April 24, 2013

"The Defense Rests:" Gosnell Case Sent to Jury For Verdict
— Ace

This isn't as uncommon a maneuver as you might think. There are two tracks of a legal defense: The affirmative defense and the more common tactic of challenging each part of a proseuctor's case.

Bear in mind, for each offer of proof the prosecution made, the defense questioned the expert or witness, attempting to cast doubt on his claims.

But the case now goes to the jury, which has been dismissed until Monday. The New York Times immediately announced it would devote a special section of the Sunday magazine to something else entirely.

In addition, the judge reversed his previous error -- apparently he had dismissed the murder charges for the wrong baby. He had meant to dismiss them as against one but instead named another. He corrected this snag by reinstating charges in the case of the murder of Baby C and dropping them against another one, in whose case there was (in his opinion) no evidence of murder.

Update: Obama had been scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a Planned Parenthood gathering on Friday night. The last word is that President Gutsy Call has backed out.

Ahem:

White House spokesman Jay Carney announced the decision to cancel the keynote speech at the gala during his daily press briefing with reporters Wednesday. He attributed the schedule change to Mr. ObamaÂ’s desire to spend more time at a memorial service in Waco, Texas, for family members of the victims of the fertilizer plant explosion.

I believe you, Jay. You believe I believe you don't you? Because I do. I really believe you. It's important to me that you believe that.


Thanks to Jane D'oh and rickb223.

Well Then! I seem to have gotten virtually everything wrong in my original post. "Criminal Procedure 101" corrects me:

The main blog author needs a refresher course. An "affirmative defense" is something for which the defense has the burden of proof. Such as self-defense or insanity. The defense can't call its own witnesses during the prosecution's case in chief. For the defense to call its own witnesses it needs to put on its own defense case. The defense cross-examines the prosecution's witnesses; it does not "rebut" them. "Rebuttal" is an entirely separate component of a trial. Only the prosecution can offer "rebuttal witnesses" in a criminal trial. Not that any of these details matter. It's the Internet, after all.

Okay, so rebuttal witnesses can't be called after a prosecution witness but can only be offered in the defense's case. So apparently Gosnell has none.

As for "affirmative defense," I didn't know the right word; I meant the defense case, apart from the cross-examination of the prosecution witnesses during the prosecution's case.

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1 Preezy Choom to be the keynote speaker for Planned Parenthood event Friday night.  Nice.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:00 AM (lVPtV)

2 really? Wow.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 10:02 AM (LCRYB)

3 Tami posted something earlier about Fox doing a special on the Gosnell trial on Sunday.

Jeebus.  The whole thing is so heartbreaking and disgusting.  Those poor babies.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:02 AM (lVPtV)

4 gosnell will end up with a stamp that is released during women's health month.....just you wait

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 24, 2013 10:02 AM (GVxQo)

5 Why has the jury been dismissed until Monday?  There are still two regular work days to use.  This delaying garbage happens all the time in the legal system.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 24, 2013 10:03 AM (C3XXv)

6 Yeah, ace.  Megyn Kelly was just discussing Barry speaking at the PP event.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:03 AM (lVPtV)

7
1 Preezy Choom to be the keynote speaker for Planned Parenthood event Friday night. Nice.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 02:00 PM (lVPtV)

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2 really? Wow.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 02:02 PM (LCRYB)



Nope. He backed out according to Drudge

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:03 AM (da5Wo)

8 I am ~75% certain Gosnell skates on all Capital charges....

wish I were kidding or whoring for attention.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:04 AM (LRFds)

9 Preezy Choom to be the keynote speaker for Planned Parenthood event Friday night. Nice. Drudge has it that he backed out.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2013 10:04 AM (GFM2b)

10 >>>1 Preezy Choom to be the keynote speaker for Planned Parenthood event Friday night. Nice. Red line on Drudge says he's backing out

Posted by: El Kabong at April 24, 2013 10:04 AM (WjFcQ)

11 Just curious how the defense is going to explain all the dead babies with their spines snipped. Oh and adults.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:04 AM (GGCsk)

12 http://tinyurl.com/aplozyc

Obama backs out of Planned Parenthood keynote address

Posted by: the heat is on at April 24, 2013 10:04 AM (EZl54)

13 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 24, 2013 10:05 AM (/PCJa)

14 Kill.   This.  Fuck.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 24, 2013 10:05 AM (tVTLU)

15 From Drudge link to WA Times:

White House spokesman Jay Carney announced the decision to cancel the keynote speech at the gala during his daily press briefing with reporters Wednesday. He attributed the schedule change to Mr. ObamaÂ’s desire to spend more time at a memorial service in Waco, Texas, for family members of the victims of the fertilizer plant explosion.


Alrighty, then. 



Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:05 AM (lVPtV)

16 The New York Times immediately announced it would devote a special section of the Sunday magazine to something else entirely. Analyzing the Tsarnaev's shampoo and diet, for signs of chemically induced imbalance.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 24, 2013 10:06 AM (XYSwB)

17 I think it's time the pro life forces play hardball on this late-term brutality. America needs to confronted with the truth and asked if it wants to continue making the practice legal.

Posted by: Serious Cat at April 24, 2013 10:06 AM (sv/s3)

18 Gee, did Gosnell have the Planned Parenthood seal of approval? That will make Mr. Obama's appearance interesting. That is if the ghouls attending had hearts or a conscience.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:06 AM (GGCsk)

19 Wow, backing out of the speaking event, eh?  Interesting.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 24, 2013 10:06 AM (tVTLU)

20 >>>11 Just curious how the defense is going to explain all the dead babies with their spines snipped. Oh and adults. Gosnell had several concussions growing up

Posted by: El Kabong at April 24, 2013 10:06 AM (WjFcQ)

21 I thought he postponed his address to Planned Parenthood

Posted by: thunderb at April 24, 2013 10:06 AM (nH8jP)

22 The fact that Republicans aren't SandyHooking this trial is pathetic. Here is a chance to change the daily narrative and focus on an issue that works for us, and they let it slide.

Posted by: Iblis at April 24, 2013 10:06 AM (9221z)

23

"Beyond a reasonable doubt" is a pretty high bar, and juries tend to be sympathetic to MDs.

I just hope the prosecution had all their ducks in a row here.

 

 

Posted by: looking closely at April 24, 2013 10:06 AM (6Q9g2)

24 2 Ace,

Yeah we were on about it day before yesterday right before I blew up in rage at the legal profession.

This is the ONE subject Choom was loud and proud on in Illinois Ace and the newsies are not interested.

On the other hand I think this is definitely gonna reverberate when it is done.

I was formerly a shades of Gray first term pro choicer.

If/when the Pro-Death Uber Alles types let Gosnell walk I am going home to pure pro-life reversing a decision i made back when I was 16.

The left cannot be trusted to keep bargains.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:07 AM (LRFds)

25 What do you bet, assuming Gosnell skates, this does *not* get the same "ESCAPED JUSTICE!!!11!!!!!Eleventy!" coverage that the crazy lady from FL got when she got acquitted?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 24, 2013 10:07 AM (/PCJa)

26 5 Why has the jury been dismissed until Monday?

My guess? to let the attorneys prepare summations, the judge his legal instructions.
PS in NY a defense rebuttal witness comes after the prosecution rests, not during the prosecution's case. YMMV.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:07 AM (XeZSs)

27 Megyn reported that PP in Philadelphia dealt with a number of women who were injured by Gosnell, and rather than reporting him, they suggested the women complain to whoever.

PP didn't do squat.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:07 AM (lVPtV)

28 >Obama backs out of Planned Parenthood keynote address<

Whoosh!

And with the adeptness of the cowardly lion, President Obama runs off to play another round of golf.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:07 AM (GGCsk)

29 Ball of cells, nothing to see here.  Move along quietly, now.  Keep moving and keep your hands visible. We don't want any trouble.

Posted by: The Left at April 24, 2013 10:08 AM (71LDo)

30 This case amazes me.

This doctor is guilty of nothing more that what Obama himself spoke in favor of on many occasions - killing babies born alive during abortions.

And yet, not once have I heard anyone in the press ask Obama about this connection.  Not one time.  I know the MSM has had their heads shoved up Obama's ass for 6 years now, but it still surprises me when they fail to do even the most minimal of reporting in order to protect him.

In history have we ever had a press so committed to protecting a POTUS?  Surely Clinton got nowhere close to this level of favoritism.

Posted by: Bill Mitchell at April 24, 2013 10:08 AM (hlUJY)

31 first term is meant as "first tri-mester"

The 'deal" I made was barring public funds being used, and in the interest of controlling third trimester abortions I will not argue against first trimester ever"

The left has violated every portion of that deal I made with "reality".

Save the babies.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:08 AM (LRFds)

32

I think it's time the pro life forces play hardball on this late-term brutality. America needs to confronted with the truth and asked if it wants to continue making the practice legal

 

How?  Any time Pro-Life groups try to tell (let alone show) the truth about abortion, they're shut down as being too disturbing or profane.

 

Nevermind that the entire point of the discussion/demonstration is that the practice is disturbing/sick/profane.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) at April 24, 2013 10:09 AM (/PCJa)

33 29 marcus,

I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:09 AM (LRFds)

34

Only with this media, could an organization whose founder was dedicated to wiping out as many minority and poor babies as was possible, escape criticism. 

 

Unfuckingbelievable.  We're all to be concerned about minorities and the poor.

 

But here comes an organization whose founding principles are racism, eugenics, and elitism, but no one in the media says shit.

 

If we reorganized the KKK to build houses for poor people, do you think that would escape scrutiny??

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 24, 2013 10:09 AM (tVTLU)

35 Gee.  Preezy Choom will miss Dr. Ruth Westheimer receiving the Margaret Sanger award.

No shit.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:09 AM (lVPtV)

36 Ace, you are a very good blogger, but you are wrong when you write that "...and also probably called its own experts (liars for hire) to rebut prosecution witnesses, during the prosecution's case."

The defence can cross examine the prosecution expert witnesses during the prosecution presentation of evidence, but cannot call any of its own expert witnesses.

Posted by: laweyr at April 24, 2013 10:09 AM (Q+Q7K)

37 Is the defense going to argue during closing summation that this wasn't murder or infanticide?

I read somewhere, long since forgotten, that Gosnell has been doing this for 37 years. It is believable that it has taken this long.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at April 24, 2013 10:09 AM (pTBwN)

38 I keep asking this question. Why would Gosnell need to cut their doinrs if the babies were dead? If they were dead, then he was desecrating a corpse, also a crime. Do why did the judge dismiss any mid trial?

Posted by: Liberty Lover at April 24, 2013 10:10 AM (8YbCm)

39

#31

As the mainstream press becomes less and less relevant, I don't think Obama will be the last Dem to get the dick-sucking treatment.

If you want the press to present even a semblance of doing their "job" you need to have a Republican in charge.

 

 

Posted by: looking closely at April 24, 2013 10:10 AM (6Q9g2)

40 This is a good strategy, especially if they profiled the jury, they just need one infanticide by tortuous dismemberment true believer on the jury to hang the jury--because coat hangers in back alleys.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:10 AM (kXoT0)

41 I keep asking this question. Why would Gosnell need to cut their spines if the babies were dead? If they were dead, then he was desecrating a corpse, also a crime. Do why did the judge dismiss any mid trial?

Posted by: Liberty Lover at April 24, 2013 10:10 AM (8YbCm)

42

Preezy Choom to be the keynote speaker for Planned Parenthood event Friday night. Nice.

 

Friday night? Uh oh. His imam's gonna be pissed.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 24, 2013 10:10 AM (IDSI7)

43 Analyzing the Tsarnaev's shampoo Quaker State 10/W30?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2013 10:11 AM (GFM2b)

44 TFG claims he couldn't comment on the Gosnell trial because it wouldn't be appropriate.

Cambridge police:  "Acted stupidly."

Trayvon Martin:  "If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon."

Murdered babies:  *crickets*

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:11 AM (lVPtV)

45 >23 The fact that Republicans aren't SandyHooking this trial is pathetic. Here is a chance to change the daily narrative and focus on an issue that works for us, and they let it slide. <

This^.

Republicans have somehow decided the abortion issue won't "play well" with the greater public. So it's only something they take a stand on in private with those kooky pro-lifers.

But it's part of the platform or something.

Honestly. they share a very small brain at the GOP. And I think it's been on loan to someone for the past few months.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:12 AM (GGCsk)

46 Will Barry still give a shout out to Planned Parenthood?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at April 24, 2013 10:12 AM (1Jaio)

47 42 Sherry McEvil,

and I know you are speaking properly from a tactical standpoint for the defense...

that said....


at some point Gosnell will be subject to a rebuttal of tactics.

I'm glad.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:12 AM (LRFds)

48 From other thread:


From the Washington Times:


President Obama has canceled plans to deliver a keynote address at
Planned ParenthoodÂ’s annual fundraising dinner Thursday night after
critics decried his high-profile role at the abortion rights group amid
new concerns about the brutality of illegal forms of abortion.


http://tinyurl.com/af6xt2h

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 24, 2013 10:12 AM (X6akg)

49

There is no question about what he did...

 

The only question is whether THIS jury says a viable fetus is not a person... and this then does not rise to the level of murder...

 

But when the Judge threw out a bunch of the charges, without even giving the Jury a chance to decide 'if' they believed the fetuses were alive...

 

I smell a set of very restrictive Jury orders coming form the Judge...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2013 10:13 AM (lZBBB)

50 The defence can cross examine the prosecution expert witnesses during the prosecution presentation of evidence, but cannot call any of its own expert witnesses.

This might be one of those procedures that varies by state.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:13 AM (XeZSs)

51

>>I keep asking this question. Why would Gosnell need to cut their spines if the babies were dead?

Hopefully the prosecution asked this question during the trial, then again during its summation.

 

 

Posted by: looking closely at April 24, 2013 10:13 AM (6Q9g2)

52 Hey! Where the hell is my thanks? I was first with the drop! Dammit.


*stomps and pouts*

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:13 AM (da5Wo)

53 Tami, Jay Carney said it was because he wants to spend more time at the West, TX memorial.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:13 AM (lVPtV)

54 Maybe Gosnell's lawyer was thinking that plodding through the demonic actions of his client a second time (after the prosecution had presented its case) and allowing the prosecution to cross-examine the defense witnesses  would not help him. 

Posted by: Penfold at April 24, 2013 10:13 AM (Fbt5B)

55 He backed out for Thursday, he'll be.there Friday instead

Posted by: Hillary at April 24, 2013 10:14 AM (wsGWu)

56 I don't see backing out of the PP address helping the JEF.  Those of us that can't stand anything about him won't be swayed by this but a few Fluke zealots may see him using them as cavalierly as every other poor-choice male they've brought into their miserably pathetic lives.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 24, 2013 10:14 AM (C3XXv)

57 Obama. In West Texas. Pretending to care. I am sure they want him there.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:14 AM (GGCsk)

58 Republicans have somehow decided the abortion issue won't "play well" with the greater public. So it's only something they take a stand on in private with those kooky pro-lifers.  Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 02:12 PM (GGCsk)

Akins and Mourdock could not be reached for comment.

Not to excuse the ineptitude of those guys, but, just mentioning that abortion is not a holy sacrament while campaigning as a Republican is a fatal strategy.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:14 AM (kXoT0)

59 55 Tami, Jay Carney said it was because he wants to spend more time at the West, TX memorial.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 02:13 PM (lVPtV)



The lies....they come fast and furious!  (pun intended)

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 24, 2013 10:14 AM (X6akg)

60

I hope this piece of garbage gets     put away for the rest of his life.  Which will hopefully be VERY brief, and spent in the general population   (hence the "very brief" part).   He is worth less than dirt.   I curse his name.

 

And as for Obammy turning tail and running like the coward he is from his ill-advised Planned Parenthood speech?  Color me not shocked at all.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at April 24, 2013 10:15 AM (4df7R)

61 OT for a laugh riot....

The economic argument is over..and Paul Krugman won.

http://tinyurl.com/bedpyhu

Spend and borrow like mofos people...it works!!

Posted by: Red Shirt at April 24, 2013 10:15 AM (FIDMq)

62 Lil' ol' Mika called the dead babies "fetuses" this morning until Joe corrected her.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:15 AM (lVPtV)

63 Obama should send the fake Catholic to PP, Joe Biden.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:15 AM (GGCsk)

64 Kermit Gosnell used to be a boxer?

Posted by: Cicero Kid at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (xA8Em)

65 haha the scoamf chose one bush of another!!!!!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (GVxQo)

66 60 Obama. In West Texas. Pretending to care. I am sure they want him there.



Hellooo, West, TX!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (lVPtV)

67 If the jury doesn't get him, G-d will.

Posted by: dogfish at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (nsOJa)

68 >>>The defence can cross examine the prosecution expert witnesses during the prosecution presentation of evidence, but cannot call any of its own expert witnesses. I've watched My Cousin Vinny 600 times and My Cousin Vinny says you're wrong.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (LCRYB)

69

After the acquittal,

*does Gosnell get the St Trayvon treatment by the media?

*Or do they move away quietly and hope he does too?

*and does Philadelphia become the late term abortion venue of choice?

Posted by: some dope at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (WyRZF)

70 One of these days Jay the Carney Barker will get his realities confused.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (0UdgH)

71 Ghoulish fucking shit.

Posted by: wheatie at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (mXpa3)

72 marcus or maybe sweet caroline kennedy could go in his place

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (GVxQo)

73

Wait.... is there a good Golf course in Texas???

 

There is???  then we need to lengthen my trip a bit....

Posted by: Precedent Barrak Obamus the Foist at April 24, 2013 10:16 AM (lZBBB)

74 Obama. In West Texas. Pretending to care. I am sure they want him there.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 02:14 PM (GGCsk)


I have sworn an oath to myself that if some tragedy or other enormous event befalls me, I will not take a call from obama, go to his WH, or allow him to use me in any way.  I will tell the press why.  It will make me a pariah because he is the Prezzy, but, I ain't playing their game.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:17 AM (kXoT0)

75 or wait, did Vinny call Mona Lisa during the prosecution's case as rebuttal or only after he began his affirmative defense?

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 10:17 AM (LCRYB)

76 of=over

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 24, 2013 10:17 AM (GVxQo)

77
brb, lookin for applause lines

Posted by: lolobama at April 24, 2013 10:17 AM (OgiBc)

78 Ahh! Be gone horrid sock!

Posted by: Lauren at April 24, 2013 10:17 AM (wsGWu)

79 was her name mona lisa? Sheesh, I don't know this movie as well as I had thought.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 10:17 AM (LCRYB)

80 The irony is that with a different timeline, Obama himself would doubtless have been Gosnelled. I wonder if he ever reflects on that fact.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 24, 2013 10:17 AM (IDSI7)

81 >63 I hope this piece of garbage gets put away for the rest of his life. Which will hopefully be VERY brief, and spent in the general population (hence the "very brief" part). He is worth less than dirt. I curse his name. <

Is cutting off people extremities with a blow torch, because that will stem the bleeding with maximum pain, considered cruel and unusual punishment?

Meh, I bet there is a very special little corner of hell for people like Gosnell.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:17 AM (GGCsk)

82 This isn't as uncommon a maneuver as you might think.

People think it's more common than it is, because it happens so often in court dramas. In real life not so much, because reliance on a jury's demand of prosecutorial responsibility is a pure sucker move. Because they don't demand it at all.

"Just fucking point at a guy! We'll get 'im!" —almost every criminal jury ever

Balls move by the D.

...

lol

...

Or (I haven't followed the testimony and I'm making this up) the D knows that with the aid of the judge's dismissals (which work as "Who's on the side of right, here?" signals) they've successfully clouded shit up and made this case not about the guy it's about or the dead babies he made.

Which would be a prosecutorial failure, not a defense success. Criminal prosecution is the easiest job in the world, and defense is nearly impossible.

Or (also making this up) they know their odds on appeal are really good, but they're really shitty now, so let's roll.

Posted by: oblig. at April 24, 2013 10:18 AM (cePv8)

83  ‏@RepStutzman

Today during 5pm hour IÂ’ll lead a series of pro-life speeches on House floor regarding the #Gosnell trial. Tune in on http://c-span.org

Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 24, 2013 10:18 AM (X6akg)

84 Lil' ol' Mika called the dead babies "fetuses" this morning until Joe corrected her.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 02:15 PM (lVPtV)



I'm surprised she could gack out a three syllable word other than her last name.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 24, 2013 10:18 AM (C3XXv)

85

25 ....The left cannot be trusted to keep bargains.

 

On anything, Sven.

Cannot be trusted...on any damn thing.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 24, 2013 10:18 AM (mXpa3)

86 Mona Lisa was called after the prosecution's case, IIRC.
My Cousin Vinny was right on the money in terms of criminal trial procedure. Better than any crap from Grisham.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:18 AM (XeZSs)

87
brb, celebratin abortion

Posted by: lolobama at April 24, 2013 10:18 AM (OgiBc)

88
82 was her name mona lisa?

Sheesh, I don't know this movie as well as I had thought.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 02:17 PM (LCRYB)



Mona Lisa Vito.


Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:19 AM (da5Wo)

89 I wish Texas would just turn JEF away on this one. Say he's not wanted there.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 24, 2013 10:19 AM (XYSwB)

90 78 or wait, did Vinny call Mona Lisa during the prosecution's case as rebuttal or only after he began his affirmative defense?
 
 

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 02:17 PM (LCRYB)

 

 

She was Vinny's first Witness.... and he then recalled the other expert....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2013 10:19 AM (lZBBB)

91 Mona Lisa Vito.
Vincent LaGuardia Gambini.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:19 AM (XeZSs)

92 I don't want my daughters to be punished with an 8 lbs. tattoo.

Posted by: President Choomy at April 24, 2013 10:19 AM (UzPAd)

93 43 I keep asking this question. Why would Gosnell need to cut their spines if the babies were dead? If they were dead, then he was desecrating a corpse, also a crime. Do why did the judge dismiss any mid trial? Posted by: Liberty Lover at April 24, 2013 02:10 PM (8YbCm) The judge can't add charges, only dismiss. If Gosnell wasn't charged with desecrating a corpse, the judge can't rule on that.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 24, 2013 10:19 AM (Zd/NW)

94 Also, the argument for the slit necks is that they were cut in utero. If so, he's guilty of only an illegal abortion (2 yrs in jail) and not murder.

Posted by: Lauren at April 24, 2013 10:19 AM (wsGWu)

95 88 Wheatie,

I sincerely wanted "peace" on this issue at some point...

instead they empowered gosnell to cut children to pieces.

No more bargains.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:19 AM (LRFds)

96 53 I know but the Proscution cannot now ask about the ones that the judge dismissed.  They are the ones that I am talking about.  If there wasn't enough evidence to bring it to trial, why include them?  The prosecution has to make the case that there was enough evidence, then the jurors decide.  This annoys me about this judge that he would throw some of the counts out mid trial.  I'm not familiar with murder cases, I guess, but this seems wrong to me.  Why not let the jury decide?

Posted by: Liberty Lover at April 24, 2013 10:20 AM (encrR)

97

 Tomorrow is the Grand Opening Ceremony for the GWBush Library, in Dallas.

 

Barky is scheduled to attend...along with all the others, in the 'living presidents club'.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 24, 2013 10:20 AM (mXpa3)

98 Judge looking at Mona Lisa, "Ah, a hostile witness."

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 10:20 AM (0UdgH)

99 Someone should show the baby pics to the New York City University professor to see if she thinks they are too brutal.   ...then wait for her head to explode at the singularity of thought.

Posted by: dogfish at April 24, 2013 10:20 AM (nsOJa)

100 Cripes, you could at least use Law and Order to determine trial protocol.

Although I believe My Cousin Vinny is probably one of the best movies ever made.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:20 AM (GGCsk)

101 If Gosnell is cleared, suddenly the MSM will talk about it and act like they have been all this time.

Posted by: Bigby's Fapping Hand at April 24, 2013 10:20 AM (3ZtZW)

102 The irony is that with a different timeline, Obama himself would doubtless have been Gosnelled. I wonder if he ever reflects on that fact.

His devotees don't.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 24, 2013 10:21 AM (/kI1Q)

103 She was Vinny's first Witness.... and he then recalled the other expert....

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 24, 2013 02:19 PM (lZBBB)


There are still people that foam at the mouth over Marisa Tomei winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for that role.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:21 AM (kXoT0)

104

Is cutting off people extremities with a blow torch, because that will stem the bleeding with maximum pain, considered cruel and unusual punishment?

 

I like the cut of your jib, and am interested in subscribing to your newsletter.



Meh, I bet there is a very special little corner of hell for people like Gosnell.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 02:17 PM (GGCsk)

 

Little corner?  No.  No, I suspect it's a LARGE corner.  That's the only way they can   make sure all the implements of soul-rending damnation that he so richly deserves   will be right at hand.

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at April 24, 2013 10:21 AM (4df7R)

105 The defense can make a motion to dismiss charges after the State's case on the ground that they didn't prove all the elements of the charge. The state has to prove that even before the defense case.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:22 AM (XeZSs)

106 The main blog author needs a refresher course.  An "affirmative defense" is    something for which the defense has the burden of proof.  Such as self-defense    or insanity.  The defense can't call its own witnesses during the   prosecution's case in chief.  For the defense to call its own witnesses it needs to    put on its own defense case.  The defense cross-examines the    prosecution's witnesses; it does not "rebut" them.  "Rebuttal" is an entirely   separate component of a trial.  Only the prosecution can offer "rebuttal   witnesses" in a criminal trial.  Not that any of these details matter.  It's the    Internet, after all.

Posted by: Criminal Trial Procedure 101 at April 24, 2013 10:22 AM (pmsMR)

107 His devotees don't.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 24, 2013 02:21 PM (/kI1Q)

Or they think he would have risen from the dead.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 24, 2013 10:22 AM (/WLC3)

108 I hear Planned Parenthood has booked the Elvis Impersonator in place of O'Bumbles.  Jail House Rock, Put the Blame on Me, Scratch My Back and Slowly but Surely are some of the hits to be played.  Rhinestone and glitter.  TCoB, baby.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at April 24, 2013 10:22 AM (71LDo)

109 I'm thinking Barry won't be getting the rousing applause he got at the Wellstone-esque memorial in Boston.

I'm disappointed they didn't politely ask him to stay away.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:22 AM (lVPtV)

110 There are still people that foam at the mouth over Marisa Tomei winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for that role.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 02:21 PM (kXoT0)



Marisa Tomei should win whatever the hell Marisa Tomei wants.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:22 AM (da5Wo)

111 So he's going to the event remembering the dead instead of the event that forgets the dead.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at April 24, 2013 10:22 AM (SO2Q8)

112 106 Ms Radish,

his devotees are the ones who would have murdered him, and his mother was the type of drama queen uber lib whore who would have waited until late term to make a point.

I wake up every day to people I fucking hate being in charge of all I love.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:23 AM (LRFds)

113 I think Gosnell would be an appropriate replacement for Obama to give the keynote at the PP event.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at April 24, 2013 10:23 AM (VLifP)

114 Perhaps   the planned parenthood speech    wouldn't have been cancelled if the judge had thrown out all of the charges.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 24, 2013 10:23 AM (gJyfA)

115 Marisa Tomei should win whatever the hell Marisa Tomei wants.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 02:22 PM (da5Wo)

I agree, but, ACTORS don't.  My goodness, she was a soap opera product.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:24 AM (kXoT0)

116 I ran into Marisa Tomei in Brooklyn one time. She is even more gorgeous in person and a very regular type person. Plus she's part Sicilian. ;-)

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:24 AM (GGCsk)

117 37 Gee. Preezy Choom will miss Dr. Ruth Westheimer receiving the Margaret Sanger award. No shit. Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 02:09 PM (lVPtV) Well, you can't make babies to kill without having zex und zex und zex.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2013 10:24 AM (NEIxp)

118

11 -

 

'Tis but a scratch.  I've had worse.   

Posted by: The Black Knight at April 24, 2013 10:24 AM (TOk1P)

119 The irony is that with a different timeline, Obama himself would doubtless have been Gosnelled. I wonder if he ever reflects on that fact.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 24, 2013 02:17 PM (IDSI7)



I've seen no evidence that he's capable of grasping a concept that he doesn't see embodied in him.  Since your idea would be him not existing, that thought wouldn't exist in his mind.

Posted by: Captain Hate at April 24, 2013 10:24 AM (C3XXv)

120 I'm betting on a hung jury since I believe a strong possibility exists at least one or more of the jurors are staunchly pro-choice, whether or not they announced themselves as such during jury selection.  In an act of stealth nullification,  Gosnell walks.

Posted by: troyriser at April 24, 2013 10:24 AM (vtiE6)

121 I really hope that there are some pro-life activists in West, Texas to greet O at the service.

Posted by: vivi at April 24, 2013 10:24 AM (m2oDh)

122 >>>"I believe you, Jay. You believe I believe you don't you? Because I do. I really believe you. It's important to me that you believe that." Hahahah, thats my sweet little ewok. Keep it up, ace.

Posted by: Eaton Cox at April 24, 2013 10:24 AM (q177U)

123 What's taking them so long?

Posted by: garrett at April 24, 2013 10:25 AM (3HQrZ)

124 BCochran, your case is probably proved.
http://tinyurl.com/bdua9fn

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 10:25 AM (0UdgH)

125 "Meh, I bet there is a very special little corner of hell for people like Gosnell."

They've built a whole new Ring.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at April 24, 2013 10:25 AM (71LDo)

126 I agree, but, ACTORS don't. My goodness, she was a soap opera product.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 02:24 PM (kXoT0)



Actors can fuck off. But first they will blow me.



Marisa Tomei? Schawing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:25 AM (da5Wo)

127 126 troyriser,

my guess as well...every agent of the state is pro-choice here...

you think the DA's team didn't throw up a brick on purpose in the Jury Selection?

"Air Ball"

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:25 AM (LRFds)

128 If this turd walks it will be a sham of a travesty of a fraud.  Fire and Brimstone should rain down on Philly.

Posted by: toby928 at April 24, 2013 10:25 AM (evdj2)

129 Marisa Tomei? Schawing.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 02:25 PM (da5Wo)



This!

Posted by: George Costanza at April 24, 2013 10:26 AM (X6akg)

130 96 One of the charges that was dismissed was for desecrating a corpse.  This judge seems a little to sympathetic to the Defense for my comfort.  I guess we'll see Monday.

Posted by: Liberty Lover at April 24, 2013 10:26 AM (encrR)

131 Yeah, I mean dead babies will never be able to vote for the democrats.

Posted by: redguy at April 24, 2013 10:26 AM (oqvI4)

132 Hung jury means a new trial. Acquittal is 12-0 not guilty.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:26 AM (XeZSs)

133 Jay Carney is a lying liar who lies.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 24, 2013 10:26 AM (9eDbm)

134 Plus she's part Sicilian. ;-)  Posted by: Marcus


I'd like to see that part.

Posted by: dogfish at April 24, 2013 10:26 AM (nsOJa)

135 and his mother was the type of drama queen uber lib whore who would have waited until late term to make a point.

All I can figure is that her parents were pressuring her to get rid of it, so giving live birth was some sort of youthful rebellion.

AmishDude had some links a few months ago about her heading off to Seattle a couple weeks afterwards and dragging him along like Paris Hilton used to drag along that dog-in-her-purse.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 24, 2013 10:27 AM (/kI1Q)

136

110 -

 

You know why most of us never go to law school?

 

It's not that we aren't smart enough, that's just silly.  It's that we fear we'll become as boring as you. 

Posted by: BurtTC at April 24, 2013 10:27 AM (TOk1P)

137

Jay Carney said it was because he wants to spend more time at the West, TX memorial.

 

Boy,  it  must REALLY be bad if Prezident Putts wants to spend time in Texas. 

 

You'd think someone who is such a big advocate for shutting down the "Born Alive" bill would rather be speaking to the wymyn of Planned Parenthood.

 

Rather than some hayseeds from a hick town in Texas (j/k about the "hick" part - we drive by West every time we go to visit  hubby's family)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at April 24, 2013 10:27 AM (ADnWI)

138 Marisa Tomei? Schawing.

Yes.


Imagine you're a deer. You're prancing along, you get thirsty, you spot a little brook, you put your little deer lips down to the cool clear water... BAM! A fuckin bullet rips off part of your head! Your brains are laying on the ground in little bloody pieces! Now I ask ya. Would you give a fuck what kind of pants the son of a bitch who shot you was wearing?



Best delivery of the movie.

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2013 10:27 AM (GQ8sn)

139 Megyn Kelly described seeing her babies at 24 weeks, yawning, sucking their thumbs.

She's been all over the Gosnell trial, and went after Barky for his plan to attend the PP event [before he cancelled his plans because West, TX or something].

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:28 AM (lVPtV)

140 137 Yeah, I mean dead babies will never be able to vote for the democrats. Posted by: redguy at April 24, 2013 02:26 Like death will be an impediment to that.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2013 10:28 AM (NEIxp)

141 134 Toby928th,

Mankind has developed an app for that....

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:28 AM (LRFds)

142 Hung jury means a new trial. Acquittal is 12-0 not guilty.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 02:26 PM (XeZSs)

 

I understand the distinction, thanks, but not all mistrials are tried again.

Posted by: troyriser at April 24, 2013 10:28 AM (vtiE6)

143 Just curious, can you get any further away from a Planned Parenthood clinic or location than West Texas?

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:28 AM (GGCsk)

144
130 BCochran, your case is probably proved.
http://tinyurl.com/bdua9fn

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 02:25 PM (0UdgH)






My case is a slam dunk.



http://tinyurl.com/c9el39b



NSFW

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:28 AM (da5Wo)

145 Yeah, I mean dead babies will never be able to vote for the democrats.

Posted by: redguy at April 24, 2013 02:26 PM (oqvI4)


Yeah and dead Black babies and Black women made sterile by botched abortions are just a side effect for good Democrats who are not racist like Christian Right Wing Pro-Lifers.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (kXoT0)

146 If this ghoul somehow walks, there will be consequences. Either it'll normalize the Obama/Gosnell interpretation of "abortion" or it will generate a huge national re-look at PP and company.

Posted by: Lincolntf at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (ZshNr)

147

My bet would be that Gosnell goes down for the adults and the jury hangs on the children.  Then the DA decides not to retry.

20-to-life.

Posted by: toby928 at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (evdj2)

148 Reason why Gaylord was not vacuumed out of that Earth friendly life support pod was simple.  By carrying to term and giving birth dear Stanley proved how morally superior she was to all those other regular folk in flyover country.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (0UdgH)

149 Obama is going to Texas because, you know, he has so much in common with the people. Those bitter clingers.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (GGCsk)

150

145No way he walks. No way.

---

Of course not, we'll be carrying him out of the court!

Posted by: Planned death to babies at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (SO2Q8)

151 My Cousin Vinny was on the other night.  As I was watching with the bride, I had my "internal" dialog going whilst watching Marisa.   All of a sudden, the bride looks at me and says "You know you said that out loud, right?".  Well, I do now.  Oops.

Posted by: Muad'dib at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (KjlbF)

152 Put me in the Marisa Tomei fan club.
i@144, t's pronounced "deah."

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (XeZSs)

153 138 Real Joe,

at which point the DA has latitude to say "look folks we tried...waste of money to go after him again"...Kermy G pleas down to running illegal abortions and skates

I'll bet a virtual steak dinner on it

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:29 AM (LRFds)

154 Ace, any thoughts on Beck's scoops on the Saudi national detained? Beck seems to have some very, very damaging docs saying the guy was a really bad guy but was let in anyway. On no fly list, on terror watch list, yet was let in without full vetting. Was supposed to be in school in Ohio, but never went, and lived in a Boston apartment instead. Massive insider records tampering to get this guy past all the immigration protocols designed to keep guys like him out of the country. Beck says he has info on who did the records tampering, but hasn't released it yet. Best case scenario is kid is basically a double agent, with a real jihadi background, sent to spy on young Saudis and report to his bosses who the angry, dangerous ones are. Which would explain why his records seem to have been repeatedly tampered with to enable him to bypass our security measures designed to keep guys like him out. Or maybe just a known low-level jihadi wannabe we know about and let in the country to flush out the ones we don't know about. Those are the good scenarios. The bad scenarios are really bad obviously. very odd. Beck's hyperventilating style makes him hard to believe at times, but this time he appears to have a real scoop. hard to say.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 24, 2013 10:30 AM (ZPrif)

155 Judge looking at Mona Lisa, "Ah, a hostile witness." Hoss style. Doggy style. Don't matter. It's all good.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2013 10:30 AM (GFM2b)

156 >>>Best delivery of the movie. I hate that line. Most of the movie is semi-plausible in speech (semi) and then they give her that very long implausible sentence. She doesn't sound real saying it (and that's not a knock on her; people don't talk that way).

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 10:30 AM (LCRYB)

157

150 -

 

N.  Dakota

 

It bugs the heck out of them that  there aren't any abortion clinics in N. Dakota.... not that they know WHERE N. Dakota is, but.....

Posted by: BurtTC at April 24, 2013 10:31 AM (TOk1P)

158 Why has the jury been dismissed until Monday?

The fix is in.  One or more of the Gosnell sympathetic jurors will "carelessly" blab some shit to the media, or be "accidentally" "caught" reading external reporting about the case.

M.I.S.T.R.I.A.L.  baby, mistrial. 

It takes a few days to engineer those sort of mistrial worthy gaffes and have the media pounce.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 24, 2013 10:31 AM (/gHaE)

159 >I hate that line. Most of the movie is semi-plausible in speech (semi) and then they give her that very long implausible sentence. She doesn't sound real saying it (and that's not a knock on her; people don't talk that way). <

You don't have any Italian family from Brooklyn I'm guessing. Otherwise you wouldn't think that implausible.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:31 AM (GGCsk)

160 She doesn't sound real saying it (and that's not a knock on her; people don't talk that way).

It's supposed to sound ridiculous and funny.  Which is what her point was.

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2013 10:31 AM (GQ8sn)

161 I hate that line. Most of the movie is semi-plausible in speech (semi) and then they give her that very long implausible sentence. She doesn't sound real saying it (and that's not a knock on her; people don't talk that way).

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 02:30 PM (LCRYB)



Best line in the movie. I loved it. And how is it not believable?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:32 AM (da5Wo)

162 We need a Zimmerman post, make it legal beagle day. WTF is taking so,long in that case?

Posted by: Jean at April 24, 2013 10:32 AM (7tVNd)

163 155 Anna Puma,

say that R v W happened a decade and change earlier...

Ms Dunham....(how apt) would have ben "standing with the sisters"...

an even bigger morality cop win...

Nah she'd have removed him then

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:32 AM (LRFds)

164 If the Gosnell trial is every made into a movie (serious doubts:  Hollywood), I'm seeing Danny Glover as Gosnell.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:32 AM (lVPtV)

165 dammit

every = ever

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:32 AM (lVPtV)

166 I don't see the DA declining to retry if they are hung on all counts. Whoever said, guilty on the dead woman, hung on the infants, no retrial, is probably closer to what will happen.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:32 AM (XeZSs)

167 A dollar to a donut that he walks away............Lord, I hope that I am wrong......wish I knew what the jury make-up was. Does anyone know if it was a Philly jury or a jury brought in from out-state?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 24, 2013 10:33 AM (HVff2)

168 We are all George Costanza now http://tinyurl.com/b7lohn8

(shwing)

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 24, 2013 10:33 AM (9eDbm)

169 I don't like this trial, or the citizens that care about it. This harms us with moderates, and since democrats don't care about it why should we? Which is why I'm importing an entirely new citizenry who won't give a fucking shit if babies have their necks sliced with scissors. Fuck you. By the way after I get enough new voters to not have to even acknowledge you again I plan on switching parties because by then Florida will be an unwinnable blue state just like the entire country. Racists.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at April 24, 2013 10:33 AM (JHNMj)

170 That was a Marisa Tomei reference btw.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at April 24, 2013 10:33 AM (9eDbm)

171 As a former prosecutor, I can tell you, whoever tried this case has nightmares about the evidence. They will fight to retry if the jury hangs.

Posted by: real joe, law moron in blue state hell at April 24, 2013 10:33 AM (XeZSs)

172 Isn't there some kind of right to a speedy trial?

Posted by: Knave at April 24, 2013 10:33 AM (cipri)

173 Lena Dunham is still on for an award from PP, so there's that.

Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2013 10:34 AM (fWAjv)

174 99 53 I know but the Proscution cannot now ask about the ones that the judge dismissed. They are the ones that I am talking about. If there wasn't enough evidence to bring it to trial, why include them? The prosecution has to make the case that there was enough evidence, then the jurors decide. This annoys me about this judge that he would throw some of the counts out mid trial. I'm not familiar with murder cases, I guess, but this seems wrong to me. Why not let the jury decide? Posted by: Liberty Lover at April 24, 2013 02:20 PM (encrR) The prosecution throws as many charges as possible at the defendant, hoping to get as many as possible to stick. Why? Probably in hopes of getting a plea bargain.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 24, 2013 10:34 AM (Zd/NW)

175 Is the current theory that Ace is a lawyer?
Clearly not of the defense or prosecutor kind .

Posted by: tsrblke (work)[/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 24, 2013 10:34 AM (Vt/hU)

176 I'm shocked that Obama is not proclaiming the Democratic Party's official motto on Abortion.  Abortion should be safish, always legals, and for everyone, all the time, whether lame, crippled, or an unwanted girl.  Abortion now and forever!  Horray!

Posted by: Shtetl G at April 24, 2013 10:34 AM (dlzlR)

177 173 Real joe,

Eh maybe...

jurors immoral enough to have doublethought outside the womb kids "fetuses" will probably just say "collateral damage" to the fetus carriers...

I can see it going either way...but I am dead certain the babies get no justice

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:34 AM (LRFds)

178 We need a Zimmerman post, make it legal beagle day.

I got three game changer bio-med stories bookmarked for when it slows down later in the day.  Major breakthrough kinda shit.

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 24, 2013 10:34 AM (/gHaE)

179 We are all George Costanza now


George Costanza was the first couch fucker.

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2013 10:34 AM (GQ8sn)

180 Reason why Gaylord was not vacuumed out of that Earth friendly life support pod was simple. By carrying to term and giving birth dear Stanley proved how morally superior she was to all those other regular folk in flyover country.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 02:29 PM (0UdgH)


Abortion was not legal when Obama was born.  It is true that Stanley Ann had the money and connections to find a sympathetic doctor who would've performed a D & C for those irregular periods, but, her parents were avowed Communists and they partied with Frank Marshall Davis at sex parties.  Stanley Ann having that half African baby was part of their Anti-Colonial schtick.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:35 AM (kXoT0)

181 You guys down here hear about the ongoing cholesterol problem in the country?

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:35 AM (GGCsk)

182 >>>Ace, any thoughts on Beck's scoops on the Saudi national detained? Beck seems to have some very, very damaging docs saying the guy was a really bad guy but was let in anyway. On no fly list, on terror watch list, yet was let in without full vetting. Was supposed to be in school in Ohio, but never went, and lived in a Boston apartment instead. Massive insider records tampering to get this guy past all the immigration protocols designed to keep guys like him out of the country. Beck says he has info on who did the records tampering, but hasn't released it yet. My opinion is that the facts are correct but the implications are not. And the story is all about the implications. Take the original "terror charges" inserted into his file. Do you know when they were inserted? April 15, the day of the bombings, when he became a person of interest. So, when he was suspected of being the bomber, they added that stuff into his file. But he wasn't the bomber-- so while there was nothing wrong with adding such suspicions into the file, it also means nothing. It's like me saying on my blog "He's a person of interest" on April 15. Does that mean he did it? No, it means I'm suspicious, I'm saying Maybe He's the Guy. (In fact I was always pretty skeptical it was him, but let's just say.) So what do we have? We have a government official hearing the guy's possibly guilty of terrorism and then adding a series of suspicions to his file. Days later, they redact it, because he's innocent. What's the story, exactly? What are we actually *suspecting* here? You can't have a cover-up without something to cover up; if this guy is innocent, as he seems to be, what's the cover up? The only angle I see here is that Napolitano may have lied about the file. Which would fit her MO of denying everything, lying to the public to maintain the illusion of never making a mistake. On the other hand -- while she is a liar -- it's also perfectly possible, and I think likely, that she never knew what a bureaucrat had added to this guy's file on April 15, or what was redacted later.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 10:35 AM (LCRYB)

183 179 Isn't there some kind of right to a speedy trial? Posted by: Knave at April 24, 2013 02:33 PM (cipri) I beleive that has to do with the time between when you're charged and the time you go to trial, not the duration of the trial itself.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2013 10:35 AM (NEIxp)

184

171 -

 

I can see it now:  Baby squirming on the table, Glover/Gosnell with knife in hand... "I'm gettin' too old for this sh*t." 

 

 

Posted by: BurtTC at April 24, 2013 10:36 AM (TOk1P)

185

Yup, nothing like a Cuban/Hispanic Blue State Democrap

 

because by then Florida will be an unwinnable blue state just like the entire country.

Racists.

Posted by: Marco Rubio at April 24, 2013 02:33 PM (JHNMj)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at April 24, 2013 10:36 AM (HVff2)

186

171 If the Gosnell trial is ever made into a movie (serious doubts: Hollywood), I'm seeing Danny Glover as Gosnell.

 

More likely, it would be...Morgan Freeman...he would make for a more 'sympathetic' figure.

 

Because if Hollywood ever did make a movie about this, it would be to show how this 'poor doctor was persecuted for helping women'.

Posted by: wheatie at April 24, 2013 10:36 AM (mXpa3)

187 Purp, did you get my electrical question yesterday?

Posted by: Jean at April 24, 2013 10:36 AM (7tVNd)

188 is this something? http://tinyurl.com/adpddod from rightscoop Saudi national Ali Al-Harbi has visited the White House multiple times since 2009

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 24, 2013 10:36 AM (GVxQo)

189 Because if Hollywood ever did make a movie about this, it would be to show how this 'poor doctor was persecuted for helping women'.

No way.  Those guys who did the SAW movies need to make this.

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2013 10:37 AM (GQ8sn)

190 After I legalize so many democrat voters that the entire country turns into California, Goznell's practice will be perfectly legal and you guys will be whining about it with no means of redress. I'm the new face of the Republican party. Suck it

Posted by: Marco Rubio at April 24, 2013 10:37 AM (JHNMj)

191 Ace is a lawyer for real. What Restaurant does he work at?

Posted by: Knave at April 24, 2013 10:38 AM (cipri)

192 Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 02:35 PM (LCRYB)


No ace, you're wrong, this will CHANGE EVERYTHING.......right after you buy some gold.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:38 AM (da5Wo)

193 Because if Hollywood ever did make a movie about this, it would be to show how this 'poor doctor was persecuted for helping women'. This. Matt Damon could play his lawyer.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2013 10:38 AM (NEIxp)

194 *sigh*  I guess I must write even longer comments to get a point fully across.  To whit belaboring the point that Stanley thought Gaylord was a morally superior choice positively validating her self-wroth because it affirmed her societal indoctrination that was imprinted upon her by anti-Western socialist parental units.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 10:39 AM (0UdgH)

195

Gosnell is going to be  the   keynote speaker at the Planned Parenthood gathering  they  have scheduled in Hell  a few years from now. 

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2013 10:39 AM (m2CN7)

196 169 We need a Zimmerman post, make it legal beagle day. WTF is taking so,long in that case? Posted by: Jean at April 24, 2013 02:32 PM (7tVNd) Prosecution is dragging it out to try to force a plea bargain from Zimmerman. Zim's lawyers are paid by the hour, the prosecutions' are paid by the government. Guess which side can go on forever?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 24, 2013 10:39 AM (Zd/NW)

197

Reason why Gaylord was not vacuumed out of that Earth friendly life support pod was simple. By carrying to term and giving birth dear Stanley proved how morally superior she was to all those other regular folk in flyover country.

 

It's more likely she gave birth because abortion was illegal in 1960/1961, and getting an illegal one was probably risky and difficult. That was my point: if the Dems had had their way on abortion back then, they almost certainly wouldn't have their Messiah now.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 24, 2013 10:39 AM (IDSI7)

198
202 *sigh* I guess I must write even longer comments to get a point fully across. To whit belaboring the point that Stanley thought Gaylord was a morally superior choice positively validating her self-wroth because it affirmed her societal indoctrination that was imprinted upon her by anti-Western socialist parental units.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 02:39 PM (0UdgH)



TL;DR

Posted by: BCochran1981 at April 24, 2013 10:39 AM (da5Wo)

199 200 Because if Hollywood ever did make a movie about this, it would be to show how this 'poor doctor was persecuted for helping women'.

This. Matt Damon could play his lawyer.




Halle Barry could play Mrs. Gosnell.  Brave, self-sacrificing, and all that shit.  The abortion doc's wife with a heart of gold.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:40 AM (lVPtV)

200 Yeah, that's not an affirmative defense. One example of an affirmative defense is entrapment. In that case you're admitting you committed the illegal act, "yes, I sold that crack to the undercover cop," but you're saying there was a good reason - "The UC's actions would have compelled an otherwise innocent person to commit the same act." It was somebody else's fault. Alibi is another, maybe better one. "Yes, that horrible crime was committed, but I was somewhere else, and here are the witnesses who will affirm that I was." The defense attorney in this case is going for reasonable doubt and hoping like hell he's got at least one person out of twelve who was too stupid to be able to get out of jury duty. It works, and judging by the state of our educational system and by the "Support Jahar" people out there, I'd say his odds aren't bad and improving every day.

Posted by: Mongoose at April 24, 2013 10:41 AM (K8/5R)

201 It didn't help the case is very complex and yet the HVIT cuts terrorist #2 loose to get a lawyer and implies they have it all sewed up in terms of tangential involvement. While I don't believe it's a conspiracy or cover up it stinks of ass-covering. The type of ass-covering that usually gets more people killed in the long run because potential associations are not pursued.

The FBI and DHS probably at the behest of political forces dropped the ball on these guys big time. Just like Benghazi the press has no interest in uncovering the truth and assigning culpability. Frankly, I think they like all the conspiracy crap. It gives them a chance to heap all questions into the kooky category.

Posted by: Marcus at April 24, 2013 10:41 AM (GGCsk)

202 202 Ms puma,

Anna I was not saying you were off base...yes you nailed why she let the asshole live in real life BUT I'm telling you the Dunhams are more 'fellow travelers' than hard commies and "anti-colonialism" was the TRENDY cause in their era...

if bark were my ageish I think she'd have Gosnelled him.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:41 AM (LRFds)

203 203 Gosnell is going tobe the keynote speaker at the Planned Parenthood gathering they have scheduled in Hell a few years from now. Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2013 02:39 PM (m2CN7) Come on down, Kermit! After a while, Satan's barbed cock isn't all that bad!

Posted by: George "The Killer" Tiller at April 24, 2013 10:41 AM (NEIxp)

204 182 Is the current theory that Ace is a lawyer? Clearly not of the defense or prosecutor kind . Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 24, 2013 02:34 PM (Vt/hU) Haven't you seen the late night ads for Ace, Binder and Binder? Transvaginal Mesh and Cold Therapy Injury specialists.

Posted by: RWC at April 24, 2013 10:41 AM (fWAjv)

205 There must have been some backlash on the Planned Parenthood speech, eh?
Karl Rove (I know, meh) was on the Dennis Miller show talking about the Bush Library events this week and when Dennis mentioned that Obama was combining his attendance to the Bus Library events and then a TX Planned Parenthood, Rove was really clearly pissed about this.Just brazenly political, especially when Bush was such a pro-life president (even when it came to cloning/ embryonic stem cell research, etc.). Barry is such a classless guy to even schedule it.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2013 10:41 AM (KqmXZ)

206 " .wish I knew what the jury make-up was" Anyone who professed prolife beliefs was dismissed during jury selection.

Posted by: Lauren at April 24, 2013 10:42 AM (wsGWu)

207 194 Purp, did you get my electrical question yesterday?

Yea, I gave a lengthy response.

http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=339371#c20520817

If its too electro-geeky for you I can try to simplify it some

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 24, 2013 10:42 AM (/gHaE)

208 Also, as I keep trying to explain, Sanger was a eugenist progressive, not an antiblack racial genocidaire. She was in DuBois's camp, not Wilson's.

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at April 24, 2013 10:42 AM (Z9kSN)

209 Haven't you seen the late night ads for Ace, Binder and Binder?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (/kI1Q)

210 Barry is such a classless guy to even schedule it. Barry just loves him some dead babies. His legislative record proves it.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (NEIxp)

211 When Saint Gosnell receives his Nobel Piece Prize, and Blessed President Obama places the medal around this holy man's neck in a special ceremony, I will cheer and cheer and cheer!

Posted by: Lefty McTard at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (XWyft)

212

Lena Dunham is still on for an award from PP, so there's that.

 

Putting men off sex counts as contraception?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (IDSI7)

213 Abortion was not legal when Obama was born. It is true that Stanley Ann had the money and connections to find a sympathetic doctor who would've performed a D C for those irregular periods, but, her parents were avowed Communists and they partied with Frank Marshall Davis at sex parties. Stanley Ann having that half African baby was part of their Anti-Colonial schtick. Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 02:35 PM (kXoT0) Plus Franklin Marshall Davis wanted a son.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (Zd/NW)

214 Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 24, 2013 02:36 PM (GVxQo)

WTF?

Posted by: Derak at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (lkjWK)

215 Good points. I haven't seen Beck or anyone else lay out a timeline for when the files were created and when they were altered. Your scenario seems quite plausible. So in that case we have perhaps an overzealous reaction in the immediate aftermath, kid getting added to terror watchlist, etc -- and then a retraction. Somebody on the inside obviously found this all very disturbing and thought a cover-up was occurring and leaked the docs to Beck. It would seem a straightforward thing for Napolitano to clarify, but instead she decided to just lie and deny. Still some unexplained oddities like why he was let in to study in Ohio, yet never showed up to the school and was living in Boston instead. Beck says he spoke to the school in Findley, OH and the Saudi never showed up. Even though that's why he was awarded a student visa in the first place. Also a bit odd that Michelle Obama visited him in the hospital. Implies very well-connected Saudi family. Hopefully Beck is, well, being Beck and exaggerating the dark and nefarious aspects here.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (ZPrif)

216 Lol.

I can't type anything right today.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (/kI1Q)

217
The best scene in My Cousin Vinny was the drip in the sink scene.

It gives me the "maximum amount of torque".

Posted by: Guy Mohawl at April 24, 2013 10:43 AM (jKWYf)

218 Why are they honoring an ugly prostitute posthumously?

Posted by: Knave at April 24, 2013 10:44 AM (cipri)

219 More likely, it would be...Morgan Freeman...he would make for a more 'sympathetic' figure. Because if Hollywood ever did make a movie about this, it would be to show how this 'poor doctor was persecuted for helping women'. Posted by: wheatie at April 24, 2013 02:36 PM (mXpa3) A bookstore clerk once made the mistake of asking me what I thought about Cider House Rules. This was around the time the movie was out. A couple of minutes into my rant about how misleading the advertising campaign for the movie was and how awful the book was and, oh, by the way, John Irving was possibly the second most overrated novelist currently working, with Joyce Carol Oates and Annie Proulx tied for first, I felt a tap on my arm. I then got all embarrassed about how loud I was ranting right up until the nice lady who tapped my arm asked, all wide eyed "It's about abortion?" I said "Yup." I then further noticed there were about six or seven other women standing there. One of them blurted out "But I thought it was about a country doctor." I then explained that, sure, it was about a country doctor. Who did abortions. A bunch of stunned faces looked back at me. Gah. I still get furious even thinking about the ad campaigns for the movie version of Cider House Rules.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Please? at April 24, 2013 10:44 AM (VtjlW)

220 Putting men off sex counts as contraception?

I used my face for birth control for 25 years, and it worked 100%.


I'm going to go slit my wrists now.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at April 24, 2013 10:44 AM (/kI1Q)

221

I can see it now: Baby squirming on the table, Glover/Gosnell with knife in hand... "I'm gettin' too old for this sh*t."

 

Posted by: BurtTC

 

MoronicAcenfreude:  The laughter one experiences while  completely disgusted and amused simultaneously, usually accompanied by food spraying onto a computer monitor.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at April 24, 2013 10:45 AM (NF2Bf)

222 going to law school don't make you a lawyer


does get you right into the Senate, though-----for life

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at April 24, 2013 10:45 AM (Dll6b)

223 229 Ms Radish,

Ma'am I fear you worked too much...

don't slash your wrists.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:45 AM (LRFds)

224 OT but ... the mask is slipping. WTF
From Gateway pundit ...Saudi Student Alharbi visited the White House Several Times .... 

Posted by: ET at April 24, 2013 10:46 AM (YpjaN)

225 Is the current theory that Ace is a lawyer?
Clearly not of the defense or prosecutor kind .

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at April 24, 2013 02:34 PM (Vt/hU)

Ace is a better lawyer than my divorce attorney 16 years ago.

Posted by: troyriser at April 24, 2013 10:46 AM (vtiE6)

226

Ace, you were right!! on procedure, to an extent.

 

If both sides agree, then a defense witness can indeed be put on during the prosecution's case in chief.  And the idea that the defense does not have the opportunity to provide sur-rebuttal witnesses is very misplaced.

 

Essentially, the trial court can conduct the trial pretty much how he damn wants to.  Happens all the time.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 24, 2013 10:46 AM (tVTLU)

227 But Barry didn't need to use the Bush Library dedication as the reason to stop by the local Planned Parenthood to fund raise. Like, "Hey, W., while I'm in town for your party I think I'll take the opportunity to give a hand to the baby killers in your neighborhood.You're welcome,"

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2013 10:46 AM (KqmXZ)

228

Gosnell will not be found guilty of murder.  I mean, c'mon.  This is Philly.  And he's black.  It'll be OJ Simpson rationalization all the way through.

 

If he's convicted of anything, it'll be for the illegal perscriptions.  A slap on the wrist and medical licence probation.

Posted by: Soona at April 24, 2013 10:46 AM (UmGcr)

229 AtC, Seriously. Cider House Rules was the biggest load of crap I've had the misfortune to see.

Posted by: Lauren at April 24, 2013 10:47 AM (wsGWu)

230 Sanger, black genocide  http://www.blackgenocide.org/sanger.html

Her writings:  http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=238946.xml

"As an advocate of Birth Control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the "unfit" and the "fit", admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation to the mentally and physically fit though less fertile parents of the educated and well-to-do classes. On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective."


Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:47 AM (kXoT0)

231 From the WA Times yesterday:

At the gala dinner, pro-abortion rights group plans to bestow Dr. Ruth Westheimer with its highest honor, the Margaret Sanger Award for her “lifelong commitment to empowering women and men to talk openly and honestly about sex and sexual health. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa also will be honored with the “Care. No Matter What” award for his dedication to protecting women’s health care in the City of Los Angeles.



Poor Barry.  Having to miss this for a bunch of bitter clingers.



Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 10:47 AM (lVPtV)

232 230 Lurking Canuck,

quite...

every girl with a story bout how she was date raped while going to night school and was conflicted until the term had gone too far...

Oxygen-the Channel for women(whose brains have had far too little)

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:47 AM (LRFds)

233 yeah, okay, but in the movie version of "Cider House Rules", Charleze briefly revealed what just might be


The Perfect ( and I do mean perfect ) ass.


Did I mention the 'perfect' aspect????//

Posted by: Zombie Ted Kennedy at April 24, 2013 10:47 AM (Dll6b)

234 Shit that link sux ass

Go here

http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=339371

Comment 419

Posted by: @PurpAv at April 24, 2013 10:48 AM (/gHaE)

235

228...Gah. I still get furious even thinking about the ad campaigns for the movie version of Cider House Rules.

 

Fuckin Hollywood propagandists, AtC.

They're the best.

Ever.

 

And...great story, my queen.

 

Posted by: wheatie at April 24, 2013 10:48 AM (mXpa3)

236 196 Because if Hollywood ever did make a movie about this, it would be to
show how this 'poor doctor was persecuted for helping women'.


No way. Those guys who did the SAW movies need to make this.

No. The guys who made the "horror" movies The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto need to make this.

Posted by: Iblis at April 24, 2013 10:48 AM (9221z)

237 234 TroyRiser,

Divorce lawyers are gigolos and strumpets sir....

they tend to both somehow fuck the men.

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:49 AM (LRFds)

238

if the Dems had had their way on abortion back then, they almost certainly wouldn't have their Messiah now.

 

Gee, I guess it's just too bad  that their next "Messiah" may very well have ended up in a  garbage can for not one, but TWO generations -  maybe more.

 

Of course, they'll never know for sure; more importantly, their "cause" is too important for them to  be shown to care.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at April 24, 2013 10:49 AM (ADnWI)

239 All you ever need to know how evil Sanger is, is to realize the Nazis liked her.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at April 24, 2013 10:49 AM (0UdgH)

240 Levity. Laughter Is the Best Insulin http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/346548/laughter-best-insulin excerpt: • “The mission of the beverage industry is to come up with a drink for every micro-moment of the human experience. Alcoholic coffee drinks. Alcoholic coffee drinks. How rare is that set of circumstances when you need to be whatever the opposite of tired and sober is? ‘We’re gonna get trashed and alert tonight!’ . . . ‘I know my car was all over the road, officer. I saw every second of it.’”

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 24, 2013 10:49 AM (XYSwB)

241

 

"dead-on balls accurate" she said

Is that an aeronautic/aviation phrase? I think old flight instruments used floating balls in liquid instead of bubbles, but I'm just guessing here.

I've always wondered.

Posted by: soothsayer at April 24, 2013 10:50 AM (OgiBc)

242 "AtC, Seriously. Cider House Rules was the biggest load of crap I've had the misfortune to see."

No kidding! How about the gut punch at the end? Charlize Theron's character has an abortion, then her boyfriend goes off to war and comes back paralyzed. So she killed the only child he boyfriend would ever sire.Yay abortion!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2013 10:50 AM (KqmXZ)

243 Things work different in different states.  In Colorado, the prosecution must disprove affirmative defenses and by the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 24, 2013 10:50 AM (Hx5uv)

244 I still get furious even thinking about the ad campaigns for the movie version of Cider House Rules.


I thought it was about Spiderman falling in love with Aeon Flux?

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2013 10:50 AM (GQ8sn)

245 227---" Why are they honoring an ugly prostitute posthumously?" Posted by: Knave at April 24, 2013 02:44 PM (cipri) ----------------- Lena Dunham is dead?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 24, 2013 10:50 AM (C8mVl)

246 Nothing surprises me anymore. There's a lot that disgusts me but surprise me? No. I guess I'll be surprised when we win. In the very end. Right about the time I see the bright white flash. (Gee this sounds like a Doom Thread post.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at April 24, 2013 10:51 AM (BG/Bj)

247 I used my face for birth control for 25 years, and it worked 100%.


I'm going to go slit my wrists now.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer

***

 

Birth control? That's what my personality is for.

Posted by: Tilikum The Killer Assault Whale at April 24, 2013 10:51 AM (uhftQ)

248 Turning to telecommunications, Seinfeld discussed *69 service. “Sixty-nine? Is that the number they picked for this thing? Can someone explain to me how that slipped through the entire organization? There’s not one person who works at the phone company who went to junior high school? How can that possibly have happened? 69? Really? ‘We can pick any number we want . . . 68!’ I can’t wait to hear what they’ve got for three-way calling.”

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at April 24, 2013 10:52 AM (XYSwB)

249 I like Cider! Come to think of it, I would like a juice box right now.

Posted by: Joey Biden at April 24, 2013 10:53 AM (jucos)

250 Gosnell will be fined $50 for not sorting his trash and case law will kick decency in the nuts one more time.

Posted by: zsasz at April 24, 2013 10:53 AM (MMC8r)

251 What's it matter if late term abortion is illegal now, just wait until democrats win every state and national election. Do you think it will be illegal for long? Bwahahaha fucking funny. Those babies will go snip snip and you can complain all you want, you won't EVER have enough votes to stop it. Gosnell was funded by democrat politicians taking your money and giving it to him, do you think that's going to be defunded with 90 million new democrat voters in 20 years? in 10 years I'll switch parties, 6 if I can't win the republican nomination, so wtf do I care for?

Posted by: Marco Rubio at April 24, 2013 10:53 AM (JHNMj)

252 Well, Horde, it has been a wide ranging day from free range pooping toddlers to Big Sis and her choice of aftershave to Gosnell to Sanger.

Perhaps we should try Tinker to Evers to Chance?  Only baseball reference I know besides Who's On First.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes C'est Magnifique at April 24, 2013 10:53 AM (kXoT0)

253

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 02:35 PM (LCRYB)

 

I think the bigger thing here (if I'm reading the info right) was that the guy was on the No Fly List when they let him into the country in the first place, and granted him VIP status, to boot.

Posted by: Country Singer at April 24, 2013 10:55 AM (L8r/r)

254

ET:

 

Exactly.  WTF is going on?  Saudi national is a terror designee and yet always at the WH...

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 24, 2013 10:55 AM (tVTLU)

255 127 I really hope that there are some pro-life activists in West, Texas to greet O at the service.

Posted by: vivi at April 24, 2013 02:24 PM (m2oDh)


In my world it would be so big and raucous and media splashed that BHO would wish he was at that PP event.  But that's my world....where lots of things don't happen.

Posted by: gracepmc at April 24, 2013 10:56 AM (rznx3)

256 No fly boy was a regular at the White House.

http://www.therightscoop.com/

Posted by: Knave at April 24, 2013 10:56 AM (cipri)

257

You know when a pro choice person would become a radical pro life person?

 

 

When the person wanting the abortion provided the reason was because she believed her baby was going to be born gay and she could not tolerate have a gay child.

 

Also I like the thought exercise to give to pro choice people.  If there was a way to take the 'fetus' and put it in a life sustaining capsule to be later adopted by someone,  would they agree with that procedure?   

Posted by: polynikes at April 24, 2013 10:56 AM (m2CN7)

258 Birth control? That's what my personality is for.

Posted by: Tilikum The Killer Assault Whale at April 24, 2013 02:51 PM (uhftQ)

 

The most effective form of birth control is telling a woman that you're a dishwasher living in a halfway house. Keeping it honest kept me out of trouble (and relationships) and gave me the time it took to get my life back together.

Posted by: troyriser at April 24, 2013 10:56 AM (vtiE6)

259

I thought it was about Spiderman falling in love with Aeon Flux?

 

Oh my.  Those tights.  The constant bending over.  The silky movements.

 

Aeon Flux wasn't bad either.

Posted by: Lurking Canuck at April 24, 2013 10:56 AM (NF2Bf)

260 264 Prscient11,

it is pretty obvious what is going on....

*somehow* the White House has a penchant for having bombers and no fly list types at the White House and not feeling the least bit of danger...

"why is that?"

You don't tend to blow up your idols and you don't tend to fear your fans

Posted by: sven10077@sven10077 at April 24, 2013 10:57 AM (LRFds)

261 What's it matter if late term abortion is illegal now, just wait until democrats win every state and national election. Do you think it will be illegal for long? Bwahahaha fucking funny. Those babies will go snip snip and you can complain all you want, you won't EVER have enough votes to stop it. That's when someone will go all splodey-jihadi on a clinic.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2013 10:58 AM (GFM2b)

262

CNN is reporting that Ted Cruz "nodded" to Harry Reid in the hall of the Russell Office Building as the two were returning from (separate) lunches.

 

It's obvious Cruz has turned into a communist-loving RINO.  No one with conservative values would acknowedge a liberal democrat in public.

 

How did this guy get elected and who is going to primary him?

Posted by: jwest at April 24, 2013 11:00 AM (u2a4R)

263

"Take the original "terror charges" inserted into his file. Do you know when they were inserted? April 15, the day of the bombings, when he became a person of interest. So, when he was suspected of being the bomber, they added that stuff into his file."

I do not think this is correct.  If he was designated under the terrorism provision on April 15th, then Ace's comment makes sense.

 

My understanding was that this was in the file for at least some period of time before the attack.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 24, 2013 11:01 AM (tVTLU)

264 (Under Siege 2: Dark Territory) We know this. The Chinese know that we know. But we make-believe that we don't know and the Chinese make-believe that they believe that we don't know, but know that we know. Everybody knows.

Posted by: Travis Dane at April 24, 2013 11:02 AM (hLORf)

265 While we're ranting about terrible movies, how about that John Q?


Best part of JohnQ:  Heather Wahlquist.

Posted by: EC at April 24, 2013 11:02 AM (GQ8sn)

266 271 What's it matter if late term abortion is illegal now, just wait until democrats win every state and national election. Do you think it will be illegal for long? Bwahahaha fucking funny. Those babies will go snip snip and you can complain all you want, you won't EVER have enough votes to stop it. That's when someone will go all splodey-jihadi on a clinic. Posted by: rickb223 at April 24, 2013 02:58 PM (GFM2b) But, but, but the Mexicans coming over the border are Catholic and "conservative" on social issues, right?

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, formerly MrCaniac at April 24, 2013 11:03 AM (Zd/NW)

267 If the bastard walks, wouldn't it be ironic if one morning someone found him in a trash can with his spinal cord snipped? You know, hipster ironic. My question is, could the doer of such a deed now prosecuted? After all, he and the legal system just reset the ground rules that one person may cut the spinal cord of another in that juresdiction.

Posted by: Boomer Redneque, Revolted Edition at April 24, 2013 11:03 AM (0CZcq)

268 >>> My understanding was that this was in the file for at least some period of time before the attack. that is not my understanding.

Posted by: ace at April 24, 2013 11:05 AM (LCRYB)

269 I just heard a portion of Joey boo Boo Biden's remarks at the memorial for the cop slain in Boston by the totally innocent Chechnyian misunderstood brothers.  Biden said that the purpose of terror is to terrorize but that the terrorists are losing because there was no sign of terror in Boston.  If there was no terror, what was all that "shelter in place," and the cancelling of hockey and ball games.  I could have sworn there was some terror going on there.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 24, 2013 11:05 AM (Hx5uv)

270

Sven and Flatbush:

 

I know too funny.  We don't have to go all crazy on this, but these questions definitely need to be answered.

 

If the terror designation was added on 4-15, then ok, probably a reasonable explanation.

 

I do not think, however, that that was the case.  Apparently the 213(B) designation is as high as you can go, and you actually have to get approval from a panel of fucking people to do that.

 

Once so designated, they are almost never removed until death.  That's how serious that is.  I do not think that in one day such a designation could have been accomplished, especially since he was cleared.

 

If the designation occurred before 4-15, when did it happen and why?  And even if it's a complete mistake, how in the fuck is this guy visiting the WH if he was so designated.  That would be a total security failure.

Posted by: Prescient11 at April 24, 2013 11:06 AM (tVTLU)

271 Didn't Michelle Obama also visit the Saudi student in the hospital?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 24, 2013 11:08 AM (KqmXZ)

272 Now I don't feel so bad about the time when Ace slammed my interpretation of the 14th Amendment.

Posted by: Matt at April 24, 2013 11:11 AM (90w0O)

273 Even Gosnell's own defense has no defense for monsters.

Posted by: ChrisyBlinky, Sarcastic, Radicalized Redneck Queen needs more proof at April 24, 2013 11:17 AM (baL2B)

274

President Obama has canceled plans to deliver a keynote address at Planned ParenthoodÂ’s annual fundraising dinner Thursday night after critics decried his high-profile role at the abortion rights group amid new concerns about the brutality of illegal forms of abortion.

... You think just maybe he didn't want to be i n front of Planned Parenthood when the verdict came in ?

Posted by: Gosnell's defense at April 24, 2013 11:30 AM (7QZ6R)

275 Gee. Preezy Choom will miss Dr. Ruth Westheimer receiving the Margaret Sanger award. No shit. Posted by: Jane D'oh at April 24, 2013 02:09 PM (lVPtV) -- So a woman whose parents died in the holocaust is being honored with an award named for someone who had a deep appreciation for those who executed it?

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at April 24, 2013 11:32 AM (6gk77)

276 279 I just heard a portion of Joey boo Boo Biden's remarks at the memorial for the cop slain in Boston by the totally innocent Chechnyian misunderstood brothers. Biden said that the purpose of terror is to terrorize but that the terrorists are losing because there was no sign of terror in Boston. If there was no terror, what was all that "shelter in place," and the cancelling of hockey and ball games. I could have sworn there was some terror going on there.
Posted by: WalrusRex at April 24, 2013 03:05 PM
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Yeah..., blown off limbs, blood, people running in panic, city shut down, because no panic.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2013 11:44 AM (aDwsi)

277 For the love of Mike, I wish you people would get over here and pull weeds and spread mulch. Do you expect ME to do everything?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at April 24, 2013 11:45 AM (aDwsi)

278 193 171 If the Gosnell trial is ever made into a movie (serious doubts: Hollywood), I'm seeing Danny Glover as Gosnell. More likely, it would be...Morgan Freeman...he would make for a more 'sympathetic' figure. Posted by: wheatie at April 24, 2013 02:36 PM (mXpa3) Freeman is my choice too. Plus, he can empathize with Gosnell, though he hasn't killed any children. Only diddled one (his step-granddaughter).

Posted by: baldilocks at April 24, 2013 11:55 AM (Su0W2)

279 Yeah..., blown off limbs, blood For a moment I thought you were talking about Gosnell's charnel house.

Posted by: Insomniac at April 24, 2013 12:36 PM (NEIxp)

280 A criminal trial goes like this:

The Government presents its case. Once the government's case is over, the defense can simply present no evidence and argue that the prosecutor didn't meet his burden of proof. Technically, the defense does not have to ask a single question.

More often, the defense will present some evidence. Sometimes the defense's case just amounts to calling witnesses who either say something different about the event than the government's witnesses (like, "the light was green when Mr. Defendant drove into the intersection, not red like the Government witness said") or impeach the government witnesses credibility (like, "Mr. Government witness just finished a bottle of Valu-Rite Vodka prior to giving his report to the police"). This type of defense evidence is not an 'affirmative defense' either. It is simply an attempt to weaken the government's evidence so that the burden of proof is not met.

Sometimes, the defense will present an affirmative defense. This is evidence, for example, of an alibi. Or evidence of some mental disease or defect that exonerates the defendant. (Self-defense is tricky. In some jurisdictions it is a true defense - the defense must prove self-defense. In other jurisdictions, the government must prove that an act WASN'T done in self-defense).

Following any defense evidence, the Government has the opportunity to rebut the defense evidence (like, the guy who said he saw our witness drinking Valu-Rite couldn't have seen that because he was busy kicking a hobo in the alley). Make sense?

Posted by: Criminal Law 101 at April 24, 2013 12:50 PM (yZ8cg)

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