I walked by Mt. Vernon Park in Baltimore the other day and I saw this construction site:
For all of you not in the know, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was the judge who presided over the infamous Dred Scott case, yes Justice Taney made the “Dred Scott Decision”. As much as I despise […]
I swear if someone brings this up during election time I’m going to smack somebody.
Despite legal limit, Russia weighs 3rd term for Putin
To run, he would need change in constitution
By Erika Niedowski
Sun Foreign Staff
Originally published September 12, 2005
MOSCOW - The governor of Russia’s Novgorod region, northwest of Moscow, cites a bit of American history when […]
So the guy on the tape threatening to blow up Austrailia and California is a white dude from California? Okie Dokie Opie
Australia, L.A. targeted on videotape
Suspected al-Qaida figure from U.S. issues threats
Associated Press
Originally published September 12, 2005
NEW YORK — A tape delivered to ABC News in Pakistan over the weekend features a masked […]
The Gospel, a contemporary drama about love and redemption set in the world of gospel music and the African-American church. Live it; as Boris Kodjoe, Idris Elba, Nona Gaye, Tamyra, Clifton Powell, Omar Gooding, Keisha Knight Pulliam, Donnie McClurkin, Hezekiah Walker, Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams, Martha Munizzi and Mom Winans light up the screen.
Got the […]
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Vowed to “KILL” Google
News Published: September 2, 2005, 1:07 PM PDT
Reprinted From CNET News.com - Written by Ina Fried
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to “kill” Google in an
expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior
engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work
for Google, […]
I don’t even want to speak on this, shit I’m Muslim and that entire treason, Patriot Act shit, I’m just gonna repost.
From the Humanity Critic
The other day, as Barbara Bush, mother of George W. Bush, visited Houston where many evacuees are in the Superdome, she said the following:
“Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And […]
From: DirectNIC’s blog
The Real News
The following is the result of an interview I just conducted via cell phone with a New Orleans citizen stranded at the Convention Center. I don’t know what you’re hearing in the mainstream media or in the press conferences from the city and state officials, but here is the truth:
“Bigfoot” […]
I got this at the Doan Mind Me blog and I have to share his sentiment.
“Well I think we’re all going to hell in a handbasket now.”
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/2250831734
Students Allowed To Curse At Their Teachers
August 30, 2005 12:00 p.m. EST
Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter
London, England (AHN) - A British secondary school is breaking […]
Baltimore City
Western District
Aggravated assault: A woman was struck on the head with a piece of lumber Sunday evening by a man who lost $1,500 to her in a dice game in the 1000 block of N. Gilmor St. She was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center for a large cut to the left side […]
Stern on bench, with warm sense of humor
Justice lauded as great boss with ‘trophies’ to prove
By GINA HOLLAND
Associated Press
Rehnquist, who died Saturday night, was known to snap at lawyers who exceeded their time. Behind large glasses he peered down at attorneys, sometimes raising his eyebrows to an exaggerated arch at their responses.
Each court session he […]
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Kanye West Rips President Bush On Live Television
By Nolan Strong
Date: 9/3/2005 9:30 am
Kanye West criticized United States President George W. Bush and the government’s reaction to Hurricane Katrina last night during “A Concert for Hurricane Relief” a live benefit concert that aired on NBC.
West had sharp words for President Bush and the government’s reaction […]
This is just sad and outrageous. The unexpected can be so unexpected sometimes.
‘A scene of anarchy’
Editor’s Note: CNN correspondents report back on what they are seeing in New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities hit by Hurricane Katrina.
Chaos at the convention center
The New Orleans Convention Center has become a major gathering place for […]
So G.W. called the hurricane “Hurricane Trina” last night (8/30). So is he so intimate with the hurricane that he has pet names for it, more intimate than the people of Louisiana who had to vacate their homes, or is he just ignorant and flippant on what the hell is going on in his […]
Fat Joe, 50 Cent Beef, Other VMA Highlights
By Clover Hope
Date: 8/29/2005 2:00 am
The 50 Cent, Fat Joe beef came to a head Sunday night after words were exchanged between the two rappers during MTV’s Diddy-hosted Video Music Awards.
While onstage announcing reggaeton artists Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Tego Calderon, Fat Joe took first […]
Suge Knight shot in leg
BY BEN WIDDICOMBE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
MIAMI BEACH - Rap mogul Marion (Suge) Knight was shot in the leg at a glittering party hosted by Grammy-winning hip hop artist Kanye West early today, police said.
The Death Row Records founder, who has been in and out of jail, was wounded in […]
Rapper’s Expulsion Overturned
Source: AP
by Joe Mandak
08/25/2005
PITTSBURGH - A judge on Wednesday ordered a school district to readmit a 14-year-old student expelled for writing violent, profane rap lyrics, finding that his songs didn’t amount to “true threats”
against the school and so were protected by the First Amendment.
The Riverside Beaver County School District kicked out Anthony Latour […]
We’re flying Northwest next week for my best friend’s wedding, they better get their act together.
Two deflated tires found in check of Northwest jet
2nd tire-related incident since beginning of strike
By William Wan and Richard Irwin
Sun StaffOriginally published August 25, 2005
Employees of Northwest Airlines reported finding two deflated landing gear tires during preflight inspection of […]
I wonder if it already hasn’t happened when they will put an innocent person to death.
Condemned woman asks Texas parole board to commute her sentence
Investigation is faulted after 2nd gun mentioned
Los Angeles Times
Originally published August 25, 2005
HOUSTON - A lawyer for Frances Newton, who is scheduled to be executed Sept. 14 for […]
No, I’m not talking about crappy sex novels, I’m talking about drugs. There is no end with drugs, I’m not making any news here but heroin is a lethal drug. Heroin unlike other drugs is highly addictive, whereas the user needs the drug to live. Now how heroin is still a staple […]
Two men are dead after gunfire in Hunting Park
Police found two men fatally shot early yesterday after responding to reports of a shooting in the city’s Hunting Park section.
Police said Robert Frazier, 33, of the 4100 block of North Darien Street, was found shot multiple times inside a black Chrysler about 1:20 a.m. at Darien […]
I’m not big on international politics and found Micki’s take on the gaza strip situation interesting and more indept than I am willing to delve. All I know is what would you do if you woke up one day and the USA was called Canada ay? Furthermore I would like to add where […]
Ima get a library card in my daughter’s name. They’re going to wonder why a 6 year old is reading Fanon.
Pratt giving its youngest users carte blanche
Library exempts borrowers age 6 and younger from overdue fines; ‘First Card’ goal is to foster reading at home
By John Fritze
Sun Staff
Originally published August 22, 2005
Children age 6 […]
Now the family can have closure, whoever kills a pregnant woman should be castrated then killed.
Pregnant woman’s remains found near Philadelphia
Police arrest former boyfriend
Saturday, August 20, 2005; Posted: 12:15 p.m. EDT (16:15 GMT)
LaToyia Figueroa was five months pregnant.
Remains of pregnant Philadelphia woman found (1:18)
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) — Police have recovered the […]
Drug arrest: A Cecil County woman stopped Wednesday afternoon for speeding on southbound Interstate 95 near the Hazelwood Avenue overpass was also charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana. In her rented 2005 Chevrolet, Officer Gregory Day of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police found two purses containing a total of $14,400, and a partially smoked […]
Our revolution has been diminished to a condiment.
New realities take hold in once-frightening urban neighborhoods
By Clarence Page
Originally published August 19, 2005
WASHINGTON - Retired Black Panther leaders are trying to trademark the 1965 riot phrase “Burn, baby, burn” to use on a barbecue sauce. That, to me, is the most bizarre filing since Fox News Channel […]
Coretta Scott King suffered a major stroke but is ‘completely aware’
Unable to speak, she has weakness on right side
Associated Press
Originally published August 19, 2005
ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King suffered a minor heart attack and a major stroke that impaired her ability to speak and affected her right side, but she is “completely aware,” a […]
Religion, *sigh, i’ll get back to this later.
Jews for Jesus brings campaign to city
Religion: The Messianic group plans a three-week mission here, raising concerns among mainstream Jews.
By Matthew Hay Brown
Sun Staff
Originally published August 18, 2005
The way David A. Finkelstein sees it, he’s only trying to share the good news with his people.
Raised Jewish in Pikesville, […]
I think it’s a good idea, but now I can’t use the excuse “I just clicked on something and she was there!”.
Originally published August 18, 2005
IN THE Internet’s brief but astounding life, users have come up with only three “killer apps,” or breakthrough applications: e-mail, search engines and accessing pornography. The Internet is lousy with […]
Oft times people’s pains pain me, and this is one of them times.
The grieving grandmother of Ciara Jobes observes what would have been the slain girl’s 18th birthday.
Remembering her granddaughter’s birthday yesterday, Iva Cruse bought a cake, made her way across the city and lit birthday candles in front of an abandoned rowhouse.
But even […]
We did a project concerning health disparities that didn’t garner the effect that it should have given bueracracy and other ailments of academia. People will continue to die while people continue to shuffle paper, signatures, and contracts. Those cited in this article headed up the project that failed to meet it’s full potential.
By […]
Miss. challenges release of former Klansman
Man appeals conviction in rights workers’ deaths
Los Angeles Times
Originally published August 17, 2005
ATLANTA - Mississippi’s attorney general has challenged a judge’s decision to grant bail to former Ku Klux Klan member Edgar Ray Killen, who was freed from prison Friday, less than two months into his 60-year sentence. […]
Civil rights matriarch King, 78, suffers stroke in Atlanta
She’s resting in hospital; condition listed as fair
From Wire Reports
Originally published August 17, 2005
ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., suffered a stroke yesterday and was admitted to Piedmont Hospital, people close to her said.
King, 78, the widow […]
By Jennifer Sullivan
Seattle Times staff reporter (The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
King County sheriff’s detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse boarded on the property.
Investigators first learned of the farm after the man died at Enumclaw Community Hospital […]
So what do these guys hang out at Supermarkets to off their booty?
Postal Service offers reward in rash of post-office break-ins
Hit by a rash of burglaries, the U.S. Postal Service is offering up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest of those involved in a string of summertime thefts at nine post offices […]
Sad story– promising young athlete from my alma mater Simon Gratz High dies. Other athletes who attended Gratz are boxers Ivan Robinson and Meldrick Taylor, and basketball players Aaron McKie of the Philadelphia 76ers and Rasheeed Wallace of the Detroit Pistons, 2004 NBA champs.
Cheyney basketball player dies in Old City shooting
By Thomas J. […]
Now this has to be the dumbest thing I ever heard. The government is spending about a million dollars to make food stamp applications available online? So you’re telling me the needy are internet savvy– or even own a computer with internet access? Or do they want them to go wait in […]