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Photos released this morning of the back of George Zimmerman's head 3 minutes after the shooting. This is a pretty hardened crowd here, but there are Graphic Warnings that go along with them. Several open wounds and blood running down. ABC also showed the first contemporary photo of Trayvon Martin that I have seen (where he's 17, not an 8-year-old), but then again I haven't followed the story that closely. "I AM TRAYVON MARTIN!!!" = Bashing a guy's head in because he looked at you funny. In a just world, the judge would throw the case out in pretrial hearings at a prima facia viewing of the evidence. But, it's an election year in Florida (and they elect their judges, from what I hear).

I don't understand how the four that Tarzan talked to wouldn't have taken the automatic Top 5. Notice how the 'That's not the pecking order! Like... not at all!' was coming from those very 4. The second Kim didn't use the idol, you knew it was Leif. But yeah, a lot of them appear to be playing for 7th, 6th, 5th and 4th place. Kind of like Cochran last season, who betrayed his tribe to gain a certain extra week, rather than a contingent 5 weeks. Sheer stupidity. Kim is orchestrating it all, and most seasons that would be something, but here, that's not a big compliment. I'm wholly rooting for Troyzan because of his simple "I'm alone here" status and the societal truths he was saying at the start of the episode. Women marry, get a home and a car and college on the dude's dime and then they're like 'I don't need you anymore.' Yup. Seen it happen way too much for it to be a coincidence. This is the stuff women are taught from an early age for the past 30-40 years --- how to get "security." And guys fall in love either with the idea that it'll be different for them or with that thing between the legs and sense goes out the window. They are all sisters. A guy asking an honest question will get the wrath of an Alicia simply for asking that question; that woman is a seriously terrible human being. Sure, Troyzan's gloating went over the top. As Marv said, "Act like you've been there before." But anyone who can't appreciate the sentiments of someone in his position has obviously never faced a situation of the tyranny of the majority. He basically needs to win out in immunities because it seems clear, whatever the teaser, that the other people low on the totem pole in the women's alliance (and Tarzan) are too stupid to take a good thing when it's put in front of them. I'm ready for an All-Star season after watching this. Just... people who actually know how to play the game rather than count on the 1% odds that they'll be able to win an immunity challenge or two or three when their pecking order time comes 'round. Scrounging the $500 for shocks for his Jeep? If this dude is a "plastic surgeon," he's doing the surgery on the corner in the Jeep. Or, he makes plastic spork widgets for Walmart in an assembly line and is embellishing his resume. I would be surprised if this guy could tie his shoes, much less a suture.

Do you subscribe to Day Old News or Behind the Times? This happened, like, last month.

Gratuitous Chelsea picture from tonight's episode.... (OK, maybe not gratuitous, but certainly a nice view.) Even if Kim has her back, with the idol, it may not be enough to save her for long once all the men are gone. (But even then, she may keep Tarzan b/c honestly, if you are Kim, who do you want in the Final Three? I'd want to be there with Alicia and Tarzan.

As I wrote at the time that came out, perhaps the league should first see if LA can support one team. Because even that is highly questionable. Yup.

The men are now going to get picked off one by one. Because they're stupid and have been stupid the whole game. Friggin Tarzan tonight STILL voting for Jay, when iirc, his vote for Alicia would've tied it, right? I wouldn't put this so much on Kim being a mastermind so much as, again, the men being retarded. If they want to have any chance, they have to win out at immunities. Dude let go of the chain for a couple of pieces of chicken and his ass was walking down the path a few hours later. Unless you're supremely confident you're not possibly on the hopping block, you compete to win in immunity, no matter what Probst waves beneath your nose. Also, a green shirt for Probst during the immunity challenge? Were all of his blue ones dirty or something? Don't know how much Chelsea may have done herself in with those 'I don't want to vote them out when I just told these guys that I wouldn't' comments when they were talking shop. She eventually drank the Kool-Aid, but Sabrina and Alicia will have that as ammo now.

And yet, in 2008, it was Romney and Huckabee that split what essentially was the Tea Party vote before there was a Tea Party. He found his support then among the very conservative, while McCain won the moderate / right of center vote. The numbers were in an article I read earlier today. I'm not in a spot to find the article again but this is pretty easily searchable. I don't see how he'll not be able to coalesce support there this time, now that he's the presumptive nominee. And again, to add to the subsequent comments, what Romney needs to do is say those little words "states' rights." His input kept the 85% Democrat state legislature from burdening Mass. businesses with horrific taxes for a single payer system. His view all along has been that the federal legislation should be limited and allow individual states to do what's best for them based on their healthcare infrastructure and demographics. Mass. with 4% uninsured and the highest per capita incomes in the U.S. didn't have the same conditions as some states that have 20% uninsured and a population that is less able to afford it. And yet, Obamacare essentially treats states as if they are the same. I've consistently heard it through the explanation that it was a compromise whose numbers were brought to some fiscal sanity when it became clear it was going to pass one way or the other, and that at least as it stood when he left office, it was working for Mass. I haven't really kept up on it since then, but I haven't read any dreadful reports in my inbox or heard bad things from people I know in that state. But like I said, conditions it he versus many other states are totally different and require separate solutions based upon what people in the states want or don't want.

conner stopped posting? (At least... he stopped posting as conner.)

This is a non-starter until the franchise changes hands. What will probably end up happening is an $80M - $90M renovation to RWS over the course of a new lease of 10-12 years. The new owner/s will wait until the end of the lease to decide their next step.

Weekly Standard | America's Debt Is Greater than Entire Eurozone's (and U.K.'s) Combined Debt

Just to note: Newt was speaking over the weekend that Romney is now virtually guaranteed to get the nomination and that he'll support him. So it seems all but over. There was one recent poll where Romney was +5 in Penn, and another where Santorum was +4. Regardless, Pennsylvania, with proportional delegates, was a state that Santorum needed to win by a wide margin (30-40 points) in order to retain even that 1-2% shot of carrying this thing to the RNC and hoping for a brokering. All the other 24 April states were going Romney and beyond that too with California being the whopper 172-delegate winner take all. Losing Pennsylvania w/o an excuse like this would have screwed his future aspirations. But as it stands he's the nominal runner-up, which historically shows he's favored in 2016 if Romney doesn't win in the general (several polls out today showing that Romney vs. Obama is a tie, and that he's in this deep this far out with all the advantages that the office brings, doesn't stand well for Barry). Anyway, this comes about a month-and-a-half to two months late for Santorum. I understand why he did it. He had things he wanted to talk about, wanted to get his name out there, no matter what the math was saying. But it was getting awkward and going further had the potential to damage the party. It would be interesting if the party holds him to any accountability for producing fractures.... On another note, tho, Mr. Santorum's youngest child, Bella was released from the hospital yesterday, and while the campaign has been nasty at times, I sincerely wish the best for her. Santorum talks the talk on abortion, etc. but give credit where it's due, he also walks the walk. Then again, I (and ~70% of the electorate) go with the idea of stare juris on Roe that defined it as a private matter and left for people (women) to decide for themselves. As I said, I don't want a president who seems to want to be a pastor-in-chief. That's not government's function. There are a number of other possible candidates who would get my support. Mike Pence, Mitch Daniels, Susanna Martinez....

Also by the employment stats, those people who've fallen off the unemployment roll and those who've decided to stop looking for work because it's a waste of time... well, the administration and the media who want another term for their golden child like to pretend that those people dropped off the map.

Yep. An average of $12,000 of regulatory expenses to hire one person in this country --- note: this is before a salary/wages start being paid --- and the problem is that there's too little regulation.

Actually, to my surprise, Sheryl Atkisson of CBS News has been one of the principle reporters breaking stuff about Fast and Furious. If she doesn't win a Pulitzer, then they need to stop giving them out. But generally speaking, yes, these kinds of stories are more and more originating online and then the MSM begrudgingly gets in on it. Well... if there's no missing white women that week.

So basically, all that happened last night was an amp-up of ire and the teams bunched up a lot, time-wise. You know, Rico may think they're *s, but the BP agents were right. I don't know about you, but I don't like being lied to, even with small stuff. It's an indication that someone will lie about important stuff, too. But really, how silly/stupid are the FBI girls being about it? That bit last night in the tent set-up where they claimed to be at a disadvantage b/c they were the only team w/o a man was crap. It was crap. They picked their team, they need to deal with it. Vanessa either can't ride a bike, they were too dumb to check if the seat could be lowered (it looked like there were knobs under the seat...) or pooh on AR for providing bikes that aren't suitable and can't be adjusted to be made safe. Sure, there's a thing of 'This is it, they're all the same, and figure it out or you're done' but come on, this is a safety thing. They're provided cars with adjustable seats.... Just sayin'. Bopper looks out at the African plains and exclaims, "This is beautiful!!!" then half a second later, he spits his gum out of the window with a big *ptui*. You stay classy, Kentucky!

Try ~ $120.

Oooo! Nice! That's one where you get mentally associated with vacation. Not bad.

Sh--, I believe the plural is Zubazes.

Red sky at night, sailors' delight!

Brillo pads?

Otherwise... you would've done your duty as a Bills fan and sacked him, right?

To clarify, one store manager went PC and then corporate went common-sense. I see this no differently than my views in the thread about a pharmacist who refuses to sell birth control items or Rxs in a store that carries them. You either perform the whole job, which includes parts that you may not personally or religiously agree with, or you do another job or find another field of work. This was part of the job description when she applied, right? She could reasonably be expected to have known that some people buy bacon and beer at the supermarket and that she might have to touch them, right? We should not be expecting employers to have to cater to their employees' every whim about moral problems they might have about customers' purchasing decisions. They stock it, you handle it or you do something else. Kudos to Wegmans head office for not wimping out. Why does this reek of someone angling for (specious) grounds for a lawsuit/$ettlement?

Some updates on the show: It will be two more seasons of 8 episodes each. I don't know if this has been shared here before, but it's the first time I'm seeing it set in concrete. They are filming S5 currently. Gilligan and his writing team have a rough outline of what they want gor the major characters and the end of the series. Link

NYT | Life of the 'Body Man': Garrett Jackson

By 2019, we will be spending more in interest payments on the national debt than we spend on the Department of Defense. $600B in interest payments! Not even touching the debt principle! Link I look at that graph and think, 'How are we not totally, totally screwed?!?' Like... Harvard-PhD-philosophy-student-with-half-a-million-in-debt-and-the-only-job-he'll-ever-find-is-McDonald's screwed. But keep talking about secret clubs, MSM. That's what the national consciousness needs to think about. Because Economy This, Debt That won't get your boy re-elected, will it?