Random Thoughts

I don't know why I do this to myself, but I read the news on one or more the news websites every morning and I'm always shocked and the crap going on in the world. I'm also a little disappointed in us as Americans that some of our priorities for the media are more than a bit skewed. Examples you ask? Well, for one a story about Britney Spears seems to be more more important than a story about soldiers in Iraq. Whether or not Governor Palin really "killed" the "bridge to nowhere" is more important than how to help people losing their houses and jobs. I like sensational journalism as much as the next guy (loved the SNL skit with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler), but shouldn't these news outlets get back to covering what really matters? Just wondering.

There was a story about an inmate in Ohio that is on death row but they can't execute him because he's too fat. For me, this brings us two issues: 1) how does an inmate that supposedly being punished for what I'm guessing was a pretty heinous crime, if he's on death row, manage to get so much food that he's now obese and 2) if he's scheduled to die, what does it matter if he's fat? I guess his veins are now too hard to reach since he's gained so much weight. Why is a raping murderer able to get more food than hard-working Americans that are just struggling to get by? Once again, just wondering. Just to rub the salt into that wound a little further, these people working so hard just to put food on their tables, are paying for this guy to get fat. Nice huh? Oh the irony.

The aforementioned thought brings up another thought. It has to deal with the death penalty. I think that the death penalty should be applicable for certain crimes. And if it's an especially bad one, killing a child, for example, I think the inmate is getting off pretty easy with a lethal injection. I wonder about all these people who worry about the death penalty being "cruel and unusual punshiment." If this person is getting the death penalty, I think they inflicted cruel and unusual punshiment on their victim(s) and I'll be damned if I'm feeling bad for them. They're lucky our society doesn't follow through with that eye for an eye thing. Okay, done with that ranting. Sorry about that folks.

Chris Cooley of the Washington Redskins was in the news the other day as he had posted some pictures of himself um, without apparel if you will. He said he was just trying to show the game notes that he was looking at before the game and he just happened to be naked while doing so. My question is, how the hell do you let that happen? What kind of moron puts the book where he puts it and doesn't realize what might be captured for all to see? Oy. And these guys beat my Saints.

Well, that's it for my seemingly endless ramblings. More to come.

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