We're still in the middle of our economic disaster. This is just the eye of the storm.
Housing market is still deteriorating.
Labor market still deteriorating.
People are falling off the end of 99 weeks of unemployment.
Savings rate plunging.
Banks are still insolvent.
Oil has been holding strong in the triple digits a barrel (The US economy will grind to a halt with $5-6 gas, if not sooner).
ZIRP will pump new cash into the economy indefinitely, because a rise in interest rates would crash the US economy in short order. (Checked your food budget recently?)
Europe's financial system is one giant circle-jerk, with broke countries guaranteeing the bonds of broke banks, who receive loans from the ECB, which accepts collateral in the form of broke-government bonds.
China's economy is overheating massively. Inflation is rampant and they are about to have a real estate collapse that makes ours look trivial by comparison.
And let's just say that the new iPad better break all records, because Apple is the only thing propping up the stock market right now.
"liar" implies a level of malicious intent that you only find in hollywood movies. the real world is not a cartoon
Really? No one lies in the real world? I don't think this was an accident by NBC. I think they thought it would make the story sell better to give it an edgier angle.
As to your particular bias, I wouldn't speculate, and it doesn't matter to me. Like I said, everyone is biased (including me) but not everyone lies.
following somebody around and confronting them [...] Particularly if you do so with a firearm.
Following someone around is not starting a fight. "Confronting" someone by talking to them is not starting a fight. Having a concealed carry gun is not starting a fight. If Zimmerman had the gun out and visible when he confronted Martin, then he was the aggressor and I agree with you. Did he, though? Do you know?
He has no right to stop anybody for anything
True . . . if he stopped Martin by force (rather than simply calling out to him). Did he? Do you know?
If Martin was armed, then I might be able to believe some kind of self defense claim.
The legal use of lethal force in self-defense doesn't require that your opponent also be armed. It only requires that you have a reasonable belief that you need to use it to prevent serious injury or death. Did he? Do you know?
For that matter, Martin was shot in the back.
First time I've heard that particular tidbit, and it would actually be relevant to the investigation if true.
The rest of your post seems to be unsubstantiated guesswork.
The operator on the phone telling Zimmerman that he "didn't need to follow" Martin is meaningless. The only questions that matter are:
1. Who started the fight?
2. Did Zimmerman have a reasonable belief that using his gun was the only way to escape serious injury or death?
My fixed version: An unarmed person was shot during an altercation, and the facts relevant to determining who initiated the fight are still unknown. The ethnicity of the two parties is irrelevant. The shooter should be on trial for murder if there is probable cause to believe he was the one who started the fight.
protest the subsidization of wind turbines [..] With the cost of gas and oil on its way up it's a wonder that any one would be against the use of renewable energy sources.
If the price of oil has made wind power a cost-effective alternative, then why do they need to be subsidized?
(This is similar to a statement out of the administration a couple weeks back that forcing insurance companies to cover birth control should be a non-issue, since it would save insurance companies money. If insurance companies save money by offering birth control, then why do you need to force them to do it?)
Finally, a ruling that deals with the commerce clause as it was actually intended to be used, rather than the current "the federal government can do anything it wants at any time simply by saying the word 'commerce'" interpretation.
Yes, we all just have to accept the "truth" that the solution to too much debt is more debt, and that using scarce resources to make goods that nobody wants and are not useful to anybody will make us all wealthy beyond our wildest dreams.
Of course, the kind of garbage peddled by mainstream economists can't even be proven wrong, because "The solution to a depressed economy is more liquidity" is a statement that can't be falsified. If the central bank prints up 20 trillion dollars and it doesn't help anything, Krugman and his ilk simply shrug and says "Eh, must not have been enough."
But the important thing to remember is that anyone who disagrees with him is a member of an irrational cult who doesn't believe in truth or science.
He must have used some kind of addon, though, since the numbers on the "buttons" and being able to "push" them by stepping on them as he did aren't from the vanilla game.
I'm skeptical as well, but I'd certainly be happy to be proved wrong, because that's quite an accomplishment if it's legit.
The guy who made the 16-bit ALU in Minecraft supposedly received a job offer over his video. I wouldn't assume that this kind of project is useless for finding a job\college.
His argument is that we need to keep a worthless federal regulation on the books (and remember, you can be charged with a felony for not complying) because it . . . preserves the "spiritualness" of the takeoff and landing period.
Just like Apple needs patents on rounded corners for smartphones, or it will never be able to recoup all the money it put into market research? Aspirin still sells like hotcakes, and I'm pretty sure the patents on it expired long ago.
Patents cause industry to stagnate, aren't necessary for innovation, and get people killed. They are a great way to enrich huge corporations, though, who can keep out competition of every sort by having the cash to keep the FDA in their pocket.
This is false. Despite promises by Obama to cut back on prosecutions of dispensaries who are complying with state law, the feds under his administration have become even more aggressive in raiding and prosecuting for marijuana than under Bush. A simple search will confirm this.
Future News: For Windows 8, Microsoft has replaced the traditional log on screen with a text field. Users will now have to simply enter a reason why they should be allowed to log onto the system. The system will accept all answers.
Can they use Interstate Commerce to keep me from going to work?
They can use the Interstate Commerce clause to prevent you from growing wheat in your own backyard for your own consumption, so . . . yes?
And it's obvious why the courts let them get away with this; like any good statist, the courts also want the government to control your life at every level. Judges really have the easiest job in the world of it, though, since all they have to do is say "Whatever the government wants is cool with us".
Yes, how dare they accept ads from companies willing to sell drugs to American consumers at a low cost. Clearly, the ethical party here is the government, who props up the monopolies of the pharmacy industry by force and prevents sick Americans from getting what they need to live at an affordable price.
Won't somebody please think of the Big Pharma CEOs??
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It's not really an invasion of privacy if you hand over the information yourself.
You're in luck, just wait a bit. ;)
Now that the robosigning fiasco is concluded, a flood of previously-stalled foreclosures is about to hit. Should do wonders for property values.
We're still in the middle of our economic disaster. This is just the eye of the storm.
Housing market is still deteriorating.
Labor market still deteriorating.
People are falling off the end of 99 weeks of unemployment.
Savings rate plunging.
Banks are still insolvent.
Oil has been holding strong in the triple digits a barrel (The US economy will grind to a halt with $5-6 gas, if not sooner).
ZIRP will pump new cash into the economy indefinitely, because a rise in interest rates would crash the US economy in short order. (Checked your food budget recently?)
Europe's financial system is one giant circle-jerk, with broke countries guaranteeing the bonds of broke banks, who receive loans from the ECB, which accepts collateral in the form of broke-government bonds.
China's economy is overheating massively. Inflation is rampant and they are about to have a real estate collapse that makes ours look trivial by comparison.
And let's just say that the new iPad better break all records, because Apple is the only thing propping up the stock market right now.
This is currency endgame.
They think we have 18 years left?
I'll personally be surprised if we get through this year and the next without a major economic disaster.
Showing an intent to talk to someone on a public street is not the same as showing an intent to get into a struggle with that person and shoot them.
Really? No one lies in the real world? I don't think this was an accident by NBC. I think they thought it would make the story sell better to give it an edgier angle.
As to your particular bias, I wouldn't speculate, and it doesn't matter to me. Like I said, everyone is biased (including me) but not everyone lies.
Following someone around is not starting a fight. "Confronting" someone by talking to them is not starting a fight. Having a concealed carry gun is not starting a fight. If Zimmerman had the gun out and visible when he confronted Martin, then he was the aggressor and I agree with you. Did he, though? Do you know?
True . . . if he stopped Martin by force (rather than simply calling out to him). Did he? Do you know?
The legal use of lethal force in self-defense doesn't require that your opponent also be armed. It only requires that you have a reasonable belief that you need to use it to prevent serious injury or death. Did he? Do you know?
First time I've heard that particular tidbit, and it would actually be relevant to the investigation if true.
The rest of your post seems to be unsubstantiated guesswork.
The operator on the phone telling Zimmerman that he "didn't need to follow" Martin is meaningless. The only questions that matter are:
1. Who started the fight?
2. Did Zimmerman have a reasonable belief that using his gun was the only way to escape serious injury or death?
My fixed version: An unarmed person was shot during an altercation, and the facts relevant to determining who initiated the fight are still unknown. The ethnicity of the two parties is irrelevant. The shooter should be on trial for murder if there is probable cause to believe he was the one who started the fight.
Everyone is biased, but not everyone is a liar.
I agree, if he actually started the fight. Unfortunately, we may never know enough to determine what actually happened.
If the price of oil has made wind power a cost-effective alternative, then why do they need to be subsidized?
(This is similar to a statement out of the administration a couple weeks back that forcing insurance companies to cover birth control should be a non-issue, since it would save insurance companies money. If insurance companies save money by offering birth control, then why do you need to force them to do it?)
Finally, a ruling that deals with the commerce clause as it was actually intended to be used, rather than the current "the federal government can do anything it wants at any time simply by saying the word 'commerce'" interpretation.
Yes, we all just have to accept the "truth" that the solution to too much debt is more debt, and that using scarce resources to make goods that nobody wants and are not useful to anybody will make us all wealthy beyond our wildest dreams.
Of course, the kind of garbage peddled by mainstream economists can't even be proven wrong, because "The solution to a depressed economy is more liquidity" is a statement that can't be falsified. If the central bank prints up 20 trillion dollars and it doesn't help anything, Krugman and his ilk simply shrug and says "Eh, must not have been enough."
But the important thing to remember is that anyone who disagrees with him is a member of an irrational cult who doesn't believe in truth or science.
He must have used some kind of addon, though, since the numbers on the "buttons" and being able to "push" them by stepping on them as he did aren't from the vanilla game.
I'm skeptical as well, but I'd certainly be happy to be proved wrong, because that's quite an accomplishment if it's legit.
The guy who made the 16-bit ALU in Minecraft supposedly received a job offer over his video. I wouldn't assume that this kind of project is useless for finding a job\college.
His argument is that we need to keep a worthless federal regulation on the books (and remember, you can be charged with a felony for not complying) because it . . . preserves the "spiritualness" of the takeoff and landing period.
That's not an argument, that's just bullshit.
Just like Apple needs patents on rounded corners for smartphones, or it will never be able to recoup all the money it put into market research? Aspirin still sells like hotcakes, and I'm pretty sure the patents on it expired long ago.
Patents cause industry to stagnate, aren't necessary for innovation, and get people killed. They are a great way to enrich huge corporations, though, who can keep out competition of every sort by having the cash to keep the FDA in their pocket.
This is false. Despite promises by Obama to cut back on prosecutions of dispensaries who are complying with state law, the feds under his administration have become even more aggressive in raiding and prosecuting for marijuana than under Bush. A simple search will confirm this.
Internal combustion engines can run out of gas. Maybe they should put some horses in the back, just in case.
Future News: For Windows 8, Microsoft has replaced the traditional log on screen with a text field. Users will now have to simply enter a reason why they should be allowed to log onto the system. The system will accept all answers.
Homeschooling?
"Small government" is just a ruse Republicans use to win elections, much like "reducing corporate influence" is for the Democrats.
Red Team/Blue Team? There's only one team, and it's the Big Government/Big Corporations Purple Team.
They can use the Interstate Commerce clause to prevent you from growing wheat in your own backyard for your own consumption, so . . . yes? And it's obvious why the courts let them get away with this; like any good statist, the courts also want the government to control your life at every level. Judges really have the easiest job in the world of it, though, since all they have to do is say "Whatever the government wants is cool with us".
Yes, how dare they accept ads from companies willing to sell drugs to American consumers at a low cost. Clearly, the ethical party here is the government, who props up the monopolies of the pharmacy industry by force and prevents sick Americans from getting what they need to live at an affordable price.
Won't somebody please think of the Big Pharma CEOs??