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Oh, now I see. It's high up in featured pages, so I assumed it was new.
I will post my comment here:
When my grandmother was at the end, the doctor told her that she could go into the ICU, and live a month, or go into a hospice, and live two weeks, or go home and live a week.
She actually came to my parents' home, where the family could gather around for her last days. I will always be grateful for her brave choice.
Oh, now I see. It's high up in featured pages, so I assumed it was new.
I will post my comment here:
When my grandmother was at the end, the doctor told her that she could go into the ICU, and live a month, or go into a hospice, and live two weeks, or go home and live a week.
She actually came to my parents' home, where the family could gather around for her last days. I will always be grateful for her brave choice.
That's awesome she could be with you all. I don't think people realize that dying is a process. It's not like in the movies. You're sick, you feel bad, you speak a last word and that's it. It can go on for awhile and everyone knows what the end result with be, you just don't know when.
I've always said, it's the greatest blessing you can give, to be at the bedside. It's also the greatest curse - living with the pain of missing a beloved one.
Yeah there's no war on women because Republican controlled legislatures aren't supporting harassing women who get legal procedures done or making those who use birth control out to be common whores and standing idly by those who actually call them. I can't wait for American women to show the Republicans that they went a bridge too far and reward their assholery with a second term of Obama.
Oh and don't leave out the war on public education by the GOP. Its not a big secret that most public school teachers are women. The GOP would rather see kids sit in front of computer screens at online schools or stay home and be home schooled.
Oh and don't leave out the war on public education by the GOP. Its not a big secret that most public school teachers are women. The GOP would rather see kids sit in front of computer screens at online schools or stay home and be home schooled.
Of course, thanks, this is a good point too. Really if I were a woman, I'd probably dislike the Republican Party more than I already do. They only seem to care about serving the needs of the very wealthy and those who share their views on religion. Instead of becoming more inclusive, they have become more exclusive.
I wish my mom had done that. She severely declined in the hospital after a broken leg of all things and I honored a promise to let her go by having the machines turned off. I held her hand until the monitors all showed she was gone. Long ago now but it feels like last week.
I wish my mom had done that. She severely declined in the hospital after a broken leg of all things and I honored a promise to let her go by having the machines turned off. I held her hand until the monitors all showed she was gone. Long ago now but it feels like last week.
I'm glad that you could be there. My mother was holding Grandma's hand when she left us.
I'm feeling the generational chain right now because my mother is current in the kitchen with her expensive embroidery machine embroidering the bodice of The Princess's prom dress. (This is one serious dress.) My mother made my dress, Grandma made Mom's dresses.
I'm Staying Out Of Her Way, because she needs to concentrate, not chat with me.
So what you do, you knit or crochet a vagina and send it to your representatives with a note saying something to the effect "If we knit you a uterus, will you stay out of ours?" And ask them to support Roe v Wade, a woman's right to an abortion, birth control and family planning options.
I asked them if I could cross stitch one! LOL I have to devise a pattern, but it shouldn't be hard. Anyhoo, they said yes, but asked if I could send them a note on what I made and who I sent it to. They want to keep track.
Interesting that this is the same day the stalkers got booted. I wonder what initiative Twitter is starting.
I think something else is going on. Twitter is cracking down on spammers. If you exhibit spam-bot like behavior with your account it might get suspended. This has been happening with the joke Twitter accounts. Read more here.
I don't know. Some are Tweeting that it's a hoax. I wonder if a few accounts were deleted for other reasons and they perceive it as some purge.
Well, the LGF Stalkers who were banned, as far as I know, have had complaints about them since their twitter accounts appeared and at least one of them was almost a verbatim name of Gus. And not all the LGF Stalkers have been banned, much to my personal chagrin.
Interesting that this is the same day the stalkers got booted. I wonder what initiative Twitter is starting.
Looks like a partisan pissing contest coming to fruition. When the squeaky wheel gets the grease everybody starts to squeak. Companies are only too happy to cater to the most noisy and easily offended members of society. I'd say more but I'm on hold complaining about radio shows I don't like or listen to.
Well, the LGF Stalkers who were banned, as far as I know, have had complaints about them since there twitter accounts appeared and at least one of them was almost a verbatim name of Gus. And not all the LGF Stalkers have been banned, much to my personal chagrin.
No, some are still on Twitter, but those are mostly their real accounts and they do far less stalking actually on Twitter, saving it for their hate blog instead.
Looks like a partisan pissing contest coming to fruition. When the squeaky wheel gets the grease everybody starts to squeak. Companies are only too happy to cater to the most noisy and easily offended members of society. I'd say more but I'm on hold complaining about radio shows I don't like or listen to.
Well I occasionally tweet, but not that much. I look at the two mass suspensions of the Stalkers and the Atheists, and one pattern is that they were both communities of like minded people that tweeted mostly to each other and exclusively on that one subject. Twitter might be just saying to them both.. Get a room.
Quite the frog party again tonight. Last night's party lasted almost until noon. There must be 5-6 of them now competing for the same small breeding area. The males competing for space engage in these really odd growling contests.
One challenge in battling spam is bad actors who build tools designed to distribute spam on Twitter (and the web) by making it easier for other spammers to engage in this annoying and potentially malicious activity.
This morning, we filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers. With this suit, we’re going straight to the source. By shutting down tool providers, we will prevent other spammers from having these services at their disposal. Further, we hope the suit acts as a deterrent to other spammers, demonstrating the strength of our commitment to keep them off Twitter.
I love to tweet the Sunday morning new shows with a group of folks and we have an awesome time. However, every week, without fail, I'll catch at least 3 followers, sometimes 5 or more, that are just porn. They're all women's names, like Andrea49287. They have a regular picture, usually of a pretty girl smiling, and some "words of wisdom" tweets, if any. Usually (not always) not nasty or nothing too nasty, but the URLs are always really super nasty.
Anyhoo, the sites are the same basically, in feel and style, name style, avatar style, no backgrounds (just the blue sky) and obvious they're generated from something.
Read the link I posted in #35. If you exhibit bot-like behavior you might get suspended. It's not topic specific. Twitter wouldn't be suspending atheists and all I've seen mentioned was 5 atheist accounts and they've managed to turn it into a conspiracy. Previously a stalker account was suspended but it came back. This might explain the suspensions we were seeing earlier.
Read the link I posted in #35. If you exhibit bot-like behavior you might get suspended. It's not topic specific. Twitter wouldn't be suspending atheists and all I've seen mentioned was 5 atheist accounts and they've managed to turn it into a conspiracy. Previously a stalker account was suspended but it came back. This might explain the suspensions we were seeing earlier.
What is Spam?
Here are some common tactics that spam accounts often use:
- Posting harmful links (including links to phishing or malware sites)
- Aggressive following behavior (mass following and mass un-following for attention)
- Abusing the @reply or @mention function to post unwanted messages to users
- Creating multiple accounts (either manually or using automated tools)
- Spamming trending topics to try to grab attention
- Repeatedly posting duplicate updates
- Posting links with unrelated tweets
2nd sale of the month for me today, and at 20% commission rate no less. Though its shaping up to be a good month for me, I need to see if I can help others out, since the group is having a slow start. But I've got some ideas i intend to bring to bear, and hopefully I can make a positive difference.
What is Spam?
Here are some common tactics that spam accounts often use:
- Posting harmful links (including links to phishing or malware sites)
- Aggressive following behavior (mass following and mass un-following for attention)
- Abusing the @reply or @mention function to post unwanted messages to users
- Creating multiple accounts (either manually or using automated tools)
- Spamming trending topics to try to grab attention
- Repeatedly posting duplicate updates
- Posting links with unrelated tweets
Right. And they've gone automated now using a new algorithm. Probably some bugs to iron out. Obviously they've been suspending joke-accounts.
There is no monster under your car's hood. It's just your spark plug wires that need to be replaced. Seriously. I'm surprised that atheists would fall for this. Twitter would never close an account for your beliefs.
My engine won't even turn over! I know exactly what happened. My neighbor stole my engine!... Woops. Distributor cap must have jiggled off. False alarm!
There is no monster under your car's hood. It's just your spark plug wires that need to be replaced. Seriously. I'm surprised that atheists would fall for this. Twitter would never close an account for your beliefs.
Why not? They're silly enough to believe in a flying monster made of spaghetti, after all.
OK, gotta share, because this just made me sad and schmaltzy.
This afternoon, I was tutoring a boy about twelve, who comes to us for writing skills. Black kid, wearing a gray hoodie with the hood up (the kids do not like to come out of them for any reason, and while I make them when I'm in the classroom, because school rules, I let them do whatever is best for their concentration at the tutoring sessions.)
During the 'transition time', which is when we all check in and play word games or hear announcements, the leader looks over my shoulder at him and says, "Bob (not his real name), if you didn't bring enough for everyone, put those away!"
And I glance over to see him grin and put his Skittles back in his backpack.
There is no monster under your car's hood. It's just your spark plug wires that need to be replaced. Seriously. I'm surprised that atheists would fall for this. Twitter would never close an account for your beliefs.
On the Internet, everyone is a panicky bully, and a male to boot. ;)
There is no monster under your car's hood. It's just your spark plug wires that need to be replaced. Seriously. I'm surprised that atheists would fall for this. Twitter would never close an account for your beliefs.
They seem to be casting a pretty wide net and if you get caught for no good reason, you can just appeal and they'll put your account back.
On the Internet, everyone is a panicky bully, and a male to boot. ;)
The atheists are pretty young on average. They tend to fault these kinds of things on authority rather than some stupid mistake like a spam-bot algorithm. I Tweet a lot but most of my Tweets are just links. Rarely do I spend a lot of time sending too many Tweets to others. I anyone emailed a complaint about an atheist to Twitter they'd turn around and tell you "we won't do anything so if you don't like it just block them" more or less.
This is being typed on my 9 year old PowerBook, given that my iMac's system disk crashed this afternoon. Just wouldn't come back on (indeed the system profiler can't even find it.) Lasted about 3.5 years of daily use, which is about average for hard drives in my experience.
Sad thing is last night after backing up my tax docs to a memory stick I thought of running Time Machine (which I normally keep off and only do aperiodic backups)... alas, now I've lost data.
Computers - after using them since the 1970s I think the time has come for us to move beyond them. They break down more often than we do.
Thought some folks here might like this interview:
A Conversation With Trayvon Martin’s Mother
My dear friend Kathryn Milofsky arranged for me to speak with Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, and her attorney Benjamin Crump, today just before Passover. We had invited Trayvon’s parents to our Passover seder, but as that could not be worked out I was grateful to speak to Ms. Fulton and offer her whatever words of comfort and healing I could muster
I asked her if she felt any anger to George Zimmerman:
I have no time for anger. I don’t want to grant it a place in my heart. I simply want justice. I don’t hate him and I’m not angry at him. But my son died and we deserve to know what happened. It’s not for the police to determine justice. It’s for the courts. And we’ll stand by what the court says. But that’s what I’m focused on. We want an arrest. But it’s not out of anger or hatred. I have too much to do to be sidetracked with any of that. But when your son dies and there isn’t even an arrest, it makes it so much harder.
I have two email accounts and email important stuff from one to the other just so I will always have a backup wherever and whenever I need it. I figure the Gmail server is more reliable than any piece of hardware I might own.
If you’re white, you have NO CHANCE of fairness when the Race Pimps get their way.
We NEED a CWII to get back to moral, civil, responsible behavior.
61 posted on Wed 11 Apr 2012 05:49:28 PM CDT by ROTB (FReepmail me if you want to join a team seeking the LORD for a Christian revival now in the USA.)
This morning, we filed suit in federal court in San Francisco against five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers. With this suit, we’re going straight to the source. By shutting down tool providers, we will prevent other spammers from having these services at their disposal. Further, we hope the suit acts as a deterrent to other spammers, demonstrating the strength of our commitment to keep them off Twitter.
That was an awesome story, thanks for sharing that. I have done some volunteer teaching in Detroit elementary schools for about 10 years or so, long story ... I am always humbled how motivated and respectful the kids are. That's why I sign up for the program every year. A quick pick of this years 3rd grade class at John Trix Elementary..
So when I read stupid shit from idiots like John Derbyshire or any typical poster at FoxNews or Brietbart, it really really disgusts me.
Ok, this is getting embarrassing. The frog frenzy is getting insane and they're making sounds I've never heard before. I just went outside and people are congregating around the house now asking is the sounds are real. no complaints so far, just curiosity but that may change.
Those who have ignored my hundreds of posts on this crucial issue or who have doubted me these last three or four years might as well get used to it. FR will never support the abortionist, homosexualist, socialist, mandate loving, constitution trampling liar Mitt Romney.
The Free Republic mech infantry has officially mobilized their hover rounds and now it's on!
Ok, this is getting embarrassing. The frog frenzy is getting insane and they're making sounds I've never heard before. I just went outside and people are congregating around the house now asking is the sounds are real. no complaints so far, just curiosity but that may change.
This is why, in the likely event of Obama winning, I expect "The Troubles" scale violence. Because I think many on the right are violent.
The only way that happens is if Obama wins in some genuinely questionable way (as opposed to OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!11 'QUESTIONABLE'). Many scream on the internet about Obama, but very few would actually being willing to start major trouble.
Ok, this is getting embarrassing. The frog frenzy is getting insane and they're making sounds I've never heard before. I just went outside and people are congregating around the house now asking is the sounds are real. no complaints so far, just curiosity but that may change.
She's not an awesome line cook but does simple French cooking. No fancy sauces, simple turn and burn bistro fare. Worth stealing from torrents since the fucks in the UK won't let us legally watch here in the states. Steal this show!
Personally I love how bitter and disappointed the Freepers are that they're going to be stuck with Mitt. Their mythical "true conservative" doesn't and will never exist because purists like that are never happy. Sure, they have this construct of Ronald Reagan but it's just that a construct and not the reality of who President Reagan was and what he did. I wish them four more years of Obama and if they don't already, liberal representation for their states and districts.
No, the right has been going so steadily insane, and we have already had a number of minor incidents. The talk about guns and violence on the other side have me think that, the other side will start a bloodbath.
I no longer have faith in the other side being civilized. Individual exceptions are made (your one), but I expect the rest to go violent November 7th. I simply have no faith that they know anything else.
The Free Republic mech infantry has officially mobilized their hover rounds and now it's on!
Hover APCs, you say? Gimme a hour before they get here, I've got to reconfigure my Turkina back to its primary configuration. Two LB5-X auto cannon ought to tear their airskirts to shreds, leaving them immobile and unable to do anything but shake their fists impotently.
Ok, this is getting embarrassing. The frog frenzy is getting insane and they're making sounds I've never heard before. I just went outside and people are congregating around the house now asking is the sounds are real. no complaints so far, just curiosity but that may change.
When I lived in the house in the Country in Indiana for a few years..Every morning at 4am there were a trillion birds singing outside my window.. I hated them with all my heart
It's like a scene in a 50s movie where "grandpa" gets all dressed up in his WWI uniform when there a local fuss.
"Where are they!? Let me at 'em."
Grumpy old men.
I'm just laughing. One of the main freeper arguments is that "Romney can't win," which has every potential to become a self fulfilling prophesy. The GOP has been courting, and stoking the anger of these crusty old hateful shits for a long time while ignoring the fact that the very hatred they've inspired has rotted away at the foundational stability of their party. Not only are women running away in droves but they've turned what was a dependable (if deranged) demographic into a worm ridden, structurally unstable crutch threatening to snap under Mitt's weight.
The funny thing will be if Mitt loses, they will convince themselves that the problem was that Mitt wasn't right wing enough because you know Joe Voter would have loved Santorum and his batshit stances on many issues. These guys all think that the key is emulating Reagan. What they don't get and I would compare it to liberals in the 70's is that the country has changed and that culture wars and tax cuts just aren't going to cut it.
And as for you, if we're facing a horde of loonies, you better get to your Black Knight. I got you the one with the pulse lasers and the hatchet, so get get right up on the nuts and show them just how 'frank' you can be.
/While I'm just fooling, the Black Knight I described does exist in Battletech. Called the BLK-9KNT, it is a design that fights best at close quarters with a smash mouth style. I chose it because it fit Goddamnfrank's style of posting (meant as a compliment).
The Free Republic mech infantry has officially mobilized their hover rounds and now it's on!
Naw...It's inevitable that Romney picks some slackjawed religious neo-confederate idiot as his running mate. Once this happens, freep will vote for the ticket, all the while praying Romney dies on his first day in office.
It all began in early 2005, when McNeil and his wife, Anita, hired Brian Epp’s construction company to build a new house in Cobb County, Ga. The McNeils testified that Epp was difficult to work with, which led to heated confrontations. They eventually decided to close on the house early to rid their lives of Epp, whom they found increasingly threatening. At the closing, both parties agreed that Epp would have 10 days to complete the work, after which he would stay away from the property, but he failed to keep up his end of the bargain.
Oh, I have so much anger here. It just proves the South and Southerners in General haven't changed since the early 60's.
I'm just laughing. One of the main freeper arguments is that "Romney can't win," which has every potential to become a self fulfilling prophesy. The GOP has been courting, and stoking the anger of these crusty old hateful shits for a long time while ignoring the fact that the very hatred they've inspired has rotted away at the foundational stability of their party. Not only are women running away in droves but they've turned what was a dependable (if deranged) demographic into a worm ridden, structurally unstable crutch threatening to snap under Mitt's weight.
Poor ol' Mitt. I admit I kind of liked "liberal Mitt". He reminded me of Huntsman. The Rockefeller Republicans. Definitely more liberal then their southern cousins. Yet, it's almost impossible for a Republican to win a national race without appeasing the proverbial and infamous base. So, he morphed into "wingnut Mitt." Yet one moment he's eating grits and the other he's having a arugula salad. He confuses the shit out of the well known internet wingnuts such as the Freepers. They're heartbroken since they wanted to see Jim DeMint get the nomination.
Myself I would have preferred a real Rockefeller Republican even if it was just to listen to since it would be easier to my ears.
And now? He trots out Ann Romney. She just got a Twitter account started. Her first Tweet?
I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.
Naw...It's inevitable that Romney picks some slackjawed religious neo-confederate idiot as his running mate. Once this happens, freep will vote for the ticket, all the while praying Romney dies on his first day in office.
Gonna be like McCain and Palin all over again. Not that I feel bad for Romney. He's chosen to destroy whatever credibility he had by being a political coward and a jerk.
Poor ol' Mitt. I admit I kind of liked "liberal Mitt". He reminded me of Huntsman. The Rockefeller Republicans. Definitely more liberal then their southern cousins. Yet, it's almost impossible for a Republican to win a national race without appeasing the proverbial and infamous base. So, he morphed into "wingnut Mitt." Yet one moment he's eating grits and the other he's having a arugula salad. He confuses the shit out of the well known internet wingnuts such as the Freepers. They're heartbroken since they wanted to see Jim DeMint get the nomination.
Myself I would have preferred a real Rockefeller Republican even if it was just to listen to since it would be easier to my ears.
And now? He trots out Ann Romney. She just got a Twitter account started. Her first Tweet?
Oh for Chrissakes, Ann. Yes, raising five boys is hard work. It's even harder if you're working full time, or poor, or both. I'm glad you had a free choice. Most women in this country don't.
For once, honey, could you try talking about how lucky you've been, rather than how good you are?
Even when I was going through my wingnut lite stage I always thought they were a strange lot. They kind of struck me like what Radar would be like if he gained weight and turned into a wingnut upon retirement.
The only way that happens is if Obama wins in some genuinely questionable way (as opposed to OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!11 'QUESTIONABLE'). Many scream on the internet about Obama, but very few would actually being willing to start major trouble.
I pray you are correct, though in my darker moments I fear for something akin to PGL's fears as well. There are too many out there that fetishize Pinochet and Franco to be blase' about them.
Oh for Chrissakes, Ann. Yes, raising five boys is hard work. It's even harder if you're working full time, or poor, or both. I'm glad you had a free choice. Most women in this country don't.
For once, honey, could you try talking about how lucky you've been, rather than how good you are?
Seriously. Mitt's worth about 200 million. We can call 1/5th of a billion.
Oh for Chrissakes, Ann. Yes, raising five boys is hard work. It's even harder if you're working full time, or poor, or both. I'm glad you had a free choice. Most women in this country don't.
For once, honey, could you try talking about how lucky you've been, rather than how good you are?
My sister has five boys.
She has a blog now about...oh...fart jokes...cleanliness...it's the Wild Wild West over there. Trust me. You don't want to see the bathrooms.
I assume until proven otherwise that the the other side will be violent. Between the fire-bombing last week, the Right-Wing Poison surrounding the Trayvon Martin story, and the even the 7/22 attacks, I simply believe the right-wing, with some holdouts, has degenerated into a barbarian horde.
Hover APCs, you say? Gimme a hour before they get here, I've got to reconfigure my Turkina back to its primary configuration. Two LB5-X auto cannon ought to tear their airskirts to shreds, leaving them immobile and unable to do anything but shake their fists impotently.
/Battletech geekage
Hover? Heck with that. Get a company of TL14 Intrepida Grav Tanks...
Oh, I have so much anger here. It just proves the South and Southerners in General haven't changed since the early 60's.
That article is odd. It gives the McNeils' side of the story, and notes McNeil was convicted of murder, but it neither explains the course of his trial nor the grounds of his appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court nor the reasoning the majority of the states justices used in upholding his conviction. Those seem crucial facts, and I argue one cannot draw a honest conclusion about the case without them.
• He's running for president.
• He makes Ann get a Twitter account.
• She talks about how hard it was to be a stay at home mom.
• For five kids. What were their ages then?
• Mitt, wants to overturn Roe v. Wade.
• I have to take him at his word.
• He also wants to overturn Title X.
• So I think.
• Stay at home mom and married.
• Husband makes 20,000 a year.
• 5 kids.
• Due to the GOP platform they can't get an abortion as needed.
• They also don't qualify for contraception.
• 5 kids; 20 grand a year; and a GOP platform.
I pray you are correct, though in my darker moments I fear for something akin to PGL's fears as well. There are too many out there that fetishize Pinochet and Franco to be blase' about them.
Who, Dorkus and his Stalkers? They're all hat and no cattle. Bunch of Internet Tough Guys.
LOL Right. That's not class warfare. That's reality. If some woman came up to me who I knew was worth 200 million and started telling me about how HARD it is to be a stay at home mom for 5 kids. Well, I'd get a chuckle out of that. I'm sure it's as hard as it could get. But the choices are really easy.
I think from what I've seen of Romney so far, by far his most stupid comment was the firing people joke. I am not dense. I understand bosses have to fire people but to say you like to fire people. That's not the attitude you want from the guy in charge of setting economic policy for the country. Romney's problem isn't that he's wealthy. He could be a mere millionaire and his problem would still be that he thinks that wealth is directly correlated with work ethic. It's a very elitist way of looking at the American worker from a man who is clearly not fit to be president. Hell I wouldn't even want him running a company. He's not a dumb man as far as business is concerned but he only seems to care about what's good for Mitt.
LOL Right. That's not class warfare. That's reality. If some woman came up to me who I knew was worth 200 million and started telling me about how HARD it is to be a stay at home mom for 5 kids. Well, I'd get a chuckle out of that. I'm sure it's as hard as it could get. But the choices are really easy.
Yeah, I know. I know they're trying to "personalize" the Romneys through this but it would just be nice if Mitt and his family were honest about how fortunate they are compared to pun intended the other 99% of us. I don't care that he's wealthy but I have a big problem with his patronizing attitude.
But considering Romney's background, his firing people comment makes perfect sense.
He's a person whose company dismantled other companies, and sold off the parts. He understands nothing about job creation, only job destruction. He practiced vulture capitalism.
This is why Romney wanted to see GM and Chrysler go under. Because all he sees is money, not people.
If America voted had to vote right now on which Romney was best suited to be President, Mitt would get a 1/3, Ann would get 1/3 and Seamus the dog in a cage on the roof would get 1/3.
But considering Romney's background, his firing people comment makes perfect sense.
He's a person whose company dismantled other companies, and sold off the parts. He understands nothing about job creation, only job destruction. He practiced vulture capitalism.
This is why Romney wanted to see GM and Chrysler go under. Because all he sees is money, not people.
Oh I know it makes perfect sense considering Mitt's background but I'm saying that statements like that show what a crappy leader he is. You want someone who prides themselves as a builder of dreams not a destroyer of dreams. Mitt has zero idea what it's like to go home and have to search for work. He's a smug, self-entitled jerk who as you've said only sees money and doesn't see people. As I've said, I've never really been too impressed with his business background either. What he did at Bain wasn't impressive and he shows time and time again that he cares more about platitudes than offering up new ideas. That people actually see this guy as presidential astounds me.
If America voted had to vote right now on which Romney was best suited to be President, Mitt would get a 1/3, Ann would get 1/3 and Seamus the dog in a cage on the roof would get 1/3.
This is not surprising. These people liked Stand Your Ground laws because they thought it meant they could shoo any black person that scared them (all black people) and not go to jail for it. They thought they had a Shoot Blacks and Get Out of Jail Free card. If Zimmerman is convicted this means they don't get to shoot scary blacks (all of them) and may end up om jail with a bunch of really scary blacks if they do. First they lost their right to not have a black president and now they may have lost the right to shoot black people. This is a very sad day for them.
Who, Dorkus and his Stalkers? They're all hat and no cattle. Bunch of Internet Tough Guys.
Take a look at the SPLC's pages on north-east Wisconsin for example. Lot's of freakazoids up there, alas. Some I know of that aren't on their radar as well. We've had a couple of areas up there, township sized, that think they're sovereign nations though no reason to push the issue has come up. When it does there will be casualty lists in the dozens to hundreds.
I wish I could be disturbed about Zimmerman being made into a hero but that woman and gang of thugs who killed that man and his daughter in Arizona were made into heroes too. What we have here is a problem in that many can't see humanity. And it shows everytime I hear an African American compared to an animal or illegal aliens compared to parasites. These are human beings.
“You look at the experience of this administration and the last three and a half years and you can see that something is seriously wrong with his perspective,” said Romney. “Not only have 92 percent of the job losses been among women, but you’ve also seen 800,000 people overall lose jobs, home values decline, the median income of Americans in the last four years has dropped by 10 percent.”
“92 percent of the – of the people who have lost jobs on Barack Obama’s watch have been women,” Steve Doocy asked betraying his level of shock upon returning from the clip.
“Big seems…” said Gretchen Carlson.
“Impossible,” responded fill-in host Eric Bolling. “Impossible,” Carlson agreed.
Remember folks, Romney is the "serious" Republican contender for president. But I wonder what his people were thinking when they gave him that information. I mean I know they know as do I that Mitt's desperate to be president but that's a really bad gaffe.
Remember folks, Romney is the "serious" Republican contender for president. But I wonder what his people were thinking when they gave him that information. I mean I know they know as do I that Mitt's desperate to be president but that's a really bad gaffe.
It's not a gaffe, it's just Willard being Willard. He's a bullshitter, a panderer and a fraud. He'll say anything because he has no core. This is the same man who said the president spent too much time at Harvard when he spent more time at Harvard then the president. The clown car made him look good, but he really is awful.
*snort* It's all so Calvin and Hobbesian, unfortunately minus the cuteness factor.
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Heck with you traitor! We're going to war. There are no atheists in foxholes! Pray for our Lord and God and country for all those who disagree with us are not true PATRIOTS Freedom fries and the Gates of Vienna as we are...
It's not a gaffe, it's just Willard being Willard. He's a bullshitter, a panderer and a fraud. He'll say anything because he has no core. This is the same man who said the president spent too much time at Harvard when he spent more time at Harvard then the president. The clown car made him look good, but he really is awful.
Forgot about the Harvard quip. Fraud, I really like that term for him. I think he'll be either more tolerable or worse if Obama beats him. I've heard about some politicians getting better once they realize they won't be president but Mitt's a speical kind of bullshitter and fraud, he may not take rejection too well.
Forgot about the Harvard quip. Fraud, I really like that term for him. I think he'll be either more tolerable or worse if Obama beats him. I've heard about some politicians getting better once they realize they won't be president but Mitt's a speical kind of bullshitter and fraud, he may not take rejection too well.
I'm sure he'll sulk a bit, but it's the rabid base of this party that I'm worried about. They don't take losing well at all.
I'm sure he'll sulk a bit, but it's the rabid base of this party that I'm worried about. They don't take losing well at all.
They're going to be convinced it's fraud whether Obama wins by one state or twenty. I'm sure ACORN, the Black Panthers, etc will be cited along with other crazy bs.
I took a look at what the Georgia State Supreme Court's majority wrote in upholding McNeil's conviction. Here's their reasoning, which does appear quite sound:
1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence reveals that, in September 2005, McNeil contracted to buy an unfinished home from Epp Elevations, a small building company owned by Epp and his wife. On December 6, 2005, Epp went to McNeil's house to complete required work. McNeil's son, La'Ron, was home and called McNeil to report that someone was in the backyard. Believing that Epp was a trespasser, La'Ron confronted Epp and asked him to leave, and an argument ensued during which Epp pointed a knife at La'Ron. La'Ron called McNeil to report this incident to him.
In response, McNeil headed home in his car. On the way back he reported to an emergency 911 operator that a man was on his property and had pulled a knife on his son. Moments later, McNeil told the operator, “I'm at the property now ․ and there's the builder and I may get ready to whip his ass right now. So get the cops here now.” As McNeil was pulling into his driveway, he retrieved an automatic handgun from his car's glove compartment, removed it from its case, and loaded it with ammunition.
An eyewitness who was across the street heard McNeil and Epp arguing loudly. A few minutes later he heard a loud pop and saw smoke and McNeil pointing his hand toward the ground and stepping backward. Epp was in the yard between McNeil's house and the one next door and walking toward McNeil. McNeil continued to back up with his hands pointed toward the ground and said “Back up, I am not playing with you.” Epp increased his speed toward McNeil and McNeil raised his gun and fired at Epp's head. Epp's hands were at his sides, and the eyewitness did not see him raise his hands or see any weapons in his hands.
Later, an officer arrived at the scene and found Epp on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound to the head. McNeil informed the officer that Epp had pulled a knife on him and then McNeil shot him. The officer saw a knife clipped inside the right hand pocket of Epp's pants. A forensic investigator from the Cobb County Medical Examiner's Office also responded to the scene and noticed that the knife in Epp's pocket was folded. Dr. Brian Frist, the Chief Medical Examiner of Cobb County, later determined that the abrasions on Epp's face indicated that he had been shot at a distance of less than three feet. There were no abrasions on Epp's hands to indicate that he had raised his hands to defend himself.
Forgot about the Harvard quip. Fraud, I really like that term for him. I think he'll be either more tolerable or worse if Obama beats him. I've heard about some politicians getting better once they realize they won't be president but Mitt's a speical kind of bullshitter and fraud, he may not take rejection too well.
He's got a chip on his shoulder because he thinks daddy wasn't dealt with fairly (he wasn't but his chip won't help. Religious hate doesn't work that way.)
He's got a chip on his shoulder because he thinks daddy wasn't dealt with fairly (he wasn't but his chip won't help. Religious hate doesn't work that way.)
I think the source of his chip is that he has never been, nor will he ever be, the man his father was.
He's got a chip on his shoulder because he thinks daddy wasn't dealt with fairly (he wasn't but his chip won't help. Religious hate doesn't work that way.)
What did his Dad in when he ran in '68? I've heard about the infamous brainwashing comment. I actually respect his Dad some from the little I know about him. At least, I respect him more so than Mitt since I doubt Mitt would have had the courage to support MLK if he had been in office at that time.
[Follwed by knock on door...] "Harold? Haaarolld! What are you doing in there?? You have visitors, put down the plastic gun and wipe the Cheeto dust off your cammies."
Then it turns into a Cheech & Chong skit featuring Sergeant Stadanko & Sister Mary Elephant...lol
The evidence was sufficient to enable a rational trier of fact to find McNeil guilty of all of the crimes for which he was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979). See also, e.g., Jolley v. State, 254 Ga. 624(1), 331 S.E.2d 516 (1985) (despite claim of self-defense, evidence supported felony murder conviction based on aggravated assault where defendant retrieved pistol in anticipation of confrontation and told victim to leave before shooting him). Indeed, from the evidence presented, the jury was authorized to conclude that McNeil decided to confront Epp with the specific purpose of “whip[ping] his ass” before Epp even knew that McNeil was on his way to the scene; that McNeil had time to stop in his driveway, retrieve a gun from his glove compartment, take the gun out of its case, load it, exit from his car, and “argue loudly” with Epp for a few minutes before firing the first shot at him; and that McNeil lied to police when he claimed that he had shot Epp because Epp had “pulled a knife on him” during the confrontation (because other eyewitness testimony showed that Epp had no weapon in his hands at the time of the shooting, and further testimony showed that Epp's knife was folded and in his pocket after he had been shot). Because “[w]itness credibility is a matter to be determined by the jury, as is the question of justification; ․ the jury was free to accept the evidence that the shooting[ ][was] not done in self-defense ․ and to reject any evidence offered by [McNeil] in support of a justification defense.” (Citation omitted.) Harris v. State, 279 Ga. 304, 306(2), 612 S.E.2d 789 (2005). As sufficient evidence existed to support the conclusion that McNeil committed the offense of aggravated assault, and felony murder predicated on that aggravated assault, there is no basis for overturning the jury's verdict here.2
Note two critical points missing from the Salon article:
A. The Salon article did not mention McNeil saying to the 911 operator “I'm at the property now ․ and there's the builder and I may get ready to whip his ass right now. So get the cops here now.” (bolding mine) That sort of confrontational talk can and does get used to contradict claims of self-defense by potentially showing the defendant 'went looking for a fight'. A claim of self-defense is undermined if it can be shown the defendant went into the situation with hostile intent.
2. The article does not mention that McNeil said Epps had pulled a knife on him, which Epps had not in fact done. Even though Epps had pulled a knife on McNeil's son, the fact that Epps had not drawn the knife in his pocket when he was shot and that McNeil initially claimed he had served to undermine McNeil's credibility. People are convicted sometimes because they gave police statements immediately after a fight or a shooting and the facts later were found to be different from that statement. This is why defense lawyers and self-defense experts always recommend that if you have to defend yourself you should talk to a lawyer before giving a statement to the police.
The funnest thing about trolling the stalkers is when they totally miss the sarcasm and irony and pile in supporting you.
Cato and Walter never scared me. Is that what they want? For me to be scared about them? I really can't. They never scared me. I never even knew half of these people.
Cato and Walter never scared me. Is that what they want? For me to be scared about them? I really can't. They never scared me. I never even knew half of these people.
Yeah, I know. I know they're trying to "personalize" the Romneys through this but it would just be nice if Mitt and his family were honest about how fortunate they are compared to pun intended the other 99% of us. I don't care that he's wealthy but I have a big problem with his patronizing attitude.
They can have all the money they can legally rake in. It's that they keep acting like they don't know that a lot of people don't have as much as they need that makes me itchy.
If America voted had to vote right now on which Romney was best suited to be President, Mitt would get a 1/3, Ann would get 1/3 and Seamus the dog in a cage on the roof would get 1/3.
I wish I could be disturbed about Zimmerman being made into a hero but that woman and gang of thugs who killed that man and his daughter in Arizona were made into heroes too. What we have here is a problem in that many can't see humanity. And it shows everytime I hear an African American compared to an animal or illegal aliens compared to parasites. These are human beings.
I didn't think that as many people supported Shawna Whatsterbucket and her posse, though. This seems more widespread. Maybe it's just me paying attention.
What's making me MAAANIC is that there seems to be a trend on some of the less savory comment threads of getting all excited about 'blacks' being 3/5 of a person.
First, they seem unclear that the '3/5' referred to unfree persons, not persons of any particular race. Then, they appear unclear about why it appears in the Constitution, or what the point of it was.
Cato and Walter never scared me. Is that what they want? For me to be scared about them? I really can't. They never scared me. I never even knew half of these people.
Cato is not over there, that I'm aware of. The guy who claimed to be him was lyin'.
If America voted had to vote right now on which Romney was best suited to be President, Mitt would get a 1/3, Ann would get 1/3 and Seamus the dog in a cage on the roof would get 1/3.
Totally voting for the dog. He's the best Romney for the job.
I didn't think that as many people supported Shawna Whatsterbucket and her posse, though. This seems more widespread. Maybe it's just me paying attention.
What's making me MAAANIC is that there seems to be a trend on some of the less savory comment threads of getting all excited about 'blacks' being 3/5 of a person.
First, they seem unclear that the '3/5' referred to unfree persons, not persons of any particular race. Then, they appear unclear about why it appears in the Constitution, or what the point of it was.
I DESPISE these people.
Yeah, you're right. There wasn't as much support for her as there has been Zimmerman. And right about the 3/5's rule too.
Cato and Walter never scared me. Is that what they want? For me to be scared about them? I really can't. They never scared me. I never even knew half of these people.
OK...I guess "air" would somewhat cover high-altitude too.
Yeah, an airburst blankets a target with radiation and heat.
Surface blast maximizes explosive damage via the shockwave.
Subsurface kicks up extra soil for more fallout.
A standard MIRV would have its warheads explode in a combination of the 3 types to maximize all three effects.
One of the joys about having a high GT score was I got sent to a bunch of secondary schools while I was in. NBC school still wakes me up sometime. Its an extremely brutal, effective school of warfare which is why every sane nation has severe limitations on its implementation. You don't want to see what chemical weapons can do.
Forgot about the Harvard quip. Fraud, I really like that term for him. I think he'll be either more tolerable or worse if Obama beats him. I've heard about some politicians getting better once they realize they won't be president but Mitt's a special kind of bullshitter and fraud, he may not take rejection too well.
He and Newt will go into orbit around each other and become a new form of binary politician. Smiling faces in front of a hollow center pointing in every direction and changing phases from liberal to conservative, man of the people to business leader, etc. etc. depending on the current orientation.
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Yeah, an airburst blankets a target with radiation and heat.
Surface blast maximizes explosive damage via the shockwave.
Subsurface kicks up extra soil for more fallout.
A standard MIRV would have its warheads explode in a combination of the 3 types to maximize all three effects.
One of the joys about having a high GT score was I got sent to a bunch of secondary schools while I was in. NBC school still wakes me up sometime. Its an extremely brutal, effective school of warfare which is why every sane nation has severe limitations on its implementation. You don't want to see what chemical weapons can do.
Beyond a bit of light reading I think the main places I've seen NBC effects discussed is various wargames set in the modern (50s - 90s) age that generally were simulations of NATO-Warsaw Pact going at it in Europe.
With the Warsaw Pact more likely to start chemical warfare in order to mess with NATO airbases and expected air superiority, but NATO more likely to resort to tactical nuclear weapons in order to offset Warsaw Pact armor superiority. And generally one leading to the other, and hopefully the latter not leading to a full-blown exchange.
Very little discussion other than in passing about what all this does to the civilian population in West Germany and downwind from there. Luckily the political leaders in that time period on both sides never saw sufficient necessity to ever bring one of these scenarios into being.
Had a tsunami developed in the Indian Ocean after a massive earthquake on Wednesday, the world’s most isolated people would have been at serious risk. Perhaps, even, at risk of extinction.
The small tribe on North Sentinel Island continues to resist all contact with the outside world — just as they have for the past 60,000 years. They drive off fishermen, journalists, anthropologists and government officials with their spears and arrows. Their low-lying island, heavily forested and protected by a barrier of coral reefs, is roughly the size of Manhattan.
The tsunami warning on Wednesday was a false alarm. In 2004, however, it was initially feared that North Sentinel had been swamped by the killer tsunami that devastated the nearby Andaman and Nicobar Islands. When the Indian Coast Guard sent a helicopter to check on the Sentinelese, a single naked bowman emerged from the forest and fired arrows to drive the chopper away.
There are very few so-called “uncontacted tribes” still left — notably in the Amazon along the Brazil-Peruvian border and in the rainforests of West Papua.
“Perhaps no people on Earth remain more genuinely isolated than the Sentinelese,” according to Survival International, a group that advocates for the rights and privacy of aboriginal, endangered and uncontacted peoples.
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Fascinating reading.
Here's one of the videos mentioned in the write-up:
The small tribe on North Sentinel Island continues to resist all contact with the outside world — just as they have for the past 60,000 years
Not only does it not make sense (i.e., what would have been the "outside world" 60,000 years ago?) but there is no evidence for it.
If genetic data could be collected we could determine if some of the Andaman island inhabitants are their close relatives, which is likely. Similarly small populations of people in the region have very low fertility, probably due to inbreeding over the centuries. As such, it is highly unlikely the Sentinelese have been there for longer than several centuries.
I kept my tax stuff on a flash drive, which I need to finish. But all my browser links and downloaded material from the last couple of months are gone.
Not only does it not make sense (i.e., what would have been the "outside world" 60,000 years ago?) but there is no evidence for it.
If genetic data could be collected we could determine if some of the Andaman island inhabitants are their close relatives, which is likely. Similarly small populations of people in the region have very low fertility, probably due to inbreeding over the centuries. As such, it is highly unlikely the Sentinelese have been there for longer than several centuries.
Yeah, a genetic inquiry would be invaluable.
You have to wonder about resistance to diseases, etc., too.
Wait till they inhale, then shoot for the mouth and duck.
I heard they were also vulnerable to having thermite or phosphorus grenades tossed down their throats. Though I expect a M2 HMG would also not make them very happy either. (Not that there are many creatures that would *be* happy with having an M2 fired at them.)
In fact, I feel so much better I'll follow up that last music link with the next movement (you can here the guitar transitioning) of that piece by Saint-Preux:
Morning Lizardim from the cold and clear wild north country. At least we managed to break out of the snap freeze, but there's no telling what kind of damage was done. We'll find out by the end of the month what this little Canadian incursion has done, though. Glad to see that Zimmerman is in custody and that formal charges are being filed; hopefully they have enough evidence to make them stick.
MONTEREY, Calif.—When federal prosecutors can't muster enough evidence to bring charges against a person suspected of a crime, they can still use a controversial law to get a conviction anyway: They charge the person with lying.
The law against lying—known in legal circles simply as "1001"—makes it a crime to knowingly make a material false statement in matters of federal jurisdiction. Critics across the political spectrum argue that 1001, a widely used statute in the federal criminal code, is open to abuse. It is charged hundreds of times a year, according to court records and interviews with lawyers and legal scholars.
A lesson someone should have told Zimmerman. That idiot talked to police for hours the night of the shooting, including letting them give him a voice stress test, guided them on a walk-thru the next day, and then had the bright idea to keep in touch with the prosecutors.
Ya can't persuade with your mouth shut, hands in pockets is a crappy way to box, and yup have your attorney present for any and all questioning of you. No sense entering any conflict "unarmed" so to speak.
My instructor always told me to refuse to answer any questions in the immediate aftermath of a real physical conflict or gun fight. Obdi, you might be familiar already but when one reads up on the effects on adrenaline on memory you see what happens. It's very frightening how a person trying to honestly cooperate gets details dead wrong.
Well, I'm all for guilty assholes talking to the police at length.
I was just talking to a cop friend about confession getting-- from actually guilty folk. He said that basically:
Ordinary citizens (who have committed a one-time crime) almost always confess within the first 24 hours because it's all weird and stressful to them and they want to just get it off their chest.
Criminals will normally confess if you either sympathize with them or pretend to be impressed by them. Yelling at them is not nearly as effective. A lot of cops can't stomach pretending to be friendly with rapists and face-stabbers, so they wind up yelling and get nowhere.
Smart criminals just say "I want a lawyer" and nothing else, ever.
But so does anyone with resources who knows how the system operates.
He would contact a lawyer immediately if ever arrested, and he's told his kids to.
A lesson someone should have told Zimmerman. That idiot talked to police for hours the night of the shooting, including letting them give him a voice stress test, guided them on a walk-thru the next day, and then had the bright idea to keep in touch with the prosecutors.
Í think he assumed tht he just had to let them know who his daddy was and that everything would be taken care of.
And it would have, too, except for those meddlesome liberals and the agenda-driven mainstream media!
Yeah, because Florida officials give a crap that his daddy is a retired Justice of the peace from VA.....//
More likely he was brought up to put his faith in the judicial system and, by extension, the police. He's a badge licker. It's a mistake that may cost him his freedom, but I doubt it will be for Murder 2.
Yeah, because Florida officials give a crap that his daddy is a retired Justice of the peace from VA...//
More likely he was brought up to put his faith in the judicial system and, by extension, the police. He's a badge licker. It's a mistake that may cost him his freedom, but I doubt it will be for Murder 2.
Could be. I think he also just likes to talk. He set up that stupid website, called Sean Hannity and was trying to talk to prosecutors without his lawyers. I think maybe he's just dumb and chatty. A bad combination.
I think the Murder 2 is a reach, it would be easier to prove manslaughter.
Although, the more I read the more I'm coming to the conclusion that it was Martin who initiated the contact and started the fight. Unless the prosecution has a witness we haven't heard from that saw Z shove Martin....Zimmerman may walk.
I think the Murder 2 is a reach, it would be easier to prove manslaughter.
Although, the more I read the more I'm coming to the conclusion that it was Martin who initiated the contact and started the fight. Unless the prosecution has a witness we haven't heard from that saw Z shove Martin...Zimmerman may walk.
True, I think we should prepare for the possibility that this whole case may get tossed at the pre-trial hearing. I'd prefer, if that happened, the anger be turned towards the state government and towards the SYG law. But I fear that too many will not be able to let go of their anger towards Zimmerman.
The timeline, the girlfriends call, and where he was shot. He was 100 yards from his house, a quick 30 second walk. If the girlfriends call is correct (that he picked up his pace and he was headed home) he had more than enough time to make it. Either Zimmerman is realllllly fast or Martin went back to confront him.
True, I think we should prepare for the possibility that this whole case may get tossed at the pre-trial hearing. I'd prefer that, if that happened, the anger be turned towards the state government and towards the SYG law. But I fear that too many will not be able to let go of their anger towards Zimmerman.
I don't think Zimmerman is totally "innocent" in all this. It was his gun and he pulled the trigger. He was the one that went out of his way to keep an eye on a kid that wasn't doing anything wrong. I think Martin made a tactical error to confront a guy who was out of line and it spiraled out of control.
I don't think Zimmerman is totally "innocent" in all this. It was his gun and he pulled the trigger. He was the one that went out of his way to keep an eye on a kid that wasn't doing anything wrong. I think Martin made a tactical error to confront a guy who was out of line and it spiraled out of control.
Indeed, hence why I think they should have gone gone for manslaughter or even negligent homicide. The reasoning why they went for 2nd degree is currently known only to them, but I fear we might see another Casey Anthony, where the defense chooses not to accept a plea bargain and instead force the prosecution to present a rather weak case to the jury.
Indeed, hence why I think they should have gone gone for manslaughter or even negligent homicide. The reasoning why they went for 2nd degree is currently known only to them, but I fear we might see another Casey Anthony, where the defense chooses not to accept a plea bargain and instead force the prosecution to present a rather weak case to the jury.
Yeah, because Florida officials give a crap that his daddy is a retired Justice of the peace from VA...//
More likely he was brought up to put his faith in the judicial system and, by extension, the police. He's a badge licker. It's a mistake that may cost him his freedom, but I doubt it will be for Murder 2.
IIRC, his daddy seems to have some clout in Florida and even intervened with the Florida DA to get them to drop any charges
The whole lawyer situation still confuses me. If the first 2 lawyers never met him and didn't talk to him....what made them think they were on his case?
The whole lawyer situation still confuses me. If the first 2 lawyers never met him and didn't talk to him...what made them think they were on his case?
I guess they spoke to him over the telephone, but never in person. Which is odd...
If this case gets thrown out of if GZ is found not guilty, get out the popcorn.
Like I said above, we need to be prepared to hear that the judge has tossed the case on the grounds that he was engaging in "self-defense" under the SYG law.
Like I said above, we need to be prepared to hear that the judge has tossed the case on the grounds that he was engaging in "self-defense" under the SYG law.
The SYG may not even be applicable, it could be basic Self Defense. Has anyone ever established if they were standing when the shot was fired?
If this case gets thrown out of if GZ is found not guilty, get out the popcorn.
If he had been arrested and charged in February, then very little about this case would have come out. Heck, they probably could've thrown out the case or acquitted him without causing much of a stir. But now it is a national issue.
A question for those more legally knowledgeable than I.
Apparently Zimmerman's lawyer is goint to use SYG as a defense.
Since SYG stipulates limits on the amount of investigation that can be conducted, it seems to me that the judge will have to decide at the outset of the trial whether SYG applies - otherwise all the evidence that the special prosecutor has collected (to base her determination to proceed with the case) could be inadmissible?
If the judge rules that the evidence is admissible, in other words says that SYG doesn't apply, what does the defense do then?
And why would the defense use SYG when, obviously, the special prosecutor thinks that there was sufficient reason to investigate beyond Zimmerman's claim of self defense?
Trayvon Martin's mom Sybrina Fulton said in an interview on the "Today" show Thursday that she believes it was "an accident" that George Zimmerman shot and killed her son in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26.
"I believe it was an accident," Fulton said. "I believe that it just got out of control, and he couldn't turn the clock back. I would ask him, did he know that that was a minor, that that was a teenager and that he did not have a weapon? I would ask him that I understand that his family is hurting, but think about our family that lost our teenage son. I mean, it's just very difficult to live with day in and day out. I'm sure his parents can pick up the phone and call him, but we can't pick up the phone and call Trayvon anymore."
Zimmerman, who is being charged with second-degree murder, is currently being held in protective custody at the Seminole County jail, awaiting a court appearance.
Earlier in the interview, Fulton said she is prepared to endure the trial, "even if that means that he may be found not guilty."
"We just want him to be held accountable for what he's done," Fulton said. "And by him not being arrested, that would not have been done. So we are happy that he was arrested so that the committee gives his side of the story."
A question for those more legally knowledgeable than I.
Apparently Zimmerman's lawyer is goint to use SYG as a defense.
Since SYG stipulates limits on the amount of investigation that can be conducted, it seems to me that the judge will have to decide at the outset of the trial whether SYG applies - otherwise all the evidence that the special prosecutor has collected (to base her determination to proceed with the case) could be inadmissible?
If the judge rules that the evidence is admissible, in other words says that SYG doesn't apply, what does the defense do then?
And why would the defense use SYG when, obviously, the special prosecutor thinks that there was sufficient reason to investigate beyond Zimmerman's claim of self defense?
SYG prevents an arrest unless probable cause exists to believe that the law is not applicable. So no, it doesn't prevent investigation, it just prevents an arrest, and thus the collection of any evidence that could be obtained via an arrest. I think any evidence of that sort that Zimmerman voluntarily surrendered would not be protected.
If GZ went after the guy then SYG doesn't work and the defense deals a plea. The special prosecutor has already pulled her cards off the table saying that too much info has gotten out. BUT the prosecution has to show the defense the evidence they have but the defense doesn't have to show their plan.
I think Martin made a tactical error to confront a guy who was out of line and it spiraled out of control.
Was it a "tactical" error on his part to assume guilt without evidence that Martin had committed a crime?
Was it a "tactical" error for him to violate the principles of town watch by: (1) carrying a weapon, (2) following Martin, (3) not being in touch with partners on the phone, (4) not having someone with him?
I have a sinking feeling that you're trying to twist this case to somehow redeem SYG laws, which are very problematic at their very conceptual root.
A question for those more legally knowledgeable than I.
Apparently Zimmerman's lawyer is goint to use SYG as a defense.
Since SYG stipulates limits on the amount of investigation that can be conducted, it seems to me that the judge will have to decide at the outset of the trial whether SYG applies - otherwise all the evidence that the special prosecutor has collected (to base her determination to proceed with the case) could be inadmissible?
If the judge rules that the evidence is admissible, in other words says that SYG doesn't apply, what does the defense do then?
And why would the defense use SYG when, obviously, the special prosecutor thinks that there was sufficient reason to investigate beyond Zimmerman's claim of self defense?
I don't think it puts any limits on investigation as such. It can interfere with investigation in the sense that it disallows detention/arrest/charging/prosecution without probable cause. So I assume they would have to show probable cause in court.
If GZ went after the guy then SYG doesn't work and the defense deals a plea. The special prosecutor has already pulled her cards off the table saying that too much info has gotten out. BUT the prosecution has to show the defense the evidence they have but the defense doesn't have to show their plan.
If you don't mind, I'll wait to hear from someone who knows something about the actual reality.
Your supposition about whether the law does or "doesn't work" is not based on what the law actually says. Obviously, he "went after the guy," and his freakin' lawyer thinks that SYG applies.
Was it a "tactical" error on his part to assume guilt without evidence that Martin had committed a crime?
Was it a "tactical" error for him to violate the principles of town watch by: (1) carrying a weapon, (2) following Martin, (3) not being in touch with partners on the phone, (4) not having someone with him?
I have a sinking feeling that you're trying to twist this case to somehow redeem SYG laws, which are very problematic at their very conceptual root.
I have written here and been ridiculed for saying politicians write laws without thinking them through. This is what I mean.
She has been all along. What's interesting is that despite what she has said all along, the rightwing is adamant about smearing her. I've already confronted that on multiple occasions. That interview and the one I linked above leave ([Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...] them dumbfounded.
I have written here and been ridiculed for saying politicians write laws without thinking them through. This is what I mean.
In this case, the law was written by the NRA, I have a sneaking supposition that the politicians did not read through them or if they die, were totally unaware of the repercussions and problems inherent in the law
I don't think it puts any limits on investigation as such. It can interfere with investigation in the sense that it disallows detention/arrest/charging/prosecution without probable cause. So I assume they would have to show probable cause in court.
Ah. Ok. I thought that it stipulated that if there was a lack of "probable cause" no further investigation could be conducted.
That wasn't the objection. I'm sure I criticized a law someone agreed with. They took offense to me.
Whenever I've seen you ridiculed, it's generally for attributing things Imaginary Liberals say to things actual people have said. I wonder if this is another example.
(2) A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful.
No. No example. You've never seen politicians write a law based on emotion? And fast?
No, I really haven't. The closest I could get would be the defunding of ACORN based off of the stupid O'Keefe smears, but even then, they were using emotion as an excuse, their actual reason was to hurt a political opponent.
I don't think anyone writes laws as a knee-jerk reaction, no. Can you give an example?
I think often politicians use boilerplate legislative language provided to them by lobbying groups like ALEC, the energy lobby, etc.
IIRC, that was exactly the case with SYG: it was written by the NRA and put up by a Florida state rep in response to some high-profile carjacking cases.
IIRC, that was exactly the case with SYG: it was written by the NRA and put up by a Florida state rep in response to some high-profile carjacking cases.
Yeah, it was an ALEC/NRA jointly written piece, I believe-- and in Florida, and in other places, it's used emotional cases to make the argument for it.
IIRC, that was exactly the case with SYG: it was written by the NRA and put up by a Florida state rep in response to some high-profile carjacking cases.
We had a huge rash of carjacking cases in the '90's because the rental cars had license plates that started with certain letters and driven by tourist who were robbed. They did change that. Also added security at rest areas.
Within minutes, Obama campaign manager Jim Messina tweeted: “I could not disagree with Hilary Rosen any more strongly. Her comments were wrong and family should be off limits. She should apologize.”
David Axelrod, Obama’s top strategist, tweeted: “Also Disappointed in Hilary Rosen’s comments about Ann Romney. They were inappropriate and offensive.”
And Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager, tweeted: “Families must be off limits on campaigns, and i personally believe stay at home moms work harder than most of us do.”
Meh, much ado about nothing. I have no reason to think she's not a nice person and see no reason to dislike her.
Why should we read the bills? Because when Congress rushes to pass complex legislation, the bills are not properly vetted. With more time to examine the legislation, the public can help ferret out wasteful spending, sneaky provisions that were inserted by well-connected special interests and other problematic provisions.
Meh, much ado about nothing. I have no reason to think she's not a nice person and see no reason to dislike her.
It's not that I dislike her. I'm just tired of reading about it. People are making too big a deal of this on both sides of the issue. At the same time, those on the left are falling into an easily constructed trap as Rosen has already fallen into.
I'll just wait for my Bentley limo to pick me up for my morning commute to the spa. It's a hard life.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. A view of the NYC skyline, as taken from 1WTC (aka the Freedom Tower) as it becomes the tallest building in NYC (on its way to being the tallest in North America when completed).
Where did you get the idea I was against reading bills?
I think legislation gets rushed through, but I don't think that it's because it's a knee-jerk reaction. I think most legislation rushed-through was already written and was awaiting its chance to get shoved in.
With more time to examine the legislation, the public can help ferret out wasteful spending, sneaky provisions that were inserted by well-connected special interests and other problematic provisions.
Wait, the public? What percentage of the public do you think is conversant at all with pretty much any bill? Even after months and months and months of debate on the health care bill, the public was ignorant of its most basic foundations.
I'm tired of hearing about Ann Romney already. Not here. But damn what a goofy political stunt.
As bad as the attack on Laura Bush because "never had a real job" becasue she was only a librarian or some such from the Democrat side. Really pointless.
The point is about choice: families should be free to choose the combination of work/family that works for them. If Ann wants to do the full-time mom thing, then it is okay with me.
As bad as the attack on Laura Bush because "never had a real job" becasue she was only a librarian or some such from the Democrat side. Really pointless.
The point is about choice: families should be free to choose the combination of work/family that works for them. If Ann wants to do the full-time mom thing, then it is okay with me.
Who, as I remember it, was savaged at every turn as the Dem "Marie Antoinette" for what was perceived as her indifference to the suffering of "Real Americans."
Who, as I remember it, was savaged at every turn as the Dem "Marie Antoinette" for what was perceived as her indifference to the suffering of "Real Americans."
I do remember she went to Wendy's and didn't understand the concept of chili.
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It's not that I dislike her. I'm just tired of reading about it. People are making too big a deal of this on both sides of the issue. At the same time, those on the left are falling into an easily constructed trap as Rosen has already fallen into.
I'll just wait for my Bentley limo to pick me up for my morning commute to the spa. It's a hard life.
The wingnuts made a big deal out of the Obama's wealth last time too and his big house on a double lot in Chicago. It is a curiosity why we always elect rich people but it's not really an important issue for me.
The wingnuts made a big deal out of the Obama's wealth last time too and his big house on a double lot in Chicago. It is a curiosity why we always elect rich people but it's not really an important issue for me.
Class envy is always a big play in an election year, which is hilarious because it's always two rich dudes trying to argue how they're more humble and an "every man" than their opponent.
I'm tired of hearing about Ann Romney already. Not here. But damn what a goofy political stunt.
A throw away comment by someone we've never heard of who got to go on CNN...wouldn't surprise me if she was paid to lay that egg on Romney's lap.
That said, my mother was a stay-at-home mom...until the youngest of her five kids, my sister and I, got to high school. Then she got bored with an empty house and started running my dad's office - firing his secretary and apparently making our family a shitload more money in the process.
Raising us was easy...never a challenge. We were angels, really.
The wingnuts made a big deal out of the Obama's wealth last time too and his big house on a double lot in Chicago. It is a curiosity why we always elect rich people but it's not really an important issue for me.
Even though you technically don't need a lot of money to run for office, the fact is that if you want to be President, you'd better have money. LOTS of money. The White House is simply an unobtainable goal for someone who is not worth multiple millions.
Was it a "tactical" error on his part to assume guilt without evidence that Martin had committed a crime?
Was it a "tactical" error for him to violate the principles of town watch by: (1) carrying a weapon, (2) following Martin, (3) not being in touch with partners on the phone, (4) not having someone with him?
I have a sinking feeling that you're trying to twist this case to somehow redeem SYG laws, which are very problematic at their very conceptual root.
I'm not sure I understand your question. I said Zimmerman shouldn't have been following him and Martin made a tactical error in confronting him.
That's a very interesting comment. But I don't know if accident is the right word. It's the consequences of being irresponsible with gun ownership and usage.
Let me make this clear: I certainly think George Zimmerman committed a crime. And he was irresponsible and reckless to go carrying a gun. And I believe this even if Zimmerman's story is 100% accurate.
Zimmerman was following this young man and asking him questions. Martin was justifiably offended. He lived only a few blocks away from Zimmerman! It's likely that Martin did become aggressive. Where Zimmerman made a reckless decision was carrying a gun. Because you can end up getting yourself into a corner where you feel you have to use it. If Martin had knocked Zimmerman down, thinking he'd throw a few punches and make his point and then felt Zimmerman's gun, Zimmerman may have believed he had to use it.
The problem is, Trayvon Martin was a high school student. He was expecting nothing more than a shoving match, a little "hallway brawl". He wasn't expecting a wanna-be cop with a gun.
But I disagree it was an "accident". George Zimmerman should not be carrying a gun and confronting people. If he felt he needs to travel somewhere and needs a gun, he should be doing everything to avoid confrontation. Your goal is not to have to use it, not to find a reason to use it.
I'm not sure I understand your question. I said Zimmerman shouldn't have been following him and Martin made a tactical error in confronting him.
We don't know that Martin confronted Zimmerman. If Zimmerman was following Martin, then Martin was being confronted by Zimmerman, not the other way around. We only have Zimmerman's former lawyers' word that Martin confronted Zimmerman...and we know how reliable those two fucks were.
A throw away comment by someone we've never heard of who got to go on CNN...wouldn't surprise me if she was paid to lay that egg on Romney's lap.
That said, my mother was a stay-at-home mom...until the youngest of her five kids, my sister and I, got to high school. Then she got bored with an empty house and started running my dad's office - firing his secretary and apparently making our family a shitload more money in the process.
Raising us was easy...never a challenge. We were angels, really.
On a related note, here's another reason why I love my home country:
Elections Canada has issued political parties and candidates their spending limits for the May 2 election.
The elections agency released the preliminary figures on Wednesday, based on the preliminary list of electors in Canada's 308 ridings.
The amounts political parties can spend in the ridings varies according to the numbers of voters.
The more voters there are in a riding, the more a party can spend to get its candidate elected. So a party running a candidate in Oak Ridges-Markham in Ontario can shell out $132,251 during the campaign, while parties fielding candidates in the riding of Nunavut can spend $14,860.
There are separate spending limits for the political parties and the individual candidates.
Any party that fields a candidate in each of the 308 ridings can spend just more than $21 million in the election campaign, according to Elections Canada. The spending caps on the parties hovered close to $20 million in 2008.
See we make it illegal to spend a shit ton of money to get elected in Canada. What a novel idea.
Even though you technically don't need a lot of money to run for office, the fact is that if you want to be President, you'd better have money. LOTS of money. The White House is simply an unobtainable goal for someone who is not worth multiple millions.
It's very rare for these guys to fund their own campaigns. One of the reasons I don't donate to political campaigns is it just seems absurd for me to send money to millionaires.
It's very rare for these guys to fund their own campaigns. One of the reasons I don't donate to political campaigns is it just seems absurd for me to send money to millionaires.
True, but do you really there are many average Joe Schmoe's who are well connected enough to build up the funds for an effective Presidential campaign?
None of us ever got arrested or killed. Beyond that, what could a mother want?
In my mother's case, it was for me to stop getting injured so much when I was young, to pay attention in school as I got older, and now it's to stop arguing with her.
No, I really haven't. The closest I could get would be the defunding of ACORN based off of the stupid O'Keefe smears, but even then, they were using emotion as an excuse, their actual reason was to hurt a political opponent.
And I've very rarely seen a bill written fast.
The Terry Schiavo bill was written quickly, based on (base) emotion. I'll never forget the sight of GWB's loafer stepping out of his limo, back from vacation, to sign it. "Damn, it's going to happen!"
It was mentioned to me that it was "broken" 1.5 months ago. I would say this however. That nose looks like it's never been broken. Otherwise he must have had a pretty good plastic surgeon.
It's tough to know whether it was or wasn't broken based on that photo alone. One would have the compare the booking photo to a pre-Martin-death photo to know for sure.
Hard to know, and medical records would come into question since he's putting his own condition at issue (eg: claims to have been beaten into the ground, suffered cuts/abrasions, broken nose). Medical records of treatment would come into play.
The Read the bill link is why bills should not be rushed. No accusations your way intended. And I agree with the intent to encourage the public to read the bills. Learn something, then maybe say something, as least for those inclined.
Any idea about the ballpark date of the start of the trial?
There will be a plea bargain. His lawyer is a pretty good defense attorney. In his statement yesterday he alluded to the idea of this not going to trial.
There will be a plea bargain. His lawyer is a pretty good defense attorney. In his statement yesterday he alluded to the idea of this not going to trial.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — After years of investigation, denials and delays, jury selection was set to begin Thursday for the criminal trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards.
Edwards was expected inside a Greensboro, N.C., courtroom to face six criminal counts related to nearly $1 million in secret payments made by two campaign donors to help hide the married Democrat’s pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008.
The money flowed to Andrew Young, a former campaign aide who initially claimed the baby was his. Young is expected to be a key witness for the prosecution. The mistress, Rielle Hunter, may testify as part of Edwards’ defense.
Following years of adamant public denials, Edwards acknowledged paternity of Hunter’s daughter in 2010.
Building 2 of the World Financial Center in downtown Manhattan — home of the Nomura Group — has been evacuated over a suspicious package, possibly containing a grenade.
Includes one toy grenade
Pull the string to watch the grenade shake and rattle
Made of plastic
Fun for pretend army soldier play or theme party favor
Each measures approx. 2" tall
Clearly this was a DRY RUN perpetrated by the MOOSLUMS who will at a later date attack America once again while Barrack HUSSEIN Obama looks the other way as these MOOSLUM terrorist cells grow bigger every day with the help of CAIR and Little Green Dirtballs!!!!!!
He's never home. I noticed the dogs haven't been in the back yard for a couple days. I have a feeling he took them over to his son's house after animal control put a note on his door to call them.
Good to hear that 2WFC was cleared - it's across the way from my office (well, across the WTC site, that is). Heard a few fire engines/police vehicles earlier, but that's not out of the ordinary. Glad that they didn't find anything dangerous.
The award given to controversial journalist Helen Thomas by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sparked anger not only in Israel, but in the U.S. Congress as well. Two senior Congressmen sent Abbas a letter denouncing the award and hinting that such a move may hurt U.S. assistance to the PA.
I bought one of those last time I went to Mexico, which was several years ago. Didn't declare it to customs, although they took a peak into my bag of goodies.
I miss the time when I thought Helen Thomas was just a sometimes slightly goofy older reporter lady who had only the goal of sitting in White House press briefings in her life.
My favorite is how they accuse everyone they disagree with by saying "you're on welfare!!!!!!" Or any other government assistance. Other than collecting UI once back when I was 23 (about 2 months worth) I've never been on any government entitlement program -- neither federal or state.
My favorite is how they accuse everyone they disagree with by saying "you're on welfare!!!" Or any other government assistance. Other than collecting UI once back when I was 23 (about 2 months worth) I've never been on any government entitlement program -- neither federal or state.
UI is not a government entitlement program, you paid for it while you were working.
My favorite is how they accuse everyone they disagree with by saying "you're on welfare!!!" Or any other government assistance. Other than collecting UI once back when I was 23 (about 2 months worth) I've never been on any government entitlement program -- neither federal or state.
Well, I have to take slight issue with how you present this. That is: I don't care if someone is on or has been on any form of government assistance. For starters, everyone gets government assistance, whether they realize/acknowledge it or not, in the form of everything the government does for us. Second, if you need more because things just haven't worked out well for you? Uh, OK? I see no problem with that. I'm not going to judge people for things mostly or totally out of their control.
Well, I have to take slight issue with how you present this. That is: I don't care if someone is on or has been on any form of government assistance. For starters, everyone gets government assistance, whether they realize/acknowledge it or not, in the form of everything the government does for us. Second, if you need more because things just haven't worked out well for you? Uh, OK? I see no problem with that. I'm not going to judge people for things mostly or totally out of their control.
Uh. That's not my point. I said that because a) I've been in a position where I should have applied for assitance and b) I've had right-wingers thrown accusations of "collecting welfare checks. But, yeah, uh, I probably should be on assistance right now but I'm not.
Uh. That's not my point. I said that because a) I've been in a position where I should have applied for assitance and b) I've had right-wingers thrown accusations of "collecting welfare checks. But, yeah, uh, I probably should be on assistance right now but I'm not.
Sorry. I just really hate to see people make a point of stating that they've "never been on government assistance", since that tends to imply there's something wrong about it. If anything, I'd say those that have actually been on it are those best equipped to discuss what it's really like.
Sorry. I just really hate to see people make a point of stating that they've "never been on government assistance", since that tends to imply there's something wrong about it. If anything, I'd say those that have actually been on it are those best equipped to discuss what it's really like.
OK. They do it all the time. "You're on welfare!" Which is a load of crap from these right wingers who as you say are probably using some kind of benefits program, etc. Like this crap.
Was, by chance, the article written by one "A. Ryan"?
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Seriously, that sort of argument from the wingnuts is one that turns my stomach something fierce. That there's only two classes: those who work and those who "steal" from the workers. That black/white mentality is what is ripping America apart more than any talk from the wingers about Obama formenting a "race war" or how the war on women is "fictional." That 49% that the far-Right's gotten their knickers in a knot about not only includes "hardworking Americans" who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, but also the hardworking Americans who put in an honest day's work 5-6 days a week and still can't get above the poverty line.
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Fifty years ago, African-Americans were targets of the Ku Klux Klan's violent hate agenda as the Civil Rights movement gained steam in desegregating public institutions across the South. The Birmingham church bombings, which killed four little girls in 1963, was one of the most violent crimes the Ku Klux Klan has been responsible for in attacking Black Americans (on Friday, the president signed ...
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