SUPPORT SARAH KREAGER AND TAKE BACK THE MTA!!

It's high time that Baltimore City government heard from white folks that we're sick of the lousy job they do. Black middle schoolers are allowed to rampage through the MTA system and terrorize white people and not a squeak from them about a hate crime. Yet, if the situation were reversed, Sharpton and Jackson (Jesse and Michael both, God help us) would descend on our filthy crime-ridden town.

Tell them enough is enough!!

I'm still trying to organize this, something which I've never done, so bear with me:

UPDATE: 2007Dec29
The hearing was moved up to today, Dec 29, 2007, with no advance public notice of which I am aware. I'd have attended had I known. The Baltimore Sun reports that the Baltimore's Attorney's office is refusing to file hate crime charges, instead asking for a trial delay. The trial date is now January 31, 2008. In January 4, 2008, there will be a hearing on the disposition of home detention of the children who put Kreager in the hospital. I plan to be at both the hearing and the trial. I hope as many other protesters as possible will as well.

Something has to give in this city, and this looks like an excellent place to start.

Let's show up, pack the courtroom, and fill up Calvert street to ensure that people of all ethnicities are allowed to safely use public transportation!

Stay tuned!

California, Ohio Find Big Probs with E-Voting Machines

Techdirt: Ohio Finds All E-Voting Machines In The State Had Serious Flaws:
"Earlier this year, California found all sorts of problems with e-voting machines used in the state. Now, Ohio, home to some of the more controversial stories surrounding presidential elections, has also found serious flaws in every e-voting machine used in the state. It's the usual stuff that has been pointed out for years: it was easy to pick locks on the machines, introduce fake votes, and load up dangerous unauthorized software onto the machines. Not much new there -- just another confirmation. What's much more interesting is the reaction of the firms involved."

Taxes - Already it begins

Repeal sought for computer tax -- baltimoresun.com

Unlike most other parts of the tax package, the computer services tax got little public vetting. Support for the proposal only coalesced in the final hours of the legislative session, effectively giving the industry no chance to object.

"I feel like I got into a ring and got smacked around without any warning, without any chance of a hearing, any chance of a discussion -- just boom, here it is," said Larry Letow, who owns Convergence Technology Consulting, a 30-person systems integration company in Glen Burnie.

The result of the rush to enact the tax will be a levy that is impossible to enforce, opponents say. John Nyland, IBM's senior executive in Maryland, said much will depend on whether the tax will apply to Maryland consumers buying services from companies in neighboring states or vice versa.

"If Maryland consumers have to pay the tax to in-state companies but not when they hire out-of-state companies to do that work, it puts the Maryland tech companies at a disadvantage," Nyland said.

Julie Coons, chief executive officer of the Tech Council of Maryland, said Connecticut's computer services tax has been fraught with disputes over its enforcement. She said two other states, Pennsylvania and Florida, approved similar taxes but quickly repealed them in the face of administrative difficulties.

Quote Details: Oscar Levant:

Quote Details: Oscar Levant:
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)"

PC World - Business Center: Are the Government's PCs Antiques?

PC World - Business Center: Are the Government's PCs Antiques?:

"Young IT workers in the U.S. government believe technology is obsolete by the time it is rolled out and are concerned that they can't get the experience they need because some functions are outsourced, according to a focus-group report released Monday.

A group of technology interns at the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) also said cost-cutting in the U.S. government limits their ability to innovate, and they raised concerns that the more veteran IT workforce isn't oriented toward information sharing, according to the report, released by Telework Exchange, an Alexandria, Virginia, group that promotes telecommuting among government workers.

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