Some thoughts on Zimmerman – Martin murder!

But if I had hesitated, I could be the dead one now. Well I could be the dead one if he had been aiming at me… …and if he'd had a gun… ”…and if he had been the enemy.

There is no such thing as excessive violence.

Don't think of it as Murder. Think of it as Involuntary Euthanasia.

Give you one good reason? I'll give you .45 good reasons.

He turned around at the last moment just to make it look like I shot him in the back.

Shoot first and ask questions later. You get better answers.

NRA Bumper Sticker [Guns don't kill people. Bullets kill people.]

Another Bumper Sticker [How am I shooting? Call 1-800-GOOD-AIM]

Sticker commonly attached to vehicles used by Florida Neighborhood Watch

[What could be a better? We have food, free time...and total anarchy]

This whole 'fair fight' thing is nice in theory, but if we actually implement it, we could get hurt.

You'll know when I'm talking to you, because my gun will be pointing at you.

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"I perceive you have been in Afghanistan." S. Holmes to J. Watson on their first meeting. In the hundred plus years since that quote, nothing has changed in Afghanistan. Three empires broke their teeth there, the British, the Ottoman, and the Russian. Just what is it that leads our politcal leaders to think they are any different. Get out. Get out now!

A Viet Nam grunt’s point of view---plus 40 some years. Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan. The grunts still go out and die for no good reason other than corporate greed. In 'Nam it was Dupont, General Dynamics, Dow....now it is KBR, Haliburton, Blackwater. When are we going to stop filling their pockets????

Be careful whose toes you step on today because they might be connected to the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow"

We crush the caterpillars then complain there are no butterflies

"Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead."

"I don't want to achieve immortality thru my work. I want to achieve immortality thru not dying"

Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one?? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?

Even if the voices are not real, they have some good ideas.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

We're having creative differences. I'm creative, you're different

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Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world, 'No, you move.'"

You can use your current position in life, no matter how negative it may seem, as inspiration to push you forward, or you can use it as an excuse to stand still and do nothing. The choice is yours.

Overheard in Viet Nam also probably in Iraq

Quotes that make you nervous

"I have an idea"

"What could happen?"

"It'll be easy!" "I think-- we're in trouble."

"What do you mean 'Is this the right place!?' They're shooting at us... this must be the right place."

Things to think on.

The key skill is the ability to get what you want. This usually involves staying in control and reasoning, but not always. You can go rather far with control and reason, but there are times when intimidation can be more efficient and yield better results. The most important trait is knowing which tactics to use, and when its time to try something new

No matter how big and bad you may be, no matter how powerful your weapon is, how well honed your skills are... There's always something bigger and/or badder then you are.

There are a lot of people who've forgotten this fact, and lived to regret it.. even more who didn't.

Think about it.

1. They aren't telling you everything.

2. They're lying.

3. They're going to sell you out.

We all know not to pick fights with things that are bigger than we are, that goes without saying.

What I'm telling you is– you can't tell who's bigger than you are until they thoroughly trounce you.

Five letters to always keep in mind when doing business with anybody in the world - SETUP.

It usually is, and you're usually the one being setup

That which does not kill us

•May make us wish it had •May not have been really trying •May have just been softening us up •May have friends that will •May try again. •May not be the biggest problem. •May just be scoping us out. •May have killed us and we just don't know it yet... •May not have noticed •May not have been trying to kill us

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You know why I stopped eating processed foods? I began to picture the people who might be processing them.

Someone said to me, "Make yourself a sandwich." Well, if I could make myself a sandwich, I wouldn't make myself a sandwich. I'd make myself a horny 18-year-old billionaire.

Regarding smoking in public: Suppose you were eating in a restaurant, and every two minutes the guy at the next table threw some anthrax germs in the air. Wouldn't you want to sit in a different section?

The idea of a walk-in closet sounds frightening. If I'm ever sittin' at home and a closet walks in, I'm gettin' outta there.

The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out.

"The friendly skies." "The skies are not cloudy." How is this possible? I look up, I see one sky.

I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore.

Whenever I hear about a "peace-keeping force", I wonder, if they're so interested in peace, why do they use force?

No one can ever know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't these people communicate?

We are conditioned to notice and emphasize the differences among ourselves, instead of the similarities. The corporate-style partitioning begins early in life: fetus, newborn, infant, toddler, preschool, lower school, middle school, junior high, senior high, pre-teen, teen. Get in your box and stay there!

I think tobacco and alcohol warnings are too general. They should be more to the point: "People who smoke will eventually cough up small brown pieces of lung." And "Warning! Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was."

Sometimes, when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.

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The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper pictures of the garbage.

The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.

I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around, the more I think it might not be a bad idea.

The idea is that if kids wear uniforms to school, it helps to keep order. Hey! Don't these schools do enough damage makin' all these children THINK alike? Now they're gonna get 'em to LOOK alike, too? And it's not even a new idea; I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s, but it was hard to understand, because the narration was in German.

I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate.

Suggested bumper sticker: We are the Proud Parents of a Child Whose Self-Esteem is Sufficient that He Doesnt Need Us Advertising His Minor Scholastic Achievements on the Bumper of Our Car.

We busy ourselves with meaningless gestures such as Take Our Daughters to Work Day, which applies primarily to white, middle-class daughters. More help for the wrong people.

If a man is smiling all the time he's probably selling something that doesn't work.

If lobsters looked like puppies, people could never drop them in boiling water while they're still alive. But instead, they look like science fiction monsters, so it's OK. Restaurants that allow patrons to select live lobsters from a tank should be made to paint names on their shells: "Happy," "Baby Doll," "Junior." I defy anyone to drop a living thing called "Happy" in rapidly boiling water.

Why do foreign soldiers march funny? Do they think we march funny? If we do, how would we know?

Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big.

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, next time take your next trip in kilometers.

Most people are not particularly good at anything.

Why do we turn lights "out" when we turn most other things "off"?

John Bolton was the guest on The Daily Show awhile back and in the course of the interview Bolton says that the President is obligated to represent the views of the people who voted for him. WOW, the President is only supposed to represent the views of half of the country.

Our president represents the views of the people who voted for him; does that make Syria a democracy? There will be a time when some form of responsive and responsible government is going to make it to our part of the world; when that happens, I hope its of the kind where the president represents all the people in the country and not just the people who voted for him.

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