Category: Current Events

Execution problems prompt one-week reprieve for Ohio inmate

I can only hope they don’t try lethal injection next week but can only guess they’ll repeat the same fiasco. I have a hard time feeling sorry for men who rape and murder little girls, but if I had my choice between being hanged or strapped to a table while someone dug for a vein [...]

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Posted in Current Events on Sep 16th, 2009, 8:41 am by eric     

Presidential Gift Exchange Drama

The President of the United States gave a foreign leader - out closest ally -  a box set of DVDs as a gift. 
“Here, go home and watch these, and quit trying to steal my thunder.”
Via: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama the Cheapskate: 25 DVDs for Gordon Brown?.

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Posted in Current Events, Obama, White House, politics on Mar 5th, 2009, 9:54 am by eric     

Missing white woman of the week: Chandra Levy redux

I hadn’t realized the whole “missing white woman of the week” media-filler thing had been going on this long, but if I recall it had already began going strong in 2001. 
Calousness aside, it was a sad thing - like all the other missing white women of the week since, she was a beautiful young person, [...]

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Posted in Current Events on Feb 21st, 2009, 12:21 pm by eric