1)Hate Crime Laws- Don't get me wrong: I am against anyone being targeted because of their skin color, religion or sexual orientation just cause someone asshole thinks it cool. However, these hate crime laws are basically thought crimes in which some one has to guess the motivation of the person attacking another. Shouldn't it all be the same in the long run. Unless some real bias can be proven, which is rare short of a neo-Nazi in full uniform beating a Jew while video taping the whole thing, it's all subjective and a waste of everyone's time. We seem to use it sometimes and ignore it others, kind like the rest of the law.
2) The Media-While the media was in full on rabid mode over the Zimmerman acquittal, other cases in the past have largely gone ignored. Like this case from 2007 that got zero attention nationwide: Channon Gail Christian, 21, and Hugh Christopher Newsom, Jr., 23, were two white people from Knoxville Texas who got kidnapped, tortured and raped by four black men. No racial connection was found, unlike the Zimmerman case where one was fabricated towards the defendant all the while ignoring all the race baiting done by Martin. The four black guys didn't get any coverage, weren't charged with a hate crime, as no evidence existed for such a case, and the whole thing slid under the carpet. The media manufactured a crisis, spoon fed it to a gullible public and sat back and watched the chaos ensue. With the end of the anti-propaganda laws that legally kept the news from lying to us (not that it stopped them before), those days are over. Now the news can lie with impunity and there is no way to stop it. The media can no longer be trusted to tell the truth. I will.
3)The Justice Department- Someone take Eric Holder aside and tell him politely to SHUT THE HELL UP! about the Zimmerman case. I get it. You're black, kind of. The Zimmerman case didn't go your way and now you the rest of your race are pouting about it. Boo hoo. I don't remember rioting and beating up black people when OJ got off. That's the way the system works. Deal. Now stop acting like a petulant child, give Zimmerman his toys back (his gun being illegally kept by Holder for reason's unknown), drop any pretense of a criminal Justice Department probe and move on already. Sheesh!
4)Black people- I understand that racism is alive and well in today's world. Paula Deen and the Republican party have proven that hand's down. But your calls for change in the justice system is both misguided and incredibly stupid. The way our system works, if there is no evidence of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt, that person gets to go home. The alternative is dictatorial judges giving draconian sentences that would almost certainly not benefit any minority and no one wants that so stop asking for it. You are demanding that revenge replace justice, perhaps not realizing how easily that could be turned back onto the black community. Zimmerman got off fair and square, just like OJ Simpson. We moved on. So should you. Besides, much like OJ, there's always a chance Zimmerman will screw up again and wind up on trial which I doubt would go as well the second time around. It certainly didn't for OJ.
5)The Zimmerman prosecutors- After what can only be described as amateur hour for the prosecution, some are suggesting they actually threw the trial. It's the old, incompetent vs. in on it debate and not with out some merit. The Zimmerman case showed either rampant incompetence (my guess) or they intentionally threw this case because there is simply no other explanation. Things not done by the prosecutors include not asking for a change of venue, questionable jury selection that included no men (shades of the OJ case again where every jury consultant on Earth said was a bad call), a complete lack of preparation from any of their witnesses who got shredded in cross, and most shockingly, played a video of an entire interview with Sean Hannity to expose minute changes of detail that most agree destroyed their credibility. Rachel Jeantel's court appearance shocked many lawyers as to how inept the prosecutors appeared to have prepped her. As a result of these facts, many lawyers have suggested the case was thrown on purpose. I would highly doubt this as the damage to their careers is permanent and may end it in the long run. Would you want these two yutzes on another high profile case? Unlikely if you want to keep your job when public outrage saturates the media. So chances are the two just suck and suck hard.
6)Ryan Murphy- This fucknut reminds me of everything I hated about college. I despised when teachers would teach something that was factually, provably wrong and I would call them on it. Some found it brilliant, others not so much, thus grades that went from A to D depending on the professor. Ryan Murphy is a part time professor of economics at Suffolk University. He is also completely unqualified for his job. In a op-ed piece in the Telegram and Gazette, shmucko argued against raising the minimum wage as jobs will be lost. He then when on to say if we lowered the rate, more people would get hired and the economy would improve. Unfortunately, that goes against every law of economics out there and he of all people should no better. If we lowered the rate, corporations will keep more money and the government will have to expand food stamps, welfare and other programs that help the poor. Everyone gets screwed in this scenario as we will have less tax dollars equaling less services which as we all know come out of those can least afford it first. However, if we raise the minimum wage, yes some people may get fired, but those that have jobs still will get a big increase in salary which he will then use to purchase goods and services which creates more jobs. And the government doesn't need to fork over as much in services for the poor as poverty disappears. That is the very definition of supply and demand that no one seems to understand anymore. Short losses lead to long term gains. If you go to Suffolk College, avoid this ass at all costs. He has no idea what he is talking about and will make you dumber afterward.
7)McDonalds and Visa- These two helpful morons put out a budget this week to show how someone working on minimum wage could "easily" survive in today's world. Taking a page straight out of Ryan Murphy's book, they put out a list, seen above, which gives no money for heat, food, gas or health care. Yeah nobody uses any of that. It was a slap in the face and people need to wake up and realize how screwed we really are.
8)John Henry Spooner- This 76 year old shot and killed a 13 year old black kid, unarmed at the time, for suspicion of the youth "stealing his guns." This kid is more the martyr than Trayvon Martin and yet no one seems to care about him or the 300 other black kids killed since the Zimmerman case started. Spooner will hopefully die in prison.
9)James Palermo- This dick cop beat a 22 year old woman for no reason, knocking out her two front teeth and gave her a concussion. Her crime? Innocently walking past him while involved in a traffic stop. He is now in jail for aggravated assault. I hope they put him in gen-pop.
10)An unnamed drunken ex-Goldman Sachs employee- In NYC the other day, a man, recently fired from the international bank, drank himself stupid, fell into a table of black men, started calling them the N word and took a swing at one of them. Talk about Bad Idea Jeans. One of them punched the drunk as hard as he could, knocking him out cold. The man was arrested for assault. Way to go dude.
11)Darryl Issa and the rest of the House- Issa once again claimed a huge surprise of evidence that the White House was behind the whole non-IRS scandal in upcoming hearings which then of course went the exact opposite way he had told us. Again. This man is a serial liar who has no business being in Congress. Shame on anyone still voting for him. The House this week also voted twice on ending Obamacare, raising the tally to 38 times. They also voted to repeal the No Child Left Behind law, started by W, with the same ax they want to take to Obamacare. Much like the ACA, No Child has some good points mixed in with bad. Instead of fixing it, the GOP just wants to squash it under the feet like some fat kid and an ant hill. These guys are screwing up America stat and some of you are voting for it.
12)Detroit- This country is in real trouble and Detroit is the canary in the coal mine. We have too few jobs that pay anything anymore. Pensions are crushing businesses with policies that never should have been approved in the first place. No one can retire on more money than they made working. That's idiotic. But many government pensions do just that and they are unsustainable at this point and need to be fixed. A cop can work at $75k per year and retire on $120K using unused sick days, vacation and overtime to pump up his salary. That is not acceptable. In 1960, Detroit had the highest per capita income in the country. They are now dead last for a major city. At that time there were hundreds of thousands of good paying blue color jobs. That number today is less than 27,000. 40% of the street lights don't work. The unemployment rate is around 50%. 47% are functionally illiterate. Only 33% of the ambulances work. Emergency services can take up to an hour to arrive. Most police stations are closed 16 hours a day. Crime is rampant with many being told to enter the city at your own risk. This city is dead. And this could spread across the nation quick as our economy nosedives after the next stock slide. So congratulation Detroit for not fixing anything and giving us a glimpse of our future. You are indeed douchebag of the week.
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