Late entry in Sullivan’s best movie quote ever contest:
“Very bad neighborhood.” – The Kingdom
by Tim F| 11 Comments
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Late entry in Sullivan’s best movie quote ever contest:
“Very bad neighborhood.” – The Kingdom
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Brian Linse, aka AintNoBadDude, has a new movie coming out in a few weeks named Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, and it looks incredible. The film has some giant names in it- Albert Finney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, and you can screen the trailer here.
Go check it out.
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Apparently we need one. Jcricket.
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Let’s try a thread with none of those oppressive topic rules. Try not to go all Lord of the Flies.
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Lazy blogger question – when was the last time a GOP presidential candidate gave a policy address on Iraq? If you narrow the list to likely nominees, has it even happened?
Chat about whatever.
by John Cole| 11 Comments
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I don’t like this:
The federal appeals court in San Francisco yesterday upheld a death sentence from a jury that had consulted the Bible’s teachings on capital punishment.
In a second decision on the role of religion in the criminal justice system, the same court ruled Friday that requiring a former prisoner on parole to attend meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous violated the First Amendment’s ban on government establishment of religion.
In the capital case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit split 9 to 6 on the question of whether notes including Bible verses prepared by the jury’s foreman and used during sentencing deliberations required reversal of the death sentence imposed on Stevie L. Fields in 1979.
Mr. Fields, on parole after serving time for manslaughter, committed a series of rapes, kidnappings and robberies, and murdered Rosemary Cobbs, a student librarian at the University of Southern California.
After the jury convicted Mr. Fields and while it was deliberating his sentence, the foreman, Rodney White, conducted outside research, consulting several reference works and preparing a list of pros and cons on the death penalty that he shared with fellow jurors. On the pro side, he quoted passages from the Bible, including this one from Exodus: “He that smiteth a man, so that he dies, shall surely be put to death.”
They then sentenced him to having his eye gouged out a tooth pulled. Just kidding.
In all seriousness, I don’t think I need to go into detail as to why this is a bad thing.
by John Cole| 24 Comments
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This is amazing:
Two weeks after Doris Anderson disappeared while on a hunting trip with her husband, the 76-year-old lay next to a creek surrounded by thick brush, alone and with no food or supplies.
Rescue teams had been through the mountainous area but found no sign of her. Knowing that she was only lightly clothed in temperatures that had dipped into the 30s at night, they had scaled back the search nearly a week earlier.
But they hadn’t given up.
On Thursday, a day after a sheriff’s deputy asked Anderson’s husband once again how the couple had become separated in the woods, the deputy and others returned to an area they had checked before and found her, alive, alert and in surprisingly good condition.
“We just asked her if she was hurt and talked to her about her family,” Trooper Chris Hawkins said Friday as Anderson recovered in a hospital from dehydration and a hip injury.
Doris Anderson is one tough cookie. Period.