(Via Weinerboy at the Orlando Sentinel) George Zimmerman, the defendant in one of the most-watched murder cases in the country, on Thursday added a new lawyer to his defense team: veteran Orlando attorney Donald R. West, who specializes in murders.
Attorney Mark O’Mara, lead defense counsel in the case, plans to make a formal announcement today.
West has handled some of the most high-profile criminal cases in the Orlando area in the past 20 years.

In 1998, he served as co-counsel and helped Joseph “Crazy Joe” Spaziano get off death row. Spaziano is the former motorcycle gang member who was convicted of raping and murdering an Orlando teenager, whose body was found in an Altamonte Springs dump. (more…)

This French Canadian whacko is completly deranged.  Gateway Pundit is staying on top of this story and they have posted more than a couple of really creepy updates.  Including:

There are reports Luka fled Canada to France. Interpol has added him to their list of international fugitives.
The National Post reported – Luka left a note in the box with the severed foot warning authorities of 5 other packages. (One package with a hand was found this week). In a note Luka said he planned on killing again.
A video which purportedly shows Luka Rocco Magnotta brutally killing and sexually assaulting a naked man appears on a Canadian-operated website called Best Gore.
The Montreal Gazette says Magnotta has written a six-step process for vanishing and losing yourself.   Now he’s gone. And, Luka Magnotta has promised to kill again.
Montreal Craig’s List users posted warnings about Luka.

….. nor do I want to be alone when the plan is hatched to break free from the joining chains along the march to “Camp Comfort.”
Liberals, Progressives, and like-minded left-wing Fabians and Marxists try to control the world and people to enable their comfort and happiness, which, as we know, is an endless quest.   Trying to control others does nothing in the way of making oneself happy. By extension, voting in this mindset so that government can try to control others will also – shockingly – not lead to a happier, more comfortable life.
The “Treeper,” or TreeHouse dweller (and conservative, moderate, independent, but for the sake of expediency, the Treeper), on the other hand, relies on himself to meet his own needs. And the trade off of being free to live his life as he wishes is also understanding that he has to make peace with how you live yours. By extension, aware that he wants to be able to hold onto this liberty and freedom forever, the Treeper thinks and votes accordingly, so that everyone can remain free and in charge of his or her own life.
With that in mind I’m stealing a comment from Zophiel aka ZMalfoy: (more…)

Lay with dogs and you are going to get fleas.   Hang around a one legged friends long enough and you are going to start limpin’.

This election cycle, perhaps unlike many that preceeded it, the professional politicial class need to be held accountable for their attachments.   They all have consequences:

The dismissive and abject refusal of the Main Stream Media to vett President Obama allows these obvious lies to go unchallenged.   How anyone could possibly consider President Obama to be “real” is beyond my comprehension to understand.
The latest visible example to reflect how fabricated the entire sub-text of President Obama’s life story comes from the words of Michelle Obama herself.   Earlier in the week she told Jon Stewart that Barack Obama stopped using drugs, got serious, straightened his life out and refocused his goals following the death of his father.   She then went on to say that was when he decided to transfer from Occidental College to Columbia.

“That was one of those click-in moments,” she said. “And he really buckled down, he transferred schools, went to Columbia and thought about how to use life to the fullest.”
– Michelle Obama

There is only one problem.   Obama transferred schools in the fall of 1981, his father did not die until November 1982.
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Earlier today ZMalfoy shared a link to an article about New York Mayor Bloomberg seeking to ban drink choices in the city.   New York mayor seeks ban on sale of big sugary drinks.
When Bloomberg was challenged today about his ridiculous position to ban a free people from making their own decisions he responded with his logic:

“We’re not taking away anybody’s right to do things, we’re simply forcing you to understand that you have to make the conscious decision to go from one cup to another cup.”

Just reflect on that progressive quote for a moment.

And of course MSNBC enthusiastically agrees (more…)

JOPPATOWNE, Md. (WJZ/BALTIMORE SUN/AP) — A Morgan State University student who lived in the same home as a missing Joppatowne man now feared dead was charged with first-degree murder after parts of a human body were found inside the house and in a nearby dumpster. Now the suspect has admitted to eating portions of the man’s body parts, including his heart and brain.
Alexander Kinyua, 21, is being held on no bail.

https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/05/31/man-denied-bail-after-dismembered-body-parts-found-in-home/
https://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-05-31/news/bal-morgan-student-alex-kinyua-charged-in-dismemberment-of-man-left-disturbing-online-trail-20120530_1_morgan-student-dismemberment-online-trail

(BuzzFeed) — Supporters of Mitt Romney and Barack Obama clashed on the steps of the Massachusetts State House in Boston Thursday, in advance of a press conference by Obama senior adviser David Axelrod.
Romney aides, interns, and volunteers flooded out of the campaign’s headquarters here with signs — and bubbles — to protest Axelrod and Obama, while Obama supporters chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, Mitt Romney has got to go.”
Romney supporters responded by chanting “Solllyyynndraaa” like Bruins fans heckling the visiting team.

After he finished his remarks, Axelrod opened the floor to questions, but he couldn’t hear reporters over the protests. (more…)

One of the frustrating realities of our polarized time is the media creating a skewed and left leaning view of all things political. However, even with this headwind, each day many more people choose to engage in and honest discovery and understanding of what’s going on. Whether because they stumble upon a concern, or whether they happen across some information that makes them rethink their prior position and views, it can lead to an engagement with us from a perspective of their only reality view having been determined by the lens of the media.
Indeed that can be, and often is, an incredibly frustrating conversation because they bring an embedded and sometimes flawed bias into their narrative. One of the more common misunderstandings stems from the media hatred of George W Bush and his actions, aptly called Bush Derangement Syndrome (BSD).
What I want to do here is not change anyone’s mind, but rather to remind people what led to some of Dubya’s decisions in his own words.
I must first emphasize at the time of Dubya’s tenure in the White House I was not a supporter of many “Bush policies”, however, I did understand his reasoning.
Sometimes research into “why” was needed to understand this reasoning, but there were valid reasons nonetheless. It is unfair for the liberal media, or for any Johnny-come-lately to re-write his motivation as illicit, it was not. In hindsight some of his policies and approaches may have been wrong, but it generally is unfair to look in the rear view mirror to judge.  Again, at times it is important to stop the conversation, pause, and remind ourselves what was going on at the time. (more…)