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Posted: 15 Aug 2016 10:00 PM PDT

Arianna Huffington Steps Down from HuffPo

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:00 PM PDT

Arianna Huffington is stepping down from the website she co-founded a decade ago, The Huffington Post.

Huffington said the new health and wellness company she is launching, Thrive Global, demands her full-time attention. Thrive will start in November.

When her plans for Thrive were first reported in June, Huffington told staffers, "my primary focus will remain on The Huffington Post, with no change to my current role."

She told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that "I really thought I could do both, but as we started building it up, I realized that it really needed my full attention."

She echoed that message in a goodbye note to Huffington Post staffers.

"Building something from scratch doesn't become easier or less challenging just because you've done it before. There is only one way to do it: with your full attention and all your heart," she wrote.

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How Democrats Twist Things

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:30 PM PDT

More Adult Americans live w Parents / Grandparents

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:00 PM PDT

Despite the end of the Great Recession, there's been a surge in multigenerational households.

Both the number and share of Americans living in multigenerational family households has continued to rise in recent years, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit think tank in Washington, D.C. In 2014, a record 60.6 million people, or 19% of the U.S. population, lived in a multigenerational household, up from 42.4 million (17%) in 2009 and 27.5 million (12%) in 1980. Multigenerational families — households with two or more adult generations, or one that includes grandparents and grandchildren — is growing among nearly all racial groups and age groups, says D'Vera Cohn, a senior writer and editor at Pew.

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There are some demographic reasons. The Asian and Hispanic populations are growing more rapidly than the white population, Cohn's analysis of the latest U.S. Census Bureau data found, "and those groups are more likely than whites to live in multigenerational family households." What's more, foreign-born Americans are more likely than the U.S.-born people to live with multiple generations of family, and Asians and Hispanics are more likely than whites to be immigrants. Some 28% of Asians lived in multigenerational households versus 25% of Hispanics and African-Americans and 15% of Caucasians.

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Suck It Up Cupcake And Get it done!

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:30 PM PDT

4 Tips For Helping Your Child Disconnect From The Electronic World

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:00 PM PDT

Ever since Nintendo made the Pokemon Go video-game app available, young people have been exploring their communities with their eyes firmly fixed on their smartphones rather than on the wonders of the world.

If endless hours spent capturing imaginary creatures seems like an electronic addiction, it very well may be, but that's nothing new. Many children have been plugged into electronic devices for a long time now, rarely looking up as they help virtual animals save the day, keep race cars on track and watch endless loops of videos on YouTube.

And that can be a concern, says Elaine Fogel Schneider, Ph.D., a therapist and author of "7 Strategies for Raising Calm, Inspired & Successful Children" (www.askdrelaine.com).

"They are so attached to technology at such an early age and it's changing their brain circuitry," Schneider says. "They begin to lose the back and forth communication with their parents, and/or siblings, and the whole notion of empathy. For really young children, these devices have become the babysitter. I fully understand that parents need a break (as do grandparents), but there have to be limits."

Schneider has tips for parents who worry about how they can control their child's electronic pastime.

• Set rules. Limit the amount of time your child can spend on an electronic device and be consistent in enforcing those rules. This way your child knows that when you say he or she only has two minutes left, then there really is only two minutes left, not three or four hours.
• Use a timer. A timer does not "lie" and can take the blame away from you when you're limiting your child's time on the device. Use the timer that measures down the time your child is spending on the tablet, smartphone, and/or technological game, so that your child knows the end for using that device is approaching, and it won't be a surprise when time is up. You can even have your child select a tone on the smartphone that he or she likes.
• Be ready with another activity. Plan an alternative way of engaging your child so when the device is turned off, some other interest can be provided and take his or her mind off the electronic device. "Describe what you're going to do so the child's interest is piqued into doing something else that he or she enjoys," Schneider says.
• Use these tips in your home at first. As with everything, at first there's a learning curve, so there may be tantrums, tears, melt downs and even depression. That's why Schneider recommends following these tips at home first. "I wouldn't think of trying this out in public right away since I don't think you want to endure the wrath or glances of diners or shoppers as they hear your child scream," Schneider says. In time, though, the child will know what is expected, she says, and will be able to disconnect from a smartphone, tablet, or other electronic device without major meltdowns.

"In the long run, you're doing a service for your child by limiting the amount of time spent on an electronic device," Schneider says. "I can remember hearing my own mother's words, 'I'm doing this for your own good!' And that's really true."

About Elaine Fogel Schneider, Ph.D.

Elaine Fogel Schneider, author of the Amazon bestseller "7 Strategies for Raising Calm, Inspired & Successful Children" (www.askdrelaine.com), is one of the country's leading authorities on touch therapy, and founder of Baby Steps, preparing young children for educational readiness and providing parent coaching. As a sought-after speaker and trainer, she offers interactive presentations and workshops for educators, parents and healthcare professionals.

What Happens When A Liberal Tries Talking About Guns

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:30 PM PDT

This Republican mayor has an incredibly simple idea to help the homeless. And it seems to be working.

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:00 PM PDT

Republican Mayor Richard Berry was driving around Albuquerque last year when he saw a man on a street corner holding a sign that read: "Want a Job. Anything Helps."

Throughout his administration, as part of a push to connect the homeless population to services, Berry had taken to driving through the city to talk to panhandlers about their lives. His city's poorest residents told him they didn't want to be on the streets begging for money, but they didn't know where else to go.

Seeing that sign gave Berry an idea. Instead of asking them, many of whom feel dispirited, to go out looking for work, the city could bring the work to them.

Next month will be the first anniversary of Albuquerque's There's a Better Way program, which hires panhandlers for day jobs beautifying the city. In partnership with a local nonprofit that serves the homeless population, a van is dispatched around the city to pick up panhandlers who are interested in working. The job pays $9 an hour, which is above minimum wage, and provides a lunch. At the end of the shift, the participants are offered overnight shelter as needed.

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Changing Chesapeake: Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Could Vanish

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 05:30 PM PDT

The Chesapeake Bay is swallowing up hundreds of acres of coastline so quickly experts say low-lying areas like Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge will probably vanish within our lifetimes.

"When we look at historical maps of the loss, it's just dramatic," says Matt Whitbeck, a supervisory biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

It's happening because the land is sinking and the water is rising, according to Zoe Johnson with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration.

"The sinking is due to a process called glacial isostatic adjustment," she explained. "The land is readjusting as the pressure from the glacial period about 18,000 years ago lifts."

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Dems 'Have Their Head In the Sand' If They Don't Think Clinton Fdn Doc Dump Could End Clinton Candidacy

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 05:00 PM PDT

On Thursday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Special Report," Real Clear Politics Associate Editor A.B. Stoddard stated that "there is a possibility of a big document dump of emails" indicating access was provided to Clinton Foundation donors, which "really could" end Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's candidacy, "and if they don't think that that could happen, they have their — Democrats have their head in the sand."

Stoddard said, [relevant remarks begin around 4:00] "Huma Abedin ended up with four payrolls — four paychecks from a private firm, from the State Department, from the foundation, and probably personal funds from the Clinton family, as well, but she's sort of the worst case example. But all of them have interwoven interests and potential conflicts that are overlapping, and it's clear that you don't have to read the book to know that the foundation was tied into her tenure at the State Department. Any Democrat who doesn't believe there is a possibility of a big document dump of emails indicating that there — this kind of access was provided, and I'm not even talking about, maybe favors on policy prescriptions were not provided, but any kind of pattern of access and pattern of just answering people's questions who were donors really could end her candidacy, and if they don't think that that could happen, they have their — Democrats have their head in the sand."

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BREAKING NEWS, WICOMICO COUNTY NOT SELECTED: Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission Announces Grower and Processor License Pre-Approvals

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 02:38 PM PDT

Baltimore, MD (August 15, 2016) -The Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission ("MMCC") today announced the names of the 15 Growers and 15 Processors who have been awarded Stage One license pre-approvals. The Commission's actions mark a giant step forward for the medical cannabis program in Maryland.
Dr. Paul W. Davies, Chairman of the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission stated, "I'm excited that we have a great number of outstanding companies willing to help sick people in Maryland." The potential licensees comprise a diverse group of principals, executives and corporate officers including Maryland residents associated with long-time established Maryland businesses, entrepreneurs, women and minority-operated enterprises. Seven of the Processors are affiliated with Growers who received Stage One pre-approvals.
The Commissioners' selections for Grower entities and locations are:
Curio Cultivation LLC
Baltimore County
Doctors Orders Maryland LLC
Dorchester County
Forward Gro LLC
Anne Arundel County
Freestate Wellness LLC
Howard County
Green Leaf Medical LLC
Frederick County
Grow West MD LLC
Garrett County
Harvest of Maryland LLC
Washington County
HMS Health LLC
Frederick County
Holistic Industries LLC
Prince George's County
Kind Therapeutics USA LLC
Washington County
Maryland Compassionate Care
and Wellness LLC
Carroll County
MaryMed LLC
Dorchester County
Shore Natural Rx LLC
Worcester County
SunMed Growers LLC
Cecil County
Temescal Wellness of MD LLC
Baltimore City

 The Processor entities and locations are:

AFS Maryland LLC
Wicomico County
Blair Wellness Center LLC
Worcester County
Chesapeake Alternatives LLC
Queen Anne's County
Curio Manufacturing LLC
Baltimore County
Doctors Orders Maryland LLC
Dorchester County
FGM Processing LLC
Charles County
Holistic Industries LLC
Prince George's County
Kind Therapeutics USA LLC
Washington County
Maryland Compassionate Care and Wellness LLC
Carroll County
MaryMed LLC
Dorchester County
Pharmaculture Corporation
Allegany County
Pro Green Medical LLC
Frederick County
Rosebud Organics LLC
Montgomery County
Seven Points
Agro-Therapeutics LLC
Prince George's County
Temescal Wellness of MD
Baltimore City

 The locations of the Growers and Processors span 16 counties and Baltimore City (see map), including Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Cecil, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Garrett, Howard, Montgomery, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Washington, Wicomico and Worcester. Many Grower applicants who were highly qualified were not pre-approved due to statutory limitations on the number of growers.
The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission's Executive Director, Patrick Jameson stated, "Now that the Commissioners have made their selections, the real work begins for these companies. We will implement a rigorous Stage Two background and financial due diligence process for these entities prior to issuing a license.  A pre-approval is not a license. I truly look forward to facilitating this nascent state wide industry and working with local, city, and county jurisdictions and with the principals of these organizations." The Commissioners will vote for licensure once compliance with the regulatory requirements is complete.
The Growers will cultivate a variety of strains ranging in cannabinoid content from a low to high spectrum of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and Cannabidiol (CBD), and the Processors will be manufacturing a wide variety of cannabis-infused products containing high and low CBD and THC extracts and in a variety of modes of administration. These pharmaceutical grade products will include oral forms such as oils, pills, capsules, tinctures; sublingual sprays; inhaled products and topical forms such as ointments, salves, and transdermal patches.
MMCC also commissioned the Towson University, Regional Economic Studies Institute "RESI" to coordinate the review of the Dispensary Applications by subject matter experts and to utilize the same process as for the Grower and Processor applications such as compiling the scores and application rankings. The Commissioners will review and vote on the Dispensaries (two per Senatorial district and potentially 15 additional for Growers who wish to be vertically integrated) with medicine tentatively becoming available by the summer of 2017.
Dr. Davies continued, "While we are aware there is a public interest in the rankings of the Grower and Processor applications, the rankings were merely used as an organizational tool.  The Commission will list the entities in alphabetical order. All of the chosen business entities have an equal opportunity to complete the licensing process.  At this stage, I am very happy with the Commissioners' choices."
Maryland received 145 grower applications, 124 processor applications and 811 dispensary license applications. Again, MMCC commissioned RESI to contract with third-party subject matter experts from around the United States to evaluate the applications using a double-blinded process. RESI assigned unique identifying numbers to each application prior to evaluation and review by subject matter experts and Commissioners. Application content comprised text and supporting documents redacted of all identifying information such as individual or entity applicant names and locations.  Once evaluated and scored by the subject matter experts, RESI compiled the scores and ranked the applications. The scored and ranked redacted Grower and Processor applications were then provided to Commissioners for review and final selection.
 The 15 Grower and Processor potential licensees will continue on to Stage Two of the approval process, which will include extensive financial due diligence and background investigations by the MMCC of all those named in the original application and any other principals. Each entity that was issued a pre-approval will have 365 days from date of notification to complete all necessary steps to obtain a formal license and to request final inspection by the Commission. These steps include completing regulatory requirements, raising capital, acquiring real estate, securing local zoning approvals, construction of facilities, installation of equipment, and the hiring and training of staff.
All applicants, including those who did not receive pre-approvals, were notified as to the status of their application by email and U.S. mail today.
The Natalie M. LaPrade Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission develops policies, procedures and regulations to implement programs that ensure medical cannabis is available to qualifying patients in a safe and effective manner. The Commission oversees all licensing, registration, inspection and testing measures pertaining to Maryland's medical cannabis program and provides relevant program information to patients, physicians, growers, dispensers, processors, testing laboratories, caregivers and the general public.

The following statement is by an anonymous individual

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 02:07 PM PDT

"I believe that Hillary Clinton will win the election in November. Then, sometime between November and January, Hillary will be indicted. The IRS is now investigating the Clinton Foundation and the whole e-mail thing isn't over yet. Once under indictment she won't be able to assume the Office of the President in January. Tim Kaine, who will not actually be the Vice President because neither he nor Hillary have been inaugurated, cannot assume the Presidency. The Speaker of the House can't move up to it because there is already a sitting President and Vice President. So President Obama, in an Executive Order citing 'emergency situation,' gives himself another four years in office is the only way possible."

Obama has been planning this for a while now, knowing he has enough on Hillary to indict her. Had the Attorney General indicted her based on evidence from the FBI, the plan wouldn't have worked because the DNC would have quickly come up with another candidate.

If you think about it, it's not that outrageous. Many people on the left, including the President, want Obama to stay another four years. The law prohibits him from being re-elected so the only 2 ways he can do it is either by declaring martial law and suspending the election (which would be a very negative thing for the country) or to declare himself still President because the elected candidate cannot assume her duties.

The latter makes more sense and is actually more feasible. And since it's never been done before, it would set a precedent that would be difficult to challenge.

Of course, if Trump wins the election none of this is going to happen. But what if he is correct? Four more years of Obama and a mostly useless Republican House and Senate would give Obama the time he needs to continue destroying the country to fit his stated goals."

Maryland bears damage more crops than state can afford

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 04:30 PM PDT

OAKLAND, Md. (AP) — Ka-ching! That's the sound of a bear biting into an ear of corn in a field in Garrett County.

Ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching! That's the sound of a lot of bears biting into $23,800 worth of crops during 2015, mostly corn, but some oats and even beehives.

"Garrett County farmers are good at feeding bears, but with the price of sweet corn it's not cheap," said Jay Maust, whose farm and cornfields stretch out alongside Aiken Miller Road just a rifle shot from Accident in the heart of the state's bear country.

A year ago, Maryland Wildlife & Heritage Service officials assessed the damage by black bears to Maust's sweet corn at $1,200 and reimbursed him $190.80.

None of the other 12 certified claimants did any better, each receiving 16 percent of cost of the damage at their farms. Here's the breakdown:

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Will Smith: 'Cleanse' America of Trump supporters

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 04:00 PM PDT

Pocomoke City Police Money Seizure 8-15-16

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:45 PM PDT

Changing Chesapeake: Terrapins Coming Back From the Brink

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:30 PM PDT

The man-made Poplar Island in the middle of the Chesapeake is bursting with new and unexpected life.

Poplar Island is so popular, new residents no one expected would show up are now moving in daily.

It's bursting with new life thanks to a massive restoration project using dredged material from the bottom of Baltimore's shipping channel in the Chesapeake Bay.

The island was once on the verge of extinction, according to Justin Callahan of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "By the time I first got here in 1993, there were about three to five acres left."

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Video Of The Historic Wicomico County Court House Clock Tower Being Struck By Lightning

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:15 PM PDT

More Gun Control: Registration, $2,250 Fees for Some Gunsmiths

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 03:00 PM PDT

The State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) has issued a letter setting forth more executive gun controls–guidelines for gunsmiths to register with the DDTC and pay fees requisite to that registration.

The registration requirement is presented as being based on the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, but the Arms Export Control Act and the Gun Control Act also play a role.

The DDTC's letter sets forth certain activities that correspond with "manufacturing" and require registration/fees if being done by a gunsmith. The letter also lists a number of activities that a gunsmith can do that do not require registration. The combination of the two–register for this; don't register for that–is cryptic at best and resulted in the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) issuing a statement, which Breitbart News possesses, in which NSSF observed the DDTC's guidelines have "created considerable and understandable confusion and concern among gunsmiths and gun owners."

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WCSO Press Release 8-15-16

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 02:44 PM PDT

Incident: Assault
Date of Incident: 11 August 2016
Location: 500 block of Purnell Street, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Joseph Owen Ellis, 26, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 11 August 2016 at 1:44 PM a deputy arrested Ellis in connection with an assault. It was reported that Ellis engaged in a physical altercation with his girlfriend during which he allegedly kicked her in the ribs and grabbed her around her throat. During the investigation the deputy observed signs of injury that corroborated the victim's account.
Upon arrest Ellis was transported to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner detained Ellis in the Detention Center in lieu of $15,000.00 bond.
Charges: Assault 2nd Degree and Reckless Endangerment

Incident: Fugitive
Date of Incident: 11 August 2016
Location: Tyaskin Road, Tyaskin, MD
Suspect: James Edward Fisher, 35, Delmar, DE
Narrative: On 11 August 2016 at 4:30 PM a deputy encountered James Fisher who had been sought on two District Court Bench Warrants since March 2016. The warrants were issued when Fisher failed to appear for a Theft case and a Driving Revoked case.
The deputy placed Fisher under arrest 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, the Commissioner detained Fisher in the Detention Center on a total bond of $4,000.00.
Charges: Failure to Appear

Incident: Escape
Date of Incident: 12 August 2016
Location: 800 block of Booth Street, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: John Smith Charles, 18, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 12 August 2016 at 9:37 AM a deputy located John Charles in the 800 block of Booth Street and took him into custody on an arrest warrant for Escape 2nd Degree. The warrant was obtained after Charles did not report to the Detention Center on 23 July 2016 to begin serving a period of incarceration imposed in a Rogue and Vagabond case.
The deputy transported Charles to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner detained Charles without bond in the Detention Center.
Charges: Escape 2nd Degree

Incident: DUI
Date of Incident: 12 August 2016
Location: Salisbury Boulevard at Naylor Mill Road, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Robert J. More, 38, Salisbury, MD
Narrative: On 12 August 2016 at 10:39 PM a deputy stopped a vehicle operated by Robert More after the deputy observed More make a left turn against a red signal narrowly avoiding a collision with a vehicle that had the right of way with the green signal. The deputy initiated a stop of More who continued on Naylor Mill Road, pulled into the Burger King parking lot and did not stop until reaching the drive through order board.
Upon making contact with More, the deputy immediately observed indicators that included a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage that suggested More was under the influence of alcohol. The deputy conducted field sobriety testing which More performed poorly on which caused the deputy to place More under arrest.
During subsequent processing More refused to submit to a breath test. The deputy transported More to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner released More on $5,000.00 unsecured bond.
Charges: Failure to Stop for Red Signal and Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol

Incident: Fugitive
Date of Incident: 14 August 2016
Location: Ocean Gateway at Friendship Road, Pittsville, MD
Suspect: Antonio Hoberto Diaz-Juarez, 29, District Heights, MD
Narrative: On 14 August 2016 at 4:35 PM a deputy stopped a vehicle operated by Antonio Diaz-Juarez for speeding on Ocean Gateway in the Pittsville area. Upon making contact with Diaz-Juarez, the deputy discovered that Diaz-Juarez not only was operating his vehicle without a valid license, he was also being sought on a District Court Bench Warrant that was issued after he did not appear for a DUI case back in November 2015 in Prince George's County, MD.
The deputy arrested Diaz-Juarez on the outstanding bench warrant and transported him to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. Following an initial appearance, the Commissioner released Diaz-Juarez on Personal Recognizance.
Charges: Failure to Appear

America’s Abandonment of Traditional Values Has Hurt the Black Community

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 02:30 PM PDT

One of the unavoidable consequences of youth is the tendency to think behavior we see today has always been. I'd like to dispute that vision, at least as it pertains to black people.

I graduated from Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin High School in 1954. Franklin's predominantly black students were from the poorest North Philadelphia neighborhoods.

During those days, there were no policemen patrolling the hallways. Today, close to 400 police patrol Philadelphia schools. There were occasional after-school fights—rumbles, as we called them—but within the school, there was order. In contrast with today, students didn't use foul language to teachers, much less assault them.

Places such as the Richard Allen housing project, where I lived, became some of the most dangerous and dysfunctional places in Philadelphia. Mayhem—in the form of murders, shootings, and assaults—became routine.

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Delaware police hunt for woman who poured BLEACH on shopper and girl at a Target

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 02:15 PM PDT

Police in Delaware are asking for the public's help in finding a woman who they say poured bleach on a department store customer and her baby daughter during a heated argument last week.

According to the Delaware State Police, the incident took place at the Target Store at 1050 Brandywine Parkway in Wilmington at around 5.50pm on Thursday.

A 24-year-old woman was shopping with her one-year-old daughter when she was confronted by another customer who was upset that the young mother was blocking the aisle with her cart.

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Islam's "Quiet Conquest" Of Europe

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 02:00 PM PDT

"Islam is a French religion and the French language is a language of Islam." — Tariq Ramadan.

In 1989, Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, justified the persecution of Salman Rushdie by Ayatollah Khomeini. Last year, Boubakeur called for the conversion of churches into mosques.

In Britain, mainstream Muslim organizations are dispensing "Islamic justice" through more than 85 sharia courts attached to mosques.

Civil war in France is what the Islamic State is looking for: unleashing a blind repression so that the Muslim population will show solidarity with the revolutionary minority. Yet, there is still worse possible outcome: that nothing happens and we continue as is.

Real "moderate Muslims" are silenced or murdered.

Last month, the Wall Street Journal published an interview with France's director of domestic intelligence, Patrick Calvar. "The confrontation is inevitable," Mr. Calvar said. There are an estimated 15,000 Salafists among France's seven million Muslims, "whose radical-fundamentalist creed dominates many of the predominantly Muslim housing projects at the edges of cities such as Paris, Nice or Lyon. Their preachers call for a civil war, with all Muslims tasked to wipe out the miscreants down the street."

These Salafists openly challenge France's way of life and do not make a secret of their willingness to overthrow the existing order in Europe through violent means, terror attacks and physical intimidation. But paradoxically, if the Islamists' threat to Europe were confined to the Salafists, it would be easier to defeat it.

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Changing Chesapeake: Smith Island Unites to Save Itself

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 01:30 PM PDT

A fiercely independent group of people is uniting for the first time to save its way of life. By inviting outsiders in, Smith Islanders say they're ready to change to stay the same.

As he hauled bushel after bushel of soft-shell crabs out of his boat on a 100-degree day, Mark Kitching made no bones about it: Smith Islanders don't want to hear from outsiders about what to do with their island.

As he sorted through soft-shell crabs caught just that morning, Kitching, who can trace his family's history on the island back 12 generations, said they're just trying to protect their way of life. "I can't say we want our way and that's it, but we're out here working on the water, trying to make a living, trying to feed our families."

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Troopers Commended For Actions In Arresting Assault Suspect In Queen Anne’s Co.

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 01:13 PM PDT

(STEVENSVILLE, MD) – A Maryland State Police barrack commander is commending the actions of two of his troopers last week when they were dealing with an extremely aggressive individual who drove a vehicle at them before assaulting and threatening to kill them.

Lt. Tim McDonald, commander of the Centreville Barrack, today commended Trooper Houseman and Trooper Bruzzese for their actions during the night of August 12, 2016, when they were dispatched shortly after 10 p.m. to the 200-block of State St., Stevensville, for a report of a disorderly person who was threatening to kill his girlfriend. When the troopers arrived, the suspect, identified as Cody D. Holtman, 28, of the same address, became very aggressive and immediately began screaming at the troopers.

Holtman got into a pickup truck and ignored the troopers' orders to get out. Instead, he accelerated, driving toward the troopers, who both had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit. Holtman got out of the truck and continued to refuse the directions of the troopers.

Tpr. Bruzzese attempted to arrest Holtman, but the suspect began hitting and kicking both troopers. A violent struggle ensued and the troopers used muscling techniques and closed empty hand strikes as they defended themselves. They were able to handcuff the suspect, even though he continued to resist. He threatened to kill the arresting trooper and members of his family.

Both troopers sustained scratches, abrasions and cuts. Tpr. Bruzzese had bite marks on his arm. His uniform shirt was completely torn off. Both troopers were treated at the scene by emergency medical personnel. The suspect was treated for a contusion above his eye by EMS personnel at the scene, but refused any further medical assistance.

"I commend Trooper Bruzzese and Trooper Houseman for their courageous actions while dealing with someone who was threatening murder and, through a variety of ways, attempted to seriously injure them," Lt. McDonald said. "Despite the threats and personal assaults, these troopers used their training to attempt to diffuse a situation before having to defend themselves while arresting an aggressive and menacing suspect."

After his arrest, Holtman was charged with two counts each of first degree assault, second degree assault on a law enforcement officer, threatening injury to a state official, reckless endangerment, malicious destruction of property, failure to obey a lawful order, and one count each of second degree assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and disturbing the peace. He was incarcerated on $325,000 bail.

Emails Show Hillary Clinton Email Cover-Up

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 01:00 PM PDT

The American public may have learned much earlier than it eventually did that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a private email account. But two of her State Department aides intervened in late 2012 and early 2013 to block a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records for Clinton's email accounts.

On Wednesday, Judicial Watch released two emails which show that Clinton insiders Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were made aware of a "significant" FOIA request seeking those records. The liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) had filed the request on Dec. 6, 2012.

But even though Mills, Samuelson, and dozens of other State Department officials knew that Clinton used a private email account, the agency inexplicably and improperly rejected the request in May 2013, several months after Clinton & Co. left office.

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SPD Press Release 8-15-16 (Shoplifting)

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:45 PM PDT

Franchot On Tax Free Shopping, Post Labor Day School Start & Fiscal Health

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:30 PM PDT

Tax Free Shopping Week starts today.

From now until Saturday, clothing and other purchases less than $100 are free of the state's sales tax

This is the sixth year for Tax Free Shopping Week.

Comptroller Peter Franchot says this week in August is the second busiest shopping week of the year.

He told Maryland's News This Week, that the state gives up about $600,000 in sales tax revenue for this week, but he notes that the state actually gains $1-million in extra tax revenue from the week as people shopping for back to school, also buy taxable items.

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Ocean City pier jumper hits head, airlifted to hospital

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:15 PM PDT

OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a person hit his head and had to be airlifted to a hospital after jumping off an Ocean City pier.

Maryland Natural Resources Police spokeswoman Candy Thomson says the person suffered neck injuries after jumping from the pier Saturday evening.

The swimmer was airlifted to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury.

Authorities did not release the person's identity or condition.

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Major drama at Newsmax when host calls out network LIVE for not letting him defend Trump

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:00 PM PDT

Dennis Michael Lynch, who hosts Newsmax TV's "Unfiltered," went completely unfiltered and off-script Wednesday, and predicted that, "This will be, odds are, my last night."

After asking if everyone in the media has "lost their integrity," Lynch answered in the negative.

"I can guarantee you that one man cannot be bought, one man cannot be controlled, and this man certainly cannot be filtered," he said, referring to himself.

Lynch, a fervent supporter of Donald Trump, told his viewers that he has "been restricted" in "fighting for Trump" and was told by Newsmax executives that he "will no longer have editorial discretion."

He told his viewers that Newsmax was pushing him to broadcast "pre-made packages" and took issue with one that "tried to slam Fox News for the unfortunate things that are taking place over there right now."

Lynch, who has been a frequent Fox News contributor, was referring to the numerous allegations of sexual misconduct lodged against its former CEO Roger Ailes.

"There's no room on this show for that," he said.

Lynch recorded a separate video of his opener, and what happened immediately afterwards to hisFacebook page.

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Inmate Charged with Prison Homicide

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:45 AM PDT

(JESSUP, MD) – Maryland State Police have charged a state prison inmate with the murder of his cellmate earlier this year.

The accused inmate is identified as Johnnie L. Sellers, Jr., 37, who is a state prison inmate in the Maryland Division of Correction. He is charged with second degree murder, manslaughter, first degree assault and second degree assault.

The inmate victim is identified as Glenn E. Smith, 58. Smith was a state prison inmate serving time at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Jessup, Md.

On January 21, 2016, the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit was contacted by investigators from the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Internal Investigative Unit (DPSCS IIU) about an inmate death. Investigators told State Police Smith was found in his cell with multiple injuries on January 18, 2016. He was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and died at the hospital on the morning of January 21st.

An autopsy was conducted at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore. The autopsy determined Smith's death was a homicide, resulting from multiple blunt force injuries.

The investigation revealed Smith was last seen uninjured on the evening of January 17th, before the cells were locked for the night. Smith shared a cell with another inmate. The next morning, Smith's cellmate reported to the tier correctional officer that Smith was injured. Correctional officers responded and could see Smith had sustained injuries to his face. Medical assistance was summoned and Smith was transported to the hospital.

At the conclusion of their investigation, State Police Homicide Unit investigators reviewed the case with the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office. After consultation with members of the state's attorney's office, investigators were directed to obtain an arrest warrant charging the suspect with the listed charges.

State Police Homicide Unit investigators were assisted in the investigation by the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Internal Investigations Unit. Assistance was also provided by State Police crime scene technicians and investigators from the State Police Criminal Enforcement Division, as well as members of the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office.

Changing Chesapeake: The Billion-Dollar Man-Made Island

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:30 AM PDT

When Justin Callahan first arrived on Poplar Island, there wasn't much to see.

"There was literally nothing left out here," he said.

A project manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Callahan explained how the once-inhabited island had eroded away from 1,140 acres in 1847 to less than five in 1993.

But the island is now bigger than ever because the government needed a place to put thousands of gallons of dredge.

"We're actually taking something that doesn't really have any particular use and we're using it to restore a vanishing habitat here in the Chesapeake Bay," Callahan said.

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Troopers Respond To Multiple DUI Related Crashes Over Weekend – SPIDRE Team Leader Hit By Impaired Driver For Second Time

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:15 AM PDT

(PIKESVILLE, MD) – Maryland State Police troopers conducted multiple traffic enforcement operations over the weekend, but despite their efforts, were still called to more than one dozen crashes involving suspected impaired drivers, including one that involved the team leader of the DUI enforcement unit.

During the weekend, troopers statewide made more than 4,700 traffic stops and issued more than 3,100 citations and 3,000 warnings. They were involved in sobriety checkpoints and special enforcement initiatives in various counties. Troopers arrested 71 impaired drivers statewide.

Despite those efforts, troopers were called to respond to 15 crashes that involved suspected impaired drivers. Those crashes included three each in Prince George's and Howard counties, two each in Charles and Wicomico counties, and one each in Caroline, Harford, Worcester, St. Mary's and Cecil counties. Although there were multiple injuries, no fatalities occurred in these crashes.

The State Police Impaired Driving Reduction Effort, or SPIDRE Team, was working DUI enforcement in Prince George's County, where they arrested seven impaired drivers over two days. The team leader, 1/Sgt. David Ryan, was patrolling Rt. 193 about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, when his patrol vehicle was struck in the right front by a driver changing lanes. The 19-year-old driver had a learner's permit and was arrested for driving impaired. Neither he nor 1/Sgt. Ryan was injured. This is the second time 1/Sgt. Ryan has been struck by an impaired driver while working DUI enforcement with the SPIDRE Team.

In Howard County, a motorcyclist attempted to drive between two vehicles while traveling east on I-70 at Rt. 29 shortly before noon yesterday. He lost control and was ejected from his motorcycle. The investigation indicates he was driving impaired. When a friend of his, also driving a motorcycle, stopped at the scene of the crash, he was arrested by troopers for operating under the influence.

In Wicomico County, troopers were called to Mt. Hermon Road and Forest Grove Road in Parsonsburg Friday afternoon, for a single vehicle crash involving a moped. The moped operator apparently lost control of the vehicle and fell off. He was subsequently charged with DUI and related traffic charges.

State troopers work daily to identify and remove impaired drivers from Maryland roads. So far this year, Maryland state troopers have made more than 338,200 traffic stops and almost 4,400 arrests for impaired driving. Please do not drink and drive.

Japan's Emperor Akihito hints at wish to abdicate

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:00 AM PDT

Japan's Emperor Akihito has strongly indicated he wants to step down, saying he fears his age will make it difficult to fulfil his duties.

The revered 82-year-old emperor's comments came in only his second-ever televised address to the public.

Emperor Akihito did not explicitly say he wanted to abdicate as he is barred from making political statements.

PM Shinzo Abe said the government would take the remarks "seriously" and discuss what could be done.

"Upon reflecting how he handles his official duty and so on, his age and the current situation of how he works, I do respect the heavy responsibility the emperor must be feeling and I believe we need to think hard about what we can do," he said.

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Video of Flooding Victim's Dramatic Rescue

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 10:45 AM PDT

Access is central to Md. medical marijuana program

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 10:30 AM PDT

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Plenty of states have rolled out medical marijuana operations before Maryland, but as the state prepares to announce its top candidates for licenses to grow and process the drug, it's determined not to repeat the mistakes of others.

Maryland takes one of the more liberal approaches toward medical marijuana access, and that's caught the notice of businesses that flooded regulators with more than 1,000 applications.

"It's failed in other states because they've been too restrictive about the kinds of diseases and ailments that could be utilized by physicians, and I think in Maryland they've taken the opposite approach, which generates the interest because they appreciate that Maryland is forward thinking on this," said Gerard Evans, a lobbyist for license applicant Holistic Industries.

Medical marijuana will be available for any condition that is severe in which other medical treatments have been ineffective, and if the symptoms "reasonably can be expected to be relieved" by marijuana. Patients with a chronic or debilitating medical condition that causes severe appetite loss, severe or chronic pain, severe nausea, seizures or severe muscle spasms also can have access, as well as people with glaucoma or post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Rioters In Milwaukee Targeting Whites

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 10:15 AM PDT

BlackLivesMatter rioters target whites: "They beating up all the white people." According to the person recording the video, white girl was attacked Rich people not giving us money

Hacking Democracy - The Hack

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 10:00 AM PDT

Newcomer topples establishment choice in Minnesota congressional race

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:53 AM PDT

Political newcomer Jason Lewis won a Republican primary battle in Minnesota's second congressional district Tuesday, coasting to a relatively easy victory in spite of opposition from a seven-term Republican incumbent who hailed from the establishment wing of the party.

The results came as a blow to retiring Republican Rep. John Kline, whose ties with Washington party elders run deep. Kline, first elected to the chamber in 2003, has served as chairman of the House Education Committee since 2011, the same post held for five years by former Ohio Rep. John Boehner before he propelled to majority leader in 2006 and House speaker in 2011.

Those credentials were not enough to enable Kline, who developed a reputation for consistently siding with Washington leadership, to name his successor. Business executive Darlene Miller, whom Kline had endorsed for the seat, held just 28 percent of the vote at 9:40 p.m. local time, with a little over 42 percent of precincts reporting. Former Minnesota state Sen. John Howe stood at 19 percent, while Lewis was set to emerge as the party's candidate with 46 percent.

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Schweizer: 'There Are More Emails' About the Clinton Foundation, State Dept 'Doing the Bidding of the Clinton's'

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:37 AM PDT

"Further confirmation to what we've been talking about for more than a year."

On Wednesday's broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Kelly File," Breitbart editor at large and author of "Clinton Cash" Peter Schweizer stated that there are more emails pertaining to the Clinton Foundation that will come out and that "The State Department's not doing the bidding of the American people. They're doing the bidding of the Clintons, and it has to stop."

Schweizer said newly-released emails regarding the Clinton Foundation are "further confirmation to what we've been talking about for more than a year, that there's been pay to play at the Clinton State Department related to the Clinton Foundation, and the Clintons have failed to deal with any of the substance of these issues."

He added, "I know there are more emails. There are emails that are being produced almost on a weekly basis for both Judicial Watch and Citizens United. You have Julian Assange saying that we're probably going to see more emails. Look, here's the bottom line, and you saw a little bit of it today with the State Department, but the media has to hold Hillary Clinton accountable and ask her to answer these questions. Here's why this is so troubling. This is not a typical money in politics story. We're used to Wall Street, oil companies, etc., giving donations to politicians, getting access, but federal law prevents foreign businessmen and governments from doing so. The Clinton Foundation is a gateway around that."

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Ryan Lochte, 3 other US Swimmers Robbed by Armed Men in Rio

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:30 AM PDT

The U.S. Olympic Committee says Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed by armed men who stopped their taxi.

USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky says Lochte and the others left the French Olympic team's hospitality house early Sunday in a taxi headed for the athletes village, hours after the last night of Olympic swimming.

He says "the taxi was stopped by individuals posing as armed police officers who demanded the athletes' money and other personal belongings."

Sandusky says the four swimmers are "safe and cooperating with authorities."

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Fifth Unexpected Death Tied to DNC

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:23 AM PDT

Clinton's campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and the Clinton Foundation. Even more alarming is the media blackout on these mysterious deaths and the overwhelming evidence that those who died had insider knowledge that could have taken down Hillary and the whole Democrat Party.

Over the last month, bodies close to the Clintons and DNC have been dropping like flies. Five more have been added to the Clinton body count, adding to the speculations that Hillary won't let anyone stand in her way, no matter what it takes. As the mainstream media seemingly avoids these stories, here's what we know about those who met an untimely death after their ties to the Clintons and the DNC seemed to threaten Hillary's presidential aspirations.

DNC staffer Seth Conrad Rich was the Operations Director for Voter Expansion at the DNC. Rich had all the top secret information about the DNC's inner workings, and when he shockingly turned up murdered, it had Washington insiders talking cover-up.

It looked like a robbery gone bad until further details emerged. "There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and they never took anything," his mother, Mary Rich, told NBC News.

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Robert Spencer: GOP National Security Leaders ‘Intellectually Bankrupt’ to Attack Trump

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:15 AM PDT

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, author of the new book The Complete Infidel's Guide to Iran, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily to discuss the open letter from 50 Republican national security officials, who declared, "None of us will vote for Donald Trump."

"It's really astonishing when you think about Hillary Clinton's sorry record as secretary of state, in Benghazi, and everything else. The world on fire, the creation of ISIS, all these things can be laid at the feet of Obama and Hillary Clinton," said Spencer.

He said:

These military leaders, who are indeed chop-blocking Donald Trump, are obviously part of a foreign-policy establishment that has failed, and knows that it has failed, and knows how threatened it is by the candidacy of Donald Trump, and is trying to protect its hold on power. But it's really, incredibly, almost intellectually bankrupt for them to be going after Trump in defense of such a pitiable record.

Spencer agreed with Bannon that these officials denouncing Trump are the same people who have attacked critics of radical Islam, including himself, Frank Gaffney, and Pamela Geller, over the years.

"These are the same ones who made sure that I was removed as an FBI trainer and a trainer of the military," Spencer recalled, adding:

I used to go in routinely, from 2005 to 2010, and show them the mindset of the terrorists. You can't defeat an enemy that you don't understand, much less one yourefuse to understand. They are the foremost exponents of the idea that Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. Meanwhile, the terrorists keep insisting that it does. And until we listen to them, and until we study what their motives and goals are, we will never be able to defeat them.

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Top Clinton State Department aide helped Clinton Foundation

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:07 AM PDT

(CNN)A top aide to Hillary Clinton at the State Department traveled to New York to interview job candidates for a top job at the Clinton Foundation, a CNN investigation has found.

The fact that the aide, Cheryl Mills, was taking part in such a high level task for the Clinton foundation while also working as chief of staff for the secretary of state raises new questions about the blurred lines that have dogged the Clintons in recent years.

Upon entering office as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation agreed to a set of rules to ensure any activities by the foundation would not "create conflicts or the appearance of conflicts for Senator Clinton as Secretary of State."

On June 19, 2012, Mills, then the chief of staff for Clinton at the State Department, boarded a New York City-bound Amtrak train in Washington's Union station.

CEO Pay: How Much Do CEOs Make Compared to Their Employees?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:00 AM PDT

CEO pay in the U.S. has grown exponentially since the 1970s, according to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), rising almost 1,000 percent compared to a rise in worker salaries of roughly 11 percent over the same time period (adjusted for inflation.) Starting next year, the Dodd-Frank Act, enforced by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will require publicly traded companies to publish their CEO-to-worker pay ratio, a move that could bring this issue further into the public consciousness. To get a sense of what might be revealed once companies begin reporting this new information, PayScale partnered with Equilar, a leader in executive compensation and corporate governance data solutions, to calculate ratios for some of the highest-paid CEOs in the U.S. Only companies with annual revenue over $1 billion were considered. PayScale also surveyed employees to find out how they feel about their CEO's compensation, and talked to a few CEOs (including our own) to understand how they communicate to employees about executive pay today.

The average CEO-to-worker pay ratio for the 168 companies included in this report stands at about about 70-to-1, with some CEOs making more than 300 times the median salary of their employees – just in cash (base pay, bonuses, profit sharing, etc.). Many CEOs receive substantial stock/option grants and perks as part of their compensation, which can more than quadruple their total annual pay. But similar data for employees by company is not readily available, so we looked solely at cash compensation for both CEOs and workers to calculate ratios for this report.

Larry Merlo, the CEO of CVS Health Corp, made roughly 434 times the salary of the median CVS employee in 2015, the largest ratio between CEO and employee pay at any company on this list.

It wasn't always this way. In 1965, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio in the United States stood at about 20-to-1, according to a 2015 report by the EPI. But starting in the 1970s up through 2014, "inflation-adjusted CEO compensation increased 997 percent, a rise almost double stock market growth and substantially greater than the painfully slow 10.9 percent growth in a typical worker's annual compensation over the same period."

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WICOMICO'S COUNTY'S LIBERAL SOCIALIST AGENDA

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:57 AM PDT

For 150 years, WICOMICO COUNTY has historically elected a majority of Democrat County Councils with a smattering of Republicans and an occasional Independent. But even with Democrats primarily in control for a large part of a hundred and twenty five years, WICOMICO remained rather conservative largely due to the rural nature of the County. But the tide began to turn before the end of the of the last century. Some people thought that WICOMICO COUNTY should be more like some of the counties across the Bay. The push was on to grow government.
With the help and support of two left wing liberal organizations, THE GREATER SALISBURY COMMITTEE and THE SALISBURY CHAMBER OF COMMERICE, a charter review committee was initiated and a referendum ballot was forwarded to change the WICOMICO COUNTY charter to a Executive form of government. As with most ballot questions, unless there is a lot of opposition, it passed. This greatly increased the cost of government to the citizens of WICOMICO COUNTY beyond most citizens' expectations.

The first election held under this new form of government produced the County's first County Executive, RICHARD M POLLITT. Pollitt's first task at hand was to rid the County of the evil Revenue Cap that had been imposed by the taxpayers in the early 1990's. Then the local liberal appointed BOARD OF EDUCATION pushed the County Council to almost double the property taxes. Fortunately in 2006, and 2010 the taxpayers were at least wise enough to elect somewhat of an conservative County Council to hold off any attempt of a reversal without a referendum, which never happened.

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A Video That All Of You Should Watch!

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:53 AM PDT

‘Gender Unicorn’ for Kids Lets Them Color in Their ‘Gender Identity’

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:45 AM PDT

"Gender Unicorns" that kids can color in to express their "gender identity" are now being distributed in schools across the country.

A transgender advocacy group is providing schools with the cartoon of a purple unicorn who appears to be thinking about the LGBT rainbow, causing outrage from parents. One district in North Carolina was met with protests after it used the "Gender Unicorn" in its faculty training.

The group, Trans Student Educational Resources, says the Gender Unicorn is an upgrade from the "Genderbread Person," another cartoon graphic about gender identity targeting children.

The organization offers definitions for "gender identity," "gender expression/presentation," "sex assigned at birth," "sexually attracted to," and "romantically attracted to" on its informational page on the Gender Unicorn.

Gender identity is defined as "one's internal sense of being male, female, neither of these, both, or another gender(s)."

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Texas-Based Concealed Weapons Sports Bras See Record Sales

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:37 AM PDT

A Texas-based active-wear company with an obvious name is seeing record sales of its signature item after a spate of assaults on female joggers.

Start-up Austin outfit Booby Trap Bras claims that it has seen an 80 percent increase in sales due to recent violent attacks against female joggers in central Texas and other states. The company's product line launched in 2015 offering a variety of sports bras and athleisure garments with varying price points, according to WFAA.

The signature item contains a front-and-center "knife sheath" layered into the garment, made of nylon neoprene with a magnet affixed to keep a properly-sized concealed weapon contained with easy access in the case of an emerging threat. "The fact is, you just don't have time to dig in the bottom of your purse when someone is already posing a threat," the company's website notes in its marketing materials. Five different colors of the sports bra are currently offered, retailing between $50 and $55 apiece. The clothing company also offers a "Mommy and Me" kit with matching tops and yoga pants for young girls, equipped with a similar storage compartment.

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What makes marijuana users different from everyone else

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:30 AM PDT

A massive study published this month in the Journal of Drug Issues found that the proportion of marijuana users who smoke daily has rapidly grown, and that many of those frequent users are poor and lack a high-school diploma.

Examining a decade of federal surveys of drug use conducted between 2002 and 2013, study authors Steven Davenport and Jonathan Caulkins paint one of the clearest pictures yet of the demographics of current marijuana use in the U.S. They found that the profile of marijuana users is much closer to cigarette smokers than alcohol drinkers, and that a handful of users consume much of the marijuana used in the U.S.

"In the early 1990s only one in nine past-month [marijuana] users reported using daily or near-daily," Davenport and Caulkins write. "Now it is fully one in three. Daily or near-daily users now account for over two-thirds of self-reported days of use (68%)."

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Official expects 1 in 4 people to be infected with Zika virus in US territory of Puerto Rico by end of year

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:23 AM PDT

A HEALTH expert has warned he expects one in four people in the US territory of Puerto Rico to be infected with the Zika virus before the year's end.

The Caribbean island has reported 1,914 new cases of the disease in the last week, and there are said to be 10,690 cases there altogether.

The island's Health Secretary Ana Rius has said that of the total cases 1,035 involve pregnant women.

The virus is thought to cause serious birth defects including 'shrunken heads' in babies.

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96 Percent of Clintons’ Charity Donations Went to Family Foundation

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:15 AM PDT

Hillary and Bill Clinton funneled 96 percent of their charitable donations to their own family foundation, according to the Democratic nominee's 2015 tax returns.

Last year, $1 million of the total $1,042,000 that the Clintons deducted in charitable contributions went to the Clinton Family Foundation, the Daily Caller reported Friday.

The tax return showed that the other $42,000 in contributions went to Desert Classic Charities, a nonprofit that organizes an annual charity golf tournament. The organization then in turn contributed $700,000 to the Clinton Foundation. A foundation adviser and longtime Bill Clinton assistant, Doug Band, was on the organization's board of directors through 2014, according to IRS filings.

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Trump starts petition urging DOJ to probe Clinton Foundation

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:00 AM PDT

Donald Trump is organizing a petition calling on the Justice Department to investigate the Clinton Foundation.

"The Clinton Foundation has time and time again exposed itself as a culture of corruption, pay-to-play deals, and downright fraud," reads the petition, which was sent to supporters Thursday afternoon via text message.

The petition alleges the FBI advised the Justice Department to investigate the Clinton Foundation but was turned down.

"The DOJ's decision to deny the FBI's request is an obstruction of justice and a flagrant dereliction of duty from our elected officials."

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Hillary Headquarters Raided By FBI, Here’s What We Know!

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:59 AM PDT

Hillary's headquarters raided by the FBI, here's what we know! The DNC is so thick with layers of corruption, one couldn't cut it with a chainsaw! Recently, Heat Street News got footage of an FBI raid on Hillary Clinton's headquarters in Philadelphia after the DNC was held there.. The Clintons and Obama are all in cahoots with top dogs who run big business's, media, unions and the list goes on. These billionaires pay to play the game of the rich and famous in the political arena of fraud, lies and videotape. Here is an example of the videotape captured by Sean Brown of America's Freedom Fighters.com..

The office of Philadelphia's most powerful construction union served as the Democratic headquarters for Hillary Clinton's campaign. It was raided by federal agents one week afterwards. The office of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 and "Johnny Doc" Dougherty, who heads the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, also had his home and a pub he runs raided by federal agents.

Video uploaded to Facebook appears to show a Penske Rental truck being loaded up by agents with boxes of documents, computers, filing cabinets and printers.

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The Massacre at Wounded Knee

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:53 AM PDT

I saw this glaring headline in the newspaper that said Donald Trump incited people to violence against Hillary Clinton. After reading 80% of an article telling me why I should think he had, I finally came to what he actually said. What the…?! That's incitement to violence? Where? There are song lyrics out there that actually do incite violence, but no one can criticize those because then you'd be doing guess what? Censorship, right. Ok, well, this all began because Hillary is beating the "common sense gun laws" tom-tom with much fervor and pantsuit aplomb.

Let's try something new. Let's not worry about her getting elected and successfully banning the so-called "assault rifles" and "high-capacity magazines" (the panty-twisted screech sirens actually call them "high-capacity clips", which they are not.) So what if she does? How's that going to affect people that actually know a thing or two about effective firearms? Excuse me, but the AR-15 is the civilian version of a pile of crap the army was arm-twisted into buying by the air force who got it from an aerospace defense contractor and not an actual firearms company. Once the army dolefully accepted the plastic and aluminum tinker-toy, then the Marines were not long afterward browbeaten into taking this pathetic example of squirt gun technology gone awry. This is a souped-up .22, okay? If this weapon defends our freedom, beg pardon, but we need to get a new pair of glasses.

See here, folks. The weapons that actually defended homesteads back in the day they often came under attack by various folks were as follows: Shotguns, lever-action rifles, and revolvers. The revolver alone successfully brought us through a Gold Rush, Mississippi riverboat shindigs, the Civil War, untold numbers of wagon trains, lawless cowtowns and mining camps, the frontier, and so on and so forth. The lever-action rifle was the "assault rifle" from the Civil War up into the early 1900s. And the shotgun was "everyman's" on-the-premises law-and-order. Read up on U.S. history from the 1840s up into the early 1900s and tell me how the AR-15 and a 9mm could have done it better.

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New York Times, Gannett ask court to unseal Donald Trump’s divorce records

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:45 AM PDT

The New York Times and USA Today parent company Gannett have requested the New York Supreme Court to unseal the 1990 divorce records of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

The news organizations argue that unsealing the records of Mr. Trump's divorce from Ivana Trump would help "resolve an ongoing campaign controversy" over whether Ivana accused the business mogul of sexual assault during the separation proceedings, USA Today reported.

The divorce was granted on the ground of "cruel and inhuman treatment," but Donald and Ivana Trump later reached a settlement. Ivana has since said that she and Donald Trump remain close friends, and she has endorsed his candidacy. She has also downplayed claims of assault during their marriage, USA Today reported.

The news organizations argued that the divorce records are also relevant because of Mr. Trump's focus on Hillary and Bill Clinton's marriage, specifically the former president's extramarital affairs.

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New Clinton effort tries to tap the power of 'Dreamers'

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:37 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton's campaign is launching a new effort to tap into the political power of young, undocumented immigrants, hoping to capitalize on Donald Trump's promises to make deporting them a top priority of his presidency.

The 730,000 young people brought to the U.S. as children without legal status are prohibited from voting. Known as Dreamers, they've proven themselves to be a powerful organizing force in American politics, mounting a high-profile public campaign that pressured President Barack Obama to grant many of them and their parents reprieves from deportation though two executive orders.

Clinton's national voter registration program, called "Mi Sueño, Tu Voto/My Dream, Your Vote," is being launched on the four-year anniversary of the 2012 order that temporarily shielded from deportation some young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and allowed them to work legally.

Organizers will remind voters that a Trump presidency would end that program, according to the campaign, which is already at risk after a June Supreme Court effectively killed Obama's efforts to give legal status to some of the 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

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DUI PRESS RELEASE 8-1-16 THRU 8-14-16 (BERLIN BARRACK)

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:30 AM PDT

How one family is sending 13 kids to college, living debt free — and still plans to retire early

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:23 AM PDT

Sam and Rob Fatzinger, second and third from right, of Bowie, Md., have 13 children, including, from left, Barbara, Robert, Kolbe, Alex, Mary, Cecelia and Dominic. (April Greer/For The Washington Post)

Sam Fatzinger prowls the aisles of an Aldi grocery store with an engineer's precision. Workers greet her, mostly by name.

She puts several trays of chicken into a huge cart. Then it's on to fresh blueberries for $1.79 a pint, in February. And she recalls the time the no-frills store had a sale on potatoes: 10 pounds for 99 cents. She bought 60 pounds. Her husband loves them.

To get these best buys, "it's just watching and waiting and knowing," Sam says."Every cent counts."

At the cashier, her groceries fill every inch of the conveyor belt. My silent guess: $250 in all. The bill: $127, half of my estimate.

Very impressive. But not as impressive as this:

Rob and Sam Fatzinger, lifelong residents of Bowie, Md., lead a single-income family in one of the country's most expensive regions. Rob's income never topped $50,000 until he was 40; he's now 51 and earns just north of $100,000 as a software tester.

They have 13 children. Which means they require things like a seven-bedroom house and a 15-passenger van. Four children have graduated from college, three are undergrads and six are on the runway.

Yet they paid off their mortgage early four years ago. They have no debt — never have, besides mortgages. And Rob is on track to retire by 62.

This family gets the gold medal for being frugal. This family is the Einstein of economical.

These days, frugality is not about clipping coupons. It's about rethinking your finances, and maybe your life.

Rob's philosophy: "Spend money on what makes you truly happy and on what you enjoy. ... The thing that people need to understand is that we don't feel deprived or poor. ... We pick and choose carefully."

The Fatzingers are getting it done.

Could you?

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Publishers Notes: I happen to know this Family personally. They have ALWAYS been incredible people and especially parents. 

Sue Obama administration to block Internet grab, group urges

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:15 AM PDT

A coalition of technology groups and conservatives wants Congress to sue to stop the Obama administration from handing over control of Internet domain names to an international board, charging it could give authoritarian regimes power over the web.

Since 1998, an arm of the U.S. Commerce Department called the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) has handled domain names. However, in September, the Obama administration plans to allow the U.S. government's contract to lapse so the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will be run by a global board of directors with the domain-naming responsibility. Many fear this will allow governments such as Russia, China and Iran to have a stake in Internet governance and the "de facto" power to tax domain names and stifle free speech.

Congress twice included riders in appropriations bills to expressly prohibit tax dollars from being used for the transition, which President Obama signed into law. So, if the Obama administration allows the contract to lapse in September it could mark yet another questionable executive action by the administration.

"Congress twice told the White House to pause the transition, yet the Commerce Department is blatantly ignoring the law," Szóka said in a statement. "Congress cannot just let this slide. It must defend the Constitution's separation of powers, which gives the 'power of the purse' to the House. That means making clear to the administration that the House will sue if NTIA does not extend the contract."

However, the Obama administration contends it isn't bound by the appropriation bills.

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New Unrest in Milwaukee After Police Shooting Sparks Violence

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:07 AM PDT


At least one person was wounded after shots were fired and protesters threw objects at police in Milwaukee late Sunday night, a day after violence erupted overnight in the wake of the fatal shooting of a man by police, authorities said.
Police said they were deploying armored vehicles to protect officers and to rescue a shooting victim, who was rushed to a hospital. At midnight Monday, police declared the protest an unlawful assembly and announced that they would begin making arrests.
The National Guard was activated Sunday, but Mayor Tom Barrett said they wouldn't be deployed unless police deemed that they were needed. "I'm hopeful that that will not be necessary," Barrett said. "But if it is necessary, we will do so."
Barrett urged parents to keep their children home Sunday night.
"This is still a volatile situation. I don't know what's going to happen tonight," he said, adding that a curfew would be enforced if needed. At least 150 specially trained officers will be patrolling in pairs Sunday night, police said.

Donald Trump's temperament issue

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:00 AM PDT

Anyone who says Trump's is lacking should check out Hillary's

If you are wondering about Donald Trump's temperament after some of his remarks, you might want to compare it with Hillary Clinton's.

On a daily basis, Hillary treats the Secret Service agents who protect her with such nastiness and contempt that being assigned to her detail is considered a form of punishment.

For my book "The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents," agents who would give their lives for her described the living hell of dealing with Hillary.

When in public, Hillary smiles and acts graciously. As soon as the cameras are gone, her unbalanced personality, nastiness, and imperiousness become evident.

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HUD Doing Little About Fugitives In Public Homes

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:53 AM PDT

Federal law bans fugitives from living in taxpayer-funded public housing, and federal officials have no idea how many criminals are doing it anyway.

An estimated 1,300 felony fugitives were found living in federally funded homes in just one region of the country in 2012. Local public housing authorities refused to evict them, according to an unpublished Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Inspector General (IG) investigation first reported July 26, 2016, by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

Those residents faced warrants for crimes ranging from felony theft to rape and murder. But four years later, HUD officials don't know what happened to the 1,300, or how many live in taxpayer-funded residences now.

"No data to report to you," agency spokesman Brian Sullivan told TheDCNF after repeated inquiries over a nearly three-week period.

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Justice Department officials pushed for Clinton Foundation probe

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:45 AM PDT

Top Justice Department officials pushed for a public corruption probe of the Clinton Foundation earlier this year, but were overruled by their colleagues after a bank alerted the FBI to the "suspicious activity" of a foreign donor to the charity.

Three Justice Department field offices agreed that the agency should pursue the investigation at the behest of the FBI, CNN reported Thursday.

During a previously unreported meeting earlier this year, high-ranking Justice Department officials clashed over the possibility of pursuing a public corruption investigation. According to CNN, the agency had already looked into the Clinton Foundation in 2015 following the publication of a book, Clinton Cash, that detailed allegations of influence peddling.

Hillary Clinton's involvement in the activities of foundation donors while serving as secretary of state has raised questions about whether she followed the ethics requirements imposed on her and her husband at the outset of her tenure.

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New Clinton email fight: Bill Clinton's schedules

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:37 AM PDT

Republicans have opened a new front in the sprawling legal war over the release of State Department emails: a battle to open up thousands of pages of schedules for former President Bill Clinton.

But the clock is ticking down on the GOP's hopes to use the trove of details on Clinton's post-presidency against his wife, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, before the November election.

The records turned up recently in response to a broad-ranging Republican National Committee Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for all emails between various aides to Hillary Clinton during her four-year tenure as secretary of state and certain private Web domains used by the Clintons, the Clinton Foundation and related organizations.

State turned over 14 pages of heavily redacted Bill Clinton schedules to the RNC in June amid a smattering of other records. Just about the only substantive information left in the daily calendars for the former president were weather forecasts for the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, New York.

Last week, the State Department acknowledged that the 14 pages are only the tip of the iceberg: an estimated 5,400 pages of Bill Clinton schedules are due to be processed for release to the GOP — more than half the records covered by the suit.

A spokesman for the former president declined to comment on the unfolding legal dispute over the release of his schedules.

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Changing Chesapeake: Rising Sea Levels Change Assateague Island

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:30 AM PDT

Mercedes DeMasi has been coming to Assateague Island National Seashore to camp for more than 20 years.

She books her favorite spot, nestled in the dunes between the ocean and the island's famous wild horses, months in advance.

But this year, she said, she noticed her spot doesn't quite look like it used to. "Things have changed a lot around here," DeMasi said. "I've definitely noticed like the dunes eroding a lot."

Kelly Taylor with the National Park Service said most visitors don't really think about sea level rise here on the island until they can't find their favorite campsite. "They're like, 'Number 14 is the best site,' and they turn around and are like, 'Ah, what happened?'"

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Ad Watchdog: Comcast Should Stop Claiming “Fastest Internet In America”

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:23 AM PDT

If you live in one of the many parts of the country served by Comcast, you've likely seen the company's nearly endless ads claiming that its Xfinity broadband "delivers the fastest internet in America," and the "fastest, most reliable in-home WiFi." However, an ad industry watchdog group has asked Comcast to rein in its bragging.

The National Advertising Division — an independent industry watchdog administered by the Council of Better Business Bureaus — investigated a complaint from Verizon that Comcast may be misleading consumers with claims about delivering the fastest internet and in-home WiFi.

The issue at the core of NAD's decision is whether the data presented by Comcast accurately represents the products it sells. Making a statement that you deliver the "fastest internet in America" seems to imply that your service offers a superior speed to the competition. Of course, Comcast doesn't just sell one tier of service. Instead, it sells a variety of tiers based on average download speeds. So does the "fastest internet" claim apply to all or just some tiers?

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Hillary Clinton Has Not Done One Thing for Israel

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:15 AM PDT

Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans have been using false Hitler analogies to frighten Jewish voters away from Donald Trump, after several successive presidential elections in which more Jews have been voting for the GOP.

However, aside from attacking Trump's comment in February that he would be "neutral" in negotiations (though not in general) between Israelis and Palestinians, Democrats struggle to name a single thing Hillary Clinton has done for Israel in decades of political life.

It is easy to find several anti-Israel things Clinton has done. These include: supporting the Iran deal, which places Israel in grave danger as Iran slowly expands its nuclear program and continues supporting terrorists; tattacking on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for approving apartments in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem; comparing Israel to Iran and the Jim Crow South; and kissing Yasser Arafat's wife, Suha (above), after she falsely accused Israel of using poison gas against Palestinians. While at the State Department, Clinton also surrounded herself with anti-Israel advisers and distributed anti-Israel articles. And he running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), not only backed the Iran deal, but actually boycotted Netanyahu's speech to Congress last year.

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NOI 8/14/16 Wicomico Vacant Dwelling Mineola Ave.

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:13 AM PDT

NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION

Date:  8/14/16
Time:  3:39 p.m.
Location / Address:  1109 Mineola Ave., Salisbury, Wicomico Co.
 Type of Incident:  Fire
Description of Structure / Property:  Vacant one story wood frame single family dwelling
Owner / Occupants:  Eric Watson
Injuries or Deaths:  None
Estimated $ Loss: Structure:  $2,000                      Contents: $0
Smoke Alarm Status:  Present and activated
Fire Alarm / Sprinkler Status:  n/a
Arrests(s):  None
Primary Responding Fire Department:  Salisbury
# of Alarms:  1     # Of Firefighters:  20
Time to Control:  15 minutes
Discovered By:   Neighbor
Area of Origin:  Living room
Preliminary Cause:  Arson
Additional Information:  Anyone with information is urged to call the Salisbury Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office at (410) 713-3780.

BREAKING: Julian Assange Just Delivered The Next Batch Of Emails! She’s TOAST!

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:07 AM PDT

Via The Conservative Daily Post:

There has never been a time in US history where our leadership has failed us this badly. Over the last either years, Obama, with the help of Hillary Clinton, has done everything in his power to destroy what makes this country great.

Obama wants our military depleted, he wants the world not to be afraid of us, he wants millions of immigrants to come and go as they please, and he is perfectly content with allowing ISIS to grow into the global threat that they are today.

There's absolutely no denying that WikiLeaks has been a world champion of bringing justice to those that are corrupt and abuse their political powers, like Hillary Clinton.

In a BRAND NEW leak late last night, Julian Assange (Editor-In-Chief for WikiLeaks) not only guaranteed that he had enough evidence on Hillary Clinton to put her in jail, he released a PDF file that we have our hands on.

The file from Congress reveals that there are strong ties between Hillary Clinton and high members of the Islamic cleric in Turkey.

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Two Senior Democrat Politicians Lose Their Jobs to Immigrants

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:00 AM PDT

Political jobs held by two veteran Democratic politicians have been outsourced to two young immigrants, underscoring the growing impact of mass immigration on white-collar Americans.

The two Democrats who have lost their jobs to immigrants are both experienced, established and liberal members of the state's version of the Democratic party: 22-term Rep. Phyllis Kahn and 10-term Rep. Joe Mullery, both from Minneapolis.

They were beaten in state primaries on August 9 by two political newcomers: Somali-born, hijab-wearing Ilhan Omar and Thailand-born Hmong immigrant, Fue Lee. The primaries were arranged by the state's Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party.

Both immigrants were strongly backed by their racial and ethnic groups. "This is historic, a milestone for all of us, especially immigrant communities," Abdi Daisane, an Omar supporter, who traveled from St. Cloud, forty miles northwest of the district. "This is something to be proud of as a community," he told the MinnPost site.

Omar's website attributed her win to immigrant Somalis: "More than 250 volunteers and 450 individual donors supported Ilhan's campaign. 'I am so proud that the majority of contributions to my campaign are from members of the Somali community who believe in my leadership,'" the site said. Somalis in other states supported her, including Washington state and Ohio.

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WICOMICO'S COUNTY'S LIBERAL SOCIALIST AGENDA

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 04:21 AM PDT

For 150 years, WICOMICO COUNTY has historically elected a majority of Democrat County Councils with a smattering of Republicans and an occasional Independent. But even with Democrats primarily in control for a large part of a hundred and twenty five years, WICOMICO remained rather conservative largely due to the rural nature of the County. But the tide began to turn before the end of the of the last century. Some people thought that WICOMICO COUNTY should be more like some of the counties across the Bay. The push was on to grow government.
With the help and support of two left wing liberal organizations, THE GREATER SALISBURY COMMITTEE and THE SALISBURY CHAMBER OF COMMERICE, a charter review committee was initiated and a referendum ballot was forwarded to change the WICOMICO COUNTY charter to a Executive form of government. As with most ballot questions, unless there is a lot of opposition, it passed. This greatly increased the cost of government to the citizens of WICOMICO COUNTY beyond most citizens' expectations.

The first election held under this new form of government produced the County's first County Executive, RICHARD M POLLITT. Pollitt's first task at hand was to rid the County of the evil Revenue Cap that had been imposed by the taxpayers in the early 1990's. Then the local liberal appointed BOARD OF EDUCATION pushed the County Council to almost double the property taxes. Fortunately in 2006, and 2010 the taxpayers were at least wise enough to elect somewhat of an conservative County Council to hold off any attempt of a reversal without a referendum, which never happened.

After 8 years of trying to suck the last dollar out of the taxpayers, POLLITT was replaced by what was supposed to be a conservative savior, ROBERT CULVER. CULVER entered the fray guns blazing, firing employees, taking away County cars and even took away employee's paid birthdays leave. Good start, one would say! But the problem is CULVER found that while he had the support of the working class, he didn't gain any favor with the local liberals. You see the people that elected CULVER work everyday for a living so they are not hanging out at the Government Office Building, but those lobbying for more liberal ideas do. The ones that supported POLLITT, i.e. the CHAMBER MEMBERS, the G.S.C. and the liberal fraction of the County Council, were now even more angry at CULVER'S cost cutting actions. So whats a guy to do? First you look back at how POLLITT covered his ass for eight years. CULVER had fired the public information officer so he makes up a couple of new titles and hires two to replace one. Next you have to find one of the most liberal ideas around to satisfy these folks that are not speaking to you. AHA! How about FREE COLLEGE TUITION at WOR WIC? That should do it! Take a page out of the liberal lefts' playbook! After all, look at all the people that are fawning over BERNIE SANDERS and HILLARY CLINTON. Suddenly, CULVER see's the path to being a popular guy!

Once this socialist idea takes shape, your next issue becomes how you can pay for this program. You've promised not to raise taxes THIS YEAR, so in order to keep your promise, you need to make some cuts (some big cuts) because, after all, this is a costly program! The $250,000+ price tag is just a start. With two other local colleges who will want to be included, it is sure to balloon. And in reality, why should it be limited to only WOR WIC students? How to find the money to fund free tuition? OK, start with cutting retirees insurance benefits. There is only about two hundred or so and they don't represent a large group and that will only sacrifice a few votes. Maybe next year we can cut some more employee benefits as this program has been stated to cost over $600,000 next year.

One would think that this idea would not have made it past the County Council since the voters elected a COUNTY COUNCIL with six Republicans and they surely would vote down such nonsense. However, it seems several on the Council have taken a big bite out of the same apple that CULVER has been chewing on. With a six to two vote and one absent, the resolution to offer free tuition passed quicker than a hot knife through butter!

With the FREE TUITION resolution passing, there's one more step in this process this year. That is to transfer the money to the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION so it can be passed on to WOR WIC. Are you surprised at this? Perhaps WICOMICO COUNTY is not capable of handling it's own money.

I predict that while this year's program cost will be $250,000 plus, next year it will grow close to $750,000, and by the third year S.U. and U.M.E.S. will be included growing the cost even more. If so, the cost to WICOMICO COUNTY taxpayers will balloon into a multi million dollar program A budget buster if ever there was one!

With WICOMICO COUNTY over FIFTY TWO MILLION DOLLARS BEHIND IN INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIRS, who is setting our spending priorities, and more importantly, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Either way, it will be the taxpaying citizens of WICOMICO COUNTY who pay the price.

NOI 8/14/16 Wicomico Dwelling Fire Hogan's Lane

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 05:45 AM PDT

NOTICE OF INVESTIGATION

Date:  8/14/16
Time:  9:10 a.m.
Location / Address:  7578 Hogan's Lane, Salisbury, Wicomico Co.
Type of Incident:  Fire
Description of Structure / Property:  One story wood frame single family dwelling
Owner / Occupants:  Derek Detzer
Injuries or Deaths:  None
Estimated $ Loss: Structure:  $                      Contents: $500
Smoke Alarm Status:  Present, not operating
Fire Alarm / Sprinkler Status:  n/a
Arrests(s):  None
Primary Responding Fire Department:  Hebron
# of Alarms:  1     # Of Firefighters:  15
Time to Control: 4 minutes
Discovered By:   Occupant
Area of Origin:  Bedroom
Preliminary Cause:  Accidental
Additional Information:  A lit oil lamp fell off the edge of a table.

Protesters Arrested at Downtown Baltimore Hotel

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 05:30 AM PDT


At approximately 1:45 p.m., members of the Baltimore police department responded to the lobby of the Hyatt Regency hotel located at 300 Light Street for a report of several individuals in the lobby refusing to leave and chaining themselves to railing.

There is a State FOP conference taking place at the Hyatt on Light Street this week. Today, protestors entered the building and chained themselves to railing and blocking the escalator. Several other protestors remained outside.

After being asked to leave the private property by hotel security and refusing to do so, several members of the protest group were arrested. Officers and officials from the fire department were able to cut the chains and take the remaining people into custody.

Twelve people have been arrested.

This was an act of civil disobedience. There were no other issues or violence associated with the incident.

The situation is now resolved without further incident.

The following were arrested and will be charged with trespassing:


Adult male, 26, from Columbia, MD

Adult female, 30, from Baltimore

Adult male, 34, from Washington, D.C.

Adult female, 24, from Washington, D.C.

Adult male, 18, from Ellicott City, MD

Adult male, 24, from Baltimore

Adult female, 27, from Baltimore

Adult female, 39, from Montgomery County, MD

Adult female, 21, from Baltimore

Adult female, 22, from Chicago, IL.

Adult male, 26, from Washington, D.C.

Adult male, 30, from Pikesville, MD

The Return of The Donald

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 05:00 AM PDT

The Donald is back.

At Friday afternoon's rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, the redheaded Scottish-American building tycoon showed his barbarian side. It was fun, it was fearless, and it was no doubt terrifying for the Democrats clinging to demographic politics to try to stop him.

"Go home to mommy," Trump told a protester, a grin emerging on his face. "And your mother is voting for Trump!"

He stopped short of adding "she told me that last night," which is probably a good thing. A good speechwriter allows his audience to fill in the best lines.

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What I Love About The Olympics

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 04:30 AM PDT
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