"Zimmerman got away with murder" Blame Juror B-29

H/T The Field Negro

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda, but Didn't, Juror B-29 (Maddy  too scared to give her last name) offers a little something for everyone in an attempt to quiet her guilty conscience because she didn't understand the law (thanks to the judge and the prosecutors), and, because she had no courage of conviction (pun intended)

 She didn't understand the difference between intentional murder and manslaughter.
She didn't understand what constitutes evidence and proof.
She didn't realize that the jury can draw conclusions from the entirety of the evidence.

I said it first, and I'll say it again, there was no way this 100% female 0% African American jury was going to find George Zimmerman guilty.   This trial was over at jury selection.

The “not guilty” Simpson verdict sparked great divisiveness across the country. Some alleged that Simpson was only found not guilty because the predominantly black jury did not want to convict a fellow member of the African-American community.
The George Zimmerman prosecution and defense teams should have considered the potential for such a response in this case, because race was at issue from the outset.
This case should not be about race, but the attorneys’ failure to pick a more diverse group of six people is certain to reignite the issue, especially if the 100 percent all-female/non-African-American jury finds Mr. Zimmerman not guilty.

You won't hear/read/see this in the mainstream media because they are focused on  Anthony Weiner's private life, but Change.org submitted a petition to Judge Debra Nelson calling for an investigation into jury tampering.  If the latest revelations by these jurors don't make the case for  Civil Rights charges being bought against George Zimmerman, I don't know what will.

What I'm reading today

This has been one of those real life days where I didn't watch cable *cough* news, so I don't know what happened during the President's press conference. I only know what the *ahem* Talking TeeVee Pundit heads tell me I know. Thank goodness for Blogging Bloggers or we wouldn't know squat about what's really going on.

Uh, remember when Congressman Anthony Weiner said his Twitter account was hacked? Remember how the media ignored him and focused on his male member instead?

Speaking of the media, all white is not right (no pun).

If you've ever wondered why anyone would vote republican read the top 10 reasons that would cause someone to vote republican. Here is an excerpt.

"#10: I shall vote Republican next time because I am a white male. It does not matter if they are otherwise against me, but since I am a white male, and they say that they are for white males, I am for them too! Lies matter not to me. I am a white male.

What if Caylee Anthony had been black?

How is it that the tragic death of one little girl could attract so much more attention than the tragic deaths of four sisters?

The easy answer is that the disparity in coverage is about race and class. Media critics argue that if Caylee had been black, her disappearance and death would never have received as much attention. There were indeed sharp contrasts: Caylee, white, from a middle-income home in suburban Orlando, in the shadow of Disney World; the Jacks sisters, black, from a lower-income Southeast Washington neighborhood besieged by drugs and crime, just blocks from the Capitol.

Here we go again. The Alabama Democratic Party is taking a plastic knife to a gun fight. RedEye roll. Hey ADP! Is State Scott Beason still the of the rules committee? F the dumb stuff.

New Additions to my blog list and week in review

Everyone knows it's the job of the mainstream media to distort what we decide with all spin all the time, UNfair and UNbalanced. Thank goodness for pioneers like Thomas Paine, and Cheetos-eating, pajama-wearing, Bloggers living in their moms’ basements all around America. If former Vice President Al Gore had not invented the Internet we wouldn't know what we don't know we don't know.


The gop kicked their Voter Suppression scheme (yes I said scheme) up a notch this week. I wonder what part of this don't they understand? And when is the Obama DoJ going to help them understand?

The other thing to remember is that voting is a Constitutionally protected right. With a right, it is not up to the citizen to "prove" that he's entitled to the right, it us up to the government to "prove" that he's NOT entitled to the right.

In other words, if I say I'm John Doe, and I'm properly registered to vote, its not up to me to prove I am who I say I am. If I'm to be challenged in my right, it is up to the government to provide reasonable, credible suspicion that I am NOT who I say I am before denying me a right.

This Is the Way the Weiner Ends: Not With a Bang But a Whimper:

The grinding media machine has eaten another victim and spit out his splintered bones and shredded viscera. Anthony Weiner resigned yesterday, in a press conference only notable for how stupid and asshole-filled it was, and now the machine knows that, with the assistance of its willing accomplices in Washington, it can pick and choose who to wreck next, like a mad sniper who today feels like firing at joggers in blue shorts.

So what the hell is a Social Conservative anyway?

What does it mean? Nothing much - and everything. It's nothing more than the replacement for Compassionate Conservative, a label George W. "Who cares what the hell you think." Bush ran into the ground. It's a marketing tool, a handy dandy code phrase for Values Voters in dog-whistle political speak. It says "Here's somebody you can trust to feel just like you do about God, Guns and Gays."

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Monday Morning Talking Points

Yippee Ki-Yay! Keith Olberman returns to television tonight and his first guest is Michael Moore and Daily Kos chief Markos Moulitsas. So glad to see the truth-tellers back on TeeVee. Psst, Keith, Anthony Weiner is looking for a new gig. Not sure where to find Keith? Click here.

Speaking of Anthony Weiner, if I were his constituent I would write his name on the ballot and give the republicans, the mainstream media, and the cowardly Dems my middle finger. Now they tell us Fake Identities Were Used on Twitter in Effort to Get Information on Weiner

At least three months before the revelation that former Representative Anthony D. Weiner was sending lewd messages and photos to women online, a small group of self-described conservatives was monitoring his exchanges with women on Twitter. Now there is evidence that one or more people created two false identities on Twitter in order to collect information to use against him.

There is nothing more dangerous than ignorance in action.

Frederick Douglass was an early civil rights figure and former slave. In the late 1800s, he wrote an autobiography where he speaks at length about his experience, his sufferings, and, what strikes me most as a teacher, his education. Slave-owners did not want their slaves to read, he said, because if they were able to read, then they would be able to articulate their plight.
In George Orwell’s 1984, Newspeak is a language being developed by the government that ultimately aims to make it impossible to think rebellious thought. How can one articulate rebellion if there is no word for it? If I were to use the word “sidereal” in a sentence, and you didn’t know what it meant and couldn’t find out what it meant, then comprehension does not occur and my attempt to convey meaning failed.

Case in point, the republicans put a black face on their racism but we are supposed to be to stoopid to notice.

The nation’s GOP elite gathered in New Orleans this weekend for the Republican Leadership Conference. In attendance were presidential candidates Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and potential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Prior to a speech by RNC Chair Reince Preibus, an Obama impersonator took the stage and told a series of racist jokes. A summary from Arron Blake:
• On Black History Month: “Michelle celebrates the full month. I celebrate half.”
• “My mother loved a black man,” but “she was not a Kardashian.”
• A picture was shown of Obama and the first lady when he took office. The impersonator then showed a picture of what the Obamas will look like when the president leaves office, and it was the characters of Fred Sanford and his sister-in-law, Ethel, from the show “Sanford and Son.”

The right to bear arms A must-read from Black Diaspora on the danger of ignorance in action.

Yes, there's "anger," but the anger is being misdirected, thanks, as you've stated, to the media provocateurs who have concentrated this anger and have painted bulls eyes on the backs of blacks, Latinos, and Muslims.

A race riot is more likely than civil unrest toward the government. The news media, led by Fox News, and an assortment of Republican and conservative blowhards, will instigate this racial disquiet.

I'm convinced that the Republican Party will do almost anything to effectuate absolute control of government, despite the level, and transform this nation into the philosophical, and ideological image it has always imagined--even if it kills us!

Rebel Flower breaks down the stoopid

The people that always get's hurt are the workers, making $30k, $40k per year, the support staff, the grunts. It's never the actual commissioner's, the deputy's, the commission president, etc...These clowns get elected time and time again because people vote against their own self interest, or by some Pavlovian name recognition thing. You say their name, and people just salivates and people shut their brain off and fill in the oval. No thinking required... Politicians play on this sense of religion, patriotism, fear and we get mass stupidity on a grand scale. It's always "cut spending", "no more taxes" that's the cure for all problems. Late term abortions, like for ages 50-60 and up or secession from the US are the cure for our problems in the South. This place will never progress past 1960's era and I think most people like it that way...

The reason "most people like it that way" is because the public airways are used to promote ignorance like this:

Be quiet citizens. Or the government will punish you with investigations…

Uh, NO. citizens are NOT being investigated for speaking out, the city of Huntsville is being investigated for housing discrimination which happened to be bought to their attention by politicians using this issue for their personal, political gain.

Stuck on stoopid.

The Power of the Press

We live in an age when the mainstream media cares more about a democratic President/Congressman trying to conceal private behavior from the public than they do a republican President/Congressman sending our troops and our tax dollars to foreign lands based on DEAD WRONG intelligence.

The power of the press was on full display this week when they finally forced Congressman Anthony Weiner to resign because he tried to conceal his tweets from his wife and the rest of the world. It's not like he said he had proof of tons and tons of WMD in Iraq and Saddam was going to use them on us. But the mainstream media would not rest until he atoned for his lies.

Never mind the fact Weiner's constituents didn't want him to resign. Never mind the fact his constituents are being taxed without representation in Congress until a special election is held. Never mind Weiner was a effective Congressman. When the media decides you have to go you have to go.

Rachael Maddow issues a dire warning to the cowardly democrats who don't stand for anything but are willing to help the republicans tear down those who do.

Anthony Weiner, who was not accused of corruption, who does not appear to have done anything illegal, who does not even appear to have had sex with any of the women with any of the people with whom he had scandalous talk and picture-taking, for him a line was drawn," Maddow concluded, her voice bristling with anger. She then turned her focus on the media, saying that the story was actually "the media covering the media ending a man's career."

Maddow ended by addressing Democrats. She issued a dire warning.

"Congratulations, Democrats," she said. "In an era of unhinged, ideological, big money conservative media that is wholly and admittedly divorced from the precepts of journalism, in hounding Anthony Weiner into resigning ... you have just fed and unleashed this beast onto yourselves, probably for a generation."

What if the media had gone pursued the WMD lies before Bush and Dick sent our troops to Iraq?

What if the media had investigated Bush and Dick the way the did Clinton and Weiner?

What if the media told us what we needed to know instead of what they want us to know?

The power of the press is awesome and awful.

I am sick and tired of cowardly democrats!!!!!

Well it looks like the dem circular firing squad has pulled the trigger on Representative Weiner.

Rep. Anthony Weiner plans to resign from Congress in the wake of a "sexting" scandal with several women and lies he repeatedly told about it, a Democratic source with knowledge of Weiner's plans said Thursday.
Weiner, 46, was considered a possible front-runner to succeed New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2013 until the revelation of his online communications, including lewd photos of himself he sent to women he befriended on Facebook and Twitter.

Pressure had built over the last week for Weiner to resign his seat in Congress, including from several of his colleagues high in the Democratic leadership.

You mean this democratic leadership?

I am beginning to think that Weiner's resignation is the result, in part, of the new prominence of women in leadership positions in the Democratic Party.

Many have noted that Republicans are not forced to resign for their sex scandals. More so, many of the same Democrats calling for Weiner to resign now didn't call for Clinton to resign. So what's the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats? What's changed in the Democratic Party since the Clinton era?

As best as I can tell, the difference is that few women are in leadership positions in the Republican Party today and few women were in leadership positions in the Democratic Party during the Clinton administration.

My contempt for the so called democratic leadership is bottomless. This confirms that we are weak, worthless, spineless, weenies (pun intended) who stab OURSELVES in the back over and over and over.

The TeaPublicans, enabled by the media and cowardly dems, now get to hold a special election. Congratulations Andrew Breitbart, Mission Accomplished. I agree with those who say Weiner should run for re-election in the special election. Weiners real *ahem* sin is his effective and outspoken voice against the cruel policies of the TeaPublicans. That is what his constituents, you know the people who ELECTED him, admire about him.. It's up to them to decide who represents them in Congress. Or at least it used to be before 911 changed everything. Snark

It's a sad day in America when the party of David Vitter, Larry Craig, and Newt Gingrich, enabled by the media and the democrats, can force someone to resign.

Why is it ALWAYS the attack dogs who get shot?

I have no explanation for the Democratic Party's behavior anymore. I have to wade into conspiracy territory to come up with something that makes sense.