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If by highly trained you mean a 2 month boot camp that mainly consists of jogging around and carrying a fake rubber gun, yea highly trained. (I worked at the facility where all the air martials got trained).

Well according to several articles I have seen like this one http://www.clickorlando.com/ne..., they are considered the best shots of any federal agency. So if what you say is true, then everyone else must be complete crap.

I'm sure I can find some reason why you can't have a vegetable patch too, if I try hard enough.

So you can take away every property right I try to exercise, and all that it requires is for you to "try hard enough" to find some justification? Well, to me, that makes you a tyrant, just like people passing and enforcing laws like this one and doing crap like this, and that's why I participate in local government: to fight tyranny, and oppose busybodies that sit around in little tin pot committees deciding what to do with other peoples' property.

Zimmerman wasn't 240 lbs. though. That figure was estimated based on the old photo of Zimmerman.
Zimmerman's stats (according to one of his friends) are: 5'8, and 170 pounds.

So 6'3" 160 lbs Vs 5'8" 170 lbs.

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According to the police report, Martin was 6'0" and weighed 160 lbs. I would presume that the coroner's report would have a more accurate physical description of him, but I haven't seen that. Those numbers put him at a normal BMI. His family stated his height was 6'2". He probably was, when he wasn't barefoot, but your shoes should not be included in your height when computing BMI.

Zimmerman was incorrectly presumed to be 250 lbs., the weight that was listed on an old arrest record. He has lost a great deal of weight however and according to a friend "he is 5 feet, 8 inches and 170 pounds".

If only the guy who shot another person without witnesses would have been actually *investigated*, instead of letting him walk entirely on his own testimony...

In short, you don't know what you are talking about, in pretty much any regard. Well done.

NOT BREAKING NEWS on Zimmerman being bloodi

Trayvon Martin Shooter Told Cops Teenager Went For His Gun (Also, watch video)

In addition, an eyewitness, 13-year-old Austin Brown, told police he saw a man fitting Zimmerman's description lying on the grass moaning and crying for help just seconds before he heard the gunshot that killed Martin.

Would coudl possibly go wrong with enough people having your level in insight?

KillZimmerman’ Twitter advocates violence against Martin’s killer
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When New Black Panther Mikhail Muhammad called for the mobilization of a 10,000-strong black male mob to capture George Zimmerman, we glimpsed into the depths of racial depravity of the organization. “An eye for an eye,” Muhammad threatened. A cash bounty for Zimmerman, “dead or alive,” provided a nasty incentive for thugs across the land.

Paper: Spike Lee tweeted incorrect George Zimmerman address, possibly putting Sanford woman in danger

Inconvenient narratives in the Martin case

Civil rights leaders condemn Sharpton's call for escalated civil disobedience

Sad

It's a wonder that civilization withstands your level of insight as it appears to be all too common.

This just in; some luddites still believe that you can actually be harmed by strange men looking at pictures of you. Some of them even believe that it depends on how old you were when the photograph was taken.

Here. Took 5 seconds on google. It was a pretty famous story. Why is it when right wing people see something they don't like they're first and only response is to deny it? Not trying to troll, I'm dead serious. My next door neighbor (who's since lost her house due to an abusive ARM loan they promised she could refinance, yeah right), is hard core right wing conservative & has used socialized medicine to keep herself (open heart surgery) and her children alive. If you ask her about that she just kinda wharrgarbl something about patriotism.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/7043931/detail.html

So I guess move to Virginia.

There is a guy in Florida that has a water 'burning' engine. He also makes water torches for his job. He designed the torch first since he wanted a safer cutting torch. Then he modified a gasoline engine to run on water or a mix of gasoline and water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKM4pb9Oxrg

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/16488151/detail.html

and a bunch more google: FL man run car on water

And and AND, Disney has made significant efforts elsewhere to stomp out unauthorized derivative work, and at considerable expense to them. If some unlicensed merchandise is flying under their radar, I can only conjecture that it's because either a) that merchandise exists below the economic scale/scope threshold of what it's cost-effective to hire lawyers to hunt down, or b) Disney, like Microsoft, has figured out that strategic, selective non-enforcement of their intellectual property can actually serve their interests, sometimes creating new markets for their products which wouldn't otherwise have existed.

"I'm sceptical of anything which proposes to simply double the amount of energy extracted from that gasoline, because, well, physics is physics."

Agreed, but the real question is how are they testing? Downhill with a tailwind? Anyone can achieve 98mpg given the right conditions (downhill in neutral), and since they don't come out and say "we achieved 98mpg using the same technique as fueleconomy.gov" it sounds like BS.

Another reason this sounds like BS: billions of dollars are being invested to meet the 35mpg CAFE standard by 2020. When Congress was talking about requiring 32mpg by 2015 it was estimated it would cost $47 billion dollars to reach that goal: "For the auto industry, it will be costly; the Transportation Department last year estimated that requiring the industry to meet 31.6 mpg by 2015 would cost nearly $47 billion."

So a magic fuel injector that achieves 98 mpg would literally be worth billions of dollars, not to mention win the xprize and $10 million dollars. Any engineer that designed this could join any auto manufacture and write his own ticket. The idea that a startup in California just happened across this technology outdoing the greatest minds in GM, Toyota, Honda, and the academic community just sounds like snake oil, just like the car that runs on water, 130mpg car, 110mpg 0-60 in 3 seconds Mustang. If any of these technologies were real GM or Honda would be announcing it or at the very least they'd be xprize competitors.

Have we forgotten the Perpetual Motion DeLorean scammers already?

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