05.11.08
Posted in SSquirrel at 2:06 am by SSquirrel
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says the euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles probably died more humanely than death row prisoners do.
Stevens’s comments Friday night came a month after he voted with a majority of the Supreme Court to approve the most widely used method of lethal injection, while saying for the first time that he now believes the death penalty is unconstitutional.
According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Stevens told an audience of judges and lawyers that he checked into the procedure used to kill Eight Belles and was surprised to learn it is against the law in Kentucky to kill animals using one of the drugs in a three-drug lethal injection cocktail that many states, including Kentucky, use to execute prisoners.
He’s suprised…next he’ll be shocked, shocked I say, that most of the people executed seemed rather poor and somewhat darker skinned than most…Pffft…
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05.10.08
Posted in SSquirrel at 11:09 am by SSquirrel
In response to a question from the Michigan City, Ind., News-Dispatch on whether he is a Nazi, or sympathizes with them or with white supremacists, Tony Zirkle said he didn’t “know enough about the group to either favor it or oppose it.”
He reportedly also told a local radio station he didn’t think all the 50 or so people at the party were necessarily Nazis, because the group’s name isn’t “Nazi” but National Socialist Workers Party. Apparently clues such as the large swastikas or that picture of der Fuehrer right behind him didn’t arouse suspicion. (Thought it was Charlie Chaplin?)
Zirkle said his appearance at the birthday celebration in Chicago — which also featured a cake that said “Happy 119th” — was in keeping with his pledge that he would speak to anyone who wanted to hear him.
In this case, he told the News-Dispatch, the Nazis wanted him to discuss the effects of pornography and prostitution on young white women and girls.
The party “was interested in the targeting of white people for prostitution,” he said, noting that he agrees with the party’s view that trafficking of “young white women should be stopped.”
And the Northwest Indiana Times quoted Zirkle as saying in his defense of his appearance: “I’ll speak before any group that invites me. . . . I’ve spoken on an African American radio station in Atlanta.”
The Nazi’s had a birthday party for Hitler in Chicago? And a repuke candidate spoke at it? OMFG!!!
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Posted in SSquirrel at 10:51 am by SSquirrel
The backlash is not limited to the well known. Christopher Chambers, a Georgetown University professor and Obama supporter, said a woman tracked down his cellphone number, dialed it and called him a race traitor after he said Wright’s performance would doom the senator’s presidential run if he did not act decisively. Obama denounced Wright’s appearance later that day.
Barbara Reynolds, a black columnist who brokered Wright’s appearance at the press club, was also under assault. She rejected a wave of rumors that cast her as a Hillary Clinton supporter who set up Wright to damage Obama.
Although Reynolds has strongly criticized Obama, she said she is torn over which candidate to support. However, she said, she is unbowed by her critics: “They can label me, but I’m not going to shut up.”
Paradoxically, African Americans wondered early on if Obama cared sufficiently about their concerns. But that was before he won the Iowa caucuses. Standing in the path of Obama’s campaign has been dangerous ever since.
“Yes, I wish Wright had sat down and decided to be quiet,” said Venetria Patton, director of the African American Studies and Research Center at Purdue University.
Of Bill Clinton and his wife, she said: “The more he opened his mouth, the more I was against her.”
How to win enemies and betray friends…I definitely need to register the term McCain Democrats, though the anyone but the bullshit Obama campaign crowd will be more accurate…All that money has gone to their heads me thinks…
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05.04.08
Posted in SSquirrel at 10:34 am by SSquirrel
“BAGHDAD (AFP) - Insurgents blew up four US marines in Iraq’s Anbar province”, marking one of the deadliest attacks against US troops in the former Sunni rebel bastion in months, the military said on Sunday
166 dead servicemen this year, 50 just last month. Plenty of dead people for a very nice memorial. And I’m thinkin this time let’s give credit were credit is due.
Let’s have plaques with pictures of the people who started this stupid war right up front…forever, like… Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Condi, Addington etc…But let’s also give the media credit…Britt Hume, Bill Crystal, Wolf Blitzer, Timmy Russert, Tweety, Judy(NYT), Hannity, Heads of all the Newstalk Networks too… Anne Coulter maybe an honorable mention. A big “Thank You for killing all these Americans for no reason whatsoever”…not to forget about a million Iraqi men, women and children.
You know, for the children, and for their children, and for their children, and their children…After all, they’ll still be paying for it…
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05.01.08
Posted in SSquirrel at 9:18 am by SSquirrel
White House officials for more than a year have blocked a rule aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales by challenging the findings of government scientists, according to documents obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The documents, which were mailed to the environmental group by an unidentified National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official, illuminate a struggle that has raged between the White House and NOAA for more than a year. In February 2007, NOAA issued a final rule aimed at slowing ships traversing some East Coast waters to 10 knots or less during parts of the year to protect the right whales, but the White House has blocked the rule from taking effect.
North Atlantic right whales, whose surviving population numbers fewer than 400, are one of the most endangered species on Earth, and scientists have warned that the loss of just one more pregnant female could doom the species. Some shipping companies have opposed the NOAA proposal, saying slowing their vessels will cost the industry money.
Since NOAA initially proposed the regulation, at least three right whales have died from ship strikes and two have been wounded by propellers.
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