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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Baltimore police dues doubled to pay for legal defense of officers in Freddie Gray case, avert union insolvency
[BALTIMORESUN] An exercise in union busting, was it? I thought Dems never do that? They'll be expecting FOP support this election, of course, not that it matters. The city's been doing just fine under Dem administration since 1967. Next mayor will be Catherine Pugh, who defeated ex-mayor Shiela Dixon by two points in April. The current mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake finished out Dixon's term for her after she was indicted on a dozen felony and misdemeanor counts, for stealing gift cards intended for poor folks.
Posted by: Fred || 07/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So you screwed ALL OUR OFFICERS, you political piece of shit.
Posted by: newc || 07/31/2016 0:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't American courts award costs when cases are dismissed?
Posted by: phil_b || 07/31/2016 1:43 Comments || Top||

#3  They wee prosecuted in state court. It's up to what state laws say. I don't recall any case where the Federal courts have ruled that classifies the cost and expense a 'taking' against the defendant.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/31/2016 9:30 Comments || Top||

#4  "Don't American courts award costs when cases are dismissed?"

No. In the UK they do, but not in the US as a general rule.
Posted by: Iblis || 07/31/2016 18:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Officials at Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 3 say they will continue collecting dues at the higher rate as a precaution, at least as long as Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby is in office

I suspect this will be repeated elsewhere.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/31/2016 20:41 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Has Clinton Written Off Working-Class White Men?
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] The Democratic convention in Philadelphia this week was a shrewdly planned, well-choreographed, star-studded celebration of diversity, inclusion and social justice. A party now dominated by progressives also tried reaching out to moderate or defecting Republicans with decorated veterans, some tough talk on national security and passionate displays of patriotism. But for the white working-class men drawn to Donald Trump ‐ the very voters who were for decades the foundation of the Democratic Party -- the message was clear: We've pretty much given up on you.

The convention, which started on a divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
and dramatic note with leaked emails showing the Democratic National Committee had favored the candidacy of Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another James Baker ...
over Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
all along, ended up, by most accounts, a great success. Yet it also illustrated what polling shows ‐ that the ascendant coalition in the Democratic Party of women, young voters and non-whites may no longer find common cause with blue-collar white men.

From the multi-gender bathrooms to the initial speaker lineup Monday of Ivy League graduates to comedian Sarah Silverman referencing her therapist at the podium, the show at times had all the makings of a parody about an elitist party far too focused on identity politics and out of touch with the heartland. At one point there was applause at the mention of the word abortion, a staggering turn-around from the days when Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
insisted abortion should be safe, legal and rare.

It didn't help that when asked by PBS, halfway through the convention, about Hillary Clinton's trouble attracting white working-class males, House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
said: "I think so many times white, non-college-educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interest because of guns, because of gays, and because of God."

The drift away from rural America, from gun owners and pro-life voters who once found a home with Democrats in spite of some cultural differences, didn't start with Hillary Clinton's candidacy. But a fissure that began with a new coalition then-Sen. Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
built to win election and then re-election, appears in a Trump vs. Clinton race to be nearing a complete separation. Guns and abortion are no longer the flash points that trade policy and immigration have become for white men who believe Democratic policies are responsible for wage stagnation and job loss.

Posted by: Fred || 07/31/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do not do ANYTHING that pisses off the American White Man and a SUGGESTION: We really don't need to hear your self hate either, have another drink?

Posted by: Percy McCoy7690 || 07/31/2016 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  No. The Union bosses promised to deliver.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2016 2:08 Comments || Top||

#3  The leftest Yahoo is running this story in their news section:

New York Post - Why ‘white trash’ Americans are flocking to Donald Trump
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/31/2016 3:12 Comments || Top||

#4  The ruling class of pretty much every Western country has.

Why should she be any different?
Posted by: no mo uro || 07/31/2016 6:02 Comments || Top||

#5  She will take their tax money without qualms all-the-while hating them. She will have the "new" PC military to do her bidding.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/31/2016 8:09 Comments || Top||

#6  #6. Not to mention the PC Homeland Security.
Posted by: jvalentour || 07/31/2016 10:10 Comments || Top||

#7  The Dems are in the process of replacing their former white vote with illegal immigrants. Those Ii are quickly being registered to vote in contested districts. Funded by Soros.
Posted by: jvalentour || 07/31/2016 10:12 Comments || Top||

#8  The road to one party rule is the "browning of America" first started as an intentional policy by "Clinton/Gore" administration. Importation of third world unskilled and uneducated Hispanics who will vote for benefits. Sadly, the "nation of immigrants" theme has kept rational limits from being considered. If the tipping point hasn't already passed (it certainly has in CA) it looms.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/31/2016 12:11 Comments || Top||

#9  #4 IMO, we're talking union guys, not Appalachians here.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/31/2016 12:41 Comments || Top||

#10  of course he has, he started a long time ago ;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VOi1R0ylDs

Posted by: 746 || 07/31/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#11  Why not?
There is not going to be a middle class anymore.
Posted by: newc || 07/31/2016 14:42 Comments || Top||

#12  There hasn't been a middle class for some considerable time....
Can you afford to employ a servant? No? well you're not really middle class.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/31/2016 15:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Different definitions BP. American definition is closer to own (not mortgaged) your own home, car, some investments, maybe your own business either as a primary or on the side, and sufficient discretionary income to enjoy your 'pursuit of happiness'. Servants in full employment are considered only on the level of the rich, but American middle class prefer to temp hire maids, gardeners, nannies/baby sitters, handymen et al. Those you pay by the hour without having to deduct or pay for Social Security, unemployment taxes, and workers comp.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/31/2016 17:37 Comments || Top||

#14  Two cultures separated by a "common" language.
Posted by: Pappy || 07/31/2016 20:42 Comments || Top||



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