George Zimmerman

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/seminole_news/031612-911-calls-released-in-Sanford-shooting

The story between the shooter 28-year-old George Zimmerman and the deceased 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was first broken to me by 'The Young Turks'.  The above link will lead you to 911 calls made by the shooter and various residents in an apartment complex in Sanford, FL. According to various sources, Mr. Zimmerman who is a neighborhood watch leader initially observed a 'suspicious' person walking through the gated community.  While on the phone with 911 Zimmerman continued to follow Trayvon Martin even after the 911 operator told him the police are on the way and to stop following the 'suspect'.

What happened immediately before the shooting is unclear but from what I gather, Zimmerman caught up to Martin and confronted him in some fashion.  There was a total of two shots fired and during and after the first shot, some have said a warning shot, Martin can be heard yelling for help and for his life.
It is said that the second shot was the one to end Martins life.  There have been no eye witnesses so far but several reports have stated that Zimmerman had been on the ground at one point in time since his coat was wet and had grass on it. It must be stated that Martin had gone to a convenience store and had iced tea and skittles candy on him at the time.  Although Martin did not live in the complex he was staying with family there.

From all the reports this does not seem to be a case of self defense.  Here's why.  Zimmerman while on the phone with 911, was chasing or tailing Martin even though police were minutes away. Zimmerman called from either his home, clubhouse, or vehicle.  Once cannot claim self defense if you have identified a potential threat (Martin) and then proceed to chase the threat.  If Zimmerman then engaged the potential threat with deadly force, even if they began to fight when Zimmerman caught the threat, the very act of chasing down the threat while you have safe haven elsewhere prohibits self defense. Florida has a law called the 'castle doctrine' which most plainly states that you are awarded legal protection in bona-fide self defense cases where you have a legal right to be, say in your home, business, or even a store. This law will not protect Zimmerman.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/17/2700249/shooter-of-trayvon-martin-a-habitual.html

Top 10 Reasons

....gay people should not get married.  This is a lazy repost but I thought it might be good to touch on the subject.

01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all like many of the principles on which this great country was founded; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.

07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.

09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

from:http://www.stopgeek.com/top-10-reasons-gay-marriage-should-be-illegal.html

Reddit Atheism

Reddit is a social news website that has quite a following.  If you want to know more about atheism, you can go here and check it out. http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/faq#Doatheistsbelieveinghosts or reddit.com.

You can troll the site and find hoards of images like the one above.  It can suck you in and waste an incredible amount of time, so fair warning!

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Here's what happened; in the 1960's, we were at war with the Soviet  union, cold war and a little bit of hot, war in Southeast Asia.  SO, we fear them because they put up Sputnik, which by the way people forget, was an emptied out casing of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Sputnik itself means fellow traveler so it's ll peaceful but it was a ballistic missile head, without explosive, and that was a signal in America and we freaked in America ! NASA got founded on the fear factor of Sputnik. SO then we go to the moon on the fear that Russia will control the high ground. Then we go to the moon, space enthusiast say "OH! We're on the moon by '69, we'll be on mars in another 10 years. They completely did not understand why we got to the moon in the first place. We were at war. Once we saw that Russia was not ready to land on the moon we stopped going to the moon. That should not surprise anybody looking back on it.

Meanwhile however, that entire era galvanised the nation, forget the war, it galvanized us all to dream for tomatoes to think about the homes of tomorrow, the cities of tomorrow, the food of tomorrow, everything was future world, future land the worlds fair, all of this was focused on enabling people to make tomorrow come. That was a cultural mindset that the space program brought upon us and we reaped the benefits of economic growth because you had people wanting to become scientists and engineers who are the people who enable tomorrow and to exist today. And even if you are not a scientist or technologist you will value that activity and that in the 21st century are the foundations of tomorrows economy's and without it we might as well slide back to the cave because that's right where we're headed right now, broke.

I'm tired of saying this but I have to say it again! The NASA budget is 4/10's of one penny on a tax dollar. If I held up a tax dollar and I cut horizontally into it 4/10's of 1% of its width, it doesn't even get you into the ink! SO I WILL NOT ACCEPT A STATEMENT THAT SAYS "WE CAN"T AFFORD IT!"

Do you realise that the 850 billion dollar bank bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50 year running budget of NASA. And so when somebody says we don't have enough money for the space program I'm asking its not that you don't have enough money , its that the distribution of money your spending is warped, in some way that your removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the city of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow, all that ended in the 1970's after we stopped going to the moon, it all ended, we stopped dreaming. SO, I worry that the decisions that congress make doesn't factor in the consequences of those decisions on tomorrow. They're playing for the quarterly report, they're playing for the next election cycle and that is mortgaging the actual future of this nation, tomorrows gone.

If you double NASA's budget up from half a penny on a dollar, make it a penny, go ahead make it a penny,  go ahead be bold, that is enough to go to Mars, soon with people, and go back to the moon and on to asteroids. NASA as best as I can judge is a force of nature like none other and so what worries me is that if you take away the manned program, a program which if you advance frontiers, a program which heroes are made. There's a force operating on the educational pipeline that will stimulate the formation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. You birth these people in to society, they're the ones that make tomorrow come.
A half a penny. That buys the space station the space shuttles, all the NASA centers, the rovers, the Hubble Telescope, all the astronauts, all of that, nobodies dreaming about tomorrow anymore. The most powerful agency of the dreams on a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to be doing. And that's making dreams come true. How much would you pay....for the universe?