I am so confused. First, POTUS says Trayvon could have been his son, then later he says HE could have been Trayvon. Which is it??? So POTUS, as a teen, was a wannabe gangsta, juvenile delinquent who was willing to kill a man by bashing his head in?

This witch hunt against Zimmerman really sickens me. As our legal system is set up to do so, and has worked successfully (for the most part) for the last couple of hundred years plus, accept the jury's verdict and move on. Let it go.

But it seems POTUS and Holder have locked on to this story to further their anti-gun agenda, and are willing to push for riots and mayhem, and possibly more people dying, just to further said agenda.

I saw on Facebook that Zimmerman should change his name to Ben Ghazi, and then the press, POTUS, et al would leave him alone. Brilliant.

We have a consulate attacked, an Ambassador and 2 former SEALs killed, a Jihadi glamorized on the cover of Rolling Stone - and we have our tits in the wringer over this kerfuffle?

Speaks volumes as to the state of our society today IMO.:mad:

"The Tawana Brawley Show" Season 2, Disc 1
 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...07-20-08-31-03

ATLANTA (AP) -- One week after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, rallies are scheduled in 100 cities to press for civil rights charges against the former neighborhood watch leader.

Zimmerman claimed self-defense after shooting Martin during an altercation. The case has become a flashpoint in national debates over guns, race relations and self-defense laws. Zimmerman identifies as Hispanic. Martin was black.

The Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network has organized the "Justice for Trayvon" rallies and vigils outside federal buildings from New York and Los Angeles to Des Moines, Iowa, and Little Rock, Ark. He wants the Justice Department to pursue a case.

The group says Martin's mother and brother will attend the New York event. His father will appear in Miami.

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Yes it does.
Add to that such actions as Chris Matthews apologizing for all white people.
Stop. Just as Jackson or Sharpton don't speak for all black people.
I am prejudice, against stupid people - of any color, race, sex, age, religion.
m&c

This is Florida for heavens sake, where nonwhites make up almost half the population - or more - depending on the time of year. It is not a stretch to suggest that Blacks and Whites and Hispanics, etc., etc., peacefully interact and coexist throughout Florida on a daily basis.

Obama, Holder and the propaganda arm of the Democrats have inexcusably allowed the race baiters and hucksters to lead the way and Obama and Holder have personally fanned the flames of racial divide in this country.

The bash mobs and the meyhem that ensues...

Well, it is on their hands.

In this age of seemingly no government accountability that probably does not mean very much.

We newskool.

He is a man for all occasions, a pitch man, one that will lock on to any story to get some face time to push an agenda......but those agendas are just a means of achieving his agenda.


A potential 100 Tahrir Squares, thousands of people in the midst of which are agent provocateurs, the scene gets rowdy, Law Enforcement reacts and we have can ourselves a Trayvon Spring.

If Sharpton and Holder were get there way, Blacks can run around with impunity performing ethnic cleansing........the far extreme of Affirmative Action and the EEOC.


I'm Barack Obama and I Approve This Message

It's days (and Threads) like this that I miss Teddy the most. :(

Very true.

Well the situation is grave and the circumstances are not likely to change as long as the game is allowed to play on. We are stuck in this process of campaigns, promises we'll be there and then once elected they are nowhere to be found.

The US is like one huge Battered Womens Shelter and the citizens have two abusive Pimp Daddy's the DNC and RNC to choose from. They both have a long history of bitch slapping us, yet we continually run from one to the other for the answers.

All we have to hear is Oh that was last time, I have changed and it will never happen again....I am here for you :rolleyes:

The current political environment is one of serial abuse. If you have any sense of self respect you will grow tired of the neglect and you quit participating in the game.....that is the only way to end the cycle of abuse.


I think you have 2 legal choices:

1. Continue trying to work on the relationship, but with the history we have there are 99.9999% odds of relapse and continued abuse.

2. Walk away, terminate the relationship and work on finding something that doesn't abuse you.

And number 3, the Non-Legal, Do unto others as they have done unto you....but worse route.

RIP, Teddy. Here's one for you. :D

The binary code messages are great - the first refers to the article's author, the second refers to the GWOT, and the third refers to a USMC joke that's been passing around the Corps since it began Dec 2005 at FOB Hit in Iraq.

Richard

Reaper Drone Found Not Guilty In Death Of American Teenager
DB, 15 July 2013

A U.S. federal jury has found an MQ-9 Reaper drone not guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter in the aerial bombing death of a young American teenager, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was killed in Yemen in October 2011.

As the verdict was read, the defendant YIPPEEKIYAY-88 sat motionless in the courtroom with a blank expression, its onboard camera swiveling back and forth between the jury and its operator, Capt. Ted Slaughter, who would have faced charges as an accessory to murder had there been a conviction.

Outside, dozens of supportive Reaper and Predator drones, waving signs like “01010000 01100001 01110101 01101100″ and “01100111 00101101 01101000 01100001 01100100″, flew back and forth over the courthouse.

Awlaki family attorney Gul Haji Rachman gave a tearful speech to reporters, in which he vowed the fight was not over.

“Today, we are all Abdulrahman al-Awlaki,” Rachman said, as he donned traditional Yemeni garb of a zenneh, jambiya, and RPG-7. “This Reaper was clearly targeting this young boy, just walking around the neighborhood, minding his business with a bushel of khat,” he added, shortly before he himself was killed in a drone strike.

While the drone strike was originally written off by investigators as just another routine bombing, it gained traction following a massive public backlash. At one point U.S. President Barack Obama gave a televised address, vowing “to get to the bottom of this” and exclaiming, “If I had a son, he’d look like Abdulrahman al-Awlaki.”

During court proceedings, YIPPEEKIYAY-88 maintained its innocence, saying that Awlaki had attacked it first, and displaying pictures of its cracked camera as proof that it was acting in self-defense.

“01010111 01100001 01100111 01101110 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100011 01101011,” it said while being cross-examined, prompting prosecuting attorney Maria Markovic to demand, “And how exactly is that relevant?”

The prosecution called the drone a “wannabe vigilante,” arguing that it had no business flying over another country with its own army and police force. They also played tapes of YIPPEEKIYAY-88′s operator calling Langley, Va. to report his suspicions of al-Awlaki — at one point muttering, “fucking terrorists” — which some see as a clear case of profiling.

“We see a lot of suspicious activity patrolling over Yemen, sure,” Capt. Slaughter said in an interview with police, “but this kid was acting really strange. He was peering into mud huts, walking around aimlessly, and appeared to be speaking in Arabic: clearly up to no good.”

“When YIPPEEKIYAY-88 told me it was going out of his flight path to pursue him, I told it, ‘you don’t need to do that.’ We can always hit him on the way back to base.”

The trial itself was relatively brief: just three weeks of testimony. Legal experts also believe the prosecution’s case fell apart after a key witness was tragically incinerated by a 500 lb bomb while sitting in her bathtub.

At press time, the father of Awlaki could not be reached for comment.


http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/07/re...#ixzz2Zmb3j5JO

I think Big Teddy would've liked this turn of events...
 

http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimm...ew?id=19735432

George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today.

Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman "pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over" at the intersection of a Florida highway last week. Florida Highway Patrol is now handling the case, McAuliffe said.

The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route 417, police said. The crash site is less than a mile from where he shot Martin.

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You think we'll be seeing a Presidential Medal of Freedom for this outstanding citizen anytime soon?

Anyone remember the old Twilight Zone episode - The Obsolete Man?

Folks had fun all day on twitter with the GZ rescue story. Using the hashtag #MSNBCTonight, they tweeted out hilarious guesses as to how MSNBC would attempt to re-spin GZ heroics in their nighttime programs.

Twitchy wrote about it: http://tinyurl.com/mz593my

Some favorites:

• Obama and Holder now urging legislators to make sure Zimmerman can never rescue people again.
  
  
• If only Florida had repealed its "Good Samaritan" law we could have skipped covering Zimmerman's truck heroics.
  
  
• BREAKING: George Zimmerman makes second appearance after acquittal and delivers the #RoyalBaby.
  
  
• I was always taught if a creepy cracka approaches you & asks you to fake a car accident for him for money, you just say no.
  
  
• Would truck have overturned if Zimmerman had not been following it?
  
  
• What really gets me is that the same people that believe the media's portrayal of Zimmerman as a racist now won't believe the same media.
  
  
• On #MSNBCTonight Obama talks about his truck accident 35 years ago.
  
  
• Zimmerman acts out crazed fireman fantasy in broad daylight. Maddow asks if he can be stopped.
  
  
• Al Sharpton asks "What was that racist cracker doing running that truck off the road in the first place."
  
  
• Car Rescues: Zimmerman 1, Kennedy 0
  
  
• No evidence that Zimmerman is a racist, but solid evidence he is a genuinely good guy. Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, CNN, MSNBC hardest hit.

A provocative and passionate message from Bill O'Reilly to President Obama - I don't always agree with O'Reilly but IMO he makes some solid points regarding this complicated issue in his brief monologue at link below.

July 22, 2013
President Obama and the race problem
Talking Points 7/22

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/index.html

I agree with you. I like Bill O'Reilly, don't always agree with him and think he is sometimes over the top, but I think he was spot on in this message. This commentary was fair and balanced. It is also the same thing Bill Cosby has been saying about his own race for years. Jackson, Sharpton, and POTUS should listen and take heed.