1. Ahhhh. A 2-hour delay. I'm going into school early for some peaceful working time.
2. I'm annoying everyone at school with my Christmas music.
3. I feel a little like I'm living in midievil times when I realize I'm living in a state that allows capital punishment. It just makes me ill. If Arnold Schwarzenegger allows that ex-gang leader guy to die later this month, I will be so angry. He clearly is still a benefit to society, as he writes children's books and speaks out against joining a gang. I cannot believe it's even being considered. I cannot believe the death penalty is even legal.
5. Last Monday, I waited on five people and made $26. This Monday, I waited on five people and made $26. Consistently horrible Monday nights, but for very different reasons - the post-Thanksgiving blues of last week, and the "snow storm" of last night. Here's hoping tonight is better. I'm working an awful lot this week because of holiday parties and the ilk.
6. Tonight is also the tree-trimming party at the restaurant. It was a favor to schedule me by the boss because he knew I'd have to be out late anyway for the tree-trimming party and meeting beforehand. The tree-trimming party usually involves a lot of wine and a lot of taking direction from owner, who is very particular about her Christmas decorations. It's usually pretty fun. I'm probably not going to partake in the wine and try to duck out as early as I can.
7. I'm almost positive my little sister and I accidentally switched contact lenses when she came down for Thanksgiving because I can't see for shit since she left. She swears it's not the case, but I'm almost 100% sure. I'm going to the eye doctor today to get my prescription filled. I was about due, anyway.
8. My mirror is still dangling. That sucks. The woman who hit me is not returning calls to my insurance company and I think I'm just going to get the damn thing taken care of.
9. This is one of my favorite times of the year - baseball's winter meetings. There should be a flurry of exciting activity over the next few days. I'm hoping the Tigers won't give anyone a crazy huge contract that we'll be saddled with for years, but I'm also hoping they make some good moves. So far, they've done nothing this off-season. Even less than the Orioles, who at least now have Mazzone.
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"regardless...regardless...regardless".. "fact of the matter is... fact of the matter..." God I write like a retard sometimes.
Whoops! I screwed up. Here is what I deleted, complete with too many "regardless"'s and "fact of the matter"'s:
I also happen to be opposed to the death penalty in all cases, but I’m unwilling to swallow the Hollywood hype about Tookie Williams. So he writes children’s books that say the thug life is bad. Yay him. Gangsta rappers write lyrics that say the same thing, while still benefiting from the romanticized personification of thug life. Truth of the matter is, Tookie Williams is STILL a member of the Crips, is well known to have ordered killings since in prison, and most importantly of all, REFUSES TO STITCH! He is no role model for children, regardless of what Bianca Jagger or Jamie Foxx tell me to believe. That man is not reformed. Regardless of where I stand on the death penalty, I’m not willing to subvert the truth and buy into the lie about the content of that man’s character. Fact of the matter is, I would be opposed to the death penalty if he was Satan himself... he just happens to be the closest human facsimile thereof.
Perhaps you have a good point, although the things you state are fact are not, in fact, fact - they're rumors which may or may not be true, even though there are clear motives to put out sketchy information about the guy. I do think Williams has more to offer the world than your average death row inmate, but, you're right, I don't need to put him on any greater pedestal than he's already on. We're in agreement on the death penalty no matter who it is.
I'd agree to sparing the lives of supposedly rehabilitated death row inmates if they find a way to resurrect the people they killed that put them on death row to begin with. Most of those people only "find god" because they're faced with their own mortality and not because they suddenly turn good. That might be enough for you, but it's not for me.
(BTW, I'm not saying I'm pro or con death penalty, but if a sentence has been handed down and all appeals have been exhausted, then that sentence, no matter what it is, should be carried out. The victim deserves that, and that's who these punishments should be about.)
Well: still being a member of the crips- fact. refusing the snitch - fact. ordering killings while in prison - strongly supported heresay. He has only been convicted of murdering four innocent people. I think there are clearer motives to put romantacized motives on the guy.
EE: No, it's not a fact that he's still a member of the Crypts. I've seen so many different sources on that that, all with different takes, and no one can say it's a fact unless they're in the Crypts with him. Law enforcement is quoted as not knowing whether he is or not; how do you know it's a fact?
DB: I disagree with you; not only because I think the death penalty is wrong and anyone put in the power to do so should stop it, but because I don't have faith in lower courts to make sure a fair trial has been afforded.
I think his refusal to snitch effectively defines him as still a member. Notice my constant reinforcement of the whole "refusal to snitch" point. I'm not really interested in how he defines himself or if he calls himself a Crip or not. He has done nothing that has caused any effective damage to the gang system, even though he has some power to do so. And no, I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt to a four time convicted murderer.
With that said, I don't buy into the whole execution is justice for the victim's families argument either. I simply don't understand how that romotely resembles justice. Of course, this is a value call, but my call is that "eye for an eye" is some serious old school barbarism. I prefer my justice both cold and blind. Passion has no place in the courtroom.
"I don't have faith in lower courts to make sure a fair trial has been afforded."
Isn't that what the decades-long appeals process is for?
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