Daily Archives: 28 Apr 02
Let’s Stop the Killing of an Innocent Person. South Carolina attorney Tom Turnipseed asks readers to write to the governor of South Carolina to ask for commutation of the death sentence, scheduled to be carried out on May 3, of a man convicted of a murder to which another person has confessed. One-click link to send email to Gov. Hodges. If you’ve got a weblog and you support this effort, isn’t spreading the word in this manner one of the ways the weblog community can be of distinct value??
Gumball 3000:
Yet another reason to hate the rich: “Depraved rock stars and party-hearty Playmates in overpowered Toadmobiles are our betters, and as they careen across America we must bow before their power.” Salon
Cosmic Weight Gain: A Wispy Particle Bulks Up: “It is not often that a correction must be made to a poem. But when the subject is the mercurial science of particle physics, that is the risk a writer takes.” NY Times
WoT® News:
U.S. Blueprint to Topple Hussein Envisions Big Invasion Next Year: “The Bush administration, in developing a potential approach for toppling President Saddam Hussein of Iraq, is concentrating its attention on a major air campaign and ground invasion, with initial estimates contemplating the use of 70,000 to 250,000 troops.
The administration is turning to that approach after concluding that a coup in Iraq would be unlikely to succeed and that a proxy battle using local forces there would be insufficient to bring a change in power.” NY Times
Armed, Dangerous and Grandiose:
Bush Owes Presidency to NRA, NRA Says: ‘At their convention here Saturday, National Rifle Assn. leaders took credit for President Bush’s election, saying they’re taking aim next at unseating gun control advocates in Congress and defeating campaign finance reform in court.
“You are why Al Gore isn’t in the White House,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre told more than 4,500 delegates at the NRA’s 131st annual meeting.’ LA Times
Let’s Stop the Killing of an Innocent Person. South Carolina attorney Tom Turnipseed asks readers to write to the governor of South Carolina to ask for commutation of the death sentence, scheduled to be carried out on May 3, of a man convicted of a murder to which another person has confessed. One-click link to send email to Gov. Hodges. If you’ve got a weblog and you support this effort, isn’t spreading the word in this manner one of the ways the weblog community can be of distinct value??
