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Marc
Well, the FDA pulled them.
Marc
Mad props to the City Council for rousing me from post-election burnout with their proposed pay raise:
If approved, the pay raises for elected officials would come less than six months after the mayor and council approved $30 million in increased telephone, energy and real estate taxes as part of the city's $2.1 billion budget.The idea of Baltimore's elected offiials giving themselves a pay raise after raising taxes $30 million and laying off city school employees two years in a row is revolting, to say the least. At least one council member agrees (thanks to Baltimore resident E. Nelson):In 1999, council members' annual salaries rose 30 percent, from $37,000 to $48,000. The council vice president's pay increased 28 percent, from $39,000 to $50,000. The pay for the council president and comptroller rose 23 percent, from $65,000 to $80,000. The mayor's pay jumped 32 percent, from $95,000 to $125,000.
The 6 percent pay raise being introduced at today's council session would give council members salaries of $50,880. The vice president, whom the new council will elect next month, would be paid $53,000. Dixon and Pratt would each get $84,800; and the mayor would be paid $132,500.
I just want you to know that I am totally against any pay raise for the City Council.This outrage, coupled with Mayor O'Malley's recent decision to throw Police Commissioner Kevin Clark to the wolves, got me thinking: what, exactly will be the rationale behind Martin O'Malley's 2006 gubernatorial campaign? Is he going to run on his record - a corrupt, violent school system, rampant murders, and government by the fatcats, for the fatcats?Councilman Ed Reisinger
I know at least one of the Jerks, and one of our loyal readers are O'Malley fans - so explain to me why O'Malley, rather than Bob Ehrlich (or even Doug Duncan) deserves to be governor.
Marc
Addendum: Ehrlich campaign ad, 2006 - picture it:
Opening still shot: chalk outline on a city street (preferably child-sized)Gold!
Fade to black, text on screen: "X murders under Martin O'Malley's administration"
Cut to still shot from funeral: pastor, women wailing, etc.
Cue Black Female Voice: "They're mourning again in Baltimore..."
My election prediction: Bush 291, Kerry 247.
Marc
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approximately only one meter tall, had the head the size of a grapefruit, and a brain about a third the size of ours. Which, surprisingly is smaller than chimpanzee brains, but these newly discovered 'Hobbits', as they're being called, had very evolved tool making behavior and were organized hunters. All in all this is very big.
Sunday I watched some football with the Jerks. I've heard stories about how you want to steer clear of the trio on game days, but all in all there was only a tame evening to be had.What's he talking about? What could be wilder than three men curled up on a futon drinking champagne?
Marc
"Well, you know, I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good," Heinz Kerry said. "But I don't know that she's ever had a real job -- I mean, since she's been grown up. So her experience and her validation comes from important things, but different things."Class all the way - this must of that opinionation we heard so much about at the convention:Heinz Kerry said she sees her age as a benefit -- she is 66 and Bush 57. "I'm older, and my validation of what I do is a little bit bigger -- because I'm older, and I've had different experiences. And it's not a criticism of her. It's just, you know, what life is about," she said.
And my only hope is that, one day soon, women -- who have all earned their right to their opinions -- instead of being called opinionated, will be called smart and well-informed, just like men.Teresa has certainly earned the right to be called an asshole, just like a man. Is there anyone in America who wants to hear this useless old bag talking to us about "validation" for the next four years?
Marc
From the Sun:
Maryland voters will get their first chance to see the candidates' differences from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Maryland Public Television. Three reporters - Wiley Hall of the Associated Press, Anne Kramer of radio station WBAL-AM and MPT's Lou Davis - will question the candidates.Now as far as I know, Lou Davis and Anne Kramer are your standard apolitical newsreader types. But Wiley Hall III is a far-left writer whose resume includes a stint as editor of the Afro-American and a column in the City Paper. You can read through Hall's City Paper columns here - try and find the one about how voucher supporters are bigots or how Nightline is a conservative mouthpiece.
I'm not really surprised at this kind of dishonesty from the local media anymore, but I can't figure out why they would go to the trouble of stacking the deck against E.J. Pipkin. Can't they let the poor bastard take his 20-point beating without being called a racist by Wiley friggin' Hall?
Marc
The national media got the memo that John Kerry is trying to emphasize his religious "beliefs":
Of course, there's already a (real) religious guy running for president, but he's crazy! ... right? If you haven't read the NYT Magazine piece on Bush's faith, there isn't much new - just the usual litany of Bush is dumb stories recast as Bush is a zealot stories. The best part is a brief glimpse outside of the cocoon:
And for those who don't get it? That was explained to me in late 2002 by Mark McKinnon, a longtime senior media adviser to Bush, who now runs his own consulting firm and helps the president. He started by challenging me. ''You think he's an idiot, don't you?'' I said, no, I didn't. ''No, you do, all of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!''Marc
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