Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Westboro wins
The Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment protects the speech of Westboro Baptist Church.
Best month ever
"February '11 had one of the lowest monthly murder tallies ever," and the Ink recaps last week's only murder. The murder of Edgar Wilson (allegedly at the hand of his own grandson) is horrible and tragic, but still, wow.
Nineteen years for "career criminal" Glenn Plato Brooks, 42, convicted of feloniously possessing a firearm.
White House Report on women reveals that while fewer women are crime victims, "the imprisonment rate for females quadrupled between 1985 and 2008"
Nineteen years for "career criminal" Glenn Plato Brooks, 42, convicted of feloniously possessing a firearm.
White House Report on women reveals that while fewer women are crime victims, "the imprisonment rate for females quadrupled between 1985 and 2008"
Base! How low can you go...
Del. Tiffany T. Alston (D-PGC) says she's ready to vote on the same-sex marriage bill, and that her no-show was because she needed "a little more time to weigh my final decision." And, says Julie B., Jill Carter "predicted the Judiciary Committee would not vote on gay marriage until House leadership has appeased her." The Sun Op-Ed page predicts the opposite (the puzzle-- what does the Judiciary Committee have to do with school funding?)... the grab for attention has apparently worked, you can now follow FauxJillCarter.
WBAL has audio of Jill Carter and others talking about their issues.
And says Jill Carter on her Facebook page:
The WaPo's Dana Milbank sees how many drug references he can freebase into one piece
WBAL has audio of Jill Carter and others talking about their issues.
And says Jill Carter on her Facebook page:
Andy green at the Sun was obviously spoon fed by someone-my money is on Maggie ... Andy Green's editorial is not only dishonest, it is scathing, character assasinating, and suspiciously, mean-spirited. If you followed my mayoral campaign, you should recall the Sun's consistent non-coverage, under coverage, and disparate coverage. I am NOT the reason the bill wasn't voted. The chairman knows it, speaker knows it , and a number of others.
The WaPo's Dana Milbank sees how many drug references he can freebase into one piece
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Carter Holds Marriage Bill Hostage
not showing up this morning was apparently no coincidence: Jill Carter, D-41, is apparently holding up the same-sex marriage bill to draw attention to the horribly misguided "equal time" child custody bill.
Indecent Exposures
The grandson of Edgar Waylan Wilson was arrested for his murder.
Baltimore bikers' shorts in twist after police refuse to charge the octogenarian who mowed down a Hopkins student
Two months and still no sign of Phylicia Barnes. JZ commentor: "I would hall of the People who were in and out of the apt , take them all to jail and starve the hell out of them"
Your tax $ at work: bungling bureaucrats cost city $4 million in federal lead-paint-abatement money
DEA bans sales & possession of five types of faux marijuana, including "K2" and "Spice"
PA company fesses up to releasing 40 times the allowed amount of ammonia into the air at Sparrows Point. And if you flew from Baltimore to Denver on the 22nd, you may have been exposed to measles.
"High-end restaurant owners want corkage law"- would you pay $25 to BYOB?
Supreme court argues definition of "cocaine base" vs. powder, decides that corporations have no right to personal privacy
Same-sex marriage vote delayed when two members of the Judiciary Committee, Jill Carter and Tiffany Alston, didn't show. Meanwhile Sun publishes letter opining that "gay marriage is not a civil rights issue"
State health secretary, governor against medical marijuana
Baltimore bikers' shorts in twist after police refuse to charge the octogenarian who mowed down a Hopkins student
Two months and still no sign of Phylicia Barnes. JZ commentor: "I would hall of the People who were in and out of the apt , take them all to jail and starve the hell out of them"
Your tax $ at work: bungling bureaucrats cost city $4 million in federal lead-paint-abatement money
DEA bans sales & possession of five types of faux marijuana, including "K2" and "Spice"
PA company fesses up to releasing 40 times the allowed amount of ammonia into the air at Sparrows Point. And if you flew from Baltimore to Denver on the 22nd, you may have been exposed to measles.
"High-end restaurant owners want corkage law"- would you pay $25 to BYOB?
Supreme court argues definition of "cocaine base" vs. powder, decides that corporations have no right to personal privacy
Same-sex marriage vote delayed when two members of the Judiciary Committee, Jill Carter and Tiffany Alston, didn't show. Meanwhile Sun publishes letter opining that "gay marriage is not a civil rights issue"
State health secretary, governor against medical marijuana
Monday, February 28, 2011
Naked & Tased®
How much would you charge to be strip-searched on a public street and Tased® while in handcuffs?
The FBI and local police are ISO the "East Coast Rapist"
"Judge Upholds 'Skateboard Cop' Firing," dude.
County police arrested Clinton Austin Bradley Jr. in the murder of 18-year-old Brandon Jackson
County police are ISO a woman named "Tre" with a bite mark on her hand who allegedly robbed a teacher
Sun "Second Opinion":"a sentence of life without the possibility of parole provides peace and certainty that the death penalty rarely can." (Bored? Lonely? Check out a screening of the documentary "Blocking the Exit" this Thursday with the Justice Policy Institute)
Medical marijuana hearing in the House today. "Good concept, convoluted bill," says the Sun's Andy Green. Heh.
Hey look, the Liquor Board docket is online
Huh? Wha? Eighth Naval Academy midshipman expelled for using "spice". Is that what Miley Cyrus smoked?
The FBI and local police are ISO the "East Coast Rapist"
"Judge Upholds 'Skateboard Cop' Firing," dude.
County police arrested Clinton Austin Bradley Jr. in the murder of 18-year-old Brandon Jackson
County police are ISO a woman named "Tre" with a bite mark on her hand who allegedly robbed a teacher
Sun "Second Opinion":"a sentence of life without the possibility of parole provides peace and certainty that the death penalty rarely can." (Bored? Lonely? Check out a screening of the documentary "Blocking the Exit" this Thursday with the Justice Policy Institute)
Medical marijuana hearing in the House today. "Good concept, convoluted bill," says the Sun's Andy Green. Heh.
Hey look, the Liquor Board docket is online
Huh? Wha? Eighth Naval Academy midshipman expelled for using "spice". Is that what Miley Cyrus smoked?
Sunday, February 27, 2011
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Police Tweet: "FATAL STABBING: 2800 Blk Clifton Ave., Western District, 1:21pm, adult male found deceased in a house. Homicide detectives handling."
Update: he was ID'd as 62-year-old Edgar Waylan Wilson.
Update: he was ID'd as 62-year-old Edgar Waylan Wilson.
Gun toting deputies
Another deputy sheriff arrested for pointing his gun in public, looks like this guy was drunk
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Love and marriage ...
Seven weeks after the shootings of Sean Gamble and Officer William Torbit, SRB has assembled a kind-of-independent review board.
Brian Lee Wonsom, accused of killing teacher Hannah Wheeling at Cheltenham when he was 13, will be tried as an adult.
A man shot in the chest at Coldspring Lane and Marble Hill Road drove himself to the hospital.
More on the Williams guilty verdict. (Witness on Williams: "he's a bug I'd like to squash"). Also on Friday, another conviction
WBAL has your Friday same-sex-marriage-debate recap. Intriguing: Anne Arundel County Republican Delegate Don Dwyer "has sent out mailings ... [that] include samples of school curriculum that Dwyer feels will be taught in schools if same sex marriage is legalized. One lawmaker who received the mailings told Collins the mailings were 'graphic.'"
Brian Lee Wonsom, accused of killing teacher Hannah Wheeling at Cheltenham when he was 13, will be tried as an adult.
A man shot in the chest at Coldspring Lane and Marble Hill Road drove himself to the hospital.
More on the Williams guilty verdict. (Witness on Williams: "he's a bug I'd like to squash"). Also on Friday, another conviction
in a killing that had also been preceded by a woman's request for protection. Gregory Tooson, 46, who was accused of strangling his girlfriend, Melonie Smith, in April 2009, was found guilty by a jury of second-degree murder. Days before her death, Smith had been granted a temporary protective order against Tooson, who prosecutors said was sending her threatening e-mails. Smith was found dead in her home in the 700 block of Yale Ave. after she had failed to show up for work.And in AAC, Patrick Rhys gets 23 years of hots and cots for killing his 'girlfriend' by stabbing her 27 times
WBAL has your Friday same-sex-marriage-debate recap. Intriguing: Anne Arundel County Republican Delegate Don Dwyer "has sent out mailings ... [that] include samples of school curriculum that Dwyer feels will be taught in schools if same sex marriage is legalized. One lawmaker who received the mailings told Collins the mailings were 'graphic.'"
Friday, February 25, 2011
Pervy Thursday
Cleaven Williams' poor jury is still deliberating away after four days
From the Women's Law Center, some major changes to family law legislation being mulled over in the House, including a shorter separation period for divorce, a judicial preference for "equal parenting time" child custody (a horrible, horrible idea) and allowing court-ordered grandparent visitation.
Ten years for "Sonny" the crack dealer
Robbers who targeted pizza & video-game stores busted in the county, confessed to 19 robberies. (Aleks Katz, you really oughter wear a hairnet)
An insperminated Glen Arm hairron addict charged with burglarizing her own parents
O.C. man indicted on child porn charges for four images, Essex's Gary Lee Walden gets 70 months after his taking pictures of kids at the pool led detectives to his pornful computer; a guilty plea from "predatormike1203," no bail for CA woman charged with raping a 13-year-old Bel Air boy she met via Xbox game
Infrared cameras: not just for finding pot plants any more. AAC police used them to track down an elderly man.
More illegal rockfish nets. Mmm, PCB-a-licious.
In the Baltimore Guide blotter, a man who shot at a car, lots of domestic violence and barfights and a woman's purse stolen while she was in labor at Bayview.
In case you were wondering, it's not legal to stand on the courthouse steps passing out pamphlets that say jurors should ignore the law if they don't agree with it. (And in this town it's also not necessary)
Not crime, but annoying: if you can't make transportation or parking workable or safe in this town, there is no point to building anything new, much less $100 million worth of projects to be funded by future taxes. (No point for citizens, anyway-- plenty for SRB & the city council's developer buddies to like.)
From the Women's Law Center, some major changes to family law legislation being mulled over in the House, including a shorter separation period for divorce, a judicial preference for "equal parenting time" child custody (a horrible, horrible idea) and allowing court-ordered grandparent visitation.
Ten years for "Sonny" the crack dealer
Robbers who targeted pizza & video-game stores busted in the county, confessed to 19 robberies. (Aleks Katz, you really oughter wear a hairnet)
An insperminated Glen Arm hairron addict charged with burglarizing her own parents
O.C. man indicted on child porn charges for four images, Essex's Gary Lee Walden gets 70 months after his taking pictures of kids at the pool led detectives to his pornful computer; a guilty plea from "predatormike1203," no bail for CA woman charged with raping a 13-year-old Bel Air boy she met via Xbox game
Infrared cameras: not just for finding pot plants any more. AAC police used them to track down an elderly man.
More illegal rockfish nets. Mmm, PCB-a-licious.
In the Baltimore Guide blotter, a man who shot at a car, lots of domestic violence and barfights and a woman's purse stolen while she was in labor at Bayview.
In case you were wondering, it's not legal to stand on the courthouse steps passing out pamphlets that say jurors should ignore the law if they don't agree with it. (And in this town it's also not necessary)
Not crime, but annoying: if you can't make transportation or parking workable or safe in this town, there is no point to building anything new, much less $100 million worth of projects to be funded by future taxes. (No point for citizens, anyway-- plenty for SRB & the city council's developer buddies to like.)
Update on semen squirter sentencing
"Law-abiding and churchgoing member of the community" (and part-time DNA spreader) Michael Wayne Edwards Jr. gets 3 years probation. Apparently, "Edwards' actions were the result of misplaced anger after breaking up with a girlfriend." Ya think?
Although maybe he was just trying to spread good cheer (as well as his seeed).
Although maybe he was just trying to spread good cheer (as well as his seeed).
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Thugs with badges
An arrest in the bus-stop murder of Joshua Matthews (#22)
In 1956, it was a very good year, a year for city cops and private lots with kick-back shops, to which the tow-truck driver would drive... also in 1965...
Also "Towing leader says she was arrested after complaining about accused company" and dirty cops called themselves "untouchables" & their filthy lucre = "coffee"
On the blog, still a lot of interest in the Erik Stoddard case.
Pastor Joel Kurz: "too many of our city's police officers are simply thugs with badges."
Have you seen this elementary-school burglar?
Oh JZ, I love you. Baltimore's cutest station reports that the same-sex marriage debate has been "hot and longer than expected". And Nancy Jacobs' piehole, the gift that keeps on giving: "Love between a man and woman that may lead to children is the only love that government has the right to recognize." Good for you, giving up all claims to your husband's 401k when your eggs dry up.
The Supreme Court heard a case yesterday on whether revised federal crack cocaine sentencing guidelines should affect binding plea agreements.
The question arises again, who should own public information?
In 1956, it was a very good year, a year for city cops and private lots with kick-back shops, to which the tow-truck driver would drive... also in 1965...
Also "Towing leader says she was arrested after complaining about accused company" and dirty cops called themselves "untouchables" & their filthy lucre = "coffee"
On the blog, still a lot of interest in the Erik Stoddard case.
Pastor Joel Kurz: "too many of our city's police officers are simply thugs with badges."
Have you seen this elementary-school burglar?
Oh JZ, I love you. Baltimore's cutest station reports that the same-sex marriage debate has been "hot and longer than expected". And Nancy Jacobs' piehole, the gift that keeps on giving: "Love between a man and woman that may lead to children is the only love that government has the right to recognize." Good for you, giving up all claims to your husband's 401k when your eggs dry up.
The Supreme Court heard a case yesterday on whether revised federal crack cocaine sentencing guidelines should affect binding plea agreements.
The question arises again, who should own public information?
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
17 officers charged with extortion
and are facing 20 years for allegations of taking kickbacks from dirty towing company.
Jayne Miller: "one source said it's not the crime of the century, but it's not pretty."
Jayne Miller: "one source said it's not the crime of the century, but it's not pretty."
Senate approves same-sex marriage
a 3rd and final vote is scheduled for tomorrow.
Also, "The Obama administration says it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law that bans recognition of same-sex marriage."
Also, "The Obama administration says it will no longer defend the constitutionality of a federal law that bans recognition of same-sex marriage."
BPD and the feds
R-rod has scheduled a press conference to discuss BPD corruption.
.. does this have something to do with the impound lot? Here's a link to WBAL's stream if you want to listen live to the press conference at 3. Officers arrested, oh my!-- MB
.. does this have something to do with the impound lot? Here's a link to WBAL's stream if you want to listen live to the press conference at 3. Officers arrested, oh my!-- MB
Birth, school, work, death
Relatives mourn Anthony "Tyra" Trent
Relatives mourn Brandon Jackson
Dead body found near county elementary school ID'd as that of 20-year-old Vincent I. Thomas
The Ink details last week's five murders and notes that four homicides have been closed by arrest so far this year.
"The state Senate has just one bill on its agenda Wednesday: the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Act." The Post is live-blogging it and the CP has a same-sex marriage infographic.
(Mind-bogglingly assholic quote from Republican Nancy Jacobs, who opposes the bill: "We all love our gay friends in the House and the Senate ... I hope and pray that this does not get personal and does not get taken personally." )
"Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Douglas A. Hicks-Bey, the chief executive of a faith-based mentoring program, who was accused last month of raping a 15-year-old girl." And in HoCo charges dropped against Charles Ray Moore, accused of rape, tried in November but jurors were deadlocked.
CP on the state of Maryland's animal cruelty laws
A PBJ for gun-toting Edwin Hale
Tax evader with cancer sent back to jail
Bullets are bad for ya health! Client at Bally's in White Marsh robbed, shot at
Edgemere arson suspect arrested
Armed with babies and dogs, "Pigtown neighbors beat back Bohager-linked bar" (Bar's lawyer to residents: "What else do you want? Blood?")
Relatives mourn Brandon Jackson
Dead body found near county elementary school ID'd as that of 20-year-old Vincent I. Thomas
The Ink details last week's five murders and notes that four homicides have been closed by arrest so far this year.
"The state Senate has just one bill on its agenda Wednesday: the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Act." The Post is live-blogging it and the CP has a same-sex marriage infographic.
(Mind-bogglingly assholic quote from Republican Nancy Jacobs, who opposes the bill: "We all love our gay friends in the House and the Senate ... I hope and pray that this does not get personal and does not get taken personally." )
"Prosecutors have dropped all charges against Douglas A. Hicks-Bey, the chief executive of a faith-based mentoring program, who was accused last month of raping a 15-year-old girl." And in HoCo charges dropped against Charles Ray Moore, accused of rape, tried in November but jurors were deadlocked.
CP on the state of Maryland's animal cruelty laws
A PBJ for gun-toting Edwin Hale
Tax evader with cancer sent back to jail
Bullets are bad for ya health! Client at Bally's in White Marsh robbed, shot at
Edgemere arson suspect arrested
Armed with babies and dogs, "Pigtown neighbors beat back Bohager-linked bar" (Bar's lawyer to residents: "What else do you want? Blood?")
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