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Ron Miller Files for District 27 Maryland Senate Seat

Local Republican hopes to be the GOP challenger in 2010 to 34-year plus incumbent and Senate President Thomas V. "Mike" Miller

ANNAPOLIS –Community activist, U.S. Air Force veteran and technology executive Ron Miller of Huntingtown filed his Certificate for Candidacy today at the Maryland State Board of Elections offices in Annapolis for the Legislative District 27 state Senate seat. District 27, which includes southern Prince George’s County and portions of Calvert County, is represented by longtime incumbent and current Senate president Thomas V. "Mike" Miller.

In announcing his candidacy as "the right Miller" for District 27, Ron Miller released the following statement:

"In just a few short years, Maryland has degenerated into a high-tax, high-cost, anti-business state, and our families are paying dearly for the lack of fiscal discipline in Annapolis. Maryland has the 4th highest tax burden in the nation, higher even than that of California which is in full fiscal meltdown. Our business tax climate has plunged from 24th to 45th in the nation, and we have the 6th highest cost of living, 5th if you exclude the District of Columbia.

"This free fall isn’t the result of chance. I fundamentally disagree with the policies I’ve seen Mike Miller shepherd through the Senate, including the largest tax increase in Maryland history. Now he’s talking about a gas tax on an already overtaxed public, and mocking those of us who believe government takes too much and spends too much.

"Policies affect real lives. Young families with children, working families, seniors on fixed incomes – all and more are hurting because it’s simply become too expensive to live here. Yet all we’ve seen out of Annapolis every year is avoidance where they put off fixing the long-term problems and hope for a miracle each year to rescue them from billion dollar annual deficits. The first year, they depleted Governor Ehrlich’s $1 billion-plus rainy day fund. The next year, they slapped us with a $1.4 billion tax increase which was supposed to fix our fiscal woes for good but didn’t. Now it’s the federal so-called "stimulus" package where the federal government is spending money we don’t have. I guess Mike Miller’s gas tax will be the next stopgap fix.

"I can’t stand by and act as if the status quo is OK. It’s not; people are hurting and all the special projects Mike Miller brings to the district to buy favor at election time aren’t doing anything for families who need more money in their pockets to make a living and build a life. As a veteran, businessman, and government and non-profit executive, I have the breadth of experience a 21st century leader needs to make sound policies that fix problems and help people. As someone who lives and works every day like everyone else and has personally felt the sting of this fiscal crisis, I have the heart to listen, learn and serve rather than dictate. I will always remember that I work for you.

"It’s your money, not theirs. You earned it and you should decide how it’s spent. I understand that and I need your help to carry that message to the Miller Senate Office Building and the State House in 2010."

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Doug Smith supports Ron Miller for State Senate, District 27, in 2010. Please vote with me and vote for the “right Miller” in 2010.

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City puts large sign in front of church booths and Tea Party booth at 4 th of July Celebration blocking and sequestering the groups away from other activity. Sign infers the groups are hostile and that the city was forced to give them space or be sued. This is a pathetic and childish political tactic that I hope the citizens of Pt. St. Lucie are going to keep in mind when elections roll around. The city did its very best to marginalize religion and differing political views.

Thanks to http://www.twitter.com/TCTaxTeaParty for the link to the video!

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The guys at CalvertNews.info provide a public service for your seasonal crab parties by demonstrating the fine art of getting the meat from a cooked blue crab:

Thanks guys!

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Randy Campbell, NoGraf Network, Inc. President is interviewed in this RainGuard presentation on graffiti vandalism.

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Press Release

Date: July 01, 2009

Contact: Tom Nunes

Public Affairs Officer
602-617-1979
tnunes@auxpa.org

http://www.news.auxpa.org/

Washington – In a landmark study on drinking and boating, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) researchers collaborated with colleagues from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health to conduct the first population-based, case-control study of the role of alcohol in recreational boating deaths.

Drinking evidence of those who died in North Carolina and Maryland in recreational boating incidents between 1989 and 1998 were combined with interview data and Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) measurements obtained a probability sample of 3,943 boaters on lakes, rivers and coastal bays and sounds during three summers in North Carolina and Maryland.

Highlights of the study include:

• Recreational boat passengers are just as likely as operators to die as a result of drinking alcohol. A primary reason for this is that most boating fatalities involve falling overboard and drowning, rather than collisions. Drinking increases the risk to passengers of falling into the water, and of drowning once in the water, even if the operator has not been drinking.
• Even with a BAC of only 0.01%, the risk to operators and passengers increased 30% compared to individuals with no alcohol in their blood. The risk of death was more than 52 times greater when victims showed a blood alcohol content of 0.25%.
• About 80 percent of boating fatalities result from drowning.
• Efforts to reduce boating deaths that target only operators such as legal limits for boat operators or suggestions to use "designated operators" fail to protect many boaters who are at risk.

Over the Fourth of July weekend and whenever on the water, don?t drink and boat.

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is the uniformed volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard created by an Act of Congress in 1939. The Auxiliary, America’s Volunteer Guardians, supports the Coast Guard in nearly all of the service’s missions. 

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Editors Note: 

See http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/286/23/2974?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Foss&searchid=1140799040798_3754&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=jama

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I get letters. Baltimore Gas and Electric sends me letters when it gets a little hot in the utility’s kitchen. The trouble with these letters is that the kitchen just gets hotter and the rate payer angrier with the company. Each is nothing more than a stale attempt to mitigate bad public opinion.

The First Letter

Last month I received a letter explaining that my monthly $10 bill reduction was being reduced to $7 a month. I didn’t understand the money decision behind it exactly given our BGE bills have gone through the roof in the last year this DESPITE the many changes many rate payers have made in their homes to reduce electrical usage. I am convinced my rates would be double what they are had I not made those changes. BGE knew rate payers were reducing electrical usage and that that would produce lower BGE income so BGE raised rates calling it the true cost of energy.

What we learned recently from the Baltimore Sun is that the true cost of energy also includes exorbitant executive salaries. I hate to agree with Governor Omalley’s people, but this paragraph from the Sun article struck home:

“We are not prepared to see sums of this magnitude leave the company for a single individual at ratepayer expense,” Michael R. Enright, O’Malley’s chief of staff, wrote in a letter dated last week to a Constellation executive. Enright indicated that concerns about compensation would have to be addressed for the settlement negotiations to be successful.

BGE said in Letter One that it would entertain the possibility of keeping the $10 discount (on an often greater than $200 bill) if I agreed to pay THEM an additional $40 to have an energy audit consultant visit my home to discuss how I can reduce my energy usage. Swell.

The $10 discount allows BGE to install a remote-controlled on-off switch on my air conditioner allowing them to turn the air conditioner off during peak energy periods. We are so conservative with our use of power that I don’t think this switch has ever been used at my home. On our previous bills of just over $100 we enjoyed what amounted to nice bill reduction with no inconvenience. A win win.

But is BGE blind? I have lived in this home since 2003. Since that time I installed a new energy saving refrigerator, dishwasher, oil furnace, air conditioner, AND a programmable thermostat. Many of the exterior lights at my home are very-low wattage LED lamps or solar powered battery lamps. Where I needed brighter lamps I replaced regular light bulbs with the new fluorescent variety. We purchased a device called the Power Save 1200 to help reduce power consumed by inductive loads of which we have several: fans, well pump, etc. My spouse and I are also about to have windows replaced and siding put on. We know we have reduced our energy use but BGE has no clue.

BGE wants me to pay this consultant $40 and have that fee reduced if I agree to PAY for on-the-spot updates to my electrical usage like installing fluorescent bulbs or (you guessed it) an energy-saving programmable thermostat! That’s already been done. Keeping the $3.00 of the ten dollar discount is nothing short of extortion. It is a waste of money and time. It defies common sense. BGE has already been paid huge sums of money by rate payers and those sums ought to filter back as company paid consulting to help rate payers make decisions to reduce energy usage! Consulting fees should be free or they should ask us what we have already done to save. BGE appears to have enough cash on hand to pay a single individual MILLIONS in compensation – but for what? Did he dream up this silly program. It seems to me that part of that cash ought to be used to help rate payers meet company expectations? You think? I’m just saying….

I should not have to admit a power company employee or privately paid consultant into my home to discuss my power usage to have the $3 per month ($36 per year) reinstated. Not only is it extortion it is overly intrusive. Where is the State of Maryland on this issue?

Marylanders are tired of this kind of corporate behavior. I’m sure sick of being treated this way. BGE doesn’t even have a meter reader visit every month of the year which usually results in an under estimate of power used one month causing a HUGE bill the following month. It is no skin off their nose if we are inconvenienced. They get their money, whatever they decide to charge, no matter what. They do as they please with their customers apparently.

Letter 2

Since 2003 we have learned that BGE customers at the tail end of their service delivery area (Chesapeake Beach and South to Wilson Rd at Plum Point Rd. means long tedious, regular and uncomfortable power outages. Well, it is 2009 and the company’s new letter explains that they are just now out to trim trees away from wires in our area to continue to deliver excellent service to us. Oh swell, they had an epiphany! Winds and falling tree limbs cause power outages! Balderdash. BGE is mitigating unpopular public opinion. Some substantive changes to corporate behavior and executive salaries are in order as is a greater level of regulation by the state.

I’ll believe it when we see it. Outages are still too common and we are considering installing a propane generator to prevent days and weeks without power every time the wind blows up the Chesapeake.

Corporate behaviors like this are what ATTRACTS government intervention. The sooner BGE starts delivering power and better customer service the freer they will be from government intervention. As a BGE customer I am very dissatisfied. Not a day goes by that I don’t wish I was still being served by SMECO.

I just can’t wait for the next letter. Capitalism and competition be damned. These companies have decided what they are entitled to from ratepayers and they are going to get it no matter what. It is no longer what the market can bear but the market can just barely pay.

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This blog gives you the names and states of Washington’s so-called Republican lawmakers that voted for Cap and Trade. When you begin to see your BGE bill almost double again as this program takes hold remember the people and states that promoted Cap and Trade.

Click here to meet the 8 Faux Republicans Who Just Taxed Your Life Away…

Is it time to start asking ourselves hard questions? People put these politicians in power. These politicians are voting for sweeping far-left ideological changes in our country that make no sense from a 9-12 perspective. We don’t have to vacation in these states, start a business in these states, consider relocating to these states do we? It may be time to avoid having anything to do with the districts and states these law makers represent. What else can we do if the people that should know better abandon us.

Sadly this list would also include a majority of the State of Maryland. Our law makers voted their far-left socialist ideology and not the will of the people. Cap and Trade is not compliant with the 9-12 principals and values. Not even some of the large environmental groups supported it.

The poor and middle class are the hardest hit in this scheme. This includes the low-income retired, elderly, disabled, minorities, and immigrants all trying to keep ahead of new taxes. They are already taxed to death from their paycheck and in property taxes if they own homes. In Maryland, sales taxes went up as has spending under Governor O’Malley DESPITE millions in stimulus money. Everyone will have far less to spend on essentials like prescription medicines once power bills go up. We are spending to support the politicians view of Utopia – their Animal Farm. The taxes we were told we would not pay if we elected the far left are being paid – just through socialized programs like health care and cap and trade.

I believe we were not told the truth about the impact of cap and trade. (The same is true in the on-going health care debate.) Now all Americans will discover what that impact is and every law maker’s district that supported this madness should look to themselves when they begin whining about increased personal energy expenses. The rest of us may privately consider whether or not we want to have anything to do with the far-left areas of the country that put these politicians in power. Those voters believe they can invent socialist programs for everyone else and ram them swiftly through Congress. The rest of us can make personal decisions about how we spend what money we have left.

This link gives you the FULL ROLL CALL VOTE for the American Clean Energy and Security Act
also known as Cap and Trade.

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The Carroll Standard: Eight RINO’s Go Left, 44 Democrats Get it Right

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News Release

Date: June 25, 2009

Contact: Public Affairs Det. Baltimore
(757) 309-3828

BALTIMORE – The Coast Guard rescued one adult and four children that were stranded on a disabled vessel due to an engine fire in the Chesapeake Bay near Gibson Island, Md., Thursday afternoon.

The owner/operator of a 26-foot pleasure craft notified Coast Guard Sector Baltimore watchstanders via marine-band radio at 2:05 p.m. reporting his engine had been on fire.

A 41-foot utility boat crew from Coast Guard Station Curtis Bay, Md., and a volunteer Riviera Beach Fire Department boat crew were dispatched. The boat crew from Station Curtis Bay arrived on scene and located the disabled boat at 2:38 p.m. The Coast Guard crew transferred the five people to their boat meanwhile the fire department boat crew boarded the vessel to ensure the fire was out.  Once the vessel was determined to be safe, the people were transferred back to their boat and the Coast Guard crew began towing the disabled boat and crew to Bodkin Creek Marina in Pasadena, Md.  Towboat U.S. then met the crew and took over the tow due to water depth.

"He did everything that he needed to do," said Petty Officer 2nd Class Timothy A. Jacobs, a coxswain from Station Curtis Bay.  "He used a marine-band radio, turned off the engine, secured the fuel source and moved the kids to the bow of the boat.  This made the response easier with not having to search for the vessel and the fact that the people aboard remained calm."

There were no reports of injuries.

The Coast Guard urges mariners to outfit their boat with a functioning marine-band radio, using channel 16 on a marine-band radio is the most reliable way to communicate a distress to search and rescue personnel in the event of an emergency while on the water.

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Saving Lives and Guarding the Coast Since 1790.
The United States Coast Guard — Proud History. Powerful Future.

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Well I jumped in and purchased a Kindle DX. It isn’t here yet but I am reading the reviews at Amazon.com of the Kindle 2 and the tweets from Kindle owners on Twitter. What I have read before making my purchase decision leaves me thinking that the public has given it mixed reviews. People love it or are disappointed in it or are somewhere in between.

All I can do at this point is save in my own memory the comments folks are making and make my own decisions later. Granted it was an expensive plunge but this reader and others like it are in my view the shape of things to come. We have to run out of paper eventually

I’m going to watch and see what troubles I have with the service and keep in mind the opinions of others:

@DonMcNay says, If anyone has had a problem with Amazon charging unwanted books to their Kindle and difficult getting refund, email me. May write about.”  (That has me concerned. Over the years I have purchased many things from Amazon and they have never sent me anything I didn’t order. Don is a syndicated columnist so he may know something I don’t.”

What prompted me to make the jump to the Kindle was the PDF file. The DX has support for native PDF. I had been printing mountains of paper. Coast Guard Auxiliary training manuals now come in PDF format. The Boat Crew program literally has a wheel barrel full of heavy books once printed. Even at eighteen ounces the DX would be an improvement and I can take my books with me now.

@tamoor, Examiner.com’s Jay Siegel, Consumer Electronics Examiner wrote about his first experience with the Kindle DX on June 16, 2009. Jay’s article had some concern about the weight and the conversion of some graphics in PDF files. Most of my PDF’s are older text based files with few fancy graphics so I am hopeful I won’t run into that problem. We will see. It would be a significant disatisfier if the simple trusty PDF didn’t display properly most of the time.

@Patti_Oshea wrote, “A Couple Months With My Kindle: I’ve had my Kindle now for about 2 1/2 months now and I love it–a lot. I like b.. (from her blog)

Patti really likes the Kindle and has many reasons that I will share. Setting aside time to read is a problem. Having my books and manuals on the Kindle will make it easier to read. Her concern is one I have read about the earlier Kindles that there is no support for a filing system. I suppose people cope but a device like this should have a way to categorize books so they are easy to find. Patti notes that her reading is often interrupted by persons curious about the Kindle. That I hadn’t thought about   I’m going to look at the storage system after I get mine and offer my own two cents.

There are lots of Kindle users on Twitter. My first TweetDeck Twitter search filled the buffer with on-hundred results. Many were quite informative and several lead to great reads like Don, Jay, and Patti’s.  Well I’m back to reading the Twitter feed and anxiously awaiting a new way to read books. Can’t wait to get my Kindle DX.

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Wow! One more reason to cancel your New York Times subscription. Today the New York Times arts section tweeted http://www.twitter.com/nytimesarts “Special Report: Contemporary Art: Graffiti Gains New Respect http://bit.ly/nmobo

Uh no don’t think so. But, I suppose if you are the New York Times if you say it enough times it must be true. Reasonable men and women understand that graffiti, by definition, is a crime. The difference between graffiti and art is permission. Paint placed on a wall not your own is vandalism. The concept is so simple. It makes no difference whether the picture is pretty or not.

The Times doesn’t yet understand that the act of graffiti has as one of its basic thrills/elements the placement of paint on property not your own. The illegality of graffiti is an essential part of that aberrant subculture. The feel-gooders out there that only see a pretty picture only begin to understand the gravity of their way of thinking when they or their communities become inundated with vandalism. Some even think they should be able to pick and choose what kind of vandalism appears in their communities by sponsoring free walls.

Today’s article, entitled “Graffiti Gains New Respect” by Claudia Barbieri suggests that an upcoming graffiti-style art exhibit in France and a proposed similar exhibit at the Guggenheim gives graffiti vandalism a good name – or makes it mainstream. Not!

Graffiti advocacy is nothing new.  I hate to surprise Ms. Barbieri with that fact. This subculture has always used deceit think to take advantage of gullible fanciers to minimize, down play, and marginalize the anti-graffiti folks so graffiti might someday be mainstream. Well those of us in the anti-graffiti movement find that sort of thinking pinheaded and preposterous.  This article employs an old tactic I am reminded of wherein the advocate tries to blur the difference between vandalism and art, “Today the borders are blurred between street and graffiti artists,” said Leanne Sacramone, curator at the foundation.” No there has never been a blurr, only graffiti advocates working for museums and newspapers that find the pictures pretty and have no heart for the victims of the crime have foggy vision.

The American public does not consider vandalism a mainstream art movement. The New York Times does and so do a few silly art museums and graffiti fan websites. These folks are of course terrific examples of how unclear thinking causes poor judgment. Their wacky opinions do not support or reflect a groundswell of public support for criminal activity. A newspaper suffering from diminishing respect and a few and very out-numbered bunch of  graffiti advocates feel this way.

New York you really should work to take back your newspaper. I sure hope the Times doesn’t succeed in advocating graffiti vandalism back into your museums and back into your communities. As for everyone else, if you have a New York Times subscription and you find this graffiti advocacy piece as offensive as I did maybe you could decide not to renew?

Vandalism is not mainstream. There may be more misguided and uneducated advocates than there were ten years ago but the crime is as serious today as it was then. It wreaks havoc on our homes, highways, railroads, and monuments and embattles communities as they resist a spiral into a decay. Those who appreciate graffiti have some serious soul searching to do. Before anyone does consider advocating vandalism they should think about the victims because graffiti is not a victimless crime.

The New York Times is way off the deep end on this one.

(Doug Smith serves on the Board of Directors of the NoGraf Network, http://www.nograffiti.com Global Unity Against Vandalism and tweets as @NoGraf http://www.twitter.com/nograf)

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We live in a private community. We have a sign at the entrance stating that it is a private community. There is one way in and one way out. Nowhere is there public parking for beach access by car. At each beach entrance there is a chain and a no parking sign.

Despite this, some visitors to our neighborhood seem to think they can park wherever they feel like it and walk to the beach. There are signs at the beach that indicate the beach is for the use of Neeld Estate residents and their guests. Each cheater has to drive or walk by two or three signs sharing the who has what right of passage. Pretty clear it seems to me.

Those of us that own homes pay the humongous local and state property taxes for the privilege to have private beach access. It seems unfair that a cheater can drive in and park on a private lawn so he/she can use the beach instead of going next door and paying to use the county beach at Breezy Point. It’s rude. When I challenged one of the cheaters I got a silly answer and a dirty stare. Anyone visiting a friend would be parking near the friend’s home. Perhaps we should go camp in his front yard?

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My favorite candidate for Maryland State Senate, District 27, Prince Georges and Calvert County signed the 9-12 pledge last evening, June 7, 2009. Ron Miller made the announcement on his Twitter feed http://www.twitter.com/teamronmiller

Now I knew having met Ron and after having seen him in action at the Solomons Tea Party that he was the right Miller for me in 2010. I was very glad to see Ron take the time to make a formal pledge. A conservative, a family man, and now a candidate that recognizes the beliefs, values and principles of many potential voters, Ron is ready to serve and govern for the people.

Ron’s announcement read, “I signed the 9/12 Candidate Pledge committing myself to upholding its nine principles and twelve values http://is.gd/SvGQ #TCOT #MDReps.”

Maryland needs new 9-12 candidates to run for public office. I’m solidly behind Ron Miller as the best possible candidate to defeat the Democrat incumbent. Join me in supporting Ron in 2010.

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(By Tom Mullen, Campaign for Liberty Blog) Tom has done exactly what I did when I was a hiring manager. It never made a difference to me what the age, race, sex, or orientation was of the person I was hiring even though I knew others had these biases. It always worked for me and the company I was hiring for at the time. Now if everyone were just like Tom.

Visit Campaign for Liberty Blog to read Tom’s article.

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(LetsTalkTurkeyBlog.com) “Some companies are open to hiring aging professionals for executive positions but no one is willing to do so for the junior jobs, like copywriters.” Other eye-opening facts about the way 20 and 30 somethings are running companies these days.

Visit the LetsTalkTurkeyBlog for the entire story.

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(EyeOnAnnapolis.net) An Annapolis City police officer crashed his motorcycle on the way home from work late one May evening. The article at EyeOnAnnapolis has some rather “eye-opening” facts about the crash and driver. Where are the example setters?

Read the entire story at EyeOnAnnapolis.net.

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Living quite close to the forest means that when you least expect it you might receive a visit from one the residents. This one had a few strawberries from the patch outside the back window then entertained himself staring up at my parrot.

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We had a serious Nor’ Easter blow through on May 26. I took a photo or two during the event. Three to four foot seas. Taken from the beach at Neeld Estate near Bay Blvd and Ridge Rd.

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Chrysler is mailing out $1000 loyalty coupons to Jeep owners apparently as an incentive to purchase a new car. It hit me after I read the letter. Do I really want to buy a new car now from Government Motors or Congressional Motors – whatever we call the company now.

I have always loved my Jeep, but the company that makes them is different now. It isn’t the same. Billions of tax-payer monies are now tied up with GM. The $1000 discount isn’t free and then there are all of the family dealerships that were forced to close under the new Government Motors management.

This may be one of those offers I pass up. I’d almost rather buy a used or new pre-2009 model from a dealer forced to close before throwing anymore hard earned cash at a new company selling what appears to be the same models. That $1000 isn’t really theirs to give away anyway. At least it shouldn’t be.

Would you buy a new Government Motors vehicle? How do you feel about the incentive?

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Thanks PenguinSix.com

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Fans of Glenn Beck know that he asked us all to consider 9 principles and 12 values when looking at the effectiveness of our political system. When the principles and values didn’t appear to be part of decisions then it is up to us to call attention to the situation.

Calvert had a Tea Party event in March and there was a follow-up Tea Party in Annapolis but what are we doing now to maintain momentum for the 2010 elections? Who are the candidates we want to replace and who are the candidates we want to elect? Seems to me, given the socialist agenda of the current federal administration that we need to prepare for the next election cycle – and do it now.

In the absence of any organized local 9-12 meetings I’m doing my part by offering my support to an outstanding conservative candidate for Maryland state senate in District 27. That is Ron Miller. Ron’s a family man of extraordinary good sense who I believe keeps my principles and values in mind because he shares them.

What about the rest of us? What are you doing to prepare yourself for change we can believe in? Where are the rest of the Calvert and Prince George’s County blogs sharing The 9-12 Project?

Things we can do to increase awareness are:

1. Meet to talk about it.Meet with neighbors, talk over the fence or get a group together.

2. Fly a Gadsden flag to symbolize your frustration.

3. Support a 9-12 candidate even if it only means a dollar contribution.

4. Tell a friend about the 9-12 project and watch Glenn Beck on the Fox News channel.

5. Support 9-12 events in our immediate area.

Southern Maryland is rather quiet politically. People seem to wait until the last minute before expressing an opinion or offering support. I don’t believe we have the luxury of doing that now. Let’s chat it up about the 2010 elections. The DougWeb bulletin board is available for the like-minded and the curious to chat on the topic. You can also reply to the blog post.

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(Red County) by Ron Miller 5/26/09 “When U.S. Senator Arlen Specter switched to the  Democratic Party earlier this spring, it sent shock waves through the political establishment. The GOP’s ability to influence the debate in the Senate was suddenly in jeopardy, and his defection touched off an argument that continues to rage about the role of moderates in the present and future Republican Party”

Read the rest of Ron’s article at Red County. District 27 voters for Prince Georges and Calvert County Maryland Ron Miller is the right Miller for state senate in 2010!

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(TAF via DIGG) – The Angry Fisherman blog wants all of us to give DNR all the help we can to identify the person(s) that dropped a gill net at the Choptank!

Read the story: http://digg.com/d1sCFh

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