[BALTIMORESUN] Aleasha Bowie was recuperating at her East Baltimore home from a surgical procedure Thursday morning when she heard the shots.
She screamed for her brother, who was just about to leave for work, then rushed to the front of the house to peer out the window, she said. On the corner outside, she saw a young man ‐ someone she’d watched grow up in the neighborhood ‐ slumped on the street.
The 21-year-old man, whom police did not identify, was the 319th homicide victim in the city in 2017; raising the total beyond the 318 killings that occurred in Baltimore in all of 2016.
That means this year is now Baltimore’s second-deadliest on record on a per-capita basis, with a month left to go. The record was set in 2015, when there were 344 homicides.
Bowie, 40, immediately thought of the man’s mother, she said. Then she thought of her own children, who often play in the playground just feet from where the gunfire had erupted.
"I got four good kids. I’m trying to have them make it out of here," Bowie said shortly after noon, about an hour after police responded to the 1800 block of Aiken St. in East Baltimore’s Oliver neighborhood.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
The democrat party, doing only what they know how to do too well.
#2
I wonder if there's any connection to Freddy Gray affair? Neh, can't be: the DA & hizzoner acted according to the best enlightened principles of the best enlightened group of people in the World - people who are never wrong because of their profound education.
#4
C'mon, Democrat ghetto Baltimore! A month left. You can DO IT!
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/02/2017 8:58 Comments ||
Top||
#5
If only they had taken down the Confederate statues sooner.
Posted by: Matt ||
12/02/2017 9:50 Comments ||
Top||
#6
Self-culling herd.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
12/02/2017 9:59 Comments ||
Top||
#7
Feral youth and tribal cultures produce the apogee of modern African-American gangsta behavior and norms. LBJ knew what he was doing but nobody on the left saw how far it would metastasize. In Baltimore Black Lives Matter, just not very much!
[THEAMERICANMIRROR] As the media focus has shifted to the alleged sexual harassers in the Democratic ranks, questions are not going away about 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... ’s continued bizarre behavior.
The House Minority Leader held her weekly presser, and while the media focused on her call for accused serial harasser John Conyers, they overlooked her frequent flubbed words, brain freezes, and face spasm that occurred seconds into the appearance.
Pelosi began the appearance by walking past a giant sign labeled "GOP tax scam."
As she got to the podium, she looked over her left shoulder for the visual, before realizing she had just walked past it.
"There it is: the GOP tax scam," she said, her face twitching.
Seconds later, she called it the "G-O-T" tax scam, before correcting herself.
Pelosi misread the sign, saying, "the ACA reform, reform, uh, uh, repeal. Sneaky ACA repeal."
She repeated herself several times.
She called the tax cut an "attack on the middle class, on Americas jobs‐ Americans’ jobs."
After trailing off while talking about an "increase," she said, "So it’s not just a crea‐ increase."
While demanding federal funding for her own priorities, Pelosi mistakenly said "wildfail," before correcting herself to say "wildfire."
She claimed legislation to protect illegal aliens has "bri-partisan" support.
Pelosi asserted "82 millial" middle class families won’t benefit from the plan, before correcting her speech and saying "million."
All of this came as she denounced Rep. John Conyers behavior and called for his resignation.
After suffering two brain freezes, she made an ironic statement: "How can you judge‐ judgement be respected if you don’t even know what you’re talking about?"
That’s what many Americans must be wondering about Nancy Pelosi these days.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Stroke? Non-alzheimer's dementia? eiter one is a show stopper. I pity her .
Posted by: N guard ||
12/02/2017 2:40 Comments ||
Top||
#2
They'll find someone just as kooky to replace her.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
12/02/2017 11:27 Comments ||
Top||
#3
They'll find someone just as kooky to replace her. Posted by Abu Uluque
h/t Instapundit
ABC issued an embarrassing correction Friday night after a report by Brian Ross caused a panic in the stock market and set Twitter on fire with thousands of retweets. Ross originally reported that candidate Trump had directed Michael Flynn to contact the Russians during the campaign. ABC later clarified that Trump made the call during the transition.
There is a monumental difference between Trump directing Flynn to contact the Russians during the campaign -- which has obvious {{{Russia collusion}}} implications -- and after the election, which is standard procedure. Transition officials are expected to reach out to foreign governments during the lame duck period before the new president takes office.
[NEWS.GRABIEN] The hosts of Morning Joe are using their show to rally members of Trump's cabinet remove the president from office.
This cabinet-led coup could happen via the 25th Amendment, host Joe Scarborough said Friday. That amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1967, deals with replacing a president who is no longer able to "discharge the powers and duties of his office," which these hosts say applies to Trump due to his apparent mental incapacitation.
"If you’ve been around mental health issues in your life ... the pressure heightens, it gets worse," Donny Deutsch said Friday. "And we should be frightened right now. We should be ‐ there is nothing glib about it."
"At what point do you go to article 25? [sic]" Deutsch asked.
Deutsch said he's able to diagnose a change in Trump's mental state: "I have known him for 20 years and I’ve spent hours and hours with him, everything from negotiating leases to at-school functions to hours and hours of interviewing him on my old show. He’s not the same guy. You can see it in his eyes and in his speech pattern, and most frighteningly his behavior. I think there’s something else happening here. If you've been around mental illness and whatnot, I think he’s feeling the noose around his neck tightening with Mueller."
"So take a guy who is mentally unstable," Deutsch continued. "Now put a gun closer ‐ metaphorically, closer and closer to his head, and I think that’s what you’re seeing this week. I think there’s a new level, and I think we’re going to see it heightened as these two stories are coming together. His mental health and the Russian inquiry are coming together and it’s going to crescendo in even more insane behavior."
Scarborough also predicted Trump's mental health would deteriorate.
"My mom has dementia," Scarborough said. "She had pre-dementia for several years. My father’s death, the pressure of that, is when we really lost her. And so it got exponentially worse very first. The more pressure you’re under in this ‐ if this is, in fact, the problem, the worse it gets."
Scarborough said that Trump confidantes agree with him that Trump has "mentally devolved."
"There is no doubt mentally, and maybe it’s the pressure of the campaign and this, everybody that’s known Trump for years says he has mentally devolved, and I just want to know when it’s safe to start talking about it and writing about it," he said.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said mental health experts warned him that Trump's behavior would get worse.
Posted by: Fred ||
12/02/2017 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Bold words from a Person of Interest in the suspicious death of his married mistress and intern at his campaign office. Not to say a word of him and Mika Brzezinski having an affair and breaking up both their families. Vote Joe Scarborough, man of integrity.
Posted by: Bill McCoy1994 ||
12/02/2017 2:08 Comments ||
Top||
#2
He's scared. A man who is innocent laughs at the charges or loudly proclaims his innocence.
A fucking intern died in his office and he got off scot-free. Until now.
[Breitbart] The Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Thursday, which serves as one of the final steps for Congress to pass historic tax legislation.
The Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act 51-49, almost entirely along party lines, with Vice President Mike Pence presiding over the vote. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) voted against the bill, and 48 Democrats voted against the tax reform legislation as well.
Reluctant Republican senators such as Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ) voted for the bill after last minute changes were made. Flake received a commitment from Republican leadership and the White House that they would pursue a permanent solution for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) illegal aliens, while Collins received a provision that would keep the deduction for state and local taxes (SALT). I still remain skeptical regarding the bill's final passage.
#4
States (such as Jersey, California, Illinois...usual suspects) think they can get away with raising taxes with impunity because people can deduct them from federal taxes. Getting rid of this deduction might make these states more fiscally responsible. Meanwhile, how are those pension funds in Illinois doing?
#5
Getting rid of this deduction might make these states more fiscally responsible.
After bankruptcy hits far sooner than later. Technically, they're already bankrupt, they're just moving the paper fast enough to maintain a certain degree of lift.
#6
I read that lawmakers received a nearly 500-page bill containing significant changes just hours before a planned vote. Sorry, this is not how democracy is supposed to work.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
12/02/2017 11:37 Comments ||
Top||
#7
...I agree, but we have an oligarchy which we spinelessly acceded to in our rush to steal our neighbors wealth.
#9
I learned ancient Greek in school. Call it whatever you want but I think a bill shouldn't be put up to a vote before everyone had a chance to read it.
Yes I know most won't but at least they should be given the chance.
Posted by: European Conservative ||
12/02/2017 15:57 Comments ||
Top||
#10
C'mon. They passed Obamacare without reading it. Look how well that turned out! And Nancy Pelosi told us that we had to pass it to find out what is in it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
12/02/2017 18:10 Comments ||
Top||
#11
EC - Regular Order: the topics/impacts/votes are discussed before the vote, maybe not the actual implementing language. The Dems rammed thru Obamacare with even knowing what was in it. For them to all-the-sudden become deficit hawks is staggering in display of hypocrisy and corruption
Posted by: Frank G ||
12/02/2017 18:46 Comments ||
Top||
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BALTIMORESUN] Aleasha Bowie was recuperating at her East Baltimore home from a surgical procedure Thursday morning when she heard the shots.
Nancy 
[NEWS.GRABIEN] The hosts of Morning Joe are using their show to rally members of Trump's cabinet remove the president from office.
[Breitbart] The Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Thursday, which serves as one of the final steps for Congress to pass historic tax legislation.
