Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
President Barack Obama expressed sadness in a statement responding to…..
“Michelle and I were deeply saddened to learn of the shooting that tragically took so many lives in XXXXXXXX,” he said. “At this difficult time, the people of XXXXXX must know that the American people have them in our thoughts and prayers, and our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who were killed and wounded.”
“My Administration will provide whatever support is necessary to the officials who are responding to these tragic shootings and moving forward with an investigation. As we mourn this loss which took place, […] we are reminded how much our country has been enriched by XXXXXX, who are a part of our broader American family.”
Nah, just kidding he was talking about Wisconsin…….. of course. Meanwhile back in President Obama’s hometown: (more…)
Greenfield Police Chief Brad Wentlandt, public information officer for the city of Oak Creek:
[…] about 10:25 am, police dispatch received multiple 9/11 calls for a shooting. A 20 year law enforcement veteran was the first person on the scene. He engaged an active shooter outside the temple. Multiple rounds were exchanged, officer was shot multiple times. He is in surgery, condition unknown.
The shooter was also shot. He is down on the scene and presumed deceased. Tactical officers have made multiple runs through the facility. The best information we have now. Two individuals were transported from the scene for gunshot wounds. One being the officer, one being a civilian.
The tactical personal have additional identified 4 deceased inside of the temple and three deceased outside the temple, one of whom is the shooter. (more…)
I want to give you a bit of background with today’s memories.
Mailboxes along the roads 
and old barns set back in fields overgrown with weeds often served as landmarks in rural Montana where I grew up. These landmarks told us where we were, and how far we had to go. Sometimes they signaled “home” and the end of the road. At other times, barely visible through swirling snow, they told us we had miles to go.
When I started compiling these memories, I realized they were like those mailboxes and old barns from my memory–identifying places in the road over all our years. Here’s one for today, first published on the Treehouse in February 2011.
Because of the anger and fear I’ve experienced as our nation goes through so much upheaval, my thoughts have gone back to the Yalta Conference of 1945, what my parents knew about Yalta and when they knew it. Here’s why:
My brother was 12 and I was 10 in March of ’55. We were accustomed to hearing the 9 pm news from WHO, Des Moines, Iowa. Loud and clear over the Montana prairie we’d hear Gabby Heatter’s classic opening line, “There’s good news tonight, folks!” even when there wasn’t. Radio, with Fibber McGee and Molly on Saturday night, was the center of our world on short winter days. (more…)
Frances Robles has become is the most pathetic excuse for a one-hit-wonder journalist. With only one storyline to occupy her time, she spent dozens of hours putting this article about “Bloggers and Trayvon Martin Case” together.
There is even a petition to see her dispatched to the land of irrelevence.
Read her latest diatribe, and ask yourself a question.
What value does this have to 
a reader? Other than page/space filler what is it about, and who actually would invest the time to write about, what, exactly?
It sure would be nice to see this much effort or energy in, say, well, Lake Mary Florida, for a few days talking to “actual people” about, one of Robles’ most, well, recent propaganda accusations.
My hat is off to all the folks who refused her contact requests, and I know there are many TreeHouse visitors on that list. And to those website operators who willingly participated in her sophomoric attempt at journalism, you should be ashamed. Here is a portion of her scribble, or you can GO HERE for the whole crayon:
(Miami Herald) While other people watch reality shows, a marketing specialist in Michigan who goes by the name “Bcclist” spends time in his yard, calculating Trayvon Martin’s last steps with a tape measure and smart phone stop watch.
He is joined on the Internet by Dave Turner, an Illinois man who had his sons yell in the dark from a distance of 30 feet to see whether he could tell which one cried for help.
Both men are often guided by the work of “Tchoupi,” an engineer with a Ph.D. in physics who has spent countless hours making maps, analyzing witness statements and fleeting headlight patterns in surveillance videos to compute George Zimmerman’s moves the night he killed Trayvon. (more…)
Part 1 in a New Ongoing Series
On the night of Feb. 26, 2012 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman. Mr. Zimmerman was driving to Target when he spotted Trayvon Martin acting suspiciously while walking through the gated community. George Zimmerman called the police and then continued to keep an eye on Trayvon Martin. Watching his actions and informing a police dispatcher of Martin’s whereabouts.
According to George Zimmerman, as he told police, he fired a personal firearm in self-defense, after Martin attacked him, breaking his nose, and continuing the assault by slamming his head multiple times into the sidewalk.
The media sought to spread a very specific and intentional narrative of racism, and framed their storylines as a white Mr. Zimmerman racially profiling a black teen; a theory the Sanford Police, the FBI, the FDLE eventually the Federal Department of Justice investigated and dismissed as non-factual.
But that did not stop the media from continuing to invest in the false narrative they initially sowed into the mainstream public perception of the case. Site readers know the detail of these manipulations, we are just going to connect a few visible dots in an effort to streamline the lawsuits upon the media.
(Via Huff-Po) A veteran NBC Miami reporter has been fired in the ongoing probe over an edited “Today” show clip of George Zimmerman’s 911 call, placed moments before Zimmerman shot unarmed teen Trayvon Martin.
Jeff Burnside was dismissed from network-owned NBC Miami (WTVJ) over a similarly edited clip on Friday, as first reported by South Florida news blog SFLTV.
According to the Miami Herald, two unidentified employees were also disciplined. (more…)
Is there a celebrity stage of grieving which generally follows the Trademarking of a child’s name; a child you barely knew? If so, is part of overcoming that grief stage to talk a remaining child into becoming a brother the dead guy never knew or talked to. Is the desire for a new car what makes a college dropout change his last name to match the dead half brother he never knew, because he doesn’t actually share the same daddy, but they want to make it look like they knew each other and cuddled Care Bears? If so, does it look like this?…. Fabulous !!!
Picture credit link (this ain’t a spoof they really look like this…. honest).
Use this thread as an open thread just for Zimmerman Case stuff. A place to just dump, collect, or discuss general information about the Trayvon Martin VS George Zimmerman Case.
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Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
Progs don’t apologize, they clarify.
Progs don’t make mistakes, they are misunderstood.
Progs are not wrong, you are just not understanding them correctly.
Progs are vastly too intellectual for the average person to comprehend; and when they express their opinion it is common place for them to be misunderstood because they possess a greater depth and enlightenment.