January 2009
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“We’ve been able to do a lot of things for real, ordinary people.”
– Rod Blagojevich, former Governor of Illinois
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“I did a lot of things that were mostly right.”
– Rod Blagojevich
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“I have a recollection of actually remembering that.”
– Rod Blagojevich
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-klein/preside... →
Comment from Canuck27:
I find it a great relief to be talking about whether or not an administration official made a mistake or tried to cheat on his taxes instead of talking about mistakes like starting illegal wars, torturing people, wire tapping citizens, abandoning victims of a hurricane, ya know little things like that.
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http://www.cellblockvisions.com/index.html →
Reblogging sightunseen:
“Stripped of freedom, beautiful surroundings, and supportive community, these convicts draw pictures of what their souls see. They sketch their way past despair. They give us insight into what it means to be a thrown-away-one. Their pictures cry out – I, too, can see – I too, can create, I too am a human being.” Sister Helen Prejean
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“I mean, talk about a direct IV into the vein of your support. It’s a very...”
– Dan Bartlett, former Counselor to the President in the Bush administration, talking about conservative bloggers
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“It’s difficult to describe what it is like to serve time on death row...”
– Ray Krone, released April 8, 2002
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“You bet I did. I enjoyed it.”
– Michael Bloomberg responding to a question of whether he ever smoked cannabis.
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“At the University of Natal in Durban, I was told the church to which most of the...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
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“And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the...”
– Martin Luther King, April 3, 1968
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There are many people in the world who really...
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“They would have done better using an axe.”
– George Westinghouse, on seeing the first electrocution
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Sister Helen Prejean: Would Jesus pull the switch? →
I don’t see capital punishment as a peripheral issue about some criminals at the edge of society that people want to execute. I see the death penalty connected to the three deepest wounds of our society: racism, poverty, and violence.
In this country, first the hangman’s noose, then the electric chair, and now the lethal-injection gurney have been almost exclusively reserved for...
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Source: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_boyer
Phil Griffin: Is it really necessary to end your commentary by telling the President of the United States to "shut the hell up"?
Keith Olbermann: Because I can’t say, 'Shut the fuck up,' that’s why, frankly.
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“There’s no question, in my mind, that someone has slipped through the...”
– Jay Burnett, former Harris County criminal court judge (source)
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“Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only...”
– William J. Brennan (source)
List of executed inmates who may have been innocent
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Balloon Juice: The Bullshit Begins: Some Cheese... →
I love her assertion that she would have been treated better had she been a Democrat. Always a victim, these Republicans, what with the media out to get them and everything.
I guess it is probably pointless to dig up all the fawning media coverage she got after reading the speech someone else wrote for her at the convention (I remember the terms “electrified” and the phrase “a star is born”)...
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Washington Post: Dream A Little Dream of 2009 →
Resolutions require willpower. Wishes do not. So for the third consecutive year, let’s daydream a little.
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The death penalty is never morally acceptable →
No doubt some readers here will advance that this is a good argument for the return of the death penalty but if we, the people, sanction killing every killer, then every one of us become mass murderers just like them! It’s great revenge but hardly representative of a society of thinking people which we pretend we are.
— A. Bica
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“Th[e] evidence suggests that death by electrical current is extremely violent...”
– William J. Brennan, Jr.
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“The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental...”
– William J. Brennan, Jr., McCleskey v. Kemp (1987), dissenting
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HuffPo: The Myth of Bush As "The Hero of September... →
Ultimately, if we look beyond the generous benefit of the doubt the president received after September 11, it’s easy to recall a long line of reactions to September 11 that guided us deeper into darkness and death, rather than into the enlightenment of a new era in world history.
What I recall is a litany of awful, illegal and destructive responses to September 11 on behalf of the...
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Watchwillw:
Apple Announces The Macbook Wheel