According to Reuters, in New York a grand total of 2000 people showed up Saturday to protest in favor of Trayvon Martin in the George Zimmerman trial. Thats .00024257 of the population of our most populous city. More New Yorkers show up for pizza at Rays between 6:00 and 6:05 in the evening. (Well, who knows? But you get my point.)
In our second most populous city, my hometown of Los Angeles, the results were even worse, according to the Los Angeles Times. A measly 400 people demonstrated. The totals in Miami, closest big city to the event, were 300.
In other words, the turnout was somewhere between minuscule and puny maybe, at best, fifteen thousand people nationwide in a country of 314 million. (You do the math on that one . Okay, Ill do it. Thats .00005 of the population.)
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There were five patrons in the barber shop in my small, Georgia town this morning. No one mentioned it in polite conversation nor did we observed marchers on main street.
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Know a guy who handled security at the Saturday morning protest in "da ATL" (Atlanta). Media claimed 3,000, but he estimated it to be a LOT less than that (hundreds).
Posted by: BA ||
07/22/2013 12:06 Comments ||
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Couple of hundred in LA; the size fluctuated as the demos split up and went off in different directions.
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Notice the many comments of the writer. " Either we believe in the future or we will be replaced by people who do". That is our country now. The higher crime rate is a natural thing among the young adults. The future belongs to those who reach for the stars. The current crop of regressive leadership will achieve only one result, failure. The decline can be seen everywhere. New blood is needed, new ideas, and new leadership. Reach for the stars. Push for every bit of growth. We are like a stagnant pool of water. There is life in that pool but its going nowhere it simply exists for a time.
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I saved the reading by skipping directly to the bottom line:
If there is anything good to be drawn from the Zimmerman/Martin tragedy, it is only the further revelation of the corruption and irrelevance of today's civil-rights leadership
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I wish fulminating hepatitis and tertiary syphilis on what used to be a bloated lardass and now look like a chupacabra Alfred Charles "Al" Sharpton, Jr...
Posted by: Bob Snore6814 ||
07/22/2013 23:33 Comments ||
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"No wonder the employer mandate was delayed. It's hard to see how it will work."
It won't. BY DESIGN. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara ||
07/22/2013 20:11 Comments ||
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The 'problem' with CEOs is that, unlike our elected representatives, they understand at least a smattering of economics and can use arithmetic for something other than counting votes. Shifting workers to 30 hr weeks and persuading employers to drop health care may not have been the legislative intent (who knows? we have to pass the bill to see what's in it!), but if that's the way the numbers work, that is what you will surely get.
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well, when you mandate coverage and then mandate a minimum coverage with everything from abortion to transgender counseling, then you have a mandated coverage that is far larger and more expensive than the coverage most individuals want or need and the cost goes through the roof.
Blame all of the knuckleheads in Washington and the special interest activist groups that loaded Obamacare up with nonsense.
Of course it was going to cost more, didn't anyone READ the danged thing?
Posted by: Bill Clinton ||
07/22/2013 23:15 Comments ||
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h/t Gates of Vienna
Forty-four years ago, a nation that we now know was racist, didnt care about the environment and drank too much soda, landed on the moon.
Half a billion television viewers watched it happen live. They saw men walk on the surface of another world. They saw that human beings could break free of their world and take a first step into the rest of the universe.
...No one who was born after 1935 has walked on the moon. That period is swiftly becoming a historical relic. A thing that men did who lived long ago. A great work of other times, like the building of dams and fleets, the winning of wars and the expansion of frontiers.
...In those long lost days, we did great things. The bureaucrats took their cut and the contractors chiseled and the lobbyists lobbied and the whole great vulture pack of government swarmed and screeched and still somehow, with a billion monkeys on our back, we moved forward, because we still had great goals. Now our goal is government. There is no longer a moon. Only a paper moon.
The whole mess of bureaucrats, contractors, lobbyists, policy experts, consultants, congressmen, aides, crooks, creeps, thieves and agents is no longer a necessary evil that we put up with in order to accomplish great things. It is the great thing that we accomplish. There are no more moon landings, no more dams or tallest buildings in the world. The massive towering edifice of our own government is now our moon landing, our Hoover Dam, our Empire State Building.
...Going to the moon was a crazy idea of course. Going beyond it would have been even crazier. Instead we settled down to the important things, like race relations, the importance of listening to music, breaking up the family, importing huge numbers of people with little use for our way of life and all the other stupid suicidal things that dying civilizations do to pass the time.
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That same year - 1969 - we also had a half a million men in a land war in Asia and we right in the middle of the largest infrastructure program ever - the Interstate Highway System.
After 44 years of "progress", we have a tiny space program, a shrinking military, and crumbling infrastructure.
I prefer the 1969 priorities.
Posted by: Bobby ||
07/22/2013 9:27 Comments ||
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Good, albut somewhat depressing stuff:
The eagle landed in a mud puddle in D.C. The last men who walked on the moon will probably be dead within a decade.
Well tell our kids about it and theyll shake their heads because whats the big deal anyway? Everyone flies around in spaceships in all the movies. Why bother doing it in real life? They dont bother doing anything in real life. And then theyll go off to another class that will teach them how much carbon waste the space program added and how many super-hurricanes it caused and how much better off we are now that we no longer have cars, plastic bags or air conditioning.
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Exactly. I grew up in the Space Shuttle era, and watched the dream die. It's why I don't have children, and would hesitate if the opportunity came along. I feel it's wrong to give up hope. But I also feel it would be wrong to condemn my own children to a world that no longer values big dreams.
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/22/2013 19:22 Comments ||
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I'm broadly all for supporting + helping America's international allies or partners dev their SpaceProgs, but NOT iff it means Amer astronauts fall behind in skill proficiencies, + our OWG-NWO Govts,Perts consensus remains there is no such consensus.
IFF THE BAMMER = USA WANTS LEGIT FREE MARKETS FOR THE PERVASIVELY FAILED-N-FAILING
"GREEN/ENVIRON TECHS", THEN WE NEED TO GO BACK INTO SPACE PRONTO. As thingys stand, the Fed desires to firmly establish + entrench these
"green/environ techs", but has forgotten they need the normal justifications, etc. for setting up any such markets for same.
Even loyal Guam-based Democrats here on Guam admit or believe that all the Bammer + Admin is doing is using US Taxpayer dollars to payoff Party-Campaign Cronies using "Green/Environ Techs" as legal PCorrect-Deniable cover story.
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If you think about it, Columbus was not only a great explorer but also an early environmentalist; after all to cross the Atlantic he only used three galleons....
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