QuietDan

All talk from a bunch of 14 year olds. One look down the barrel of a shotgun and they'll all find a different neighborhood to loot.

  I'm thinking that as long as the defense attorney doesn't brutalize her or beat on her with his questions that she is making herself unsympathetic. Of course, my opinion doesn't matter nearly as much as the jury's opinion, and I'm thinking the jurors will find her unsympathetic. For example: "Creepy Ass Cracker" is racist, almost no two ways about it, especially from what I would imagine would be the perspective of a white (and hispanic) female jury. A female "creepy ass cracker" jury?

Andrew:   I think you are providing a great public service. I've seen your blog posted and commented upon elsewhere, to include Lucianne.com which has wide distribution.   Though posted on another thread, here's an opinion from yesterday's cross examination of "Dee-Dee" by defense attorney West:   West the defense attorney is crazy like a fox.   His long pauses, his gentle demeanor, his persistent questioning, allows "Dee-Dee" to exhibit her attitude, prejudice and ignorance in all its unfettered, horrible glory. There was a video shot yesterday of her that went well beyond rolling her eyes; she made a hideous face at West behind his back, just short of sticking her tongue out on him, on full view for the jury. The longer she stays on the witness stand, the more she helps the defense. If I were the defense team, I'd bring her back for a third day, just to watch her go ballistic and to sink the prosecution. She is a train-wreck, a squirming, snarky, ignorant, sarcastic, hate-filled train wreck.   IMO.

West the defense attorney is crazy like a fox.   His long pauses, his gentle demeanor, his persistent questioning, allows "Dee-Dee" to exhibit her attitude, prejudice and ignorance in all its unfettered, horrible glory. There was a video shot yesterday of her that went well beyond rolling her eyes; she made a hideous face at West behind his back, just short of sticking her tongue out on him, on full view for the jury. The longer she stays on the witness stand, the more she helps the defense. If I were the defense team, I'd bring her back for a third day, just to watch her go ballistic and to sink the prosecution. She is a train-wreck, a squirming, snarky, ignorant, sarcastic, hate-filled train wreck.   IMO.

  Well, well, here's a piece from the Tennessean. I stand corrected. The Tennessean reports 75 people at the rally. . . .   http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130627/NEWS01/306270056/Gun-control-advocates-bring-tour-Nashville

I have not seen any media reports on this event. Does that mean the media couldn't find the three people who showed up?

  The audience for the knock knock joke was the jury and the jury alone. The jury apparently was non-plussed by the joke itself, but the defense lawyer's summary and contextualization of the joke ". . . after all you (the jury) have been through . . . " I think still has positive value for the defense. The media's ridicule of the joke has no value, as finally we're into a court trial with a sequestered jury -- and the media has no power in that circumstance.

For those who cannot accept the results of a jury trial:   To those so predisposed -- go ahead in your rage and burn down your neighborhood.   Don't, for a second, THINK about burning mine -- for I will resist you with appropriate, even deadly, force.

  Terrorist! :rofl:

Sherwin Smith, Deputy Director Division of Water Resources 615-532-0445 sherwin.smith@tn.gov   http://www.tn.gov/environment/srf/lpcontacts.shtml     Sherwin Smith has been appointed as the Deputy Director of Field Office Operations. Sherwin is a 23-year state employee with 18 years’ experience in the former Division of Water Supply. Sherwin has served in a variety of leadership positions, including Enforcement Coordinator, Field Office Manager, and Environmental Program Manager over multiple statewide programs. Most recently, he was responsible for the State Revolving Fund (SRF) Loan Program while continuing to lead five statewide programs and supervise the seven field offices for the Division of Water Supply. Sherwin’s accomplishments also include implementing state standards in critical areas such as drinking water supply, safe dams, laboratory certifications, and operator certifications.   http://www.environmentallawnews.com/tdecs-division-of-water-resources-adds-two-deputy-directors/

Weed, fights and guns: Trayvon Martin’s text messages released Posted on Thu, May. 23, 2013 By Marc Caputo mcaputo@MiamiHerald.com Trayvon Martin In the months and days before his shooting death, Trayvon Martin was getting into fights, getting high on marijuana, getting suspended from school and talking with friends about getting a gun, according to cellphone text messages that defense lawyers for shooter George Zimmerman released Thursday. Trayvon’s chronically misspelled, slang-filled messages — as well as pictures of a semi-automatic pistol, marijuana plants and Trayvon flipping his middle fingers — are all part of Zimmerman’s defense plan to put the Miami Gardens 17-year-old posthumously on trial. “So you just turning into a lil hoodlum,” one friend, whose name has been withheld, texted Trayvon. Trayvon replied: “No not at all.” At one point, Trayvon joked that the friend was “soft.” “Boy don’t get one planted in ya chest,” the friend joked back. The message, a likely reference to being shot, eerily foreshadowed Trayvon’s fate three months later. On the rainy evening of Feb. 26, 2012, Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon at an apartment complex in Sanford, near Orlando, where the Miami Gardens teen was sent to live with his dad to get back on track. That night, Trayvon was returning from a convenience store where he had just bought a pack of Skittles and some iced tea. Zimmerman said he believed the young man in the hoodie sweatshirt was up to no good. No one witnessed who threw the first punch at whom or why. But soon Trayvon was dead from a Sig Sauer (sic) [Kel-Tec] gunshot wound, Zimmerman was in police custody and the nation began debating Florida’s deadly force law known as “Stand Your Ground.” The law offers protections for some shooters in public places, but Zimmerman was still charged with second-degree murder by a special prosecutor appointed by Gov. Rick Scott. Zimmerman is pleading self-defense, and said Trayvon attacked him. His trial is scheduled for June 10. Though Zimmerman might not take the stand, his statements given to police and his 911 calls on the night of the shooting are major pieces of evidence. His defense lawyers hope to counter with Trayvon’s text messages and his troubled record at school. A Central Florida judge must now decide whether the evidence is relevant to the case. The prosecution and Trayvon’s family say it isn’t. Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Trayvon’s family, said in a written statement that the defense was displaying “stereotypical and close-minded thinking” in signaling that it planned to use Trayvon’s messages and photos, including pictures of him blowing smoke and showing off gold teeth. “The only photos or videos that are relevant or admissible at trial are those of Trayvon taken the day he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman,” Crump said. “There is no evidence that Trayvon either had gold teeth nor gave anybody the finger the night he was shot and killed. Therefore those pictures are irrelevant and will not be admitted into evidence.” The text messages, some of which are redacted, do not make clear whom Trayvon was talking to at different times. Sometimes it appears he was joking with a friend, other times with a girlfriend and, in at least one instance, with his father. Some of the earliest text messages date back to early November 2011, in which Trayvon, a junior at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in North Miami-Dade, indicates he was suspended from school for being in a fistfight. Later in the month, on the 21st, he exchanged messages with at least one friend about an after-school fight. One of Trayvon’s cellphone pictures shows two teens about to square off against one another as a third stands in the middle like a referee. Trayvon said he fought a rival who “snitched on me.” Trayvon: “I lost da 1st round :) but won da 2nd nd 3rd.” Friend: “Ohhh So It Wass 3 Rounds? Damn well at least yu wonn lol but yuu needa stop fighting.” Trayvon: “Nay im not done with fool….. he gone hav 2 see me again.” Friend: “Nooo… Stop, yuu waint gonn bee satisified till yuh suspended again, huh?” Trayvon told another friend at the time that his mother wanted him to move in with his dad after he was suspended. “Da police caught me outta skool,” Trayvon wrote. Months later, Trayvon appeared to get into trouble again, but suggested on Jan. 6, 2012, that he was an innocent bystander: “‘I was watcn a fight nd a teacher say I hit em.” The following month he complained he got in trouble for something “I didn’t do.” In between these messages, he appears to flirt with a girl and talk extensively about smoking marijuana, or “kush.” One friend called him a “WEEDHEAD.” Trayvon’s troubles appeared to get worse and, on Feb. 13, he explained to a friend that he was serving “10 dayz” of suspension. Five days later, he repeatedly appears to inquire about a gun with a friend: “U got heat??” Hours later he was asked by text: “You want a 22 revolver?” The friend who sent the message said it was bought by “my mommy.” On Feb. 21, Trayvon appeared to be heading to Sanford to live with his father. But he hadn’t lost interest in guns. “U wanna share a .380?” he asked one friend. Hours after that, someone who appears to be his father sent him text messages about staying in Sanford. “Show much respect to [redacted] and adjust to my Lady & [redacted]. Show them that you a good kid and you want positive things around you,” his father, Tracy Martin, wrote to Trayvon. A minute later he followed up: “Be a big brother and not a DONKEY … …LOVE DAD.” Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/23/v-print/3413343/weed-fights-and-guns-trayvon-text.html#storylink=cpy

Judge prohibits prosecution audio experts from testifying on screams in 911 call in Zimmerman trial Published June 22, 2013 BREAKING NEWS: A prosecution expert is prohibited from testifying that screams for help captured on a 911 call came from 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a judge ruled Saturday.   Defense attorneys for George Zimmerman had claimed the expert's testimony was flawed.   Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson made the ruling ahead of Monday’s expected opening statements in Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial. FULL COVERAGE: ZIMMERMAN TRIAL   Prosecutors will be able to argue in opening statements that Zimmerman profiled Martin based on factors such as aged or clothing before he shot the unarmed black teenager, but they cannot say he was profiled based on race, according to a ruling Nelson issued Friday.   Defense attorneys had asked the judge to prohibit prosecutors from using a series of words in opening statements that they deemed inflammatory. Those words included "profiled," "vigilante," "wannabe cop," and that Zimmerman had confronted Martin. Zimmerman identifies as Hispanic.   The judge said all of those statements may be used, provided that race is not discussed if the issue of profiling is brought up.   Prosecutor John Guy had argued that there were a number of ways someone could be profiled other than race.   "That is not a racially charged term unless it's made so, and we don't intend to make it a racially charged term," Guy said. "There are a number of avenues someone can be profiled in any one way or combination. We don't intend to say he was solely profiled because of race."   Defense attorney Mark O'Mara said he was concerned using the word "profiled" would "infect" the jury with a racial component that shouldn't be there. "I want to be very, very cautious," O'Mara said.   Six female jurors were chosen Thursday for the second-degree murder trial of Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fired on Martin in self-defense last year in a gated community in Sanford. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.   MEET THE POTENTIAL JURORS   Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, 29, profiled Martin as he walked back through the central Florida community from a convenience store on a rainy night in February 2012 wearing a dark hooded shirt.   Race and ethnicity have played a prominent role in the case and even clouded jury selection. While the court did not release the racial makeup of the jury, the panel appeared to reporters covering the selection process to be made up of five white women and a sixth who may be Hispanic.   On Feb. 26, 2012, Zimmerman spotted Martin, whom he did not recognize, walking in the gated townhome community in Sanford where Zimmerman lived and the fiancee of Martin's father also resided. There had been a rash of recent break-ins at the Retreat, and Zimmerman was wary of strangers walking through the complex.   The two eventually got into a struggle and Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest with his 9mm handgun. He was charged 44 days after the shooting, only after a special prosecutor was appointed to review the case and after protests.   Martin's shooting death and the initial decision not to charge Zimmerman led to public outrage and demonstrations around the nation, with civil rights leaders and others accusing Sanford police of failing to thoroughly investigate the shooting.   The six jurors were culled from a pool of 40 candidates who made it into a second round of jury questioning. Two men and two women also were picked as alternate jurors.   Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/22/prosecution-audio-experts-prohibited-from-testifying-on-screams-in-11-call-in/#ixzz2WxMf1NBi

Say it ain't so!!   That's terrible.   I hope someone isn't punished with a Silver Star. . . .

Thanks to all for the kind remarks. As a retiree, I'd like to think the services have been left in capable hands. God Bless you all for serving and continuing to serve.

  Women may respond to the fact that Zimmerman was actively working to protect his family, his neighbors and his neighborhood.

  Read what you're writing.   It is a FACT that some potential jurors "FEEL" that way. It may even be a FACT that some potential jurors "THINK" that way.   THE TRUTH, however, is not a poll where the folks with the most votes win. It has yet to be established as a FACT that Zimmerman is GUILTY of ANYTHING or INNOCENT of EVERYTHING.   Do you know how I know? Because the Jury of JURORS in this case are the FINDERS OF FACT. The Trial has not yet occurred and the Jury has not yet done their job, therefore there is no declaration of what the TRUE FACTS might be.   What the Jury says are the FACTS -- ARE the FACTS. That doesn't happen until THE JURY HAS SPOKEN.   At that point, all the feeeeeeelings and thoughts and opinions and component facts and the defense and the prosecution and the judge all become immaterial.

"The Mogwai" may look like a small furry dog, but in actuality is a very close relative of the Ewoks from the Forest Moon of Endor in the Star Wars movies.   And, "Black Rifle" is an Ancient Heirloom of the Clan of Graycrait of the Village of Clark, in the Province of Tenn-ess-ee, near the border of the fearsome Ken-Tucks.   Though small in size, Ewoks, and their cousins, including "The Mogwai," are very smart and fearsome warriors.   Some believe "The Mogwai" is skilled in 13 forms of martial arts, is adept with almost all varieties of lethal weapons including barking and biting, and possesses great stealth capabilities when necessary. Also, "The Mogwai" reportedly can Kill You with its Mind; or its breath, if it gets close enough; or its tongue, by licking you to death.   All is not as it appears to be; appearances can be misleading, or even fatal for the naive.   Beware!

This guy was definitely a liberal PLANT.   There is NO WAY they would let him stand right next to the speaker, and even take the speaker's glasses off, if he was not an actor hired to be a buffoon and an over-the-top parody of pro-gun people, down to the Homeland Security shirt and the three-day-old beard.   This presentation was like a Punch and Judy show with real people instead of puppets, and the guy even got whacked with a stick, errr, a tazer.

Every Marine a Rifleman.   My Marine son Matt has just been selected for Gunnery Sergeant!   Well earned and overdue, in my opinion.   He and his wife are expecting shortly, as well.   Oooo-Rah! Semper Fi! Glory Hallelujah!    

Awesome!   It looks like the final product!   Very rugged and . . . manly . . . and yet elegant in its simplicity.   Are you going to work it more?   They say a work of art is never completed, merely abandoned.   Are you going to make more?

Nothing earthshattering, but read a new gun, law & order phrase:   "Sometimes there's justice....and sometimes there's just us!"   I think this one's better than "I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy," and "when seconds count, the police are only minutes away," you know, the old standards.   It was a posted comment after a story where a homeowner came home late and discovered three burglars in his house, exchanged gunfire with them and the police find a dead man with a gunshot wound on the next door neighbor's lawn.     Who else has heard a really good phrase that really spells out handgun self defense?    

  Magpul to the Libtards: In your face, ash-holes!

  Yeah, I got a thing for these two. It's called a baseball bat.

  After Zimmerman wins his case (knock wood), I would very much like to see him initiate a multi-million-dollar civil suit against the deep pockets of the major media, the race shysters, and others for damages, pain and suffering. Then, I hope he picks an excellent ghostwriter who can write up the whole story and earn him millions of dollars more.   It's in my dreams, but I also think that reality would support it. I would like to see this type of attack shut down in the future due to the risk of severe financial damage to the perpetrators of such schemes and have it reinforced with appropriate State and Federal legislation.

Jealous of his relationship with Honey Boo Boo's Mom.