Boar hunters are glad too - her head hanging in someone's den is apt to cause all sorts of nightmares.
If I saw this thing in the woods I'd shoot at it ... then run the other way.
Posted on 02/15/2006 9:36:52 AM PST by presidio9
Of course the jokes are flying all over Texas -- what's the fine for shooting a lawyer? -- and so forth. Dick-Cheney-shooting-Harry-Whittington is fraught, as they say, with irony. It's not as though the ground in Texas is littered with liberal Republicans. I think the vice president winged the only one we've got.
Not that I accuse Harry Whittington of being an actual liberal -- only by Texas Republican standards, and that sets the bar about the height of a matchbook. Nevertheless, Whittington is seriously civilized, particularly on the issues of crime, punishment and prisons. He served on both the Texas Board of Corrections and on the bonding authority that builds prisons. As he has often said, prisons do not curb crime, they are hothouses for crime: "Prisons are to crime what greenhouses are to plants."
In the day, whenever there was an especially bad case of new-ignoramus-in-the-legislature -- a "lock 'em all up and throw away the key" type -- the senior members used to send the prison-happy, tuff-on-crime neophyte to see Harry Whittington, a Republican after all, for a little basic education on the cost of prisons.
When Whittington was the chairman of Texas Public Finance Authority, he had a devastating set of numbers on the demand for more, more, more prison beds. As Whittington was wont to point out, the only thing prisons are good for is segregating violent people from the rest of society, and most of them belong in psychiatric hospitals to begin with. The severity of sentences has no effect on crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Molly's just upset that she can't go for a walk anywhere people hunt wild boar.
The buckshot stops in your as*, Molly.
Prison in many ways, is an ongoing criminal enterprise for gangs, a place to improve your thug skills or a time out for criminals from society.
Boar hunters are glad too - her head hanging in someone's den is apt to cause all sorts of nightmares.
Read the top of the attached by Jonah Goldberg (Good Point) ;-)
http://corner.nationalreview.com/06_02_12_corner-archive.asp#090063
If I saw this thing in the woods I'd shoot at it ... then run the other way.
Isn't Molly suffering from some sort of cancer?
I'm glad to see that she still writing, but honest-to-God, how does anyone obtain points of view like Molly's? I hope her unrelenting negativity was not central to her getting ill.
In spite of her views, I hope she is feeling better.
My eyes!!!
Looks like Al Franken in drag.
That is what she looks like now?? My g-d!!! The pic in the papers along with her columns must be 20 yrs old!!!!
That's Al Franken in drag!
I am not trying to be mean but why do liberal women for the most part....I mean the die hard lefties.... why are they so ugly?
Another empty-headed, liberal moron dipwad, opines. Y-a-w-n.
Molly Ivins Can't Eat That, Can She ?
Bitterness.
Yup. Bitter, unsightly shrew.
Wow...I haven't seen Stan Freberg in a while. Dude's changed.
dang. Is that alive?
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