Posted on 12/16/2003 3:41:41 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Interesting that 5% hadn't heard. The news broke early in the morning eastern time. A person would have had to be home with no television or radio on, and nobody calling on the phone. Each of my three kids had called me by 9am to ask if I had heard the news.
I was out shovelling snow early Sunday afternoon. My neighbor pulled into his driveway, and I started talking about Hussein's capture. He looked at me strange, and I found out he hadn't yet heard. He'd been camping in the woods, and had his CD player on in the truck. :-)
Bet every RAT and DUmmy have their cyanide pills ready. Any more good news, will spell total doom for the left.
If the sons, daughters or other family members of these folks had been raped, tortured, murdered or tossed from a roof top, most of them would be singing a different tune.
One of my conclusions is that while an atrocity (say against a little child) committed on one person generally results in disbelief, horror and outrage in American communities, hundreds of thousands of humans tortured, gassed and slaughtered is more difficult for people to grasp. It just becomes a blur and is shunted to the back of the brain.
Plus, if annihilations don't take place in their own back yard, a certain percentage of people couldn't care less if it happens elsewhere.
Not even the 3000 of our own killed en masse in NYC elicits feelings of revenge in some of the more brain-dead in this country.
But, among these benumbed people, there are some who would demand the death penalty for anyone who killed their cat.
Leni
Interesting. I didn't know 5% of our population lives in a spider hole....
Thats a great way to put it. May their sunk ship become cover for fish and crabs, decompose and be forgotten. I dont see how they could win 2004 now.
Are you sure about that?
13 October 1988
BERNARD SHAW: By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to Gov. Dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?
DUKAKIS: No, I don't, Bernard. And I think you know that I've opposed the death penalty during all of my life. I don't see any evidence that it's a deterrent, and I think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. We've done so in my own state. And it's one of the reasons why we have had the biggest drop in crime of any industrial state in America; why we have the lowest murder rate of any industrial state in America. But we have work to do in this nation. We have work to do to fight a real war, not a phony war, against drugs. And that's something I want to lead, something we haven't had over the course of the past many years, even though the Vice President has been at least allegedly in charge of that war. We have much to do to step up that war, to double the number of drug enforcement agents, to fight both here and abroad, to work with our neighbors in this hemisphere. And I want to call a hemispheric summit just as soon after the 20th of January as possible to fight that war. But we also have to deal with drug education prevention here at home. And that's one of the things that I hope I can lead personally as the President of the United States. We've had great success in my own state. And we've reached out to young people and their families and been able to help them by beginning drug education and prevention in the early elementary grades. So we can fight this war, and we can win this war. And we can do so in a way that marshals our forces, that provides real support for state and local law enforcement officers who have not been getting that support, and do it in a way which will bring down violence in this nation, will help our youngsters to stay away from drugs, will stop this avalanche of drugs that's pouring into the country, and will make it possible for our kids and our families to grow up in safe and secure and decent neighborhoods.
SHAW: Mr. Vice President, your one-minute rebuttal.
BUSH: Well, a lot of what this campaign is about, it seems to me Bernie, goes to the question of values. And here I do have, on this particular question, a big difference with my opponent. You see, I do believe that some crimes are so heinous, so brutal, so outrageous, and I'd say particularly those that result in the death of a police officer, for those real brutal crimes, I do believe in the death penalty, and I think it is a deterrent, and I believe we need it. And I'm glad that the Congress moved on this drug bill and have finally called for that related to these narcotics drug kingpins. And so we just have an honest difference of opinion: I support it and he doesn't.
She had heard, but didn't know who he was. She thought Iraq was something they use in Arkansas to rake leaves.
This, in answer to a question about what you would do if your wife was raped and murdered... Amazing.
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