Obama On Trayvon Martin

I don't have the full transcript but our President didn't speak stupidly.

In a related story about neighborhood watches, the AP incites me with this:

Violent incidents involving neighborhood watch volunteers are rare but not unheard of. In 2009, two armed neighborhood watch volunteers in Bluffdale, Utah, got into a dispute; one took out his gun and shot the other, paralyzing him.

Those daffy neighborhod watch vigilantes!  Somewhat more contemporaneously, I am surprised the AP ignored this story from January of this year - for reasons I can't fathom, CNN posted news of the subsequent arrest as a related story on an article about Trayvon Martin, which is how I heard about it; here is what the AP missed:

Wednesday started like any other school day for Harry "Mike" Ainsworth. He dropped his two boys at their Algiers Point bus stop around 7 a.m., gave them a warm goodbye and began to walk back home. But the morning turned tragic when Ainsworth was shot to death after he jumped on the hood of car to try to stop a carjacking in the 500 block of Vallette Street.

Ainsworth's sons, ages 9 and 10, heard the gunshots and saw their father stumble to a nearby lawn and collapse, according to Bill Ainsworth, the victim's brother. The boys rushed to their father's side, only to watch him take his final breath.

Meanwhile, the gunman ran from the scene. He remained at large Wednesday night.

Police described the suspect as 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8 and 140 to 150 pounds. He wore a black hat during the shooting, but police provided no additional information about his clothing.

...

Police said the incident began when the shooter walked up to a woman who was sitting in a gray Saturn preparing to leave for work. The man knocked on the window and asked for the time. When she turned, the man pulled out a black handgun and demanded she get out of the vehicle. She did, and the gunman got in and closed the door.

When Ainsworth saw what was happening, he jumped on the car's hood. The gunman then shot Ainsworth and abandoned the vehicle. Witnesses told investigators the suspect was seen running toward Opelousas Avenue, said homicide commander Lt. Gary Marchese.

Since the woman was reportedly out of the car and (probably) out of harm's way, I question Ainsworth's decision making here.  

Ainsworth, a 44-year-old contractor, spent much of his free time volunteering for police causes, his brother said. He was a member of COPS 8 -- Citizens' Organization for Police Support -- a group that raises money and provides supplies to the NOPD's 8th District, which patrols the Central Business District, French Quarter and Faubourg Marigny. In October 2010, he founded a separate police-support group to help individual officers in need of assistance, Bill Ainsworth said.

"He was a Christian. He helped people," Ainsworth said of his brother. "He tried to make the city a better place. That was his main drive."

That Mike Ainsworth died trying to prevent a crime came as no surprise to those who knew him.

"This was far from the first time he's done it," Bill Ainsworth said. "Anything at all, people starting to get in a ruckus, he would go there and break it up."

COPS 8 is more of a fund-raising effort, but there is also an Algiers Point Neighborhood Watch; I saw a story mentioning he was a member, which seems likely in any case.  Which should have been good enough for the AP, except that for obvious reasons there is no news value in the Ainsworth killing.  The Trayvon Martin killing illustrates the ongoing institutional and individual racism that is central to the liberal view of America so it generates a national conversation and Presidential rumination.  A black kid shoots a middle aged white father in New Orleans and there are no broader lessons.

AND ONE MORE THING:  I have read that the police were in possession of Trayvon Martin's cell phone.  Even if it is password protected, it can't take three weeks to get a warrant and have the phone cracked by the phone company, or to get the phone records.  So how can it be that Trayvon's girlfried went undiscovered for three weeks, only to be conveniently found by the Martin's attorney *after* the 911 tapes were released?

[Martin family attorney] Crump said Martin got off the phone with the girl for a few minutes because it started to rain and he was running to get under shelter.

The two reconnected via cellphone for the last time at 7:12 p.m. for four minutes. Police say they arrived at the scene at 7:17 to find Martin dead, Crump said.

The girl told Crump that Martin told her he was being followed and that she had encouraged him to run.

"She knew details about what went on because he was telling her," Crump said.

He said the girl heard the initial confrontation between Martin and Zimmerman.

"Trayvon said, 'Why you following me, man?'" and Zimmerman said, 'What are you doing here?'" Crump said.

He said the girl could tell by Martin's voice that he was then pushed. She thinks Martin's cellphone headset came off and then the call was disconnected, Crump said.

He said that when she called back, the girl did not get an answer and knew nothing else until she heard of her friend's killing on the news.

The girl was so traumatized after learning what happened that she was unable to attend Martin's wake and had to be hospitalized, Crump said.

The police should have gotten her statement before the tapes were out.  The Martin family attorneys are officers of the court in addition to being advocates for the family, but I know what I would tell my client before I deposed her in a case like this, especially with the 911 tapes at hand.  Well, if I were a lawyer and had clients...

In any case, the attorney's story is that the girl was freaking out for three weeks but no one knew she had been talking with Trayvon moments before he was shot until Trayvon's dad leafed through his cell phone records.  Yeah - the young lady never blurted out "OMG! I was talking to him just before he was killed!" to her mother or anyone else.  

Whatever. I don't need to believe the family attorneys to believe that Zimmerman acted badly and that the Sanford police couldn't investigate rodeo clowns.

THIS IS INTERESTING... From RadarOnline:

The Sanford Police Department never questioned Trayvon's girlfriend, even though her parents contacted the cops to tell them she wanted to come in for a sit down interview.

That reinforces my lack of confidence in the competence of the cops and the credibility of the attorneys.

She will be speaking to the grand jury.

SERIOUSLY, I'M STOPPING... An Obama headline:

Obama calls for 'soul searching' in Trayvon case

Ahh, geez, its so dark in there and me without a flashlight.  I guess I will search the FBI Uniform Crime Reports instead.

Hmm, violent crime arrests in 2010, for offenders under 18: 27,983 whites and 29,754 blacks (also 628 Asians, who are either non-violent or too clever to be arrested).

And what are the relative populations?  Great question - from a report on abortion I learn that, as of 2005, there were roughly 6.4 million non-Hispanic white women and 1.7 million black women between the ages of 15 and 19.

So for a very quick and dirty approximation I will assume equal numbers of males and females, that all violent criminals are male, and that 15-19 is a fair proxy for "Under 18".  

Which means that 0.44% of all whites males aged 15-19 were arrested in 2010, compared with 1.76% of young black males.  That is a 4-1 ratio.

And the lesson is what?  Well, this isn't exactly a comparison of lightning strikes to bee stings, but still - the vast majority of young men on the street, including young black men, won't be arrested for a violent crime in the next year, which suggests they are unlikely to commit one during any one passing encounter (of course, in most violent crimes the victim and assailant know each other and your odds of becoming a target may also vary depending on whether you look like Clint Eastwood or Don Knotts...).

On the other hand, Jesse Jackson had the numbers on his side:

“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.” 

Yeah, him and Obama's grandma. I have read that Mr. Jackson has since distanced himself from that sentiment because cranks like me keep vexing him with it.  Maybe we can get him to disavow this one too:

“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.”

So now I can sneer at welfare recipients on April 15 (that is the day that half of Americans pay income taxes, for those who find that reference confusing)?  Thank heaven Rush Limbaugh didn't say that or Media Matters would never let go.  FWIW, I deplore the attitude Jackson is promoting here.

Comments

[NK]

TomM-- are you feeling OK? This sounds like one of BenF's rants yesterday.

I admit I despair at this whole racialist discussion; a 14yo boy is dead, a middle aged man's life ruined and probably going to jail, a cop's career kaput, a civic association scandalized, race hustlers reveling in the muck. For what?

[Clarice]

TM, Am I the only one seeing Tom Wolfe flashbacks?

And what about the family of a 14 year old boy who doesn't come home for three nights, and doesn't call the cops to look for him--even after a shot was heard in their neighborhood while their son was out?

[Threadkiller]

Is the "3 days in the morgue" part of the story BS?

I am jumping in here to say that from Charles Blow's chat with the parents the body was ID'ed the next day. The dad reported a missing person, the cops put two and two together and went by the house with a photo, and dad came to the morgue to make the ID. Ghastly.

One might wonder why Dad let the son roam all night in a strange city (And was it a strange city, or had mom moved away with Trayvon after the split?) without bestirring himself for a quick walk around the block, during which he might have noticed some flashing blue lights. Whatever. --TM

[Gus]

All I want to know is, when they hang Whitey Zimmerman, will it be pubilc?

[Tom Maguire]

This sounds like one of BenF's rants yesterday.

Let me get a sweater, it's chilly in here.

For what?

Search your soul. It's a teachable moment.

[Jack is Back!]

TM keeps forgetting the parents. Where the hell were they for 3 days? And why didn't they report Trayvon missing? Especially, the father since Trayvon was on his way back to his father's girlfriend's house. Unless his father wasn't there but Trayvon was sacking out there since he was from Miami visiting and maybe his father didn't have room for him at his place.

And there is not one scintilla of evidence that this was race related in any way unless one wants to assume that having a neighborhood watch means you're racists. If anything, it would appear that George Zimmerman was a wannabe even though his own father says he was also altruistic and helping kids, etc. But you don't have to be a wannabe, you can be a legitimate cop and still put to much shine on your badge and do the same thing Zimmerman did.

Then there was the 911 call by Zimmerman who was telling the dispatcher that the kid was rummaging around in garbage cans and acting funny. What was that all about?

[boris]

14? Reports say Trayvon Martin was 17, same age I enlisted.

Most pictures now in news reports look like he was 14 at the time of the photo, while Zimmerman's photo is obviously a mug shot.

[jimmyk]

I don't have the full transcript but our President didn't speak stupidly.

Is that supposed to be tongue-in-cheek? It sounded pretty stupid to me. First, in one fell swoop he inserts himself (his favorite topic) and race (2nd favorite) into the narrative ("If I had a son..."). Second, just days after his press secretary says it's a local matter, he's making it a federal matter ("it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together, federal, state and local...").

[LouP]

How ironic is it that this whole thing is starting to smell like an old-fashioned, media-driven lynch mob?

[Gus]

For what it's worth, WIKI says Trayvon was 17, and Whitey Zimmerman had an unrelated arrest in 2005, for which he had his mug shot taken. Whitey's Mother was Peruvian, his father "Caucasion-Jewish". No mention of Trayvons religion, nor Whitey's mothers religion.
This story is a sick effing joke.
Neighborhood "watch" dude, gets bloodied in scuffle, 6'3" "child" gets shot.
Sharpton, Jerry Rivers, Opie Obama and Charlie Rose all involved as is the rest of the TURGID LIBTARD MEDIA. Looking desperately for a RACIAL angle.

[jimmyk]

Oh yeah, and third: Collective guilt ("All of us have to do some soul-searching..."). Why? Did we have to search our souls after the white boy was set on fire by his black schoolmates in Kansas? At the risk of crossing a line, I have to say it reminds me of when Ariel Sharon said, after the Sabra-Shatila massacre, something like "Goyim kill goyim and they blame the Jew."

[Rob Crawford]

The two reconnected via cellphone for the last time at 7:12 p.m. for four minutes. Police say they arrived at the scene at 7:17 to find Martin dead, Crump said.

I call BS. If they were on the phone from 7:12 to 7:16, that leaves only a minute between when she claims to have been speaking to Martin and when he was "found dead".

AFAICR, that doesn't square with the 911 calls.

[Harry]

No current pics of the kid. Apparently he's not the little cute kid in the photos that are out. Also,Zimmerman claims to be "hispanic" not "white"

[NK]

TomM@5:02-- Oh boy I get to tell my kids and dogs tonight TomM responded to one of my comments!!-- the wife? she don't care.

Wait, hold on a tick-- here's a thought-- is TomM also BenF? The mind boggles.

[Rob Crawford]

If anything, it would appear that George Zimmerman was a wannabe even though his own father says he was also altruistic and helping kids, etc.

Actually, his "wannabe" status is not clear. There was apparently an organized neighborhood watch; he wasn't the only one on it. His supposed over-zealous calls to police amount to an average of one call every three months -- out of the ordinary, but perhaps not out of the bounds of reason depending on the neighborhood and given his role on the neighborhood watch.

Like LouP said, this is a classic Democrat tactic -- stir up race hate and violence to keep their "low-information voters" in line.

Things are going to get ugly before this time next year. God help us all.

[NK]

In other criminal news-- Congress committee has emails showing Corzine is a fraud AND a perjurer. Further testimony next week; Get some popcorn and Seize Corzine's passport and Gulfstream IV!!! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-23/mf-global-s-corzine-ordered-funds-moved-to-jpmorgan-memo-says.html

[Rob Crawford]

Apparently he's not the little cute kid in the photos that are out.

ISTR he's an over-6' tall football player.

On suspension from school for (depending on the report) 5 or 10 days.

[Rick Ballard]

I suppose it's easier to sneer at Neighborhood Watch volunteers from the safety of an economically segregated, gated or high end suburban neighborhood. Why don't the yokels just lay out enough money to hire professional security to protect their property? Or move to places where drug dealing scum aren't prone to steal anything that's not nailed or bolted done?

How terribly declasse to have to rely upon neighbors to protect property just because the police are always minutes away when seconds count.

[Gus]

Jimmyk, the key word is "soul".
Soul music.
Soul food.

[Jack is Back!]

Another great tweet snark, this time from Ben Domenech:

"RT @jamestaranto: #ILikeObamaCare because the challenges to it have driven @DahliaLithwick and Linda Greenhouse around the bend."

BTW, the best tweets to #ILike ObamaCare have been from Dave Burge (Iowahawk).

[Clarice]

Yes, Rick, Forget that the only reason the poor Portuguese neighborhood in Newark is crime free is that the men have there own neighborhood watch, or that women and children can walk thru Little Italy in NYC without being molested is because no one would dare face the angry men in that neighborhood if they did.

[Clarice]

If Obama and Sharpton play their cards right they can lose the Hispanic AND Jewish votes in Florida.

[Clarice]

Taranto's columns today and yesterday are total masterpieces--Greenhouse and Lithwick skewered and roasted to a turn.

[Jack is Back!]

Rob,

He had applied to be a police cadet and got turned down. He had made over 50 calls since 2009 to 911 regarding crime watch observations. He had a CWP and a gun.

Down here in cracker country we have a Sheriff's department with a C.O.P.S. service (Citizens On Patrol) who drive depatment vehicles and do not carry and cannot confront only report. And since when does a gated community need a neighborhood watch and doesn't have its own security. Weird.

Classic wannabe.

[NK]

JiB-- 'Classic wannabe.' that's what it sounds like to me, but don't jump to conclusions like PaulR did the other way -- especially if the kid was 17 and school suspended.

[Clarice]

I think with this as in the Duke case and almost everything frankly, it's fair to assume 99.5% of all the press reports are B.S.

[Pops]

Just three weeks ago, it was the Obama position that killing children SAVES MONEY.

Supposedly the shooter is Hispanic and half his relatives are black. Not sure what the 'white' angle is here.

Will the media also declare Obama to be white?

And the 'if I had a son, he would look like Tayvon is just CREEEPY. Why does everything, everything have to be about HIM??

[Rob Crawford]

He had made over 50 calls since 2009 to 911 regarding crime watch observations.

Wrong. That factoid is based on a typo made by the police. The fact is he made 46 calls over the period of ELEVEN years. That's a hair over one every three months.

(And, of course, the site I read this at is now under DoS or just overloaded.)

He had a CWP and a gun.

GASP!!!! HORROR!!!!

Clearly anyone with a CWP (and a gun) is just stalking the streets looking for an excuse to shoot someone. Why else go through all the expense and fun of the licensing process?

And since when does a gated community need a neighborhood watch and doesn't have its own security.

When it can afford the fences and gate, but not the full-time security staff?

[NK]

Pops-- agree with your5:44. 'Bam is clinical.

[Gus]

Ben "cleo" Franklin, is a "CLASSIC WANNABE", but that doesn't mean he's going to shoot us.

[Rob Crawford]

Supposedly the shooter is Hispanic and half his relatives are black. Not sure what the 'white' angle is here.

Stirring up a lynch mob and getting as much racial anger in the news as possible. Why else hold a "march" in NYC?

[Ignatz]

--Classic wannabe.--

Which, whether true or not, tells us persactly nothing about the specifics of this case.
Even wannabes get jumped and pounded and act in self defense.
And there is certainly no shortage of "actual ares" as opposed to "wannabes" who abuse their badge and murder unarmed people for little or no reason.

[Pops]

So I know next to nothing about the case, but apparently when the police came on the scene, Zimmerman had a bloody nose and a wound in the back of his head.

So let's just speculate that Zimmerman confronted the kid, then started to walk away and the kid hit him from behind. If that is what occurred, of course your going to use your weapon that you have on you.

Anyway, I just think the left needed to get off the whole 'Bill Mahrer calls a bunch of women sluts' story.

[Gus]

OCCUPOOP U.S.A.
DEMONIZE the tea party.
Millionaires and Billioinaires.
Sandra Flucks too much,
Trayvon victim of Whitey.
HOPE and CHANGE.

Which one of these does not belong.

[Danube of Thought]

Now the entire Miami Heat team has posed for a group photo, heads bowed and wearing hoodies.

[Jack is Back!]

Well you guys have more information than I have and I live in the Orlando media market. You evidently have better sources than we do.

[NK]

DoT-- remind me to never watch the NBA. What a bunch of dumb f#@^%s

[fdcol63]

Is this the point at which everyone needs to be reminded that Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground sought to incite a race war in America?

And that Obama is Bill Ayers's Manchurian Candidate who became POTUS?

Indeed, it's gonna get ugly.

[hit and run]

Pops:
So I know next to nothing about the case...
So let's just speculate...
If that is what occurred...
Anyway, I just think...

I think you're on to something.

[hit and run]

NK:
remind me to never watch the NBA

If you need a reminder about that,then I question whether you should be calling others dumb whatever-it-is-you-called-them.

[Ranger]

So now the plan comes into focus:

Obama team gaming out open support for gay marriage among top Democrats?

So all this racial pot stiring is about keep the African American vote locked up while coming out in support of gay marrage to unlock all that "creative class" money that hasn't been flowing into ObamaCo's campaign coffers.

[Clarice]

Heh--American Doctors for Truth.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2AMOgKM6qo&feature=player_embedded

[Jack is Back!]

Clarice,

One of the docs called into Rush yesterday. They are the real deal. Have a feeling it wasn't your random call. Wonder if El Rushbo is their angel?

[Rick Ballard]

Clarice,

The youtube reminded of a general question I've wanted to ask. I had a physical last month and a dental check up a week after. I noticed an absolute absence of MFM propaganda mags at both the doctors office and the dentists office. No Time, no Newsweek, no Redbook, no People etc.

Has anyone else noticed an absence of propaganda at health care offices?

[Gus]

Of course Obama is going to change his stance on the Keystone,,,,errrr, I mean Gay Marriage. Obama/Axelrod are in a panic. They are looking for new sources of votes.
Going after the HALF HISPANICE WHITEY ZIMMERMAN, is not going to work out too well for Obamacrime Inc.

[NK]

BenF@6:23 seals it: BenF is TomM!

[Ignatz]

--Has anyone else noticed an absence of propaganda at health care offices?--

There are a number of Time magazines at wifey's oncologist's office.
Of course they are from the Clinton and first Bush administrations so I'm not sure that says anything about Obabmacare.

[Gus]

What a sneaky way to up your hits!!!

[Danube of Thought]

I think I have a bit of a problem with the stand-your-ground law as it applies (or seems to apply) here.

[Rob Crawford]

Dana/Cleo -- GFY.

[Rob Crawford]

Oh, and I'm referring to the real one, not just the sock.

I know the real one rarely ever cuts loose on what he feels down in his heart of hearts, so the 6:23pm comment was not from the real one.

(It's just a remarkably accurate simulation)

[Captain Hate]

I know the real one rarely ever cuts loose on what he feels down in his heart of hearts

Check out last night's action.

[Chubby]

((Also,Zimmerman claims to be "hispanic" not "white))

afaik "hispanic" is a linguistic group, not a race

[hit and run]

If you were smart, you might lay low for a while.

And if redemptive self-awareness were in vogue...

[Gmax]

Well this is somewhat interesting. KLO link which CC gave us on the other thread I am replicating here. Scroll down to where it says in the text above the picture "AND DALLAS:" Tell me does that look like the back of the head of a six foot redhead wearing a white shirt in the immediate foreground? If so, that be me! Here:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/294300/protesting-hhs-mandate-standing-religious-freedom-kathryn-jean-lopez#more

[Clarice]

Handsome devil, CH.

[Gmax]

What are the odds in that big of a crowd and the only picture from Dallas was from someone standing right behind me? I can prove to my wife ( who went to the Ft Worth rally ) that I was there now. See as they have always told me, God works in mysterious ways!

[Janet]

Wonderful, Gmax! Looked like a beautiful day in Dallas.

[Clarice]

Interesting you should mention that, Rick, I'm seeing more travel and nature books instead of magazines in my doctors' offices. You don't suppose that even free they don't want that carp any more?

[hit and run]

I would recognize the back of that head anywhere (I spent half a women's college soccer match studying the backs of the heads of the entire UNC parents' section afterall)

[Gmax]

LOL Jeff you did indeed. But I will never forget that precious look on Princess face when JMax approached the fence...

[Clarice]

I meant GMax, not CH. The back of your head is lovely and we'd recognize it anywhere..

[Gmax]

You know its kinda strange to see a picture of back of you. You dont see it much and its almost impossible to get a view exactly like that even with a mirror, so I studied it quite a bit. The white shirt and my positioning in regards to the banners on stage convinced me. No flash went off, but as you can see there was not a cloud in the sky so they did not need more light.

The speaker on the stage at that point was a black man who said some stuff about Barack Obama that would remove paint from furniture. He really was disgusted with the One.

[hit and run]

princess hit and run still talks about meeting JMax. I can't remember -- was JMax left back or right? I'm thinking right?!!?!

princess hit and run has really taken a liking to defense this season. She alternates now between goal and defense. She's not aggressive to the ball so much as she is to someone else who has the ball.

If the ball were standing in front of the opponent's goal waiting to be kicked in the back of the net for a goal,princess hit and run might go after it . . . or not. But if an opponent is barreling down toward the goal she is defending,princess hit and run will (legally in most cases) take the ball from the opponent to make the clear.

She's only eight,so legally and not-so-legally are very gray areas...

[centralcal]

I agree, you look quite handsome from behind, Gmax!!! So glad you followed my link and found yourself - lol.

[Gmax]

Center Back Hit. Sweeper.

[hit and run]

Ah, of course. In the wee little leagues we only have 5 on the field at a time (plus goalie) . . . two back,three up front. princess hit and run usually (to the detriment of my heart) waits until the opponent is behind her and then swoops in from behind to take the ball.

She seems to almost enjoy letting the other player think she's got a clear path to the goal before . . . so sorry,that's my ball,c-ya later.

[Gmax]

Hit Jmax started playing at 8. I was paying little attention just being supportive Dad until the coach came up to me after a couple games and said something like, you know I have never seen anyone quite like your daughter. She takes the ball away from the other team, dribbles through the entire rest of the team and puts the ball in the back of the net. She is gonna be special.

He was right, but hey she was already special to me.

[boris]

If it's true that Zimmerman was flat on his back screaming for help with 6'2 football athlete Trayvon on top and punching him out .... then the question of standing his ground would not likely apply.

The only question would be if Zimmerman had it coming. Which is where CRT is likely to be applied.

[Ignatz]

--He was right, but hey she was already special to me.--

Ah.
OTOH, hope you don't mind GMAX but I spent less time studying the back of your head than I did admiring the many attractive young ladies fighting the good fight in various locations around our great land.

[Rick Ballard]

A slightly different picture of Zimmerman emerges.

How amazing.

[Jane]

[i]Has anyone else noticed an absence of propaganda at health care offices?[/i]

They only had People at my dentist recently. I love looking at People just to see if I recognize one person in the magazine. Generally the answer is "no".

[Gmax]

Iggy if it was the former and not the latter, well my teenager would call that creepy!

[Gmax]

I wonder what Janet and Porch saw, but I was encouraged that there was lots of young people at the rally. Not little kids in tow, yes there was some of those too. But teenagers and young adults there to exercize the first right mention in the First Amendment.

[Ignatz]

--Iggy if it was the former and not the latter, well my teenager would call that creepy!--

I'd call it creepy.

[narciso]

So I went to see the Hunger Games, and despite
Donald Sutherland and Lenny Cravitz's attempt to spin it as pro OWS, it's rather strongly pro tea party, the heroes of District 12, are coal mining bitter clinging stock,

The reviews that I read after I saw it, were fairly inadequate to the task, even the Journal's guy, and of course the Times is out to lunch, but what else is new there,

[Danube of Thought]

You look like a stud to me, Gmax.

[Gmax]

No offense DoT but it sounds better coming from my wife...

[narciso]

So, this is 'unexpected' no not really;

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/95007/racial-profiling/

[Ignatz]

Creepy.

[Clarice]

DoT--you are too gloomy and doom ridden..I do not think Obamacare will survive. Let's hope the protestors mug Kennedy or the penumbras and auras vanish for a brief moment in time to save the country.

[scott]

CNN and also Mathews, 'boosted' the 911 call to enhance a supposed racial slur, "f***in' coon". Zimmerman clearly says "He's at the back entrance...He's f***in' close". They, the MFM, apparently need a racial component to demand a Federal hate crime case. When they drop the low end out and increase gain at 2.2 and 4.6kHz, the 'l' in close drops out. This thing's as bad as NBC 'boosting' gas tank explosions.

[Janet]

Here is the lovely Lila Rose speaking at the DC event today, who did the undercover work with the Mona Lisa Project.

[Janet]

I'll keep an eye out for the Star Parker speech on video...she was wonderful & strong.

[Ignatz]

--DoT--you are too gloomy and doom ridden--

Yep. Maybe this will help;

[centralcal]

Thanks for linking that Rick B. Yes, a different photo and a different view of Mr. Zimmerman. Wonder when we will see an equally current picture of Trayvon, instead of the very young ones everyone is currently showing?

[Clarice]

Ig, if that doesn't perk DoT up, nothing will.

[centralcal]

Perfect timing, Ignatz. Actually our last appointment today left at closing time - he is a D.A. and was with his wife, and, yes, I had JOM "up" on one of my two monitors.

I really, really appreciate your humoring me with the time restriction on female derrieres.

[Clarice]

A more current pic of little 6 '3" Trayhttp://s1151.photobucket.com/albums/o628/trayvonslimmmartin/

[Ignatz]

--I really, really appreciate your humoring me with the time restriction on female derrieres.--

Anything, for my favorite, cc.
Don't tell, clarice.

[Gmax]

I want to go on record as saying that Brad Miller is dead wrong and does not speak for me. I would root for DOOK over the Taliban any day. Just barely but hey. Unless one of my options for both of them to lose and to be crushed and ground to small pile of salt...

[Danube of Thought]

Yes. It perked me up. Hugely. Martini No. 1had just arrived on board.

[Frau Grammatik 80%]

I believe it's "lie low" fwiw, but Pitzer Kidz won't notice.

[bunky]

Justice asshat Kennedy just made up law that gives defendants the right to effective counsel during plea bargaining. He will write the majority opinion upholding Obamacare.

[Ignatz]

Nice, feel good story of Christians in Texas helping out an ailing atheist with some bills, who had protested their Nativity scene.
The atheist protested their Nativity, his bills didn't, in case that wasn't clear.

[Clarice]

Since most criminal cases are resolved in plea bargains, I happen to think that's a decent result. What's the point of allowing assistance of counsel if you do not provide for it when most people need it.

Maybe I'm prejudiced but the more I see of prosecutors these days, the more protection I think we need from them.

[centralcal]

Oh, thanks so much and Clarice trademarked smooches back at you Iggy for allowing me the pleasures of JOM at work.

Actually, the day you posted several lovely, albeit quite graphic, butts in a row, an elderly gentleman client who is a bit of an *ss himself (cough *retired doctor* cough) was exiting my boss's office. Unfortunately for me, I had just refreshed JOM on monitor #2 and up popped one said beauteous butt. Flustered I hastily tried the old SOB move, but only more butts appeared. Shaken, in those split seconds I fumble bummed looking for the "X" to close the browser just in time before the elderly (thank you, God!) gent rounded the corner to full view of both my monitors. This fella is a real challenge as a client and while he may have secretly appreciated your lovely photos, I am sure my boss would have been embarrassed and horrified after having had to spend an hour with the jerk already.

[Danube of Thought]

Now comes this race-hustling fraudulent son of a bitch to calm everyone down:

"Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Friday that he's grateful the rest of the country has sat up and taken notice of the tragic slaying of Trayvon Martin. But he can't help but wonder: Why has it taken so long for everyone else to recognize the chronic injustices that African Americans face?

"'We're surprised that everyone else is surprised,' Jackson told the Los Angeles Times. African Americans have tried for decades to get the rest of America to understand their plight, he said, particularly their beliefs that justice is still elusive in many parts of America, especially the Deep South.

"Then along comes the Trayvon Martin case, and facts that are not in contention: Volunteer neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman pursued and then gunned down the unarmed 17-year-old last month, and never faced arrest because police said there was no evidence to contradict his claim that he fired in self-defense.

"'I hope that this will be a transformative moment,"' Jackson said."

Actually, I hope so too.

[narciso]

Fitz, Morris, Welch, et al, make good arguments for the defense, they are everything
they pretended Ken starr to be.

[Rick Ballard]

The Sanford cops have a webpage on the shooting. A statement and 911 calls plus other info.

Clarice,

That photo surprised me. The President's comments led me to believe he would look more like the result of an illicit liaison between Minnie and Goofy.