Archive for the 'Maryland' Category
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Constance Coldspring
has sent this piece which shows the results of 8 more years of
Compassionate Conservatism.
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20-year life gap separates city’s poorest, wealthy
By Annie Linskey | annie.linskey@baltsun.com
October 16, 2008
In West Baltimore’s impoverished Hollins Market neighborhood, where the average life expectancy is about 63 years, residents shared beers and cigarettes on their front steps at midday yesterday […]
Posted in Environment, Health, Wealth, The Poor, Maryland |
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
I envision corporate headhunters foraging at Forty Hours Devotions. Who knows? I’d trust priests more if they belonged to the Teamsters or the ILWU. ON THE WATERFRONT would certainly have been a different movie if Karl Malden were Johnny Friendly’s muscle or had run his own con. The Exorcist would probably been far less […]
Posted in Business, Labor, Maryland, Roman Catholics |
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
The parents are lucky the snake-handling religious sex-education teacher missed his train.
Students Get Lesson to Chew On
Gum Sharing Disgusts Montgomery Parents, Officials
By Daniel de Vise
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 10, 2007; A01
It was a novel class exercise: Ask a room full of Montgomery County high school students to take turns chewing the same piece of […]
Posted in Religion, Education, S-E-X, Maryland, Holier Than Thouists-Conservative Evangelical Arm |
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
The news story mentions that the train car carried a chemical agent which could cause blindness. What about fore-sight? Until I had blogged the bottom photograph, I have not thought of or seen the Patapsco River in many years. This is definitely a task for John Newland of ONE STEP BEYOND.
“From Saturday’s Sun
Derailed train […]
Posted in Environment, Television, Books, Maryland, ESP, Train Derailment |
Saturday, November 4th, 2006
Md. Gov. Returns Campaign Contributions
The Associated Press
Friday, November 3, 2006; 12:04 PM
BALTIMORE — Gov. Robert Ehrlich returned more than $540,000 in political contributions to the Republican Party after state elections officials discovered that a federal account was used to funnel funds to his re-election campaign.
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Timing of Burns donation, recommendation questioned
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Republican […]
Posted in Republicans, New York, 2006 Election, Democrats, Maryland, New Mexico, CBS, Conrad Burns, Montana, Ehrlich |
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
‘POLL WATCHERS
Md. Democrats Say GOP Plans to Block Voters
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 2, 2006; Page B06
A recently distributed guide for Republican poll watchers in Maryland spells out how to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters and urges these volunteers to tell election judges they could face jail time if a challenge is […]
Posted in Republicans, 2006 Election, Ohio, Polls, African-Americans, Maryland |
Friday, October 20th, 2006
The Washington Post is reporting a theft of e-voting software of Diebold–the company which made 2004 famous.
From the FreeSpeechZone.net:
*(FORMER) Diebold chairman, president, and C.E.O., Walden […]
Posted in administration, Bush, 2006 Election, Ohio, 2004 Election, Diebold, 2000 Election, Maryland |
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
“Steele Admits Criticizing GOP In Interview
Unnamed Candidate Quoted
By John Wagner and Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 26, 2006; B01
Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele’s Senate campaign acknowledged yesterday that he was the anonymous candidate quoted by a Washington Post political reporter as saying that being a Republican was like wearing a “scarlet letter” and […]
Posted in administration, Republicans, 2006 Election, Maryland |
