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Having influential parents IS considered meritorious...

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There were a few reports last night (possibly rumours - it can be hard to tell) that the cops were in fact doing this... and in areas quite a distance from downtown.Gee, you'd think they liked hauling out all that heavy riot gear, wouldn't you?

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And/or ever likely to appear anywhere things are actually happening.

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You may have known my to-be-fiance'. She's a Lumberyard girl, shopped at that same mall, and has rather vivid memories of the riots - and can't believe it's happening AGAIN.

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Much of it was reported by the local news as well - especially about so much of the looting being done by people completely unconnected to the march.

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They did. And Fox didn't.

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If it's ignorance it's deliberately cultivated. The less you know, the easier it is to divide people into 'us' and 'them' and condemn 'them' for whatever you fancy.

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Another question: exactly how high was Erickson when he wrote that? Seriously, what in the ever loving fuck is he even talking about? It's an answer to an essay question a 12 year old wrote after not doing the assigned reading.

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One wonders if the ubiquitous cameras covering downtown Baltimore might have 'conveniently' been inoperative, the way cop cams always are.

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Fair enough. I think it will take some time before anything like facts emerge from this mess. If ever.

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Irving Kristol was a principled neoconservative. (Totally wrong headed, but sincere.) Bill Kristol is just a toady.

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You know you've got a problem when actual professional thugs are saying, "Whoa, dial it back a notch jack." Also, Baltimore Po-Po are the real "blue gang."

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It's the universal curative!

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"Culture flows downstream...". Say, you know what else flows downstream?

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"Shut the fuck up, Donny!"

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That's one of the most egregious use of code words that our media twatwaffles are fond of.

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