Monthly Archives: July 2011

Why Obamalot can win again

“….no modern president has won re-election when unemployment was at 8 percent or higher. Most economists predict joblessness will still be above that number on Election Day 2012.

“Obama still may win….by winning group politics. He ‘polls at 95 percent of the black vote and above 60 percent for Hispanics,’…[a] Washington strategist says, adding that if he continues to draw white female voters… ‘value voters’ may matter less.”

A lot less. Women and minorities are the key, dude. Women and minorities who are tired of white male presidents. Except, uh, white women seem to be catching on. Might be they won’t be playing the race game next time.

Betty Brosmer: Rule 5

Some oldies are still golden, such as Ms. Brosmer. Via Five Feet of Fury.

UPDATE: She married Joe Weider, the bodybuilding king, and together they developed a Texas connection. Her own site is here.

You can’t convict on circumstantial evidence

Not easily, anyhow. It raises reasonable doubt in a juror’s mind, which usually leads to acquittal. And so, as Bernie (who paid some attention to the trial while I paid none) neatly predicted a few days before the jury acquitted her, Casey Anthony walked. Well, by August, probably.

The news and entertainment media will now proceed to destroy her, one headline at a time, probably for the rest of her life. But comparing her to O.J. Simpson, as some talking-head nincompoops have, is just stupid. The cops had him cold, but they screwed up their evidence, also creating reasonable doubt.

The doubt was there from the get-go with Casey because the inept cops and the abusive prosecutor never had anything except innuendo and name-calling. And for that they kept her in jail for three years. Suspicion ain’t supposed to be enough, folks, and (whether she’s guilty or not) it’s a good thing, too, or the mob would rule us all.

Little African-American cocktail dress

A fellow recovering journalist has reminded me of a spell checker problem that once afflicted a newspaper we worked at. Some multicultural zealot among the editing caste had programmed the computer system’s spell checker to change every use of the word “black” to the more politically-correct “African American.”

Which, naturally enough, immediately resulted in a screwup. The phrase “little black cocktail dress” in a fashion article was changed to “little African-American cocktail dress.” Fortunately, it was caught and fixed before it got into print. Still makes me chuckle.

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Robber baron

Ship of Tools

“A number of the organizing groups [for the latest Gaza Flotilla] are fronts for Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood, raising money and political support for these organizations and often controlled by them. In other words, revolutionary Islamists are using Western pacifists and leftists to achieve their own ends.”

Read it all.

Meanwhile, even an NYTimes’ reporter admits Gaza is doing very well, thank you. Just not very free if, for instance, you’re a woman who wants to drive a motorcycle. Hamas forbids it.

His brain is twisted

Dumbocrat Dennis Kucinich now claims his words were twisted and he didn’t really praise President Assad when he recently visited Syria. So what was Dennis-the-Menace doing in the land of Assad-the-mass-murderer?

It’s been generally forgotten that Texas troubadour Willie Nelson actually endorsed Kucinich back when DTM was running for president against Obamalot in 2008. Nelson probably hopes it stays forgotten.