First, keep in mind that nobody ever reads this, except for maybe the professional stalkers in the politics arena. So, I'm just doing the blogger equivalent of writing a diary that I think is private, not knowing that the neighborhood busybody is black-bagging the place every time I go shopping, and touching nothing but the diary, drooling at the thought of reading secret juicy gossip to get enough insight to hatch plans ruin picnics and evenings-out, not to mention maybe finding out lock combinations and bank-account numbers.
While on the concept of devious and insane, take a look at this article by Notable Union Shill Adam Pagnucco as he practically creams in his jeans over the departure of an intern very-junior editor from the Washington Post.
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Multiple spies report that local editorial intern Steven Stein, forever to be remembered as the Post’s blithering Boy King, is leaving with the return of editorial writer Lee Hockstader. It was Hockstader’s sabbatical last year that opened the local editorial seat for intern Stein, who abused that authority with the colicky caprice of a Dark Ages adolescent monarch.
And oh, what memories we shall cherish from the Boy King’s reign! Let’s see... there was his branding collective bargaining a “ruse,” his designation of the Fire Fighters Union as “the worst offender” for offering to give up a mere $7 million in compensation and his libelous allegation that unions had “funneled contributions” to Nancy Navarro’s campaign. And that’s just the worst of his many anti-union ravings.
Want more? How about his advocacy that the state government should pass down teacher pensions to the counties despite his admission that it would be “crippling to local governments?” Or how about his virtual rewriting of a county press release on public schools Maintenance of Effort? Does any of that beat his multiple endorsements of Ben Kramer in the County Council District 4 special election?
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The Astute Reader -- and anyone else who knows diddly-squat about recent electoral politics in MoCo -- will remember that long-time local Ben Kramer played a pretty fair and square campaign in a very crowded field (Disclaimer: including Yours Truly) only to become the target of a genuinely foul smear campaign which pretty much characterized him as a pistol-waving wife-beater who hates old folks and would be bombing nuns in Iraq if he wasn't a draft-dodger.
This was compounded by a very well-orchestrated "chittering horde" of "Astroturfing" in the local blogs, one of the most prominent of which is Mr Pagnucco's own blog. Of course, this individual doing the genuinely mad cartoon-villain gloating over the departure of a voice of a differing opinion keeps great company, for example in the article where anonymous "contributors" (called "spies" in a rare flash of honesty) pontificate on an online poll which narrowly declared of the sitting County government that the voters in 2010 should Throw the Bums Out:
In the case of Leggett, he is not a strong leader, not a visionary, not an Executive. Doesn’t help that his council is crazy and impossible to work with.
I think that also covers Mr Pagnucco and his "spies".
Moving right along, we've still got this immense Home Overcrowding problem here in "mid-County", which isn't just Aspen Hill. It's also neighboring Glenmont, "Connecticut Park Estates", "west Wheaton", etc.
One of the reasons that this continues is the fact that County Code effectively declares a limit to occupancy of "up to 7 unrelated persons" allowed in a single-family detached residence. The problem here is that the Code does not define "related", and when the Code Enforcement people get called, they frequently get called to someplace like this:
When the occupants are confronted, there might be as many as 5 or 6 "nuclear families" of mom-and-pop and two or three kids each. The lie to the Code Enforcement people and declare that it's not home overcrowding, because they are all "related" and thus have the explicit exemption from the County Code. And anyone objecting to so many people living together is just a racist, and should go away. This is their tradition, and they are within the law because they are all related.
But wait a minute here: However traditional, if you're all related, and having sex and children, that's Felony Incest.
I demand an investigation by the Maryland State Police.
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