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Seems I started a little brouhaha with some commenters over at The Agitator’s site who believe I am an idiot. Maybe they are right. How easy is it to kill a baby while giving it a bath, do you suppose?

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Radley Balko’s original post is about the appeal of this guy Jeffery Havard who was accused and convicted of murdering and sexually abusing — not sure of the order the offenses occurred — a six month old baby girl that was not his. Classic boyfriend-kills-baby case.

I don’t have a problem with giving the guy Jeffery Harvard a new trial. Hell, give him two for all I care. There are obviously some serious flaws with the legal system over in Mississippi. The deal is I don’t believe in this particular case it was an accident that the baby was hurt. Sorry.

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Let me clarify something here. If the prosecutors are fabricating aggravating circumstances in order to obtain capital convictions, they should be charged with civil rights violations and sent to prison if convicted. I posted something along these lines before if I can find it in the archives… Oh yeah, here it is: Up to here with Betty Brock Bells. An excerpt:

Barring that first solution, here is an even better one. The very quickest solution would be to take any prosecutor or judge who is convicted of wrongly prosecuting and convicting an innocent person, and hang him or her from a lanyard by his or her balls. The problem will dry up lickity split. If there were any political considerations found to be involved in the prosecutor’s decision to wrongly prosecute, then that would be an extenuating circumstance and a hot poker would then need to be shoved up their ass for the duration of the hanging. If it was a death penalty case, and the innocent person was actually put to death, the prosecutor and judge can hang until dead.

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Though oft repeated as if true, somehow I just don’t buy the premise:

The problem in a nutshell: he desperately needs the backing of the very conservatives he has infuriated time and time again over the last few years. We’re not talking about tepid support either. John McCain needs conservatives to pour money into his campaign, and to rabidly defend him when he’s under attack — and of course, vote for him. Achieving this won’t be easy. In order to patch things up with conservatives, McCain will need to cater to us by making meaningful gestures that show his heart is in the right place and by shifting his positions a bit on key issues, in order to placate our very valid concerns about him.

Conventional wisdom suggests a candidate secure his or her base during the primary season and then run to the center for the general election. Well, McCain won the nomination without the base so why do these so-called “conservatives” insist he needs them to win the general election. McCain may be thinking he can win over the middle precisely by kicking the conservatives in the teeth one more time.

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CHARLOTTE ALLEN: “How dumb can we [women] get?”

I can’t help it, but reading about such episodes of screaming, gushing and swooning [over Obama] makes me wonder whether women — I should say, “we women,” of course — aren’t the weaker sex after all. Or even the stupid sex, our brains permanently occluded by random emotions, psychosomatic flailings and distraction by the superficial. Women “are only children of a larger growth,” wrote the 18th-century Earl of Chesterfield. Could he have been right?

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Boy, do I have some bad news for this guy:

I decided to test the water for a while and bask in the sun. I’ll head back to work this year and have the utmost confidence that recession or no I will find fulfilling work because I’m good at what I do. Most of all, I have no problem saying “no” to inappropriate jobs and environments. So I’ll have no problem. Thank goodness I am American and not European. We truly live in the land of opportunity.

I am probably better at what I do than Bill is at what he does and I would have to advise caution to anyone thinking like Bill. The people in charge of the hiring aren’t nearly as smart as me and Bill and to them we are just another “candidate” who for whatever reason hasn’t had a “real” job in several years. It’s been almost five years since I closed my business and I have not spent a lot of time since poring over job offers.

Yes, one must be confident and optimistic to quit their job, but a reality check is not a bad thing either.

And then there is Peter:

So true, all you say. I spend my days equiping people in exactly that situation to start their own business. The trick is to do it without capital, and to start up part time with some income coming in,

Yes, that is a neat trick but, again, I have to advise the opposite. Do NOT enter any venture without adequate capital. If you do this you have chosen a most difficult path that is littered with abject failures. It will require a grand stroke of luck to succeed. This rule of mine is right up there with never, ever go into business with a family member.

Finally a reality check, from SC:

People should have better manners than to be so rude. What you do and what risks you take are your business.

That being said, let’s talk about risk- I’m glad for those of you for whom your hard work has paid off, but by far the majority of businesses fail, and sometimes with people who work hard and smart but are not lucky.

I’m married to one of those guys- he has been very unlucky, and our ventures have not worked out. Liquidated all assets 3 times (including 401Ks), bankrupt twice, barely held onto the house, lost the car… It is truly traumatic. There is a reason for the insecurity.

Being a wage slave might be something you choose to get away from, and the people who stay should respect your decision, but let’s be honest- you truly are risking real trauma to your families that they are not. So you should respect that their negative reaction has some genuine roots.

Losing your job and having to look for another one is not the crisis of losing all your assets, and your childen’s home, and the humiliation. It’s not pleasant to be throwing up every morning wondering how long you can juggle the balls and knowing that you are inevitably going to crash, when bankruptcy becomes blessed relief.

Now the hubby works a job, is a rising star (he genuinely is smart and hardworking), and making well into the six figures. I’m pathetically grateful now to be able to pay the mortgage every month.

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Does this kind of crap bother you as much as it does me:

According to the U.S. Census, Muskingum County, where Zanesville is located, had a median household income of $37,192 in 2004, below both the Ohio and national averages.

I don’t mean to sound all sour grapes or anything, and I am certainly not picking on NRO, but why don’t so-called professional writers in general take more pride in what they write? A typo every now and then is completely understandable, especially if working without an editor, but typos, omitted words, and ignorant mistakes in every piece peeve me to no end, especially if the writer has a lot of readers. (Yes, there may be some sour grapes.)

Other than that little peeve, the article does a good job illustrating why Michelle Obama is a fucktard. Can you imagine having to put up with such a racist for four, or God forbid eight years?

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