The following exerpt is from a speech recently given by John Derbyshire:
John Derbyshire Via (vdare.com)   […] Mainstream Conservatism, like any other kind of Conservatism, is up against a very formidable foe. Because of my own professional background as a systems analyst, I think of that foe as “the installed base.”
Imagine you are hired in with a team of computer specialists to give a bank a computerized system for running its books. The job would be pretty easy if you could start from scratch, with a bank that had nothing but paper record-keeping—or better still, with a new-founded bank that had no established system of record-keeping at all.
Unfortunately things are rarely like that. The bank you are contracted to already has a computer system. It’s been in use for years, and it’s a mess. The databases are festooned with redundancies and contradictions, the code is unreadable, and the users have to do time-wasting work-arounds to deal with all the anomalies.
Everyone’s used to this creaking, leaking old system, though, and comfortable with it. They know its faults, but they know how to cope with them, like an old married couple. They resent you coming in and imposing new methods on them. (more…)

“Keep Hope A Lie”

(The Hill) — President Obama’s reelection campaign is making a determined and carefully calibrated effort to boost enthusiasm among black voters, a group that could swing the election in key battleground states.

Polls have Obama winning more than 90 percent of the black vote against Mitt Romney, but there are signs that the high African-American turnout that fueled his 2008 victories in North Carolina and Virginia could dissipate after the hard realities of the president’s first term.
The chances for depressed turnout are increased by the bad economy, which at its worst drove the unemployment rate for blacks above 16 percent and led to some disillusionment with the candidate of “hope and change.” (more…)

Perhaps “fear” is actually stronger than Sunlight – Sunlight might dull the appearance of a Tattoo, but “Fear” actually removes it.

Too much newly unearthed research to cover in one substantive and digestible thread.  So let us once again consider this Part 1 in a two-part series.   Part 1 dealing with Gang Membership, Parenting–or the lack thereof–and gang affiliation.   With Part 2 dealing with The Masonic Connection and research into Tracy Martin/Brandi Green’s “ACTUAL and TRUTHFUL” whereabouts on Saturday February 25th and Sunday February 26th.

 “Crippin’ is a choice, but it’s forever. You may slow down, but you will always be down forever.”

It started with trying to figure out why Traydaddy, Tracy Martin, changed his neck tattoo sometime between March 22nd and March 26th.   Perhaps Trayvon’s other Ghost-Daddy, President Barack Obama, …”if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon”, coming out four square on the side of Team Skittles had something to do with the need to clean up the image.  I mean, it would certainly appear, well, odd, if Barack Obama was ghost parent to a “gang banger”.

Prior to March 22nd Tracy Martin proudly displayed the following neck tattoo:

 It appears to say “CaT” in scrolled tattoo script.

Sometime between 3/22 and 3/26 the tattoo was redone, “CaT” was covered up and it was made to look like this: (more…)

CNN TRANSCRIPT: 7/13/12

And now, new developments tonight in the case against George Zimmerman. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara has filed a motion to disqualify the judge. Kenneth Lester is his name and Mark O’Mara says he’s biased against Zimmerman. He said this after he made what O’Mara is called gratuitous and disparaging remarks in his bail order last week.
Including and I quote, “Under any definition, the defendant has flouted the system.” And, I quote again, “The defendant has tried to manipulate the system when he has been presented the opportunity to do so.” Those and other remarks are what the defense says will prevent Zimmerman from getting a fair trial.
CNN legal analyst Mark NeJame is OUTFRONT.
Mark, do those statements, flouted the system and manipulating the system, do you agree with Mark O’Mara, that those are gratuitous and disparaging? Or are those fair ways to describe someone who when asked if he had money said no and he really did have money?
MARK NEJAME, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: I think it’s a fair comment from a court who’s evaluating the evidence, one can agree or disagree. But you can’t throw a judge off every time you disagree with him because basically you’d have half the judges thrown off at any given time, because somebody typically is going to be on the other side.
The fact is, is that, you know, the question will be did the judge go too far to suggest that he’s in fact, might be biased? I don’t think the judge is biased at all. (more…)

If anyone thinks this was a motion defense *cough* attorney Mark O’Mara wanted to file, well, I’ve got a bunch of beautiful land in south Florida to sell ya.   This motion was filed with strong hostile objection and forced client representation.   – /SD

H/T…hdfboo7…Verified Motion to Disqualify Trial Judge
(USAToday)…George Zimmerman wants a new judge to preside over his murder trial for shooting Trayvon Martin, arguing the current judge is biased against him.
Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, filed a motion to disqualify Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Lester, who revoked Zimmerman’s bond and then set a new, substantially higher bond.
“Mr. Zimmerman has a reasonable fear that he cannot get a fair trial or a fair stand your ground hearing by this court,” O’Mara wrote. “The court makes gratuitous, disparaging remarks about Mr. Zimmerman’s character; advocates for Mr. Zimmerman to be prosecuted for additional crimes; offers a personal opinion about the evidence for said prosecution; and continues to hold over Mr. Zimmerman’s head the threat of future contempt proceedings.”  (more…)

“He listed Sgt. Arthur Barnes, Rebecca Villenova, and Trekelle Perkins as all pressuring him to file charges against Zimmerman after the incident. […]  Serino also stated that Barnes is friendly with Tracy Martin and Barnes asked Serino for Martin’s phone number, but ended up getting the phone number from another source.” 

The lead Sanford Police investigator who sought manslaughter charges against George Zimmerman told the FBI that a sergeant and two others officers tried to pressure him into making an arrest in the controversial case — even though he didn’t think there was enough evidence.


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Prosecutor releases another round of Zimmerman evidence…

Also released Thursday:

• Cell phone records from Trayvon Martin’s father, Tracy
• Emails from Zimmerman and Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee
• Crime scene photos and diagrams

*Here’s the link to the latest documents released….all 284 pages in PDF.
*Timeline:  The Trayvon Martin Case…

(MSNBC.com)…A special prosecutor in the second-degree murder case against George Zimmerman released more evidence Thursday, including a first glimpse at what the FBI has found in its civil rights investigation with dozens of witnesses.  The evidence released by Special Prosecutor Angela Corey also included interviews from one of her investigators with Trayvon Martin’s cousin, who was with him the night before Martin was shot.
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A follow up to THIS STORY

Remember the earlier conversation about “Prog-Logic”?   Cue the audio-visual demonstration….
Nancy Pelosi joins Al Sharpton and runs with the conspiracy theory….. The Black Booing being a complex strategy of audience manipulation by Mitt Romney to make it look like blacks disliked the message of self-reliance, or something…..
WASHINGTON DC – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that Mitt Romney made a “calculated move” to get booed during his address earlier in the day before the NAACP.

“I think it was a calculated move on his part to get booed at the NAACP convention,” she told Bloomberg TV. (more…)

Al Sharpton proclaims that Blacks were forced to boo Mitt Romney during speech…. It’s Romney’s fault.
(Via Daily Caller) During his speech before the NAACP on Wednesday in Houston, Mitt Romney received a smattering of boos from the audience when he promised to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care reform law.

According to MSNBC host Al Sharpton, the Republican presidential candidate wanted to get booed. (more…)