With 1st Mariner Bank about to "break the buck" and go below $1.00 for its share price, giving it market capitalization of just over $7 million, the rumours are begining to swirl around Ed Hale's Canton Empire about how much longer he can hold out.

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 BGE is seeing record numbers of utility cutoffs this fall, as the growing economic crisis has made it difficult for many ratepayers to keep up with utility payments.  Now that BGE parent Constellation Energy is facing a purchase by MidAmerican Energy Holdings, we see that MidAmerican -- owned by Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway -- is now guaranteeing Constellation Employees that there will be no workforce reduction at BGE through 2012 as part of the merger.  That's great:  but will Warren Buffet step up to shut down the utility cutoffs?

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About this time a year ago, O'Guvnah was all "Irish eyes are smiling" in the wake of his giant and victorious special session that would serve as a model for governance across the nation.  The rest of us, however, knew then (and now) that the Governor Has No Clothes, and that despite his tax increases, his victory in abusing the Constitution to bring slot machines to Maryland, and his unfettered spending, the state of Maryland is in dire straits.

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 The news that a WAL-MART employee was trampled by assinine, greedy, and overzealous shoppers on Black Friday should shock the conscience of our entire nation.  This was murder.  There can be no other description.  These venile, greedy, glutonous bastards who trampled this man in Valley Stream New York are guilty of murder.  Black Friday leads to a Blue Christmas for this man's family.

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Thinking Americans and men with a heartbeat know that the hottest women in politics today are conservatives.  And you can celebrate these incredibly beautiful, highly intelligent, and very accomplished women by purchasing your own personal copy of the Clare Botth Luce Institute's Pretty in Mink 2009 Calendar.

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 On Tuesday, I took a quick jaunt down to the eastern shore to do a favor for some friends, and after a pleasant dinner at City Bistro in Salisbury, I made the drive back up Rt 50 to home.  I was astonished to see 11 state troopers -- eight of whom had pulled over drivers -- between Salisbury and Rt 404.  I generally am a big supporter of law enforcement -- when they are doing law enforcement.  But speed traps are not law enforcement, they are revenue generation.  And that is what the MSP is today: an overpaid collection of glorified meter maids armed with semi-automatic sidearms and faggoty tan Stetsons.

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 I was in Salisbury on Tuesday, and I overheard the following:  

"Everyone cares about the city except for the City."

 Regular readers of The Gunpowder Chronicle know that I oppose the Troubled Asset Recovery Program -- or TRAP -- as it is nothing more than a giant crap sandwich force-fed to us by a lying President, a lying Treasury Secretary, a lying Fed Chair, and criminal and morally bankrupt US Congress.  If I had my way, we would line every one of these little bastards up against a wall, tar and feather their worthless asses, and march them out of Washington, DC in their bare feet over broken glass along New York Ave.

And now, M&T has proved my desire for retribution valid.  M&T Bank -- which has previosly announced that its loan portfolio is very healthy, and that it continues to be a strong, healthy bank -- has applied for and received approval for up to $600 million in TARP funds.

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 The NAACP has decided, yet again, to abandon its storied past to whore for the nation's union bosses and the Democrat Party by boldly stepping out and endorsing the Employee Free Choice Act.  For those of you who don't know, the Employee Free Choice Act abandons a bedrock principle of our republic by abandoning the secret ballot in union authorization campaigns.  The secret ballot was also a key part of the century-long battle to give black men and women the right to vote.

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While Barack Obama and his army of liberal fascists trumpet the virtues of "card check" union organization -- which effectively removes the secret ballot from union organizing activites -- that same army of liberal fascists will be able to hide behind a secret ballot in the caucus meeting tomorrow to vote on the fate of Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman for his aggressive support of John S. McCain.

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