William Putnam III, the sole trustee of Flagstaff, Arizona’s famed Lowell Observatory, wants to name an asteroid after Trayvon Martin:
“As I see it, the social fairness showed to Trayvon Martin was very sadly lacking,” said the retired broadcast executive, alpinist, author and Flagstaff resident. “Inasmuch as I am the sole trustee of an institution which has some naming privileges, I want to do my share to see that this lad is remembered in an appropriate manner.”
Wouldn’t a shooting star be more appropriate…oh wait…
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Next he’ll want Che Days…
brain frickin dead.
Would bring new meaning to three phrase, “not waiting for the asteroid”.
After reading stuff like this, it really makes you feel like it’s about 375 AD and the fall of Rome is imminent. Anyone agree?
The stupidity seems endless. I would suggest naming the next street drug after Trayvon. At least his admirers would be in the same intellectual group and the name would get used more than once a year.
How about ‘Just Desserts’, or ‘Dead Wannabe Thug’, or ‘Expired Aspiring Gangsta’?
I look forward to the day all those who have been brainwashed into feeling white guilt will be dead.
You are bang on target Baby Seal Clubber…
it is almost ‘over’….what we see now is just the bowl being circled in my view.
Maybe they should name a few more stars, asteroids or constellations after dead things. Freedom. Liberty. Privacy. Free Speech and the Freedom of Religion.
Trayvon was a failure as a murderer, but damn he makes such a good victim. Celebrate a black man who stalked a white man for four minutes before he tried to kill? Everything was going fine until karma intervened. Another dead gangsta – Potter’s Fields everywhere are bursting to the brim with these guys.
Maybe they should name a few more stars, asteroids or constellations after dead things. “Freedom” “Liberty”, “Privacy”, “Free Speech” , “Freedom of Religion” and “Voter Identification”.
And how, pray, did Trayvon Martin merit this? By being a thug who got shot?
We have set the benchmark for success and admiration in the post-Modern West so low that an earthworm looks higher by comparison.
Let me out of here! I’m trapped inside a Monty Python skit.
If he can find one, an asteroid that is on course to obliterate itself on a much larger object would be appropriate.
The stupid! It burns!
Oh my goodness there’s so much good material to be mined from an Asteroid named Trayvon.
I think this is a great legacy piay – An asteroid, like Trayvon had been disaffected from its parent body, drifts aimlessly taking on the character of the stray debris it comes in contact with, is always potentially dangerous and ultimately will destroy itself and the more stable object it impacts with – perfect memorial for the welfare state underclass.
Are all these seemingly intelligent people just having brain farts or do they really believe all the sh-t they’re spewing? Cal is bang on. This really does feel like a Monty Python skit.
“I want to do my share to see that this lad is remembered in an appropriate manner.”
Then why not name it “Three time loser”?
I seeing nothing wrong with naming a hemorrhoid after Trayvon.
I am sure this jackass could start by naming the lads & lasses who didn’t make it back from the battlefield since 9-11. But what a neo-con thing to say…..
Checking his bio, the man comes from a well to do Massachusetts family, and is a descendent of the well respected Roger Putnam. It appears he is 87 years old. So I guess Dementia is not just for the poor or ill bred anymore.
the social fairness showed to Trayvon Martin was very sadly lacking,
I agree. You shouldn’t be killed for assaulting someone. A prison sentence would have been more appropriate. Everyone wishes it had turned out different.
But on the list of instances of “social unfairness”, this one is rather far down the page.
Flagstaff has become a loony-bin. it went from a scenic, all-American town to a Marxist’s Potemkin village in less than thirty years.
Every ding-bat idea ever circulated through a federal office finds a receptive horde there, be it in the town’s wacky university or in the miscellaneous federal offices or in the neighboring Bureau of Indian Affairs wards (but I repeat myself) that surround the town’s county.
You cannot win a local election, nor get a grant, nor get a date (at times) in this quaint western mountain town unless you’re willing to parrot the idiotic talking points emanating out of DC.
Global Warming! Justice for Trayvon! Occupy! Bush Lied! America is a patriarchal hegemon in stretchy pants!
These are just some of the slogans you’ll need to practic if you want to go anywhere in Flagstaff these days. And the town’s county has followed this mantra off the cliff: show me a ruff-n-tuff rancher who wears a big white hat in Coconino County and I’ll show you an Obama voter. They wear the hats for show, just like Colorado’s Hickenlooper does.
I’m sorry, but the town’s toast, and I couldn’t get out of its oppressive sanitoriums soon enough!
“You shouldn’t be killed for assaulting someone.”
Yes, you should be if you make the person you are assaulting believe their life is in danger.
You know, what the law and common freaking sense on self defense dictates.
Trayvon Martin had a choice, several, in fact. He picked the wrong one.
The Marti_n Chronicles…
Oh my god! I have lived my life as a privileged one percent-er and my end is near. I hope my sin of being white in a land of easy living will be forgiven if I continue to give Al Sharpton a beacon to use in it’s “y’all are guilty” scamming of chicken-heart Corporate PR people.
Please let me ride the liberal limousine through eternity, I will deserve it if Sweet Al only acknowledges my gift. Bless me; Bless me; for I am a LOWELL!!!
Cheers;
Yep, the stupid is strong in this one……
Not so fast everyone. An asteroid is close, meteorite is better. Think about it, meteorites come from the asteroid belt. Meteorites that enter the earth’s atmosphere light up briefly before burning out. They are commonly called “Falling Stars”. Those who aspire to be like Trayvon are sure to be “Falling Stars” also.
Come to think of it GZ should have a meteorite named after him also (some call them falling stars and some call them “Shooting Stars”) It was a battle of Meteorites! Gotta be a country music artist that write a song about it.
Ref:http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/meteoroids.html
“Not so fast everyone. An asteroid is close, meteorite is better.”
A hemorrhoid would be even better.
Asteroid names are decided by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Although anything is possible from a committee, I would imagine that some of the living people with asteroids named after them would be highly offended if they were joined by a thug (I doubt that `t Hooft would be amused, for instance).
There are bazillions of asteroids out there. Every little lump of rock in the universe is an ‘asteroid’.
I am not bothered in the slightest that some little rock millions of miles away from me has is named after anyone in particular. The rock doesn’t even have a label; you’d have to look in some strange memory bank — on Earth of all places — to find this out.
Besides which, we name large, bright (& much more significant) stars after Beetle Juice. How’s that for a great name. 🙂
It’s all “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
How about naming a cancer after Martin, seeing as he is synonymas of the social cancer within American society.
Yes, and Nero II holds the fasces.
Those suggesting naming a hemorrhoid after him are right.
You should be “killed” for attempting to murder someone; which is exactly what Trayvon did; which he verified with his own words. “you gonna die tonight” – Trayvon Martin
If we are to believe Trayvon wasn’t scoping yards for some free stuff; then should we not also believe his self-professed racist and juvenile motives for attempting to murder a “creepy a$$ cracker”?
Trayvon Martin is exactly where he should be: pushing-up daisies. The world is a better and safer place without him.
Trayvon Martin’s greatest gift to humanity will be the dire warning to all those who wish to follow in his footsteps. – Indiana Homez
Well then, might I suggest “No Limit Nigga”
How true Cal, but at least with Monty Python we knew it would end…soon.
I hope that Asteroid craters South Side Chicago
cough cough Trayvon Martin Cough Syrup cough cough
now in new Watermelon flavor w Xtra DM
Social fairness? is another name for railroaded.. Retired broadcast executive is the exact name of the MSM.. So this rich old left wing liberal wants to continue to project his politics on this non story..
A little musical advice for our shut in friend.. Don’t rock the boat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dndAXxqJbc0
Didn’t anyone else catch it on Rush or CNN? Travon was putting a beating on Zimmerman because he thought he was gay. The interview was on Piers Morgan, but the key bits probably didn’t make the Canadian news.
So is it now OK for minorities to beat up on suspected gays? I wonder why this didn’t get covered more?
sorry, so busy previewing the link that I forgot my parting shot. If you want to make a leftards head explode, ask them if homophobia should be celebrated as part of cultural diversity. Oh, and in case of paywalls
N’yuk n’yuk n’yuk – this would be sad if it wasn’t so funny.
wait maybe it is sad. maybe things are upside down and it isn’t funny.
how did we get here? since when do we celebrate misguided thugs like tm (may he rest in peace.)?
Metastatic syncopal trayvonoma. Hmm…
An asteroid is simply not good enough. I think Trayvon should have a star named after him. I’m taking up a collection for it. Send me some money and I’ll get’er done. You can trust me.
http://www.starregistry.com
On a more serious note, Mr. Putnam the 3rd is quite elderly and dementia in the elderly should not be mocked (at least not in public). If you do, you might be a geriatricaphobe.
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“Osumashi Kinyobe says… We have set the benchmark for success
and admiration in the post-Modern West so low…”
ooh, ooh, i know this one… “so low that the glamour-boy son of a
millionaire socialist (with a stellar career as a part-time camp
counsellor) has an actual shot at becoming prime minister of
canada.”
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John Lewis is correct, this trustee at Lowell Observatory has no more influence on asteroid names than any other individual IAU member.
However, there are so many asteroids that if we were to name them after every single person who ever lived, we’d run out of names before we run out of asteroids.
And the asteroid 1986DA, only 2.3 km across, contains around 10 thousand tons of gold and 100 thousand tons of platinum.
but does it have enough dross to capture the essence of Trayvon?
I suspect the nutty professor likes to imagine Trayvon circling Uranus over and over again.
This is what happened when America let the hippy’s take over, Chinese historians will be amused yet horrified.