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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070611/ap_on_re_us/death_penalty_deterrence>>>
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>>>I read that this evening. It's interesting, but to me, it's not really relevant. I look upon the death penalty as the best means of upholding justice.
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>>It is also extremely effective in reducing recidivism <s>
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>If you want to repeat me, sit on my shoulder:
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I find it is more efficient ( and comfortable ) to read your thoughts through receivers NSA has secreted into the fillings in your teeth. ( to which I might add - naughty, naughty )
You will find this is second-generation stuff and the tin-foil hat will be of no use ( except, of course, as a fashion statement )
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
