I hadn’t noticed the downed trees.  Driving home tonight I passed through a stretch of road historically so thick with trees you would think it’s twilight at noon.  A couple of acres have been cleared.  This county is roughly 85 percent fields and forest and I’m not opposed to the latest development but the change was nonetheless jarring.  A fellow comes to the radio station every Wednesday and does a segment with me about finance, economy and investment.  We’ve become friends and I like a phrase he often uses.  “The only constant in our lives is change”, he tells me.  September the 5th I mark two years on the job here at the Lower Shore.  Two years ago tonight a short Asian man was barking orders at me, instructing me to hand sort third and second class mail before loading an automated machine.  When he wanted to speak with me he would walk up and take my identity badge in his right hand and look at my name and then babble at me in some failed effort to communicate in English.  “Beeeeelllll”, is all I understood. 

While life here is quite different and a boon for my self esteem, not much about day-to-day life has changed around the house or at the grocery store.  I met my buddy Phil Plack at the diner the other morning and we had breakfast in anonymity.  I still cherish being unnoticed in public.  The redhead dropped by on her way to a doctor’s visit and we talked about our hopes for the future.  Too many to mention in my letter and perhaps we didn’t share nearly enough of our fears.  Phil and the woman with the long red hair suggest I start making some demands at work.  Hey, I’m just happy so many people are listening.  Saturday I get to meet many, many of them. 

A few weeks ago some folks affiliated with Delaware Tea Party asked if I could be the master of ceremonies at the first centrally located statewide tea party.  Of course I accepted.  I’m getting four hours in the sun on the Legislative Mall in Dover.  We’ll see some of the national folks from across the big bay joining us and there was a rumor Glenn Beck would drop by, or some fellow on Facebook identifying himself as Glenn Beck.  Tomorrow’s program is a warm-up for September the 12th in Washington.  In between I’m squeezing in a vacation for my daughter.  Last summer I postponed the time with my teenager because I was on a mission to Washington.  One hundred twenty one miles by bicycle to deliver petitions to our elected officials and our state’s member of the House of Representatives brushed it aside.  And he now wonders why he faced an angry “mob” on June Thirtieth.  It was the spark igniting the powder keg.  Georgetown, Delaware may well become the historical “Ground Zero” of a populace taking its government back from an insensitive House of Lords.

Not long ago I didn’t see much hope for my country’s future and it mirrored my time in the wilderness in late 2006 and 2007.  The forest around me appeared an immovable object.  Today I’ve been experiencing inner stirrings I haven’t felt in years.  The feeling you had throughout the 24^th of December, as a kid, as you watched the ticking clock and the anxiety multiplied exponentially.  I see light.

Yesterday an old coworker sent me a note and said there was a time 4 years ago when I warned the country was heading for a crack-up that she thought I was cracking up.  So did my employer, a company now heading for the fire sale.  About the same time I made the on-air prediction I had a lunch meeting with an old friend, Father Chuck Vavonese.  He’s the actual administrator of schools for the Syracuse Roman Catholic Diocese, even if the title belongs to someone else.  We talked about our nation’s cultural and economic rot and he suggested a second civil war was approaching.  It wouldn’t be regional, he explained, instead it would pit neighbor-against-neighbor.  For Father Chuck it was 1850 all over again.  Last week I thought the experience was 1859 and from what I’m observing today we could be at 1861 by summer’s end.  Like the land down the road stripped bare of trees there won’t be any cover for which to hide.  Now we’re riding history’s tide and it promises to sweep away so much and leave us a clean slate. 

Dear Friends:

I’m writing with excitement.  My friend and former talk radio co-host, Jon Alvarez, is running for a vacant seat in New York State’s 23^rd Congressional District.  The seat is being vacated by Representative John McHugh as he has been nominated the new Secretary of the Army.

Jon Alvarez defines “patriot”.  His paternal grandparents came to this country from Spain during the turbulent 1930s.  Jon Alvarez grew up in Canton, Ohio and later attended the University of Texas.  He met his wonderful, lovely and loyal wife, Laura, while in Texas pursuing a career in education.

Eventually settling in Central Upstate New York, Jon Alvarez was deeply moved by the images of September 11, 2001.  As our country’s war effort ramped up, Jon vowed he would join the Army if it would allow another brave young soldier to return home to family.  When the military lifted age restrictions, Jon Alvarez joined weeks shy of his fortieth birthday.  At the age of 42 he was deployed to Iraq.  This after he lobbied for overseas duty despite a hearing loss detected by Army doctors. 

Jon Alvarez is scheduled stateside in just a few short weeks.  His initial plans were to return home and tend to his farm in Oswego County, New York and to welcome his daughter as a business partner in real estate sales.  Then the special election came across the radar.

The district is massive, stretching across the vast expanses of the Tug Hill Plateau, Adirondack Forest and portions of the Mohawk Valley and areas south of Lake Ontario.  People living in the district define “hard work and personal responsibility” every bit as much as Jon Alvarez defines dedication to his country.  It’s a natural match.

This nation was once a land of heroes.  It was a land explored by heroes.  It remains a land constructed by heroes.  Contrary to popular belief there are still many great men and women, filled with grit, ready to remind us we’ve so much more ahead. 

Jon Alvarez hasn’t endorsed my message and I’m in no official capacity with his campaign.  We do, however, share a belief the nation is absolutely going down the wrong road.  Jon Alvarez will be representing my fellow countrymen some 400 miles away from where I live but in a sense he’ll be representing an ideal, one which embers still burn in so many hearts.  If you believe you can assist Jon Alvarez in his quest, you may contact me at billc@wgmd.com.  I’ll do my part by pointing you in the right direction. 

A Perfect Storm Is Brewing

by Pam Geller

I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied history all my life. I
think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or
a credit crisis. Yes, these exist but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a
sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and
how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has
been evolving for about 10-15 years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demanded and then codifi ed into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people whom we knew could
never pay back? Why? We learned recently that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has
“loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or
disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the $700B we all argued about so strenuously
just this past September.
Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I
thought this was a government of “We the People,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we
are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate.
Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition
that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing
possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that
radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into
a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system
is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire government. Our education
system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.) The list is staggering in its length,
breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x 10. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending
people of the same religion who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a
town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fi elds of employment,
and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary. (Surely you have heard him
speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our
borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah
Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more important.)
Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change…radical change. Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now. This man campaigned on bringing people
together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical
lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed
coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the
savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing.
What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom
they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough,
people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were
afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission.
And then he was duly elected to offi ce, with a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but
surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy.
The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people
on his side? He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex.
He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising
to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media - Did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and…change. And the
people surely got what they voted for. (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.) Read your history books. Many people
objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out
the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed
into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.
Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe . It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals,
laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years - a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency
- it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors
against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective
pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from
across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong, close my eyes, have another latte and ignore what is transpiring
around me.
Some people scoff at me; others laugh or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to
look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe - and why I believe it. I pray I am wrong. But, I do not think
I am.

About the author …
Pamela “Atlas” Geller began her publishing career at The New York Daily News and subsequently took over operation of
The New York Observer as Associate Publisher. She left The Observer after the birth of her fourth child, but remained involved
in various projects including American Associates, Ben Gurion University and being Senior Vice-President Strategic
Planning and Performance Evaluation at The Brandeis School .
After 9/11, Atlas had the veil of oblivion violently lifted from her consciousness and immersed herself in the education and
understanding of geopolitics, Islam, terror, foreign affairs and imminent threats the mainstream media and the government
wouldn’t cover or discuss.
Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk it up at the grassroots level.

Sarah Brady dropped me two poison pen emails.  Mrs. Brady is the wife of former Reagan Press Secretary Jim Brady.  She’s also a gun confiscation advocate and you probably don’t need an explanation for her position.  More than a year has passed since I last heard from her.  During the Delaware Presidential Primary she called my program when Patrick Kennedy was an on-air guest.  “Hi, Patrick”, she giggled.  Then she didn’t have anything else to say. 

The emails arrived at my work account late Saturday morning.  One was addressed only to me and the second was addressed to me, my coworkers and managers.  She demands my show move to overnights and she says the demographics of our region have changed and we need more enlightened talk show hosts.  I wrote a polite reply and suggested she get back to enjoying her retirement. 

The woman claims she rarely listens but can cite all sorts of things I’ve said offending her. 

First, I’ve been a broadcaster for 25 years.  People who make such claims are lying.  They tune in everyday for their regular dose of righteous indignation.  Two, the demographics along a narrow stretch of beach have changed.  The rest of the region is about the same as it has been for 300 years, exceptions being paved roads and electricity.  Three, Michael Savage came to national prominence broadcasting a local show in San Francisco.  He wasn’t fired or moved to overnights for needling the loons on the left.  In fact, his ratings soared.  Fourth, since I arrived the afternoon drive slot has become so popular (in a numbers sense) the station’s entire ratings have nearly doubled.  If you figure the weak kneed on the left don’t admit to hearing me then you can extrapolate an even larger audience. 

Fifth, I’m not a conservative but primarily a libertarian.  While I admire Pat Buchanan I gravitate politically in the direction of Ron Paul, however.  If this country can’t survive as a Republic I sure as heck wouldn’t choose a socialist to run the show.  Number six, a program director in Raleigh called me a “Rush” impersonator some two summers ago.  While it would be nice to be making Rush money if I had been a Bush basher would the man have called me an “Air America” Impersonator?  Opinion leaders don’t reside in the center and I’m paid to be an opinion leader.  My opinions aren’t moderate and certainly not left-of-center.  Read the map of where I was raised and how my parents raised me. 

Seventh, Sarah Brady self identified in her first email as a “moderate”.  The word, from my perspective, is synonymous with “wimp”.  I concur the woman is anything but wimpy.  In fact she’s a clear and present danger from the vantage of our Constitution.  No moderates are campaigning to expunge the Second Amendment.  It’s number two and not 18 or 23 for a reason.  It’s number two because the brilliant people drafting the document recognized the value of self defense.  There are 305 million American citizens.  An overwhelming majority didn’t shoot anyone else over the holiday weekend.  Many more blew fingers off with fireworks, drowned or got loaded and slammed a car into someone else.  Even far greater numbers instead sought to have someone else kill their own children growing inside mommy’s tummy.  Yet Mrs. Brady chooses to lobby for my silence.  I pray to God I’ve a voice until he calls me home.

This is a note originally posted at Facebook describing some recent political events in Delaware:

Thurman Adams and Joe Biden weren’t likely political soul mates. Adams was a gentlemanly old style Southern Democrat. A social conservative vexing the liberals in the northern reaches of Delaware, the powerful State Senator died last week. Biden offered a eulogy at Saturday’s funeral. I didn’t go. It isn’t personal. The redhead’s grass hadn’t been mowed in almost two weeks because of our unexpected monsoon season and I only met Adams on one occasion. No disrespect intended and I offered my respects to the man’s family during my radio show.

An acquaintance did attend and Tuesday telephoned me with news of what he labels a gaffe. Biden was reminiscing during his eulogy. The American born Biden explained it wasn’t easy as an Irish-Catholic to get elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972. Biden often works to portray Delaware as Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964 and ignores the fact political power is actually concentrated in New Castle County, Delaware, which is a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biden then looked at the Adams family and said it’s like running for office as a “black convert Jew”.

My acquaintance was seated with friends. He is roughly the color of President Obama. He voted for the Obama-Biden ticket. He wasn’t pleased by what he views as a condescending, stupid and racist remark. Recently elected to his local school board, my acquaintance is growing very disillusioned with the rampant socialization of his country.

You know, I may have learned about this earlier but I had a rare three day weekend from work. None of which was spent on rest and relaxation. Yard work Saturday and a shopping trip Sunday and Monday I went to New Castle County, where I was a guest of a local Republican club being built on new internet technology. I came home late, went to bed after 12:30 A.M. Tuesday and by 10:00 A.M. was showered, shaved and dressed to meet an old Castle. Cap and Tax Castle, Republican Representative Mike Castle is one of the 8 members of his party jumping ship last week on a plan to put the final coffin nail into my country’s economy.

He was holding a town meeting and I carried two signs with me. “China thanks Mike Castle” read one and the other “Malevolent Mike”. He saw only the first and asked if I was representing China. Then he dashed into the meeting to see more than 200 people waiting for him. About 6 were there asking him to support socialized medicine. The rest to suggest he retire. Mr. Castle may run next year in a special election to fill the last four years of Mr. Biden’s U.S. Senate term.

I’ve now heard GOP reaction to Mr. Castle’s vote on both ends of my state. He may no longer have much support. His most recent vote isn’t an aberration.

Castle still has a few friends. There are people who moved here from Annapolis and Washington to open pottery shops, however. Firing pottery requires a great deal of generated energy. Here’s a suggestion, put down the clay, pick up a sign and join me in the effort to retire the guy.

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If ever there was a quote from my past to carry me through difficult times it comes from Eugene Mastin. “You have to play with pain”, he would tell us. It was August and later autumn of 1977 and it was the one year I played football for the man. He drove us until we ached. He drove us until we cursed him. He drove us until we did things for him we wouldn’t even do for our fathers. We worked so hard on the field that my gut would churn and three days into practice we couldn’t walk on sore muscles. So instead he made us run. We lost just one game that year, defeated 14-7 on a long pass late in a game against our arch rivals. On the bus trip home there was nothing but silence. It followed his words before we left for home. He was so very proud we scrapped for everything we could get before the clock ran out. As I got off the bus when we got back to our school he looked at the expression on my face and gave me a hug.

There were parents believing he drove us beyond civilized behavior. They worried he was overly profane on the practice field and they worried about his volcanic temper. It only made us tighten the circle around him. Heck, he never did anything to me my parents hadn’t done. It’s probably why I flourished working for John Butler for six years from the late 1980s until he left for better pastures. He was a veteran of psychological operations in Vietnam and a Colonel at the local Air Guard Base used to see me and ask after “The General”. It was an appropriate nickname.

I had some tough times then and my dad told me to tough it out. John did the same. It taught me the value of a human being is his/her effort and production and not the paycheck.

Dad, Coach Mastin and John Butler were men of a much distant era. They watched suspiciously as the culture eroded around them. The definitions of hero and success were changing before I even tied my first shoulder pads. The new breed, the parents whining about a coach making men of us, took over the country. A feminized culture is fine for women, I suppose, but judging by the mistakes made by government and Wall Street it hasn’t been good for the men still making most of the decisions.

It’s gut check time. Dad, Mr. Mastin and John got me through every crisis in my life but I’m really worried now. I’ve been talking with merchants and builders and they tell me they’ve never seen anything quite like they’re seeing now. They’re spooked and their customers are running scared.

It annoys me that I can’t even think about things like marriage or settling into a nice home because some idiot in some boardroom believed the new definition of his manhood was ripping off clients, neighbors and relatives. And his clients and neighbors weren’t any better and from what I can see must still believe in The Tooth Fairy. Lordy, over the past decade I’ve lost two jobs, rebuilt a shattered left leg, lived in five places in 3 states and financed retirement for 2 lawyers fighting an ex-wife in court. I was at the gym today and some woman told me I was an inspiration for everyone else there. The fat middle aged guy can really move on the treadmill and stair stepper. He also biked to Washington last summer, for those of you forgetting, because he long ago learned you have to play with pain. You play through it. It’s persistent and constant and it doesn’t ease with age.

On Tuesday the nation’s first androgynous President took office. Or at least he appears that way for many of you believing he’s in touch with his feelings. Those are the people that voted for Mr. Obama. Let me tell you I’ve an entirely different impression forming. I don’t agree with the man on most issues relating to government’s role in my life and I abhor his views about infanticide, however. There are some old grainy films of The President playing basketball as a teenager and we’re all familiar with so many elements of his life story. This guy is as tough as nails. Those of us on the right underestimated him until he grabbed the big prize. He knows you have to play with pain. Are you ready for what’s ahead?

(refresh often for live updates)

BREAKING: (according to sources)
– FOX NEWS PROJECTS WIN FOR OBAMA/BIDEN

DELAWARE UPSETS!

– BENNETT DEFEATS DONNA STONE
– SCOTT DEFEATS NANCY WAGNER
– WILLIAMS DEFEATS VALIHURA

7:58

Fox News Projections

Obama: Delaware/Vermont
McCain: South Carolina/Kentucky/Oklahoma

8:04:

Obama takes same states Kerry did in 2004: Ill., Pa., N.J., Md., Mass., Conn., Me., DC., Del., N.H.;

McCain takes Tenn., S.C. and Okla

8:05 — WGMD Local Election coverage starts.

8:06 Voter Turnout HUGE!

by 3:00 50% voter turnout in DE

HOB 85% turnout by 7:15 - - Mariner Middle School 81%

FOX NEWS PROJECTS: Obama Wins MA, MD, IL, DC, CT, DE, NJ, ME; McCain Wins OK, TN

8:09 John Brady calling from i-95 — “I’ve been campaigning in Sussex… in Wilmington… it has been a momentous experience for me personally running on a statewide ticket, i’ve learned a lot.. I’m anxiously awaiting.. I want to first thank everyone who voted for doing their duty today. I am satisfied I did everything I could to send the message across Delaware”

8:15 - Dan Gaffney “AP and others calling Delaware for Jack Markell”

8:19 Trish Hinders talks to Jack Markell supporter http://www.wgmd.com/images/stories/audio/Election/trish1.mp3

8:23 Dan Gaffney — Big Voter Turnout on the 41st District

8:24 — Bill Lee concedes election to Jack Markell with zero districts reporting.
Audio from Wilmington with WGMD’s Andy Lynch

8:30 - Obama takes PA. N.H, Conn, NJ, Del, Md, D.C., Ill. Maine, Vt
McCain Ok, Ark, Ala, Tenn, Ky, SC according to Fox News

8:32 — Mari Lou “Warm Rain didn’t keep voters away”
// Trish Hinders “It’s had an interesting effect… people are waiting for Markell to come to the ballroom” people beginning to celebrate Markell victory.

8:33 Scott Wilkens at Sussex Dem HQ — waiting for results — “great turnout!” — “no final numbers” “amazed by the number of people that came out..”

8:36 Obama 102 / McCain 49 (foxnews)

8:37: Fox News: PA with 21 electoral votes for Obama and NH (4)
Obama 103 / Mccain 54

8:40 — Dan Gaffney “We Have A Governor Markell”

8:41 - McCain takes Alaska (foxnews)

8:43 — No numbers coming in yet — Joe Cicannti at Sussex Election HQ — exepecting results in the next few minutes.. “overall number of voters” responsible for delay.

8:44…McCain camp objects to Fox (and others) calling PA for Obama. (Listener report Pat Patterson)

8:45 Bill Colley “within the next 70 minutes we’ll have all the answers on the presidential election.”

8:50 Scott Wilkens “things looking so far so good for the democrats in delaware”

Trish Hinders Rep HQ in Wilmington; Chris Coons “We are still waiting for any kind of results” led everyone in a resounding chant of “Yes We Can, Yes We Can” — everybody kind of in the dark right now

AP from WGMD’s ML — AP calls Mike Castle for reelction of Nagle. AP calling Biden for Senate.

Joe not heard any rumors of computer glitches.

Audio from 8:50 Trish/Scott/ML/Joe

8:56: “Transmission problem in New Castle County affecting whole state”

9:00 fox news: Kansas, North Dakota Wyoming for McCain
Wis, NM, Minn, NY, Rhode Is. Mich for Obama

Obama 180 / McCain 81

9:05 — Dem win Senate in NH and NM (foxnews) Fox News on projecting PA for Obama

9:06 — Bill Lee speech in Wilmington

“I called Markell to congratulate him” “all the major networks calling it for Markell… for the sake of me and my family.. the fate of DE is in his hands and I wish him success..” “Jack is taking us in the wrong direction” “I expect the rep. part to come around and will turn this thing around in a hurry… we have a couple of races behind us to give us better results than this one has.. we’re hanging on for Copeland and Brady… [with Castle] we’ll be able to establish a platform for the party based on rep. principles.. for me, not a sad ending… we had a marvelous campaign.. Jack earned the mantle of change from that government.. i apologize to you that i was not able to do what i wanted to do.. i did it because i thought we had a scenario were we could provide you with a victory… i failed you… i apologize.. you did not fail me.. as long as you’re honest… you’ll never hang your head.. your first loser of the night is going to get out of the way.. this is not a bad night for me…”

Trish Hinders “Yes We Can” chanting in Wilmington…

Joe in Georgetown: “right now we are hearing that John Atkins won the race” / Biff Lee wins… the numbers are starting to come in now.. ???? … QUESTIONABLE …

Listener response: 9:06…McCain can’t get any more than 284 electoral votes at this point.

9:16 — with 11% reporting in MATT DENN IS LEADING — CASTLE AHEAD 63% –

9:19 == Sussex Election HQ JOHN ATKINS WINS — BIFF LEE WINS

Pat Patterson on the blog: 9:20…My home state, Ohio, goes to Barack Obama.

Don’t blame me…I voted for Chuck Baldwin.

9:20 — “still no Sussex County Numbers”

9:23 — Gerald Hocker Wins “I’ll work as hard as i can, not only for the 38th, but for the people of Sussex County” — HOCKER Audio

9:26 — other sources.. ABC News projecting Obama 195 McCain 76

9:28 — Scott Wilkens with Prelim results — 33rd district — Bob Walls leads Peterman..

9:30 other sources.. ABC News projecting Obama 195 McCain 90

RECAP — BILL LEE CALLS IT QUITS/MARKELL WINS == HOCKER WINS == SUSSEX HQ SAYS ATKINS/BIFF LEE WIN == CASTLE WINS == BIDEN WINS SENATE == AP OBAMA WINS DE/MD/PA

9:32 — Trish speaks to upstate voter…

BLUE STATE

with 83% of votes.. MATT DENN WINS 64% — STEWART WINS 64.4% OF VOTE — MARKELL WINS 71.6% GOVERNOR

9:41 — Absentee numbers causing trouble in Sussex (Audio)

9:43 — Gary Downes leads Simpson 52% - 42% “We might be staying up with the folks in California tonight!” — Scott Wilkens Milton!

9:46 — News Agencies Obama 200 / McCain 130

BLUE STATE!

9:49 – Terry Spence loses in the 18th to Michael Barbieri — Vince Lofink loses! 48.7 - 48.3 — dist. 29 Thornburg loses to Charles Paradee III 50.1 49.9 — Valahura loses! to Williams — Donna Stone loses to Bennett. Wagner loses to Scott.

Stewart “it’s been a hard campaign.. looking to delawarians for help”

10:04 Copeland is defeated (audio from copeland)

“Hello my name is Charlie Copeland, and I’m a republican… it’s a tough environment out there, you all have seen the numbers.. it’s hard to beat George Bush.. i think we had a great race.. we had a ticket top to bottom that was full of quality candidates that went out there and told the truth.. we have a lot of problems that won’t be solved by more spending… we need to be the loyal opposition, we need to come together and help make sure delaware gets back on the right track.. let’s be honest this state has been run by dems for 16 straight years.. and where exactly are we? i view this as a night to say ‘let’s reload let’s get back on the horse and start moving forward”

10:15 - ML “I’ve never seen anything like this… this is the most amazing thing I have ever seen”

10:19 TRISH HINDERS ON MARKELL’S SPEECH (audio)

10:20 JOHN BRADY CONCEDES (audio)

“I’ve learned a lot, I’ve met a lot of great people.. numbers were just not with me.. this is not the end of the big guy.. i say that for one main reason… my license plate says big guy and i renewed it for 2 more years.. i’m back to work tomorrow as recorder of deeds… you may see me two years from now.. and four years, who knows what i’ll be running for!”

10:30 Pete Schwartzkopf talks DEM victories (audio)

“I was the very first one confirmed as a winner tonight… we thought Nancy Wagner’s race could go either way… Terry Spence went down.. Valihura.. Lofink.. We picked up 8 seats.. We had a good group of people out there.. they worked hard.. they fought hard.. and were successful… Six short years ago we were down to 12 people in the house.. we’re up to 26 right now.. (will be running for majority leader) trying to figure that out within the next week”

10:35 caller Rick (audio) (funny!)

“Spence and Valihura, the architects of the smoking bill ‘bye-bye!’”

10:41 Bill Colley “McCain Can’t Win”

11:02 — FOX NEWS PROJECTS BARRACK OBAMA AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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So the plumber isn’t named Joe? It’s his middle name. No surprise here. We aren’t allowed to speak middle names in this campaign. The name which can’t be spoken, familiar to people of faith, which means the candidate, will now be known as “I am that I am”. When you go and vote tell them “I am” has sent you.

I’ve been putting together some strings of ideas. A story on NPR told me the world financial system was now so complex we need to be part of international regulation of the markets. U.S. sovereignty will be surrendered to a new world financial order. Days before I read a report from a U.N. committee. It recommends that meat be rationed to 2 servings a week in order to provide equally for all people of this world. Considering much of the world eats very little meat the paper targets the industrialized world or primarily English and French speaking North America. You’ll need a U.N. card for grocery shopping.

The same report also urges prohibition of alcohol. Apparently brewing cold beer takes food from the mouths of children in Bangladesh. Since we can’t be trusted to do the “right thing” the world government will reshape our conscience. Don’t object or you’ll lose the ration card and be left with an empty rice bowl.

How convenient for the globalists the financial panic. For many years I’ve derided conspiracy theorists who spoke of a currency called the Amero, the North American Super Highway and Washington’s submission to the United Nations. Now I’m starting to take these claims seriously.

Which candidate most likely to assume the White House would take us in this direction? Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden are primary sponsors of the “global tax”. Nearly one trillion dollars would be funneled overseas in an effort to end poverty (Apparently no one before has ever thrown money this direction). We’ll also need a trillion or so for single payer health care. We’ll control costs by limiting what your doctor can earn. You may remember surgeons in the Soviet Union often were paid less than construction crews. Not to disparage blue collar workers but your doctor has years of student loans on the books.

Unless of course you make education “free” and control teacher pay. This should only cost the treasury a trillion or trillion and one half. With a national debt expected to reach 11 trillion dollars next year you’re probably worried the national credit card will be maxed pretty soon. Not to worry, the Chinese have agreed to continue financing the debt as long as we agree to worldwide control of financial markets and ultimately subject our government and the will of the people to control of a world body. It’s all so easy but for the United States Constitution. No need to worry, Obama will appoint Justices who’ll smooth the rough edges. He owes the Chinese, my friends, they’ve bankrolled his campaign.

Lastly, you’ve likely heard President Obama and his Congressional friends, riding a rising tide in both houses plan to put the Fairness Doctrine back in place. Effectively silencing talk radio hosts nationally and at the local level who may dare tell you “I am that I am” is a false God.

Endorsements. I say I never offer these. Better description is that it’s rare. First.

President

John S. McCain. He isn’t perfect but he’s the last “Great” man in America. Junior can go back to Chicago and join the bomb making squad and “damn” America.

Governor

Who is Jack Markell? A picture in the News Journal? Mr. Carney at least knows how to get to Sussex County and he likes a cold one. Markell won’t come on a right leaning radio show? Heck, Bill Lee goes into the den of national traitors at WDEL but then Lee, the Marine, is Delaware’s last “Great” man.

Insurance Commissioner

And Delaware’s smartest man is John Brady. Hands down the Big Guy’s brain is Delaware’s biggest..

House of Representatives

I endorse Bill Colley. O.K., I’m pulling your leg as I prefer to continue not working for a living. I very much on a personal level like my two fellow Catholics in the race but I have a higher calling and it’s my allegiance to God. The Church isn’t a democracy and God isn’t asking for your opinions. Infanticide is criminal. You denounce it or you feather your bed in the nether reaches, however. I would like to buy one of the candidates dinner and her name isn’t Mike.

U.S. Senate

Christine O’Donnell. She’s an intellectual, she’s always smiling and you know she doesn’t compromise. My, Lord, she has a moral grounding I can only aspire to. Godspeed, Christine. Uncle Joe, see my comments about the race for the House. And those comments you made about that wonderful man who tried saving your first wife and daughter… Joe, there is a final judge.

Lt. Governor.

Copeland and Denn both have passion for the office. Bill Lee will need an ally. I hope Mr. Copeland agrees.

Sussex County Council

I endorse the entire GOP slate. What great people we have in this county, often from both parties but I’ve met these Republicans and they truly are just like the rest of us. There are so many good Republicans that we don’t have room for all of them. There were 3 battling in the primary for one seat. They could all serve us well.

The Forty First

Remember that comedy routine where the politician is asked if he still beats his wife? He can’t answer yes and he can’t answer no. It’s a paradox. Greg Hastings doesn’t beat his wife. He’s clean as a whistle and he’s what small town America has always been about.

Other State Legislative Races

Some good people here but do we want a one party state? A one party state is called New Jersey. ‘Nuff said. The local GOP has raised a good slate. It could be a model statewide and beyond.