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| Schwarzenegger wins.California loses |
| 10.08.03 (4:27 pm) [edit] |
I don't really want to get off on a rant here, as this story is more saturated than a baby's diaper, but another flex of the Republican power grab muscle has been completed. Only in California, I say, can someone be elected without making a stance on a single issue. When he goes off and say things like, " When I don't like someone in the movies, I destroy them, and it's time to destroy Gray Davis, he will be terminated", you have to simply sit back in awe. Words just don't make it out of your mouth.
People are up in arms that Davis has put the Californian government into such a tailspin, yet for some reason fail to realize that it was Bush that did it. They are up in arms that Davis increased taxes, yet pay no mention that during Reagan's tenure as Governor, they increased two fold of that of Davis'. Why don't they know this?, because they follow in line with the american political ignorance. I'm inclined to recline and say, " fuck it, let them lie in it". But you can't be so passive about it, as California has the 6th highest grossing economy in the world. In the world, which means what goes on there, has an impact on the rest of the country. This is why I'm worried.
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| The Supreme Court hands off another whopper. |
| 10.06.03 (10:46 pm) [edit] |
In it's typical draconian fashion, the Supreme Court has upheld a doozy this past Monday. The Supreme Court let stand a ruling by a federal appeals court allowing Arkansas officials to force a convicted murderer to take drugs that would make him sane enough to be executed.
This convicted murderer, Charles Laverne Singleton, who killed a grocery store clerk in 1979, said in 1987, that his prison cell was possessed by demons and that the authorities had planted a device in his ear. He insisted that his victim, whom he had known at the time of the murder, was still alive.
Ok, now my experience in Constitutional Law has been limited to just a few college courses, so I may just be ignorant, but isn't this just a little out of bounds? Maybe not in China, but you'd like to think it would be here. In a country where state sponsered killing is all the rage, they'd rather helpfully medicate someone for the purpose of killing him/her, yet not to recuperate them. And somehow this isn't either cruel nor unusual.
And please don't hide behind the axiom of the death penalty as a good deterrent for crime, becuase let's be honest, that's just dishonest. Texas, which has killed more people than cholera, has in Houston, also in Texas for all you geography buffs, boasts the country's highest crime rate.
Back to the case at hand;
In dissent, Judge Gerald W. Heaney said the authorities should have allowed Mr. Singleton to be medicated without the consequence of execution. "I believe that to execute a man who is severely deranged without treatment, and arguably incompetent when treated, is the pinnacle of what Justice Marshall called `the barbarity of exacting mindless vengeance.'
During his tenure as a Supreme Court Justice, which spanned 24 years, (1967-1991) Marshall said little during argument sessions, except to train his sarcasm on lawyers struggling through their arguments or sometimes on a fellow Justice. During a death penalty argument in 1981, Justice Rehnquist suggested that an inmate's repeated appeals had cost the state too much money. Justice Marshall interrupted, "It would have been cheaper to shoot him right after he was arrested, wouldn't it?"
Justice Marshall, who originally, in 1934, worked for the NAACP, and won the landmark Brown v. Board of Ed. case is 1954, was appointed circuit judge by President Kennedy, and later became the first African American to be elevated to the Supreme
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| Rush Limbaugh exposes his ignorance to a new crowd: sports fans. |
| 10.01.03 (4:28 pm) [edit] |
Rush Limbaugh, on this past Sunday's ESPN Sunday Countdown, said that Donavan McNabb's talent, is not talent, but more racial hype. No, seriously, he really did.
He said that " the media has overrated the Philadelphia Eagles' Donovan McNabb because they want to see a black quarterback succeed". No dipshit, he's just that good. Furthermore, the political moron supposed that because his comments sparked such an outrage, that he must have been right.
"All this has become the tempest that it is because I must have been right about something,'' he said. "If I wasn't right there wouldn't be this cacophony of outrage that has sprung up in the sports writer community.''
Hold the " you've got to be kidding me" bus just for a minute folks. My first inkling to a public outrage for something I might have said, for some reason is that I've offended someone. But that's just me and pragmatic thinking at work.
Donavan McNabb, who coincidently has taken the Eagles to two straight conference championship games, and was the MVP runner-up in 2000 had this to say;
"I'm sure he's not the only one that feels that way, but it's somewhat shocking to actually hear that on national TV,'' the NFL star said. "An apology would do no good because he obviously thought about it before he said it.''
Luckily for him, Rush is offering up nothing of the sort.
But McNabb said that the comments about his race were out of bounds and added that someone on the show should have taken Limbaugh on. Among the other panelists were former players Michael Irvin and Tom Jackson, both of whom are black.
"I'm not pointing at anyone but someone should have said it,'' McNabb said of the panelists, who also include Berman and Steve Young. "I wouldn't have cared if it was the cameraman.''
Oh Rush, your stupidity has no out of bounds. God bless you, you troglodytic moron.
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