Gordon Osmond
- Location
- Sao Paulo, Brasil
- Birthday
- November 09
- Company
- those with whom I choose to keep
- Bio
- Retired lawyer, playwright, 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
Osmond hosts a weekly interactive broadcast dedicated to the discussion of books and ESL education. To participate, check out www.blogtalkradio.com/eclectic-authors-showcase Osmond's debut novel, Slipping on Stardust was released on 1/11/13. Check it out at http://i-m.co/GordonOsmond/SlippingonStardust
MY RECENT POSTS
- Suicide Revisited
May 03, 2013 05:42PM - Obama's Race-Based Tribute to
Jason Collins
April 30, 2013 11:15AM - Gun Control--Liberals at Their
Most Myopic
April 18, 2013 04:45PM - Obama's Secularization of
Black Despair
April 10, 2013 05:05PM - Mayor Weiner?
April 10, 2013 10:28AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The fall of Obama
follows the script of a Greek
tragedy. All
his manifold
shortco…”
May 16, 2013 10:17AM - “Responding only to your
title, I would say that from
Obama on
down, your
position…”
May 16, 2013 09:57AM - “From Sage
"There's a
well known process of trying a
case in the
media,
which…”
May 15, 2013 10:49AM - “Thanks, Arthur.
I
doubt that Biden was involved,
so we might have to
tolerate
him…”
May 14, 2013 03:56PM - “Thank you, Arthur, for
this illuminating post.
You've
assembled a remarkable
coal…”
May 14, 2013 03:09PM
Gordon Osmond's Links
Obama, the Christian
Doubt No Longer: Obama Is a Christian
Recent events surely put to rest once and for all the notion that Obama is anything less than a full-fledged Christian.
The laying on of hands
Obama's surprise visit to Iraq was scheduled so that he would sacrifice speaking time in favor o… Read full post »
Garofalo and Keith O: Their Finest Hour
Not surprisingly, I find around here no streaming videos of Janeane Garofalo's psychotic rant against the tea party protesters, wherein she called them a group of red-neck racists. And Keith O stood /sat by and, if anything, added fuel to the fire. This incident made the rookie CNN… Read full post »
Nancy Pelosi -- Have You No Shame!
How do we get rid of this blight on the political scene?
At her bug-eyed Botoxed best, Pelosi characterized the tea parties as "Astroturf" events, suggesting, ever so subtly of course, that they were not genuinely and generally supported by community groups. On the basis of what evi… Read full post »
Pirates Purged: Victory at Sea
Victory at Sea
It doesn’t get much better than this: Captain Phillips’ heroism in consolidating himself as the target of the pirates’ terrorism, President Obama’s prompt authorization of force to exterminate the verminous kidnappers, the sure shotedness of the Navy/… Read full post »
Perhaps Obama Could Do At Least This
Will Obama Stand Up to the Spanish Inquisition?
Obama could do a lot to dispel the suspicion that he is selling out, in the cause of transnationalism, the best interests, if not the very sovereignty, of the country he purports to lead by telling the psychotic Spanish magistrate who is trying… Read full post »
Obama Talks Turkey
Obama Talks Turkey
Obama’s final town meeting on the current tour was held before a group of young people in Istanbul. Compared to the tone of his earlier pronouncements, he sounded almost jingoistic. Of course, there was the usual nonsense about saving on electricity and the/… Read full post »
The Old Grey Mare v. The Unions
The New York Times is threatening to close The Boston Globe if the Globe's union doesn't make some concessions. The union is insisting on management concessions in return.
As Blanche du Bois stated in A Streetcar Named Desire, "Sometimes, there's God." This is one of those times.
If the G… Read full post »
An Investigation That Matters
An Investigation Worth Pursuing
While Sheriff Saturn Smith is encouraging domestic cooperation with foreign countries that are pursuing persecution/prosecution of lawyers who came to the professional conclusion that enhanced interrogation techniques did not, under the prevailing circumstances,… Read full post »
O'Bama's Second Coming
The G-20 Welcoming Cocktail Party
Obama will make a grand entrance wondering a bit where the hurrahs he remembers from a few months ago are.
Brown rushes forward to grasp his hand and say that he really enjoyed watching the DVDs once he figured out how to play them on U.K.… Read full post »
Saturn Smith's on the Case
Dennis Blair: A Dangerous Dumbo
The philosophical and parasitic excesses of the Obama administration have fully flowered with the incredible statement by one of his "intelligence" lieutenants that detainees (is it still OK to call them that, or perhaps "sandy strays" would be better?) released into the United States from Gitmo … Read full post »
Tiny Tim Wants to be Superman
Super Regulator
Fresh from his triumphs over the IRS and AIG, Tim Geithner is now seeking super regulatory powers over the financial industry. A few questions inevitably tincture one’s view of how good an idea this is:
What is the government’s track record in managing fu… Read full post »
Obama's Town Meeting: The Big Sleep
Obama’s Town Meeting: The Big Sleep
The March 26, 2009 Town Meeting featuring Mayor Obama made his earlier tepid prime time press conference sound like Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast.
The cues were perfectly aligned: education, housing, health care, etc./… Read full post »
S v. OS
Is it my imagination, or is all the good stuff going on at S rather than at OS? Every time I log in, I see all these fantastic headlines, usually with lunatic premises, written by persons whose names I know.
Then I segue, ever so smartly, to OS and am… Read full post »
Obama and the Stock Market
A Stock Market Prediction
The brief course of the Obama presidency has already had a remarkably adverse effect upon the U.S. stock market, which responds not so much to the past but rather to investor confidence, or lack thereof, in the future.
A bill to impose a confiscatory and probably… Read full post »
Ron Silver--A Terse Tribute
To Ron Silver
A great actor who struggled mightily for his valuable life and for his invaluable country. Well done, sir. Read full post »
Lenobamics
Lenobamics
What to do when your administration and your party is:
- fighting amongst itself about culpability for the AIG scandal
- threatening veteran benefits
- dismantling means of combating radical Islamic extremists
- listening to its House leader call law enforcement officials “un-Am/ … Read full post »
The Liddy Inquest: A Congressional Low
The Liddy Inquest: A Congressional Low
Today’s spectacle should be enough to convince any thinking being that government should really not be trusted with anything other than the armed forces, domestic and foreign, and the administration of the court system.
One highlight was… Read full post »
An Unprincipled Presidency
An Unprincipled Presidency
Two hot new news topics illustrate how willing the Obama Administration is to put politics over principle.
As unpopular as the AIG bonuses are, it is undeniable that their aggregate amount is relatively insignificant. However, because of all the popular bu/… Read full post »
AIG: Haste Makes Waste
AIG: Haste (and Government Stupidity) Makes Waste
The only problem with the public outrage about the AIG bonuses is that it’s largely directed at the wrong target.
Any private investor in AIG contributing billions of dollars in exchange for a controlling interest in the organi… Read full post »
Survivors: The New Season
As the Big Board is making contrary predictions all over the place, I'm going to offer my own.
Geithner is toast. Just a matter of time. Never has a wunderkind proved to be so unwunderful.
Robert Gibbs is toast. When speech impediments achieve aphasia, it's time to get s… Read full post »
Obama's Capitulation on Earmarks
A Frontal Attack on the Frontal Lobe
A frontal attack is ever so much more effective if the troops are all marching in the same direction. Stellaa’s recent frontal attack on criticism of Obama’s signing of the Big Pig is an example.
The author declares, incredibly, that… Read full post »
Obama: Stupidity or Cupidity
The Brown Visit: Was Obama Being Passive or Aggressive?
Although Obama has already proven that no task is too small to be mishandled—a glance at the Treasury Department’s roster will surely confirm that—it’s truly hard to believe that some protocol functionary in o… Read full post »
Joan Walsh Strikes Again!
The Dem’s Distraction Express
It seems that the Limbaugh engine on this train is running out of steam, so it’s time for Open Salon’s Joan Walsh to add another propulsive distraction: Michelle Malkin.
I won’t bother describing the hit piece; its content is as… Read full post »
The Class Obama Cut
The Class Obama Cut
Contracts 101. Given its recent liberal propensities, Harvard may not have taught it when Obama was there.
A hallmark of any society claiming to be civilized is the rule of law. Laws respond a human’s need for predictability. Citizens cannot produce o/… Read full post »
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