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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Westminster Maryland Main Street Weekend Happenings - December 17-19, 2010

There are quite a few activities happening in Downtown Westminster this weekend. Click on the link below to see what might of interest to you in Downtown Westminster this weekend!!!

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Also please see: Coffee with Santa at Birdies on Sat. Dec 19, 2010 from 2:30 to 6 p.m.

Come have coffee with Santa at Sherri Hosfeld Joseph’s Birdie’s Café in Westminster, Maryland on Saturday, December 19, 2010 from 2:30 to 6 p.m.

233 East Main St. Westminster MD 21157 410-848-7931 birdiescoffee.com

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By Stan Ruchlewicz, Westminster Maryland’s administrator of economic development. http://www.westminstermd.gov/mainstreet/documents/MainStreetWeekendHappenings12-17.pdf

Stan Ruchlewicz, Westminster, Maryland, Carroll County, Main Street, economic development, restaurants, art, culture

Also check out The City of Westminster: Arts, Entertainment & Recreation on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-City-of-Westminster-Arts-Entertainment-Recreation/171723916191230

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Westminster Maryland Main Street Weekend Happenings - December 17-19, 2010

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Coffee with Santa at Birdies on Sunday Dec 19, 2010 from 2:30 to 4 p.m.

UPDATE:

Santa at Birdie's on Sunday, December 19th, 2010 from 2:30 to 4

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45628362/Santa-at-Birdie-s-on-Sunday-December-19th-2010-from-2-30-to-4

Word is, from Santa's PIO, that Santa's schedule has changed - Santa has an issue with his sleigh- but he's still coming to Birdie's Cafe Coffee House and he will now appear at Birdie's on Sunday, December 19th, 2010 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. Birdie's Cafe Coffee House:http://www.facebook.com/birdiescafe

233 East Main St. Westminster MD 21157 410-848-7931 www.birdiescoffee.com

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Santa at Birdie's on Sunday, December 19th, 2010 from 2:30 to 4

Come have coffee with Santa at Sherri Hosfeld Joseph’s Birdie’s Café in Westminster, Maryland on ~~Saturday, December 19, 2010 from 2:30 to 6 p.m.~~ Santa at Birdie's on Sunday, December 19th, 2010 from 2:30 to 4

233 East Main St. Westminster MD 21157 410-848-7931 birdiescoffee.com

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Santa Claus, Sherri Hosfeld Joseph, Birdie’s, Westminster, Maryland, Carroll County, coffee, Dayhoff

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian

`The truth will always win’ - Julian Assange writes

The Australian Media Diary | December 07, 2010 | 260 Comments

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian today:

Key lines:

* WikiLeaks is fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public.

* The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth.

* (My idea is) to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth.

* People have said I am anti-war: for the record, I am not. Sometimes nations need to go to war, and there are just wars.

* The Gillard government (Australia) is trying to shoot the messenger because it doesn’t want the truth revealed.

Text follows: http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1/

IN 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide’s The News, wrote: “In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.”

His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch’s expose that Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.

Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need to be made public.

I grew up in a Queensland country town where people spoke their minds bluntly. They distrusted big government as something that could be corrupted if not watched carefully. The dark days of corruption in the Queensland government before the Fitzgerald inquiry are testimony to what happens when the politicians gag the media from reporting the truth.

These things have stayed with me. WikiLeaks was created around these core values. The idea, conceived in Australia, was to use internet technologies in new ways to report the truth.

WikiLeaks coined a new type of journalism: scientific journalism. We work with other media outlets to bring people the news, but also to prove it is true. Scientific journalism allows you to read a news story, then to click online to see the original document it is based on. That way you can judge for yourself: Is the story true? Did the journalist report it accurately?

Democratic societies need a strong media and WikiLeaks is part of that media. The media helps keep government honest. WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the

Iraq

and Afghan wars, and broken stories about corporate corruption.

People have said I am anti-war: for the record, I am not. Sometimes nations need to go to war, and there are just wars. But there is nothing more wrong than a government lying to its people about those wars, then asking these same citizens to put their lives and their taxes on the line for those lies. If a war is justified, then tell the truth and the people will decide whether to support it.

If you have read any of the Afghan or Iraq war logs, any of the US embassy cables or any of the stories about the things WikiLeaks has reported, consider how important it is for all media to be able to report these things freely.

WikiLeaks is not the only publisher of the

embassy cables. Other media outlets, including Britain ‘s The Guardian, The New York Times, El Pais in Spain and Der Spiegel in Germany have published the same redacted cables…

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mediadiary/index.php/australianmedia/comments/julian1/

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange wrote this Op-Ed for The Australian on December 7, 2010

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

WUNC's Laura Leslie is standing in the cold

My Capitolbeat: Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors colleague "WUNC's Laura Leslie is standing in the cold waiting for Sen minority leader announcement."

Will not the last time politicians attempted to leave the press out in the cold... Laura Leslie Mark Binker

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Condoleezza Rice Schools Katie Couric on Why U.S. Invaded Iraq

By Noel Sheppard | December 12, 2010 | 11:10 http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/12/12/condoleezza-rice-schools-katie-couric-iraq-and-wmd

On December 3, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave CBS's Katie Couric a much-needed lesson on why America invaded Iraq.

When Couric said to her guest during an "HBO History Makers Series" interview, "Documentaries have been made about how intelligence was incorrectly analyzed and cherry-picked to build an argument for war, and memos from that time do suggest that officials knew there was a small chance of actually finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," Rice stopped the host dead in her tracks (video follows with transcript and commentary): http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/12/12/condoleezza-rice-schools-katie-couric-iraq-and-wmd

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WSJ: Economists Predict Growth in 2011 - By PHIL IZZO

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Economists Predict Growth in 2011

By PHIL IZZO http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703727804576011521781546808.html

Economists have grown more optimistic about the outlook for U.S. growth next year, predicting the expansion will accelerate as 2011 progresses, according to the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.

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See forecasts for growth, unemployment, housing and more. Plus, views on the Fed, Europe and more. Survey conducted Dec. 3-8. (Or download all data as .xls)

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The 55 respondents, not all of whom answer every question, raised their growth projections for gross domestic product for nearly every period, including the current quarter. On average, the economists now predict GDP will grow 2.6% in the current quarter at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, up from the 2.4% growth they projected in last month's survey. The economy grew 2.5% in the third quarter.

The economists now see stronger expansion in the first half of 2011, with growth picking up speed as the year progresses. For the year, they expect GDP will rise 3%. Meanwhile, they have reduced the odds of a double-dip recession to 15%, the lowest average forecast of the year, from 22% in September survey.

The majority of the respondents also say that there is a better chance the economy in 2011 will outperform their forecasts than that it will underperform. Thirty-five economists said the risks to their forecasts are more to the upside; 14 said the risk was to the downside…. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703727804576011521781546808.html

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Party of No: Dems Ignore Concerns of Small Business Owners Pleading to Stop the Job-Killing Tax Hikes

Party of No: Dems Ignore Concerns of Small Business Owners Pleading to Stop the Job-Killing Tax Hikes
GOP Is Listening to the American People and Pressing to Stop All the Tax Hikes & Help Small Businesses Create Jobs

http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=217269

Washington (Dec 10)

“The House Democratic Caucus threw a bit of a tantrum behind closed doors” yesterday, according to today’s POLITICO Huddle, breaking out into chants of “no we can’t” during a debate on stopping the tax hikes scheduled to take effect on January 1st. The unruly caucus meeting capped off a week of discord and discontent amongst House Democrats intent on blocking a proposed framework to stop the job-killing tax hikes on American families and small businesses. While Democrats vow to keep up the fight to ensure that their job-killing tax hikes take effect, small businesses are left in the lurch – unable to grow or hire new workers amid all the economic uncertainty caused by Democrats’ revolt against stopping all the tax hikes. Here’s what America’s most important job creators are saying about the Democrats’ job-killing agenda:

“If the tax cuts went away, [W. Shane] Reeves [co-owner of Reeves Sain drugstores] would have had to pay more in personal income taxes on his company’s profits. That would’ve affected plans to invest in information technology, add more space and expand the company’s delivery fleet. ‘Overall, the environment we’re all in right now has got everybody nervous,’ Reeves said. ‘But with (expiration of) the tax cuts looming, it just felt like it was going to get worse.’” (The Tennessean, 12/9/10)

“For small business owners, the uncertainty and stakes are even greater. … It takes capital to run a business, said Tom Mercier, owner of BOPI, a 60-employee printing and marketing logistics company in Bloomington. … With printing industry margins only in the 2 to 3 percent range, higher taxes complicate decisions on whether to give pay raises, and how to cover rising health care costs, he said. … The tax cuts are a hot topic for business and individual clients at Henning, Strouse, Jordan and Stephens, a tax and accounting firm in Bloomington, said managing member Mark Nicholas. He said months of uncertainty -- a bipartisan agreement was roughed out Monday -- have delayed important decisions by businesses: Can we expand? Can we buy new equipment? Can we hire? ‘People are definitely holding off on the answers to those questions,’ Nicholas said…‘The uncertainty -- that’s the real problem.’” (The Pantagraph, 12/8/10)

“In Fort Myers, Rustin ‘Rusty’ Jenkins lost his first plumbing business during the region’s new-construction bust, and started over by launching Dynamiq Plumbing, a smaller firm specializing in repairs and remodeling. He’s been clawing his way back to profitability since mid-2008. ‘I’m no expert on taxes ... I’m working 14 hours a day,’ Jenkins said, adding that ‘if I have to pay more taxes, it will be harder to pay my help. It’s a snowball effect.’” (The News-Press, 12/8/10)

“Jim Murphy, president of EST Analytical, which makes environmental testing equipment, was previously uncertain about his hiring plans. ‘I was feeling like between health care costs rising and our tax burden rising to 39.6%, it was pretty dicey, especially when you have so much uncertainty remaining in the economy,’ he says. Now, he says, ‘I know the government is not going to take anymore of our money out, so I’m fairly optimistic going into next year.’” (USA Today, 12/8/10)

“‘It’s a huge stress for us,’ [Small-business owner Brian ] Nichols said. ‘When we really don’t really know what is going to happen with our money, with our taxes, we get to the point where we’re afraid to spend.’ … ‘I don’t feel rich at all,’ Nichols said. ‘Do I categorize myself as higher income? Absolutely not. Do I believe the government should get their act together and spend our money more wisely? Absolutely. That’s what we’ve had to do as small businesses, and that’s what we expect.’” (The Deseret News, 12/7/10)

“Like many small business-owners, [Jim] Bushman’s household income is more than $200,000. But because of the way his business is incorporated, his personal and business taxes are intertwined. So if his personal income taxes increases, that money is pulled out of his business, he said. ‘I’m hoping they extend it – we’ve got a lot of equipment needs we’d like to invest in, and the last thing I want is to have to pay more taxes,’ said Bushman, whose company employs more than 200 workers. Bushman expects a negative impact on sales, too, should Congress fail to act. He helps supply heavy equipment to other small businesses; a higher tax bill for those businesses could mean they’ll have less money to buy Bushman’s equipment.” (Cincinnati Enquirer, 12/6/10)

A PLEDGE TO AMERICA. Republicans are listening to the American people, especially small business owners, who want Washington to stop the job-killing tax hikes and give them the freedom and incentives they need to create jobs. With the most recent Department of Labor jobs report showing that unemployment has ticked up to 9.8 percent and is still on the rise, it is clear that our economy simply cannot afford one more job-killing policy from this Democratic Congress. Republicans have made a pledge to America to bring legislation to the House floor that will stop all the tax hikes and cut spending to get our economy going again. On January 5th, with Democrats gone from power in the House, the new majority will begin moving immediately to deliver on this pledge.

http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=217269

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