The latest analysis of the programmatic disaster to come. With bonus Orion problems.
This is simply insane.
Category Archives: Media Criticism
Zimmerman’s Lawyers
…may seek compensation from the prosecutors.
Go for it. Unfortunately, even if they win, it will be the taxpayers who pay, due to sovereign immunity. They should really seek to have them all disbarred. That’s the only thing that will stop this kind of nonsense.
Justice Is Done
This trial should never have happened, but at least it came out the right way, despite prosecutorial and judicial misconduct. I particularly enjoyed O’Mara’s indictment of the media at the end of his press conference.
But as Glenn writes, “But count on Obama, Sharpton, et al., to use this to promote racial division.”
That was always the point, and there was never any other.
[Late Saturday night update]
As I predicted, the inevitable lynching threats, on Twitter.
You know, Twitter accounts aren’t really anonymous. I’ve never been that big on prosecution for speech, but I think that this really is fire in a theatre.
{Update a few minutes later]
This was another loss for race-baiter Barack Obama:
By injecting himself in a minor Florida criminal case by implying Martin could be his son, the president of the United States — a former law professor, of all things — disgraced himself and his office, made a mockery of our legal system and exacerbated racial tensions in our country, making them worse than they have been in years. This is the work of a reactionary, someone who consciously/unconsciously wants to push our nation back to the 1950s.
It is also the work of a narcissist who thinks of himself first, of his image, not of black, white or any other kind of people. It’s no accident that race relations in our country have gone backwards during his stewardship.
Nope, not at all.
And I’m glad it was a loss for such a moral atrocity.
The Zimmerman Prosecutors
Alan Dershowitz says they should be disbarred. I agree. As far as I’m concerned, the judge, too.
Superman
Could he punch someone into space?
My answer is no, without even reading the link. I think that he could throw someone there (though they’d get cooked from the air friction on the way up), and they’d come back down unless they had escape velocity when they got to the top of the atmosphere, because there wouldn’t be an orbital insertion impulse. But if he punched them hard enough to do so, his fist would probably just take their head off. If he did it through their solar plexus, it would probably just go right through. People don’t consider the structural issues associated with superheroes and normal-human interactions with them.
Now Ralph Kramden, on the other hand… But then, he never carried out the threat.
Eric Holder’s Race Card
Is it maxed out?
Unfortunately, not as long as Obama thinks he can continue to gin up his own base by keeping him there. And apparently he’s still got it in his wallet:
If Zimmerman is acquitted, look for race-obsessed and truth-challenged Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez to act against Zimmerman. We’ll see once again what that corrosive “common cause” can do.
He really is a quite despicable man.
And yeah, I know. I’m a racist, too cowardly to discuss race.
That Terrible Pollutant, CO2
…allows trees to get by on less water. Of course, this can’t possibly be allowed to be good news:
The immense volume of water that trees pull out of the ground winds up in the atmosphere, helping supply moisture to farming areas downwind of forests. So if trees use less water, that could ultimately mean less rain for thirsty crops in at least some regions of the world.
It could mean lots of things — good, bad and indifferent — and the vast majority of them unpredictable, given the non-linear nature of the equations and our lack of understanding of the complexity of all the interactions, which is why it’s crazy to be attempting to make costly public policy on the presumption that Carbon Is Evil.
Delaying College
Some thoughts (mostly in comments):
The idea of going to a theme park, on your parents’ dime, with fashionable political fear, having undertaken no scholarly preparation…every single thing about this enterprise seemed wrong.
And expensive and destructive. We have a generation that’s putting off home buying and starting a family because they wasted tens of thousands on either useless degrees or (worse yet) never graduated at all.
Obama’s Precedent
If Obama can suspend the employer mandate, why couldn’t a Republican president suspend the capital gains tax?
Or the corporate income tax? Or the whole damn code?
Democrats never think through the long-term implications of their lawlessness, because they assume that through it, they will gain eternal power. We can’t let them.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Repeal the Bill of Rights!” So say Obama supporters. No surprise to me. Just more of that old-time “liberal” fascism.
Promoting Race Hate
“I’m so old, I can remember when most of the people doing that were white.”
Well, to be fair, a lot of them doing it today are still white. And now, as then, they’re Democrats.