This case should be dismissed prior to trial, let alone prior to being handed to a jury.

That being said, both Zimmerman and the state have an interest in an aquittal by a multiracial jury.

Don't worry. After the Reconquista, all those labs and military labs and bases will be abolished and there will be no EPA.

I'm not a criminal lawyer but I know someone who plays one on TV.

My guess is that the order will be initially granted, but will almost all be let in at least for rebuttal purposes.

The burden is on the prosecution, so they will have to call witnesses. Imagine what any likely prosecution witness would say. Much of the excluded material would be appropriate to rebut.

Similarly, imagine that Zimmerman testifies and the prosecution attacks his credibility. Much of the excluded material would be appropriate surrebuttal. 

13/13

From that bell curve, we can see where Obama got his votes.

Really, these were still transitional ships. Only later ships were all-big-gun. Note the sponsons for a secondary armament. Dreadnought, Texas, and their generation merely shifted the balance slightly more in favor of turreted big guns over sponsoned guns.

Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave over the latter statement.

Grain of salt time. The Israeli English-language media is even less competent than the American at accurately identifying military equipment. They often erroneously refer to many smaller missiles as Scuds.

The Gulf states are still the low cost producer. We can only hope to moderately reduce their profits. Thus they will always be relevant.

That being said we should still drill because we need to.

Kids will quickly think of :

    Dropping in your math teacher's coffee to see his moobs grow.

     Accelerating a girl's puberty.

Then they'll think of a few more uses we geezers can't imagine.

Hopefully to seek medical attention.

Of course, if you want to play semantic games, the second law of thermodynamics implies that nothing is renewable.

We just have to look for something that can perpetuate at a sufficent level for a suficient time.

Solar is not really renewable if the output of a solar cell over its lifetime is not more energy than was required in its production and maintenance. Until it reaches that level, it is not a perpetuating technology.

Perhaps we should start referring to "the Potemkin Media".

Apparently thanks to this thread, for me, Google is now displaying an ad for Playtex baby bottles.

Problem is, they'll do it in a way where they encourage the mother to keep the money and spend it on drugs. What could go wrong?

They are actually fairly elite. But as in your second point, that eliteness is configured to attack Israel with hit and run attacks (or even one-way suicide attacks) on high value targets. They have problems in a low level slog with militia because they lack things like air support, air mobility, logistics... Same thing would happen if you sent in Seals and removed their support.

I agree with your last observation about apathy being a large factor, but disagree about much of the rest. Obama has raised targeting/narrowcasting to an art. A liberal likely will not be exposed to the narrowcasted message directed at the conservatives or the message will be given in a way to not offend the liberal. Even a broad campaign in a rural area to call Romney a gun grabber is not likely to cause anyone to vote for Romney. The key factor there is a lack of media challenge/factchecking.

Dems get to give inconsistent messges to different voters and the media does not call them on it. Meanwhile the media will go out of their way to find inconsistencies in what Republicans say.

Lebanon has not had a census in your lifetime.

For years, I had been told that the big reasons are:

1) The Christians do not want to see how far their population has fallen relative to Muslims;

2) The Sunnis do not want to see how far they have fallen relative to the Shia; and

3) The Shia do not want to see how dominant they are for fear that they would have to then take responsibility for things.

"Palestinians" were/are denied citizenship in Jordan. They're not going to get or take it in Lebanon.

The PLO would not allow it. Heck, they still have refugee camps in territory they control.

As for Hezbollah falling, that's unlikely. Has Castro fallen?

A Brotherhood Syria potentially puts pressure on hezbollah. However, we should treat this as the  Jihadi's Super Tuesday primary. As Morsi's reopening of relations with Iran shows, they know they're ultimately goinging to be on the same side in the general.

if a Brotherhood Syria were to attack Hezbollah, Iran and Iraq attack Syria. turkey and the Gulf states then get involved. Not going to happen.

the more likely outcome is that they both attack israel and vie for whom gets credit in the greater Islamic world.