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Appearing Monday on SiriusXM’s The Joe Madison Show, failed presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said he believes that two white men should not be on the 2020 Democrat ticket.

A partial transcript is as follows:

JOE MADISON: What do you say to my audience and other audiences that they’ll be more millionaires on the [debate] stage and in the campaign than there will be black people. What do you say to them, particularly younger folk who might be turned off by this? And number two, would you consider being a running mate?

SEN. CORY BOOKER: I’ll just be blunt. I didn’t know this much until I started looking at the presidency, how well-positioned African-Americans are to determine who the nominee is for the Democratic Party. I didn’t realize that from Maryland to Mississippi, African-Americans range from 40 to 70 percent of the primary electorate. There have been very few occasions, I think when Jesse Jackson ran, was one of the few and only times in modern presidential times when African-Americans have not really influenced or decided the winner because the black vote usually consolidates around one candidate and becomes the deciding factor.

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WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Major changes are underway on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge as crews are in the process of removing tollbooths.

Construction crews installed jersey walls Sunday night and it will take months to remove all of the toll lanes.

The goal of this work is to keep traffic flowing because transportation officials don’t want drivers to slow down at the toll plaza. In the upcoming weeks, a gantry (an overhead hang) will be installed and used to collect toll fees. If drivers don’t have an EZ pass they will receive a bill in the mail.

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Yo, Joe!

A friend of my friend’s son, down in Temperanceville, is having an electronic hearing device implanted next month. I was there when he was discussing music his kid would hear for the first time, and lamented what was on the radio, and asked what we would suggest for a “mix tape” for his 10 year old. He recognized the greats, as he was wearing a Rush T shirt in the unusually warm weather, coincidentally the same concert I got my T-shirt from in Baltimore almost 10 years ago. He is looking for more obscure works. I suggested “I’m Shipping up to Boston” by the Dropkick Murphys and Harry Nilsson’s, ” Jump into the Fire.”

I would like to suggest more obscure rock music that really would blow the uninitiated mind. He will surely hear Led Zepp., Elvis, Metallica, and the Beatles, but we are looking for different mind exploding sounds. My first suggestion had bag pipes in a rap rock piece. My second is just a personal favorite, that I used to almost be able to run a mile to. I am looking for other inspired, lost rock pieces that he would not likely hear on today’s repeat Taylor Swift or Pink stations, immediately channel flipping, garbage. Trying to stay away from the often played greats. That will come to him “naturally”, despite him now being a cyborg! 🙂

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Editor’s Note: Ok readers name that tune……..

Joe,

The administrators at Parkside High School conducted a vehicle search. They found more than one firearm.

The disciplinary action, as specified by the WCBOE code of conduct, was not followed. The students had zero disciplinary action.  Brian Briggs was the administrator in charge of these actions.

Considering it’s almost mid January and we were fortunate enough to open the back bar yesterday for the NFL games, the turnout was incredible. The first image, (above) shows my parking lot was completely full. Then came the Ravens loss and I started handing out tissues. At the bar every seat was taken, (mostly women) and the back bar had a nice group of people enjoying the outdoor TV’s and fire pit. 

As for the Ravens, well, they had 2 weeks off and it clearly showed they weren’t as hungry to win as the Titans. Love the Titans or hate them, you have to admit they played an incredible game and deserved to win. If there’s one thing I can say about the NFL games this season, there are incredibly talented players this year on all teams and watching all the games I could I’ve enjoyed the talent across the board. 

Seahawks vs. Packers

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While the above images are disturbing, things get a LOT worse. It used to be when a cat was brought in to the Humane Society it was kept for a good NINE days before they even considered euthanizing it. Then, under new management they recently dropped that down to SIX days. Well guess what, now they’ve decided to do so after THREE days. God forbid you are on vacation and someone let your cat out, it’s now dead.

Well, if you think that’s bad, get this! The Community Cat Coalition does an INCREDIBLE job volunteering by going around and professionally trapping feral cats. They even drive as far as Davidsonville Maryland, (just outside Annapolis) to have them spayed and neutered. So ALL of you know, once that process is done they clip the tip of one ear so that everyone knows they CANNOT reproduce and can be released back into the very area they were trapped in. 

Now you have these Idiots, (above) trapping innocent cats that have been fixed and that includes the Humane Society. After all the work the Cat Coalition does the humane society in all their wisdom and stupidity kills and murders these cats.

Rather than these Facebook people reaching out to Jake Day asking for help when he can’t keep his own house in order, go after the humane society and stop the killing. Stop donating food and money to these killers, murderers as these are NOT kind and gentle people. Their goal is to keep the cute ones and kill the not so cute ones. 

Screw them, shut them down if they can’t do this right. Send your donations, food and support to the Community Cat Coalition instead as they are the ones who are actually doing everything to clean up the cat population by spay and neutering thousands upon thousands of cats. Trust me, what they do is far more complicated and difficult, (expensive) then simply putting cats down because it’s the easy thing to do. 

I’ll close with this. How dare the Humane Society KILL animals that have been fixed! This post better soar with anger because if you can’t tell, I’M OUTRAGED and I will not stop until major changes happen.

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There is lots of blame to be shared. Number one on the original cat owner and I cannot emphasize this enough. Secondly the City of Salisbury is trapping TNR (trapped spayed/neutered & vaccinated) and sending them to the Humane Society which then has to figure out what to do with them. Officers should be educated to look for ear tipping (removal of the ear tip which is the sign for a TNR cat) and release the cat as it is already a feral cat living in a colony that is being cared for by people that are getting nothing but the financial burden of caring for a cat problem that they didn’t create in the first place.

The Humane Society should refuse to take any ear tipped cats and stop destroying the progress that the non-funded cat groups are making. And cat owners need to step up to the plate and get their pets neutered through these groups so their cat doesn’t become part of the problem! If you want to help send donations to the cat heroes that have been correcting everyone’s problems for free. Contact the Community Cat Coalition and see how you can help! 443-909-8047

Is it possible to buy a home for $268.13 and legally kick out a 74-year old woman from the home she has lived in for the last 26 years and who has nearly paid off the mortgage? Apparently yes, it’s not only legal, but it is happening right here in Wicomico County. The staff in our office at Habitat for Humanity are sick about this situation but the fact is there are few resources to help older adults once they have become behind in their property taxes.

Keeping older adults safe in their homes should be a priority for the counties, cities, and municipalities. Can Wicomico County and Salisbury afford to deal with the alternative? Are the homeless shelters equipped for a senior tsunami? I don’t think so. We need more than a conversation about this.

Here is Miss Edna’s story. She gave me permission to share her experiences because she hopes the public can somehow help her and others in this unfortunate situation.

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The United Methodist Church is splitting over an internal compromise on a biblical definition of sexuality. But one Christian leader explains the UMC isn’t the only denomination that’s drifting in that direction.

Talks are under way between leaders of the United Methodist Church for conservative congregations to split off into their own denomination that will be faithful to scripture, leaving liberal denominational leaders and some like-minded congregations in a vastly weakened UMC. But Christian author and apologist Dr. Alex McFarland says they aren’t the first denomination to split over the Bible’s definition of sexuality.
Methodists not the only ones deviating from Scripture

“I think the Presbyterian Church … already did; the hyper-hyper-liberal PCUSA,” he shared this week on American Family Radio. “Three conservative Presbyterian denominations – the PCA, the EPC, and the ECO* – those are three conservative, Bible-believing groups [that] emerged once it was clear that the PCUSA was not merely liberal, but actually apostate.”

Even more alarmingly, he mentions the Southern Baptist Convention..

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