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Why the Zimmerman Prosecutors Should Be Disbarred
Toward the end of his closing statement on Thursday, Florida Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda posted a slide on a screen in a fifth-floor Seminole County courtroom.
"Which Owner would be more inclined to yell for help?" read the banner on the top of the slide. The slide was divided in two. On the left was a photo of George Zimmerman's Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun, and on the right was a can of Arizona Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail. Beneath the photo of the gun was the question, "Who followed?" Under the can was the question, "Who ran?"
So absurd was de la Rionda's presentation, and the whole case for that matter, that the can was turned sideways so the label could not be read. Throughout the trial, prosecutors have called the drink "iced tea" lest the word "watermelon" be said in court. "F***ing" was okay. De la Rionda said it more times than the average rapper, but "watermelon," apparently because of its racial connotations, was not.
Hiding the word "watermelon" was the least of de la Rionda's dishonesties. This one slide had several built in. As to who ran, Martin had four minutes to run the 100 or so yards to the house he was visiting. When he attacked Zimmerman, he was still 70 or so yards from that townhouse. Do the math.
Then, too, from the day the State took over the case, prosecutors knew that Zimmerman was the one screaming for help. All evidence supported that save for the dubious identification by Martin's mother. If the State's jobs were to sow the seeds of reasonable doubt, one could forgive them this deception, but that's not the State's job. That's the defense's.
The State's job is to make the case for the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Fifty years ago, in Brady v. Maryland, the U.S. Supreme Court established that a prosecutor's responsibility was "to seek justice fairly, not merely win convictions by any means." In the case at hand, this meant that the State of Florida had the responsibility to share promptly all exculpatory evidence with the defense. It did not.
One substantial block of evidence that it kept to itself until a whistleblower alerted the defense was the content of Martin's cell phone. On Tuesday night of this week, phone expert Richard Connor made a detailed presentation. Although the jury was not present, the respective attorneys were, as were the media.
For dubious and probably reversible reasons, Judge Debra Nelson disallowed Connor's testimony, but prosecutors have known for many months about the downward spiral of Martin's life. In the course of his close, de la Rionda called Martin an "innocent young boy" and made several other allusions to that effect. He was intentionally deceiving the jury. Martin was neither little nor innocent.
Consider the following exchange from November 2011, three months before the shooting. After Martin told a female friend he was "tired and sore" from a fight, she asked him why he fought. "Bae" is shorthand for "babe."
MARTIN: Cause man dat nigga snitched on me
FRIEND: Bae y you always fightinqq man, you got suspended?
MARTIN: Naw we thumped afta skool in a duckd off spot
FRIEND: Ohh, Well Damee
MARTIN: I lost da 1st round :( but won da 2nd nd 3rd . . . .
FRIEND: Ohhh So It Wass 3 Rounds? Damn well at least yu wonn lol but yuu needa stop fighting bae Forreal
MARTIN: Nay im not done with fool..... he gone hav 2 see me again
FRIEND: Nooo... Stop, yuu waint gonn bee satisified till yuh suspended again, huh?
MARTIN: Naw but he aint breed nuff 4 me, only his nose
The fight followed the mixed martial arts (MMA) format. A day later, Martin would tell a friend that his opponent "got mo hits cause in da 1st round he had me on da ground nd I couldn't do ntn."
As the girl complained, Martin was "always" fighting. He was also something of a sadist. His opponent, after all, did not bleed enough. Why might this be relevant?
Jonathan Good, the closest of the eyewitnesses to the shooting, confirmed last week the testimony he gave on the night of the shooting, specifically that there was a "black man in a black hoodie on top of either a white guy ... or an Hispanic guy in a red sweater on the ground yelling out help," and that black man on top was "throwing down blows on the guy MMA [mixed martial arts] style." That is right: "yelling out help."
On January 6, 2012, Martin got into trouble at school again. When asked why, he told a friend, "Caus I was watcn a fight nd a teacher say I hit em." Said the friend, "Idk how u be getting in trouble an sh**." By this time, Martin's mother had thrown him out of the house for "fightn," and he had moved in with his aunt and uncle.
Martin's younger half-brother, Demetrius Martin, sent one of the more indicative messages. Last seen in the media crying as he remembered his brother during a "March for Peace," Demetrius asked Martin when he was "going to teach me to fight."
"This defendant didn't give Trayvon Martin a chance," said de la Rionda. No, it was the State of Florida, the Department of Justice, and even the president that didn't give Zimmerman a chance. Someone should pay.

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[](/sites/default/files/uploads/2014/03/p061812ps-0404.jpg)At the beginning of February, Fred Kaplan, the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, headlined a Slate article, "Obama Isn't Disengaged From the World: He just has a better understanding of how power works in the modern world."
Power, as it turned out, worked much the same way in the modern world as it did back in the horses and bayonets era as Putin demonstrated when he did what no one in the West believed he would do by sending men and armor into Crimea.
Since one doesn't get to be an Edward R. Murrow fellow by sitting on one's hands, Kaplan dashed off to pen a follow-up article headlined: "There's Nothing Obama Could Have Done to Stop Putin." Kaplan's advice to Obama was to avoid threatening Putin with "consequences."
"Obama should be looking for common interests. One such interest is ending the bloodshed," Kaplan suggested.
If the Russian dictator is known for anything it's his tender heart and opposition to bloodshed.
"Even Putin couldn't want to send troops to the Ukrainian heartland," Kaplan wrote. Unless of course Putin, whom foreign policy experts assured us couldn't possibly want to send troops into Crimea, turns out to be ignorant of "how power works in the modern world" and does it anyway.
If that happens then the same experts who told us he wouldn't do it, will tell us that we can't do anything about it. It's not in the nature of "power in the modern world."
"You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext," a baffled Secretary of State John Kerry said, as if Putin had decided to bring back monocles and pork pie hats.
But nevertheless Putin dug through his closet, stuck in his monocle and decided that you actually can invade other countries even though it's 2014.
Lieutenant John Kerry, still baffled by the concept of one country invading another, also called it "an incredible act of aggression" and "a stunning, willful choice by President Putin."
"Russia is in violation of its international obligations," he bleated. Despite presenting a ceremonial potato to the Russian Foreign Minister, Kerry didn't seem to understand that Russia cares about its international obligations almost as much as his boss cares about the United States Constitution.
This strange claim that invading other countries went out of style in the 19th century is belied by two world wars, countless smaller conflicts, including the Korean War and the Gulf War, and a few wars in the 21st century, but those facts don't penetrate the progressive worldview.
At the debates, Obama had mocked Romney's criticism of his drastic military cuts by accusing him of living in a 19th century "horses and bayonets" world and sneered at Romney's statement that Russia was our leading geopolitical foe by asserting, "You don't call Russia our No. 1 enemy… unless you're still stuck in a Cold War mind warp."
When Sarah Palin predicted back in 2008 that the invasion of Georgia would lead to the invasion of Ukraine, Saturday Night Live brought in Tina Fey to put on a little skit about seeing Russia from her house and everyone had a good laugh at the bumpkin who didn't realize that the Cold War was over.
Last summer, Obama told Jay Leno, "There have been times where they slip back into Cold War thinking and a Cold War mentality. What I continually say to them and to President Putin, 'That's the past. We've got to think about the future.'"
Leno is gone and Putin is in the Ukraine and Obama is baffled to realize that when your enemies are stuck in the Cold War mentality, you either get your Cold War mind warp on or give up and go home.
Putin is thinking about the future. It's Obama and Kerry who are clinging to discredited ideas about international law and diplomacy. These ideas are much more 19th century than anything Putin did.
The progressive spin is that Putin's invasion, as the Center for American Progress put it, is "an act of weakness, not strength — an act, as Kerry aptly characterized it, anachronistic in both moral and strategic terms… fundamentally mismatched to 21st century realities."
In the upside down world of progressive soft power, invading another country is an act of weakness while being unable to do anything about it is an act of strength. Weakness is the new strength and strength is the new weakness.
Obama's impotence makes him a world leader, while Putin's potency makes him a 19th century relic.
The more Putin does, the more he shows that he's another Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney, a déclassé bumpkin unfit for the modern 21st century realities of discussing foreign policy on Jay Leno and cracking wise about horses and bayonets.
True strength means recognizing your own weakness and not doing anything about it except making snarky remarks about how backward those rough 19th century barbarians with their old-fashioned invasions are.
"In a world of free trade and highly globalized markets, territorial conquest simply isn't a good way to make your country stronger," the Center for American Progress insists.
But what if it is?
What if we haven't entered some land after time where armies don't matter and everything works because Tom Friedman wrote a book about the flattening earth?
What if all those old strategies that made today's powers what they are, still work? What if steel and lead, the old verities of the world of horses and bayonets that Obama cheerfully dismissed while cutting the military to the bone, still make all the difference in the world?
"He has the G8 summit in Sochi coming up, no one really saw this kind of thing coming," a Senate aide protested. In the world of Senate aides, G8 summits matter more than territory. That attitude reflects more on the unreal world of modern politics than on what it actually takes to be a great power.
Meetings, committees and conferences, international organizations, multilateral initiatives and all the other dross with which the great powers occupy themselves are nothing more than the elite rituals of an exclusive club whose members have forgotten that it was their wealth and armies that made them powers, not their committee meetings.
The progressive delusion of a modern world with no room for armies and invasions falls apart the moment that a barbarian rides in on a horse brandishing a rifle with a bayonet and shows that it can be done despite all the free trade agreements and G8 summits in the world.
Obama and Kerry find themselves, like time travelers thrown back in time to the 19th century or the 1950s, stuck in a world that plays by Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Vladimir Putin rules, where no one knows that invading other countries is passé and that power is achieved at summits and not at the point of a gun.
Like the nerds at the back of the cafeteria they pretend that the jocks who invade other countries will flunk out and have to work in a Moscow shoe store and eventually everyone will recognize that real power is being able to denounce the uncivilized ruffians as backward cretins in the school paper.
And if that doesn't happen, due to the nature of power in the modern world, they won't be able to do anything about it anyway.
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The lush grasslands of East Sarutabaruta are the gateway between the Federation of Windurst and the barren hills of Tahrongi Canyon. Adventurers who are new to Vana'diel can often be found roaming through East Sarutabaruta, honing their fledgling combat skills on crawlers, bees and yagudos. Fisherman can drop their lines into the area's two streams, or they can stand on the shoreline and cast off into the ocean.
Yet there's some mystery amid the calm and serenity of Sarutabaruta. Several tree-like towers stand scattered across the savanna; they can also be found in the frigid northlands on the flats of Beaucedine Glacier. Although the towers are considered to be dormant, they were once believed to be embued with magical energy -- though nobody knows what purpose they once served. Through a tower in East Sarutabaruta, players can enter a catacomb of ruins and even track down the great Fenrir.
The Map of Windurst Region, which includes East Sarutabaruta, can be obtained from several merchants for about 200 gil.
Fisherman can catch fish in the ponds at F-9 or G-10, the river at F-9 and G-9 or the seaside at G-12 and H-12.
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Amanda Bynes Begs Drake to 'MURDER' Her Lady Parts
If you've ever wondered what an Amanda Bynes mating call sounds like ... wonder no more -- because she is begging Drake to slay her genitals ... to put it delicately.
What Amanda said in a tweet last night was ... "I want Drake to murder my vagina."
I want @drake to murder my vagina
Let that soak in.
Amanda has been exhibiting strange behavior since last year when she was charged in a couple of hit-and-run accidents, had her driver's license suspended, and fled Hollywood for NYC.
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Foodplants: Vaccinium vitis-idaea.Also Vaccinium myrtillus, Erica, Myrica, Salix, Potentilla, Lythrum, Lonicera, Spiraea, Helianthemum, Pastinacea, Teucrium, Centaurea, Aster, Artemisia, Dryas etc. In untidy leaf spinning late March- June.
Length:16 mm, final instar.
Head:Brown ochre with black mottling on sides and posterior.
Prothoracic shield:Shiny translucent, tinted light brown or greenish brown with black mottling on its surface and black showing through from head below.
Thoracic legs:Light brown or greenish brown. May have some black marks.
Body:Brownish black or greenish black. Paler subspiracular line on final instar. Early instar, <7mm, brown ochre.
Pinacula:White or whitish with black spot at base of seta. Early instar, <7mm, pinacula brown ochre with black setal spot.
Setae:Translucent light straw colour.
Anal plate:Light brown or greenish. Variable black marks, but usually a solid ovate medial mark on anterior. Marks brown on early instar <7mm.
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Some owners try to find private homes to take their birds instead of sending them to a rescue. If an older bird becomes available will he/she become a good pet in a second home?
The answer to that question depends on you and it depends on the bird.
You have to understand that this bird is not a baby and therefore has already developed a personality, likes & dislikes. You must be prepared to allow him to adjust to the new situation – possibly a new cage, new surroundings, new people, maybe new pets.
If the bird had a good home where he was loved, well looked after & was happy, but circumstances changed for the owner & they had to find a new home for him, you will have a bird that will be missing the good life that he had. Find out what he likes – his favourite foods, toys, etc. With patience this bird should adjust very well.
If the bird did not have a good home and has developed behavioral problems, such as plucking, you may have to accept that this bird will always pluck. It is possible that the plucking might stop once he becomes accustomed to better treatment and/or a better diet, but bad habits are not easy to break. This bird may take a bit longer to adjust & to accept you in his life, but with lots of patience, he will probably come around in time.
If you have room in your heart and room in your home for a bird (or another bird), think about providing that home to an older bird that is desperately in need of another home. You will have to give him more time to adjust than you would a baby bird, but in most instances, the time spent will be worth it.
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Whether your summer vacation plans include the beach, a road trip or camping, one thing's for sure — suffering from allergy and asthma symptoms can quickly interrupt a good time.
If you're among the millions of people with allergies or asthma, a little preparation will help make sure that sneezing and wheezing don't derail your vacation fun.
The American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and its member allergists — doctors who specialize in treating allergies and asthma — offer the following checklist to keep the conditions at bay while you're on vacation:
Destination makes a difference. The beach and mountains are excellent year-round destinations for allergy sufferers. Ocean breezes are generally free of allergens, dust mites are fewer at elevations above 2,500 feet and mold spores can't survive in snow.
Pack it to go. In addition to your favorite flip-flops, consider packing these items to keep conditions in check: medications in their original bottles; quick-relief medications for asthma and an epinephrine auto-injector if you or a family member has food or insect-sting allergies; topical cortisone cream; an antihistamine; mite-proof pillowcases; your peak flow meter and nebulizer; baby wipes for cleaning; and information on your food allergies translated for chefs in foreign countries.
Ask the doctor. Get your allergy shot before your vacation, or ask your allergist for a referral. Also discuss your destination and activity plan with your allergist before departure.
Home away from home. Request a non-smoking, pet-free hotel room and rental car. Air conditioners and portable air cleaners with HEPA filters, and tile, wood or seamless vinyl floors reduce airborne allergens. If you have food allergies, consider reserving a room with a kitchen.
Camp bound kids. If your kids are headed for camp, write down and inform staff ahead of time about their asthma and allergies. Send a list of medications and dosing instructions, including an action plan and notarized permission slip authorizing emergency care. Warn staff against giving an asthmatic child aspirin, which can trigger a life-threatening reaction. For air travel, pack medications and devices in a carry-on bag.
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