The George Zimmerman Reenactment

Here DMartyr at the Jawa Report does a service to the blogosphere and puts together pertinent videos and diagrams in the Martin case for you to watch and judge for yourself.

This is Zimmerman reenacting for the police his actions on the night of the shooting. Note that this is less than 24 hours after the shooting and his account has never varied from what he told the police that night.

His description is compelling and after watching this I simply cannot comprehend how a prosecutor could bring a case against him in good faith much less a murder charge.

Another thing that become clear from the video and diagrams is that is a relatively compact neighborhood and everything took place in a small area. So Trayvon Martin must have gone home first and then returned to confront Zimmerman.

Go here to see it all.

Posted by: Maetenloch at 06:40 PM | Comments (920)
Post contains 1104 words, total size 13 kb.

That's scores of people shining their lasers up at a military helicopter. Or, as NBC News might say, "two people."

You see that happen in a lot of videos of the crowd, laser light flashing the lens. But this is a pretty wild example of it.

There are some interesting unconfirmed claims. In Muqattem, Egypt, a Twitterer named @sandmonkey I'm told is generally reliable says that gunmen inside a Muslim Brotherhood HQ are shooting at the crowd outside:

I've seen some more claims that the MB HQ in Cairo is burning (though we heard similar things on Friday, and it just turned out to be bonfires outside the HQ). I also saw a general claim that as night has fallen on Egypt, "all hell is breaking out."

An odd thing about false information is that it can wind up making itself true -- false reports of shootings can lead to actual shootings, false reports of "all hell breaking out" can lead to riots.

So, a nervous night over there.

The BBC has estimated that this is the largest political protest... in world history. Which seems possible. Have 17 million ever protested a government before?

So it's strange to me the media gave the Tahrir Square protests such urgent, breathless play last time, when Obama was thinking about giving a speech, and seem to care so little about the biggest protest in history, when Obama isn't thinking about giving a speech.

Posted by: Ace at 03:15 PM | Comments (478)
Post contains 281 words, total size 2 kb.

Over and over and over again.

Posted by: Ace at 02:42 PM | Comments (143)
Post contains 20 words, total size 1 kb.

Watch the video below.

@pspoole, who's liveblogging the demonstrations at PJM.

4:37p Tom Blumer at Newsbusters notes that the US establishment media is ignoring for the most part the anti-Obama, anti-American sentiment of the Tamarod protests.

...

3:09p NBC is reporting that “tens of thousands” are out protesting against Morsi. Are they delusional or just outright lying?

2:58p Media reports are coming in with estimates of the crowd sizes across Egypt. Al-Masry Al-Youm cites experts that more than 17 million are in the streets today.

If they were looking to make a big appeal to the military to side with the majority, I think they accomplished that.

If they were hoping to get Obama's Palace Guards at NBC to notice a huge revolt against Obama's pro-Muslim Brotherhood foreign policy, then of course they failed.

more...

Posted by: Ace at 01:05 PM | Comments (335)
Post contains 146 words, total size 1 kb.

Hello, the Fountain Invasion has gone swimmingly as we fight Coalition of Coalitions Forming Against Goons (don't ask me, I don't name these things) and frankly majority of my attention span has been focused on that but I'll give a quick skinny on gaming stuff below.
more...

Posted by: Gang of Gaming Morons! at 10:50 AM | Comments (91)
Post contains 416 words, total size 4 kb.

Hotsalami bacon, Morons. Russ from Winterset here. I've been promising Andy content for the Gun Thread for months now, and I'm finally delivering. Today's topic is affordable airguns for marksmanship training and small game hunting. I'm going to give a short synopsis of some inexpensive American-made airguns, and then follow it up with detailed reviews of my test guns and different varieties of ammunition in future posts. For starters, let's look at our class textbook, "American Air Rifles" by James E. House. This book is a little spendy at $29.99, but if you want to seriously get into airguns, the ballistic tables in the back are worth the cost. I'll cover most of the bullet points in the book in upcoming posts, so don't feel that you HAVE to get the book now (but if you do, please use Ace's Amazon widget to put some green in his pocket).


more...

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at 07:12 AM | Comments (28)
Post contains 1185 words, total size 7 kb.

Taking the family to the beach today.

Dave has graciously offered to do the gun thread.

Posted by: andy at 02:52 AM | Comments (405)
Post contains 24 words, total size 1 kb.

Andrew is previously occupied so you're stuck with me again.

Sunday morning gun question. What's this?

see below the fold for the answer.

Mentioned this one last night. Considerable angst over cops moving into flooded homes and "securing" firearms.

I think this will come down to "how hard is it to get your guns back from this benevolent protective thank you thank you government"?

My guess? Really hard.
more...

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 06:35 AM | Comments (130)
Post contains 171 words, total size 1 kb.

Welcome again to the Spaced-Out Challenge, the weekly astronomy post and your guide to the night sky. We are continuing our exploration of the summer Milky Way, and finishing our quick overview of the sights in Sagittarius with a few notable open and globular clusters.

Hop-to guide and a brief overview of objects below the fold. more...

Posted by: CAC at 05:55 PM | Comments (42)
Post contains 673 words, total size 6 kb.

If it's Saturday, it must mean another substitute ONTblogger.

First, let me explain the title of the post. I don't mean to imply that tmi3rd is really retarded. Just that his post was really retarded, sir.

And that he's super easy.

Let's face it, there were countless factual errros in his piece. For instance: None of us care about John Wayne Bobbit, except as a cautionary tale about falling asleep anywhere near his wife, or maybe, even your own. And he prostitutes his posts out to the highest bidder quicker and with more regularity than Sen. Rubio swaps hats on the amnesty train.

And you, like I, are probably wondering how a link to a blogsite run by a demented man can possibly find its onto the hallowed pages of AoSHQ.

Well, let's be clear about just who DDR is, and more importantly, what he does for fun and profit. On the surface, Walt appears to be a mild-mannered, self-described "freelance writer and photographer ". This is a ruse intended to lull you into a false sense of squishy security.

Indeed, the man is in deep with the horrifying underground baby-seal combat tournament scene.

As evidenced by his contribution to last night's ONT, a video of a man squeezing a baby seal (who likely lost too many times in "the icehole" to be of any value) as it shrieked in agony until it literally and repeatedly bursts into flames.

Need more evidence of just how dangerous this man's hobbies are?

more...

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:36 PM | Comments (921)
Post contains 511 words, total size 4 kb.