Co-conspirator Hugo Arnaldo Aguilar-Mejia, 36, pled guilty in federal court to kidnapping 19-year-old Delmy Rivera in Frederick.
A 13-year-old boy was shot in a police officer's home in PG County.
Should felons be allowed to vote?
O to the M, Milkuski and other big-name Democrats are pig-biting mad over the sale of the Port of Baltimore to the Ay-rabs. Shows what I know-- I thought the Port was like a highway tollbooth where federal and state officials dilligently examined containers and collected taxes on their contents. But no ... less than five percent of containers are inspected.
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excerpt from WBAL:
Baltimore's Police Commissioner is fighting back this weekend over reports that police officers are not filing crime reports, so that the city's official crime statistics appear lower.
In a letter sent to community leaders, obtained by WBAL News, Leonard Hamm writes, "I am 100-percent certain that our crime statistics are not being manipulated....because of pressure from commanders or for any other reason."
my response:
Okay, now he's got no excuse. He's a bold-faced liar. AGAIN, I can and will testify to AT LEAST six incidents with different officers in Northern District which are in my personal experience.
BTW, do you know that Northern has about half the authorized manpower it had ten years ago when budgets were tighter?
Can you spell I-N-C-O-M-P-E-T-E-N-T ?
On the Port,... pig-biting ?
Anywho, the feds sold nothing.
The port consists of numerous terminals, operated by various shipping companies, among them Sea-Land/Itel (American), Maersk (Norwegian, I think), Hapag-LLoyd (German), Evergreen (Red Chinese), and Oriental & Peninsular Steamship Co. (was British, now to be Emirate-ese, or whatever). Evergreen and Dubai World Ports are their nations' flag carriers. If you want Chinese merchandise, you'd better have an Evergreen terminal.
It's about free trade.
If a carrier poses a PARTICULAR threat of terrorism or illegal immigration, then you suspend its privileges FOR THAT REASON.
Question: how do we feel about the Chinese? Shouldn't we close Evergreen ?
The question the Bush Admiin. has to pose is: Do we consider the U.A.E. a terrorists- sponsoring government, like Libya and Iran ? Unless the answer is Yes, we cannot hinder the operations of P & O without violating our free trade agreements with other nations.
This is something O'Malley hasn't told you. International politics is... complicated. Now Dubya ain't my idea of a rocket scientist, but these things have consequences. If you break trade agreements with our (few) partners in the mideast, you could be left standing there alone.
Here's a list of all the firms operating terminals at Baltimore:
Atlantic Container Line (ACL)
APL (American President Lines)
COSCO Americas, Inc.
CCNI
CSAV Chilean Line
Columbia Coastal Transport, LLC
Columbus Line
Crowley Maritime Corporation
Evergreen America Corporation
Great American Lines, Inc.
Hatsu Marine Limited
Hapag-Lloyd Container Line
HUAL North America
"K" Line (Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd.)
Lloyd Triestino di Navigazione S.P.A.
Lykes Lines
Maersk Sealand
Mediterranean Shipping Company, S.A.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
NSCSA (America) Inc.
NYK Line (Nippon Yusen Kaisha)
P&O Nedlloyd
Rickmers Reederei
Safmarine
Spliethoff
Star Shipping
Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines Americas
Yang Ming Line
So U.S. citizens coming back from visiting foreign countries have to document their possessions, have their stuff x-rayed, examined, sniffed by dogs, have to take off their shoes or even get a body scan-- but at the port every Chang, Sven and Amir with a water view and a crane is coming and going with giant contaners on the honor system. Super.
Probably, the way to handle our concerns is to have cia/fbi work with Dubai Ports to devise tight screening protocols, both for shipments and administrative personnel.
If I had terroristic tendencies (toward anyone but the Mayor), I wouldn't bring a dirty bomb through the port: I'd cross the porous Mexican border first.
Join the militia!
I'd use the Canadian, myself.
WIL-BURRRRRRRRRRRRR PLEASE GET ME OUT OF THE WJZ NEWSROOM AND LET ME PROOFREAD FOR THIS WONDERFUL SITE.... I SWEAR UNDER 'OAT' I WILL DO A GOOD JOB!
That's just what they'll get-- a jury of Quakers and (dumb)asses.
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