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Tuesday, November 04, 2014
Ocean City Council Votes
21 year old Matt James has the most votes, followed by Hartman, Martin, Duluca.
- Matt James: 1,666
- Wayne Hartman: 1,345
- Lloyd Martin: 1,342
- Tony DeLuca: 1,287
- Chris Rudolf: 1,075
- Joseph Hall: 775
- Joe Cryer: 464
Fox News projects Tom Cotton (R) will win the Senate election in Arkansas, defeating incumbent Mark Pryor (D)
Total Number Of People That Voted Today
Total number of people that voted today
Parkside High School 728
Delmar elementary 1076
Deaf Independent living Assoc. 230
Fruitland intermediate 927
Faith Baptist 1075
PNAC Captured Part of the U.S. Government and Caused America to Attack Iraq in 2003
The U.S. government is not one thing or one entity. It is a collection of powers and agencies, turfs and fiefdoms, each of them being captured and used. Project for a New American Century (PNAC) captured specific parts of the U.S. government and led America into an aggression against Iraq.
PNAC instigated a broad scale war crime. But such captures are ongoing and much greater in number than this single case. The point is much broader. The U.S. government’s powers are prizes, weapons and resources to whatever groups or whoever is capable of capturing them and wielding them at any given time. There are a thousand think tanks that want to and do control and influence what is called social policy or public policy, which are nothing more than domestic aggressions of one group or groups against other groups. War policy is one of those social and public policies. The U.S. government is always captured and is always being used to wield power on behalf of those who are the capturers. PNAC’s capture is a specific case in which it captured one important part of foreign policy, propaganda, war-making and its financing.
David L. Atheide and Jennifer N. Grimes document that Project for a New American Century (PNAC) was the key player that instigated the U.S. attack on Iraq in 2003. Their article is “War Programming: The Propaganda Project and the Iraq War”. It appears in The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005). I quote one long paragraph:
“The PNAC was very influential in changing U.S. foreign policy as well as promoting favorable news coverage about going to war with Iraq following the attacks of 9/11. The Iraq War was informed by these efforts and the resulting propaganda campaign to convince the American people that attacking Iraq was tantamount to attacking ‘terrorists’ and others who threatened the United States (Armstrong 2002). This organization was closely related to several other prominent think tanks, including the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), with its offices located on the fifth floor of the AEI’s Washington building. Many members of the PNAC joined the Bush administration and became credible claims makers, who constructed the frames for shaping subsequent news reports. Among the members who signed many of the proclamations laying the foundation for a new American empire (Kagan and Kristol 2000; Bacevich 2002; Kagan 2003) were former and current governmental officials, including Elliot Abrams, William Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Steve Forbes, Donald Kagan, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. The PNAC emphasized changing American foreign policy to become a hegemon and police its international interests as a new kind of benevolent American empire (Bacevich 2002; Barber 2003; Kaplan 2003; Mann 2003; Johnson 2004). This would include expanding the military, withdrawing from major treaties, as well as engaging in preemptive strikes against those who would threaten U.S. interests. Those messages, in turn, were carried by the mass media for months leading up to the invasion of Iraq. The United States was well on its way to justify attacking Iraq in 1992 when Dick Cheney and others, who would occupy positions in the Bush administration eight years later, drafted the Defense Planning Guidance document. An overview and analysis of the PNAC and its role in shaping U.S. foreign policy was David Armstrong’s essay in Harper’s in October 2002.”
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PNAC instigated a broad scale war crime. But such captures are ongoing and much greater in number than this single case. The point is much broader. The U.S. government’s powers are prizes, weapons and resources to whatever groups or whoever is capable of capturing them and wielding them at any given time. There are a thousand think tanks that want to and do control and influence what is called social policy or public policy, which are nothing more than domestic aggressions of one group or groups against other groups. War policy is one of those social and public policies. The U.S. government is always captured and is always being used to wield power on behalf of those who are the capturers. PNAC’s capture is a specific case in which it captured one important part of foreign policy, propaganda, war-making and its financing.
David L. Atheide and Jennifer N. Grimes document that Project for a New American Century (PNAC) was the key player that instigated the U.S. attack on Iraq in 2003. Their article is “War Programming: The Propaganda Project and the Iraq War”. It appears in The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Autumn, 2005). I quote one long paragraph:
“The PNAC was very influential in changing U.S. foreign policy as well as promoting favorable news coverage about going to war with Iraq following the attacks of 9/11. The Iraq War was informed by these efforts and the resulting propaganda campaign to convince the American people that attacking Iraq was tantamount to attacking ‘terrorists’ and others who threatened the United States (Armstrong 2002). This organization was closely related to several other prominent think tanks, including the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), with its offices located on the fifth floor of the AEI’s Washington building. Many members of the PNAC joined the Bush administration and became credible claims makers, who constructed the frames for shaping subsequent news reports. Among the members who signed many of the proclamations laying the foundation for a new American empire (Kagan and Kristol 2000; Bacevich 2002; Kagan 2003) were former and current governmental officials, including Elliot Abrams, William Bennett, Jeb Bush, Dick Cheney, Steve Forbes, Donald Kagan, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz. The PNAC emphasized changing American foreign policy to become a hegemon and police its international interests as a new kind of benevolent American empire (Bacevich 2002; Barber 2003; Kaplan 2003; Mann 2003; Johnson 2004). This would include expanding the military, withdrawing from major treaties, as well as engaging in preemptive strikes against those who would threaten U.S. interests. Those messages, in turn, were carried by the mass media for months leading up to the invasion of Iraq. The United States was well on its way to justify attacking Iraq in 1992 when Dick Cheney and others, who would occupy positions in the Bush administration eight years later, drafted the Defense Planning Guidance document. An overview and analysis of the PNAC and its role in shaping U.S. foreign policy was David Armstrong’s essay in Harper’s in October 2002.”
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Fox News projects Shelley Moore Capito (R) will win the Senate election in West Virginia
Martin O’Malley’s First Presidential Primary His name isn't on Tuesday's ballot, but his future is.
O’Malley’s failure to resonate as a national figure might come as a surprise to your everyday liberal activist familiar with only the governor’s vaunted résumé. As mayor of Baltimore he earned a tough-on-crime reputation and then turned around and banned capital punishment as governor, claiming the practice was “wasteful and ineffective.”
He signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in 2012 and then successfully campaigned to reject a ballot initiative that would have overturned it. He raised gas taxes, legalized medical marijuana, passed gun control and a state version of the DREAM Act, and led Maryland’s schools to five consecutive years at the top of Education Week’s rankings (though last year, they dropped to No. 2). And despite his liberal policies, Maryland didn’t become some high-tax business-repelling backwater—the state’s unemployment rate has remained steadily below the national average throughout his tenure, and the state’s median household income consistently ranks in the country’s top three or four. He has cultivated a reputation as a manager and a problem-solver, but also a social justice Catholic.
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Seconds After ‘Charlie Brown’ Halloween Special Ended, ABC Aired This ‘Grossly Inappropriate’ Video
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“Shame on ABC for putting a peep show next to a playground,” Parents Television Council president Tim Winter said in a statement. “In less than 26 seconds we were taken from the Peanuts pumpkin patch to a steamy ‘Scandal’ sex scene.”
The Thursday night scene showed one of the characters in “Scandal” having a sex dream that lasted for approximately 50 seconds.
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Democrats Can Run, But They Can’t Hide
The great boxing champion Joe Louis once said about one of his opponents, who was known for his speed: “He can run but he can’t hide.” In the Congressional elections this year, many Democrats are running away from Barack Obama, but they can’t hide their record of voting for Obama’s agenda more than 90 percent of the time.
Now that the Western democracies have learned the hard way what the consequences are when you admit all sorts of people into your country — including people who hate both the principles and the people of your society — will that cause zealots for open borders and amnesty to have some second thoughts, or perhaps first thoughts?
I hope Yankees manager Joe Girardi was watching the World Series when Madison Bumgarner was allowed to come out and pitch the ninth inning, even though he had already made 107 pitches. Time and again, Girardi has taken out a pitcher who was pitching a great game, and brought in a reliever who lost it. Baseball statistics provide good rules of thumb, but bad dogmas on a given day.
There seem to be a lot of comic-book-level movies, with human beings playing the role of cartoons.
Never take other people for granted. There is a point of no return in all relationships.
Back in 1947, J. A. Schumpeter said, “Effective political reasoning consists mainly in trying to exalt certain propositions into axioms and to put others out of court.” That is still the game being played by “global warming” zealots.
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Now that the Western democracies have learned the hard way what the consequences are when you admit all sorts of people into your country — including people who hate both the principles and the people of your society — will that cause zealots for open borders and amnesty to have some second thoughts, or perhaps first thoughts?
I hope Yankees manager Joe Girardi was watching the World Series when Madison Bumgarner was allowed to come out and pitch the ninth inning, even though he had already made 107 pitches. Time and again, Girardi has taken out a pitcher who was pitching a great game, and brought in a reliever who lost it. Baseball statistics provide good rules of thumb, but bad dogmas on a given day.
There seem to be a lot of comic-book-level movies, with human beings playing the role of cartoons.
Never take other people for granted. There is a point of no return in all relationships.
Back in 1947, J. A. Schumpeter said, “Effective political reasoning consists mainly in trying to exalt certain propositions into axioms and to put others out of court.” That is still the game being played by “global warming” zealots.
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Consumer Alert: U.S. Postal Service Warns Of E-mail Scam
U.S. Postal Inspectors have an important warning for you. Do NOT open any e-mail claiming to be from the U.S. Postal service. The e-mail may contain a dangerous computer virus.
U.S. Postal Inspector Tammy Mayle said, "Postal customers were receiving an e-mail that says they had a package ready for pick up at the postal office." The e-mail looked official. It had the U.S. Postal Service logo and contained a note saying: "Our courier couldn't make the delivery of parcel today."
It asked customers to click on a link. But Mayle said if you click, "Malware could be installed on your computer and they could see all personal information on your computer and gain access to anything you had on your computer."
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U.S. Postal Inspector Tammy Mayle said, "Postal customers were receiving an e-mail that says they had a package ready for pick up at the postal office." The e-mail looked official. It had the U.S. Postal Service logo and contained a note saying: "Our courier couldn't make the delivery of parcel today."
It asked customers to click on a link. But Mayle said if you click, "Malware could be installed on your computer and they could see all personal information on your computer and gain access to anything you had on your computer."
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The Real Reason Pot Is Still Illegal
Opponents of marijuana-law reform insist that legalization is dangerous—but the biggest threat is to their own bottom line.
Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, did several stints in rehab after crashing his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill in 2006, a headline-making event that revealed the then–US congressman for Rhode Island had been abusing prescription drugs, including the painkiller OxyContin. Kennedy went on to make mental health—including substance abuse—a cornerstone of his political agenda, and he is reportedly at work on a memoir about his struggles with addiction and mental illness. In 2013, he also helped found an advocacy group, Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), which has barnstormed the country opposing the growing state and federal efforts to legalize pot.
Taking the stage to rousing applause last February, Kennedy joined more than 2,000 opponents of marijuana legalization a few miles south of Washington, DC, at the annual convention of the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA), one of the largest such organizations in the country.
“Let me tell you, there is nothing more inconsistent with trying to improve mental health and reduce substance-abuse disorders in this country than to legalize a third drug,” Kennedy boomed. The former congressman also praised his fellow speakers for standing up to the “extremist responses” from legalization advocates.
Given that CADCA is dedicated to protecting society from dangerous drugs, the event that day had a curious sponsor: Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of Oxy-Contin, the highly addictive painkiller that nearly ruined Kennedy’s congressional career and has been linked to thousands of overdose deaths nationwide.
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Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, did several stints in rehab after crashing his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill in 2006, a headline-making event that revealed the then–US congressman for Rhode Island had been abusing prescription drugs, including the painkiller OxyContin. Kennedy went on to make mental health—including substance abuse—a cornerstone of his political agenda, and he is reportedly at work on a memoir about his struggles with addiction and mental illness. In 2013, he also helped found an advocacy group, Project SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), which has barnstormed the country opposing the growing state and federal efforts to legalize pot.
Taking the stage to rousing applause last February, Kennedy joined more than 2,000 opponents of marijuana legalization a few miles south of Washington, DC, at the annual convention of the Community Anti-Drug Coalition of America (CADCA), one of the largest such organizations in the country.
“Let me tell you, there is nothing more inconsistent with trying to improve mental health and reduce substance-abuse disorders in this country than to legalize a third drug,” Kennedy boomed. The former congressman also praised his fellow speakers for standing up to the “extremist responses” from legalization advocates.
Given that CADCA is dedicated to protecting society from dangerous drugs, the event that day had a curious sponsor: Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of Oxy-Contin, the highly addictive painkiller that nearly ruined Kennedy’s congressional career and has been linked to thousands of overdose deaths nationwide.
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Ten Voting Machines Taken Out Of Service In Anne Arundel County
A handful of voters who contacted The Capital Tuesday said their votes were flipped from Republican candidates to Democrats. Another voter said his vote on a ballot question was switched.
Donna Duncan, Maryland Board of Elections assistant deputy for election policy, said 34 reports of faulty voting machines had been filed statewide by early afternoon. Twenty-five machines were taken out of service across the state, including the 10 in Anne Arundel County. A breakdown of precincts in the county wasn't available, but at least one was taken offline at Annapolis High School after voting irregularities were reported Tuesday morning. -
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Hundreds Of Md. Students Not Allowed To Attend Class
WASHINGTON - About four hundred students in Prince George's County will not be allowed to attend school starting Wednesday because they did not get the state-required vaccinations.
The group includes kindergarten students but the majority, 259 seventh- graders, did not get vaccinated, or didn't provide the paperwork saying they did.
In a statement, the county's school system says they've made "extraordinary efforts" to reach every single student but that now parents need to do their part.
"As of Friday ... 155 kindergarten and 259 7th grade students are non- compliant and have received exclusion letters, and beginning Wednesday, November 5, these students will not be allowed to attend school," the statement says.
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The group includes kindergarten students but the majority, 259 seventh- graders, did not get vaccinated, or didn't provide the paperwork saying they did.
In a statement, the county's school system says they've made "extraordinary efforts" to reach every single student but that now parents need to do their part.
"As of Friday ... 155 kindergarten and 259 7th grade students are non- compliant and have received exclusion letters, and beginning Wednesday, November 5, these students will not be allowed to attend school," the statement says.
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How German Pharmaceutical Companies Torpedo Cannabis Legalization
Cannabis can make diseases more bearable. Sometimes, it can even fight them successfully. There are people who claim that cannabis is the best pain relief that they have ever tried, better than, for example, Ibuprofen, and better than paracetamolbecause it has no side effects. And the best part about it: everybody could easily grow cannabis in the garden. For free.
However, the self-cultivation of cannabis is -- with a few exceptions -- illegal.
The German pharma lobby would probably like to keep it that way. A drug that costs no money but has great benefits is a pretty strong competitor for established drugs that cost a lot and perhaps fight the original symptoms but bring with them new pain.
Why should German pharmaceutical companies think differently from those in the United States?
In the U.S., some states have gradually legalized cannabis for medicinal purposes. Several painkiller manufacturers oppose the liberalization, however, and are demanding strict rules for private consumption. Officially, they claim that cannabis should not be legalized because it might be dangerous. In reality, they do not want legalization because it would make them poor.
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However, the self-cultivation of cannabis is -- with a few exceptions -- illegal.
The German pharma lobby would probably like to keep it that way. A drug that costs no money but has great benefits is a pretty strong competitor for established drugs that cost a lot and perhaps fight the original symptoms but bring with them new pain.
Why should German pharmaceutical companies think differently from those in the United States?
In the U.S., some states have gradually legalized cannabis for medicinal purposes. Several painkiller manufacturers oppose the liberalization, however, and are demanding strict rules for private consumption. Officially, they claim that cannabis should not be legalized because it might be dangerous. In reality, they do not want legalization because it would make them poor.
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