I remember these! They were kind of fun back then.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Nappy Headed Ho?
Sounds like an immature insulting. Ever since the now "has-been" Imus uttered that (title of this blog) and got fired for it...people have been trying to be cute saying it everywhere else. I heard it in Chicago Tuesday, and I heard it in Dallas Wednesday. Both times I asked the speaker "Why would you want to repeat something that got a guy fired when he said it, cost people jobs, hurt peoples feelings? What is the point of it? It is not a KIND thing to say, and our good Lord wants us to be KIND one to another and that is not KIND." Usually that met with an arrogant reply but they did seem to stop saying it so...thats fine.
There is still a big segment of our country made up of kind people, thankfully. But them bad apples sure do spoil the pie.
The mass murdering in Virginia has also taken place since I've been away, and all kinds of people suggesting more laws need to be passed? People , there are already laws covering that...more laws are not the answer. Gun Control does have an interesting involvement in it though...because if there wasn't so much gun control, maybe some of the students/faculty would have been armed and the death toll would have been much lower. Maybe we need to cut back the involvement of our culture with graphic people killing people video games. To focus on the gun is to miss the picture completely, focus on the building blocks of what broke this kid so far away from the nature God intended for him? where he allowed himself hatred instead of love, where it was accepted in his mind to do something so appalling.
It amazes my brother wolf, that people will buy the bottled water...he said he looked at some one time that said right on it...from "municipal water supply" of some town, its tap water man, its %!@#%!* tap water.
I told him he oughta open a barbque/grilling biz , he's good at it and seems to enjoy it....we got from there over to fried Rabbit and working a way for it to be legal to sell fried rabbit. I suggested a booth at major flea markets around the country in the good weather season, like at Canton, TX. or the major events like the car show in carlisle pa, or any large crowed stadium area....
He suggested a business where the kids could pet the baby rabbits that were being fed and raised for slaughter...while the parents go to another part of the business to buy the grilled rabbit for food, while another part of the business was a shooting gallery where you charged people to shoot the rabbits that you would then process and grill.
Good idea Wolf, maybe we should do that with Chickens.
There is still a big segment of our country made up of kind people, thankfully. But them bad apples sure do spoil the pie.
The mass murdering in Virginia has also taken place since I've been away, and all kinds of people suggesting more laws need to be passed? People , there are already laws covering that...more laws are not the answer. Gun Control does have an interesting involvement in it though...because if there wasn't so much gun control, maybe some of the students/faculty would have been armed and the death toll would have been much lower. Maybe we need to cut back the involvement of our culture with graphic people killing people video games. To focus on the gun is to miss the picture completely, focus on the building blocks of what broke this kid so far away from the nature God intended for him? where he allowed himself hatred instead of love, where it was accepted in his mind to do something so appalling.
It amazes my brother wolf, that people will buy the bottled water...he said he looked at some one time that said right on it...from "municipal water supply" of some town, its tap water man, its %!@#%!* tap water.
I told him he oughta open a barbque/grilling biz , he's good at it and seems to enjoy it....we got from there over to fried Rabbit and working a way for it to be legal to sell fried rabbit. I suggested a booth at major flea markets around the country in the good weather season, like at Canton, TX. or the major events like the car show in carlisle pa, or any large crowed stadium area....
He suggested a business where the kids could pet the baby rabbits that were being fed and raised for slaughter...while the parents go to another part of the business to buy the grilled rabbit for food, while another part of the business was a shooting gallery where you charged people to shoot the rabbits that you would then process and grill.
Good idea Wolf, maybe we should do that with Chickens.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
District Attorney Bill Peterson Website
Hmmm. What concerns me enough to blog about it is, that after sorting thru all the "how great I am" and spit shine on his image as he would like people to see it...and skipping over the irrelevant fussing letters exchanged between Grisham and Peterson...I finally find a fact that is more to the core of the matter...
"I cannot change the reality that two men were convicted of a crime they did not commit. To that extent, John Grisham's book is based upon actual events. His narrative, however, is riddledwith so many inaccuracies, innuendos..."
What follows and the context of it all, is a pretty boring lawyer-like approach to build a case in favor of Peterson while discrediting Grisham. My opinion..that same cheesy style works with alot of people..its how innocent people can be put in jail by unsuspecting jurys. So let me cut straight thru the crappese and solicit your help because I'm sure I must have missed something here....
#1. That is a heck of a fact to just spill out there..."two men were convicted of a crime they did not commit"...meaning .."I mistakenly prosecuted 2 innocent men, and got them convicted of a crime they did not in fact commit". Now this has NOTHING to do with Grisham...Where is the apology? Seems to me it should've been his HOME page of his website, glossing over something that serious is horrible.
#2. A great deal of thought went into analyzing what went wrong with Grisham's story. Wait a minute! In all the effort and obsession with trying to regain an "image" wouldn't the humble and honorable thing be to be tearing up the rug trying to figure out every possible thing that went wrong leading to these two being convicted wrongfully? To me, Grisham's book is not the focus point. It did us all a favor and brought to light something most of us might not have ever known about. The focal point should be...What errors and screw ups lead the DA to prosecute this case? Was the presumption of innocence bypassed? Were they assumed guilty therefore build a case to fit it? Were witnesses (ie jailhouse snitches) coerced? was bullying done? We the public may never know the truth on that, but I would hope that a prosecuting attorney would really really consider that "the system's" safeguards should NOT be bypassed if they were.
It should have been a website that was a critique of what lead to such a horrible screwup and an impressive and intelligent FIX to help PROTECT us from that ever happening again?
Nope. It appears to be a defense of self, and an attack of Grisham, and an analysis of the book...Who cares man, that aint the issue! That "reality" may not be changeable for the 2 in this case...but that reality needs to be changed for future situations!
So my review? The website is missing the only parts that matter... a suitably fit apology ..and an analytical evaluation and proposed fix for the investigatory methods and thinking and the flawed elements of the justice process that let this happen. If this isn't fixed,...who really cares who wins the Peterson vs. Grisham war? The greater matter should be, how to fix this from ever happening again in Ada, Oklahoma....not a namby pamby he said i said mud slinging argument.
Two fellow citizens of our great nation paid an ENORMOUS price ...not because of Grisham. Fact?
What went wrong? (is that discussed in the website?...isn't it important?)
What is being done to ensure this doesn't happen again?
The website concludes:
"There is a huge difference between apologizing for something and regretting that something happened. Words cannot express how I feel that two men were convicted who later turned out to be factually innocent. To say that I am sorry, sickened, or distraught that it occurred does not begin to explain how I feel. However, in regard to the actions I personally took, I prosecuted a case relying on what I believed to be state of the art science, and relying on law enforcement reports that I believed to be accurate. I did not take any improper action, nor would I ever condone such action by others."
Comment..."does not begin to explain"...well, certainly an attempt should be made I would think.
As for the "However" part. Umm, if everything was done so state of the art and proper, yet something diametrically opposed to truth and justice was the outcome...then we do indeed have a system to worry about I would think.
That statement doesn't reveal any progress on preventing this from happening again.
"I cannot change the reality that two men were convicted of a crime they did not commit. To that extent, John Grisham's book is based upon actual events. His narrative, however, is riddledwith so many inaccuracies, innuendos..."
What follows and the context of it all, is a pretty boring lawyer-like approach to build a case in favor of Peterson while discrediting Grisham. My opinion..that same cheesy style works with alot of people..its how innocent people can be put in jail by unsuspecting jurys. So let me cut straight thru the crappese and solicit your help because I'm sure I must have missed something here....
#1. That is a heck of a fact to just spill out there..."two men were convicted of a crime they did not commit"...meaning .."I mistakenly prosecuted 2 innocent men, and got them convicted of a crime they did not in fact commit". Now this has NOTHING to do with Grisham...Where is the apology? Seems to me it should've been his HOME page of his website, glossing over something that serious is horrible.
#2. A great deal of thought went into analyzing what went wrong with Grisham's story. Wait a minute! In all the effort and obsession with trying to regain an "image" wouldn't the humble and honorable thing be to be tearing up the rug trying to figure out every possible thing that went wrong leading to these two being convicted wrongfully? To me, Grisham's book is not the focus point. It did us all a favor and brought to light something most of us might not have ever known about. The focal point should be...What errors and screw ups lead the DA to prosecute this case? Was the presumption of innocence bypassed? Were they assumed guilty therefore build a case to fit it? Were witnesses (ie jailhouse snitches) coerced? was bullying done? We the public may never know the truth on that, but I would hope that a prosecuting attorney would really really consider that "the system's" safeguards should NOT be bypassed if they were.
It should have been a website that was a critique of what lead to such a horrible screwup and an impressive and intelligent FIX to help PROTECT us from that ever happening again?
Nope. It appears to be a defense of self, and an attack of Grisham, and an analysis of the book...Who cares man, that aint the issue! That "reality" may not be changeable for the 2 in this case...but that reality needs to be changed for future situations!
So my review? The website is missing the only parts that matter... a suitably fit apology ..and an analytical evaluation and proposed fix for the investigatory methods and thinking and the flawed elements of the justice process that let this happen. If this isn't fixed,...who really cares who wins the Peterson vs. Grisham war? The greater matter should be, how to fix this from ever happening again in Ada, Oklahoma....not a namby pamby he said i said mud slinging argument.
Two fellow citizens of our great nation paid an ENORMOUS price ...not because of Grisham. Fact?
What went wrong? (is that discussed in the website?...isn't it important?)
What is being done to ensure this doesn't happen again?
The website concludes:
"There is a huge difference between apologizing for something and regretting that something happened. Words cannot express how I feel that two men were convicted who later turned out to be factually innocent. To say that I am sorry, sickened, or distraught that it occurred does not begin to explain how I feel. However, in regard to the actions I personally took, I prosecuted a case relying on what I believed to be state of the art science, and relying on law enforcement reports that I believed to be accurate. I did not take any improper action, nor would I ever condone such action by others."
Comment..."does not begin to explain"...well, certainly an attempt should be made I would think.
As for the "However" part. Umm, if everything was done so state of the art and proper, yet something diametrically opposed to truth and justice was the outcome...then we do indeed have a system to worry about I would think.
That statement doesn't reveal any progress on preventing this from happening again.
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