Friday, January 9, 2009

Update: Maryland Transparency Website Announced by Governor

The other day I posted that the new transparency website for Maryland signed into law to be up by Jan 1 2009 had not come to pass and relayed a reposne that I had gotten from an inquiry I had made. As promised in the response, that the Governor would announce on Jan 8th, the new website; he has.

You can go to http://maryland.gov and front and center, under "What's New" you'll see at the top of the list a link to Governor Announces Government Accountability and Transparency Website located here: http://www.governor.maryland.gov/pressreleases/090107c.asp

The web page, Governor O'Malley Launches Website Aimed at Government Transparency and Accountability, lists the new URL for the Maryland Funding Accountability website.

"The website was originally created by House Bill 358 in the 2008 legislative session and applies to all units of the Executive branch. It can be directly accessed at www.spending.dbm.maryland.gov."
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The mission of this blog is to awake fellow citizens from their comfortably complacent state; to activate them in the cause of
  1. purveying truth
  2. promoting freedom
  3. defending liberty
Bullets for Battle
  • The degree of freedom and liberty that we enjoy is decided by our ability and willingness to detect, decipher, and declare the truth!
  • To choose the right, intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom are armament sufficient.
  • Good will prevail in the battle against evil.
  • God's plan of eternal happiness for his children is ultimately inevitable.
  • Jesus Christ gave us free agency and grace.
  • Our fate lies in our hands!
  • Have Faith!
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  • Stand Up!
  • Fight For Your Life!
  • Now!
Battles
  • reduce size of federal government
  • reduce federal interference in state and local government
  • reduce government interference in the marketplace
  • eliminate national deficit
  • reduce federal spending
  • strengthen national defense
  • protect the unborn
  • end manipulation of schoolchildren by utopian planners
  • promote the acknowledgment of a God in our classrooms
  • destroy the myth of man made global warming
  • promote individual responsibility and accountability
  • correct tax system to one of fairness
The quote listed in the header of this blog is an abridgment of a quote of Ezra Taft Benson. Here it is in it's entirety:

In times as serious as these, we must not permit fear of criticism to keep us from doing our duty, even at the risk of our counsel being tabbed as political, as government becomes more and more entwined in our daily lives. In the crisis through which we are now passing, we have been fully warned. There are some of us who do not want to hear the message. It embarrasses us. The things which are threatening our lives, our welfare, our freedoms are the very things some of us have been condoning. Many do not want to be disturbed as they continue to enjoy their comfortable complacency. There can be no neutrality! We are, or we are not, on the side of the Lord! (Ezra Taft Benson, 1973)

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