Voices

My State Senator, Kent Sorenson, is saying he'll introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session to allow for the death penalty, because of the deaths of Elizabeth Collins and Lyric Cook-Morrissey.

A group called Iowans Against the Death Penalty (IADP) issued a press release stating --

“The death of these two little girls is tragic. Iowans Against the Death Penalty will support the proper workings of Iowa’s legal and justice system in identifying and prosecuting the person or persons responsible for their deaths. In Iowa, persons convicted of first degree murder are automatically sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.” 

That rebuke(?) makes me want to puke and the scientific community is united in that fact.

The voices of the murdered need to be heard and I hope they haunt IADP and their ilk.

Also, if the death penalty becomes law in Iowa, that would make it the proper workings of Iowa's legal and justice system.

SCOTUS

It's the first Monday in October and the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) begins its term today.

Large issue to be decided include...

The legal rights of Guantanamo detainees, the constitutionality of lethal injections for executions, photo identification cards for voters.

I have trouble understanding the fiberal mindset that has a burning desire to support a bunch of scum that want us all dead.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Especially in lieu of the fact that...

at least 30 former detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release.

In July...

An analysis of 516 Guantanamo detainees (that is now down to 330) found...95 per cent were a potential threat to US interests. This was based on their affiliations with groups such as al-Qaeda, their enthusiasm for violent jihad, their having undertaken small-arms training or having been willing to perform a support role for terrorism.

Nice guys!

I'm with Texas on lethal injection and Ron White on the death penalty...

(I'm doing this from memory)

We have a policy in Texas, if you kill someone we will kill you back.

If more than three credible witnesses saw you commit the crime, you don't spend years on death row. You move to the front of the line. While other states are trying to abolish the death penalty, mine's putting in an express lane.

Why is it that some doctors won't perform this function sanctioned by the state, but have no trouble performing euthanasia or abortion?

It's more cruel to terminate the life of someone who's killed others, but not the innocent unborn?

I'll never understand the fiberals who argue against ensuring that our elections are free from voter fraud, with I.D. laws, by ensuring that only eligible voters are voting.

One of their arguments is that there is no proof fraud has been committed, yet on the other hand they have filed suit to stop paperless balloting on the theory that it could lead to a fraudulent outcome.

HUH?!

What do you mean IF?

Saddam Hussein has asked the court to execute him by firing squad
if he's convicted and sentenced to death.

The prosecution has asked for the death penalty and the court could sentence him to death by hanging.

I'm reminded of a Warner Bothers Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon. I'll call it Duck season/Rabbit season where through PRONOUN PROBLEMS, Bugs gets Daffy to tell Elmer Fudd...."Shoot me now, shoot me now"!

In Your Honor?

This column by Kathie Obradovich, or as we call her Old Bromide, made no sense.

Obradovich: Let's not honor the dead with more death

By that logic, life in prison without parole is honorable.

That's honor BULL and the scientific community is united in that fact.

As our friend Cal (Freedom's pal) wrote us after our Voices post on the death penalty, "Kill the babies, baby the killers".

It's The Pitts

I tuned into more than enough of the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams to find out Brad Pitt will be a part of tonight's telecast.

I'm willing to wager that whoever interviews him will not ask about this sentiment, he would consider executing those responsible for the BP oil spill if he was in power.

"I was never for the death penalty before -- I am willing to look at it again."

But Brad, I thought you believed -- "...no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America...".

For the most part, Pitt's grandfather sums up how I feel about the actor --

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said 'We saw your movie.' 'Which one?' I said. He shouted 'Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn't like?

Inglorious Basterds was good and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Is it a coincidence that Brad Pitt and British Petroleum share the same initials?

Sounds Kerry-esque

The nation's longest-serving Supreme Court justice, John Paul Stevens may have served too long and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Stevens, 87, voted with the majority that ruled Kentucky's use of lethal injection is constitutional.

However, Stevens...said for the first time that he now believes the death penalty is unconstitutional.

Stevens, pictured, is a Cubs fan and that says it all.

Sympathy For The Devil

In a less than stunning development RekHA Basu's heart is bleeding for a terrorist who wants to take down the country she chooses to live in and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Pressure Obama to keep his word

Omar Khadr is charged with killing U.S. Army Sgt. Christopher Speer and making roadside bombs to target U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Khadr confessed to interrogators in a session that was described by the F.B.I. agent involved as as "comfortable" and "friendly".

A judge has ruled that this confession can be used as evidence against him.

Also allowed in evidence is a videotape showing Khadr helping a group make roadside explosives, Khadr can be seen helping put together a firing device.

The tape also shows these explosive devices being planted by the roadside.

Because Khadr was 15 in 2002, when these acts occurred, in Basu's worldly eyes that enables him to a get out of jail free card...
Child soldiers are victims and deserve to be rehabilitated

She should know better, 15 around the world ain't the same as 15 in the U.S.A.

According to Sergeant First Class Layne Morris, who was there and lost his right eye -- “That wasn’t a panicky teen-ager we encountered that day, That was a trained al-Qaida who wanted to make his last act on earth the killing of an American.”

Speer, a 28-year-old medic, who left behind a wife and two children, was another victim.

Just days before his murder, Speer had selflessly walked into a minefield to rescue two wounded Afghan children.

He should be happy they aren't giving him the death penalty.

Interestingly, one of Khadr's older brothers Abdurrahman (19 in 2002) was also brought up as a Muslim extremist but, he switched sides and worked with the CIA after 9/11.

Get Ready For This

In Omaha, a woman who is charged with first-degree murder and is a co-defendant with her brother, who is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, recently wrote about the prospects of her brother facing the death penalty --

“We are all human beings. None of us has the right to take another human being's life, no matter what! It's sinful.”

The extent some people will go to save their asses and the scientific community is united in that fact.

In Des Moines, a candidate for City Council had this to say about an uptick in violence, mostly gun related --

“There’s not going to be a magic bullet for it”

That's what happens when you shoot your mouth off.

Richard Doak, a retired Ragister editor, believes the Capitol Square Crapper was a statewide unifying force and that it helped bind Iowans together.

For Conservatives it still is, but not in the way Doak thinks.