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Beltway Progressive: Breats Cancer screening: is it health care rationing?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:53:00 -0500

Breast cancer screening has risks - risks of exposure to unnecssary procedures like biopsies, that have risks of their own. When healthy women get biopsied and the biopsy goes wrong - produces infection and scarring, for example, the risks outweigh the benefits. That is why asymptomatic healthy women with no [...]

Tales Of Two Cities: Scene This Week In…

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:50:00 -0500

Yesterday the Main Street of Ellicott City was peacefully quiet in the morning fog. It also marked the first day of free parking for the Thanksgiving weekend. Free parking will also return on the weekend of December 4th through 6th to coincide with the32nd annual [...]

Salisbury News: Red Kettle Campaign - UPDATE

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:36:00 -0500

If you'd like to volunteer for a slot at any of the above locations please, send your request to ringabell4tsa@verizon.net or call Kettle Campaign Headquarters 410-749-RING (7464).
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monoblogue: A four-day weekend – open thread

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:20:40 -0500

Just so you know, I’m taking a couple days off from writing but there will be posts tomorrow and Sunday. Sunday brings the usual reprint of my latest released Liberty Features Syndicate article, but Saturday is a special treat – an op-ed the Washington Post was afraid to publish. (Hey, I [...]

Delusional Duck: Police conducting Facebook drinking stings

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:52:00 -0500

We know Facebook has helped police solve all sorts of crimes, from burglary to vandalism. But did you know it’s also being used to fight a far more pernicious crime? No, not child sex abuse. Underage drinking. [...]

Delusional Duck: NAACP seeks volunteers to hand out fliers on rapes

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:41:00 -0500

The Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is asking for volunteers, and particularly men, to help distribute reward fliers on Saturday following a recent string of rapes in the city. “This could be our mother, sister, daughter, grandmother, niece, aunt - you get the [...]

Hedgehog Report: Open Thread Black Friday

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:25:28 -0500

Hope everyone had their fill of turkey yesterday and for those out shopping this morning, hope you made it back home alive.... Myself, I am off to New York for a few days and will not have a lot to offer other than a sporadic post here and there when I [...]

Just Up The Pike: what's up the pike: i will never drink milk again

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:25:00 -0500

If you haven't noticed already, posting's been a little light this week because of the Thanksgiving weekend. JUTP will be back up to full speed Monday morning. Anyway:

- A proposed apartment complex will have more affordable units and less parking if the Planning Board' [...]

Delusional Duck: ‘Cash for Clunkers,’ household edition

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:01:00 -0500

In U.S. history, there may have been no better time to own a junk car, a rattling old fridge and a leaking dishwasher. On the heels of its ballyhooed “Cash for Clunkers” program for cars, the federal government is expected to finalize details in the coming weeks of another tax-supported [...]

Delusional Duck: Briefing/Update: Waterfront Property Development

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:56:00 -0500

Board Docs - Charles County Commissioners’ Meeting - Tuesday, December 1, 2009 1.17 [2:30 p.m.] Old Business: 2) Briefing/Update: Waterfront Property Development (Mr. Steve Ball, Planning Director/Ms. Cathy Thompson, Community Planning Program Manager) Waterfront Concepts [...]

Delusional Duck: Technology enthusiast helps dozens

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:51:00 -0500

Eric Zimmerman, 21, has a Facebook account, a MySpace account and a cell phone. He also has Asperger’s syndrome, a mild form of autism which causes sufferers to lack normal social skills. So when the technology enthusiast realized through working at Best Buddies International after high school that many people with [...]

Delusional Duck: State to begin testing speed technology

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:46:00 -0500

The State Highway Administration will begin testing next week on a system designed to help motorists move to reduced lanes more safely. A five-week study is planned for the Variable Speed Advisory technology, a traffic management tool that aims to permit lane merges without sudden stops or backups. Using roadside [...]

Delusional Duck: State to redesign more college courses

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:43:00 -0500

Maryland will expand its efforts to redesign the college courses most responsible for stalling students’ pursuit of degrees, using a $1 million grant from the Lumina Foundation. Lumina, one of the nation’s largest private foundations, hopes to increase the proportion of U.S. adults obtaining two- and four-year degrees from 40 percent [...]

Delusional Duck: CSM Students Donate 2,159 lbs. to SoMd Food Bank

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:37:00 -0500

Sociology and psychology students in Professor Michael Maloney’s classes on the College of Southern Maryland’s Leonardtown Campus donated 2,159 pounds of food for the Southern Maryland Food Bank—enough to feed 122 families this month [...]

Delusional Duck: DNR Proposes New Commercial Fishing Penalties

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:33:00 -0500

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Fisheries Service has proposed a new penalty system to deter natural resource violations, including commercial poaching. The new proposal will impose penalties on first time offenders, based on the severity of their crime, as well as repeat offenders. “These valuable and fragile marine resources are [...]

Delusional Duck: Today, Black Friday, Launches the Holiday Shopping Season - Or Does it?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0500

Many people look forward to the Friday following Thanksgiving each year as the best day of the year to go shopping – day of great deals and bargain basement prices. However there often is a big IF that accompanies the glutton of pre-Black Friday advertising. Many stores include lots of fine [...]

Salisbury News: Today's Wildlife Photo By Scott Phoebus

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:30:00 -0500

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Delusional Duck: Schools agree on oil contract with Georgia company

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:25:00 -0500

Southern Maryland governments and school systems will move into a new contract for heating oil and other fuels starting Dec. 1. The contract is a valuable one and includes an estimated use of more than 2 million gallons of heating oil, 1.4 million gallons of unleaded gas and 685,000 gallons of [...]

Maryland Politics Watch: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0500

By Marc Korman.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, unless you live in Bethesda where the Christmas decorations went up before Halloween. But not everyone in the County wants Christmas to start so early, despite what seemed like political consensus a year ago.

About a year [...]

Delusional Duck: Open Thread - November 27, 2009

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

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Carroll Standard: Shot Fired: Elkridge Jiffy Lube Scene of Failed Robbery Attempt

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:33:33 -0500

A bungling armed thug shrouded in dark clothing and a mask, chased and fired on 10 employees fleeing a Jiffy Lube in Elkridge during the dinner hour Wednesday. No one was injured in the cowardly attempted robbery and the thief scurried off without his intended misbegotten stimulus funds.

Police were called [...]

Carroll Standard: Deviant Sought in Howard County for Fondling Teen in E.C. Kohls

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:48:46 -0500

Police in Howard County have released a sketch of a male deviant suspected of fondling a teenage girl and exposing himself in a Kohls department store in Ellicott City.

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Carroll Standard: Winds of Change: Will the FACC Flow Along?

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:28:07 -0500

Winds of change, I think they are blowing in South Carroll. The reason; everybody is beginning to wake up to the shafting every homeowner is receiving from Carroll County government. The same government that is running the water and sewer system in South Carroll.

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Aquaman, Questing for Atlantis: Thanksgiving Tradition

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:16:16 -0500

I’m just putting it on the record now. Should I ever get elected President of the United States, I will not pardon the turkey. I will get an axe and personally cut its head off. And then it will be prepared, cooked and served for Thanksgiving dinner. That is all. Hope everyone [...]

Carroll Standard: Pull Up A Chair

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:10:43 -0500

In anticipation of Senate Democrats' introduction of an $849 billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation's health care system, Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn last week announced his intention to press for a full reading of the 2,074 page bill on the floor of the Senate, a process' [...]

PG-Politics: Recent Prince George's County News (26 Nov 2009)

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:59:00 -0500

Recent Prince George's County Crime Reports (26 Nov 2009) [bit.ly] Gazette: Punishing the victims; Possible state penalty would unfairly reprimand the county school board )Editorial) [bit.ly] Gazette: Budget [not education] has become school leaders' top priority (Letter from H. Richmond) [bit.ly] Gazette: New police initiatives could further drop crime; Incoming' [...]

Baltimore Reporter: New Zealand’s NIWA scientists accused of CRU-style fudging of data

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:46:16 -0500

from Flopping Aces H/T to PatVann “Warmists” have room to celebrate… in an ironic sort of way. “Man-made” global warming indeed appears to have been confirmed. As put so indelicately to the “warmist” ears in a paper released yesterday by Climate Science Coalition: We have discovered that the warming in New Zealand [...] [...]

Baltimore Reporter: SEIU Thugs try to disrupt Town Hall Meeting

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:37:01 -0500

The link is here. —6 Are Charged in Town Hall Disturbance and Beatings! The Post Dispatch just broke the news: Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations. The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended [...] [...]

Baltimore Reporter: Senator Conrad’s insulting defense of trying KSM in New York

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:31:04 -0500

by Laryn Democrat Senator from North Dakota, Kent Conrad, while defending the Obama Administration’s decision to try al Qaeda terrorists in civilian courts, said: “If people don’t believe in our system, maybe they ought to go somewhere else.” Really Senator Conrad? Would you like to retract that statement? I am a Gold-Star [...]

Baltimore Reporter: Whisler Breakfast Fundraiser -

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:30:24 -0500

Friends of Steve Whisler invites you to join Steve Whisler, candidate for Baltimore County Council, and Governor Bob Ehrlich at a breakfast fundraiser at the Rolling Road Golf Club on Tuesday, December 1 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. This breakfast fundraiser was marketed to the business community at $200 / plate. [...]

Baltimore Reporter: Two More from Powerline

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:28:12 -0500

From Powerline Dubious Distinction The Obama administration is shattering all records for spending in its first year: In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion — $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. … [C]ompared with other presidents’ first years in office, Obama is running circles around [...]

Red Maryland: Larry Hogan Speaks....

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:23:00 -0500

...and he sounds like someone who can mount a serious run for Governor of Maryland.
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Capital Punishment: Drain or Sewers Clogged From The Holidays? Call Us For Emergency Service Starting at $99.00 at 443.852.2163.

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:17:00 -0500

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Capital Punishment: Local Businessman Throws His Hat Into Ring for Cohen's Seat

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:21:00 -0500

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A local businessman and political activist has expressed his official interest in being appointed to Josh Cohen's soon-to-be-vacant seat on the County Council. Chuck Ferrar, the long-time owner of Bay Ridge Wine and Spirits now joins the ranks of other county Democrats hoping for the District Six Seat. While I [...]

What A Smell?: Weather Geek Alert

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:51:00 -0500

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For those of you who regularly or occasionally visit CW4197 to see Delmar's current weather conditions... (and I know there are a few by the complaints raised)..

You'll notice the rain gauge is showing that we've had rain equal to Biblical proportions. Obviously, this is not accurate. Now [...]

What A Smell?: Thanksgiving Kitchen Tip

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:44:00 -0500

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Here's this year's, all so valuable, KITCHEN TIP... You will find that Cranberry Sauce is much easier to slice, if you first, remove it from the can.

Have a great Thanksgiving! And when the time comes, at your table for the blessing, or if your tradition is to' [...]

Salisbury News: Now Go Enjoy Your Thanksgiving Dinner Like I'm About To

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:28:00 -0500

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Red Maryland: Three Related General Lessons for Long-term Presidential Governing: Please Take Note, President Obama

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:17:00 -0500

--Richard E. Vatz

As a rhetorician who has been around for quite a while, I offer a few related observations on governing, some of which my more youthful compatriots, including President Barack Obama, are seemingly unaware. If some of the following points seem obvious to you, it [...]