Wednesday, July 07, 2010

The Wisdom of “Silent Cal”

July 7, 2010 The Wisdom of “Silent Cal”

Kevin E. Dayhoff http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3849

(1923 photo of "Silent Cal" Calvin Coolidge by John Garo)

The Fourth of July has come and gone. The fireworks exclaimed its last hurrah along with the Ooos and Ahhhs. The remains of the day include a few partially eaten hot dogs, a half-bag of potato chips, and the sticky, syrupy goo that we can call Maryland’s heat and humidity that clung to your skin and followed you home.

The flag that flew proudly on the rickety pole attached to the front of the house like a patriotic necktie has been retired for the day.

For those who enjoy historical trivia, there may have been a mention that two of the framers of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, and his colleague in history, John Adams, both died on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing the famous document we celebrate every year.

In my household, there are two celebrations that take place every 4th of July. There is a celebration of the excitement that we live in, what remains a somewhat, a free country. We have a moment of reflection for those who have gone before us so that we may continue to fight for our freedoms and, of course, a celebration of “Silent Cal Day.”

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Now I can only be sure that you share my excitement at this point in time, and you feel a profound increase in your dopamine levels. Please understand that this is a normal reaction known as the “Coolidge Effect.”

However, before you feel a subsequent effect on your limbic system, get a grip on yourself and read on about this great man.Here: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=3849

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Gregory Kane laments that he is going to miss Justice John Paul Stevens

Gregory Kane says: It's going to be hard to miss Justice Stevens and gives insight into the "the "penumbra" (interpretation) of the Constitution..."

By: GREGORY KANE Examiner Staff Writer July 1, 2010

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/It_s-going-to-be-hard-to-miss-Justice-Stevens-97484449.html

"At least five Supreme Court justices understand what the Second Amendment says. The remaining four need a lesson in the meaning of liberty.Earlier this week the high court ruled that handgun bans like the one in Chicago are unconstitutional. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito said that the right to bear arms "applies equally to the federal government and the states.""

"Writing for the minority, Justice John Paul Stevens offered this whimper: "(this decision) could prove far more destructive -- quite literally -- to our nation's communities and to our constitutional structure."

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"Those rights -- like, say, for instance, the right to own a handgun to defend your home and person -- Stevens would just as well see remain rooted so deeply in the "penumbra" of the Constitution that they will be all but forgotten. This penumbra business got started in 1964."

Examiner Columnist Gregory Kane: "But I do know what to say to the departing...":

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/It_s-going-to-be-hard-to-miss-Justice-Stevens-97484449.html

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Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Things are quiet around the county Board of Elections office in Catonsville

Now serving…Well, no one
Explore Baltimore County
By Bryan P. Sears Tuesday night is the last night to file. Candidates have until 9, but interest, unlike past years, is not exactly at a fever pitch. ...

Things are quiet around the county Board of Elections office in Catonsville.

Tuesday night is the last night to file. Candidates have until 9, but interest, unlike past years, is not exactly at a fever pitch. http://www.explorebaltimorecounty.com/blog/politics/616/now-servingwell-no-one/

Explore Baltimore County

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ObamaCare – Call us when you are shovel ready

ObamaCare – Call us when you are shovel ready.

Retrieved July 6, 2010

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Washington Post Most Viewed Opinions Columns

Most Viewed Opinions Columns

1) Losing more than jobs

Why can't our leaders focus on the greatest economic dislocation in eight decades?

2) Obama's worst foreign mistake

The new START treaty must not be ratified.

3) Politics goes primitive

Sen. Bennet isn't a jerk. He just plays one on TV.

4) Democracy in trouble

The whole concept of promoting it is endangered.

5) Obama's CEO problem

The president needs to outline an agenda that is compelling to the business community.

6) Tea Party time across the pond

This past weekend Americans celebrated a revolution that began with a tea party in Boston Harbor -- and today's Tea Party movement takes its inspiration from those early protests against the economic despotism of George III . So it is ironic that the first Tea Party government seems to have been...

7) Nevada's undaunted 'nobody'

LAS VEGAS Sometimes provocative people become that way because they were provoked. Sharron Angle, 60, could be enjoying the 10 grandchildren she loves even more than her .44 magnum. Instead, she is the Republican nominee against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's quest for a fifth term as senator....

8) Terror -- and candor

The administration's refusal to identify terrorists reflects a dangerous cowardice.

9) Rabbi vs. atheist: Debating God with Christopher Hitchens

Ambling across the lobby with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of wine in the other, my antagonist nodded to me and said, "Hello, darling."

10) Michelle Rhee's role

EVEN AS D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee suggested she might not be able to continue her work if Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) is voted out of office, she insisted the race is not about her. The key, she said, is "the two gentlemen who are running and what their kind of stances are about...

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No, Rolling Stone - YOU SUCK

No, Rolling Stone - YOU SUCK

Methinks Rolling Stone protests too much...

Matt Taibbi writes: "Here's CBS's chief foreign correspondent saying out loud on TV that when the man running a war that's killing thousands of young men and women every year steps on his own dick in front of a journalist, that journalist is supposed to eat the story so as not to embarrass the flag."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/122137/83512

Lara Logan, You Suck

June 28, 2010 By Matt Taibbi

Lara Logan, come on down! You're the next guest on Hysterical Backstabbing Jealous Hackfest 2010!

I thought I'd seen everything when I read David Brooks saying out loud in a New York Times column that reporters should sit on damaging comments to save their sources from their own idiocy. But now we get CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan slamming our own Michael Hastingson CNN's "Reliable Sources" program, agreeing that the Rolling Stone reporter violated an "unspoken agreement" that journalists are not supposed to "embarrass [the troops] by reporting insults and banter."

Anyone who wants to know why network television news hasn't mattered since the seventies just needs to check out this appearance by Logan. Here's CBS's chief foreign correspondent saying out loud on TV that when the man running a war that's killing thousands of young men and women every year steps on his own dick in front of a journalist, that journalist is supposed to eat the story so as not to embarrass the flag. And the part that really gets me is Logan bitching about how Hastings was dishonest to use human warmth and charm to build up enough of a rapport with his sources that they felt comfortable running their mouths off in front of him. According to Logan, that's sneaky — and journalists aren't supposed to be sneaky:

"What I find is the most telling thing about what Michael Hastings said in your interview is that he talked about his manner as pretending to build an illusion of trust and, you know, he's laid out there what his game is… That is exactly the kind of damaging type of attitude that makes it difficult for reporters who are genuine about what they do, who don't — I don't go around in my personal life pretending to be one thing and then being something else. I mean, I find it egregious that anyone would do that in their professional life."

To gain more insight into the left's thinking when they recently smeared the American military and why the job of beat reporters was made even more impossible by a hot dog looking for 15 minutes of fame at our expense: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/122137/83512

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Monday, July 05, 2010

Right Turn Cameras

From: mdconvention.org

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Right Turn Cameras??

Posted on May 7, 2010 by md2010admin1

From the latest email that I get from PhantomALERT:

A single red light camera in Riverside, California issued $1 million worth of right-hand turn on red tickets in just one month.

The automated ticketing machine installed in March at Tyler Street at the entrance to the 91 Freeway has become the most productive of the city’s cameras and now accounts for half of the citations issued by Riverside’s vendor, Redflex Traffic Systems of Australia. The camera helped boost the grand total of citations mailed since January 2007 to 82,448 tickets worth $32,532,203. As in most California cities, Riverside’s program began with tickets issued to drivers primarily at locations where the yellow light provided insufficient warning. A 2001 report by the California State Auditor found that 77 percent of tickets in major cities were issued for split-second violations. This means that motorists who harmlessly entered the intersection a fraction of a second after the light turned red were photographed and sent a ticket. In fact, the trigger is so quick in Riverside that city documents recorded four instances early this year in which the camera generated a citation when one traffic signal facing the driver displayed a red light while a secondary signal still displayed the yellow light.

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Boehner Video Hits Obama on Jobs, Oil Spin

Boehner Video Hits Obama on Jobs, Oil Spin
GOP House Minority Leader John Boehner is striking back at President Barack Obama with a video that questions the president's leadership on key national issues. The YouTube video, titled “What About the Country, Mr. President?” is in response to Obama's speech in which he ripped into Boehner for telling a newspaper that a major banking overhaul bill is like "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon."
Read the Full Story -- See the Video

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Investigative Voice digest

Investigative Voice: NAACP says festival banned from Fed Hill discriminatory, Top DPW official forced out, 8 homicides, shootings 44 robberies in past week

TOP DPW OFFICIAL FORCED OUT?
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NAACP SAYS FATHER DAY FESTIVAL FORCED TO MOVE FROM FED HILL TO CHERRY HILL ON SHORT NOTICE RACIAL

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IS CRIME REALLY DOWN??? 8 HOMICIDES, 8 SHOOTINGS, 44 ROBBERIES IN ONE WEEK
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POPULAR SOUTHERN DISTRICT MAJOR TRANSFERRED DESPITE COMMUNITY SUPPORT

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SHOOTERS USE FREE DOWNTOWN BUS SERVICE TO GET AWAY

Shooting at Inner Harbor marks latest rash of violence.

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CLINTON 2012?

I.V. reporter Al Foreman tells you why it's possible

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THREE OFFICERS SUSPENDED AGAIN

Internal charges related to trying to talk alleged rape victim out of reporting it.

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NEW SUSPENSION IN SEX OFFENDER CASE

DPW Director confirms latest disciplinary action related to payroll fraud.

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PAROLE AND PROBATION CRACKDOWN CALLED POLITICAL BY PROTESTING OFFICERS

Policy said to be ploy for upcoming governor's race
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MASS ARREST POLICY EXPOSED

LAWSUIT SETTLEMENT BRINGS NEW DETAILS ON THE CONTROVERSIAL POLICY

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ALSO, FROM 2006, A LOOK BACK....

WHY DID YOU THEY ARREST ME?

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COMMISH AND MAYOR ADDRESS CRIME

"I'm more afraid of the police than the drug dealers," resident tells him.

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COMMISH TRIES TO REASSURE PUBLIC AFTER ANOTHER BLOODY WEEKEND

Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld 3rd

Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld 3rd, acting calm and looking tanned, says crime is down in the city -- despite 13 weekend shootings.

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NO PUNISHMENT, NO PROBLEM

City employees involved in scandal get suspended

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CENSUS EMPLOYEE: WOMAN'S JEALOUS EX-BOYFRIEND KILLED CREW LEADER

Man is shot 7 times just days before 23rd birthday while giving colleague ride home to Southeast Baltimore

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HOUSING INSPECTOR CAUGHT TAKING BRIBES

Housing head says he has 'zero tolerance' for corruption

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'LIFE IS TOO SHORT'

Conversation with Marine minutes before he was shot haunt bar patron

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ACLU TAKES CASE OF MAN CHARGED WITH RECORDING ARREST

State police raid home of motorcyclist who recorded state trooper during controversial traffic stop.

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Photographing the photographer Dylan Slagle of the Carroll County Times

Photographing the photographer

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Dylan Slagle of the Carroll County Times photographs the Carroll County 4^th of July fireworks at the Carroll County Ag Center July 4, 2010

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@CCTNews Photographing the photographer Dylan Slagle of the Carroll County Times http://tinyurl.com/2eywj4k http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/07/photographing-photographer-dylan-slagle.html

recent articles by bryan schutt in the carroll county times

Jul 03, 2009

airplanes and autos airplanes and autos dylan slagle/staff photos john d amico, left, helps start mike strieter s 1943 l-2 army spotter during the father s day fly-in & antique automobile show sunday at the carroll county regional ...

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carroll county through infrared by dylan slagle

Feb 14, 2009

carroll county through infrared by dylan slagle september 15, 2008. carroll county times photographer dylan slagle captures the beautiful countryside of carroll county through the use of infrared photography. ...

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photographing the photographer

Apr 03, 2009

carroll county times photographer dylan-slagle reviews the photographs he just took at the city of westminster arbor day ceremonies at westminster's historic belle grove square. according to his carroll county times' website brief bio, ...

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20080419 Carroll County Times staff members win press association ...

Apr 20, 2008

Staff members receiving Best of Show honors included Dylan Slagle in the general news photo category, Aaron Wilson in the sports story category and former staff writer Marjorie Censer in the local government category. ...

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