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On January 31, 2008, law enforcement officers raided the home of Robert A. McKee and seized two computers, 30 videotapes and printed materials from his home that officers described as being child pornography. At the time of the raid, McKee was an elected delegate to to the Maryland House of Delegates. He was also the executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County.
He was also a Republican.
When news of the incident was made public a week later, McKee resigned from both the Maryland House of Delegates and his position with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County.
It has now been 190 days since investigators seized the child pornography from McKee’s home. He has yet to be charged with any crime.
It seems that Roscoe Bartlett, my elected representative in the U.S. House of Representatives has been less then honest with his finances. The Frederick-News Post uncovered the fact that since 2004, Bartlett underreported or failed to report roughly $1 million in property sales.
As a member of Congress, Bartlett is required by law to disclose details of his finances each year. He is required to report his earned and unearned income, assets, gifts and travel. By submitting false financial statements, he could be facing up to five years in prison.
Being the man of character that he is, he quickly did what all men of character do - he blamed his wife and son:
“I really was a bit player,” he said. “My son rebuilt the houses; my wife wrote the checks.”
Bartlett also blamed the people that work for him:
Bartlett blamed that error on staff first not reading his handwritten notes correctly, and then his own signing of the finished form without reading it, something he said he shouldn’t have done.
Bartlett also made a series of interest baring loans to various family members. He failed to declare the money generated from the interest from this loans. Who even charges their own family interest?
I’m not really sure who he is blaming for that mix up.
The smoking lamp is permanently off at Montgomery College, a community college — also known as the 13th and 14th grade — here in Maryland. No more smoking cigarettes, pipes, cigars, or any other tobacco based products.
I’m not sure if this ban also applies to marijuana.
It’s now been 65 days since Washington County Sheriff deputies raided the home of former Maryland state delegate Robert A. McKee (R) and child pornography. Investigators seized two computers, 30 videotapes and a “significant amount” of printed material, including magazines showing naked children.
He has yet to be charged. Why not?
Even after deputies hauled the massive kiddie porn collection from McKee’s home, they didn’t bother notifying anyone. When McKee wasn’t in Annapolous helping to craft new state laws, he was the executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County. He was also quite active in the local Little League.
Maybe steps should have been taken to make sure he stays away from children.
I just don’t understand why things are being delayed in this case. At the very least he should be placed under arrest and charged for possession of child pornography. If I didn’t know any better, I would think McKee is getting special treatment.
Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern evidently didn’t know someone had an audio recorder going when she was telling about 50 of her constitutes exactly what she thought about gay people. Damn you modern technology!
I don’t know what is more unsettling. The crap this nut job is spewing or the fact that nobody in the audience is openly laughing at her.
According to her, gay people are taking over the world. They’ve already taken over the Maryland cities of Takoma Park and Kensington. That certainly explains this photo of the Kensington city council.
She claims that she is not gay bashing. That’s funny, because it certainly sounds like she is. [www.pamshouseblend.com]
Fujicolor Processing has announced that they will be closing their Williamsport, Maryland plant on March 12. The Williamsport facility processes film for Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, and other retail stores that operate in the Northeast. The facility currently has around 125 employees who will now be out a job.
I used to work at the Williamsport facility. In fact, it’s the reason I am living here in Maryland. I was hired as a repair technician shortly after leaving the Air Force. I didn’t know anything about photofinishing equipment. They were looking for ex-military people with an electronics background. When operators had a problem with their photofinishing equipment, they would call for a service tech. One of us would show up with our tools and try to get the problem fixed as soon as possible.
It could get very hectic at times. It was very much a high-production environment. It wasn’t the greatest job I ever had, but it certainly wasn’t the worst. The photofinishing equipment broke down constantly. Most of the problems were mechanical in nature. Very rarely did a piece of photofinishing equipment have something wrong with it that had to do with it’s electronics.
It wasn’t all bad. That’s were I met my wife Sheri. She operated a machine called a splicer that constantly broke down. I found myself looking forward to when her splicer acting up. She would sit and talk to me while I worked on it. Once I got it working again, I would hang around just to make sure it was working. That of course was just an excuse to talk to her.
You would not believe how perverted people can be. Seeing many of the pictures developed from the film people turned into their local Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club for 2-day processing gave me a clear understanding of just how nasty some people can be. Take it from me, if a guy is going to take photos of himself with a long stemmed rose inserted in this rectum, chances are he’s not going to go for the one-hour film processing. He’s going to drop his order in the box and come back in two days.
I guess I’m not surprised the facility is being shut down. Who uses film cameras?
Maryland Del. Robert A. McKee, R-Washington, on Friday announced his resignation from the House of Delegates after information surfaced that deputies, acting on information that child pornography was in the residence, searched his Halfway home on Jan. 31.
During the search, investigators seized two computers, about 30 videotapes and a “significant amount” of printed material, including magazines, Washington County Sheriff Douglas Mullendore said Friday afternoon during a press conference.
No charges have been filed.
McKee, in a faxed statement, also said Friday that he had resigned from his position as executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County, an organization he said he served for 29 years.
Yes, that’s right. When this asshole isn’t carrying out his duties as our elected representative in Annapolis, he is running the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County. You just can’t make this kind of stuff up.
Even though authorities found a “significant amount” of child porn in the delegate’s home over two weeks ago, he remains free. He has yet to be placed under arrest. How much child porn does one have to amass before being placed under arrest? This asshat should have been forced to announce his resignation from the House of Delegates from a jail cell. This is why we have jail cells. Why hasn’t he been placed under arrest?
McKee was present when the search warrant signed by Washington County Circuit Judge W. Kennedy Boone III was executed, said Mullendore, who knows McKee personally.
I guess it’s safe to say if you are going to be a collector of child porn, it pays to be friends with the local sheriff.
“Could we possibly have a nominee who hasn’t won any of the significant states — outside of Illinois?” Chief Strategist Mark Penn said. “That raises some serious questions about Sen. Obama.”
Significant states? Does that mean the only states Obama has won — such as Maryland — are insignificant? At least we weren’t called poopy heads.
Today is the day Maryland, Virgina, and Washington D.C. hold their primary elections. People are calling it the Potomac Primary after the nasty, dirty river that runs through all three places. Here in Hagerstown, you couldn’t ask for a nastier day to vote. It has been snowing and sleeting most of the day.
Sheri and I voted at nearby Hagerstown Community College. There wasn’t that many people their casting votes. It was probably the smallest crowd I’ve seen voting at the college. I don’t know if it’s because of the weather or because most of the people living here are Republican. Maybe it was a combination of the two. I probably wouldn’t vote either if I could only vote for one presidential candidate.
Something funny happened as I was going over my ballot and double checking my votes. My cell phone started to ring. Are you even allowed to answer your phone while standing in the voting booth? They never covered that in my high school government class. That’s probably because they hadn’t invented the cell phone yet. I decided to go ahead and answer it. It turned out to be a taped message from Michelle Obama reminding me to go out and vote. As I was listening to her speak, I was looking at my ballot making sure the “X” was next to her husband’s name. It was a surreal moment.
Jarrel Gray, a 20-year old Frederick Maryland man was killed this past Sunday morning after being Tasered twice in a 23 second period by a Frederick County Sheriff Deputy. This from the Frederick News-Post:
The deputy found three men fighting, Jenkins said. A female was also on the scene.
Jenkins would not provide the names or ages of the other people at the scene, but he said the deputy was a corporal and a 13-year veteran of the department.
When the deputy told the three men to show their hands, one of them did so immediately, another walked away before showing his hands, and the third man, identified as Gray, did not comply, Jenkins said.
The sheriff said no other officers were present when the deputy deployed the Taser. Gray, of the 7000 block of Ladd Circle, fell to the ground unconscious; he was given first aid on the scene.
Emergency responders arrived in minutes, Jenkins said. Gray was then taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead about 7:30 a.m.
Gray’s family says that he was deaf in one ear and may not have understood the deputy’s instructions to show his hands.
I don’t like these Taser devices. For supposedly being non-lethal, there sure are a lot of people now dead because of them.
On January 31, 2008, law enforcement officers raided the home of Robert A. McKee and seized two computers, 30 videotapes and printed materials from his home that officers described as being child pornography. At the time of the raid, McKee was an elected delegate to to the Maryland House of Delegates. He was also the executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Washington County.
It seems that Roscoe Bartlett, my elected representative in the U.S. House of Representatives has been 
Fujicolor Processing has announced that they will be closing their Williamsport, Maryland plant on March 12. The Williamsport facility processes film for Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club, and other retail stores that operate in the Northeast. The facility currently has around 125 employees who will now be out a job.
