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“When you look back at this case, a year ago there were 30,000 people in this town and they wanted to see charges filed against Zimmerman.

Sanford police chief keeps the peace in days after Zimmerman verdict | Fox News

The rowers appear to be attempting a new, shorter Northwest Passage route which doesn’t actually involve getting anywhere near the Northwest Passage.

There is a theory that Franklin’s expedition went mad from lead solder sealed food cans causing their brains to quit working properly. They were so irrational that they tried dragging the captain’s oak desk back to Canada.

Now the Mainstream crew is dragging a heavy boat southeast away from the northwest passage. Perhaps excess CO2 is affecting their thought process?

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h/t to R. de Haan

The Arizona wildfire that killed 19 firefighters last month was the result of “one of the most extreme heat waves on record,” Cullen said.

Sen. Boxer sets committee hearing on climate change | RenewablesBiz

It is very hot in Arizona every summer. The fire was the result of a lightning strike.

The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by lightning on June 28, 2013.

Yarnell Hill Fire – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This year has had the fewest US fires to date of any season on record, and remarkably there are no fires in Arizona now.

National Interagency Fire Center

On Sunday, the Republican senator John McCain added his name to those calling for the law to be changed. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, he said that he did not question the jury’s decision in the Zimmerman case. But he added: “I can also see that the ‘stand your ground’ law may be something that needs to be reviewed by the Florida legislature or any other legislature that has passed such legislation.”

Calls for ‘stand your ground’ review grow after day of Trayvon rallies | World news | guardian.co.uk

If the Navy forecasts are correct, in about six days the rowers will have gigantic three metre thick chunks of ice barreling at them driven by 55 MPH winds.

Jesse Jackson says that he should be able to buy jury decisions

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus appear undecided so far on whether to support a call for a boycott of Florida over the Trayvon Martin case, with Maryland Rep. Donna Edwards saying Sunday such a move could be “devastating” to some communities in the state.

Jackson said after a Florida jury found neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman not guilty July 13 of all charges in the fatal 2012 shooting of Martin, a black teenager, that his Rainbow PUSH Coalition would consider a boycotting on Florida, which he characterized as a “kind of apartheid state.”

Jackson’s son is being sentenced this week for theft and embezzling $750,000 from the people of Illinois, so Jesse is in Florida pretending he is Nelson Mandela.

“That’s probably the best strategy because people understand dollars and cents,” Clay, D-Mo., said Friday, according to The Hill newspaper. “And they understand if there’s a significant drop off in revenues — at conventions, at Disney World and Universal Studios — that  will get the attention of the powerful.”

The black caucus thinks that they should be able to purchase jury decisions.

Their remarks were just part of  the ongoing and wide-ranging discussions about race and equal justice since the fatal shooting, particularly after President Obama talked Friday about the verdict, his own experiences growing up black and what Americans could do about changing state gun laws on self-defense.

Obama wants to make sure that people can’t defend themselves any more. It makes martial law much easier to implement. All that States Rights nonsense and the US Constitution just get in the way of his bigger plans.

Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge, the Black Caucus chairwoman, suggested the Martin case should be a call for “a broader discussion” on “how we are treating poor and minority people in this country.”

Yes, we need a discussion about why the black community is trying to lynch an Hispanic.

“We are being attacked from so many sides that you have to at some point decide where you can have the most impact,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

People who make statements like that are normally being treated for paranoid schizophrenia.

Black caucus appears undecided on call for Florida boycott, asks for border discussion on race | Fox News

As the advancing glaciers end Chicago’s crime wave, NOAA will announce that this is the 6,321 consecutive month with temperatures above normal.

USHCN will be adjusting temperatures upwards by 17.6 degrees at that time.

21 July 2013

‘Our study underlines that these conditions have led to a large loss of ice and significant rises in global sea level in the past.   ‘Scientists predict that global temperatures of a similar level may be reached by the end of this century, so it is very important for us to understand what the possible consequences might be.’

Global warming five million years ago could have led to Antarctic ice sheets melting and sea levels rising by 60ft | Mail Online

19 Feb 1952

Melting Ice May Swamp Seaports

CLEVELAND. February 18.— Dr. William S. Carlson, an Arctic expert, said last night that polar ice caps were melting at an astonishing and unexplained rate, and threatening to swamp seaports by raising ocean levels.

19 Feb 1952 – Melting Ice May Swamp Seaports