*You sure do :)>> A bit of ad lib there from me, quoting the jist of the text from memory. Not much of a slant....

And my tirades are, I think, a mark of higher honesty, since you can tell that I am ranting, with a strong viewpoint that you can take or leave, file under "Golden", or flush down your low-flow (its what you'd have if you were flushing me).

I give it away, without deception, where I stand.

Not your today's modern journalist. Oh no. He chooses his quotes, he chooses his quotees, he chooses his emphasis and his insinuations with a high degree of deception in conscious mind, or without conscious awareness and little self-control (perhaps an issue <quantum.consciousness> would rather deal with) and in the end which is worse:

* An intentional, disguised yet propagandizing bias in the reportage

* An unintentional, yet philosophically aligned bias that selects the details to fit the unconscious bias

or

* The flagrant mind-whipping from a proselytizer, fully aware of the sides, and meant to show true colors, challenge in return, contest the accepted gospel, yet based on a core of indisputable fact?

Ok, nothing here is indisputable, including indisputable facts.

Anyway, huh? Which is worse?

I don't see that the Zimmerman case has any political meaning at all.

We will find out in ten days what constitutes self defense and whether self defense can be claimed at all if an incident is aggresively provoked.

From evidence so far, it could go either way.

Mainly to brush up on Columbo impressions by the look of it. Pondering on what assists in creating situations such as this within a society would potentially be more useful I would have thought.

Two years ago, when introducing then promptly enacting Obamacare, the president stated that healthcare law reform would not cost a penny over $1 trillion ($900 billion to be precise), and that it would not add ‘one dime’ to the debt. It appears that this estimate may have been slightly optimistic… < by a factor of 1700% >.

Because coincident with the recent Supreme Court debacle, in which a constitutional law president may be about to find that his magnum opus law is, in fact, unconstitutional, someone actually read the whole thing cover to cover, instead of merely relying on the CBO’s, pardon Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs’, funding estimates. That someone is Republican Jeff Sessions who after actually running the numbers has uncovered that the true long-term funding gap is < a mind-boggling $17 trillion >, just a tad more than the original sub $1 trillion forecast. This latest revelation means that total underfunded US welfare liabilities: Medicare, Medicaid and social security now amount to $99 trillion!

Add to this total US debt which in 2 months will be $16 trillion, and one can see why Japan, which is about to breach 1 quadrillion in total debt (yen, but who's counting), may want to start looking in the rearview mirror for up and comer competitors. And while Obama may have been taking creative license with a number that is greater than total US GDP, he was most certainly correct when saying that Obamacare would not add a penny to US debt. Because the second the US government comes to market to fund < a true total debt/GDP ratio of 750% >, it is game over, and the Fed will have its hands full selling Treasury puts every waking nanosecond to have any time left for the daily 3pm stock market ramp.

I did a little research and found that most lottery players think that the payout is only about 25%, when it's actually about 50%. Even the worst casino game is better than 80% (the most popular, slot machines, about 95%), but casinos are private businesses that have to compete while lottery is a govt. monopoly. Also it seemed that a disproportionate number of winners came from small towns I never heard of, so I had the idea getting some people together to buy tickets from small rural stores. However actually looking at the winner lists contradicted this. I did notice several places had repeat winners, probably because the publicity increased ticket sales there. Some were the same people "reinvesting" their winnings.

<That someone is Republican Jeff Sessions who after actually running the numbers has uncovered that the true long-term funding gap>

Thank god we can count on a superman like Jeff Sessions. Who needs the Congressional Budget Office staffed with all those useless economists and professionals? The cost of the Affordable Care Act will be 17 times larger than estimated *because Jeff Sessions says so*. Phew!

According to new police footage, it appears that Martin may have also assaulted a police officer. http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/...

Police say the attack was due to Martin's ghost being upset about the wasted skittles and ice tea. Expert psychic Sylvia Brown has been called in to assist the investigators.