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Baltimore light rail project gets new impetus after Freddie Gray death, riots
Yahoo! News / Reuters ^ | June 17, 2015 | Ian Simpson

Posted on 06/17/2015 9:28:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Moonman62

Indeed, and $2.9 billion can buy a lot of swag.


21 posted on 06/17/2015 10:25:19 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Crushing poverty" my A$$! Those folks eat better than I do with free health care and housing!
22 posted on 06/17/2015 10:28:14 AM PDT by 4yearlurker (No tagline today.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

[ Bringing the ‘hood to your nice suburban cul-de-sac in 20 minutes or less. ]

The Schedule of Sir Hoodie

11:00am - Wake up in pile of crack and used syringes

12:00pm - Sell What crack remains from night before.

5:00pm - buy a cheese burger with it and coke, drink not the drug.

8:00pm - Take the light rail to the nearest suburban area and break into whitey’s house and take bake their stuff ie. “Manual Wealth Redistribution”

11:00pm - Take the light rail back to urban setting and locate 24 hour pawn shop to fence the “goods” for cold hard cash.

12:00am - Find crack distributor and buy as many raw rocks as possible.

1:00am - Cut the crack rocks with other white substances.

2:00am - sell the crack rocks and take cash and buy coke (the drug)

3:00am - Get High as a kite.

4:00am - “secks with the biotches”

??;??am - Fall asleep after along day of dealin’ and pimpin’


23 posted on 06/17/2015 10:29:34 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, open new hunting grounds to the thugs and thugettes...


24 posted on 06/17/2015 10:43:25 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because light rail worked so well to revitalize Detroit...


25 posted on 06/17/2015 10:58:24 AM PDT by lurk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

the world is insane


26 posted on 06/17/2015 11:03:15 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

we need to steal $3 billion from the masses for a pointless project... to..um.. combat poverty... yea thats the ticket


27 posted on 06/17/2015 11:04:07 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Light rail. A boondoggle that costs six times its initial estimate and has a ridership that is 50 percent of the projected estimate.
28 posted on 06/17/2015 11:21:00 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You have got to be kidding me. I live in Annapolis near Baltimore. Spend the $2.9M on building a prison, up prison terms, increase police officers pay instead. These thugs don’t care about working. UNTIL the black community and liberal democrats are willing to look themselves in the mirror and ADMIT they are part of the problem, NOTHING is going to change. What is the out of wedlock rate now for blacks, somewhere near 70%. Some how that is rich white conservative Republicans fault.

And O”Malley the former mayor is running for President? I can tell you first hand how he and the libs have run MD in to the ground. If our business wasn’t based here, we would have moved a while ago. We definately plan on leaving once we retire.


29 posted on 06/17/2015 11:27:19 AM PDT by Integrityingovt (Obama watching developments)
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To: GraceG

Excellent timeline.

I must point out though that the adulterants are added to the coke BEFORE it is made into rock.

Other than that, perfect.


30 posted on 06/17/2015 11:33:08 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (B.L.O.A.T. : Buy Lots Of Ammo Today)
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To: Moonman62

Big construction projects offer numerous opportunities for graft that politicians and their cronies can get away with.
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Remember ‘way back when’ and BO and OW went to ‘bring the Olympics back to my home town ‘Chicago’?

Of course they ‘failed’ but I am really surprised neither of them have been knee capped or worse when you figure all the political hoodlums buying up all that cheap land to resell to the city and Olympic committee for a humungous, obscene profit.

Then by the time the ‘inner circle’ was running things the main profiteer for the Olympics would have been the POLS...

Had 10 years or so of the locals/feds trying to put Tony Soprano ‘out of business’.

At least one can wonder why BO’s ‘handlers’ didn’t out him but I would guess that he is ‘worth something’ to them just by stinking up the White House


31 posted on 06/17/2015 11:47:54 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)"Remember, Age and Maturity are not automatically in synch")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I were there I would support the rail project. Riding a train I don’t need to worry about losing my car in a pot hole.

On a trip to Baltimore I avoided a pothole on a bridge through which I could literally see the ground below


32 posted on 06/17/2015 11:51:09 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They brought the light rail to Hunt Valley when I lived there and it could have easily been named the crime rail. It’s another financial hole into which taxpayer money gets poured, that only one group of people use. This is how Baltimore City exports it’s crime problem to the privileged suburbs....that and section 8 housing.


33 posted on 06/17/2015 12:05:04 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

They just don’t get it, do they?

Those neighborhoods need a moral and cultural change, not a chance for their younger residents to wreak havoc on trains, with more money being futilely thrown at them with this project. The neighborhoods are isolated, because nobody sane wants to go there.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


34 posted on 06/17/2015 12:53:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Integrityingovt
What is the out of wedlock rate now for blacks, somewhere near 70%. Some how that is rich white conservative Republicans fault.

The out-of-welock birth rate for poor whites is also around 70 percent. Soon, we shall have diversity in criminals as well as in the general population.

35 posted on 06/17/2015 12:55:39 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
the crushing poverty that fueled rioting

Bullcrap.

The feral urbanites rioted because they are violently immoral criminals brought up wrong and trained to do worse by black racist socialists in their local Government Educational Complex.

36 posted on 06/17/2015 12:58:11 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; the OlLine Rebel; markomalley; hal ogen

But they won’t spend the purple line and red line money on widening I-270 instead, because #sprawl.


37 posted on 06/17/2015 12:59:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: xrmusn; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; BillyBoy
Remember ‘way back when’ and BO and OW went to ‘bring the Olympics back to my home town ‘Chicago’?

Of course they ‘failed’ but I am really surprised neither of them have been knee capped or worse when you figure all the political hoodlums buying up all that cheap land to resell to the city and Olympic committee for a humungous, obscene profit.

I'm sure Mike Madigan was deeply saddened.

38 posted on 06/17/2015 1:01:38 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
yep. This will be a major act of aggression against civilized order. People in the leafy suburbs are just yearning to see a pack of surly jackwagons with their pants hanging down sauntering down the middle of their streets.
39 posted on 06/17/2015 3:50:08 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If this new rail line has special applications that somehow make freeloaders want to get up and go to work and don’t see how this solves anything.


40 posted on 06/17/2015 4:20:02 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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