Thursday, April 26, 2012
News The Thursday Morning News
Posted by Goldy on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 8:56 AM
Go get a job! After embarrassing himself by yelling at a young woman to "go get a job," Attorney General Rob McKenna finally admitted he opposes Washington's Reproductivity Parity Act. Unfortunately for voters, it turns out his legalistic explanation is a pack of lies.
Police still need your help. 21-year-old Nicole Westbrook, who was shot in the face near Pioneer Square early Sunday morning, has died of her wounds. Police are asking the public to help find her killer.
"Doing away with the death penalty was the only way to ensure it would not be unfairly imposed". Governor Dannel Malloy signed legislation yesterday making Connecticut the 17th state to abolish the death penalty. Washington still has the death penalty, and it doesn't seem to deter murder here.
Mixed news. Home sales are up, but so are first time unemployment claims.
Watch out Bush and Cheney! Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has become the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes.
Time to lay off a Mario brother? Video game giant Nintendo has reported its first annual loss in more than 30 years, blaming a strong yen and increasing handheld gaming competition from smartphones. Cue electronic "game over" music.
This is what comes from watching too much Fox News. During testimony before a parliamentary inquiry panel yesterday, media mogul Rupert Murdoch described British Prime Minister David Cameron’s disabled son as “retarded.” Here's hoping by the time this phone hacking scandal is over Cameron will be able to describe Murdoch's son as a "convict."
Meet the future top executives of Walmart, Mexico. Four TSA screeners at Los Angeles International Airport have been arrested on charges that they took thousands of dollars in bribes to allow drugs through the airport's security checkpoints. Hmm. I guess now I know how to get that contraband 6-oz bottle of mouthwash through security.
Hope he likes eating alone in the council lunchroom. Seattle City Council member Mike O'Brien is proposing new rules to dismantle political war chests by imposing a $5,000 cap on the amount of campaign funds that can be rolled over from one campaign to the next.
Doctor says he found the G-spot! Not surprisingly, it's in the vagina.
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I'd rather have a Democrat but I would be comfortable. Romney has shown in the past, in his previous years as a moderate or progressive that he was fairly competent as a governor.
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Barbarism and state-sponsored murder for the sake of unattainable vengeance should not be the purview of our government.
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obama's not coming after your obsessively cleaned and oiled armory, so start thinking about more than 1 issue.
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Us? Speak for yourself. Yet another case of the usual suspects but white Seattle liberals just stick their fingers in their ears and hope to ignore the reality. She should have listened to John Derbyshire.
It's little comfort to the family, but the police will eventually catch those worthless pieces of shit that shot her. There were too many witnesses. Somebody will crack.
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@10 Don't be so sure. Danny Vega's murderers still walk the street. And they got those fuckers on video.
@1 High praise indeed.
@6 It's easy to say not to execute if there's doubt. Do you know how that has actually worked?
As for McVeigh, was even that a good idea? Aside from your selection of a very extreme example, weren't there a lot of questions about what he might have known that he hadn't divulged? Was there a bigger conspiracy? In terms of intelligence value, he may have been better to keep alive than to kill.
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If an eye for an eye is "fair" and "just," I imagine you also believe rapists should be raped for punishment? The reason we established a justice system was to get away from the barbaric, vengeance-based punishments for crimes.
Shouldn't those who calls themselves "just" be above murdering people who commit murder?
This does not even touch on the whole aspect of false imprisonment. At least people who are released after 30 years of false imprisonment have something left. I guarentee you that as a nation, we have executed at least one innocent man, and to me, that makes us all murderers, since our taxes went to the killing, and our political mindset made it possible. I never want that to happen again.
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What Fnarf said @3.
I just hope they do catch these subhumans - how many people walking around today have the knowledge of exactly WHO took this young woman's life? God I hope the cops catch up with them...
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/…
They were pretty damn sure he was guilty at the end of the trial, yet they know now that he was definitely innocent.
This is one that we know about. How many others are there?
http://publicola.com/2012/01/23/police-i…
If an eye for an eye is "fair" and "just," I imagine you also believe rapists should be raped for punishment?
By that logic, anyone found guilty of kidnapping shouldn't be imprisoned because that's "eye for an eye". The maxim against "eye for an eye" came from a time when there was no rule of law, just competing clans getting embroiled in blood feuds. The government cutting off a thief's hand was an *improvement*.
I oppose the death penalty for largely practical reasons, and, if you're ever to quench Americans' bloodlust, that is the argument you're going to have to sell them: that the death penalty is too expensive for what it does (not) do (prevention of crime) and that innocent people get executed. The argument that murderers don't deserve to die will fall on deaf ears.
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That is, if you believe anyone deserves the death penalty.
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Goldy,
Nary a chance that Bush, Cheney et al will be tried for "war crimes" anywhere, anytime or anymore than Obama will be for murder (ordering a drone strike on 2 Americans in Yemen). Simply will not happen. On the other hand, I'm elated that Taylor was convicted. Finally, some justice for his victims in Liberia. What a monster.
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