George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, has been suspended from Twitter.

Twitter took down Zimmerman's account, @TherealGeorgeZ, on Thursday after multiple sources report he posted topless photos of a woman he said was his ex-girlfriend, and shared what he claimed were her email address and phone number.

"She cheated on me with a dirty Muslim," Zimmerman wrote in one tweet. "She'll sleep with anyone."

Supposedly they have dropped 20,000 bombs on ISIS.

This leads to a bit of a question  . . .

ISIS supposedly has about 30,000 active fighters, but maybe it is only 15K or 20K.  

Supposedly . . . maybe . . . we have just dropped bombs on nearly empty buildings?  I mean, if each bomb were to kill at least 5 people, then, that would mean having killed 100,000 people, either fighters or civilians . . .

If I were a reporter at the next wh press conference, my question is going to be where have all the 20,000 and some bombs gone, if they did not kill 100,000 ISIS fighters?

Do they even have as many as 10,000 buildings?

In a seven-page confidential memo that imagines Trump as the party's presidential nominee, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee urges candidates to adopt many of Trump's tactics, issues and approaches -- right down to adjusting the way they dress and how they use Twitter.

Authorities detonated the suitcase as a precaution, but determined it did not contain explosives."

"Evans said suspicions were heightened after surveillance video showed a man deliberately placing the suitcase near the Coast Guard office building on Atlantic Avenue in Boston and then "scurrying" away."

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As a skeptical and at times doubting Christian or whatever I am, I have also heroes among those persons in some of these times . . . or at least persons that I might admire and thank and congratulate on their conduct and/or actions and/or faith and/or wisdom.

So, speaking of some persons in Germany or Europe in WWII times, which of the following persons or groups would you have admired and considered a hero or wise, including of course, if you wish, given what we know now?

Sophie Scholl, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Schindler, Chiune Sugihara, von Stauffenberg, Rommel, Franz Hasel, Maria Ziefle, members of the French resistance?  

Are there any of them whose lives you regard as commendable and praiseworthy enough that you might have imitated them or you hope you would . . .?

 If we had been alive in the Germany or Europe at the time, would any of us had chosen to be one of them or like some of them?

Or, would it have been best--at least usually--to have been someone who did not very much in the way of outward and known opposition, so as to live and prosper after the war . . . like the giant middle of the Germans, some of them did not even know of the Jews being gassed?

Same questions for those of the 1955 or so to 1968 or so, civil rights era . . .

Rosa Parks, civil rights protestors in general, MLK, the freedom riders who were AA, the freedom riders who were white, white American clergy who were shot and killed for their part in the protests, blacks who had weapons and stood in defense of protestors being hosed by police, Joan Trumpauer Mullholland?

Are any of them or all them praiseworthy, commendable and worthy of imitation?  If we had been alive in the US at the time, would any of us had chosen to be one of them or like some of them?

Or, is it best to live and not make waves and to fit in comfortably outwardly with society?  I am not saying either choice is particularly bad or good, other than being Nazi or KKK or a murderer is bad.

A senior U.S. law enforcement official said Farook was in contact with person of interests with possible ties to terrorism. Some of the contacts were made through social media.

"These were not substantial contacts," the official said. "Those contacts would not have put him on our radar -- you're allowed to like someone's Facebook page."

Key blurb:

"    How did Claudius become emperor of Rome? After the assassination of Caligula, the Praetorian Guard anointed Claudius emperor. "Why," asked Claudius? "Because," said the head of the Guard," without an emperor, there is no need for the Praetorian Guard.

Now, stay with me here.

First, and, pretty obviously, we could get the Primary dates and schedules changed. What if, just as an example, the first "R" Primaries were held in, let's say, Oregon, and, Massachusetts, instead of today's Iowa & New Hampshire? Would The Donald win Massachusetts?

Second, another cancer on our system is the criminally corrupt practice of redistricting. That alone has polluted politics for too long now, and, has been a major contributor to the dysfunction of our government.

O.K. Two easy ones to start. Not bad so far, eh?

Third, how far can we take this thing if we really do wrest control from the "R's" even for a little while? I know what I'd do. I'd say, "let's tackle the Constitution." Probably won't have a better chance than right after a blowout. In other words, let's do what Obama had an opportunity to do when we first sent him to the White House. "Big Mo" don't come around all that often. So, here's another pet peeve of mine. How nuts is it that California, with over 38 million people has the same representation in the Senate as Wyoming, with its, barely half million?

We're on a roll!

The Constitution has more need of fixen. If we're going to ask people in all 50 States to vote on these amendments let's give'm a list of them. You know the 2'nd. is in need of an "attitudinal" adjustment, too, I think. I'll stop at here at, 2. (I figure I'm smarter than, at least 2 posters here) 3? I'm stretching it. You all have a whole bunch more, I'm sure.

Next (for now) This one will require the Democrats doing the right thing.

I know! I know! I said it's a "daydream."

You ready? Hillary will have to step aside, and we all get behind Bernie. Think about it, Hillary was fine, mainly because of the unthinkable alternative over "there." But, income/wealth inequality, Education system sucks, upward mobility, gone, social programs heading towards extinction, and so on. Who you gonna call? "Ball Buster!" that's who. Yeah, Bernie. We can find something else really good for Hil.

Daydreaming's fun, and, even funner when you think how it's not completely crazy, it is possible.

Obama sold us a fraud, Trump's selling the end times. Don't tell me there's no one out there who couldn't sell something as simple, and, beautiful like.......peace & prosperity.

Yeah. Right.

Everything's cool.

Terrized?

The Center for Medical Progress, in what seems like an act of desperation, is begging the Supreme Court to overrule the Ninth Circuit Court and grant an emergency stay of discovery to prevent the National Abortion Federation from learning the names of their co-conspirators.

Here's their filing:

Logic demands that there be a link between the stated purpose and the command. The Second Amendment would be nonsensical if it read, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to petition for redress of grievances shall not be
infringed."  . .

But apart from that clarifying function, a prefatory clause does not limit or
expand the scope of the operative clause.

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Here is the apparent problem or the apparent area of dispute . . .

Leftovers!  Leftovers!!

"There is a divine hierarchy in marriage," Ray explained, reading from the book of Ephesians. "Wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church."

And then he added a message from the book of Timothy: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence."

Got that ladies? Sit down and shut up, or the mens is gonna feel intimidated and Gawd is gonna smite us all.

According to Ray, the push for transgender rights in Houston was a symptom of women failing to submit to men

Heh.

Ray argued that "the word of God does not teach patriarchalism per se," but he said that it also did not "teach egalitarianism" and "mutual submission" between men and women.

"There is, whether you like it or not, a divine hierarchy in marriage," he added. "Wives must submit to their husbands, that will bring harmony."

With no government action, Exxon experts told us during a visit to The Post last week, average temperatures are likely to rise by a catastrophic (my word, not theirs) 5 degrees Celsius, with rises of 6, 7 or even more quite possible.