Posted on 03/06/2010 8:12:24 AM PST by JoeProBono
Its either one of the more brazen and courageous judicial rulings weve heard of in a long time, or one of the most ill-considered examples of judicial activism weve heard of in a long time.
Your take on it will likely depend on your take on the death penalty. The news is this, and its pretty striking:
A state district judge in Houston granted a pretrial motion declaring the death penalty unconstitutional.
The ruling, made by State District Judge Kevin Fine, came in response to a motion filed by lawyers for a man accused of fatally shooting a Houston woman and wounding her sister on June 16, 2008. The lawyers had argued the procedures surrounding death-penalty jury instructions in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure violate the Eighth and 14th Amendments prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment and guaranteeing the right of due process.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
No.....they are smart!
Indeed.
Society has become sharply debased and more coarse over the past several decades and this is reflected in, art, music, personal behavior and life choices.
You are right. But I don't know how it is going to change back to the 50's or even earlier. I try to dress my daughter more modestly then most 10 yr olds, I limit TV & MTV isn't allowed in our house. I home school. I don't do sleepovers & we all watch our junk food intake. We try to help people in need & we rescue horses. Most of all we treat others like we would have them treat us.
Well Duh! Maybe some girls (or guys) don't like your cover & won't bother with you! Or maybe they don't like your art ( I recall you said you were an artist?) & will say he stinks I wouldn't want to be friends with him. Oh please stop the bs. It can happen with or without tattoos. If people are so shallow to base their opinions on your looks or your art etc then who would want to be friends with them? And your brilliant uncle wasn't so brilliant ...It is don't judge a book by it's cover! You two sure know an awful lot of brilliant, famous & mega people. Hmm somehow I am not impressed & am glad I live my own life which is much simpler.
Folks with tattoos are self-absorbed in that they assume people give a crap about whether they're rebels or hip or unconventional. And I am self-absorbed in that I assume that YOU, dear reader, give a crap about my opinion on this! ;^)
A wise old man who was a character in a John Steinbeck novel (I forget which one) kindly told a painfully shy, self-conscious teenage girl: "You wouldn't worry nearly so much about what other people thought about you if you knew how little they thought about you."
Niccolo Machiavelli
Like you’re assuming that people give a crap about your opinion?
Some people have tats for attention.
Some people play armchair psychologist on internet forums with lengthy, pointless, judgmental, inaccurate screeds about people with tats for attention.
Just because you aren’t wearing your cry for attention, doesn’t mean you aren’t in the same category you’re condemning.
Actually, my uncle was quite brilliant, thank you. A successful architect whose five beautiful daughters were raised to respect themselves. Not a tat among 'em. They're also successful in their fields, artists and published writers, all.
Their self-esteem comes from what they do, as they were raised.
You're right. Tattoos, faster than any other red flag, do portray you as "simple."
:::wonderful:::
Wishing you success and joy.
Prayers & the same to you.
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