You left out "tow the line" and "hone in on", and there's at least one other one I'll remember again about 3 days after they close comments on this story.
If you mean the Sunday comics printed version of Prince Valiant, it's not what it used to be because they don't have the original artist and writer anymore.
Kinda like Marvell in the '60s when they brought in a new artist and all of a sudden the characters looked more Asian.
Zimmerman can be heard exiting his vehicle and running or jogging for 26 seconds, which leaves him almost 3 minutes before the beginning of the struggle to retrace his route and get back to his vehicle but he came up about 100 feet short just the same, so we have no way of knowing if he even tried to return to it or not.
Just because no one is in a position to contradict Zimmerman's account does not guarantee he's being completely truthful.
As you point out, nobody impartial saw how the two of them happened to encounter each other, or how the struggle began or who first laid hands on whom.
If Zimmerman, without explanation, grabbed Martin to hold him for the police, and Martin struck in self defense, the outcome could easily have been exactly the same as it was.
"George Zimmerman left his car and confronted Trayvon Martin."
On the recording of Zimmerman's call to the police you can hear him shut his vehicle door behind him and for the next 26 seconds there are sounds that are almost certainly the result of him running or jogging, but we don't know where he wound up when he slowed down, and we don't know exactly how the two of them eventually came into contact with one another.
There was no one there to see how the struggle started except Martin and Zimmerman, which means no impartial witnesses.
"...or were you unaware that Trayvon sucker punched George Zimmerman..."
There are no impartial witnesses to how the struggle started or who first laid hands on whom.
If Zimmerman first, without explanation, grabbed Martin to hold him for the police, and Martin fought back in self defense, the outcome could have been exactly the same.
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"I don't understand how sea level can rise (or fall) in any real way in just a certain defined area...
I understand sea levels fluctuate (tides, etc), but in theory shouldn't the entire ocean level rise and fall together?"
You obviously fail to appreciate the full power and majesty of the Legislature of the Great State of North Carolina.
We've made sea level rise illegal here.
Obviously it has to increase more greatly elsewhere if the amount of water increases.
Well, sorta.
Thank you.
I couldn't remember whether or where I had bookmarked that, but saw it the first time around and it's scary stuff indeed.
Was the earlier one pr0n?
"I thought one of the virtues of democracy is that your vote is secret. What's all this stuff about 'voter history'?"
I think voter history is at which precinct you showed up and voted during which election, not for whom you voted.
"To be fair, anyone that wants to be a politician should probably be banned from voting (among other things)"
Nonsense.
I wouldn't want to let anyone who wants to be a politician hold office, though.
Hey, if you don't trust Diebold you can always go with one of the other voting machine companies run by his friends and relatives.
You left out "tow the line" and "hone in on", and there's at least one other one I'll remember again about 3 days after they close comments on this story.
Spend most of the summer toting 2x4s and shingles, mixing mortar for the brick masons, etc.
Good tan, good muscles.
Nonsense, I'm convinced it was Anonymous Coward who got first post!
It's worse than that. All the robots are really Romneys.
If you mean the Sunday comics printed version of Prince Valiant, it's not what it used to be because they don't have the original artist and writer anymore.
Kinda like Marvell in the '60s when they brought in a new artist and all of a sudden the characters looked more Asian.
Intelligent design proponents make me want to grab them with both hands and slap them with the third.
You stated what is supposedly Zimmerman's account (as relayed by others) as though it were established fact.
It is not.
Zimmerman can be heard exiting his vehicle and running or jogging for 26 seconds, which leaves him almost 3 minutes before the beginning of the struggle to retrace his route and get back to his vehicle but he came up about 100 feet short just the same, so we have no way of knowing if he even tried to return to it or not.
Just because no one is in a position to contradict Zimmerman's account does not guarantee he's being completely truthful.
As you point out, nobody impartial saw how the two of them happened to encounter each other, or how the struggle began or who first laid hands on whom.
If Zimmerman, without explanation, grabbed Martin to hold him for the police, and Martin struck in self defense, the outcome could easily have been exactly the same as it was.
"George Zimmerman left his car and confronted Trayvon Martin."
On the recording of Zimmerman's call to the police you can hear him shut his vehicle door behind him and for the next 26 seconds there are sounds that are almost certainly the result of him running or jogging, but we don't know where he wound up when he slowed down, and we don't know exactly how the two of them eventually came into contact with one another.
There was no one there to see how the struggle started except Martin and Zimmerman, which means no impartial witnesses.
"...or were you unaware that Trayvon sucker punched George Zimmerman..."
There are no impartial witnesses to how the struggle started or who first laid hands on whom.
If Zimmerman first, without explanation, grabbed Martin to hold him for the police, and Martin fought back in self defense, the outcome could have been exactly the same.
How it turned out doesn't prove how it started.
...and there are enough worthy candidates here to burn through 15 easily, so I''ll just say
...the crash involves two planes piloted by a crash investigator with the FAA and the chief medical officer with the NTSB...
is something even Clancy wouldn't think he could get away with as a plot device, even if he had dreamed it up.
"Republicans in North Carolina... why do I read that as Koreans in North Korea and dismiss every credibility of everything said afterward?"
Are you saying that all of us are Republicans, or that the Republicans here are kept ignorant of the truth about the rest of the world, or ...?
So you've heard of the thinking behind the Global TransPark?
"Right - cause the best way to encourage open discourse in politics is to make sure the lawns are *clearly* drawn. "
What lawns? They're going to be underwater!
"The smart money is on folks building floating homes on the N.C. Coast. Happy sailing!"
The smart money is going to build further inland.
"By the way: "science-based predictions" isn't enough. I'd prefer "accurate science-based predictions" before whipping out the hysteria."
If it isn't accurate, is it science?
Lifelong NC resident, therefore I wouldn't know.
...That's UEFI, short for
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"I want the storage for TiVos (or offloaded TiVo recordings).. and yes, I've had drives go bad, so I would want backup too."
Greetings, fellow addict.