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The final countdown of 2023!

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Another tradition at the Yokel is a recap of our top 10 posts of the year. If you haven’t checked out our In and Out list ,be sure to take a gander at that as well.

Let us begin….

10. Indicted sheriff, bored retirees, and attempted book bannings! What a summer we are having in Olde Fredericktowne!

At #10 is our summer lament about the High Sheriff claiming he got tricked, horrible “transparency” groups who seem hell bent on hurting the youngins, and the Reconsideration Committee that had to be formed due to Cindy’s uneducated complaints.

9. Reconsideration Committee Instructs Cindy to Reconsider Everything!

Speaking of that Reconsideration Committee, at #9 we all got an early Christmas present in that we got to see exactly what Cindy and friends wrote and said in their complaints about the so-called offensive books, PLUS the committee’s notes on the books in question. It really is a quite a treat.

8. Local Yokel Legislating Time! Time to Fight Back Against the Pearl Clutchers!

Amen!

At #8 we are sticking with the theme of fighting against the book-banners. In this post you can read all about our suggestions for future book banning complaints.

7. Vote for your new Frederick County Flag: Yokel style!

For #7, we had a little fun with the new flag contest. In our completely scientific poll our flag design won! Be sure to check out the other selections. It’s a stroll down memory lane.

6. We’ve written about some stupid shit, but damn……

You probably already guessed from the title that this post is about Dan Cox. Remember when he tried to get Jenkins’ co-defendant off by complaining that one of the agents involved in the investigation was of Ukrainian descent? We also had some fun with Cox’s last name.

5. Asshole shortage causes assholes to import Pennsyltucky assholes to Frederick County.

This town could be a sitcom. If you don’t remember when the bag pipers from Gilead came to our school board meeting be sure to read this post. As we’ve said many times over the almost 8 years we’ve been writing this blog…we couldn’t make this shit up if we tried.

4. He’s running for Congress…..wait no he’s not…..oh yeah he is! When will we ever be rid of this Cox?!

Never Forget!

We can’t explain why Dan behaves the way that he does. But here we are. Let’s hope for another defeat for this theocratic nincompoop.

3. The Moms of Coercion Have Made Progress in Carroll County. We Can’t Let That Happen Here.

So far we’ve rejected all attempts from these people to infiltrate our school board. But we must not get complacent as one of the two filed candidates for this year’s election is one of these so-called “Joyful Warriors”. Expect them to rebrand soon as a result of some their recent sex scandals.

2. Breaking News!

This was our post that informed the public over the High Sheriff’s indictment. Hopefully we’ll see how this all turns out soon.

And now for our #1 post of the year….

  1. Happy 1st Day of School…or not!

Our most popular post of the year was about a so-called Joyful Warrior attempting to to ruin the first day of school because she didn’t like a question on a teacher’s “All About Me” form. She was egged on by Cindy Rose, who of course shows nothing resembling joy in her interactions with the school system.

We hope that y’all see a theme here. We really need to be on guard against these book banning, anti-joy people. This year is going to be stressful when it comes to politics, but we will be with you every step of the way!

We’ve written about some stupid shit, but damn……

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Well, yeah we can.

We will begin this post by addressing the very bad defense of the High Sheriff. His innocence apparently hinges on his ignorance:

At worst, Sheriff Jenkins was duped by Krop into providing these
demonstration letters, without ever knowing or having reason to know that Krop’s motive was to
gain financially from TMGN’s special permission to possess and to import, even to obtain, these
weapons. In all the discovery produced to date, there is no material that shows or establishes any
financial incentive or fraudulent intent on the part of Sheriff Jenkins.

And, technically, that means Jenkins is too naive or dumb (or both!) to serve the county, and therefore should resign his position….forthwith! Also, ignorance is never a great legal strategy, so good luck with that!

Jenkins’ lawyer also thinks it would be “profoundly unfair” if he had to be tried in the same trial as Robert Krop. After reading through the defense that Dan Cox has concocted, we may have to say this is one of the few times we are in agreement with the High Sheriff. Today, the Baltimore Banner reported on Cox’s strategy and we’ve seen some doozies from Dan, but this one really takes the cake!

Krop’s attorney, meanwhile, filed a scathing, 107-page motion making a wide variety of allegations, including calling the prosecution politically motivated and questioning the Ukrainian background of the lead ATF agent on the case.

“If [the agent] has not denounced his Ukrainian citizenship the warrant must be immediately quashed and the indictment dismissed,” wrote Krop’s attorney, former Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Cox.

We are old enough to remember when Republicans used to be anti-Russia. And ANYONE who showed any pro-Russian inclination was labeled an anti-American communist! Oh how the winds of Trump have changed these folks! And to let it permeate your legalese and thereby jeopardize the freedom of your client is top shelf MAGA!

Also, if Dan thinks that he can question people’s ethnicities we are going to throw that strategy right back in his face! According to Wikipedia:

The surname Cox is of English or Welsh origin, and may have originated independently in several places in Great Britain, with the variations arriving at a standard spelling only later. There are also two native Scottish & Irish surnames which were anglicized into Cox.

Therefore we demand that Cox publicly denounce King Charles II immediately. For how do we know Dan’s not a Tory trying to bring America under monarchical control? Next thing we know he’ll be making us drink warm beer and eat beans and mash!

Yes, Dan it sounds just as stupid when you do it.

ICYMI, The Washington Post ran a great article about some former members of Dan Cox’s father’s homeschool racket. Make sure you read it, but here’s our favorite quote:

“People who think the public schools are indoctrinating don’t know what indoctrination is. We were indoctrinated,” Aaron says. “It’s not even comparable.”

The aforementioned article enlightens us to the fact that in Dan Cox’s world women are only suitable to be mothers and sparing the rod is a big no-no when it comes to disciplining your children.

Thank you Maryland for not saddling us with this guy!

Where, oh where has our High Sheriff gone? Oh where, oh where can he be?

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The answer to that question is a big ,”YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW”!

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That’s right Fido, sometimes it’s better not to know!

 

On the very same day that a horror of a human being decides to massacre innocent people AND praise the likes of Dylan Roof, Donald Trump, and Anders Breivik, our “leader” decides to hold a travesty of a public ceremony.

What kind of ceremony you ask? How about one in which he vetoes Congress’ bill that stated his emergency declaration was some line stepping b.s.!

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Time will tell if Congress has the courage of their convictions to override this veto!

At this ceremony, Trump declared that white nationalism has not increased under his regime AND called many immigrants “stone cold criminals”! ON THE VERY SAME DAY ALMOST 50 IMMIGRANTS WERE KILLED BY A WHITE NATIONALIST!! A white nationalist that praised President Trump. Let all that sink in while you stick your mouth under the nozzle of a box of wine. And lest you think he had to do this today, he didn’t. He has 10 whole days per the U.S. Constitution.

What does this all have to do with the High Sheriff?

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Is he on the White House speed dial these days? Every time the President needs some patsy to stand against Mexican and South American immigration he’s right there in all his finery! A sheriff from a small town in Maryland!

 

We can’t help but to be jealous of the fact that the New Zealanders have a leader who actually knows how to lead. Someone who doesn’t blame “both sides” when something terrible happens. You can read her whole statement here, but here’s some of our favorite lines:

These are people who I would describe as having extremist views that have absolutely no place in New Zealand and, in fact, have no place in the world.
While we do not have any reason to believe at this stage that there are any other suspects, we are not assuming that, at this stage. The joint intelligence group has been deployed and police are putting all of their resources into this situation.
For those of you who are watching at home tonight, and questioning how this could have happened here, we — New Zealand — we were not a target because we are a safe harbor for those who hate. We were not chosen for this act of violence because we condone racism, because we are an enclave for extremism. We were chosen for the very fact that we are none of these things. Because we represent diversity, kindness, compassion, a home for those who share our values, refuge for those who need it. And those values, I can assure you, will not, and cannot, be shaken by this attack.
We are a proud nation of more than 200 ethnicities, 160 languages. And amongst that diversity we share common values. And the one that we place the currency on right now — and tonight — is our compassion and support for the community of those directly affected by this tragedy.
And secondly, the strongest possible condemnation of the ideology of the people who did this.
You may have chosen us — but we utterly reject and condemn you.

 

 

Take note orange man, that is how you talk when white nationalists show up. Not a condemnation of both sides.

Where in the world is the High Sheriff? Oh crap…

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We are so very sorry to tell you that the High Sheriff Chuck Jenkins made an appearance on Fox and Friends this morning, giving the impression to the world that Frederick County would like to see Trump’s wall built! You can watch the whole thing here:

 

Or follow along with our their sensationalized story in pictures!

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Are you scared yet? And we don’t want to make light of the real problem that this gang poses in some places, however, we do not subscribe to Jenkin’s boogey man characterization of this problem! Especially since we have more pressing issues in Frederick County.

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Jenkins is very concerned about the lady members of this group. According to him they are more violent than the males AND he fears that they will not be punished for their crimes due to their lady parts! True facts!

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This is the part of the program in which Jenkins tells us that if Congress would just get off its ass and build the wall and let ALL of Trump’s immigrations policies through then MS-13 would disappear like the Wicked Witch of the West!

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We just had to include those last two screenshots to show you the disgusting, fear-mongering coverage this network spews out into the world. Remember we have the chance to elect a new sheriff this November. We need a sheriff focused on local issues, not trying to kiss Donald Trump’s tuchus on national television. #localelectionsmatter

 

Are you ready for this?

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This is becoming a theme. Derp.

This clip of an interview by WMAL with Frederick’s own High Sheriff Chuck Jenkins is something else. The first thing that jumps out is that WMAL can’t spell Frederick County.  It’s not Fredrick. Once we recovered from seeing this error, and managed to listen we were  excited  concerned to hear his thoughts on school security in the wake of Parkland.

He made it clear that he feels the buck stops with him for any actions/inactions done by deputies whom he had trained and that work for him. Our first thought in hearing this was remembering the death of Ethan Saylor.  The sheriff may have publicly commented on his feelings about that, but all we could find was that he said they need to revise the way deputies were trained.

Check out this part from the link we posted:

As the interview continued, Sheriff Jenkins addressed Sheriff Israel’s actions of politicizing the incident:

O’Connor: I think many people are sort of scrutinizing Sheriff Israel right now because it appears as though he knew about those breakdowns last week, but he still did that nationally televised political event where he was basically blaming the NRA, blaming politicians, he was kind of partisan. Do you think that was appropriate for him?

Sheriff Jenkins: No, I don’t. Again, I think we all have our political beliefs and ideologies but you keep them separate from the actual events that you’re addressing. And some of the statements he said, he made, I don’t think were really appropriate. Again, I wasn’t there. I’m not in his shoes. But I can tell you, you don’t turn a situation like that into politics and you don’t blame the NRA because it’s not a gun control issue. The very basic issues are these:

  1. How do you limit access of firearms to individuals that shouldn’t have them in their hands?
  2. How do we harden the security at our schools to eliminate the threats to our students and staff?

There are a number of ways to do it, but again I don’t think you make it political.

How are guns not a political issue? The sheriff is making it political himself when he mentions limiting access. You can’t limit access without changing laws. Of course this is a political issue.

The sheriff announced plans to bring a proposal to the Board of Education to put an armed and trained security force of 5 or 6 into each and every school. This is how he thinks he will keep our kids safe. We reached out to Karl Bickel, democratic candidate for Frederick County Sheriff to see what he thinks of this idea. Karl didn’t want to give a final opinion on it since it is just a thought at the moment, but he did say it felt like a knee-jerk reaction.  “It sounds like an ill-conceived idea that is fraught with problems that would put students, staff and any officers (deputies) in even greater danger.” We tend to agree. We’ll stand by to see what the sheriff presents to the board.

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This is funny. Student safety is not.

What the High Sheriff failed to notice. 

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Whoopsie Daisy!

We all knew that the big bad WEED was coming to Maryland. There were all kinds of hints. The General Assembly passed a bill allowing medical marijuana dispensaries, our very own county council also passed a bill, and there were signs all over TJ Drive advertising said dispensary  a few weeks back! You would really have to have had your head buried into the sand to see this wasn’t coming!

Which brings us to yesterday’s article in the Frederick News Post. Our very own 287g High Sheriff was “surprised” that Wellness Solutions has actually set up shop! In his very own back yard! Now the whole county is going to be running around like a character from Reefer Madness, right?  To stop the spread of this very real evil, the sheriff decides to make his very own field trip to the devil’s den to see the debauchery with his own eyes.

You see, the High Sheriff has spent his career going after the pot heads, and now that people are finally accepting that this villianization of marijuana may have actually hurt people who have been cut off from a drug that has been shown to ease seizures in epileptics and relieve pain in cancer patients,people’s opinions are changing.  Wellness Solutions, much like a traditional pharmacy, is dispensing small amounts of cannabis for medical conditions diagnosed by a doctor. They are not flinging joints out to every Tom, Dick and Harry that walks through their door. Here’s a great article on how marijuana came to be the boogey man that our sheriff identifies it as today. ( Spoiler alert: Nixon is a maniac!)

One good take from the article is that the sheriff seems to feel a little better about the whole thing. So hopefully, he won’t station his deputies out in the parking lot and will allow these people to get the relief they deserve. For we have an actual drug problem in this county that has nothing to do with small amounts of marijuana.

Your Yokel week in review!

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There is so much to point out to you this week, we thought it was best to do one Friday post to wrap it all up for y’all!

Let’s start with the FNP’s snazzy photo, which you may or may not have seen flying around the intertubes. Definitely check out the link to the interview below if you missed it, because our very own Sheriff talks about his meeting with Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard “I ain’t answering none of your questions” Sessions! Sessions is wearing a yellow tie, and according to some nouveau Victorian tie custom (we guess) this means Sessions is a coward! Wow, don’t y’all feel so much safer with these two in charge? You can read the write up of the FNP”s interview with Jenkins, but not Sessions! Because he don’t have no time for y’all’s inquiries!

On the subject of Jenkins and his immigration stance, there was a brilliant LTE from a nice fella that was in attendance during last week’s 287 (g) meeting.

While we are on the subject of LTE’s. Let us direct you to this one regarding the festering dead horse beating of Jessica and Jerry voting for their own salaries  and this one regarding Kathy Afzali’s legislative style! Keep up the good work fellow citizens of Frederick County!

Speaking of Kathy, she sent out a little note letting us all know that she is not running for her Delegate seat, but she’s got some plans! Plans that will be revealed AFTER Labor Day!

Well, some of those who have the same “plans” have officially filed their paperwork. Check out The Frederick Extra’s story on Blaine’s former flame, Regina Williams.

Let’s move on to the city of Frederick. Two stories out of there. First of all, Randy McClement has filed for re-election. Putting him in the ring with Alderman Michael O’Connor and former mayor, Jennifer Doughtery.

The only Republican on the Frederick City board of Alderman, Phil Dacey, has announced that he will not seek re-election to that post. However, he is interested in pursuing the At-Large County Council seat. If he didn’t have the wherewithal to fulfill his duties as an alderman, how can he expect us to vote him onto the council?

This Tuesday, the county council will have a workshop. We don’t do drinking games for workshops, but don’t worry we won’t judge! Whatever works peeps!

We thought things were supposed to slow down in the summer!

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There is so much to point out to you today. It seems the lazy days of summer don’t apply in these here parts.

First let’s give kudos to the Frederick County Board of Education for passing policy 443 last night! It is so wonderful that our little yokels are in a school system that values each child. Which is more than we can say for some members of our community:

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And  we don’t know whether to laugh or cry at her other post regarding this issue:

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It feels as though we should do something nice for the FCPS legal department that has to sort through her requests.

On the other side of town from the BOE meeting, Sheriff Jenkins was holding court at Winchester Hall. He was having himself a little shindig about 287 (g). Kirby was a little confused as to what side he was supposed to be on:

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Durp!

And look! Angry lady from public comment the other night was out not looking so angry:

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Maybe we can start our very own game of Where’s Waldo with this gal!

And speaking of public commenters, our new fave, Matt Seubert, wrote a very informative piece about the Monocacy River Board in today’s edition of The Frederick Extra.  If you missed our piece, that goes along nicely with what he had to say, on what is going on in Carroll County click on over.

Oh would you look at that! Our Sheriff is doing commercials!!

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It’s true!!! Our very own High Sheriff Jenkins is doing commercials for the anti-immigration organization known as FAIR (Federation for Immigration Reform). Look at him all decked out in his Frederick County finery:

Take a gander at FAIR’s Twitter page when you have a moment. Take special note of the  articles they chose to share. Breitbart is one of their absolute faves. Perhaps you remember a few years back when the sheriff accepted a trip to the southern border of the U.S. that was paid for by this organization. In this FNP article from 2014, right after Jenkins took this trip, we learned that:

Jenkins expressed concern about a News-Post article stating that the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled FAIR a hate group. It unfairly associated him with the anti-illegal immigration organization, he said.

Well that concern must not have been too great because here he is three years later in a Public Service Announcement for that organization! The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has a lot to say about his particular organization. Here’s some warm and fuzzy quotes that the SPLC complied from  FAIR’s current president, Daniel Stein:

“I blame ninety-eight percent of responsibility for this country’s immigration crisis on Ted Kennedy and his political allies, who decided some time back in 1958, earlier perhaps, that immigration was a great way to retaliate against Anglo-Saxon dominance and hubris, and the immigration laws from the 1920s were just this symbol of that, and it’s a form of revengism, or revenge, that these forces continue to push the immigration policy that they know full well are [sic] creating chaos and will continue to create chaos down the line.”
— FAIR President Dan Stein, “Oral History of the Federation for American Immigration Reform,” interview of Dan Stein by John Tanton, August 1994.

 

Immigrants don’t come all church-going, freedom-loving, God-fearing … Many of them hate America, hate everything that the United States stands for. Talk to some of these Central Americans.”
— FAIR President Dan Stein, interviewed by Tucker Carlson, Oct. 2, 1997

Ted Kennedy?! Umm, okay. After watching the video, we hoped that our Sheriff wasn’t aware of this group’s history. (Be sure you read through SPLC’s link, lots of interesting thoughts on eugenics and white supremacy from FAIR’s original founders).  However, after coming across the 2014 article about the trip, we realize that is NOT the case. He’s known, since at least 2014, that there were many concerns about this organization. Those concerns, however, were not enough to dissuade him from being a part of their very Public Service Announcement.

Jenkins does have one supporter that wrote an LTE that appeared in today’s paper. Too bad for the sheriff that he no longer lives here.

And although this doesn’t involve Jenkins at all, we want to make sure you saw Dr Ben Carson spouting his revisionist history of slaves as the original immigrants on a quest for a better life. I thought only liberals were into rewriting history?

 

 

How did your Lady Yokels spend Inauguration Day? Watching the local Republicans eat their own..again!

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Friendship is fragile in these here parts!

Your friendly Lady Yokels were discussing how our own Frederick Republican party is a harbinger of the national party. If we are right, then there is hope to be had. We already elected and disposed of our own Donald Trump. We may have to wait four years for the real one to go, but surely this will occur! If this trend of the national reflecting the local continues, then the national GOP party is about to eat one another alive.

Do you remember a few weeks back when our nice local senator wanted to raise some money by raffling off an AR 15 rifle? You know the same kind of rifle used by that monster in Sandy Hook to end a bunch of little kid’s lives. You may ask why would an elected representative do such a thing? Well, because he’s a great defender of the 2nd Amendment that was bestowed upon us straight from the creator above! It’s true, according to Sen. Michael Hough, God himself is responsible for the 2nd amendment.

You may expect that his fellow Republicans would be all hunky dory with this. Especially since many of them are also great defenders of the Lord’s amendment. However, you would be very wrong indeed! In today’s Frederick Extra report we learn that Sheriff Jenkins believes that the good senator did not obtain the proper permits. And oh traitorous gods of yore, what did Hough do to piss Jenkins off ?! Unfortunately, Jenkins hands are tied until someone actually files a complaint. Wink, wink..any takers?

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Who will answer Jenkins’ call?

In the Extra Buzzz, we also learn that someone else is “concerned” about this raffle. “Someone” who has previously been very close to the senator, but now has some concerns! Where is the loyalty with these people?

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Thank you local Republicans, for giving us a chuckle on this day that we thought we couldn’t crack a smile.