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Zimmerman

The Joy of Hopelessness

July 15, 2013



The Zimmerman affair warms the cockles of a curmudgeon´s heart. (I´m not sure what a cockle is, but I want mine to be at the right temperature.) Never have I seen such sprawling, cacophonous, indignant ignorance and frightful stupidity as that being exhibited by the American public. We are doomed. I am delighted. Curmudgeons love doom.

Has there ever been such focused inattention as the case has produced? Nothing of importance is noticed, and everything lacking it is. The crucial fact to come out of the whole adventure—crucial, and therefore utterly overlooked--was that Rachel Jeantel, a prosecution witness and black girl aged nineteen years, can´t read. The grim implication of this fact is confirmed by the illiteracy of tweets from blacks regarding the case. “Ima kill dat dumass cracker be racis.” Here we see as neatly displayed as if in a jewelry box why so many young blacks will go nowhere in the remaining fifty years of their lives. They can´t read, or barely can. In a fading techno-industrial civilization—I use the latter word frivolously—this consigns them to a life on charity. Is this not of more note than who started what?

No. The educational disaster that will leave Rachel and millions of her confreres in meaningless lives on welfare pales in importance compared to the question: Did Trayvon Martin and Zimmerman have the proper racial attitudes? This is what exercises the vast endocrine boobitry howling with empty-headed rage and self-righteousness.

Of course racism was involved in the shooting. The prosecution established this beyond doubt. Trayvon referred to Zimmerman as a “creepy-ass cracker,” “cracker” being a highly pejorative term for low-class whites living in decaying trailers in the pine barrens and Everglades of Florida. So Trayvon, a racist, didn´t like white people. So what? Most blacks don´t.

A measure of the limitless hypocrisy that pervades, that almost constitutes American political life is that Travon´s clear racial hostility—“creepy-ass cracker”—is ignored. Only whites can exhibit racial antagonism. Yet perhaps twice a week on the Drudge Report one encounters cell-phone video of young blacks seriously beating whites because they are white. Here you have to understand that racial attacks are not racial. The local police chief invariably says that race wasn´t involved, when in fact nothing else was, and the papers will speak of “teens.”

But what persuaded me that humanity really did descend from monkeys, and would do well to ascend back to them, was the public´s near-perfect lack of grasp of anything involved in this national soap opera. From the vacant visages of over-coiffed network babes, from the empty minds and overhanging orbital ridges of anchor men, came a veritable Pacific of incomprehension. I was fascinated. Reasonable behavior is not very amusing.

For example, from these clouded minds there drizzled drastic drivel to the effect that Zimmerman “profiled” Martin. By this is meant that Zimmerman noticed that Martin closely resembled the young black males who had been burgling homes in the neighborhood, it being the duty of a neighborhood watch to notice exactly this.

But “profiling,” whatever network marsupials may think they think they mean by it, assuming that they think at all, is not a crime, and Zimmerman was not charged with it. “Following” is not a crime, and Zimmerman was not charged with it. Having attitudes that CNN doesn´t like is not yet a crime. Second-degree murder is a crime, and that, and only that, is what Zimmerman was charged with. The rest is irrelevant.

As best I could tell, this was far too difficult a concept for the talking heads.

Or was it? My Mexican wife, having compared the testimony in the trial to what the American media were saying, commented that the latter seemed to be trying to start a race war. Granted, she is not qualified to comment on the case, as she is not an idiot. Despite this debility, she appeared to be on to something.

Watching as much of the television coverage as I could bear, I saw that Zimmerman was being heavily packaged as guilty—of exactly what not being specified—with the strong implication that should he not be convicted, it would constitute a racially motivated miscarriage of justice. The duty of the jury was not to try him, but to convict him.

The coverage was so craftedly witless and dishonest that it was easy to suspect a conspiracy. Stupidity beyond a certain point can only be a work of intelligence. It was certainly dangerous behavior. In the cities there are large black populations who get all their news from television. These can easily be incited to violence. In California, someone called Zulu Shabazz, of the New Black Panther Party, is indeed calling for a race war against whites. The strategic brilliance of declaring war on those who grow your food and sign you checks might be lost on Sun Tzu. Oh well.

I have known people in the media for the forty years in which I pulled my oar in the triremes of print. I can attest that the talking heads do not want to provoke war. They want to display their virtue by engaging in exhibitionism disguised as confession. As a Catholic does not question the divinity of Christ, so a journalist does not question the racial guilt of whites. For everything, probably to include sunspots. It would result in ostracism, and one has to go daily to the news room.

Zimmerman´s defense was self-defense. How many of those bubbling and fuming indignantly have read Florida´s statue on self-defense? It is online. How many of those emoting about who threw the first punch have read Florida´s case law on the question? For good reasons, it doesn´t matter who punched whom first.

(You don´t like my looks and spit in my face. I punch you in the nose. You pull a switchblade and lunge at me, whereupon I shoot you dead. That´s legitimate self-defense, because I believed myself to be in imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm, this being the threshold for use of deadly force. That I threw the first punch doesn´t matter.)

Anyone of sufficient intelligence—IQ 3 should do it--can see that race relations in America are bad and getting worse. However, to judge by commentary regarding Zimmerman, very few meet this demanding intellectual standard. People achieving a lesser standard, partial sentience perhaps, can see that until blacks decide to essay literacy, even education, things will stay the same or deteriorate. The latter of course is the assured outcome. Why Mssrs. Jesse and Al don´t point this out to their constituents is, unfortunately, obvious, the purpose of race hustling being to profit the hustler.

But it isn´t my problem. Being a licensed curmudgeon, I think I´ll go to Tom´s Bar for a cold Tecate and the pleasure of an hour´s morbid reflection.

until blacks decide to essay literacy, even education, things will stay the same or deteriorate.

Big RR wrote:Who is Fred, who decries the use of slang in tweets (which can even be seen among upper class white college graduates), and then pens this statement

until blacks decide to essay literacy, even education, things will stay the same or deteriorate.

. Essay literacy? How does one decide to essay literacy? Indeed, what does "essay literacy" mean?

I think this is an actual case of a pretentious pot of a writer who skirts the rules of vocaulary and grammar to appear intelligent, calling kettles who don't aspire to his level of pretentiousness (illiterate) blacks.

The Zimmerman affair warms the cockles of a curmudgeon´s heart. (I´m not sure what a cockle is, but I want mine to be at the right temperature.)

Cockles, laverbread and Welsh bacon
Ingredients

225g/8oz ready-prepared laverbread (available in cans from online shops)

50g/2oz oatmeal

freshly ground white pepper, to taste

225g/8oz picked cockle meat, cooked

25g/1oz butter

1 leek, finely chopped

50g/2oz bacon fat

8 smoked bacon rashers, fried until crisp, to serve

Preparation method

In a bowl, mix together the laverbread and oatmeal until well combined. Season, to taste, with freshly ground white pepper and set aside for 20 minutes.

Melt the butter in a frying pan until foaming, then add the leek and fry for 3-4 minutes, or until softened. Add the picked cockle meat and cook for a further 1-2 minutes, or until heated through.
Technique: Removing the meat from cooked lobster
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With damp hands, pinch off pieces of the laverbread mixture and roll into golf ball-sized balls. Flatten the balls slightly to make small patties.

In a separate pan, heat the bacon fat over a medium heat. Fry the laverbread patties, in small batches, for 2-3 minutes on both sides or until golden-brown all over.

To serve, divide the laverbread patties among four serving plates and spoon over the cockles and leeks. Top each serving with two rashers of crisp bacon.

Not all deaths are tragedies, and just because the deceased was "young" does not make his death any more regrettable than that of an older person. This death likely saved a great deal of money in future years for the taxpayers of Florida, who probably would have been paying Tray-Von's room and board for most of the remainder of his life.

just because the deceased was "young" does not make his death any more regrettable than that of an older person.

....makes his rhetoric the focus.

Big RR wrote:Who is Fred, who decries the use of slang in tweets (which can even be seen among upper class white college graduates), and then pens this statement

until blacks decide to essay literacy, even education, things will stay the same or deteriorate.

. Essay literacy? How does one decide to essay literacy? Indeed, what does "essay literacy" mean?

I think this is an actual case of a pretentious pot of a writer who skirts the rules of vocaulary and grammar to appear intelligent, calling kettles who don't aspire to his level of pretentiousness (illiterate) blacks.

Big RR wrote: How does one decide to essay literacy? Indeed, what does "essay literacy" mean?

Essay:
verb (used with object)
6. to try; attempt.
7. to put to the test; make trial of.


1475–85; < Middle French essayer, cognate with Anglo-French assayer to assay < Late Latin exagium a weighing, equivalent to *exag ( ere ), for Latin exigere to examine, test, literally, to drive out (see exact) + -ium -ium

TPFKA@W wrote:"...

How are whites supposed to have any respect for the black community when so many of them have zero respect for themselves?

Gob wrote:

Big RR wrote: How does one decide to essay literacy? Indeed, what does "essay literacy" mean?

Essay:
verb (used with object)
6. to try; attempt.
7. to put to the test; make trial of.


1475–85; < Middle French essayer, cognate with Anglo-French assayer to assay < Late Latin exagium a weighing, equivalent to *exag ( ere ), for Latin exigere to examine, test, literally, to drive out (see exact) + -ium -ium

rubato wrote:

Big RR wrote:Who is Fred, who decries the use of slang in tweets (which can even be seen among upper class white college graduates), and then pens this statement

until blacks decide to essay literacy, even education, things will stay the same or deteriorate.

. Essay literacy? How does one decide to essay literacy? Indeed, what does "essay literacy" mean?

I think this is an actual case of a pretentious pot of a writer who skirts the rules of vocaulary and grammar to appear intelligent, calling kettles who don't aspire to his level of pretentiousness (illiterate) blacks.

The original meaning of "essay" in French is "to attempt". The literary essay was invented, and named, by Michel de Montaigne who intended the word to be somewhat self-deprecating and thus liberating.


Fred is a mean little fucker with a second-rate mind and second-rate education who has learned that the mouth-breathing right are stupid and anti-intellectual and will never figure out he is hollow.




Yrs,
Rubato

Proving that with the Internet you can simulate the literacy

a pretentious pot of a writer who skirts the rules of vocaulary and grammar to appear intelligent

Rubato is a mean little fucker with a fifth-rate mind

A 23-year-old man killed two San Francisco jewelry store clerks and critically wounded the shop owner because he believed he had been overcharged when he bought an item a few weeks earlier, prosecutors said Tuesday.

The motive in Friday's slayings in the South of Market area had been a mystery until Barry White Jr. of Antioch appeared in court to face 16 charges, including murder and attempted murder. He did not enter a plea.

Assistant District Attorney Scot Clark said White committed a "cold and deliberate" attack when he returned to Victoga in the Gift Center and Jewelry Mart on Brannan Street to dispute a purchase he made at the end of May.

White believed the item, which was not identified, did not have as many grams of precious metal as advertised, and that he had overpaid by a little less than $300, Clark told Judge Monica Wiley while asking her to hold White without bail.

He said store camera footage showed employees recognizing White and engaging him in conversation, apparently not sensing the danger.

At one point, Clark said, White asked the store's 50-year-old owner, Vic Hung, for change for parking. Hung gave him the money, and White returned soon after, sitting calmly on a chair by the door until the last customer left.

White then approached the counter and spoke to Hung and a clerk, 51-year-old Lina Lim of Daly City. White reached into his pocket, Clark said, drew out a five-shot revolver and fired three times at the owner and once at Lim.

As the victims fled to a back room, White approached Khin Min, 35, of San Francisco, who was standing by the door. Min ran at her attacker and he fired his last shot, Clark said. When the shot missed, White pulled a knife and "cut her ear-to-ear," Clark said.

White then moved to the back room, where Lim was later found almost decapitated, Clark said. Hung, who was found nearby with critical injuries, had fought back, Clark said, and had slash wounds on his hands and face.

"The way that this individual went about killing these people was one of the most brutal, most calculating homicides I've viewed in my career," said District Attorney George Gascón.

White left the store covered in blood and reloaded his revolver, witnesses said. Police responding to the scene reported that they thought he was a victim until he began firing at them. White ran into a nearby taqueria, where he surrendered after he used up his ammunition, authorities said.

Investigators said they found a loaded AK-47 rifle in White's car, which was parked in front of the jewelry center, and an extra ammunition magazine.

White was scheduled to go to trial in Contra Costa County in August for allegedly trying to run over a police officer with a car in Antioch in 2009. Officers shot him in the head and back, and he later sued Antioch police.

Noah Blechman, an attorney for Antioch police, said White racked up more charges when he allegedly threatened one of the Antioch officers in court.

Steve Taxman, White's attorney, said during Tuesday's hearing, "These are allegations - they have to be proven."

Tun Oo, the 48-year-old brother of victim Khin Min, called White an "animal" outside court. He described his sister as a friendly woman who emigrated from Burma in 2000. He said she got a job at Victoga almost immediately, and that the owner treated Min "like his little sister."

White, who was held without bail, will return to court July 24.