That’s Elbert With An E

To title this post “around the horn” just sounds so much like… everybody else, so why not tell you what kind of horn?

Delaware Liberal waxes juvenile with Top “Mike Castle and John McCain are so old…” Jokes (To Date).

Howard at Delmar Dustpan has a post about Joshua Hopkins Marvil, former governor of Delaware who passed away on April 8, 1895, one of several governors from Laurel.

Michael at Monoblogue is being stalked by another local blogger but he seems to be handling it well. Oh, and if you are reading this Michael, I will respond to this post as soon as possible. I’m still thinking.

Jeff The Baptist has found out you can get real classic Coke in the US. I haven’t had the chance to look yet, but I will!

Hube points out a publicly-funded religious school in Minnesota, and oh yeah, it’s not a Christian school either.

Brian at PonderMints has just been having a crappy week month. Between his health and driving problems, he has been stressed. Let’s offer up a prayer for him. He could use some relief.

Mike Mahaffie found an odd word in Outlook’s dictionary.

Uh… that’s all I’ve got.

Most of my opinion here has already been publicly been said by the pundits that make a living being pundits. So some of this doesn’t look original although I thought it before they said it so I’m saying it anyway. Do you follow me?

Regarding this article from the New York Times about a relationship between John McCain and Vicki Iseman, the first thought running through my mind was this: get into bed with liberals (New York Times) and this is the way they will treat you. McCain has a history of trying to play nice with liberals. The New York Times endorsed the man several weeks ago in his bid for the Republican nomination, which apparently he welcomed, during the same time they sat on this story. They apparently thought he was an easy target, someone they could take down with a scandal. This one may not stick, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t have some more goodies in their bag of tricks.

Can’t anyone in DC figure out that you can’t play nice with the left? They will trick, lie, cheat, steal, etc., to get what they want. They are The Dark Side.

Someone made a comment on Rush’s show that is worth repeating. With Clinton, sex didn’t matter. Lying under oath didn’t matter. But with McCain, it suddenly matters. Note to the left: you can’t have it both ways.

DelawareLiberal doesn’t think this controversy is going away anytime soon. I guess time will tell.

Here’s an observation I had that I haven’t heard yet. Let’s assume that the Democrats nominate Barak Obama. Do you recall how Obama got his Senate seat? A sex scandal involving his Republican opponent Jack Ryan forced him out of the race. The Republicans did get someone else on the ballot, Alan Keyes, but he didn’t get the support Ryan had thereby losing in a big way. I wouldn’t be surprised to see that scenario replayed in the national election assuming that McCain has something that scandalous in his past. The left plays dirty. They will trick, lie, cheat, steal, etc., to get what they want. They are The Dark Side.

And to be clear, I’m no fan of John McCain. See here, here, and here.

Anyway, that’s the thinking of this armchair pundit.

We’ve had a rash of special elections since the ‘06 election. The up-and-coming special election is in Delaware’s 14th Senatorial District. As reported in First State Politics, partisans are active in the 14th knocking down and damaging the signs for Republican Joanne Christian then placing signs for Democrat Bruce Ennis in it’s place. Shameful and disgusting, yet it’s no surprise coming from the party that will do anything to retain their power. It’s doubtful that this will make the News Journal because the damage was done to the Republican’s signs. Let one, just one Democrat sign be even tilted, and it will probably be top of the fold and top of the web page.

Ed Okonowicz is going to be at the Laurel Library on Wednesday October 24 at 7:00pm. He is a great ghost storyteller. I got the pleasure to see him on a couple of occasions at the Laurel Middle School a few years ago. While some of his stories are pretty unbelievable, his passion for what he does pours out making his stories fascinating. If you can, stop by and hear this author!

I grabbed that announcement from the front of the Laurel Star, our local weekly paper. The Star has a web presence, but it is pretty lame. If you want to get any news from them, you need to pick up the paper. I don’t get much from the paper, and sometimes grabbing news from the web is much easier, thus my bellyaching about their web site. Most of what I read in the Star are the opinion columns and letters, occasionally going through the police reports and anything else that catches my eye. They appear to have great sports coverage. I’m not into sports so I seldom stop on those pages. I’ve come to realize that while I am OK with Frank Calio voicing his opinions, I’m better off not reading his column unless I feel like taking in some socialist communist Democrat propaganda or the “cut and run” doctrine regarding Iraq. If I want to read that crap, I could watch Al Jazeera, seeing as our enemies read the Democrat talking points, or the latest stories from the Cuban News Agency. I could go “old school” and dive into some historical papers from the old Soviet Union. Nah. I thought that locals were generally more conservative, but there seems to be an unusually high concentration of liberals at the local papers, which is not much different than our national papers. Sad.

I was very happy to see a picture of the Laurel 2007 Homecoming Queen Kelly Thibeau on the cover of the October 11 issue of the Laurel Star. She’s a nice young lady and clearly surprised and happy about the honor bestowed upon her.

More than likely, something I’ve said in here will come back to haunt me (remember I started off with Ed Okonowicz). Time will tell. I’ll run for office or something, someone will cherry-pick something from this blog, then use the devilish juice squeezed from those cherries to hurt me in some way, tempting the public to drink from their cup of evil.

Uh, maybe I shouldn’t write like that again.

Visit Newsbusters site and take a poll asking the question, “Why Are the Media More Likely to Tell False Stories About Conservatives Than Liberals?“

Salisbury News has the bumper sticker today. Take a look. No doubt that WMDT isn’t biased, is it?

UPDATE: It appears that the station was a victim of some left wing nut. Look here.

I just watched the 11pm news on WBOC and saw their new anchor. Seemed to do a good job. WBOC’s got his bio up on the site. The guy’s got a nice resume. Curiousity had me, so I Googled him and found a blog and a MySpace page. Sorry to see that his viewpoint is liberal. Hopefully his viewpoints won’t color his news reporting like so many of the people he has listed as his heros on the MySpace page.

It does make me wonder how many libs they’ve got there at WBOC. I haven’t noticed a regular liberal slant. At times it seems that their national news reporting is just the same old crap that CBS spews out. It would be nice sometimes to just watch the news and not feel like you’re being maniplulated by someone. I guess that’s why I watch Fox.