September 26, 2018
By: Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
In 1961 Jean Nidetch started Weight Watchers. She was chubby and wanted to do something about it. After trying many fad diets, she created a support program to help herself and others lose weight.
In 1776 plucky colonists looked around them and realized that they had zero rights, and were being taxed unfairly by England. So they came up with a plan to change that.
Revolution.
Everything good starts with an idea.
And some ideas are better than others.
America was a good one. And it still is.
Weight Watchers was a realization of the American Entrepreneurial Dream.
The Bill of Rights and the Constitution were the underpinning of our country.
Now some say, "You didn't build that!" But Jean Nidetch did build it. And so did American colonists.
But this week the company decided it needed to change Weight Watchers' name and its mission.
And elected officials in Congress decided they needed to change American jurisprudence.
After decades of not losing weight, investor, spokeswoman and board member Oprah Winfrey agreed that the company should now be a "wellness organization," that "goes beyond weight loss."
It's probably in furtherance of the politically correct "Body Positivity Movement," the one you see in TV ads which feature hefty women, celebrating "their curves" while pirouetting in their underwear. But others think it's just because Oprah can airbrush out her weight problem.
Nonetheless, Liberals, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) have decided the Right-to-Be-Presumed-Innocent-Until-Proven-Guilty doesn't apply anymore.
At least not for Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
They argue that tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is not a criminal proceeding, and therefore the legal presumption is misplaced;
They say the accused does not need to know what he is being accused of. "Let the reprobate read about it in The Washington Post and The New Yorker," they shout.
They say, "The accuser does not have to prove each and every element of the crime charged!" And that includes who, what, when, where and how.
That's how they think.
Gillibrand says she believes Kavenaugh's accusers. Implicitly. Hirono does, too. Implicitly.
You'd think Gillibrand should know better. She's a lawyer, after all. She should know the law. And not misrepresent it.
But that's not who she is. She's a floppy-flopper politician. She supported Bill Clinton. Then she didn't. She was for guns and against illegal immigration. And then she wasn't.
Whatever direction the political winds blow, that's where you'll find Kirsten. And Gov. Cuomo. And Hillary.
Because that 's how they think.
So it's no wonder they believe in Kavenaugh's guilt, and the veracity of his accusers. Without any facts.
And it's no wonder another accuser crawled out of the woodwork. To accuse him. Then recanted.
"That it happened or not, I have no idea," Cristina King Miranda told NPR's Nina Totenberg. "In my Facebook post, I was empowered, and I was sure it probably did happen."
As for Hirono, she just hates men. WikiPedia states that her dad gambled and deserted the family. Maybe that's why. But for sure she's not crazy about Judge Kavenaugh.
"Of course it helps that there are women on the Senate Judiciary Committee," Hirono said, when asked about being one of four women on the Committee.
"But really, guess who's perpetuating all of these kinds of actions? It's the men in this country. And I just want to say to the men in this country, 'Just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change!'"
Do what?
But that's how they think.
"She's been treated better than any victim," an outraged Judge Jeanine Pirro sputtered when considering how Prof. Blasey was dictating terms.
Like when she'd attend the Senate hearing. Or wouldn't. That Kavanaugh should testify first. Not be in the same room with her. And now she objects to the expert attorney chosen by the Committee to question her and Judge Kavanaugh, Rachel Mitchell, chief of the Special Victim's Division and Deputy County Attorney in the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.
These Liberals, the ones who are determined to destroy Kavanaugh, think testifying and accusing is like ordering a pizza. You can have whatever you want.
And maybe they're right. Twenty Yale professors cancelled 31 classes so that law students could don black and protest Judge Kavanaugh's nomination.
Law students.
At his alma mater.
Betcha' they are disappointed he's not going to be bullied into quitting.
"The coordinated effort to destroy my good name will not drive me out.
"The vile threats of violence against my family will not drive me out.
"The last minute character assassination will not succeed," he wrote in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Funny. That sounds exactly like the guy who nominated him.
Hold the line, America.
Where We Go One, We Go All