I will admit this for the sake of the thread but the one thing I will openly bash is the TWO PARTY SYSTEM WE ARE FORCED TO ENDURE!

Sorry about this afterthought otherwise!

Still, we were once the greatest country in the world but our leadership is making us look like IDIOTS!

Havin worked in a jail myself, I feel that PC is used way too often. There are some who need to be in GP so they can get exactly what's comin to em.

Calling some ppl animals is an insult to the animals. Animals only kill to eat and survive. To my knowledge, they don't rape or abuse their young either.

Just some info:

The removal of capital punishment from the Canadian Criminal Code in 1976 has not led to an increase in the murder rate in Canada. In fact, Statistics Canada reports that the murder rate has generally been declining since the mid-1970s. In 2006, the national murder rate in Canada was 1.85 homicides per 100,000 population, compared to the mid-1970s when it was around 3.0.


The Myth of Deterrence: Death penalty does not reduce homicide rate

DEATH NO MORE

09:26 AM CST on Sunday, December 2, 2007

In theory, the death penalty saves lives by staying the hand of would-be killers. The idea is simple cost-benefit analysis: If a man tempted by homicide knew that he would face death if caught, he would reconsider.

But that's not the real world. The South executes far more convicted murderers than any other region yet has a homicide rate far above the national average. Texas' murder rate is slightly above average, despite the state's peerless deployment of the death penalty. If capital punishment were an effective deterrent to homicide, shouldn't we expect the opposite result? What's going on here?

Human nature, mostly. Murder is often a crime of passion, which by definition excludes the faculties of reason. The jealous husband who walks in on his wife and another man is in no position to deliberate rationally on the consequences of killing his rival. The convenience store robber who chooses in a split-second to shoot the clerk has not pondered the potential outcomes of pulling the trigger.

People overtaken by rage, panic or drunkenness should be brought to justice, of course, but they are hardly paragons of pure reason, and it's unreasonable to assert that they consider the possibility of a death sentence when committing their crimes.


Most per capita executions, Murder rate

Oklahoma, 5.8

Texas, 5.9

Delaware, 4.9

Virginia, 5.2

Missouri, 6.3

• The 10 states with the lowest murder rates have collectively executed 11 people since 1976. That's only 1 percent of all executions carried out by states since the death penalty resumed.

• Nine of the 10 states with the highest murder rates in the country have the death penalty.

SOURCES: Death Penalty Information Center; FBI

not true

there are two kinda of animals predators and prey

the predators will often hunt for sport. watch a cat play with a mouse

and mama animals often kill their babies

Do you know how many "murderers" are in jail that are wrongfully accused? Once you kill them, you can't bring them back. No amount of money will make the situation better. One man was just freed after 23 years last month because DNA evidence proved him innocent. If you killed him, what would you say to him and his family had we killed him immediately?

I'm only postin' to say ...

I just love the way The Brits say controversy ..

"Contrahvassea" ...


... BRILLIANT!

That is all ...

And Americans say Ah-lu-mi-num.

george carlin!

That's because it's spelled a-lu-mi-num, not a-lu-mi-ni-um.

If ya'll are referrin to the stuff ya wrap leftovers up with, round here we call it foil

Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks!!!

Or just a good old fashioned spanking will do too!!!

My first line was what I feel. My 2nd, well, that was being a bit sarcastic. Sorry, I should have qualified it.

I am actually strongly opposed to what most have posted. What can I say, I'm from the Boston area and we are either Democrat or Liberal.