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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25116</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I said clothes often project the image we want to project, not what is.

However, had I passed you on the street, or standing at a corner where there was time to ponder, I would have arrived at some conclusions.

From the monocular on your hip I would have known you are a farseeing individual.  From the flip-flops I would have known you were used to the comforts of life, such as a level, smooth walking area.  Probably from the presumed cost of your expensive clothing I would have assumed you shopped at Goodwill.

I&#039;d know you moved around a lot by the lack of gang graffiti on your shirt.  Watching your eyes carefully take in your surroundings, I&#039;d have assumed you were on the run, probably for some white collar crime.

Your confident approach to merchants, waitresses and the like would tell me you are comfortable with other people, probably could talk them out of their life&#039;s savings.  Investing in tuna belly futures or the like.

The fact that your shorts were yellow in front and brown in the back would tell me you traveled a lot to remote areas, and had trouble finding &quot;facilities&quot;.  I&#039;d assume you had been on the run, so to speak.

See?  There&#039;s a lot of information there.  :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I said clothes often project the image we want to project, not what is.</p>
<p>However, had I passed you on the street, or standing at a corner where there was time to ponder, I would have arrived at some conclusions.</p>
<p>From the monocular on your hip I would have known you are a farseeing individual.  From the flip-flops I would have known you were used to the comforts of life, such as a level, smooth walking area.  Probably from the presumed cost of your expensive clothing I would have assumed you shopped at Goodwill.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d know you moved around a lot by the lack of gang graffiti on your shirt.  Watching your eyes carefully take in your surroundings, I&#8217;d have assumed you were on the run, probably for some white collar crime.</p>
<p>Your confident approach to merchants, waitresses and the like would tell me you are comfortable with other people, probably could talk them out of their life&#8217;s savings.  Investing in tuna belly futures or the like.</p>
<p>The fact that your shorts were yellow in front and brown in the back would tell me you traveled a lot to remote areas, and had trouble finding &#8220;facilities&#8221;.  I&#8217;d assume you had been on the run, so to speak.</p>
<p>See?  There&#8217;s a lot of information there.  <img src='https://habitablezone.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25112</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;ve met me person, in my native habitat, in my natural plumage.  If we didn&#039;t already know each other through the Zone, and if you hadn&#039;t known who I was by the description I provided, would you have identified that individual you first saw with the urbane, cosmopolitan, refined sophisticate you must have been expecting? 8)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;ve met me person, in my native habitat, in my natural plumage.  If we didn&#8217;t already know each other through the Zone, and if you hadn&#8217;t known who I was by the description I provided, would you have identified that individual you first saw with the urbane, cosmopolitan, refined sophisticate you must have been expecting? <img src='https://habitablezone.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25105</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...because they provide ready-made justification for present racism and oppression.  Martin went out for a snack while visiting his father, but his background was meticulously scrutinized for evidence of his menace and threat.  His killer, an armed, aggressive vigilante, is thus transformed into the righteous dispenser of homeland security and protector of sacred property rights.

Conservatives are already gleefully pointing out how if the races of these two men had been reversed, there never would have been an arrest and trial.  

Liberals know if their races had been reversed, the shooter would have been arrested on the spot at the scene, and the burden of proof for a &#039;stand your ground&#039; defense would have been entirely his from the start.

This case has filled me with a great sadness for my country.  I had hoped that with the double election of a black President, racism and its consequences had finally been eliminated from American culture. I guess I was mistaken.

It is part of the unforesen consequences of slavery, which has long outlived both the benefit it brought to its perpetrators, and the great injustice inflicted on its victims.  The punishment for that monstruous crime continues to plague the descendants of both.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;because they provide ready-made justification for present racism and oppression.  Martin went out for a snack while visiting his father, but his background was meticulously scrutinized for evidence of his menace and threat.  His killer, an armed, aggressive vigilante, is thus transformed into the righteous dispenser of homeland security and protector of sacred property rights.</p>
<p>Conservatives are already gleefully pointing out how if the races of these two men had been reversed, there never would have been an arrest and trial.  </p>
<p>Liberals know if their races had been reversed, the shooter would have been arrested on the spot at the scene, and the burden of proof for a &#8216;stand your ground&#8217; defense would have been entirely his from the start.</p>
<p>This case has filled me with a great sadness for my country.  I had hoped that with the double election of a black President, racism and its consequences had finally been eliminated from American culture. I guess I was mistaken.</p>
<p>It is part of the unforesen consequences of slavery, which has long outlived both the benefit it brought to its perpetrators, and the great injustice inflicted on its victims.  The punishment for that monstruous crime continues to plague the descendants of both.</p>
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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25102</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not always, of course, but you can at least tell what they want you to think about them, or their socio-economic or mental status.

And there are stories of the bum who walks into a Rolls-Royce agency and has to pester someone into selling him one, but those are told because they are so unusual.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not always, of course, but you can at least tell what they want you to think about them, or their socio-economic or mental status.</p>
<p>And there are stories of the bum who walks into a Rolls-Royce agency and has to pester someone into selling him one, but those are told because they are so unusual.</p>
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		<title>By: bowser</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25101</link>
		<dc:creator>bowser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Recalling past riots, I think it was a reasonable assumption.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recalling past riots, I think it was a reasonable assumption.</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25059</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It works every time.

&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.mbari.org/expeditions/Midwater2012/images/logbook/day4/07_10_33_06.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;.&quot; /&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It works every time.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.mbari.org/expeditions/Midwater2012/images/logbook/day4/07_10_33_06.jpg" alt="." /></p>
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		<title>By: alcaray</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25058</link>
		<dc:creator>alcaray</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 21:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Hoops&quot; that teach good gun safety practices are pretty good hoops.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Hoops&#8221; that teach good gun safety practices are pretty good hoops.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25057</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;From fog right to the squid ink.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src=&quot;http://habitablezone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Zoidberg-Ink.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;

&quot;Vaginal flatulence?&quot; &quot;Capital gains taxes?&quot; Poetic license, I suppose.

Queef!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From fog right to the squid ink.</p>
<p><img src="http://habitablezone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Zoidberg-Ink.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>&#8220;Vaginal flatulence?&#8221; &#8220;Capital gains taxes?&#8221; Poetic license, I suppose.</p>
<p>Queef!</p>
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		<title>By: ER</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25051</link>
		<dc:creator>ER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 20:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...so spare us all the vaginal flatulence.

You don&#039;t know about guns or care about them.

For you its just a way to discredit liberals and make excuses for conservatives, to frustrate one agenda and further the other, insult the left and pander to the right.

The reason you challenge me on it is I don&#039;t fit your stereotype of a weak, gun-ignorant, firearm-phobic liberal wuss.  And you find that threatening, it totally undermines your agitprop.

You&#039;re a partisan propagandist, pure and simple; all Martin&#039;s life (or even Zimmerman&#039;s legal nightmare) means to you is just another opportunity to cut your capital gains taxes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;so spare us all the vaginal flatulence.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t know about guns or care about them.</p>
<p>For you its just a way to discredit liberals and make excuses for conservatives, to frustrate one agenda and further the other, insult the left and pander to the right.</p>
<p>The reason you challenge me on it is I don&#8217;t fit your stereotype of a weak, gun-ignorant, firearm-phobic liberal wuss.  And you find that threatening, it totally undermines your agitprop.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re a partisan propagandist, pure and simple; all Martin&#8217;s life (or even Zimmerman&#8217;s legal nightmare) means to you is just another opportunity to cut your capital gains taxes.</p>
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		<title>By: TB</title>
		<link>https://habitablezone.com/2013/07/13/zimmerman-not-guilty/#comment-25050</link>
		<dc:creator>TB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You&#039;re blowing fog again.&lt;/p&gt;

The point: It&#039;s obvious that a person who carries a concealed handgun with a permit is probably a lot less likely to commit a crime or killing with it than someone who carries one illegally.

It&#039;s also obvious that the more restrictive gun laws are, the more the balance of gun possession will lean toward people who don&#039;t obey laws, but that&#039;s another subject.

Other than your rants, there is no evidence that Zimmerman was what you call a &quot;gun pervert.&quot; You can find most of his background &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here,&lt;/a&gt; including why he got the gun in the first place.

Believe me, any evidence to the effect of Zimmerman being the &quot;troglodyte&quot; you keep calling him would have been paraded in front of that jury, probably using a banner behind a small airplane.

P.S. it&#039;s kind of ironic that you&#039;re shooting all the same crap that the media lynch mob has been spewing for months. But why not? It&#039;s where you got it from.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re blowing fog again.</p>
<p>The point: It&#8217;s obvious that a person who carries a concealed handgun with a permit is probably a lot less likely to commit a crime or killing with it than someone who carries one illegally.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also obvious that the more restrictive gun laws are, the more the balance of gun possession will lean toward people who don&#8217;t obey laws, but that&#8217;s another subject.</p>
<p>Other than your rants, there is no evidence that Zimmerman was what you call a &#8220;gun pervert.&#8221; You can find most of his background <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425" rel="nofollow">here,</a> including why he got the gun in the first place.</p>
<p>Believe me, any evidence to the effect of Zimmerman being the &#8220;troglodyte&#8221; you keep calling him would have been paraded in front of that jury, probably using a banner behind a small airplane.</p>
<p>P.S. it&#8217;s kind of ironic that you&#8217;re shooting all the same crap that the media lynch mob has been spewing for months. But why not? It&#8217;s where you got it from.</p>
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