Shoutbox

• mirtna said...
  7:04pm, Saturday Oct 24

  The Danielle Black saga has been a tragedy all the way around. Although there have been instances of actual abuse sufferers recanting even tho the abuse did happen, only eternity will demonstrate whether Danielle truly was abused. Only sixteen, she was still too young to consider the ramifications of killing her dad. For reasons real or perceived, all she knew was that she wanted him out of her life. Television has taught many youth that the way to get rid of a problem person is to kill him/her. Unfortunately television has failed miserably in portraying the reality of the problem only being compounded with "natural consequences" that must be lived with the rest of one's life. Danielle my heart goes out to you-I pray that you can turn your heart to the Lord for forgiveness and redemption of the wreckage piled up in your young life. Jesus will ALWAYS receive and forgive ANYONE who comes to Him in faith believing. You have fellow inmates I am sure, who can help you get into relationship with the Lord - eternal

• ut1880h said...
  11:30am, Monday Oct 26

  If you think the Democrats are dealing honestly when vilifying heath care insurance providers and their supposed "obscene profits" in order to justify their health care proposals, check out yesterday's AP story - "FACT CHECK: Health insurer profits not so fat". It can be found in today's Herald Mail paper or at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091025/ap_on_go_co/us_fact_check_health_insurance. Nancy Pelosi has stated; "I'm very pleased that (Democratic leaders) will be talking, too, about the immoral profits being made by the insurance industry and how those profits have increased in the Bush years" she welcomed the attention being drawn to insurers' "obscene profits." As usual, the reality behind the Democrats' rhetoric is quite a different story. The AP article details part of that story and is well worth reading.

• jnurse said...
  5:14pm, Friday Oct 30

  MIRTNA: I respect your opinion very much....however to BLAME TV programs on "teaching" our young ppl that the only way to get rid of a problem person is to kill them...hog wash. Little house on the Prairie, 7th Heaven, Touched by an Angel.....THE role model the PARENTS are, the friends that the children are allowed to associate with, the places on the internet that children are permitted to go and NOT monitered by their parents, the situation that you are not permitted to disipline your children without FEAR of getting into trouble with social services. These are more current and better places to start with the teachings of NATURAL CONSEQUESCES. I was raised by a very strict mother with 3 older brothers. When a spanking was called for we got it and I mean we remembered it too. We were seldom "grounded" by my mothers way of thinking, if we were in trouble in school we got it twice as bad at home, we were taught to respect our elders, and if we had time to get into trouble, we had time for more chores.

• mirtna said...
  9:09pm, Monday Nov 2

  Dear Jnurse, My apologies for the generalization about "television." I agree completely that there are still programs on television with good family values and role models, such as the programs you mention. Same for films. However it seems that many more youngsters nowadays are allowed more and more to get a steady diet of prime-time violent programs, by too-busy parents who abdicate to the TV/computer as the unsupervisd, mind-shapng electronic parent. After awhile these children can come to believe that these programs represent reality, and thus treat their own hassles the same way - by elimination-with violence if deemed needful. Whether or not this happened in Daneille Black's life I cannot say for certain since I was not there; however the possibility exists. Combine that with the real possibility of parental abuse, and you have a deadly soup brewing. Your mom invested much time and effort in personally and consistently developing you and your brothers to be responsible adults. You were blessed indeed.

• mdsha_d6 said...
  3:12pm, Friday Nov 6

  Hopefully, former prosecutor, Judge Boone will face a Washington County Kangeroo Kourt like other defendants do, his rights will be trampled on, the judge will ignore case law and the Maryland constitution and he will be found guilty and NOT get probation before judgment either. I notice the new female judge has continued the tradition of running a Kangeroo Kourt. Being a former prosecutor I think these allegation make him especially a hypocrite. He always looked down on defendants, I hope he is treated the same way.

• baddawgs said...
  8:39am, Saturday Nov 7

  mdsha_d6, I couldn't agree more. This man has a God complex. He frequently ignores the laws he's sworn to uphold and creates his own. He said to me, "It's my courtroom and I'll do what I want to do." Well how about doing what you're sworn to do instead? I've seen him take evidence from a defendant and not share it with the prosecutor electing instead to say, "I'll take that into consideration." Impossible to get a fair trial in his court. Of course he won't go to jail, but I'm hoping he is asked to resign from his post. It would be a beautiful thing to think that some defendant may someday actually get a fair trial in Washington County. It will never happen if Boone is hearing the case.

• AnotherDay said...
  4:34am, Wednesday Nov 11

  Hey Herald Mail..When Judge Boone finally gets his case in the court and is sentenced for his crime you better leave the comment box open and don't go through it deleting everyone's comments...It's called Freedom of Speech and since you have the option of comments, it is merely exercising that option.Don't bow down to the Big Heads of the Local System...

• buckaroo said...
  12:26pm, Thursday Nov 19

  I am a patient of a well respected and long time medical group in Hagerstown , Maryland. I asked them if I could receive my FLU AND PNEUMOMIA SHOTS at my next visit which is in a few days .. I was told that they had not received their allotment of the vaccine nor did they know when it would arrive … due to many health concerns I am in the high risk bracket and I pay for all my treatments including flu shots .

  Here in western Maryland we have three criminal reformatories … It has been reported in our local newspaper that all the inmates confined to these prisons either have or will soon receive their immunizations .

  Now just what in the hell is going on ? The health of thieves, rapists , killers , child molesters, robbers , arsonists and all manner of crooks is more important than we law abiding citizens … our tax dollars actually support these dregs of society and allow them to live in a environment that is better than