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You may have seen my earlier post with the video of Lord Christopher Monckton using math and logic to destroy the alleged reasons for PlanMaryland (aka Plan Fairyland). As with most sweeping environmental regulations, it’s all about government gaining more power, not saving the environment. The below just landed in my inbox from the office of Delegate Kelly Schulz.

After much attention from legislators, counties, municipalities, farmers and businesses, the Governor has agreed to hold a public hearing to discuss the proposed Plan Maryland. The original intent was to pass the regulations onto the specific agencies for inclusion into our state’s standards without any legislative oversight. This public hearing is the first opportunity to address the multitude of issues that are present in the Plan in the legislature. I strongly urge you to attend if you are an opponent or a supporter. This is a very important part of our governing process that we, as a group, have worked very diligently for on your behalf. Please see the details from Senator EJ Pipken below:

“The Maryland State Senate’s committee on Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs will be conducting a briefing on PlanMaryland on December 12, 2011 at 11:00am. At this briefing both supporters and opponents to the Comprehensive State Plan will be allowed to speak. While, the panel of both sides will be limited to the number of speakers, a presence of local officials will signify to the Committee that there are real concerns regarding the Plan. The presence of county officials, farmers, and landowners will show strength in our numbers.

As of right now, the committee will conduct the briefing within its hearing room, on the 2nd Floor of the Miller Senate Building, in Annapolis.

Before the briefing there will be a rally on Lawyer’s Mall here in Annapolis at 9:30am to protest PlanMaryland. Because not everyone will be able to speak at the briefing, this will provide a forum for speakers to express their concerns publicly. Press will be in attendance, so a strong showing will impress.

What: 

• Rally and Briefing on PlanMaryland

Where:

• Rally – Lawyer’s Mall, Annapolis, MD
• Briefing – Educations, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee Room, 2nd Floor Miller Senate Building, Annapolis, MD

When:

• December 12, 2011
• Rally-9:30am
• Briefing-11am

Another jaw-dropping “imagine-the-excrement-storm-if-the-Tea-Party-had-done-it” moment on the part of Occupy San Diego via Verum Serum:

Occupy San Diego Has A Moment of Solidarity for the White House Shooter…Wait, What?

I might understand if this was a religious group as it’s not uncommon to offer prayers for both victim and perpetrator because of that pesky old “love thy enemies” thing, but solidarity?

Sol-i-dar-i-ty: noun; Unity or agreement of feeling or action, esp. among individuals with a common interest; mutual support within a group.

Use the widget to listen to the interview with Dan Bongino.

I can’t look at a picture of Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) anymore without thinking of how Red State’s Caleb Howe once described him. In the movie The Sixth Day with Arnold Schwarzenegger the villain cloned himself and the clone came out of the oven before he was “done.” Cardin looks a lot like that underdone clone according to Caleb. There’s definitely a slight resemblance and Cardin is definitely a “half-baked” Senator who needs a pink slip.

America doesn’t need another rubber stamp for Harry Reid and Maryland deserves better than the one party monopoly which neglects the concerns of large portions of the state’s population.

Today Cardin vowed to continue his fight against those who want the federal government to exercise fiscal restraint and respect the limits placed upon it in the Constitution.

“We have to stand up against the people who want to take this country back,” Cardin (D) said in a telephone interview Monday… “My top priority is to create more jobs.” (emphasis mine)

One must assume that the Senator means his top priority is to create more government jobs because nothing his party has done or proposed lately has helped create any significant private sector job growth–quite the opposite actually. Government jobs and salaries have however risen under the current administration for whom Cardin and his partner in crime Barbara Mikulski are both guaranteed party line votes.

“Clean air and clean water help grow our economy,” Cardin said. “It’s a false dilemma to say you can’t have a good economy and clean environment.”

Who exactly expressed this dilemma that Cardin is calling false? The answer is no one. The Senator is knocking down a weak strawman argument in order to avoid discussing the real issues. In the age of Obama the strawman seems to be the Democrats’ favorite logical fallacy.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for clean air and water, but by what mechanism will clean air and clean water grow our economy? Is he referring to Obama’s ongoing “green jobs” fraud? Maybe he’s in favor of doling out more cash to failed companies like Solyndra or companies who will build inefficient electric cars in Finland.

The real false dilemma is to say that we can’t have a clean environment without massive government regulation and the unchecked growth of a disconnected and incompetent Washington bureaucracy.

Maryland needs real change in 2012. We need to elect someone who understands the hurdles that Washington continues to place in front of the people who actually make the economy work. We don’t need to re-elect a half-baked clone of Barack Obama to the U.S. Senate.

Read more: Cardin Announces Re-election Drive

Defeated Maryland state senate candidate Saqib Ali has been using the upcoming Maryland Conservative Action Network Turning the Tides conference as a vehicle for keeping his name in the news. As the conference approaches, he’s become increasingly unhinged. Ken Timmerman writes in The Daily Caller:

“This is just exactly the same as if the Ku Klux Klan is coming to town and the Double-Tree hotel decided to host them,” Ali said.

Really? “Exactly the same?” Perhaps Mr. Ali is unfamiliar with the violent history of the KKK (a primarily Democrat organization, by the way). Left wing Democrats typically aren’t big on getting their historical facts straight. However, what they lack in historical accuracy they more than make up for in hyperbolic rhetoric and name calling. The Saul Alinski tactics have become all too familiar.

Earlier this month, Mr. Ali seemed to be promoting the “Occupy” movement. By his own childish method of reasoning, this would make him “exactly like” the Nazi Party of America, the Communist Party, and even Republican pariah David Duke.

Of course, drawing such equivalencies would be absurd. Wouldn’t it?

Recent history shows that left wing demonstrators are exponentially more likely to resort to law breaking and violence to spread their message than is the Tea Party movement. In light of that, I hope if anyone does show up to protest the conference, they obey the law and respect private property. Most of all I hope Mr. Ali’s irresponsible rhetoric does not provoke anyone more unhinged than himself to do something stupid.

This generated controversy focuses primarily around members of one panel discussion out of nearly a dozen that will take place at the conference. (Alinski rule 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”)  Attendees will hear and participate in discussions about private property rights vs so called “sustainable” development plans, education, illegal immigration, new media activism, defeating voter fraud, and more. Attendees will also meet and hear from conservative candidates vying for the chance to run against Senator Ben Cardin in 2012.

So far the efforts of the left haven’t dampened enthusiasm for the networking event. Registrations are still coming in and as of yet there are no signs that the venue will buckle to the attempts at intimidation.