Double DAYUM worked

Just a side note. Remember when I told you Jodi's strategy of influencing just one male juror?  I'm a prophet, right?


      


Jodi not a good witness

Death by Stupid

                                                       Death by Stupid

                                                         by Wilbur Witt

     As we wait for the ultimate fate of Jody Arias I have mulled over a range of circumstances and possible outcomes to the saga that has dominated the media for months. My opinions have fluctuated from distain to outright attraction, but I have settled on some opinions. These opinions have been formed by Miss Arias' actions, but have been salted by the actions of the contributing parties as well. One of the lovely things about being sixty two years old is you can voice opinions that are not necessarily mainstream. 

     First let's examine the crime itself. We all know the scenario, twenty seven stab wounds, cut throat, two shots to the head, horrific to be sure, but put it on a scale. Is it worse than a drone attack on a terrorist that also kills a three year old child who just happens to be in the same building at the same time? How about the college student a few days ago who was shot accidentally by the same officer who was trying to save her?  A few years ago I lived in the same neighborhood with a general in the army. it came to light that he had employed a certain method during the first Gulf War to dispatch a number of Iraqi regulars that was, well to be honest, a bit unorthodox. Seems he used one column of tanks to route them, and employed another group to run over them. When CNN showed up he summed his action up in one sentence. "I'm sorry to be the first one to tell you this, but there's just no nice way to kill people!"

     Ask yourself, would Jodi's crime have been better if she had just shot Travis between the eyes with one shot? Would he be any less dead? To be sure, most women, so motivated would have done just that. Women, by nature are not into knife wielding violence. A small caliber pistol provides a more "lady like" tool for a woman than a butcher knife, Lizzy Borden aside.  We move into the realm of mediating circumstances. What made Jodi employ that knife rather than a .25 semi automatic pistol? What forces made an artistic party girl suddenly try to cut her boyfriend's head off? A person with no criminal record, never violent toward any boyfriend, a person who accommodated all of Travis' "needs?" 

     I listened to her final plea to the jury yesterday. I learned about her childhood. Like my own, she didn't have much, but she put a value on her relationship with her family. My father was a roofer. He drank beer. He loved a TV show called "The Guns of Will Sonnet." We lived in the projects. He would raise hell if we couldn't get that show on for him on Friday nights, and I hated that. Kinda wish I could watch it with dad one more time. 

     I looked at the nude photos of Jodi. Frankly, with all this hub bub I expected to see a drop dead gorgeous woman. What I saw was a girl who's legs were a bit too big, saggy, with a goofy face. I saw a girl who most likely drifted from boyfriend to boy friend whom upon becoming tired of her simply faded away. She had accepted that role all,of her life. 

     Travis Alexander was the fulfillment of a dream for Jodi. He had good looks, he was a businessman, he was religious, had a house, he had it all. He took trips to far away lands. Unfortunately for Jodi, he was also an asshole. I  understand the feelings of his siblings. The relationship between brother and sister, or brother and brother is never the same as the one between a man and his sexual partners. Travis Alexander, in Jodi Arias, had found the perfect sexual toy to vent his desires upon. I listened to his voice on the famous phone call last night. Two things struck me. One, he wasn't very good at phone sex and two he was a classic Narcisstic personality. He spent a large amount of time descibing his sexual exploits as Jodi giggled, and spurred him on. And Jodi, chasing the dream, would submit to any suggestions he might have in the faint hope that finally she would live the dream. She would,,at last, grab the ring!

     He wanted to be done with her, ok. She'd had that before. She stalked him, ok. Her dream was fading away like cotton candy in her mouth. She showed up on his doorstep hoping for just one more shot. In spite of all the testimony about how he thought she was stalking him, Travis Alexander opened the door  now ask yourself, why did he do that? She gave it her all, just look at the pictures, and that final day Travis said, "Not good enough. Next!" Then, he had the nerve to march into the shower and parade around while she took pictures. I was particularly taken by the one shot where he stares right into the camera with that movie star look. Then he turned his back on a woman scorned. Death by stupid! 

     Did Travis deserve to die, certainly not. There are lots of manipulative men in the world who live to a ripe old age, usually a lonely old age filled with gifts like ED.  Was Jodi right in what she did, absolutely not. People get rejected all the time. If she had been thinking she should have rose early that morning, keyed his car while he slept, and slipped off. When Travis Alexander told her that she would not be going to Mexico with him after she submitted to all of his wants and fantasies, and then gave her a show in the shower Jodi Arias reached the end of her rope. I've read about how he was afraid of her. I've read about how he was avoiding her. He thought so little of her feelings, and according to him he understood she was obsessed, that he turned his back on her! He should have never let her in the door in the first place! Jodi Arias didn't just kill Travis Alexander, she killed every man who ever used her. She killed her LIFE! 

     Should Jodi die?  She already has. Choking her to death on some gurney years from now after most people have forgotten who she was will not serve justice. Jodi died that morning when Travis told her she would not be going to Mexico. She died of a broke heart, and took Travis with her. In a way she got what she was seeking.  She and Travis will be forever linked in eternity. In her rage that afternoon she sealed their union in blood. 

     Should she spend her life in prison. Yes. Jodi didn't kill twenty school children. She acted in a fit of jealous rage. Her best choice is prison. You may be amazed at what comes out of her if she gets life. She's clever, manipulative, and artistic. Believe it or not people settle down in a life in prison, and as she tells her story to her "cellies" those women there will understand her motivations. They will understand them far better than any psychologist, or wannabe prosecutor in "Somewhere," Arizona!  And hopefully, someday,,this tortured soul will find peace. 

     Gentlemen, never take a woman's feelings lightly. Never think that just because she's submissive that she is in concert with you. Handle their hearts with care. Women are not the weaker sex. They give BIRTH! Unfortunately, for people like Travis Alexander, they can also give death. 

     

     

Case Goes To The Jury

She will still die an old woman

The Wrath of a Woman Scorned

                                    The Wrath of a Woman Scorned

                                                      By Wilbur Witt

     Jody Arias is obviously a liar. She's also a psychopathic killer. What's being portrayed on the stand now is what is referred to as psychobabble. A clinical psychologist can portray a client in any light they wish in an effort to explain away insane or inappropriate actions, but the song remains the same. Normal people do not do what Jody Arias did just because they have a rejected love affair. They will key your car, date your best friend and tell you about it, or deplete your bank account, but they do not stab you twenty-seven times, and shoot you in the head!  

     Miss Arias is caught, and tangled by her own lies and actions. The prosecutor is not a bad guy simply because he is aggressive. He's dealing with a monster in school girl glasses. I think the jury sees through all the window dressing based on the questions they ask. Jody is trying to sway just one juror in order to keep herself off that gurney. That's all it boils down to. 

     We may never know exactly what happened in that house in 2008, but you can be sure is is not what Jody Arias is trying to feed that jury. 

Good girls go to heaven but bad girls get to go everywhere else

                                                            Jodi Arias

     When one looks at the Jodi Arias case on the face of it, the reasoning becomes open and slut. There is no doubt she killed Travis Alexander. There is no doubt it was brutal, and there is no doubt she is a liar. So why all the psychological testimony? And, what is that spector that seems to be hiding in the corner somewhere?

     When a man kills people accept it. Just this week the director of the Colorado prison system was gunned down at his front door. The killer apparently ran down to Texas where he learned that we handle things a bit differently down here. He was a convict, parolee, career criminal, and when he hit the pavement everyone thought, job well done. You expect a goon like that to do horrendous things, and it doesn't bother anyone when he gets what's coming to him. But, you switch him for a pretty, well formed, and diminutive party girl and the mental gears grind to a halt, at least temporarily. 

     There are people who profoundly believe in the innocence of Miss Arias, as crazy as that seems. There is even a web page eliciting support for her,

http://jodiariasisinnocent.com/leave-a-message-for-jodi-arias-jodi-arias-is-innocent-jodi-arias-support/

please check this out should you wish to contribute. This innocence is a contrived effort to convince the jury that Jodi was in such a mental state of fear, confusion, and terror that her actions were in self defence. The defense would have us believe that poor Jodi was so upset by what she did that she just can't remember killing her boyfriend. 

     Now I'm just a simple old boy from Austin but I've got a problem with this whole scenario. First off, and this is going to fly in the face of my more liberal readers, I am from Texas, I am 61 years old, and I don't buy one penny of this PTSD crap. I file that under what I call "fashionable" psychiatry. I'm not going to venture off into that, it's just the way I am, live with it. My question is, if Jodi had a complete lack of recall of the event, then why did she construct a cover story of intruders?  Let's just suppose, young lady comes to herself, there's Travis dead, blood everywhere, and she claims she can't remember anything, but, she comes up with this elaborate tale of the event she apparently "forgot." She fills in a cover story to hide the event. Are you following me. Why construct a lie about something she supposedly can't remember?

     And let's look at this young lady's character. Uh, she's a whore. For my more delicate readers out there, normal, well adjusted women do not have S & M sex, take it in the rear, perform fellatio, with multiple partners, and then tell a jury all about it with a smile on her face. I'm not saying well rounded women don't partake, but for lack of a better word, modesty is becoming. You can throw in fidelity too, but I don't want to put too much on my liberal friends at this time. 

     And, if you're looking for motive, ability, and mental state, such a lifestyle is like two sides of the same coin. A girl like that can most certainly commit bloody murder. It's called passionate. A passionate woman's emotions run high. Everything is to the Nth degree. Fast lane life, hot sex, and jealous rages at rejection. The same passion that made her jump around that bed made her jump around that bathroom. And before you think I'm an old fuddy-duddy, I wouldn't mind a night with Jodi. I mean, I wouldn't let her go to the kitchen, or anything like that. 

     Still, some people, especially men, have an issue connecting a beautiful girl with such a crime. And this isn't the first time, and frankly, not the most horrible killing in American history. Ever hear of Lizzie Borden?  Read all about her.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden   Though I didn't see it in this article, in other readings I learned that the question of the lack of blood on Lizzie was a major question at her trial. How, the defense contended, could this fresh, young, and even for the 1800's, hot young lady, take a hatchet, beat her parent's brains out, and not be covered with blood?  Well, the prosecution had an answer for that. She did it naked!  That's right. Lizzie shed her long dress, her corset, her whale bone bra, her stockings, and her "draws," and killed her parents in her birthday suit. Then she went out back, washed off in a No 5 wash tub, got dressed and sounded the alarm. Why wasn't this brought out at the trial?  Because the judge thought it was indecent!  He wasn't going to allow an all male jury to even IMAGINE Lizzy ever disrobed. That would so embarrass the defendant which was unthinkable in 1892, and his honor was NOT going to have such shenanigans in his courtroom. 

     Sound silly?  Not as silly as several days of expert testimony from a middle aged psychiatrist, so smitten by Jody's smile he couldn't even remember he had put a score of 15 on her mental test, changing it to 17 later, and arguing over the Webster's definition of  "compassion." And I'm not saying a beautiful young lady who hasn't had a date in four and a half years isn't enticing, but c'mon, your a DOCTOR for Christ's sake!  The camera can show a lot of things, but it cannot show those fleeting moments of eye contact between the doctor and Jody. You don't think the jury didn't see this? Just listen to their questions. 

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/jodi-arias-trial-defenses-psychologist-faces-sharp-questions-18788664:

     So, is the defense crazy?  Not really. Jody's lawyer, which I affectionately refer to as "Hottie the Lawyer," is drawing for an inside straight.  She knows that acquittal is highly unlikely. What she's hoping for is keeping Jodi off that gurney. She's hoping to cast enough doubt into just one juror's mind so that he, that's right, he, will hold out for a murder in the second degree determination. She is slamming the doctor at the jury, and soon one last "expert," but she knows that a large part of her case is built on those "double dayums" under Jody's sweater. Think I'm wrong?  We shall wait and see. 

     And one last note. Here, yet again, we have a case of Deep Survival. Poor Travis was so caught up in himself that he never looked into Jody's eyes that final day. As I have pointed out time and time again, you can do 99 things right, and that 100th thing, that momentary lapse, and it's death by stupid. Rest in peace, Travis. Jodi the pop culture phenomononLife is hard when you're trying for life