HCS’s and Gen’s Place

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Ah yes. The environazis have descended onto Brunswick. Right now they are using the high energy prices to say we must go green now to reduce greenhouse gases. It’s known this is a bunch of hooey. These very environnazis are one of the reasons we have such high energy prices. We can drill onshore..anywhere..and we can’t drill offshore..even while foreign nations drill where we should be drilling. Come on folks. Let’s get energy under control by sweeping the environweenies out of politics.

Brunswick resident Karin Tome, a candidate for City Council, encouraged the council to adopt the Climate Protection Agreement. “I think it’s important that there be political will to inspire citizens,” she said.

you know..i was thinking about voting for her..but this kind of globalistic, UN based thinking has no place in Brunswick or anywhere else.

I think next election cycle I’m going to run for City Council. I’m not liking what I am seeing and it’s high time for me to get more involved i think.

Oil Prices Closing In on $146 a Barrel - FOXBusiness.com
Oil prices neared $146 a barrel Thursday for the first time ever on reports of declining U.S. stockpiles and the threat of conflict with Iran.

Comments by Saudi Arabia’s oil minister suggesting his country had no immediate plans to boost production also lifted prices.

If this keeps up the saudis and the oil companies won’t have too many customers.  Their own greed is going to do them in as americans flee cars and start finding ways to cut back.  It happened in the 70’s and it will happen ehere again.

I have a new client that’s a result of a referral who has a 5 year old dell machine that took a power hit and toasted the hard drive.  After replacing the hard drive it turns out their xp cd is also bad.  After talking with the owners it turns out literally all they do is online banking, mail through yahoo and others online companies, and web surfing.  So instead of them having to pay me 4 hours for a windows reload they pay me 1 hour for a kubuntu install.  The machine goes back tomorrow and that old celey 1.1 ghz machine gets a new lease on life and they save nearly $125 in consultation fees.  Why would I do this?  Customer service.

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“There has been a renaissance in Brunswick over the last few years,” said Amy Quillen, a Brunswick resident and an industrial engineer for the Department of Navy in Washington.

People have taken older homes and refurbished them for exorbitant amounts of cash, she said.

“We are seeing a gradual emergence into an artsy town,” Quillen said. “A Goodwill store would not reinforce that image.”

“We have a vision for Brunswick and have built up downtown,” said Catherine Tynan, who owns Phoebe’s Travel Trunk at 6 W. Potomac St. and is president of the board of directors for the Brunswick Railroad Museum.

“We want to change the image, have an eclectic mix of businesses and bring a certain demographic into Brunswick,” Tynan said.

Tynan says Goodwill is an excellent program but she prefers a Goodwill donation drop-off location and training center for Brunswick. Tynan, an information technology trainer for the Department of Commerce, has offered to volunteer her training expertise.

“I think we’re an awfully small town to try and host one of their mega-retail stores,” she said. “I can’t imagine where they’d find the square footage they need or the parking.”

It’s not your concern about where they will find parking or space.  Still running scared are we?  I say bring them in.  If they really are going to buy a place in downtown even better..i’ll be able to WALK there and save the highly expensive fuel even more.  This is a huge boon to Brunswick and just because it doesn’t fit the mold of the vision of a few doesn’t mean it’s a bad thing.  I know my family will be looking there for things many times due to the reduced costs AND be sending stuff there way to boot.  A goodwill is not the sign of a depressed or blighted community.  Take a look at my earlier post for how easily that argument is shot down.  Mayor Jones steps forward with a great quote, “”Anyone can start a business. Prospective owners prepare surveys, and if viable, they open. Government has no role in legalizing entrepreneurship,” Jones said. One final thing,  6000 square feet is not a mega store..it’s only three times the size of my house..that’s not a mega store.  They are looking to BUY and EXISTING property not build a new building.  Main street says they want to get more business to downtown..I can’t think of a better thing to jumpstart Brunswick nacent used clothes market than a Goodwill.  This means anyone else needs to distinguish themselves from Goodwill(there are higher-end used clothes available) instead of fearmongering take advantage of the opportunity.

Rosemont de-annexation to referendum

At first it was the burgess Jackie Ebersole crying foul and throwing various kinds of monkey wrenches into Brunswick crossing. There were various reasons but the biggest one was the small parcel of land they owned was going to be developed and they did not want that. But because they hung onto the land they were jeopardizing some major areas of the project…the biggest one being the relocation of the Brunswick Fire Company. What makes this ironic is the BVFD provides the fire coverage for Rosemont. Finally after some wrangling a deal was struck and all were allowed to move forward. Now some of the citizenry of Rosemont are crying conflict of interest because her husband is president of the Brunswick Volunteer Ambulance Company. I guess after years of obstructionism by their leader they decided to rise up themselves and bite the very ambulance company that serves them as well. They are simply following their duly elected burgess’s example…..

I do have to give the Rosemont residents credit though for being active enough in their community that when they see something they don’t like they use the power of their votes to rise up and say something to their elected officials.

I had to copy this title word for word.  It’s just too good.  Want to see how easily this election can be(and most likely will be) is?  Time for some links.

First,  the original Ars Technica article.
Bruce Schnier has a few additional links.
Another Ars Technica article.
Computer World previews the upcoming election mess.
A review by Computer World about HBO’s documentary about this mess.

There’s other links embedded in these links so read on..and carefully. 

Update: Check out this video to see how easy it is to hack a Diebold voting machine and chnage the votes without being detected. The video is right here. The research papers are here.
*Update* I finally got my uploading working so here is the .pdf file from ARS’s site.

I jsut got this sent to me via e-mail directly from the City Council:

Since I don’t know another way besides signs, Citizen ads, Frederick News Post, Gazette ads, Channel 99 …

Thursday (November 17tth) night at 8pm, ALL WATER in Brunswick will be turned off until (hopefully 4am) to accomodate for repairing a valve that is causing standing water on some streets and a tremendous water problem.

PLEASE pass this on to anyone who you think may or may not read it somewhere before then.
The City is constantly trying to find the best way to get this info out to everyone, but I figured more is better than a surprise when you try to use your water.
It cannot wait until a later date, so this will be the quickest way to address it. Police, Ambulance, Fire and other emergency services are aware.
Let me know if I can answer any questions for you.
Thanks for taking this initiative with me.
Beth Johnson