Having computer trouble this morning. The innertubez dog has eaten my homework.

So now I'm pissed.

The George Zimmerman trial began this week, jury selection and whatnot underway. Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed 17 year old Trayvon Martin last year in Florida. The tragic event aggravated all the usual national divisive emotions of the American people surrounding guns (stand your ground) and race. Corporate media, as expected, helped to stoke those divisions.

Hopefully the precise truth about what happened the night Trayvon Martin was walking home from a convenience store, stalked by Zimmerman, and eventually shot and killed by the "community watchman".....will come out in the trial.

Recently, I blogged about the Ohio GOP's spring offensive in their war on women throughout the state. As part of the GOP's two year budget plan, Ohio Republicans proposed defunding Planned Parenthood, redirecting funding to right wing "crisis pregnancy centers", and eliminating abortion clinics in Ohio through a Catch 22 provision in emergency transfer agreements with hospitals. Review it all here.

But remember....this is a war on women's autonomy in the state of Ohio....and war means war, not some half-hearted peckering along the margins. So, Ohio Republicans couldn't let it go at just defunding PP and closing abortion clinics in the state through legalese.

Yearly U.S. deaths from firearms has held steady for the last 30+ years at 30,000 gun-deaths per year. Total yearly suicides in the U.S. comes in around 38,000, 19,000 of those from firearms. Yearly traffic fatalities in the U.S., as of 2010, totaled approximately 32,000.

Total deaths in the U.S. from terrorist related activities? 3400 total since 1970. Let me repeat that. Terrorist related deaths in the United States......combined every year since 1970....add up to 3400 total deaths from terrorist related activity. 3400 total deaths inside the U.S. attributed to "terrorism" in the last 40+ years.