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To: TideGlider who wrote (731657)	8/8/2013 11:01:58 AM
From: jlallen	3 Recommendations Recommended By longnshort one_less TideGlider Respond to of 1575652

CNN and the Miami Herald....well known right wing sites!! LOL!!!! That fool has no clue how big a FOOL he is....lol

To: TideGlider who wrote (731657)	8/8/2013 11:17:39 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Recommended By one_less TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575652

cj will just run away now. and bring this back up in 3-6 months

To: TideGlider who wrote (731657)	8/8/2013 11:24:35 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575652

Weed, fights and guns: Trayvon Martin’s text messages released .............................................................................................................. . Trayvon Martin Trayvon Martin Photos (Warning: Graphic Content) By Marc Caputo 05.23.13 miamiherald.com ead more here: miamiherald.com In the months and days before his shooting death, Trayvon Martin was getting into fights, getting high on marijuana, getting suspended from school and talking with friends about getting a gun, according to cellphone text messages that defense lawyers for shooter George Zimmerman released Thursday. Trayvon’s chronically misspelled, slang-filled messages — as well as pictures of a semi-automatic pistol, marijuana plants and Trayvon flipping his middle fingers — are all part of Zimmerman’s defense plan to put the Miami Gardens 17-year-old posthumously on trial. “So you just turning into a lil hoodlum,” one friend, whose name has been withheld, texted Trayvon. Trayvon replied: “No not at all.” At one point, Trayvon joked that the friend was “soft.” “Boy don’t get one planted in ya chest,” the friend joked back. The text messages, some of which are redacted, do not make clear whom Trayvon was talking to at different times. Sometimes it appears he was joking with a friend, other times with a girlfriend and, in at least one instance, with his father. Some of the earliest text messages date back to early November 2011, in which Trayvon, a junior at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High School in North Miami-Dade, indicates he was suspended from school for being in a fistfight. Later in the month, on the 21st, he exchanged messages with at least one friend about an after-school fight. One of Trayvon’s cellphone pictures shows two teens about to square off against one another as a third stands in the middle like a referee. Trayvon said he fought a rival who “snitched on me.” Trayvon: “I lost da 1st round :) but won da 2nd nd 3rd.” Friend: “Ohhh So It Wass 3 Rounds? Damn well at least yu wonn lol but yuu needa stop fighting.” Trayvon: “Nay im not done with fool….. he gone hav 2 see me again.” Friend: “Nooo… Stop, yuu waint gonn bee satisified till yuh suspended again, huh?” Trayvon told another friend at the time that his mother wanted him to move in with his dad after he was suspended. “Da police caught me outta skool,” Trayvon wrote. Months later, Trayvon appeared to get into trouble again, but suggested on Jan. 6, 2012, that he was an innocent bystander: “‘I was watcn a fight nd a teacher say I hit em.” The following month he complained he got in trouble for something “I didn’t do.” In between these messages, he appears to flirt with a girl and talk extensively about smoking marijuana, or “kush.” One friend called him a “WEEDHEAD.” Trayvon’s troubles appeared to get worse and, on Feb. 13, he explained to a friend that he was serving “10 dayz” of suspension. Five days later, he repeatedly appears to inquire about a gun with a friend: “U got heat??” Hours later he was asked by text: “You want a 22 revolver?” The friend who sent the message said it was bought by “my mommy.” On Feb. 21, Trayvon appeared to be heading to Sanford to live with his father. But he hadn’t lost interest in guns. “U wanna share a .380?” he asked one friend. Hours after that, someone who appears to be his father sent him text messages about staying in Sanford. “Show much respect to [redacted] and adjust to my Lady & [redacted]. Show them that you a good kid and you want positive things around you,” his father, Tracy Martin, wrote to Trayvon. A minute later he followed up: “Be a big brother and not a DONKEY … …LOVE DAD.” Read more here: miamiherald.com

To: TideGlider who wrote (731657)	8/8/2013 11:38:46 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575652

Can't be see in public cavorting with the 1% who are trying to buy elections. Ryan, Cantor 'secretly spoke' at Koch brothers' event By Steve Benen - Thu Aug 8, 2013 11:10 AM EDT Associated Press Charles and David Koch made considerable investments in the 2012 elections, and as the dust settled, they didn't have much to show for their investments. Several months later, however, the Koch brothers aren't exactly scaling back their political efforts. Rep. Paul Ryan, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez secretly spoke to wealthy donors at the Koch brothers' recently concluded summer gathering on the outskirts of Albuquerque. The 2012 vice presidential candidate and No. 2 House Republican are return participants to the twice-annual seminar.... A spokesman for Cantor's office declined to comment, while Ryan's office did not immediately respond to questions. *As the Politico* report explained, Koch Industries periodically hosts these "invitation-only seminars" under "extremely tight security." The brothers' powerful allies attend so they can hear from "Republican elected officials, conservative dignitaries and leaders of right-leaning groups backed by the Kochs' network," which Republican players attend to connect with donors and make the Kochs happy. Ryan, Cantor, and Martinez are hardly unique -- previous attendees include governors (Christie, Perry, McDonnell), senators (Cornyn, DeMint), notable Republican media personalities (Limbaugh, Beck), and even sitting Supreme Court justices (Scalia, Thomas). And while conservatives are certainly free to get together like this, I can't help but wonder why all the secrecy is necessary.** Neither Ryan nor Cantor were willing to talk about the appearance, before or after attending, and when a reporter from the NBC affiliate in Albuquerque tried to cover the event where the New Mexico governor was speaking, he was turned away at a checkpoint -- a mile from the resort. If the Koch brothers want to give the public the impression that something untoward is going behind closed doors with leading Republican policymakers, this is certainly the way to do it.

To: TideGlider who wrote (731657)	8/8/2013 1:07:02 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575652

Now that wasn't so hard, now was it? Or maybe it was. It doesn't back your story about Trayvon on having several guns. Or even one. He smoked some pot, and we all know how violent potheads are... And he bragged to his friends. No teenager ever does that... Really, this is your proof? Where is his police record? Oh, that is right. That was Zimmerman who assaulted a police officer and beat up his girlfriend. Takes a tough guy to beat up a woman. Takes a real brilliant individual to assault a police officer. Shows real judgement...