11/15/21 at 7:30 PM CT. Recap of the Rittenhouse closing arguments. I thought the closing arguments were a triumph for the defense and a debacle for the prosecution.
Frei and Barnes
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Hocus pocus, out of focus was the most memorable take away…other than that moron Binger pointing an AR-15 at the jury.
My favorite line from the State’s disastrous closing: Sometimes you just got to take a beating.
If Rittenhouse would have just taken a beating, it would have been a fatal one. And then his AR-15 would have been used to kill other innocent people. I guess in Binger’s mind, the innocent must die so dangerous criminals may live. He’s a man after George Soros’ heart.
@Greg:
“I guess in Binger’s mind, the innocent must die so dangerous criminals may live. He’s a man after George Soros’ heart.”
Since Soros likely funded his campaign, this is not surprising. Forgive me for being Captain Obvious here.
Since Soros likely funded his campaign, this is not surprising. Forgive me for being Captain Obvious here.
The DA is someone named Michael Graveley, who has been in office for about five years. Binger is a staff prosecutor, supposedly the nephew of the mayor. If Kenosha County’s DA has similar staffing to what you’d expect in New York, there might be about a dozen prosecutors employed therein.
The hard left doesn’t care for the DA either.
https://redstate.com/scotthounsell/2020/08/28/kenosha-da-has-history-prosecuting-self-defense-cases-n252802
One thing that bugs me to no end (as you can see in this Kizer case discussed in the link) is how pokey the courts are at completing tasks. You get the impression that the function of the courts is to provide a forum for attorneys to play footsie with each other and not much else.
As far as I can tell from fragmentary reports, it doesn’t seem like a sorosphere operation. Just a mess of mediocre Democratic hacks doubling down on their bad judgments in an effort to avoid admitting their seminal errors. So, the stupid mayor tells the police to slack off, blocks of the city go up in flames, the bonehead DA tries to make a scapegoat out of this one working class kid, then the mayor’s skeevy nephew tries to make a case in court after the youth in question refuses to consent to a mess of negotiated lies in a plea agreement. One sometimes gets the impression that half the prosecutors in American are ruining the reputation of the other half, and Binger the Ringer is certinly doing his part.
You get the impression that the function of the courts is to provide a forum for attorneys to play footsie with each other and not much else.
Our secret is out at last! The wheels of justice have always ground slowly, Dickens was eloquent on that point, but they grind slower mow than when I entered the law mines back in 1982.
No offense intended, Don but there are times I suspect a lot of faults in this present time is a result of being over-lawyered. 😉
I figure that lawyers do the most total damage, but economists do the most damage per person.
but economists do the most damage per person.
The damage done is seldom on account of economists (except for fringe economists). It’s because the economists lost an intramural argument to the lawyers or to some rent-seeking constituency. The three presidents occupying the White House between 1969 and 1979 got a mess of bad advice from confused economist. Question: were lawyers giving them better advice? (And keep in mind Ralph Nader is a lawyer).
Art,
It’s time to stop treating economists as normal people.
What does it say when thousands of econ PhDs/profs are shocked by slow employment/GDP growth, horrid inflation numbers, nose-diving consumer confidence? After decades, those guys ought to be inured to it.
LOL @ Pinky – That would be a trick since nobody listens to economists.
What does it say when thousands of econ PhDs/profs are shocked by slow employment/GDP growth, horrid inflation numbers, nose-diving consumer confidence? After decades, those guys ought to be inured to it.
Who are these ‘shocked’ economists? The administration’s PR flacks are not economists.
Check out Dr. Thomas Sowell. An outstanding economist and commentator on other issues. As he would observe, coincidencely a black man.
An outstanding economist and commentator on other issues.
His scholarly work has been in intellectual history, including the history of economic thought. He did some empirical studies for the Urban Institute decades ago, but otherwise does not publish in economics per se. (He taught the subject at UCLA). He’s quite impressive as a general observer of public affairs and as a producer of synthetic work.
Art,
As usual, you are 100% correct. The typical academic and gov economist is not advancing rational [find the truth] economics, but applied ideology, supported by subverted statistics and logical fallacies.
Every one of the thousands of PhD economists at the Fed and its Banks, FHLMC/FNMA, HUD, Treasury, White House falls in or they’re out.
No, wait! They were on it all along. That’s why the two most used words in the economics lexicon are “UNEXPECTEDLY,” and “TRANSITORY.”
Confession. I’m jaded. I worked from 1977 thru 2015 in an outfit that picked up (and made huge profits) after financial crises, which the Fed was created in 1913 to prevent. For instance, me and my buddy Bill S. were shaking our heads over the run up to the 2008 financial catastrophe.
Now the applications of ideology are Inflation is a good thing and No! you won’t freeze and starve after we destroy the fossil fuel economy.
Every one of the thousands of PhD economists at the Fed and its Banks, FHLMC/FNMA, HUD, Treasury, White House falls in or they’re out.
There aren’t thousands of economists there and their influence over policy consists of producing empirical work to advise the political types which supervise them.
The salient agency in re inflation is the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is governed by a seven-member board. One seat is vacant. Five of the six remaining were appointed by Trump.
Jerome Powell. Private equity man; no academic training in economics.
Richard Clarida: academic economist.
Michelle Bowman: banker and patronage appointee in Washington and Topeka. No academic background in economics.
Lael Brainard: academic economist and McKinsey consultant (the one Obama appointee).
Richard Quarles: private equity man, lawyer, Republican patronage appointee. (Has an undergraduate degree in economics).
Christopher Waller: academic and government economist.
I don’t know what these people fancy they’re doing or why. I also do not know (and you don’t know) what’s surprising to them or not. Denouncing economists is just arbitrary and bizarre.
Right now the Fed Board appointees are wishing they were back in spring 2019 and hoping against hope that inflation in transitory and they don’t have to raise interest rates.
And so are all of the members of the permanent bureaucracy at the Reserve.