
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.
Millions were made by
slots mafia
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.
The end is near for this year’s session of the
General Assembly and for yet one more year, Del. Johnny Wood is still
fuming over being sacked as a committee chairman, where he used to do a
lot of good for the county. But Johnny is still active enough to
maintain his political support and two of the plotters for his job are
Taxing Tommy Mattingly and the guy who wants to be the Benevolent
Dictator for the county, John K. Parlett. With possible replacements
like these guys, the voters ought to chip in for a bionic heart for
Johnny Wood, with him not being a real tiger its better than having one
of these guys as delegate. Others loom on the horizon, as many friends
of Helen Dorsey urge her to run, as she has plenty of appeal and no
baggage like the other three. Its only two years away and Wood is drying
out, Mattingly is cooking his goose by doing his part to make sure taxes
go up even more and Parletts attempt to once more put that lame charter
government on the county, with himself taking the Throne of