While on a trip to Wyoming to visit her ailing mother this week, Del. Susan McComas suffered a heart attack.
The 58-year-old McComas, a former Bel Air Town Commissioner who was elected to the Maryland General Assembly in 2002, was said to be doing well and recovering after having two stents put in.
McComas, a Republican representing the Bel Air area District 35B, got her law degree from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1980 and had returned recently to visit her mother, who had fallen ill.
McComas’ mother passed away a few hours after her daughter suffered the heart attack.
Loosing her mother and having a health scare at the same time – it’s terribly sad for Susan and her family. My thoughts and prayers are with them.
What a tragic way to start the New Year. But, knowing Susan she will be back on her feet and rearing to go in just a few days. Our thoughts are with her.
Susan,
You are in our thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
Come back home to Maryland as soon as you can.
Tony Passaro
Bel Air Md
I have no idea whether this originates from Andy Rooney and it really doesn’t matter; the sentiment is right on.
Somewhere along the line, the Supreme Court invented the idea that their role was to invent and protect minority rights. Please, if you agree with that idea, point me to the place in the Constitution (I suggest you start with Article III) which grants them these powers. And to our detriment, WE the People allowed this to stand instead of insisting that our Congressmen and Senators nipped this usurpation of power at the bud. We reap the consequences of our complacency with the increasingly ridiculous rulings that emanate from our judiciary.
If we are to reclaim our nation, this abuse must stop. We the People need to insist that Congress control this judicial monster they have allowed to exist.
I myself have been grumbling and wondering how a handful of people have been able to take our right to pray in public places away from us. So, agreeing with Andy, I GLADLY will forward this email AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Folks, it is time that we RE-TAKE AMERICA
********* Get Ready *********
Keep this going around the globe . Read it and forward every time you receive it. We can’t give up on this issue.
I don’t believe in Santa Claus, but I’m not going to sue somebody for singing a Ho-Ho-Ho song in December. I don’t agree with Darwin , but I didn’t go out and hire a lawyer when my high school teacher taught his Theory of Evolution.
Life, liberty or your pursuit of happiness will not be endangered because someone says a 30-second prayer before a football game. So what’s the big deal? It’s not like somebody is up there reading the entire Book of Acts. They’re just talking to a God they believe in and asking him to grant safety to the players on the field and the fans going home from the game.
But it’s a Christian prayer, some will argue.
Yes, and this is the United States of America , a country founded on Christian principles. According to our very own phone book, Christian churches outnumber all others better than 200-to-1. So what would you expect — somebody chanting Hare Krishna?
If I went to a football game in Jerusalem , I would expect to hear a Jewish prayer…
If I went to a soccer game in Baghdad , I would expect to hear a Muslim prayer.
If I went to a ping pong match in China , I would expect to hear someone pray to Buddha.
And I wouldn’t be offended. It wouldn’t bother me one bit.
When in Rome …..
But what about the atheists? Is another argument.
What about them? Nobody is asking them to be baptized. We’re not going to pass the collection plate. Just humor us for 30 seconds. If that’s asking too much, bring a Walkman or a pair of ear plugs. Go to the bathroom.. Visit the concession stand. Call your lawyer!
Unfortunately, one or two will make that call. One or two will tell thousands what they can and cannot do.. I don’t think a short prayer at a football game is going to shake the world’s foundations.
Christians are just sick and tired of turning the other cheek while our courts strip us of all our rights. Our parents and grandparents taught us to pray before eating, to pray before we go to sleep. Our Bible tells us to pray without ceasing. The Muslims pray together 5 times a day. Now a handful of people and their lawyers are telling us to cease praying..
God, help us. And if that last sentence offends you, well, just sue me.
The silent majority has been silent too long. It’s time we tell that one or two who scream loud enough to be heard that the vast majority doesn’t care what they want. It is time that the majority
Rules! It’s time we tell them, You don’t have to pray; you don’t have to say the Pledge of Allegiance; you don’t have to believe in God or attend services that honor Him. That is your right, and we will honor your right; but by golly, you are no longer going to take our rights away. We are fighting back, and we WILL WIN!
God bless us one and all … Especially those who denounce Him , God bless America, despite all her faults. She is still the greatest nation of all. God bless our service men who are fighting to protect our right to pray and worship God.
Let’s make 2010 the year the silent majority is heard and we put God back as the foundation of our families and institutions . And our military forces come home from all the wars.
Tony Passaro
Bel Air, Md.
Ummm….what does this have to do with Del. McComas having a heart in WY?
Riddling with hypocrosy and, like DW said, Nothing to do with the topic at hand!
Oops, guess I put it in the wrong bucket, reference DW….However, the only comment it elicited was that it was in the wrong bucket.
You sure are an interesting commentator DW. You are a regular Mark Twain of wit.
And hey Cdev, if my responses were as moronic as yours I would hide my identity as well.
Tony Passaro
Bel Air Md.
At least I am a moron who knows that states ratified the US Constitution, which also spells out that the Supreme Court is there to interpret the US Constitution.
Judicial Review, which was established by Marbury v. Madison established that fact.
Further more the Constitution clearly states within it and the Bill of Rightd that Religion and Govornment are to be seperate.
One question I have for you. What is your opinion of the law that some mebers of Congress attempted to pass on behalf of Terry Schivo?
Cdev,
The Establishment Clause prevents the establishment of a state religion. Separation of church and state typically is a reference to letter from Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists describing “the wall of separation” created by the First Amendment.
So where is it clearly stated that government and religion are to be separate in the Bill of Rights?
John
Cdev,
Sorry to take so long to get back to you, as your comment deserves an answer no mater how off base it is.
First, I will start with your brining in Judicial review. You toss off the reference of Case law established by Marbury vs.. Madison as though it is relevant. It is not.
While I agree with Justice Marshall’s logical decision, that the Supreme Court reserves to it self the power and right to determine a law constitutional or not (if not the High Court, who then??) the decision does not apply, in any interpretation, to give the Supreme Court the right or power to make the law. That right is the sole province of the American people. Justice Marshall was quite clear on this and goes to great lengths to insure that the inference is not drawn,,,. Your refer to Judicial Review as though you sound like you know what you are saying and you certainly do not. Judicial Review does not mean that the Supreme Court can make the law, it only means that they can judge it Constitutional or not.…..end of point.
The First Amendment of the Constitution clearly states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Our Founders thought so much of religious freedom that they clarified it in the First Amendment of the Constitution…..so I will pray to my God in public anytime I want to…..end of point.
Now for your question “What is your opinion of the law that some members of Congress attempted to pass on behalf of Terry Schivo?”
What we all lose sight of is how this poor woman was forced to die. Her feeding tube was removed so that she slowly starved, dehydrated and died of thirst. All the while she was suffering she fought for her life…..for days and days in agony…. and to me any law for any reason that forces a disabled, helpless woman to die that way is no good……end of point.
Tony Passaro
Bel Air, Md.
A few things.
1) The US Constitution provides for the US Congress, not the People to make laws. The Congress are the elected representatives of the people. Although the Senate was not originally elected by the people an amendment to the US COnstitution provided for that. Judicial review means exactly what you say and the Supreme Court is left with interpreting the Constitution and the application of the laws established by Congress. If a law is faulty it is Congresses job to “go back to the drawing board.”
2) Correct the first ammendment is very true about you having the right to pray all you want. It is also clear that in a public school or any other govt. institution someone else should not be forced to excercise your religion. Your rigth ends where someone elses begins. This has been the basis of all decisions by SCOTUS. Let me give you a real life example. A small ISD in Texas wanted to put “prayer” back in school. So the majority Christian school board instituted a morning prayer policy. The 45% Bhudist population in the ISD quietly mobilized and got elected 5 of the 9 members to the BOE in the next election. They then changed all the prayers to Bhuddist prayers. The same folks who thought the CHristian prayers were a great idea had a “change of opinion.” They then filed a law suit to seek a change to the policy. The local court held that they lacked standing to sue since all the plantiffs helped change the policy and should of invisioned this when they did it. The 5 members of the BOE then changed the policy to no prayer and left at the conclusion of their terms. SO I ask how would you feel in the above case? Anywere else, go pray, want to. That is your right but you can not force someone else to pray with you! In your Football game anology. Don’t expect the Atheiest person sitting next to you to stop talking on their cell phone. That is his first ammendment right.
The law I refer to was the law congress attempted to pass that would apply to one person! One person who already left an end of life directive with her husband who was legally responsible for observing it and executing it, which he was. Her parents and some republican congress man tried to usurp her own wishes and the law by passing a law that would apply to one person only. Not only that where in the US COnstitution does it specify that making end of life decisions is the job of the US Congress. Some people would call that a Death Panel. Are you for them now when you like the outcome? Are you for Congress attempting to decide make decisions about an individuals health care?
Get Well Susan. Let me share a poem with you all. One of my favorites…
Should you ask me whence this laughter,
Whence this audible big-smiling,
With its labial extension,
With its maxillar distortion
And its diaphragmic rhythmus
Like the billowing of an ocean,
Like the shaking of a carpet,
I should answer, I should tell you:
From the great deeps of the spirit,
From the unplummeted abysmus
Of the soul this laughter welleth
As the fountain, the gug-guggle,
Like the river from the canon [sic],
To entoken and give warning
That my present mood is sunny.
Should you ask me further question —
Why the great deeps of the spirit,
Why the unplummeted abysmus
Of the soule extrudes this laughter,
This all audible big-smiling,
I should answer, I should tell you
With a white heart, tumpitumpy,
With a true tongue, honest Injun:
William Bryan, he has Caught It,
Caught the Whangdepootenawah!
Is’t the sandhill crane, the shankank,
Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep,
Standing silent in the kneedeep
With his wing-tips crossed behind him
And his neck close-reefed before him,
With his bill, his william, buried
In the down upon his bosom,
With his head retracted inly,
While his shoulders overlook it?
Does the sandhill crane, the shankank,
Shiver grayly in the north wind,
Wishing he had died when little,
As the sparrow, the chipchip, does?
No ’tis not the Shankank standing,
Standing in the gray and dismal
Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep.
No, ’tis peerless William Bryan
Realizing that he’s Caught It,
Caught the Whangdepootenawah!