DarkStar Spouts Off

Straight Up, Some Of You Are Sellouts

Straight up, some of the Black people who are white washing Sen.
Bryd's past by saying he "changed," without providing one piece of
evidence, need to be called out for what they are doing. I've read a
few "he was a changed man" commentary but not one shred of support
other than the statement.

Yeah, I'm straight up calling you people sell outs!

Now, go search how often I use that phrase.

3 Quarters Of A BILLION DOLLARS

Tiger has to pay his ex, $750 million dollars!
There's no number of women, when combined, whose "garden of Eden" is
worth THAT much money.

Let Me Get This Straight

President Obama is trying to talk the G20 countries into keeping their spending in place. And, rightly, the SOCIALIST countries in Europe are saying HELLTOTHENO and maybe the USA should be focusing on
deficit reduction.

What's wrong with that picture?

Me Like

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court ruled for the first time that gun possession is fundamental to American freedom, giving federal judges power to strike down state and local weapons laws for infringing on Second Amendment rights.

Dems Are Friends Of Blacks

Many Black people say Democrats are friends of Black people.

Let's ignore that Democrats, including Black Democrats, don't support vouchers and are hostile towards charters, although most Blacks polled support both.

Let's ignore that Democrats take the Black vote for granted although everyone knows this and even Black politicians who are Democrats admit it.

Let's ignore that the Black farmers are STILL waiting for Congress to authorize payments even though Democrats control Congress, for now, and that the Black Democrat politicians want it authorized.

Let's ignore all of that and go with "our friends," the Democrats.

Then you see a Democrat say something prejudiced like this:

"We're giving relief to people that I deal with in my office every day now, unfortunately," Mr. Kanjorski said during deliberations Wednesday between House and Senate negotiators over the pending
financial reform bill."Because of the longevity of this recession, these are people — and they're not minorities and they're not defective and they're not all the things you'd like to insinuate that
these programs are about — these are average, good American people," he added.

So, where's the outrage from Black Democrat politicians in the House?

Wait, the House Negroes (HAH!) released this:

In the letter signed by Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters of California.; Melvin L. Watt of North Carolina; Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland; Luis V. Gutierrez of Illinois; and Gregory Meeks of New York,

Mr. Kanjoriski's House defenders said they were "greatly disturbed" by the distortions of the comments."We know Congressman Kanjorski is a strong supporter of minorities and all Americans," the letter said.

"It is most unfortunate that Republicans are trying to direct attention away from his significant legislative contributions to the Wall Street reform bill."OK.

What. Ever.

With "friends" like these...

Prince Tribute

After the Prince tribute, Prince said music was in good hands for the
future. He named people who I thought did justice to his music. All
were women.

Hmmmm....

Anyway, the rest, BIT!

When they showed shots of Prince during the HORRIBLE singing parts, PRICELESS.

Police State, 6

Last week the Baltimore City Police Department settled a lawsuit that charged them with civil liberties violations that occurred during a time then Mayor Martin O'Malley, was trying to appear to drive down crime statistics in Baltimore by ordering the police to arrest everyone in sight especially if they are Black use New York style broken window policing tactics.

An outside auditor will review "quality of life" arrests made by Baltimore police over the next three years as part of an $870,000 settlement between the city and the NAACP and ACLU that was approved today by the city Board of Estimates.

A lawsuit filed in 2006 on behalf of 14 people alleged that their arrests indicated a broad pattern of abuse in which thousands of people were routinely arrested without probable cause. The suit also alleged that the so-called "zero tolerance" system was endorsed and enforced by city officials under the tenure of then-mayor Martin O'Malley.

In a joint statement with the plaintiffs, the police department said it has agreed to institute policies that reject the "zero tolerance policing" and establish a range of appropriate officer responses to minor offenses. The department will issue written directives that spell out the elements of common minor offenses to ensure that officers are aware of the scope of their authority, and will train every officer on the new policies for offenses, the statement said.

Then, today, it comes to light that the police downgraded misclassified lied about re-classified reported rapes:

The 32-year-old woman was walking through a midtown alley last January when a man pressed a gun to her shoulder and told her, "Don't scream."

At the hospital, where she was treated for vaginal bleeding, the woman recounted being raped at gunpoint, in a vehicle with black leather seats. When it was over, her attacker told her to walk away slowly and not look back.

The police detective's report reflects the tone of his questioning in the hospital room: Why had she waited two hours to call police? Why didn't she flag down a squad car? Where was she coming from before she was assaulted? Who was she with? Frustrated, the woman retracted her statement and signed a new one saying that nothing had happened.

No longer a rape, the incident was now classified as "unfounded," police parlance for saying the victim was lying or they do not believe a crime occurred.

It's the type of change that happens dozens of times each year, and more often in Baltimore than any place else.

The Baltimore Police Department has for the past four years recorded the highest percentage of rape cases that officers conclude are false or baseless of any city in the country, according to The Baltimore Sun's review of FBI data.

What can be said about this?

I put these two things together because I think this was all a part of Martin O'Malley's strategy to gain the governor's office. He didn't care about the rights of the citizens of Baltimore. He didn't care about Baltimore itself. It was, and is, all about building stepping stones to the next position.

It's this type of crap why I really DETEST O'Malley and will never vote him.

Chain Of Command?

There is a break down with the chain of command.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/22/AR2010062200813_pf.html

KABUL -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Tuesday that his top commander in Afghanistan "made a significant mistake and exercised poor judgment" in making dismissive and derogatory remarks to a magazine reporter about U.S. government officials involved in Afghan policy.

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal has been summoned to Washington to explain a Rolling Stone article that includes highly critical comments by him and his staff about Vice President Biden, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry and other top Obama administration officials.

The profile of McChrystal, titled the "Runaway General," is certain to increase tension between him and the White House. It also raises fresh questions about the judgment and leadership style of the commander appointed by President Obama last year in an effort to turn around a worsening conflict.

"I read with concern the profile piece on Gen. Stanley McChrystal in the upcoming edition of 'Rolling Stone' magazine," Gates said in a statement, adding, "Our troops and coalition partners are making extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our security, and our singular focus must be on supporting them and succeeding in Afghanistan without such distractions.


Personally, I think the current rules of engagement mean suicide. If you can't defend yourself, get out.

He must be relieved of his command.

Slush Fund?

OK, the $20 billion dollar fund that BP has agreed to is being called
a slush fund.

Huh?

There are asbestos companies that went bankrupt in order to avoid
paying into the asbestos claim fund that came about as the result of
lawsuits. There are business analysts who are saying BP may be forced
to go into bankruptcy because of this spill and if that happens, the
cleanup will not be funded by them.

Slush fund?

Oprah and BP

Oprah said when she was local in Chicago, her contract was up for
renewal. After a negotiating session where the television station had
come to an agreement with her representative, the station people came
out smiling and told her that her agent was a good man.

She fired him on the spot and got someone who immediately told her to
create a production studio and have the studio make an arrangement
with the television station. Harpo was born and the path to a Black
billionaire was started.

BP QUICKLY agreeing to $20 billion as a cash reserve and the smiles
all around tell me that BP got off lightly.

Police State, 4

Not many people want to be policemen because it is a dangerous job. My father was a policeman in NY. He became a policeman because Jamaican police killed his brother for, essentially, being drunk.

This past week an off duty police officer was shot working at his moonlighting job.

One of the men accused of killing an off-duty Maryland state trooper outside a Forestville restaurant early Friday will continue to be held without bond, a judge ruled Tuesday.

After a brief hearing in the Upper Marlboro courthouse, District Court Judge Jean S. Baron cited the "egregious" nature of the allegations against Anthony A. Milton II, 28, who is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Trooper Wesley Brown. Brown was off-duty, working as a security guard at an Applebee's when he was killed.

Milton is accused of providing the gun used to kill Brown. Investigators believe he gave the semiautomatic handgun to his friend, Cyril C. Williams, 28, who is accused of being the gunman. Williams, who also has been charged with first-degree murder, has not appeared in court in Prince George's.

Brown had ejected Williams from the restaurant for urinating inside and possibly for disputing his bill, according to law enforcement sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is ongoing. Williams was so enraged that he returned about 30 minutes later and opened fire on Brown, who was outside talking on his cellphone, they said.

It's a dangerous job and although I have serious problems with police misconduct and with the justice system seemingly turning a blind eye to their misconduct in most cases and people's complaints about police misconduct ONLY when, it seems, white people are involved, I give the police the support they deserve.

Wesley Brown was engaged to be married.

RIP.

Police State, 3

In Maryland, the state police have video cams on the dashboard of their cruisers to record their stops. The video and audio recordings are public and they are able to do so because, it is said, when a police officer stops you, the stop is considered to be public with no expectation of privacy.

However, if anyone in Maryland video records a police officer, you can be arrested and charged with a wire tapping crime if you capture the audio.

From the driver's side emerged a man in a gray pullover and jeans. The man, who was wielding a gun, repeatedly yelled at Graber, ordering him to get off his bike. Only then did Maryland State Trooper Joseph D. Uhler identify himself as "state police" and holster his weapon. Graber, who'd been observed popping a wheelie while speeding, was cited for doing 80 in a 65 mph zone. Graber accepted his ticket, which he says he deserved.

A week later, on March 10, Graber posted his video of the encounter on YouTube. What followed wasn't a furor over the police officer's behavior but over Graber's use of a camera to capture the entire episode.

On April 8, Graber was awakened by six officers raiding his parents' home in Abingdon, Md., where he lived with his wife and two young children. He learned later that prosecutors had obtained a grand jury indictment alleging he had violated state wiretap laws by recording the trooper without his consent.

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"The question is: Is a police officer permitted to have a private conversation as part of their duty in responding to calls, or is everything a police officer does subject to being audio recorded?" Cassilly said.

Cassilly thinks officers should be able to consider their on-duty conversations to be private. Other officers share that view and have issued warnings to documentarians. Another video that surfaced on YouTube shows a Baltimore police officer at the Preakness warning a cameraman who was recording several other officers subduing a woman that such recordings are illegal.

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David Rocah, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland who is part of Graber's defense team, said on-duty officers have no expectation of privacy while doing their job in public. If police need to talk to an informant, they can have a private conversation, he said. "But when they are public officials performing their duty for everyone to see and hear, that is not a private conversation," Roach said.

The police going to the parent's home and conducting a raid, wasn't about a crime, it was plan Gestapo tactics to intimidate them and send a message to others.

Police State, 2

I've been trying not to watch the news because the oil gusher under the ocean is really too depressing. But some things I can't avoid, like the gusher, but this one is closer to home.

A man goes to a club, leaves the club and encounters a woman. He gropes her. The man she is with, pulls a gun. When the first man puts his hands up and backs away, the man with the gun empties the magazine, and kills the groper.

The shooter was an off duty police officer, with a history of offenses while on duty and not on duty.

But regardless of whether Mr. Tshamba is ever found guilty, it is clear that the killing of Mr. Brown was tragic and senseless. He was not armed. The action that reportedly raised Mr. Tshamba’s ire — the inappropriate touching of the officer’s girlfriend — did not justify a violent response of any kind, and according to witnesses, Mr. Brown had his hands in the air when the firing began. We cannot convict Mr. Tshamba before the trial, but it is certainly not too early to conclude that he made a terrible decision.

It’s also not too early to question whether the Baltimore Police Department should have had reason to take him off the force long before he wound up in that alley just over a week ago. In the last week, news reports about Mr. Tshamba’s past provide ample reason to conclude that the officer was leading a troubled life well before he pulled the trigger, and the police department now needs to answer whether it was aware of this pattern of conduct and whether it should have taken stronger action against the officer long ago.

Why was this man still a member of the Baltimore police department?

Police State, 1

This one is subtitled, "How NOT to interact with the police!"

When I became a teenager, I was schooled in how to handle being stopped by the police. OBVIOUSLY, those two fools lack home training, on multiple levels. They are both lucky they weren't provided lead air conditioning.

Word Of Advice

If you are a female, and you like to wear dresses and skirts, put some drawers on and you won't be AS em-bare-ASS-ed when some fool up skirts you.

[ UPDATE ]

Miley Cyrus, this means YOU!

Good For The School!

Do wrong in school and clean the toilets!

http://bronx.ny1.com/content/top_stories/120391/claim--bronx-students-forced-to-clean-school-toilets

Department of Education officials are investigating after students
at a Bronx school claimed they were forced to clean toilets as a
punishment.

Some students at In-Tech Academy in Kingsbridge say they were assigned
janitorial duties as part of their detention as recently as last week.

"After school the principal came in with the inspector lady and she
was like 'Oh, everyone has to pitch in and clean the toilets and
stuff.' So we was cleaning them and we had to clean around them and
nasty, it was just mad nasty," said one student.

"Like that's not cool, like making kids clean toilets like that's not
how that should go," said another student.

The DOE says if the allegations are true, appropriate action
will be taken.


The appropriate action is to praise the school system.

You're Thinking It, I'll Write It

After listening to the man speak, we all realize Alvin Greene is retarded.

$80 Million

Meg Whitman spent $80 million in the primary election for the ability
to run in the general election for governor.
I repeat, Meg Whitman spent $80 million in the primary election for
the ability to run in the general election for governor.

That is a victory?

Video Cell Call?

The 4G iPhone has a video feature for video calls, ala Skype?

KILLER!

Forget about the Incredible, my phone.
Forget about the EVO.

The new iPhone just triple lapped the competition!

Crisis Handling, Failure

Straight up, Obama fails his handling of the oil spill. Jindal
complained about the time it was taking to get approval to build sand
bars to slow the spread of the oil. Obama should have been on the
telephone telling the appropriate agencies that the approvals will
happen in less than 8 hours and then tell Jindal to go ahead with
whatever they want to do. The approvals are coming, don't wait for the
paper work.

And, frankly, Jindal should have just did it, regardless.

More On Miranda

A police officer comes to your home. He can't force his way into your
home UNLESS he sees a dangerous situation. He has to ASK to enter your
home. If you say no, he can't enter. If you say yes, then he can
enter.

Once in, if he sees suspected illegal drugs lying around, you can be
arrested. If he starts looking in areas of your home, without your
permission, and finds illegal drugs, he may arrest you, but in court,
everything found will not be admitted as evidence.

If you are in your car, and you are stopped, the police officer can't
search your car unless you give him permission or unless he has
"reasonable suspicion" that something illegal is in the car.
"Reasonable suspicion" is a problem, but the court has already given
away that protection.

There is a problem with the Supreme Court giving police more authority
and taking away our rights.

AT&T Gives Verizon and Android More Business

Just give Verizon and Android more money.

NEW YORK (AP) -- In time for the widely expected launch of a new iPhone model, carrier AT&T Inc. is pulling in the reins on data usage by its customers with smart phones and iPads.The sole U.S. carrier of the iPhone is introducing two new data plans, starting June 7, with limits on data consumption. They'll replace the $30 per month plan with unlimited usage that it has required for all smart phones, including the iPhone.

With the change AT&T is adopting a carrot-and-stick approach to assuage the data congestion on its network,which has been a source of complaints, especially in cities such as New York and San Francisco that are thick with iPhone users. The new plans will take effect just as Apple is expected to unveil the next generation of its iPhone at an event Monday in San Francisco.

For the sake of their network, I understand the data caps. But this will not be seen this way by consumers.

40 Years

The Gore's were married for 40 years and now they are getting a divorce?

If the claim of "no one cheated" is true, after 40 years you can't keep it together?

WTH?!?!?!

You Have To Say You Are Silent To Invoke Miranda

The Supreme Court ruled that if you want to invoke your Miranda Rights, you have to explicitly say you want to remain silent.

Under the Miranda rule, derived from the 1966 Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona, police may not question a suspect who invokes his rights—and can't use as evidence incriminating statements obtained after the suspect does so.

In Tuesday's decision, the court ruled that an ambiguous situation would be treated in favor of the  police.

The case came from Southfield, Mich., where a shooting suspect refused to sign a statement acknowledging that he had been given the Miranda warning but didn't expressly state he was invoking his right to remain silent.

I'm not sure if that is reasonable or not reasonable. After all, we are presumed innocent so under that consideration, shouldn't the right to remain silent be the default? And, since I haven't read the text, I don't know if the police are still required to cite the Miranda Rights.