DarkStar Spouts Off

Quickie: Shelia Dixon

She abstained on a vote concerning pay raises for two of her body guards raises. However, the board on which she sits, did vote to give her body guards raises. The board is controlled by the mayor, and has been for awhile. Baltimore is a "strong mayor" city, so if the mayor wants it, she gets it.

This is as she is preparing to announce layoffs of city workers.

She said other employees got raises, so her guards got raises. Other employees got 3%, they got 5%.

I should mention that the mayor has been indicted and has pleaded not guilty.

I MUST ALSO MENTION THAT THE TWO GUARDS TESTIFIED FOR HER IN THE GRAND JURY!!!!!

Come on now!!! Can anyone say payoff?

DNA: Here It Comes!

DNA testing for minor crimes?

OLYMPIA — Suspects arrested in cases as minor as shoplifting would have to give a DNA sample before they are even charged with a crime if a controversial proposal is approved by the Legislature.

State criminal defense groups and the American Civil Liberties Union say the House bill is unconstitutional. It would mandate that police or jail staff collect DNA from all adults and juveniles arrested on suspicion of a felony or gross misdemeanor.

Open Season On Teachers In Baltimore

A judge's ruling, in my opinion, means open season on Baltimore teachers by out of control students in the Baltimore City Public School system.

In April of 2008, I wrote about a situation where a teacher was beat up by a student. However, this time, as other students cheered, another student video taped the assault with a camera telephone.

The trouble began, Jolita  Berry said, when she asked a  girl in one of her art classes at  Reginald F. Lewis High School  to sit down.

The student did not obey,  coming closer to confront the  teacher. "She said she's gonna  bang me," Berry said. "I said,  'Back up, you're in my space. If  you hit me, I'm gonna defend  myself.'"

But Berry, who is 30 and  started her job teaching art at  the Northeast Baltimore  school in December, did not defend herself. The girl caught  the teacher off guard as other  students cheered her on and  screamed, "Hit her!"

"She just started beating on  me relentlessly," Berry said, recalling the Friday morning incident that left her with a sore  shoulder and a broken blood  vessel in her eye.

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Part of the public outrage  stemmed from how Berry said  her principal responded to the incident. She said the principal told  her she'd provoked the attack by  telling the student she would defend herself.

I found that hard to believe. Well, I find this even harder to believe:

Baltimore City Circuit Judge Paul Smith called the ordeal, which ignited national uproar last April after another student recorded the fight on a cell phone camera and broadcast it on YouTube, "outrageous and deplorable," but he ruled Tuesday that too many conflicting accounts from witnesses prevented him from finding the student guilty of assault.

This "good child" beat the crap out of a teacher. An adult. Got up in that adult's face because the adult told her to turn down or off a radio. 

Students won't lie for another student for a cover up?

A videotape, even if started after the fight, that shows the woman covering up while the student is still banging away? Even for self defense, you can use violence only to the point where you are no longer in danger.

You know what is going to happen? That girl's parents are going to hire a lawyer and sue the city. Meanwhile, knucklehead students who don't like a certain teacher, are putting their heads together to jump the teacher and then say, "The teacher started it."

With the "conflicting information," a judge is going to have to find the next student(s) not guilty.

And even though this happened in Baltimore City, it needs to be noted that assaults of teachers is rising in Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Howard County, Cecil County, Harford County...

Whoa....

Just as I was about to torch him...

"Did I screw up in this situation? Absolutely. I'm willing to take my lumps," Obama told NBC's Brian Williams, one of five interviews he gave yesterday afternoon. Obama told the network anchors that there are "not two sets of rules" for people, and said that average taxpayers deserve to have public officials who pay their taxes on time.

But, damn, do ANY of the ruling class pay their taxes?

I feel like a lollipop and I'm NOT getting any jollies!

Take A Stand, Or Be Punked

President Obama needs to threaten to veto the current bullhit spending stimulus bill, no matter what the Senate does. At this point, even if the Senate bill passes, there is going to be a conference meeting and more pork will be put into the bill and only a few items will be removed from the bill.

The Democrat controlled House congress rolled President Obama and the Senate is going to join the party, even with Republicans putting up a fuss. If Obama signs it, he'll look like he can be rolled a punk and it's game on for the Democrats. And the Republicans will be on him worse than they were on Bill Clinton, in ALL respects.

The House Republicans did the right thing in not voting for it. It was a purely political move that was the right thing to do for the wrong reason. This spending package should NOT get through but they only did it to make it a Democrat bill which means they get a little bit of the spending monkey during the Bush administration off of their back.

Brain Spew In Bullet Point Form

Here go some thoughts:

Michael Steele: I think it's a good pick and one that will help bring the Republican civil war to a head. For some reason, I don't know, Steele's stated desire to engage Republican moderates, engage the NAACP, engage minorities, his lukewarm support for affirmative action, his support of non-embryonic stem cell research, some Republicans say he's not conservative. So, on the other side of the civil war, you have Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other radio talk show hosts and talking/writing heads who say they want to drum moderates out of the party because moderates are really liberals.

Taxes: OK, so we now see how the ruling class doesn't pay their taxes, pay their help under the table, and then blame it on "simple mistakes" or on the tax software they use.

Super Bowl: Great game.

D.S. 2.0 watched the half time with me and he was amazed. At the end of the half-time concert, he turned to me and said, "They rocked!"

The number of ads for television shows on the network was just amazing. 

Weed: So Michael Phelps was caught on a cell phone camera, taking a hit from a bong. This is a few years after he was caught DUI. But so far, the advertisers are staying behind him. What has he learned boys and girls? How in the hell do you go to a college party and do bond hits, in the age of camera phones and YouTube, and not expect to have the flix posted?

Hellavuagame!!!!

Congrats Steelers.