This is a fascinating set of comments to read. We have dared to go where many fear to go and in the process revealed something about ourselves that many may not know. I enjoy, look forward to, and participate in the political and economic discussions here, but sometimes I feel like we are in an [...]

Boy, did I screw up with the strike-through tool instead of the italics tool.

My Kingdom for an edit function. sorry.

I don’t need to think harder, the answer is always in front of us, it’s whether we choose to see it or not. What I am poking at is the fact of, your science, versus my science, versus my inner science etc. How sir, hotdog do you and the others who are mourning over the melting [...]

This situation is scary and disgusting. For a long time I have wondered why so many people deny climate change when it’s so obvious, given the data, that it’s not only happening, it’s accelerating. Stupid me. Attacking science, demonizing scientists who warn about climate change and snuffing the existing regulatory framework and enforcement is a [...]

Yes, you are right.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I will make the correction.

Thanks.

All of my posts, including all of my posts on the George Zimmerman case, are archived chronologically in my Diaries here at the Lake.

Gracias.

DW, that brought a tear to my eye and Crane too. I just try to do my best and the Lake has changed me in many ways for the better. I have always wanted to be of service to others, but I haven’t always wanted to take the high road and my ego has gotten [...]

The FBI Digital Laboratory reported that the 911 call recording with the screams in the background is of such poor audio quality that it’s impossible to enhance and identify the person screaming. Nevertheless, two audiologists working independently of each other, each using a different methodology, have concluded that Zimmerman is not the person screaming for [...]

Yes, I have read about his past and there is a lot of compelling stuff there. But we don’t have to know any of that to decide whether he killed Trayvon Martin in self-defense, jut as we don’t have to know anything about Trayvon Martin to decide that question. The State of Florida doesn’t have [...]

I think most jurors are going to see it the same way. An unarmed and fine young man with his life ahead of him is dead because George Zimmerman decided he was a criminal, confronted him to keep him from getting away like all the others, and he killed him, not realizing that he was [...]

Thanks, Kelly.

Much appreciated.

In most cases that is true, but when forensics lead the way supported by common sense, the witness statements become less important and, to the extent that they support or are consistent with them, they will be accepted. For example, Witness 6 never seemed credible to me and his story about Trayvon throwing down blows [...]

Definitely, and that is especially true of Serino, whom I mentioned. Don’t see much evidence of steering going on with other witnesses because they gave them blank forms to fill out and came by and picked them up later. Hard to say because steering is hidden most of the time. Used to see it a [...]

Nobody X-rayed it, probably because they saw no displacement and an X-ray verification would not have altered the course of treatment.

Plus, they offered to take him to the ER several times and he refused.

It certainly was not a serious injury.

Thanks for the edit suggestion. I corrected it.

Sorry for the lack of response, but seems like I’m spending all of my time on Trayvon’s case lately.

Soon, my friend. I won’t forget.

Yes, I have read it and I saw the two women interviewed by Anderson Cooper.

I have been slow to realize it, but apparently there was a chase that preceded the shooting and not much of a fight, if any, before Zimmerman killed him.

Martin’s past drug and apparent theft problems, plus a time line that indicates he did not run to the store and run home (some are saying 2 hours to get a drink?), justify Zimmerman’s treating him as a thief that needed to be watched.

I realize that you are referring to what the right wing noise [...]

Lab Report March 20, 2012 (p.119) said they rec’d the cell in a sealed plastic bag but didn’t test the phone and didn’t break the seal. The lab made no mention as to why they didn’t test the phone.

That does not mean that it won’t be tested. We haven’t seen all of the discovery yet. [...]