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[judge nelson] directly grilling defendant Zimmerman not once, but three times about his intentions to personally testify while scolding his lawyers not to counsel him in what seemed to many to be an attempt by the court to bully him into taking the stand. Seeing prosecutors losing the case, Nelson jumped into the ring to give them a direct shot at Zimmerman in a last-ditch attempt to make him look guilty in front of the jury.
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That the closing charges were even attempted shows just how vigilante the case is. When the president weighs in on an individual's guilt before the ink is even dry is pretty retarded sir. Even had people with guilty already decided trying to lie their way into staying on the jury.
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g(r) - reminds me of the time when Charlize Theron hosted Saturday Night Live, and Tracy Morgan kept hitting on her because she was African-American.
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Is Dave Matthews an African-American?
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grom - isn't Kerry's wife African-American? IIRC she was of white African birth.
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an Afrikaans girl who become a naturalized American. Posted by g(r)omgoru
She would be South African-American. Most white South Africans reject the notion of South Africa being party of 'Africa'. Think of it as being from Canada or Texas vs "The Americas" if you will. There are other, less subtle reasons which probably should not be discussed here.
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I disagree with both the author and the judge. Trayvon Martin's history should not have been introduced, but for a completely different reason than the judge stated. The first duty of the jury is to determine whether George Zimmerman feared for his life or great bodily harm at the time he fired his weapon. If George Zimmerman did not know Martin's history it did not influence Zimmmerman's state of mind prior to his making the decision to shoot Marten. The Florida statutes are very explicit about that and the judge should have just cited the statutes instead of the unjustified BS she came up with. Pounding another persons head on the ground is felony assault. If the jury beleives Zimmerman comitted no crime prior to the fight, and if they beleive Zimmerman feared for his life, before he pulled the trigger, anything that happened prior to the fight is irrelevant.
The fact that the jurors have questions regarding manslaughter is just further proof of the fiasco the judge has turned this case into.
If the jurrors did not know that they could be asked to deliberate on manslaughter, BEFORE they heard testimony, a mistrial needs to be called immediatly.
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Couple of people are missing
Won Hung Low, Soo Me Soon, and Wats Upp Doc.
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So if half the effort that is going to go into finding the perp were to be out into F & F or Benghazi we would finally have some real answers. Wonder if Judge Debbie can pin this on Zimmerman while she is on the case?
[An Nahar] A man who was allegedly certified as dead almost three years ago has won a race for mayor in the southern state of Oaxaca. Normally the dead do the voting. They don't win elections.
Leninguer Raymundo Carballido Morales won the election in the small town of San Agustin Amatengo by just 11 votes last Sunday as the candidate of a coalition of conservative and leftist parties. But now prosecutors are investigating whether Carballido Morales faked his own death in 2010 in order to escape arrest in connection with the gang rape of a woman in 2004.
A living and breating Carballido Morales actually campaigned in the election, appearing in public events and giving interviews to news hounds.
But two days before the vote, the local daily Tiempo de Oaxaca reported that the candidate's lawyer had delivered a forged death certificate to authorities in 2010.
The document, which was certified by a doctor, declared that Carballido Morales had died of "natural causes" following a diabetic coma, the newspaper said.
Iliana Araceli Hernandez, a state prosecutor for crimes against women, said her office launched an investigation in the wake of the report "to determine if a crime was committed."
Oaxaca's civil registry director, Aide Reyes, acknowledged that a public servant signed the document and that her office opened an investigation.
The state head of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), Rey Morales Sanchez, whose party was part of the candidate's coalition, told Agence La Belle France Presse that if the mayor-elect committed a crime, "he will have to be replaced" by his substitute.
Carbadillo Morales proved once again he's alive and well on the eve of the election, writing on his Facebook page that he had gone to the prosecutor's office "to ask for information related to the incidents linked to me, which are totally false."
"The proof," he added, "is that there's not even a formal complaint."
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At least he didn't "fake" college attendance at Columbia.
Rhode Island legislators adjourned last week after a bill aimed at banning assault weapon was tabled for the session. Other measures did pass including a law making it illegal to commit a crime with a stolen gun. (WTF?!)
Ruger Firearms opens a new factory in North Carolina, taking advantage of NC's right to work status, and more likely, less tyrannical political class. No word if Beretta is planning to exit Maryland.
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With great respect to Badanov, mods, and others, I enthusiastically support "Land of the Free" as a category, but weapons, weapons tactics, and gun building articles may not be appropriate or healthy content for this site.
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I think I understand what Besoeker is getting at; no coconuts.
Humbly, Choosing whether or not to have a firearm for personal protection (not recreation or professionally) is a very personal choice, and should be made with a level approach to what you can and cannot do. It is a tool, and should be treated as such, and the first time you use a chainsaw should not be at 10' in the air on a 6" branch. Train up. Build the muscle memory. Like shoes, make sure it fits, try some on before purchase.
A few weekends ago my wife, her good friend, and our daughters went camping. Some neighbors were being -weird- , mind this part of the country has the meth, meth dealers, and the 10am drunks. They went unarmed and decided the wise thing to do was to pack up and cancel; even if she was armed. That being said, if the squirrel jumped they would have been SOOL as immediate help was 30 minutes out, with the outside bet on another neighbor being a knight.
And it is a topic considered outside polite conversation with people being reported for pop tarts. I recall being called a fascist brownshirt for even considering an 870 20g. It was like being charged with vehicular homicide for talking about golf carts.
I also think the topic should be kept open without stigma. When things are not talked about is when they get weird; that's what the 1st is really about.
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I also think the topic should be kept open without stigma. When things are not talked about is when they get weird; that's what the 1st is really about.
Thank you, swksvolFF.
That is what this series is about. If speaking about a subject becomes evaluated as whether it is "appropriate or healthy", we really are in serious trouble, so talking about those subjects become necessary.
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If people don't "like" guns or want to read about guns and ammo, they can just skip the posting.
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If this was a site that might otherwise slide underneath NSA etc.'s radar, I would completely agree with Besoeker's unease, but I can't imagine we are not already under constant scan by the government.
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Golf Bravo, I should get a nice picture of mine ("My old Warhorse 1941 M1911A1 Colt 45") and figure out how to post it - 1915 M1911 - my grandfather's WWI sidearm. Not quite identical, but incredibly close.
Open an account at Photobucket. It's free for the first GB or so. You can upload your pictures and then link to them for what ever you wish. I do this all the time on the various Gun Forums related to Military or M1911 collections.
Go to http://forum.m1911.org and register. Then in the Forums go to US Military Issue M1911 and M1911A1 Pistols and start a thread regarding your Grandfathers M1911 and I'll find you. We can work from there.
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would a MetalStorm style gun be easier to make oneself than the MAC in the article?
I imagine the trick with MetalStorm is to get the rounds to fire off in proper sequence, one at a time; as opposed to cooking off en masse, which would result in a Sh*tStorm.
[Al Ahram] Columns of heavily armed South Sudanese gunnies in a tribal militia are fighting their way towards a rival community in the eastern Jonglei state, a local official said Friday.
Lou Nuer and Dinka gunnies from northern Jonglei are reported to be marching south towards Pibor, an area of their rivals, the Murle.
"We are worried that a lot of people will die, especially women and kiddies," said Pibor County Commissioner Joshua Konyi, speaking to AFP via a crackling satellite phone from the town.
He said civilians further out in the swampy bush were reporting that Murle civilians were fleeing ahead of rampaging gangs of Lou Nuer gunnies armed with semi-automatic rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
"I'm worried because the Lou Nuer youth are there in huge numbers," he said, adding that some reports estimated the militia force to number several thousand.
The latest round of fierce fighting broke out a week ago in Pibor county in conflict-wracked Jonglei, between government troops, rebels and ethnic militia.
The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is "deeply concerned about reports of a major mobilisation of armed youth (and) reported festivities," it said in a statement late Thursday.
The latest festivities follows bitter fighting in May, when soldiers and other gunnies looted UN and aid agency stores in Pibor, including a key hospital.
US State Department officials said Thursday they were "deeply disturbed by mounting reports of abuse of civilians, including assassinations, rape, beatings, and the looting and destruction of homes and humanitarian facilities."
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[An Nahar] At least 23,000 people have fled the town of Kamango in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... after it was briefly occupied by a rebel group, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
Rebels from Uganda's Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked Kamango, in the northernmost part of North Kivu province early Thursday morning, but later left the town.
Some 3,000 people crossed over into Bundibugyo District in western Uganda on Thursday and the remainder overnight or on Friday, a senior police official in Bundibugyo, Denis Namuwooza, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"Uganda Red Thingy Society had by mid-afternoon (Friday) registered 23,000 arrivals," UNHCR officer Karen Ringuette said.
Ugandan army front man Paddy Ankunda said the rebels briefly seized Kamango, close to the Ugandan border and some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Beni, the main town in that region of DR Congo, on Thursday.
"We have beefed up security along the common border to avoid a spillover of the fighting," Ankunda said, adding that the Congolese army had since pushed the rebels out of Kamango.
However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... local media reports said the rebels had pulled out of their own accord.
Watalinga tribal chief Jean Paul Saambili told AFP that rebels were still in Kamango on Friday around noon "terrorizing the residents".
Residents also said that public buildings and the hospital had been pillaged but no toll was given of possible casualties.
Ankunda said the rebels took nine people hostage, including a local leader.
According to residents he was killed but members of his family and several humanitarian workers had been released. There was no immediate confirmation for this by other sources.
The ADF was formed in the mid-1990s in the Rwenzori mountains in western Uganda, close to the DR Congo border. Part of the ADF is now based in DR Congo after Ugandan government forces routed them two years ago.
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[An Nahar] A Russian state service in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications is looking to purchase an array of old-fashioned typewriters to prevent leaks from computer hardware, sources said Thursday.
The throwback to the paper-strewn days of Soviet bureaucracy has reportedly been prompted by the publication of secret documents by anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and the revelations leaked by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
The Federal Guard Service, which is also in charge of protecting President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... , is looking to spend just over 486,000 rubles ($14,800) to buy a number of electric typewriters, according to the site of state procurement agency, zakupki.gov.ru.
"This purchase has been planned for more than a year now," a source at the service, known by its Russian acronym FSO, told Agence La Belle France Presse on Thursday.
The notice on the site was posted last week. A spokeswoman for the service declined comment.
Pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestia said the state service was looking to purchase 20 typerwriters because using computers to prepare top-secret documents may no longer be safe.
"After scandals with the distribution of secret documents by WikiLeaks, the exposes by Edward Snowden, reports about Dmitry Medvedev being listened in on during his visit to the G20 summit in London, it has been decided to expand the practice of creating paper documents," the newspaper quoted a FSO source as saying.
Unlike printers, every typewriter has its own individual pattern of type so it is possible to link every document to a machine used to type it, Izvestia said.
Documents leaked by Snowden appeared to show that Britannia spied on foreign delegates including then president Dmitry Medvedev at the 2009 London G20 meetings, said British newspaper The Guardian last month.
Russia was outraged by the revelations but said it had the means to protect itself.
Snowden has been stuck in legal limbo at the transit zone of a Moscow airport for a third week after arriving from Hong Kong on June 23.
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Like many here, I too predicted the eventual return of the Selectric-III and OCR ball. :-)
[An Nahar] Israel on Friday staged what it said was a planned test of a rocket propulsion system at a military base on the Mediterranean coast.
Israeli media, citing analysts, said the test appeared to be of a version of the Jericho ballistic missile with a range of at least 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), easily capable of hitting arch-foe Iran.
"This morning, Israel conducted a launching test from the Palmachim base of a rocket propulsion system," the Israeli defense ministry said in a brief statement.
"The scheduled test was pre-planned by Israel's ministry of defense and was carried out as expected," it said without elaborating.
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Israel politely reminding both Sunnis + Shias about their "Samson" Option.
"It will be superseded by a new robot jet capable of reconnaissance and strike missions to be deployed aboard carriers within six years. Navy commanders insist that it will only fire its weapons on the command of a human (Note to Techies: make sure this is hack-proof, OK?)."
Yeah, oldish news, but linking to AJ has its own irony....
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The question at the end of the article asks what the mission is for drone aircraft flying from carriers. Seems to me that the X-47B could, with relatively minor modification, serve today as a carrier-based recon- and intel-gathering platform. Stays in the air a long, long time, carries all the sensors you care about, maneuverable and reasonably survivable, and can land itself on a deck. What's not to like?
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[FASTCOMPANY] Boston Dynamics has been busy working on an entrant for DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge, a contest aimed to create robots that can help in disaster situations. Of course, they could also be used by the military...
Now, Boston Dynamics has revealed its entrant: A 6-foot-tall humanoid robot called Atlas.
Compared to the bumbling, tottering, and slow humanoid robots that have hit the media before, you may be shocked at how resilient Atlas is. The machine has sophistication that approaches the stuff of science fiction. It can cope with unexpected trip hazards, survive being knocked off balance by a 20-pound weight, and if the tricks of its developmental predecessor, Petman, are anything to go by, it can climb over obstacles and autonomously navigate to a certain degree.
Give it a few years and a robot like Atlas may be pulling survivors from tumbled buildings in post-earthquake scenarios. And possibly terrifying the crap out of enemy soldiers on the battlefield.
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Iff Hollyweird movies are correct, I predict this will not end well for humanity.
"He said the military has created an atmosphere where those who do not approve of homosexual conduct "must remain disapprovingly silent or face reprisal to our careers.'"
He really shouldn't have expressed his misgivings while in uniform, but his heart is, IMHO, in the right place and his observations true....
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He really shouldn't have expressed his misgivings while in uniform, but his heart is, IMHO, in the right place and his observations true....
In other words the new Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy applies to Christians and Christian morals but homosexuals are allowed to not only be openly in your face but also Christian places of worship must be forced to adhere to homosexual immorality contrary to the scripture of the Christian faith...
IN UNIFORM.
NOT!!
Lets brush up on a few things here. Every aspect of an individuals life is accountable to his God on his day of judgment based on any faith. While he is going down the journey called life, there is a place that he and those of his faith set aside for communion with the God of that faith, usually a Chapel, Synagogue, Mosque, etc.. For people who refuse to acknowledge a god or who refuse to abide by the laws and statutes of the god of a faith to demand that THEIR sinful actions be carried out in a holy place to that faith is outrageous. (Homosexual soldiers demand the same treatment at a Mosque and see what happens to you!)
A soldier of the United States of America not only SHOULD take a stand for freedom of religion, any soldier who does not take a stand for freedom of religion or any other component of the Constitution of the United States of America should be court marshaled and thrown UNDER the brig. Any homosexual soldier who demands that actions clearly viewed unfavorably by a faith be carried out in a Mosque or Chapel or Synagogue should be court marshaled and thrown UNDER the brig.
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It's going to be a bitch when recruiting straight white males is near impossible. What's there to die for? Can't reintroduce the draft without it being ignored as women aren't going to be inducted in equal or (to make up for past discrimination) greater numbers. By fragmenting society, the individual can ask - why should I die for group A, B, or C, or the culture of urbanists oligarchs.
Recruiters have the hardest time in urban areas. Back in 2005, the Department of Defense concluded that urban high schools were the source of most problems. Not because of leftist teachers in some of those schools trying to keep recruiters out, but because so many potential recruits had to be turned down because of the poor education they had received in those schools. While only a fifth of Americans live outside cities and suburbs, nearly half of the qualified recruits come from these rural areas. What's strange about all this is that the rural areas spend much less, per pupil, on education but get much better results than urban schools. Part of this can be attributed to differences in cost of living, but a lot of it has to do with simply getting more done with less. Per capita, young people in rural areas are over 20 percent more likely to join the army, than those of the same age in urban areas.
The rural recruits are also a lot easier to train and generally make better soldiers. The urban recruits often have a bad attitude, as well as a difficult time getting along with others and following instructions. The urban schools deserve some of the blame for this, while rural schools tend to be far more orderly and put more emphasis on civic responsibility. Many of the urban recruits are aware of these problems and joined the service to learn useful (for getting a job) social skills. Those skills are more often found among rural recruits because out in the boondocks, people are more involved with local government and more involved in general. This has been noted in urban neighborhoods and for decades many urban parents have sought to send their kids to live with kin in the country to get the child away from the bad influences of urban life. Over the last decade there's been a movement by parents back to the rural areas. Urban areas may be more exciting, and offer more employment opportunities, but they are a tough place to raise kids or find suitable recruits for the military. - Strategy Page
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...as they are wrapped up in their own corrupt fantasy vision of the world. History and nature abhors a vacuum. Their power can't stand without bodies to protect their artificial world and they're creating chaos in the world and national power structures that will lead to threats externally and internally that can't be resisted without that 'consent' (ie willingness to give the last full measure of devotion). Like any parasite, it'll die with the host its infected. That's the ultimate end.
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Yet Maj. Nidal Hasan openly expressed his opinions and the military bent over backwards to protect his 1st amendment rights - until 13 serviceman were murdered.
In fact they are still bending over backwards to protect him by refusing to call it an act of terrorism.
This is directed specifically at Christians (and Jews). I seriously doubt this would have happened if he was a Muslim.
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Omavimble Stalin3583 - I agree 100% with you, but todays military will not allow men and women of good conscience to express their Christian-base beliefs, at least while in uniform (however that may be defined.). My statement that he "...shouldn't..." was not judgmental, but more an observation that he stuck his neck out a little farther than prudent for our unfortunate but present circumstances; the PC "lawnmower," as designed, cuts very close to the root. Hopefully, the pendulum is set to swing back....
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For the scrawny third world kenyon Hussein and his regime's attempt to establish his Emperor status and to use "PC" to strip the Citizen Soldier of his or her rights as a citizen so that he can convert the military into his Praetorium Guard will end up with Hussein getting his and the members of his regime's asses "royally" kicked.
The American soldier is a Citizen first and soldier second with all rights therefore enshrined in the United States Constitution. Any Commanding Officer up to and including the Commander in Chief who attempts to clearly circumvent the United States Constitution with extraordinary actions or orders to the Citizen Soldier to violate US Law or attempting to punish the US Citizen in uniform for abiding by United States law, must be and will be charged with Treason.
THAT is the resolute position any US Citizen Soldier under oath to uphold United States Law and the United States Constution in and out of uniform.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Al Ahram] Columns of heavily armed South Sudanese 
[An Nahar] At least 23,000 people have fled the town of Kamango in eastern 
[An Nahar] A Russian state service in charge of safeguarding Kremlin communications is looking to purchase an array of old-fashioned typewriters to prevent leaks from computer hardware, sources said Thursday.
...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[An Nahar] Israel on Friday staged what it said was a planned test of a rocket propulsion system at a military base on the Mediterranean coast.
[FASTCOMPANY] Boston Dynamics has been busy working on an entrant for DARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge, a contest aimed to create robots that can help in disaster situations. Of course, they could also be used by the military...
"He said the military has created an atmosphere where those who do not approve of homosexual conduct "must remain disapprovingly silent or face reprisal to our careers.'"
