Video clip of the day

We will freely admit we did not follow the legal proceedings of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman trial all that much. What we did follow was the vile circus that surrounded the whole affair.


Never in our life have we seen so many powerful institutions in society coalesce around and become so vested in the demise of a private citizen. The race-baiting spite and hatred stirred up by the likes of Al Sharpton towards George Zimmerman that was manifested on social media and cable television was as nauseating as it was frightening.


John Nolte of Breitbart.com does a great job in rounding up the sick antics of the government-media cabal lynch mob here, where CNN is duly noted as elevating their game above the rest in providing the most disgraceful coverage of the trial.


Bill Whittle on Afterburner does an excellent job of breaking down what we did not know about this trial and that of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman in this video below.




(video approx. 10 minutes)








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Video clip of the day

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In about two minutes, Dennis Prager gives about as good a takedown of the dangerous canard of "social justice" that we have ever heard.

"Whenever there was an adjective added to an important value-based noun, there was an agenda."

"They do not even know why they use the term."

"Do not favor the poor in judgement."

Love that last quote from the Book of Exodus. Contrary to the conventional wisdom we've all been exposed to in Western society and particularly with respect to the Occupy movement, there is no nobility in poverty.


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Next post: #OWS update

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"Foopie" Folly

A while back we conducted a poll of who was the biggest hack in the Obama administration. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner won relatively easily besting the miserable hack that runs the Justice Department for whom we were pimping quite hard. Perhaps results would be different if we held this poll a second time.

Ahmed Ghailani was supposed to be the test case, the reason why political opposition to trying Guantanamo goons in civilian courts was just hot air.

But now, after "Foopie" Ghailani was acquitted on all but one count for his role in the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings by Al Qaeda, Team Obama's hope of trying Gitmo's worst in civilian courts has been all but dashed.

Look for the secure courthouse at the U.S. Naval base in Cuba to get busy with military commission trials for many of the remaining inmates of the terrorist prison there, who number less than 200 now.

Never mind the five monsters in custody, led by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who've gleefully admitted orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks. Most Obama administration officials have given up hope they'll face justice in a federal court and aren't even planning another military commission trial anytime in the foreseeable future.

Want a little more balance in this analysis? You got it. Click here (sorry, won't let us embed video of Katie Couric) for a breakdown of this case from CBS News where you will hear:

"a disaster"

"test case"

"very bad news"

"acquitted Ghailani of the most serious terrorism charges against him"

"convicting on one count of conspiring to destroy U.S. property with explosives"

"minimum of 20 years"

and our favorite:

"they (Ghailani, KSM and the rest of the gang) remain at Gitmo and with this verdict, in all likelihood, will remain there for the foreseeable future"

The hubris and arrogance of the miserable hack that runs the Justice Department, aided and abetted by the President, has landed themselves and the rest of us in this pickle. They painted themselves into a corner, or onto an island as the case may be, with no foreseeable way out/off. Nice work.

The Great Dodge challenge

Last week, we blogged about Big Media’s KSM problem and of the Great Dodge. The Great Dodge is Big Media’s refusal to call on the carpet or at least question the Obama administration’s double standard regarding the civilian criminal trial of KSM. Both the President and the hack currently employed as this country’s attorney general, Eric Holder, have assured us that regardless of the outcome of KSM’s trial, the dangerous terrorist that he is, KSM would not be set free.

No one of which we have either yet heard or read has confronted this galling hypocrisy where KSM will be treated to the full benefits of America’s sense of justice and rule of law and its civil rights traditions… except that he won’t.

Defenders of the decision to try KSM in civilian court have been throwing out red herrings (the Islamic world will respect us for doing this... and whaddya mean it’s a bad idea to try KSM in New York? Who are the cowards now, conservatives?) left and right so as to not have to confront the unbearable reality that the trial of KSM is nothing more than a show trial.

Perhaps to incentivize a show of spine for those who have unflinchingly been accepting the Obama/Holder “logic” hook, line and teabag, we are issuing a challenge.

Upon reading the first reasonably coherent and consistent defense of the overarching KSM trial strategy that is presented either abroad or in the comment section of this blog, we will walk away from blogging forever*, no questions asked. It's that simple. If the hypocrisy can be rationalized then we shut down Beers with Demo and devote our remaining days to voluntary acts of charity and sobriety and involuntary acts of chastity.






* By employing the Obama/Holder KSM exit strategy, we’re not shutting down anything regardless of how eloquent and fluid the logic and will continue blogging at our normal course and speed.

Meet Empathy

"[A]s judges we are neither Jew, nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. We owe equal attachment to the Constitution and are equally bound by our judicial obligations whether we derive our citizenship from the earliest or the latest immigrants to these shores. As a member of this Court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard."

—Justice Felix Frankfurter, dissenting in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, 646 (1943).


I, XXX XXX, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as XXX under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.

- Federal judicial oath


“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,”

- Supreme Court justice nominee, Sonia Sotomayor

O.J. Who?

Once again defying parody, OJ Simpson has been named as a suspect in a criminal investigation. There was a joke at the time of his indictment, for which he was later acquitted (this comment inserted to protect Dean from legal action), that went like this:

Knock, Knock.
Who's there?
O.J.
O.J. who?
You're on the jury.

As he continues his flagrant disregard for law and established authority, as he can't help but stay in the limelight of press attention, I want a stinking apology. I want at least an acknowledgment that those of us who thought he might have been somehow involved in the deaths of his ex-wife and Ron Goldman were not part of some vast racist conspiracy. There that felt good, and hopefully is on the list of 100 things.