I want to tip my bourbon to Capt Marty Lurz and the Cockeysville Precinct of the Baltimore County Police.  After our little bout of Gunplay in the Gunpowder a couple of weeks ago, I had a chat with one of his regular patrol officers.

All I can say is that Capt Lurz took the traffic situation up here seriously in the last couple of weeks.  Enforcement is WAY up.  They even ran a sobriety checkpoint at the old Parkton Exxon the other night catching drunks coming out of the Parke Inn.  They've been running speed enforcement in Maryland Line, and the number of patrol vehicles on the road lately has been ASTONISHING.

I hope that Councilman T. Bryan McIntire and his colleagues on the County Council will find more money in the County Budget next year to keep up this level of enforcement.  While the North County has grown substantially in the last decade, the police presence hasn't.  Capt. Lurz needs more officers and equipment to cover an area that stretches from almost the Baltimore Beltway clear to the PA line.

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Well, I spent this week working hard.  So I didn't get to post much.  And I spent part of today working, and when I realized it was getting late and my cigar supply was running low, I headed out to my favorite smoke shop (The Humidour) to stock up.

But when I got back, the WildTurkey Phone was ringing off the hook, and my Eastern Shore friends had lit up a giant bottle of bourbon in the sky.  So off to the Bourbon Cave to decode the secret messages...

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Guvnah Marty The Mick O'Malley, General Secretary of Maryland's own version of the Communist Party USA, is at long last starting to unveil his strategy to overcome the "structural deficit" that a decade of teat-sucking by the General Politburo in Soddom on the Severn has given us.

His strategy can be broken down into three separate programs:

1)  Break any and all campaign promises used to whore votes from all his left-wing, on-the-dole constituents in metropolitan Baltimore and the Washington suburbs. 

2)  Raise each and every tax he possibly can and kill small business.

3)  Continue to let his politico buddies and financial supporters suck at the teat of Maryland government while he screws the actual hard-working citizens of the state.

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Paul Moreno has an outstanding Op/Ed on today's OpinionJournal.com site.  Titled Affirmative Action's Strange Career, the article traces the nefarious history of affirmative action.  It's not what you were probably led to believe by the MSM.

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Once again, the mighty Scott Adams nails the complete and total idiocy of today's approaches to IT and interactive technology management in today's Dilbert cartoon.

All I can is that I live this every day of my life.  It makes truck driving school look attractive.

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Well, I have finally arrived back home from the Corporate Mothership in Maitland, FL.  As usual, I return with an ever-increasing distaste for travel.

Some random thoughts on travel...

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Runaround Sue's site is down for the count, reporting a MySQL error:

MySQL ERROR:

Error Number: 1146

Description: Table 'sbynew03_eedata.sbynew03_sites' doesn't exist

Query: SELECT es.* FROM sbynew03_sites AS es WHERE es.site_id = '1'

MySQL is a database engine, just like SQL Server or Oracle.  Basically, that error is saying his site was deleted.  Oops.

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Washington Whispers over at US News and World Report has a rumor that AG Alberto Gonzales -- the most incompetent Attorney General since Janet Reno -- might bail soon.  What's worse?  Michael Chertoff might be named the new AG.

He did such a great job NOT enforcing the law at Homeland Security, why not?  He's so concerned about the lettuce harvest, why not?  He did such a great job at controlling "Brownie" at FEMA, why not?

I have a better idea.  Mark Levin for Attorney General.

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... when they censor themselves?

Word is out that many large national newspapers -- including The Washington Post -- will not carry the Opus Cartoons on August 26th and September 2nd for fear of --- offending Muslims.  Of course, they never miss an opportunity to offend Christians or Jews.

However, you can still view the cartoons over at Salon.

If it is censorship when citizens groups band together to protest the publication of offensive material, why isn't it  censorship when a newspaper refuses to publish an article or comic?

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Who's more green?  Al Gore or George W. Bush?

http://www.conservative.org/pressroom/2007/070806twohouses.htm

H/T: my Aunt Brenda