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...
Misha unleashes his righteous anger upon a blue-blood European pinhead deploring the barbarism of our country in killing those who would & have killed others.
Not to mention that we simply cannot resist digging out the ClueBat of DoomTM when it’s an effeminate Brit-twit lecturing us on the subject. How ’bout you pull the beam out of your own eye before you start kvetching about the splinter in mine, ya twat?
Pretty much.
You know, I keep hearing that it would be so much more civilized to let killers walk around after they’ve been duly convicted of having killed innocent people.
You don’t kill anyone…you get killed. Some guy kills you…he doesn’t get killed.
Yeah. That’s supposed to be civilized. Nobody’s explained to me why that is yet. They just yammer away that I’m supposed to think so.
Here. The Euro-wussie won’t enlighten you on the details of the crime and I won’t wait for him to think about doing so…so here is how Felicia Prechtl was killed by Karl Eugene Chamberlain seventeen years ago.
On 08/02/91 in Dallas, Texas the subject fatally shot the victim, a 30-year old white female. Chamberlain was a resident of the same apartment complex and had gone to the victim’s apartment under the pretense of borrowing sugar. Chamberlain left the apartment and return minutes later with duct tape and a rifle. Chamberlain entered the apartment, displayed the weapon to the victim, and forced the victim into a bedroom. Chamberlain taped her hands and feet, and sexually assaulted her. Chamberlain took the victim into the bathroom and shot her one time in the head with a .30 caliber rifle, causing her death. Chamberlain left the apartment and returned to his own apartment.
Every time I hear of one of these cases, I am impressed with the discretion and good judgment our justice system seems to show about putting people on death row. It far surpasses anything I would have expected. The pattern is consistent that the crime is one of these “I want what I want when I want it” type o’ things. As in…I want to get me some tail, you’re here, oops you might go tattling so I better put a bullet in your brain, you’re just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Exactly the kind of vermin we should want to exterminate. Exactly the kind of human chaff you’d bully people in another country into keeping around…if you do not live there.
If I was the Executions Dictator, I doubt I would be able to do a better job. Wouldn’t mind trying. But the death penalty seems to be the one part of our justice system capable of restoring my faith in it.
Naturally, there are some loudmouths wanting to get rid of it.
It’s like a restaurant. You know how when you pick out a really good restaurant with decent prices, prompt service, great food you just know that’s the next one to get closed down? That’s what the death penalty is becoming — the one part of our justice system in which the lives of the innocent are successfully defended from the narcissistic whims of the predatory. So of course someone comes along with a “THIS PROPERTY CONDEMNED” sign. After you get so old and cynical, you just come to expect it.
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Interesting that the very same folk who think that sitting in a jail for 30/40 years is more humane than execution are also the same dolts who keep complaining about how cruel it is that the Gitmo inmates are being held indefinitely.
Liberal hypocrisy. Redundancy, absofreakinlutely.
- tim | 06/19/2008 @ 15:46The pomp and circumstance that attends state executions today confers upon the condemed an un-deserved moment of pity and public spotlight. Witness the mundane details of the un-needed last meal.
Bring back the rope. Quick, cheap, effective, and ready anytime, anywhere, without fanfare. Could also be used to rapidly thin the ranks of ACLU lawyers.
- Mr. Hatchetman | 06/19/2008 @ 21:14