The O'Malley administration started off fairly quietly. His selection of cabinet members seemed to be slow. He justified this by stating that this administration would make selections of officials carefully and the candidates would be well-qualified, as opposed to the previous governor who just chose members of big business who lined their wallets with corporate contributions.
So who did Martin O'Malley choose as
the new head of the controversial Public Service Commission? He chose Steven Larson. Who is that? He was an insurance commissioner during the Glendening administration. And everyone knows that insurance commissioners are well qualified to run the organization that regulates utilities.And speaking of the Public Service Commission, the next rate increase is now set. As you will remember, Martin O'Malley strongly criticized Bob Ehrlich for the proposed 72% increase that was proposed last year. O'Malley sued the PSC, won, and the legislature agreed to an immediate 15% increase with future increases to be determined later. BGE was more than happy to agree, though most liberals were not quite sure why. The rest of us knew better.
The new rate starting in June will be 49% more than the current rate. As I have pointed out in previous blog posts, let's now do the math. For those of you who attended Baltimore City public schools, I apologize that this calculation includes multiplication, so you probably should just skip to the next paragraph so that you don't over-confuse yourselves. 100 is our base. You increase the rates by 15%, so if you have a $100 bill, you will now be paying $115 ($15 is 15% of $100, right?). Now that rates will increase by another 49%. Multiply $115 x 49% = $56.35 ($56.35 is 49% of $115). Add that to $115 and you have $171.35. How much more is $171.35 than $100? It's 71%. Why is it that no one is hollering about a 71% increase? Oh, yes, it's less than the Republican proposed 72%.
Hello liberals! You've been had. We Republicans knew this was going to happen all the time. And why was BGE so happy to accept the Democratic plan? Because it was almost the same as the Republican plan. Did you liberals really think that the government could make BGE give away discounted electricity forever???
Sheila Dixon To The Rescue
Speaking of idiots, there was a tragic accident in a Baltimore City fire fighting training exercise. A young female cadet passed out and died during the drill. An investigation found that there were fires on all 3 floors of the dwelling, yet the fire fighters were made to go to the 3rd floor to fight the fire, which is against fire fighting policy for non-training fires. Mayor-default Sheila Dixon declared (as shown on WBAL-TV on Friday morning) "this deaf could have been prevented." She then fired the highest person in command, Division Chief Kenneth Hyde. If you ask me, she should have gone higher than that. She should have fired everyone up to and including the mayor of Baltimore.
And in a related topic, Baltimore loves to hide behind the facts of the violent crime that plagues the streets. If you do not think that Baltimore is not that violent, check out this page on Wikipedia that documents the ongoing crime in the city. Wikipedia.
Up In Smoke
Liberal extremists in Annapolis like Michael E. Busch want to increase taxes in cigarettes. They say that this will help deter smokers from smoking, yet in the same breath say that the tax increase will generate millions more dollars that can be used to fund different government programs. If their logic really worked, this program would not fund any program as smokers would not be smoking, thus reducing the dollars available. We can see clearly through this liberal plan. They could care less if the new tax reduces smoking. The important fact is that the tax will generate more revenue.
New Government
I have been pondering the make-up of the political system of Maryland. Looking at any voting results maps, you will see that the majority of the counties vote Republican. Only the brain-washed liberal extremist counties of Prince George's, Montgomery, and Baltimore City vote strictly Democrat. Even the almost strictly Democratic Baltimore County helped put Bob Ehrlich in office.
Compare this to the bicameral design of our Congress, as designed by John Adams. In an effort to appease states with smaller populations, he created the Senate, which gives every state 2 representatives regardless of the population of the state. The House of Representatives, on the other hand, have representatives proportional to the population of the state. So while states like California ram-rod things through the House, they are on an equal footing with Joe Biden's (the guy that thinks Barak Hussein Obama is eloquent and clean) home state of Delaware in the Senate.
Now if the Maryland state senate worked the
same way, of the 24 jurisdictions (23 counties and the crime-ridden Baltimore City), 20 would have Republican state senators. Instead, the hard-left wing liberal extremists have drawn the jurisdictions using the illegal Gerry-mandering method which uses no logical natural barriers to determine the lines. Instead, the ethically depleted General Assembly draws lines dawn alleys and breaks up Republican jurisdictions in order to pack the Senate and House of Delegates with their own nuts. As the Economist stated in June of 2006, because of gerrymandering, "Congressmen are reelected at a rate "Leonid Brezhnev might have admired."Looking at the map above, you see one of the most controversial districts in the United States. What logical reason would there be to have portions of the district run so small through Towson? Because that's where the Republicans live! Combine them with the socialists in Pikesville and the people in Dundalk who are too stupid to know any better, you get a district that favors the Democrats.
Funny
Check out this exam. I would have given this student partial credit for a great answer!
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