March 27, 2019

'Lawyering while black': Maryland Legal Aid attorney says Harford officer mistook him for suspect

'Lawyering while black': Maryland Legal Aid attorney says Harford officer mistook him for suspect, detained him

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/harford/aegis/bs-md-ci-20190326-story.html

On March 6, James appeared in Harford County District Court to represent a client. His client was not present, but there was an open warrant out for his client’s arrest, according to the complaint.

The complaint alleges an officer detained and questioned James after the hearing, suspecting he was his client impersonating a lawyer. James showed his driver’s license, but the officer did not believe it was valid, the complaint said.

“This is actually the first time this has occurred to me, and I do not know of any colleagues who have had a similar experience,” James said in an interview. “In the moment, it was sort of surreal in the sense that I guess it was just one of those unexpected things that I just did not anticipate.”

James said he was the only black attorney in the courtroom, and it was his first time representing a client in Harford County.

After about 10 minutes, he was released, according to the complaint.

“We kind of know all the ways in which people of color, particularly African-American men, are kind of viewed as suspicious characters, and this is just another instance like that happening,” said Chelsea Crawford, an attorney with Brown Goldstein Levy representing James. “I haven’t heard of anything like this.”

March 27, 2019

Trump complains to senators that Puerto Rico is getting too much hurricane relief funding

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-complains-to-senators-that-puerto-rico-is-getting-too-much-hurricane-relief-funding/2019/03/26/c8c09c30-4fd3-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html?utm_term=.e3ae505b67d0

President Trump complained in a private lunch Tuesday with Senate Republicans about the amount of disaster aid designated for Puerto Rico, as lawmakers prepare for a standoff over funds for the island that is still struggling to recover in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, according to officials familiar with the meeting.

Trump’s remarks came during an hour-long, freewheeling soliloquy at the Capitol with Senate Republicans where he boasted about the end of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation, encouraged Republicans to take up another legislative effort on health care and mocked Democrats over the Green New Deal.

Trump’s decision to use the occasion to send a message about funding for Puerto Rico underscores his continuing push to limit aid to the island.

In the past, Trump has asked advisers how to reduce money for Puerto Rico and signaled that he won’t support any more aid beyond food stamp funds
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Trump noted to GOP senators that Texas — also battered by a spate of hurricanes — was awarded $29 billion in aid, while South Carolina got $1.5 billion to recover from storms. Trump then questioned why Puerto Rico was getting $91 billion, according to two people familiar with his comments, indicating that this was too much compared with compensation for states on the mainland.

Trump remarked that one could buy Puerto Rico four times over for $91 billion, according to people familiar with his comments.

March 24, 2019

He Ordered One TV, Got Two. Now He's Under Arrest - refused to return extra TV

He Ordered One TV, Got Two. Now He's Under Arrest
Police say Nicholas Memmo refused to return extra television shipped to him

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"They surrounded the house and knocked on the door with flash lights coming through all the windows. They told me to come outside then handcuffed me," said Memmo.

Memmo admits it was delivered to his home by mistake and he admits police tried to question him about it several days before his arrest.

"I answered what questions I could without putting myself in jeopardy," he said.

"I said 'Do I need to hire an attorney?' and they said I wasn't under investigation at that point. They were just asking questions. I answered a lot of questions with I don’t know just so I didn’t jeopardize myself," he said.

Memmo says he bought and paid for this 74-inch flat screen on Amazon.

When a third party shipping company delivered it, they also gave him a larger model TV by mistake.

When asked if he ever thought they made a mistake, and whether he should return it, Memmo said: "I did and I looked into all the laws and said, 'You know, it’s a scratch ticket. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.'"

https://www.boston25news.com/news/freetown-man-arrested-for-keeping-tv-sent-to-him-by-mistake/932527925

March 24, 2019

Perp walk of man who kicked elderly woman in the face

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2829224830636095&id=102039435820&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&_rdr

March 24, 2019

fund to protect #nunescow from lawsuit

https://twitter.com/DevinCow/status/1109247225874563073

The Milk Dud is suing me! If Devin’s successful, the Voter Protection Project has pledged to fund our legal defense fund. If he's not, ALL the money will go to defeating Nunes in 2020. #protecttheherd

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/nunes_vs_cow?refcode=cow-tw2&amount=25&

March 23, 2019

Brute kicks elderly woman on Bronx train; bystanders take cell phone video and don't help

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-brute-subway-elderly-attack-20190322-kku6m7fw7bdpnk25lenut5neza-story.html

Someone eventually called police and when the victim got off the train at the next stop an EMS crew was there waiting for her. She was treated for bleeding and swelling from the cuts on her face.

Outrage spilled on social media at the man behind the attack and the man behind the cell phone camera. The user who posted the video said he did not take it, but it was not clear how he obtained it.

“Why was the person taking the video and the people around him NOT WILLING TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT THEN?,” one Twitter user asked. “Don’t pull out your phone folks pull out your fists! Stand up and protect life!”

March 21, 2019

"I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve."

https://twitter.com/RyanHillMI/status/1108457337923215360

THERE TRULY IS NO BOTTOM— Trump Slams John McCain Again claiming he should be grateful for his funeral.

"I gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president I had to approve."

This man is a Malignant Narcissist and a Disgrace.

March 19, 2019

Today's "snowplow parents" keep their children's futures obstacle-free

How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood
Today’s “snowplow parents” keep their children’s futures obstacle-free — even when it means crossing ethical and legal boundaries.


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Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child’s path to success, so they don’t have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

In her practice, Dr. Levine said, she regularly sees college freshmen who “have had to come home from Emory or Brown because they don’t have the minimal kinds of adult skills that one needs to be in college.”

One came home because there was a rat in the dorm room. Some didn’t like their roommates. Others said it was too much work, and they had never learned independent study skills. One didn’t like to eat food with sauce. Her whole life, her parents had helped her avoid sauce, calling friends before going to their houses for dinner. At college, she didn’t know how to cope with the cafeteria options — covered in sauce.

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If children have never faced an obstacle, what happens when they get into the real world?

They flounder, said Julie Lythcott-Haims, the former dean of freshmen at Stanford and the author of “How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success.”

At Stanford, she said, she saw students rely on their parents to set up play dates with people in their dorm or complain to their child’s employers when an internship didn’t lead to a job. The root cause, she said, was parents who had never let their children make mistakes or face challenges.

Snowplow parents have it backward, Ms. Lythcott-Haims said: “The point is to prepare the kid for the road, instead of preparing the road for the kid.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html

March 18, 2019

Brazil leader got egged too

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1107469910517649409

March 18, 2019

'I have to perform to save my life': Medical bills kept rock legend Dick Dale touring till the end

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/18/i-have-perform-save-my-life-medical-bills-kept-rock-legend-dick-dale-touring-till-end/?utm_term=.a2c9168ddb75

Tributes have begun popping up online, with many celebrating his distinctive sound. But the musician’s life story was also a constant struggle against health problems — and to pay medical bills. After his first cancer diagnosis in 1965, Dale continued to battle the disease. Up until the end of his life, Dale was explicit that he toured to fund his treatment.

“I can’t stop touring because I will die. Physically and literally, I will die,” he told the Pittsburgh City Paper in 2015. “Sure, I’d love to stay home and build ships in a bottle and spend time with my wife in Hawaii, but I have to perform to save my life.

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“I can’t stop touring because I will die. Physically and literally, I will die,” he told the Pittsburgh City Paper in 2015. “Sure, I’d love to stay home and build ships in a bottle and spend time with my wife in Hawaii, but I have to perform to save my life.


Dale continued grinding out concerts on the road despite his health problems — which also included diabetes, renal failure and vertebrae damage that made being onstage excruciatingly painful — because of medical bills. Even with insurance, the cost of buying bags and patches for his colostomy bag and other treatments required Dale to perform live. Touring was his only source of income.


“I have to raise $3,000 every month to pay for the medical supplies I need to stay alive, and that’s on top of the insurance that I pay for,” Dale told the Pittsburgh City Paper. “The hospital says change your patch once a week. No! If you don’t change that patch two times a day, the fecal matter eats through your flesh and causes the nerves to rot and they turn black, and the pain is so excruciating that you can’t let anything touch it."

However, Dale approached the painful hamster wheel of playing live with an optimistic philosophy.

By opening up about his problems and the financial concerns keeping him on the road, Dale felt he was connecting with his audience in a unique way. Up on the stage, Dale was not some billionaire rocker who had a bank account deep enough to keep the effects of aging at bay, like a Paul McCartney or Mick Jagger.


Dale was fighting to keep going, just like his fans.

“It’s not ‘Oh, I’m suffering down here and you’re having a good time up there.,'" Dale told Billboard. “I can tell ‘em how much g----- pain I’m going through ‘up there.’ I let them know: I’ve got the same crap you’ve got.”