Mr. Hudson of the "Atlantic Wire" has it just right and what I have said for years unending.

John Hudson  

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While military analysts are belaboring the launch's geopolitical consequences, it's easy to lose sight of what North Korea is paying to "monitor weather" patterns. Sometime between now and Monday, Pyongyang will launch its "Unha-3" rocket but it will have cost hundreds of millions of dollars and tons of food to make that happen....

When a country has used it's national resources for building nuclear capacity and looking to the world for sympathy for its people there is hardly any reason to allow such aspirations to continue.

The leaders of North Korea no more suffer for their militarization than those of major countries that have such capacity, but, the people are an entirely different story.

It is way Nuclear Non-Proliferation is paramount to peace and prosperity globally. If there are no nuclear threats and resources can finally be used for the benefit of the people, the world has a real shot at being a reasonably decent place to live. 

...Money Pyongyang is also spending a significant amount of money on the launch that could be going to its people. Today, we found out what he damage is. The Daily Telegraph has gained access to documents that reveal the country is spending $850 million on the launch, which could feed millions of North Koreans. "The cost of the rocket, revealed in restricted documents seen by The Daily Telegraph, would have been able to buy 2.5 million tons of corn of and 1.4 million tons of rice – helping to alleviate poverty for millions." To put those numbers into context, the U.N. estimate for North Korea's entire harvest of cereals this year is 5.4 million tons....

If that ludicrous reality isn't enough, there is the fact if North Korea actually tried to launch against South Korea or Japan, it would prove to do itself more physical damage with radiation poisoning that it could not recover from.

Assad is unwilling to let normalcy return to the streets of Syria.

By Richard Spencer, Ruth Sherlock

7:17PM BST 12 Apr 2012

...Residents of Syria's major cities (click title to entry - thank you) reported a downturn in violence as a ceasefire came into effect on Thursday morning, though there were sporadic outbreaks which both sides blamed on each other.

But Mr Annan backed the major activist groups who claimed the regime had failed to honour its promise to withdraw troops and tanks from towns and cities. He told the UN security council by video from Geneva that he wanted it to authorise its own monitoring mission to supervise the ceasefire

He also challenged the council, including the regime's key allies Russia and China, to issue a formal demand that it comply with the demand to withdraw troops

Russia said it would back the monitoring mission, which has also been agreed by Syria and is likely to be approved by a security council resolution on Friday. The first team of observers might leave by the weekend, according to reports...

Zimmerman is dangerous. I don't believe anyone can dispute that unless every American should be tracking down suspicions with a loaded gun.

...Zimmerman was not arrested at the time because police believed his claims of self-defence, enraging Martin's family and sparking six weeks of mass protests in central Florida and elsewhere.

"I would like to get him out. I need to get him out to assist me in going over all the evidence and preparing our defence," said O'Mara, who met his new client for the first time on Wednesday evening.

"He is stressed. He's tired. He's been through a lot with the way this case has been handled to date. I'm just hoping that his mental health stays well and that we can move forward in getting this case figured out."

Zimmerman has been held in protective custody since his arrest on Thursday, with his brother Robert declaring that the family was disappointed by the severity of the charge....

Ms. Fulton has a right to reconcile her grief in whatever way she like. She lost a son and she cannot conceive of anyone seeing her son in a way that would cause his demise. If she wants to reconcile herself to the fact Trayvon's death was an accident, then so be it. That does not relieve the judicial system of any responsibility for the truth and the fact Trayvon is dead by what very well may be a horrible and liberal Florida gun law. That remains to be seen.

My sympathies to Trayvon parents, they have been brave beyond any expectations through all this. I found Ms. Fulton's words very healing yesterday and I expect that is what she intended. Trayvon had a great mother.

...Earlier on Thursday, Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, said she believed that the shooting was "an accident".

"One of things I still believe in is a person should apologise when they're remorseful for what they've done," she told NBC's Today show.

"I believe it was an accident. I believe it just got out of control and he couldn't turn the clock back."

Mitt Romney opened this subject and there is absolutely no reason to villian of any woman commentator.

The FACTS are completely clear, Ann Romney has lived a life as a wife and homemaker along with being an adjunct to her husband's aspirations.

I think that rounds out the description of her career option nicely.

As per Ann's role with Mitt, he referred to her as the expert at his side on woman's issues and tried to have a spin into the economic doldrums of the country with an adjective of WOMEN in front of this.

The fact is that Ann Romney is no more an expert on the economic dilemma's of the Working Class, Middle Class, Lower Class, Poor or any other CLASS the Upper Class can think of than the moon is made of green cheese.


Some women would envy her position and believe it or not there are those of us that DO NOT.


The fact of the matter is Mitt Romney is a Male Chauvinist and there is absolutely no doubt what so ever about that. He deferred any expertise regarding women to his adjunct in life, his wife. That is the epitome of Chauvanism at its pinnacle. 


Additionally, somehow the 'stay at home Mom' is coined as the 'ULTIMATE WOMAN.' HELLO? When are men and women in the USA going to lose that guilt trip? HUH?


Ann Romney was a 'stay at home, Mom." Whoopee. A woman that contributes to the economic stability and wealth of her family does ALL the balancing acts as Mrs. Romney and more. Women in a career or a job can hold their heads high in the ability to act in more than a role of child rearing and housekeeping and volunteer at the local benevolence enterprise in town.


Women that add to the economic stability and wealth of their families through a career or a job should be highly esteemed in a society that CHRONICALLY discriminates against them. 


Why was the Lilly Ledbetter Act even necessary and why wasn't it achieved until President Obama entered office? 


The economic ANALYSIS of women is not the only deception Mitt Romney is engaged with either. At the beginning of this recession in 2007 the downturn in housing was significant and the GOP did NOTHING while Paulson roamed China on the government's dollar.

The impact at the beginning of the 2008 Great Recession removed large numbers of men from the job market. The construction sector crashed big time and housing sales stagnated. So, Mitt needs to look for FACTS and not SPIN, but, in any of his public addressed all I have heard is political propaganda and not much else. 

Ann and Mitt are welcome to be Ann and Mitt, but, in relating to me and my peers they can forget about it on nearly every venue of life!

Working Women should never be demonized and those that uphold that reality in their female commentary should never be villianized!

As far as pity for her physical trials, then she can walk a mile, because I too am a breast cancer survivor and suffer from a chronic illness. GET OVER IT !

And I raised two wonderful sons ALONE.

The attacks on Hilary Rosen are absolutely no different than the attacks on Democratic women over time.

Ann Romney is typical of the GOP's idea of ideological.


Democratic women have been attacked by the GOP when it comes to being a working mother for as long as I can remember.


Women are SUPPOSE to be dependents to their men and be supportive of their loving darling of a husband. It is why there is no room for gays in the GOP. How can they put forward the IDEALS of "The traditional family" if there are two men or women in the picture.


OLD. VERY OLD IDEAS OF PERFECTION. BIBLICAL, EVEN!


Ann Romney uses Twitter to fire back at Democratic strategist who says mother of five hadn't worked a day in her life (click title to entry - thank you)

BY ALIYAH SHAHID AND JONATHAN LEMIRE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5:45 PM

Hours after she was insulted by a Democratic operative, Mitt Romney’s wife on Wednesday launched a Twitter feed and struck back.

The brouhaha was set in motion when Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen suggested Ann Romney has never held a job.

“His wife has actually never worked a day in her life,” Rosen said on Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” show on CNN. 

“She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we — why we worry about their future.”

Ann Romney’s new Twitter feed — @AnnDRomney — popped up two hours later, along with her sharp response.

“I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work,” wrote Romney, 64....

Ah, the modern day Granny, she tweets!


Did Ann Romney go to college or did she move immediately to the Joining Room along with her peers before she was 21 years old?


Ann Romney is so good looking for her age. I am trying to think of her peer group. I don't know, maybe Martha Stewart. NO, no, no, she has a career. Maybe, oh I don't know??? Hmmmm.....


I can't think of one. Ahhhhh, the perils of the ONE PERCENT Granny!


I know one, the Former First Lady, Mrs. "W" Bush. Oh, wait, she was a librarian.

Coming apart...also known as Republicans' Class Warfare

I don't know where to begin with this, so let's begin at the end at 57 minutes and 40 seconds, "...All in the room (speaking of those in the audience) are in the Upper Class...."

"Coming Apart" on Amazon (click title to entry - thank you). Amazon has a sample of the chapters on their site.


I wasn't going to put this on the blog until Saturday night, but, I am tried of the lies. 


I will comment on this with references of the 'minutes and seconds' to my comments.


This book and the talk Charles Murray gives at The Heritage Foundation on the video above IS the quintessential proof the GOP has a war on women and 'get this' they base it in racism of the 1960s. 


The entire time I listened to this video all I heard was the agenda of George W. Bush during his eight years in office. The entire agenda of the Bush/Rove agenda tried like the devil to turn back the social hands of time to the 1950s.


In this video Murray states the cultural rollback of the USA "...cannot appeal to religious reasons...". It just won't work, you understand, so it has to be a matter of participation and finding a way for the NEW upper class to influence the new lower class.


It is MURRAY that is assigning class here, but, he never validates how the USA's greatness is the Middle Class. He doesn't see the Middle Class as essential. 


He makes an interesting statement though, he said welfare debases the morality of any person, BUT, the only way removing welfare from society is justified is if there is a GUARANTEED income. He never qualifies what that means either, but, given the fact the upper class in 'mingling' with the lower class it must be based in work.


More in entries that will appear below this one.


This entire book and video is unbelievable to me. Arrogant. Non-participants in society and judgemental. The people at this meeting literally are on a plain different from others. 


Oh, yeah, pay attention to THE SUPER ZIPS. I'll comment later.


Tired of the GOP and Republicans DENYING they are social engineering the USA that qualifies as a social war at every level.

In case one find Murray inspirational to defeating the GOP at every turn there is a Podcast, too.

Listen to the interview with Charles Murray on this week’s Scribecast (click title to entry - thank you) 

...Murray said white Americans began coming apart in the 1950s, when college-educated individuals separated themselves. This became particularly noticeable in centers of cultural and political influence like Hollywood and Washington. Today, Murray said, many Americans living there no longer understand what life is like in small-town America....

Yes, indeed. Murray and his mentorees absolutely hate Americans. The majority of us.

Minute of 26:55 seconds...of the video above...

...Dr. Murray states the 'industriousness of MALES" have been undermined by the 1960s. He states creating jobs in 2012 is a waste of time BECAUSE these guys don't want to work. 


No sense to creating jobs. None. No reason to. It might be why Speaker Boner doesn't really care about it. It may be a real reason why 'ideologically' there are filibusters in the Senate and complete dysfunction in the House. Seriously.


Dr. Murray espouses the ideology of the extremists and it tracks for the eight years of Bush/Cheney. Rove worships this guy.


The GOP war on women is real and so is the racism of this political party. I mean eight years of trying to roll time back to the 1950s? Give me a break. This is real. This is the ideology they are following either knowingly or by osmosis from hearing Murdoch Right Wing extremism. Tell me it is not true. Go, ahead. Try. Come on convince me. Examples from the last administration and their priorities. Can't do it, I know you can't.


Murphy demonizes journalists and academicians. Sound familiar?


He goes on to state there is no reason why people are not family oriented in the way the Heritage Foundation defines it because the 'family wage' is only a little less today after 2008 than in the 1960s. He states the wages before the economic recession of 2008 were slightly better than the 1960s. He states the wages in the 1960s, outside of General Motors, was $16 to $17 US per hour for the 'working class.' Really? And this wage is slightly less than today? WHERE? Because most people are lucky to earn $40,000 per year in a TWO PERSON working relationship. There are households in the USA raising a family on $40,000 per year two person income and they consider themselves doing well. Now where are all these folks making nearly $16 to $17 per hour?


He states White Males are the way to attack the social issue, because, if the Black Males in the USA are a focus there is always cause to suspect racism. He states White Males are 'dropping out' of the work force in their 4th and 5th decade of life. In their 30s and 40s. Really? Where are the statistics stating that? I am quite confident if there were losses of income by 30 and 40 somethings in the USA of WHITE MALES it would be very noticeable. So, where are the all the stats? In the book, maybe? Sure, why not.


One of the reasons there is such immoral work ethics in the USA is because there have been some really good years, such as the late 1990s. Let's see, the late 1990s was Clinton. Not Reagan? Clinton produced really good years for the country? Hm. 


Dr. Murray sees no reason (somewhere around 29:00 to 29:49 minutes) for a compulsory service because that would only lead to the awareness of the public in general that military service was a way of obtaining upward mobility. Even though folks can benefit from the discipline of the military experience, there was no reason to make it a habit.  Dr. Murray was enamored with that view when he read it from David Brooks, who stated, "...it only teaches people to game the system." Really? Not that a person's life is on the line for their country or anything, but, hey we don't want them gaming the system. You betcha.


So, if these points of view are shared by others without prompting from Murray then the 'culture' of the 'conservative' is corrupted with it outside of 'the Murray cultists.'

At 39:33 minutes...

...Dr. Murray states women in the work force factored into the social degradation of the USA.


Those damn women, if they only maintained their place in life. I mean really.


It would seem raising a paramour's, oh excuse me, wife's IQ from 100 to 140 completely undid the country. The beauty of an Upper Class Man marrying an intelligent woman is that their children inherit their high IQs and their money at the same time. It is a beautiful thing. Might explain why they won't give up The Bush Tax Cuts.


Ya, see, what happened from a women (namely me) with an unknown IQ, was that women found out they could actually have a family and support it. In the 1960s those women without husbands went back to college and became self-sufficient. It started the entire mess and we will pay for it forever.


I was one of those gals. Not the 1960s, but, the 1970s. See, the bum I married that was my childhood sweetheart, decided he could have his cake and eat it too and took a mistress. I didn't like it and he stated, "But, honey, I don't want a divorce. And let's face it, with you pregnant you don't want sex now."


I said, "Really?" I threw him out of the house and out of my life and I went back to school and supported my two wonderful sons to success now that they are in their 30 somethings and doing fine. So, Dr. Murray and his mentorees are completely stupid people with no moral compass except their bank accounts.


Dr. Murray goes on to say white men are demoralized by working women. A man just doesn't find his worth in a marriage anymore and it is a problem women have and not men.


There was a beautiful political moment at 43:15 minutes when Matthew Spaulding of the Heritage Foundation stated, "Big Government and the rising centralization of 'the state,' was causing civil society to be pushed into the shadows." He stated, "It was taking away the responsibilities of the elites to make those social judgements as they should." 


Dr. Murray agreed. The decentralization of 'the state' would revitalize the culture so the elite can create the type of society they wanted to establish.


Imagine that. The government is getting in the way of homogenizing the people of the USA under one moral tent. under one religion. Wow. Egos beyond any imagination I ever had before I heard this disaster of 'the audience of the arrogant.'


Dr. Murray called for a revolution by the New Upper Class/elite. He stated there were only four domains in society. Only four, no more. The way life should be. 


Family


Community


Vocation/avocation


Faith


Indeed. If anyone reads this book and listens to the words of Murray and his mentorees and comes away with a definition of morality then they sincerely don't know what morality is.


Dr. Murray is the mentor to the GOP and their 'high minded' ideas of control of society for profit masked in their idea of morality.


This disgusted me and there is no way the GOP or Heritage Foundation can deny they are among the most misguided people in this country.  They are arrogant and judgemental, lack compassion and hold money in higher esteem than the lives of others. They are disgusting people. Completely. 

I didn't take notes for the first half hour of the talk. I simply was in denial to what I was hearing.

At 33:30 minutes.


The Elite of the 1960s lost confidence about race. It was in the 1960s when blaming race for social problems was met with criticism of 'blaming the victim.' So the elite withdrew from judgements and that withdrawal became the behavior of the entire country.


Those judgements caused the Upper Class a loss of self-confidence after the Civil Rights Movement as important as it was. But, the loss of self-confidence of the New Upper Class of 2012 still exhibits this lack of self-confidence. Of course it isn't as though they might be self-involved or anything, but, they need an ego boost to get over their lack of confidence. Wow. What a burden that is, huh?


Just imagine being the New Upper Class and being burdened with changing the entire USA by example. To lift the poor fools in the remaining Middle Class and New Lower Class. Wow. Must keep 'em up at night.


I guess that is why all those sleeping pill commercials, huh? Sort of a public service to the New Upper Class.


Dr. Murray never once gives tribute to the leader of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. Let me see if I can do this without injecting race and see if anyone recalls the man. 


l.  Married


2. Preacher of God


3. Dressed in suits


4. Spoke English


5. Father to children


6. Advocated morality over violence


7. LIved as an adult in the 1960s


8. Saw the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed


No, not Johnson. Johnson was never a preacher.


9. Never served in government


10. This is the giveaway. Ready? There was recently, under the Obama Administration, a statue dedicated to him. 


11. A memorial actually


The man at the very center of the Civil Rights Movement was Martin Luther King, Jr. He gave his life for the liberation of his countrymen. Now, the picture of the black community of the 1960s, measured by their leaders could never be accused of demoralizing laborious white men, now can they? 


So, in my opinion, for whatever it is worth, the 1960s was NOT a "Flight from judgement' by the elite. It was more like the behavior of a remorseful realization of the injustice of their predecessors.


The analogies of Dr. Murray goes on and on including the demoralization of the 'Married Class' in the modern ear so that most children are raised in single parent households, especially being born into single parent families. 


He reminds of Cheney when Cheney tries to justify the Presidency of Richard Nixon. He reminds of Bush when Bush states, "Roe v. Wade" was improperly fought. He reminds me of many people of the Right Wing that would like to turn the clock back to a time when the GOP was a glorious party. He reminds me of people that love to pass judgement on others rather than realizing their responsibility in producing a greater and greater POOR in the USA. Their country of opportunity and self-righteousness, including perks like 'The Bush Tax Cuts." 


It would be real interesting to hear the NEW Upper Class state they would like to have the Bush Tax Cuts ended. That would really interesting. Moral even.

The law needs a chance to achieve justice for Trayvon. There is a good chance there will be "No Bond" for George Zimmerman.

Penalties for Second Degree Murder (click here)

The crime of Second Degree Murder is classified as a First Degree Felony and is assigned a Level 10 offense severity ranking under Florida's Criminal Punishment Code.

If convicted of Second Degree Murder, a judge is required to impose a minimum prison sentence of 16¾ years in prison and can impose any additional combination of the following penalties:

• Up to Life in prison.
• Up to Life on probation.
• Up to $10,000 in fines.

The degree this case will receive any bond status is prescribed by law. It is at some discretion of the judge, but, only for extenuating circumstances.

...In practice, every county establishes a "Standard Bond Schedule" (click title to entry - thank you) where the Chief Judge for the county signs an Order advising the jail personnel to set and accept bail bonds in accord with a "schedule." A little like a menu, the schedule lists nearly every offense in Florida and then sets a "standard" bond for that offense.

Offenses for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment (or death) are not entitled to immediate bond. They are initially booked in as "No Bond" cases...

Each county sets their own Bond Schedule.

If you are arrested in Orange, Seminole, or Volusia County (click here) you may be in need of a bond hearing or an emergency bond hearing. A person is held on a no bond status for a variety of reasons. If you are currently out on bond and rearrested you are not automatically entitled to a bond, or if you are arrested for Violation of Probation (VOP) you are not automatically entitled to bond. In some instances a Judge determines the charges are too serious such as a life felony, the Defendant poses a threat to the community if released, or the Defendant will reoffend if released.

That said, the purpose of bond is to ensure that an individual does not flee while there charges are pending and that they show up for scheduled court dates. If a person is being held on no bond a lawyer can file a bond motion with the Judge whose division the case is assigned, argue the bond motion, and even request the Judge to lower the bond amount....

There is better than a good chance George Zimmerman will not receive bail even though this is his first significant charges. I would surprised if he did receive bond. It is almost best for law enforcement to keep him out of danger. We live in a world where guns are frequently in our world. We also know there are killings for witnesses and otherwise. I believe there is reason to believe his life would be in danger if he was out on bond. I don't know what kind of conditions exist in the Seminole County jail, but, if there was a question to George Zimmerman's safety it will be brought up by the defense attorney if there is a history of danger in the jail environment.

Personally. I believe he should be held over with no bail. I realize his family and he may be acting in good faith, but, considering all the public attention George Zimmerman sought he is a bit unreliable to insure his own safety. I believe his mental stability needs to be determined as well. There are many reasons to maintain him in jail and he probably won't receive bond. 

Trayvon's family is also allowed peace of mind leading to the trial. In their talk with Reverend Sharpton and at the news conference after the announcement by the Special Prosecutor, the family looked more at peace. I believe they are sincerely mourning their son. There is no doubt in my mind this is a very difficult time for them. But, knowing they have done all they can do to bring Trayvon's killer to this point has brought them some solace.

This is difficult because I don't believe the "Stand Your Ground Law" is a good law or a reflection of a civilized society. It adds violence to people's lives. Violence is frequently not a commodity untrained people can handle well, and even soldiers have problems with killing when they are entitled to it. Violence is within our society, but, it honestly does not have an honorable place and to place it in the hands of the average person is completely irresponsible by legislators. I am not surprised the Congress in DC hasn't moved against the state laws of this nature. The Republicans would filibuster it. I am quite confident of that.

There are far too many guns on the streets of the USA. This is an example of it. Power in the hands of those that cannot discern it's brevity.


I want to thank the Special Prosecutor for meeting with the family. Sincerely appreciate it. 

John Guy will lead the investigation of the case.

I like her. I believe she is sincere. I believe she will seek the truth and do the right thing.


This is being prosecuted under the laws of Florida. I hope they are strong enough to uphold the innocent.


I congratulate Trayvon's family and the community of Sanford and the greater community in support of this effort. 


Time will tell. We will find the justice the State of Florida will render for Trayvon. I am looking forward to sincere justice, not, a justice handed down by extremists.

I hear the parents to Trayvon Martin. I understand their wishes.

The truth is Trayvon is dead today because he had no way of defending himself against a man that passed judgement on him and used a gun.


I honor their wishes in knowing we have an African American President that understands the depth of the community.


There is a wrongful death. Trayvon was a completely innocent young man growing up with the trials and tribulations of his young years. He had dedicated parents that loved him and he is not here now. He is not here now because of a self-righteous gunman empowered by immoral legislators backed by the wealthy allowing him to decry Trayvon's life for self-defense and law enforcement police had no recourse.


Enough. 


There is a reality here. It cannot and will not be distorted by anyone. Trayvon was completely innocent, a wonderful African American young man that deserved a future the land he was born into nurtured. He is gone. His contributions are gone from us forever. THAT alone is a crime that carries moral consequences.

Unless the earthquake displaces UP in a specific fault movement there won't be a tsunami.

The location is not the issue, except, for the population that lives at lower elevations and near the shoreline.


The Christmas Tsunami is on this blog in 2004. I wrote about it more than I care to remember. Too many people died. Far too many. At least today the people along the shorelines run and know what they are facing. If that is the only legacy to the dead, then let it be so.


...NDMA vice president Sashidhar Reddy (click title to entry - thank you) said no waves had so far been noticed in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands....


There are bathymetric survey's of Earths crust under the oceans, but, no can control the movement of the plates on liquid magma. I do know 'hard rock' geology doesn't lend itself to 'prediction' either. There was a study some time ago by a female scientist in California whereby wave motion was linked to land movement in a micro study. I don't know if she plans to extrapolate the methods of the study or if she can. But, it is oceanography and the study of the water and its relationship with the land that will ultimately diagnose the plate movement in some sort of predictability. Today, the issues of land and ocean are primarily separate studies of science. FLUID MECHANICS where it applies to HARD ROCK is where it is at. And if anyone believes land doesn't become FLUID during seismic activity they are in profound denial of what occurs. HARD ROCK of Earth's crust sits on liquid HOT ROCK.


Enough.

T. Boone Pickens NEVER is asked about Carbon Dioxide.

"The USA has the cheapest oil in the world."

Give me 2 minutes with this guy. Just two minutes.


"California went to natural gas 20 years ago because it is the cleanest energy in the world."


"Solar and wind can't move an 18 wheeler."


NO ONE ASKED IT TO YET. But, if 18 wheelers were the only thing we had to fuel with BIODIESEL we won't have to worry about CARBON DIOXIDE!


The journalists are WIMPS!


According to Pickens we should be at war with Saudi Arabia over high oil prices.


Does T. Boone Pickens know how to spell C-A-R-B-O-N  D-I-O-X-I-D-E and Human Induced Global Warming.


Heck, no Mr. Journalist, there is no such thing! Ask Georgie Bush, he'll tell you. There ain't no such a thing and there is no such a thing as The Bush Tax Cuts either. And that man knew what was important including oil subsidies. Now, that there is a President! It is a damn shame Cheney couldn't get that pipeline done before he left office. We thought it was a done deal, but, the President decided to put his pants on!

Murdoch's Hannity should not be brokering communications.

There is a Special Prosecutor and Hannity should not be brokering communication with the SUSPECT.


If Hannity is brokering 'a truth' based on his own priorities for political purposes that will taint any jury pool and will jeopardize any trial. 


I find Hannity's involvement exploitative of the legal system. At this point I sincerely believe the Special Prosecutor is in question in her point of view and allowing Zimmerman freedom to this extent. 


...In addition (click title to entry - thank you) to revealing that Zimmerman has spoken with Hannity – the Fox host refuses to divulge what they discussed – the pair said they were “concerned for his emotional and physical safety” and suggested he might be suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from watching too much television coverage of the case. They wouldn’t disclose Zimmerman’s whereabouts, with Uhrig saying, “you can stop looking in Florida, look much further away than that,” but “he’s in the United States.”...


Rob Blagojevich became a celebrity defendant, but, he never disappeared and I am confident he had threats against his life as well. 


I don't appreciate the way this case has been handled at all. It has been a long time.


I also find it interesting that Hannity found no reason to withhold information from Zimmerman's attorneys. Hannity has legal council putting him in the position he is in now and intends to pull profits from 'exclusive' rights to Zimmerman.


The former attorneys for Zimmerman stated they had made themselves available to the national media; that was probably part of their agenda for their fees. The donors to Zimmerman's defense probably demanded the attorneys be 'out there.' By Zimmerman making himself an exclusive to Hannity, Zimmerman could be paid for that capacity rather than the attorneys. AND Hannity could GUARANTEE a specific television and radio media MESSAGE for any fees he may be paid by Zimmerman's backers. Zimmerman is now a 'paid advertisement' for the gun lobby.


Everybody knows Murdoch is a GOP operative and Hannity will use Zimmerman for political purposes and manufacturer his own truth.


This is what happens with a GOP Governor that wants to allow his cronies and allies latitude in the laws they assisted in sponsoring through ALEC. Rick Scott did a lousy job with this and one has to wonder whom's side he is on.


Rick Scott signed that law while the NRA smiled on his governorship. This is what we get now. 

The innocent and unarmed are second class citizens to violence now. 

Here I go again with safety concerns, but, there is no chance Guillen has family in Cuba, right?

Just a thought. Should the FBI be looking into something?

I realize Mr. Guillen has been controversial before, but, has anyone asked him why he isn't necessarily saying what the USA community believes? He might have reasons no one bothered to care about.

Suspended Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen apologises for 'big mistake'

Ozzie Guillen, the outspoken manager of Major League Baseball's Miami Marlins, is scrambling to quell a growing political firestorm after expressing his "love and respect" for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

Guillen was suspended on Tuesday for five games by the Marlins for the comments, made less than a week after the organisation moved in to a new stadium in Little Havana, the heart of the city's sizeable Cuban American community.
Guillen apologised at an emotional press conference in Miami on Tuesday morning, expressing his regret at his "betrayal" of the Latin American people and his sorrow for letting down his club and players....

George Zimmerman disappeared? What happened to him?

I think it is odd Zimmerman disappears and his attorneys withdraw from the case. Why aren't they concerned for his safety? Strange. If I was his attorney I would be demanding an investigation into his disappearance, regardless, of how it turned out.


I don't blame them for withdrawing, but, isn't it premature? They don't know what has occurred and they abandoned him. Isn't that a bit unethical?


There was no bail holding him in the area, so there is nothing unlawful of him leaving town, but, I find their idea of responsibility strange. They were representing a man that hadn't even been charged. The Special Prosecutor announces there is no Grand Jury, Zimmerman disappears and his lawyers withdraw from the case. I find it very odd.

The attorneys for George Zimmerman, (click title to entry - thank you) Craig Sonner and Hal Uhrig, said Tuesday they have lost touch with their client and are withdrawing from the case.

Zimmerman is the neighborhood watch volunteer who has admitted to fatally shooting unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in Florida.

Zimmerman is the focal point in two separate investigations into the death of Martin, 17.

Zimmerman, whose  father is white and his mother Hispanic, says he shot Martin in self-defense after following him in a gated community in Sanford on Feb. 26....

Santorum could not compete with Romney's money. Just that simple. Romney's media campaign was grueling.

It wasn't as though Santorum didn't have funds, he did. He even had six zeroes in those funding figures, but, it could not compete with the media barrage of Romney. In ratio to outcomes and monies spent, Santorum should have won the nomination. For every dollar Santorum spent he had better outcomes compared to the monies spent by Romney in the same races when votes, not nominees, are counted. 


Romney bought his nomination. 


Citizen's United in the flesh.

"The Arizona Connection" - Three of the top nine wanted by the FBI were Arizona perpetrators.

Eric Toth is believed to have lived in Arizona in 2009 (click title to entry - thank you). 

I suppose Toth replaced Osama on the list along with Bulger from Boston. My, my what an honor that must be.

By Michael Muskal

April 10, 2012, 11:12 a.m.

Eric Justin Toth, (click here) a former private school teacher accused of possessing and producing child pornography, has been placed on the FBI’s list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives, filling a spot once held by the likes of terrorist Osama bin Laden and accused mobster Whitey Bulger, the government announced on Tuesday....

...Toth becomes the 495th person to be put on the most-wanted list, which was created in 1950. The FBI says that 465 of those fugitives have been found, 153 of them as a result of help from the public....

Jason Derek Brown is wanted for murder and armed robbery in Phoenix, Arizona. During November of 2004, Brown allegedly shot and killed an armored car guard outside a movie theater and then fled with the money.

Robert William Fisher is wanted for allegedly killing his wife and two young children and then blowing up the house in which they all lived in Scottsdale, Arizona in April of 2001.