Well, it's a lazy overcast Sunday here out in the Frisco bay..
Speaking of "dirty deeds" the LA paper also carried a basic wire piece about the 7 Army Paratroopers out of Fort Bragg NC's 82 Airborne that were facing court martial over "knowingly engaging in sex for money on a public Web site".
I heard that A Flock Of Seagulls are still playing dates, or at least Mike Score is..
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Nick Cave is readying for the Sam Peckinpah-esque brutal Outback western film he wrote called "the Proposistion" directed by John Hillcoat to premiere worldwide.
The last time I posted , I got a few typically liberal backlash comments from the peanut gallery.
I wish I could justify some other stance, but despite the yowlings of people I assume are well intentioned, like Steve Earle, I just don't swing that way.
I've had someone I knew yanked from this earth by a rapist and killer, and basically everyday that her attacker is alive and coddled by the state, is a grievous insult to her loved ones. It's now been over 10 years since the violent atrocity was committed, and I doubt the victim's family goes a day without knowing that..
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In general, I am more sympathetic to a victim's family, than for the convicted killers who reside for years on death row and have committed the crimes in question. I hate to advocate for someone's death, but let's face it people, some folks just don't deserve your empathy concern.
I truly wonder why do you care so much about someone who could care less about anyone else?
Clearly, we are not talking about some mistaken identity here, or questionable circumstances. The people I have no problem with seeing executed are admitted pre-meditated killers of innocent victims.
They are the cold, bold heartless, who've gone beyond the pale and committed crimes far beyond mere accidental or circumstantially suspect killings, or even vaguely definable potential self defense situations. These are the sick mf'ers that yer mama shoulda warned ya about, and I bet she'd want 'em put down too..
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Case In Point Du Jour:
I gotta love the Michael Morales moral morass that is, currently as I write this, surrounding some hired killer's fate, and presenting a perplexing plight.Out here in California, a state that is a leading producer of fruits nuts, a rallying cry has been raised over a death row inmate named Michael Morales.
The jist of the hype is his scheduled execution has been twice postponed, because the poor bastard might suffer "excruciating pain" during his upcoming lethal injection. In fact last night, just prior to his execution, a bunch of court appointed doctors got their professional panties in a bunch and walked out because they were afraid if Morales woke up during the execution, gulp, they'd be in an awkward position. Perhaps, it's my understanding, that this would be a possible violation of their "Hippocratic" oath (which I guess is not to be confused with the utter hypocrisy of the whole situation).
However, as much as you are compelled to empathize, let's remember that this Morales is a guy who showed no mercy in the slaughter of a beautiful 17 year old girl whom he mercilessly raped, choked, hammered, stabbed in the chest and left bleeding naked from the waist down in a vineyard to die alone. According to testimony, he went on to beat his victim Terri Winchell in the head with a hammer at least 23 times, and beat her so brutally and repeatedly that her face was no longer recognizable.
If any of that doesn't bother you, here's some other relevant things to consider though:
Michael Morales, was an adult, aged 21 when he commited his horrendous crime, which he now wants to blame on alcohol drug use.
El wrongo !
Look I myself, and millions of others, have had plenty of experience with alcohol and drug use, but have never even considered any of the sick sh*t that this Morales character has nonchalantly admitted to. In fact he has accepted full responsibility for the fact that his disgusting animalistic actions led to Terri Winchell’s horrible death.
But it don't stop there...
The case of course also has the Bay Area Bravo network friendly media pre-requisite weird homo angle of course as well, as Morales was a hired assailant, used by the victim's ex-boyfriend, Morales' own closeted bi-sexual cousin Ricky Ortega.
Yep..
.Ortega reportedly told Glenda Chavez that he was angry at Winchell for accusing him of being a homosexual and for her calling him “gay.” Ortega brought in Morales to harm her because he was also jealous about a new relationship Miss Winchell was having with another guy that Ortega was secretly having a sexual relationship with.
Does it get any more small town twisted than that? I sure hope Ortega is happy spending his life in California State Prison having as much happy homo-sex as his $30,000+ a year tax-payer funded prison stud lifestyle will allow.
Within two days of the killing, Ortega's blood spattered car was impounded, and Morales was arrested at his residence.
The police found Morales’ broken belt used to choke Terri Winchell with her blood on it hidden under a mattress. The police found knives and a hammer likely used in the killing, hidden in the refrigerator's vegetable crisper. The hammer had traces of Winchell’s blood on it.
hmmm...
wonder how all that got there?
The police also found blood-stained floor mats from Ricky Ortega’s car in the trash. Terri Winchell’s purse and credit card were also mysteriously in the house.
Morales had used $11 from Winchell’s purse to buy beer, wine, and cigarettes on the night of the murder.
Hmmm..
. Being a good liberal, I uh, I blame the beer, god knows beer is dangerous..
.Evidence shows that Germany drank so much of it, I hear they started two world wars, and killed millions of people in the process..
. Beer should be on trial , not Michael Morales..
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But instead, California taxpayers have paid for his prosecution and defense at his trial, his housing, 3 meals a day, laundry and basic medical upkeep for 25 some odd years for his death sentence and elongated appeals process to finally roll around.
Yet, before he can be put down like the bad,bad dog we know he is, Mr. Morales ( or more likely his court appointed attorney advocates) began whining that his death by injection now might make him a victim of state sponsored brutality. In fact, it's his contention that in his case, a lethal injection is "cruel and unusual" punishment.
.. and I guess he would be an expert on what "cruel and unusual" is .
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Boo F*cking Hoo.
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I wonder if he found it cruel and unusual to spend the victim's money on beer cigarettes after strangling, raping, beating, and stabbing her?
Then much to my surprise, who should appear to save Mr. Morales ass, none other than right wing stooge professed Clinton hater, former Prosecuter Kenneth Starr, now a Professor at Pepperdine. The former Whitewater investigator has been listed as co-lead counsel for Morales’s clemency petition.
Huh?
Clemency?
uh, are you kidding?
Memo to Ken Starr : Get a life already...
are you that starved for attention?
But really , enough is enough, and all the lurid details and even the presence of Clinton hater Starr are distractions . The real crime is that Morales has been alive for 20 some years after so brutally raping killing his innocent victim.
Said a family friend recently to the San Jose Mercury News : "He's the monster that killed the beauty, and he needs to pay for a crime that was senseless," Jacqueline Miles said. "We need to actually show the world that people can't get away with murdering people just because they get mad."
Meanwhile teenagers and young men are assigned to be blown to bits doing military duty in Iraq, and no one at the ACLU raises a fury in their defense.
It makes me sick...
honestly I'd be interested in what are your thoughts?
Leave a comment, and while you ponder aimlessly on a subject we all have no control over as usual..
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Here enjoy some mp3 mayhem y murder musica..
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Plus in the interest of fairness, informed debate and faux intellectualizing of all the issues, here's a link to a radio show that aired on KCRW on Feb 15th in which medical professionals, a victim's rights advocate and an ACLU anti-death penalty activist ponder the Morales situation
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My uneducated opinion ?
Money For Schools , Not Death Row Inmates !!
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PLEASE ! Kill This Dog F*cker Today !
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Carcass bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker has just finished a South American tour with Brujeria and is now apparently entering Jerry Jeff Walker territory.
.. in fact his new album will feature songs made famous by artists like Skeeter Davis, Johnny Cash and other more traditional country performers.
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"Welcome To Carcass Cuntry" will be released in May on "fractured transmitter" recordings and will include this track, along with covers of John Denver Hank Williams faves.
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Jeff Walker und de Fluffers - " "
Speaking of oddball combinations, my fave Mash Up DJ specialist Mark Vidler aka Go Home Productions has been busy and put up some new tracks and unheard mixes.
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One is based on a Primal Scream remix from the Kowalski sessions utilizing bits of Beyonce The Beatles to expand the mind and shake up the dancefloor.
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 | Ironically, in the wake of the collapse of RKL, the band Lagwagon ended up getting RKL's guitarist Chris traded for a replacement drummer in Dave when their own drummer Derrick came down with a bad case of the heroins... So Derrick of course joined RKL...
.. ..see the big version of . Apparently Tommy's eternal taste for the nightlife includes him pitching himself as a DJ lately... in fact he's part of a big event coming up in Miami in the coming weeks...
.. or perhaps because there's no overbearing MC type thang, it's a more production centered electronica track. ..you decide K electronica scene faves, The Thievery Corporation reveal a new universally Holographic gem from the lab, and we toss in some elder and remixed cuts for comparison The band emerged from obscurity via previous showcases at SXSW in 2004 2005, which is where their current tour winds up. The NY Times were quick on the tip and reviewed their new disc in "The Arts" section alongside Barry Manilow's new disc.. .The So-Called" Paper Of Record", famous for inclusion of "All The News That's Fit To Print" on Monday made comparisons to Dungeons Dragons lyrics and singer J.D Cronise as less flat than Ozzy, fronting perhaps a punker version of Black Sabbath with Southern Rock guitar solos ala Allman Brothers Lynyrd Skynyrd. .. you decide.
The Sleepytime core cast is comprised of unique individuals like musical and studio wizard Dan Rathbun, along with vovalist/guitarist Nils Frykdahl and violinist Carla Kihlstedt, the band are a live assault on the senses with a few previous but largely obscure releases. The bizarre band has roots in the late great live act Idiot Flesh, who rocked my halloween parties for several years running in the early 90's with no small aplomb.. . I heartily endorse, and in fact still have a few very hard to find sealed copies of the Idiot Flesh debut LP on vinyl "Tales Of Instant Knowledge Sure Death".. . inquire within! .. .. was all that a little too much. .. .. Amazingly, everytime the dorky ex-lead singer of , but it takes 24 hours after the man a heartbeat from being in command of the "free world" shoots a man and the only ones to know are readers of the website of a small Texas paper called the In typically humble Texas style, the editor of the Caller Times proudly proclaims the important role they had in being friendly enough to be called personally by rich Armstrong Ranch matriarch Anne Armstrong for the scoop. Present at the Saturday shooting, Armstrong apparently got the o.k from big Dick a day after the event and then reached out to touch someone she "trusted" in the media. Armstrong, owner of the 50,000 acre "ranch" is a media savvy widow of her cattleman husband Tobin, who died last year. Anne was once U.S.ambassador to Britain during the Nixon administration and was appointed to the University of Texas A M Board of Regents by GW Bush, and was a director of Halliburton when it hired Cheney as its chief executive.The Caller Times also expounds on how wonderfully their reporter that started after the word got out. They also put an for your amusement. In addition they report that big Bush donor Pamela Willeford the for the fun and a lurid sidebar that a local Corpus Christi teen had his , and his Mom had a bad feeling.WashingtonPost.com has VIDEO of presidential spokesman Scott McClellan being typically evasive on Monday as he went about not answering questions about the incident. . Aside from his notoreity derived in the recent Cheney quail hunting escapade, Harry Whittington's name pops up as a maverick Republican lawyer and power player in Texas who has made a name for himself in a variety of ways. One controversy involved his role at the Texas Funeral Service Commision. In the summer 2000, the published details about a court case where certain documents under Whittington's purview could not be found that would implicate a friend fundraiser of then Governor George W Bush of certain improprieties. I'd read about this lawsuit incident before, and found it ironic that Cheney shot one of the player's full of birdshot this weekend. Read the article to taste a little legal intrigue involving big Bush campaign donors, two boxes of documents that vanish – and then reappear, and a disgruntled female ex-executive Texas Funeral Service who named then Governor G.W Bush amongst others as defendants in a lawsuit before she took a two hundred thousand dollar settlement. Whittington, who has since had a heart attack, has also been legally sparring with the city of Austin for over 6 years about an eminent domain claim made on some disputed downtown property. who can forget bloodthirsty award show attendee Young Buck. .. UK based Cut and Paste pioneers Coldcut, whose contributions to electronic hip hop multimedia art via their Ninjatune imprint are vastly underrated have a new one out The Drive By Truckers have a new album coming in April on New West, but here's their New February-centric Valentines Song - You think you got it rough, how'd ya like to now here's another guy with probs, that's Mr. Tom Ford... whom I suspect must be gay as how else could get so damn close to those two hotties? and Whoops there it is .. . the magazine cover featuring him with Scarlett Johansson's pale white keister Kiera Knightley ... but where's his longtime companion of almost 20 years, Handsome "Dick" Buckley?maybe the anser is in the oh, and uh, congrats to the Grammy Award winning Senator. .. Barack Obama, whose spoken word disc just picked up a trophy. .. But ye olde booze salesman Sen. John McCain is less impressed with the freshman Senator from Illinois than the Recording Academy... Cranky ol McCain fired off a fiery response to young Obama's request for help on a bipartisan ethics bill... ya figure a Senator can wein a Grammy if a global political figure like Bono has a collection already. Seems U2 won a few more Grammies of course, i think about 5 actually.. . so here's a "bonus" track from the "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" Sessions.. . and of course, Kanye West was outspoken refusing to be shutout, cuz defeat is just not an option for this Jesus Freak.. . although me thinks the trophy was for that Diamonds song.. . here's some others Ah.. .. the more things change the more they stay the same eh? While of course, as per recent Republican tradition, none of their own are sworn in, and Gonzalez was not asked by the chair of the hearing to provide his testimony under the customary oath. Curiously most major news outlets, who salivated and couldn't shut up over Oprah's recent James Frey "truth" controversy did not even mention the dispute over Arlen Specter's refusal to swear Gonzales to tell the truth at the hearing. The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post all omitted from their February 7 coverage of the hearing any mention of the dispute over the refusal to require Gonzales to testify under oath. TV was much the same, with ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC's News, and PBS' NewsHour giving the occasion no mention, and . What's the big deal? Why should the media care when America and it's Congress doesn't know about it? In fact the whistleblowers are the real problem. .. at least in Roberto's all knowing, all seeing eye atop the pyramid.
I guess we really can't be expected to have we learned much from the suit wearing deceptions of Enron, Watergate and Used Car Salesmen? One of the odder moments was when Gonzalez claimed Abe Lincoln George Washington were also into "electronic" eavesdropping.. . or something like that.. .
In fact implied Gonzalez, our domestic electronic eavesdropping program is up to date, trendy and hipper than the I-Pod "It's an early-warning system designed for the 21st century. Even a few normally oblivious to checks balances Republicans were put off by the Nah Nah Nah , You Can't Touch Me airs of the performance, or perhaps when Gonzalez .".. . . . " We have a President staff who believe they are "above" this law... Despite taking an oath about upholding the constituition, they are instead redacting it and rewriting it to suit their needs... and have no intention of following any suggestions they don't want even if the same Supreme Court that put them in power also found in the Hamdi case that Judicial Review is required before a U.S. citizen could be treated as a Foreign Agent/"Enemy Combatant". here's a shorter more concise wrap up from "the heretik"...
. I know i gets confusing. Conrad spent his time being a very flustered stern midwestern school teacher at a press conference decrying the lack of reasonable measures in Bush's budget and calling it unsustainable the entire time. He had charts.. . gotta love charts. Conrad produced graphics showing that the amount of federal government debt held by foreigners before Bush became president took numerous administrations and multiple decades to reach $1 trillion and now in only five years of his administration has more than doubled. "This budget represents an absolute failure to face up to the country's fiscal condition,”typical Sen. Kent Conrad quote. Disturbing things about The Bush budget include a litany of economic assumptions and miracles he counts on, like Congress somehow being able to cut spending indefinitely, that will somehow lead to deficit reductions in the future. Yet, his track record is the exact opposite, and since his inauguration in 2001, military spending alone has grown 45% including $120 Billion for 2006, with absolutely no war spending specified in Bush's future deficit projections.
but then again... is it just cause they are idiots? Do you really think they intend to shut the military war spending down, say to the projected 50 billion for next year, a small fraction of what was spent just last year?
The Bush admin's "Iraq" / "Al Qaeda" whatever "war on whatever we say we are fighting" type policy is on a seemingly similar imperialist quest of the one 100 years ago. By this I refer to back when ol' Gen Arthur MacArthur went in to control the the Phillipines, and was surprised by the amount of resistence they found to our benevolent but forcefully imposed "sovereignty". MacArthur was aghast at the "civilians" who fought against the US and himself testified before the 56th Congress that "…men who participate in hostilities without being part of a regular organized force, and without sharing continuously in its operations, but who do so with intermittent returns to their homes and vocation, divest themselves of the character of soldiers and if captured are not entitled to the privileges of prisoners of war." Deja Rumsfeld eh?
They must know it is likely to be a great improvement over former conditions…Nevertheless they fight on. The situation is a depressing one from every point of view. Good men are perplexed. Questions of right and wrong, of consistency with American ideals and principles, of stifling the ‘passion for independence,’ of national responsibility, of prudence—all are hard to decide.
Where do we go from here?" Where do we go from here?" . .. "A republic worth living in is worth fighting for, and sacrificing for, and dying for.
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