Gordon Osmond
- Location
- Sao Paulo, Brasil
- Birthday
- November 09
- Company
- those with whom I choose to keep
- Bio
- Retired lawyer, playwright, English teacher, tennis umpire. Author of So You Think You Know English: A Guide to English for Those Who Think They Don't Need One. ISBN: 978-1-61546-414-2 and Wet Firecrackers http://www.publishamerica.net/product38929.html
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MY RECENT POSTS
- Obama's Worst Nightmare
February 05, 2012 04:22PM - Romney's Second Gaffe
February 04, 2012 12:42PM - I've been marked down!
January 29, 2012 08:52AM - Pink Slip for John King
January 20, 2012 02:53PM - MO on BO: They don't know, you
know?
January 14, 2012 09:30AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The book just received a
nice review from BK Walker
Books.
Book is still
selling…”
8:10AM - “Terribly sorry, Steve.
By all means let's stick to
the
facts.
Cancer is not a
dis…”
3:55PM - “Any possibility of
getting your second comment
translated
into
English?”
February 12, 2012 08:02AM - “Cancer is a disease;
therefore, any organization
fighting it
is unquestionably
de…”
February 12, 2012 07:53AM - “No idea what you're
talking about, Nanuck (of the
North?),
but thanks for the
plu…”
February 11, 2012 10:24AM
Gordon Osmond's Links
Obama's Worst Nightmare
My Super Bowl broadcast featured an outstanding sailor, skipper, and businessman who literally went from rags to riches without government subsidies and support. Indeed, to paraphrase from my bookpleasures.com review of his inspirational book, "One with the Sea," the only impediments to h… Read full post »
Romney's Second Gaffe
Outrage at Mitt Romney's statement about the state of his concern for the poor has received a lot of ink and air of late. It matters not. The poor are in the pocket of Papa Obama and nothing that any candidate can say will sway. I do, however, share the concern of… Read full post »
I've been marked down!
Like Bette Midler in "Ruthless People," I've been marked down--not on Wal-Mart, but on Amazon.
For a limited time, my tell-all unauthorized a… Read full post »
Pink Slip for John King
January 19, 2012
Someone at CNN apparently decided that tonight's Republican Presidential Debate could be solely handled by John King. Boy, was that a mistake!
Newt Gingrich brought an admittedly biased audience to its virtually unprecedented feet in its excoriation of King and his CNN bo… Read full post »
MO on BO: They don't know, you know?
An actor once told me that a critic has no right to review a play or a film unless the critic has been involved in the rehearsal and other pre-production processes.
I considered the observation a high-water mark in dimness until yesterday, when I heard M. Obama's answer to a reporter's… Read full post »
Iowabama
Random Thoughts on the Eve of the Iowa Caucuses:
The so-called Santorum surge is a joke. If the square root of the scrutiny that has previously been leveled on Perry, Paul, Cain, Bachmann, and, most recently and most savagely, Gingrich were brought to bear on Santorum, he'd plunge like a stone… Read full post »
Obama's Pyrrhic Victories
Obama: The Prince of PyrrhicVictories
Obama was obviously never taught as a child, his last opportunity for learning I fear, that "self praise stinks."
For a president, whose only positive effort and effect so far has been to save Jimmy Carter from being at the absolute bottom of the pres… Read full post »
Obama's Aloha
Obama's 2011 Christmas Vacation
Hey, Mich, everything packed. Don't forget your bikini. The leis will be delivered on arrival.
Set to go, baby B.
Good. Forget those nasty righties who noted that we don't always choose our vacation sites with the utmost sensitivity.
What do you mean, honey… Read full post »
The Promise of Paul
The Promise of Paul
Like Ralph Nader before him, Ron Paul has attracted a small, but loyal band of adherents who would like to see him become President of the United States.
On one level, there is logic to support the Paul candidacy. Barack Obama has brought the United States to… Read full post »
Dear Santa
Dear Santa
Sorry I can't sit on your lap anymore, but the PC police are on overdrive.
I've made a list, checked it twice, and here it is:
1. Please convince advocates of Paul, Bachmann, and Santorum to shift their loyalty to someone who can win. Tell the latter two that… Read full post »
Two-and-a-half men
Two-and-a-Half Men
With apologies to Charlie Sheen, who has probably never, ever received one prior to now, I was struck by the array of Romney, Gingrich, and Obama. Has anyone ever imagined a more apt visual representation of the show's title?
Rising above an impressive group of skilled… Read full post »
Michael Bloomberg--Public Enemy #1
Michael Bloomberg—Public Enemy #1
The rancid irrationality of the Occupiers and their apologists has reached its apogee with the recent excoriation of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who after weeks of indulgence, finally decided that the normal residents of his city deserved a bit… Read full post »
Veterans' Day Contrasts
As veterans are honored on OS and elsewhere by the grateful, as Georgette Mosbacher, a supremely successful capitalist, marches to persuade fellow capitalists to employ veterans, we have two counterpoints--Obama intoning on about whatever and mobs of snot-nosed malcontents kvetching about the fact th… Read full post »
The "A"s and "B"s of Ugliness
The "A"s and "B"s of Ugliness
It's difficult to decide whether lawyer A or client B is uglier.
After years of leading a completely meretricious life, client B has decided to capture her 15 minutes of fame, and, of course, lawyer A is there at the ready to push her… Read full post »
The Cain-Gingrich "Debate"
Cain, No; Gingrich, Yes
The principal value of last night's discussion between Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich was the presentation of a study in superficial contrasts and basic unities.
The two couldn't be more different in terms of skin color, professional background, and rhetorical techn… Read full post »
OWS Scores a Victory!
OWS Scores a Victory!
What, one might ask, is it? Have the protesters changed a vote, or passed a bill? Have they blocked anything but traffic? Well, actually, no, but they have changed the dialogue.
According to the usual cadre of OS regulars, we are no longer dialoguing about the… Read full post »
OWS: Anarchy Anyone?
Anarchy Anyone?
Are there protesters because there's a shortage of jobs, or is widespread unemployment due in part to so many preferring to protest? Shades of the chicken and egg, no?
My money is on the chicken as many protesters, particularly those who have demonstrated the capaci… Read full post »
OWS--A Fetid Exercise in Futility
OWS—A Fetid Exercise in Futility
Public protests are a standard component of political life in the United States. When the message is clear, wholesome, and civilly expressed, they can have a profound and positive effect on government. The most recent evidence of this is, of co/… Read full post »
Obama's Plan B: Martyrdom
Obama's Plan B: Martyrdom
Now that 1) Obama's range-of-the-moment repeat attack on the economy shows that he is an ideologue unwilling to admit error, 2) Obama's international policies represent themselves as an uncomfortable straddle between protecting the homeland by following Bush policies a… Read full post »
Obama's "Right Away" Betrays His Inferior Intellect
Obama as Second-Rate Intellect
One of the arguments that Obama's supporters used early on to answer the obvious observation that Obama's résumè would barely qualify him for an entry level position in a significant commercial enterprise was that Obama was inherently bright. At the… Read full post »
Obama as Happy Warrior
Obama as Happy Warrior
As he staggeringly approaches the homestretch of the 2012 election, Obama may have stumbled upon the unlikeliest of issues to boost his standing in the presidential ranks: national defense.
The issues upon which Obama captured the presidency were betrayed early on.… Read full post »
Solyndra: Obama's Latest Scandal
Wanting to comment upon a scandal that may rival Watergate, I searched O and OS to verify the spelling of the company in question. Took a very long time. Posts about Solyndra are about as plentiful on O and OS as comments upon the recent epic defeats of Democrat congressmen in… Read full post »
Democrats and Jews
Democrats and Jews
The resounding rejection of Obama and his surrogates by voters in congressional districts in New York and Nevada could be attributed solely to the clumsiness of our current president, who is demonstrably clueless on both domestic and international policies.
However, I t… Read full post »
Where Have All the Salon Heroes Gone?
I heard a story that some wizened, broken down Princeton economics professor had blogged something outrageous about 9/11 to stimulate (or is it "jolt" now?) interest in him and that the blog, reportedly poorly written even on a purely language level, had found its way into the New York Times.
Be… Read full post »
Obama Among the Roses
Obama's Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose
In today's Rose Garden Reader's Digest version of last Thursday's address to Congress, Obama mentioned that he and Biden had noticed a newspaper item on their way over to the floral event. This confused me because his following remarks betrayed no knowledg/… Read full post »
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