Good afternoon, idiots. Here's a slight smattering of the ways we're all acting stupid today. Gawker rightfully points out the ridiculousness of our technicality-based penal system where "actually innocent" prisoners are kept behind bars due to paper work oversights in this piece (based on an LA Times report).
Daniel Larsen, for example. As the LAT reports, he's in prison in California serving a life sentence thanks to the good old "three strikes" law. His first two strikes were burglary convictions; his third strike came when he was convicted of carrying a concealed knife in 1998, after police said they saw him toss a knife under a car after a bar fight.
All of which would be horrifyingly absurd enough as it is if it weren't for the logic behind the 3 strikes system in the first place. Remind me why we're writing laws based on sports rules again? Three strikes? Why isn't it four downs, or two faults? "Your Honor, after further review the defendant's knee wasn't down at the time of his arrest. We suggest replaying the alleged crime from the spot of the foul."
WE'RE ACTUALLY HAVING A NATIONAL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE BLESSING OF RAPE. Don't think we can point that out enough times.
Top internet news-tribute act the Huffington Post covers a story from CBS St Louis today about three women who attacked their waitress at a Red Lobster.
Rep. Steve King, one of the most staunchly conservative members of the House, was one of the few Republicans who did not strongly condemn Rep. Todd Akin Monday for his remarks regarding pregnancy and rape. King also signaled why — he might agree with parts of Akin’s assertion.Starting to think we should look into the potential for distinctions between legitimate political-rage-induced murder. Think about it, a lot of bad lives have been ended by murder, so, you know, that's god's way of blessing the world with less evil.
King told an Iowa reporter he’s never heard of a child getting pregnant from statutory rape or incest.
“Well I just haven’t heard of that being a circumstance that’s been brought to me in any personal way,” King told KMEG-TV Monday, “and I’d be open to discussion about that subject matter.” TPM
Top internet news-tribute act the Huffington Post covers a story from CBS St Louis today about three women who attacked their waitress at a Red Lobster.
A witness at the restaurant said the women were upset because the waitress was filling their glasses too often. Ambulance crews gave the waitress a quick evaluation, but she declined further medical attention and went back to work.
"Another waitress was attacked the same location last December by four customers," the story concludes. "The two attacks do not appear to be related." So no mad-about-being-over-watered-crime-syndicate going on in St Louis then, you'll be happy to know. Detectives are going to keep an eye on it anyway just in case.
In case you had forgotten, in the year 2012, the two guys interviewing for the job of the main law-passing, bomb-direction-deciding, and TV talker-onner guy are still required to profess publicly, again and again, over and over, that they literally believe in magic, like in this interview with the Washington National Cathedral magazine.
Romney, who is Mormon, didn't mention his faith by name during the nine-page interview, but acknowledged that, "I am often asked about my faith and my beliefs about Jesus Christ. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind." (via)
Obama, for his part, seems to know that that's a clown question, bro.
"You know, there's not much I can do about it," Obama said in the interview. "I have a job to do as president, and that does not involve convincing folks that my faith in Jesus is legitimate and real. I do my best to live out my faith, and stay in the Word, and to make my life look more like His." (via)
Here's one quote I happen to quite like myself. It's obscure, so you might not have heard of it:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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