Guilty – Part 2

The story on Yahoo News has this The jury deliberated for just 37 minutes before finding Scott Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., guilty of premeditated, first-degree murder for putting a gun to the forehead of Dr. George Tiller on May 31 and pulling the trigger. I have been on two juries, one criminal, the [...]

Guilty Of Premeditated, First Degree Murder

I saw this first at The Moderate Voice, but their comment system would let me comment, so I will do so here. As of today, as of the day Mr. Roeder committed the act for which he was convicted and for thirty plus years preceding that heinous act, a woman’s right to choose has been [...]

Howard Zinn, R. I. P.

Via BooMan this piece from the Boston Globe a giant has left us. “His writings have changed the consciousness of a generation, and helped open new paths to understanding and its crucial meaning for our lives,” Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, once wrote of Dr. Zinn. “When action has been called for, [...]

Facebook

I am new to Facebook.  Less than 48 hours ago I joined.  B, a long time family friend, bugged me to join so I could see pics of her first and only granddaughter. One of the reasons I had never joined any social networking was because of privacy issues.  So, when I came across this [...]

Secretary of the Treasury

If anyone ever wondered about the Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, his judgment, his fitness to be a public servant, well wonder no more. Reuters has a story up about the New York Federal Reserve Bank, of which Geithner was the head of prior to his most recent position. The secret may have stabilized the markets [...]

Thought of the Day

Hey, all you politicians with a D after your name, this thoughts for you To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius

R. I. P.

R. I. P. United States Of America 17 Sep 1787 — 21 Jan 2010

The End

Well, maybe a little too dramatic?  Of course this is not “The End.”  But this SCOTUS decision is the last needed nail in the coffin.  Read about it here and here and here.  This is not an unexpected decision. What makes this the “Beginning Of The END” as we know the United States to have [...]

Senator Brown

I just sent the following to Senator Sherrod Brown: I live in the Ohio eighth congressional district.  A few years back, when now Senator Brown was in the House of Representatives, Senator Frist was Majority leader in the Senate.  The Republicans did not have 59 senators at the time.  They only had 53, I believe.  [...]

Doomed?

“It goes without saying” is an old cliche.  And I am not going to use it here.  But every once in a while I do get a wee bit upset when I see some entity grabbing defeat out of the jaws of victory.  And once on a blue moon I break my self imposed rule [...]