A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and ate it. He's in prison because he stabbed his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter, then ripped out their hearts. Someone should give that prison a sharp knife, a private, locked room, and nothing good to eat for a week. He can cut off and eat chunks of himself until his sentence becomes self-executing.
How come Roland Burris has had such an easy time getting to the U.S. Senate while Caroline Kennedy has had such a hard time? Could it be that the race card trumps the gender card in U.S. politics? Some people think so, but I think it may have something to do with the fact that Burris has held public office, and Kennedy has done nothing of the sort and has only a pedigree and a law degree, which, in and of themselves, do not qualify you to be U.S. Senator.
Joe the Plumber was sent to Israel as a war correspondent. I thought this was an Onion headline, but it's real. The media just keep getting sillier and sillier.
Our corrupt local sheriff was just convicted of a felony charge of witness tampering. However, jurors, who believed he was guilty on all charges, acquitted him of 5 of the remaining 6 counts, because they thought that the prosecution had failed to prove his guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. Therefore, the headlines focus on the five acquittals. Had he been charged with just the one count, the reaction would be more like "ZOMG! Corrupt sheriff convicted of felony!!!" Instead, we are treated to articles in which the convicted felon calls the day of his conviction "the best day I have had in the last couple of years," and declares himself "vindicated. Beyond vindicated." This was the best, however:
Q. You were convicted of a felony. Can't that be perceived of as a loss?
A. Yes, I was convicted on one of the charges, and that is a bit of a loss. But there were six charges against me … and the vast majority of the verdicts were not guilty. This was a huge win for us.
Words of a guilty man who just got away with some big time crimes.
Bishop T.D. Jakes to Obama this morning: "You are ready to go. And this nation goes with you. God goes with you. I say to you as my son who is here today, my 14-year-old son – he probably would not quote scripture. He probably would use Star Trek instead, and so I say, ‘May the force be with you.” Yeah, that's just what Captain Kirk would have said.
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