Gordon Osmond

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

APRIL 21, 2009 3:09PM

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 »

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 »

APRIL 16, 2009 1:22PM

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 »

APRIL 12, 2009 7:55PM

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 »

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 »

APRIL 7, 2009 1:28PM

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 »

APRIL 5, 2009 4:37PM

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 »

APRIL 1, 2009 10:51AM

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 »

MARCH 31, 2009 8:12PM

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 »

MARCH 29, 2009 9:20AM

Saturn Smith's on the Case

Sheriff Smith is putting together a posse to bring to justice a group of United States lawyers that advised the Bush administration on the subject of enhanced interrogation who may be hiding in the hills. It's all terribly exciting.  Sheriff Smith's enlistment effort is posted under a title whic… Read full post »
MARCH 28, 2009 2:28PM

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 »

MARCH 26, 2009 2:47PM

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 »

MARCH 26, 2009 1:13PM

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 »

MARCH 23, 2009 4:09PM

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 »

MARCH 22, 2009 5:24PM

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 »

MARCH 20, 2009 3:08PM

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 »

MARCH 19, 2009 2:58PM

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

 

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 »

MARCH 18, 2009 10:42AM

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 »

MARCH 15, 2009 6:35PM

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 »

MARCH 13, 2009 7:12PM

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 »

MARCH 13, 2009 11:11AM

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 »

MARCH 10, 2009 11:44AM

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 »

MARCH 7, 2009 10:48AM

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 »

MARCH 6, 2009 1:12PM

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 »