John Henry Spooner Shooting VIDEO: Evidence Shows Darius Simmons Killed (GRAPHIC)

And so it begins...
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The Day After The Verdict: Florida v. Zimmerman

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The Killing of Trayvon Martin was a lynching. It was predicated on an assumption that a black man must explain to an unknown white man why he was in a certain neighborhood. This is a centuries old question that black men have had to answer or face possible death or imprisonment. During the Antebellum period, slaves or free people of color needed to show proof as to who they were and why they were out of their area. Sadly, this is true today some 148 years later that we must prove our legitimacy, our right to simply walk around on the sidewalks of any America city as the free people the United Sates of America Constitution 13th Amendment says we are able to do as citizens. It says: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Formally abolishing slavery in the United States, the 13th Amendment was passed by the Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the states on December 6, 1865.[Library of Congress website: We according to "Amendment IV have: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

That part about "persons" means self. That means as a free American we have the right to walk freely, not answer questions from non-law enforcement officers, and not be killed for doing what is perfectly legal. Now, it seems as though George Zimmerman, the man that shot and killed Trayvon Martin and his legal team may seek to get an order of immunity so that Mr. Martin's family cannot sue him in civil court where there is a lower bar of preponderance of evidence versus reasonable doubt. That is galling! The Martin family legal team surely planned for this action and again America must wait for some semblance of justice for Trayvon Martin he certainly did not get it last night.

WATCH: Your Duly Elected Representatives Standing Up For Their Principles Before It Was Cool

Rep.John Lewis is a great man. The best that Georgia offers America.
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A President's Finest Hour

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It is true that the message of acceptance for blacks in America was President John F.Kennedy's finest hour. Some 248 years (1865) ago the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in the United States was ratified. In 1965, the Civil Rights Movement with President Lydon B. Johnson's signature made voting a right and not a privilege for blacks in former slave states and he signed the public accommodation law that meant that blacks could eat, ride and sleep in places along with anyone else who could pay for it. That I remember was a very happy day for my parents. The law was finally on their side and going to be upheld.

Tom Donilon Resigning: Obama National Security Adviser To Be Replaced By Susan Rice

Why has the AP hired such a bunch of political hacks as "reporters"? Regurgitating Republican talkinbg points in an article supposedly about the nomination of Susan Rice to head the NSA. She was drummed out of the running for the position of Secretary of State because she is a woman and the Republican Senators like McCain et al wanted to see Senator Kerry become Secretary of State. McCain went as so far to pronounce Ms. Rice as "not very bright.t" This from a guy who graduated far from the top of his class whereas Ms. Rice was a Rhodes Scholar and graduated with honors from Standford University. She has been a fine representative for the United States at the United Nations and I think she would do as well or even better at the NSA. Too bad the AP has decided to paint her as a "faulty" explainer on a Sunday talk show as bearing more merit than how she has conducted herself as UN Ambassador.
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Michele Bachmann: 9/11, Benghazi Were God's 'Judgment,' So We Must Hold Day Of Prayer On Sept. 11

They certainly don't present a loving image of God's people.
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Reinhart and Rogoff's Second Response To Critique Of Their Research

I would have appreciated a more practical response...SUCKERS! The masses are just that to this weak "science" economics.
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Paul Krugman: 'So Much At Stake' In Reinhart-Rogoff Research Controversy

How true and in this case how very, very disgusting. The pain inflicted on the marginalized is massive and it's based on faulty math.
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Guns and Civilization

United States of America Constitution
Amendment II

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The year is 2013. As citizens of the United States of America we have several kinds of regulated armies that swear to protect and defend us and our rights as citizens. The need for citizen militia now is about the same as the need for a horse drawn fire-wagon completely obsolete. If we are a civilized nation then we have no need to own or use military weapons. The majority of citizens of the United States of America get their food from grocery stores. We do not hunt for meat unless it is in the refrigerated aisles of stores. There remain purists who prefer to hunt and kill their own meat guaranteeing its freshness and knowing its place of origination. They use shotguns. The likelihood of those hunters to use military weapons to kill their prey is small since the point of hunting animals for food is to eat them. Meat that is obliterated by bullets is practically uneatable. Military weapons are to kill humans as many and as quickly as possible. There is no need for citizens to own these weapons of death and destruction in a civilized country.

The hypothesis that more guns equal more deaths is highlighted in my birth city of New Orleans, Louisiana. According to an article attributed to Gwen Filosa, on the Times Picayune online news site NOLA.com, “Gunfire Death Rate in Louisiana is the Highest in the Nation, Researchers Find” published on June 2, 2010, stated that “Louisiana, where an estimated 46 percent of households own a firearm, has a gun death rate of 19.87 per 100,000, the Violence Policy Center determined by reviewing newly released 2006 data, the most recent available from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

Rounding out the top five in overall gun deaths were Mississippi, Alaska, Alabama and Nevada. The lowest per-capita gun death rates were in Hawaii, with 3 per 100,000, and a household gun ownership rate of about 10 percent.

The national average of gun deaths is about 10 per 100,000, roughly half the rate of Louisiana.
Hawaii was followed by Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York, which had a 5 per 100,000 gun death rate and 18 percent household gun ownership.

"The equation is simple," said Kristen Rand, the nonprofit's legislative director. "More guns lead to more gun death, but limiting exposure to guns saves lives."

Unless you hunt for food the event of a domestic argument being settled with slamming doors and curse words could well end in cocked triggers and everybody and the dog being shot to death within mere minutes because the gun is available. If you do not hunt for food why do you need a gun? Are thinking for protection a gun might be useful? No. That’s why we pay taxes for police. They are trained in weapons handling, the law and how to quiet yet not kill rising domestic incidents. Since we are the government and the democratic experiment that is America has lasted more than 200 years then the chances of a country or a group of insurrectionists taking over are between very slim and zero. The fact that we have the best military in the world and each state has National Guard units, state troopers, local sheriffs, and police forces what need is there for a militia?


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Ted Cruz, Dianne Feinstein Do Battle During Debate On Assault Weapons Ban (VIDEO)

I agree we should have a well regulated militia...just make 'em use the dang muskets they had when the thing was written and we can get rid of those military weapons that our local yahoos use to shoot out of helicopters at some deer minding its own business.



Seriously, we have an army and a very good one at that. There is no need for our citizenry to be armed with military weapons.
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Scott Brown Senate Run? Landscape Shifts As Republican Eyes Another Possible Bid

Only the media wants Scott Brown to run again...and maybe Wall Street. It's time for him to get a job not on the public dole. Stay in Washington Mr. Brown you can be a shill just like all of the other ex politicos. Your 15 minutes are up!
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Scott Brown Doubts Ed Markey's Residency In Possible Massachusetts Senate Fight

Ed is old school MA he will beat the leather shorts off of Scott Brown! He tried stuff like that with Sen. E and she handed him his petard. Rep. Markey will not be so gentle.



Ed knows how to win in MA.
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Jim DeMint To Heritage Foundation: Senator To Leave Position To Run Think Tank

[singing in Buggs Bunny's voice] "Overture. Dim the lights! This is it!..." He is leaving. America and especially the Senate are all the better for it. Although SC is a perverse state and can indeed send to the Senate an even worse yokel than De Mint , I dare hope that America catches a break and someone who loves America more than money or party will be sent in his place.
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Sheryl Nuxoll, Idaho GOP State Senator, Tweets Out Bogus 'Last Chance' For A President Romney

I have never in my whole life seen such a huge boatload of bad losers. Geez, y'all lost...get over it! A bunch of whiners! I never wanted nor did I ever vote for Reagan, Bush I, or Bush II. They won. I waited out their terms to elect someone better. Killing yourselves or your significant others is just nuts. 53% of America said no to Romney. Unless you are a rich investment banker or hedge-fund manager it doesn't matter much. You should be hunkering down and waiting for the next election. You have four years to lose the hate. You'll survive just fine...I did.
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Get Your War On: The Aftermath (VIDEO)

Dear GOP:



You NEVER should have disrespected my President! Feeling humiliated? Shocked? Good! Underestimate people of color, angry women and young people again if you want to continuously lose.
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Melissa Harris-Perry Delivers Open Letter To Richard Mourdock On Rape (VIDEO)

You have got to be a guy. To simply pass over what Miss Harris-Perry and other rape survivors have said to promote your anti-abortion view is disgusting. Rape is v i o l e n c e. It is the most personal kind of violence where you no longer feel safe in your self. Rape is not sex it is pure violence. It is used in order to make its victim feel powerless. Rape is about power and control and if you cannot fathom that then you have no right to condemn any woman who cannot bear her rapist's child. It is not for you nor me to determine what terms any rape survivor should take to maintain her sanity and heal. The monster is the rapist.
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Mitt Romney Offers Full-Throated Attack On Obama's 'Redistribution'

Sad. That 47% crap is going to bite Gov. Mitt square on the rear of his pants. Whether or not your parents pay Federal income tax they pay taxes like EVERYBODY in the country does. They pay real estate taxes. They pay sales taxes (and in some places they are very steep). When they fly to see you they pay a whole array of taxes with their ticket. Every place local and state governments can they are taxing citizens. So, if you aren't paying Federal income taxes you are still paying taxes.



This 47% stuff makes me sick!
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Rick Santorum: 'Smart People' Will Never Be On Our Side (VIDEO)

30 years in the literacy movement...Rick is why reading and comprehension are tools for our national defense. I shall teach people to read as long as I live. Readers really are leaders.



If the Tea-people would stop watching Fixed News and read for themselves they too would be smart and not need Rick (oh just Google him) Santorum to try to make ignorance into a good thing.
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Jeb Bush: It's Time For Obama 'To Move On' From Blaming George W. Bush

And we should care about his brother's feelings because...? Frankly, the mess we are in is expressly because of George Bush II's supply side economic voodoo nonsense first employed by Ronald Reagan and expanded upon like out of control RNA by Bush that caused massive debt and and an historic shift of wealth from everybody else to the 1%. Add to that there was the banking scandal that nearly collapsed the world's economy. So, I guess we all should still be blaming George W. Bush for the economic mess we are still struggling to climb out of without the benefit of a working Congress. The country is so broken now but the choice is quite clear. We can return to the failed economic policies of one party with a secret plan or we can side with the other party that was productive for the first two years of President Obama's term. In the mean time why let George off of the hook...he baited it.
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Tom Head, Texas Judge: Obama Reelection Could Lead To 'Civil War,' I'm Ready To 'Take Up Arms'

That brick load is shy of many more than one brick. Please Texas start teaching United States of America civics. And it would help if folks stop watching that Fox News it is really making y'all nuts.



Finally, it all boils down to race and that is what is sad about such prehistoric crazy thinking on the part of people like Tom Head. Sad.
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