Upon the New Year

Well, Nothing spectacular to report, but I found these jokes pretty good from ebalms!
Q: What's the difference between light and hard? A: You can sleep with a light on. Q: Why is sex like a bridge game? A: You don't need a partner if you have a good hand. Q: What do a Christmas tree and a priest have in common? A: Their balls are just for decoration.
Joke 1 An old man and his wife have gone to bed. After laying there a few minutes the old man farts and says,"Seven Points."His wife rolls over and says, "What in the world was that?"The old man replied, "It's fart football!"A few minutes later the wife lets one go and says - "Touchdown, tie score!"After about five minutes the old man farts again and says - "Touchdown, I'm ahead 14 to 7!"Not to be outdone the wife rips another one and says, - "Touchdown, tie score!" Five seconds go by and she lets out a squeaker and says - "Field goal, I lead 17 to 14!"Now the pressures on and the old man refuses to get beat by a woman so he strains real hard but to no avail. Realizing a defeat is totally unacceptable he gives it everything he has but instead of farting he poops the bed.The wife looks and says, "What the heck was that?"The old man replied, "Half-time, switch sides!"

Capital Thoughts

Capital Thoughts

I have been trying to follow the story of Stan “Tooky” Williams. I have learned that he was convicted 24 years ago, to which he still denies, regarding two incidents where he shot and killed a total of 4 people wile supposedly robbing stores. The defense claims and I agree, but admit there is a sort of familiarity about this, that he was racially profiled and judged by an all white jury on circumstantial evidence. Of course, the prosecution is still convinced he committed the crimes and have all the family of the victims they can round up to support the death of this man. Oh ya, he is also a co-founding member of the Crips. He was one of their leaders for 10 years before the shootings that he was punished for.

Tooky has been on death row for 24 years now. This is solitary confinement. Some would say, this is enough punishment for most crimes. But is Tooky’s crime special? Has he repented? Should another life be taken because justice dictates us to? Is this just punishment or retribution? Can we really consider punishment for a crime death?

I remember as a youngster that capital punishment made sense. The argument I heard suggested that for the worst of crimes, such as various murders, hate crimes and so on could be dealt with a death sentence. This was supposed to deter people of committing these crimes. I was young and only heard the positive spin on this initiative which states can accept or not accept. As I have grown older, I have read and seen reports of the success of the death sentence as a deterrent. There is none. There has been no change what-so-ever regarding a decrease of people making decisions that could get them murdered.

What is the fucking point anyway? As a taxpayer, I am angry that we cannot seem to deter or educate enough criminals in prison to keep a large enough percentage of them from committing more of worse crimes when they get out. No one seems to care. Politicians treat criminal rehabilitation like a venereal disease; don’t get it by not committing the crime and all we seem to concentrate on is punishment, not circumstance! We don’t give a SHIT if a person is trying to get their life in line when they get out of jail. All we do is make sure they cannot get jobs that pay good money. All we make sure is that they throw them away for as long as possible, so we don’t have to look them in the eye and fucking admit we are all brothers and sisters and we are all human beings who are fallible. We don’t care enough. We have no compassion. We have no one to speak for us anymore. No one would listen if there were. We have more foreigners who care for our society, than our own fucking politicians who we fucking pay to make things better for us. I rant and I rant and I rant, but I just cant, I just can’t anymore.

We cannot see the ideals which are best for society through the fog of reality. There is no religion that we can embrace. We find no comfort in one one-another’s company anymore. We do not help when help is needed. We assign guilt as justice for ones mistakes. We blame the blamable. We harass the harass-able, and we fucking kill the killable!

I am angry mostly for the sadness I get from seeing the problems that my son will indefinably have to try to figure out. I hope that my son would see more of the story before jumping on a band wagon. I hope that my son sees justice as a means of being fair and not merely punishment. I hope my son would see that if an individual goes to jail and learns what is right and wrong about their crime, their life is worth something. Their spirit is valuable to ALL human kind. They made mistakes, but it is punishment that should be to educate, not humiliate. It should nurture ideals, not suffocate understanding with consternation. It should not kill.

I will be watching what happens to Tooky and I pray he is granted a stay of exicution from ahnold. What better way could we show youngsters that it’s never too late to redeem ones sole from a lifetime of pain. Oh ya, I should mention. Tooky has been nominated 5 times for the Nobel Peace Prize for four books he has written. Children’s books that educate about the dangers of gangs. And if that not enough, 32, 000 people so far have written Gov. Ahnold or signed a petition asking for the stay of execution of Tooky.

Anyway, I hope this makes some sense. It wote this for me, so FUCK off if you don’t agree;)

Markus