Old pal Kenny Dement took a tumble in the CVS in Lexington Park last week and no one would answer repeated calls for help to call 911. Another customer came to his aid while the drugstore personnel did nothing and this week he was expected to undergo surgery to keep his ticker in high gear. Good luck to Kenny who is working on his next breakfast fundraiser in anticipation of running again for commissioner. But Republicans have some different ideas about Dement and are preparing for a candidate to knock him off in the GOP primary after Dement played ball with the Democrats and voted to raise taxes on real estate by more than $14 million right when homeowners have seen their property values plummet.

Will Governor Martin O’Malley really come through on his promise to bring commuter rail to Southern Maryland? Who knows. He has had two years and he continues to say that his staff has been instructed to work up a plan, but at this point, where is the plan. This is similar to Richard Nixon saying he had a secret plan to end the Viet Nam War. That plan was so secret, even Nixon didn’t know what it was and the war didn’t end until after Nixon resigned.

Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced that he and his wife have separated, so much for the family values on the part of the Democrats. The Republicans were always after O’Malley when he was mayor of Baltimore, claiming he was stepping out on his wife and the HBO movie "Wire" portrayed a character who was a spitting image of the ambitious O’Malley at having an affair with his press secretary.

The politicians pose their families in their campaign material and then announce that they don’t want their families involved in the press attention of their public duties. Of course, they can’t have it both ways. Old President Jimmy Carter had a brother named Billy who came out with his own brand of beer, making it clear he wanted attention to help sell his brew.

Will O’Malley dump Brown from his ticket after the divorce gets ugly? Will the GOP try to make hay off of whatever affairs have been circulating around the Lt. Governor’s activities? The State Police acted as a dating service for Governor Parris Glendening, as he sneaked around on his wife with all kinds of rendevous with his deputy chief of staff, then Glendening dumped his wife and married his staffer and then the Love Child showed up. What shenanigans are going on with this latest breakup.

When Barbara Mandel was dumped by Governor Marvin Mandel for Jeanne Dorsey, whom he married, Barbara kicked the Governor out of the Governor’s Mansion and he had to go live in the Hilton Hotel down on the waterfront. Now that we have a new scandal brewing in the state capital we shall faithfully report all we can find out and make up the rest.

The Sheriffs of St. Mary’s Meet

"Okay, this here meetin’ of the former and present Sheriffs of St. Mary’s County will come to order," said Sheriff Wayne Pettit. "I have the honor of noting that Timmy will be here in just a few minutes and is bringing everyone new honorary Sheriffs badges and gun permits."

"I don’t need any dad-blamed gun permit," said Sheriff Ben Burroughs, "I can handle any burglars real good myself, I don’t need any stupid state troopers or women deputies out here telling me what to do, I can shoot good too, I get plenty of practice with Jarboe’s excess cats at the market."

"Well, I don’t need a gun permit either, I keep one gun in my right boot when I am driving my Harley," said Sheriff Dickie Do Voorhaar and I reckon no one will ever know I am packing a small derringer in my helmet, right next to my helmet cam. It works like this, I just wink and the camera comes on and shines out a red laser for me to aim at and then I push a button and can blow away any tough hombre that is in front of me on the highway, in case I pull into a biker bar and run into some old dude I locked up years ago."

"Well I was the best sheriff, at least whenever my wife let me have the badge," said Sheriff Dave Zylak. "I found that best way to get along with the public and to get more work out of my deputies was to stay in my office and play that neat golf game on my computer while my wife ran things, she did have to keep Cusic in line, he kept insisting we needed a mounted unit added to the department so he could bring his horse to work with him, I never understood why he wanted to ride a horse instead of cruising around in a big Ford Expedition."

"I was elected to three terms, that is more than any of you all and I could still be sheriff if I didn’t listen to those Democrats who talked me into running against Roy Dyson," said Sheriff Pettit. "Roy Dyson has left a trail of defeated politicians behind him for 34 years. Every one with a big ego and a fat wallet was left with an empty purse and their ass kicked, I ought to know, and old Hambone was just the latest to brag that he was going to Annapolis and he spent a half million bucks trying to do it, just look what he got. He would have been better off faking his resume instead of his college degree and gotten Ehrlich to give him a fancy state job, but no, he was going to whip Dyson."

"Well I am the only true Republican here," said Sheriff Voorhaar and on the side I can work at being a minister, I want to be one of these TV preachers, did you all see how much money they make, people just call in their credit cards. So I can pack heat as a retired cop, blow away bikers, run a TV ministry and, heck, I can even run for office again if I want to, people loved me. Maybe I should run for county commissioner."

"I am still able to drive fast in a marked vehicle with lights and sirens," said Sheriff Zylak, "I have lots of fun doing that 911 stuff but I just don’t understand why they named the 911 center after the attack on New York City by those Ragheads with the airplanes, does that mean that the Ragheads will attack our 911 center next? If they do, we are ready for those rug merchants, we can put on chemical suits and roll around in a big pool while we spray water over everyone, we can get naked in those tents and film all the women, who have to take off their clothes on my command, I just want to get that Mattingly kid out of my office, he knows too much and sends secret emails about what we are doing to The Rag."

"Well, I can tell you right now that I was the best Sheriff," said Sheriff Voorhaar, "It wasn’t you Wayne, you wouldn’t let me run things by myself, you only have me part of the department to run, you kept around Captain Chicken and the Fat Fireman Cooper and those guys were just idiots and undermined everything I did."

"Just hold on for a Mississippi Minute," said Sheriff Pettit. "I professionalized this department, which was just full of a bunch of clowns."

"That isn’t true," said Sheriff Joe Lee Somerville. "We had our problems but we provided good services to the public, treated people right, went after drug dealers and kept the peace. What more could you ask for?"

"A lot more," said Zylak. "I didn’t appreciate much your son running against me, that’s what made me lose."

"You lost to me because you didn’t keep the faith with the public, you failed to go after the drug dealers and you never fired anyone over the Loot Scandal," said Sheriff Tim Cameron, who walked in the door. "It should be no mystery to you that the public expected to have a Sheriff who people respected."

"Why does The Rag write all those glowing articles about you," said Sheriff Voorhaar to Sheriff Cameron.

"It might have something to do with the fact that our officers do a good job, respect the law and serve the public," said Sheriff Cameron. "We answer the questions of the press and admit it when we are wrong."

"Did you leave anything out," asked Sheriff Pettit.

"Yeah, I forgot to mention that we don’t clean out the newsstands of all the papers the way you did, Voorhaar," said Sheriff Cameron. "My wife doesn’t call and make murder threats the way yours did, Voorhaar, my captain doesn’t steal from the agency the way you allowed without anyone getting arrested or fired, Zylak, and instead of playing golf, I work on ways to reduce crime and prevent the public from being victims to criminals."

"But I had good banquets," said Sheriff Pettit.

"The State Police told me that you all have to get permits from them to carry guns and that means all of you, except Zylak, have to pass eye exams. Zylak, you have to get a note from your wife," said Sheriff Cameron.

Democrats Will Win Big This Fall

 

"This here meeting of the Democratic Party must come to order," said Central Committee Chairman Kathy O’Brien. "We have to get all of our favorite issues out on the table and make sure the voters understand where we stand."

"Okay with me, Buckwheat," said Gypsy Joe Anderson, central committee member and former county commissioner. "I am a hip guy and I can adapt to any set of liberal circumstances. I wore this black stuff on my face to this meeting tonight to show that I can be a black candidate for commissioner instead of that chunky woman who ran last time. It takes a man to win, just look at Hillary, she was beaten by a guy as us guys are tried, true, tested and have extra body parts that the women don’t have."

"I am really embarrassed that you would look the way you do tonight, Joe, you don’t have to be black to win an election," said Julie Randall. "You make all Democrats really seem kind of insane."

"I’s got this stuff down right, I can rap, I can rip, I can wiggle and I even got my pickup truck lowered and had the black tint put on the windows," said Joe. "I am ready to run for commissioner again and I will be in the running to be picked by President Obama to be an ambassador to Cuba, as who has more experience hanging around with communists? I am the right person for the job of any color, I am even willing to get a sex change if I have to."

"Okay, this meeting must come to order," said Kathy. "We have to show that we can raise taxes in the face of adversity, those stupid Republicans are all about lowering taxes and letting people control their own property. We know from experience not to trust those fools in the general public making decisions with their own money and their own land, they are all skulking around with bibles and guns and hell, they are just dangerous."

"How about letting Kenny Dement come back to being a Democrat?" asked Kathy.

"I say let him sit over there and rot as a Republican," said Anderson. "He came into the 2002 election and stole my cushy job away from me, he swamped me by lying to people and saying he would ‘listen’ to them. I ran on raising taxes and I was the one who was always making deals with developers, now he whips me, he raises taxes, he makes deals with the developers and he is the one doing favors for people and getting Fritz to drop charges and fix tickets and he is the one who gets those nice little party favors and under the table gratuities, this should all be MINE, DO YOU HEAR ME…MINE!"

"Calm down, Joe, you can win again but you’ll have to wipe that black stuff off your face, as I don’t think the voters are ready for a cross-dressed, cross racial communist who wants to raise their taxes and strip away all private property along the shore lines of the St. Mary’s River," said Kathy. "But I could be wrong."

"Let Kenny Dement stay as a Republican, Hambone is going to run again and they make a good team," said Anderson. "I don’t see how I have to sit on the sidelines while all the special deals go to someone else. Let Hambone print up some college degrees for Dement and give him a cap and gown and let him graduate. Hambone will run against Jackie Russell and Russell did the same thing. All the deals to developers that Hambone made, Russell kept. How do you like that for a lying sneaking liberal Democrat?"

"Thank God for Danny Raley and Tommy Mattingly," said Julie. "We depended on them to raise taxes during these hard economic times and they did and since the public loves tax hikes, we will have a clean sweep at all levels in November. You can get ready right now to to visit President Obama and his new vice-president Hillary....now just one good shove down the steps of Air Force One and Hillary will be president. And since Bill will take over her U. S. Senate seat, he can be appointed by her to Vice President and then one more good shove and we can have Bill Clinton back as President."

Leonardtown Power Play

The recent little political power play by the liberal Democrat crowd in Leonardtown was just a preview of what they have in store for the next county elections. The far-left crowd recently manipulated the creation of a new Human Services Department and during a time of fiscal crisis added a half dozen new county employees and consolidated a hold over the hiring processes of county government. Note that the Good Old Boy crowd is and has always been in lockstep with the liberals, they trade favors, waivers and jobs, most of the time to the detriment of the public.

This next election is going to be tough for the Democrats locally as the independents tend to vote Republican on the local level and the Republicans vote Republican along with most of the conservative Democrats, who vote Republican.

After the tax hikes of this year, $14.5 million in new property taxes due to the alliance between the O’Malley tax assessors and the Democrat majority on the Board, The Shadow will now predict that we have seen the end of Democrat county commissioners. The waste, fraud and abuse of the Democrats with their Bubba Government is outrageous. Democrats will continue to hold down courthouse jobs to the extent that they are already in office and will also continue to hold legislative posts.

One legislator who is in the hot seat is Johnny Wood, who will likely have an active Democratic Primary opponent, perhaps as many as three and then the General Election will likely see a Republican taking him on. Johnny hasn’t bee raising the money he used to when he had clout in Annapolis, something he doesn’t have any more. But Taxing Tommy Mattingly and the Benevolent Dictator John K. Parlett will have a tough time running against Deadwood, finding that the Geezer of the Gulch just may have one more election left in his bones and an appetite to win. If the three are in the Democratic Primary, a bloody battle will ensue and Wood will come out on top. But will Wood win in November? Only The Shadow knows for sure. Republican Shane Mattingly may make another swing at this job, and like Francie Eagan, the third time might be the charm.

Are Blacks Entitled to Have a Black President?

By Kenneth C. Rossignol

ST. MARY’S TODAY

This year marks the third time there has been a serious contender for President of the United States that is a black American.  The late Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm was the first, the next was black activist Jesse Jackson and this year the third is within closing distance on locking up the Democratic Party nomination for President.

Because Sen. Barak Obama is a serious contender does that entitle blacks to have him as President and does it make those who vote against him racists? 

In the minds of many misguided and uneducated blacks the answer to this question is a resounding yes.

Blacks in America have been used to a special set of rules that applies to them, against them and for them.  These rules are mostly unfair and since unfair rules have been applied to blacks for decades and even centuries, somehow opportunist blacks who are indeed lazy and don’t want to earn their way in this world think that to even the score of massive injustice that all they have to do is be loud, obnoxious and persistent and the white world will hand them everything they want, just by throwing a tantrum.  They think so because it usually works. But that day is about to end.

The truth of the matter is that whites are barely a majority any more, since an influx of Latinos have snuck over the border, under the border or around the border and started having children at rates that exceed the number of black men who have headed into prison as they sought to take what it is that they don’t wish to work hard to earn, use drugs as a crutch or act as greedy street corner crack dealers.  

What the loudmouth blacks who would rather bloviate than work don’t realize is that there is a large contingent of whites who have learned from their black brothers and are duplicating their misadventures with about the same results, filling up subsidized housing projects, committing crimes and going to jail. 

While an impressive black middle class has emerged in this land led by hard-working God-fearing two-parent families who fill the temples and churches on Sundays in areas such as Prince George’s County, the bi-racial surge of low-achieving, chronic substance abusing lazaholics have spread out on the bottom layers of American society, unwilling to work, unwilling to achieve, unwilling to learn but mastering all of the finer elements of thug fashion, electronic wonderland and music.

The Rooster Society of both white and black races have evolved as they were put on the dole by liberal Democrat philosophies that it is better for a man to get a welfare check than it is to work for a living.

The women who act as breeders for these Roosters also learned that they can control the money by making sure the Rooster is out of the henhouse when the paymaster comes by to check on how many eggs have been hatched.

The more little chicks, the more feed for the Rooster.

Therefore, the money provided to the U.S. Treasury feed store by those who do work for a living gets put in the feed bins for the hens, the chicks and even the Roosters.
The blacks who want the white man to pay for everything for them will soon be presenting that argument to those of Asian and Latino descent, both of which are hard-working groups of people and not likely to think that now they have to bear the white man’s burden.

When you’ve been working for 25 years at two jobs and taking night classes in order to get ahead, buy your own business and raise your family, it’s going to be a tough sell to the Asians and Latinos, that now they have to take over running the feed store so the black and white roosters and hens can live off of those who earn.  Don’t even try to convince the hard-nosed black middle class they have to dig in their pockets to pay for the black and white breeders and roosters.

Obama has been handed everything to him on a platter by a guilt-ridden white society, his campaign is propped up by limousine liberal whites who likely rarely practice the principles of fair play and equal opportunity and simply embrace the theory. 

Obama’s campaign has been aided by the foul play of the politically correct Clinton machine, who now is drowning in their self-serving legacy of cheap tricks and politically correct manipulations which marked their actions in the 1990’s.  In short, they are getting what they deserve but don’t count them out.  They are tough, smart and resourceful and until they open her sleeping place and drive a silver stake through her heart, it is likely she will win the nomination before it’s all over.

But this is the first time that many blacks are paying attention to the election process and some think that this is “their turn” and if denied the presidency, they have been cheated one more time.

What these very foolish people don’t realize is that every time they espouse this view they lose votes for Obama. 

It must be pretty frustrating for the Obama campaign to have to deal with the many sloppy word choices of the candidate, his wife, his pastor and his campaign operatives, nearly matching the twisted verbal choices of the Clintons. 

The truth of the matter is that most voters are willing to vote for a black American to be president. But the views, opinions and likely actions are the chief factors that voters will consider.   Since Obama’s propensities are to raise taxes, play bridge with crazed dictators and ask his crazy pastor for advise on what to do about all the blacks who got AIDS from the government; his views are now becoming known to what had been an electorate very willing to hire him for the job.  But the interview is now revealing more about him than can stand a good, hard look.

While black voters appear ready to vote for this man even if he is revealed to have been with O. J. Simpson when the football player killed his wife and her white boyfriend, helped blow up the World Trade Center or is part of the Bin Laden glee club, other voters are not likely to drink the grape Kool-Aid. 

Does this make black voters wrong?  No, this is America and they can use any reason they want in deciding who to vote for, silly or high-minded, any reason is valid.  After all, we saw all the stupid Florida voters who thought later that they may not have voted for who they intended to vote for in 2000.

That is why when 90 percent of black voters show that they believe that the color of a man’s skin is more important than what is inside him when hiring for a job shows that they are simply practicing what has been perpetrated upon them for a long time.  Not right? No, but understandable.

The only way Obama will become president is if he can convince the voters that even though he stands with fruitcakes, he doesn’t really like them or partakes of the not-too tasty dessert. 

As long as Obama continues to reveal himself to have the views of an elitist, a Marxist and a religious opportunist, he will leak votes on a daily basis, until the last votes are counted at either the Democratic convention or the general election and find that when all is said and done he gets to keep the day job as a member of the U. S. Senate.

America will likely one day elect a black and a woman as President but it won’t be Obama or Clinton.  It will most likely be Condi Rice and when the time nears, the radical blacks, the mouthy and “the entitled” will forget about their disdain for her brains and her conservative views and once again will embrace her skin color.  But Rice will have earned the support of others for what she thinks, not because of her race.

Suspense Slithers to Bitter End; Bill to Gut Glut of Slots Sluts Slogs Through

ANNAPOLIS — When it came down to the last minute of this year’s session of the Maryland General Assembly it wasn’t the Fat Lady who sang but it was the Cash Cow, Del. Johnny Wood, who tried one last time to help out all of they mystery money of the unregulated and corruptible slot machine interests, but he failed. The House passed the Senate version of the dump out the illegal slots bill in the last 30 minutes of the session, according to Del. John L. Bohanan (D. Lexington Park).

An amendment by Del. Johnny Wood (D. Mechanicsville) was offered at about 11 pm Monday to make legal all the machines which were in place Feb. 28th, would have made legal statewide. Like most of Delegate Wood’s bills, a veteran delegate from St. Mary’s County who was demoted from being a committee chairman by current Speaker Michael Busch, the Wood, anything goes slot machine amendment failed on a 74-49 vote. A last minute amendment on Monday to make slots legal at any commercial bingo establishment, which essentially would have done the same thing as Wood’s amendment, passed but was then defeated in the last minutes of the session. Wood and other sleazy advocates for the illegal slot machine operatives in the House then began a strategy of talking to death every bill as it came up, effectively avoiding a filibuster but still slowing everything down to a snails pace.

The real deal now appears to be that ADF Bingo won’t have slot machines, that the corner casinos are out of business and will now have to go back to running businesses which serve their customers well without having a slot machine parlor. Charitable groups will be able to have the devices as long as all proceeds go to the charity and not to others.

While local yokels involved with various charities such as the Leonardtown Volunteer Fire Department, Little Flower School and the Mechanicsville Lions Club, groups which were suddenly laden with big bucks, enough to turn them into prostitutes for an illegal group of casino owners, all of which have vanished as fast as they appeared; the big money was unaccounted for and wound up being split up by characters as diverse as out of state slot machine kings, local saloon keepers and a guy who runs a business which makes claims that it saved three local schools from closing but the reality is, he and the bars which had them machines in place, were the ones making all the money.

The single most disappointing revelations about this sleazy drama was seeing really fine folks in this county empty their heads of all brains, put aside their scruples and ignore the reality that these slot machine kings were ripping everyone off, giving a minor tip to the charities and keeping millions for themselves. The gambling addicted were leaving behind their paychecks, the cheapskate parents who didn’t want to pay realistic tuition at Little Flower and the lazy firemen who, unlike the generations who have gone before them, won’t put out the work at the Leonardtown Carnival, were happy to take blood money to buy new fire trucks. What the hell is going on to have these fine people prostitute themselves to crooks and Mafioso’s, the way they did? Shame on Leonardtown’s fire department and rescue squad to hoodwink the people of Virginia into playing the machines at Coles Point Tavern. Shame on the Mechanicsville Lions who got $3600 while the slots kings split more than twenty thousand from the "Lions machines".

There have been at least four generations of heroes who have jumped from the beds and left their jobs to rush to the aid of others at Leonardtown VFD and the rescue squad over the years. What turned them into such whores now? They get a fire tax, they have the genuine respect and admiration of the community but they signed up on the side of crooks? The people of this county have supported their carnival over the years and many people who were too old or infirm to be firefighters worked at the carnival. True, the bloodsucker developers put in a huge injection of slum housing which provided a fresh round of hooliganism at the carnival, but the cops are paid to keep order and the fire department should have demanded they do their job.

All of the fraternal and civic groups are going downhill due to the selfish slobs of the younger generation who won’t volunteer and work the way their parents and grandparents did. Too bad, but having unregulated slots which produces money for paying off politicians isn’t the way to go.

Who the hell are the creeps from the Alternatives for Youth who showed up in Annapolis to say that poor little kids won’t get mental health services if this crooked business didn’t continue. It is quite likely that the overpaid staff of these blood-sucking and bloated "non-profits" saw a way to make more money. Who the hell was giving all of this counseling before the slot machines arrived last fall? Just more crap from the touchy-feely do-gooders who pad their own pockets at the expense of everyone else.

This wasn’t St. Mary’s County’s finest hour.

It is one thing to have legalized slot machines run by the State of Maryland, keeping all of the profits after payouts to players and putting the money into the General Fund or for education, where the usual subjects will steal the money by rigged bids and over-priced contracts, but to let this blatant corruption take place with real live church people waddling sideways as they attempted to keep their hand in the same till with crooks is beyond belief.