Thursday, February 28, 2008

Scrooge for President in 2020

Thats it, I'm throwing my name in the presidential hat for 2020. Why am I waiting in 2020, because 1. Im lazy and 2. 2020 just sounds cool.  

Here are my platforms
1. Cut useless programs and the money we save put that in the school budget initially.

2. Hold Congressmen accountable for their actions.  Put their schedules online and actually make them do their job.

3. Get religion out of the government.  No more 10 commandments in courthouses, no more taking oaths on Bibles, get the crap out.   Evolution, it happened.  We just didn't show up 6,000 years ago.  Don't worry Israel, I still got your back.

4. Modified war on drugs.  Face it, it isn't working, and we are wasting billions on it.  Legalize low influence drugs, like weed, shrooms, and maybe cocaine.  Shit, people are being killed by alcohol and tobacco.  In fact, more people are accidently murdered by handguns each year than cannabis related incidents.  We already have under the influence laws for drugs and alcohol anyways.

5. Non-profit reform.  Just because some government fucktard granted you non-profit status, doesn't mean you distribute information taken out of your own ass.  Greenpace, PETA, your on my hit list.  

6. Jail reform.  If you commit a low level, non violent crime, your ass is going to BOCES instead of jail.  We can not put people who made small mistakes locked up with violent criminals.  No wonder they come out worse than they went in.  

7.  Gay Marrage.  Legalize that shit.  Im not going to force the Church to marry you, but if you want a Justice of the Peace to do it, go for it.  Guess what, Canada has it, and that country isn't falling apart.  

8. Corporations.  If you want tax exemptions, then you have to have your corporate offices in the U.S. No more tax havens for you cheap fucks.  

9.  Create a North American Union.  Canada, Mexico, lets join forces and totally fuck over the euro.  

10.  Get a Surgeon General who is pro-sex and wont put out information saying that sex is bad and condoms are useless.   

11.  Get the fuck out of the middle east.  Those people are just crazy. 

12.  There was once a time, at the height of the Roman Empire, when a citizen could walk from Rome to any country or territory without fear of attack.  Other people knew that if they fucked with the Roman citizen, they knew that full might of the Roman Empire would come down on them. By the way, thats called Civis Romanis, look it up.  Well, I may pull our influences and bases from overseas, but if anyone fucks with us, I have no problem sending in the military to open a can of whoop ass.  

Fuck, this government is pissing me off more and more each day.  Every 20 years, someone like me has to come along just to shake things up for a bit.  

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Will Lose Sleep Over This!

I do not know how to begin with this post. This will probably be one of the completely serious posts that I will ever compose. I was researching this out of curiosity and came across a sleep depriving fact.  As of February 8 2008, there have been 127 exonerations of individuals from the death penalty.  

Wow.   I admit, I did not think that this was true, because every time I asked someone to give me a name of an exonerated death row convict, they only responded with the standard 'uh...'.  But, I came across this fact at the deathpenaltyinfo.org website.  

For me, this is enough reason to abolish the death penalty.  I will gladly pardon the execution of all the rapists, murders, and all around 'bad dudes' if it means the possibility of saving one innocent person.  Life in solitary confiment is more than enough punishment for me now.  


NR*
NAME
ST
RACE
CONVICTED
EXONERATED
YEARS BETWEEN
REASON
DNA **
1David KeatonFLB197119732Charges Dismissed
2Samuel A. PooleNCB197319741Charges Dismissed
3Wilbert LeeFLB1963197512Pardoned
4Freddie PittsFLB1963197512Pardoned
5James CreamerGAW197319752Charges Dismissed
6Christopher SpicerNCB197319752Acquitted
7Thomas GladishNMW197419762Charges Dismissed
8Richard GreerNMW197419762Charges Dismissed
9Ronald KeineNMW197419762Charges Dismissed
10Clarence SmithNMW197419762Charges Dismissed
11Delbert TibbsFLB197419773Charges Dismissed
12Earl CharlesGAB197519783Charges Dismissed
13Jonathan TreadwayAZW197519783Acquitted
14Gary BeemanOHW197619793Acquitted
15Jerry BanksGAB197519805Charges Dismissed
16Larry HicksINB197819802Acquitted
17Charles Ray GiddensOKB197819813Charges Dismissed
18Michael LinderSCW197919812Acquitted
19Johnny RossLAB197519816Charges Dismissed
20Ernest (Shuhaa) GrahamCAB197619815Acquitted
21Annibal JaramilloFLL198119821Charges Dismissed
22Lawyer JohnsonMAB1971198211Charges Dismissed
23
Larry Fisher
MS
W
1984
1985
1
Acquitted

24Anthony BrownFLB198319863Acquitted
25Neil FerberPAW198219864Charges Dismissed
26Clifford Henry BowenOKW198119865Charges Dismissed
27Joseph Green BrownFLB1974198713Charges Dismissed
28Perry CobbILB197919878Acquitted
29Darby (Williams) TillisILB197919878Acquitted
30
Vernon McManusTXW1977198710Charges Dismissed
31Anthony Ray PeekFLB197819879Acquitted
32Juan RamosFLL198319874Acquitted
33Robert WallaceGAB198019877Acquitted
34Richard Neal JonesOKW198319874Acquitted
35Willie BrownFLB198319885Charges Dismissed
36Larry TroyFLB198319885Charges Dismissed
37Randall Dale AdamsTXW1977198912Charges Dismissed
38Robert CoxFLW198819891Charges Dismissed
39Timothy HennisNCW198619893Acquitted
40
James RichardsonFLB1968198921Acquitted
41Clarence BrandleyTXB198119909Charges Dismissed
42John C. SkeltonTXW198319907Acquitted
43Dale JohnstonOHW198419906Charges Dismissed
44Jimmy Lee MathersAZW198719903Acquitted
45Gary NelsonGAB1980199111Charges Dismissed
46Bradley P. ScottFLW198819913Acquitted
47Charles SmithINB198319918Acquitted
48Jay C. SmithPAW198619926Acquitted
49Kirk BloodsworthMDW198419939Charges DismissedYes
50
Federico M. MaciasTXL198419939Charges Dismissed
51Walter McMillianALB198819935Charges Dismissed
52Gregory R. WilhoitOKW198719936Acquitted
53James RobisonAZW1977199316Acquitted
54Muneer DeebTXO198519938Acquitted
55Andrew GoldenFLW199119943Charges Dismissed
56Adolph MunsonOKB1985199510Acquitted
57Robert Charles CruzAZL1981199514Acquitted
58Rolando CruzILL1985199510AcquittedYes
59
Alejandro HernandezILL1985199510Charges DismissedYes
60Sabrina ButlerMSB199019955Acquitted
61
Joseph Burrows
IL
W
1989
1996
7
Charges Dismissed

62Verneal JimersonILB1985199611Charges DismissedYes
63Dennis WilliamsILB1979199617Charges DismissedYes
64Roberto MirandaNVL1982199614Charges Dismissed
65Gary GaugerILW199319963Charges Dismissed
66Troy Lee JonesCAB1982199614Charges Dismissed
67Carl LawsonILB199019966Acquitted
68David Wayne GrannisAZW199119965Charges Dismissed
69Ricardo Aldape GuerraTXL1982199715Charges Dismissed
70
Benjamin HarrisWAB1985199712Charges Dismissed
71Robert HayesFLB199119976Acquitted
72
Christopher McCrimmon
AZ
B
1993
1997
4
Acquitted

73Randall PadgettALW199219975Acquitted
74James Bo CochranALB1976199721Acquitted
75Robert Lee Miller, Jr.OKB1988199810Charges DismissedYes
76Curtis KylesLAB1984199814Charges Dismissed
77Shareef CousinLAB199619993Charges Dismissed
78Anthony PorterILB1983199916Charges Dismissed
79Steven SmithILB1985199914Acquitted
80
Ronald WilliamsonOKW1988199911Charges DismissedYes
81
Ronald JonesILB1989199910Charges DismissedYes
82Clarence Dexter, Jr.MOW199119998Charges Dismissed
83Warren Douglas ManningSCB1989199910Acquitted
84Alfred RiveraNCL199719992Charges Dismissed
85Steve ManningILW199320007Charges Dismissed
86Eric ClemmonsMOB1987200013Acquitted
87Joseph Nahume GreenFLB199320007Charges Dismissed
88Earl WashingtonVAB1984200016PardonedYes
89William NievesPAL199420006Acquitted
90
Frank Lee Smith -died prior to exonerationFL
B
1986
2000 **
14
Charges Dismissed
Yes
91
Michael Graham
LA
W
1987
2000
13
Charges Dismissed

92Albert BurrellLAW1987200013Charges Dismissed
93Oscar Lee MorrisCAB1983200017Charges Dismissed
94Peter LimoneMAW1968200133Charges Dismissed
95Gary DrinkardALW199520016Charges Dismissed
96Joaquin Jose MartinezFLL199720014Acquitted
97Jeremy SheetsNEW199720014Charges Dismissed
98Charles FainIDW1983200118Charges DismissedYes
99Juan Roberto MelendezFLL1984200218Charges Dismissed
100
Ray KroneAZW1992200210Charges DismissedYes
101
Thomas Kimbell, Jr.PAW199820024Acquitted
102Larry OsborneKYW199920023Charges Dismissed
103Aaron PattersonILB1986200317Pardoned
104Madison HobleyILB1987200316Pardoned
105Leroy OrangeILB1984200319Pardoned
106Stanley HowardILB1987200316Pardoned
107Rudolph HoltonFLB1986200316Charges Dismissed
108Lemuel PrionAZW199920034Charges Dismissed
109Wesley QuickALW199720036Acquitted
110John ThompsonLAB1985200318Acquitted
111Timothy HowardOHB1976200326Charges Dismissed
112Gary Lamar JamesOHB1976200326Charges Dismissed
113Joseph AmrineMOB1986200317Charges Dismissed
114Nicholas YarrisPAW1982200321Charges DismissedYes
115Alan GellNCW199820046Acquitted
116Gordon SteidlILW1987200417Charges Dismissed
117Laurence AdamsMAB1974200430Charges Dismissed
118Dan L. BrightLAB199620048Charges Dismissed
119Ryan MatthewsLAB199920045Charges DismissedYes
120
Ernest Ray Willis
TX
W
1987
2004
17
Charges Dismissed

121
Derrick Jamison
OH
B
1985
2005
20
Charges Dismissed

122
Harold Wilson
PA
B
1989
2005
16
Acquitted

123
John BallardFL
W
2003
2006
3
Acquitted

124
Curtis McCarty
OK
W
1986
2007
21
Charges Dismissed
Yes
125
Michael McCormick
TN
W
1987
2007
20
Acquitted

126
Jonathon Hoffman
NC
B
1995
2007
12
Charges Dismissed

127 
Kennedy Brewer 
MS
B
1995
2007 
(released on bail)
12
Charges Dismissed in 2008
Yes 
*this table was taken from the deathpenaltyinfo.org

This is remarkable.