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― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
well i say good on don king for that
― the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
It is difficult to stoke the flames of righteous ire in the face of painfully stupid hair
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
truthconk
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
omg lol
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
t's easy to criticize our troops while you sit there in your prius drinking a latte,
never understood this: it's way too easy to spill a latte in a Prius.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
whoa @ that link from mark s.
― goole, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/george-zimmerman-attorney-hold-press-conference-4-30pm-203437097.html
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i had not heard that white plains thing before now, fuck the entire world
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
ogmor was otm earlier and his is a worthwhile perspective to keep when talking about people who upset you deeply or do harm to others
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
The attorneys say they know of Zimmerman's location and have his personal phone number but have been unable to reach him directly for 48 hours. "George can't go out and buy a Diet Coke. There's a bounty on his head," Uhrig said.
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
those attorneys sound like straight up regular joe paranoid rightwingers, it's kinda bizarre
― Clay, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
anyway i know we don't actually talk about the case itself here anymroe for whatever reason but this was on the front page of the NYT today: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/us/grand-jury-review-skipped-in-trayvon-martin-case.html
takeaway - the prosecutor seems to be p terrible but tends to bring a lot of charges, so the chances that zimmerman'll be charged seem OK
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
convicted is a whole other matter
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
I read the article this morning too and didn't think she was terrible...? She's in an impossible political position. Charges are still possible.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
Profile on her is...interesting? Not sure what it portends for the case.
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
is this a fat joke?
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:22 PM (1 minute ago)
actually i can imagine how he'd feel threatened - i've seen a fair amount of this. i mean he should be in a jail cell awaiting trial right now, so let's not feel too bad for him, but given the magnitude of this case i could understand the feeling
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
oh "fat joke", nvm me
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 10, 2012 5:25 PM (3 minutes ago)
well this is up to the jury eh, but that article also implies corey has a pretty high conviction rate
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
No "evidence whatsoever from the time the earth cooled until right this minute" that Zimmerman is a racist
On the other hand, we just quit representing him because he is totes 1 x luny and we can seriously do nothing for him from now till the exploding sun swallows time itself
― mark s, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
During that press conference, they revealed that Zimmerman had had a conversation with Hannity.
"We learned that he had contacted Sean Hannity of Fox News directly, not through us, and we believe, I can't confirm this, we believe that he spoke directly with Sean, off the record, and he's not even willing to tell us what our client told him," attorney Hal Uhrig said.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
so apparently zimmerman tried to contact the prosecutor too?
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
Zimmmerman is now taking his cues straight from Sarah Palin's playbook and is "Going Rogue".
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
A man who hires lawyers then shakes them before representing himself as he contacts any number of folks he really has no businesses contacting has a racist crazy fool for an ex-client, or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
― swaghand (dayo), Tuesday, April 10, 2012 6:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
crazy murderer is crazy
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
"A man who hires lawyers"
I think there is an open question as to whether this is true of Zimmerman or not. Current weirdness makes slightly more sense if lawyers were supplied to/opposed upon him, as some have suspected.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
Hannity-mental patient privilege
― da croupier, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago) link
Zimmerman didn't break the law, Uhrig said, and was justified in shooting to kill.
"Many people remember the case of Liam Neeson's wife, who fell on a little ski slope, hit her head one time on the ground and died," Uhrig said. "We're familiar with shaken baby syndrome. You shake a baby, the brain shakes around inside the skull, you can die."
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
where's the bill to arm skiers and babies
― da croupier, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/10/obama-buffett-rule-santorum-live
(starts out about Santo, but includes coverage of the press conference)
This press conference is now degenerating into a shouting match. It's moments such as this that makes one suspect that the American legal system may have one or two minor flaws.
"Sir, can you give us a recap for those of us who came in late?" asks a journalist. "I can't," giggles Uhrig. That about sums it up.
I'm starting to wonder if his lawyers are actually The Yes Men.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
lol shaken baby is fake
― goole, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
wait, according to him you can die by shaking a baby
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
the baby explodes, taking you with it
― swaghand (dayo), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
i think unfrozen floridian lawyer Uhrig's point is to reinforce the idea that a) zimmerman was getting his head knocked on the ground and b) that's life threatening even if it's not very forceful. b) is true enough but it's a) that he's really pushing
as an aside, 'shaken baby' has come under increasing medical and legal scrutiny recently. it's a popularized thing but probably not a 'syndrome', and people have been put away for murder when the evidence was veeery sketchy.
― goole, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
That might be his point, but what he said was, "We're familiar with shaken baby syndrome. You shake a baby, the brain shakes around inside the skull, you can die."
leave me my lols, they're all I have left
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
I'm imagining all the defenses that you can come up with in florida now
like: it was raining. you wouldn't let me come inside for shelter. I was afraid that lightning would strike and kill me. people have been struck by lightning before. *shoots you, gets away with it*
― swaghand (dayo), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
You gave me a tuna sandwich. The tuna was from a can, which I was afraid may have been dented and contaminated with botulism. *bang*
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
This fucking guy
"The weirdest thing about the response to the shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin has been the fashion for donning a hoodie in solidarity with him."
Yeah, that's the weirdest thing.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
oh my god
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
black America wears hoodies
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
exclusively the garb of black America, that monolith
the largely black basketball team
― goole, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
elite white students from Ivy League colleges probably didn't even own hoodies until the trayvon martin disgrace came to light
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:08 (twelve years ago) link
there'll be a run on hoodies with all these whites wearing them now
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
it does seem bizarre to me that these people don't seem to know that practically every single person under 30 wears a hoodie from time to time
― crüt, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
ok let's catch the subtlety here
Yet the wildly popular post-Trayvon hoodie trend also has the ugly whiff of “slumming it”, even of “blacking up”, where decent white folk parade around in public in the get-up of a class of people they have little connection with or knowledge of.
The black social critic LeRoi Jones once described blacking up...
hmm
― goole, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, I was wearing a hoodie on Easter (granted it said "Harvard Glee Club" on it but still)
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
I think they're able to pretend that hoodies and jackets with hoods on them aren't the same thing
― da croupier, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
britain's has some weird relationship with hoodies for a while tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eYuiAJTgqA
― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
― goole, Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:07 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well that narrows it down to only 29 NBA teams (sorry Pacers)
― Xerox of Fate, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago) link