Irwin: A 26-year-old man was shot in the leg, a gaudy SUV was 'jacked and liquor and decorative plates were stolen.
Put ya lighters up for Time Magazine's "Looking For A Few Good Snitches", featuring quotes by Mrs. J, prosecutor Lisa Goldberg and Judge John Glynn and a reference to the Boyd/Meadows/Johnson intimidation case among others (and now Clyde is a free man). (Q: If a witness is killed, are their written or sworn statements still admissible in court?)
Baltimore Police embrace the lastest thing: video-tape-recordings of motion-pictures.
"The Centers for the Dignity of Women"-- how made up is that?... Is that where Elizabeth Krum can go for therapy?
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"F*ck!," said the Baltimore drug dealer, "if Homeland Security starts policing Baltimore's ports, I won't be able to get my product to serve my customers."
Further, has anyone considered just how devastated Baltimore's economy would be if we ever actually halted the flow of the drug money?
Now, back to Dubai World Ports and the P & O Steamship Co., if we're prepared to designate the U.A.E. a jurisdiction which does not state-sponsor terrorism, but rather enables it by excessively looking the other way, well then, wouldn't we have to apply the same criterion to Baltimore City? Or do insurgents have to be muslim to qualify?
FYI, AmPorts operates three Ro/Ro ports in Baltimore. AmPorts is owned by Associated British Ports Ltd.
Is this safer because they're british? What about all the Pakis in Britain?
How about Hutchison Whampoa? They've been managing ports in Hong Kong & Singapore for decades. But they're kinda, y'know,.... Chinese, if ya know what I mean.
I was thinking, we could restrict the port area to those of us at least 75% descended from the Plymouth colony..., you know,... the Right kind of people.
We could take cranial measurements an' stuff...
American President Lines is owned as of 1997 by Neptune Orient Lines, which in turn is 69% owned by the government of Singapore.
It's been in business here since the Gold Rush and is one of the top 10 shippers on the planet.
Should we be worried? There's a lotta Moslems o'er thar. Lotta Chinks, too. More'n a few Hindoos...
Anyone notice that CSX Corp. sold CSX Terminals to Dubai World Ports. CSX used to be called the B&O Railroad and built the Baltimore economy.
Dubai is the third-busiest port on the planet. We have a tremendous security interest in ensuring the free flow of goods (specifically including oil) through Dubai and rival, Singapore.
The rival bidder for the P & O Steam Navigation Co. was neither American nor British. It was Singaporean. Foreigners were gonna be in the driver's seat any way you cut it.
If we want to be isolationist, we'd better start drilling for oil in Texas and Louisiana. Oh, I forgot, no more Louisiana. Hmm,... maybe we'd better find us some allies instead.
Oh, and FYI, Dubai is the largest shareholder in DaimlerChrysler, which is one of the world's largest industrial concerns and maker of Chrysler and Mercedes-Benz automobiles.
We can't just treat it like an unwanted dinner guest... it owns our silverware.
This what happens when a nation spends rather than saving and then borrows from the international money market to pay for wars, Medicare and Social Security, and Great Society entitlement programs in the inner cities.
Dubai paid $5.75 Billion for P&O and $1.15 Billion for CSX Terminals.
The largest and second-largest port operators are Hutchison Whampoa (Hong Kong) and Temasek (Singaporean govt.)
Is O'Malley proposing to come up with $1.7 Billion to pay Dubai as compensation for its Baltimore port operations, or did he just want to take them, like a Baltimore thief? The Constitution does require compensation for takings.
If a witness is killed, his/her prior written or sworn statements would not usually be admissible. It's hearsay. The one exception would be in a retrial situation where the Defendant already had a chance to cross-examine the witness earlier; then the dead witness's testimony from the prior trial could be read to the jury.
And basic economic analysis indicates that the drug trade is a net money loser for the city, as the drugs are not grown or manufactured there. What the economoy loses in thefts to support habits and the cost of picking up corpses exceeds the value of the spinners and tacky jewelry bought by young men right before they become corpses.
I wasn't referring to net surplus from criminal enterprises. However, the peripheral economy in Baltimore (cell phone shops, liquor stores, fences, and all the corner hang-around joints) are all optimal choices under a drug economy. If you change that, the multiplier effect falls way off and the existing investments become worthless. The distribution system ideally-adapted to drug-filled Baltimore with young men 'employed' profitably on streetcorners becomes ill-equipped to handle the trade of a civilized society.
C'mon, Galt, the "existing investments" don't become "worthless." You should know better than to write that. Owners will merely adapt to the change of circumstance and use their investment or alter their investment for a different market.
Two competing models, Insider. The Putty Clay model agrees with you. The other model, idiosyncratic characteristics, holds that many physical and human capital investments may have limited technical substitutability. Consider the old Memorial Stadium. Why didn't we just put the convention center hotel there after the teams left? Because it has limited utility owing to its physical characteristics. You have much the same problem when a large plant closes and its personnel don't really croos-train very well.
but you're talking about liquor stores and cell phone stores! C'mon, enough with the false analogies.
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