Ding Dong, the Baltimore Curfew is Dead

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake rescinds her order.

About damn time:

Don't be surprised if this is directly related to the civil disobedience last night—and to the very much related impression that the police were enforcing the curfew more strictly in black neighborhoods than in white ones. Bad optics, as they say.

At any rate: If you live in Baltimore, you can celebrate with a cold one in a bar at 10:01 tonight. Tomorrow, just for fun, some enterprising economist should start to tally and compare the economic impact of the curfew and the economic impact of the original riot.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

You are now more or less kind of free to move about the city.

[GILMORE]

"Thank you for your patience"

Jesus, political PR people really have no skills at all. because nothing says "just Governance" like Mayor-Put-You-On-Hold

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[JWW]

I would guess that for the business's burned down, the difference will be that of a few nights revenue lost versus all revenue until they rebuild plus rebuilding costs.

[Suthenboy]

"...until they rebuild..."

Uh huh. I wouldnt hold my breath on that.

[Aloysious]

(hopefully) Get insurance money. Relocate.

[See Double You]

OT: Please tell me the New York Post is trolling...

A miserable Mother's Day made me cheat on my husband

[Heroic Mulatto]

Derek is only 48, but he might as well be in his 70s ? he's always tired and unmotivated. We have sex about once a week, though it's hardly passionate. I never orgasm and just go through the motions.

So, no "a miserable Mother's Day" didn't "make" you cheat on your spouse. Though, it seems to be pretty handy to you as a rationalization!

[See Double You]

What's funny is that she never did orgasm, even with her new beau.

And apparently it all boiled over when her husband got her a card, but not flowers or jewelry.

Modern-day feminism, I guess.

[Hyperion]

Well, we know that it can't possibly be that the wife is an insufferable beeotch and lazy fat slob, like so many American women. So we can rule that out right off the bat. Has to be the husband.

[Heroic Mulatto]

If there is one thing I've learned from the experience, it's that mothers need to pamper themselves and have fun elsewhere if they don't feel appreciated at home.

Obviously, this woman is a paragon of maturity.

[Hyperion]

Like so many going on 60 physically, but going on 14 in maturity.

It's all the fault of the patriarchy.

[GILMORE]

Middle-age Femininity is about finding excuses to do selfish shit and then congratulate yourself about it

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

"After that, Tom and I met for sex about once a month for six months, but then he started to flake out on me, canceling our meetings and making excuses. "

Hmmm. I wonder why?

[Akira]

He cheats? His fault.

She cheats? His fault.

This is how shit works.

[Florida Man]

I think to myself sometimes if my wife found love with another man I would let her go without too much drama, but banging random strangers behind my back and then still sleeping with me is a choking offense.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Yeah, but what is the likelihood of that really happening to you? Most of these guys are oblivious shitheads.

For me:
A) There's a zero percent chance of that happening
B) In the unlikely event that it did happen, I would see it coming from a mile away (and it would probably be my fault)

[Florida Man]

True.

[JW]

and it would probably be my fault

Uh, the wife has no agency?

I get what you're saying, but sleeping around is a choice.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I think what he's saying that it would be his fault that his wife would think it would be possible to have an affair behind his back, as opposed to just asking for a divorce if she were unhappy.

[JW]

That's what he gets for being such a Beta.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Yes. Jewish law. It's my job to keep my wife satisfied.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

(which I haven't been doing because I'm here arguing with Bo all the time)

[Old Man With Candy]

I've been taking the day shift. BTW, check under your bed, I think I left a sock.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

I don't see any candy wrappers, but there is a windowless van parked down the street on weekends.

[Old Man With Candy]

It's convenient. Me, I close my eyes and pretend she's 8.

[Bill Dalasio]

Well, I'm sure the story would have the exact same tone if it were about a man who started cheating on his wife becuase he felt unappreciated. It's not like the feminists have double standards or anything, right?

Right?

Why are you guys laughing? What did I say?

[mr lizard]

Even my species would laugh at that one

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Hmmm. Father's day is next month.

[Suthenboy]

I still don't know the difference between a state of emergency and martial law. Can someone explain?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Nagin sending the cops to your door to get your weapons?

[Suthenboy]

Fortunately I was outside the area affected by Katrina. Otherwise neither I, Eddie Compass, or Ray Nagin would be breathing today.

[See Double You]

You see, democratically-elected politicians declare states of emergency, so it's really just we who are making the decision. Martial law, on the other hand, is implemented by tyrants.

Hope that clears it up!

[Rich]

So, in states of emergency, we're all in it together, but under martial law, it's us versus them?

[See Double You]

Pretty much. Now get back inside, peasant!

[Hyperion]

I didn't drive through the city like I normally do yesterday, to get to the airport, I had to take the beltway because of the protests downtown. So this finally had an effect on me. Besides that, I wouldn't even know there were riots if not for the news and the fact that a couple of places where I venture to near the harbor, were closed on Tuesday.

Baltimore has to be one of the most segregated cities in the country. A neighborhood is typically 100% black or it's 90+% white with Asians making up most of the remaining 10%. There are few exceptions to that.

[thom]

What you say about the neighborhoods is true, but during the day there's a lot of interaction between black and white people throughout the city. I lived in an all white neighborhood in Baltimore for ten years, but felt like I interacted with non-white people far more than I ever have in cities with less segregated neighborhoods. Baltimore can be a really weird place. Baltimore is kind of difficult to explain to people who haven't spent much time there.

[Rich]

some enterprising economist should start to tally and compare the economic impact of the curfew and the economic impact of the original riot.

In figuring the impact of the riot, don't forget to include the JOBS due to cleaning up and rebuilding!

[Heroic Mulatto]

The United States is in a perpetual state of national emergency.

Thirty separate emergencies, in fact.

An emergency declared by President Jimmy Carter on the 10th day of the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 remains in effect almost 35 years later. ... attorney Patrick Thronson identified 160 laws giving the president emergency powers, including the authority to:

? Reshape the military, putting members of the armed forces under foreign command, conscripting veterans, overturning sentences issued by courts-martial and taking over weather satellites for military use.

? Suspend environmental laws, including a law forbidding the dumping of toxic and infectious medical waste at sea.

? Bypass federal contracting laws, allowing the government to buy and sell property without competitive bidding.

? Allow unlimited secret patents for Army, Navy and Air Force scientists.

All these provisions come from laws passed by Congress, giving the president the power to invoke them with the stroke of a pen. "A lot of laws are passed like that. So if a president is hunting around for additional authority, declaring an emergency is pretty easy," Scheppele said.

Ol' C. Iulius Caesar figured this out 2100 years ago.

[Homple]

Why bother pretending anymore? Just just pass a general Erm?chtigungsgesetz and get it over with.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Let the people have their...traditions.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Police rescued a 101-year-old man from under the rubble of his home on Saturday, one week after an earthquake hit his country, Nepal Police spokesman Kamal Singh Bam told CNN.

The elderly man is in stable condition and police do not know how he survived or the extent of his injuries. He was rescued in Nuwakot district, just northwest of the capital, Kathmandu.

H.A.M.!

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

We had a 3.9 here at 4AM this morning. Don't worry, I'm OK, but a little shaken up.

[Heroic Mulatto]

I've only felt 2 earthquakes. The last one was 3 years ago. Supposedly, it was a 4.0 all the way in Maine, but it felt like my chair bounced up at least an inch. I'm sure it didn't, but it certainly felt that way.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

You used to be a geology buff, right?

You guys are on shallow bedrock there. The seismic waves go on forever.

We have something like a mile of sediment under my house. The only reason I felt this one is because it was +/- 8 miles away. I have a steel moment frame on the 1st floor of the house, and that's always a bit loud, no matter how small the quake is.

[Heroic Mulatto]

You have a good memory.

I'm not sure how far down the granite batholiths are, but yeah, the first quake I felt was that big Montreal one.

[Bill Dalasio]

the police were enforcing the curfew more strictly in black neighborhoods than in white ones.

I'm not going to justify the curfew, but was the rioting quite as prevalent in the white neighborhoods?

[d3x / dt3]

"Let's go live to the scene of riots in the white section of town. Melissa, what are you seeing there?"

"Kent, it has gotten much uglier here. I overhead three patrons at Starbucks discussing this in hushed tones. Traffic is backed up for several blocks due to the --- oh, wait, that is just because of a malfunctioning traffic light."

[Quincy, 12D]

"Tempers flare as area man is told that the store out is out of almond milk. He is later seen exiting the building, muttering something about 'posting an epic takedown on Tumblr'."

[JW]

Why couldn't $130 million transform one of Baltimore's poorest places?

You'd hope it was a rhetorical question, but nope, it's a real head scratcher.

[See Double You]

To those-who-shall-not-be-named, money is magic.

It looks something like this:

1. Steal another's cash;

2. Inject into an area;

3. ????; and

4. PROFIT!!!

[Warty]

7) Ensure widespread and easy access to birth control and reproductive services
8) Increase marginal tax rates on the highest incomes and close loopholes that primarily benefit highest earners. See, Eisenhower, Marginal Tax Rates, for Conservative Tax Policy
9) Decrease marginal rates on lowest income earners to increase aggregate demand for local economies. See, Post WWII, Great Compression Era.
10) Either replace with Gross Receipts Tax, or radically reform Corporate Tax so that large entities that rely on directly rely on Federal infrastructure for their success, such as Walmart and Exxon, pay for the benefit, and small businesses do not.

There. That wasn't so hard. I didn't have to engage in bigotry in order to put credible solutions on the table.

Fascism is fashionable again. On the other hand, fascism with legal drugs sounds like a great improvement..

[Warty]

GODDAMMIT

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

That horse and cart cost $130 million????

[Warty]

"It's frustrating," said Stefanie DeLuca, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist who has studied the neighborhood. "How much money would it take? It certainly seems on an instinctual level that $100 million should have made some difference."

I'll work harder next time. Comrade Napoleon is always right.

[GILMORE]

The solution is obvious = hire more Johns Hopkins Sociologists until they come up with the right number

[Warty]

MaryXMiss
1:20 PM EDT
Sound Industrial Policy is something once embraced by conservatives, but abandoned under Reagan.

1) End Trade Deals that do not include adequate labor and environmental regulation protections.
2) Identify infrastructure that requires repair or upgrade to enhance our international competitiveness, and devote Federal monies to making the improvements. See, Eisenhower, Interstate Highways for Conservative Industrial Policy.
3) Give companies willing to set up manufacturing facilities in inner cities and employ organized labor preference for contracts.
4) Raise minimum wage so that the working poor are not dependent upon government assistance to get out of poverty.
5) Fund schools with State wide property taxes, not local.
6) Legalize or decriminalize drugs as appropriate.

[Warty]

7) Ensure widespread and easy access to birth control and reproductive services
8) Increase marginal tax rates on the highest incomes and close loopholes that primarily benefit highest earners. See, Eisenhower, Marginal Tax Rates, for Conservative Tax Policy
9) Decrease marginal rates on lowest income earners to increase aggregate demand for local economies. See, Post WWII, Great Compression Era.
10) Either replace with Gross Receipts Tax, or radically reform Corporate Tax so that large entities that rely on directly rely on Federal infrastructure for their success, such as Walmart and Exxon, pay for the benefit, and small businesses do not.

There. That wasn't so hard. I didn't have to engage in bigotry in order to put credible solutions on the table.

Fascism is fashionable again. On the other hand, fascism with legal drugs sounds like a great improvement..

[Heroic Mulatto]

Mary X. Miss would be a great porn name.

[JW]

With brain trusts like this, it's hard to believe that we keep getting the same scumbags elected over and over, to keep doing the same things, over and over.

Good intentions and "because I said so" aren't really legitimate philosophies.

[Pl?ya Manhattan.]

Federal infrastructure? I hade no idea that Exxon was using government crude carriers.

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