Monday, July 15, 2013

Too good not to borrow:

From comments: Wow, advice on how to carry and use a gun from someone who doesn't. I'll get right on that.
From Michael Z. Williamson on the book of face.
And that would also be 'from someone who doesn't want anyone to.'


This week’s disclosure does reveal that there was, in fact, a dedicated “Tea Party Coordinator” at the IRS, a position that had no analogue on the left.
What’s more, nothing the Democrats have brought forward explain why:
(1) Only 30 percent of groups with the word “progressive” received extra scrutiny — but 100 percent of groups with “tea party,” “patriot” or “9/12” in their name were subjected to invasive questioning.
And on and on.  All distracted from by the Zimmerman trial and anything else Obama & Co. can use to distract from this.


And the vultures make their presence known:
Mayor Bloomberg yesterday used the national fury over the verdict in the Trayvon Martin shooting to push his anti-gun agenda.
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Obama, meanwhile, declared that honoring Trayvon Martin means pushing his failed gun agenda. Never let a “crisis” go to waste.
Be it noted that the irony of Bloomberg whining about 'laws drafted by someone in another place' is almost choking.  So is that whoremonger Spitzer whining about 'failure of justice'.


How bad was the conduct of the special prosecutor?
MIKE HUCKABEE: You have said that you thought the prosecutor ought to be disbarred, that's a pretty serious type of violation to get a person disbarred. It is that serious to you?

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Right, it is. She submitted an affidavit that was, if not perjurious, completely misleading. She violated all kinds of rules of the profession, and her conduct bordered on criminal conduct. She, by the way, has a horrible reputation in Florida. She's known for overcharging, she's known for being highly political. And in this case, of course she overcharged. Halfway through the trial she realized she wasn't going to get a second degree murder verdict, so she asked for a compromised verdict, for manslaughter. And then, she went even further and said that she was going to charge him with child abuse and felony murder. That was such a stretch that it goes beyond anything professionally responsible. She was among the most irresponsible prosecutors I've seen in 50 years of litigating cases, and believe me, I've seen good prosecutors, bad prosecutors, but rarely have I seen one as bad as this prosecutor, [Angela] Cory
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From Steyn:
English law is its distribution of power between prosecutor, judge, and jury. This delicate balance has been utterly corrupted in the United States to the point where today at the federal level there is a conviction rate of over 90 percent — which would impress Mubarak and the House of Saud, if not quite, yet, Kim Jong Un. American prosecutors have an unhealthy and disreputable addiction to what I called, at the conclusion of the trial of my old boss Conrad Black six years ago, “countless counts.”


Obamacare isn't the only thing being rolled back.



2 comments:

Marja said...

On a tangent, one thing that did come to mind of this Zimmerman Martin case is the question of concealed carry vs open carry.

So, probably Zimmerman's story that Martin jumped him is true. How much was Martin's behavior influenced by the fact that Zimmerman was shorter than him and overweight (which tends to mean out of shape, and most people seem to assume always does)? A cocky teen, possibly proud of his fighting prowess gets pissed at a guy who may seem like a soft target to him - would he have done it if he knew Zimmerman was carrying?

Well, on the other hand, a cocky teen at that age when kids often have the bad habit of thinking themselves immortal, and possibly one who has aspirations towards being a real thug, and wanted a gun for himself, so maybe he would have done it anyway, only had gone for the gun from the beginning, so who knows.

Windy Wilson said...

"advice on how to carry and use a gun from someone who doesn't" and doesn't want anyone else to.

This was the argument feminists used in the 70's for why they didn't want to go to a male gynecologist. "It's like going to an auto mechanic who doesn't drive."