Ugh..
Zimmerman's lawyer compares Trayvon death to kids who die of cancer...
Saturday night’s main event.
Bars and restaurants filled with patrons undoubtedly are now suddenly embroiled in Saturday night conversations about George Zimmerman, Tweeting their thoughts, and lamenting the justice system if they disagree..
There will be outrage and rage.. some will be happy that the justice system, for all purposes, seemed to work. Work in the sense where a jury finds a defendant not guilty because the prosecution substantially failed in proving the case of Zimmerman murdering Trayvon Martin in cold blood… one night in Florida months ago.
Tonight, when a jury of six women, five mothers, found Zimmerman not guilty, the justice system was exposed…It’s flawed and often wrong.. sloppy and long.. Legal briefs are abundant.. nights are late.. And the battles are more than skin deep.
When Casey Anthony was found not guilty, so many felt a world of horror for her daughter who had no justice… And now tonight, many feel the same for Trayvon Martin..
Trends are trending on Twitter tonight. Facebook is alive and well with passionate opinions.. Bloggers are opining .. in person, many are rambling.
This trial intrigued the nation.
And whenever a trial does that, it causes so much division.
Maybe it’s time, as a nation, we come to grips with the fact that we are needlessly divided by race.
When it comes down to it, what really divides us?
Are we divided by race?
The class system?
Religious differences?
money..?
Money.
It somehow goes back to money.
And money will be the issue now, as the civil litigation against George Zimmerman will begin. Most likely immediately.
OJ was found not guilty last century. But the civil lawsuits got him—even before he got himself by getting caught robbing his own trophies…
The George Zimmerman trial has played out, and now the outcome will play out..
It wasn’t 12 angry men, but instead 6 something women. Maybe if the jurors express their thoughts, we’ll find out if they were angry or happy with their decision..
Two of the great things on earth combined: Ragtime piano music and Tetris. great mashup..
Enjoy..
But I can only say this.. I am annoyed, very annoyed actually, with the amount of times both the prosecution and defense used the word ‘really’ in their closing arguments. Apparently both sides have been watching lots of old Tina Fey/Seth Meyers “really” skits from the Weekend Update bit on Saturday Night Live.
It was completely overdone.
At one point the defense lawyer, you know the one who looks like a sick cross between John Kerry and Mark Furhman of OJ fame, said “really? really? really? really? ” .. .REALLY?!
Enough!
The jury, all six strong, should have in lockstep shouted back ‘YES REALLY!’
Really.
A century of scifi movie predictions have just been realized in the 6foottall robust android called Atlas.
DARPA is making this..
The FastCompany article says,
Boston Dynamics has been busy working on an entrant for DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge, a contest aimed to create robots that can help in disaster situation.
Sure.. and it could also crush you with one lugnut if it gets mad.
You pick.
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Delbert Weinbrum was first to decode http://t.co/7LQoK9aIDE and as I said on Facebook, it means exactly what you think it does.— Art Bell (@ArtBell51) July 12, 2013
That is all I can comment on for now, stay tuned.— Art Bell (@ArtBell51) July 12, 2013
This is going to be a very dangerous storm for Asia.. here is Typhoon Soulik poised and ready to strike Taiwan.. it’s been years since Taipei got a direct typhoon hit. That lucky streak could end by Saturday in the AM as this storm bears down..
Positive thoughts and prayers are with the island nation..
There has been an exodus from the coal region of Pennsylvania over the past generation.. high unemployment, economic conditions worse than other areas, and traveling to better jobs, all have forced younger people away from Schuylkill County .. And now the POTTSVILLE REPUBLICAN is sharing knowledge that has already been assumed: Most people who are young want to leave Schuylkill County..
Schuylkill County commissioners had a press conference on Thursday. They say that the county has lots to offer—presumably more than Yuengling beer and the A-Hole in Girardville—but they lament the fact so many young want to leave the area. To put a number on that, survery was conducted of the ‘yout’ of the region.. it found that 55% want don’t plan on living in the county when they are adults.
Of course, kids have grand plans. There is sure something about the coal region, maybe those tentacles of coal veins, that latch on to your spirit and trap you in the area.. Kids today become coal-region bar hoppers tomorrow, still wearing their varsity football jackets, trying to relive the dream of yesteryear. Just place GLORY DAYS by the Boss, and most will tear up thinking about the Friday night lights—unless your school didn’t have lights, in which case you’ll think of Saturday Afternoon Sun (*Cardinal Brennan football players would understand that*)…
So ….what would be a model for the future?
Two possibilities exist:
1) The county will continue to perish slowly, like a miner running out of oxygen in a confined space.. It will keep its high unemployment, and is generation of disenchanted kids..
2) Many who leave the area for experience and knowledge, will actually come back to Schuylkill county at some point in their lives, and bring progress to the area. The future will feature people, people who don’t sport mullets and cutoff jean shorts, creating jobs and hope ..
Which possibility is more likely?
A stroll down any street, Schuylkill County, will show how difficult number 2 would be to achieve.
Very humbling.
Hopefully my crazy talk tonight on 432 hz didn’t drive you away..
Maybe I was the victim of frequency mind control.
Good REM song.. remember that? Dan Rather should.
Nonetheless, I am researching all of this crazy HZ information and came across an interesting article on the 528 hz.. The ‘love frequency’ .. This website at least concluded that 432 hz is the best..
So they say..
Is this all crazy to you?
Here is the DOORS, changed from 440 hz to 432 hz.. Can your ears tell any difference?
I notice it..
LET IT BE at 432 hz.. Much better.
So let’s get a little conspiratorial and crazy, shall we?
Here’s a video where your untrained ear can most likely tell the difference between 432 hz and 440 hz.. Which ones makes you feel calmer, I ask?
I think there’s something to this whole vibration of the earth thing..
But I had a fallback plan. I resorted to actually conversing with people—in person—about the topic throughout the day…
Quite an array of tunes..
Lionel Richtie..
Lee Greenwood (yes someone actually said that)
Even Annie Lennox.
I found out, though, whether it was LOVE GROWS WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES or SWEET DREAMS… I can find some happiness with the songs mentioned by friends and co-workers too.
So it gives me the feeling that, regardless of the era of time or the artist who created it, everyone’s happy song has a common thread: they are just songs that make you feel good. Even if you didn’t realize someone else’s song could make you happy too, you realized after they said it.. “well, golly that song makes me happy too.” And you need to use the word ‘golly’ for it to be truly happy.
The other thing I began to contemplate was that old rumor and conspiracy theory that the 432 hz frequency we should be is on is perverted by the 440 hz we were placed on. Maybe these happy songs are on the 432? Just sayin..
Maybe some happy songs coming tonight.. along with some conspiracy talk about those strange HZ rumors..
Looking for positive thoughts today..
And happy music
My favorite happy song is Love Grows Where my Rosemary goes (and not because of the movie SHALLOW HAL!)
So what is your ‘happy song?’
Pope Francis on Thursday bolstered criminal legislation against child abuse in the Vatican in an overhaul of laws that apply to the clergymen and lay people who work in the tiny city state.
The Vatican said in a statement that the pope’s decree included “a broader definition of the category of crimes against minors” including child prostitution, sexual acts with children and child pornography.
Ok.. anyone who worked in the food industry knows what a Mother’s Day cleanup or a New Years Eve night looks like. But i don’t care how bad the restaurant you were in was, it looks nothing like this Golden Corral …
By the way, for your health, the restaurant is in Florida..
Piles of trash.. ‘fresh’ meat near dumpsters..
And to all the dirty restaurants among us: The net is filled with foodies and whistleblowers.
If your kitchen is this bad, it deserves to be online for all to see..
Last night I proposed a one ingredient (and substantially more standing) lifestyle. Today was day one.. I think it went well. Carrot juice in the morning followed by an apple, chicken with salt and pepper at lunch and broccoli.. dinner is yet to be determined.
The goal is not to really lose weight, though that would not be a bad thing, but also to just be overall …. better. Feel better, act better, live better. That is the true goal of the one ingredient standup lifestyle..
We will see how this goes..
In the mean time, here are 20 other healthy foods to consider
Anghus Houvouras is an old friend and a great writer. This article is pretty well thought out, too..The argument is made that the media is murdering movies before they are out.. The ‘Crucifixion Principle’ .. interesting concept. Good read.. It’s worth a follow as well ..
The chairman of a company whose train barreled into a small town told a newspaper its brakes may have been inadvertently disabled.
According to police, it wasn’t terrorism. Just ‘criminal’ at this point.
Investigators are trying to determine if the train’s brakes were disabled..
BOSTON (AP) — His arm in a cast and his face swollen, a blase-looking Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing in a seven-minute proceeding that marked his first public appearance since his capture in mid-April.
It was 2006
George W. Bush was president..
And we were all not aware of what Edward Snowden has recently told us..
If only we could go back in time and say sorry
This from CNN:
Google and related services were inaccessible to some users this morning, prompting confusion and consternation across the Web.
Reports of outages began about 9:30 a.m. ET and quickly spread on Twitter, with users asking if the problem was affecting others as well.
Among the services affected were Gmail, Google Plus, Google Drive and YouTube. According to anecdotal reports, the outages appeared to be most prevalent among users in the Southeastern United States.
Google did not immediately comment on the problem.
Look no further than Geocities.. This website captures some of the classics..
I myself had a few Geoshitties sites..
It was the original Myspace.. the original blogger..the original Facebook.. it predated Tumblr. The divorced dads and Jeep lovers from the 1990s paved the way for the personal blogs and opinionated sites of today.
God bless Geocities, and the pavers of the internet superhighway.
But Yahoo! shut down Geocities.
And now Yahoo! owns Tumblr…
Hmmm….
I haven’t had any kind words for Justin Bieber. I’ve maintained no fever.
And with TMZ report about Bieber urinating into a mop bucket at a NYC city restaurant and cussing
Bill Clinton, my already 0% regard for him has now plummeted j to the negative territory.
I will not say anything that hasn’t been already..
I think every working man, woman, and child should be offended at this. It’s tasteless sure, but even more so is an insult to minimum wage workers and disregarded service employees—many of whom should be busy deleting any songs they own featuring the voice of Beebs.
Yes, indeed….the cell phone camera is always spying. In this matter, Bieber was using his own urine in an attempt to humiliate the people who most likely just waited on him hand and foot. But instead he only disgraced himself even further than the repugnant little creature has done previously..
A natural gas spill in the Gulf of Mexico is leaving a four-mile-wide “rainbow sheen” on the water’s surface south of Louisiana, the Coast Guard said Tuesday.
Good to see so many people linking this around the Internet(s) .. I linked it a few days past.. Love seeing everyone in agreement, right and left, about the state of American police…
[T]he Fourth Amendment requires that searches be “reasonable.” If using a SWAT team to make sure a bar isn’t serving nineteen-year-olds is a reasonable use of force, it’s hard to imagine what wouldn’t be.I’m digging this because I’m reading through his new book as all of these articles are being posted online. I’m so glad that this topic is receiving more much needed attention. I mean, the Department of Education has their own fucking SWAT team for crying out loud.
My step-dad was a sheriff in Dallas, Texas for fifteen years so when the topic of police abuse comes up you can imagine the kinds of discussions it devolves into. In just the few years since my step-dad retired, the police force in America has changed dramatically.
A freshly laundered shirt, covered in plastic, flaps in the wind as it takes flight from in front of Manayunk Cleaners. It wasn’t picked up by a breeze, though, rather a remote-controlled drone,…
New technology is here to stay. For better or worse.
Dry cleaning.. better
Drone attacks.. worse.
In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not scientifically proven to work, according to experts and government documents.
Even more from McClatchyDC:
Federal employees and contractors are asked to pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors – like financial troubles, odd working hours or unexplained travel – of co-workers as a way to predict whether they might do “harm to the United States.” Managers of special insider threat offices will have “regular, timely, and, if possible, electronic, access” to employees’ personnel, payroll, disciplinary and “personal contact” files, as well as records of their use of classified and unclassified computer networks, polygraph results, travel reports and financial disclosure forms.
Oy …
The People’s Meteorologist and his moll just couldn’t keep quiet about The Forecast That Never Was.
I have been inspired by my nephew, a little over a decade younger than me, coming back from several weeks of his training to become a Marine and seeing a healthy, altogether different looking young man.. It made me realize the roly poly little bout-faced boy I am becoming needs to stop.
I think it’s time to become thinking about healthy. I am heading quickly into the 30s.. and then the early midlife. And God forbid some type of strange crisis. Luckily for my family we don’t have the money to spend on a Corvette—but whatever stopped a man from making rash decisions without fundage before, right?
Nonetheless.. I have decided on a new healthy lifestyle decision. First off, eliminate as much sitting as possible. We all know lots of studies and research exists to show just how much we sit, and how it could actually be deadly for our health… And yes, it will be tougher playing ANGRY BIRDS while standing.. but these are the pitfalls of a healthy choice.
The other factor into healthy life 101: Eliminate as many GMO foods as possible *sometimes that’s impossible* .. but to make it even simpler, I am going with the ‘one ingredient diet.’
While I don’t know and did not research whether anyone coined the term ‘one ingredient diet’ yet, I am going to attempt to claim credit in my ignorance.
My simple notion of this diet: Don’t eat anything with more than one ingredient.
For example: If you want lemon peppered salmon, you would purchase; Non-GMO fresh caught salmon (good luck, I know), a lemon, pepper, and butter. You would NOT purchase the seasoning already made or margarine, as they have more than one ingredient. If you want applesauce, buy an apple, sugar, and mash it together. Avoid the applesauce with added ingredients, splenda, and especially ASPARTAME (cue the dread music.)
So it’s not that you’re only eating one thing, you can actually combine your one ingredients together to make a meal.
This will get rough.. indeed.
But for generations, no, CENTURIES, we’ve done this. We’ve cooked, and made our own food.. And now, today, even this day, people are dying off quickly from the last generation that knew how to cook. Like, really cook. Like cook their butts off to the point where you never had anything that tasted that good. THAT is the purpose of the one ingredient diet. You cook your own food, slower, and longer, and you appreciate what you’re eating more. And you can also get to know what you’ve been eating.
There were be some exceptions. For example, if I cannot find sunflower seeds without salt, I can cheat and get ones with the salt.. I don’t care to make my own bread so I will buy from local bakers who only add the basic ingredients instead of the 500 that big makers put in..
And wine and beer?
Well.. not sure yet on the wine aspect.. Needs to research what ingredients go into FUNKY LLAMA, my favorite brand. But I have the beer thing covered: Straub from Pennsylvania. Good beer, no salt or sugar added..
So wish my luck .. hopefully this mission won’t become an ordeal. Maybe if it works I can market it.. Unless someone else did that already. And if you did, don’t sue me.. Pay me to help you!
And drink up, healthy beer style.
We constantly fail to acknowledge the atrocities of war , street violence, and human rights abuses that our own government is committing.
This is more than an interesting story appearing on TRUTHOUT from the DAILY TAKE.. The idea that for Americans to understand torture and the effects of American policy, we have to see the most brutal of scenes..
It bring sup one question in my mind: Have we become numb to torture, that even if we did see it we’d look away and not even care?
We have been handed torture fest films for a decade since 9/11.. TV shows glorify hardcore violence against someone for the purposes of extracting information (think 24) .. how many SAW films did they make now?
So when we really see the real thing… do we even notice anymore?
What kind of a society are we in?
We did change since 9/11. That is no lie..
Chucky is 25. Did you know that?
And I guess in that age of movies, you’re bound to be direct to DVD..
But.. now I realize something.. me, and others in my generation, practically grew up with CHILD’S PLAY. It was the horror movie always there since we were young. Interesting when you put that perspective on it.
So.. Think NBC will regret letting Leno go? He certainly has worked for them since about 1995 when Letterman changed his style and started the ratings dive…
I still say late night television was ready for a female comedy host. They missed their chance..
Chelsea Handler or Tina Fey would have been spot on..
Instead they are stuck with Jimmy Fallon… I think they’ll regret it.
(Though this is also a good chance for Arsenio Hall, who is throwing himself back into the ring)… Yes it feels like 1993 all over again..
Why are the police now stopping people from exericising their rights to speak to the media?
This boy was a witness to the San Francisco plane disaster over the weekend. Clearly we see the police officer pull him away as the anchorman on the ABC affiliate says the police are keeping him from speaking to the media…
But may I ask.. why?
This wonders watching, and call me crazy but the name Shirley will give the storm and exceptionally cocky attitude..
Science fiction becomes science fact..
More proof of something I have long believed about life on this planet: We know absolutely nothing, and everything we consider fact is only fact long enough until more evidence comes forth to disprove it..
Amazing stuff.
Must be a portal.
And you thought eugenics was long-gone.. WRONG
SWAT teams raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking? Overwhelming paramilitary force is on the rise
This is a must read by Radley Balko at SALON.. I think we have all noticed a militarization of the police across the United States. You’d have to be under a rock not to.
It’s probably not a good thing, either..
Read this one if you think it is: Elizabeth Daly bought water, and went to jail for it. Seriously.
Not convinced yet?
What about the story of AJ Marin, who did the crime of …. writing in protest with chalk on a sidewalk outside Pennsylvania Governor Corbett’s mansion.. His citation: He was arrested for writing a “derogatory remark about the governor on the sidewalk.” The “derogatory” comment that AJ was arrested for stated: “Governor Corbett has health insurance, we should too.”
Anyone waking up and performing their first Google search of the day will be greeted by a new Doodle from the company, something they have made famous over the past few years: Remembered today on the Google Doodle is the 66th anniversary of the Roswell UFO crash.
I myself played with the interactive Google doodle a bit too long, trying to figure out how to help the little E.T. find his spaceship back home..
If you are patient and stay with it long enough, you actually end the little game with a “Google Daily Record” headline saying a flying saucer was spotted over Roswell, indicating that your gaming has been successful and the alien has found his way back to space..