The Maryland budget is a complete mess. Already this fiscal year, the Governor of Maryland and the rest of his merry band on the Board of Public Works have been required to shave almost one billion dollars from the operating budget of the state. To make matters worse, we know [...]
The monstrously bad eminent domain case Kelo v New London came to a final ignominious end yesterday, proving how pathetically feckless and stupid the Supreme Court justices can be when they try to “interpret” the “living constitution” into something it isn’t. Pfizer – the company that New London, Connecticut officials [...]
The Stupak Amendment, which essentially extends the Hyde Amendment to cover the Monstrously Fascistic Health Care Bill, passed 240-194-1. In this post, I will highlight those members of the Maryland Delegation that voted NO, in essence supporting the Federal Funding of Abortions, continuing the genocide against the unborn that began [...]
The Baltimore Sun has been rife with news about the fact that Black & Decker is being purchased by Stanley Works. But no one at the Sun (or the Baltimore Business Journal for that matter) have looked at the real “beginning of the end” for Black & Decker. The straw [...]
Bill Owens, recently elected Congressman for the NY-23, broke four campaign promises in just twenty fours. I don’t know if that is a record, but it certainly puts him in line to follow in the footsteps of the Feckless President, Barack Obama.
More at Gouverner Times.
[...]Massachusetts Congressman Barney Franks, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was present at his lover’s house in Ogunquit, Maine when James Ready was arrested for pot possession in 2007. Ready is the latest in a string of Franks lovers who has brought controversy down on the openly gay Congressman.
[...]On January 27, 2009, less than a week after his inauguration as President of the United States, Baracky told the audience of an Arabic-language television channel (Al Arabiya) that he hoped to restore “the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or [...]
The feckless President of the United States doesn’t see America as a great country that three times saved Europe from its perennial insanity. This is the only reasonable conclusion after he has dodged the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall – a striking moment in history that [...]
I don’t like Congress. In case you haven’t picked up on that, you should now. I think the US Congress is nothing more than a collection of whores, shylocks, crooks, criminals, bastards, liars, and thieves. I think they illustrate perfectly the conundrum painted by the character Benjamin Martin in The [...]
WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!
I recently purchased Battlestar Galactica THE PLAN, which was supposed to be a mini-movie to wrap up many of the questions surrounding the plan of the fictional Cylons the series and the mini-series. As you might recall, the intro of the show always ended with “And they [...]
The Bury is a marvelous place. A small town led by small-minded people. A town where streets haven’t been paved in a dozen years. Where the water treatment plant is neither 99% nor 9% compliant. Where crime is seemingly rampant. And where the city government for over a decade is [...]
Brett Carter, longtime head and wonder-boy behind Next Generation Financial Services, was kicked to the curb last week as he was escorted out of the 1st Mariner Tower by uniformed officers of the Baltimore City Police Department. Carter had been a founding member of NGFS, a division of Ed [...]
Dede Scozafava, the poster child for the new nickname for DIABLO (Democrat in All But Label Only), decided this weekend to withdraw from the race in NY’s upstate 23rd Congressional District. She did so mainly because the grass roots of the Republican Party thoroughly rejected this back-room selection by the [...]
The rope has finally disappeared for Ed Hale. Canton Crossing is done for him. With the sale of all the property in Canton to COPT, Ed Hale’s days as a developer in Baltimore are now done. It seems that COPT must have exercised its options from the September 2008 [...]
Lanny Davis, the chief hatchet man of the left during Bill Clinton’s philanderous administration back in the halcyon 90s, is a complete ass clown who lacks any principled understanding of history. Witness his writing in The Washington Times today, where he writes:
So I can understand why the Obama [...]The stench of corruption, incompetence, and sheer stupidity continues to rise from the cesspool that is the City of Baltimore. Like a lousy script out of Homicide: Life on the Streets or The Wire, the Baltimore Sun has done some yeomen work investigating the Baltimore City Foundation and its [...]
The promoters of substandard socialized health care that are pushing for individual purchasing mandates keep trying to use the auto insurance paradigm as a justification for forcing citizens to purchasing health insurance. The problem is that that the comparison doesn’t hold, and continuing to push that metaphor is at best [...]
Eddie Hale is running out of rope, having been forced into selling the crown jewel of his empire, the 1st Mariner Tower at Canton Crossing to Corporate Office Properties Trust of Columbia. COPT was the holder of the second mortgage and now has assumed the primary lien of $77 million [...]
With a second loss in a row, the Baltimore Ravens and Coach John Harbaugh need to pause and take stock of where they are and what they have left to do. They lost today’s game against the Cincinnati Bengals because of poor game planning and really bad penalties by the [...]
Why won’t the Obama Administration release the report by State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh that forms the basis of the President’s misguided approach to Honduras? There should be nothing in that report that would be covered by Executive Privilege. There should be no classified information. And according to those [...]
Paula M. Carmody, the head of the Maryland Office of People’s Counsel, has written a letter to the Baltimore Sun to protest recent coverage by business writer Jay Hancock and the paper in general. Carmody complains that the paper is paying more attention to the PR arm of Constellation [...]
Last night at the Human Rights Campaign dinner, President Barack Obama promised that he would repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as a sop to the massive support he received from the homosexual community. The problem is, that the promise is meaningless. I am not talking about the fact that every [...]
I have never been a fan of Towson University’s student newspaper, The Towerlight, even when I was a student and one of my best friends was the sports editor. But the hypocrisy of TU President Bob Caret in forcing out editor Carrie Wood for publishing an anonymous article on the [...]
If you want to see Best Buy’s holiday promotions strategy for cell phones, smart phones, and the like, here it is courtesy of Boy Genius Reports.
[...]Whoopi Goldberg and the rest of those left-wing perverts and felchers that populate far too much of Hollywood – Martin Scorcese, Michael Mann, Tilda Swinton, Woody Allen, etc. – can defend him all they want, at risk of their own reputations. But Roman Polanski is an admitted child rapist. He [...]
David Letterman was forced to admit yesterday to a number of affairs with staff members on his show, after he was the “victim” of an extortion attempt. As if we needed more, we now have yet another reason why the late, great Johnny Carson passed him over as successor on [...]
Stephen Von Worley has a great graphic that shows the “contiguous United States visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s”. I remember back in the day when Radio Shack used to brag that 90% of Americans lived with 20 minutes of a Radio Shack. I think McD’s has them beat [...]
The Parkside High School Marching Rams and the Parkside Band Boosters will host the 2009 Delmarvacade of Bands on October 17, 2009 at Wicomico County Stadium. This event is in its 32nd year, and features marching bands from across the Delmarva Peninsula and Maryland. Yours truly marched in this great [...]
The past three years since the election of O’Guvnah Martin O’Malley have been quite illustrative in some of the major weaknesses of budgeting in Maryland. It’s time that Maryland’s elected classes in Annapolis begin to come to terms with the facts on the ground, and not be lured by the [...]
What do you do when the people tasked with keeping an eye on everyone else start stealing from you? The Baltimore Sun reports that a University System auditor has been charged with inflating hours. It’s not really a lot of money – and I am surprised that someone at [...]
The Baltimore Sun is reporting that a French Bank – Paris-based Natixis SA – has scheduled an auction for Ed Hale’s Canton Crossing tower and the surrounding land on October 21 after Hale’s Canton Crossing, LLC defaulted on an $84 million loan. According to the article, Hale is reportedly [...]
Rumors are running rampant on the campus of University of Maryland, Baltimore today about what the final furlough package will look like when it comes through. Apparently, some details have been circulated to managers and faculty, but the full plan hasn’t been published. The University System operates under a separate [...]
Back in August, we first reported on the story that Ed Hale was being sued by Constellation Energy for a paltry $500k, and he was countersuing them for $65 million, alleging fraud in their deal to build a power distribution plant to serve Canton Crossing, LLC tenants. The [...]
Just days after we criticized 1st Mariner Bank for issuing an acquisition loan of $5.3 million to Leroy Merritt to purchase the Merritt Athletic Club building in Canton Crossing (thereby helping 1st Mariner Chairman Ed Hale avoid an embarrassing foreclosure by Carrollton Bank), 1st Mariner has announced that [...]
Ed Hale & 1st Mariner Bank are really pushing the limits in Ed’s sale of the Merritt Athletic Club building to Leroy Merritt. The Baltimore Business Journal is reporting that Ed Hale has avoided a bank foreclosure of the property by selling the building on September 10 for $6.2 [...]
Rumors continue to swirl about the impending plan coming out of the Regents for the University System. One rumor is that instead of furloughs, the system will choose straight temporary salary reductions (without coupled time off), possibly coupled with increases in administrative leave. It’s not clear how this would be [...]
Rumor comes out of Adelphia that the Regents of the University System of Maryland have decided on the furlough and budget-cutting plans for the University System (which operates under a related but separate budget from the state), and will release those plans after their meeting on Friday. Reportedly, the plan [...]
I just want to congratulate everyone associated with the Foundation. The 10th Annual Golf Classic to benefit the Peninsula Regional Medical Center Foundation. Denise Billing and the entire committee did a FANTASTIC JOB this year planning and executing this fun and exciting event, even in the midst of of a [...]
Congratulations to Seventh District Elementary School, which was named a NATIONAL BLUE RIBBON SCHOOL for the second consecutive year. Seventh was one of six Maryland Public Schools to win this distinctive honor, and THE ONLY Baltimore County school to win. It’s good to know that my nephew is being educated [...]
Her ancestors killed my ancestors. You know, like when Edward the Longshanks had William Wallace drawn and quartered. But, I’ve always admired Britain as our cousins, separated not by an ocean but a common language. Until now. Word is out from the Daily Telegraph that the British Government (which the [...]
Well, if you are going to be down on the Shore this weekend, it’s your chance! I’ll be playing for the third year in the Peninsula Regional Medical Center Foundation Annual Golf Tournament. Playing is probably stretching it a bit. I hit little white balls – sometimes with great [...]
I am a real stickler about safe driving. In my 23 years of operating a motor vehicle, I am fortunate never to have had an accident. Oh, my car has been hit. But generally when parked. And usually where I am not around in order to inflict my own “insurance [...]
Columnist Sherman Frederick of the Las Vegas Review-Journal called out Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in yesterday’s issue, telling him to “stop the childish bullying” after Reid told director of advertising Bob Brown “I hope you go out of business,” at a Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce luncheon. [...]
The Wall Street Journal has an outstanding editorial piece detailing how corrupt the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee is, and how he overlooked at least a half-million in assets on his 2007 financial disclosure form. Not to be outdone by overlooking his own massive investment portfolio, [...]
Let’s take a walk through a host of government “enterprises” and look at their health before we jump head first into letting a bunch of isolated Washington politicians lay down the law on how we will seek and pay for health care in the future. Because if we don’t, healthcare [...]
The late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Senator from Chivas Regal, is our latest winner of the Mr. Wu Award, recognizing him for the fact that for most of his life, he was a miserable and ignominious cocksucker. Among other things, Teddy was suspended from Harvard for cheating, [...]
Word has reached us from our electronic listening posts high atop the candelabra tower on Television Hill in beautiful downtown Mt. Washington that O’Guvnah O’Malley has decided to permanently close the Upper Shore Community Health Center in Centerville, MD as part of his budget counts to be shown to the [...]
On Monday evening, I posted information that the Baltimore Sun was publishing concerning details that were leaking out about O’Guvnah’s employee furloughs to help balance the state budget that he and his dark servants put into deficit through bad policymaking. It turns out the Washington Post as a little [...]
Roscoe Bartlett, Republican of Maryland’s 6th Congressional District, seems to be MIA during this vaunted August Recess. His Congressional Site calendar is empty, and there have been no publically announced events. Does Congressman Bartlett not care what his constituents think? Or he is going all chicken like Georgia Rep. David [...]
U.S. News & World Report awarded Peninsula Regional Medical Center’s Transitional Care Unit (TCU) a 5-star overall rating for the quality of care provided to its residents in the July “Best Nursing Homes” report.
[...]Wandering through the Maryland Judiciary Case Search, I noticed that Joe Albero has once again angered one of his neighbors in Wicomico County to the point where they have filed a civil suit against him in Wicomico County Circuit Court. This time, the amount will be for greater than [...]
Here at the Gunpowder Chronicle, it’s been a while since we’ve picked on Sebaceous Puss. That’s mostly because his little blogging site has become nothing more than one big giant copyright violation as he does nothing more than aggregate news from all the usual suspects. But I heard this joke [...]
I hate getting mail. Nine times out of ten, it is unsolicited commercial mail. In other words, a complete and utter waste of paper. Please keep in mind that I am not Birkenstock-wearing hippie tree hugger, but frankly, I do hate waste. And in my mail today, I had two [...]
Baltimore County Councilman Sam Moxley has been arrested and charged for driving while under the influence after an accident in Baltimore City on Friday, July 24, 2009. Moxley failed a field sobriety test AND refused a breathalyzer. This is Moxley’s second arrest for DUI since 2005 (which also involved [...]
Let me start off by saying that I think that BGE’s idea of installing “smart meters” has some merit. It would give consumers more control over their electricity purchases, it would give consumers more transparency over their purchases, and if they did it right, could provide an entirely new business [...]
Great Leader, the so-called post-racial President, played the race card the other night at his Thursday night presser, and the media took the bait like a gaggle of hookers running to their pimp. Everyone seems to think that Great Leader just happened to “wade” into this media-circus in the Gates [...]
According to an article in today’s Calvert Street Communist Party Newsletter, O’Guvnah is looking for ideas from taxpayers on how the state can save money. Since the CSCPN’s site wouldn’t accept ideas that were more than 300 characters, I will post mine here.
[...]I received a great email from Delegate Wade Kach (District 5—Baltimore County) today that highlights some significant problems at the Department of Budget and Management’s Office of Personnel Services and Benefits. EVERY taxpayer in Maryland should read the complete audit report here. I’ll reprint Wade’s letter, along with the [...]
We are told that the decision to kill your unborn child (ie, terminate your pregnancy) is a private decision between you, your God, and your physician. The father of the child does not even have a say. But, under Obamacare, should you need an operation like a hip replacement, or [...]
One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut…
[...]The State Board of Public Works today agreed to O’Guvnah O’Malley’s half measures of $280 million in cuts to state agencies, showing that the problem of half-assed leadership in our half-assed state doesn’t just stop at the top. Nancy Kopp and Peter Franchot are as guilty of Half Measures of [...]
If there is one clear pattern emerging in the foreign policy of Barack Hussein Obama, it is that he has little regard for democracy and longs for friendships with the worst tyrants and totalitarians on the planet. Under The Great Leader, America is no longer a “shining city on a [...]
Al Gore, the monstrous hypocrite and self-righteous candy-assed feather merchant, has finally laid bare that his ultimate goal in the great “climate change” con job is the notion of “global governance”, or what the tin-foil hat types might call “One World Government”. I kid you not. That sound you hear [...]
I recently had the opportunity to be in a Home Depot in Honesdale, PA to purchase some Pergo flooring with my uncle. He had priced out the flooring at his local Home Depot in Bel Air, MD. We were both shocked to find out that there was a thirty-cent per [...]
The 2nd Amendment is crucial to our freedom in America. It is a shame that it has not been more fully supported by those who would give so great a weight to the other 25 (I am not including the 18th and the 21st, since they cancel each other out). [...]
Who can save the planet? And give us all some hope?
Imagine yourself charged with first degree murder. You are charged with a capital crime in a state that vigorously makes use of the “ultimate punishment” by a prosecutor that has no qualms about giving the needle to those that are convicted of first degree murder.
But your [...]
The National Republican Congressional Catamites, also known as the National Republican Congressional Committee, is furiously excoriating Democrats for the vote on HR 2454, the so-called “Cap and Trade” bill that passed the House last week after not one single representative could possibly have read the entire bill. They are even [...]
The Congress of the United States of America has no honor. They are – all 435 of them, regardless of party, persuasion, or politics – a collection of perverts and deviants. They have perverted our Republic and betrayed our trust and their oaths, in a singular drive to aggregate power [...]
Congratulations and kudos go out the staff of Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD, as they have been presented their fourth Gold Seal of Approval for health care quality by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The Joint Commission has recognized the Disease-Specific Care Certification for [...]
Michael Jackson was a pervert and a child molester, and if vengeance is the Lord’s, then so is forgiveness. I hold nothing but enmity in my heart and my head for the vicious monster and abuser of children. Any who would celebrate his life, or his career, shall be targets [...]
I guess cigar makers in Tampa aren’t included in Barack Obama’s promise to create or save jobs with his mysterious stimulus plan, as the new SCHIP taxes on cigars have cost 495 Americans their jobs in Tampa, FL. More here. The bigger question is this: If Hav-A-Tampa cigars, which [...]
Andy Harris is in full campaign mode for 2010. His campaign flaks are doing a great job positioning Andy, spinning a story that he is “taking a job” at Peninsula Regional Medical Center part-time to learn more about “rural health issues”. It’s great spin, but it isn’t quite true.
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