Chewey, on Jan 7 2008, 02:26 PM, said:
How did we get to this point where irrational thought processes and arguments/positions like those referred to by the Chief are actually given credence and weight...
Not trying to get too far off the subject here; nor am I going to engage in a Constitutional debate. But in the last few days I have heard of two Supreme Court cases: one in which a person (using the term loosely) is trying to say that he doesn't deserve the death penalty because all he did was rape an eight year old girl: he didn't
kill her. Another person is trying to convince me that the current execution method is "cruel and unusual" (and of course, by extension say he shouldn't be put to death), and his crime was killing a couple in front of their children. I can't even begin to give any weight to the opinions of these people. I certainly refuse to be lectured to by these sub-humans. The larger issue is that the inmates have been running the asylum for way too long already.
Only in America could silliness like this prevail. We've virtually solved hunger, health care is more than adequate and general comfort issues are generally back-burnered these days. Last year a headline that should have gathered more interest had to do with the developing economic giants like India and China telling us that they couldn't support pollution control until they "caught up" to us in comfort issues. We're far and away the country with the most time to even consider this garbage (and that's where we return to the whole PC craze and the nickname "insult" idiocy of this thread).