In a disgusting if not surprising development, George Zimmerman has been found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin. For coverage, see here.
Discuss, post links, etc below.
EDIT: This is a troll-free thread. If you’re coming here to gloat over the verdict, to use the verdict as an excuse to trash women or feminism, or post racist garbage, don’t. If you want to argue that the verdict was just and/or we live in a post-racial society, go somewhere else. None of us are in the mood for that bullshit.
A federal conviction would at least show that Florida’s laws are fucked up and Zimmerman is not Mr. Innocent. And, you know, justice.
Some brain bleach. Remember that Cheerios commercial a while back that brought all the racists out of the woodwork because the family was mixed race? Here’s a sweet video of some kids reacting to the commercial and then their reactions to the “controversy”.
http://youtu.be/VifdBFp5pnw
Myoo: Dylan is cracking me up.
OMGS those kids! What do you have to say to people who think mixed race couples are wrong! “you’re mean!”
Yeeeep.
And can we get the girl who was basically quoting Martin Luther King Jr. Without seeming to know it to like, grow up and run for president? I mean, I hope we have a female president before then, but damn, she’s get “human decency 101” well past covered!
Omg Argenti, your fish are so cute ^.^
I thought this was appropriate here. It’s important that we start dragging these abusers into the light before they murder.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175270/domestic-violence-and-george-zimmermans-defense#
Ohh, the fuck at the petrol station… SURPRISE?
Argenti, great to see your fishies! Must try and get some decent new pics of mine. 😛 Teeny plecos! <3
Oh, and I feel really lucky I only have one willfully blind friend on FB. I have saturated my feed with angry posts and links – I have one USian friend, white privileged of Italian descent I think with a Mexican husband who is painfully conservative… how they can’t see through that shit I don’t understand… she first post that it’s horrible, and a bunch of her friends posted massive, MASSIVE revolting bullshit about how the verdict was understandable/good – then she posted a link to something about a bunch of black kids killing a white guy, from a website called mrconservative. Uh huh.
Anyway, my feed has otherwise been anger or nothing. Thank fuck.
SittieKitty & Hrovitnir — thanks 🙂 they are just too adorable huh?
Very adorable. I only have betas now, and they mostly ignore each other since they’re in separate containers so they aren’t very exciting. Pretty, but not exciting. I shut down my tank after I couldn’t care for it any more, but I do miss it every now and again.
I’m not sure I’d put them in sight lines of each other — my brother’s managed to kill itself by ramming into the tank wall trying to get at mine (who was totally oblivious to this). I’d just slide a piece of paper or something between them though, no need to get fancy!
And I can’t imagine not having a tank, I’ve had some variety of something for a decade now.
Yeah, they ignore each other. They will ignore each other even if I put them right next to each other. They are very clearly beta bettas.
I got a dragon instead of keeping my tank – trying to keep the tank was really hard since we have a) randomly tons of algae for literally no reason you can’t ever get rid of, and b) really hard water, which meant lots of calcium buildup and having to descale the tank frequently and I couldn’t be bothered to keep moving my fish out, cleaning it all down, then moving them back in, it was too stressful for them.
Beta bettas 🙂
And we have hard water, though I guess the build up on my terra cotta flower pots takes awhile, and it’s nothing like what it was in Pittsburgh, that was hellish. The algae…fuck it, it isn’t hurting anything.
The algae is so bad that you can’t see into the tank. It’s not that easy to clean stuff, it’s the stuff you have to scrub and scrub and scrub and the plecos won’t eat it.
Stevie Wonder just announced he won’t perform in any state with “Stand Your Ground” laws.
@SittieKitty
They’re BGTOW (bettas going their own way). To the surprise of no one here, they just happen to be better at it than their human counterparts.
SittieKitty — ah, I just have enough hair algae that my fake plants look real. And I already said this over in the Petey infested thread, but new plec didn’t survive the first week. Considering how hardy they are, I was not expecting that (whereas the one eyed danio that had the “fuck, that’s ich” moment is fine [and the ich didn’t spread, thank the gods for my paranoia about that shit!])
Just to make things weirder, if it was the usual refusal to eat, idk wtf else I could’ve offered him, I’ve offered my new bottom feeders algae sheets, algae dishes, bottom feeder pellets, shrimp pellets, tubifex cubes, and the crisps and color bit things that the danios let sink. Not over feeding levels, just a couple of each variety. But I guess just plain transplant shock it’s moot.
*sigh* I need a plec, my tank is not complete without a sucker attached to the glass. I’m thinking about trying again tomorrow assuming the water checks out fine.
🙁 I’m sorry to hear about the plec, it’s never nice to find that, especially right after you get them.
…and my father has decided to rant about how ridiculous it is that people are pissed about Zimmerman getting his gun back
Argh, it’s too hot for this shit.
@Argenti
Have some brain bleach:
http://media-cache-ak2.pinimg.com/736x/6c/4a/c1/6c4ac1626f55ad69de0c6073ad405ace.jpg
Aww! Not photographed brain bleach — this morning there was a woodchuck eating something in a grassy bit near my mother’s office. We don’t think it was our woodchuck, considering that’s across a road, we keep her well fed, and she has young, but still, they’re adorkable.
How much wood?
http://media-cache-ec3.pinimg.com/736x/1c/a2/55/1ca25540bfabfd6759372d0b1f61347a.jpg
“Yeah I’ll buy it was in his waistband, but am under the impression that’d only really have made it possible to draw, under the supposed conditions, if the safety was off. And carrying a loaded gun, in your waistband, with the safety off? Hello Darwin Award candidate!”
Zimmerman’s carry gun was a Kel-Tec pistol, it has no external safety.
“An officer found his weapon, a black Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm semi-automatic pistol, in a holster placed on his waistband.”
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/28/george-zimmermans-gun-a-popular-choice-for-concealed-carry/
Why hello, captain pendantic.
Still doesn’t make carrying that gun in one’s waistband a good idea.
Does Joe really need to be in this thread at all?