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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Grandy Greenhouse and Farm Market

Grandy Greenhouse and Farm Market July 19, 2009

One of the many rituals, in which our family participates as we approach the Outer Banks, is to stop at Grandy Greenhouse and Farm Market on Highway 158, in Grandy, NC.

It is a family-owned and family friendly business. The sales help is always friendly and helpful – and the place is fun.

And there are always many great pictures there, just waiting to be had.

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From Tapscott's Copy Desk for July 23 2009

Clinton's India debacle shows failure of Obama's foreign policy by grovelling

From Tapscott's Copy Desk

Tapscott's Copy Desk

Fresh and insightful opinion from Tapscott's Copy Desk, by the Washington Examiner's Editorial Page Editor Mark Tapscott. Got a tip or an oped to place? Send an e-mail to mark.tapscott@gmail.com.

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Obama's foreign policy is groveling for goodwill.

Examiner Edtorial.

Check it out!

Founders wisely blocked Obama's health care reform push

Mark Tapscott, Examiner Columnist

Read the full story.

Worried Europe pleads with U.S. to come back.

Meghan Cox Gurdon, Examiner Columnist.

Read the full story.

All of Bill's sons: Private lives in public letters.

Noemie Emery, Examiner Columnist

Read the full story.

Will Rep. Mike Doyle, D-PA, give it back?

Kevin Mooney's Dirty Money Watch.

Read the full story.

Obama's joblessness grows.

This week's Charticle.

Read the full story.

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2009 Carroll County Maryland 4-H and FFA Fair Schedule

2009 Carroll County Maryland 4-H and FFA Fair Schedule
July 24, 2009 - August 1, 2009

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2009 Carroll County Maryland 4-H and FFA Fair Schedule

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Friday, July 24

9 a.m. -- Tractor Operator Contest and Certification.

9 a.m. -- Garden Tractor/Small Engine Contest.

10 a.m. -- Fair Beautification exhibits judged.

Noon-5 p.m. -- Poultry exhibits entered.

2-5 p.m. -- Mechanical Arts, Photography and Garden exhibits entered and judged.

3-5 p.m. -- Clothing, Silk and Dried Floral exhibits entered and judged.

3-6 p.m. -- Art exhibits entered and judged.

5-9 p.m. -- Tractor and Semi Truck Pull, for gate admission.

Saturday, July 25

8 a.m. -- Breeding Swine, Sheep and Meat Goat exhibits in place.

8 a.m.-1 p.m. -- Carroll County Farmers' Market.

8:30 a.m.-noon -- Woodworking exhibits entered and judged.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. -- Indoor buildings closed for judging.

9 a.m. -- Bicycle Contest, Breeding Beef Heifer exhibits in place, Breeding Swine Show followed by Breeding Meat Goat, Breeding Beef Heifer and Breeding Sheep Shows, Rocket entry and judging.

9-11 a.m. -- Ag Commodities, Canning, Club Books, Natural Resources, Home Environment and Family Life exhibits entered and judged; Wool exhibits entered.

9 a.m.-noon -- Plants and Flowers and Clover exhibits entered and judged.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. -- Robotics Demo.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. -- Antique Tractor Show.

10 a.m. -- Alpaca Show.

10 a.m.-noon -- Lost Arts exhibits entered and judged.

10 a.m.-2 p.m. -- Mounted 4-H Drill Unit.

Noon -- Rockets launched; Children's Pedal Pull registration.

1 p.m. -- Children's Pedal Pull.

1-10 p.m. -- Indoor exhibits open to the public.

1:30-3:30 p.m. -- Service-Learning Stations entered and judged.

3 p.m. -- Consumer Education Judging Contest.

4 p.m. -- Clover Food Entry Bake Sale.

5:30 p.m. -- Family Fun Fest.

6-9 p.m. -- Market Livestock arrive.

6 p.m. -- Combine Demolition Derby, gate admission.

Sunday, July 26

7-9 a.m. -- Market Livestock exhibits arrive.

8 a.m. -- Automotive contest.

9 a.m.-9 p.m. -- Indoor exhibit building open.

9 a.m. -- Dog Show, Market Goat Weigh-in.

9 a.m.-noon -- Rabbit exhibits entered.

9 a.m.-3 p.m. -- Antique Tractor Show.

10 a.m. -- Weigh-in of Market Swine and Sheep.

10 a.m. -- Central Maryland Tractor Pull.

11 a.m. -- Mule Show and Jump.

Noon -- Livestock Orientation, Children's Pedal Pull registration.

1 p.m. -- Children's Pedal Pull.

2 p.m. -- Anglestone Christian Rock Band concert; Be a Farmer Contest.

2:30 p.m. -- Horse Drill Team.

3 p.m. -- Clover Small Pet Show.

3:30 p.m. -- Small Animal Dress -Up.

4 p.m. -- Clover Poultry exhibits judged.

5:30 p.m. -- Parade line-up.

6 p.m. -- Parade.

7:30 p.m. -- Ms. Carroll County Farm Bureau Contest

8 p.m. -- The Legends, a 1950s, '60s and '70s band, in concert.

Monday, July 27

8 a.m. -- Rabbit exhibits judged, English Horse Show, Beef Steers in place/weigh-in.

9 a.m.-10 p.m. -- Indoor exhibit building open.

9 a.m. -- Poultry exhibits judged.

9 a.m.-7 p.m. -- Dairy Cattle, Dairy Steers, Dairy Goat exhibits entered.

1-2 p.m. -- Livestock Skill-A-Thon

2 p.m. -- Poultry Showmanship Contest.

3 p.m. -- Beef Clip Out Contest.

5 p.m. -- Mini Fashion Review.

5:30 p.m. -- Sheep Showmanship, Shepherd classes and Club groups.

6 p.m. -- Walking tour, Carroll County Performing Arts Club.

7 p.m. -- Entertainment to be announced.

7:15 p.m. -- Dairy Goat Orientation.

7:30 p.m. -- Car Demolition Derby.

7:30 p.m. -- Dairy Exhibitor Orientation.

8:30 p.m. -- Dairy Fit Out Contest.

Tuesday, July 28

7:30-8:30 a.m. -- Dairy Steer Weigh- in.

8 a.m. -- Swine Showmanship.

8 a.m. -- Dairy Judging Contest.

9 a.m.-8 p.m. -- Indoor exhibit building open to public.

9 a.m.-2 p.m. -- Children's Day activities.

9:30 a.m. -- Horticulture Judging Contest.

4 p.m. -- Shepherds Lead Contest.

5:30 p.m. -- Market Sheep Show.

7 p.m. -- Skid Steer Rodeo.

7 p.m. -- Salem Bottom Boys Band.

Wednesday, July 29

8 a.m. -- Western Horse Show.

9 a.m. -- Rabbit Fitting, Showing.

9 a.m. -- Meat Goat Show.

9-11:30 a.m. -- Food exhibits entered and judged.

9 a.m.-1 p.m. -- Red Building closed for grand champion judging.

1-5 p.m. -- Nathan Blizzard Hall closed for cake auction preparation.

1-10 p.m. -- Medford and Alesia buildings open.

2-4 p.m. -- Cakes on display.

5 p.m. -- Market Swine Show.

6 p.m. -- Walking tour.

6:15 p.m. -- Hall of Fame and Friends of the Fair Awards.

6:30-10:30 p.m. -- Bake Sale (items not included in the Cake Auction).

7 p.m. -- Cake Auction

7 p.m. -- Horse Pull.

Thursday, July 30

8 a.m.-9 p.m. -- Senior Citizen exhibits entered and judged.

9 a.m.-10 p.m. -- Indoor exhibit building open.

9 a.m. -- Dairy Cattle Fitting and Showing; followed by Dairy Breed Show.

10 a.m.-noon -- Small Pet exhibits entered and judged. Small pets released after judging.

10 a.m. -- Poultry Judging Contest.

Noon -- Beef Cattle Fitting and Showing Contest.

Approximately 2:30 p.m. -- Dairy Steer Fitting and Showing Contest and Dairy Steer Show.

1 p.m. --Written Rabbit Judging.

1 p.m. -- Senior Citizen Social.

5 p.m. -- Market Steer Show.

6 p.m. Wild West Night events, including Calf Scramble (6:30 p.m.), Mutton Bustin' (7:30 p.m.) and Barrel Racing (8 p.m.).

7 p.m. -- DJ Dancing.

7 p.m. -- Rabbit and Poultry Awards.

Friday, July 31

9 a.m.-10 p.m. -- Indoor building open.

9 a.m. -- Dairy Cattle Fitting and Showing, Dairy Breed Shows, Livestock Judging Contest.

2:30 p.m. -- Senior Citizen exhibits released.

3 p.m. -- Dairy Goat Team Fit-Out Contest.

3:30 p.m. -- 4-H and FFA Exhibitor Awards Program

4-8 p.m. -- Pit Beef and Pork Dinner.

5:30 p.m. -- Livestock Sale.

6 p.m. -- 21 the Difference, in concert, gate admission.

8 p.m. -- Eli Young Band, country music, in concert, gate admission.

8 p.m. -- Silent Auction closes; winners posted in arena at 9 p.m.

10 p.m. -- Raffle winner announced.

Saturday, Aug. 1

8 a.m.-1 p.m. -- Carroll County Farmers Market

8 a.m.-9:30 a.m. -- Poultry Exhibits released.

9:30 a.m. -- Indoor exhibits released, all remaining exhibits released.

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Public Schools Is A Local Responsibility

Public Schools Is A Local Responsibility

Democratic Advocate, July 23, 1948.

Public Schools Is A Local Responsibility - Federal Government Cannot Do A Better Job For Public Schools Than Local Communities Is The Belief—Washington, D. C., July

— One might almost be expected to believe that education of the youth of the country is a National political issue in 1948.

Government statistics show that in 1870 illiteracy in the United States was 20 percent. The average percent of illiteracy among native whites in the United States is less than two percent.

To say that the support of local schools is not the responsibility of the communities in which children live is dodging the issue. It is just as much the duty of parents in small districts to send their children to school as it is to put clothes on their backs and food in their stomachs.

The trouble that exists in nearly every part of the United States is the growing demand that the National Government must furnish the means and money to carry on all kinds of civic responsibilities, including paying the teachers and all the school expenses.

The Federal Government cannot—and will not—do a better job for public schools than local communities.

Democratic Advocate, July 23, 1948.

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Democratic Advocate, July 23, 1898: A narrow escape in buggy mishap

A narrow escape in buggy mishap

Democratic Advocate, July 23, 1898.

A Narrow Escape—Mr. William A. Abbott, of Hampstead, was driving to Westminster Monday morning, and Mr. Leonard Rill, of Houcksville, was just ahead of him in another buggy, going at fair rate of speed, when, from some unaccountable reason, the horse ahead dashed into a post fence alongside the road.

Finding that he could not get through the fence the horse suddenly wheeled and ran towards Mr. Abbott's horse. The horse acted as if mad.

Mr. Rill was thrown out and the buggy was smashed to pieces. Mr. Abbott turned his buggy aside to render aid, when Mr. Rill's horse bore down upon Mr. Abbott's horse and buggy.

It was a trying moment for him, as his own horse became frightened and began to jump. The loose horse dashed by, however, barely grazing him, but part of the trapping struck him, injuring the lower part of his right leg.

When Mr. Rill's buggy was demolished he was thrown a considerable distance, and for this reason was uninjured, except being shaken up to a great extent.

Democratic Advocate, July 23, 1898.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The patient painted porch chairs

The patient painted porch chairs of the Outer Banks

July 22, 2009 Kevin Dayhoff (Click here for a larger image)

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This week in The Tentacle

This week in The Tentacle

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Ironies of Empathy
Kevin E. Dayhoff
As last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court quickly becomes a distant summer memory, the ranking Republican member, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions assured that the nomination will get a full Senate vote on her confirmation before the Senate goes on recess August 7.

To Retire in Paradise…
Tom McLaughlin
Phuket Island, Thailand – Tourism and retirees are the major sources of income for those living in the Phuket area. A very impoverished region, thousands are underemployed along the coast serving the needs of westerners.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Goodbye, Walter!
Roy Meachum
Over the weekend the biggest news came from the death of Walter Cronkite, and his CBS glory days. He shot to fame covering John F. Kennedy's assassination, as all the weekend's reporters and commentators said. He and I had a nodding acquaintance before he traveled to New York and took over my early Channel 9 slot, opposite NBC's "Today."

Who brought the canards to this party?
Farrell Keough
Many of us have known people who married the person involved in the break up of their marriage. We have also seen this situation in which one or the other in this new marriage cheats again. It is a difficult situation, but one with which a person has to wonder, why would you trust someone who has a known history of cheating or breaking vows?

Motorcycle Touring – Part 3
Nick Diaz
As I promised in my last installment on motorcycle touring, I intend to deal with the topics of security, food, and shelter while on the road.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Maverickism and mistakes
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
Yes, dear reader, the first word in the title is not actually a real word. No, you won't find it in spell check or even the new slang version of the dictionary. Not yet, at least.

Nags Head Vacationing Past
Steven R. Berryman
Forgetting politics and current events for a time, vacation is on my mind. One must only notice the missing traffic from Interstate 270 southbound in the mornings to fully realize this!

Friday, July 17, 2009
Save Historic Preservation
Roy Meachum
Since moving up from Bethesda, 26 years ago, I have lived in old houses. I'm grateful for the things accomplished by the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) and its predecessor, the Historic District Commission (HDC). But given the vacancy created by half the panel resigning, Mayor Jeff Holtzinger should reform the panel's mission. Its decisions can be absurd.

Eugenics: Alive and Well
Joe Charlebois
The world has been exposed to the suggestions of eugenics since Plato who proposed a positive type. He suggested breeding should be done through a state controlled system to provide the state with the best possible outcomes in progeny.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
Mother Knows Best
Chris Cavey
The word of the month is accountability. This fourteen-letter word and its conjugations have been holding feet to the fire for many people, including myself, of late.

Real Estate: Backward and Forward
Michael Kurtianyk
Foreclosures have been on the rise in recent years, and we’re seeing an increase locally of properties being foreclosed. A foreclosure is defined as a legal process by which the lender seizes property of a homeowner, usually due to the homeowner not making timely payments on the mortgage.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Remembering the Sacrifice of Vietnam
Kevin E. Dayhoff
On Saturday, at 1 P.M., members of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Air Cavalry Troop – the Black Horse Regiment, from all over the country – will pause to remember the fallen from the Vietnam War at the Carroll County Vietnam Memorial Park at Willis and Court Streets in Westminster. The public is invited.

Travel Tales
Tom McLaughlin
Phuket Island Thailand – Every week I play a game I call “Air Asia” roulette. The local price buster airline offers weekly sales well below any advertised price. When I say “well below,” I mean deep ocean discounts where sometimes one can fly paying only the airport tax.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009
See How They Run – Part 2
Roy Meachum
The numbers are intimidating: 20 candidates are contesting for five seats on the city's Board of Aldermen. That turns out eleven Republicans and nine Democrats. Most names ring no bells. With exactly nine weeks before voters march into the booths, many who filed can count on only their families and friends stepping up for them.

Looking at The Future
Farrell Keough
Been watching a local election with great interest recently. Noticed one very poignant aspect – there are two basic types of candidates: Fixers and Visionaries. It will be interesting to see who the voters decide on.

Monday, July 13, 2009
Becoming a Billionaire – Part 2
Richard B. Weldon Jr.
Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks is a billionaire industrialist who lives in a grand mansion at 987 Fifth Avenue in New York City. He's gruff, focused, and intent on building his empire, in spite of the onset of the Great Depression. He has a great deal of affection for his large staff, especially his personal assistant, Grace Farrell, although he goes to great lengths to not let that be known.

Vigilance Is Our Saving Grace
Steven R. Berryman
I deny that I wrote this column. The problem is that the technology exists today to record electronically the very keystrokes emanating from my wireless keyboard, and – that as it happens – in “real time!”

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Recent Explore Carroll columns and articles by Kevin Dayhoff

Recent Explore Carroll columns and articles by Kevin Dayhoff

Jackson's death created a wave of empathy in Westminster
Published July 19, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... our citizens on hearing the mournful intelligence of Jackson's death ..." When he is not listening to the music of the "Jackson 5," Kevin Dayhoff may be reached at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com, or visit him at http://www.westminstermarylandonline.net/....

Hampstead man arrested for setting Greens Apartments fire
Published July 13, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... damage is estimated at $450,000, according to fire marshals. Kevin Dayhoff contributed to this report....

DAYHOFF: 11th Air Cavalry Troop memorial recalls service of Carroll natives
Published July 11, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
... to help honor these men and their families, as well those others named on the memorial who paid so dearly in the service of their community and nation.

Bringing Corbit's Charge, and Douglass, back to Westminster
Published July 5, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... for his age," Crutcher responded that Douglass has "rested a lot" over the years. When he's not traveling back in time to the 1800s…

DAYHOFF: Margaret Mitchell wrote what she knew; the rest is gone with the wind
Published July 2, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
... And that is all I know for right now. Hope you and your family have a great Fourth of July weekend. Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster.

Westminster was all abuzz for the great fly roundup of 1914
Published June 28, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... reminds me that it was Groucho Marx who once said, "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." When he is not swatting flies…

DAYHOFF: Hoffa Field and the Sheathing of the Sword
Published June 23, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... . Lightner and the June 1922 American Sentinel newspaper article have left us with an extensive and fascinating account of the “The Sheathing of the Sword.”

'Year without summer' killed crops ... and created a monster
Published June 21, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle
... village folk that it's not a bad idea to keep a torch handy on these cool summer nights. When he is not playing with laboratory-harnessed lightning…

Historic Blue Ridge College bell dedicated In Union Bridge
Published June 20, 2009 by Westminster Eagle
UNION BRIDGE — Several hundred folks braved threatening weather June 20 to witness the unveiling and dedication of the historic 1900 Blue Ridge College bell in Lehigh Square, the original site of the college which had thrived in Union Bridge from 1898 to ... ...

When city got 'sole' in the 1920s, it was cause for a celebration
Published June 14, 2009 by Carroll Eagle
... be the guest speaker. There will be a retirement ceremony for worn flags. Guests may bring old flags for retirement. When he is not waving the flag,

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Jackson's death created a wave of empathy in Westminster

Jackson's death created a wave of empathy in Westminster

EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 7/19/09

Photo credit: Daguerreotype of Andrew Jackson, possibly taken by Edward Anthony, April, 1845

It's been hard to make sense of the media frenzy over the death of the enormously talented Michael Jackson. Although I greatly admired his talent; I mourned more for his tragic life, which appears to have precipitated his death.

Of course, for someone like myself, the timing of his death prompted recollections that on July 19, 1845, Westminster paused to mourn the death of another famous Jackson: President Andrew Jackson.

Many folks may know him better as the guy on the $20 bill, but he was the seventh president of the United States, and served from 1829 to 1837.

Jackson died June 8, 1845 at age 78. According to "The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents," by William A. DeGregorio, his last days "were spent in great discomfort, eased only slightly by opiates. Chronic tuberculosis left him with one functioning lung, and that one was impaired. His right eye went blind from a cataract. Dropsy puffed his features. Diarrhea sapped his strength." At one point on the morning of June 8, he had lapsed into unconsciousness, "although a touch of brandy revived him."

Read the entire column here: Jackson's death created a wave of empathy in Westminster

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The patient porch chairs of the Outer Banks

The patient porch chairs of the Outer Banks anxiously await their particular patrons.

July 22, 2009 Kevin Dayhoff (Click here for a larger image)

Dayhoff Daily Photoblog

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Aunt Betty fishing, 91, fishing underneath the Washington Baum Bridge on Roanoke Island

Aunt Betty fishing

July 22, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff (Click here for a larger image.)

Aunt Betty, 91, is shown here fishing underneath the Washington Baum Bridge on Roanoke Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina.

Aunty Betty Judd, Chaperon Emeritus, who is also known as “sis,” “Mom,” or simply “AB;” shared that when she was young she has fond memories of going fishing in a stream with stick, string and a safety pin. She further elaborated that she once caught a fish that was so small that “not even the cat would eat it.”

Aunt Betty is well known for her fishing prowess. Over the years, she has been reported to have fished throughout the great American West; near Seattle Washington State on the west coast with Bobbi and Tedd; and throughout the east coast. As this report goes to press, it is not known if she had also taken the opportunity to go fishing in Alaska with family members.

Aunt Betty appeared to be enjoying herself, while she is reportedly vacationing with family on the Outer Banks - away from the usual hordes of roving reporters and their vapid questions.

Perhaps more importantly she seems to have escaped the flock of omnipresent paparazzi, which is always nearby shouting questions with the accompanying cacophony of clicking shutters.

After this reporter approached her with a few questions, she was whisked away to an awaiting van by an entourage of folks who appeared to have gone parasailing. Questions as to whether Aunt Betty also went parasailing were left unanswered and floating with the seagulls as she responded with a simple, enigmatic “Oh, whatever.”

It was overheard that Aunt Betty wanted to get back to her spacious palatial resort house by the beach, with its own zip code, and prop up her feet and have a Guinness and watch the Tour de France.

If you will recall, rumors continue to link Aunt Betty as a former love-interest of Lance Armstrong.

A hulking young man with fishing tackle and cigar dangling from his mouth, stood by patiently, as she gathered herself together. It is not known if he had accompanied her to the popular fishing spot underneath the Washington Baum Bridge or not.

No word as to how much luck she had today, but she was all smiles when this picture was snapped.

Kevin Dayhoff filed this report from the field.

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Democratic Advocate, June 22, 1945 - Sugar To Affect Coca-Cola Supply

This day in history:

Democratic Advocate, June 22, 1945 - Sugar To Affect Coca-Cola Supply - W. C. Meredith, President Of Coca-Cola Co., Announces The Quality Will Be Maintained - The supply of Coca-Cola in Westminster definitely will be affected by the further curtailment in the supply of sugar after July 1st because the manufacturer of that popular drink will not compromise with the use of substitutes.

However, an equitable system of rationing will be maintained in Westminster during the shortage, according to W. C. Meredith. President of the Westminster Coca-Cola Bottling Company.

The O. P. A. announced that the allotment of sugar to industrial users would be cut to 50% of the sugar used in the third quarter of 1941, effective July 1st.

"I am informed that this sugar shortage is world-wide and not merely national and is directly attributed to the confusion in the production and distribution of sugar occasioned by the war," said Mr. Meredith.

"Sugar is absolutely necessary in the manufacture of Coca-Cola. We cannot and will not use sweetening substitutes, and therefore when sugar is short, there must be a shortage in the amount of Coca-Cola, but you can be certain that the quality of Coca-Cola will remain unchanged.

Democratic Advocate, June 22, 1945. 19450622 Sugar To Affect Coca Cola Supply

Beautiful Arabic 1940's Coca-cola commercial

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Frank keeps his eye on the boat in Wanchese harbor

Frank keeps his eye on the boat in Wanchese harbor

July 20, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

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Frank keeps his eye on the boat in the harbor in Wanchese, Roanoke Island, Outer Banks, North Carolina.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The Tentacle: “Who brought the canards to this party?” Farrell Keough

“Who brought the canards to this party?” Farrell Keough July 21, 2009

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3273

Many of us have known people who married the person involved in the break up of their marriage. We have also seen this situation in which one or the other in this new marriage cheats again. It is a difficult situation, but one with which a person has to wonder, why would you trust someone who has a known history of cheating or breaking vows?

Trust is a rare commodity and one which must not be broken as it is difficult, if not impossible, to regain. This situation seems to be playing out in the Maryland Republican Party. Dr. James Pelura III, the current chairman, is under significant fire from leaders within the party. This is neither a defense nor a condemnation of Dr. Pelura – that chain of events is taking place throughout newspaper articles, emails, and letters.

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The first publicized warning of events to come took place on July 8, 2009. In that news story it was disclosed that Dr. Pelura had fired an executive director and that was the only “fact” known…

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Following the initial press release, further sources spoke to other outlets. Perusing these hyperlinked newspaper articles, one will notice that a few names continue to appear. This is an odd situation for a group of elected officials whose interest should be in promotion of the party, not in its attenuation.

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Read his entire column here: “Who brought the canards to this party?” Farrell Keough July 21, 2009

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3273

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Boston.com: A exam of the history of American conservatism By Mickey Edwards

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Boston.com: A wide-ranging and clear-eyed examination of the history of American conservatism By Mickey Edwards July 12, 2009

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/07/12/a_wide_ranging_and_clear_eyed_examination_of_the_history_of_american_conservatism/

For more than half a century, historians, sociologists, journalists, psychologists, political scientists, and philosophers have studied, probed, analyzed, pondered, attacked, lauded, and attempted to explain that force that is American political conservatism. Sometimes this avalanche of books, articles, and op-eds has veered weirdly into the realms of psychobabble (once a group of left-leaning psychiatrists, without ever meeting or talking to him, diagnosed conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican nominee for president, as a megalomaniac); at other times books focused on relatively minor pieces of the conservative mosaic, creating straw men against whom they proceeded to rail. Occasionally, conservative insiders have attempted to put their own spin on defining what conservatism is, or at least what it once was.

Now comes Patrick Allitt. The accepted norm in academia is for praise of conservatism to be left to the practitioners while others, more “objective,’’ more “scholarly,’’ denounce conservatives as morally and intellectually inferior. That’s the game and them’s the rules.

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Read the rest here: Boston.com: A wide-ranging and clear-eyed examination of the history of American conservatism By Mickey Edwards July 12, 2009

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/07/12/a_wide_ranging_and_clear_eyed_examination_of_the_history_of_american_conservatism/

http://tinyurl.com/mb5cat

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Recent ribbon cutting ceremony for NGA NCE

National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

https://www1.nga.mil/Pages/Default.aspx

July 15, 2009 – Retrieved July 21, 2009

The men and women of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) converged last week at the New Campus East (NCE) in Springfield, Va., part of Fort Belvoir’s North Area, to take charge of two key facilities during a ribbon-cutting ceremony. These two buildings, the Technology Center and the Central Utilities Plant (CUP), are foundations to the development of NCE—the new home for GEOINT (geospatial intelligence). NCE will complete its transition to the NCE by September 2011. (read full story)

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CBS Discredits Steele and DeMint on ObamaCare as 'Harsh' and 'Incendiary

CBS Discredits Steele and DeMint on ObamaCare as 'Harsh' and 'Incendiary,' Couric Hails Kennedy

Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996

Tuesday July 21, 2009 @ 08:57 AM EDT
1. CBS Discredits Steele and DeMint on ObamaCare as 'Harsh' and 'Incendiary,' Couric Hails Kennedy

For the second weekday in a row, Katie Couric teased the CBS Evening News on Monday night by delivering President Obama's aggressive retorts to critics of his health plan as reporter Chip Reid pitched in to help, discrediting critics by disparaging their perspectives as "harsh" and "incendiary" attacks -- all before Couric caught up with ABC and NBC from the night before and promoted Ted Kennedy's "We're Almost There" Newsweek cover story. Couric teased: "The President takes on critics of his health care reform plan. He vows to move forward and says trying to fix a system that's breaking American families."

2. Nets Skip Chappaquiddick's 40th; NPR Gets 'Ugly' Mail for Even Blogging About It

While the big liberal media usually find it hard to skip any news related to the Kennedy family, ABC, CBS and NBC breathed not a word about Saturday’s 40th anniversary of Chappaquiddick, and neither did the New York Times or Washington Post.

But it wasn’t a complete blackout. With Ted Kennedy on the cover of the July 27 Newsweek to push for government health care, editor Jon Meacham examined Chappaquiddick as a great flaw, and NPR Political Editor Ken Rudin blogged about the anniversary on Friday, only to be deluged with "ugly" mail from NPR readers upset he would mention Kennedy’s scandal when "what Bush and Cheney did was much worse."

3. CBS Analyst: Taliban Treats Prisoners Better Than U.S.

In reaction to a propaganda video of the Taliban holding an American soldier hostage in Afghanistan, on Monday’s CBS Early Show, terrorism analyst Jere Van Dyk argued “What they [the Taliban] are saying is that ‘we can treat American soldiers, we can treat prisoners, better than Americans are treating them.’” Speaking to co-host Maggie Rodriguez about the capture of Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl, Van Dyk continued to explain his observation “There’s a story in the New York Times this morning, also in the Wall Street Journal earlier, about prisoner abuse, Americans abusing prisoners in Afghanistan. What they [the Taliban] are saying to the -- to the Afghan public is that ‘we can do a better job, do not be afraid of us in the future’” Rodriguez accepted that premise and added: “Because he’s clean, the place looks like – he’s being fed. They’re taking care of him.” Van Dyk went on: “There’s a signal there. He’s wearing nice clothes, he’s being fed, he has a cup of tea there… what they are saying is that we will protect to the death ‘a guest in our home.’” He is in someone’s home right now.” He went on to predict: “My belief is, my hope of course is, and my cautious feeling is that he will be protected. He will not be harmed.”

4. Dan Rather Hails Cronkite As 'Beacon' of 'Straight News'Chris Matthews, on Monday's Hardball, invited on Dan Rather to remember Walter Cronkite and the former CBS News anchor - famously fired for letting his bias spiral out of control during the George W. Bush National Guard story - called Cronkite "a straight news reporter," and claimed Cronkite advised him and others at CBS News to "Tell it straight without fear or favoritism. Pull no punches. Say it like it is, insofar as is humanly possible. Keep your own prejudices and biases and feelings and emotions out of it."

A daily compilation edited by Brent H. Baker, CyberAlert items are drawn from daily BiasAlert posts and distributed by the Media Research Center's News Analysis Division, the leader since 1987 in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias.

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Monday, July 20, 2009

McNair: Alcohol In System At Time Of Death

McNair: Alcohol In System At Time Of Death

AUTHORITIES SAY STEVE MCNAIR HAD A BLOOD-ALCOHOL LEVEL TWICE THE LEGAL LIMIT AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. FOR MORE, LISTEN TO AM 1090, WBAL, OR GO TO WBAL.COM

Medical Examiner: McNair's Alcohol Level Twice Limit

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Great Victory for conservatives - CNN Fires Roesgen

We have some great victories to pass along to our fellow conservatives - further evidence that your efforts and activism are paying off!

1st: CNN is dumping their liberal, anti-Tea Party correspondent, Susan Roesgen. Roesgen was the reporter who decided to harass those who attended the April 15th Tea Party in Chicago, IL, instead of serving as an unbiased journalist (yes, we know -- a bit of an oxymoron there). In response, we here at the Our Country Deserves Better Committee launched an online grass roots effort that flooded CNN's offices with tens of thousands of phone calls and emails. And CNN felt the heat - first sending Roesgen on leave for a suddenly scheduled vacation, and now deciding to part ways with Roesgen altogether.

2nd: Polls show a further drop in support for the Barack Obama/Nancy Pelosi socialistic health care plan. We here at the Our Country Deserves Better Committee are working on a new TV ad that we will unveil this week that will push further to defeat this awful, big-government montrosity. If you want to help us fight back to defeat Obamacare, please make a donation to our TV ad campaign by - CLICKING HERE.

3rd: Our TV ad, "It's Not Iran, It's Obama's Administration" continues to attract attention from across the nation. More than 227,000 people have watched the ad online at YouTube alone in addition to the broadcasts of the ad so far!

4th: And that's just the beginning. In about 40 days we will launch the "Tea Party Express" that will take the tea party movement to the next level - bringing real change to government as we take back our country from the far Left, tax-spend-bailout liberals who currently control Congress and the White House. Be sure to sign up and get involved for this huge national effort at: http://paracom.paramountcommunication.com/ct/3236582:4426301039:m:1:119567526:2573B0D73B863EBF41606350C11CFEDB

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COMING THIS THURSDAY...

We unveil our new TV ad campaign calling for the defeat of the masive, big-government socialistic health care program being advanced by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi.

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Please donate as much as you can afford. Whether it's a generous contribution of $100, $250, $500, $1,000 or more - or a more modest contribution of $25 or $50. The maximum contribution allowed by law is $5,000 per individual. Donate online - CLICK HERE.

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Squirrel underpants

Squirrel underpants

Sunday, July 19, 2009

I found these at the Grandy Greenhouse and Farm Market in Grandy, NC, as one approaches the Outer Banks.

The number of practical applications for such a product are only limited by an avid imagination…

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http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/07/squirrel-underpants.html

http://twitpic.com/b1ec7 Squirrel underpants - I found these at the Grandy Greenhouse and Farm Market in Grandy, NC http://tinyurl.com/l8nvv7

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