Tue Apr 28, 2015, 11:07 AM
Statement from a friend who grew up in Baltimore
The other side of that, a profoundly sad side, is that Chet talks about how parts of Baltimore that were destroyed 40-50 years ago in riots that happened still aren't rebuilt. 
That's Chet on the left with Charlie https://www.facebook.com/chet.whye?fref=ts
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Author | Time | Post |
 Statement from a friend who grew up in Baltimore (Original post) |
stevenleser | Apr 2015 | OP |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #1 | |
| Egnever | Apr 2015 | #24 | |
| Human101948 | Apr 2015 | #40 | |
| Egnever | Apr 2015 | #57 | |
| mercuryblues | Apr 2015 | #73 | |
| Egnever | Apr 2015 | #74 | |
| cwydro | Apr 2015 | #37 | |
| bigwillq | Apr 2015 | #2 | |
| cilla4progress | Apr 2015 | #3 | |
| heaven05 | Apr 2015 | #18 | |
| calimary | Apr 2015 | #51 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #4 | |
| NobodyHere | Apr 2015 | #5 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #6 | |
| NobodyHere | Apr 2015 | #8 | |
| TampaAnimusVortex | Apr 2015 | #10 | |
| Half-Century Man | Apr 2015 | #27 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #55 | |
| heaven05 | Apr 2015 | #19 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Apr 2015 | #22 | |
| jwirr | Apr 2015 | #39 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Apr 2015 | #21 | |
| Egnever | Apr 2015 | #26 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Apr 2015 | #29 | |
| Egnever | Apr 2015 | #33 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Apr 2015 | #36 | |
| Egnever | Apr 2015 | #44 | |
| Travis_0004 | Apr 2015 | #34 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Apr 2015 | #38 | |
| cilla4progress | Apr 2015 | #25 | |
| Human101948 | Apr 2015 | #42 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #54 | |
| bravenak | Apr 2015 | #68 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #70 | |
| ohheckyeah | Apr 2015 | #79 | |
| jeff47 | Apr 2015 | #9 | |
| Hekate | Apr 2015 | #13 | |
| appalachiablue | Apr 2015 | #32 | |
| libdem4life | Apr 2015 | #11 | |
| Hekate | Apr 2015 | #12 | |
| NobodyHere | Apr 2015 | #14 | |
| libdem4life | Apr 2015 | #16 | |
| 1StrongBlackMan | Apr 2015 | #23 | |
| libdem4life | Apr 2015 | #35 | |
| Half-Century Man | Apr 2015 | #30 | |
| ann--- | Apr 2015 | #76 | |
| Half-Century Man | Apr 2015 | #81 | |
| ann--- | Apr 2015 | #82 | |
| Half-Century Man | Apr 2015 | #83 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #49 | |
| heaven05 | Apr 2015 | #20 | |
| appalachiablue | Apr 2015 | #45 | |
| libdem4life | Apr 2015 | #47 | |
| appalachiablue | Apr 2015 | #52 | |
| libdem4life | Apr 2015 | #67 | |
| appalachiablue | Apr 2015 | #69 | |
| Buzz Clik | Apr 2015 | #28 | |
| frylock | Apr 2015 | #48 | |
| TerrapinFlyer | Apr 2015 | #50 | |
| grasswire | Apr 2015 | #53 | |
| nadinbrzezinski | Apr 2015 | #63 | |
| Downwinder | Apr 2015 | #7 | |
| Hekate | Apr 2015 | #15 | |
| RufusTFirefly | Apr 2015 | #17 | |
| jwirr | Apr 2015 | #31 | |
| Downwinder | Apr 2015 | #41 | |
| msanthrope | Apr 2015 | #43 | |
| appalachiablue | Apr 2015 | #46 | |
| ann--- | Apr 2015 | #56 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #58 | |
| ann--- | Apr 2015 | #59 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #60 | |
| ann--- | Apr 2015 | #71 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #72 | |
| ann--- | Apr 2015 | #75 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #77 | |
| nadinbrzezinski | Apr 2015 | #61 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #62 | |
| nadinbrzezinski | Apr 2015 | #64 | |
| stevenleser | Apr 2015 | #65 | |
| nadinbrzezinski | Apr 2015 | #66 | |
| elleng | Apr 2015 | #78 | |
| Vattel | Apr 2015 | #80 |
Response to Egnever (Reply #24)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:22 PM
Human101948 (3,457 posts)
40. Watch Richard Wolff's lecture
Response to Egnever (Reply #24)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 04:35 PM
mercuryblues (13,123 posts)
73. For starters
Response to stevenleser (Reply #1)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:12 PM
37. A friend of mine who grew up in Baltimore
Response to stevenleser (Original post)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 11:23 AM
cilla4progress (22,500 posts)
3. I don't know who we are kidding
Response to cilla4progress (Reply #3)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 02:09 PM
calimary (74,840 posts)
51. Some people DO endorse slavery.
Response to NobodyHere (Reply #8)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:05 PM
10. Not only that.. the tax base runs as fast as possible away from high crime areas.
Response to TampaAnimusVortex (Reply #10)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:52 PM
27. The tax base was shipped away on purpose years ago.
Response to heaven05 (Reply #19)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:15 PM
39. Years ago a book named "When Work Disappears" talked about the disappearance of jobs today.
Response to NobodyHere (Reply #8)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:50 PM
cilla4progress (22,500 posts)
25. These are kids, largely, as I understand it.
Response to NobodyHere (Reply #8)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:27 PM
Human101948 (3,457 posts)
42. A small minority of people in that community are causing damage...
Response to NobodyHere (Reply #5)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 11:59 AM
9. Baltimore lost a $39M case for giving a "rough ride" years ago.
Response to jeff47 (Reply #9)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:00 PM
appalachiablue (38,301 posts)
32. A caller on Thom Hartmann's program just now mentioned how Balto. cases like that were
Response to libdem4life (Reply #16)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:44 PM
23. He/she is saying ...
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Just because he/she breaks your wing, that's no excuse for not flying.
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Response to 1StrongBlackMan (Reply #23)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:06 PM
35. Oh, I get it. Silly me. Kind of like yelling and man/woman-handling Freddie Gray for not walking
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properly (with injured legs) and for not being respectful by calmly depositing himself in the Paddy Wagon getting ready for his "rough ride". Then, to make it even worse, he did not say thank you to the fine officers, instead yelling oh so very loud and disrespectfully.
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Response to NobodyHere (Reply #14)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:58 PM
30. An animal caught in a snap trap will chew off it's own foot.
Response to ann--- (Reply #76)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 05:28 PM
81. We are, in fact, animals; mammals, highest order of great apes. Descendants of African plains apes
Response to libdem4life (Reply #11)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:44 PM
appalachiablue (38,301 posts)
45. +1 So true. A 'record', the ubiquitous 'credit report', practically anything can be officially
Response to libdem4life (Reply #47)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 02:13 PM
appalachiablue (38,301 posts)
52. Glad to hear that about NY state. I also know many who are now one paycheck, accident or
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illness away from financial and personal disaster, with few to no family and friends to help out since they're in similar circumstances. Brutal reality with no change in sight I fear-
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Response to libdem4life (Reply #67)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 04:12 PM
appalachiablue (38,301 posts)
69. Yep one down & 49 to go, not impossible esp. if a wave as you say. I'm not worried about losses
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for these financial tools, they've made more than enough and have hurt many. I know one of unholy trinity has located to Bolivia or somewhere according to Mike Papantonio, and you can never reach them or receive a reply. So you have to pay a lawyer now to correct errors? Another racket, wow.
(Forgot late husband worked briefly for Equifax ages go, mainly collections I think. No one had heard of them back then before finance became so powerful, 'Gods'). |
Response to NobodyHere (Reply #5)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:57 PM
48. is this something that happens there on a daily basis..
Response to stevenleser (Original post)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 11:58 AM
7. Did they know 40 years ago that the sea was going
Response to stevenleser (Original post)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:20 PM
Hekate (82,777 posts)
15. Thanks for bringing this, Steve. nt
Response to stevenleser (Original post)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 12:59 PM
31. I honestly think that is why the police stood back and let it happen. If the damage from 1968
Response to stevenleser (Original post)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 01:49 PM
appalachiablue (38,301 posts)
46. Great OP, thanks. We have wonderful memories of times in Balto., great city. So tragic, wrong.
Response to stevenleser (Original post)
Tue Apr 28, 2015, 04:46 PM
elleng (122,786 posts)
78. Same situation here,
