"University Of Maryland Will No Longer Play ‘Maryland, My Maryland’ At Events"

Via Drudge:  The University of Maryland’s marching band will no longer play “Maryland, My Maryland,” the official state song of Maryland, at school sporting events because of its ties to the Confederacy.

On Monday, the University of Maryland shared that its marching band has cut the Southern-leaning state song from its line-up. After the deadly rallies in Charlottesville, the controversial anthem will no longer be playing on the university’s campus at all.

The song is a nine-verse war poem, put to music. It was used as a pro-Confederate battle hymn and talks of spurning the “Northern scum.”

Click here for the full lyrics for “Maryland, My Maryland.”

“To be honest, I don’t even know what the tune is. I’d be more upset if they didn’t play the fight song, I think,” said University of Maryland student, Chris Rogers.

Another student said that they didn’t think people would even notice. (Link)

"Baltimore Police Respond To Report Of Secret Aerial Surveillance Program"

CBS Baltimore:  The Baltimore Police Department held a press conference on the matter Wednesday afternoon, and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake put out a statement around the same time.

“I was recently made aware of the Persistent Surveillance Systems Inc. work with our city,” Rawlings-Blake wrote.

“The pilot program, funded by an anonymous donor, is cutting edge technology aimed at making Baltimore safer. My top priority, which I have continuously communicated to Commissioner Davis, has been to keep our city safe. His team sought opportunities to find new technology that works hand in hand with our robust Citiwatch program. This technology is about public safety. This isn’t surveilling or tracking anyone. It’s about catching those who choose to do harm to citizens in our city.”

The program is “not an unmanned drone or a secret surveillance program,” Baltimore Police Department spokesman T.J. Smith began the Wednesday press conference by saying.

“Years ago, when we embarked on our CitiWatch program, there were similar anxieties and that’s understandable,” Smith said. “We expect this technology to be used for other public safety concerns, like Silver Alerts, Amber Alerts, floods, sinkholes, fires, terrorist attacks, and more. It adheres to our CCTV policies. We currently know that there are existing technologies that are out there in the world and in place, like red light cameras, speed cameras, license plate readers, other CCTV and facial recognition. All of those programs received the same level of scrutiny. This is a 21st century technology that other large cities across the country are also testing.”

Smith ended his initial remarks by saying “the only people that should be concerned in the city of Baltimore are criminals.” (Video at the link)

Judge acquits Lt. Brian Rice of all charges on the Freddie Gray case

Baltimore Sun:  Prosecutors in Baltimore have failed for the fourth time to secure a conviction in the Freddie Gray case, with Circuit Judge Barry G. Williams acquitting Lt. Brian Rice of all charges related to Gray's arrest and death.

Williams cleared Rice, 42, of involuntary manslaughter, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office in a downtown Baltimore courtroom on Monday morning. The judge had dismissed a second-degree assault charge at the trial's midpoint, and prosecutors dropped a second misconduct charge at the start...

Williams said prosecutors had failed to meet their burden of proving the charges beyond a reasonable doubt, instead asking the court to rely on "presumptions or assumptions" — something it cannot do. He said the court "cannot be swayed by sympathy, prejudice or public opinion."

Based on the law, he said, the prosecution failed to prove the elements of the crimes.

The prosecution did not show Rice acted in a "grossly negligent manner," required of manslaughter, he said. It did not show that Rice acted in an unreasonable way or ignored the substantial risk in placing Gray in a police van without a seat belt, required for reckless endangerment, he said. And, it did not show Rice acted "corruptly," which is required for misconduct in office, he said.

People continue to email me #FreddieGray injured on street. Judge today explicitly rejected that idea, as have prosecutors & medical experts

— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) July 18, 2016

Kevin Rector wrote the article posted above.

SuperMexican explains Baltimore in one sentence.

SuperMexican says on his site to share this and he offers several buttons to do that and when the mouse rolls over the picture on his site a "pin it" button appears so I'm guessing from all that it's okay to show the whole thing. This is his entire post.

Baltimore explained by SuperMexican, El Super.

Goodness. Do you have to look at it through the prism of race? That one single angle? 

The 50+ comments draw a picture of his readers over there, they're all in agreement.

Not so with El Super's twitter line where he picks up a commenter named Cody who the rest guess is a sixteen year old rich New Jersey white kid who insists on "institutional racism." His education he points out supersedes any and all new information that he can observe for himself and process for himself even when the point of the post is institutional racism but in the other direction than usually discussed and now where things have reversed institutionally, but still described as un-institutionalized pre-reversed racism. Cody insists the others catch up. To what? To reality. His received construction.

Cody the commenter raises an argumentum ad authoritah as their wont, why, you simply must read _____ to be properly informed such as he. Student then. We must read his teacher to understand his position, he being unable to elaborate effectively and cogently himself. No, Cody, you need to read us as teachers rather than we read your teacher.  

Everything including sex and race are actually mental constructions, it is insisted ad nauseam and on several channels at once, on all media simultaneously. Now, you are to be denounced for not accepting Cody's constructed reality. Cody the commenter refers to his version of institutional racism and rejects outright SuperMexican's observations as arranged. The interpretation the rest of us use. The commenters have fun batting around Cody, ill prepared to handle opposing positions formed with additional and with different information.

"Mayor replaces Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts"

"Rawlings-Blake named Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Davis interim commissioner, effective immediately."

We cannot grow Baltimore without making our city a safer place to live," Rawlings-Blake said at a press conference at City Hall. "We need a change. This was not an easy decision, but it is one that is in the best interest of the people of Baltimore. The people of Baltimore deserve better."

Rawlings-Blake's decision came hours after she lashed out at the city's police union for for its highly critical report of the Police Department leadership during last month's rioting. She did not respond to a call for Batts' resignation from faith coalition Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development.

She said the Fraternal Order of Police report did not play a role in her decision and that her motivation was instead the spate of murders that has erupted in the city over the past month.

“My back! My back!”

Watch a Shooting Suspect in Front of a News Camera...

"Alarming Surge In Murders And Shootings In Baltimore"

"Dozens of shooting and murders in the last few weeks following the riots last month."

Christie Ileto reports some are concerned police are hesitant to crack down after six officers were charged in the death of Freddie Gray.

“People have said its because morale is down, or it’s because the officers were charged. We don’t know that,” said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

A Baltimore police officer who chose to remain anonymous says the Freddie Gray case impacted policing.

“If you want them to be proactive in patrolling and trying to catch people, I could see them not being interested in doing that,” the officer said.

When diversity is "complex"

From an Ace of Spades post...

Yeah... RT @stopbeingfamous The mugshots of the 6 officers tell a complex tale of white supremacy. pic.twitter.com/1HZXJgPVhQ

— Matt (@Matthops82) May 2, 2015

Many citizens of foreign countries will decry "American nationalism" as a passive-aggressive (and dishonest) way of expressing their own jingoistic nationalism.

"Anti-Americanism" is a culturally-approved safe harbor for expressing one's own (forbidden) jingoism.

When you hear a Frenchman screaming about how America thinks it's the best, but really it's not very good at all, who do you think he's implying really is the Best?

A Greek man thumping his chest at how jingoistic Americans are -- he's not saying "we're all equal." He's saying Greeks are superior. He's saying Americans are stupid for getting the question of "Who is Best?" wrong.

Likewise, many minorities now employ a constant, codified, ritualized attack on White People as their method of engaging in some bumptious, egotistical Racial Triumphalism.

And this becomes more obvious every single day.

Guys? If you think your own culture or race is the best, stop being dishonest, and just express your honest chauvanistic and/or racist feelings.

Stop using the nasty passive-aggressive subterfuge of always strongly, strongly implying that you are Superior to Whitey as your chickenshit method of proclaiming racial superiority.

Just come out and own your own ego-driven, hateful, backwards, ignorant cracker-ass racism, for god's sakes.

Kevin Moor, the man who recorded Freddie Gray video, arrested by Baltimore police

That's bad.

Okay, now what happens to the guy who recorded this arrest?  

Baby Huey government grown so big so obese it merely rolls over and smashes you. So defensive it cannot tolerate observation nor discussion of itself by its subjects. This is the government your grandparents wed, it worked for them or seemed to, and whereas they died and your parents grew old Baby Huey government only kept getting bigger. You are born into the government they wanted but they did not know it would come to this. 

March 5 is election day in Denver. Progs have taken over the town, the town being the capital they've taken over the state. There is not much on the ballot. I have it right here. The trick is pretend to be independent. Everybody claims middle ground. Then when you see them on t.v. they say things like this.

We noticed a little economic activity there and something must be done. We must see how to regulate this. 

Bless your pointed head, you noticed a little girl's lemonade stand and you forgot to say "taxed!"  For once the subject was not marijuana, and it was nothing so serious as concession stand carts. It was something quite minor indeed that made me realize, Man, this chick is really twisted, a real crackpot control freak. That's who's attracted to state politics. And this is why.  I formed the impression of state government populated by such so overarching so jealous that it MUST have its grubby mitts in absolutely every single activity under its protective dome. Drive into the state pass the border marker, BLAM, you're now married to Colorado.

And Colorado is one demented hippie chick control freak with frizzy red hair and a snappy unhappy parliamentarian air to her. Perhaps Gollum is a better analogy, although the woman I noticed that day really is frizzy red hair hippy control freak parliamentarian, her speaking she was more like, "my precious, my precious."

Only five categories on the ballot, mayor, auditor, clerk, council members at large, and the worst, council member district 10 UGH they're all screaming Democrats so that category gets no votes, let the jackals bite it out amongst themselves.

How screaming?

Their online profiles show them to be so quite clearly and upfront. So screaming you can tell by results page. It's all there. They may claim independence and laugh as they claim it, then look at them online and they stick right out. They join dozens of groups with words like "democracy" in them and other carved out special concerns, "environment," "women's," "minority," what have you. See all those buzz words cluttering the whole results page and that tells you ding ding ding crackpot. One who needs government to do things. It's their life.

The great thing about politics is you use everybody's money to do your group's things. You impose your will, the will of your group, on the entire population and use their money doing it and that's what gives psychologically damaged crackpots their thrills.

Others are more difficult to pin down, they're more sensible. Their projects are specific and goal-oriented usually quite narrow and measurable and not all that much to brag about. Their degrees are in unusual things, hard things, science-y things sometimes far from politics. People interested in other things altogether, later in life attracted to some lower political position.

One candidate cited his ambition for auditor, "I want to expand the scope of the office to include..." That will be "no" to you, Mr. Ambitious. Now, had you said your goal was to refocus the office to its core reason for being for the purpose of shrinking the office to improved productivity then I'd be willing to listen. So it went. Short enough. Not too much research weeding out the people who want government for its control.

Baltimore, oh Baltimore I can hear your sea winds blowing

Baltimore. That place sounds familiar. It seems an important port with a unique geography. What happened there? Fort McHenry. Star Spangled Banner. British. 1812 Burned down Washington a march away.

Mother Seaton, first American saint. Nations first Catholic seminary. Anything else? Babe Ruth. Edgar Allen Poe, see? That right there is why one would think the whole place is so spooky. Because of him. Baltimore is so spooky it even freaked out Edgar Allen Poe. That is my impression. There should be something about ships. Tall sailing ships. We put these models together as boys. Let me think. Shipping there is a big deal, you know. U.S.S. Constellation, a 3-masted war sloop. Cool boat. Baltimore undoubtedly has a lot of rats.

Wooden model. $648.30 by Old Modern Handicrafts. You should buy one. Kidding. I know you're not interested. Ours were plastic. This is a lot better. Dusting is a problem. Either glass case or housekeeper with a delicate touch. Baltimore, having the real thing is just so totally historically ace. Baltimore has more historical ships than this but they're not as good, and actually, the real thing is a bit cheesy. Also the U.S. Naval Academy at nearby Annapolis. Baltimore Oreos, home of the famous cookie. Kidding again. Also, Chef Duff and his entertaining Ace of Cakes.

Oriole VS Cardinal. Just for the heck of it.

Now, here are two very good looking birds.

Sorry Baltimore. Cardinal for the win. St. Louis wins for bird teams. The red beak and red feet kill it. It's a bird so confident in its color that it takes it all the way from the toes to the crest. The oriole is attractive, yes, but it compromises, like it's trying to pass for a robin. But even robins have yellow beaks with gray legs, and robins have stunning blue eggs. But wait, what do oriole eggs look like?

Oh, orioles make hanging basket nests. Wow. Jackson Pollock eggs.

What do cardinal's nest and eggs look like? Stunning eggs. Much simpler nests.

Baltimore oriole's nest and eggs win. Tough choice though. Oriole is a better housekeeper and family bird while cardinal is a more confident stylist.

Their geography is such the force of waterways suggested mills. I'm interested in their early grain mills. The early settlers preferred rye bread. I imagined their milled wheat to be be all whole wheat minus the husks. I imagined the stones flattening de-husked wheat seeds to powder but that is not what they did. The ground grain is graded for different purposes by sifting through various screens, their term "bolting" originally "boulting." Romans bolted their wheat to seven grades of flour. So, not all their bread was 100% whole wheat as imagined, but all of their leaven was natural piggybacking or airborne, what we call sourdough.

Don't ask me about present day happening in Baltimore and their dilapidated unhappy Democrat plantation with all their high profile non-Baltimore plantation rebellions because I don't know anything about that. It doesn't come through. I do know historically plantation owners were terrified of revolts. There they were, the plantation owners, out there in the country isolated away from the unhealthy city in summer, with more people in bondage than available enforcement and there is always news coming in of happenings in Jamaica. Now, they are doing a lot of talking but not to me. All of the talking, and there is a lot of talking, is amongst themselves and for themselves. They're working out their own problems and they've made clear all  that has nothing to do with me, in fact I and my profiled type are excluded. But that needn't wreck a whole city, there's a lot else going on there besides plantation rebellion.

Seems every time you turn around there's another hard luck story you're going to hear. And there's really nothing anyone can say. Oh, I never did plan to go anyway... to Black Diamond Bay.

What did the mayor of Baltimore mean by "space to destroy"?

 

Is this a new riot handling doctrine?

What's wrong with this picture?

This woman is writing a number on kids' arms that she told them they can call in case they get arrested #FreddieGray pic.twitter.com/tqXrx6gfb3
— Kevin Rector (@RectorSun) April 25, 2015

RUPTLY stringer robbed during filming at Baltimore

They are all young. For the most part robbing is a young man's game. This reminded me of the videos of mobbing monkeys that steal food and cameras and purses and everything possible then split, in India and Gibraltar and other exotic places, and here Russians are filming our exotic species. She should know take care out in the wild like that. This is another of those live and learn things. Glad nobody was seriously hurt. And now you know.

Oh! Speaking of. See, in both cases what went wrong here is the observers taunted their subjects of study. That's bad. It's resented. It signals, "hit me." The little boy pounded his little chest, as you do, and the gorilla charged, as they do.

Baltimore under martial law while White House celebrates journalism

Yes, this is too on-the-nose for fiction. Our inbred journalist and political classes award themselves, congratulate themselves, speechify to themselves, stroke themselves, roast themselves, tweet themselves, update themselves, selfie themselves, autofellate, boo FOX, everybody claps, boo Republicans, everybody claps, as trained seals clap for a fish, while thirty miles north the people who voted properly are tossing chairs through store windows hard as they can, a protest, yet another of its type gone violent so that attendees at a nearby game cannot be let out and flow out of the stadium to their homes as they would on a normal night, they're all cooped up in the stadium, but that cannot be covered. Because ... journalism.

You can all just go to hell. And you will.  

Here is your hell: being stuck in that White House Correspondents Dinner with your inbred type. Being forced to endure your own inbred jokes funny to inbred mongs. The pathetic spectacle of representatives given power, actually all wanna be entertainers at heart, in the land known as Hollywood for Ugly People play acting their real dreams of celebrity with the peoples' time and money and doing so poorly. Nobody sensible watches, and when they do, only to ridicule, yet our representatives and their watchers, droll entertainers and their inbred mong groupies imagine themselves recreating the Oscars, another such spectacle. Drawing your finger over your embossed invitation, yes, yes, how fine, you made it, this is your second one! Finally, the High School cool kid's table and that is all that you care about. Your hell is the same hell as spectators at Camden Yard, both unable to move, locked up with their teams and their tribes.