Daily Topics - Friday March 23rd, 2012
By shawnt56
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Hour One: Brunch With Bernie - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) takes your calls
Hour Two: "Koch Brothers Exposed" - Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films
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#2
Be aware, the term "propaganda" is passe, the correct term now is "public relations". No joke, Edward Bernays was the one who coined the new phrase because of the stigma "propaganda" was becoming associated with. So whenever you hear someone say they are working in "public relations", mentally note that they are propagandists. There is no coincidence that so many corporations and politicians openly rely on their "public relations" people to talk with the public.
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#3
Nokia is Finnish.
#4
Trichotillomaniacally ugly. Wow, and the picture on Wikipedia is in fact ugly. I actually know someone who pulled her hair out in her sleep (not personally witnessed, but testified to me by her husband).
#5
So --if it was a white teen walking with his hood up and eating candy --- would Zimmerman have shot him?
I don't think I have heard anyone ask that question, and it needs to be asked.
#6
You mean "if it had been a white teen". Using "was" makes it conditional, meaning that it's possible that the victim was a white teen. Using "had been" makes it subjunctive, i.e. contrary to fact.
#7
Why Zimmerman shot Trayon isn't really the important question, the question is how can the law being used to protect him even be logically applied in this case. Fine Zimmerman was standing his ground, but everything I've heard about the case is that Trayon was trying to move away. Now whether Zimmerman shot him because he was black, wasn't cooperating with him, he didn't like his attitude, he wasn't wearing the right clothes, the moon was waxing and not waning... is all equally irrelevant, the fact of the matter is the burden of proof is on Zimmerman to prove reasonably that he had reason to feel threatened. From all the evidence I've heard (which isn't much, though the phone calls are pretty damning), he hasn't made that case. Frankly his true motivation vs his stated motivation is beside the point, the fact of the matter is, as far as I can see, he broke the law outright be confronting someone and provoking a response unnessarily (unnessarily because he was told he shouldn't follow him). He brought on a confrontation to himself, by that act alone he is being aggressive, so I can't see how he can claim any sort of defense. At least to the point that he wasn't arrested and tried in a court of law for taking a life of an unarmed person.
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