Posted on 07/29/2025 5:11:44 PM PDT by artichokegrower
Nathan Gould wakes up in a California state prison cell every morning at 6 a.m. He stirs a cup of instant coffee, prays with his Bible and reflects on the day in 1994 when he killed a man in Bakersfield.
Homeless and drifting from one drug score to the next, Gould and his wife holed up with another transient in an abandoned warehouse. Gould attacked him with a knife, beat and tied him up, and proceeded to rifle through his belongings for a wad of cash he’d flashed earlier. When the man began yelling, Gould stuffed a sock in his mouth.
“I hate having to relive this sometimes,” Gould said before describing how he heard the man’s muffled grunts and failed to realize he was suffocating. “I didn’t know I broke his nose.”
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There is much to be said for the way families and tribes handled business. Honor was to be adhered to. The feminizing and financializing of our culture, accompanied by technology have brought much of this about. The unwillingness to put down killers is an end result.
I’m not one of these who goes so far as to say women shouldn’t have been given the vote. The last time only men voted we got Woodrow Wilson twice.
So much of what we see from all of them is appearance. The truly nice, ethical people don’t want any part of it.
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