Political & Elections

If there was any doubt that GZ was in fear of being beaten to death by TM – just look at the video of those 15 y/o thugs on the school bus beating the 13 y/o White kid.  Imagine how vicious and deadly those thugs will be in 2 years.

Zimmerman's been tagged as white (good thing, too, because otherwise there wouldn't be an injustice to stoke for votes) and Democrats will always be closer to La Raza than Republicans when it comes to amnesty.

Hispanics may just reach for the popcorn.

Had a friend back in the '80's that was part of the Shreveport oil crowd. At the time, he was in his late 20's as was about everyone involved in the story, which I'll keep mercifully brief.

All oil field people, some professional, some just very well paid, some with with family money on top. One of the perks of Shreveport, if you're a hunting and fishing type, was/is corporate or family duck hunting opportunities at camps in the more prime areas of Arkansas --- the area of Stuttgart being one of the more prime ones for both ducks and what they eat.

Blustery, bluebird Sunday morning - not the best weather for calling in ducks - finds ten or twelve hung-over twenty-something males drinking whiskey and playing table top shuffle-board for some serious money. Fifty bucks from each two player side, as I recall. Not enough to kill over but more than enough to cause fights over rules interpretation.  Pucks have been thrown, enough points are laying on the table to settle the game depending on how one hanging off a corner is scored, and the arguing begins. Runs on long enough to gather enough steam that it's starting to look like a fight/friendship ender/lost business relationship/etc., all with: "it ain't about the money" every 30 seconds or so.

Over and over: "it ain't about the money".

Alan M. - son of a drilling contractor, not a player, and wiser than I at that age - walks over to the table and pockets the two fifties, which draws the attention of our irritable contestants, who ask him what the hell he's doing. He replies: "since it ain't about the money, y'all won't mind if I take it."

You can fill in the rest, which brings us back to the current topic: "it's always about the money."

Obama was going to be our post-racial future. Unfortunately, it's turned out he's a whole, whole lot like Al Sharpton instead, albeit a Sharpton with a Harvard Law degree. He's got legislation to pass, elections to turn for the party, he's got to keep his eye on the ball, which is that money ball, not that "national conversation on race" ball Holder's prattled about and liberals will forever seek.

I'm probably being a fool, but I can't believe the one they're instigating right now is the one they've been promising.

Yes, Mr. President. Like everything else, it's all about you.  

I know, Hope!  I was looking for the right emoticon, but got lost.  I guess wry response doesn't come across without one. 

As for withdrawal, CNN is a virtual methadone clinic. 

I stand corrected. 

The problem with Rachel Jeantel's credibility with the jury as a witness was not her language skills, color, or "relatability," but rather 1) she and the state had to admit that she had lied under oath at least twice during the course of the investigation; 2) her first interview with the DA was in the presence of Trayvon's mother and the Martin family attorney (!) rather than in a controlled investigative setting (after she had been first interviewed by the Martin attorney) and she admitted that those circumstances affected what she said; and 3) her testimony at trial, that Trayvon told Zimmerman, "Get off, get off," did not appear in any of her earlier accounts of the event.

That said, Rachel's testimony did provide information that supported the defense theory of the case. Rachel testified that at the time of her last call to him (around 7:12 according to phone records) Trayvon told her that, after running away, he was near the back of his father's fiance's house and had lost the crazy-ass cracka who had been following him. According to the 911 records, this was at the same time when Zimmerman told the 911 operator that the suspicious guy had started running and he lost him. Assuming that the confrontation began when Rachel said it did, just before her last call with Trayvon ended (at about 7:16), and that the confrontation took place in the vicinity of the T intersection where all the evidence of confrontation was found, which is a distance away from where Trayvon was staying, Trayvon apparently made the decision within those 4 minutes to leave the area of the house where he was staying and had returned, to return to the T intersection, where he found Zimmerman exactly where Zimmerman said he was at the time. This was picked up by the male alternate juror who was interviewed last night, and has not been really mentioned by any of the commentators I've heard. I don't even think O'Mara made the point in his closing as clearly as he could have done, that, according to Jeantel, Trayvon was already home long before the confrontation began.

And with that, I'm returning to my actual life, for now.

Unless someone has truly atrocious handwriting, is it really that difficult to differentiate between a cursive R and a printed one? 

Why would Jeantel or any other <40yo would want to use cursive or to be able to read it? 

There are many things in this World where we are witnessing the demise of ancient traditions and rise of new technologies. Perhaps we should be teaching Greek, which is of course, block print. 

Jeantel is a senior at Miami Norland Senior High School. How in the world did she manage to become a 12th-grader without being able to read cursive writing? That's a skill one would expect from a fourth-grader. Jeantel is by no means an exception at her school. Here are a few achievement scores from her school: Thirty-nine percent of the students score basic for reading, and 38 percent score below basic. In math, 37 percent score basic, and 50 percent score below basic. Below basic is the score when a student is unable to demonstrate even partial mastery of knowledge and skills fundamental for proficient work at his grade level. Basic indicates only partial mastery.

townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/07/10/black-education-tragedy-n1636072/page/full

+1, Razor.

What GZ forgot, was that when you put youself in a situation to be in a fight-The idea is to, Win. 

I think we are creating a future class of bullies and escalating bulling to bigger weapontry. 

So many African Americans seem to miss the point. Martin waited for Zimmerman and then punched him in the nose and got on top of Zimmerman and was in the process of beating the daylights out of him. Zimmerman had the right under FL law to shoot Martin. I don't like FL law but that is the law.

I think many African Americans think that Zimmerman profiled Martin because he was black. Since Zimmerman did this, Zimmerman was the bad guy and could not kill Martin even if Martin was about to kill Zimmerman. I think many African Americans are being racist by choosing Martin because of his race and ignoring the facts of the case. The prosecutor said the case was not about race and that if the races were reversed he would be making the same arguments. On the other hand, I am pretty sure that if the races had been reversed and Martin was on the bottom and he shot Zimmerman who was on top beating him most African American would say Martin was authorized in shooting Zimmerman.

Why oh why couldn't B37 keep her mouth shut.  Just added fuel to the fire. 

That may be so, razor, but in an interview with Anderson tonight the juror said she felt sorry for Rachel and that she was uneducated, or words to that effect. So she's a racist. That's the important thing here.

And Rachel on Piers Morgan explained that the jury was just made up of old white people, so what do they know. 

It's such a peculiar thing, this legal process we have here in the USA.  

You are innocent until proven guilty.

Except when you are not and people are tweeting death threats and angry that justice wasn't done.  

The media is to blame, ignorance is to blame and people who have not actually read more than sound bites are protesting.

Yet - so many kids out there who look like Trayvon who will go to prison because they didn't have a good legal defense and their case didn't garner publicity from the media. 

I am having a hard time hearing pundits repeat facts that have been retracted because of shoddy or intentional editing and reporting.  

Exactly, Farmdad. 

Rioting in streets over Zimmerman verdict is ridiculous.  Every day young black men are charged and tried for crimes and goung to prison in huge numbers for ALL f the reasons you suggest. 

Just spoofing, geeps. I've seen you mobbed to the point there wasn't even a toe sticking up from the pile... one of yours, I mean, and all I can recall you saying when you crawled out was that "they're a little nuts."

No, hayden was working on some kind of moral... cultural... no, behavioral relativism angle for who was responsible and I thought I'd help her out a little. Next time, I'll volunteer myself.

SLS

Walt had been known to keep weapons, I can't remember if he ever showed the revolver(?) to the Cambodians/Vietnamese. He did make a threatening move. At best the DA could get manslaughter but a good lawyer could get the Asians acquitted, afterall the sidewalk is your property but is public access, so SYG defense is possible. 

Walt was the loser in his purpose. The "bad" guys won big time, with untold bad repercussion to the good kids and neighbors. 

So was this the message that Clint wanted to give to the audience? 

It is "open season on black men and boys" according to one MSNBC commentator. Van Jones is very very worried about vigilantism-- people preparing to run out and shoot black teenage boys because they've been given permission by virtue of this verdict. In fact, according to another MSNBC commentator, all black people have to be more fearful after this verdict.