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13 years ago @ A Political Season - Trayvon Martin: Zimmer... · 0 replies · +1 points

Here's the most likely timeline, one that doesn't require anyone to be lying or nefarious, including Martin's GF:

Zimmerman sees Martin, calls 911
Martin sees Zimmerman, runs
Zimmerman parks, chases Martin
911 says stop chasing, Zimmerman returns to truck
Zimmerman agrees to wait for cops
Martin returns to Zimmerman with GF on phone
Someone hits someone, Zimmerman is beaten badly, to the point of being potentially lethal, and kills Martin

In that case, it really doesn't matter who hit who. If Zimmerman hit Martin, he didn't hit him hard enough to injure him. If Martin hit him, then he is clearly the aggressor. It Martin took a slap and then responded by trying to beat Zimmerman's brains out, he's still the aggressor, because that's disproportionate force.

And in all these scenarios, the first chase doesn't matter, because Martin is the one who got away and then chose to come back for a confrontation. The shooting happened right by Martin's truck, which is consistent with him waiting for the cops, not chasing Martin all over the complex. Martin is the one who came back.
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13 years ago @ A Political Season - Trayvon Martin: Zimmer... · 0 replies · +1 points

Also, Zimmerman lost Martin before the confrontation. That is also documented on the 911 call. If Martin was ACTUALLY afraid of him, all he had to do was... continue to his father's apartment and stay there. Or, he could have gotten off the phone and called 911 himself, instead of talking to his GF.

It's time to take race out of the equation, and face facts -- Martin was a testosterone laden young man with a lot of impulse control problems, and he make a fatal error.
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13 years ago @ A Political Season - Trayvon Martin: Zimmer... · 2 replies · +1 points

This reading of the GF's account is discounted by the 911 call. On the call itself, you can hear Zimmerman exit the vehicle and run after Martin for a short time before returning to his vehicle and waiting for the police (after the dispatcher told him he didn't need to chase him.)

In any event, it doesn't matter how it started. Martin was using lethal force against Zimmerman, as the medical records show. He did it before Zimmerman shot, because the gun shot and the knuckles he busted on Zimmerman's face are Martin's only wounds.

Martin had a catastrophic failure in his victim selection process. To me, the story ends there, and race doesn't matter.
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14 years ago @ HillBuzz.org - How Would YOU Symboliz... · 0 replies · +1 points

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14 years ago @ HillBuzz.org - Something You Can Do T... · 1 reply · +1 points

Tam, one has to be honest here. I didn't praise them exactly. He was using them as an example of how they were able to gain control over Southern Lebanon thru things like health clinics. What he failed to do with that example was show that if we didn't engage in Health Diplomacy our enemies could and gain an advantage over us. But then he is Mitt, smartest man in the room.

14 years ago @ HillBuzz.org - Never, Ever Take A Dri... · 0 replies · +3 points

Dear Kevin,

I am not very computer literate so please forgive me if I don't know how to post links. But, I believe the following may answer some of your questions about what Romney could be hiding.

The Ulsterman Report
Wall Street Insider: "California"
January 24, 2012

The report, itself , is interesting and the comments add more insight. There is quite a discussion about Shorebank and how money was made to the detriment of the housing industry.

14 years ago @ HillBuzz.org - What City Would You Mo... · 0 replies · +2 points

It would take a heavy wheelbarrow full of money to get me to leave Texas. I've been asked (although I took it like a threat) to move to California for work, and I would honestly require a double salary just for the expense and headache.

FWIW, six flags and a lot of video game developers are located in Dallas, along with other video game houses in Houston and Austin.

14 years ago @ A Political Season - Republicans Have Becom... · 1 reply · +3 points

Wow, talk about missing the point. Asking the Tea Party to apologize for Santorum is like asking the NAACP to apologize for the Nation of Islam.
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14 years ago @ A Political Season - Republicans Have Becom... · 3 replies · +3 points

Point in fact on the Tea Party ending farm subsidies:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/...

14 years ago @ A Political Season - Republicans Have Becom... · 1 reply · +3 points

I'm with you. Means testing for SS would be a huge, huge step forward, much bigger than the welfare reform of Clinton. Bailouts and subsidies are all big targets of the Tea Party (of which Santorum is very much not a follower -- he's a social con. He's not a fiscal con by any means.)

Here's the problem. As soon as black people hear what they think are some sort of dog whistle, they immediately forget all the other things that have ever been said, and home in on that one statement like it is the entire platform. "Why are you focusing on us?" No one is. You are focusing on you.

Seriously. We have two times that Santorum has even brought up black people in the entire campaign, and black people are acting like that is some sort of indictment of the entire party. There's an irrational factor there.
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