Don't tell the media or anything, but people are going to have a bunch of purple fingers today. The need to ignore this whole thing so they can continue the illusion that victory against terror and tyranny is a great big Michael Moore quality lie.
I'm sure the highlight will be more towards how many people were killed in Iraq instead of how many people voted. Hey, if it bleeds it leads, right? Maybe the voters should just cut a finger open instead of the purple ink? Would that make MSNBC nightly news? Obviously, Bush being anything other than a lying baby killer must have just been misreported. We now return you to your originally scheduled dose of trivial crap...Oh, and I won't be making my finger purple today. I'll reserve that for the ones proving thier freedom today: The Sunni Iraqis.
Yes, I specified Sunni because they're actually playing along with this whole democracy thing now. Oh, damn! I wasn't supposed to talk about things like that. The good people of the world might find out that Iraq isn't the living hell the MSM makes it out to be.
Forget all of this message. I don't know why I wrote it. We should be going against the wishes of the majority of Iraqis and "redeploy". (See cut-and-run) Oops, I did it again. (Not like Brittany) I let it out of the bag that the majority of Iraqis perfer there to be at least one American in each group of Iraqi military because they trust the U.S. more than their own soldiers.
Aww, hell. Who am I kidding. Everybody should have figured at least a couple of these things out by themselves. Not even the love child of Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite (*shudder*) can keep an image like this down.
May the god of your choice bless the freedom of Iraq!
Iraq the vote!
Note: You may also want to go visit Jay. He's having a link roundup of sorts. (Kinda fitting it's on a blogburst day.)
Personally I'm rather conflicted about this issue. I know he's slotted to be euthanized in about an hour, but I'm not 100% sure about weather I feel he should be getting the death penalty.
By the letter of the law he is absolutely guilty. There is little to no doubt that he committed the crimes everyone says he committed. He was found guilty by a jury of his peers and sentenced to death by lethal injection. He never admitted his guilt, gave an apology or asked for redemption. He only asked to be pardoned and defends his innocence despite a quantity of evidence. I can't even fault the Governator for his decision. There was no legal recourse that would have kept him from the death chamber.
There is a part of this other than the mere letter of the law though. There is a part of this that brings us past the written words and pushes us towards logic. The logic I'm pushed towards deals with the purpose of the death penalty. From what I remember, the death penalty was not intended as a deterrent for future criminals that may chose to commit similar crimes. It was not intended as a penalty for doing something really, really bad. It was intended as a last recourse for someone that is so far beyond a peaceful society that even his fellow inmates are in danger from him.
Following this logic you have to ask yourself, "Was Tookie Williams a danger not only to society, but to his fellow inmates as well?" I do not know if anyone dealing with this case has made the same assertions towards this particular logic that I have, but I'd be willing to guess that most have not made their decisions based on this concept. Today law is not meant to be interpreted. It is to be followed like an instruction manual. To do otherwise turns you into a political activist for whatever party it appears is in favor of your decision. You become a political scapegoat for judging on logic instead of the letters. You become a victim of fear.
Now, what do I believe would be the right decision in this case? I can not make a judgment in this case. I know of his supposed efforts to save youths from joining gangs, but I also hear the reports that he refused on several occasions to turn state's evidence and still other reports of violence from him while he was in prison. I'm sure the political spin doctors have done a good number on this from both sides of the fence. They always do. However, since I do not have access to the court documents or prison reports I can make no personal decision in this particular case. I can only wish his soul god speed and pray the people do not riot and senselessly kill others.
For some reason I decided to get that auto-email about my hit count to come daily. I did this a long time ago when I sort of cared about my hit count. I used to get around 100 or more hits a day and expected my numbers to dwindle down to near nothing. Well, I was wrong. I shrunk down to around 50 hits per day and stayed there. What the hell is wrong with you people? Didn't you get the memo that I quit?
What? I didn't send a memo? Aww crap. I guess I have to get back to work then. Waitaminute! I'm not gonna make this work! I'm gonna make this fun. I'm just gonna do whatever the hell I want to here. No more gimicks. No more blog wars. Just me talking into thin air....er..digital thin air. No, I won't join your blog ring. No I won't do a link exchange. Only people I feel are worthwhile get a link exchange. If you don't get a link it doesn't mean, "oh boo-hoo I suck". It just means I didn't link you. Get over it.
Now, with all this being said, it's time for me to clean this pig sty of a site up. I'll see you all soon.