Apparently, a witness has emerged, who says Martin attacked Zimmerman.

Let the riots begin!  Oh, wait… apparently, the witness may also be something other than a privileged white male.

Still doesn’t justify Zimmerman following Martin in the first place.  Still doesn’t justify the self-proclaimed neighborhood watch ‘captain’ carrying a firearm.  In fact, Martin might have felt he was defending himself… ‘stand your ground’ being the rule of law… when he took Zimmerman to the ground and started pounding on him.  Of course, at that point, Zimmerman would have been clearly defending himself by using his firearm.

I guess this witness’ testimony doesn’t really change anything after all.

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Everything about this case sucks – the kid was apparently completely harmless, and in no way deserved his fate. The moron who shot him was an overzealous “wanna-be” cop and deserves to be punished for his horrible mistake. All that being said, could we please use a picture of seventeen year old Trayvon, and put away the pictures of twelve year old Trayvon?

Hell, if we’re going to play that game, why not show him even younger?  Oh, wait… that’s being done, too.

Sure, the picture of this man as a child makes everyone feel all warm and sympathetic for his family – he’s such a pleasant looking young man, afterall – but he wasn’t a little child the night he was shot, he was as close to a grown man as can be without being eighteen, and that probably had something to do with the way the moron reacted to him.

And what’s up with the picture being used on his memorial brochure?  No sign of anything this recent on the evening news… just not baby-faced enough, I suppose.

Go ahead, do a Google image search for “Trayvon Martin”.  Check out the pictures of news broadcasts talking about the “seventeen year old” but showing pictures of a child.  Disgusting the way the public is so blatantly being manipulated.

I’m not trying to justify his murder, just saying he wasn’t a child, and it’s patently false to keep showing his frakking baby pictures.

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I find it somewhat amazing, but mostly disgusting that some people are so willing to give up their minds, their will, and their lives to follow a charismatic* asshole with a messiah complex.  It’s even more unbelievable in this modern day of free flowing information that otherwise normal, intelligent people can’t see the same pattern being played out again and again.  Isolation, restriction, declaration that the leader is “god” and infallible, and almost inevitably, sex with the followers.

The saddest part is that while the “followers” generally consider themselves ultra-religious, the “leader” is the ultimate atheist.  He has to be an atheist, because if he had any real beliefs in an almighty, he’s know for sure he was pissing off that god (those gods, whatever).

I suppose he could be a believer in the Roman god Bacchus.  That way as long as alcohol is involved, anything goes.

As a public service, I hereby offer this message to those under the control of “religious leaders” who may or may not realize they’re in a cult:

STOP BEING SO FUCKING STUPID.

That is all.

* I don’t get how these people are “charismatic”, they’re mostly just disgusting.  But hey, people claim Hitler was charismatic, and he was nothing but a diminutive troll with a screechy voice who appeared constantly on the verge of a heart attack.

“We have been too concerned about the identity of the person who was arriving and not enough about the identity of the country that was receiving him,” Sarkozy said in the TFI channel show.

via Multiculturalism has failed, says French president – Yahoo! News.

Since literally moments after the shooting in Tucson last week, the leftists have been screaming against all logic that the senseless violence committed by Jared Loughner was caused by angry political rhetoric.  Of course, it wasn’t, but that hasn’t stopped every left leaning asshole on TV or with a blog from repeating the lie.

So how does the right respond?  By agreeing with the screaming left that political discourse needs to be toned down.

Really?

This is how you chuckleheads got voted out in the first place – no original ideas of your own, letting the other side set the tone, and letting them have their way.  Are you all going to start chanting “we can too”?

How disappointing.  I’m sure I’m not alone in saying “I expected better.”

Winter Solstice + Lunar Eclipse—First in 372 Years

First lunar eclipse on Winter Solstice in 456 years

Lunar Eclipse Tonight + Winter Solstice—First in 632 Years

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What year is this again?

Oh yeah, I was out there.  Once again wishing I had a better camera for this sort of thing.  Too bad it was too damned cold to get out the telescope and take a close look, but there are plenty of pictures available from the professionals.