Daily Dose of Random News

I’m Glad They Didn’t Tell the One About the Piano Player in the Cathouse, They Might Be Executed.....

Now this is sad. These guys were arrested for telling lawyer jokes.

I’m not so thin-skinned about my profession that I can’t take a little teasing about it.

Stereotypes exist because they are generally true. You have to laugh, to keep from crying.

That’s Gratitude For You

Indonesia wants our troops out.

Screw them. If they don’t want our troops to help rebuild, I guess they really don’t need our money, either. Yeah, right.

I’m a bit tired of the US getting treated by the rest of the world like a parent giving money to an ungrateful, spoiled child. Fine. No more aid money. Suffer. We’ve got plenty of our own problems to fix.

Help Oppose This Insanity

Bush is pushing his idiotic amnesty program. Stop this cold. Call your senators and tell then no way in hell do they support this and expect to get re-elected. And while you’re at it, tell them to get busy on the Great Wall of the United States. And the mutant hyenas.

This ain’t tax relief, as Mr. Bush tries to equate it to. Check out Kim Du Toit’s post on this matter.

Really Great News–The Supreme Court Gets One Right

The Supreme Court has basically voided federal sentencing guidelines. This is really great news.

Our judicial system should allow for varying ranges of punishment, depending on criminal history, circumstances, etc. I don’t think a person who steals food when they are starving should be punished the same as a three-time loser who mugs somebody in a park for crack money. Call me crazy.

The federal sentencing guidelines basically took out any and all discretion in punishment ranges. If you did x crime, you got x time, no matter what the circumstances. Sounds great, but again, justice requires looking at the totality of the circumstances. The federal sentencing guidelines failed to do just that. No discretion at all was allowed for mitigating circumstances, first-time offenders, etc.

Now, there will be a bit more fairness in the system. That’s a good thing, I think. Power is back in the hands of the juries. I don’t ever mind when the law gives decision-making into the hands of private citizens. This is how it should be.