Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Good. Very good.
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind behind the sniper attacks that left 10 dead, was executed Tuesday night as relatives of the victims watched, reliving the killing spree that terrorized the Washington metro area for three weeks in October 2002.
He looked calm and stoic, but was twitching and blinking as the injections began, defiant to the end, refusing to utter any final words. Victims’ families sat behind glass while watching the execution, separated from the rest of the 27 witnesses.
That’s so much more civilized, and so much more respectful to human life, than to hunt around for excuses for the next twenty years to keep this guy breathing and eating and writing books and granting teevee interviews. No contest.
For a second there I got my one-man-jihad guys mixed up. Thought it was the Fort Hood murderer they just put down. Got all excited there; thought the world had suddenly come to its senses.
Well, seven years is alright — an improvement, anyway. Someday, perhaps, justice will be swift enough that murderer and victim will be embalmed on the same day. Yeah, we’ll never quite get there, but it’s a nice thought. Murder as nothing more than a form of suicide. It would still happen now & then…but imagine the lives that would be saved. That’s change I can believe in.
The other one-man jihad is another story. More on that later. For now, it’s one down. Yay.
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Yay indeed. Although I would have preferred turning him loose in a prison courtyard with nowhere to hide and sniper guards all around, hiding — while he lived … hours? days? weeks? He would never be told. And perhaps occasionally there would be occasional intentional “misses” … sporadic and random over the time of his “sentence”.
Ok, I may have preferred it, but it would probably be ruled unconstitutional on “cruel and unusual” grounds. So I’d never demand it.
Can’t deny, though, it would be a bit cathartic. Just a little, don’t you think?
- philmon | 11/10/2009 @ 21:45I’m of the view that it’s just as legitimate to interpret the ban on “cruel and unusual punishment” as prohibiting anything cruel to the victims’ families. Like letting the murderer live.
Guillotine — I see nothing wrong with that at all.
- mkfreeberg | 11/10/2009 @ 22:07One less dirtbag wasting oxygen. Good riddance. A shame they aren’t going to do likewise with his pathetic little accomplice. No, he’ll just be locked up for the next sixty years at 50K a year. Lovely.
- cylarz | 11/12/2009 @ 02:21For a second there I got my one-man-jihad guys mixed up. Thought it was the Fort Hood murderer they just put down. Got all excited there; thought the world had suddenly come to its senses.
The very fact that anyone at major media outlets are talking about “political correctness” having been a factor in this terrorist not having been identified sooner – that in of itself is encouraging. As in, maybe this will lead to a policy of worrying less about offending Muslims’ delicate cultural sensibilities and more about protecting human lives from rogue soldiers within the military.
Maybe it will culminate with all military personnel being armed at all times, while on a military installation. You know, like they’re paid to be? Like they underwent at least six to eight weeks of boot camp to prepare them for? I was especially amused by Chicago mayor Richard Daley’s comments about America’s “love affair with guns” being a factor in the attack. Does Mr Mayor even read the news? It happened on a frickin’ Army base, not out in some city. On top of that, we’re hearing this from a guy who heads up a city with some of the strictest gun-control laws anywhere in the US, but which also has some of the highest crime rates. Wonder if there is a connection?
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