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Capital Punishment

• My Endorsement for Mayor...(pause as in "Borat"...)..NOT!

  A lot of people come up to me (and unless they are writing me a ticket or asking for that money I owe them...) wanting to know who I am going to support for mayor. They ask me probing questions such as "Who are you going to support for mayor?" [...]
  
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  Posted: May 12, 2008, 1:03am Eastern Daylight Time

• Local Blogs May Come and Blogs May Go....Most Have Gone

  CP is happy to announce that we recently reached the milestone of 30,000 hits! Since starting just about 15 months ago, we've attracted a following, raised a lot of issues, managed to get a few folks unhappy and angry, yet more than a few people read and actually, yes occasionally, [...]
  
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  Posted: May 12, 2008, 12:40am Eastern Daylight Time

Baltimore Reporter

• Evidence Venezuela’s Chavez Responsible for Death and Terror

  Crossposted from Flopping Aces How many innocent lives have been lost while U.S. peaceniks embraced Chavez? Readers may recall that in March, Venezuela and Colombia were on the brink of war with sabre rattling from crazy man dictator Hugo Chavez leading the charge. It was at that time that Colombia engaged in [...]
  
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  Posted: May 12, 2008, 12:03am Eastern Daylight Time by Robert Farrow

• He’s Doing It Again

  Crossposted from Red Maryland Advocacy journalist Tom Pelton is at it again. This time he is highlighting the alarmist site Desmogblog’s supposed debunking of the Heartland Institute’s claim that 500 scientists doubt global warming scaremongering. Desmogblog reports that it has received responses from 45 of the scientists listed who claim to [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:50pm Eastern Daylight Time by Robert Farrow

Kevin Dayhoff

• 20080511 The Gunpowder Chronicles

  The Gunpowder Chronicles

  Sunday, May 11, 2008

  The folks over at The Gunpowder Chronicle are thinking out loud that maybe Ed Hale Should Stop Talking?: Eddie Hale -- robust supporter of O'Guvnah and would be land-baron of Baltimore -- spoke up at the [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:48pm Eastern Daylight Time

Baltimore Reporter

• WHY HILLARY WON’T GET OUT

  By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann 05.8.2008 Published on FOXNews.com on May 8, 2008. Bill and Hillary Clinton have always believed that they’re very different than the rest of us. Over their more than 30 years in politics together, they’ve learned one important and consistent lesson: that rules don’t matter. Rules [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:47pm Eastern Daylight Time by Robert Farrow

• The Questions Not Asked: And the Problem Not Faced:

  By Robert Farrow Often times, the question not asked speaks more about a person’s beliefs and values then the questions asked. Likewise, the lack of questions and concern regarding the current state of affairs in the world not only speaks volumes about the current state of the Democratic Party but also [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:45pm Eastern Daylight Time by Robert Farrow

gaithersblog.net

• MCPD officer arrested for driving cruiser under the influence of alcohol

  From the County’s website:

  5/9/2008

  Police Investigate Cruiser Collision in Gaithersburg

  Officers from the Montgomery County Police 6th District are investigating a collision involving a marked Montgomery County Police cruiser that occurred early this morning.

  On today’s date at 1:25 a.m. officers from the 6th District responded to southbound Route 270 south of [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:21pm Eastern Daylight Time by gaithersblog

• Recent City Police Crime Reports

  From the City’s website:

  Sunday, May 11, 2008

  Attempted Burglary

  On May 11, 2008 between 8:30 am and 11:00 am suspects attempted to gain entry into the Extreme retail establishment, located at 701 Russell Avenue. Entry was not gained.

  Burglary

  On May 11, 2008 between 8:30 am and 11:00 am suspects gained entry to [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:18pm Eastern Daylight Time by gaithersblog

• Agenda - Budget Work Sessions, 5/12 and 5/13/2008

  From the City’s website:

  Agenda - Budget Work Sessions, 5/12 and 5/13/2008
  Posted 5/2/2008

  City of Gaithersburg
  WORK SESSION
  Mayor and City Council
  Monday, May 12, 2008
  7:30 P.M.

  The Mayor and City Council will conduct Budget Work Sessions on the following dates which are open to the public. [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 11:17pm Eastern Daylight Time by gaithersblog

Delusional Duck

• EPA may decide not to limit the amount of a toxin in water supplies

  A top Environmental Protection Agency official told a Senate committee Tuesday that there was “a distinct possibility” that the agency would not limit the amount of perchlorate, a toxic ingredient of solid rocket fuel, that is allowable in drinking water. State officials and water suppliers across the nation have been waiting [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:52pm Eastern Daylight Time

Maryland On My Mind

• Spring In Maryland - The Last Word (Maybe)

  Mid-May and the thermo-meter is stuck in the 50s. The cold, rainy 50s! “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head.” Never fear, “the sun will come out tomorrow.” No, probably not tomorrow. Tuesday or Wednesday, maybe. Regardless, “I’ll never stop the rain by complaining.” This is probably the last time I will [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:48pm Eastern Daylight Time by marylandonmymind

Delusional Duck

• Growth in disabled vets to cost U.S. billions

  Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come — even as the total population of America’s vets shrinks. Despite the decline in total vets — as servicemembers from World [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:43pm Eastern Daylight Time

• Open forum: ICC sucking away money needed for transit

  When I saw the April 23 headline, ‘‘Removing transit funding roadblocks,” I thought, thank goodness, The Gazette is finally going to oppose the Intercounty Connector. No such luck. The ICC will likely cost more than $3 billion, sucking away money desperately needed for transit. The state’s own study found that it [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:38pm Eastern Daylight Time

• Gazette LTE: Outrage in Prince George’s County

  Germaine McRae, Fort Washington In response to Mr. Warren Thompson of Upper Marlboro’s article [‘‘County residents must insist on change,” Letters to the editor, April 17] that county residents must insist on change, I agree with everything he has said. I, too, wonder where is the frustration, the outrage and the [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 9:31pm Eastern Daylight Time

Rockville Central

• Contributor Opinion by Gayl Selkin-Gutman

  Number of comments: 1
  The following contributor opinion is by Gayl Selkin-Gutman, president of the Rockville Library Advisory Committee. She sent it along as an email originally, and I have reformatted it as an "opinion piece." If you listened to the last edition of Rockville Central Radio, you know that we discussed the fact that [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:38pm Eastern Daylight Time by Brad Rourke

Salisbury News

• Oh, This Is A Must See!

  GO HERE to see the video. [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 8:19pm Eastern Daylight Time

Gunpowder Chronicle

• The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions

  Of course, the ACLU and the liberal lawyers are leading the way.

  Just ask the victims of former Guantanamo detainee Abdullah Salih Al Ajmi.

  [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 7:24pm Eastern Daylight Time by Gunpowder Chronicle

Pillage Idiot

• When rich, elitist, out-of-touch New Yorkers vote

  When rich, elitist, out-of-touch New Yorkers have a summer home, it's as often in the Hamptons as not. So it will not surprise you that a local boutique in East Hampton, which sells plastic cups embossed with presidential candidates' names on them, is keeping a vote tally based on [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 7:14pm Eastern Daylight Time

Rockville Central

• Join Us For Lunch Tomorrow, May 12!

  Number of comments: 1
  I hope you'll be able to come to the next Rockville Roundtable lunch, which will be this Monday, May 12, at 12:15 at Gelico Cafe & Pizzeria. (That's just north of the Giant on Rockville Pike.) What is this thing, you ask? Simple. It's just an informal lunch. Every month or [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 5:41pm Eastern Daylight Time by Brad Rourke

Pocomoke Tattler

• Is This News To You? Have You Seen this on CNN or Fox? I Didn’t Think So

  • Did you think he had dropped out of the race when all the others did?

  • Have you heard ANYTHING about him on the Mainstream Media?

  • Did you think this guy doesn’t have snowballs chance in hell?

  • Did you think that the Presidential race is only between Obama, Clinton, and McCain?

  Well, you better think [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 5:36pm Eastern Daylight Time by StephanieBurke

Gunpowder Chronicle

• Way to Go Steve Larsen and O'Guvnah!

  Remember how O'Guvnah promised us in his 2006 campaign how the O'Guvnah era in Maryland Politics would usher in a brand new Public Service Commission... one not "so connected" with power utilities that they regulated?  How rate increases would be rolled back?  How electricity would be made affordable again?

  Of course, [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 5:35pm Eastern Daylight Time by Gunpowder Chronicle

Lost On The Shore

• Some Nuclear Issues

  Number of comments: 1
  

  

  'TJH' has added an excellent comment to my recent post on nuclear energy options and raised some issues which I think need to be explored a bit more.  Basically, he makes three points:

  • The nuclear waste disposal problem is not being solved,
  • the cost of new [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 4:23pm Eastern Daylight Time by Tom Wilson

Charles County Cafe

• Dogville?

  Have any of you seen Dogville?  If you own it, can I borrow it? [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 4:13pm Eastern Daylight Time by Heather

monoblogue

• 2008 Maryland GOP Spring Convention (part 2)

  If you are just getting caught up after the weekend and missed part one, check it out here. This part deals with the party’s Saturday meeting, along with our awards luncheon. Of course, those of us who managed to get out of bed early enough after the partying earlier [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 2:28pm Eastern Daylight Time by Michael

newsrack blog

• Department of followups: obliteration, Altstoetter

  An occasional review of further developments in stuff I've written about before. Past diminishing and well into negative returns..., April 24, 2008 --- Responding to Senator Clinton's threat to "obliterate" Iran if it were to attack Israel,* Iranian cleric and "Assembly of Experts" member Ahmed Khatami said: A disreputable American (presidential) candidate [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 2:15pm Eastern Daylight Time

The No BS Zone

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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 1:50pm Eastern Daylight Time

Pocomoke Tattler

• Salisbury Government Acting Like Boss Hogg Government in Pocomoke

  Joe Albero has written a lot and brought up some very valid points about the city WASTING money on the new TEN MILLION DOLLAR firehouse. Everything rests on land so I checked the real estate transaction for the property and it has INSIDER TRADING written all [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 1:20pm Eastern Daylight Time by Billy Burke

Delusional Duck

• Information tags along everywhere you go

  Don’t take a hammer to your new U.S. passport. And don’t drill a hole in that credit card or zap it in the microwave. Experts say these measures - recommended on some extreme Web sites as ways to safeguard privacy and security - are unecessary for people concerned about the growing [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 1:12pm Eastern Daylight Time

• Mothers in uniform

  Sue Lynn Downes never took off the charm necklace. Never. When she was 16, her mother gave her the gold necklace with a heart-shaped charm bearing the word “Daughter.” After her son was born, Downes added a tiny pair of baby shoes, and later her two children gave her a “Best [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 1:11pm Eastern Daylight Time

• Maryland Public School suspensions by school and…

  ...major offense category - 2006-2007 Out-Of-School Suspensions [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 1:06pm Eastern Daylight Time

Capital Punishment

• One Viewpoint About The Market House

  Justa Ordinary Schmoe has left a new comment on your post "New Poll: The Market House.....oy vey!":
  
  you ideas are all well and good, but my primary objection to the dying ( dead) Market House is that it has no soul. The Malling of the Market [...]
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 1:04pm Eastern Daylight Time

Gunpowder Chronicle

• Stupid Farm Economics

  There Heritage Foundation has a new chart up on the ridiculous stupidity that surrounds farm politics in America today.  It's stupid, because our nation's farm politics have nothing to do with saving family farms, but with providing corporate rent-seekers (like, ahem, David Letterman) with gobs of taxpayer money to [...]

  
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  Posted: May 11, 2008, 12:29pm Eastern Daylight Time by Gunpowder Chronicle

Delusional Duck

• New trail to commemorate Md. role in War of 1812

  A bill to create a trail commemorating War of 1812 battle sites in Maryland was signed into law yesterday by President Bush. The Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail was approved as part of the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008, according to a news release from the House Committee on Natural [...]
  
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