Quote akunard:5. A $10,000.00 bounty on your head, many blacks would like to kill you.

6. You will never be able to go out for a pizza, etc.

akunard ~ BTW I might add that your assertion of a $10K bounty on his head was made flippantly by the leader of an organization called, "The 'New' Black Panthers." This organization is so militant and racist that it has been publically denounced by the real Black Panthers who want nothing to do with them. I can't speak for all black people but I'm fairly certain that the vast majority do not follow this radical group. If Mr. Z has anything to fear from black people it is a fear of his own making. The same fear that I have noticed that most racist share. As far as reality is concerned, Mr. Z could deliver pizzas in black neighborhoods without fear or danger if he truly wasn't a racist and he truly was innocent.

akunard ~ Ok I did my own search out of curiosity and found this.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/26/2714778/thousands-expected-at-trayvon.html

Public enemy no. 1 Trayvon Martin. What did he do? He was suspended from school three times. Most notably when he wrote WTF on a school locker with a magic marker and when searched was caught with an empty bag of pot, some women's jewelry, and a screw driver; and, was temporarily suspended from school. Sounds like a typical teenager to me. He didn't even have an arrest record, or possession of a firearm; which, as I understand, is more like the typical norm today when a student is searched. By today's "standards" that almost makes him an honor role student.

You might also note that when I did this search not only was this the only thing I found; but, the search engine window went blank after typing "suspicious history of Trayv..." Evidently it is not a popular search phrase. If you can do better akunard... I'm listening.

Quote Mark Saulys:Akunard, you'll say just ANYTHING, that's plain and obvious. You're not convincing or impressing anybody, increasingly, NOBODY listens to you or pays much, if any, attention to you and you have less than NO credibility. Whoever pays you is wasting their money on such a sorry assed clown.

akunard ~ First of all, calling you a "sorry assed clown" to me is a compliment. Why don't you stop for a second, take a deep breath, exhale, stand up, walk around a bit, and then reread everything you've written so far. Think about this, you are defending a man who abuses his wife, punches his father in law, threatens to shoot his wife and his girlfriend, destroys other people property, has a laundry list of violent antisocial behavior as Mark Saulys so articulately summarized in post #24, and quite probably murdered an innocent 17 year old. Your logic and demeanor isn't exactly coming across on the level of Socrates.

In my humble opinion the assessment of Mark Saulys quoted above is quite accurate. You've stated that we should research the "likely tainted" past of Trayvon Martin. To lend credibility to that statement obviously you must have already done that research. Could you please share with us the fruit of such work rather than simply imply--like a dedicated racist would--that there is anything to that assertion?

If we completely discontinued use of carbon fuels today, our global temperature would continue to rise. Temps would eventually plateau and after a time begin to decline. This is a best case scenario. We need good estimates for this scenario because continued use of any carbon fuels at all will extend rising temperatures. The hidden assumption is, of course, that we will not exceed the methane-hydrate release threshold before a temperature plateau. This threshold may have already been exceeded. Does the above make the case for actual alternative-energy action such as that seen in the Manhattan Project?

The F.B.I. has had Zimmerman's life under a microscope, before, during and after the trial. If there was one shred of evidence Holder would have him in Fed. court for a hate crime.

When children run out of facts they resort to calling names.

Senator Sanders would make a great 45th President of the United States.

Senator Sanders stands for functional representative government, also known as Democratic Socialism. The Democratic part is about political equality, which he stands for. The Socialism part is about ending vast disparities of income and wealth, which he also stands for.

These disparities exist in large part due to the unfair advantage gained by the big money influence over our elected officials..... a gaming of the system also known as Fascism.

This big money with the help of the corp. media has convinced the average citizen that socialism is a bad word, standing for unfair government control, and redistribution of wealth. What the average citizen forgets is that all government revenue is a redistribution of wealth, even in a fascist capitalist system. In the current fascist economy, it's only when this revenue gets redistributed to the poor is there a rabid outcry of unfairness. When billions in revenue gets redistributed into the pockets of the wealthy, there seems to be silence, like it's unquestionably a good idea, as in the Exxon's welfare program.

A President Sanders could level this playing field in a manner respectful of true democracy.....the kind enlightenment thinkers as well as our founders intended.

lol !

I would turn myself in or maybe get help for my racist upbringing.

You wanna share all the non sequiteurial conclusions you extrapolated from that? Trayvvon Martin or anybody else doesn't have to be the most congenial personality to not deserve being stalked and shot on his way home from the store. Zimmerman was already much more a crimminal than Trayvvon Martin even before his self righteous and racist confontation of Trayvvon Martin and you, Akunard, are just a paid liar.

Mark please share with us all you know about Travon's last year on earth and why his mother shipped him to his father.

I know what you mean, "stecoop". That fever metaphor has occurred to me as well.

What I love about this blog is how many kindred spirits I keep encountering here. - AIW

Loren, I'm sure your response will be well worth the wait, once you find the time. But on another note, I've been meaning to tell you how blown away I am by the photo you took in western Washington. It's that grove of trees with fallen leaves blanketing the ground. Absolutely gorgeous.

It seems we have more than a little in common. I have some background in photography. As a teenager, I loved photography; it was one of my favorite passtimes. I was obsessed with taking close-up portraits of butterflies. The results were good enough to rival almost any photos I've seen published in magazines or butterfly books. To this day I can't hear that old Beatles album, Sergeant Pepper, without getting flashbacks from the summer of '67. I spent that whole summer chasing butterflies up & down the rural hillsides of my East Oakland neighborhood, with a 35mm camera and an assortment of close-up attachments! (Some of the happiest days of my life.) It's a good thing I did, because a year later all that natural beauty was gone, along with my beloved butterflies. The local authorities viewed the tall dry grass as a fire hazard and killed it off with chemicals. After that, rural Oakland was rural no more. (SIGH) It broke my heart.

I've also had a thing for graffiti. This is one of many subjects my mother and I used to argue about. She always viewed graffiti as a disgusting form of vandalism. But I saw it differently. To me, the better-quality graffiti stands as evidence of raw artistic genius, blossoming from the ranks of an underclass in America that refuses to be silenced or invisible.

There's a collage I made while in high school, that I'm still very proud of; so much so, I've got a color xerox of it hanging on our wall. It's comprised of two magazine ads pasted together. In your mind's eye, picture a young blond woman at a party dancing, with paint on her face (vintage 1960s!). There's a cartoon bubble coming out of her mouth that says "Simple", in response to some question posed in the ad which I'd excluded from the collage. Above that colorful image, in the upper left corner of the page, is pasted a black & white photo of a starving waif in some third world country with a caption that reads: "How can you say 'no' to a needy orphan?" Simple.

That pretty much sums up my view of capitalism, along with the ugly caste system it maintains all over the world. From my point of view, that's way more disgusting than any graffiti. - Aliceinwonderland