s Seattle preschool to share their family’s good news.

“We’re going to tell him we won and that all this work we’ve done means that in Washington, his moms can get married,” says Ozolitis, who served as the statewide volunteer coordinator for Washington United for Marriage, which led this state’s effort to get same-sex marriage approved. “I think he’ll understand.”

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Facts Do Not Support Official Story in Border Patrol Agent's Killing

On Wednesday, the Pima County Medical Examiner's office released the autopsy report for U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie, who was killed last month near Naco, Arizona.

In the report, Pima County Forensic Pathologist Cynthia Porterfield stated that Ivie died from "a penetrating gunshot wound of the head," and that a "small caliber copper jacketed projectile" was recovered from his brain.

On October 2, Ivie, was killed and another agent was wounded in what the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims to have been a 'friendly-fire' incident.

Public School Teachers Spend Billions Of Their Own Funds On Student Needs

Meryl Johnson, a Cleveland, Ohio, high school English teacher, estimates that she spends $400 to $500 a year on supplies for her students. "I have a pretty extensive classroom library because of all the books I've bought over the 41 years I've been teaching," she begins. "At times I've bought sets, 35 or 40 copies of one text, for my students. Why? Because there's so much red tape to go through if you ask the district to buy them."

Johnson speaks matter-of-factly and does not try to mask her impatience with the bureaucratic roadblocks that impede classroom management. "If you go through the school system's channels, by the time the books get approved and are ordered, the school year is over," she continues. "This has been a long-standing problem."

How long does it take for the heat to kick in

on your vehicle in the winter?

Big Money Breakdown: Why 2012 Is the Most Expensive Election Ever

While the Obama campaign relied heavily on a groundswell of small donations from grassroots support, Romney's war chest came from anonymous big-money donors under the unfettered provisions of Citizens United.

The 2012 election season will be the most expensive in history. The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) estimates total spending to total about $6 billion, topping the next most expensive election by $700 million.

Outside spending by nonprofits and super-PACs is a driving force behind the record-setting numbers. The CRP estimates spending by these "independent" outside groups will top $970 million, and with spending by traditional political action committees (PACS) included, that total outside spending tops $1 billion.

Orioles Make Thank You Sing-A-Long Video For Fans

The Orioles are making a huge impact on their fans today, and it's not from a game!

The Birds recently posted a sing-a-along video to their website to thank their fans for their support throughout this year's season.

It's not too busy yet but give it a few hours and the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center will be packed. Don't forget to go to this free event this weekend and see some of the most exotic and talented dogs in the world.

Obama Back At The Wheel As US Economy Heads For A Fiscal Cliff

Barack Obama has less than two months to broker a deal with the Republicans to prevent crippling budget cuts

Politics in the US is about to go from knife-edge to cliff-edge. The closely fought battle for the White House is over but the battle to prevent the US economy nosediving back into recession is about to begin.

Barack Obama has less than two months to broker a deal with the Republicans on Capitol Hill to prevent budget cuts worth $607bn (£380bn) of national output kicking in on 1 January.

The fiscal cliff was barely mentioned during the presidential race, but the world is now going to hear about little else.

Why? Because jumping off the fiscal cliff is seen by Wall Street, the City and the International Monetary Fund as the biggest threat to the global economy over the next year, dwarfing even the risk that a Greek exit from the eurozone would start the unravelling of monetary union.

America, despite the rapid growth of China in the past two decades, remains the world's biggest economy, accounting for just under 20% of global output.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in Washington has estimated that the planned tax increases and spending cuts would reduce US gross domestic product by 4% in 2013, dwarfing the scale of George Osborne's austerity programme, which has involved budget tightening of 0.5-1% of GDP per year. To emulate in Britain what could be in store for the US, the chancellor would have to halve the NHS budget or put 10 pence on the basic rate of income tax.

Ocean City area residents continued efforts this week to help victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Truckloads and carloads of supplies and clothes were taken to Crisfield, the most heavily damaged municipality in the state.

Volunteers with “Sandy Clean Up Help” sought donations and people responded by donating clothes and other items that nearly overwhelmed drop-off sites. At South Moon Under in Ocean City, bags of donations, primarily clothing, lined the perimeter of the store. At The Globe in Berlin, donations filled the upstairs area. Donations at both sites were picked up Tuesday.

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