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My brother’s campaign for Governor of Maryland is drawing some notice in the blogosphere. Catholic and Enjoying It Why Fret? Freeland Dawn Patrol The Cafeteria Is Closed Maryland Moment – a Washington Post blog … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Politics
Mary Katherine Ham
Mary Katherine Ham is the latest darling of the middle aged men that make up the right wing blogosphere. She’s pretty, smart, pretty, well-spoken, pretty, and just barely legal. And pretty. Townhall prints her bio but it is as dry as the Sahara and as bereft of content as a John Kerry speech. I’ve done some digging and found out the things not included in her offical bio. Mary Kate was born into a poor farming family in the hills of North Carolina. Her roots in the deep South have, to this day, failed to have any effect on her affected French Canadian accent, however. Her family lived way back in the hills. They were so isolated that the only time they left the farm was for church on Sunday. And Wednesday. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blogging, Original writing, Other Bloggers, Satire
Unsafe Cities
UPDATE: A commentor suggested that it might prove instructive to see how long a political party held the mayor’s office. I have added that info, via Wikipedia. I was also going to do the same type of table for the 25 safest, but, frankly, they are mostly much smaller communities. I don’t feel that it would be an apples to apples comparison. Here’s a good way to determine which party governs each of the top 25 least safe cities in the United States. You might want to remember this in the voting booth. RANK CITY ST MAYOR GOVERNOR 1 ST. LOUIS … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Analysis, Crime and Punishment, Original writing, Politics
Simmins / Hargadon
Write-in candidates for Governor of Maryland and Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Simmins / Hargadon The top ten sources of pollution of the bay will be ranked according to their impact on the environment and the cost of clean-up. The results will be presented to the voters of the State of Maryland who will vote on three sources of pollution to remedy. Each time a source of pollution has been eliminated, the process will continue. This way the voters of Maryland get to choose what is important to them on the environment and how much they are willing to pay to fix it. Human embryos are human beings. “Respect for the dignity of the human being excludes all experimental manipulation or exploitation of the human embryo†(CRF 4b). Recent scientific … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics
Monroe County 911
Monroe County, New York has put its 911 calls on-line. You can go to their site and see the most recent dispatches, and some mapping. The site updates every ten minutes. They also have an RSS feed. This is fairly advanced and I applaude the County for doing it. SITE RSS FEED … Read entire article »
Filed under: EMS, Firefighting
Lance Corporal Dominic D. Esquibel
Navy Cross Home of the Heroes For extraordinary heroism while serving as Scout Sniper, Company B, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 7, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Central, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on 25 November 2004. After an enemy ambush on 3d Platoon nearby, Lance Corporal Esquibel quickly moved to an overwatch position and spotted five wounded Marines in a building courtyard. He courageously low-crawled close to the enemy stronghold to gain intelligence and then ran through the rooftops under intense enemy fire to relay the intelligence to the 3d Platoon Commander. With total disregard for his own safety, he re-occupied his position and threw a grenade, destroying several enemy insurgents and silencing one of the enemy’s machine guns. After eliminating … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, Iraq, Marines, Military, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
The Night Before
Halloween: The lovely wife’s favorite holiday is Halloween. She’s had me bring up the containers full of decorations. She’s bought the candy and toys we give out. She’s watching the local weather every hour on the eights. We’re ready. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blogging, Original writing
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Lori Hill
Distinguished Flying Cross – won by a woman!!! [Amelia Earhart is a civilian recipiant] U.S. Army Back in March in Iraq, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Lori Hill, with the 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment, was piloting her Kiowa Warrior when the lead chopper came under heavy fire. She drew the fire away, simultaneously providing suppressive fire for the troops engaged with the enemy on the ground. A rocket-propelled grenade hit her, damaging the helo’s instrumentation, but instead of focusing on her predicament, she established communication with the ground forces and continued to provide them with aerial weapon support until the Soldiers reached safety. As she turned her attention to the aircraft, which was losing hydraulic power, the helo took on machine-gun fire, a round crashing into one of Hill’s ankles. Still, with a damaged … Read entire article »
Filed under: Heroes, Iraq, Military, Our Best: Military Women, War on Terror, WOT Heroes
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Unsafe Cities and Politics
October 31st, 2006 | Comments Off
After I posted the original post about the Unsafe Cities Report, I began to wonder about the decades that the Democrats had controlled the mayor’s office in so many of the cities. Why? Why would the voters of Newark vote for a Democratic mayor for 53 years? Clearly Newark has struggled during that period, had riots and crime, had an economy slump nearly out of sight. What did the Democrats bring to the voters of Newark that kept them in power? Or, could it be the poor presentations by Republicans? Is the Republican Party in general that bad at running good candidates for the office of mayor? Detroit has had a Democratic mayor for 44 years. In the beginning of the 1960′s they elected a Democrat. They kept electing Democrats through the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Commentary, Crime and Punishment, Local, Original writing, Politics