WaPo:
What will become of Trayvon’s hoodie, the latest piece of iconic trial evidence?
Sift everything. Sift the weeks of testimony, the theatrics, the recriminations, the tears. Sift the months of noisy commentary — the relentless, pounding, grating noise.
One image remains, clinging there to our consciousness. Sturdy, permanent, enduring, a distillation — a takeaway.
In the moment that the hoodie — Trayvon Martin’s hoodie — appeared in Courtroom 5D in Seminole County, Fla., it was as if the air sluiced out the door. There was a breathless, aching stillness.
Prosecutors displayed the dark gray sweatshirt that Martin wore on the last night of his life in an enormous, rectangular, thickly three-dimensional frame. The hoodie lay suspended between clear plastic sheets with its arms spread wide inside a cross-shaped cutout, set starkly apart from the brilliant white of the matting. It might easily have been mistaken for a religious relic, even as it became a singularly evocative entry in a long inventory of indelible courtroom artifacts from O.J. Simpson’s ill-fitting gloves to Lorena Bobbitt’s emasculating kitchen knife. Prosecutors lifted the framed hoodie awkwardly, teetering toward the jury.
“I get goose bumps just thinking about it,” says Michael Skolnik, who sat next to Martin’s parents on that morning, the day before the Fourth of July. Skolnik, the political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and a member of the Trayvon Martin Foundation board, felt as if he were in the presence of something as consequential and iconic as Babe Ruth’s bat or the Declaration of Independence. “It’s like this mythical garment,” he says.
{{Headdesk}}
In the words of Jeantel the Hutt, “That’s retarded, sir!”
I picked a bad day to quit drinking.
Surely you quit sniffing glue as well.
I quit that a long time ago. It clogs up my sinuses.
I hate to brag….see last paragraph…..
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/08/03/interrupt-birthday-party-special-bulletin/
You do get around, girlfriend!
Cool. And hope the standby your son got is nothing in the end.
good for you
St. Skittles of the Sidewalk 😀
He turned water into Purple Drank.
And then drank it. 😆 😆
If the hoodie is returned to his parents, they’ll sell it on eBay. There’s no way they’d donate it to a museum.
Or worse, travel with it on their paid speaking tours and let people take pictures while standing next to it.
And then ask for donations in order to build a shrine of it’s own.
The hoodie should be treated the same way as any other piece of evidence. Store it and then destroy it.
Like OJ,s Glove. 🙂
Okay, there’s my Smithsonian viewing dream when I visit …. Dorothy’s ruby slippers/OJ’s glove/Archie Bunker’s Chair/Jerry Seinfeld’s Puffy shirt/St.Skittle’s Hoodie. Over in the next venue, Michelle’s 2008 Inaugural shoes 😉
And don’t forget Clint Eastwood’s “empty chair”!
Why do these idiots ignore the elephant in the room…the assault and battery of a stranger walking in his own community?
How can they pretend it didn’t happen?
Because they believe George Zimmerman deserved to get his ass-whooped. It really is that simple.
They have to believe that. If it were otherwise their entire world would crumble because everyone would know they had chosen to believe in, and follow, a lying sack of cowdung. Ergo, there hasta be another explanation. And it hasta be Whitey’s fault.
True story.
That’s sad but true.
I am weary of the predatory thugs of the streets, and the fauxgressive elitists who make excuses for the depredations of the street thugs.
I am also weary of the predatory thugs of the suites, and the reactionary elitists who make excuses for the depredations of the suite thugs.
Does this country have any political party for someone like me?
Carmelo Clandestine, party of one.
Yeh, I hate it when predatory Google depredates the street thugs that way.
I understood the Klown, but WTF did 49er mean?
is he speaking Rachel Jeantelese?
Most places call it “sarcasm”. Not sure what it’s called in bizarroland. In my world “evil” corporations spend zip effort planning how they’ll abuse segments of the populace. When they do “stick it” to someone it’s usually an equal opportunity sticking. Ergo, saying they are too good or too evil is like saying the sun is too orange. It’s business’s nature to make a profit. Only trust them as far as you can throw them.
Dang! I was trying to speak Carmelo Clandestinian.
OK, now I think I can translate it:
“Mammon giveth, and Mammon taketh away; blessed be the name of Mammon”. 😈
Good grief! What is this hoodie, the Shroud of Turin? I seriously need a juice box and a nap.
nothing better to do on a rainy Saturday afternoon….
Phony Scandals
(spoken to a funky rap beat)
Ain’t quite nuthin’
like a phony scandal
nuthin’ to grasp
and there ain’t no handle
all made up
no facts just fiction
no hypocrisy
no dereliction
the scandals are phony
just a bunch of baloney
the scandals are phony
just noise and cacophony
nobody died
nobody cried
it’s all a bunch of junk
all political bunk
nobody lied
you gotta pay taxes
just a bunch of phony scandals
draped in hoodies and sandals
just a bunch of phony sandals
skittle dee dee….41.6% unemployment among black teens….according to recent Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm
Probably why I haven’t “unfriended” Daily Kos newsletters, for gems like this. As I recall, Huma blamed herself for Ant’ny’s, uhm, problems, so Sally Quinn is right ? Not so by this kossack:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/31/1227991/-Sally-Quinn-s-column-is-a-setback-for-women-everywhere?detail=email#
h/t Vile Prog Headquarters 😀
The rules of evidence would dictate that Trayvon’s hoodie can’t be released until Zimmerman’s gun is also release. Therefore, Zimmerman gets his gun back when the parents get the hoodie back.
Ho Lee Phuc!
I just got a record high PG&E bill for July.
Luckily I have averaging so the amount I have to pay only went up a little. The only thing different from last year is it was hot every single day last month. Day and night. It was over 100 degrees nearly half the days. I can survive with the heater set really low in winter by bundling up but I can’t stand the heat. I need A/C.
So I am going around the house and unplugging everything that is non-essential.
Remember, everything plugged into an outlet creates heat as a byproduct of operation. The other option is to barricade yourself in one room with a window air conditioner.
an electric coffee pot kept plugged in or an item like it can send your electric bill skyhigh.
unplug it after using, same with toaster
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20130801224428464
the prisoner solidarity and justice for trayvon groups have joined to protest around the world. in LA danny glover is main speaker
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/cmon_black_america_we_can_do_so_much_better.html
you won’t believe this one
trwanda brawley treated like a rock star at dinner
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/learning_from_rachel_jeantel.html
learning from rachel jeantel
I retired from public school teaching at 58 and from working in the education field at 60. I’m still pretty healthy, and I could get up and go to work everyday, but I discovered it felt good when I stopped banging my head against the wall. Rachel Jeantel and her friends are happy in their world. The only way to change their expectations for themselves is to make them unhappy with their lives, and no school is going to be able to do that. Give her a cell phone, cable TV, section 8 housing, and food stamps, and she only needs enough income to shop for clothes at Walmart and booze and drugs, which she can probably get in exchange for sex. She and others like her have no vision of themselves doing anything beyond the block they live in. I had hoped having a black family in the White House would raise personal expectations for young black people, but I just don’t see any evidence it’s made any positive change.
Honk!
Thank you, E-Mom, for your often-overlooked contribution to civilization.
(I liked most of my teachers. Can you tell?)
And get her nails and hair done Eventually she will have children and perpetuate her “culture”
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/03/red-sox-owner-buys-boston-globe-for-70m-once-sold-for-1-1b/
bargain sale of boston globe warning to other newspapers?
I’ll wait for the “congratulations on your retirement” card.
sounds good to me
Damn straight. I’m not one of them either. Fuck you Obama, and all your zombie followers too.
As if he’s going to read all of those names. 🙄
He doesn’t have to. The NSA will do it for him.
is that last year’s cupcake?
How dare he have cupcakes!!!! His food Nazis will be so disappointed. All that nasty sugar, fat and flour.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/US-politics-sex-SanDiego/2013/08/02/id/518499?s=al&promo_code=1466E-1
recall petition started for filthy filner
don’t let me down….the Aggrolites, my favorite California band…
good article
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/56999
I remember the cereal, but not the commercial. If it had creeped me out as a kid, I’d remember it.
Poor Kanye & Kim…
Now there’s a sci/fi nightmare I forgot to have when I was younger. You’re going to love the future….we can hack toilets!
Interesting article on pathological altruism: http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/19/pathological-altruism-the-road-to-hell-r
Enabling is more deeply entrenched and more difficult to treat and correct than alcoholism , or most other addictions .
Can’t get this to post
Follow the links and hit your head on the desk. The question is, which is stupider, slate or salon:
I just went out front. The old widow woman next door is posted up out in front of her house, sitting on a lawn chair where she can see everything.
She takes her job as Block Warden seriously.
We had badass toys when we were kids:
I just got some pictures on my FB that made me laugh so hard. down in Cape May NJ my youngest grand daughter works during the summer at Congress Hall a hotel. They had a miniature train ride for the kids. My grand daughter was the engineer. guess railroading is in the genes