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.
He said Carter, a Texas native, was intoxicated, began singing with the band and refused to leave the stage to let other customers sing.
“Witnesses said Carter got angry when the band played ‘Hotel California’ instead of the song he requested, and he refused to step down,” Krabi city police chief Col. Taksin Pochakorn said.
Police said the band then stopped playing and Carter and his 27-year-old son got into a furious argument with the musicians.
Jongrak said Carter was stabbed in his chest with an iron rod during the fight outside the bar and his son was injured in the head.
Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
It’s my last day of class and long-commuting! The class has been worthwhile, but my back is killing me. Lab benches are not ergonomically designed to be sat at for 8 hours at a time.
The Democrats have seemed to be in a race to the bottom in lowering the bar to a paint stripe with the three perverts, especially with the claim that, Hey, I didn’t know I couldn’t defile and abuse women, I’m a Democrat!
This shows they still felt they had headway. What is the difference between Teamsters and the Westboro scum? The Westboro scum don’t employ violence against mourners, they just try to provoke it against themselves so they can sue.
“The company testified in its filing that union members blocked grieving family members from leaving its parking lot, used bullhorns to shout obscenities at workers and mourners, and unleashed a German Shepard on a dead woman’s daughter and husband.”
Since they’re Teamsters, I would actually approve of an angry mob of aggrieved mourners beating the hell out of them.
Also on my approval list, given the totality of circumstances: an aggrieved mourner -- or pretty much any decent person -- sniping at them. I’m guessing they might feel a little less, ah, scrappy after one of their fellow goons’ heads got “magically ‘sploded”.
I’m sure President Obama is already lining up his phone calls to the families even though this breach of civility doesnt quite rise to the standard of Limbaugh calling a slut, a slut.
***drive-by***
Uh oh…the Blue Hand is tweaking again. So far, I like.
Oy. What. a. freakin’. day.
We’re in the middle of production, and well, Teh Mangler™, that’s why.
And ‘den!
And ‘den!
And ‘den!
At TEN O’CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING ON A THURSDAY the IT department decided to test their “disaster recovery skills”.
No warning. No emails from IT. The freakin’ VP of Content Management didn’t have a clue this was going to happen.
They took out every. single. drive. in the farm.
And if that doesn’t beat all, when the Sr. Director of Content Management went downstairs to find out why everyone was suddenly left with only drive C:/ (and Solitaire loaded it they were lucky), she found out they’d so carefully planned the event, THEY HAD IT CATERED.
Two hours lost.
So yeah, this is appropriate:
I mean no scorn heaped upon the professionals here. G-d only know you know better!
ONE DAY and I can feel two rounds of trigger point shots coming undone.
/rant off
Prayers continue for the Mac-Clan.
*ZzzzzT!*
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Kate
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WOW! One minute I get weird error messages, next a WholeNewWheel! Love the banner/header, but the type is a little difficult to read.
Sure Happy It’s Thursday -- and teh beginning of August -- GN!
I have no idea what today’s thread GIF means, but I like it.
Hope that Mama Mouse’s family and friends are bearing-up as best they can; they’re still in our thoughts.
Gotta love the ongoing attempted “beatification” of Saint Trayvon:
Cri. Min. Eee.
The Shroud of Trayvon…..
Heh!
Once again, I must don teh mantle of being a “Bad Gerbil” because I can understand the temptation: Drunk US tourist who insisted on singing with band in Thailand bar stabbed to death by one of the musicians:
Ah, Phuket. 😉
I don’t much like that song either.
Hee!
“Welcome to the Hotel CaliforniAAAAAAaaaaaargh…”
that song irritates me. Always has.
Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
It’s my last day of class and long-commuting! The class has been worthwhile, but my back is killing me. Lab benches are not ergonomically designed to be sat at for 8 hours at a time.
Disability claim!!!1!!binder&binder!!!
Glad it’s your last day and that teh class has actually provided value, Paddy.
The Democrats have seemed to be in a race to the bottom in lowering the bar to a paint stripe with the three perverts, especially with the claim that, Hey, I didn’t know I couldn’t defile and abuse women, I’m a Democrat!
This shows they still felt they had headway. What is the difference between Teamsters and the Westboro scum? The Westboro scum don’t employ violence against mourners, they just try to provoke it against themselves so they can sue.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/01/teamsters-ordered-to-stop-picketing-funeral-homes/?test=latestnews
“The company testified in its filing that union members blocked grieving family members from leaving its parking lot, used bullhorns to shout obscenities at workers and mourners, and unleashed a German Shepard on a dead woman’s daughter and husband.”
Since they’re Teamsters, I would actually approve of an angry mob of aggrieved mourners beating the hell out of them.
Also on my approval list, given the totality of circumstances: an aggrieved mourner -- or pretty much any decent person -- sniping at them. I’m guessing they might feel a little less, ah, scrappy after one of their fellow goons’ heads got “magically ‘sploded”.
Class-it’s on the union label.
I’m sure President Obama is already lining up his phone calls to the families even though this breach of civility doesnt quite rise to the standard of Limbaugh calling a slut, a slut.
***drive-by***
Uh oh…the Blue Hand is tweaking again. So far, I like.
Oy. What. a. freakin’. day.
We’re in the middle of production, and well, Teh Mangler™, that’s why.
And ‘den!
And ‘den!
And ‘den!
At TEN O’CLOCK IN THE FUCKING MORNING ON A THURSDAY the IT department decided to test their “disaster recovery skills”.
No warning. No emails from IT. The freakin’ VP of Content Management didn’t have a clue this was going to happen.
They took out every. single. drive. in the farm.
And if that doesn’t beat all, when the Sr. Director of Content Management went downstairs to find out why everyone was suddenly left with only drive C:/ (and Solitaire loaded it they were lucky), she found out they’d so carefully planned the event, THEY HAD IT CATERED.
Two hours lost.
So yeah, this is appropriate:
I mean no scorn heaped upon the professionals here. G-d only know you know better!
ONE DAY and I can feel two rounds of trigger point shots coming undone.
/rant off
Prayers continue for the Mac-Clan.
*ZzzzzT!*
WOW! One minute I get weird error messages, next a WholeNewWheel! Love the banner/header, but the type is a little difficult to read.