Freedom Rights Rally & State Meeting
April 9 - April 12
State Meeting: Sunday April 11 @ 12 Noon
Monticello - American Legion Hall

As part of testimony of a London employment tribunal deciding a case on wrongful dismissal, it was revealed a top hotel resold leftover wine. A restaurant manager at the London Ritz admitted it was common practice for customers' leftover wine to be resold to other guests, the Daily Telegraph reports. 
Matthew Rivett, assistant restaurant manager at the Ritz, wrote in a letter that opened bottles of wine were taken from the hotel's private dining room and later sold by the glass in the restaurant. 

The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards." 

Paddy the famous Irishman is driving home after downing a few at the
local pub. He turns a corner and much to his horror he sees a tree
in the middle of the road. He swerves to avoid it and almost too late
realizes that there is yet another tree directly in his path. He
swerves again and discovers that his drive home has turned into a slalom
course, causing him to veer from side to side to avoid all the trees.
Moments later he hears the sound of a police siren and brings his car
to a stop.
The officer, approaches Paddy's car and asks him what on earth he
was doing. Paddy tells his story of the trees in the road when the
officer stops him mid sentence and says,
"Fer Chris sakes, Paddy, that's yer air freshener!"
Thanks Geri

Women tend to put less effort into planning for retirement, compared to men, but lesbians plan even less. In one of the first studies to look at the retirement plans of gay and lesbian couples, Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., finds a significant factor is the satisfaction of the relationship. 
"Although the quality of a marriage tends to influence how much a couple plans for retirement, the link between relationship satisfaction and retirement planning is much stronger for same-sex couples," says study author Steven E. Mock, who will present the research at the policy forum in New York City. 
"In other words, gay and lesbian adults who are happier with their relationships plan more for retirement." 

Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he'd just been run over by a train. 
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised and he's walking with a limp. 
"What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bartender. 
"Jamie O'Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy. 
"That little shit, O'Conner?," says Sean, "He couldn't do that to you, he must have had something in his hand." 
"That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin' he gave me with it." 
"Well," says Sean, "you should have defended yourself. Didn't you have something in your hand?" 
"That I did," said Paddy... "Mrs. O'Conner's breast, and a thing of beauty it was, but useless in a fight." 

The 24-year-old soldier was badly burned in a fuel explosion in Kuwait. Ian's family says he is going through physical therapy because 80 percent of his body was burned. He is currently being treated in Texas.

Organizers hope Sunday's event will raise more than $15,000. Raffles, t-shirts and drinks were sold as part of the fundraiser to help Lennon and his family. The Hells Angels are also sending a Marine Corps Flag across the country, so members who served in the U.S.M.C. can sign it to show their support for Ian.

by Joseph M. Giordano
A routine traffic stop turned into a significant arrest last week.

Wallace "The Bear" Schnople, 45, of the 2800 block of Pulaski Highway was pulled over by Maryland State Police on a minor traffic violation on Feb. 3 while driving in White Marsh.

Nothing would have been unusual about the stop had Schnople not been wanted for attempted first-degree murder by the Baltimore County Police Department, according to a police press release.

Warrants were issued by county police after Schnople and his alleged accomplice, Michael Moore of Essex, allegedly shot two men at Club Tattle Tails in the 2100 block of Sparrows Point Road on Jan. 4.

Though police said Schnople, described as being 6-foot-9 and weighing about 280 pounds, was not the shooter, he was still charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of first-degree assault and single counts of use of a handgun in committing a crime of violence and possession of a handgun.

Moore, who remained at large as of Tuesday, and Schnople, who police say are Hells Angels members, reportedly got into an argument with Charles Zepp and Timothy McDowell of the rival motorcycle gang the Pagans.

Zepp, who was shot in the chest, and McDowell, who was shot in the leg, were rushed to the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Schnople was handed over to Baltimore County police and taken to the Baltimore County Detention Center, where he was denied bail and remained in custody Tuesday.

A strip club at the time of the shooting, Tattle Tails has changed its name to The Point and has converted to a live music venue

The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments

The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and after the Major League All-Star Game.

The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosey"), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("a pocket full of posies"). Further- more, people who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes, we all fall down"). 

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

Word of the Day

bellwether \BEL-WEH-ther ("th" as in "this")\ noun

: one that takes the lead or initiative : leader; also : an indicator of trends
Example sentence:
Always the fashion bellwether of the class, Mike started wearing khaki pants to school while other boys were still wearing jeans.
Did you know?
We usually think of sheep more as followers than leaders, but in a flock one sheep must lead the way. Long ago, it was common practice for shepherds to hang a bell around the neck of one sheep in their flock, thereby designating it the lead sheep. This animal was called the "bellwether," a word formed by a combination of the Middle English words "belle" (meaning "bell") and "wether" (a noun that refers to a male sheep that has been castrated). It eventually followed that "bellwether" would come to refer to someone who takes initiative or who actively establishes a trend that is taken up by others. This usage first appeared in English in the 13th century.

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