Category Archives: Obsessions

Exonerating Zimmerman

“Seattle radio host John Carlson–who… initially thought Zimmerman guilty–notes:

One of the most important, and remarkably under-publicized facts that came out at trial is that one of the detectives, while interrogating Zimmerman at the police station that night, told him that the entire incident had been caught on surveillance video. The detective was bluffing, but Zimmerman didn’t know that. His reaction: ‘Thank God.’

‘Thank God.’ How many people who do something wrong, lie about it and are told it’s on tape react that way?”

Remarkably under-publicized? Oh, come on. It hardly fits the Narrative pushed by our feckless president and his race baiter pals. It’s way too telling.

Via Best of the Web Today.

UPDATE:  Rare reader Darkwater sends this link to PJMedia journalist Bill Whittle’s excellant, fully-sourced takedown of the lies told about Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman by, variously, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the President of the United States and the U.S. Attorney General. They should hang their heads in shame, if they have any shame, which I doubt.

I still love my Kindle 2

But like Scott at the Fat Guy, I probably will get a Kindle Paperwhite when the 2 finally bites the dust. Richard Fernandez, as usual with him, has a nice little essay on why he loves his Paperwhite, with only this little proviso:

“The biggest benefit of the readers, I’ve found, is that you can shift between volumes. When the classics get too heavy you can always switch to something more tradesman-like. But perhaps that is properly considered, a disadvantage. The one thing the old timers had on us is they had so little in the way of portable information they were forced to discover drama in nature or find it in their own thoughts. They preferred poetry because verse is compressed; full of suggestion, not exposition.”

I would only add that I have bought more books with the 2 than I ever did in paper. I love the ease of buying, even from on my back in bed, and the dictionary for checking the meanings of words. The Kindle is even searchable! Zounds.

Via The Fat Guy

Good news from academia

Yes, good news! They’re not all conformists, toeing the Marxist race, class and gender line and teaching political partisanship and uniformity.

“…academics from the start helped to drive the polarizing racial narrative that became inseparable from the Trayvon Martin case. And in the aftermath of the not-guilty verdict, academics have continued the effort to poison public opinion.”

The National Association of Scholars is a different breed in a stupendously-conformist culture that has finally led intelligent parents to question the value of going into hock for their offspring to get a college degree.

Via Instapundit.

That Royal baby

Fox News, which I check at least once every day as the most reliable and objective of the traditional news gatherers, lured me in the other day to paying attention to Prince William and Princess Kate and their baby boy.

I already admired dad for being a helicopter pilot in the Royal Navy. The late Princess Diana’s eldest certainly didn’t have to venture into that particular danger. Nor did his younger brother, Harry, have to fight in Afghanistan. I also liked Bill’s self-deprecating remark that his new son (bald as babies usually are) has more hair than he does.

Katie seems nice enough. Although a commoner (like the rest of us) whose ancestors actually include coal miners and laborers, her beauty, ever-present smile and flamboyant hats help her fit right in with the other swells.

Why do we (and me) care about these folks? I’m not sure. America wouldn’t exist if our predecessors had not been anti-monarchists who kicked out the old royal’s troops, including their German mercenaries.

Nevertheless, says Spengler: “…the [endurance of the British monarchs reflects] a longing for something more permanent, more reverential in the character of the state.” Lord knows I’d rather look at William and Catherine than our ever-mendacious president and his sour-faced wife. But Bill’s father, Charlie, is a bit of a dork.

Spengler says it all goes back to ancient Israel, the combination of monarchy and religion, that is. The Brit monarchy, you see, upholds the Church of England even as its parishioners dwindle in an increasingly secular country.

But Bill and Katie are just plain refreshing. They seem more wholesome than some of the usual dweebs who clamor for attention. Even if their royalty is dated (going on a thousand years) and, just like our latest occupants of the White House, they get their goods by sponging off the taxpayers.

They probably don’t smile near as much in private. I expect Katie does not cook and I’m sure she doesn’t clean. But Bill, who is after all a military pilot currently stationed in Wales, might use the refrigerator now and then without waiting for a servant to misunderstand and bring him something he doesn’t want.

Rule 5: Miniskirts

This was NYC in the summer of 1969 while I was, uh, regrettably preoccupied in Viet Nam. Now I see what I was missing. Very daring, this one.

Via Instapundit.

If Trayvon Were my Child I would be Happy He was Dead

The headline is Bernie’s but the sentiment, covert as I’m sure it is, must resonate with millions.

“I certainly would have personally thanked George Zimmerman for saving me and my wife decades of personal anguish and pain this evil child would have inflicted on us…My no-good son Trayvon dead? Thank you, Lord!”

Afterall, who wants a thug for a son? Not even Wormtongue I’d bet.

As for the much to-do about not very much, as Instapundit says: “This was never about Zimmerman or Martin. It was about firing up Obama’s black vote, and keeping his guilty-white-liberal supporters from abandoning him over his many broken campaign promises…Our political class has no sense of responsibility or shame.”

UPDATE:  Speaking out the right side of his mouth, Wormtongue said publicly that we are nation of laws and the jury has spoken. Then, out the left side (his usual side), he whispered to his disgraced attorney general to have the feds get Zimmerman on a civil rights conviction. The show trial must go on until the polls close in 2014.

Snooze media’s wishful thinking

Every once in a while, the snooze media reveals its behind-the-scenes intentions, such as this gem from WAVY-TV 10’s website:

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – It seems much of the country is gripped by the George Zimmerman murder trial.”

You wish. The truth is that “much of the snooze media” is gripped by the trial. An increasingly large “much of the country” is finding better things to do than watch rube tube snooze or read the snoozepapers.

As for Zimmerman, we’ve known from day one that he, like the Duke LaCrosse Team, was going to be lynched. Especially after Wormtongue stuck his racist nose into it.

Via Weasel Zippers.

UPDATE: GZ is acquitted. So he doesn’t go to prison, he’s just in debt for the rest of his life to his lawyers. Lynched, for sure. And now Wormtongue and Jackson and Sharpton will lead the post-lynching mobbing, along with their cronies in the snooze media. Racists every one.

MORE:  PJMedia’s Roger L. Simon says it was the first “American Stalinist show trial” and the big loser was Wormtongue who had already disgraced himself and his presidency by inserting himself in the case. Fortunately the all-women jury had enough guts not to cave to his political pressure.

AND: It didn’t take Wormtongue long to stick his nose back into the case. But I do like this part: “But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.” Late, but good.